What medicine really needs is competition, and that is something the AMA, despite that lip service in this announcement, has always resisted. Instead of banning advertising, give patients the right to get their prescriptions filled on the world market, just as we do when we buy electronics from Amazon.
I suspect there is more at play here. The advertising world, the drug companies, and the lawyers who look at any medicines listed side effects, and then go on fishing expeditions for lawsuits, have combined to make Television increasingly unwatchable. Where once upon a time, we'd have a lot of different commercials, some times about things we want to buy, now it's an infuriating mess of catheter ads, meds that they spend most of their time telling you how you might become an enraged killer, that women are full time leaky people who need to stuff stuff in every orifice to stop it, ant you really really need to take this probiotic and you will shit beautifully forever, and lawyer ads getting you to sue all the other advertisers. Everything is a disease, everything is a lawsuit.
And that isn't counting the JG Wentworth money scams or the free knee or back braces.
It used to be just during the daytime, but now it's crept into the evening hours as well.
It's pretty easy to go all free market on this shit, but I've almost stopped watching due to that crap, and it's part of television's death march. Maybe it's protecting assholes from themselves. And I'm not talking about the consumers.
They will extract energy from the wind, that much is true. There has to be some local measureable effect of a tiny bit less wind, because the energy changed form. It's pretty laughable though, to think that towers with their tippy tops around 600 feet in the air will use up all the wind on earth. It's a big tall atmosphere. And warming? Where do these people get their science? They'll deny that there is such a thing as the greenhouse effect, but believe crap like that.
Yeah, that damn liberal Conservative party. They'll be the ruin of this country, I tell you.
Do your bloody homework!
--JG
Careful. You don't understand the mind of the American bubble person. Disagree with him again, and he'll be calling for attacks on London to win the hearts and minds of the British people.
And completely ignoring the efforts of getting the coal to the generating stations is showing his ignorance. It gets a little harder to extract these days, and it isn't like oil, where you have a hole in the ground. You remove entire mountaintops and dump the fill in the next valley over . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
Dunno how it is in GB with getting to the coal, but when we get to doing that, it doesn't take a "liberal demoncrap" as he quaintly puts it, to understand maybe its time for a switch. Coal is dangerous work, messy, dirty, and poisonous in multiple ways. It makes as much sense to use coal as it does to cut down all the trees in a country to use as fuel.
Maybe we really don't need to retain all of this information.
Probably not most of it - but you never know for certain.
What is missing these days is the concept of active archiving. The days of taking a book and putting it on a shelf as archiving are long gone. This was probably first noticeable then organizatyions started finding need to stockpile ancient computers as a way to retrieve old data from the large floppy discs and other old school data memory. But then we started getting to where this story pick up, with the coatings flaking off of tapes, whether sound data, or the discs.
And its a maddening issue, as there are ancient tapes that are actually on paper, but still sound good, and some that the coating is almost gone. As well there are issues with print trough, which has been a problem with old video tapes, as the tape sits nest to it's neighbors above and below it, teh magnetized parts can transfer a little bit, and the image can get a little fuzzy over time.
And we can't get complacent at all about CDs and DVDs I don't know if the young'uns remember at all about the great writable CD shortage era - this was when 1 CD cost around 11 dollars. And tehy were going bad quickly. I don't know if they were trying to reduce demand or if they were havienthat much difficulty making them, but it was difficult to get any for a while, and when you found one they were rationend out like WW2 tires.
Then ther ewere the CD devouring fungi that ate the data from the unsealed sides of the CD. Bottom line is you should hope you don't need data stored on CD's from the mid 90's.
So now if something is worth archiving, it needs to be in a form that you can continue to re-archive often.
People often bust NASA's chops whne tehy lose old data. I understand perfectly how this happens. re-archive old data, or hire a new accountant ot oversee where all of the pencils go, and the accountant wins every time, while the data slowly fades away.
Sorry Tovaritsch, I have been accused of being all that by NRA kooks, Enough to the point that I see your lying about what I said when you wrote and I quote from your post:
You can say they're stupid, and you are smart. Smart, stupid, whatever....they have the guns.
First off, I didn't say anything of the sort. I never called anyone stupid, but have said some were kooks. Second, I did ignore what is sounding incrasingly like a thinly veiled physical threat. Time for this conversaiont to end.
Do we lump those people in with the murderers because some asshole has decided to use their God's name to justify horrific things? Or do we place the blame on the asshole?
The big difference between you and me is that I belive that good religion is people making god in their own image, and they are good people. Bad religion is people making god in their own image, and are bad.
the trump card is that people always pick and choose according to their personal beliefs, and use whatever they find in their books that justifys that belief.
So why on earth not just be good because you are a good person, rather than be good because some book written by hunmans with a slew of contradictory statements tells you to be good?
I'm a pretty moral person.
Mostly because I'm me, and the Abrahamic god has not thing one to do with that. And in someone's religion, I'm going to hell.
As are you. Funny how that works - we're all doomed.
And in the US, parents who kill their children go to jail.
People who beat their children in God's name are no different than people who beat their children because they are drunk and the kid isn't listening or wet their bed or talked back. The drunk isn't going to regret it. Not really. They might regret the consequences, but they still blame the victim, not themselves.
In crimes of passion, the perp is often very remorseful. I went to school with a guy who killed his son in a car accident that was his fault. The guy went home and killed himself that day because he couldn't bear the guilt.
Wasn't there a football player who took a switch to his naked toddler and said he did nothing wrong? That's how his dad disciplined him and he didn't see anything wrong with it?
Adrian Peterson. I won't stand up for what the piece of shit did to his kid. http://dailysnark.com/pictures... Peterson would have to disable me if I ever caught him doing that to a child, That wasn't killing the kid though. But if you can bring forth the notion to do that to a child, yeah, accidentally killing the kid is a possibility. It was an example of people thinking that they were justified in beating their child. And it isn't a slippery slope legal definition of assault as putting your hands on the victim - its doing actual physical harm. Worry not though, he is back on the team.
And Peterson has expressed some remorse kinda sorta.
And that woman in Florida who drugged her daughter, stuffed her in the trunk of the car, and then didn't report her missing from months so she could go clubbing or something? Or the people who let their babies starve to death while they play video games?
You bring these situations up, and they are awful assholes who should get a lot of their own back.
I don't know if you understand or not. Your posts seem to be saying I'm accusing Christians of being the only childbeaters. They aren't.
But Adrian Peterson and Casey Anthony aren't using Jesus as the reason they beat their kids, or killed them in Anthony's case.
It's just convenient and easy. The world is full of sick fucks who will latch onto any excuse to be evil. It doesn't make the rest of bad people.
And with that statement you prove it. The problem is, that's a no true Scotsman argument, or in this case, a no true Christian childbeater argument. You just dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in your particular version of what is right. The problem I see is those lines in the bible, which fundamentalist and literalists must take to heart - that if you do not take the rod to your child, you hate the child. I didn't put those lines there - Fundamentalists believe that those words are the word of god as revealed to man. And in a country where there is religious freedom, who are we to tell them they cannot beat the shit out of their kids? It's a real conundrum, and when we are not in 3000 year old desert cult, it doesn't have much place in civlized society. THey are all sick fucks, and some of them are rligious sick fucks who as part of their sickness, give credit to the Abrahamic god for their actions.
No free passes. Know thyself, and know thy religion's warts and all, and don't dismiss people who do exactly as the book says.
Just to fuck with the climate idiots I like to take a cigarette lighter to the local weather station. Look we had a record temperature of 500F we're all going to die like Al Gore said!!
Odds are that if you think you are surrounded by idiots and assholes, you are the asshole.
In this case, I suspect the only people surrounding him are those nice young men in the clean white coats.....
Just to fuck with the climate idiots I like to take a cigarette lighter to the local weather station. Look we had a record temperature of 500F we're all going to die like Al Gore said!!
I had no idea that Bill O'Reilly posted on Slashdot. You can't explain that!
So exactly how does your attempted arson disprove AGW?
October 2015 was the hottest month in that entire database, which goes back to 1891.
Gosh, the warmest month in 124 years - that's like saying last Thursday was the warmest day in the last 4 months - so what?
You should move to Canada where at least until recently, they would have made that secret knowledge, and it wouldn't have pissed you off.
Now that being said - you are right. October's weather was just that - weather. Not in any way indicative of anything but temperature readings.
Now if we shift to what would be indicative of climate, we need to look at trends. And once we get enough record or nearly record months of data, then years of data, we can make an intelligent assessment of what is going on.
And yet, instead of using the data freely provided to cherry pick what you like out of it, the answer for denialists is so simple, it is mind boggling to think it hasn't been done yet.
Th greenhouse effect is a fact. Proven by thousands of schoolkids in science fairs. There are certain gases that act to retain energy in proportion to their abundance in the atmosphere. Some are more common but less "powerful", like CO2. Some are less long lasting, yet much more "powerful" like methane.
The greenhouse effect is critical to our existence. If there were no mechanism to retain some of the energy that hits the earth, our dayside would be hot, while our nightside would lose heat at a fast rate. So to deny the effect is to make a need to invent another reason the earth's atmosphere retains energy that hits it.
So here is the simple task for the deniers. Given that the greenhouse effect is real, you come up with a hypothesis why it fails when taken on a global scale, then you try to falsify it.
If AGW does not exist, greenhouse warming must fail on a global scale. Moreover, it must self regulate to maintain enough energy in the atmosphere to allow us to exist, then fail at some point, and renders the atmosphere incapable of accepting any more energy.
Pretty simple. Do the science. Whoever proves that the greenhouse effect fails at global levels is looking at a Nobel prize.
Which in the end - why do the cherry picking,or character assassination political tactics, when you can topple the entire house of cards with one well done reproduceable experiment?
Note - part of this is about weather, not climate.
Part 1 - Here in the northeast, the leaves are finally off the trees. I've been exercising my motorcycle with 100 mile rides every few days, took a big ride yesterday. Mid 60's temps. Almost too warm for my leathers. We haven't had a real frost yet, just a couple nights when the more vertical surfaces would get a kiss. Hot peppers in the garden still producing. Insects and butterflies still doing their thing. Hunters in T-shirts when once they would hope for tracking snow. I suspect that with the recent La Nina - or is it Nino - going away, the last couple cold (actually normal) winters will retreat now.
Now on to the climate part. Minus the last couple winters, what I wrote above has become the new norm.
And that's the thing. Part 1 above is just relating some really nice weather in a part of the country where its supposed to be fairly chilly this time of year, with a few killing frosts by now. It's just weather.
But coupled with the weather over a longer term, with the previous two winters now being the anomaly - Now that is climate.
And as we find out that the major players in inserting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - such as Exxon - admitted years ago, but hid or lied or sowed doubt, it is getting harder to be a denier every day.
Meanwhile, I think I'll take another long bike ride today. looks like another mid-60's sunny day.
Does it matter if you beat your kid to death because God told you to or because that's how you were raised or because you were pissed off or because you were drunk?
Yes. The drunk person will probably regret it the next day. Probably accept whatever penalty is meted out because they are remorseful. The religious excuse means that the person who beat their kid to death was merely doing god's work, so there's nothing to be sorry about. Sending them to prison might be violating their religious freedom in their minds.
It's the difference between crimes of passion and calculated crimes. Especially calculated crimes that have a get out of jail free card.
I'm not talking about people like Andrea Yates, who was mentally unhinged when she drowned her kids in the bathtub in god's name. I'm talking about functioning people like Michael Pearl, who runs a ministry, writes books, and spreads the word about making certain you beat your children.
One of the single biggest problem with traction applications has been deliberate patent encumberances which are still echoing through the manufacturing arena.
Burning of heretics and witches was 1600s and earlier. I have to do some research as to when presumed gays were burned by mainstream Christianity. The Crusades lasted from about 1000 to 1300.
Oh - I guess its okay then.
Dude, the whole middle east shitstorm is about things that took place thousands of years ago.
The whole "remember the Crusades!" bit whenever someone points out that Christianity teaches peace is a bit childish. If you have to go back 400 years to get your example of Christian rampage, isn't that a pretty good record?
The point isn't that Christians are oh so good now. Really it isn't. These things tend to come up whenever people condemn nutcase groups like ISIS, and some evill atheist points out that religions often foster violence. And many do.
Even so, although we domn't see many Christian Terrorists outside of Northern Ireland, it isn't like they are blameless, because the evil takes place on a more personal level, as parents under the word of god as granted in his unerring bible, with the admonition "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." Proverbs 13:24 King James version
Beat their fucking kids to death to show them thay do not hate them!
The tl:dr version, Mike and Debbie Pearl devout Christians belonging to the Greater Joy ministries. They claim it is the will of God. How dare you believe otherwise, It's right there.
Especially the second one. Cute kid. Look in her eyes. Her parents thought that God wanted them to torture and kill her. It was their religion, the words that instructed them were in their religion's holy book
There is a book put out by a Christian Minister ( that Michael Pearl who beat his child to death in the name of God), called "To Train up a Child" Its been found in a number of homes where people have also killed their children
but as I said earlier, the point isn't that Christianity is better than Islam, or the various other religions.
It is that religion will allow you to justify whatever evil you wish, and absolve yourself from guilt or responsibility, because the God you made conform to what you want to do ordered you to do it. Which by the way, is why religions are inherently evil.
"But the people who committed those acts are long dead"
I'm old enough to have seen The Troubles in Northern Ireland on the TV news. Plenty of people in the Republican or Unionist paramilitaries then are elected politicians now. For example, Martin McGuiness, who was 2nd in command in Derry on Bloody Sunday, is currently deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland.
The fundy tapdancers will try to say it really wasn't about religion.
Aside from the Law of Moses, which allows for punishments for crimes within the nation of Israel (so, only applicable to other Israelites), no where in the Bible does God give man the right to murder anyone.
Way to not get it. People kill each other in the name of religion all th time. Just because you can tapdance and wordsmith it so that you ccan state that God never ever told anyone to mirder anyone - sorry, I say it does. You think that there was any sort of moral value of a woman being stoned todeath because there wasn't any hymenal blood on teh bedsheets which ar eto be hung out the morning after marriage?
And those young female virgins that were to be taken fmor the enemies village after you killed all the men the adult women, and the young boys?
Sorry man, that is simply fucking sick. Soldiers? combatants? Yeah that's what humans do. But women and male children? Or a virgin with a flexible hymen? Something to see that you support such stuff. You'll tapdance around it, I call it murder.
Because those people were indeed making their God in their own image. They liked getting that young stuff after pillaging another village. They had no qualms about burying a woman in the dir up to her head, and throwing rocks at her until she passed away. Maybe "buyer's remorse or something. Burning gays and witches at the stake was jolly good entertainment on a Saturday evening.
I guess all the Christian missionaries and religious throughout the world that are feeding and clothing the poorest of the poor should pick up their bags, go home, and be much better people as secular atheists, so they can contribute something meaningful to the world like your shitpost Slashdot comments.
First off, congratulations on the false dichotomy. It isn't an either/or choice.
A lot of Christians are good people and do good things.
Wanna know why? Sit down, this might be hard to take.....
Because they are good people.
I suspect that despite your tendency to dive into logic mistakes, you are a good person.
So if it wasn't for your religion, you'd be a rapist, murderer and thief? I really doubt that. I sure as hell hope not.
As well, religion certainly does not cancel out the desires of some to do immoral things. Well known pedo rapist Jerry Sandusky was a very religious man, a teetotaler who enjoys boinking little boys.
Point is, know thyself, and know thy religion, even the warty parts. And religion is constantly used to do things that aren't necessarily all that moral.
Christian - inspired violence is so rare as be not merely exceptional, but aberrant.
At this point. Kinda. Not necessarily so in the past. We both know the burinings of heretics, gays and presumptive witches, and the crusades.
And while there is some nasty ass stuff in the bible about killing all of your enemy except for the little girls, which might be though a tad odd these days.
But yeah, there is no doubt that the Muslim religion uses violence as a core competency.
But there's the nexus of religion, and it is that if your god just so happens to hate everything you do, it's pretty likely that you are making god in your own image.
IOW, denying Christianity's sometimes violent tendencies is not at all required to condemn the immorality of radical Islam.
There are far to many people walking around in a fog of narcissism thinking that everything is about them.
They've always been around.
It's one of the reasons that the smartphone is blamed for making people stupid.
No, there are just as many stupid or smart people around as before. The unfortunate part is that things like computers and smartphones now put technology in the hands of the stupid, so now we have to listen to them bitch, whine, and say stupid things.
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What medicine really needs is competition, and that is something the AMA, despite that lip service in this announcement, has always resisted. Instead of banning advertising, give patients the right to get their prescriptions filled on the world market, just as we do when we buy electronics from Amazon.
I suspect there is more at play here. The advertising world, the drug companies, and the lawyers who look at any medicines listed side effects, and then go on fishing expeditions for lawsuits, have combined to make Television increasingly unwatchable. Where once upon a time, we'd have a lot of different commercials, some times about things we want to buy, now it's an infuriating mess of catheter ads, meds that they spend most of their time telling you how you might become an enraged killer, that women are full time leaky people who need to stuff stuff in every orifice to stop it, ant you really really need to take this probiotic and you will shit beautifully forever, and lawyer ads getting you to sue all the other advertisers. Everything is a disease, everything is a lawsuit.
And that isn't counting the JG Wentworth money scams or the free knee or back braces.
It used to be just during the daytime, but now it's crept into the evening hours as well.
It's pretty easy to go all free market on this shit, but I've almost stopped watching due to that crap, and it's part of television's death march. Maybe it's protecting assholes from themselves. And I'm not talking about the consumers.
Oh yes, I remember. He's the one that thinks that wind turbines will use up the wind and cause Earth to warm up.
https://www.facebook.com/reale...
They will extract energy from the wind, that much is true. There has to be some local measureable effect of a tiny bit less wind, because the energy changed form. It's pretty laughable though, to think that towers with their tippy tops around 600 feet in the air will use up all the wind on earth. It's a big tall atmosphere. And warming? Where do these people get their science? They'll deny that there is such a thing as the greenhouse effect, but believe crap like that.
Yeah, that damn liberal Conservative party. They'll be the ruin of this country, I tell you.
Do your bloody homework!
--JG
Careful. You don't understand the mind of the American bubble person. Disagree with him again, and he'll be calling for attacks on London to win the hearts and minds of the British people.
And completely ignoring the efforts of getting the coal to the generating stations is showing his ignorance. It gets a little harder to extract these days, and it isn't like oil, where you have a hole in the ground. You remove entire mountaintops and dump the fill in the next valley over . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
Dunno how it is in GB with getting to the coal, but when we get to doing that, it doesn't take a "liberal demoncrap" as he quaintly puts it, to understand maybe its time for a switch. Coal is dangerous work, messy, dirty, and poisonous in multiple ways. It makes as much sense to use coal as it does to cut down all the trees in a country to use as fuel.
Ho Please, I hand coded a bootstrap for my S-100 Bus system to boot from hard sector 8" floppies.. Who uses the cassette tapes anymore?!?!
When I was a kid, we geeks used toroid core memory and were thankful for it!
Thank god, I had some awesome BASIC skillz back then that I though were gone for good.
Have the tepes finished loading your program yet?
Maybe we really don't need to retain all of this information.
Probably not most of it - but you never know for certain.
What is missing these days is the concept of active archiving. The days of taking a book and putting it on a shelf as archiving are long gone. This was probably first noticeable then organizatyions started finding need to stockpile ancient computers as a way to retrieve old data from the large floppy discs and other old school data memory. But then we started getting to where this story pick up, with the coatings flaking off of tapes, whether sound data, or the discs.
And its a maddening issue, as there are ancient tapes that are actually on paper, but still sound good, and some that the coating is almost gone. As well there are issues with print trough, which has been a problem with old video tapes, as the tape sits nest to it's neighbors above and below it, teh magnetized parts can transfer a little bit, and the image can get a little fuzzy over time.
And we can't get complacent at all about CDs and DVDs I don't know if the young'uns remember at all about the great writable CD shortage era - this was when 1 CD cost around 11 dollars. And tehy were going bad quickly. I don't know if they were trying to reduce demand or if they were havienthat much difficulty making them, but it was difficult to get any for a while, and when you found one they were rationend out like WW2 tires.
Then ther ewere the CD devouring fungi that ate the data from the unsealed sides of the CD. Bottom line is you should hope you don't need data stored on CD's from the mid 90's.
So now if something is worth archiving, it needs to be in a form that you can continue to re-archive often.
People often bust NASA's chops whne tehy lose old data. I understand perfectly how this happens. re-archive old data, or hire a new accountant ot oversee where all of the pencils go, and the accountant wins every time, while the data slowly fades away.
You can say they're stupid, and you are smart. Smart, stupid, whatever....they have the guns.
First off, I didn't say anything of the sort. I never called anyone stupid, but have said some were kooks. Second, I did ignore what is sounding incrasingly like a thinly veiled physical threat. Time for this conversaiont to end.
Do we lump those people in with the murderers because some asshole has decided to use their God's name to justify horrific things? Or do we place the blame on the asshole?
The big difference between you and me is that I belive that good religion is people making god in their own image, and they are good people. Bad religion is people making god in their own image, and are bad.
the trump card is that people always pick and choose according to their personal beliefs, and use whatever they find in their books that justifys that belief.
So why on earth not just be good because you are a good person, rather than be good because some book written by hunmans with a slew of contradictory statements tells you to be good? I'm a pretty moral person.
Mostly because I'm me, and the Abrahamic god has not thing one to do with that. And in someone's religion, I'm going to hell.
As are you. Funny how that works - we're all doomed.
And in the US, parents who kill their children go to jail.
People who beat their children in God's name are no different than people who beat their children because they are drunk and the kid isn't listening or wet their bed or talked back. The drunk isn't going to regret it. Not really. They might regret the consequences, but they still blame the victim, not themselves.
In crimes of passion, the perp is often very remorseful. I went to school with a guy who killed his son in a car accident that was his fault. The guy went home and killed himself that day because he couldn't bear the guilt.
Wasn't there a football player who took a switch to his naked toddler and said he did nothing wrong? That's how his dad disciplined him and he didn't see anything wrong with it?
Adrian Peterson. I won't stand up for what the piece of shit did to his kid. http://dailysnark.com/pictures... Peterson would have to disable me if I ever caught him doing that to a child, That wasn't killing the kid though. But if you can bring forth the notion to do that to a child, yeah, accidentally killing the kid is a possibility. It was an example of people thinking that they were justified in beating their child. And it isn't a slippery slope legal definition of assault as putting your hands on the victim - its doing actual physical harm. Worry not though, he is back on the team.
And Peterson has expressed some remorse kinda sorta.
And that woman in Florida who drugged her daughter, stuffed her in the trunk of the car, and then didn't report her missing from months so she could go clubbing or something? Or the people who let their babies starve to death while they play video games?
You bring these situations up, and they are awful assholes who should get a lot of their own back.
I don't know if you understand or not. Your posts seem to be saying I'm accusing Christians of being the only childbeaters. They aren't.
But Adrian Peterson and Casey Anthony aren't using Jesus as the reason they beat their kids, or killed them in Anthony's case.
It's just convenient and easy. The world is full of sick fucks who will latch onto any excuse to be evil. It doesn't make the rest of bad people.
And with that statement you prove it. The problem is, that's a no true Scotsman argument, or in this case, a no true Christian childbeater argument. You just dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in your particular version of what is right. The problem I see is those lines in the bible, which fundamentalist and literalists must take to heart - that if you do not take the rod to your child, you hate the child. I didn't put those lines there - Fundamentalists believe that those words are the word of god as revealed to man. And in a country where there is religious freedom, who are we to tell them they cannot beat the shit out of their kids? It's a real conundrum, and when we are not in 3000 year old desert cult, it doesn't have much place in civlized society. THey are all sick fucks, and some of them are rligious sick fucks who as part of their sickness, give credit to the Abrahamic god for their actions. No free passes. Know thyself, and know thy religion's warts and all, and don't dismiss people who do exactly as the book says.
Just to fuck with the climate idiots I like to take a cigarette lighter to the local weather station. Look we had a record temperature of 500F we're all going to die like Al Gore said!!
Odds are that if you think you are surrounded by idiots and assholes, you are the asshole.
In this case, I suspect the only people surrounding him are those nice young men in the clean white coats.....
I don't like winter, so this is excellent news!!
Just to fuck with the climate idiots I like to take a cigarette lighter to the local weather station. Look we had a record temperature of 500F we're all going to die like Al Gore said!!
I had no idea that Bill O'Reilly posted on Slashdot. You can't explain that!
So exactly how does your attempted arson disprove AGW?
Gosh, the warmest month in 124 years - that's like saying last Thursday was the warmest day in the last 4 months - so what?
You should move to Canada where at least until recently, they would have made that secret knowledge, and it wouldn't have pissed you off.
Now that being said - you are right. October's weather was just that - weather. Not in any way indicative of anything but temperature readings.
Now if we shift to what would be indicative of climate, we need to look at trends. And once we get enough record or nearly record months of data, then years of data, we can make an intelligent assessment of what is going on.
And yet, instead of using the data freely provided to cherry pick what you like out of it, the answer for denialists is so simple, it is mind boggling to think it hasn't been done yet.
Th greenhouse effect is a fact. Proven by thousands of schoolkids in science fairs. There are certain gases that act to retain energy in proportion to their abundance in the atmosphere. Some are more common but less "powerful", like CO2. Some are less long lasting, yet much more "powerful" like methane.
The greenhouse effect is critical to our existence. If there were no mechanism to retain some of the energy that hits the earth, our dayside would be hot, while our nightside would lose heat at a fast rate. So to deny the effect is to make a need to invent another reason the earth's atmosphere retains energy that hits it.
So here is the simple task for the deniers. Given that the greenhouse effect is real, you come up with a hypothesis why it fails when taken on a global scale, then you try to falsify it.
If AGW does not exist, greenhouse warming must fail on a global scale. Moreover, it must self regulate to maintain enough energy in the atmosphere to allow us to exist, then fail at some point, and renders the atmosphere incapable of accepting any more energy.
Pretty simple. Do the science. Whoever proves that the greenhouse effect fails at global levels is looking at a Nobel prize.
Which in the end - why do the cherry picking,or character assassination political tactics, when you can topple the entire house of cards with one well done reproduceable experiment?
Part 1 - Here in the northeast, the leaves are finally off the trees. I've been exercising my motorcycle with 100 mile rides every few days, took a big ride yesterday. Mid 60's temps. Almost too warm for my leathers. We haven't had a real frost yet, just a couple nights when the more vertical surfaces would get a kiss. Hot peppers in the garden still producing. Insects and butterflies still doing their thing. Hunters in T-shirts when once they would hope for tracking snow. I suspect that with the recent La Nina - or is it Nino - going away, the last couple cold (actually normal) winters will retreat now.
Now on to the climate part. Minus the last couple winters, what I wrote above has become the new norm.
And that's the thing. Part 1 above is just relating some really nice weather in a part of the country where its supposed to be fairly chilly this time of year, with a few killing frosts by now. It's just weather.
But coupled with the weather over a longer term, with the previous two winters now being the anomaly - Now that is climate.
And as we find out that the major players in inserting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - such as Exxon - admitted years ago, but hid or lied or sowed doubt, it is getting harder to be a denier every day.
Meanwhile, I think I'll take another long bike ride today. looks like another mid-60's sunny day.
Does it matter if you beat your kid to death because God told you to or because that's how you were raised or because you were pissed off or because you were drunk?
Yes. The drunk person will probably regret it the next day. Probably accept whatever penalty is meted out because they are remorseful. The religious excuse means that the person who beat their kid to death was merely doing god's work, so there's nothing to be sorry about. Sending them to prison might be violating their religious freedom in their minds.
It's the difference between crimes of passion and calculated crimes. Especially calculated crimes that have a get out of jail free card.
I'm not talking about people like Andrea Yates, who was mentally unhinged when she drowned her kids in the bathtub in god's name. I'm talking about functioning people like Michael Pearl, who runs a ministry, writes books, and spreads the word about making certain you beat your children.
No, in fact I've been here long before you. Go back to Digg.
Maybe I am an idiot - what's Digg?
"there is no doubt that the Muslim religion uses violence as a core competency"
None of the Muslims in my office have ever tried to kill me. Are they just slackers?
The question is though, if an ISIS member is getting ready to lop of your head, will any of them come to your rescue?
One of the single biggest problem with traction applications has been deliberate patent encumberances which are still echoing through the manufacturing arena.
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Yup. But in the end, it's only delaying the inevitable.
Burning of heretics and witches was 1600s and earlier. I have to do some research as to when presumed gays were burned by mainstream Christianity. The Crusades lasted from about 1000 to 1300.
Oh - I guess its okay then.
Dude, the whole middle east shitstorm is about things that took place thousands of years ago.
The whole "remember the Crusades!" bit whenever someone points out that Christianity teaches peace is a bit childish. If you have to go back 400 years to get your example of Christian rampage, isn't that a pretty good record?
The point isn't that Christians are oh so good now. Really it isn't. These things tend to come up whenever people condemn nutcase groups like ISIS, and some evill atheist points out that religions often foster violence. And many do.
Even so, although we domn't see many Christian Terrorists outside of Northern Ireland, it isn't like they are blameless, because the evil takes place on a more personal level, as parents under the word of god as granted in his unerring bible, with the admonition "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." Proverbs 13:24 King James version
Beat their fucking kids to death to show them thay do not hate them!
http://www.goddiscussion.com/7...
The tl:dr version, Mike and Debbie Pearl devout Christians belonging to the Greater Joy ministries. They claim it is the will of God. How dare you believe otherwise, It's right there.
More for your reading pleasure.
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http://www.examiner.com/articl...
Especially the second one. Cute kid. Look in her eyes. Her parents thought that God wanted them to torture and kill her. It was their religion, the words that instructed them were in their religion's holy book
There is a book put out by a Christian Minister ( that Michael Pearl who beat his child to death in the name of God), called "To Train up a Child" Its been found in a number of homes where people have also killed their children
but as I said earlier, the point isn't that Christianity is better than Islam, or the various other religions.
It is that religion will allow you to justify whatever evil you wish, and absolve yourself from guilt or responsibility, because the God you made conform to what you want to do ordered you to do it. Which by the way, is why religions are inherently evil.
"But the people who committed those acts are long dead"
I'm old enough to have seen The Troubles in Northern Ireland on the TV news. Plenty of people in the Republican or Unionist paramilitaries then are elected politicians now. For example, Martin McGuiness, who was 2nd in command in Derry on Bloody Sunday, is currently deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland.
The fundy tapdancers will try to say it really wasn't about religion.
Aside from the Law of Moses, which allows for punishments for crimes within the nation of Israel (so, only applicable to other Israelites), no where in the Bible does God give man the right to murder anyone.
Way to not get it. People kill each other in the name of religion all th time. Just because you can tapdance and wordsmith it so that you ccan state that God never ever told anyone to mirder anyone - sorry, I say it does. You think that there was any sort of moral value of a woman being stoned todeath because there wasn't any hymenal blood on teh bedsheets which ar eto be hung out the morning after marriage?
And those young female virgins that were to be taken fmor the enemies village after you killed all the men the adult women, and the young boys?
Sorry man, that is simply fucking sick. Soldiers? combatants? Yeah that's what humans do. But women and male children? Or a virgin with a flexible hymen? Something to see that you support such stuff. You'll tapdance around it, I call it murder.
Because those people were indeed making their God in their own image. They liked getting that young stuff after pillaging another village. They had no qualms about burying a woman in the dir up to her head, and throwing rocks at her until she passed away. Maybe "buyer's remorse or something. Burning gays and witches at the stake was jolly good entertainment on a Saturday evening.
I guess all the Christian missionaries and religious throughout the world that are feeding and clothing the poorest of the poor should pick up their bags, go home, and be much better people as secular atheists, so they can contribute something meaningful to the world like your shitpost Slashdot comments.
First off, congratulations on the false dichotomy. It isn't an either/or choice.
A lot of Christians are good people and do good things.
Wanna know why? Sit down, this might be hard to take.....
Because they are good people.
I suspect that despite your tendency to dive into logic mistakes, you are a good person.
So if it wasn't for your religion, you'd be a rapist, murderer and thief? I really doubt that. I sure as hell hope not.
As well, religion certainly does not cancel out the desires of some to do immoral things. Well known pedo rapist Jerry Sandusky was a very religious man, a teetotaler who enjoys boinking little boys.
Point is, know thyself, and know thy religion, even the warty parts. And religion is constantly used to do things that aren't necessarily all that moral.
Christian - inspired violence is so rare as be not merely exceptional, but aberrant.
At this point. Kinda. Not necessarily so in the past. We both know the burinings of heretics, gays and presumptive witches, and the crusades. And while there is some nasty ass stuff in the bible about killing all of your enemy except for the little girls, which might be though a tad odd these days.
But yeah, there is no doubt that the Muslim religion uses violence as a core competency.
But there's the nexus of religion, and it is that if your god just so happens to hate everything you do, it's pretty likely that you are making god in your own image.
IOW, denying Christianity's sometimes violent tendencies is not at all required to condemn the immorality of radical Islam.
Factually incorrect. Reality calling.
You bubble burster you!
AC is going to have to go back to watching a weeks worth of Bill O'Reilly and Fox News to undo the damage you did to his truthiness bubble.
There are far to many people walking around in a fog of narcissism thinking that everything is about them.
They've always been around.
It's one of the reasons that the smartphone is blamed for making people stupid.
No, there are just as many stupid or smart people around as before. The unfortunate part is that things like computers and smartphones now put technology in the hands of the stupid, so now we have to listen to them bitch, whine, and say stupid things.