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Millions? I call bullshit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal#Bhopal_disaster http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bhopal+disaster While the disaster shouldn't be belittled, it isn't helpful to exaggerate this way.

Wow. "He's a Mormon" is not one, but three of your problems with him. Interesting.

Anyway, I don't want to get into an argument about Mormons with you right now (though you're welcome to e-mail me if you feel the desire to attempt to dissuade me of my crazy Mormon ways), so I'll just say this - even conservative Mormons might have a valid point once in a while.

As for why I quoted him rather than say it myself, well, it's faster to copy and paste, especially when his point is the same as mine (in this case). I don't always agree with OSC, I do happen to agree with but the portion I quoted.

[Conservatives claim] A call to stop building coal plants will 100% without fail lead to the complete collapse of the American economy.

Actually we're just saying that a call to stop using coal power will cause the American way of life to collapse if all the other viable solutions are prohibited. That's just common sense. It's a shame the environmentalists can't understand it.

The comment about bicycling is so intellectually dishonest that it makes me sick, so I'm not even going there.

It's intellectually dishonest to point out that the people who most vigorously support measures to (somehow) stop global warming generally aren't the people you see riding around on bicycles to save energy and reduce pollution?

It's intellectually dishonest to point out that Al Gore, who is one of the leading supporters of the "global warming" religion, has his own jet, which obviously is more damaging to the environment than just taking a regular plane like the rest of the population?

It's intellectually dishonest to point out that many of the "global warming" supporters want the problems they're talking about solved, as long as they're not the ones that have to implement or live with the solutions?

Are you really trying to claim that it's intellectually dishonest to point out hypocrisy?

Everyone knows that nuclear power is a much more eco-friendly solution [...] but it's primarily conservative NIMBY types that prevent new nukular plants from being built.

What "everyone" knows is that historically, the Democratic party has generally opposed nuclear power, while the Republican party has generally supported it. During his presidential campaign, McCain specifically mentioned a plan to ramp up nuclear power over the next few decades.

As for what you call the "NIMBY crowd", well, I wouldn't mind a nuclear power plant in my back yard. I also wouldn't mind a wind turbine in my back yard, nor would I mind a set of solar panels on my roof. The "NIMBY" crowd covers both conservatives and liberals; it has very little to do with politics and very much to do with the desire to have and control one's own personal space (home, backyard, whatever).

Show me a valid example and I'll eat my words.

People propose solar power schemes all the time, and they're virtually always opposed by environmental groups. It's not hard to find examples. (Or by "realistic proposal" did you mean you want an example of a cheap solar power generation scheme? You know full well that solar power is still on the expensive side.)

Again, the biggest opposition to something like this is the conservative "science is evil" crowd.

I dunno... as a conservative, my impression has always been that it's mostly the liberals that are the "science is evil" crowd.

But personally I haven't heard anything in particular from either political party about space-based power.

Also, it's kind of a bad idea to just go around damming up every river in sight

Nobody is suggesting damming up every river in sight - but to unilaterally reject all potential hydroelectric dams in the name of preserving the environment is silly

Forgive my ignorance, but since you brought up Birthers (had to look that one up) and the Obama birth certificate thing: was a birth Certificate finally produced?

Ignorance is one thing, it can be fixed. Willful ignorance, is a much more serious problem. With an extremely simple search you could have saved yourself the trouble of writing a four paragraph post filled with vague references to shadowy figures that pull strings to get a black man elected.

I'm sure you're incredibly busy though and have many more posts to make so, please, allow me.

Let me google that for you:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arm+architecture

things in "ask slashdot" that should instead get someone redirected to google

Not everybody is an expert at formulating search engine queries. In these Ask Slashdot articles, I take the question to be the following: "To answer this question, what words should I have typed into a search engine?" Even a "Let me Google that for you" response can be informative if it reveals keywords that the submitter couldn't think to use.

I never said that trees won't grow again. It just takes much longer for nutrients to replenish... case studies

I have no idea who any of the people involved are, or what their products (or websites maybe?) are supposed to do. For the sake of us who aren't familiar with every current lawsuit, could you please add a little context to the story summaries? This isn't exactly like mentioning a new salvo in IBM v. SCO where you can assume a majority of Slashdotters will have a clue WTF you're talking about.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=crunchpad+joo+joo

Fascinating, isn't it?

It's not Motorola's fault that the calendar sync is broken and the camera issues are not hardware but rather software. Motorola makes the hardware... Here ya go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What's+the+difference+between+hardware+and+software%3F You're welcome.

There are multiple ad-blocking extensions available for Chrome.

Eritrea

Anybody who responds with a LMGTFY link comes across as a smug douche. How about you just provide some relevant links on the nation instead?

Didn't he just provide you with an entire page of relevant links? If you're not willing to Google it yourself before asking, and you're not willing to click on a lmgtf link, what motivation could he possibly have to provide you more links to not click on?

Eritrea

Anybody who responds with a LMGTFY link comes across as a smug douche. How about you just provide some relevant links on the nation instead?

Eritrea

Depending on how "accurately"...

I see...so I can get you to dismiss any scientific theory, just by creating a bad model for it. You'd actually dismiss the whole concept of the earth orbiting the sun? How incredibly stupid.

The same kind of people were already warnings us about global cooling from their ivory towers

No they weren't.

in twenty years they did a complete flip-flop, and we are supposed to believe them without doubts?

No, the devil is in the details, but the general theory is quite simple to understand if you're reasonably literate. You're supposed to be able to understand it yourself. Perhaps that's asking a bit much in some cases.

I don't know about you, but if I were new to Linux, 'man' wouldn't exactly be the first command I'd think of if I wanted help.

I don't mean that it's a good choice for a command name. I mean that the concept works -- if you've been told about man and apropos, they work well.

If you haven't been told, I suppose the question is, how did you end up at the commandline as a complete newbie without any direction at all? We don't sit someone down in a car and expect them to just know where the gearshift is (or what it does), or how the turn signal works, or which pedal is the break and which is the gas.

So the first thing you say to a newbie command-line user needing help is 'JFGI'?

No, I would say 'LMGTFY' -- maybe obnoxious, but it's at least informative. I try not to tell them to Google it unless I'm sure they'll actually find what they're looking for that way.

On the other hand, it really is the responsibility of the person asking the question to at least make an effort to solve it themselves before asking me -- especially when they are perfectly capable of Googling it themselves. It's kind of rude to ask me to do that for them.

No wonder people don't like it.

It's part of being self-sufficient. Google is a way to access the sum total of human knowledge, so hell yes, that's going to be the first place I send someone asking obvious questions about any system.

Actually, the first place I'll send them is here -- but the idea is the same. It only takes a tiny amount of effort to learn to do this, and the payoff is enormous.

Teach a man to fish...

Yes, I realize people don't like that, in the short term. The number of times I hear people say, "I just want to do X! Why does this have to be so complicated?" But it pays off in the long run.

Now, if I was being paid to handhold them through every process, things might be different. But chances are, this is IRC or a forum, so try to meet us halfway.

Don't be dumb! Looks like you can get a pair of complete refill sets for $33 to me...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cities+mentioned+in+the+bible&l=1

Why has no one tried carbon dating this book yet?

Well gee, let me Google that for you.

First result:

* Radiocarbon dating has not been carried out because it would be necessary to destroy a small portion of the vellum; even then it could only give the date of death of the animal from which the vellum was made, not the date of the application of the ink, which could have been any time after; and also because radiocarbon dating isn't sufficiently exact – it could say whether the animal died in the thirteenth century, or between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, but could not be any more specific than that (ie, it couldn't distinguish between vellum from 1912 or vellum from 1600).

Dare I question the first result in a Google search? Yes, I dare. This assertion does not match the capabilities of accelerator mass spectrometer carbon dating.

A good proxy for the Voynich Manuscript is the equally mysterious Vinland Map, which has been dated to within +/-27 years using only 28.8 milligrams of parchment. It is true that once having dated the parchment you only have a maximum age for the document since old parchment was commonly reused back in the day due to its cost, and is commonly reused today to make forgeries. Still, it is an important and essential staring point for a serious investigation.

Apparently the ink has also never been subjected to chemical analysis to see if markers are available for dating (but the inconclusive results of this with the Vinland Map suggests that this is no panacea).

Why has no one tried carbon dating this book yet?

Well gee, let me Google that for you.

First result:

* Radiocarbon dating has not been carried out because it would be necessary to destroy a small portion of the vellum; even then it could only give the date of death of the animal from which the vellum was made, not the date of the application of the ink, which could have been any time after; and also because radiocarbon dating isn't sufficiently exact – it could say whether the animal died in the thirteenth century, or between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, but could not be any more specific than that (ie, it couldn't distinguish between vellum from 1912 or vellum from 1600).

Well, would you like me to Google that for you?

Our AD does none of those, those are handled by completely different servers that are part of the AD (SCCM in our case).

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Active%20Directory

Citation needed

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=irs+employee+contractor+reclassification

Or, let me Google that for you. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=professor+video

Google this :-P

Or, let me Google that for you. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=professor+video

Google this :-P

HTH: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=black+friday

/signed

"Video Professor" could mean a ton of different things...
- University Professor who teaches about "Video" or media in general
- Non-Marvel-World Super Villain
- Nickname for a sports superstar
- Software

Or, let me Google that for you.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=professor+video
-Chris

Apache Batik

And the most of them sure should this maneuver as well!

Leptopn

Godwin's Law

You could always send them to Google by saying, Just fucking google it

Or you could use this one?

Let me google that for you

I prefer TeamViewer myself: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+remote+control

Hey lazy dipshit

let me google that for you

I don't quite get it, though.

Here you go.

Sorry -- couldn't resist :)

Geez, I wonder where you could find that sort of information...

The term derives from the age of the exploit. When a vendor becomes aware of a security hole, there is a race to close it before attackers discover it or the vulnerability becomes public. A “zero day” attack occurs on or before the first or “zeroth” day of vendor awareness, meaning the vendor has not had any opportunity to disseminate a security fix to users of the software.

Yes. To bad there isn't a Google Shopping version of lmgtfy.com

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mark+cuban&l=1

[Citation needed]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Discovery+Channel

Perhaps this would help to clear things up for you.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wow+private+servers

Let me Google that for you...

I've seen some pretty rubbish SlashDot questions, but this really takes the cake. 5 minutes of Google searching would have revealed Password Safe, Keepass, and all manner of other free secure password databases / keyrings.

Drop kdawson as an editor.

170 lbs. Sorry don't have it in kilograms

Crisis averted

There's this great new invention called Google. You should try it out sometime.

Let me google that for you.

Try this link... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=microsoft+research+technology+transfer This will show you the search results of a website called "Google." I know, it's a funny sounding name. But really, it's quite useful. Next, click the TOP link. From there, select a year(like 2008) link to see what MS research has done lately.

Kekeke.

you never know... here,

I know I will probably sound dumb, but could someone briefly explain the difference between floating point and intger?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=difference+between+floating+point+and+integer

Eh? What part of "I already posted the reference" do I need to spell out for you?

Actually, I am one of those guys who assumes that everybody (probably at least 99.9% of them) have at least heard of the Bible.

And if they haven't, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Mark+13:31,+32.