People who are seriously interested in financial gain, if they go into the sciences at all, certainly aren't going to pick climatology as their cash cow.
Climate science is a multi-billion dollar industry, and if they said "hey, everything is cool!" there would be no reason to allocate any more money to it.
Be that as it may, what exactly is so sacred about AGW theories that is beyond examination? Nothing deserves that status.
People have the right to question things regardless of how sacred other people personally find the things being questioned. Not even Al Gore gets to claim infallibility.
Who cares about parentheses? SmallFurryCreature incited the argument and supplied both sides, it's not like there was any logical foundation for the post in the first place.
Yes, it is perfectly normal to pay more for a service than it costs to do it yourself. The money saved is invested as time and effort, which is what you compensate the service provider for providing. This is basic to the US society, and quite a few others as well. It confuses me that you are obviously educated enough to compose English sentences yet somehow missed a fact that even 10 year olds understand.
Are you trying to somehow make people believe that it takes a vulnerability to receive a malware payload in software deliberately downloaded and executed? That's not an exploit, it's pebkac, and all the false pride in your OS choice you can muster can't save you from it.
Are you honestly so egotistical as to believe that your opinions on products are the only ones that count, and anyone who doesn't share your opinions is just following orders of some sort?
We're not necessarily talking about people who are important to your life in general, we are talking about people to share gaming experiences. I don't know how it works for the general populace around here, but I have made "gaming acquaintances" with many people I don't actually know. I certainly enjoy playing with them, but we aren't friends in the social sense of the word. Steam facilitates this, while having *zero* impact on your ability to have normal relationship with your normal friends.
Well sure, right now we have the worst of all worlds. The government is massive and intrusive, the politicians are all basically working together to bankrupt the country for personal gain, and the populace is cowed with visions of free lunches and the never-ending entertainment of "partisan politics," which of course is just another way of saying bread and circuses.
Can't see how the answer is to compound the mistakes.
The kids didn't get free anything, the people who paid the taxes that funded the district paid for them.
I guess it's horribly unfair that some people are smarter, taller, better looking, wealthier, more skilled, more charming, and in general better at life than others. What do you think can be done about it? Should those people be held down so the others on the short end of the stick feel better about themselves?
The problem, of course, is that nothing can stand up to big government. That's a tiny problem though, it's not like the government would ever abuse its power to grab control of the citizenry, right?
Yeah, if you try to force anyone to share your beliefs, you are an extremist. Doesn't matter how correct you believe your views to be. Everyone thinks they're right, so that's no way to judge things.
If people come by your way of thinking without being coerced, then fine.
We're busy trying to catch up to the insanity you Eurotypes have been unleashing on the world for hundreds of years. You've had a headstart, it's not fair.
Christianity is extremist because christian groups attempt to force people to share their beliefs. I'm sure it's hard for a christian to see the problem with this, because the beliefs are already believed inside the christian head.
As a nonchristian, any christian attempts to make me follow what are silly christian rules (don't abort pregnancies, don't buy liquor on Sunday, don't have sex outside of marriage... and so on) are ridiculous because such rules have no basis in logic, just beliefs that I don't share.
Hence, extremism. I don't have to please your god, and any attempt to make my life conform to rules that have such an aim is wrong on every level.
To be fair, that's because the early versions of OS X weren't really ready. They were dog slow, ugly, and rife with incompatibilities. Based on observations, Apple likes to release stuff when it's at about 85% readiness, so they can look like saviors when they make improvements to it later.
Slashdot is behind every trend. Since about 6 years ago the only reason to come to this site is to nerdbait in the comments, and even that isn't really all that much fun. Nerd reactions are sadly too predictable.
The point of design patterns is not to provide a catalog of common solutions, it is to formulate a common language to describe the solution space. They are not an implementation tool, they are a communication tool.
Understanding the purpose of the tools is the first step to using them correctly. Disparaging the tools because fools misuse them is just as foolish as misusing them.
You're banging your head against my favorite philosophy - anything someone can't actually do must be easy. It's a bizarre way of thinking that seems to be shared by 99+% of the human race.
According to your links, the division the 360 operates in made money, and Microsoft made way more money across all divisions for the quarter. I'm not sure how to interpret that as "Sony is winning," nor am I sure what the point of trying to would be.
I've been wondering for years; do people really believe that anyone who expresses even a slightly positive opinion about anything Microsoft related is being paid? Is that an actual belief instead of convenient and lazy argument?
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People who are seriously interested in financial gain, if they go into the sciences at all, certainly aren't going to pick climatology as their cash cow.
Climate science is a multi-billion dollar industry, and if they said "hey, everything is cool!" there would be no reason to allocate any more money to it.
Be that as it may, what exactly is so sacred about AGW theories that is beyond examination? Nothing deserves that status.
People have the right to question things regardless of how sacred other people personally find the things being questioned. Not even Al Gore gets to claim infallibility.
Who cares about parentheses? SmallFurryCreature incited the argument and supplied both sides, it's not like there was any logical foundation for the post in the first place.
Is this super seeding in any way an infringement on Monsanto patents?
Yes, it is perfectly normal to pay more for a service than it costs to do it yourself. The money saved is invested as time and effort, which is what you compensate the service provider for providing. This is basic to the US society, and quite a few others as well. It confuses me that you are obviously educated enough to compose English sentences yet somehow missed a fact that even 10 year olds understand.
Are you trying to somehow make people believe that it takes a vulnerability to receive a malware payload in software deliberately downloaded and executed? That's not an exploit, it's pebkac, and all the false pride in your OS choice you can muster can't save you from it.
What amuses me is the expectation that you would have an intellectually honest conversation with a pirate. You're quite the optimist.
Are you honestly so egotistical as to believe that your opinions on products are the only ones that count, and anyone who doesn't share your opinions is just following orders of some sort?
I think the problem here is the word "friends."
We're not necessarily talking about people who are important to your life in general, we are talking about people to share gaming experiences. I don't know how it works for the general populace around here, but I have made "gaming acquaintances" with many people I don't actually know. I certainly enjoy playing with them, but we aren't friends in the social sense of the word. Steam facilitates this, while having *zero* impact on your ability to have normal relationship with your normal friends.
Well sure, right now we have the worst of all worlds. The government is massive and intrusive, the politicians are all basically working together to bankrupt the country for personal gain, and the populace is cowed with visions of free lunches and the never-ending entertainment of "partisan politics," which of course is just another way of saying bread and circuses.
Can't see how the answer is to compound the mistakes.
The kids didn't get free anything, the people who paid the taxes that funded the district paid for them.
I guess it's horribly unfair that some people are smarter, taller, better looking, wealthier, more skilled, more charming, and in general better at life than others. What do you think can be done about it? Should those people be held down so the others on the short end of the stick feel better about themselves?
When are the "cheerleaders getting dressed" videos going to leak? You know someone was making them...
The problem, of course, is that nothing can stand up to big government. That's a tiny problem though, it's not like the government would ever abuse its power to grab control of the citizenry, right?
We cannot continue down this unlimited power path forever. Eventually it will run out.
No way. The universe has effectively unlimited energy, although it is not always conveniently available to us at our present level of technology.
Yeah, if you try to force anyone to share your beliefs, you are an extremist. Doesn't matter how correct you believe your views to be. Everyone thinks they're right, so that's no way to judge things.
If people come by your way of thinking without being coerced, then fine.
We're busy trying to catch up to the insanity you Eurotypes have been unleashing on the world for hundreds of years. You've had a headstart, it's not fair.
Christianity is extremist because christian groups attempt to force people to share their beliefs. I'm sure it's hard for a christian to see the problem with this, because the beliefs are already believed inside the christian head.
As a nonchristian, any christian attempts to make me follow what are silly christian rules (don't abort pregnancies, don't buy liquor on Sunday, don't have sex outside of marriage... and so on) are ridiculous because such rules have no basis in logic, just beliefs that I don't share.
Hence, extremism. I don't have to please your god, and any attempt to make my life conform to rules that have such an aim is wrong on every level.
There is something wrong with you - you think only people who think like you are human. It is a fundamental flaw amongst idealists.
To be fair, that's because the early versions of OS X weren't really ready. They were dog slow, ugly, and rife with incompatibilities. Based on observations, Apple likes to release stuff when it's at about 85% readiness, so they can look like saviors when they make improvements to it later.
Slashdot is behind every trend. Since about 6 years ago the only reason to come to this site is to nerdbait in the comments, and even that isn't really all that much fun. Nerd reactions are sadly too predictable.
The point of design patterns is not to provide a catalog of common solutions, it is to formulate a common language to describe the solution space. They are not an implementation tool, they are a communication tool.
Understanding the purpose of the tools is the first step to using them correctly. Disparaging the tools because fools misuse them is just as foolish as misusing them.
You're banging your head against my favorite philosophy - anything someone can't actually do must be easy. It's a bizarre way of thinking that seems to be shared by 99+% of the human race.
Yeah, that 26 billion dollars in operating profit last year sure is a sign of the end times.
According to your links, the division the 360 operates in made money, and Microsoft made way more money across all divisions for the quarter. I'm not sure how to interpret that as "Sony is winning," nor am I sure what the point of trying to would be.
I've been wondering for years; do people really believe that anyone who expresses even a slightly positive opinion about anything Microsoft related is being paid? Is that an actual belief instead of convenient and lazy argument?