"'Bush's tax cuts to the rich' (I got a tax cut. I had no idea that 50k/yr made you rich!)"
I think you're being disingenuous. The point being made is that although the Bush tax cuts affected every bracket, the brackets they favored most were the highest ones.
"Then the economy tanked. What changed? Here's another hint, it rhymes with congress."
I'm sorry, but if you think that the Democrats in Congress did anything to affect the economy this badly in the space of only one year in office, I don't think you paid the slightest bit of attention to the legislation passed in 2007. You could cite legislation they passed in 2008 for making it WORSE, or reform they blocked while in the minority before 2007, but there's nothing to even correlate with the downfall of the economy for that year except for raising the minimum wage.
Secondly, in the year 2001, Republicans had a majority until June 6 when Jim Jeffords switched in June, and a 10 to 12 member majority in the House of Representatives. Using your own logic, then, the same party as the President must have been responsible.
In truth, what you describe is the official description of the president's role, but if you took a political science class, you would know the president has considerable influence over Congress. The President has used Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden effectively to mediate disputes between members of Congress and make sure that the interests of members in favor of a bill are aligned, such that less disputes arise between one faction fighting for something in a bill another faction wants out.
If they use a P2P program to distribute an update to it, does that mean it would become illegal as an unforeseen effect? Their EULA would be as valid as the EULA for a P2P program for which the bill was targeted.
Swine flu is the Apophis of pandemics. Now, Apophis has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth in a few decades. Swine flu is probably several times more deadlier than a normal flu. Surely fascinating to someone that deals with the low probabilities all the time, but the end result is that it's nevertheless still low, and maybe some people are exaggerating for the sake of their profession.
I've often been annoyed by the excessive focus on the iconic and popular species in many endangered species awareness campaigns. It is easy to say "we are spending a million dollars on protecting a worm?" in Congress, but when more renowned species like a hammerhead shark variety are endangered, they will naturally get more attention. Now scientists can defend their case for funding by pointing to this algorithm.
Also, sorry to the three or four Swedes out there that were going to launch individual websites to show off their antique piggy bank collections over the next decade.
Unfortunately, there exists no Internet Court of Law existing solely on the Internet with Internet-spanning enforceability for regulating disputes over downloaded music.
Oh, look, I can already see in the distance the World of Warcraft players flooding into Slashdot to tell people to get a first life.
Wouldn't it be weird if someone made a botnet that would follow the directions of anyone that posted on Twitter, with people being able to suggest one command per day that would get upped or down by the masses? Aside from the programmer, who would be held responsible if it were operated like that?
{ state_entry
{ if (funny animal feature like platupus); llBloviate "godhasasenseofhumor"
else llBloviate "godmadeitsobeautifully"
xor llBloviate "itmustbethedevilswork"} }
Can you still get modded up if you write your post as if it were a programming language even if you have no clue what what programming language you just made up?
When the password is the name of the computer owner's son, daughter, or significant other, why is it that the main character never has to fiddle around altering names by replacing random letters with 1337 or @, $, and # signs?
AIDS is like a zombie virus, but for white blood cells, DoofusOfDeath. Unlike most viruses, it doesn't spread when the white blood cell explodes. The zombie white blood cell piles onto the healthy one and turns it into another of the infected. For more information, please direct the creators of Osmosis Jones to create an R-rated sequel.
Or maybe instead of blaming the scientists, you could be blaming the stupid U.S. media that wants you to associate science with candy, and candy is delicious, so you'll think science is delicious and click. I originally read the story on BBC, and they never mentioned M&M's once.
Scientists found that the mitigating effect of volcanoes during one El Niño was stronger than the heating effect of the El Niño itself during the 1982 and 1991. For the record breaking years, it's long been known that these can be attributed to El Niño, not the global warming trend, and thus saying that temperatures have gone down since the year of the last El Niño effect is an often brought up and refuted statement. Yes, a lack of a volcanic eruptions could be considered a cause for global warming in the same sense that your freezer is so cold because I haven't yet dumped liquid iron inside it.
As for any effect on volcanoes by solar cycles, I really would like to see a theorized connection that makes sense, if any, because all these other correlations have theories that help explain them that can be compounded upon and elaborated with other data. Because I have seen no evidence that anything the Sun could do to rock is is any more relevant to Earth climate than a comet striking Jupiter.
According to one scientist, though, solar cycles have the half the effect on Earth's oceans as El Niño and La Niña effects, yet still there exists a long-term warming trend under that idea as well.
Why is it that when Stuart Levey, head of the division of the Treasury Department dealing with cutting off funds to terrorist organizations, freezing assets, stopping forgery and counterfeiting, etc., was re-appointed by Obama, SWIFT suddenly became a good thing, whereas before in 2006 I saw it vilified as much as the warrantless wiretapping?
And aren't you aware that volcano activity was heightened during the Little Ice Age? Indeed, one scientist concluded with help from the weather records of Benjamin Franklin that a volcanic eruption was partially responsible for the cold weather during the period it was written, based on his description of clouds obscuring the Moon.
NASA World Wind and its add-ons tend to use a single data set for each layer rather than a pastiche of the highest resolution imagery available like Google Earth's, so when I compared it to Mars in 5.0, it had a more cohesive view with a more navigable user interface, with no load time since you can download the entire cache as an add-on.
How large a gathering of terrorist gnomes does it take to make continuous raids on Tinkertown more cost effective in disrupting their plotting than actually raiding their homes?
Not to say the FBI would be doing the raiding; they would only need to put one or two personnel in charge of organizing and Horde subsidization, such that the usual employment costs would be reduced by players that would take the enjoyment of smashing a gnome in the face with an orc battle axe. After all, if the terrorists advanced to level 25 and hid in a cave with the Naga, the FBI simply couldn't create and level characters fast enough.
Actually, I just want to see real life conflicts fought in World of Warcraft by proxy wherever possible. Russia and Georgia, you disappointed me.
You struggle your way north whilst wrapping the rope around your neck, but unfortunately all it gives you is a rope burn, and perhaps more unfortunately, not the kind of burn that involves starting a fire.
The judge reads a list of charges related to plagiarizing elements of a certain text adventure game, which you no doubt attempted to shrug off as fair use at the time, while banging the battle axe gavel after each sentence is read. The argrue grabs you by the shirt collar and asks you to swear on the Bible, and so you shout a string of obscenities.
There are dull incandescent bulbs hung down by wire over a set of towering oak podiums. Behind you are endless rows of rusty metal folding chairs, all occupied by elephants and donkeys, except for a few rats toward the front. The bailiff is an Argrue, standing in the shady area against the wall. You don't know what an Argrue is, but you can guess it's like what Arkansas is to Kansas and it looks vicious.
The judge uses a battle axe in place of a gavel, which would be fine if it didn't leave so many marks on the wood when it's banged, and wears an ancient Norse viking helmet. The smaller podium has a guillotine attached to it near the front, with the microphone being placed in front of the slot where you would place your head.
You have in your inventory a rope, which is binding your hands together, and a bright orange jumpsuit of -255 AGI, which you are currently wearing. The only exit is DOWN, through a trap door.
From another report from LiveScience, I gather that it would be most recognizable to you as being called just a "baby cry," but with a subtle sound the same as cats make when purring mixed in, rather than as purring with a crying sound, but the language is utterly ambiguous and it seems hard to distinguish when they mean meowing, purring, or whatever.
If you have a problem with any of the individual statements they make, they look ready to respond to any questions. Given that this individual post was endorsed by Nature, and that one of the top contributors is a NASA climatologist, I'd like to ask if "left-wing" can be supported by anything other than the topic of defending the concept of global climate change itself.
And yes, scientists have acknowledged as a non-anthropogenic warming phenomenon as a drop in the intensity of sandstorms in the Middle East. The sand in the air lowers the albedo of the Earth's surface, causing it to reflect less light and warm the surrounding area. The opposite effect occurs on Mars, when dust storms cause huge temperature increases, which I would then assume is due to the Martian dirt being darker. However, the most credible study of solar cycles contributing to global warming of which I have heard estimated the effect to be as high as 25%, but this was refuted by other scientists and the study was withdrawn by its authors.
With regard to skepticism concerning computer models, would you accept that if a computer model can accurately model climate changes from 1900 to 2000, and is fed accurate data, then if it is powerful enough, it can predict future climate changes to a limited extent? There is such a project that exists using distributed computing, where you download a "module" that starts in 1900 and finishes in 2000 before going into future decades. The results are sent back to the scientists, and each one helps improve future models.
If one day a model from 1900 to 2000 is perfectly correct, might you be inclined to give it some credence? At first the project did things like use a solid slab ocean, without currents, as a developmental stage, but it has progressed far since then. It's hosted by Berkley and you might care to look into it, since their methods are so transparent.
The blog of the science journal Nature recommends this rebuttal, which points out that the economist censored that claims that solar cycles could have anything to do with global warming cites an astrologer who believes they had something to do with Hitler and Stalin's rise to power. Perhaps the report was so bad the bureaucrats at the EPA were motivated by fear of embarrassment, and though this still does not excuse withholding it, I feel it is grasping at straws to find some way to equate Obama with Bush with regards to science. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, though.
If global warming were concocted by government bias, then how do you explain those NASA global warming reports that were suppressed by Bush administration policies? Government reports by their very virtue are paid not to be biased because of the legal ramifications involved. When you have someone arguing that government administrations like NOAA, NASA, and over four fifths of scientists are more inclined to be biased than Exxon Mobil over this, something smells fishy.
"No one can explain why global temperatures have flat-lined." Well, some have suggested the lack of an El Nino effect, so if they are correct, then global temperatures should begin to rise beyond 1999 levels soon; the ten following years were still the warmest decade on record.
If there were a big conspiracy to muck with global warming data, tell me why they would screw around with pre-1970s data to lower temperatures, but leave the purported "flatline" data alone? If we don't have the power to change the climate of the Earth yet, then do you think the hole in the ozone layer was a complete scam, too? I recommend modding parent as anything but "insightful" or "informative."
Does it have to be expelled out the genitals in public to count as public urination, or can it be saved up and discarded like dumping a bucket of melted ice into a parking lot? Laws on the books in my state define the severity of the penalty for littering as dependent on volume and weight; does the entire solution count as the pollutant, or just the solvent after the water solute has evaporated?
I'm sure somewhere out there is a lawyer eager to attack this, not for anything against the family's actions or anything, or even for monetary reasons, but just as some sort of absurd mental exercise. Also, yes, I'm ashamed to be on Idle, too.
Slashdot Mirror
"'Bush's tax cuts to the rich' (I got a tax cut. I had no idea that 50k/yr made you rich!)"
I think you're being disingenuous. The point being made is that although the Bush tax cuts affected every bracket, the brackets they favored most were the highest ones.
"Then the economy tanked. What changed? Here's another hint, it rhymes with congress."
I'm sorry, but if you think that the Democrats in Congress did anything to affect the economy this badly in the space of only one year in office, I don't think you paid the slightest bit of attention to the legislation passed in 2007. You could cite legislation they passed in 2008 for making it WORSE, or reform they blocked while in the minority before 2007, but there's nothing to even correlate with the downfall of the economy for that year except for raising the minimum wage.
Secondly, in the year 2001, Republicans had a majority until June 6 when Jim Jeffords switched in June, and a 10 to 12 member majority in the House of Representatives. Using your own logic, then, the same party as the President must have been responsible.
In truth, what you describe is the official description of the president's role, but if you took a political science class, you would know the president has considerable influence over Congress. The President has used Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden effectively to mediate disputes between members of Congress and make sure that the interests of members in favor of a bill are aligned, such that less disputes arise between one faction fighting for something in a bill another faction wants out.
If they use a P2P program to distribute an update to it, does that mean it would become illegal as an unforeseen effect? Their EULA would be as valid as the EULA for a P2P program for which the bill was targeted.
Swine flu is the Apophis of pandemics. Now, Apophis has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth in a few decades. Swine flu is probably several times more deadlier than a normal flu. Surely fascinating to someone that deals with the low probabilities all the time, but the end result is that it's nevertheless still low, and maybe some people are exaggerating for the sake of their profession.
Not to mention Internet Explorer.
I've often been annoyed by the excessive focus on the iconic and popular species in many endangered species awareness campaigns. It is easy to say "we are spending a million dollars on protecting a worm?" in Congress, but when more renowned species like a hammerhead shark variety are endangered, they will naturally get more attention. Now scientists can defend their case for funding by pointing to this algorithm.
Also, sorry to the three or four Swedes out there that were going to launch individual websites to show off their antique piggy bank collections over the next decade.
Unfortunately, there exists no Internet Court of Law existing solely on the Internet with Internet-spanning enforceability for regulating disputes over downloaded music.
Oh, look, I can already see in the distance the World of Warcraft players flooding into Slashdot to tell people to get a first life.
Wouldn't it be weird if someone made a botnet that would follow the directions of anyone that posted on Twitter, with people being able to suggest one command per day that would get upped or down by the masses? Aside from the programmer, who would be held responsible if it were operated like that?
{
state_entry
{ if (funny animal feature like platupus);
llBloviate "godhasasenseofhumor"
else
llBloviate "godmadeitsobeautifully"
xor
llBloviate "itmustbethedevilswork"}
}
Can you still get modded up if you write your post as if it were a programming language even if you have no clue what what programming language you just made up?
When the password is the name of the computer owner's son, daughter, or significant other, why is it that the main character never has to fiddle around altering names by replacing random letters with 1337 or @, $, and # signs?
AIDS is like a zombie virus, but for white blood cells, DoofusOfDeath. Unlike most viruses, it doesn't spread when the white blood cell explodes. The zombie white blood cell piles onto the healthy one and turns it into another of the infected. For more information, please direct the creators of Osmosis Jones to create an R-rated sequel.
Or maybe instead of blaming the scientists, you could be blaming the stupid U.S. media that wants you to associate science with candy, and candy is delicious, so you'll think science is delicious and click. I originally read the story on BBC, and they never mentioned M&M's once.
http://www.ucar.edu/communications/quarterly/winter00/warming.html
Scientists found that the mitigating effect of volcanoes during one El Niño was stronger than the heating effect of the El Niño itself during the 1982 and 1991. For the record breaking years, it's long been known that these can be attributed to El Niño, not the global warming trend, and thus saying that temperatures have gone down since the year of the last El Niño effect is an often brought up and refuted statement. Yes, a lack of a volcanic eruptions could be considered a cause for global warming in the same sense that your freezer is so cold because I haven't yet dumped liquid iron inside it.
As for any effect on volcanoes by solar cycles, I really would like to see a theorized connection that makes sense, if any, because all these other correlations have theories that help explain them that can be compounded upon and elaborated with other data. Because I have seen no evidence that anything the Sun could do to rock is is any more relevant to Earth climate than a comet striking Jupiter.
According to one scientist, though, solar cycles have the half the effect on Earth's oceans as El Niño and La Niña effects, yet still there exists a long-term warming trend under that idea as well.
Why is it that when Stuart Levey, head of the division of the Treasury Department dealing with cutting off funds to terrorist organizations, freezing assets, stopping forgery and counterfeiting, etc., was re-appointed by Obama, SWIFT suddenly became a good thing, whereas before in 2006 I saw it vilified as much as the warrantless wiretapping?
And aren't you aware that volcano activity was heightened during the Little Ice Age? Indeed, one scientist concluded with help from the weather records of Benjamin Franklin that a volcanic eruption was partially responsible for the cold weather during the period it was written, based on his description of clouds obscuring the Moon.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/glaciers/glaciers.pdf
Check it out in this PDF, page 13. I originally read the story in LiveScience, but I couldn't find the article again.
NASA World Wind and its add-ons tend to use a single data set for each layer rather than a pastiche of the highest resolution imagery available like Google Earth's, so when I compared it to Mars in 5.0, it had a more cohesive view with a more navigable user interface, with no load time since you can download the entire cache as an add-on.
How large a gathering of terrorist gnomes does it take to make continuous raids on Tinkertown more cost effective in disrupting their plotting than actually raiding their homes?
Not to say the FBI would be doing the raiding; they would only need to put one or two personnel in charge of organizing and Horde subsidization, such that the usual employment costs would be reduced by players that would take the enjoyment of smashing a gnome in the face with an orc battle axe. After all, if the terrorists advanced to level 25 and hid in a cave with the Naga, the FBI simply couldn't create and level characters fast enough.
Actually, I just want to see real life conflicts fought in World of Warcraft by proxy wherever possible. Russia and Georgia, you disappointed me.
You struggle your way north whilst wrapping the rope around your neck, but unfortunately all it gives you is a rope burn, and perhaps more unfortunately, not the kind of burn that involves starting a fire.
The judge reads a list of charges related to plagiarizing elements of a certain text adventure game, which you no doubt attempted to shrug off as fair use at the time, while banging the battle axe gavel after each sentence is read. The argrue grabs you by the shirt collar and asks you to swear on the Bible, and so you shout a string of obscenities.
98/100 HP
There are dull incandescent bulbs hung down by wire over a set of towering oak podiums. Behind you are endless rows of rusty metal folding chairs, all occupied by elephants and donkeys, except for a few rats toward the front. The bailiff is an Argrue, standing in the shady area against the wall. You don't know what an Argrue is, but you can guess it's like what Arkansas is to Kansas and it looks vicious.
The judge uses a battle axe in place of a gavel, which would be fine if it didn't leave so many marks on the wood when it's banged, and wears an ancient Norse viking helmet. The smaller podium has a guillotine attached to it near the front, with the microphone being placed in front of the slot where you would place your head.
You have in your inventory a rope, which is binding your hands together, and a bright orange jumpsuit of -255 AGI, which you are currently wearing. The only exit is DOWN, through a trap door.
From another report from LiveScience, I gather that it would be most recognizable to you as being called just a "baby cry," but with a subtle sound the same as cats make when purring mixed in, rather than as purring with a crying sound, but the language is utterly ambiguous and it seems hard to distinguish when they mean meowing, purring, or whatever.
If you have a problem with any of the individual statements they make, they look ready to respond to any questions. Given that this individual post was endorsed by Nature, and that one of the top contributors is a NASA climatologist, I'd like to ask if "left-wing" can be supported by anything other than the topic of defending the concept of global climate change itself.
And yes, scientists have acknowledged as a non-anthropogenic warming phenomenon as a drop in the intensity of sandstorms in the Middle East. The sand in the air lowers the albedo of the Earth's surface, causing it to reflect less light and warm the surrounding area. The opposite effect occurs on Mars, when dust storms cause huge temperature increases, which I would then assume is due to the Martian dirt being darker. However, the most credible study of solar cycles contributing to global warming of which I have heard estimated the effect to be as high as 25%, but this was refuted by other scientists and the study was withdrawn by its authors.
With regard to skepticism concerning computer models, would you accept that if a computer model can accurately model climate changes from 1900 to 2000, and is fed accurate data, then if it is powerful enough, it can predict future climate changes to a limited extent? There is such a project that exists using distributed computing, where you download a "module" that starts in 1900 and finishes in 2000 before going into future decades. The results are sent back to the scientists, and each one helps improve future models.
If one day a model from 1900 to 2000 is perfectly correct, might you be inclined to give it some credence? At first the project did things like use a solid slab ocean, without currents, as a developmental stage, but it has progressed far since then. It's hosted by Berkley and you might care to look into it, since their methods are so transparent.
The blog of the science journal Nature recommends this rebuttal, which points out that the economist censored that claims that solar cycles could have anything to do with global warming cites an astrologer who believes they had something to do with Hitler and Stalin's rise to power. Perhaps the report was so bad the bureaucrats at the EPA were motivated by fear of embarrassment, and though this still does not excuse withholding it, I feel it is grasping at straws to find some way to equate Obama with Bush with regards to science. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, though.
If global warming were concocted by government bias, then how do you explain those NASA global warming reports that were suppressed by Bush administration policies? Government reports by their very virtue are paid not to be biased because of the legal ramifications involved. When you have someone arguing that government administrations like NOAA, NASA, and over four fifths of scientists are more inclined to be biased than Exxon Mobil over this, something smells fishy.
"No one can explain why global temperatures have flat-lined." Well, some have suggested the lack of an El Nino effect, so if they are correct, then global temperatures should begin to rise beyond 1999 levels soon; the ten following years were still the warmest decade on record.
If there were a big conspiracy to muck with global warming data, tell me why they would screw around with pre-1970s data to lower temperatures, but leave the purported "flatline" data alone? If we don't have the power to change the climate of the Earth yet, then do you think the hole in the ozone layer was a complete scam, too? I recommend modding parent as anything but "insightful" or "informative."
Also, dendrochronology is a bitch.
Does it have to be expelled out the genitals in public to count as public urination, or can it be saved up and discarded like dumping a bucket of melted ice into a parking lot? Laws on the books in my state define the severity of the penalty for littering as dependent on volume and weight; does the entire solution count as the pollutant, or just the solvent after the water solute has evaporated?
I'm sure somewhere out there is a lawyer eager to attack this, not for anything against the family's actions or anything, or even for monetary reasons, but just as some sort of absurd mental exercise. Also, yes, I'm ashamed to be on Idle, too.