"Also funny how it's the Democrats pushing for the auto bailout, but its the Republicans who are always accused of being in cahoots with corporations. "
There are two reasons your snide remark is wrong.
1. The auto makers provide benefits (pensions, health care) to many many current and former employees (which is part of why they're currently screwed). So this is essentially about protecting the people who rely on the companies, not the companies themselves. 2. Auto-maker empoyees are the epitome of "middle america", as is the focus for the democrats. Wall street is bankers and traders etc, which is hardly the man on the floor - the traditional focus of the republicans is "other rich people".
Neither candidate will do much for the intelligence of the population at large. I can answer who IS the smarter candidate though, but I don't want a flamebait mod:P
I dont think crazy sounds all that fast - I mean most crazies I've met have had trouble moving around much without taking timeouts to wipe drool and yell at the birds.
Curse of the Azure Bonds just took on a whole new meaning:D Plus it also made me want to ditch work and go play games (not that that usually takes much convincing)
Is this any more or less efficient than offloading these same tasks to the GPU? I thought the whole point of GPU offloading was that you have this powerhouse chip in your PC already, making further upgrades or additions to handle video unnecessary?
It begs the question, in my opinion, why were are still using numberplates at all? Aren't there better way to keep track of vehicles at this point - seems to me that tracking devices in general might also help prevent theft to a large extent.. of course providing they couldn't be disabled easily, which.. yeah... would be a difficult feat?
"The important part: 'The music on slotMusic comes without copyright protection, so it can be used on almost all computers, mobile phones and music players"
The important part is it is _DRM_ free I assume - I doubt they are relinquishing their copyright, which is something entirely different.
"I was basically two persons: one 14 year old girl watching youtube, facebook, and uploading hundreds of photographs; while I run a programming business downloading software and uploading text files."
"came in "baked" (that's stoned for the uninformed)"
Does anyone who doesn't know what baked is know what stoned is? Shouldn't the clarification possibly have been "under the influence of cannabis" or whatever drug in question - or simply "under the influence"?
"All that's needed is that the combined damage produced by any side effects must be less than the damage produced by the excess carbon dioxide in lieu of said concrete."
Being that there is no actual scientific data on the damaging effects of carbon dioxide, this equation would be hard to solve. It's basically one imaginary "best guess" weighed against another.
Of course this is a statement of heresy, and I'm sure many will be quick to dismiss it, but please provide the data when you do. I'd be interested to peruse it.
If you're asking how to best go about backing up your critical data to a bunch of old flaky drives... it only begs the question where you got the 'dro:P
"No. You know very little about it, and what you don't understand you presume nobody else does either."
Listen, Troll, come up with honest solid scientific references that show in depth knowledge. You might also try enrolling in a reading comprehension class, since you infer a lot from my posts that isn't actually stated.
First, any warming cooling trend within the last 8 years has not been statistically significant enough to actually say anything conclusive. Second, measuring global temperature is not based on an accurate and well defined methodology - it's measured in different ways and guesstimated to a significant degree.
Third, I not only roll my eyes at you one sided opinionated people, I now also thumb my nose at you:p
We can all sit here and guess based on how we would like the facts to be, but fact is we actually know very little about it.
"Second, while the warming of Jupiter can be explained by increases in solar output, the warming of Earth can not. Do you honestly think climate scientists don't take this into account?"
You mean climate scientists like Svensmark who have proven a direct correlation between cosmic radiation, cloud cover, and the temperature of the earth?
I don't know who these 'climate scientists' who say otherwise are, but most of the ones I see express opinions are not scientists, but either journalists or populistic politicians. The IPCCs report is a minority opinion that was HEAVILY censored before release.
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"Also funny how it's the Democrats pushing for the auto bailout, but its the Republicans who are always accused of being in cahoots with corporations. "
There are two reasons your snide remark is wrong.
1. The auto makers provide benefits (pensions, health care) to many many current and former employees (which is part of why they're currently screwed). So this is essentially about protecting the people who rely on the companies, not the companies themselves.
2. Auto-maker empoyees are the epitome of "middle america", as is the focus for the democrats. Wall street is bankers and traders etc, which is hardly the man on the floor - the traditional focus of the republicans is "other rich people".
This story is about the "global warming" though, which is supposedly caused by CO2, which is definitely NOT toxic.
The refined the laptop so much, they made it a desktop! Sweet.
Neither candidate will do much for the intelligence of the population at large. I can answer who IS the smarter candidate though, but I don't want a flamebait mod :P
I'm mostly wondering why you waited 3 months to sort that out... ??
"but the planet is changing right now, causing irreparable damage."
More like irreversible change. There is a difference, however subtle.
Which is faster, crazy or blistering??
I dont think crazy sounds all that fast - I mean most crazies I've met have had trouble moving around much without taking timeouts to wipe drool and yell at the birds.
Curse of the Azure Bonds just took on a whole new meaning :D Plus it also made me want to ditch work and go play games (not that that usually takes much convincing)
Is this any more or less efficient than offloading these same tasks to the GPU? I thought the whole point of GPU offloading was that you have this powerhouse chip in your PC already, making further upgrades or additions to handle video unnecessary?
It begs the question, in my opinion, why were are still using numberplates at all? Aren't there better way to keep track of vehicles at this point - seems to me that tracking devices in general might also help prevent theft to a large extent.. of course providing they couldn't be disabled easily, which.. yeah... would be a difficult feat?
"The important part: 'The music on slotMusic comes without copyright protection, so it can be used on almost all computers, mobile phones and music players"
The important part is it is _DRM_ free I assume - I doubt they are relinquishing their copyright, which is something entirely different.
Considering how long it took them just to finalize .11n, I'll believe it when I see Duke Nukem shipping.
Failing spectacularly on two fronts simultaneously .. I thought the Flagsip guys had already blazed the way on that one, but guess not?
"I was basically two persons: one 14 year old girl watching youtube, facebook, and uploading hundreds of photographs; while I run a programming business downloading software and uploading text files."
You are one freaky skizo dude ;)
but ... SCUBA gear?? So the... wait... because... err... cos it just looks so cool?
"came in "baked" (that's stoned for the uninformed)"
Does anyone who doesn't know what baked is know what stoned is? Shouldn't the clarification possibly have been "under the influence of cannabis" or whatever drug in question - or simply "under the influence"?
Oh yeah?
And the boondock saints killed people, but it was all for a good cause! :P
"All that's needed is that the combined damage produced by any side effects must be less than the damage produced by the excess carbon dioxide in lieu of said concrete."
Being that there is no actual scientific data on the damaging effects of carbon dioxide, this equation would be hard to solve. It's basically one imaginary "best guess" weighed against another.
Of course this is a statement of heresy, and I'm sure many will be quick to dismiss it, but please provide the data when you do. I'd be interested to peruse it.
If you're asking how to best go about backing up your critical data to a bunch of old flaky drives... it only begs the question where you got the 'dro :P
But seriously, why?
If cavorting with animals is not obscene, where do we draw that line? Do you have to smear yourself with feces first??
I think I have that 'chicks pained like cows' pic somewhere... *ponder*
Isn't this just a kind of DRM for 'other stuff', trying to dictate how someone uses a product after they bought and paid for it?
"No. You know very little about it, and what you don't understand you presume nobody else does either."
Listen, Troll, come up with honest solid scientific references that show in depth knowledge. You might also try enrolling in a reading comprehension class, since you infer a lot from my posts that isn't actually stated.
Yes, it actually is wrong.
:p
Here's one explanation why, but you can probably find countless others if you tried http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/
First, any warming cooling trend within the last 8 years has not been statistically significant enough to actually say anything conclusive.
Second, measuring global temperature is not based on an accurate and well defined methodology - it's measured in different ways and guesstimated to a significant degree.
Third, I not only roll my eyes at you one sided opinionated people, I now also thumb my nose at you
We can all sit here and guess based on how we would like the facts to be, but fact is we actually know very little about it.
Thousands? Where?
Seriously, I'd like a few good references.
"Second, while the warming of Jupiter can be explained by increases in solar output, the warming of Earth can not. Do you honestly think climate scientists don't take this into account?"
You mean climate scientists like Svensmark who have proven a direct correlation between cosmic radiation, cloud cover, and the temperature of the earth?
I don't know who these 'climate scientists' who say otherwise are, but most of the ones I see express opinions are not scientists, but either journalists or populistic politicians. The IPCCs report is a minority opinion that was HEAVILY censored before release.
CO2 is a crock.