The best version of Word was the final DOS version, which did implement WYSIWYG. It was stable and reliable, which is worth any number of minor "features".
Wouldn't be the first time a human society had destroyed itself by deliberate obtuseness; it's just the scale which reflects how our mastery of physical phenomena has so vastly expanded, unlike our mastery of deliberate obtuseness which remains pretty much the same.
Part of the problem is that there is a huge financial incentive to dig up the carbon and sell it, and there is no corresponding incentive not to. Given that there are people out there who will murder you for pocket money, it's axiomatic that there are people who will screw up the environment for a few billion bucks. That, of course, is one of the features of that free market so ardently worshipped. When beneficial activities are also profitable, then they are accomplished very efficiently; but when there is no profit in it there are no resources to accomplish them. And when the harmful activity is profitable and the beneficial one is not there is no question which way it will go. In fact we have largelyredefined beneficial to mean profitable, and those skeptical of that conclusion are accorded the treatment more usually given heretics than philosophical deviants.
Well, they're smart enough to know that the half life of the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere is on the order of a few centuries. So what makes you think that there is a carbon dioxide sink that can absorb an unlimited amount? Any speculation as to what that will turn out to be?
How can you say that? Look at Obama; requiring people to purchase any of a number of health care plans offered by several large for-profit corporations, instead of just accepting whatever their employer selected for them (if any) as God intended? Radical socialism, even Stalin never came up with a similar plan.
Indeed. And that is why any competent scholar in the days of the founding fathers would have been fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; and usually not Aramaic.
Given that our minds are the function of our neural activity, and that a neuron will fire with absolute predictability when the local membrane potential reaches the threshold of depolarization, all you have to demonstrate is that you can vary one of those two measures by a pure act of will.
Right, much the same way as a character in a play, whose whole part is determined ahead of time, can be said to have free will, which leads to us all being happy at the end of the play when everybody gets what they deserve, or all being disappointed if they don't. Because if the characters in the play don't have free will, then why would we care so much?
It's perfectly clear. God created the earth, but made it to appear as though it were billions of years old with a fossil history, etc. That way those who fall for the evidence can be condemned as disbelievers and condemned to Hell and eternal torment. Nice catch, God!!
Assuming the suit is in Canada, their legal system is loser pays the winner's costs, unlike the US, so extortion via groundless suits is less attractive as a career.
You can't really count selectrics in the same basket as "regular" typewriters, even electrics. Those were the ones Whitlock only worked on grudgingly. Are there any other brands that use a similar typeball technology? I think there were some brands that used a daisy wheel weren't there?
Gas mileage/emissions issues sometimes make for some strange option mixes. EPA doesn't use actual weight of car, but brackets them, so the weight of the sunroof might be enough to bump that particular car into the next weight bracket thereby significantly affecting test results, and to hold the line on emissions or mileage the might need to spec a slushbox they can program to meet the tests. Also explains some odd option no-nos, like you can't get the sunroof and a subwoofer, because the combo would bump the car into the next weight bracket, etc.
Republican, and really all right wing, arguments are all ad hominem these days, because they have become entirely focused on partisanship, Manichaenism, ideologically driven group membership. In other words, their deep and unshakable belief can't be altered by any preponderance of facts; thus the continual assertions that AGW is not proved; to them it can never be. And since this leaves ad hominem attacks as the only form of opposition which affects them even slightly, they naturally project the same attitude onto others, and attack AGW by attacking Al Gore or James Hansen. It never occurs to them that anybody else might be convinced of AGW by the data, because that's a completely foreign cognitive process. This isn't limited to just AGW of course; it's every right wing shibboleth, from Obama being a socialist to the US economy being stagnant because of excessive government. Birtherism, the runaway size of the federal government, Reagan's tax cuts increased tax income, etc etc etc
The US alone suppliea 25% of the world's CO2 output. If the world was a billion people including the US we most definitely be having this AGW discussion, and it doesn't require the population to increase exponentially, we're doing it quite effectively with minimal population growth and exponential growth of energy use per capita. But hey, if we can blame it on the guy in Somalia who burns sheep dung for fuel because he has 6 kids, then maybe nobody will notice that he uses zero fossil fuels and therefore has zero AGW impact, so then we can keep digging that carbon out of the ground and tossing it into the air, because we don't want to live near where we work, or travel there with other people, or travel there slowly.
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Might have something there; I couldn't help but notice that Scotland's major export seems to be engineers. Same principle I guess.
The best version of Word was the final DOS version, which did implement WYSIWYG. It was stable and reliable, which is worth any number of minor "features".
Nobody is calling you racist for caring about the rights of the anonymous coward nation.
Gee Mr. Science, can you give us some of the scientific thinking which has led your fine mind to predict cooling?
Wouldn't be the first time a human society had destroyed itself by deliberate obtuseness; it's just the scale which reflects how our mastery of physical phenomena has so vastly expanded, unlike our mastery of deliberate obtuseness which remains pretty much the same.
Part of the problem is that there is a huge financial incentive to dig up the carbon and sell it, and there is no corresponding incentive not to. Given that there are people out there who will murder you for pocket money, it's axiomatic that there are people who will screw up the environment for a few billion bucks. That, of course, is one of the features of that free market so ardently worshipped. When beneficial activities are also profitable, then they are accomplished very efficiently; but when there is no profit in it there are no resources to accomplish them. And when the harmful activity is profitable and the beneficial one is not there is no question which way it will go. In fact we have largelyredefined beneficial to mean profitable, and those skeptical of that conclusion are accorded the treatment more usually given heretics than philosophical deviants.
Well, they're smart enough to know that the half life of the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere is on the order of a few centuries.
So what makes you think that there is a carbon dioxide sink that can absorb an unlimited amount? Any speculation as to what that will turn out to be?
Don't they teach about the Dust Bowl in school any more?
Is it that you don't consider the dust bowl a serious event, or that you consider it just a random fluke?
How can you say that? Look at Obama; requiring people to purchase any of a number of health care plans offered by several large for-profit corporations, instead of just accepting whatever their employer selected for them (if any) as God intended? Radical socialism, even Stalin never came up with a similar plan.
Calm down, nobody thinks you're a hominid.
Indeed. And that is why any competent scholar in the days of the founding fathers would have been fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; and usually not Aramaic.
Given that our minds are the function of our neural activity, and that a neuron will fire with absolute predictability when the local membrane potential reaches the threshold of depolarization, all you have to demonstrate is that you can vary one of those two measures by a pure act of will.
Right, much the same way as a character in a play, whose whole part is determined ahead of time, can be said to have free will, which leads to us all being happy at the end of the play when everybody gets what they deserve, or all being disappointed if they don't. Because if the characters in the play don't have free will, then why would we care so much?
It's perfectly clear. God created the earth, but made it to appear as though it were billions of years old with a fossil history, etc. That way those who fall for the evidence can be condemned as disbelievers and condemned to Hell and eternal torment. Nice catch, God!!
Assuming the suit is in Canada, their legal system is loser pays the winner's costs, unlike the US, so extortion via groundless suits is less attractive as a career.
I'm more of a polyester blend myself.
Kids these days communicate by twerking.
Luckily I wear a sport jacket in my sports car so I am healthy.
You can't really count selectrics in the same basket as "regular" typewriters, even electrics. Those were the ones Whitlock only worked on grudgingly. Are there any other brands that use a similar typeball technology? I think there were some brands that used a daisy wheel weren't there?
Civic si has the slickest manual I've ever used ( 6 speed). You'd swear the shift lever is directly mounted to the trans like a rwd.
In my day the average driver didn't know how to drive an automatic.
Gas mileage/emissions issues sometimes make for some strange option mixes. EPA doesn't use actual weight of car, but brackets them, so the weight of the sunroof might be enough to bump that particular car into the next weight bracket thereby significantly affecting test results, and to hold the line on emissions or mileage the might need to spec a slushbox they can program to meet the tests. Also explains some odd option no-nos, like you can't get the sunroof and a subwoofer, because the combo would bump the car into the next weight bracket, etc.
Republican, and really all right wing, arguments are all ad hominem these days, because they have become entirely focused on partisanship, Manichaenism, ideologically driven group membership. In other words, their deep and unshakable belief can't be altered by any preponderance of facts; thus the continual assertions that AGW is not proved; to them it can never be. And since this leaves ad hominem attacks as the only form of opposition which affects them even slightly, they naturally project the same attitude onto others, and attack AGW by attacking Al Gore or James Hansen. It never occurs to them that anybody else might be convinced of AGW by the data, because that's a completely foreign cognitive process. This isn't limited to just AGW of course; it's every right wing shibboleth, from Obama being a socialist to the US economy being stagnant because of excessive government. Birtherism, the runaway size of the federal government, Reagan's tax cuts increased tax income, etc etc etc
The US alone suppliea 25% of the world's CO2 output. If the world was a billion people including the US we most definitely be having this AGW discussion, and it doesn't require the population to increase exponentially, we're doing it quite effectively with minimal population growth and exponential growth of energy use per capita. But hey, if we can blame it on the guy in Somalia who burns sheep dung for fuel because he has 6 kids, then maybe nobody will notice that he uses zero fossil fuels and therefore has zero AGW impact, so then we can keep digging that carbon out of the ground and tossing it into the air, because we don't want to live near where we work, or travel there with other people, or travel there slowly.