Comment Re:apnea (Score 3, Funny) 136
After some adjustment, I can say I sleep like a baby now
You wake up every few hours screaming because you need your diaper changed?
After some adjustment, I can say I sleep like a baby now
You wake up every few hours screaming because you need your diaper changed?
That sound you heard was my point going over your head. You win at knowing facts, you fail utterly at allusion.
Or maybe it was just a really lousy allusion.
Only so long as the bonuses keep flowing. Once you've paid the Danegeld... stopping isn't so easy.
Okay, did you just seriously compare a CEO giving his employees bonuses with paying protection money to a hostile foreign power?
How fast do you nuts drive? 70 mph (112 kph) is plenty fast enough. The speed limits should be set to what the majority of drivers on the road feel safe driving at. If 90% of the drivers think that 70 is plenty (and they drive at or under that regardless of the speed limit) -- then that should be the limit.
It's actually the 85th percentile that has been found as the safest speed limit to set.
For a multi-lane, divided, limited-access freeway, the 85th percentile tends to be around 130-140km/h. This is, not coincidentally, the speed you'll find most vehicles travelling on the unrestricted portions of the German Autobahns.
Hah! Very true.
I'd take AGW arguments more seriously if they weren't so dependent on rhetorical fallacies.
You've already amply demonstrated that no amount of evidence will ever make you take a scientific analysis of climate change seriously.
Ad hominem attacks such as the above ("shrieking denialists") and appeals to authority ("97% of scientists") are ridiculously common.
"Ridiculously common" is an apt description of the denalist tendency to shriek "ad hominem!" every time somewhat accurately identifies them, and their constant pretense that appeal to authority is at the basis of scientifically based climatological arguments.
Protip: when you have been thoroughly pwned, all you accomplish by whining about it is to embarrass yourself and everyone else around you.
Trees, over their life span, may sequester carbon. But forests do not. They are carbon neutral.
This is true over the very long term--in the extreme case of Carboniferous forests, 300 million years or so; we're only now getting around to releasing their carbon back into the atmosphere by burning coal. Obviously in most cases dead trees rot and release their carbon faster than that, but "fast" is relative, and it's still a very slow process by human standards. And most of the carbon from a dead tree doesn't go straight back into the atmosphere; it's taken up by other organisms, and ultimately goes back into the soil as part of the organic waste that makes forest floors into fertile ground for the next generation of trees. Rotted wood, bits of smaller plants, bug poop
It's a combination of factors, of which warming is one. Probably the best summation from TFA:
"When you look at the long record, you see fire and climate moving together over decades, over centuries, over thousands of years," said pyrogeographer Jennifer Marlon of Yale University, who earlier this year co-authored a study of long-term fire patterns in the American West.
"Then, when you look at the last century, you see the climate getting warmer and drier, but until the last couple decades the amount of fire was really low. We've pushed fire in the opposite direction you'd expect from climate," Marlon said.
The fire debt is finally coming due.
This is pretty much what you'd expect. Leaving aside the question of the human contribution to warming and what we can do about it, the fact of global warming is established to all but the shrieking denialists; it's also a fact that under normal circumstances, ecosystems adapt to any change in climate--sometimes better than others, but they do adapt. Our fire suppression policies for the last century or so have prevented what would have been the normal adaptation from taking place. So now we're getting it all at once.
Just in case anyone wants to actually, you know, read the article rather than being taken to a login screen.
I want to engrave this post on the insides of the eyelids of every single person who pushes the "poor people are just lazy and stupid" meme. Well said.
Things really get ugly when the school calls to say Jeremy spoke in class.
Without getting into details, it's biology with a popular genetic model organism.
Yes, I could see how that would be a problem. My dissertation depended heavily on data from model organisms (D. melanogaster and S. cerevisiae) but that was a matter of using them as well-vetted data sources as test cases for algorithm development, not really trying to learn new things about the biology of the organisms themselves. Now, when I apply my methods to human data, I can make a case for credibility by saying, "Well, we know it works in flies and yeast
FWIW, bioinformatics can always use more biologists; too many of us come from the CS/math side and really need collaborators who can keep us grounded in the reality of living organisms rather than running away with "hey, look at this cool algorithm!" So if you're interested in moving over, there's an opportunity there. In any case, I really do hope things get better soon.
What's really annoying, however, is when someone picks it before you, does a shitty job, and gets their paper published somewhere high profile.
My program director once said that the best way to get a highly cited paper was to be the first to do something and do it wrong. He wasn't recommending it, though.
Yes, the city-county of Nashville/Davidson County is one the two blue spots in a red state. But the people I knew and worked with, and the people who staff the radio stations, and the people you talk to on the street, don't all live in the Blue Hole known as Davidson County.
You must be getting tired from moving those goalposts. Sit down, take a rest.
I see that you're not from there, and have probably never set foot on the ground there, so I'll give you a hint: check the "doughnut" counties.
Never said I was. I'm familiar with that kind of political geography, though. Let me introduce you to these fascinating concepts known as "data" and "logic" that allow us to
So your call sounds much like
Where did you get the idea from my post that people should be forced to do anything? If you want to keep your preciousss ideas secret, go right ahead. Just don't expect the rest of us to pat you on the head for doing it.
Oh yeah, and those attractive people who don't smile at ugly people? I guarantee you a lot of them aren't nearly as good-looking as they think they are.
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
