Right, so now they have to pour millions into denialist-funded studies to confirm that fossil fuels do, in fact, release CO2 when burned, and then do some experiments to check whether the greenhouse effect is a real thing.
Their money, whatever, I just wish they had started sooner so that they could confirm the results without such a huge lag behind big boy science.
Yep that's basically a flowchart of the climate denialist life cycle. Once the evidence for one of their points of contention becomes incredibly overwhelming, they move onto the next.
It starts at the first step and ends at the sixth. Most are on step 4 right now, a few are still on step 3, and some of the go-getters have moved onto step 5. Once they all make it to 6...well, I dunno, we're fucked I guess:-( but at least we can stop wasting our breath on them.
Considering that in the late '90s they were on step 1, assuming linear progress they'll be on 6 somewhere around 2015~2020.
That rule stands in IT too, otherwise you get those "reformed black hats" who take one look at the server room and say "wow I would have hacked you guys in seconds" to terrify PHBs into paying them whatever they ask.
I know a guy like that, total douchebag, has a huge mansion and a sportbike. So keep that in mind, if you don't keep threat assessment and implementation separate, you're giving douchebags mansions and sportbikes. It's like using Facebook times a million.
Maybe I missed this in the news, but how many mid-air explosions have there been since 9/11 originating from airports in the US? More than one successful detonation? I'm going to have to ask for a source for that one.
At least two attempts that were only unsuccessful due to shitty bomb design: Richard Reid, Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
It's bold of you to dismiss such a vulnerability. In some airports, for popular flights there can be hundreds of people clustered around the airport security lineup, and there's nothing stopping anyone from walking right up to that line with a backpack full of their choice of explosives.
You're also ignoring all the attacks on other parts of airports - the bombing in the arrivals area of a Russian airport, at least one attempt I can recall to smash an SUV full of explosives through the front door of Heathrow (and you know the check-in lines have even more people in them than the security lines).
And we've seen this time and time again from the shoe bomber to the underpants bomber, people reacted quickly to neutralize the threat.
And those two had the right idea for taking down a plane - an instantaneous, devastating attack that gives other passengers no time to react. Luckily both botched their bomb design.
You can prove a negative in general, however your particular hypothesis can't be proven - unless we can get some terrorists to honestly answer an anonymous survey, of course.
Until then it's impossible to prove any deterrence, and the TSA should logically be considered to be on par with a "tiger-repelling rock."
However if the TSA had caught the shoe bomber or underwear bomber, that would be proof that they're having an effect. But they didn't catch either of those guys, and the implant bomber will slip past as well, I guarantee you. I just hope his or her bomb doesn't take the plane down.
I could be productive with a Windows computer if I wanted. My work PC runs Windows. It's just that when the choice is up to me I use Linux for everything but gaming. I'm in no prison. You see bars in front of you, but that doesn't mean you're on the outside...
That gives you access to a grand total of 118 games, a slightly bigger game selection than the Atari Jaguar. OSX for gaming would make as little sense as Linux for gaming, if OSX were free, but it's not so it makes even less sense.
Plays my games pretty good but that's all I use it for at home...I can compile and run anything I want on it though and I can buy software for it from anywhere, so I'd still take it over iOS any day.
So far only picked up 2 viruses, one on purpose (I was bored...) and the other due to a misunderstanding about how Autorun works (learned the hard way that it executes if you double-click the drive in Explorer - glad that's done away with these days).
Is territory relevant to this research? Since it's climate-related I'd guess not, I doubt they're trying to calculate the average temperature increase per square mile of China's territory. So China and any other country that has a problem can fuck right off.
HP doesn't mean a whole lot in a truck. Horsepower's for going fast. Torque is for going anywhere and getting shit done. Look at any construction vehicle engine, econobox-level horsepower and monstrous 4-digit torque.
Something like that could be at least part of the solution. I2P has some interesting advantages over Tor, I think I'll start running some I2P routers...
A Conservation of Energy denier? Wow how does that work? Sounds like it could be a troll presenting Troll Science with a serious face.
I've seen plenty of crackpot forums but you don't expect their users to post on Slashdot. The Flat Earth Society is hilarious, but a lot of people say it's a big joke, like if Conservapedia was run entirely by Conservatroll players.
If they were serious they would be the most vocal environmentalist protesters, because if that ice wall melts most of the water would fall off the world.
He didn't do it alone. Most other US politicians supported him and even today Obama continues on the same path. Throughout the leadership of both Republican and Democratic supermajorities over the years nothing has changed.
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Right, so now they have to pour millions into denialist-funded studies to confirm that fossil fuels do, in fact, release CO2 when burned, and then do some experiments to check whether the greenhouse effect is a real thing.
Their money, whatever, I just wish they had started sooner so that they could confirm the results without such a huge lag behind big boy science.
Yep that's basically a flowchart of the climate denialist life cycle. Once the evidence for one of their points of contention becomes incredibly overwhelming, they move onto the next.
It starts at the first step and ends at the sixth. Most are on step 4 right now, a few are still on step 3, and some of the go-getters have moved onto step 5. Once they all make it to 6...well, I dunno, we're fucked I guess :-( but at least we can stop wasting our breath on them.
Considering that in the late '90s they were on step 1, assuming linear progress they'll be on 6 somewhere around 2015~2020.
I hope you rotate the taser-facing part of your body to prevent callouses from forming where the little hooks stab you.
Haha I see what you did there ;-)
That rule stands in IT too, otherwise you get those "reformed black hats" who take one look at the server room and say "wow I would have hacked you guys in seconds" to terrify PHBs into paying them whatever they ask.
I know a guy like that, total douchebag, has a huge mansion and a sportbike. So keep that in mind, if you don't keep threat assessment and implementation separate, you're giving douchebags mansions and sportbikes. It's like using Facebook times a million.
Maybe I missed this in the news, but how many mid-air explosions have there been since 9/11 originating from airports in the US? More than one successful detonation? I'm going to have to ask for a source for that one.
At least two attempts that were only unsuccessful due to shitty bomb design: Richard Reid, Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
It's bold of you to dismiss such a vulnerability. In some airports, for popular flights there can be hundreds of people clustered around the airport security lineup, and there's nothing stopping anyone from walking right up to that line with a backpack full of their choice of explosives.
You're also ignoring all the attacks on other parts of airports - the bombing in the arrivals area of a Russian airport, at least one attempt I can recall to smash an SUV full of explosives through the front door of Heathrow (and you know the check-in lines have even more people in them than the security lines).
And we've seen this time and time again from the shoe bomber to the underpants bomber, people reacted quickly to neutralize the threat.
And those two had the right idea for taking down a plane - an instantaneous, devastating attack that gives other passengers no time to react. Luckily both botched their bomb design.
You can prove a negative in general, however your particular hypothesis can't be proven - unless we can get some terrorists to honestly answer an anonymous survey, of course.
Until then it's impossible to prove any deterrence, and the TSA should logically be considered to be on par with a "tiger-repelling rock."
However if the TSA had caught the shoe bomber or underwear bomber, that would be proof that they're having an effect. But they didn't catch either of those guys, and the implant bomber will slip past as well, I guarantee you. I just hope his or her bomb doesn't take the plane down.
Finally it could be a way to extract myself from such pedestrian IT work as a highly educated but poorly certified person.
Smart people usually aren't rich enough to have much of a choice.
I could be productive with a Windows computer if I wanted. My work PC runs Windows. It's just that when the choice is up to me I use Linux for everything but gaming. I'm in no prison. You see bars in front of you, but that doesn't mean you're on the outside...
That gives you access to a grand total of 118 games, a slightly bigger game selection than the Atari Jaguar. OSX for gaming would make as little sense as Linux for gaming, if OSX were free, but it's not so it makes even less sense.
Plays my games pretty good but that's all I use it for at home...I can compile and run anything I want on it though and I can buy software for it from anywhere, so I'd still take it over iOS any day.
So far only picked up 2 viruses, one on purpose (I was bored...) and the other due to a misunderstanding about how Autorun works (learned the hard way that it executes if you double-click the drive in Explorer - glad that's done away with these days).
I think I know which profession to look for women in, we'll get along just fine!
So how's that walled garden thing working for you?
Is territory relevant to this research? Since it's climate-related I'd guess not, I doubt they're trying to calculate the average temperature increase per square mile of China's territory. So China and any other country that has a problem can fuck right off.
I think the imperial unit of depth is the sclegnee (Scotsman's leg, to the knee).
I was wondering because that sounds like they'd empty their fuel tanks in less time than it makes to microwave a pizza pocket.
HP doesn't mean a whole lot in a truck. Horsepower's for going fast. Torque is for going anywhere and getting shit done. Look at any construction vehicle engine, econobox-level horsepower and monstrous 4-digit torque.
Something like that could be at least part of the solution. I2P has some interesting advantages over Tor, I think I'll start running some I2P routers...
A Conservation of Energy denier? Wow how does that work? Sounds like it could be a troll presenting Troll Science with a serious face.
I've seen plenty of crackpot forums but you don't expect their users to post on Slashdot. The Flat Earth Society is hilarious, but a lot of people say it's a big joke, like if Conservapedia was run entirely by Conservatroll players.
If they were serious they would be the most vocal environmentalist protesters, because if that ice wall melts most of the water would fall off the world.
He didn't do it alone. Most other US politicians supported him and even today Obama continues on the same path. Throughout the leadership of both Republican and Democratic supermajorities over the years nothing has changed.
Oh yes I think metagovernment is an interesting concept. I had an interesting discussion about something similar here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1244451&cid=28083111
You obviously aren't familiar with Canadian politics over the last few years or you wouldn't be even slightly surprised...