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Ooops, my bad #4 is a fake... Still a couple more to cover up :
Don't laugh at us
This is my body
A mole in The Vatican : Different than usual altar boys.
Gay Lobby in Conclave : where is the smoke?
Private catholic schools : if you are nice, you could come with me to the anti-gay-marriage rally.

You mean like these ones?
It's hard to receive money from jerks!
Having diner with assholes.
Pope 23 and his three dadies.
The Talmud is horseshit.
Will do anything to get new customers!
Next week, I will show you the resurrection trick

Yeah, these guys went down on the extremists of some religions (the Christians, The Muslims and The Jews, the current largest in France) just as much as they did on politics, celebrities, social conflicts and others...
Growing up there, I saw plenty of these cartoons. Some are not very funny, some are, some are very intelligent, some very dumb... but if the one thing I remember is that : if it hurts you at some point, it means that there is a layer of truth deep down.

Monde de merde...

I don't know but the comparison image is really great.

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I don't know but the comparison image is really great.

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How much is it worth to this country to make sure we won’t find the Luftwaffe our superiors when we start that “Second Front”? We spend in one night over Berlin more than $20,000,000. The NACA requires—now—$17,546,700 for this year’s work. These raids are prime factors in winning the War. How can we do more towards Victory than by spending the price of one air raid in research which will keep our Air Forces in the position which the NACA has made possible?

But the real issue in Launius's article is NACA did not consider importance of the jet engine.
http://launiusr.wordpress.com/...

loaded rifle on the hood of his truck and it's pointing at me.

Violating the 4 basic rules of firearms? Yea, I would GTFO too.

jet planes and flame throwers and guided fucking missles and grenades

The armed forces are currently composed of your brothers, sisters, uncles, cousins, and friends. These people still have some compunction to not shoot at American citzens. They do still swear an oath to defend the country and the constitution. When war-bots start taking over the front line roles that humans currently occupy, THEN this argument starts making a lot more sense. Hopefully there is never a need for a hot engagement, but history has shown over and over again that people will face those long odds when things get bad enough.

Ferguson riots where the masses threw rocks

Where were the fucking gun rights assholes?

I wasn't aware that the purpose of the protests in Ferguson was to shoot police officers. If that would have happened, we would be in a VERY different place right now. Luckily no one went there.

A number of gun rights groups (sorry, refuse to use your ad-hominem attack terms) were protecting local businesses from being attacked. Just like a number of local business owners did during the LA riots in 1992.

including such beauties as drag and drop now failing on older versions of Photoshop in Yosemite

So Adobe's shitty code is Apple's fault?

If you say so, but whomever's fault it is, the reason I don't use a mac anymore is because there were fewer problems with Adobe CS series on Winders. [1]

How much more proof how braindead Adobe's programmers are do you need than that their applications worked better under Classic MacOS than under OS X? Ohh, but the ones working on the Windows version must be top notch - how else did they manage to make sure that you of all people doesn't experience any problems. http://optimizewindows8.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/how-to-solve-photoshop-cs3-compatibility-issues-with-windows-8/

The thing about the Pythagorean Theorem is completely true and well-documented (by maybe one or two hundred years). Pretty sure it's in a sidebar to the college algebra text I teach out of.

Wikipedia: "In India, the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, the dates of which are given variously as between the 8th century BC and the 2nd century BC, contains a list of Pythagorean triples discovered algebraically, a statement of the Pythagorean theorem, and a geometrical proof of the Pythagorean theorem for an isosceles right triangle. The Apastamba Sulba Sutra (ca. 600 BC) contains a numerical proof of the general Pythagorean theorem, using an area computation. Van der Waerden believed that "it was certainly based on earlier traditions". Boyer (1991) thinks the elements found in the ulba-stram may be of Mesopotamian derivation.[67]... Pythagoras, whose dates are commonly given as 569–475 BC, used algebraic methods to construct Pythagorean triples..."

[67] Carl Benjamin Boyer (1968). "China and India". A history of mathematics. Wiley. p. 229.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#History

There's all kinds of examples, maybe more often the case than not, that mathematical principles get named after someone other than the original discoverer. It doesn't even require "forgotten knowledge" or anything like that, just some kind of power relationship at play. In fact, Stigler's Law of Eponomy (named after Stephen Stigler, Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago) states, "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." See also: Matthew Effect and Boyer's Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

Here's professor Richard Lipton writing on that particular subject:

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/why-is-everything-named-after-gauss/ ... but obviously the other stuff mentioned at the conference is total looney-tunes.

For a tech website, Slashdot has a lot of luddites, but we already knew that. My smart meter saves me money, and the privacy consequences aren't really that dire. Definitely far less than what your credit card bills reveal.

Actually the trend is in the opposite direction -- fewer of the math functions are implemented in hardware than used to be. There are many reasons (optimized out-of-order CPUs and old/slow transcendental implementations) but one significant reason is that the new glibc math functions are generally correctly rounded -- exactly correct. Whereas the hardware versions are often not -- as I discussed in this recent blog post:

http://randomascii.wordpress.c...

The no warming since year X trope? Bog standard cherry picking deviod of statistical chops. And really, google serving up the comedy site wattsupwiththat? Heh.

http://tamino.wordpress.com/20...

Thanks, interesting document, found here. The audio is really bad at the beginning and fluctuates throughout the talk. The interesting bit that you refer to is at 21 minutes from the start.

I'm trying to type in what he said directly from the audio:

The 16-bit design gave us a megabyte of memory. The 8086 has a 20-bit address. It is really a segmented 16-bit data path with segment registers that are really indexes. It is a 1-MB address space. And in this original design I took the upper 384K and tied it to a certain amount to provide for memory video, the ROM and I/O. And that left 640K for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640K barrier. The limit to how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981 while making those decisions I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64K to 640K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't. It took only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

Fortunately, there is a reasonable solution. Intel has moved forward with its chips families, the 286 chip introduced in 1984 moves us to a 24-bit address space (mumbles about segmented indirection, being not that good). That is sort of an intermediate milestone. in 1986 we moved up to the 386 where we get a full 32-bit offset to these segments that have been designed in this architecture. So what we have is a machine that can address 4GB of RAM. And I have to say with all honesty, I believe that it will take us more than 10 years to use up that address space.

So he never makes that exact quote, however one can understand why people picked it up. Essentially, BG thought in 1981 640K would be enough for everybody for a long while. Note that he was reasonably prudent regarding using up the 32-bit address space (that ship has sailed now).

Later, regarding memory, he says that computers should have about 1MB of RAM per MIPS. Specifically, he goes on to saying machines with 30-60MB of RAM should be desirable soon (in 1989).

In this talk he talks about many things, most are pretty insightful in fact: OS design, multitasking, parallelization, multi-processor designs, dynamic linking, object-oriented design. Funnily he talks at length about OS2 in a very positive way. This was before Windows 3 of course. He compares OS2 and Unix, saying that OS2 will take over the desktop and Unix the servers, and all other OSes will die out. He talks about the FSF, saying its task of creating a free Unix-like OS is doomed.

Some interesting comments on that talk here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
"Iron Sky is a 2012 Finnish-Australian-German[4] comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko.[5][6] It tells the story of a group of Nazi Germans who, having been defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth."

We have only three years left to get ready!!! :-)

Seriously though, the Nazis show what can happen when soulless bureaucracy gets out of control... And modern schooling was invented in Prussia and made possible the Nazi war effort built on people unquestionably following horrific orders...
http://johntaylorgatto.wordpre...
"I'll bring this down to earth. Try to see that an intricately subordinated industrial/commercial system has only limited use for hundreds of millions of self-reliant, resourceful readers and critical thinkers. In an egalitarian, entrepreneurially based economy of confederated families like the one the Amish have or the Mondragon folk in the Basque region of Spain, any number of self-reliant people can be accommodated usefully, but not in a concentrated command-type economy like our own. Where on earth would they fit? ... Before you can reach a point of effectiveness in defending your own children or your principles against the assault of blind social machinery, you have to stop conspiring against yourself by attempting to negotiate with a set of abstract principles and rules which, by its nature, cannot respond. Under all its disguises, that is what institutional schooling is, an abstraction which has escaped its handlers. Nobody can reform it. First you have to realize that human values are the stuff of madness to a system; in systems-logic the schools we have are already the schools the system needs; the only way they could be much improved is to have kids eat, sleep, live, and die there. Schools got the way they were at the start of the twentieth century as part of a vast, intensely engineered social revolution in which all major institutions were overhauled to work together in harmonious managerial efficiency. ... A huge price had to be paid for business and government efficiency, a price we still pay in the quality of our existence. ... Part of what kids gave up was the prospect of being able to read very well, a historic part of the American genius. Instead, school had to train them for their role in the new overarching social system. But spare yourself the agony of thinking of this as a conspiracy. It was and is a fully rational transaction, the very epitome of rationalization engendered by a group of honorable men, all honorable men -- but with decisive help from ordinary citizens, from almost all of us as we gradually lost touch with the fact that being followers instead of leaders, becoming consumers in place of producers, rendered us incompletely human. It was a naturally occurring conspiracy, one which required no criminal genius. The real conspirators were ourselves. When we sold our liberty for the promise of automatic security, we became like children in a conspiracy against growing up, sad children who conspire against their own children, consigning them over and over to the denaturing vats of compulsory state factory schooling."

And:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/...
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security."

This might put things into perspective. I'm not terribly familiar with your population densities, but I'd wager a lot of your travel is in a relatively small area. This doesn't show Alaska and Hawaii either. Hawaii isn't size though but distance, so I doubt you need to see that - but Alaska is also huge.

Very similar to a project someone did a couple years ago that did the exact same thing: http://jomegat.wordpress.com/2...

It's true but... There's a guy in Ottawa who's been blogging about his Nissan Leaf through 3 winters... One technique he uses to extend winter range is to pre-heat the interior of the car by plugging it in at home/work, even if only a 120vac outlet because the interior of the car will already be warm by the time he gets in to drive. Then he keeps the interior relatively cool while using the seat heater and steering wheel heater to keep himself comfortable. https://canadianleaf.wordpress...

Oh, there's all sorts of way to extend winter range dramatically, what you describe being one of the most effective ones. However, since I was replying to someone who was implying the driving conditions to achieve advertised range may be unusual, I felt it would be deceptive on my part to give him the range I can achieve through careful finagling instead of the range I get if I just get in the car and drive without any special considerations.

They didn't have the book I wanted:

http://athenae25.files.wordpre...

I've seen the flag-on-the-truck thing many times - never seen a confederate flag.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/sta...
http://www.tampabay.com/multim...
http://onlyoneheaven.files.wor...
http://media.cmgdigital.com/sh...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0cuK...
https://historicstruggle.files...
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic...

I rest my case.

I've seen the flag-on-the-truck thing many times - never seen a confederate flag.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/sta...
http://www.tampabay.com/multim...
http://onlyoneheaven.files.wor...
http://media.cmgdigital.com/sh...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0cuK...
https://historicstruggle.files...
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic...

I rest my case.

From Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation

A ridiculous number of people have gotten caught up in the whole âoehe used a minus sign instead of an ascii hyphen! The bastardâ controversy that has followed this thread around and has spilled over into any number of internet message boards. First of all, let me be clear. The issue was not with my use of a minus sign. The issue Amazon had was that someone had complained about hyphenation. Second, I have since gone back and checked the original file on the Kindle text-to-speech app and it renders fine. No issues. [my emph.]

<acerbic>
These days 75% of all Slashdot posts seem to involve drilling down to get the original story straight. Tell me, when did a mass-confusion clusterfuck become the new nerd foreplay? Kindle typography, meet declining Slashdot editorial standards. You've got more in common than you think.
</acerbic>

It turns out the author used the minus sign instead of the hyphen.

Hint: probably 99% of all ebooks on Amazon use a minus sign instead of a hyphen, because the hyphen doesn't exist on most (all?) keyboards.

Looks like Amazon was being dumb.
The problem was not too many hyphens, but rather that there were no hyphens. He had used the minus sign and that breaks some text-speech readers.
Graeme has already fixed it.

This is Graeme's blog telling the story, the problem, and the fix.
https://graemereynolds.wordpre...

So, on a standard US keyboard, is this sign a minus or a hyphen?: -

It's a hyphen. A standard keyboard layout has no minus sign, not even in the keypad. The author of the book explicitly specified a Unicode minus sign wherever a hyphen should've been because "I try to avoid using direct ascii hash codes because some ereaders can misinterpret them"

Addendum: It turns out the author used the minus sign instead of the hyphen. That (a) looks wrong on the page, (b) breaks screen readers, (c) confuses readability scores and (d) makes this not news.

At least link to the actual story, rather than the discussion of the story.

Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation.

Jeez. That was in the second paragraph of TFA.

You’ve heard of the Sony Hack, right?

Ok, ok, I’m laughin me arse off over here.

I do SO enjoy a good practical joke sometimes!

About two weeks ago, I logged into equipment in Japan where all internet based communication goes through.

All traffic in Asia to the United States goes through Japan.

I had still had administrative access to the equipment I had worked with when I was sent to Hong Kong and Singapore to optimize networks and software systems for both the NSA and for Prudential Real Estate and Relocation which Warren Buffet was in the process of purchasing.

In a relatively simple computer program I placed on the equipment which is used to communicate between Sony and the United States, I created something called a ‘spoofed’ log entry.

A spoofed log entry is a ‘fictionalized’ entry which has not really happened.

Anytime information was grabbed from Sony by legitimate users, I would randomly place a spoofed log entry which would make it appear like information was being sent to North Korea.

In a nutshell what this means is data was never stolen.

It took Sony’s administrators 3 days to figure out what happened.

By then, they were so mired in their lies they could not change course.

In any case.

NOTHING I DID was illegal.

I had legitimate administrative access to the equipment which have had little, if any maintenance since I last did work on them in 2009.

And since the administrators of this equipment have had little, if any, awareness of what’s going on with their equipment let alone how their systems work.

THAT, my friends, is what a homeless hacker does when he’s bored and penniless.

http://universalbri.wordpress....

Sharknado!

I'm not the guy making the emotional "WE HAVE TO DO THIS IMMEDIATELY OR THE WORLD WILL BURN" arguments. Science isn't a thing; it's a method, a technique for discovering the truth.

A scientist will share his raw data so that other scientists can replicate his work. Warmists have not done so. Scientists will reveal their algorithms and explain their assumptions. Warmists have not done this, either. Scientists don't invent data, or make bogus and conflicting claims about their data. Warmists have. Scientists will attempt to make predictions about the future, and if their predictions are falsified, they modify their predictions. Warmists have been predicting greatly increased tropical storms and disappearing north polar ice caps. Neither has happened.

Warmists actively manipulate the "peer review" process, and attempt to have opposing views banned. Warmists claim that the government should hunt down and execute "deniers". OK, that's from the more hysterical faction, but it has been said.

https://devilsneuroscientist.w...

The inconsistency between observed and simulated global warming is even more striking for temperature trends computed over the past fifteen years (1998–2012)

Anybody adjusting their periods to start at an extreme outlier year has been picking too much cherries. Here's 1998 in context: https://tamino.files.wordpress... and anybody can see we haven't really broken any trend.

We still have a fairly icy polar ice cap (the "sciency" prediction from just a few years back was that it would effectively be gone by now).

You should really provide citations for this kind of thing.

http://makezineblog.files.word...

I'm here to stimulate your medulla oblongata!!!

HERE are just a few of them. Not that not all of them are scientific papers but some are.

It is of interest to note, as does the article in the National Academy of Sciences publication Science News, which is linked to on that page, that despite the misleading information spread by RealClimate and other sources, the National Academy of Sciences itself was convinced enough of the "Global Cooling" scare to actually publish a call for immediate action (Science News, Jan. 25 1975, p. 52).

It is further amusing to note (again as evidenced on the linked page above) that climate scientists at EAU -- the same University that has been partly responsible for the warming scare -- were at that time proclaiming that we were headed for an ice age.

I could go on but I won't. The idea that global cooling was "not taken seriously" by scientists of the time is nonsense propaganda spread by alarmist apologist sources such as RealClimate. The actual record of papers published and the reaction of the scientific world clearly shows that it was taken very seriously indeed.

I know I'm tilting against windmills... My truck has about 14" of suspension travel. I can take their speed-bumps at the speed limit.

Sounds like you have way to nice of a truck, my Jeep is old and beat up so I just don't care and will take their speed bumps at the speed limit. I also like their traffic calming traffic circles which make for a nice little circle track for my car. Although out in the suburbs you still get people on their own traffic crusade. Like the one family in the new development in my neighborhood who puts one of these in the middle of the fucking street, or at least they did until I ran it over with my jeep. By the middle of the street I don't mean off on the side, in the gutter, or on the grass boulevard, I mean lets put in right smack in the middle so it is an impediment to traffic taking up ~4 feet. It isn't like it was just out there one time, it was always out there and if the mother thought you were driving too fast would yell at you to slow down because 20-25 mph in a 30 mph residential area is too fast in her mind. Then again this is the newer development and they do have a HOA so it wouldn't surprise me if this person was one of the decision makers and likes having power.

The manipulation is obvious and the excuses are ridiculous.

Just look at NOAA data or especially NCDC curves for temperature produced 30 years ago and look at the curves for today.
They have completely obliterated the medieval warm period They have stampeded out the high temperature spike of the 30's. And generally reduced everything before the 60's by some degree to make everything past the 80-90 look way worst than it actually is.

Also, if you want perspective, Have you seen what GISS temp data series, looks like when presented on a a graph of an alcohol thermometer in Farenheight?
This is a global mean temp series.

https://suyts.files.wordpress....

Take a look at it, let me know what you think.

Trojan^D^D^D^D^D^D The team is ready for infiltration.

... but it didn't actually exist, and I was a confused child. Here is my story. With pictures: https://clintjcl.wordpress.com...

Sorry that'd be muslims. Even here in Canada, half a dozen muslim groups came out stating muslims after the terrorist attacks. At least two groups posted something similar to this. Oh, of course they were attacked by...did you think muslims? Haha no, by elitists for putting "muslim" in there.

University of Illinois CS Courses: CS101 (Engineering & Science), CS102 (Non-Tech), CS125 (CS Majors). What seems to be missing is providing slower on-ramps for those who did not have good early training that may be interested in majoring in CS, perhaps one or two courses for no credit, not unlike what CS undergraduate degree holders seeking an MBA would be required to take to catch up on Business/Finance subjects before they can start coursework that counts towards the MBA degree.

The problem with this is that climate changes, whether or not humanity is involved. [Anonymous Coward, 2014-12-11]

Once again, I've tried to point out that the scientific community who's warning about human-caused climate change is the same scientific community who discovered and named many of these modes of natural variability.

I've tried to point out that NASA's been measuring the Sun's brightness (etc.) for decades and concluded that natural variation can't explain the warming since 1950.

I've tried to point out that if the natural climate hadn't changed before, that would imply that it hadn't ever changed so we couldn't possibly change it now.

I've tried to point out that 420 million years of natural climate change support the idea that we are changing the climate, precisely because it has varied before.

I've tried to point out that some of the closest natural analogues to modern human-caused climate change, like the PETM and end-Permian, just reinforce my concern about treating the atmosphere like a free sewer.

I've repeatedly failed to communicate, and considering the stakes involved the weight of all these failures is becoming unbearable. I wish I could effectively counter the asymmetric strategies of the merchants of doubt.

The article you linked is now 5 years old, the cited studies even older, and I've been told by meteorologists that work for NOAA that some of these are tending in the opposite direction now. [Anonymous Coward, 2014-12-11]

Oh, some anonymous NOAA meteorologists told an anonymous coward that "some of those are tending in the opposite direction now"? Even if we humor this vague unverifiable anecdote, how could we figure out if it paints the whole picture accurately?

One way would be to skip the anonymous anecdotes, and see what NOAA actually says. NOAA runs www.climate.gov which has a number of educational resources for topics like the greenhouse effect and causes of climate change. Anyone who learns science from these NOAA resources will understand that the globe is warming, and humans are primarily responsible. And, of course, dozens of large scientific societies agree. That seems like a more accurate way of painting the whole picture.

But what about even more recent publications? In 2014, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society (U.K.) wrote a joint publication (PDF). Anyone who learns science from this NAS/Royal Society publication will understand that the globe is warming, and humans are primarily responsible.

You can appear to “prove” almost anything you want if you restrict your study to relatively isolated phenomena, and ignore the bigger picture. [Jane Q. Public, 2014-05-12]

I know my argument is anecdotal vs. Yours which has very nicely laid out citations, but my overall point is simply this: you can get these studies to show just about anything you want if you work the numbe

It seems that threading isn't nearly so simple in C++ either; at least, not if you want to get it right. From https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com... and http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/s... it would seem that while initiating a thread as you've discussed within a C++ program is easy, the nuances of C++ threading are uglier than C pthreads threading. Quotes like these make C++11 threading seem a lot less trivial than your initially impressive example suggests:

"If a thread is cancelled no destructors of automatic objects are called; or at least, it is up to the implementation if they are called or not. This would cause too much resource leaks. Therefore, it is not possible to cancel a thread in C++. There is a similar mechanism though: thread interruption. Interruption is coöperative: to-be-cancelled thread must acknowledge the interruption. If interrupted, a special exception is thrown that unwinds child thread’s stack until it reaches the outermost scope. However, interruption mechanism is not available in C++11 either."

"But all those threads computing fib1 are still running! And as they finish, they will write to all those instances of fib1. Which are no longer there, since the stack has been unwound. In its place will be the stack corresponding to the continuing computation that was initiated when the exception was caught. Thus we now have a large number of threads writing to various locations on the user's stack. By the time the user tries to debug the resulting mess, there is a good chance they will all be gone, leaving him/her with nothing but a stack with mysteriously smashed values. Or those might no longer be visible either because a return address may have been overwritten, causing the main program to take a wild branch."

As I am not well-versed in C++, I'm interested in knowing about these things. Perhaps it will give me a reason to seriously look at the language.

questions is to what extent the impact of humans may be responsible.

No, this is fairly easily measurable; we're dwarfing natural processes. Aside from natural seasonal variation the biggest natural contributor to atmospheric CO2 is volcanic activity, and the rate at which we're releasing carbon is completely unprecedented. You can figure it as equivalent to 1-2 Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions every year, or two Pinatubos per day. (the article quotes from a paper that I belive is available online but I can't find it at the moment).

The models are well-defined on the lower limit due to the physics of radiation; 3.7 W/m^2 increase per doubling of CO2 is a straightforward result of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law. That is equivalent to about 1 degree C global temp, and no one is worried about that. The issue is that water vapor is a much stronger greenhouse gas and you may have noticed that there's quite a bit of it lying around. Furthermore, air can hold exponentially more water vapor as it heats up. There's a lot of variation possible in the feedback loops but negative feedback is really unlikely.

Personally, I find the most useful way to approach the subject is to take a look at the history of climate science. Thousands of scientists did not wake up one day and accept the movement of the continents, neither did they accept that humans could have any affect on the climate without strong proofs. The Discovery of Global Warming goes over the history of global warming and has useful insights into what exactly a climate model is, and how even one-dimensional models can still tell us useful things even if their long-term predictions are not all that accurate

For a more detailed look into the science, you might check out Science of Doom, but a textbook on atmospheric physics may be more useful. Unfortunately, beyond the basics it starts to get complicated in a real hurry; unless you really want to start diving through papers and textbooks you will probably be best served by the IPCC report.

We use Linux on our routers and it works just fine (we have about 400Mbit traffic on our AS). Intel says Vyatta works up to 10G. No asics there (I'm not counting the network card chips).

That's fine and all, but what are you supposed to do if nobody has an actual device of that platform? For example, since nobody owns a Windows Phone device, how are you supposed to develop for Windows Phone? These guys get angry when developers discriminate, angry enough that they write a strongly worded blog about them spiracies:

http://jltechword.wordpress.co...

The link in TFS is either broken or was taken down. The wordpress blog it points to is displaying a customized 404 error page.

You wanted something sexist? Why didn't you say so in the first place! Here you go!

You're only making yourself look foolish here, by oversimplifying the issue so much that you're actually wrong.

Oversimplifying the issue would be claiming there's "nothing to worry about" while over a dozen national science academies say with one voice that "the need for urgent action to address climate change is now indisputable."

Put in the simplest terms: if CO2 in Venus's atmosphere acted like it does in Earth's atmosphere, Venus would be quite a bit cooler. If the direct blackbody effect of CO2 being warmed by IR, and in term warming the Earth via IR, was the primary warming concern in Earth's atmosphere it would not be a concern.

What scientific literature supports your opinion that CO2 emissions aren't a concern? When atmospheric CO2 is doubled, what equilibrium temperature rise results? Please cite peer-reviewed papers with equilibrium CO2 climate sensitivities that you actually accept. Otherwise it's not clear what sensitivity study prompted you to claim "it would not be a concern."

Also, please cite peer-reviewed papers showing that CO2 emissions don't result in ocean acidification. That's also necessary before claiming "it would not be a concern."

These High School Physics explanations of why CO2 causes warming of the Earth's surface are wrong, because the simple effect supports the "nothing to worry about" argument. The truth is more complex, vastly harder to model, and the results are not so obvious as you seem to think.

High school physics explanations? I've explained: greenhouse gases re-emit some of the upwelling long-wave IR, and it bounces around the troposphere until it gets to a height known as the "effective radiating level". Above this height (roughly 7km), there aren’t enough greenhouse gases to keep "most" of the IR from escaping to space altogether. This effective radiating level controls the outflow of heat from the Earth. Stefan-Boltzmann tells us that power radiated is proportional to temperature^4, and temperature decreases with height in the troposphere. Adding greenhouse gases raises the height of this effective radiating level, where it is cooler, which therefore decreases the outflow of heat from the Earth. This is the greenhouse effect, and it isn’t saturated because the effective radiating level can just keep getting higher (e.g. Venus).

I've also repeatedly noted complex factors like pressure broadening, which makes the greenhouse effect different on Venus, Earth and Mars.

I've also told the Sky Dragon Slayers that anyone who wants a more in-depth explanation should watch this video. Note that my explanations are similar to those from Rasmus Benestad and Ray Pierrehumbert:

"Despite the fact that Venus has vastly more CO2 in its atmosphere than Earth, the same basic principles govern the operation of the greenhouse effect for both planets: the fact that air cools by expansion as it rises means that the upper parts of the atmosphere are colder than the surface, while the opacity of greenhouse gases to infrared means that infrared radiation can only escape from

I believe the most abundant material on earth is not infact what they claim at all. I believe the most abundant material is actually these.
http://virulentwordofmouse.fil...

So, "No means no" really means "No means 'the courts will decide'"? Okay, I get it.. I mean, if everything is going to be open to interpretation, let's start there...

It was no big secret. A lot of the Republican loudmouths were bragging about it.

Some of the Republican leadership even apologized for it: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

Clinton's welfare reform was a disaster for the poor, and indirectly for the rest of the country.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/...

I remember the Reagan presidency. Reagan made a deal with the Soviets to let the Soviet "Jews" emigrate. I knew a lot of Soviet Jews. They had to claim that they had suffered anti-Semitism and were victims in order to immigrate here as refugees. They had lawyers and fixers who would copy the identical stories of anti-Semitism for new immigrants and hand them into the INS. They would fabricate their stories. It was a scam. A lot of them weren't even Jewish; they forged documents. They immediately got welfare, housing, health care, jobs, vocational training programs, and free college tuition. They were getting more benefits than I could get. It's no wonder they liked capitalism so much. For them, capitalism was a series of handouts that they didn't have to work for. That's welfare, Reagan style.

I know a black woman who worked for the welfare department, and she was annoyed at the way the Soviet Jews would come in and act as if they were entitled to welfare. It was easier for them to get welfare than native Americans. A lot of them turned out to be criminals, and you can still read stories in the New York Times and Daily News about Russian Jews from that immigration who got caught in all kinds of illegal schemes, particularly welfare and Medicaid/Medicare fraud.

The Russian immigrants had several magazines, the most popular of which was Metropol. I once talked to the editor of Metropol. He said that as soon as they became citizens, the Russian immigrants registered Republican and voted for Ronald Reagan. He said once in the while he would get a letter saying, "Why don't we vote for Democrats," but no more than 1 in 100. It was the most brazen quid pro quo. Reagan gave them handouts, and in return they voted solid Republican. Giuliani did the same thing. This is what the Republicans accuse Obama of doing. https://danieljmitchell.files....

The same thing happened to the Cubans in Miami. And all the other favored minority immigrants.

Please cite an example of "removing" any science that disputes AGW. In fact, they tend to be pointed out, along with their serious flaws:

https://agwobserver.wordpress....