Perfect example - I don't beleive you, for several reasons. That's a belief structure. I needn't explain the exact reasons, they're there.
Generally atheists disbelieve in religions for specific reasons, which form a belief structure. Should they choose to organize themselves and demand the 'a' be capitalized is up to them.
First of all, I am (recently) convinced that CO2 does in fact pose a serious global warming threat, currently accounting for a ~2% increase beyond the highest total GHG from pre-industrial levels and rising with no end in sight. However, I am still not convinced that CO2 is primarily responsible for the warming trend of the past 40 years - certainly it has contributed, but if there were another significant contributor, then the CO2 contribution may be overestimated and we may have more time to change our ways. The global economy would certainly better tolerate a more gradual transition to sustainable living than to change cold-turkey.
That video demonstrates the IPCC position in good detail, however the argument is that the temperature rise of the last 40 years is ultimately unexplained, and CO2 is their best guess in the absence of a more plausible explanation. I'm not saying it isn't, but statistically they can't definitively say it is. Much to their chagrin, this leaves the subject wide open to speculation.
For example, could the detonation of over 1000 nuclear bombs underwater and/or underground contribute significantly to global warming? Of course it could. In particular heating up tectonic plates beneath the ocean floor could be the most efficient way to heat the ocean, like a ceramic water heater. Well that's exactly what happened in testing around the world from 1962 to 1995. It's feasible that there would be a lag of several years before the detonations made a global effect, so it could explain the 40-year temperature rising trend quite well, including how the global temperature rise has slowed in the last decade, despite the highest carbon emissions ever.
Regardless, CO2 traps heat, no getting around it, and the sun isn't getting any cooler. But the sustainability transition is already killing millions in impoverished countries from starvation due to rising food prices caused by the allocation of agricultural land for 'green energy' and rising transportation costs. A cure is definitely needed, but it shouldn't be worse than the disease, whose exact nature remains a mystery.
Gotta admit the timing is very odd. Just as the credibility of the scientists reaches an all-time low, they bring in the spooks. They couldn't incite the conspiracists any better.
Seriously, this will probably convince a lot of nut-jobs that the complete wackos are onto something. Anyone care for some more Oklahoma City with their Waco?
If corporate interests and security-obsessed regimes are able to lobby for certain "features," though, distorting the process, then we're in for some major problems.
What the hell do you mean by "if"? You're hoping the opportunities this transistion provides will go unnoticed? The MAFIAA are no doubt holding their breath!
And who exactly could stand up to the many varietals of "Homeland Security"? All they have to do is tell the media that terrorists use the internet to coordinate attacks, and they'll dump in more security protocols than airports. Anyone in a position to offer substantial resistance has too much to lose and everything to gain by playing ball.
When you give your information away for the purposes of online gaming, no court in the world will consider it ANYONE'S property. It is effectively ABANDONED.
See, any information of value cannot be offered in trust to anyone that isn't trustworthy, i.e. licensed by a relevant authority. If you submit your information to an unlicensed entity of any kind, you have submitted it to public domain. The "company privacy policy" only offers means for you to sue them if you catch them breaking the policy, which you won't.
My favorite example - the Canadian "do not call" phone number list found its way onto the open market shortly after its inception. Penalties? Zero.
But the good news is your information isn't so important. You don't need to live in a bubble to stay out of the rain.
$5 says that they're already toning down the "non-believers will burn in hell" part of their sermons in favor of the providence the blasphemy law offers in trade. Only makes sense, church making a resurgence into state resulting in more politics in the church.
An athiest could only be compared to a bald head if the athiest never contemplated the existence of a god or deity. What generally defines an athiest is their _rejection_ of religions, which is no less a belief structure than a religious one.
A more appropriate metafor would be to compare atheism with white hair, devoid of color pigment. It appears white because it reflects light instead of absorbing it, in the same way an athiest rejects religious views. Incidentally, white is also not a color, which doesn't make it invisble.
If you're really hankering for contradiction, to disbelieve in belief itself is also a belief structure, much like necessity isn't necessarily necessary. We also drive on parkways and park on driveways. Somehow, life goes on...
You're kidding me. You don't see any potential political backlash from frivolous atmospheric geoengineering on the heels of the Copenhagen summit? I'm not being greenboi, just suggesting it's a rather inflammatory thing to do in this *political* climate.
The only sports commentators that I found made any appreciable difference were those that would make parody remarks, i.e. instead of "Touchdown!" something like, "Bring me your finest meats and cheeses!" At best they're hit-and-miss, and eventually tiresome.
The ones I would expect to resist the most are the sports leagues. They have rights even over descriptions of the games played, and could ban computer generated reports if they thought it substantially impacted the esteem of the league.
In financial affairs, I expect the generated headlines will only serve to draw the attention of readers to a more detailed article written by an analyst, much like the sports "ticker".
The rigging of financial tickers could only be problematic if important information is omitted. There wouldn't be enough information in them to unduly influence market activity, unless educated economists are stupid enough to misinterpret a headline like "Godzilla lands in San Francisco" to not refer to a movie release.
Lemme get this straight. We're in the middle of a climate crisis, and they're messing with the weather? There couldn't possibly be a connection between precipitation and temperature could there? It's not like water vapor is the most prominent greenhouse gas or anything...
However, looking really hard at TFA doesn't reveal anything. How could the author know Nokia claims "almost all" of Apple's products violate Nokia's patents without citing one single specific example? Pretty in-depth journalism there. Maybe they ran out of space on the internet? Everyone use SMS shortforms from now on...
Since when does anyone but the completely clueless expect cel phones to be secure? People know not to ask about drugs over a cel phone, but they're dumb enough to give out personal and/or financial information? They deserve what they get. No amount of security can protect the willfully ignorant. All that can be done is to make breaches inconvenient, which GSM has accomplished adequately.
I fail to see why technical savvy should be correlated with innocence or guilt.
What exactly do you correlate Microsoft with? They routinely code more backdoors than a brothel, you really think their involvement with law enforcement won't backfire? Like you suggest, criminals are tech savvy too.
"We couldn't have made 10 Billion if it weren't for all of those music pirates!"
Fixed that for you.
And I mean it. Movies have the benefit of being social occasions, where groups of kids go to see a movie and share their thoughts after etc. It's a fraction the cost of a concert by the pop musicians they download, and recorded music doesn't stand a chance for their entertainment dollar. "Hrm, should I actually buy one of the 500 CD's I've downloaded, or should I try to make out with that new girl during Twilight, having already downloaded it too to see that it sucks..."
Education != compliance. People know they're supposed to signal before changing lanes. People know they're supposed to stop for yellow lights, not speed up. People know they're supposed to put money in the parking meter...
It's an unenforceable law. This will turn into another cash-grab like the rest of them.
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Perfect example - I don't beleive you, for several reasons. That's a belief structure. I needn't explain the exact reasons, they're there.
Generally atheists disbelieve in religions for specific reasons, which form a belief structure. Should they choose to organize themselves and demand the 'a' be capitalized is up to them.
First of all, I am (recently) convinced that CO2 does in fact pose a serious global warming threat, currently accounting for a ~2% increase beyond the highest total GHG from pre-industrial levels and rising with no end in sight. However, I am still not convinced that CO2 is primarily responsible for the warming trend of the past 40 years - certainly it has contributed, but if there were another significant contributor, then the CO2 contribution may be overestimated and we may have more time to change our ways. The global economy would certainly better tolerate a more gradual transition to sustainable living than to change cold-turkey.
That video demonstrates the IPCC position in good detail, however the argument is that the temperature rise of the last 40 years is ultimately unexplained, and CO2 is their best guess in the absence of a more plausible explanation. I'm not saying it isn't, but statistically they can't definitively say it is. Much to their chagrin, this leaves the subject wide open to speculation.
For example, could the detonation of over 1000 nuclear bombs underwater and/or underground contribute significantly to global warming? Of course it could. In particular heating up tectonic plates beneath the ocean floor could be the most efficient way to heat the ocean, like a ceramic water heater. Well that's exactly what happened in testing around the world from 1962 to 1995. It's feasible that there would be a lag of several years before the detonations made a global effect, so it could explain the 40-year temperature rising trend quite well, including how the global temperature rise has slowed in the last decade, despite the highest carbon emissions ever.
Regardless, CO2 traps heat, no getting around it, and the sun isn't getting any cooler. But the sustainability transition is already killing millions in impoverished countries from starvation due to rising food prices caused by the allocation of agricultural land for 'green energy' and rising transportation costs. A cure is definitely needed, but it shouldn't be worse than the disease, whose exact nature remains a mystery.
Gotta admit the timing is very odd. Just as the credibility of the scientists reaches an all-time low, they bring in the spooks. They couldn't incite the conspiracists any better.
Seriously, this will probably convince a lot of nut-jobs that the complete wackos are onto something. Anyone care for some more Oklahoma City with their Waco?
If corporate interests and security-obsessed regimes are able to lobby for certain "features," though, distorting the process, then we're in for some major problems.
What the hell do you mean by "if"? You're hoping the opportunities this transistion provides will go unnoticed? The MAFIAA are no doubt holding their breath!
And who exactly could stand up to the many varietals of "Homeland Security"? All they have to do is tell the media that terrorists use the internet to coordinate attacks, and they'll dump in more security protocols than airports. Anyone in a position to offer substantial resistance has too much to lose and everything to gain by playing ball.
Besides, killing real people doesn't leave a data trail, and is far more realistic. Why pay for the fake stuff that gets you busted!
When you give your information away for the purposes of online gaming, no court in the world will consider it ANYONE'S property. It is effectively ABANDONED.
See, any information of value cannot be offered in trust to anyone that isn't trustworthy, i.e. licensed by a relevant authority. If you submit your information to an unlicensed entity of any kind, you have submitted it to public domain. The "company privacy policy" only offers means for you to sue them if you catch them breaking the policy, which you won't.
My favorite example - the Canadian "do not call" phone number list found its way onto the open market shortly after its inception. Penalties? Zero.
But the good news is your information isn't so important. You don't need to live in a bubble to stay out of the rain.
$5 says that they're already toning down the "non-believers will burn in hell" part of their sermons in favor of the providence the blasphemy law offers in trade. Only makes sense, church making a resurgence into state resulting in more politics in the church.
An athiest could only be compared to a bald head if the athiest never contemplated the existence of a god or deity. What generally defines an athiest is their _rejection_ of religions, which is no less a belief structure than a religious one.
A more appropriate metafor would be to compare atheism with white hair, devoid of color pigment. It appears white because it reflects light instead of absorbing it, in the same way an athiest rejects religious views. Incidentally, white is also not a color, which doesn't make it invisble.
If you're really hankering for contradiction, to disbelieve in belief itself is also a belief structure, much like necessity isn't necessarily necessary. We also drive on parkways and park on driveways. Somehow, life goes on...
You're kidding me. You don't see any potential political backlash from frivolous atmospheric geoengineering on the heels of the Copenhagen summit? I'm not being greenboi, just suggesting it's a rather inflammatory thing to do in this *political* climate.
Machines are evil, and people with machines are evil. What's left? Do you entrust your newsgathering to your pet dog?
And what exactly makes Slashdot fit your journalism ethics paradigm? You have no evidence we even exist.
Wait a sec... I'm just a program!! DEATH TO HUMANITY!!
The only sports commentators that I found made any appreciable difference were those that would make parody remarks, i.e. instead of "Touchdown!" something like, "Bring me your finest meats and cheeses!" At best they're hit-and-miss, and eventually tiresome.
The ones I would expect to resist the most are the sports leagues. They have rights even over descriptions of the games played, and could ban computer generated reports if they thought it substantially impacted the esteem of the league.
In financial affairs, I expect the generated headlines will only serve to draw the attention of readers to a more detailed article written by an analyst, much like the sports "ticker".
The rigging of financial tickers could only be problematic if important information is omitted. There wouldn't be enough information in them to unduly influence market activity, unless educated economists are stupid enough to misinterpret a headline like "Godzilla lands in San Francisco" to not refer to a movie release.
Lemme get this straight. We're in the middle of a climate crisis, and they're messing with the weather? There couldn't possibly be a connection between precipitation and temperature could there? It's not like water vapor is the most prominent greenhouse gas or anything...
Since when does it take much for Microsoft to stiffle competition?
However, looking really hard at TFA doesn't reveal anything. How could the author know Nokia claims "almost all" of Apple's products violate Nokia's patents without citing one single specific example? Pretty in-depth journalism there. Maybe they ran out of space on the internet? Everyone use SMS shortforms from now on...
Since when does anyone but the completely clueless expect cel phones to be secure? People know not to ask about drugs over a cel phone, but they're dumb enough to give out personal and/or financial information? They deserve what they get. No amount of security can protect the willfully ignorant. All that can be done is to make breaches inconvenient, which GSM has accomplished adequately.
You're trying to make popularity unpopular? You should be a lobbyist...
That's an amazing amount of developments for a small city in Alabama.
But I thought Blackberries were Canadian...
Try telling a zealous anti-abortionist they're not helping people in need. That'll go over well.
Also ask the ~600,000 Americans arrested for possession (not trafficking) of marijuana if new law is or isn't required. That's 600k *annually*.
I fail to see why technical savvy should be correlated with innocence or guilt.
What exactly do you correlate Microsoft with? They routinely code more backdoors than a brothel, you really think their involvement with law enforcement won't backfire? Like you suggest, criminals are tech savvy too.
Pot, kettle, black...
Imagine how many trees we wouldn't have gotten to beat to a pulp though!
And a new department of the MAFIAA is born... coming soon to a courtroom near you!
"We couldn't have made 10 Billion if it weren't for all of those music pirates!"
Fixed that for you.
And I mean it. Movies have the benefit of being social occasions, where groups of kids go to see a movie and share their thoughts after etc. It's a fraction the cost of a concert by the pop musicians they download, and recorded music doesn't stand a chance for their entertainment dollar. "Hrm, should I actually buy one of the 500 CD's I've downloaded, or should I try to make out with that new girl during Twilight, having already downloaded it too to see that it sucks..."
Education != compliance. People know they're supposed to signal before changing lanes. People know they're supposed to stop for yellow lights, not speed up. People know they're supposed to put money in the parking meter...
It's an unenforceable law. This will turn into another cash-grab like the rest of them.