Yeah, last week I pointed out the same wrt the Yellowstone dome. How much of what they're measuring is actually tectonic movement?
From the Wiki article someone linked on sea level change:
Global warming, a few mm per year.
All other causes, about 10 meters per year.
Draw your own conclusions.
How much of that 27% was claimed from the sea in the first place?
Or you have functionally the same car each year with different upgrades, hence Plymouth, Dodge, Chrysler models with interchangeable everything.
One of my clients bought a Ford pickup, then replaced stuff with all the aftermarket Lincoln parts (who knew there were Lincoln pickup trucks!) and now he drives a Lincoln!
And thank you for that. I found beta unusable (and unreadable unless I turned CSS off). I'da hated to give up on.... good gods, 17 years I've been here??! the site is older than some of its users!
One thing that comes to mind on this 'new' look is make sure you check how it behaves at very large font sizes (which a lot of low-vision folks do use) and not necessarily an ultra-wide screen. Right now the Search box winds up overlaying part of the top menu.
The automobile industry coasted on that for decades. Identical car, different fenders.
No doubt so, but how about the cost of operations in rough country with poor access, where going in on foot is feasible (witness the illegals crossing it) but patrolling in ground vehicles is not?
Hence I think the real comparison should be: How does the cost of using a drone compare to the cost of using a helicopter in those same areas? I'd guess the drone is significantly cheaper.
Second, how long does it take a drone to patrol, compared to a manned ground vehicle in the same area? What's the total patrol cost per hour for drone vs 4x4?? (Don't forget to factor in the cost of the 4x4 as well as for the drone.) In rough country, a drone (or helicopter) can get an overview in a few minutes, but a ground vehicle might be forced to wind back and forth for an hour to reach the same point (and might still not get a view of the ravines). If patrolling a given area takes the drone ten minutes and the 4x4 an hour, which one is more cost effective?
How does it affect man-hours? The patrol is generally two men, while the drone only needs its operator.
How does all this affect insurance rates on their various equipment? Do reduced hours in use also reduce rates on 4x4s and such? (Certainly it will reduce maintenance costs.)
Lots of factors to consider, not just 'dollars per arrest'. We need to see spreadsheets and balance columns, not assumptions.
Not lying, but your average tyro is not going to achieve that. Like the guys on that beekeeper forum said, a single super might produce anywhere from 3 to 20 pounds. But the location and climate need to be optimized. City flora are hardly ideal, and your bees need to be where the nectar is. Where I worked (this was a pro operation, these guys did bees for a living) the supers were on the heavy end, but those bees were taken out to the orchards and buckwheat, or even out of state as conditions might dictate. They didn't make do with whatever the hell was growing around 'em.
(Buckwheat honey, gag. Most of that got exported.)
Remember this?
It wouldn't be gallons; it would be a few quarts. A lot of the interior of the hive is space for the bees to move around. Figure maybe a third or at most half the volume of the super (the part with honey-laden comb in it) is honey.
http://www.beesource.com/forum...
I used to work in for a beekeeper, mostly building hives and extracting honey.
I would hazard that phytoestrogens outmass human-type estrogen by many orders of magnitude. Most plants produce phytoestrogens, and some in huge quantities (notably flax and soybeans).
I would guess that the environmental types have not bothered to distinguish which they're measuring, even if the massively-diluted quantity suffices to do anything (other than be marketable in homeopathy).
Well, here's a question I haven't heard addressed yet:
Did Sony actually know it was spyware when it shipped? Or did they trust what the program's owners said about it?
This is how Superfish markets itself (filched from their website):
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"Superïsh delivers the true promise of visual search. Our patented image-to-image search technology analyzes images from every angle and perspective. The deep data algorithm searches thru millions of possible matches, then ranks and prioritizes your results. This process provides results that are based on how you see things, rather than how you describe them. See why millions of consumers use our visual search technology to find what they are looking for."
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Combine this great-sounding ad copy with a significant cut of revenues (I'd guess Sony's cut was around 30%) and it's an easy sell as preinstalled software. It's pretty obvious from the ad copy that Superrfish is not concerned about presenting their stuff honestly.
No doubt this is exactly how it was presented to Sony's suits. And the suits may have believed it without reservation, and without consulting any either an in-house or independent expert. If so, that's ignorance, but it's not willful wrongdoing.
But is this 0.05% "effects generally start to be seen" or "rare/low-body-mass individuals start to be affected" ??
And yeah, I expect a good head cold, especially if doped up on various OTC drugs, is more of a downgrade than are a couple beers. And there used to be an OTC drug cocktail that worked great against flu symptoms, but it also made you like passing-out drunk.
Yeah. Trouble is, the law doesn't do very well with grey areas and judgment calls, especially once you get beyond village-sized civilizations. What is 'unsafe driving' is subjective even among arresting officers (some take any tiny swerve as evidence). So it's had to be defined by a number the courts can point at.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
