I think I heard it best when someone said that "once in a lifetime weather events used to be once in a lifetime."
Australia never had fires before global warming? I must inform all the uni-professors about this as they seem to think there have been. Or you mean there haven't been as many in your life time and you are just now noticing them?
Have a look at this list." I want to point two interesting things out to you, the first is that the recent fires are the only major fires to have occurred October, which is very early in (or before) the bushfire season. Only two occurred in November, the rest occurring in December or latter, to me that would suggest that the climate is changing. The second thing I'd point out is the frequency of major bushfires has increased.
I also take it that you are turning a blind eye to the number of weather records broken this year.
And those pesky third world countries that could have never survived this long without you caring over them. What will they ever do? I mean it isn't like Venice or Holland has any insight into this situation. It isn't like making buildings and islands is out of the question. Most worst case scenarios place the sea level rises at 2 to 5 feet over the next 90 or so years. It will be unpossible for anyone to do anything about it. Well, you can relax, most of them will be knocked off by typhoons and hurricanes that have never happened before global warming too. Or are you thinking of the Maldives who are not too poor to purchase another set of islands-
Yes because third world countries can afford to build dikes and islands in place far less suitable to them as Venice or Holland. I don't think anyone's saying there was no typhoons or hurricanes before global warming (unless you are?). No, what people are saying (with data to back it up) is that the frequency of typhoons and hurricanes are increasing. Sea level rises are predicted to increase the flooding of cities, but they will also have a very real impact on the tourism industry doing significant economic damage
As for the Psychiatrist, I think maybe you should be the one seeking it. I see you completely ignored the part about saving money being a fallacy and instead went for the emotional arguments. That is either because you are a con artist who knows nothing purposed to fix climate change actually touches it or that you have been brainwashed into thinking anything in the name of it good. Either way, it not a sign of good mental health.
I'm afraid science disagrees with you there, there is a lot we can do. I went for the more obviously flawed arguments, because I shouldn't need to explain why saving money at the expense of those who will have to live in the world you destroyed is immoral.
I think you might need to see a psychiatrist... I for one will be alive when the major changes take effect (within the next ten years
If you think the worst from climate change is going to be in the next 10 years, I think you are the one who should consider help. Not that I'm saying we should do nothing. But even if we stopped adding CO2 to the atmosphere tomorrow, it would take more than ten years for the full effect of what has been done to be realized.
I said nothing about the full effect, we may not see that for a century or more. I said major changes, as in changes that will realistically effect peoples lives in a major way. Models indicate that these will increasingly occur during the next ten years (and longer).
I think you might need to see a psychiatrist... I for one will be alive when the major changes take effect (within the next ten years) and hear it Aus we are already seeing the effect, thousands of homes lost to fires and it isn't even summer yet. I swear the weather has broken a new record every week this year.
So what about the third world countries that will be almost completely under water, the ones were people are too poor to leave. I am sure they're rich fat cats living in an unsuitable area to you, but the rest of the world lives in this thing called reality.
Yes, and if we wait long enough with our heads in the sand it'll be too late to do anything anyway...think of the money we could save!
Seriously, we know CO2 emissions are causing significant climate change, there may be other factors but waiting around until we have perfect knowledge of the entire universe is ignorant at best and criminally negligent at worst.Also I assume that you don't think volcanoes in Antarctica aren't causing melting in the Artic as well, that's a pretty big clue that they're not the main cause.
Same for me. I hardly ever use the button to open it in another viewer.
Neither do I because I disabled it, however I do go back and test it every now and then and the best I could say is the loading time matches that of Adobe reader. For large pdfs it is much, much slower and often crashes. (On 25.0)
Today, on 25.0. I find it still has terrible unicode support, struggles to render older pdfs, can't fill out pdf forms, and crashes frequently. It also seems to take longer than Adobe reader to open larger pdfs.
The majority of the pdfs I use fall into one of the above categories.
I don't know about chrome, but the firefox reader fails to render correctly 60% of PDFs I open. I also use PDF forms, which are extremely useful if you need to type on an official form rather than writing it out. (MS Word consistency isn't good enough for that).
Hear, Hear.
If you going into the applications settings in firefox you can change it to use the adobe reader plugin again, but I doubt adobe will continue to support the plugin.
I don't know about the chrome one, but in Firefox the inbuilt PDF viewer correctly displays less than half the pdfs I open. This is primarily due to its terrible Unicode support (worse than slashdot), but also due to failures in displaying pretty much anything that isn't text.
I get some news from Facebook and I also post some (usually political) news on Facebook. Often Facebook provides you with news you wouldn't have otherwise read (not big enough to be on a major news site, unpopular, etc). You also have the advantage that you know your friends political views, which makes it much easier to tell if they are spinning something.
Some features are disabled on rooted phones (including cyanogenmod) I think its mainly the DRM on their music store means they won't let you buy on rooted phones. It is entirely possible they will disable other features future and I don't really see the need for me to change.
GP was talking about getting sued if they tried to implement a JVM. I was merely pointing out there is a way to do that without getting sued. I'm certainly not suggesting it's a good idea.
Exactly, they keep adding security 'features' which don't work properly and are very hard to disable (such as there PDF reader).
They're also going to start loosing users from problems that appear to be cause by Mozilla, but aren't (such as the corrupted java applet I was trying to run today, which I assumed was broken by Mozilla until I tried to run it in IE)
There's actually a process for getting certified as having a valid implementation of java, I think that you don't have to pay license fees for it either... however it is as about as 'easy' again as 'just' writing a jvm. Given Mozilla can't even write a PDF viewer with Unicode support I don't see that happening. If there was a better cross platform alternative I'd switch to it.
They also do replace external PDF viewer plugins with a HTML5/JS based one, so it is a coherent strategy towards open technologies. There are plenty of benefits if it works out, security is one of them. And it's a phased, non-invasive method, which can be disabled.
Yeah the inbuilt PDF viewer is great: it has worse unicode support than slashdot, often fails to correctly render diagrams and is slower than the adobe plugin.
Thankfully I occidentally found a way to make it default back to the Adobe plugin. If they want to keep users they need to stop removing functionality and adding half backed security systems that are very hard to disable.
Sadly there isn't a better alternative at the moment, but already there are a few sites I switch to IE to view...
It sounds to me like they're both holding you hostage.//ducks
In Australia we have a thing called a double disillusion, if the government can't pass spending then the whole parliament is dissolved and goes to the polls. Then if the bill still won't pass, then a joint sitting of both houses is called to pass spending. It works as a very good deterrent and has only ever had to be used once. Perhaps you Americans need to consider adding that to your constitution?
It looks like those sites in that list are now all running on the same server (given they are serving an identical page, and nslookup returns the same IP address for all of them). Most likely they have one server running to keep that page displayed whilst turning off the rest of the servers that would be needed for normal operation (considerably more than one).
Also they are probably worried about the sites getting hacked or breaking whilst they're not paying anyone to fix them...
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Australia never had fires before global warming? I must inform all the uni-professors about this as they seem to think there have been. Or you mean there haven't been as many in your life time and you are just now noticing them?
Have a look at this list." I want to point two interesting things out to you, the first is that the recent fires are the only major fires to have occurred October, which is very early in (or before) the bushfire season. Only two occurred in November, the rest occurring in December or latter, to me that would suggest that the climate is changing. The second thing I'd point out is the frequency of major bushfires has increased. I also take it that you are turning a blind eye to the number of weather records broken this year.
And those pesky third world countries that could have never survived this long without you caring over them. What will they ever do? I mean it isn't like Venice or Holland has any insight into this situation. It isn't like making buildings and islands is out of the question. Most worst case scenarios place the sea level rises at 2 to 5 feet over the next 90 or so years. It will be unpossible for anyone to do anything about it. Well, you can relax, most of them will be knocked off by typhoons and hurricanes that have never happened before global warming too. Or are you thinking of the Maldives who are not too poor to purchase another set of islands-
Yes because third world countries can afford to build dikes and islands in place far less suitable to them as Venice or Holland. I don't think anyone's saying there was no typhoons or hurricanes before global warming (unless you are?). No, what people are saying (with data to back it up) is that the frequency of typhoons and hurricanes are increasing. Sea level rises are predicted to increase the flooding of cities, but they will also have a very real impact on the tourism industry doing significant economic damage
As for the Psychiatrist, I think maybe you should be the one seeking it. I see you completely ignored the part about saving money being a fallacy and instead went for the emotional arguments. That is either because you are a con artist who knows nothing purposed to fix climate change actually touches it or that you have been brainwashed into thinking anything in the name of it good. Either way, it not a sign of good mental health.
I'm afraid science disagrees with you there, there is a lot we can do. I went for the more obviously flawed arguments, because I shouldn't need to explain why saving money at the expense of those who will have to live in the world you destroyed is immoral.
I think you might need to see a psychiatrist... I for one will be alive when the major changes take effect (within the next ten years
If you think the worst from climate change is going to be in the next 10 years, I think you are the one who should consider help. Not that I'm saying we should do nothing. But even if we stopped adding CO2 to the atmosphere tomorrow, it would take more than ten years for the full effect of what has been done to be realized.
I said nothing about the full effect, we may not see that for a century or more. I said major changes, as in changes that will realistically effect peoples lives in a major way. Models indicate that these will increasingly occur during the next ten years (and longer).
I think you might need to see a psychiatrist... I for one will be alive when the major changes take effect (within the next ten years) and hear it Aus we are already seeing the effect, thousands of homes lost to fires and it isn't even summer yet. I swear the weather has broken a new record every week this year.
So what about the third world countries that will be almost completely under water, the ones were people are too poor to leave. I am sure they're rich fat cats living in an unsuitable area to you, but the rest of the world lives in this thing called reality.
Through the Stargate obviously
Yes, and if we wait long enough with our heads in the sand it'll be too late to do anything anyway...think of the money we could save!
Seriously, we know CO2 emissions are causing significant climate change, there may be other factors but waiting around until we have perfect knowledge of the entire universe is ignorant at best and criminally negligent at worst.Also I assume that you don't think volcanoes in Antarctica aren't causing melting in the Artic as well, that's a pretty big clue that they're not the main cause.
Same for me. I hardly ever use the button to open it in another viewer.
Neither do I because I disabled it, however I do go back and test it every now and then and the best I could say is the loading time matches that of Adobe reader. For large pdfs it is much, much slower and often crashes. (On 25.0)
When did you last test it?
Today, on 25.0. I find it still has terrible unicode support, struggles to render older pdfs, can't fill out pdf forms, and crashes frequently. It also seems to take longer than Adobe reader to open larger pdfs.
The majority of the pdfs I use fall into one of the above categories.
I don't know about chrome, but the firefox reader fails to render correctly 60% of PDFs I open. I also use PDF forms, which are extremely useful if you need to type on an official form rather than writing it out. (MS Word consistency isn't good enough for that).
Hear, Hear.
If you going into the applications settings in firefox you can change it to use the adobe reader plugin again, but I doubt adobe will continue to support the plugin.
I don't know about the chrome one, but in Firefox the inbuilt PDF viewer correctly displays less than half the pdfs I open. This is primarily due to its terrible Unicode support (worse than slashdot), but also due to failures in displaying pretty much anything that isn't text.
I get some news from Facebook and I also post some (usually political) news on Facebook. Often Facebook provides you with news you wouldn't have otherwise read (not big enough to be on a major news site, unpopular, etc). You also have the advantage that you know your friends political views, which makes it much easier to tell if they are spinning something.
Ok, it appears I'm incorrect. I swear I read something along those lines.
They aren't exactly saying that he actually had anybody killed, only that he might have tried to buy two murders-for-hire.
Yes, they are saying that. It was one of the things he was charged with and its on his arrest warrant. (which I'll let you google, it's public record)
No they're saying repeal this law that you agreed not to put into place or we'll break our part of the agreement as well...
Some features are disabled on rooted phones (including cyanogenmod) I think its mainly the DRM on their music store means they won't let you buy on rooted phones. It is entirely possible they will disable other features future and I don't really see the need for me to change.
I don't use it because I like some of the google apps, but I believe cyanmod allows you to control app permissions.
GP was talking about getting sued if they tried to implement a JVM. I was merely pointing out there is a way to do that without getting sued. I'm certainly not suggesting it's a good idea.
Exactly, they keep adding security 'features' which don't work properly and are very hard to disable (such as there PDF reader).
They're also going to start loosing users from problems that appear to be cause by Mozilla, but aren't (such as the corrupted java applet I was trying to run today, which I assumed was broken by Mozilla until I tried to run it in IE)
There's actually a process for getting certified as having a valid implementation of java, I think that you don't have to pay license fees for it either ... however it is as about as 'easy' again as 'just' writing a jvm. Given Mozilla can't even write a PDF viewer with Unicode support I don't see that happening.
If there was a better cross platform alternative I'd switch to it.
They also do replace external PDF viewer plugins with a HTML5/JS based one, so it is a coherent strategy towards open technologies. There are plenty of benefits if it works out, security is one of them. And it's a phased, non-invasive method, which can be disabled.
Yeah the inbuilt PDF viewer is great: it has worse unicode support than slashdot, often fails to correctly render diagrams and is slower than the adobe plugin.
Thankfully I occidentally found a way to make it default back to the Adobe plugin. If they want to keep users they need to stop removing functionality and adding half backed security systems that are very hard to disable.
Sadly there isn't a better alternative at the moment, but already there are a few sites I switch to IE to view...
just go into desktop mode and get a startmenu and you are set
so windows 8 is great as long as you use a work around to avoid one of its core features...
should we also design roads that police cars can't drive on because criminals might drive on them too?
So we should leave our doors unlocked encase the police need to go into our houses as well?
Do you have a citation for that, I haven't seen that in any of the news I've read on this.
It sounds to me like they're both holding you hostage. //ducks
In Australia we have a thing called a double disillusion, if the government can't pass spending then the whole parliament is dissolved and goes to the polls. Then if the bill still won't pass, then a joint sitting of both houses is called to pass spending. It works as a very good deterrent and has only ever had to be used once. Perhaps you Americans need to consider adding that to your constitution?
It looks like those sites in that list are now all running on the same server (given they are serving an identical page, and nslookup returns the same IP address for all of them). Most likely they have one server running to keep that page displayed whilst turning off the rest of the servers that would be needed for normal operation (considerably more than one).
Also they are probably worried about the sites getting hacked or breaking whilst they're not paying anyone to fix them...