Feh, just realized I didn't read far enough, that wikipedia article quotes about 5 different possible values eventually settling on
The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report stated: Equilibrium climate sensitivity is likely in the range 1.5 ÂC to 4.5 ÂC (high confidence), extremely unlikely less than 1 ÂC (high confidence), and very unlikely greater than 6 ÂC (medium confidence).
So there is uncertainty still but your report is pretty accurate with current thinking. My bad.
Doubling carbon dioxide content in the earth's atmosphere raises the temperature of the atmosphere (assuming relative humidity is fixed) by about two degrees Celsius.
Current thinking:
"Without any feedbacks, a doubling of CO2 (which amounts to a forcing of 3.7 W/m2) would result in 1 ÂC global warming, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_sensitivity#cite_note-rahmstorf2008-14)
Your "spot-on" report predicted TWICE as much warming as current science predicts.
The trouble comes when you only look at the outcome - if 50% of white american people fail a geography test but 100% of Chinese applicants succeed is it because the test was biased against white people or because it was trying to figure out if they had a basic understanding of Chinese geography ?
It's what makes the gender disparity question so very difficult, each case needs to be looked at on its own merits but when people have a conversation at a generalised level, the specifics get lost and only the extremes remain.
he seems to be referring to reporting like this: https://wattsupwiththat.files..... Note "changing" rather than "will change", that implies a level of urgency that does not exist while demonstrating an impact that is literally impossible.
maximum 6ft of sea rise by 2100 seems fairly manageable. By that time, unless we have a major reduction in population, we will probably need to start colonising the oceans anyway.
WOT has a tiering system - Tier 1-10 that roughly defines the "power" of a given tank. For some reason, the matchmaking of the game pair a player withing 2 tiers of their current vehicle - so a T5 player can be paired against T7 players.
This mean that occasionally you will get games where you are an overpowered god and other times you will be the underdog and get stomped. This can actually be a fun mechanism for variety except that you can frequently feel you're the weak player more often than the strong in any given gaming session.
Many of the early tanks in WOT's history had some form of "premium" matchmaking where they couldn't be paired against higher tier vehicles or had a tighter range in which they could be paired. This meant that playing those vehicles basically meant you were always going to be at least on par with the other players but more likely stronger. I believe this practice has been discontinued for new releases for a couple of years now and have not heard of it existing in other products from the same devs but it sounds almost exactly like what this patent is claiming to have invented.
Treason, Noun: The crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government.
If the people of the country want the Internet to be neutral than not keeping that in place could b seen as a betrayal of the Countries best interest.
Treason isn't exclusively wartime, nor is it exclusively anti government, especially in a governmental structure that is supposed to be fore the will of the people and appears to be acting against that will.
That said, I assume the US legal definition of treason is much narrower than the English language definition but insulting people never works to educate them so if you have an opposing definition you may want to provide it rather than acting like a prick.
You'd be surprised how much data even a phone in Cab company can have on you - caller ID, pick up addresses, name - all of these things can be logged and correlated.
Avoiding your data being logged, categorized and cross-correlated is a possibility that fled years ago, these days we should be working to ensure that the data companies have on us is used in an ethical way.
Sounds like Uber is super unethical in the way it treats its drivers. You're probably right that its customers should be asking themselves hard questions about whether we trust Uber to be ethical with our data.
That's the trouble with any pay disparity argument. It is impossible to tell if a wage is lower because there is a bias or because the payee is just a poor negotiator.
It's a generally accepted "fact" that women don't ask for as high salaries but the only way to avoid this would be to have non-negotiable salaries for any given position which has so many issues I can't begin to comment on them.
Can you do me a favour and tell me what about a 4 degrees celsius rise in temperature would pose any threat to humanity? It's facetious to say it but no mass extinction occurs every summer.
I have a large interest in climate science instrumentation (at least relative to other laypeople).
There have been a few questions I've never been able to answer: What is the precision of an ocean going thermometer? what was the precision of a 1900s era thermometer? What was the average uncertainty of a 1900s thermometer and how does it compare with current technology, also what are the known biases in temperature measurement of the time?
It would seem to me that any comparison of pre-modern temperatures to modern temperatures should include that information but I've never been able to find it. But back on the topic of reproducible scientific studies, can you show me a reproduction study for any study in the climate science field? I don't ask that to be facetious, I legitimately have no idea how to go about finding one.
Sarah Silverman is in multiple Disney movies. If Disney were concerned about Hitler impersonations, Sarah would be out on her arse too. By all indications the reason PewDiePie got the flick is because the Wall St Journal backed Disney into a corner with bullshit.
Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer, and writer who voiced Vanellope von Schweetz in the 2012 Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph and the 2013 video game Disney INFINITY and will reprise her role for Wreck-It Ralph 2. She also made a cameo as a waitress in the 2011 Disney film The Muppets.
I'm from Australia and I actually came to this article thinking the same thing. Unlimited AT&T plan with 365 days of international roaming under this deal would actually be cheaper than anything I can get locally. Caps these days for 4G max out at around 10GB with $10 per extra GB so as long as I'm using a GB per day, AT&T's option would actually be cheaper than anything local.
Not really keen to sign up for $300+ a month in mobile charges just so I can view youtube, but the option actually seems viable, given that my mobile+internet bill combined is half that right now.
"Hey Casino manager, I have this superstition where I think playing with the deck upside down will make me more likely to win, is it cool if we do that?"
"Sure, sounds like a superstition to me"
"Can I alter the position or appearance of the cards, I think it will make me win" should always be viewed with suspicion especially since inverting key cards known way of cheating at card games (at least in the TCG community, I don't know much about casinos.)
The casino decided a cheat move was a superstition and gave an unfair advantage to one player. They failed here but I can see why the money was taken back since it was cheating even if the casino was complicit.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Irish politicians are secretly rubbing their hands in glee and hoping this doesn't get blocked. 13 billion is a hell of a one off injection into their economy but the precedent and possible follow up on other companies could make Ireland a huge tax income very rapidly.
Irish tax revenue in 2014 was around 55 billion euros by the way.
From that very article: " FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and a manifestation of the appeal to fear."
So saying "Global warming ain't so bad, calm down and breath a little" is actually the opposite of FUD. FUD would be "Global warming is probably going to kill your children and ruin your crops so we must ban coal everywhere immediately." or if you want the "denier" FUD option: "Banning coal will completely ruin the electric grid leading to nation wide blackouts and killing your children because they don't have heating to keep them warm in the winter"
I have a desire and a limit. The desire is to be constantly entertained. The limit is how far my finances stretch. At the moment my finances stretch to a Netflix account, a Spotify account and the occasional Steam game. Piracy supplements variety in that scenario so:
I don't pirate music, spotify has more than enough variety and official youtube videos cover any gaps.
I don't pirate games - steam, despite it's pricing issues, more than provides the games I need and other services cover the gaps.
I do pirate TV. I started watching rick and Morty on Netflix, season 1 and 2. When season 3 comes out I will likely download it because it won't be available on Netflix. I also started watching the flash on Netflix but when the proxy crackdown came down I lost access to it. I have no idea how I can watch it legally so if I ever care enough to watch it again, piracy is my ONLY choice. That or DVDs but I don't have a DVD player any more.
The above is more about my thought process which, as an Australian consumer, is the whole point. I know there is likely a perfectly legal way for me to watch Flash and Rick and Morty in Australia but I don't care enough to find out what that is and to pay extra for it. So if I care enough, I'll pirate (rick and morty) otherwise, I'll forget about the show (flash) and go find something that is available (just started Black mirror, holy crap that show is interesting).
Do many Cameras support airdrop? PC to PC transfer is not why most people use SD cards (they use USB drives), SD cards are used because many portable recording devices - older ones in particular AFAIK use SD cards.
and De beers have even provide the tools to guarantee that you aren't getting ground mined "cruel" diamonds. The price of diamonds is all about the marketing so turn it around on the price fixing miners.
I'm from Australia and here the idea that a state can set laws like drug use or marriage age seems crazy though we do have somewhat of the same style, particularly when it comes to bureaucratic things like street signage.
I've always been confused by the idea that the US is some monolithic entity when it seems to my view to be structured more like the European Union - a group of separate entities with different overarching beliefs (compare California to Texas), different laws (Colorado) and probably many other differences an outsider isn't too aware of.
A better argument for why this is a terrible idea is that UC likely (I have no idea) provides IT related degrees. They're almost literally saying those degree are worthless because any IT work should not be given to locally trained people.
I wonder if anyone has pointed this out to their marketing/admissions people?
"The catâ(TM)s owners have made millions thanks to their petâ(TM)s unique facial expression, which turned her into an overnight Internet star.
Part of this revenue comes from successful merchandise lines, including the Grumpy Cat âoeGrumppuccinoâ iced coffee beverage, sold by the California company Grenade Beverage.
It's their fucking cat. They've promoted it as a brand, legally licensed it out and then another company abused that license. This is one of those good uses of copyright/trademark that you hear spoken about.
The difference is that the individual needs to comply with laws where the corporation controls those laws. If I an an individual go to the national tax collectors, I ask "how much should I pay", the trouble is that Apple mostly appear to have been going "we will pay this much" and being told it was OK.
I'm OK with retroactively changing the laws to adversely affect those that had a major influence in bringing them about in the first place. If it makes Apple start paying tax to the communities it is making money off Then it is a good thing. I'm from Australia, Apple apparently pays 0 tax here, if they are making no profit here then why do they even bother?
And the guy is suing because he expected to see a film with a bunch of great joker scenes - an expectation that the trailer supported. That is where the false advertising claim stems from.
What I assumed from seeing the trailer is that the joker is the main antagonist of the film since he is the non-squad character prominently featured. Apparently this is not the case so anyone expecting to see a film about a bunch of bad guys battling the joker is going to be disappointed.
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So there is uncertainty still but your report is pretty accurate with current thinking. My bad.
Current thinking:
Your "spot-on" report predicted TWICE as much warming as current science predicts.
The trouble comes when you only look at the outcome - if 50% of white american people fail a geography test but 100% of Chinese applicants succeed is it because the test was biased against white people or because it was trying to figure out if they had a basic understanding of Chinese geography ?
It's what makes the gender disparity question so very difficult, each case needs to be looked at on its own merits but when people have a conversation at a generalised level, the specifics get lost and only the extremes remain.
he seems to be referring to reporting like this: https://wattsupwiththat.files..... Note "changing" rather than "will change", that implies a level of urgency that does not exist while demonstrating an impact that is literally impossible.
maximum 6ft of sea rise by 2100 seems fairly manageable. By that time, unless we have a major reduction in population, we will probably need to start colonising the oceans anyway.
WOT has a tiering system - Tier 1-10 that roughly defines the "power" of a given tank. For some reason, the matchmaking of the game pair a player withing 2 tiers of their current vehicle - so a T5 player can be paired against T7 players.
This mean that occasionally you will get games where you are an overpowered god and other times you will be the underdog and get stomped. This can actually be a fun mechanism for variety except that you can frequently feel you're the weak player more often than the strong in any given gaming session.
Many of the early tanks in WOT's history had some form of "premium" matchmaking where they couldn't be paired against higher tier vehicles or had a tighter range in which they could be paired. This meant that playing those vehicles basically meant you were always going to be at least on par with the other players but more likely stronger. I believe this practice has been discontinued for new releases for a couple of years now and have not heard of it existing in other products from the same devs but it sounds almost exactly like what this patent is claiming to have invented.
Treason, Noun: The crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government.
If the people of the country want the Internet to be neutral than not keeping that in place could b seen as a betrayal of the Countries best interest.
Treason isn't exclusively wartime, nor is it exclusively anti government, especially in a governmental structure that is supposed to be fore the will of the people and appears to be acting against that will.
That said, I assume the US legal definition of treason is much narrower than the English language definition but insulting people never works to educate them so if you have an opposing definition you may want to provide it rather than acting like a prick.
You'd be surprised how much data even a phone in Cab company can have on you - caller ID, pick up addresses, name - all of these things can be logged and correlated.
Avoiding your data being logged, categorized and cross-correlated is a possibility that fled years ago, these days we should be working to ensure that the data companies have on us is used in an ethical way.
Sounds like Uber is super unethical in the way it treats its drivers. You're probably right that its customers should be asking themselves hard questions about whether we trust Uber to be ethical with our data.
That's the trouble with any pay disparity argument. It is impossible to tell if a wage is lower because there is a bias or because the payee is just a poor negotiator.
It's a generally accepted "fact" that women don't ask for as high salaries but the only way to avoid this would be to have non-negotiable salaries for any given position which has so many issues I can't begin to comment on them.
Can you do me a favour and tell me what about a 4 degrees celsius rise in temperature would pose any threat to humanity? It's facetious to say it but no mass extinction occurs every summer.
I have a large interest in climate science instrumentation (at least relative to other laypeople).
There have been a few questions I've never been able to answer:
What is the precision of an ocean going thermometer?
what was the precision of a 1900s era thermometer?
What was the average uncertainty of a 1900s thermometer and how does it compare with current technology, also what are the known biases in temperature measurement of the time?
It would seem to me that any comparison of pre-modern temperatures to modern temperatures should include that information but I've never been able to find it. But back on the topic of reproducible scientific studies, can you show me a reproduction study for any study in the climate science field? I don't ask that to be facetious, I legitimately have no idea how to go about finding one.
Sarah Silverman is in multiple Disney movies. If Disney were concerned about Hitler impersonations, Sarah would be out on her arse too. By all indications the reason PewDiePie got the flick is because the Wall St Journal backed Disney into a corner with bullshit.
Umm, yes? She did, and does still, work for them.
Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer, and writer who voiced Vanellope von Schweetz in the 2012 Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph and the 2013 video game Disney INFINITY and will reprise her role for Wreck-It Ralph 2. She also made a cameo as a waitress in the 2011 Disney film The Muppets.
I'm from Australia and I actually came to this article thinking the same thing. Unlimited AT&T plan with 365 days of international roaming under this deal would actually be cheaper than anything I can get locally. Caps these days for 4G max out at around 10GB with $10 per extra GB so as long as I'm using a GB per day, AT&T's option would actually be cheaper than anything local.
Not really keen to sign up for $300+ a month in mobile charges just so I can view youtube, but the option actually seems viable, given that my mobile+internet bill combined is half that right now.
"Hey Casino manager, I have this superstition where I think playing with the deck upside down will make me more likely to win, is it cool if we do that?"
"Sure, sounds like a superstition to me"
"Can I alter the position or appearance of the cards, I think it will make me win" should always be viewed with suspicion especially since inverting key cards known way of cheating at card games (at least in the TCG community, I don't know much about casinos.)
The casino decided a cheat move was a superstition and gave an unfair advantage to one player. They failed here but I can see why the money was taken back since it was cheating even if the casino was complicit.
Always been for sale, I bought it back in the early days (mid 2009 apparently) for around 10 Euros from memory.
Back then though it was stupidly easy to pirate because there was no account verification. Now you need an account to play.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Irish politicians are secretly rubbing their hands in glee and hoping this doesn't get blocked. 13 billion is a hell of a one off injection into their economy but the precedent and possible follow up on other companies could make Ireland a huge tax income very rapidly.
Irish tax revenue in 2014 was around 55 billion euros by the way.
From that very article: " FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and a manifestation of the appeal to fear."
So saying "Global warming ain't so bad, calm down and breath a little" is actually the opposite of FUD. FUD would be "Global warming is probably going to kill your children and ruin your crops so we must ban coal everywhere immediately." or if you want the "denier" FUD option: "Banning coal will completely ruin the electric grid leading to nation wide blackouts and killing your children because they don't have heating to keep them warm in the winter"
This, so much this.
I have a desire and a limit. The desire is to be constantly entertained. The limit is how far my finances stretch. At the moment my finances stretch to a Netflix account, a Spotify account and the occasional Steam game. Piracy supplements variety in that scenario so:
I don't pirate music, spotify has more than enough variety and official youtube videos cover any gaps.
I don't pirate games - steam, despite it's pricing issues, more than provides the games I need and other services cover the gaps.
I do pirate TV. I started watching rick and Morty on Netflix, season 1 and 2. When season 3 comes out I will likely download it because it won't be available on Netflix. I also started watching the flash on Netflix but when the proxy crackdown came down I lost access to it. I have no idea how I can watch it legally so if I ever care enough to watch it again, piracy is my ONLY choice. That or DVDs but I don't have a DVD player any more.
The above is more about my thought process which, as an Australian consumer, is the whole point. I know there is likely a perfectly legal way for me to watch Flash and Rick and Morty in Australia but I don't care enough to find out what that is and to pay extra for it. So if I care enough, I'll pirate (rick and morty) otherwise, I'll forget about the show (flash) and go find something that is available (just started Black mirror, holy crap that show is interesting).
Do many Cameras support airdrop? PC to PC transfer is not why most people use SD cards (they use USB drives), SD cards are used because many portable recording devices - older ones in particular AFAIK use SD cards.
and De beers have even provide the tools to guarantee that you aren't getting ground mined "cruel" diamonds. The price of diamonds is all about the marketing so turn it around on the price fixing miners.
I'm from Australia and here the idea that a state can set laws like drug use or marriage age seems crazy though we do have somewhat of the same style, particularly when it comes to bureaucratic things like street signage.
I've always been confused by the idea that the US is some monolithic entity when it seems to my view to be structured more like the European Union - a group of separate entities with different overarching beliefs (compare California to Texas), different laws (Colorado) and probably many other differences an outsider isn't too aware of.
A better argument for why this is a terrible idea is that UC likely (I have no idea) provides IT related degrees. They're almost literally saying those degree are worthless because any IT work should not be given to locally trained people.
I wonder if anyone has pointed this out to their marketing/admissions people?
"The catâ(TM)s owners have made millions thanks to their petâ(TM)s unique facial expression, which turned her into an overnight Internet star.
Part of this revenue comes from successful merchandise lines, including the Grumpy Cat âoeGrumppuccinoâ iced coffee beverage, sold by the California company Grenade Beverage.
It's their fucking cat. They've promoted it as a brand, legally licensed it out and then another company abused that license. This is one of those good uses of copyright/trademark that you hear spoken about.
The difference is that the individual needs to comply with laws where the corporation controls those laws. If I an an individual go to the national tax collectors, I ask "how much should I pay", the trouble is that Apple mostly appear to have been going "we will pay this much" and being told it was OK.
I'm OK with retroactively changing the laws to adversely affect those that had a major influence in bringing them about in the first place. If it makes Apple start paying tax to the communities it is making money off Then it is a good thing. I'm from Australia, Apple apparently pays 0 tax here, if they are making no profit here then why do they even bother?
And the guy is suing because he expected to see a film with a bunch of great joker scenes - an expectation that the trailer supported. That is where the false advertising claim stems from.
What I assumed from seeing the trailer is that the joker is the main antagonist of the film since he is the non-squad character prominently featured. Apparently this is not the case so anyone expecting to see a film about a bunch of bad guys battling the joker is going to be disappointed.