It's rather disingenuous to take a law that Bill Clinton signed and supported, and which was in existence for 7 years of his Presidency, and try to spin your disagreement with it into an indictment of the current administration. Especially considering the fact that a Democrat wrote it, and all the Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it. As did all the Republicans; I'll neither whitewash nor spin this.
When do you think the climate has been this warm before?
Many times since mammals rose to dominance, at roughly 100,000 year intervals, give or take 20k. It happens when several solar temperature peak cycles converge. This current warming trend has been building for about 18,000 years, and several long periods of temporary cooling trends have occurred since humans started burning things.
As for "probably 2.2 to 5 degrees", hogwash. The latest models have even more variation, especially on the low end. The fact is nobody, especially you, has any idea what temperatures will be in 100 years. Some of the computer models predict cooling, in fact. And the computer models that are predicting the highest temperatures predicted rapid warming from 1979 to now, while the opposite is the case.
One thing we do know, for sure, though; warming precedes CO2 peaks, not trails them. Another thing we know for sure; temperatures have been falling since 1979, while global CO2 has been peaking. This makes sense if CO2 is trailing temperatures by more than 20 years, but not if it's leading them by less than that.
Yeah, remember what happened to the polar bears the last couple of times the climate warmed up this much. The entire species died out. Nobody's seen a polar bear in thousands of years as a result.
Oh, wait; that didn't happen. Well, it DID wipe out all the humans. No, wait; they just grew grapes in England.
There is little if anything that a firewall can do that an operating system can't.
Assuming you weren't stripping NAT out of the equation (and if you were, you were horribly offtopic or disingenuous or both), an operating system can't keep your ISP from being able to invade your privacy and charge you per-device unless it's been configured to act as a NAT firewall. (Silly semanatic arguments as to NAPT/NAT aside.)
"Half of the kids who rarely vote say they'd probably vote if they could do so without getting off their fat asses, but two thirds of the people who actually vote say it's crap. Oh, and a trial run shows the lazy kids are full of crap anyway; when they can vote this way, they still don't."
Let people use email to request their absentee ballots; evoting, done. Next problem.
Actually this shows why standardized testing like the US is beginning to use is superior to the UK system of just looking at grades; you get tested in math when it's time to be tested in math, period. If your school encouraged you to drop math; oh well, you'll suck and so will their scores.
Measurement is a core part of improving any system.
Resolved? We still haven't gotten to the bottom of why Dr. Bronner is putting date rape drugs in his soap. Why did he try to frame a musician for date rape before then turning around to assist in his legal defense once the thing blew wide open? This whole thing smacks of a coverup. I want to know what else this Dr. Bronner has been up to.
He makes all his products using hemp. I think it's obvious what he's been up to.
If someone pays for internet access, they should get just that.
But you didn't pay for that; you paid for a company to hold up its end of a contract you signed, in return for you holding up yours. Depending on what that contract says, you might very well have agreed to tiered service. If so, no fair bitching about it now; RTFC next time.
Numerous scientists whose names are listed on that report as "authors" have publicly stated that they do not agree with it and that the evidence doesn't support it, but that it's been impossible for them to get their names removed.
Most of the names of "experts" on it are government bureaucrats who know precisely squat about environmental science, but got their names on the vanity list as "authors".
The reason they're taking so long (years) to release this report is because it can't be picked apart by scientists if it's not done yet, but the press knows no such bounds.
The lion's share of the protection of Canadian airspace comes from the US. That's why the 2nd-largest land area country in the world can afford to have a military that would fit entirely (sans vehicles) in the football stadium of any NCAA Division 1 university.
To do that, he would actually have to participate in one of them.
Can you name a single Linux distribution that doesn't include at least two programs to which Eric S. Raymond has contributed code, EXCLUDING fetchmail?
698 packages on my Ubuntu system depend on libncurses5, which has Raymond code in it, for example.
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Thanks for proving this was about deflecting blame onto the current administration.
Clearly, it has to be named Zamora.
It's rather disingenuous to take a law that Bill Clinton signed and supported, and which was in existence for 7 years of his Presidency, and try to spin your disagreement with it into an indictment of the current administration. Especially considering the fact that a Democrat wrote it, and all the Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it. As did all the Republicans; I'll neither whitewash nor spin this.
When do you think the climate has been this warm before?
Many times since mammals rose to dominance, at roughly 100,000 year intervals, give or take 20k. It happens when several solar temperature peak cycles converge. This current warming trend has been building for about 18,000 years, and several long periods of temporary cooling trends have occurred since humans started burning things.
As for "probably 2.2 to 5 degrees", hogwash. The latest models have even more variation, especially on the low end. The fact is nobody, especially you, has any idea what temperatures will be in 100 years. Some of the computer models predict cooling, in fact. And the computer models that are predicting the highest temperatures predicted rapid warming from 1979 to now, while the opposite is the case.
One thing we do know, for sure, though; warming precedes CO2 peaks, not trails them. Another thing we know for sure; temperatures have been falling since 1979, while global CO2 has been peaking. This makes sense if CO2 is trailing temperatures by more than 20 years, but not if it's leading them by less than that.
You may find this paper interesting: http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
Yeah, remember what happened to the polar bears the last couple of times the climate warmed up this much. The entire species died out. Nobody's seen a polar bear in thousands of years as a result.
Oh, wait; that didn't happen. Well, it DID wipe out all the humans. No, wait; they just grew grapes in England.
Yes, but it's a couple of orders of magnitude lower number. Net result is thousands of people not dead who otherwise would have been.
There is little if anything that a firewall can do that an operating system can't.
Assuming you weren't stripping NAT out of the equation (and if you were, you were horribly offtopic or disingenuous or both), an operating system can't keep your ISP from being able to invade your privacy and charge you per-device unless it's been configured to act as a NAT firewall. (Silly semanatic arguments as to NAPT/NAT aside.)
Here's what the survey actually says:
"Half of the kids who rarely vote say they'd probably vote if they could do so without getting off their fat asses, but two thirds of the people who actually vote say it's crap. Oh, and a trial run shows the lazy kids are full of crap anyway; when they can vote this way, they still don't."
Let people use email to request their absentee ballots; evoting, done. Next problem.
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Actually this shows why standardized testing like the US is beginning to use is superior to the UK system of just looking at grades; you get tested in math when it's time to be tested in math, period. If your school encouraged you to drop math; oh well, you'll suck and so will their scores.
Measurement is a core part of improving any system.
If I can't read the Nature article because I'm not a subscriber, does that mean it doesn't exist?
Of course, the scheduler itself is a boss job that can't be killed, has perfect armor and has infinite ammo.
Fascist!
Resolved? We still haven't gotten to the bottom of why Dr. Bronner is putting date rape drugs in his soap. Why did he try to frame a musician for date rape before then turning around to assist in his legal defense once the thing blew wide open? This whole thing smacks of a coverup. I want to know what else this Dr. Bronner has been up to.
He makes all his products using hemp. I think it's obvious what he's been up to.
Dude, they can't avoid posting the same story twice in one DAY, and you want them to remember what they posted 3 YEARS ago?
If someone pays for internet access, they should get just that.
But you didn't pay for that; you paid for a company to hold up its end of a contract you signed, in return for you holding up yours. Depending on what that contract says, you might very well have agreed to tiered service. If so, no fair bitching about it now; RTFC next time.
How about watch the scientists tell you this themselves:
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Numerous scientists whose names are listed on that report as "authors" have publicly stated that they do not agree with it and that the evidence doesn't support it, but that it's been impossible for them to get their names removed.
Most of the names of "experts" on it are government bureaucrats who know precisely squat about environmental science, but got their names on the vanity list as "authors".
The reason they're taking so long (years) to release this report is because it can't be picked apart by scientists if it's not done yet, but the press knows no such bounds.
I don't know, but if one would like to submit his paper explaining why to me, I'll gladly give it a read.
Unless there's poo on it.
Sir Isaac Newton was much more highly regarded as a theologian than as a natural philosopher for most of history.
If we're running out of Uranium, we just need to switch to something we've got lots of; oil!
The lion's share of the protection of Canadian airspace comes from the US. That's why the 2nd-largest land area country in the world can afford to have a military that would fit entirely (sans vehicles) in the football stadium of any NCAA Division 1 university.
To do that, he would actually have to participate in one of them.
Can you name a single Linux distribution that doesn't include at least two programs to which Eric S. Raymond has contributed code, EXCLUDING fetchmail?
698 packages on my Ubuntu system depend on libncurses5, which has Raymond code in it, for example.
Actually, you have EXACTLY this, and have been a part of it since Clinton started the program in the mid '90s.
Uhm, dude, an atheist asks you to prove one of your assumptions, and you call that illogic? Since when is asking questions illogical?