Comment Re:Wait for it... (Score 1) 752
But it's an airplane, not a chicken!
Ok, so it flies through that airspace for the same reason the punk rocker does
It was stapled to a chicken.
But it's an airplane, not a chicken!
Ok, so it flies through that airspace for the same reason the punk rocker does
It was stapled to a chicken.
Many feminists believe that casual and pervasive use of profanity contributes to a hostile and sexist work environment,
Not just feminists. Many people think mindless profanity is simply mindless and demonstrates a lack of respect for others, which is a sign of a hostile work environment. Even when it is as simple as saying "merde" on a regular basis to a French colleague.
The policy manual where I work spells out all kinds of things; like not doing illegal things on company computers, not stealing, not sexually harassing or bullying people. What the hell is your problem with that?
What's my problem with your policy manual? Well, for YOUR manual, nothing, because I don't care about how they treat you. If it were a policy manual I was subject to, I'd have a problem with a manual that includes so much stuff that it doesn't need to that it hides the stuff it does need to include.
For example: not stealing. Do'h. By putting that stuff into a company policy manual, they're treating you like a child. The closest any policy manual I've seen comes is when it tells people that certain things that would be legal using a regular company's resources is illegal because this is a state university and then leaves it to the intelligence of the user to know that they aren't supposed to do those things BECAUSE THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
Any policy manual that hides actual company policies between such obvious things as "don't steal", "play well with others", "don't rape your co-workers", etc, is just a waste of time.
The whole point of policies, whether they cover unwanted illegal activities or unwanted and yet legal activities, is to make clear the organization's priorities and desires for the workplace.
I don't know that I'd want to work at a company that has to say explicitly that it desires that I not do illegal things on company time, and that it has a priority that I stick to legal stuff.
Before satellites we had these things called thermometers. They were invented around 1638.
Yes, thermometers were invented around that time. But to record GLOBAL TEMPERATURES, you need two thing: 1) an accurate thermometer. Yes, they existed prior to 1980. But you also need 2) global measurements. Prior to satellite measurements, there were very large parts of this globe that didn't have any measurements at all. There were accurate thermometers, they just weren't located all over the place.
You do know that satellites can't measure global temperature - they can't see above +85 or below -85 degrees.
In a qualitative sense, not getting the small area over the poles is MUCH different than not getting the vast majority of the planet at all. Most people would accept the term "global" (as in GPS) even through there are small areas that it doesn't cover, compared to the improper use of the term "global" when there are much much larger (and physically important) areas that aren't.
The global ocean is a critical player in global climate, and yet very little of it had recorded temperatures prior to satellites.
After all, who wouldn't want a highly accurate manometer to check blood pressure.
Someone who wants a portable device that can go to the patient wherever he is, doesn't contain a liquid, reasonably volatile poison, and doesn't require a hazmat response when dropped on the floor, as well as anyone who realizes that "highly accurate" isn't necessary when dealing with numbers that can change by 10% just by thinking about it. Be honest, is there a real difference between 121/76 and 122/74? No.
Or as every doctor I've run across put's it "more accurate than the cheap chunk of plastic that stops working all the time, while being highly inaccurate."
False dichotomy. "Not a mercury manometer" doesn't necessarily mean "cheap chunk of plastic". In fact, I've not see any "cheap chunk of plastic" blood pressure cuffs in use anywhere I've been. Yes, you can buy a cheap home unit, but then you've created your own problem if you try to use units intended for home use in a professional medical practice.
Oh and in most cases, they use one on the end of your finger.
I don't seem to have "one on the end of [my] finger". I don't know of a blood pressure cuff that goes on the end of a finger. I know of pulse oxymeters that clip on there, are you perhaps confusing the two?
But they still use mercury thermometers for a reason.
I still use a mercury thermometer at home for a reason: because I already own it and don't see a need to replace it. It is, however, less accurate than an electronic device, harder to read, takes longer to use, and requires more care in cleaning and more cleaning. It's also a hazard if broken, especially if broken while in use. Let it slip while "resetting" it and you've got a mess to clean up. Those are the reasons I've not seen one in use in a medical facility for decades, at least in the US. If they still use them in the EU and Canada, then the EU and Canada don't have the quality of medical care that everyone claims. They're focusing on "highly accurate" measurements of transient values instead of treating the patient.
Another honesty check: does it really make a difference in patient care if the patient's temperature is just 100.3F instead of 100.4F? What does that "highly accurate" get you?
Data probably came from many places, on weather underground I see that thigh for my location was set in 1934. But how do they know that, thats unpossible!!!!!
Who was running a temperature monitoring station at your location in 1934? Unless you live at the airport, I'm going to guess that nobody was. I'm going to guess that when you say "my location", you actually mean "somewhere within twenty miles of here and we're calling that close enough" when it comes to 1934 data, even though "my location" would imply where you are now, not just the general vicinity.
Today, Weather Underground uses data collected by many volunteers with networked weather stations. You may very well have such a station at your location. I have a station at my home, too. I've never bothered networking it to any presumably serious collection effort simply because I know how unreliable that kind of data can be. For example, my outdoor temperature sensor is mounted under a shelter and the clothes dryer vent would dump warm air there to make the readings high. It's good enough for what I need. My barometer has been stuck on 31.00" for the last two days for some reason (the thermometer and hygrometer work fine).
I say all that because even the professionals don't always bother to do it right. NWS has (and probably still has) weather stations installed in or near blacktop parking lots, and painted colors other than the official white. Jeffery Kooistra documented this problem in an Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact article a few years ago, and as I recall, he even reported that some of the stations were installed near HVAC cooling vents.
Global climate data (you know, for the globe) will include data from all regions of the globe
Given that global temperature data wasn't available before there were satellites to measure it, and had to be recalibrated around 1998 because they discovered an error in the satellite-based sea surface temperature processing, it would be hard to have a plot of mean global temperature anomalies prior to 1980 or so.
Prior to the satellite age, ocean measurements were sparse and hard to come by, and even measurements from unpopulated areas were limited. The term "global" meant something different back then compared to now.
Better let the medical community know this, the gold standard for measurements whether for blood pressure, or temperature is still mercury filled devices.
Better let the medical community know this. I haven't seen a mercury-filled blood pressure cuff in several decades, and when they take my temperature they stick a little electronic thing in my ear. The former is much more portable than the old manometer nailed to the wall, and the latter is much faster and more accurate.
Or did you mean by "gold standard" the idea that "it will cost us a lot of gold if someone breaks one of these damn mercury filled dinguses and a patient sues for mercury poisoning"?
It's just that in a 6MHz channel, most OTA stations only broadcast one channel, so it gets the full 20Mbps available of that channel.
Every OTA in this area that I know of has at least two, and usually three, streams on one channel. Why wouldn't they? With relatively moderate compression the bandwidth becomes free and they can charge advertisers double or more.
In a cable system, each 6MHz channel also gives around 20Mbps. however, instead of just having one channel take the entire bandwidth, they squeeze in three, four or more HD channels in that slot, so they get 6, 5 or less Mbps each.
I've seen typically 2 or three HD per "channel", so they're doing as well as or better than most of the OTA.
In one, he tells people to stop worrying about the ozone layer because "the Sun makes ozone." A half-truth: yes,
Not a "half truth", it is a fact. And since about 2000, the "size" of the ozone hole as gotten smaller and the minimum amount of ozone in the hole has gone slightly up. Data here. That's telling us that, indeed, the sun is making it faster than the CFCs that are still there are breaking it down. It also ignores the ozone levels over the rest of the planet, focusing on just one area.
It's interesting to note that the definition of the "hole" is not where there is zero ozone, but is just below an arbitrary limit set based on 1979 ozone levels.
Another similar fallacy: he says there are more trees in the USA now than when the first settlers arrived, so stop worrying about trees. I don't know, maybe that's true,
HE'S WRONG!!! but maybe he's right?
but he ignores the fact that we are cutting these trees down at a much higher rate than the settlers ever did.
And you ignore the fact that those clearcuts get replanted, so we're also planting trees at a rate much higher than the settlers ever did. Those trees that are cut down to go into building houses sequester a lot of carbon, and the growing trees suck up a lot of the carbon dioxide you exhale with every breath.
Forestry management is about ensuring rates of growth are higher than rates of depletion,
No, forestry management is about a sustainable use of forest resources. That's why harvests get replanted. By the way, I live in an area where logging is a large part of the economy (but not my employer) so I've seen both the cuts and the replants.
I'm always amazed at how many people that outright reject Rush Limbaugh still listen to his show.
What's more amazing is how many people who have never listened to his show who happily tell everyone what he's saying and thinking.
On a serious note, the summary provides a link to "the raw data", a table which has a title "Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (C) (Anomaly with Base: 1951-1980)" and columns of "Year Annual_Mean 5-year_Mean".
Climate scientists shoot themselves in the foot when they produce such highly processed data and call it "raw". The data are actually the difference of the annual and five year temperature means (from an unspecified set of sites and with unspecified filtering to remove outliers) from a "baseline" average of
The plot in the fine article also shows a simple linear fit to all the "anomaly" data, when by eye it is pretty easy to see at least two different trend lines, one from 1920 to 1975, and then 1975 on. That kind of simplistic processing creates questions about how the statistics are being created and used.
There is also an unexplained large dip around 1910, and a spike around 1942. Apparently there are existing processes that can cause relatively rapid cooling as well as heating, and that maybe points to causes for the remainder that is more than AGW.
That's a great idea. People could pre-order, pre-pay online with a credit card. The machine would give them an estimated pick-up time.
Accountant: Home Depot called, your order of 39 pink dildos has been waiting for pickup for a week. And why are you buying this using the company credit card?
Exec: Oh, crap. The company card must have been hacked again. That's it.
But also make it possible to remotely queue jobs and then pick them up at the store later when they're finished.
Minion: Sir, the 3D printer kiosk has been spitting out plastic dildos all day
Manager: Just mark them $2.99 and put them in the bin with all the rest.
It's like asking whether the electric company provides light in your home.
When the electric company sells CFL at a huge discount, I think the answer to this question can honestly be "yes". See here for a $0.99 bulb that appears on Amazon.com for $6.50 (0.01 plus $6.49 shipping).
That is Comcast should never make Netflix (or Hulu, or Youtube, or AT&T U-verse media) have lower performance than other equivalent services from Comcast (except of course in cases where the Comcast media is stored relatively local and thus can be provided more efficiently for technical reasons).
The problem with that is that Comcast's "equivalent service" (On-Demand) uses technically different delivery mechanisms than Netflix service. On Demand appears as a regular cable channel to the end user. In fact, until a few months ago, Comcast in this area delivered it as an unencrypted channel, and anyone with an ATV with clearQAM could view it. This was after they changed to encrypting all but a very few cable channels.
So, that's why a clogged pipe to Netflix wasn't also a clogged pipe to On Demand. And net neutrality won't change that at all. Nor would forcing Comcast to divest of the ISP part of the service.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
