You are assuming that genetics and economic/educated decisions are the same. They are not. Just because a person came from a large family does not mean they will automatically procreate in large numbers. Primal urges are checked quite effectively with birth control, allowing a couple to decide how when and how many when it comes to children. Rather different than the "evolved amoeba" model you proffer.
So we miss vital information - how many lawyers were on the missing plane.
I can imagine, that in not so distant future the news on such sad occasion would look like this: A plane X from Y to Z went missing with N people on board of which M were lawyers. If M were close to N (conference in some nice brothel in Prague etc) there would be additional info about an official day of mourning.
Mourning? I think the situation works out that as M approaches N, the amount of partying increases, and if M happens to equal N then a national holiday is created.
Note that $500 is about 300 pounds - right in line with the story. And smaller cities in Zhejiang typically are 20-30% less than the Shanghai area. I know in Suzhou my factories tend to pay around 2500 RMB for a 1-2 year experienced worker, with performance bonuses adding up to 1000 RMB on top of that.
I am from China, although I am an American now, I do run businesses and some of them are in China
When I read the "... for a maximum of £200 to £300 a month" I know that TFA is a big bullshit !
Really? I think you don't know China, nor do you do any business there. Zhejiang has the highest minimum wage, and it peaks in Ningbo at 1550 RMB per month (this information is out of date a bit, but pretty close to current conditions). That's 160 pounds sterling. Given that only inexperienced/brand new workers will earn minimum wage, the range of 200 to 300 pounds sterling is completely understandable and expected (that's about 2000 to 3000 RMB per month).
Additionally, new sales staff/office trainees in places like Shanghai run about 3500 RMB per month (low-level white collar) and a fresh acoustical engineering grad from the University of Nanjing (top Chinese school) in the top 10% of his class earns 4500 RMB (about 450 pounds sterling) per month. A very experienced (8 year) office manager with excellent English skills and 5 years experience working for Western companies earns 8000 RMB per month. How do I know? I just returned 4 days ago from Shanghai, where I signed contracts for all those positions.
Factory workers in China in the East rarely start at more than minimum wage. 1500 to 2000 RMB is a very good starting wage, and line bosses/leads may earn double that amount. Well below your 5000 RMB per month minimum salary.
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul, Istanbul
Istanbul, Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Really? McKitrick, McIntyre, Don Easterbrook, many others have their papers rejected for one nonsensical reason or another. Why? They don't toe the line of "AGW is the only possible explanation"...
Not always. Going to a 1018 grade steel (0.18%) essentially renders the steel non-magnetic (you lose about 97% of the permeability of decent magnetic steel). Not stainless (still low enough carbon to rust easily), but very weak in terms of magnetism. I design and build audio transducers for a living, and work with various grades of magnetic (and non-magnetic) steel daily. Getting much above 0.15% carbon content or annealing the steel, and you lose a lot of the magnetic properties (permeability goes to pot) that allow for easy harvesting.
Using a magnet to sift out your nails is not a surefire approach to keeping them off of beaches.
Agreed, and this is what happens. Anyone who tries to publish a paper can tell you how much fun it is, even for papers that follow the current thinking in a particular field. I work with a couple scientists that published a paper in regards to climate change, and it took two years of sometimes colorfully worded review comments and re-submissions before it as accepted.
Other times, complete gibberish is accepted into a journal. Getting published is by no means a guarantee of the quality of the work; all it indicates is that the work fits within the world-view of the publisher. The quality of the work depends upon the data and the methods/algorithms used, and the transparency of both. When data or the process is hidden (or both, as the case with much of the early AGW work), then the quality should immediately be suspect.
Actually, CALEA means that it's basically illegal to deliver a full end-to-end encrypted system that does not have a back door. Now, if Verizon simply passed encrypted data between endpoints, and let a 3rd party app developer create the endpoints which encrypted/decrypted the data, then Verizon could not offer a backdoor - it has no way of intercepting/decrypting the data. But by doing the full chain (encrypt, transport, decrypt) it simply has to offer a back-door per CALEA because it is obviously possible for them to do so (they see the raw data prior to encryption, and know the encryption scheme and keys - they did the endpoints).
CALEA only requires the backdoor to exist if it's technically possible. TFA is pretty clear that other manufacturers and carriers have chosen to implement end-to-end encryption that doesn't have the ability to be backdoored, and as such, there's no need to provide the (non-existent) backdoor to the feds.
Can you design a system you would solely supply for encrypted end-to-end communications that could NOT have a backdoor implemented? If you implement the end-points, then a back-door is automatically possible - you control the encryption/decryption on the ends.
See the CALEA Act passed in 1994. Telecom providers HAVE to provide that backdoor. If not - they are subject to fines of up to $10,000 per day per connection not in compliance, and having their network shut down until it comes into compliance.
Your indignation should not be directed at Verizon - it should be directed at Washington, DC.
Please try reading the article with the graph. Dr. Easterbrook gives a pretty convincing argument of why this type of graph (ice cores) tend to be more accurate than the mish-mash of multiple proxies all packaged together. The former gives you higher resolution, the latter tends to average over long, multi-century periods (eliminating known events like the Minoan, Roman, and Medieval Warm Periods).
Well, it seems over the last 11,000 years we've had considerably warmer periods - and our species survived and even flourished! The Minoan warm period, the Roman warm period, the Medieval warm period - all were good for worldwide cultures. We're not "headed" anywhere our species hasn't been, and our species has done pretty darn well when it's warmer as opposed to when it's colder.
We in California have all the water we could ever want. We just do not have the political willpower to access it. It's called the Pacific Ocean, and the process is desalination. Which, if it cost us as much as it does Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other desert nations to run, would result in LOWER water costs that what we pay in Southern California (I live in Ventura). Plenty of water - just no willingness to create the necessary desalination plants - and accompanying power plants - to make the water desired.
That's how it is in Thailand, at least. The Nissan and Toyota trucks I drive there have the turn signal on the right. For the first 3 days I typically end up using wipers to signal a turn and blinkers to clear the windshield. It's not that effective.
You got the founder of Islam right, but Judaism is considered as founded by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...">Abraham who precedes Moses by multiple centuries. And Christianity was founded by this guy named Jesus, called "the Christ". He predated Constantine by about 300 years or so... Abraham and Jesus were most assuredly NOT warlords.
Climate IS weather. Climate is the integral of weather over some pre-determined time window. Want to know the climate for the last week? Last month? Last 10 years? Look at the weather over those times. Climate IS weather. The claim otherwise makes as much sense as saying bread isn't flour, water, and yeast...
Doesn't that $200M first COME from the taxpayers, then is processed through Government/business interests, then the remainder trickle down to those same taxpayers who ponied up the $200M in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to simply leave the money with the taxpayers to start with?
Ummm, no. Please see the relevant laws. A black car - a car hired to pick you up from one location to another - is not limited as a taxi. A taxi can pick you up from the street (wave for the cab). A black car is what Uber is - you contract for a ride from one location to another, ahead of time, not "spur of the moment" like flagging down a cab.
My firearms have NEVER killed another person. Nor will they EVER kill another person. In fact, I don't know ANY firearm that has ever killed another person.
However, there are PLENTY of people who seek to kill others, either through negligence or malice. The choice of tool is irrelevant; the user of the tool is what matters.
My ownership (or lack thereof) of a firearm in no way infringes on the rights of another individual. The termination of another individual's life most definitely infringes on the rights of that individual.
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You are assuming that genetics and economic/educated decisions are the same. They are not. Just because a person came from a large family does not mean they will automatically procreate in large numbers. Primal urges are checked quite effectively with birth control, allowing a couple to decide how when and how many when it comes to children. Rather different than the "evolved amoeba" model you proffer.
So we miss vital information - how many lawyers were on the missing plane. I can imagine, that in not so distant future the news on such sad occasion would look like this: A plane X from Y to Z went missing with N people on board of which M were lawyers. If M were close to N (conference in some nice brothel in Prague etc) there would be additional info about an official day of mourning.
Mourning? I think the situation works out that as M approaches N, the amount of partying increases, and if M happens to equal N then a national holiday is created.
Note that $500 is about 300 pounds - right in line with the story. And smaller cities in Zhejiang typically are 20-30% less than the Shanghai area. I know in Suzhou my factories tend to pay around 2500 RMB for a 1-2 year experienced worker, with performance bonuses adding up to 1000 RMB on top of that.
I am from China, although I am an American now, I do run businesses and some of them are in China
When I read the " ... for a maximum of £200 to £300 a month" I know that TFA is a big bullshit !
Really? I think you don't know China, nor do you do any business there. Zhejiang has the highest minimum wage, and it peaks in Ningbo at 1550 RMB per month (this information is out of date a bit, but pretty close to current conditions). That's 160 pounds sterling. Given that only inexperienced/brand new workers will earn minimum wage, the range of 200 to 300 pounds sterling is completely understandable and expected (that's about 2000 to 3000 RMB per month).
Additionally, new sales staff/office trainees in places like Shanghai run about 3500 RMB per month (low-level white collar) and a fresh acoustical engineering grad from the University of Nanjing (top Chinese school) in the top 10% of his class earns 4500 RMB (about 450 pounds sterling) per month. A very experienced (8 year) office manager with excellent English skills and 5 years experience working for Western companies earns 8000 RMB per month. How do I know? I just returned 4 days ago from Shanghai, where I signed contracts for all those positions.
Factory workers in China in the East rarely start at more than minimum wage. 1500 to 2000 RMB is a very good starting wage, and line bosses/leads may earn double that amount. Well below your 5000 RMB per month minimum salary.
Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Kurdistan, Istanbul...
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul, Istanbul
Istanbul, Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
Best version - Craig Ferguson!
Really? McKitrick, McIntyre, Don Easterbrook, many others have their papers rejected for one nonsensical reason or another. Why? They don't toe the line of "AGW is the only possible explanation"...
Not always. Going to a 1018 grade steel (0.18%) essentially renders the steel non-magnetic (you lose about 97% of the permeability of decent magnetic steel). Not stainless (still low enough carbon to rust easily), but very weak in terms of magnetism. I design and build audio transducers for a living, and work with various grades of magnetic (and non-magnetic) steel daily. Getting much above 0.15% carbon content or annealing the steel, and you lose a lot of the magnetic properties (permeability goes to pot) that allow for easy harvesting.
Using a magnet to sift out your nails is not a surefire approach to keeping them off of beaches.
Many nails are made from steel with too high of carbon content, and are not magnetic.
Agreed, and this is what happens. Anyone who tries to publish a paper can tell you how much fun it is, even for papers that follow the current thinking in a particular field. I work with a couple scientists that published a paper in regards to climate change, and it took two years of sometimes colorfully worded review comments and re-submissions before it as accepted.
Other times, complete gibberish is accepted into a journal. Getting published is by no means a guarantee of the quality of the work; all it indicates is that the work fits within the world-view of the publisher. The quality of the work depends upon the data and the methods/algorithms used, and the transparency of both. When data or the process is hidden (or both, as the case with much of the early AGW work), then the quality should immediately be suspect.
Actually, CALEA means that it's basically illegal to deliver a full end-to-end encrypted system that does not have a back door. Now, if Verizon simply passed encrypted data between endpoints, and let a 3rd party app developer create the endpoints which encrypted/decrypted the data, then Verizon could not offer a backdoor - it has no way of intercepting/decrypting the data. But by doing the full chain (encrypt, transport, decrypt) it simply has to offer a back-door per CALEA because it is obviously possible for them to do so (they see the raw data prior to encryption, and know the encryption scheme and keys - they did the endpoints).
False.
CALEA only requires the backdoor to exist if it's technically possible. TFA is pretty clear that other manufacturers and carriers have chosen to implement end-to-end encryption that doesn't have the ability to be backdoored, and as such, there's no need to provide the (non-existent) backdoor to the feds.
Can you design a system you would solely supply for encrypted end-to-end communications that could NOT have a backdoor implemented? If you implement the end-points, then a back-door is automatically possible - you control the encryption/decryption on the ends.
See the CALEA Act passed in 1994. Telecom providers HAVE to provide that backdoor. If not - they are subject to fines of up to $10,000 per day per connection not in compliance, and having their network shut down until it comes into compliance.
Your indignation should not be directed at Verizon - it should be directed at Washington, DC.
Please try reading the article with the graph. Dr. Easterbrook gives a pretty convincing argument of why this type of graph (ice cores) tend to be more accurate than the mish-mash of multiple proxies all packaged together. The former gives you higher resolution, the latter tends to average over long, multi-century periods (eliminating known events like the Minoan, Roman, and Medieval Warm Periods).
Well, it seems over the last 11,000 years we've had considerably warmer periods - and our species survived and even flourished! The Minoan warm period, the Roman warm period, the Medieval warm period - all were good for worldwide cultures. We're not "headed" anywhere our species hasn't been, and our species has done pretty darn well when it's warmer as opposed to when it's colder.
We in California have all the water we could ever want. We just do not have the political willpower to access it. It's called the Pacific Ocean, and the process is desalination. Which, if it cost us as much as it does Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other desert nations to run, would result in LOWER water costs that what we pay in Southern California (I live in Ventura). Plenty of water - just no willingness to create the necessary desalination plants - and accompanying power plants - to make the water desired.
I can tell you that in my field, Chinese is used at least 4x more often than Spanish.
Massage parlor?
I don't have stereo vision, you insensitive clod!
You're not supposed to be watching your stereo...
That's how it is in Thailand, at least. The Nissan and Toyota trucks I drive there have the turn signal on the right. For the first 3 days I typically end up using wipers to signal a turn and blinkers to clear the windshield. It's not that effective.
You got the founder of Islam right, but Judaism is considered as founded by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...">Abraham who precedes Moses by multiple centuries. And Christianity was founded by this guy named Jesus, called "the Christ". He predated Constantine by about 300 years or so... Abraham and Jesus were most assuredly NOT warlords.
Climate IS weather. Climate is the integral of weather over some pre-determined time window. Want to know the climate for the last week? Last month? Last 10 years? Look at the weather over those times. Climate IS weather. The claim otherwise makes as much sense as saying bread isn't flour, water, and yeast...
Doesn't that $200M first COME from the taxpayers, then is processed through Government/business interests, then the remainder trickle down to those same taxpayers who ponied up the $200M in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to simply leave the money with the taxpayers to start with?
Well that depends... If it's 100% effective, then NONE will survive and propagate genes that provide appropriate resistance.
Ummm, no. Please see the relevant laws. A black car - a car hired to pick you up from one location to another - is not limited as a taxi. A taxi can pick you up from the street (wave for the cab). A black car is what Uber is - you contract for a ride from one location to another, ahead of time, not "spur of the moment" like flagging down a cab.
My firearms have NEVER killed another person. Nor will they EVER kill another person. In fact, I don't know ANY firearm that has ever killed another person.
However, there are PLENTY of people who seek to kill others, either through negligence or malice. The choice of tool is irrelevant; the user of the tool is what matters.
My ownership (or lack thereof) of a firearm in no way infringes on the rights of another individual. The termination of another individual's life most definitely infringes on the rights of that individual.