Ammunition? Against what? The only ammunition you'd give them would be bad-science piercing rounds. Sure, they could fudge their numbers to make it look like the Earth will freeze tomorrow, but if their numberfudgings aren't as valid as your numberfudgings then you should be able to easily defend against them.
So basically the data is incomplete, and you have to make guesses to fill it in. Oh, wait, I mean 'educated' guesses, since the only people you let guess are the ones whose guesses agree with yours.
If I want to become an expert on SQL, I go read the specs. If I want to become an expert on climatology, I go ask people to tell me how to guess which numbers will be useful to feed into the statistical analysis specs. I don't consider this crap as coming close to 'science'.
Hmmm, he suggested that people be stopped from teaching children that they need to go to war to defend a 'holy land', and you suggest genocide. What would we do without you anonymous cowards to bring us reason.
He's hoping they'll remember him. Always be friendly with the food most likely to rise up; this is basic stuff, man. Let me guess, you don't have a zombie contingency plan either, do you?
So child labor is actually really not a bad thing, as long as the market approves it? There should be no laws against forcing my 7 year old to work in a mill all day so I can replace my car sooner? I think I'll leave my ear as it is, thank you very much.
If it runs like a slideshow, try turning down the freaking settings. You know, so it matches the Xbox graphics. Those things don't magically get more hardware over time, they just keep the games looking crappy.
I like PCs because I know that even in 5 years, when your xbox can't even produce enough pixels to cover my 22" monitor and has to upscale its renderings, my PC will be (for the price of a graphics card) right back up at the top of the line for graphics. And really, I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about with regards to 'compatibility issues'. How about the 'compatibility issue' of not being able to play 360 games on my PS3?
For me, and hopefully for other people as they move out of the stone age, buying computer games is easier than buying console games. Four or five clicks on Steam and I have a full version game slowly filling up my hard drive. I can't believe people still bother with all the 'putting the disc in the tray' nonsense. I'd like to know how many console gamers are playing a game literally the minute it's released. Most of the gamers I know are standing at the back of a line in the freezing wind on release night while I'm sitting at home happily watching the 'decrypting preloaded content' dialog.
You are right about more games, but then again, that's your fault. You and people like you, who settle for mediocrity, guaranteeing that it's catered to. Now PCs just get crappy console ports which were rushed out with minimal testing because, not-so-surprisingly, frat boy Halo gamers are more easily manipulated by changing when you sell your crap than by actually improving the quality of the product.
Have you done the time trials while online? You can enable ghost tracks from the top players and see their very clever 'alternate' paths. It's not as linear as you'd think.
FuckingNickName turned on the stereo and began jamming out to his favorite Christmas carol, nodding his head in rhythm with the violent bouncing of the speakers. Turning around, he saw his young son holding his hands over his ears with a look of disgust on his face. Puzzled, FuckingNickName shouts above the music, "FuckingJr, what's wrong? You're not listening? I'm not listening? Are you encouraging me to smile? Do you have a migraine? Are you meditating? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO COMMUNICATE???"
The largest adjustement (the yellow line, 'SHAP minus MMTS') was based on 'Karl, T.R., and C.W. Williams, Jr., 1987: An approach to adjusting climatological time series for discontinuous inhomogeneities, J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 26, 1744-1763.' I found a pdf here: http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0450/26/12/pdf/i1520-0450-26-12-1744.pdf
From that pdf, I can read that the methods used involved taking a station and looking at the stations around it to figure out whether or not the data should be adjusted. From the 'harry' text file that was leaked, we find this paragraph:
"Still a bit disturbed by the large number of cells marked as 'influenced' by a single station. IDL seems to use the inbuilt 'TRIGRID' function to interpolate the grid, so there's no way of getting the station count for a particular cell that way anyway. Not that it would mean much, since there is bound to be some kind of weighting (it's not clear what that weighting is, though, from the IDL website). So the figures in the station count files are really rather loose. What might be useful as a companion dataset would be the ACTUAL station counts. Counts for cells with stations actually INSIDE them. Of course, that might be rather sensitive information.."
Alright. I've read the methods. I've looked at the papers. I'm still not a climate scientist, and I'm still not an expert, but how the FUCK is that supposed to convince me that their results were reliable? Can a climate scientist come explain why I was wrong? How about a troll at least, shouting that I can't possibly be right since I haven't spent years in the field being inundated with assumptions?
It may have a different hat, but that's still a strawman. You're not even arguing with him; you're assuming he's wrong and then painting a picture of him that you can disagree with. Getting bad results based on bad data does not require a conspiracy.
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Ammunition? Against what? The only ammunition you'd give them would be bad-science piercing rounds. Sure, they could fudge their numbers to make it look like the Earth will freeze tomorrow, but if their numberfudgings aren't as valid as your numberfudgings then you should be able to easily defend against them.
What are you so scared of?
That's the thing, they SHOULDN'T FUCKING 'PREPARE' it. Release the RAW NUMBERS.
Oh, so anyone who disagrees with the phlogiston theory is obviously not an expert on phlogiston... so they must be a non-expert whack-job denialist.
So basically the data is incomplete, and you have to make guesses to fill it in. Oh, wait, I mean 'educated' guesses, since the only people you let guess are the ones whose guesses agree with yours.
If I want to become an expert on SQL, I go read the specs. If I want to become an expert on climatology, I go ask people to tell me how to guess which numbers will be useful to feed into the statistical analysis specs. I don't consider this crap as coming close to 'science'.
"Atheism is clearly a religion, or at least a religion-like movement, for some value of religion and for some subset of atheists"
OK... so did you have a point hidden in that wall of off-topic text? I sure as hell couldn't find it.
Hmmm, he suggested that people be stopped from teaching children that they need to go to war to defend a 'holy land', and you suggest genocide. What would we do without you anonymous cowards to bring us reason.
Pandora radio.
He's hoping they'll remember him. Always be friendly with the food most likely to rise up; this is basic stuff, man. Let me guess, you don't have a zombie contingency plan either, do you?
First they came for the cheese...
Yeah I'd like to hear the stork's side of all this.
Yeah, I got a G1 for the 3g, but it turns out AT&T doesn't use the 'right' frequencies. At least the 2g works though.
So child labor is actually really not a bad thing, as long as the market approves it? There should be no laws against forcing my 7 year old to work in a mill all day so I can replace my car sooner? I think I'll leave my ear as it is, thank you very much.
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If it runs like a slideshow, try turning down the freaking settings. You know, so it matches the Xbox graphics. Those things don't magically get more hardware over time, they just keep the games looking crappy.
I like PCs because I know that even in 5 years, when your xbox can't even produce enough pixels to cover my 22" monitor and has to upscale its renderings, my PC will be (for the price of a graphics card) right back up at the top of the line for graphics. And really, I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about with regards to 'compatibility issues'. How about the 'compatibility issue' of not being able to play 360 games on my PS3?
For me, and hopefully for other people as they move out of the stone age, buying computer games is easier than buying console games. Four or five clicks on Steam and I have a full version game slowly filling up my hard drive. I can't believe people still bother with all the 'putting the disc in the tray' nonsense. I'd like to know how many console gamers are playing a game literally the minute it's released. Most of the gamers I know are standing at the back of a line in the freezing wind on release night while I'm sitting at home happily watching the 'decrypting preloaded content' dialog.
You are right about more games, but then again, that's your fault. You and people like you, who settle for mediocrity, guaranteeing that it's catered to. Now PCs just get crappy console ports which were rushed out with minimal testing because, not-so-surprisingly, frat boy Halo gamers are more easily manipulated by changing when you sell your crap than by actually improving the quality of the product.
Well your English skills are certainly shitty enough to be an American's.
I'm sure that whole 'hell' bit had something to do with it.
OBAMA LIED
THE ECONOMY DIED
Saw that on my way home from work yesterday. *sigh*
It would probably show up just as much as, say, the reflective tape on your biking backpack. Which just happens to be taping down the memory chip.
Have you done the time trials while online? You can enable ghost tracks from the top players and see their very clever 'alternate' paths. It's not as linear as you'd think.
Deadly sins? Nonono, he's not one of THOSE Christians. He's a REAL Christian.
FuckingNickName turned on the stereo and began jamming out to his favorite Christmas carol, nodding his head in rhythm with the violent bouncing of the speakers. Turning around, he saw his young son holding his hands over his ears with a look of disgust on his face. Puzzled, FuckingNickName shouts above the music, "FuckingJr, what's wrong? You're not listening? I'm not listening? Are you encouraging me to smile? Do you have a migraine? Are you meditating? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO COMMUNICATE???"
Ahhh, /.
The only place you get not one but THREE corrections to your Ghostbusters misquote.
And here comes someone to tell me it was Ghostbusters 2, no doubt...
The largest adjustement (the yellow line, 'SHAP minus MMTS') was based on 'Karl, T.R., and C.W. Williams, Jr., 1987: An approach to adjusting climatological time series for discontinuous inhomogeneities, J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 26, 1744-1763.' I found a pdf here: http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0450/26/12/pdf/i1520-0450-26-12-1744.pdf
From that pdf, I can read that the methods used involved taking a station and looking at the stations around it to figure out whether or not the data should be adjusted. From the 'harry' text file that was leaked, we find this paragraph:
"Still a bit disturbed by the large number of cells marked as 'influenced' by a single station. IDL seems to use the inbuilt 'TRIGRID' function to interpolate the grid, so there's no way of getting the station count for a particular cell that way anyway. Not that it would mean much, since there is bound to be some kind of weighting (it's not clear what that weighting is, though, from the IDL website). So the figures in the station count files are really rather loose. What might be useful as a companion dataset would be the ACTUAL station counts. Counts for cells with stations actually INSIDE them. Of course, that might be rather sensitive information.."
Alright. I've read the methods. I've looked at the papers. I'm still not a climate scientist, and I'm still not an expert, but how the FUCK is that supposed to convince me that their results were reliable? Can a climate scientist come explain why I was wrong? How about a troll at least, shouting that I can't possibly be right since I haven't spent years in the field being inundated with assumptions?
It may have a different hat, but that's still a strawman. You're not even arguing with him; you're assuming he's wrong and then painting a picture of him that you can disagree with. Getting bad results based on bad data does not require a conspiracy.