So you don't like my ideas of individual responsibility and you want to regulate shipping vessels Mr. Conservative? I'm all for it. I'd heard early news of that study on the large container ships and now that the results are in, I agree something has to be done right now.
As an individual though you have no power to do that, you can only vote and hope a majority supports you, or vote with your dollars which is a good token effort but may be a complete joke in effect.
Even assuming there were net gains to be had in the planet's carrying capacity or areas with "nice" climates, the big nasty problem that ruins it is ocean acidification.
Or you could stop eating beef and dairy products or buy from suppliers that use the genetically engineered low-fart cows. Or you could plant some trees or put renewable energy devices on your house or get a shorter commute or replace flying with telecommuting or make your next car electric or see if there's an option to buy renewable power in your area or phase in lower-power devices in your home or maintain/reuse things instead of replacing them...but yeah it's hopeless and there's nothing an individual could do.
But in a world with much more present and pressing issues like war, hunger, unemployment, recession, etc. you can't very well expect every newspaper to lead with a "Average Global Temps Expected to Rise By 1-2 Degrees Celsius Over the Next 50-100 years" headline.
Or in short "people can't be bothered about long-term problems."
And it's really too bad because an individual has far more power to do something about global warming than any of those problems you listed.
Both of those possibilities are equally scary. If this happened to me I'd read over the answers, see that they were consistently opposite of my opinions and I'd either ask what the hell happened to my form or think I had some kind of massive brainfart when filling it out. But I wouldn't defend the positions on the form.
It's worse than that. If I understand TFA correctly it's saying that these people gave their opinions on a topic by filling out a survey form with an agree/disagree scale, but then that form had it's questions flipped (with their same answers filled in) and the people supported what was written on the form later when interviewed about their answers.
So for example, you'd have a question that says "Eating babies should be forbidden" with a scale of 1-5, 1 being "strongly disagree" and 5 being "strongly agree." You fill in 5. Then your form gets changed behind your back and you are asked to explain your answers in an interview. The people in this survey saw that they apparently answered "Strongly Agree" to "Eating babies should be permitted" and began to defend baby-eating O_O
What I allow on my browser, and what the Internet needs to run on, is reasonable advertising. This consists of simple images or text viewed on a webpage and views tracked only by plain HTTP requests. No active content, no cookies/flash cookies/HTML5 storage, no browser profiling, targeted only by the site it's presented on. But as with TV the advertising has run amok because there is no limit to how much money these people "need." Once again the core problem is greed.
I don't think they did it to fuck over Google and Facebook, I think they did it to completely destroy the DNT initiative by breaking the rules and making it meaningless.
Seriously could you imagine the horror? Function, safety and ease of repair sacrificed left and right without a second thought, in the name of aesthetics and "ease of use?"
It would make Chernobyl look like an engineering masterpiece.
On a comedy site a commenter recommended combining the fleshlight and a linear magnetic generator (as used in shake-charge flashlights). Energy problems: Solved XD
The first time I saw NFC demonstrated, with phones receiving and acting on data without user consent, a LOL'd at what a security disaster it would surely be.
Yep i tried Cinnamon and it's really good, the only reasons I settled for MATE are the lack of a good working system monitor applet (may be fixed now) and the fact that i couldn't get MyGestures to work with it.
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Oh jeez have you been living under a rock?
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/21/opinion/granderson-gop-rape-abortion/index.html
Look, global warming happens. You just have to prepare for it like you would for getting a flat tire.
So you don't like my ideas of individual responsibility and you want to regulate shipping vessels Mr. Conservative? I'm all for it. I'd heard early news of that study on the large container ships and now that the results are in, I agree something has to be done right now.
As an individual though you have no power to do that, you can only vote and hope a majority supports you, or vote with your dollars which is a good token effort but may be a complete joke in effect.
Was expecting a challenging point-by-point rebuttal; got weak pooh-poohing; leaving dissatisfied.
Here's a pros-and-cons list (more overwhelmingly negative than I expected):
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-positives-negatives-intermediate.htm
Even assuming there were net gains to be had in the planet's carrying capacity or areas with "nice" climates, the big nasty problem that ruins it is ocean acidification.
Al Gore deserves a lot of the blame but why Michael Moore? I'm not aware of him publicizing global warming at all.
Or you could stop eating beef and dairy products or buy from suppliers that use the genetically engineered low-fart cows. Or you could plant some trees or put renewable energy devices on your house or get a shorter commute or replace flying with telecommuting or make your next car electric or see if there's an option to buy renewable power in your area or phase in lower-power devices in your home or maintain/reuse things instead of replacing them...but yeah it's hopeless and there's nothing an individual could do.
If this is legitimate global warming, the planet has ways of shutting the whole thing down, no need to worry.
Switch to nuclear power + renewables and electric cars.
There will be a demonstration of the effects of global warming on food supplies next year. Be sure to watch.
Exactly. I'm going to do it in the form of an online poll and find a way to link it on Pinterest.
But in a world with much more present and pressing issues like war, hunger, unemployment, recession, etc. you can't very well expect every newspaper to lead with a "Average Global Temps Expected to Rise By 1-2 Degrees Celsius Over the Next 50-100 years" headline.
Or in short "people can't be bothered about long-term problems."
And it's really too bad because an individual has far more power to do something about global warming than any of those problems you listed.
Hey it's worth a try right? :D
Both of those possibilities are equally scary. If this happened to me I'd read over the answers, see that they were consistently opposite of my opinions and I'd either ask what the hell happened to my form or think I had some kind of massive brainfart when filling it out. But I wouldn't defend the positions on the form.
It's worse than that. If I understand TFA correctly it's saying that these people gave their opinions on a topic by filling out a survey form with an agree/disagree scale, but then that form had it's questions flipped (with their same answers filled in) and the people supported what was written on the form later when interviewed about their answers.
So for example, you'd have a question that says "Eating babies should be forbidden" with a scale of 1-5, 1 being "strongly disagree" and 5 being "strongly agree." You fill in 5. Then your form gets changed behind your back and you are asked to explain your answers in an interview. The people in this survey saw that they apparently answered "Strongly Agree" to "Eating babies should be permitted" and began to defend baby-eating O_O
What I allow on my browser, and what the Internet needs to run on, is reasonable advertising. This consists of simple images or text viewed on a webpage and views tracked only by plain HTTP requests. No active content, no cookies/flash cookies/HTML5 storage, no browser profiling, targeted only by the site it's presented on. But as with TV the advertising has run amok because there is no limit to how much money these people "need." Once again the core problem is greed.
I don't think they did it to fuck over Google and Facebook, I think they did it to completely destroy the DNT initiative by breaking the rules and making it meaningless.
But you repeat yourself.
It's not a fuckup, it's a mechanical failure that happened safely.
Seriously could you imagine the horror? Function, safety and ease of repair sacrificed left and right without a second thought, in the name of aesthetics and "ease of use?"
It would make Chernobyl look like an engineering masterpiece.
On a comedy site a commenter recommended combining the fleshlight and a linear magnetic generator (as used in shake-charge flashlights). Energy problems: Solved XD
The first time I saw NFC demonstrated, with phones receiving and acting on data without user consent, a LOL'd at what a security disaster it would surely be.
Yep i tried Cinnamon and it's really good, the only reasons I settled for MATE are the lack of a good working system monitor applet (may be fixed now) and the fact that i couldn't get MyGestures to work with it.
I was just about to post this. If not for this, electric cars would have taken off a decade earlier.
Me too. Are we the only two?
Worse yet, these documents were actually public domain licensed yet locked behind a paywall.