Although it sounds cool, I can't help but being a little weirded out by the thought of the exact same pig being experimented on endlessly throughout time...
Would you also feel weird about people experimenting on the exact same human for 63 years and counting, with no end in sight?
They laughed at me and called me paranoid and gullible. Sure sucks when the tinfoil-hat crowd is right.
And that is precisely what's so special about the whole Snowden affair. Lots of people claim outrageous things all of the time. Conspiracy theories and stunning revelations are a dime a dozen. Without any confirmed sources or any kind of acknowledgement by the involved parties, the impact those stories have is about par with urban legends. The documents leaked by Snowden are different because their authenticity has been confirmed by the NSA itself (I'm still not sure exactly why they did that, seems like a bad move on their part).
Please add one more item.
I need to know if you're actually counting in octal or not.
"... and by the way, in order to prevent such brilliant people from exposing us like that in the future, we've just told all the sysadmins with the same access level that 90% of them will be fired."
Brilliant, indeed.
You think so?
FTA: Statistics says that if you take enough samples of data, regardless of the distributon, it will average out into a Normal distribution.
News to me.
Road signs are still mph, horse races are still miles and furlongs and beer is sold by the pint so I think we're happily confused on matters of units this side of the pond.
Only in the UK, as far as I'm aware. The rest of Europe has far fewer imperial relics in everyday life (maybe because they were never part of the British Empire in the first place). But even on the continent you'll buy your Subways by the inch, and you could buy "5-1/4 Zoll" and "3-1/2 Zoll" floppy disks. Our yard sticks tend to be a bit longer and marked in both inches and cm. Almost every (physical) thermometer I've seen has Celsius and Fahrenheit scales. The pound as a weight unit is still informally used in parts of Germany, but it's getting rarer now.
I feel for the people in the US who understand how much more practical the metric system is, but I also know how hard it can be to convince a majority in a democratic country to do the right thing. Maybe you need a dictator? Europe can help with that, too.
Very interesting, but I'm having a hard time making sense of the numbers - not an expert. All the figures stated are relative, and not always relative to each other. What I would like to know: what percentage of the combined global warming potential (or CO2 equivalent) of all greenhouse gases can be attributed to livestock? Not in % of methane, % of CO2, % compared to transit pollution, etc.
I did try to find that information in the source you linked, but failed. I also downloaded the "full report" from 2006, which is inexplicably cut off just after the executive summary. For example: it's interesting that N2O is 296 times as potent a greenhous gas as CO2, but what if its percentage of overall emissions was just 0.01%? (That number came out of my derriere, but since the actual report is unavailable, who knows)
I'm not a policy maker, but I like to know what I'm talking about. The related news items are all quoting each other, or the executive summary from the FOA report. They're not making this easy for me.
CJ
Now, watch this: The rate of firearm-related deaths per capita [is 10.23 in the US and 0.25 in the UK]
Do you see the difference?
Indeed I do. You pulled out that old canard that people shot dead are more dead* than people beaten to death with cricket bats, wrenches, or tire irons, or stabbed to death.
No, he pulled out that old canard that people shot dead are more dead when they are killed multiple times.
Per capita means per person (literally per head). Any number over 1 would be very impressive (barring Zaphod Beeblebrox taking two shots to the heads).
Mod this man up.
From the space.com article, here's what Uwingu's CEO had to say...
"They basically said we're conducting a scam, and nothing could be further from the truth," [...] "They basically put us out of business, and they've ruined our reputation."
"To claim what they claimed — that we're somehow misrepresenting that these were IAU names — has just about put us out of business," Stern told SPACE.com. "It's unbelievable."
"They've spent 18 years with no forward movement — ask planet hunter extraordinaire [and Uwingu adviser] Geoff Marcy," Stern said. "Then somebody else comes along and does something harmless, fun and engaging, and now they're slandering us."
Oh cry me a river...
CJ
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.