Who would have thought having trees, shrubs and other natural barriers between an airport and the people would reduce noise levels?

It's as if clear cutting was found not to work.

Who thinks that? People that have never studied noise abatement and think their cleverness is enough to allow them to intuit the science.

Trees and shrubs do very little. A thorough study from the state of Virginia showed

No matter how the sites were examined, there was no measurable difference in road noise. All differences at the more distant measurement locations were due simply to the distance effect rather than to any additional mitigating effects of trees, whether measured by planting density, age, height, or average tree diameter.

Saying Libertarians are "far-right" is like saying sqrt(-1) is more positive than zero.

And the computer here is a patsy called a calling station.

From the article: "but its basic approach to the game involves getting into every hand by calling bets".

You joke about gamma rays but there isn't much of difference between X rays and gamma rays from a biological perspective.

I'd be interested in what happens to those that have received several head CT scans. One head CT scan is about 20 years of background radiation.

I thought he had simply mis-spoken or was mis-quoted given that the commercials have already run for more than a year.

If the quote is accurate, then it must mean the new tax rules began in 2015.

Still, it's one year of hype leading to a launch that virtually no one showed up for.

Where did you get the idea that it had been running for just a quarter of a year?

The program was being developed in 2013 and by January 2014, they had already begun running ads.

That makes the program more than a year and a quarter old.

Those industrious few that were repairing and reusing equipment should have been free to start their own enterprises and invent and produce new things. Instead they had to struggle under communism and miss the opportunity to become the next Steve Jobs of Eastern Europe.

Of course by holding them back all were kept equally poor (except party insiders) and so the pride and ego of even the most incapable person was spared any uncomfortable comparison.

Whoa. I didn't say it was good or bad.

I was just replying to the suggestion that this was the fault of "liberals".

This is more likely an expression of Hawiian nationalism which has been on the rise in recent years.

In some cases it has crossed the line into race hatred as the Southern Poverty Law Center noted a few years back.

And there are several independence groups. China has even offered to arm them.

It would have to be backwards compatible with English. Then you could say that everyone who speaks English is also speaking your constructed language.

Are we going to call it English++ or English# ?

Another problem are price controls.

Often the local franchise authority (set up by the city or state or county) sets prices for services.

If the price is set too low, then the cable company can't legally charge enough to pay for the infrastructure to reach certain customers, even if those customers are willing to pay more to get service.

C12 is for 30Km from the surface, that's why.

The link I gave shows the temperature for the lowest part of the atmosphere.

Here's the RSS at 0.122K/decade:

RSS temperature time series