Folks, it's not a Supernova. Supernovae emit radiation and not the smell of good ol' bullshit. It's just another Green hoax designed to sell the "ozone layer depletion" theory once again, aqnd a sign of Greens' transition to more professional psychological manipulation.
First, I'd like to say a couple of words about the "ozone layer" theory. Ozone is actually oxygene (IV) oxyde (!!!)- O=O=O. This molecule is highly unstable and deteriorates spontaneously, in pure form it's highly explosive. The UV radiation is absorbed by OXYGENE (O=O) and not ozone. Oxygene absorbs the UV photons and BECOMES ozone which than deteriorates back to oxygene, so the UV energy is converted to plain heat. From this viewpoint, ozone itself plays NO ROLE is UV protection of the Earth PERIOD. The ozone holes are caused by an obvious fact that UV radiation necessary to create ozone is minimal in the polar areas. So, all this Supernova BS indicates that Greens are desperate in their attempts at fishing for public support for their flawed theories since nobody listens to them in the White House any longer. Have fun, more GOP folks in the Congress and Senate equals more Supernovae of this kind.
The Green movement is not scientific by the very definition. It's just a mass movement which is an exact opposite of science. So, there's not too much doubt that it promotes many theories that can't stand any sound scientific critique. One of such theories is "Global Warming Theory" (GWT). While I absolutely accept that using hydrocarbons as a fuel is at least sub- optimal, the claims of the coming GW doom sound to me funny at best and mostly paranoid. Everyone who had ever seen the infrared spectra of carbon dioxide and water would understand what I mean. Cartbon dioxide is IR- transparent except one sharp peak at about 1700 reciprocal centimeters. Water (vapor included) absorbs every IR photon in the huge range between 500 and 3600 reciprocal centimeters (almost all of IR spectrum). Given the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere and the fact that 3/4 of all the terrestrial surface is ocean which captures 100% of IR radiation and converts into heat, the effect of man- made carbon dioxide is *infinitesimal*. All the rest, including the looming disaster is pure fiction, well on par with Perpetuum Mobile home- made. The thing happening really, is just Earth's slow return from the Ice Age to the long- time "default configuration". The second thing is that thoughout its history, the Earth tended to be much warmer than now, and it effectively never recovered completely from the Ice Age. It was global cooling and not warming that was main killer of all times. Lets's see. The dinosaurs extinction was caused by a meteore impact that caused global cooling. Even greater but less known Permian/Triassic extinction was also caused by the same scenario- first meteore impact, than Winter Olympics for every lifeform. Maybe the most spectacular and interesting one was the Pleistocene disaster (the Ice Age, not over yet) that devastated all the megafauna then in existence and created landscapes that we currently call deserts, tundra and icecaps. You've surprised that deserts are also created by cooling? Well, look at the map. There are no deserts in the equatorial area which is the hottest on the Earth. Australia used to be covered by rainforest when the climate was warmer. Cooling reduces the precipitation, thus aridifying the whole continents. The same is true for another Green hoax. I mean so- called ozone layer depletion. This theory is simply too stupid to talk about it seriously. (In the first place, ozone layer plays no role in the UV protection of Earth). The worst thing is that Greens were effectively used by some companies who wanted to gain extra $$ by outlawing Freons. They were used like a ram by the corporations they claim to detest, and it's quite an indicator of their IQ. I think that Mr. Lomborg wrote a very good book. It's just the time to expose the environmentalists' real face- one of ignorance, paranoia and compensatory agenda. It's time to understand that there's no wisdom in the Green Movement other than "If I'm afraid to drive I must invent the reason why cars are bad". It's time to switch to real problems, especially ones of brainwashing, manipulation and mental health.
Well, for the first time Jon Katz posted something real interesting. I've followed the link to Beckerman's rant against cheerleaders, and then to Marty's own site (www.martybeckerman.com). The site happened to be real interesting.
I've read some other articles there ("Generation SLUT" etc.) and it became quite clear that Marty is just another self- proclaimed "enlightened liberal intellectual", i. e.:
1) Fervently anti- sexual. Probably more than Her Fucking Majesty Queen Victoria and in the same league with Ayatollah Khomeini;
2) An anti- Southern bigot
3) Homophobic (mostly restricts himself to innuendoes, but not too proficient in using them)
4) Has a strong phobia of everything "harmful"- from innocent Wendy's cheeseburgers to Jack Daniel's.
5) A fanatical old- fartist (despite his 19 years)
In a short, just a typical Dem/Green/Left sissie. I highly recommend this site- reading articles by an inexperienced Leftist still not quite out of his larval stage may give an enlightening insight into how nasty/mean/anti-life this pathetic lifeform can be.
You don't need to move to Mendocino. If you'll go into psychology, you'll find a lot of interesting research material anywhere in the U. S., especially in the places like MA or CA (Just not to lose time, begin with any activist group standing for prohibiting something). If you have questions about their agenda, please, go to MentalHealth.net and read the "Personality Disorders" section. You'll be delighted. Very soom you'll be able able to use proper names instead of "Left". "Right", "Green", "Concerned Parent" or whatever other aliases these diseases exist under.
IMHO, not so simple. Conservatives remain a group with more or less stable agenda (do we like it or not), and they aren't all the same.
The "Liberals" simply don't have the persistent agenda, they're (I mean Dems, Greens, Sierra Club etc.) just a generation- based party that airs the ideas shared by Boomers at any particular moment of time, while the Boomers themselves are essentially overgrown children that never had any other ideology except conventional egotism.
Given this generation has become parents, the Dems try now to be parents and *model the State after the school*. It's effectively a new brand of totalitarianism unseen ever before- we saw regimes modelled after Armed Forces (Germany), factory (The Soviet Union), Church (Cromwellian Britain, Iran), and now we're going to see something new.
Let's see. folks, it's gonna be real interesting...
The very thing is not surprising, except the fact that it happens in California- the state where the relative numbers of both IT pros and youth are comparatively high.
The answer? The politicians perfectly understand that regardless of all stupidities they do on the day of any elections these groups would either stay at home or would uncoditionally vote for Dems or some special interests proxies like Ralph Nader who is actually not smart enough to get it that he's just a special interests proxy.
They got right the same mentality as Wal*Mart- they work to make their average customer happy. They go after the votes of aging obsessive- compulsive Boomer control freaks.
They prohibit because it sells well, and never mind what would go next.
So, folks here on/., just go with Libertarian Party, (www.lp.org), ASFAR (www.asfar.org), or we'll get what we deserve.
IMHO, one of the best choices. Core Ada is fully portable, GUI can be written using Qt, GTK bindings or even JGNAT (the compiler creating Java classes from Ada source).
At lest it guarantees reliability and good built- in multithreading support.
So, you suggest to live in a small apartment in the inner city shared with cockroaches (well, they don't take care whose property they're on) instead of a nice country home? Stand in a noisy and dirty metro car (and taking part in the Perspiration Contest) instead of the nice cab of my pickup truck? Walk to the above train or bus under cold rain or snow every day? See the moronic graffiti on the gray wall of the building on the opposite side of the street instead of the lawn and trees from my window? And pay $2000+ for all the aforementioned crap? The traffic jams and long commutes aren't caused by lots of cars on the road. They're caused instead by: 1) Concentration of businesses in downtown areas. Completely unnecessary in our time thanks to phone, fax and Internet. 2) Bad road alignment that don't follow the commuting patterns. Combined with lack of new roads in the fast developing areas. 4) Bad road design (entrance/exit combinations etc.) Responsible for most bottlenecks to my best knowledge. 5) Lack of garages and parking space in cities. Result is streets narrowed by parallel parking. Mass transit is simply a return to caves. Please look at 1) Terrible comfort level. 2) Very low fuel/energy efficiency (per capita) 3) Crime generator. 4) A reservoir of airborne infection. 5) Very costly
BTW, what's ugly about CDE or Silicon Graphics' Motif? At least, they are much more eye-friendly than Windass (unless you use the Black on Gray scheme, surely). The 3D controls are very distinctive, White on Blue colour schemes pose much less workload on eyes, icons are large also. It's also interesting that most of Windass'9X new L&F was acquired from Motif (3D look of controls) and all new functionality (local menus, D&D, built- in Clipboard support for text fields, propery sheets, list views etc.) was simply stolen from Sun's OpenWindows desktop.
I think that Motif and CDE are really well on their way to demise, but not because there's something wrong with both tools themselves. Their main weakness is they have only C BINDINGS with no good interface to OO languages. IMHO, we see the beginning of the end of C. In the late 80s- early 90s there were many languages on the market (Ada, Modula-2, Pascal, CLU, etc.) that were much more powerful and flexible than C, had much better support for large projects and provided far greater software reliability and had the potential to become OO (like Ada 9X). It seems to me that main reason for almost universal acceptance of C was plenty of available libraries with programmatic interfaces limited to C header files and difficulties with multi- languages development (especially if the performance- critical parts were to be written in C). It's nice that power of the Header File fades. But, Qt, GTK and other C++ based toolkits aren't a solution either. The user can appreciate the reliability of the Linux system only if he'll see the reliable applications running on a Linux box. Serious (both GPL/Open Source and any other) applications are large. If they will be written the same way as Windass bugware is currently being written, the main advantage of Linux will be overlooked and lost. So, it seems to me, that main point is getting rid of C compatibility (forcing use of C++ for the purposes it has never been designed for) completely. Here, I like the KDE's idea to make UI toolkit API available in the form of CORBA interfaces (the list of solutions is long open). Despite of performance issues, it's much better than replacing a S. O. R. B (Source of Re-usable Bugs) by just S. O. R. B.++. P. S. I'd really be happy to see some UI toolkits die. Ones who play Windass L&F on a Linux system.
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Folks, it's not a Supernova. Supernovae emit radiation and not the smell of good ol' bullshit. It's just another Green hoax designed to sell the "ozone layer depletion" theory once again, aqnd a sign of Greens' transition to more professional psychological manipulation.
First, I'd like to say a couple of words about the "ozone layer" theory. Ozone is actually oxygene (IV) oxyde (!!!)- O=O=O. This molecule is highly unstable and deteriorates spontaneously, in pure form it's highly explosive. The UV radiation is absorbed by OXYGENE (O=O) and not ozone. Oxygene absorbs the UV photons and BECOMES ozone which than deteriorates back to oxygene, so the UV energy is converted to plain heat.
From this viewpoint, ozone itself plays NO ROLE is UV protection of the Earth PERIOD. The ozone holes are caused by an obvious fact that UV radiation necessary to create ozone is minimal in the polar areas.
So, all this Supernova BS indicates that Greens are desperate in their attempts at fishing for public support for their flawed theories since nobody listens to them in the White House any longer.
Have fun, more GOP folks in the Congress and Senate equals more Supernovae of this kind.
The Green movement is not scientific by the very definition. It's just a mass movement which is an exact opposite of science. So, there's not too much doubt that it promotes many theories that can't stand any sound scientific critique.
One of such theories is "Global Warming Theory" (GWT). While I absolutely accept that using hydrocarbons as a fuel is at least sub- optimal, the claims of the coming GW doom sound to me funny at best and mostly paranoid.
Everyone who had ever seen the infrared spectra of carbon dioxide and water would understand what I mean. Cartbon dioxide is IR- transparent except one sharp peak at about 1700 reciprocal centimeters. Water (vapor included) absorbs every IR photon in the huge range between 500 and 3600 reciprocal centimeters (almost all of IR spectrum). Given the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere and the fact that 3/4 of all the terrestrial surface is ocean which captures 100% of IR radiation and converts into heat, the effect of man- made carbon dioxide is *infinitesimal*. All the rest, including the looming disaster is pure fiction, well on par with Perpetuum Mobile home- made. The thing happening really, is just Earth's slow return from the Ice Age to the long- time "default configuration".
The second thing is that thoughout its history, the Earth tended to be much warmer than now, and it effectively never recovered completely from the Ice Age. It was global cooling and not warming that was main killer of all times. Lets's see. The dinosaurs extinction was caused by a meteore impact that caused global cooling. Even greater but less known Permian/Triassic extinction was also caused by the same scenario- first meteore impact, than Winter Olympics for every lifeform. Maybe the most spectacular and interesting one was the Pleistocene disaster (the Ice Age, not over yet) that devastated all the megafauna then in existence and created landscapes that we currently call deserts, tundra and icecaps.
You've surprised that deserts are also created by cooling? Well, look at the map. There are no deserts in the equatorial area which is the hottest on the Earth. Australia used to be covered by rainforest when the climate was warmer. Cooling reduces the precipitation, thus aridifying the whole continents.
The same is true for another Green hoax. I mean so- called ozone layer depletion. This theory is simply too stupid to talk about it seriously. (In the first place, ozone layer plays no role in the UV protection of Earth). The worst thing is that Greens were effectively used by some companies who wanted to gain extra $$ by outlawing Freons. They were used like a ram by the corporations they claim to detest, and it's quite an indicator of their IQ.
I think that Mr. Lomborg wrote a very good book. It's just the time to expose the environmentalists' real face- one of ignorance, paranoia and compensatory agenda. It's time to understand that there's no wisdom in the Green Movement other than "If I'm afraid to drive I must invent the reason why cars are bad". It's time to switch to real problems, especially ones of brainwashing, manipulation and mental health.
A lot of insightful materials about managers running companies:
h tm
http://www.successunlimited.co.uk/bully/serial.
Enjoy!
Well, for the first time Jon Katz posted something real interesting. I've followed the link to Beckerman's rant against cheerleaders, and then to Marty's own site (www.martybeckerman.com). The site happened to be real interesting.
I've read some other articles there ("Generation SLUT" etc.) and it became quite clear that Marty is just another self- proclaimed "enlightened liberal intellectual", i. e.:
1) Fervently anti- sexual. Probably more than Her Fucking Majesty Queen Victoria and in the same league with Ayatollah Khomeini;
2) An anti- Southern bigot
3) Homophobic (mostly restricts himself to innuendoes, but not too proficient in using them)
4) Has a strong phobia of everything "harmful"- from innocent Wendy's cheeseburgers to Jack Daniel's.
5) A fanatical old- fartist (despite his 19 years)
In a short, just a typical Dem/Green/Left sissie. I highly recommend this site- reading articles by an inexperienced Leftist still not quite out of his larval stage may give an enlightening insight into how nasty/mean/anti-life this pathetic lifeform can be.
You don't need to move to Mendocino. If you'll go into psychology, you'll find a lot of interesting research material anywhere in the U. S., especially in the places like MA or CA (Just not to lose time, begin with any activist group standing for prohibiting something). If you have questions about their agenda, please, go to MentalHealth.net and read the "Personality Disorders" section. You'll be delighted. Very soom you'll be able able to use proper names instead of "Left". "Right", "Green", "Concerned Parent" or whatever other aliases these diseases exist under.
IMHO, not so simple. Conservatives remain a group with more or less stable agenda (do we like it or not), and they aren't all the same.
The "Liberals" simply don't have the persistent agenda, they're (I mean Dems, Greens, Sierra Club etc.) just a generation- based party that airs the ideas shared by Boomers at any particular moment of time, while the Boomers themselves are essentially overgrown children that never had any other ideology except conventional egotism.
Given this generation has become parents, the Dems try now to be parents and *model the State after the school*. It's effectively a new brand of totalitarianism unseen ever before- we saw regimes modelled after Armed Forces (Germany), factory (The Soviet Union), Church (Cromwellian Britain, Iran), and now we're going to see something new.
Let's see. folks, it's gonna be real interesting...
The very thing is not surprising, except the fact that it happens in California- the state where the relative numbers of both IT pros and youth are comparatively high. /., just go with Libertarian Party, (www.lp.org), ASFAR (www.asfar.org), or we'll get what we deserve.
The answer? The politicians perfectly understand that regardless of all stupidities they do on the day of any elections these groups would either stay at home or would uncoditionally vote for Dems or some special interests proxies like Ralph Nader who is actually not smart enough to get it that he's just a special interests proxy.
They got right the same mentality as Wal*Mart- they work to make their average customer happy. They go after the votes of aging obsessive- compulsive Boomer control freaks.
They prohibit because it sells well, and never mind what would go next.
So, folks here on
IMHO, one of the best choices. Core Ada is fully portable, GUI can be written using Qt, GTK bindings or even JGNAT (the compiler creating Java classes from Ada source).
At lest it guarantees reliability and good built- in multithreading support.
So, you suggest to live in a small apartment in the inner city shared with cockroaches (well, they don't take care whose property they're on) instead of a nice country home? Stand in a noisy and dirty metro car (and taking part in the Perspiration Contest) instead of the nice cab of my pickup truck? Walk to the above train or bus under cold rain or snow every day? See the moronic graffiti on the gray wall of the building on the opposite side of the street instead of the lawn and trees from my window? And pay $2000+ for all the aforementioned crap? The traffic jams and long commutes aren't caused by lots of cars on the road. They're caused instead by: 1) Concentration of businesses in downtown areas. Completely unnecessary in our time thanks to phone, fax and Internet. 2) Bad road alignment that don't follow the commuting patterns. Combined with lack of new roads in the fast developing areas. 4) Bad road design (entrance/exit combinations etc.) Responsible for most bottlenecks to my best knowledge. 5) Lack of garages and parking space in cities. Result is streets narrowed by parallel parking. Mass transit is simply a return to caves. Please look at 1) Terrible comfort level. 2) Very low fuel/energy efficiency (per capita) 3) Crime generator. 4) A reservoir of airborne infection. 5) Very costly
BTW, what's ugly about CDE or Silicon Graphics' Motif? At least, they are much more eye-friendly than Windass (unless you use the Black on Gray scheme, surely). The 3D controls are very distinctive, White on Blue colour schemes pose much less workload on eyes, icons are large also. It's also interesting that most of Windass'9X new L&F was acquired from Motif (3D look of controls) and all new functionality (local menus, D&D, built- in Clipboard support for text fields, propery sheets, list views etc.) was simply stolen from Sun's OpenWindows desktop.
I think that Motif and CDE are really well on their way to demise, but not because there's something wrong with both tools themselves. Their main weakness is they have only C BINDINGS with no good interface to OO languages. IMHO, we see the beginning of the end of C. In the late 80s- early 90s there were many languages on the market (Ada, Modula-2, Pascal, CLU, etc.) that were much more powerful and flexible than C, had much better support for large projects and provided far greater software reliability and had the potential to become OO (like Ada 9X). It seems to me that main reason for almost universal acceptance of C was plenty of available libraries with programmatic interfaces limited to C header files and difficulties with multi- languages development (especially if the performance- critical parts were to be written in C). It's nice that power of the Header File fades. But, Qt, GTK and other C++ based toolkits aren't a solution either. The user can appreciate the reliability of the Linux system only if he'll see the reliable applications running on a Linux box. Serious (both GPL/Open Source and any other) applications are large. If they will be written the same way as Windass bugware is currently being written, the main advantage of Linux will be overlooked and lost. So, it seems to me, that main point is getting rid of C compatibility (forcing use of C++ for the purposes it has never been designed for) completely. Here, I like the KDE's idea to make UI toolkit API available in the form of CORBA interfaces (the list of solutions is long open). Despite of performance issues, it's much better than replacing a S. O. R. B (Source of Re-usable Bugs) by just S. O. R. B.++. P. S. I'd really be happy to see some UI toolkits die. Ones who play Windass L&F on a Linux system.