I still fail to see how Google can have such a huge market cap
Market cap (capitalization) is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares, and is calculated by multiplying the total number of shares by the current market share price.
perhaps their revenue streams from advertising, selling search services of various kinds and other services are enough to justify it
Climate of Fear (opinionjournal.com)
Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.
BY RICHARD LINDZEN
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
There have been repeated claims that this past year's hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced climate change. Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo has been blamed on people burning gasoline to fuel their cars, and coal and natural gas to heat, cool and electrify their homes. Yet how can a barely discernible, one-degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes? And how can it translate into unlikely claims about future catastrophes?
The answer has much to do with misunderstanding the science of climate, plus a willingness to debase climate science into a triangle of alarmism. Ambiguous scientific statements about climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm, thus raising the political stakes for policy makers who provide funds for more science research to feed more alarm to increase the political stakes. After all, who puts money into science--whether for AIDS, or space, or climate--where there is nothing really alarming? Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $1.7 billion today. It can also be seen in heightened spending on solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol and clean coal technologies, as well as on other energy-investment decisions.
But there is a more sinister side to this feeding frenzy. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.
To understand the misconceptions perpetuated about climate science and the climate of intimidation, one needs to grasp some of the complex underlying scientific issues. First, let's start where there is agreement. The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30% over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming. These claims are true. However, what the public fails to grasp is that the claims neither constitute support for alarm nor establish man's responsibility for the small amount of warming that has occurred. In fact, those who make the most outlandish claims of alarm are actually demonstrating skepticism of the very science they say supports them. It isn't just that the alarmists are trumpeting model results that we know must be wrong. It is that they are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right as justifying costly policies to try to prevent global warming.
If the models are correct, global warming reduces the temperature differences between the poles and the equator. When you have less difference in temperature, you have less excitation of extratropical storms, not more. And, in fact, model runs support this conclusion. Alarmists have drawn some support for increased claims of tropical storminess from a casual claim by Sir John Houghton of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a warmer world would have more evaporation, with latent heat providing more energy for disturbances. The problem with this is that the ability of evaporation to drive tropical storms relies not only on temperature but humidity as well, and calls for drier, less humid air. Claims for starkly higher temperatures are based upon there being more humidity, not less--hardly a case for more storminess with global warming.
I benefited richly from GmailSwap in those heady early days of Gmail invites: I got a bag of coffee, two 5 GB hard disks, Tolkien Dictionary PDF, a 32 MB USB drive, and a few other assorted things each for the price of one Gmail invitation.
This doesn't even address the main problem with IE, which is ActiveX crap that installs itself in the background. I've never heard of anyone being hacked because of an IDN vulnerability or somesuch, but I've had to wipe plenty of hard drives because of spyware-infestation.
Fixyourownprinter.com has downloadable technician manuals for just about every printer out there. If you ever have any trouble with your inkjet (ya think?), their manuals will be indispensable.
They suffer from a kind of buzzword craze of their own.
Generative in the sense that it is growing. (Redundant?)
Missional in that they are focused on the message as opposed to specific beliefs, i.e. the doctrinal disputes on non-essentials that have led to the denominational sectarianism (the fragmentation of the church). They seek to be more inclusive of "other" Christians, not rejecting them because of their differences, but welcoming them due to their shared heritage.
Christianity has always been expressed through the culture it lives in. It should be no suprise that some churches have visions and mission statements -- they want to succeed, and one model for success in America is the corporation.
However, there is a backlash against this strict hierarchical structure, and as many traditional structures are being circumvented by new ways of doing things (blogs vs. old media, P2P vs. old music distribution, network vs. hierarchy, etc.), many churches will change to reflect this. This can already be seen in the Emergent conversation, and in the writings of Brian McLaren, Johnny Baker, Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, and others...
Most radio stations seem to think that something like Green Day or Nirvana is a tour de force of guitar virtuosity.
Right on.
I remember when Creed hit the big time and Guitar World and GuitarOne praised him as the savior of rock guitar. Some standards. It hasn't gotten any better since. There was that week when it seemed like Van Halen was gonna get going again -- that was cool.
Go to amazon.com and paste "Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection" into the "Search: Amazon.com" box. Click on the first hit and when the page loads, note the URL.
For those of you who won't try this, the URL you get is the one that I pasted. I have no affiliation with Amazon.
BTW, I would be going for iPod accessories, not a graphics card.
the whole wiki will probably be repalced by "FR1ST PS0T"
Close.
A look at the article's history shows that within about 15 minutes of this/. story being posted, user 198.64.22.167 replaced all the content with the words "GNAA Fails It". The article was reverted within 3 minutes by registered user Get It.
For a long time there was no "approved" anti-spyware software -- they had to come out and reclone the machines every time spyware got on them (didn't happen on mine -- I was using Spybot).
Now they put out a recommendation for anti-spyware software, but it's a commercial piece of software (no problem there) that they're not buying for us (whoops!) -- basically an unfunded mandate. Not helpful.
"World trafficking in women and children for use in the sex trade is a multi-billion dollar market -- and it is on the rise. The United Nations estimates that 4 million people are trafficked throughout the world each year under threat of violence, due to poverty, or through deception.
A report by the Solicitor General of Canada (October 1997) concludes that migrant trafficking accounts for 8-16,000 illegal immigrants in Canada every year, many of them female youths and children who are forced to work in Canada's booming sex trade industry. The same report estimates that those profiting from the illegal trafficking of children and women in Canada earn as much as $400 million annually.
Authorities have infiltrated trafficking rings that have imported children and youths from every continent in the world to work as sex slaves in Canada. Every major urban centre in Canada has records of children and youths working as prostitutes, as escorts, in strip clubs and in pornography. Thousands of children are believed to be currently engaged in the commercial sex industry nationally."
Slashdot Mirror
I thought it was funny.
Anybody got a mirror? Coral?
I think you made it up (Google search).
I guess you think you're quite the modern day G.K. Chesterton....
I still fail to see how Google can have such a huge market cap
Market cap (capitalization) is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares, and is calculated by multiplying the total number of shares by the current market share price.
perhaps their revenue streams from advertising, selling search services of various kinds and other services are enough to justify it
The shareholders think (hope) so...
Climate of Fear (opinionjournal.com)
Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.
BY RICHARD LINDZEN
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
There have been repeated claims that this past year's hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced climate change. Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo has been blamed on people burning gasoline to fuel their cars, and coal and natural gas to heat, cool and electrify their homes. Yet how can a barely discernible, one-degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes? And how can it translate into unlikely claims about future catastrophes?
The answer has much to do with misunderstanding the science of climate, plus a willingness to debase climate science into a triangle of alarmism. Ambiguous scientific statements about climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm, thus raising the political stakes for policy makers who provide funds for more science research to feed more alarm to increase the political stakes. After all, who puts money into science--whether for AIDS, or space, or climate--where there is nothing really alarming? Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $1.7 billion today. It can also be seen in heightened spending on solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol and clean coal technologies, as well as on other energy-investment decisions.
But there is a more sinister side to this feeding frenzy. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.
To understand the misconceptions perpetuated about climate science and the climate of intimidation, one needs to grasp some of the complex underlying scientific issues. First, let's start where there is agreement. The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30% over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming. These claims are true. However, what the public fails to grasp is that the claims neither constitute support for alarm nor establish man's responsibility for the small amount of warming that has occurred. In fact, those who make the most outlandish claims of alarm are actually demonstrating skepticism of the very science they say supports them. It isn't just that the alarmists are trumpeting model results that we know must be wrong. It is that they are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right as justifying costly policies to try to prevent global warming.
If the models are correct, global warming reduces the temperature differences between the poles and the equator. When you have less difference in temperature, you have less excitation of extratropical storms, not more. And, in fact, model runs support this conclusion. Alarmists have drawn some support for increased claims of tropical storminess from a casual claim by Sir John Houghton of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a warmer world would have more evaporation, with latent heat providing more energy for disturbances. The problem with this is that the ability of evaporation to drive tropical storms relies not only on temperature but humidity as well, and calls for drier, less humid air. Claims for starkly higher temperatures are based upon there being more humidity, not less--hardly a case for more storminess with global warming.
What tech podcasts do you listen to? The only one I have really gotten into is TWiT -- any recommendations?
I benefited richly from GmailSwap in those heady early days of Gmail invites: I got a bag of coffee, two 5 GB hard disks, Tolkien Dictionary PDF, a 32 MB USB drive, and a few other assorted things each for the price of one Gmail invitation.
This doesn't even address the main problem with IE, which is ActiveX crap that installs itself in the background. I've never heard of anyone being hacked because of an IDN vulnerability or somesuch, but I've had to wipe plenty of hard drives because of spyware-infestation.
Firefox definitely has done some things right -- I for one don't know whether I'd be able to give up AdBlock.
Does Opera have any way to duplicate that functionality?
10^100 is spelled googol, not google.
You've been watching Stealth, haven't you.
One of the three of four dozen who actually went to see that...
Fixyourownprinter.com has downloadable technician manuals for just about every printer out there. If you ever have any trouble with your inkjet (ya think?), their manuals will be indispensable.
Found it on del.icio.us/popular a while back.
Don't miss Dog poop girl, South Korea's hateful version of Star Wars Kid! This one was covered in the Washington Post.
They suffer from a kind of buzzword craze of their own.
Generative in the sense that it is growing. (Redundant?)
Missional in that they are focused on the message as opposed to specific beliefs, i.e. the doctrinal disputes on non-essentials that have led to the denominational sectarianism (the fragmentation of the church). They seek to be more inclusive of "other" Christians, not rejecting them because of their differences, but welcoming them due to their shared heritage.
Christianity has always been expressed through the culture it lives in. It should be no suprise that some churches have visions and mission statements -- they want to succeed, and one model for success in America is the corporation.
However, there is a backlash against this strict hierarchical structure, and as many traditional structures are being circumvented by new ways of doing things (blogs vs. old media, P2P vs. old music distribution, network vs. hierarchy, etc.), many churches will change to reflect this. This can already be seen in the Emergent conversation, and in the writings of Brian McLaren, Johnny Baker, Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, and others...
Most radio stations seem to think that something like Green Day or Nirvana is a tour de force of guitar virtuosity.
Right on.
I remember when Creed hit the big time and Guitar World and GuitarOne praised him as the savior of rock guitar. Some standards. It hasn't gotten any better since. There was that week when it seemed like Van Halen was gonna get going again -- that was cool.
Go to amazon.com and paste "Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection" into the "Search: Amazon.com" box. Click on the first hit and when the page loads, note the URL.
For those of you who won't try this, the URL you get is the one that I pasted. I have no affiliation with Amazon.
BTW, I would be going for iPod accessories, not a graphics card.
In the meantime, check the item out on Amazon here.
Wait, it says "Amazon.com Exclusive!!!" You mean I can't pick one up at my local Barnes&Noble?
the whole wiki will probably be repalced by "FR1ST PS0T"
/. story being posted, user 198.64.22.167 replaced all the content with the words "GNAA Fails It". The article was reverted within 3 minutes by registered user Get It.
Close.
A look at the article's history shows that within about 15 minutes of this
Check this guy out. He updates his filter list weekly, if not daily, and it works great!
http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/
Just download the
Please post a link where we can read these emails.
Yeah, and what's the point of using it when the actual link isn't even displayed except in the status bar?
Maybe we'll find out when they're interviewed on ESPN "The Ocho". My guess is they'll have to carry all that money home in a pirate's chest.
For a long time there was no "approved" anti-spyware software -- they had to come out and reclone the machines every time spyware got on them (didn't happen on mine -- I was using Spybot).
Now they put out a recommendation for anti-spyware software, but it's a commercial piece of software (no problem there) that they're not buying for us (whoops!) -- basically an unfunded mandate. Not helpful.
Not according to the Canadian Women's Health Network, which has this to say: