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Here in NJ we had temperature-wise....

We don't care. It's a small data point in a MUCH larger problem.

Back in 1996 we had extreme snowstorms

So what? Weather != Climate. The point is that "extreme" events become MORE COMMON, not that they didn't happen before. The point is that the the average is moving.

Really, this "global " scaremongering is getting tiresome.

Right because New Jersey = all of Earth. (Insert eyeroll here)

I like how you use "Weather != Climate" and then immediately state that weather is climate because "extreme" events are more common. I particularly like it because "extreme" events are not more common, the poster you're replying to pointed this out, and the story itself is a classic example of the "weather = climate (when it suits us)" argument from climatards like yourself.

Here in NJ we had temperature-wise....

We don't care. It's a small data point in a MUCH larger problem.

Back in 1996 we had extreme snowstorms

So what? Weather != Climate. The point is that "extreme" events become MORE COMMON, not that they didn't happen before. The point is that the the average is moving.

Really, this "global " scaremongering is getting tiresome.

Right because New Jersey = all of Earth. (Insert eyeroll here)

I was the first to block cpu consumption in 2016 of a webkit process based on cpu over time and then force a hard kill. the kills complete in 400 milliseconds cleanly in ios and osx, and are detected for reaping in under a minute. I blocked the third day this ever appeared in the wild again in 2016, and did it to all my machines across many various cities and countries. killing the webkit process does NOT harm safari logic, but safari revisiting the tab again or re-presenting the killed item WILL RESTART IT and reload the page, and it then will quickly get rekilled. I used simple unix scripts as sudo to do this. I then ported it to ios and it works well inside iOS for webkits spawned from safari as well. NO HOST FILE MAINTENANCE for me. setting hash rate to 20% of a single cpu will evade detection for many minutes, but most of these javascript mining scripts (not all) try to eat up all cpu and are blatantly killable. most 2d and 3d games use far less than 100% cpu. so not too many false positives. USA litigation in 2015 attacks javascript mining within USA : http://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases... but of course I knew back then it would return and did return. but part of basic work if doing it via script is "ps -axww -o pid -o vsz -o rss -o %mem -o time -o etime -o sig -o sigmask -o wq -o command" then sent to filter for webkits identifier in 'command' then use dtrace or else other script stuff then organize relevant columns cpu time vs task lifespan and compute ratio, then kill the pid with a properly secure script that has in it "sudo kill -9 $1". one in 10 scripts try harder to stay alive within safari, but this method does stop them all , plus a watchdog can monitor lots of tiny under 1 minute iframe tasks and gate and kill and block and throttle based on other parameters. no one broswes at 0, so no one will read my words but you, and I wanted to say you and I are right, and host file method is wrong.

This seems to be the official thing about it because there's some stuff going around twitter that it's a lie. http://nj.gov/state/elections/2012-results/directive-email-voting.pdf

Wow, didn't know the idea went back that far.

There is an organization in New Jersey that has been using the old NYC subways for artificial reefs for at least 5-6 years ( founded in 1993 - http://www.reefball.org/ ). And from NJ.gov ( PDF Link http://nj.gov/dep/fgw/pdf/2003/reef_news03.pdf ). Looks like NJ has been doing artificial reefs since 1984, using all sorts of things, not just old subway cars.

Someone tell that to the New Jersey DMV:

http://www.nj.gov/mvc/pdf/Licenses/ident_ver_posterpint.pdf

the worst polluter in all of history has been the U.S. government

True.

I'm not sure the worst polluter in history is really the best organization to regulate the pollution of private citizens.

Possibly, but it's an irrelevant argument. The government regulates on behalf of the people.

I do believe that there ARE free market ways to control pollution.

Really. What ways are those? How much pollution have they cut?

In the end, pollution can ONLY be controlled through voluntary desire.

False. While voluntary desire can be a strong motivator for pollution control, it is not the only solution. Regulations have proven results.

If people really want to end pollution, they need to be informed by others in who is the worst polluters, and we need to boycott those companies. If no one boycotts, I can only believe that no one cares, in which case the problem needs to get bad enough for the next generation to realize the error of their parents.

Except people do care, which is why environmental regulations have been enacted.

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Normally I would never reply to a sig but in this case I feel it is important. The water I drink every day comes from my backyard and your sig seems to be encouraging people to pour used motor oil on their lawn to fertilize it. If any of my neighbors were to do this they would not only contaminate their own water supply but the well water of everyone in this neighborhood. One quart of oil can contaminate tens of thousands of gallons in an aquifer or even millions of gallons when spread into a slick on a body of water. And when it is in an aquifer it can take decades to dissipate. Please read some of these links:
http://www.nj.gov/dep/watershedmgt/cleanwaterbook/ waterbook_chp10.htm
http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/Tips/you_help_ dispose_oil.asp
http://www.princeton.edu/~njh2o/tips.htm

Pouring oil on the soil can make groundwater unsafe to drink at high concentrations, taste bad at low concentrations, raise your taxes due to government mandated cleanups. Please don't encourage anyone to do that.