Our daughter plays barbies with my one son, and it fun to listen to. She spends an inordinate amount of time begging him not to kill all the guests at the wedding etc.
LMAO! You gotta secretly record this and put it on YouTube XD
Chaotic Climate Change is what smart people call global warming once they realize that the earth has actually lost two degrees of average temperature in the last decade or so.
Smart people who aren't smart enough to try to answer their own questions:
a round of solar flares that melt the tundra, releasing more methane in ONE DAY than a year's worth of greenhouse gas output from all of mankind's activities combined.
LOLWUT? Got a source for that? That's serious news to me, only sources I can find are conspiracy sites and nutjob blogs.
And that, greenhouse gases aren't that bad- they are in fact, if we're smart, an opportunity to plant more food crops, convert more desert land into food-based rain forests, and end world hunger. If we were smart, that is. But never underestimate stupidity and greed for wanting to adapt in the way that costs more instead.
Addressing climate change might cost more for *you* if you live in, say, North Dakota, but it would be ridiculously narrow-sighted to say that accepting global arming is cheaper than addressing it overall. If you said you have a FYGM attitude at least that would be somewhat understandable. And good luck with your expanded-tropical-zone planet that's suffering from ocean acidification.
That actually raises an interesting question though... If you have a motherboard with UEFI secure boot enabled by default, and you try to use an old video card that doesn't have a signed UEFI device driver, how would you even go into the BIOS settings to turn off secure boot?
Good point, a mobo jumper would be useful for this. I think those of us who aren't scared of technology will just have to do without the secure boot feature, turn it off and never turn it back on.
Except that it's not like that at all, you don't buy a hammer if what you need is a screwdriver, just like you don't buy a device specifically designed for an operating system if you want to run a different operating system, you choose a different device.
I did that for years, never bought a closed phone in my life. Now the only open phone in production (is it still in production?) is the N9 and it doesn't have the hardware keyboard I want. That is the last open phone, there is nothing else coming. Just avoiding the wrong tools didn't work for me in the long run, the options dwindled down to nothing over time. Now I'll have to root an Android phone, and I'll be restricted to an Android-based OS thanks to closed drivers. I'm still trying to figure out how to set up a rooted Android phone without ever creating or signing into a Google account.
and there are good chances you will be unable to replace the bootloader anyway (I can imagine them using ROMs instead of flash).
"Oh don't worry, you'll still be able to open the device and solder in an aftermarket reflashable bootloader chip, no need to panic Chicken Little!" - Curated computing fansheep, 2014
See how hard some people work to defend the illusion of freedom that's being pulled over their eyes while *real* freedom is being strangled in a back alley?
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just tech gadgets at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
If you lived in the gilded age US you'd be saying this:
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just jobs that you are free not to work in at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
If you lived in an Islamic theocracy you'd be saying this:
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just some extra bits of clothing that women must wear at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
If you lived in Soviet Russia you'd be saying this:
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just some paper pamphlets at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
You sir, are a sheep. You fully deserve that label.
I don't know what "chaotic climate change" is, but are you arguing that because the atmosphere has been wildly different before, that means that the greenhouse gases we're releasing into it now aren't affecting it? Nobody ever said Earth's climate was naturally static.
Climate skepticism is not the same as creationism, because climate skepticism (right or wrong) is based on skepticism about the quality of the evidence and analysis of the facts, whereas creationists simply assert that the Bible is 100% correct, that their understanding of the Bible is similarly 100% correct, and that opposing evidence does not count.
If only it were that simple, but unfortunately most creationists ARE "skeptical" about the quality of the evidence and analysis of the facts. The 100% religion-based creationists who tell science to go fuck itself entirely are a small minority.
If you lived long enough you'd see the evidence of climate change just the same, right now you're like a mayfly denying evolution because you can't see it happen in front of your eyes, and just as now you'd say the fossils are fakes or unrelated species or something.
No, it's exactly as unreasonable for that person to be "skeptical" as someone who sells solar panels. If they were honest and said they didn't care because they work in some field heavily reliant on fossil fuels and could never get a job doing anything even slightly different then that would be understandable.
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Our daughter plays barbies with my one son, and it fun to listen to. She spends an inordinate amount of time begging him not to kill all the guests at the wedding etc.
LMAO! You gotta secretly record this and put it on YouTube XD
I've never had any interest in in-car bluetooth.
Until now.
My cousin's neighbor's SSID is 8===D
And you really don't see a problem with it. You deserve what you're doing to yourself.
No need, did you know there's an "octillion?" Real thing.
In Somalia youj don't need to be extradited, US troops could just drag you out of your hut at night.
Chaotic Climate Change is what smart people call global warming once they realize that the earth has actually lost two degrees of average temperature in the last decade or so.
Smart people who aren't smart enough to try to answer their own questions:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998-intermediate.htm
a round of solar flares that melt the tundra, releasing more methane in ONE DAY than a year's worth of greenhouse gas output from all of mankind's activities combined.
LOLWUT? Got a source for that? That's serious news to me, only sources I can find are conspiracy sites and nutjob blogs.
And that, greenhouse gases aren't that bad- they are in fact, if we're smart, an opportunity to plant more food crops, convert more desert land into food-based rain forests, and end world hunger. If we were smart, that is. But never underestimate stupidity and greed for wanting to adapt in the way that costs more instead.
Addressing climate change might cost more for *you* if you live in, say, North Dakota, but it would be ridiculously narrow-sighted to say that accepting global arming is cheaper than addressing it overall. If you said you have a FYGM attitude at least that would be somewhat understandable. And good luck with your expanded-tropical-zone planet that's suffering from ocean acidification.
Bruce Willis was dead for the whole movie.
You mean all those terrorists were killed by A G-G-GHOST!?!?
At first it seems like a brilliant quote, then you see who said it and realize that it's only brilliant when taken out of the original context :-(
Once there's enough processing power to emulate an x86 machine, any of them. I can run lots of '80s PC games just fine in DOSBox on my N900.
At some point it may involve soldering new ICs in place, like modding a game console. At what point will you consider it "unreasonably hard?"
That actually raises an interesting question though... If you have a motherboard with UEFI secure boot enabled by default, and you try to use an old video card that doesn't have a signed UEFI device driver, how would you even go into the BIOS settings to turn off secure boot?
Good point, a mobo jumper would be useful for this. I think those of us who aren't scared of technology will just have to do without the secure boot feature, turn it off and never turn it back on.
That's right frog, it's not too hot, stay in there as long as it's comfortable...
Except that it's not like that at all, you don't buy a hammer if what you need is a screwdriver, just like you don't buy a device specifically designed for an operating system if you want to run a different operating system, you choose a different device.
I did that for years, never bought a closed phone in my life. Now the only open phone in production (is it still in production?) is the N9 and it doesn't have the hardware keyboard I want. That is the last open phone, there is nothing else coming. Just avoiding the wrong tools didn't work for me in the long run, the options dwindled down to nothing over time. Now I'll have to root an Android phone, and I'll be restricted to an Android-based OS thanks to closed drivers. I'm still trying to figure out how to set up a rooted Android phone without ever creating or signing into a Google account.
and there are good chances you will be unable to replace the bootloader anyway (I can imagine them using ROMs instead of flash).
"Oh don't worry, you'll still be able to open the device and solder in an aftermarket reflashable bootloader chip, no need to panic Chicken Little!" - Curated computing fansheep, 2014
Yeah you'll probably be able to buy an Open Computer Kit from SparkFun or some little 3-man company in Europe.
The future of computing is bright indeed!
See how hard some people work to defend the illusion of freedom that's being pulled over their eyes while *real* freedom is being strangled in a back alley?
Doesn't just apply to computers either...
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just tech gadgets at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
If you lived in the gilded age US you'd be saying this:
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just jobs that you are free not to work in at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
If you lived in an Islamic theocracy you'd be saying this:
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just some extra bits of clothing that women must wear at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
If you lived in Soviet Russia you'd be saying this:
Admittedly, I have a hard time seeing it as a freedom issue, as these are just some paper pamphlets at the end of the day. I'd rather it was framed as an inconvenience argument, not a freedom one.
You sir, are a sheep. You fully deserve that label.
I don't know what "chaotic climate change" is, but are you arguing that because the atmosphere has been wildly different before, that means that the greenhouse gases we're releasing into it now aren't affecting it? Nobody ever said Earth's climate was naturally static.
LOL the level of doublethink here is staggering!
They're both Apple fanboys, apart from that they have nothing in common. Bonch is one of the bloggers on MacJournal.
And we'll get closer to "Real Truth" by ignoring, or at best endlessly re-re-examining and never accepting the best of what we know so far?
Climate skepticism is not the same as creationism, because climate skepticism (right or wrong) is based on skepticism about the quality of the evidence and analysis of the facts, whereas creationists simply assert that the Bible is 100% correct, that their understanding of the Bible is similarly 100% correct, and that opposing evidence does not count.
If only it were that simple, but unfortunately most creationists ARE "skeptical" about the quality of the evidence and analysis of the facts. The 100% religion-based creationists who tell science to go fuck itself entirely are a small minority.
If you lived long enough you'd see the evidence of climate change just the same, right now you're like a mayfly denying evolution because you can't see it happen in front of your eyes, and just as now you'd say the fossils are fakes or unrelated species or something.
No, it's exactly as unreasonable for that person to be "skeptical" as someone who sells solar panels. If they were honest and said they didn't care because they work in some field heavily reliant on fossil fuels and could never get a job doing anything even slightly different then that would be understandable.