Germany also reached its Kyoto protocol dictated savings. But much of this was due to the economic melt-down of eastern Germany after reunification and a final massive fall thanks to the current economic crisis.
Still, Germany and the EU have committed to cutting 30% of their CO2 emissions as well as opting for 40% if the other countries internationally agree to do the same to a certain degree. So there are countries putting out.
Public universities do it too, in Germany. At least the university of Karlsruhe, now known as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which have mandatory passing requirements for anyone to get past the 3rd semester.
As this is a PDF, here is the full answer:
"An open Letter to Jerry Coyne:
Dear Jerry,
Your distorted reading of my motivation for not releasing the video of our conversation
in Kentucky has given birth to an inordinate number of hostile letters to me. Because of
misleading statements on your website (11/1/2011), I have received a considerable
amount of hate mail, often laced with obscenities, though often also tempered with
inquisitive politeness. The mail mostly complains about my “cowardly” reneging on an
alleged agreement that you falsely assume I made to post online the video of our panel
at the University of Kentucky. When I was in Kentucky I was never asked to do so.
Later, after reflecting on what to me was a most unfortunate event I wrote to Prof Rabel
requesting that any video not be released.
Anyway, Jerry, your own words impute cowardice to me for this refusal, but how do you
know that’s the reason for my reluctance? Here is a typical reaction stirred up by your
remarks: “What a pathetic, sociopathic dweeb you are. Hiding behind your sick belief
system you call a religion. You are an insult to academia, and a dim bulb for the
uninformed masses. You deserve the insults you are getting and should be fired.
Coward, liar and fool you are, loser. And no doubt a Republican too!” (I’m tempted to
say that I can live with every accusation except the last.)
I want to make it clear that Rob Rabel at the University of Kentucky has confirmed that I
never gave permission before or after the panel to post the video. You need to make
this clear to your audience. I never broke the agreement that you have unkindly caused
your readers to assume I made.
However, the more interesting issue has to do with my reasons for refusing permission
to post the video, and whether it was wrong for me to do so. I have no regrets about
anything I had to say during the panel, and if you agree to post this letter on your site I
will be happy to have the video released unedited, for public scrutiny. Those who are
reading this blog are free to look at other videos of my comments on science and
religion available online. They will see that I have no need to hide my views from the
public, and in fact I am quite eager to have my thoughts made available provided they
are presented accurately and fairly.
Why then do I hesitate in this case? It has to do with you alone, Jerry, not anyone else,
including myself. I have had wonderful conversations with many scientific skeptics over
the years, but my meeting with you was exceptionally dismaying and unproductive. I
mentioned to you personally already that in my view, the discussion in Kentucky seldom
rose to the level of a truly academic encounter. I agree that it was probably entertaining
to the audience who gave us a standing ovation at the end. Nevertheless, instead of
being flattered by this I went away terribly discouraged at what had just taken place. I
wish to emphasize that I do not exempt myself from criticism."
I know quite a few people, actually, who have done exactly that and that would be lost in a typical BIOS with all its acronyms. Part of the reason is that most of the software they use on windows (firefox, thunderbird, Libre-/OpenOffice) is there as well, so they already know the names.
When you take out all the middle men, are there even more hoses in the pool or less?
Well, there are a multitude of car sharing companies in every major German city. So I think this is much more a case of reporters believing the marketing than anything else.
The one I use has a monthly fee of 5 Euros, the other one I use has no monthly fee.
This is definitely not the first electric car sharing program, see the comment about Witkar. But it also isn't the first commercially successful or anything. The German railway association (Deutsche Bahn) has their Flinkster program, which includes electric and "normal" cars, depending on what you need. In my opinion a perfect fit for the current generation.
Where exactly does periodic scheduling not work? I am using it all the time with Lightning.
Nope, we build and just finished a new pipeline exactly for this reason.
I have heard this argument so many times before, but it is just stupid to say: You can only use 400MBit, so better keep your 100MBit instead of getting that full GBit, as you would not be able to use it fully. It might not be 10 times faster, but it still is 4 times faster, which might well be worth the price to some.
When a young man was asked by a reporter, if he thought rioting was the correct way to express disconsent, he answered with
"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?"
The TV reporter from Britain's ITV had no response. So the young man pressed his advantage. "Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/07/7292281-the-sad-truth-behind-london-riot
10% sounds quite a lot, but according to Adult Literacy in America, Third Edition, (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93275.pdf), "This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information.", which I would define as literacy, but obviously indexmundi uses a different scale, as it states the USA as having a 99% literacy rate.
Which brings me to try Haskell time and time again. And some things just stick, e.g. map/reduce comes to mind.
Parts of the video were awfully familiar, especially in the beginning. If I remember correctly, last time around they produced this with functions for curves etc. and created models with these curves, allowing "unlimited" detail.
Luckily, the real Europeans (not the Brits
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
