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It's estimated that Homo Sapiens has been on this planet for around 200K years. This graph shows temperatures for the last 3/4 of a million years. Notice that it was warmer 110K years ago than it is now? So this isn't even "unprecedented" during our time on this planet, let alone before our ancestors climbed down from the trees.

Love the way that graph has such thick lines you can barely read it... And judging by the hysterical captions, it looks like this is a "temperature rise always causes CO2 rise" meme. Those of us in the reality-based community understand that this historical sequence has a physical cause (Milankovich cycles) and don't take it as an absolute rule that prevents CO2 emissions from causing temperature rises...

Anyway, notice that yellow chunk at the far right? That is the development of agriculture. Notice how it is much lower than the 100Kya bump you are so proud of? Now imagine if we push global temperature (or Antarctic temperature, which is what your graph actually shows) up to that level. How well do you think our food supply is going to handle that?

Oh, but we can fix these problems with technology! Sure, that is working so well in Syria, where the underlying cause of the conflict is idiotic government responses to a long term drought. If we start shifting rainfall around by heating up the planet, do you think the responses will be any better in other locations? The Pentagon is betting not.

So yeah, the planet will survive and so might the species, but civilisation may not.

Or you know, the scientific method was used that refines theories, based on new evidence.

Maybe we should be like you, where we know that there's no human-induced climate change because we ignore the unprecedented rate of change in temperature over the past 2 centuries, and keep all our understanding exactly the same as when we were born.

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/noaa_gisp2_icecore_anim_hi-def3.gif

Or we can be like you and keep perpetuating memes about "unprecedented rates of change" and pretend there has never been any change in the climate before the evil humans and their "machinez" came along.

It's estimated that Homo Sapiens has been on this planet for around 200K years. This graph shows temperatures for the last 3/4 of a million years. Notice that it was warmer 110K years ago than it is now? So this isn't even "unprecedented" during our time on this planet, let alone before our ancestors climbed down from the trees.

Seriously, we all need to do (a lot) more to avoid poisoning ourselves. Yes the planet is warming. Yes we are contributing to it. Yes we need to work toward ways to mitigate this. The planet has been here for 4.5 billion years. I find it a little disingenuous to look at the temperatures from the last 1500 years and claim the sky is falling.

The point being, you are putting the cart before the horse by suggesting that "it wouldn't necessarily give the result you wish" is, normatively speaking, "just fine". It's almost as if you think that whatever the result of a libertarian policy would be, that's the best possible result by virtue of it having arisen from a libertarian policy!

That's not good enough. You actually have to show why that would be good for people. The pro-neutrality people have done quite a lot of work to show why their solution would be good for people, and you can't just hand-wave that away by clinging to the axiom that regulation is bad, and that anyone who has a problem with the results of deregulation is just failing to deal with reality as it is. That's backwards thinking.

The fallacy of Is-ism

SocialText, makers of wiki software, created a license that may be just what the OP is looking for and it is OSI approved.

• CPAL License
• CPAL FAQ

SocialText, makers of wiki software, created a license that may be just what the OP is looking for and it is OSI approved.

• CPAL License
• CPAL FAQ

$15k for ONE seat? What the hell else did you buy?

From: http://www.socialtext.net/researchcomputingtest/index.cgi?matlab_site_license
* What is the cost of simply increasing our current licenses to 50/100/250 seats for concurrent use with all 50 toolboxes? How does that compare to the site license?

100 seats of concurrent licensing at the 50 toolbox level would be about $100,000; for the 250 seat level, about $300,000. The site license will be less than half the cost of the 100 seat level.

From Yahoo Answers:
"List price for the base MATLAB {commercial, single user License} is $1900.00/us. "

15k can get you some pretty shiny toolboxes for someone that doesn't use it that much.

Nice statement but it would be improved with some explanation that supports your claim. Even a link to some explanation would help, like a link to Lessig's Code 2.0 wiki.

It's true that at a certain level of storage or uploads, Flickr charges and Ourmedia doesn't. But they offer other things of value.

Flickr's founder, in fact, is a member of the Ourmedia wiki.

Down the road, who knows? Maybe us nonprofits and for-profit outfits like Flickr will be able to find ways to collaborate ... to everyone's benefit.

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So, have you cooked a perfect original burger and done the molecular scan yet? I'd love a copy! Major $whuffie$ if you throw the sides into the final molecular blueprint package.

Since you've already got a good amount of whuffie (aka: a good reputation) - I can trust that you're a good cook, and that you won't poison me, unlike those formerly "rich" (in old-economy money) McDonalds bastards passing off those rotten burger fakes on the p2p nets. :)

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• Variations on the Street Performer Protocol
• Through gov't taxes & grants
• Whuffie, in our future economy of abundance (once we reach the point where the notion of "working for a living" is made meaningless by more productive robots, molecular manufacturing, and better AI.)

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Here's the whuffie link

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The best opt-in I've ever seen is an RSS feed.

• If you put it in your aggregator, you want it.
• If you remove it from your aggregator, you don't want it.

Mass-mailers/mail-mergers/automated-mailers (including my-cowardly-self) can deal with the fact that people are simply friggin' overwhelmed with inbox influx. I'm not an AOL user, but I've dealt with lousy unsubscribe procedures by crying "spam" to CloudMark etc... Go cry to mommy that they accidentally marked your carefully crafted newsletter as spam. Get over it.

Spread the word, RSS doesn't suck. Overload of inbox crap, opted-in or not, in the inbox does suck.

Thank you MS for making Outlook 2003 not download e-mail images by default! Thank you SpamCop and SpamHaus! Thank you Netscape engineers and Dave Winer for RSS!

While I'm on a roll. What the F is up with the national do-not-call list? Shouldn't it be a national call-me-i'm-an-idiot list instead?

Replace money with "whuffie" and you have a meritocracy where your incentive to be productive is to increase your respect/reputation (which is a better measure than money) such that you can "buy" something that's actually scarce, with the tax on it depending on your continued rep.

e.g. If you find the cure for cancer, society might deem you worthy enough to "buy" 100,000 acres of prime beachfront property, with only 0.1% rep "tax." But if you tell everyone to "Get the hell of MY lawn!" and then you discover The Ultimate Doomsday Device, your rep will plummet and your property tax rockets upward.

Just musing; I'm no economist. :)

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