When he was a boy he had a discussion with his father where he indirectly asked his Dad why things in motion tend to stay in motion and things at rest tend to stay at rest, and his fathers reply was that nobody know why but that the phenomena is called Inertia.
In one fell swoop his father taught him that there is a difference between observation and understanding. That nobody understand why things behave the way they do, that we can only observe things and assign labels to the phenomena we measure.
Men like Feynman didn't ignore inconvenient data that didn't fit their theory. On the contrary, men like Feynman charged right towards the data that didnt fit existing theory. For men like Feynman, inconvenient data is an undescribed phenomena begging for a closer inspection.
These climate scientists are not men like Feynman. Feynman would not ignore inconvenient data, or presume that his theory can be trusted given the existence of that data. On the contrary, these climate scientists are claiming that there is a consensus. That the science is settled, while ignoring data that doesnt fit their theory.
Yes they do, specifically manipulations to get grants from Russia.
The best way to counteract this is to have lots of different scientists peer review papers, which is what happens now.
What has been happening is that Mann, Jones and the rest conspired to boycott journals that do not use peer reviewers that they liked.
Let me say that one more time for you. They conspired to boycott journals that did not use peer reviewers that they liked.
Most journals simply allow the author to recommend a reviewer. Guess who they recommend? Each other. Thats right. Each other. All the while, none of them are experts in the field that they are practicing (which is Statistics.)
Citation needed. We know for a fact that terrorists kill people, and are going to kill more people, and have been doing this for decades.
Why is it so hard to answer the question? If you can't explain how gradual warming is going to kill people, then maybe you should rethink your position on the matter.
Seems to me we've got a lot to worry about if we get into "what if" scenarios. Perhaps we should stick with the known world.
I propose that it is FAR preferable for the CIA to point those satellites outward to watch for those asteroids YOU bring up, than it is to waste them watching for global warming.
So far, NOBODY has listed an actual global warming "THREAT."
And there is no "what if" about asteroids hitting this planet. It is not a question of "if." Its a question of "when." The same goes for radicals using nukes. Its not a question of "if." Its a question of "when" and "where."
Funny you mention terrorism as more people have died from Fireworks accidents than terror attacks.
I mentioned terrorism because the person I originally replied to compared global warming with terrorism, and implied that Global Warming its a greater threat to life (and thats presumably specifically American lives)
So, what happens to all of your precious farms and soil when it rains significantly more? Flooding is not some simple matter. Topsoil is lost. Crops don't grow. Less food for people, less food for livestock. Soil pollutes the waterways, and fish can't breed. Overall, a bad situation.
"Bad Situation" does not imply a "threat" on the level that the poster was suggesting. Will people be running for their lives away from these gradual changes?
I didnt imply any such thing, and the fact that changes at location X will be different than at location Y does not support the notion of a "threat" on par or greater than terrorism. The movie The Day After Tomorrow was fiction, folks. People wont be running for their lives away from gradual warming.
Remember that you implied some sort of danger, so you cannot possibly be talking about sea level rise: IPCC gives lowball of 19cm and highball of 59cm over 100 years, or between 0.19cm/year and 0.59cm/years. Might happen, but its not a threat to human life. Just walk away, folks.
Maybe you are talking about drought? No, rainfall will increase if it gets significantly warmer.
Heat stroke? OK maybe, but offset by less hypothermia.
So tell us, what THREATS are there that are comparable to terrorists?
I tried second life as well, and discovered the same thing. However I think the slowness was because it was still downloading all of its crap. I'm pretty sure that second life actually brings new meaning to the word 'bloat'
Yes, but even "close to" 1080p is nothing like the resolution the poster was talking about. Literally twice as many pixels or more. If the game isnt bottlenecked on transforms or something on the CPU end, then we are talking about a 2x difference in framerate between 1920x1080 and 2560x1600.
Yes, the 8800GT isnt going to be doing great at these high resolutions, but the latest cards do well even at 2560x1600 and are twice as good at only 1920x1080
Indeed. Change only rarely comes from existing things being replaced by incompatible variations on the theme. Thats why MP3 is still the king of lossy compressed audio, why PNG never really took off as a mainstream image format, why ZIP is still the prefered archive format, and why Windows is still the #1 Operating System.
Many people dont know this, but the Internet was only one of many such similar networks started in the 60's and 70's. Tymenet and Telenet were some of the other alternatives being used even into the late 90's (and maybe even still used today.)
1080p is quite a bit less than the 2560x1600 that the poster was talking about. In consumer terms, its comparing 2 megapixels vs 4 megapixels.
Also, last I checked, the largest PC gaming segment still runs at 1280x1024 (presumably on commodity 5:4 aspect LCD's which stormed the market several years ago.) Only 12% run at 1080p or higher resolution. (source)
The 512MB NVIDIA 8800GT is probably still the best bang-for-your-buck card on the market given the resolutions people are gaming at. The 8800GT handles every game you can throw at it just fine at 1280x1024.
What this does is creates a situation where those big companies actually have to think. They do not have an infinite supply of money, and they will have to make tough decisions. For example, "Should we pay extend the copyright of Mork And Mindy? How about Bosom Buddies? Lavern and Shirly? Happy Days?"
They would NOT extend the copyrights on everything. Being a Big Evil Corporation does not mean Infinite Money or Bad Investment.
..and yes, they and everyone else SHOULD have to pay for protection. Protection isnt free.
Certainly they didn't have to release low level programming specs, and thats actually the point. They not only didnt have to release low level programming specs, they didn't release any at all (for any price.)
This gave rise to various groups protesting the situation, such as the Free Tools Associetion (a demo group that reverse engineered a lot of the capabilities of the Apple IIgs line)
Opera is highly configurable. It shouldn't be too hard to minimize the amount of space taken by the toolbar and so forth. Right click the tab bar and select Customize -> Appearance. Toy around a bit.
The russians are buying up "profitalbe" companies, which eventually will not be profitable if no one here is working and unemployment slips into the 15 % range. And will become a power house when debt collection comes.
I am reminded of an Emo Philips routine...
Japan: "We've come to get that trillion dollars we lent you back"
USA: "Well sorry, we don't have it"
Japan: "What did you do with it?"
USA: "We built thousands of nuclear warheads with it"
Japan: "oh, well we actually don't need that money right now. Very sorry for bothering you"
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.NET programs are also not interpreted, and in fact NEVER have been.
1) Wrong.
citation
2) More likely here, and Less likely there. Its called Tradeoffs.
3) Yes, the great dangers of less than 1cm per year sea level rise. People just can't deal with such a monstrous rate of change.
I am reminded of an interview of Richard Feynman.
When he was a boy he had a discussion with his father where he indirectly asked his Dad why things in motion tend to stay in motion and things at rest tend to stay at rest, and his fathers reply was that nobody know why but that the phenomena is called Inertia.
In one fell swoop his father taught him that there is a difference between observation and understanding. That nobody understand why things behave the way they do, that we can only observe things and assign labels to the phenomena we measure.
Men like Feynman didn't ignore inconvenient data that didn't fit their theory. On the contrary, men like Feynman charged right towards the data that didnt fit existing theory. For men like Feynman, inconvenient data is an undescribed phenomena begging for a closer inspection.
These climate scientists are not men like Feynman. Feynman would not ignore inconvenient data, or presume that his theory can be trusted given the existence of that data. On the contrary, these climate scientists are claiming that there is a consensus. That the science is settled, while ignoring data that doesnt fit their theory.
WTH? The emails say nothing about grant approval.
Yes they do, specifically manipulations to get grants from Russia.
The best way to counteract this is to have lots of different scientists peer review papers, which is what happens now.
What has been happening is that Mann, Jones and the rest conspired to boycott journals that do not use peer reviewers that they liked.
Let me say that one more time for you. They conspired to boycott journals that did not use peer reviewers that they liked.
Most journals simply allow the author to recommend a reviewer. Guess who they recommend? Each other. Thats right. Each other. All the while, none of them are experts in the field that they are practicing (which is Statistics.)
Well that is because it probably is.
Citation needed. We know for a fact that terrorists kill people, and are going to kill more people, and have been doing this for decades.
Why is it so hard to answer the question? If you can't explain how gradual warming is going to kill people, then maybe you should rethink your position on the matter.
Seems to me we've got a lot to worry about if we get into "what if" scenarios. Perhaps we should stick with the known world.
I propose that it is FAR preferable for the CIA to point those satellites outward to watch for those asteroids YOU bring up, than it is to waste them watching for global warming.
So far, NOBODY has listed an actual global warming "THREAT."
And there is no "what if" about asteroids hitting this planet. It is not a question of "if." Its a question of "when." The same goes for radicals using nukes. Its not a question of "if." Its a question of "when" and "where."
Funny you mention terrorism as more people have died from Fireworks accidents than terror attacks.
I mentioned terrorism because the person I originally replied to compared global warming with terrorism, and implied that Global Warming its a greater threat to life (and thats presumably specifically American lives)
So, what happens to all of your precious farms and soil when it rains significantly more? Flooding is not some simple matter. Topsoil is lost. Crops don't grow. Less food for people, less food for livestock. Soil pollutes the waterways, and fish can't breed. Overall, a bad situation.
"Bad Situation" does not imply a "threat" on the level that the poster was suggesting. Will people be running for their lives away from these gradual changes?
I have an alternative question.... how serious is the threat of terrorism?
Eventually a radical group will get their hands on a nuke (either from a supporting nuclear power, or made in a basement somewhere), so you tell me.
Weather is not Climate, and a warmer world means less Katrina's due to increased wind shear.
I didnt imply any such thing, and the fact that changes at location X will be different than at location Y does not support the notion of a "threat" on par or greater than terrorism. The movie The Day After Tomorrow was fiction, folks. People wont be running for their lives away from gradual warming.
Please tell us about this warming threat.
Remember that you implied some sort of danger, so you cannot possibly be talking about sea level rise: IPCC gives lowball of 19cm and highball of 59cm over 100 years, or between 0.19cm/year and 0.59cm/years. Might happen, but its not a threat to human life. Just walk away, folks.
Maybe you are talking about drought? No, rainfall will increase if it gets significantly warmer.
Heat stroke? OK maybe, but offset by less hypothermia.
So tell us, what THREATS are there that are comparable to terrorists?
I tried second life as well, and discovered the same thing. However I think the slowness was because it was still downloading all of its crap. I'm pretty sure that second life actually brings new meaning to the word 'bloat'
The BlockIt script saves your settings and provides a UI to alter those settings, so whats the problem exactly?
Whitelist? Open up BlockIt and Unblock All. done.
In Opera? Not a chance in hell.
Wrong
Nearly all firefox extensions can be done in User JavaScript, and most of them have. User JavaScript itself is the original greesemonkey.
FAIL HATER IS FAIL
Yes, but even "close to" 1080p is nothing like the resolution the poster was talking about. Literally twice as many pixels or more. If the game isnt bottlenecked on transforms or something on the CPU end, then we are talking about a 2x difference in framerate between 1920x1080 and 2560x1600.
Yes, the 8800GT isnt going to be doing great at these high resolutions, but the latest cards do well even at 2560x1600 and are twice as good at only 1920x1080
Indeed. Change only rarely comes from existing things being replaced by incompatible variations on the theme. Thats why MP3 is still the king of lossy compressed audio, why PNG never really took off as a mainstream image format, why ZIP is still the prefered archive format, and why Windows is still the #1 Operating System.
Many people dont know this, but the Internet was only one of many such similar networks started in the 60's and 70's. Tymenet and Telenet were some of the other alternatives being used even into the late 90's (and maybe even still used today.)
1080p is quite a bit less than the 2560x1600 that the poster was talking about. In consumer terms, its comparing 2 megapixels vs 4 megapixels.
Also, last I checked, the largest PC gaming segment still runs at 1280x1024 (presumably on commodity 5:4 aspect LCD's which stormed the market several years ago.) Only 12% run at 1080p or higher resolution. (source)
The 512MB NVIDIA 8800GT is probably still the best bang-for-your-buck card on the market given the resolutions people are gaming at. The 8800GT handles every game you can throw at it just fine at 1280x1024.
Thinking about the companies? erm, uhh..?
..and yes, they and everyone else SHOULD have to pay for protection. Protection isnt free.
What this does is creates a situation where those big companies actually have to think. They do not have an infinite supply of money, and they will have to make tough decisions. For example, "Should we pay extend the copyright of Mork And Mindy? How about Bosom Buddies? Lavern and Shirly? Happy Days?"
They would NOT extend the copyrights on everything. Being a Big Evil Corporation does not mean Infinite Money or Bad Investment.
..and now we know why.
Thats not low level stuff.
Certainly they didn't have to release low level programming specs, and thats actually the point. They not only didnt have to release low level programming specs, they didn't release any at all (for any price.)
This gave rise to various groups protesting the situation, such as the Free Tools Associetion (a demo group that reverse engineered a lot of the capabilities of the Apple IIgs line)
Very good game if you like turn-based strategy. Just one more turn...
Opera is highly configurable. It shouldn't be too hard to minimize the amount of space taken by the toolbar and so forth. Right click the tab bar and select Customize -> Appearance. Toy around a bit.
The russians are buying up "profitalbe" companies, which eventually will not be profitable if no one here is working and unemployment slips into the 15 % range. And will become a power house when debt collection comes.
I am reminded of an Emo Philips routine...
Japan: "We've come to get that trillion dollars we lent you back"
USA: "Well sorry, we don't have it"
Japan: "What did you do with it?"
USA: "We built thousands of nuclear warheads with it"
Japan: "oh, well we actually don't need that money right now. Very sorry for bothering you"
It's been pointed out before that Apple doesn't crackdown on jailbreakers
You mean besides bricking jailbroken phones?