Global warming plays some part I'm sure (as does acidification from CO2), but the biggest problems are severe overfishing and agricultural and urban runoff. It's frightening how much fishing stocks have decreased.
The destruction of the biological health of the ocean is probably the most serious environmental issues facing our world right now, and a far more serious problem than global warming.
Instead of trying to fix real existing threats that we have in front of us (waste management, water resources, starvation, pollution, etc.), the goal is to have a CO2 tax for something we aren't sure about
...and when people try to solve those problems the same people whining about how global warming is a myth suddenly argue that waste management isn't a problem and only commie pinkos care about water conservation, and how poor people should starve because they deserve to and how pollution isn't a problem.
Wait, I thought you had just made a typo...gold supply increases exponentially? I mean, I can understand an argument that it grows linearly, but exponentially?? The world gold supply is not increasing that fast, if it were the price of gold would be plummeting.
No no no. The Dreamcast wasn't part of the GC/xbox/PS2 generation, it came out almost 2 years before the PS2 and almost 4 years before the GC. It was miles ahead of anything at the time.
I used to believe that CO2 could cause global warming but didn't think too deeply about it. Then they tried to erase the Medieval Warm Period. That got my attention and 'Global Warming' has become a bit of a hobby for me.
In addition to what everyone else here has said, what message does it send out to just let it slide. Riots after every game? "Yeah, we can break open windows and steal stuff from stores and set cop cars on fire and they don't care!"
And while you are rational and I'm rational, and ultimately even Reagan was sort-of-rational (in that he did institute tax increases when he thought they made sense), there are plenty of people on slashdot, for example, who think it is accepted "economics" that raising taxes always hurts the economy.
At least the OSI guys haven't shown up on this thread to accuse everyone of ignoring that they were the first to invent open source development in 1998.
Oh noes!! Making companies reduce the amount of CO2 they spew out into the atmosphere will increase their costs by 3%! That's going to destroy civilization!! Aahhhh!!
Was it the 1990s that elevated Open Source to the mainstream's radar--whether or not it was able to achieve mainstream acceptance as an option. The creation of GNU/Linux, and eventually spawning what would become the Mozilla project.
Did the creators of GNU/Linux break into other people's computer systems? It's not hacking to write software that isn't intended to do so; unless you are going by the incorrect jargon file definition of hacking. By the way, Mozilla's significance is severely overrated; a better example of successful, brought-to-the-mainstream open source design is Apache.
"More than fair. The problem is, there is a HUGE political wing that not only believes it understands the complexities of ecological change, but understands them well enough to want to impose corrective measures."
And that political wing's corrective measures are overwhelmingly "minimize how much we mess with complex systems we don't fully understand." Which is a pretty logical approach.
What's interesting about racing is the pool of people able to pursue it as a career is so small that the chances of you getting the most talented natural racers into the sport are astronomically low. With soccer, track, football, baseball, etc., you have a way to work your way up from schools or the streets; if you're truly great at the sport chances are good you'll be found out and put in a position to compete. With racing you have a tiny pool of people connected enough to the sport (frequently through family members), wealthy or driven enough (drive does not necessarily imply talent) to do whatever it takes to get behind the wheel.
They're fun to see live when they finally got on stage. The shows I've seen have always started really, really late, to the point where it was kind of insulting. I remember one show an hour after they were supposed to start a pizza delivery guy showed up to deliver pizzas backstage. Suffice it to say, it was a while after that before they came on.
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They're not both made by Microsoft?
Global warming plays some part I'm sure (as does acidification from CO2), but the biggest problems are severe overfishing and agricultural and urban runoff. It's frightening how much fishing stocks have decreased.
The destruction of the biological health of the ocean is probably the most serious environmental issues facing our world right now, and a far more serious problem than global warming.
Especially considering that the bank bailouts of 2008 was just money created out of thin air, and we use digital currency all the time already.
And yet the US dollar is still valuable, while overnight bitcoins have become virtually worthless.
At least they don't call it "the Genius Bar." Biggest. Misnomer. Ever.
One could conclude then liberals are not very tolerant of differing viewpoints.
Didn't read TFA, didja? Or are death threats a sign of tolerance of differing viewpoints?
Instead of trying to fix real existing threats that we have in front of us (waste management, water resources, starvation, pollution, etc.), the goal is to have a CO2 tax for something we aren't sure about
...and when people try to solve those problems the same people whining about how global warming is a myth suddenly argue that waste management isn't a problem and only commie pinkos care about water conservation, and how poor people should starve because they deserve to and how pollution isn't a problem.
Wait, I thought you had just made a typo...gold supply increases exponentially? I mean, I can understand an argument that it grows linearly, but exponentially?? The world gold supply is not increasing that fast, if it were the price of gold would be plummeting.
No no no. The Dreamcast wasn't part of the GC/xbox/PS2 generation, it came out almost 2 years before the PS2 and almost 4 years before the GC. It was miles ahead of anything at the time.
There's an old joke -- "I buy Hustler to hide the New York Post behind"
You are publicly admitting, on a highly-trafficked public web site, that you read the New York Post?
Sadly, I expect things that are remotely valid or fact based when they are served up on slashdot...
No offense, but that's equally as silly as expecting fact-based information from Fox...
I used to believe that CO2 could cause global warming but didn't think too deeply about it. Then they tried to erase the Medieval Warm Period. That got my attention and 'Global Warming' has become a bit of a hobby for me.
"They"? Who exactly are "they"?
People willing to *kill* for the sake of their property are, in fact, much worse than people who would smash it for no reason.
The only time these people willing to kill for the sake of their property entered the picture was when you conjured them up as a strawman.
I simply believe that this manner of searching for suspects
Asking the public whether they have pictures of crimes being committed? I am hard pressed to think of a less intrusive method of investigating crimes.
In addition to what everyone else here has said, what message does it send out to just let it slide. Riots after every game? "Yeah, we can break open windows and steal stuff from stores and set cop cars on fire and they don't care!"
And while you are rational and I'm rational, and ultimately even Reagan was sort-of-rational (in that he did institute tax increases when he thought they made sense), there are plenty of people on slashdot, for example, who think it is accepted "economics" that raising taxes always hurts the economy.
And this is why it is useless to teach economics; there's no agreed definition to what economics is.
At least the OSI guys haven't shown up on this thread to accuse everyone of ignoring that they were the first to invent open source development in 1998.
Oh noes!! Making companies reduce the amount of CO2 they spew out into the atmosphere will increase their costs by 3%! That's going to destroy civilization!! Aahhhh!!
Was it the 1990s that elevated Open Source to the mainstream's radar--whether or not it was able to achieve mainstream acceptance as an option. The creation of GNU/Linux, and eventually spawning what would become the Mozilla project.
Did the creators of GNU/Linux break into other people's computer systems? It's not hacking to write software that isn't intended to do so; unless you are going by the incorrect jargon file definition of hacking. By the way, Mozilla's significance is severely overrated; a better example of successful, brought-to-the-mainstream open source design is Apache.
while featuring scantily clad teen celebrities
Link?
"More than fair. The problem is, there is a HUGE political wing that not only believes it understands the complexities of ecological change, but understands them well enough to want to impose corrective measures."
And that political wing's corrective measures are overwhelmingly "minimize how much we mess with complex systems we don't fully understand." Which is a pretty logical approach.
What's interesting about racing is the pool of people able to pursue it as a career is so small that the chances of you getting the most talented natural racers into the sport are astronomically low. With soccer, track, football, baseball, etc., you have a way to work your way up from schools or the streets; if you're truly great at the sport chances are good you'll be found out and put in a position to compete. With racing you have a tiny pool of people connected enough to the sport (frequently through family members), wealthy or driven enough (drive does not necessarily imply talent) to do whatever it takes to get behind the wheel.
They're fun to see live when they finally got on stage. The shows I've seen have always started really, really late, to the point where it was kind of insulting. I remember one show an hour after they were supposed to start a pizza delivery guy showed up to deliver pizzas backstage. Suffice it to say, it was a while after that before they came on.
More critically, do you know how long it would take to convert e-mails into electronic format?