Did you read his link? Nature had a part in it to be sure, but human activity made it much worse than it would have been otherwise, INCLUDING increasing the already high temperatures and making things drier than they already were..
Note that the link you supplied states that pert of the problem was the dry exposed soil, you know, from plowing.
I guess you should have chosen a better example rather than giving in to your Pavlovian response to any suggestion there might actually be a climate change caused by human screwups.
If you think the climate scientists have anything to do with all of that nonsense, you are sadly mistaken. I sincerely doubt any of them even have access to a private jet.
Don't mistake the idiots that run things for the people who have a clue. There is little overlap.
You might want to read up on the dust bowl a bit. It is well understood that human activity caused it. Without the human activity, it would still have been dry, but the topsoil wouldn't have blown away in a giant dust cloud. But for that, nobody would even remember it today.
In any sane and fair legal system, the courts would understand that anything the police hire a company to do is legally something the police are doing. Thus, it would be illegal for them to do business with such a company.
Once upon a time, we had phones. You dial the number and (if a cellphone), hit send. That was it.
Then, they started adding features. Some quite useful like speed dial and an address book. Then a todo list, alarm clock, and calendar. These features made it a feature phone. Then they added a mostly useless limited web browsing ability (mostly useless because you had a 1.5x1.5 inch screen and only a phone keypad to enter text). Then text messaging. In other words, what people who aren't in marketing call a dumb phone today. Or perhaps 'basic phone' since they are the closest thing to the no longer sold basic phone.
That's the thing in Windows. It's not just MS but every vendor that 'grew up' with the old admin by default Windows.
I once tried to lock a system down reasonably. As an experiment, I gave myself access to the program files, and the user access to the quickbooks data based on l;east privilege. The result is that the user couldn't use quickbooks because it wouldn't even try to run if there was an update available that they couldn't perform without admin rights. O*M*G* there's a pixel out of place in the help file! It is like, *CRUCIAL* that you update *IMMEDIATELY*! No bookkeeping for you until this *VITAL* update solving a decade long flaw nobody noticed is fixed! I could have lived with it if it happened once in a great while, but it seemed to be just about daily.
So in the name of security for quickbooks, it was necessary to totally wipe out security on the accounting machines.
It is a bit karmic. I'm not claiming that L3 are just a great bunch of guys fighting the man or anything.
However, L3 is a Tier 1. They have many massive datacenters for colo as well as an international network. The only thing they don't have is last mile networking.
A fair bit of the internet would either go away or get much more expensive to reach if L3 cut off peering.
The cost of good networking hardware has fallen considerably over the years. Meanwhile, the ISPs marketing depts sure do like to hype all the things you can do with your 30 bazillion megabits unlimited connection. Alas, they sure do resent it when customers sign up and actually expect to get 10% of what marketing promised. They actually could afford the necessary build-out to provide what was promised an the price they charge, but then they wouldn't be able to afford to buy up multi-national content producers.
Naturally, everyone wants to keep traffic on the "free" peering (i.e., same level), which works when traffic is roughly equal. The problem occurs when it isn't, in which case one side or the other has to pay up for the differential traffic. (If the traffic was truly equal, then both would upgrade the ports together because both sides are dropping packets).
Unless the peering includes transit, the whole balance thing is an entirely fabricated necessity made by business people who don't actually know how networking works.
3G/4G is outrageously expensive and slow. The resellers aren't really competition since they are all reselling the very same service. All they can possibly do is add overhead and offer you more email accounts. Sattelite does OK for bulk download, but terrible for uplink and latency.
Many places have exactly 1 option that provides reasonable service. Many more have 2, but that's about it.
Meanwhile, the sort of competition that actually makes a market work calls for more than a dozen independent sellers.
Keep in mind, coverage maps are generally lies. There are plenty of people who are clearly shown to be covered in a map who cannot get that service.
The solution to accountants over-accounting is not additional accounting. Do you really want to get an itemized bill from 3 providers when you watch 'cute kitten video'?
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I really do have to wonder about quickbooks, but surely it could phone home without demanding admin access.
Did you read his link? Nature had a part in it to be sure, but human activity made it much worse than it would have been otherwise, INCLUDING increasing the already high temperatures and making things drier than they already were..
To be fair, it wouldn't be the first time the U.S. engaged in forced sterilization.
Just like it's not robbing the bank that was the problem, it was getting caught? Shoplifting is all good as long as you get away with it?
If only. The CIA took the Pakistani equivalent of the tinfoil hat brigade and elevated them by proving their point nearly to the letter.
Thanks to them, any denial now is at best a half truth and will be seen through. No assurances will be enough to erase suspicion now.
Read your link again.
Sure, before you burst too much with pride, we all did the dial-up thing at one time. It sucked and you know it.
Note that the link you supplied states that pert of the problem was the dry exposed soil, you know, from plowing.
I guess you should have chosen a better example rather than giving in to your Pavlovian response to any suggestion there might actually be a climate change caused by human screwups.
If you think the climate scientists have anything to do with all of that nonsense, you are sadly mistaken. I sincerely doubt any of them even have access to a private jet.
Don't mistake the idiots that run things for the people who have a clue. There is little overlap.
It actually makes perfect sense. You warm things up a bit and that gets more water vapor in the air causing further warming.
You might want to read up on the dust bowl a bit. It is well understood that human activity caused it. Without the human activity, it would still have been dry, but the topsoil wouldn't have blown away in a giant dust cloud. But for that, nobody would even remember it today.
The data covers decades, so it is climate, not weather.
In any sane and fair legal system, the courts would understand that anything the police hire a company to do is legally something the police are doing. Thus, it would be illegal for them to do business with such a company.
Not really, no. It's called stalking.
It's only 'legal' in the sense that the law doesn't apply to police or sufficiently large corporations, especially those that the police like.
Once upon a time, we had phones. You dial the number and (if a cellphone), hit send. That was it.
Then, they started adding features. Some quite useful like speed dial and an address book. Then a todo list, alarm clock, and calendar. These features made it a feature phone. Then they added a mostly useless limited web browsing ability (mostly useless because you had a 1.5x1.5 inch screen and only a phone keypad to enter text). Then text messaging. In other words, what people who aren't in marketing call a dumb phone today. Or perhaps 'basic phone' since they are the closest thing to the no longer sold basic phone.
That's the thing in Windows. It's not just MS but every vendor that 'grew up' with the old admin by default Windows.
I once tried to lock a system down reasonably. As an experiment, I gave myself access to the program files, and the user access to the quickbooks data based on l;east privilege. The result is that the user couldn't use quickbooks because it wouldn't even try to run if there was an update available that they couldn't perform without admin rights. O*M*G* there's a pixel out of place in the help file! It is like, *CRUCIAL* that you update *IMMEDIATELY*! No bookkeeping for you until this *VITAL* update solving a decade long flaw nobody noticed is fixed! I could have lived with it if it happened once in a great while, but it seemed to be just about daily.
So in the name of security for quickbooks, it was necessary to totally wipe out security on the accounting machines.
It is a bit karmic. I'm not claiming that L3 are just a great bunch of guys fighting the man or anything.
However, L3 is a Tier 1. They have many massive datacenters for colo as well as an international network. The only thing they don't have is last mile networking.
A fair bit of the internet would either go away or get much more expensive to reach if L3 cut off peering.
Practically nothing actually honors source quench anymore. It was too easy to use it for DOS.
The cost of good networking hardware has fallen considerably over the years. Meanwhile, the ISPs marketing depts sure do like to hype all the things you can do with your 30 bazillion megabits unlimited connection. Alas, they sure do resent it when customers sign up and actually expect to get 10% of what marketing promised. They actually could afford the necessary build-out to provide what was promised an the price they charge, but then they wouldn't be able to afford to buy up multi-national content producers.
Naturally, everyone wants to keep traffic on the "free" peering (i.e., same level), which works when traffic is roughly equal. The problem occurs when it isn't, in which case one side or the other has to pay up for the differential traffic. (If the traffic was truly equal, then both would upgrade the ports together because both sides are dropping packets).
Unless the peering includes transit, the whole balance thing is an entirely fabricated necessity made by business people who don't actually know how networking works.
For most, there is no longer a monopoly (though that is a fairly new development), but it's hardly a vibrant market.
3G/4G is outrageously expensive and slow. The resellers aren't really competition since they are all reselling the very same service. All they can possibly do is add overhead and offer you more email accounts. Sattelite does OK for bulk download, but terrible for uplink and latency.
Many places have exactly 1 option that provides reasonable service. Many more have 2, but that's about it.
Meanwhile, the sort of competition that actually makes a market work calls for more than a dozen independent sellers.
Keep in mind, coverage maps are generally lies. There are plenty of people who are clearly shown to be covered in a map who cannot get that service.
The solution to accountants over-accounting is not additional accounting. Do you really want to get an itemized bill from 3 providers when you watch 'cute kitten video'?
You do know that Level3 is far from a MonNPop, yes?
Redhat is large compared to a council office.
Meanwhile, you act as if MS will actually provide anything for the money other than not suing you.