He's not a climatologist. He has never done research on global warming. He has absolutely no data of his own. He is not an expert in this field. There is no reason, whatsoever, to listen to his opinions.
You might as well have your car mechanic perform surgery on you. After all, he's a professional, right? Therefore he must be qualified!
I'm sure this discussion will be flooded with global warming deniers, but if you actually read Dyson's opinions, he believes that global warming IS happening and we ARE to blame.
His only complaint with the science is that he feels that some of the computer models are fudged to make the results look worse than they might actually be.
Of course, his opinion on this seems utterly pointless to me. The man is a physicist, specializing in solid-state and quantum physics. He's no more qualified to analyze the science behind climate change than an electrical engineer is to build a bridge.
Imagine an even worse scenario... the Totally-Not-Fascist DNA database already exists and has her DNA in it at the time this first started. Disproving 20 crimes would probably be easy for her, as a solid alibi to one would call into question the rest. But if it were a single crime, there's no way she'd get out of it unless she were lucky enough to have an alibi on that one specific day.
But hey, no worries, the innocent have nothing to hide!
I had to Google exact lines from this to convince myself it was real. Some of these questions, I'd feel crazy answering at all. I mean, seriously... "My hands and feet are usually warm enough"? Uh, sure, I guess, during the summer at least. If not, I wear a second pair of socks...?
Honestly, I don't see how they can be worried about copyright infringement, as the questions seem exceedingly simple. The real trick, I'm sure, is in interpreting the answers.
I don't want to be racist or anything, but I think that he'll be America's first and last black president. Do I think that because he's black? No. I think that because I think he sucks.
This one even got modded up. Think about that. Obama's DoJ claiming that copyright statues are constitutional means no black man should ever be elected again.
I can't remember how often I had been told that Obama was going to change things for the better, how somehow Obama was going to not be in the corporation's or the party's pocketbook because he got most of his campaign funds from independent donates... and what does he do when he gets elected? He carries on policies that have always failed, meanwhile undermining capitalism and sending our country deeper into recession by both his words and by the laws he wants to pass.
You can also make them look good by not paying attention to what they say.
Scan through the thread, and see how many (few) people are responding reasonably. Here, I'll help:
It is a harbinger that will eventually show where the Obama campaign probably got their campaign money from.
Big media company associations, and big banks.
Who'll be big-time beneficiaries of their judicial efforts, stimulus packages, and ultimately new laws think new super-DMCA but 1000 fold worse.
i.e. Mandatory DRM. Repeal of the safe-harbor protections of the DMCA. More liability for services like youtube, and ISPs who fail to filter copyrighted content.
Criminal liability for authors of P2P software like bittorrent.
The years ahead will probably not be very fun for technologists or the public.
You heard it here first folks: Obama's presidency is bought and paid for by the media, and he'll through p2p authors in prison.
The only place where people will gleefully ignore the fact that we torture innocent people in secret prisons without a trial, but froth at the mouth at the idea that you can be sued for copyright infringement.
Yes, clearly, THIS is the biggest issue of the year. Forget the economy, and health care, and two wars, and terrorism, and a weak government in the nuclear-armed Pakistan, and global warming, and the torture of people who never even received a trial. This issue, right here, is what matters. Obama was elected because "big media" bought the election, and now he's gonna come down hard on all us poor innocents.
I think it may be time to invest in Reynold's Wrap.
The simple truth is that Apple doesn't make any cheap PCs. They all seem to be well made with good components and with good support. All that really does cost money.... My old Nano is just sitting since I got a touch but it works just fine.
Apple uses the same components as everyone else when they build their products. It's not as if they have super-secret semiconductor fabs that only they can buy from. You can get identical hardware to a Mac, and it will be much cheaper without that shiny white apple logo on the box.
Oh, and I'm glad your nano still works. Mine broke after two years of very light use (only ever took it on bus/plane trips). But I'm sure as hell not going to complain about Apple's reliability when comparing them to MS, and their oh-so-shitty 360 construction.
These are probably the most important "skills" any recent graduate can have. Companies expect new graduates to be a blank slate. College, especially a BS, is just to give you the background your going to need. After that, it's a question of acknowledging when you don't know something, finding someone who can help you, and, whenever you have down time, finding someone you can help.
In fact, one of the best things you can do during an interview when asked a hard technical question is to admit you don't know, and say that if faced with that problem in real life, you'd ask a coworker for help.
Or, said janitor could bet the money, and then start spreading rumors.
Honestly, after the horrific amount of lies and deceit that have led to the collapse of the real markets, you want to entrust the markets with even more!?
Markets are very, very, very easy to manipulate. That has been proven beyond any doubt. Let's try to come up with regulations that actually work before we expand their use.
There has never, in the entirety of the history of the universe, been truly perfectly identical inputs to a system the scale of a person. Nor will there ever be. Your post is complete and utter conjecture.
Yes, because every single event ever has the exact same value or harm to society. If a new law is passed that leads to 100 smiles and 99 murders, well 100 > 99, so it's good!
How, exactly, does this story prove the law hurts more than it helps? It certainly proves that the law is abused, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the abuses outweigh all the good.
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You're an idiot. That word dates back to the 15th century.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/denier
He's not a climatologist. He has never done research on global warming. He has absolutely no data of his own. He is not an expert in this field. There is no reason, whatsoever, to listen to his opinions.
You might as well have your car mechanic perform surgery on you. After all, he's a professional, right? Therefore he must be qualified!
I'm sure this discussion will be flooded with global warming deniers, but if you actually read Dyson's opinions, he believes that global warming IS happening and we ARE to blame.
His only complaint with the science is that he feels that some of the computer models are fudged to make the results look worse than they might actually be.
Of course, his opinion on this seems utterly pointless to me. The man is a physicist, specializing in solid-state and quantum physics. He's no more qualified to analyze the science behind climate change than an electrical engineer is to build a bridge.
Yup. Lots of pirated games come with a text file containing a single serial key, and that one key does indeed work for everyone.
If you wanna post on my site, you better be prepared to solve the 5D hyper-hyper-cube!
Imagine an even worse scenario... the Totally-Not-Fascist DNA database already exists and has her DNA in it at the time this first started. Disproving 20 crimes would probably be easy for her, as a solid alibi to one would call into question the rest. But if it were a single crime, there's no way she'd get out of it unless she were lucky enough to have an alibi on that one specific day.
But hey, no worries, the innocent have nothing to hide!
There was. It's hard to sustain outrage for six solid years, however, so we just get re-outraged every time it gets back in the news.
Coming down on the side of the girl, thank God. It's nice to see that some people in Washington are still remotely sane.
I had to Google exact lines from this to convince myself it was real. Some of these questions, I'd feel crazy answering at all. I mean, seriously... "My hands and feet are usually warm enough"? Uh, sure, I guess, during the summer at least. If not, I wear a second pair of socks...?
Honestly, I don't see how they can be worried about copyright infringement, as the questions seem exceedingly simple. The real trick, I'm sure, is in interpreting the answers.
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Bravo mods. Bravo.
You aren't redeeming one of the pieces, you're promoting the pawn. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to promote to pieces that haven't been captured yet.
I don't want to be racist or anything, but I think that he'll be America's first and last black president. Do I think that because he's black? No. I think that because I think he sucks.
This one even got modded up. Think about that. Obama's DoJ claiming that copyright statues are constitutional means no black man should ever be elected again.
Here you go:
I can't remember how often I had been told that Obama was going to change things for the better, how somehow Obama was going to not be in the corporation's or the party's pocketbook because he got most of his campaign funds from independent donates... and what does he do when he gets elected? He carries on policies that have always failed, meanwhile undermining capitalism and sending our country deeper into recession by both his words and by the laws he wants to pass.
Was that really so hard to find?
You can also make them look good by not paying attention to what they say.
Scan through the thread, and see how many (few) people are responding reasonably. Here, I'll help:
It is a harbinger that will eventually show where the Obama campaign probably got their campaign money from.
Big media company associations, and big banks.
Who'll be big-time beneficiaries of their judicial efforts, stimulus packages, and ultimately new laws think new super-DMCA but 1000 fold worse.
i.e. Mandatory DRM. Repeal of the safe-harbor protections of the DMCA. More liability for services like youtube, and ISPs who fail to filter copyrighted content.
Criminal liability for authors of P2P software like bittorrent.
The years ahead will probably not be very fun for technologists or the public.
You heard it here first folks: Obama's presidency is bought and paid for by the media, and he'll through p2p authors in prison.
The only place where people will gleefully ignore the fact that we torture innocent people in secret prisons without a trial, but froth at the mouth at the idea that you can be sued for copyright infringement.
Yes, clearly, THIS is the biggest issue of the year. Forget the economy, and health care, and two wars, and terrorism, and a weak government in the nuclear-armed Pakistan, and global warming, and the torture of people who never even received a trial. This issue, right here, is what matters. Obama was elected because "big media" bought the election, and now he's gonna come down hard on all us poor innocents.
I think it may be time to invest in Reynold's Wrap.
Yeah, ever since I took charge of my health and decided not to have cancer, I've been just fine!
The simple truth is that Apple doesn't make any cheap PCs. They all seem to be well made with good components and with good support. All that really does cost money. ... My old Nano is just sitting since I got a touch but it works just fine.
Apple uses the same components as everyone else when they build their products. It's not as if they have super-secret semiconductor fabs that only they can buy from. You can get identical hardware to a Mac, and it will be much cheaper without that shiny white apple logo on the box.
Oh, and I'm glad your nano still works. Mine broke after two years of very light use (only ever took it on bus/plane trips). But I'm sure as hell not going to complain about Apple's reliability when comparing them to MS, and their oh-so-shitty 360 construction.
These are probably the most important "skills" any recent graduate can have. Companies expect new graduates to be a blank slate. College, especially a BS, is just to give you the background your going to need. After that, it's a question of acknowledging when you don't know something, finding someone who can help you, and, whenever you have down time, finding someone you can help.
In fact, one of the best things you can do during an interview when asked a hard technical question is to admit you don't know, and say that if faced with that problem in real life, you'd ask a coworker for help.
So the better method is to shut our eyes really tight, and trust the markets with everything, even when we know just out fallible they are?
We can't stop people from murdering either. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
Or, said janitor could bet the money, and then start spreading rumors.
Honestly, after the horrific amount of lies and deceit that have led to the collapse of the real markets, you want to entrust the markets with even more!?
Markets are very, very, very easy to manipulate. That has been proven beyond any doubt. Let's try to come up with regulations that actually work before we expand their use.
There has never, in the entirety of the history of the universe, been truly perfectly identical inputs to a system the scale of a person. Nor will there ever be. Your post is complete and utter conjecture.
And believe you me, it was not easy finding a way of phrasing that that gave me the opportunity to mess them both up. =P
Yes, because every single event ever has the exact same value or harm to society. If a new law is passed that leads to 100 smiles and 99 murders, well 100 > 99, so it's good!
How, exactly, does this story prove the law hurts more than it helps? It certainly proves that the law is abused, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the abuses outweigh all the good.
Do you know what makes money the root of all evil? It[']s love.
Could mean "Love, in general, is the answer to the question" or "Love of money is what makes it bad."
See? Its absolutely possible to make a sentence where, when the apostrophe is misused, it's presence or absence matters.