The world is pissed at the US because the US feels it can kill residents of other countries, without them ever having been in the US - or ever having broken a law in their own country. This is illegal in the sense of "global law" - something I very much consider to be above US national law.
Countries give up the "sovereignty" in the EU just as much as US states give up theirs to be a part of the US. If you want to make comparisons, make valid ones.
The UN is more useful than the US. The US needs the world more than vice versa. Welcome to tomorrow - thanks to Bush jr the US is going downhill from here. I don't think you understand what happens when you piss those you need off, badly.
/me - a "white" western atheist. One of many anti-americans.
It's only when the comments are sufficiently "meta" so that they describe conventions and architecture that they're useful (or pointing out exceptions to those conventions or architecture
One of the best comments I know of is:
case 1: foo(); break; case 2: bar();// intentional fallthrough default: exception();... wouldn't you agree? Lots more of that kind exist.
Another interesting thing is that in a project I was working I never commented any of my 7000 lines of code yet when I came back to the code half a year later, despite from what most people say, I could still clearly remember what each line did.
You're probably a good coder - but you're a lousy Software Engineer. As someone else has already pointed out - comments are not for YOU.
Well written code is code that someone else can start working with without having to ask the previous developer any questions.
Put up a socks5 proxy at home, then tunnel port 1080 from your computer at work to 1080 at home. Now run all programs through socks5 at 127.0.0.1:1080 at work - those that don't have native socks5 support can probably run through sockscap.
... this has been implemented since some time in Sweden. We used to be able to tell which carrier someone had (nice when trying to guess the cost of the call) but now we can't anymore..
I can't see I approve actually, just because of that - but maybe you don't have the possibility of deducing the carrier from the number as it is?
While some clouds tend to help cool the globe and negate the affects of global warming, thin cirrus clouds are heat trappers, holding in more heat than they reflect back into space.
http://www.theozonehole.com/airtraffic.htm (this link supports your view btw)
This could be interesting aswell: http://www.co2science.org/edit/v4_edit/v4n31edit.h tm (it supports mine, I guess)
You're free to think that we're all in for a big sauna:) I don't - and I have "science" (no I can't be bothered to search for more than a minute when writing to someone who'll never change his view) to back my position up. As for who's right - let's see in 10 years shall we?
Good for you. Is it one of the "coalition of the willing/bribed/threatened"?
No.
You are right that 9/11 (oh what I hate that date. A lot more people die every day on this earth - I don't see americans crying over that) showed that airplanes create clouds. However - that probably helps cool the earth if anything.
(ps: increased solar radiation also "coincides almost perfectly with this rapid change, making it a prime suspect." you know.. shall we change the sun?)
This article was en excellent way of judging the intellectual property of the Slashdot crowd. (If you, like me, consider satire to be a form of humour that in most cases requires both intelligence and education)
Or I'm just being elitistic, which I have no problem admitting to.
Hint: The minority is sometimes right. Try looking up a thing about whether the earth revolves around the sun or vice versa - and what happened to the minority in the beginning..
I see more credible proof for a lot of things _besides_ humans heating up the earth than for it - and I'm _against_ using oil.
The last five winters we've had bears no resemblance to the winters of my childhood.
So who gets to decide? What if tomorrow's weather makes Sahara a paradise on earth [once again] - is what you want more important than what the people living there want?
It's not that I don't want us to change what we can change - it's that I'm perfectly confident that the earth's weather will do whatever it feels like no matter what we do. We're too tiny.
That has nothing to do with the subject. As I've written in one of my other posts - I'm all for nuclear power instead of oil. Mostly because maybe then the US would stop interfering with all the other countries in the world.
I actually like it when you tell me I'm gullible when it comes to republican propagandy. Say - you do know that there are other countries outside of the US - right?
I live in one of them. I promise you our scientist and our papers aren't filled with "republican propaganda":) (Especially when this country probably would be regarded as communist by an american.. )
But feel free to believe that democrats (I guess those are your Gods then) always tell the truth and that you know everything:)
You shot down one of Google's links - now go and refute each and every one of them. Make sure you check the nationality of the researches involved before you start shouting about republican propaganda:)
I'm sorry that I'm not going into detail to answer your very well thought out and put post, but I feel I can accomplish my whole points by simply answering one thing:
When that occurs, the Conveyor could slow down or cease operating.
Yes, which is something natural - it has done that before. Magnetic poles are also shifting place every now and then - with intense UV-radiation bombardment until they find their new positions. Are you advocacing changing that natural behaviour as well?
My whole point is that NOTHING says that what we're seeing is unnatural, caused by humans, or even dangerous.
(ps: Yes, Swedish laws about nuclear research are extremely idiotic - but that's what we get for living in a representative democracy that doesn't care about the public will)
There's a few charts - but maybe chemists aren't qualified to do a bit of math according to you?
(do note, that's just one of the many many reports that contradict the global warming/greenhouse myth)
Most theories accepted as fact today regarding global warming either totally leave out the sun, or they ignore the fact that the abrubt raise we've seen has happened many times before (check the ice cores) or even that the mean temperature of the earth has been a lot higher several million years ago than it is today.
I hope you like it - I'm very much not a creationist. Please save this discussion, and apologize when the current "global warming" populism has faded away. As for providing links - I actually assume people on Slashdot use Google before they try to sound smart in a debate.
Slashdot Mirror
Countries give up the "sovereignty" in the EU just as much as US states give up theirs to be a part of the US. If you want to make comparisons, make valid ones.
The UN is more useful than the US. The US needs the world more than vice versa. Welcome to tomorrow - thanks to Bush jr the US is going downhill from here. I don't think you understand what happens when you piss those you need off, badly.
Hackers are frequently criminals in the sense of the law - like encrypting content in the UK and not giving up the key.
Teaser available at their website.
You must be american.
That was probably the least insightful comment I've seen on Slashdot.
A person would have to be extremely ignorant to not understand why the _world_ doesn't like the US.
The real hackers did what real hackers do - go silent when the heat ramps up. A real hacker has no need (nor want) for fame.
Probably not
One of the best comments I know of is:
case 1:
foo();
break;
case 2:
bar();
default:
exception();
You're probably a good coder - but you're a lousy Software Engineer. As someone else has already pointed out - comments are not for YOU.
Well written code is code that someone else can start working with without having to ask the previous developer any questions.
Tom Gilb writes books. Read them
You were saying?
Put up a socks5 proxy at home, then tunnel port 1080 from your computer at work to 1080 at home. Now run all programs through socks5 at 127.0.0.1:1080 at work - those that don't have native socks5 support can probably run through sockscap.
I can't see I approve actually, just because of that - but maybe you don't have the possibility of deducing the carrier from the number as it is?
While some clouds tend to help cool the globe and negate the affects of global warming, thin cirrus clouds are heat trappers, holding in more heat than they reflect back into space.
http://www.theozonehole.com/airtraffic.htm (this link supports your view btw)
This could be interesting aswell: http://www.co2science.org/edit/v4_edit/v4n31edit.
You're free to think that we're all in for a big sauna
No.
You are right that 9/11 (oh what I hate that date. A lot more people die every day on this earth - I don't see americans crying over that) showed that airplanes create clouds. However - that probably helps cool the earth if anything.
(ps: increased solar radiation also "coincides almost perfectly with this rapid change, making it a prime suspect." you know
Or I'm just being elitistic, which I have no problem admitting to.
It could very well be that high levels of CO2 will _decrease_ the warming. [link1] & [link2]
(PS: I do not consider there to be any "greenhouse gases" since no one really knows the net effect of having them in the atmosphere)
(ps: There were lots of people on FidoNet who considered me stupid
I see more credible proof for a lot of things _besides_ humans heating up the earth than for it - and I'm _against_ using oil.
Oh, and no - my country is not fully a US puppy.
So who gets to decide? What if tomorrow's weather makes Sahara a paradise on earth [once again] - is what you want more important than what the people living there want?
It's not that I don't want us to change what we can change - it's that I'm perfectly confident that the earth's weather will do whatever it feels like no matter what we do. We're too tiny.
So?
That has nothing to do with the subject. As I've written in one of my other posts - I'm all for nuclear power instead of oil. Mostly because maybe then the US would stop interfering with all the other countries in the world.
I live in one of them. I promise you our scientist and our papers aren't filled with "republican propaganda"
But feel free to believe that democrats (I guess those are your Gods then) always tell the truth and that you know everything
You shot down one of Google's links - now go and refute each and every one of them. Make sure you check the nationality of the researches involved before you start shouting about republican propaganda
When that occurs, the Conveyor could slow down or cease operating.
Yes, which is something natural - it has done that before. Magnetic poles are also shifting place every now and then - with intense UV-radiation bombardment until they find their new positions. Are you advocacing changing that natural behaviour as well?
My whole point is that NOTHING says that what we're seeing is unnatural, caused by humans, or even dangerous.
(ps: Yes, Swedish laws about nuclear research are extremely idiotic - but that's what we get for living in a representative democracy that doesn't care about the public will)
There's a few charts - but maybe chemists aren't qualified to do a bit of math according to you?
(do note, that's just one of the many many reports that contradict the global warming/greenhouse myth)
Most theories accepted as fact today regarding global warming either totally leave out the sun, or they ignore the fact that the abrubt raise we've seen has happened many times before (check the ice cores) or even that the mean temperature of the earth has been a lot higher several million years ago than it is today.
Pick one.
Human induced? No way.
(I don't see where I suggested a Google hit-count experiment, but maybe you see things that doesn't exist
Please, try it. You know, Google.