What, you mean like all the free copies they hand out to radio stations, together with other "incentives" to get top billing airtime, so that Britney can have yet another "hit" ?
Nothing whatsoever. But the politicians are not making a decision for or against. They are saying "hang on a minute, we're not really convinced, and we want a second opinion".
Just the same as if you'd got a splinter in your finger, and the doctor was recommending amputating your arm at the shoulder.
Tangentially, please tell me where it makes sense that scientists should be "paid by results" (in the form of funding for the next study-du-jour where the outcome has already been decided in advance) ? Shouldn't science be done for science sake, and open to the same degree of scrutiny and repeatability by anyone else who cares to take an interest ?
deliberately misrepresenting data to skew it in their favor
Perhaps you are not aware of what they do when a dataset is found to be suspect, i.e. slap bang next to an aircon outlet.
Instead of casting out the data as possibly invalid, they correct the data by skewing the past to make it appear colder, but leave the erroneous data as close as possible to the actual readings !
So when we have say 50 years of temperature data, and in the last 5 years some dumbass installed a new aircon right next to the probe, they leave those recent 5 years of data alone, and correct the other 45 years instead.
This does not inspire confidence in me, and I don't need to be a peer-reviewed climatologist for my brain to tell me at least something is wrong with those methods.
Both sides cherry pick to an extent, it's human nature. What I am looking for is a return to pure unadulterated science, unbiased by political views or grant funding, so we can really know what the hell is happening and who or what is causing it.
Well that would be easy, except everytime someone finds evidence of that, the IPCC scientists apply correction after correction, fudge factor after fudge factor to distort the records.
Not to mention a lot of the data they use in the US comes from temperature stations located next to industrial aircon exhausts, in the middle of large expanses of heat retaining tarmac, next to barbeque pits etc etc.
For a very interesting view of the (bad) condition of US temperature monitoring, visit here http://www.surfacestations.org/. Of course the AGW crowd will just accuse the author of being affiliated with Mobil anyway, but for people with a grain of common sense or an inquiring mind, it's an eye-opener.
Fine, I have a family and I agree wholeheartedly. So call the police, get it investigated using proper channels instead of calling the nearest hack with the "scoop".
But he is elected by the people, and is supposed to represent the people. Just because 90% of the population is apathetic and could care less about an R18 for games (even less trivial these days, since anything you really want is available online anyway), that's no reason to ignore the other 10%.
I'd imagine bikers are less than 10% of Australia's population, yet they seem to get a free pass from the police and the government, despite being (at times), a bunch of bad bastards. So instead of going after the hard target, let's take away another freedom from honest hardworking people who AREN'T Puritanical throwbacks.
Before you accuse anyone of Tunnel Vision, it it worth noting the following:-
British Columbia != World. Not everywhere has the mountains in which to store the potential energy (water) needed for hydro.
To call nuclear "clean" simply because it doesn't emit any CO2 but has a half life of however many thousands of years is simply scary. The CO2 may or may not have any effect on the atmosphere, but it sure clouds people's common sense.
Whatever you build your clean power stations out of, be it PV, Hydro, Wind, Nuclear, none of them have a zero "cost"... unless you've found a way to create cement for concrete damns, or steel for wind turbines, or a new process for turning sand into silicon that doesn't require huge amounts of energy input in the first place.
My point is, if you are going to call someone an idiot, behaving like a bigger one yourself often lessens the strength of your statement.
Also, considering you are posting as AC, yet you managed to reply to my reply, that means you are actively checking your anonymous posts for replies ? That's not just idiotic, it's also a sign of some kind of attention disorder.
I'm always confused about "green" electrical devices.
I mean, the power is in most cases still being generated by coal or oil fired power stations in most countries, so aren't you just playing "out of sight, out of mind" games with the pollution ?
Well apart from the obvious "open" proxy lists like Samair etc, you could always just Google for a Virtual Private Server with Unlimited Bandwidth for about $8 a month.
Whether it's really unlimited or if they cut you off after 28 days for abusing the policy, for $8 you can afford to swap to a different provider every month. Any that supports PHP or CGI should be enough to whack out a little proxy script to do you downloading for you, either real time or temporarily cached in the 50 or so Mb of disk space the allocate you.
Top cyclists are pretty smart people, and you have to be to get your body in the kind of shape to perform at that level.
Yes, well those drug names can be very difficult to spell...
I'm so tired of all this "I had a bit of a cold coming on", so instead of taking a bloody Aspirin, they take some wierd "cold cure remedy" with an unpronounceable name that just happens to contains the very steriods and performance enhancers that they KNOW are banned for professional sports.
Come on, who the hell do they think they are kidding ? Not just cyclists (which has got to be the most boring "sport" ever), but any athletic activity where they know drugs are banned but try any trick in the book to get around the restriction, then scream innocence when they get caught.
If even ONE sample tested positive, then I don't give a crap about future negative tests... That's like saying it's okay to drive drunk provided you test sober 24 hours later.
Lying unfinished in a mudhut for years, with only one eye when everyone else's droids already had two, but ended up looking very gold and shiny at the end of the movie ?
I just filed a patent today too... if it pans out, I'm gonna be rich.
"A method by which the mechanisms described in US Patent No. 7,664,751 can be circumvented by any fool who has access to a proxy server, thus making the payment of any licensing fees to Google an exercise in futility".
So when will HTML5 be formalized / finalized then ? 2025 ?
The problem with committees is that they inevitably degenerate from "more eyeballs mean improvement" into "too many cooks spoil the broth".
And the major players will continue to bring out "non-standard" versions of stuff because the standard doesn't bloody exist yet. This is why I never understand the proponents of OSS who harp on about MS products not following standards. You have to innovate first and document afterwards... otherwise you have nothing new to offer the marketplace, just the same recycled crap as everyone else is doing.
Half of the stuff in HTML4 was due to MS (and others) innovation... look at the.innerHTML element in the HTML DOM. It turned out so useful that all the other major players adopted it, despite it being "non-standard". I didn't hear Firefox or Opera taking a position on standards compliance then, because it might have damaged their market-share.
The banking sector aren't that dissimilar from quantum physicists... they deal with gigantic magnitudes of imaginary "wealth" that ceases to exists as soon as someone actually scrutinizes the figures and collapses the waveform, causing it all to disappear.
Still at least we've managed to capture the Madoff Particle.
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What, you mean like all the free copies they hand out to radio stations, together with other "incentives" to get top billing airtime, so that Britney can have yet another "hit" ?
That kind of distribution ?
No, it's the equivalent of looters breaking into the Louvre Gallery, and making a photocopy of the Mona Lisa.
Nothing was stolen, nothing was lost, and the original still has it's exact same value as before.
Nothing whatsoever. But the politicians are not making a decision for or against. They are saying "hang on a minute, we're not really convinced, and we want a second opinion".
Just the same as if you'd got a splinter in your finger, and the doctor was recommending amputating your arm at the shoulder.
Tangentially, please tell me where it makes sense that scientists should be "paid by results" (in the form of funding for the next study-du-jour where the outcome has already been decided in advance) ? Shouldn't science be done for science sake, and open to the same degree of scrutiny and repeatability by anyone else who cares to take an interest ?
Kind of ironic the report is a PDF file, when another report stated that PDF accounts for 9/10 (or something like that) exploits last year.
deliberately misrepresenting data to skew it in their favor
Perhaps you are not aware of what they do when a dataset is found to be suspect, i.e. slap bang next to an aircon outlet.
Instead of casting out the data as possibly invalid, they correct the data by skewing the past to make it appear colder, but leave the erroneous data as close as possible to the actual readings !
So when we have say 50 years of temperature data, and in the last 5 years some dumbass installed a new aircon right next to the probe, they leave those recent 5 years of data alone, and correct the other 45 years instead.
This does not inspire confidence in me, and I don't need to be a peer-reviewed climatologist for my brain to tell me at least something is wrong with those methods.
Both sides cherry pick to an extent, it's human nature. What I am looking for is a return to pure unadulterated science, unbiased by political views or grant funding, so we can really know what the hell is happening and who or what is causing it.
Well that would be easy, except everytime someone finds evidence of that, the IPCC scientists apply correction after correction, fudge factor after fudge factor to distort the records.
Not to mention a lot of the data they use in the US comes from temperature stations located next to industrial aircon exhausts, in the middle of large expanses of heat retaining tarmac, next to barbeque pits etc etc.
For a very interesting view of the (bad) condition of US temperature monitoring, visit here http://www.surfacestations.org/. Of course the AGW crowd will just accuse the author of being affiliated with Mobil anyway, but for people with a grain of common sense or an inquiring mind, it's an eye-opener.
Can someone tag this "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" ?
Fine, I have a family and I agree wholeheartedly. So call the police, get it investigated using proper channels instead of calling the nearest hack with the "scoop".
But he is elected by the people, and is supposed to represent the people. Just because 90% of the population is apathetic and could care less about an R18 for games (even less trivial these days, since anything you really want is available online anyway), that's no reason to ignore the other 10%.
I'd imagine bikers are less than 10% of Australia's population, yet they seem to get a free pass from the police and the government, despite being (at times), a bunch of bad bastards. So instead of going after the hard target, let's take away another freedom from honest hardworking people who AREN'T Puritanical throwbacks.
Ice caps are melting = AGW.
London is freezing its bollocks off = weather, not climate, you silly goose.
1970s, the planet is freezing, despite increasing CO2.
2000s, the planet is melting, because of increasing CO2.
You cannot have it both ways. And you wonder why there's so many skeptics ?
Before you accuse anyone of Tunnel Vision, it it worth noting the following :-
British Columbia != World. Not everywhere has the mountains in which to store the potential energy (water) needed for hydro.
To call nuclear "clean" simply because it doesn't emit any CO2 but has a half life of however many thousands of years is simply scary. The CO2 may or may not have any effect on the atmosphere, but it sure clouds people's common sense.
Whatever you build your clean power stations out of, be it PV, Hydro, Wind, Nuclear, none of them have a zero "cost" ... unless you've found a way to create cement for concrete damns, or steel for wind turbines, or a new process for turning sand into silicon that doesn't require huge amounts of energy input in the first place.
I couple of weeks ago, you could have held the Winter Olympics at sea level ... London, Florence, Amsterdam, take your pick. Global Warming my ass.
I think I'll get this printed on a t-shirt.
"I got BAGged on Slashdot".
My point is, if you are going to call someone an idiot, behaving like a bigger one yourself often lessens the strength of your statement.
Also, considering you are posting as AC, yet you managed to reply to my reply, that means you are actively checking your anonymous posts for replies ? That's not just idiotic, it's also a sign of some kind of attention disorder.
I'm always confused about "green" electrical devices.
I mean, the power is in most cases still being generated by coal or oil fired power stations in most countries, so aren't you just playing "out of sight, out of mind" games with the pollution ?
Well apart from the obvious "open" proxy lists like Samair etc, you could always just Google for a Virtual Private Server with Unlimited Bandwidth for about $8 a month.
Whether it's really unlimited or if they cut you off after 28 days for abusing the policy, for $8 you can afford to swap to a different provider every month. Any that supports PHP or CGI should be enough to whack out a little proxy script to do you downloading for you, either real time or temporarily cached in the 50 or so Mb of disk space the allocate you.
Top cyclists are pretty smart people, and you have to be to get your body in the kind of shape to perform at that level.
Yes, well those drug names can be very difficult to spell ...
I'm so tired of all this "I had a bit of a cold coming on", so instead of taking a bloody Aspirin, they take some wierd "cold cure remedy" with an unpronounceable name that just happens to contains the very steriods and performance enhancers that they KNOW are banned for professional sports.
Come on, who the hell do they think they are kidding ? Not just cyclists (which has got to be the most boring "sport" ever), but any athletic activity where they know drugs are banned but try any trick in the book to get around the restriction, then scream innocence when they get caught.
If even ONE sample tested positive, then I don't give a crap about future negative tests ... That's like saying it's okay to drive drunk provided you test sober 24 hours later.
Oh, so you're the dirty bastard who never flushes his buffers ?
I wonder if this auto-posting software will ever become sentient, and pass the Turing test ?
C-3PO is a Mac
Lying unfinished in a mudhut for years, with only one eye when everyone else's droids already had two, but ended up looking very gold and shiny at the end of the movie ?
Tell him to make sure it speaks Bocce.
An orphaned lemming (with a speech impediment) living in a cave in Uzbekistan has more social skills than most Slashdotters.
I just filed a patent today too ... if it pans out, I'm gonna be rich.
"A method by which the mechanisms described in US Patent No. 7,664,751 can be circumvented by any fool who has access to a proxy server, thus making the payment of any licensing fees to Google an exercise in futility".
Coming from the AC idiot who puts the letter u in quotation marks ?
So when will HTML5 be formalized / finalized then ? 2025 ?
The problem with committees is that they inevitably degenerate from "more eyeballs mean improvement" into "too many cooks spoil the broth".
And the major players will continue to bring out "non-standard" versions of stuff because the standard doesn't bloody exist yet. This is why I never understand the proponents of OSS who harp on about MS products not following standards. You have to innovate first and document afterwards ... otherwise you have nothing new to offer the marketplace, just the same recycled crap as everyone else is doing.
Half of the stuff in HTML4 was due to MS (and others) innovation ... look at the .innerHTML element in the HTML DOM. It turned out so useful that all the other major players adopted it, despite it being "non-standard". I didn't hear Firefox or Opera taking a position on standards compliance then, because it might have damaged their market-share.
The banking sector aren't that dissimilar from quantum physicists ... they deal with gigantic magnitudes of imaginary "wealth" that ceases to exists as soon as someone actually scrutinizes the figures and collapses the waveform, causing it all to disappear.
Still at least we've managed to capture the Madoff Particle.