That's good news, we haven't upgraded to 3.5 yet. The issue did seem to get better with the upgrade to 3.0, and from what you say, perhaps it is finally resolved.
No, I would not change my thinking. I would rather suffer eternal torment than give in to a bully. To me, the God of Christianity is evil. The fundamental morality of Christianity is hopelessly perverted. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be an ass about this, but it is how I honestly feel. The thing is, most of what you say has value if you know how to correctly interpret it. You parrot back sayings like "We ALL have chosen darkness, in the sense that we want OUR will to be supreme, rather than submitting FREELY to the will of God," without, I think, understanding them. In one sense, that phrase is absolutely true, but it has nothing to do with the Christian concept of a personal creator/savior God. It is a psychological metaphor relating to a mental virus that nearly every human is infected with. It is made up of three parts, a Judge, a Victim, and the Book of Law. We place judgments on the universe, rather than using our free will to accept what is, and any time we or the universe fail to live up to what our personal Book of Law says should be, our Judge part punishes our victim part. We chose to let the virus in, and it is the virus that wants to remain supreme.
I've been to hell. I've also been to heaven. I don't need to dwell in either. When I die, I will simply go away. Eternity in heaven sounds boring as hell when you've seen what I've seen. I've seen everything, and been everyone, for all time, in all possible universes. You could do it too, anyone can. After that, one is pretty much content with 'game over' after one's physical body dies. I know you must think I'm full of shit, but I don't really care.
Okay, I am a social anarchist. Libertarians are individualist anarchists. Man, nothing pisses off an anarchist more than confusing which camp they're in. But more to the point, the definition of anarchism precludes forcing your ideas onto anyone. So neither type of anarchist would demand that a group of people give their labor away. We socialist anarchists might apply sanctions such as restriction of trade or other benefits to those who don't agree to play by our rules, but we would never force anyone to play by our rules.
As for Ron Paul, he's an idiot like all the rest of the libertarian crowd. I'm throwing my vote away on a Kucinich write in.
We use SLES & RHEL, and it happens to both. Worse on SLES, due to the clock settings in the kernel as shipped by Suse. Also happens on every other distro I know, and the *BSDs. Basically, the fix is to put a "clock=pit" or "clock=pmtmr" line into your boot conf (for 32 bit systems, whichever works best, for 64 bit systems, you need "notsc" instead), recompile the kernel with no more than 100mhz timer interrupt rate, and set the VMWare tools option "tools.syncTime = TRUE" using the tools GUI, or edit the conf file directly. Also, use the burst/iburst mode in ntp, if you have your own server (you don't want to go bursting on a public server!)
...on slashdot the game is socialism... so we don't believe in such silly things as copyrights and patents as the community must benefeit at no charge from the works of others... and without consequence. Wow, how many times can you be wrong in one sentence? On Slashdot, the game is libertarianism. Do you see anyone endorsing a socialist candidate in their sig? Nope, you see Ron Paul. Second, we absolutely believe in copyright, as it is the only thing that makes the GPL work. As for patents, many of us think that reform is needed, but few would toss out the whole deal. No one hear thinks any community should benefit from the work of others unless those others want the community to benefit. No one is advocating force, we just happen to like sharing and only an asshole would try to claim that voluntary sharing is bad.
We do like screwing over 'individualists' who want to profit off our sharing without contributing, though. Thus the GPLv3. Don't you hate that? We can band together and stop you from screwing us over for a profit. Sucks to be selfish, eh?
If your ntp-enabled systems are drifting 15 seconds out of whack with each other, you have bigger problems than additional SSH security. Yes, it's called Linux on VMWare. There are workarounds, but they involve recompiling the kernel, setting boot options, and VMWare tools settings. Without the workarounds, even with ntp enabled, clocks can skew on the order of seconds every minute. I've seen systems get a minute out of whack in under ten minutes. With some settings, ntp actually makes it worse, as ntp and VMware perform dueling clock-skews.
Seriously, I've looked into Jesus, his teachings, and the claims that others have made for him. Jesus wrote nothing himself, unlike Buddha who wrote tons himself and made sure his disciples understood him completely. All we have to go on in Jesus case is the imperfect human understanding of his followers.
Not every calendar testifies to the centrality of Jesus appearing, and they all get it wrong. He wasn't born when the calendar says he was born, all modern biblical scholars agree on that point: the calendar is off by about 3-5 years as to the year of his birth, and no one knows the month, although we know it wasn't December!
Given that I have seen plenty of arrogant fools make outrageous claims such as "I am God!" but I have never seen anyone rise from the dead, it seems logical to me that either Jesus was an arrogant fool, or (more likely) his followers badly misinterpreted his message, he got himself killed before he could make his message understood, and his followers went into his tomb and stole the body in order to impress the gullible.
If the story of Christianity is true, I would rather go to hell forever than be a part of it, thank you very much. The God of Christianity disgusts me to my very core. He is a liar, a killer, and a psychotic egotist. How could infinite punishment for a finite sin be reasonable? How can God be omnipotent and still allow evil? You can make up all kinds of excuses, but it boils down to the fact that God is either not omnipotent, or he wants evil to exist, and I want no part of anything like that. I don't give a rat's ass what his divine motivations might be, or his mysterious reasons. being omnipotent, he could have made a world where humans have free will, but there is no evil. If I can easily imagine how that could be done, an omniscient and omnipotent being could have too. Why would an omniscient being (who knows what we are going to choose, based on the circumstances of our life) choose to punish us for what he knows all along we are going to do? Why would an omnipotent being need us to beg for forgiveness?
I would have to give up my own sense of the world, of logic, and of morality in order to believe in Christianity. I would have to give up all that I am, for what? The slight chance that I will get into heaven to spend eternity with a being I neither like nor respect? No thanks.
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."
Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."
God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.
"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."
How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?
"What didya do today honey?"
"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." [snores] "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" [snores] "Yeah, you know the mums will love it." [snores]
Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?
Which multi sided dice do I have to roll to move out of my parents apartment, get my license to drive, and lose my virginity? Just a regular d20, but you have to roll a pi.
No value to the receiver? How would that be selected for by evolution? You know what most women would actually prefer over a diamond? A down payment on a house. A nice little nest to raise some babies in says, "trust me, I'll provide for you." A sparkly gem that costs as much as a down payment on a house says, "I'm an idiot who will make poor choices about resource allocation without consulting you first." That is why marketing of diamonds is geared towards convincing men tosurprise a woman with a diamond. If they'd asked first, most women would say, "No, I'd like a house more than a sparkly rock." This is from DeBeers own research on the subject.
I made quite a few captions for the original DFC. I was known as 'spun' there, too. Many of them even made it into the 'green' category. I was there when DFC closed down. Bill Keene himself called the guy who ran the site and basically said, "The cartoon is about me and my family, and you guys are putting us into the most disgusting and degrading situations. What if my kids read this site? Please, would you stop?" So we all felt kinda bad, and we stopped, but that doesn't make DFC any less funny. You can still find all the captions archived in various places on the web if you look...
Very true. But what you may not know is that Buddhism has reinterpreted these beliefs as metaphor. Many practitioners still believe in Gods and such, but the explanation as to what Buddhism means by Gods or heaven or hell is there for those who want to find out. For instance, heaven and hell are just mental states.
No, Jesus is not different from all the others. You haven't seen his tomb, you have no idea if he rose from the dead or not. And I can and will live that way. I don't accept Buddha's teachings out of faith, but out of direct experience. My experiences, not my belief, give me all the answers I'll ever need. I feel sorry for you that your logical faculties have been so eroded by the damaging teachings of your prophet that you can't even trust your own experience, you have to have blind faith. That's just sad, to see something as glorious as a human mind reduced to such a state.
Why should the fact that love is just a physical and chemical process make it any less real? Why would it being the result of some kind of mythical 'soul' or 'spirit' make it any more real? Wow, I feel sorry for any students you might have. And you are a very poor Christian, what with all the judging others. One of Christ's main messages, yet you seem to have missed it.
I tried that. Accepted Jesus, the whole bit. Ended up feeling like a complete fool. Got absolutely nothing out of it. Buddha and Lao Tzu were secular humanist scientists, they performed experiments that anyone could repeat. In my current practice, I get real mystical experiences, far more than I ever got out of Christianity. Oh, and everyone knows Jesus was not born on Christmas! Jesus did not turn religion on it's head, that would be Buddha, eight hundred years earlier. Jesus just propagated the same old hierarchal, dualistic message.
Follow the money and the motivation. Certain people make tons of money off the status quo, and thus have tons of money to throw around to influence the debate and the science. Scientists aren't rich, the liberals you think are trying to scam you aren't rich, and none of them have anything to gain by advancing the idea of global climate change. The people you support, the rich and powerful who would stand to lose the most from any changes to the global economy, they are the ones running a scam. Why are falling for such an obvious ploy? I really doubt you are in the 'rich and powerful' category, and you thus have little to lose if we do change the global economy. The economy won't even shrink, it will grow if we become more efficient and waste less. But certain people will have to pay more of their fair share of the impact that they cause, and they don't want to. They want you to pay for their mistakes, and yet you want to kiss their ass, not kick it. You sir are a grade A chump.
No, honestly, if there is data showing a trend in upper level clouds, and a theory that explains climate change in terms of solar magnetic flux, I'd love to hear it. You're saying decreased solar heat output means decreased solar magnetic flux, an increase in high level clouds which trap more heat than they reflect, and that the resultant increase in temperature more than offsets the temperature loss from decreased solar output, is that it? Fascinating. You sound quite educated in physics, astrophysics, and climatology. Truly, the debate on global warming is better for the mere existence of intellects such as yours.
Slashdot on a late Saturday is weird. All the guys who can't get dates and thus hate women hang out at Slashdot on Saturday nights. There's a lot of misogyny here at the best of times. Remember, physical touch and affection is vital to sanity. Men's oppression says we can only get that through sex with a woman. So sex and women take on a far greater importance than they would otherwise have. That's where the desperation and anger come from.
On the flip side, remember that most oppression comes from within oneself. Most of the rest comes from within one's peer group. Ever watch how women treat each other? My wife is a very strong intelligent woman, but a little overweight. Who do you think gives her more shit about that? Who do you think puts her down more, men or women? Men love the shape of her body, she's got nice curves. Women try to 'put her in her place.'
Maybe if feminists spent as much energy stamping out women's oppression among women as they do blaming men, we wouldn't be at this impasse.
I used to volunteer with Earth First, and let me tell you how it works. We scare the piss out of everyone, get them to donate billions of dollars, and spend all the money on hookers and blow. Pretty much standard operating procedure in liberal activist circles, don't you know.
I mean, it's not like any of us were dirt poor, living out of our cars, and dumpster diving for food. Nope, we were all trust fund babies with millions in the bank who just wanted to piss off our rich industrialist parents. This whole global warming thing is just an overblown case of teenage rebellion.
It was funny because it was a brush off of a wacko. Of course, if you are the same sort of wacko, it won't be funny. But evidently enough people with mod points aren't 'no-such-thing-as-human-caused-climate-change' wackos to get the joke modded up. Doesn't that just piss you off?
I'm not spouting nihilism. I'm spouting a mixture of Buddhism and Taoism, and there is a big difference. Because Buddhism and Taoism provide and explanation that is satisfying to a large percentage of the world's population. So, you are wrong. Those answers don't matter to a large percentage of the world's population, throughout recorded history. Maybe if more people listened to those philosophies, less people would be willing to fly planes into buildings, hmmm? When was the last time you heard about a Buddhist or Taoist terrorist? That would be never.
Everything reduces to the physical and chemical, but from these humble beginnings, countless new behaviors emerge that can not be addressed by mere physics and chemistry. The system is more than the sum of its parts, there are all the myriad interactions as well. To me, this explanation of reality is far grander and more mysterious than any magical fairytale. When I think of the explanations provided by religion, I feel sad and limited. When I look at the explanations provided by science, I feel awe and exultation.
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That's good news, we haven't upgraded to 3.5 yet. The issue did seem to get better with the upgrade to 3.0, and from what you say, perhaps it is finally resolved.
It's a commie plot to make us all autistic, I tells ya!
No, I would not change my thinking. I would rather suffer eternal torment than give in to a bully. To me, the God of Christianity is evil. The fundamental morality of Christianity is hopelessly perverted. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be an ass about this, but it is how I honestly feel. The thing is, most of what you say has value if you know how to correctly interpret it. You parrot back sayings like "We ALL have chosen darkness, in the sense that we want OUR will to be supreme, rather than submitting FREELY to the will of God," without, I think, understanding them. In one sense, that phrase is absolutely true, but it has nothing to do with the Christian concept of a personal creator/savior God. It is a psychological metaphor relating to a mental virus that nearly every human is infected with. It is made up of three parts, a Judge, a Victim, and the Book of Law. We place judgments on the universe, rather than using our free will to accept what is, and any time we or the universe fail to live up to what our personal Book of Law says should be, our Judge part punishes our victim part. We chose to let the virus in, and it is the virus that wants to remain supreme.
I've been to hell. I've also been to heaven. I don't need to dwell in either. When I die, I will simply go away. Eternity in heaven sounds boring as hell when you've seen what I've seen. I've seen everything, and been everyone, for all time, in all possible universes. You could do it too, anyone can. After that, one is pretty much content with 'game over' after one's physical body dies. I know you must think I'm full of shit, but I don't really care.
Okay, I am a social anarchist. Libertarians are individualist anarchists. Man, nothing pisses off an anarchist more than confusing which camp they're in. But more to the point, the definition of anarchism precludes forcing your ideas onto anyone. So neither type of anarchist would demand that a group of people give their labor away. We socialist anarchists might apply sanctions such as restriction of trade or other benefits to those who don't agree to play by our rules, but we would never force anyone to play by our rules.
As for Ron Paul, he's an idiot like all the rest of the libertarian crowd. I'm throwing my vote away on a Kucinich write in.
We use SLES & RHEL, and it happens to both. Worse on SLES, due to the clock settings in the kernel as shipped by Suse. Also happens on every other distro I know, and the *BSDs. Basically, the fix is to put a "clock=pit" or "clock=pmtmr" line into your boot conf (for 32 bit systems, whichever works best, for 64 bit systems, you need "notsc" instead), recompile the kernel with no more than 100mhz timer interrupt rate, and set the VMWare tools option "tools.syncTime = TRUE" using the tools GUI, or edit the conf file directly. Also, use the burst/iburst mode in ntp, if you have your own server (you don't want to go bursting on a public server!)
...on slashdot the game is socialismWe do like screwing over 'individualists' who want to profit off our sharing without contributing, though. Thus the GPLv3. Don't you hate that? We can band together and stop you from screwing us over for a profit. Sucks to be selfish, eh?
Sort of like a peacock's tail. I knew that, I'm just off my intellectual game these last few days with a nasty flu.
Seriously, I've looked into Jesus, his teachings, and the claims that others have made for him. Jesus wrote nothing himself, unlike Buddha who wrote tons himself and made sure his disciples understood him completely. All we have to go on in Jesus case is the imperfect human understanding of his followers.
Not every calendar testifies to the centrality of Jesus appearing, and they all get it wrong. He wasn't born when the calendar says he was born, all modern biblical scholars agree on that point: the calendar is off by about 3-5 years as to the year of his birth, and no one knows the month, although we know it wasn't December!
Given that I have seen plenty of arrogant fools make outrageous claims such as "I am God!" but I have never seen anyone rise from the dead, it seems logical to me that either Jesus was an arrogant fool, or (more likely) his followers badly misinterpreted his message, he got himself killed before he could make his message understood, and his followers went into his tomb and stole the body in order to impress the gullible.
If the story of Christianity is true, I would rather go to hell forever than be a part of it, thank you very much. The God of Christianity disgusts me to my very core. He is a liar, a killer, and a psychotic egotist. How could infinite punishment for a finite sin be reasonable? How can God be omnipotent and still allow evil? You can make up all kinds of excuses, but it boils down to the fact that God is either not omnipotent, or he wants evil to exist, and I want no part of anything like that. I don't give a rat's ass what his divine motivations might be, or his mysterious reasons. being omnipotent, he could have made a world where humans have free will, but there is no evil. If I can easily imagine how that could be done, an omniscient and omnipotent being could have too. Why would an omniscient being (who knows what we are going to choose, based on the circumstances of our life) choose to punish us for what he knows all along we are going to do? Why would an omnipotent being need us to beg for forgiveness?
I would have to give up my own sense of the world, of logic, and of morality in order to believe in Christianity. I would have to give up all that I am, for what? The slight chance that I will get into heaven to spend eternity with a being I neither like nor respect? No thanks.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."
Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."
God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.
"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."
How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?
"What didya do today honey?"
"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." [snores] "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" [snores] "Yeah, you know the mums will love it." [snores]
Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?
No value to the receiver? How would that be selected for by evolution? You know what most women would actually prefer over a diamond? A down payment on a house. A nice little nest to raise some babies in says, "trust me, I'll provide for you." A sparkly gem that costs as much as a down payment on a house says, "I'm an idiot who will make poor choices about resource allocation without consulting you first." That is why marketing of diamonds is geared towards convincing men tosurprise a woman with a diamond. If they'd asked first, most women would say, "No, I'd like a house more than a sparkly rock." This is from DeBeers own research on the subject.
I made quite a few captions for the original DFC. I was known as 'spun' there, too. Many of them even made it into the 'green' category. I was there when DFC closed down. Bill Keene himself called the guy who ran the site and basically said, "The cartoon is about me and my family, and you guys are putting us into the most disgusting and degrading situations. What if my kids read this site? Please, would you stop?" So we all felt kinda bad, and we stopped, but that doesn't make DFC any less funny. You can still find all the captions archived in various places on the web if you look...
Very true. But what you may not know is that Buddhism has reinterpreted these beliefs as metaphor. Many practitioners still believe in Gods and such, but the explanation as to what Buddhism means by Gods or heaven or hell is there for those who want to find out. For instance, heaven and hell are just mental states.
No, Jesus is not different from all the others. You haven't seen his tomb, you have no idea if he rose from the dead or not. And I can and will live that way. I don't accept Buddha's teachings out of faith, but out of direct experience. My experiences, not my belief, give me all the answers I'll ever need. I feel sorry for you that your logical faculties have been so eroded by the damaging teachings of your prophet that you can't even trust your own experience, you have to have blind faith. That's just sad, to see something as glorious as a human mind reduced to such a state.
Why should the fact that love is just a physical and chemical process make it any less real? Why would it being the result of some kind of mythical 'soul' or 'spirit' make it any more real? Wow, I feel sorry for any students you might have. And you are a very poor Christian, what with all the judging others. One of Christ's main messages, yet you seem to have missed it.
I tried that. Accepted Jesus, the whole bit. Ended up feeling like a complete fool. Got absolutely nothing out of it. Buddha and Lao Tzu were secular humanist scientists, they performed experiments that anyone could repeat. In my current practice, I get real mystical experiences, far more than I ever got out of Christianity. Oh, and everyone knows Jesus was not born on Christmas! Jesus did not turn religion on it's head, that would be Buddha, eight hundred years earlier. Jesus just propagated the same old hierarchal, dualistic message.
Follow the money and the motivation. Certain people make tons of money off the status quo, and thus have tons of money to throw around to influence the debate and the science. Scientists aren't rich, the liberals you think are trying to scam you aren't rich, and none of them have anything to gain by advancing the idea of global climate change. The people you support, the rich and powerful who would stand to lose the most from any changes to the global economy, they are the ones running a scam. Why are falling for such an obvious ploy? I really doubt you are in the 'rich and powerful' category, and you thus have little to lose if we do change the global economy. The economy won't even shrink, it will grow if we become more efficient and waste less. But certain people will have to pay more of their fair share of the impact that they cause, and they don't want to. They want you to pay for their mistakes, and yet you want to kiss their ass, not kick it. You sir are a grade A chump.
No, honestly, if there is data showing a trend in upper level clouds, and a theory that explains climate change in terms of solar magnetic flux, I'd love to hear it. You're saying decreased solar heat output means decreased solar magnetic flux, an increase in high level clouds which trap more heat than they reflect, and that the resultant increase in temperature more than offsets the temperature loss from decreased solar output, is that it? Fascinating. You sound quite educated in physics, astrophysics, and climatology. Truly, the debate on global warming is better for the mere existence of intellects such as yours.
On the flip side, remember that most oppression comes from within oneself. Most of the rest comes from within one's peer group. Ever watch how women treat each other? My wife is a very strong intelligent woman, but a little overweight. Who do you think gives her more shit about that? Who do you think puts her down more, men or women? Men love the shape of her body, she's got nice curves. Women try to 'put her in her place.'
Maybe if feminists spent as much energy stamping out women's oppression among women as they do blaming men, we wouldn't be at this impasse.
I used to volunteer with Earth First, and let me tell you how it works. We scare the piss out of everyone, get them to donate billions of dollars, and spend all the money on hookers and blow. Pretty much standard operating procedure in liberal activist circles, don't you know.
I mean, it's not like any of us were dirt poor, living out of our cars, and dumpster diving for food. Nope, we were all trust fund babies with millions in the bank who just wanted to piss off our rich industrialist parents. This whole global warming thing is just an overblown case of teenage rebellion.
(The scary thing is, people really believe that.)
Okay, so show us the data from a reputable source like the NOAA showing the trend in low level cloud cover. Should be simple to test that theory.
It was funny because it was a brush off of a wacko. Of course, if you are the same sort of wacko, it won't be funny. But evidently enough people with mod points aren't 'no-such-thing-as-human-caused-climate-change' wackos to get the joke modded up. Doesn't that just piss you off?
I'm not spouting nihilism. I'm spouting a mixture of Buddhism and Taoism, and there is a big difference. Because Buddhism and Taoism provide and explanation that is satisfying to a large percentage of the world's population. So, you are wrong. Those answers don't matter to a large percentage of the world's population, throughout recorded history. Maybe if more people listened to those philosophies, less people would be willing to fly planes into buildings, hmmm? When was the last time you heard about a Buddhist or Taoist terrorist? That would be never.
Everything reduces to the physical and chemical, but from these humble beginnings, countless new behaviors emerge that can not be addressed by mere physics and chemistry. The system is more than the sum of its parts, there are all the myriad interactions as well. To me, this explanation of reality is far grander and more mysterious than any magical fairytale. When I think of the explanations provided by religion, I feel sad and limited. When I look at the explanations provided by science, I feel awe and exultation.