Because there is no incentive for normal people to spend it.
And the tech industry thrived because the value appreciation of what could be done with technology grew faster than the rate at which the cost of said pieces of technology lost value. That has little to do with the discussion, however - that is simply a reflection of the mass of technology investment.
> No, currency is whatever we decide it is. You are speaking only of one small subset of currency known as fiat currency. There is nothing intrinsic about currency that says it has to devalue over time.
Appreciating resources are not actually used as currency. They're investments.
I have several hundred bitcoins. I have absolutely zero intention of spending them until the libertarians driving it realize that they're duping themselves. Which I expect to take a very long time.
Honestly when I first found your site my reaction was 'What? No address? It's in my flipping DNS query. No one who uses my sites gives a damn what my address is...'...which is another point, if someone's out shopping, a resource like yours is good. If someone's looking for information or something else for free, then you need a different criteria.
The black hole at the center of our galaxy is four million solar masses. In comparison, the dark matter halo of our galaxy is on the order of a trillion solar masses.
None of their fans are going to want to see all of their time taken up by community engagement. Some, certainly, are clueless, and enjoy being time vampires. You deal with time vampire 'fans' the same way you deal with time vampires in real life.
If you have an issue with the time commitment, make a rule for yourself and stick to it. "I'm only going to visit the forums on Friday nights." Or something similar. People will give you a wide berth, especially once your forum reaches a decent size (more than 10k members or so). Maybe a bit too wide, even.
for correcting themselves, is rather low, don't you think?
It's especially difficult when it becomes clear that measuring extant arctic sea ice, for example, is no longer a cut and dried calculation involving coverage, but also the density of the ice, and thickness. So in that case the error becomes neither intentional nor accidental, but rather one of interpreting the data - but the fact that arctic sea ice is rapidly vanishing has not changed.
Regarding Climate versus Weather, it's New Years Eve in Minnesota, and it's raining. It's been known for a long time that the same system that cooled Minnesota warmed Europe.
So Europe cools while the American midwest warms.
Climate is a vastly interconnected and complex system. Those who recognize the fact that global warming is occurring also recognize this fact. 'Skeptics' will happily latch on to individual errors, localized (either temporally or physically) anomalies, and so on, and ignore the greater picture as it suits them.
And of course you can't only rely on one source. The OP fell into that trap because one year in the period was in fact cooler than before. A one year anomaly does not make a trend, however, and 2010 will most likely be yet another warmest year on record.
1) The sun is the biggest driver of the Earth's Climate
This is like saying the Earth is the biggest driver of the Earth's climate. It's an essentially meaningless statement.
2) There is already more than enough CO2 for a 'full' greenhouse effect so more will not make it 'worse.'
You are simply lying with this one. A 'full' greenhouse effect would mean that 100% of heat is retained. That's impossible, but you can look at worlds where heat retention is in the 99% range, such as Venus.
3) The Earth has been cooling since 2007.
Bullshit. Even if it was true, climate is not weather, the same way macroeconomics is not family household planning. Climate change is measured across decades, not years.
4) Current computer models of the Earth's long-term climate are not necessarily correct.
This is irrelevant to historical analysis, which shows a clear warming trend across decades. But unlike yourself, scientists do endeavor to be honest, and refine their model as new data is available. Most excess heat is getting dumped into the oceans.
There are others, of course, but you get the idea. Never say any of the above in the presence of believers.
Because you'll get called out for being the liar that you are.
India has no defined national language. The two official languages for the entire country are Hindi, and... English. English is preferred in some situations because it does not disadvantage any specific culture where Hindi is not the dominant language in a region.
Fox isn't a news organization either, it's a political propaganda machine. Look at their featured op-ed right now "PETER JOHNSON JR.: What If Your Loved One Was a Hero and No One Cared?" - they don't even mention who is responsible for failing to bring the 9/11 first responder aid bill to the floor.
Bullshit will still raise the reading level. Doesn't make it true.
So will bad writing.
More advanced writing can actually be a sign of poor intellectual merit. This is a guesstimate of readability, and nothing more. Making crap hard to read is still crap.
The people attacking Wikileaks did. Wikileaks' troubles would be nigh irrelevant without the omnipresent glaring vulnerability that is DNS. The mirrors would all be signed wikileaks.org and the client would choose the closest available. Or something to that effect.
Some of the reported DDOS vulnerabilities were dead even before they were released to the public. Sockstress? Meet connlimit.
Land of Devastation always seemed to be a bit of a niche game, unfortunately. Gods I loved it so. Did a lot of work playing with the editor that unfortunately went nowhere : /
I'm forced to wonder how much the likes of Jesus, Muhammad, and Gandhi keep these sorts of folks awake at night. Someone wraps up an easily expressed idea about how the world should be in a world that needs changing and all of the sudden you have an immortal on your hands - killing them won't stop the idea.
Monetizing adult sites is a difficult proposition. Selling material directly is difficult, with so much available for free. Setting up donations for adult sites is nearly impossible for a multitude of reasons, and mainstream advertisers like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft won't touch them. To top it all off, you are paying for even higher bandwidth costs.
So when someone creates a large adult site, and starts feeling the pinch of hosting costs, the "Get 25 cents per visitor who installs our software! We're not evil, really!" convinces some when they see tens to hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Because traditional advertisers won't touch adult sites, it forces porn purveyors to take shadier deals. Which gives the industry a worse reputation, which convinces traditional advertisers that they were right in avoiding them, and so on.
I have experience in this area (see my sig). Harmless fetishes have a bit of a viral quality to them, sometimes following a pattern of
Step 1) Revulsion
Step 2) ???
Step 3) "You know, that's kind of hot."
Not all galaxies are feeding, so it's not necessarily 10%.
As a random thought: Due to the twisting of spacetime that a spinning black hole generates (frame-dragging), objects rotating against the rotation are going to face a stronger gravitational pull than those moving with it, to the point where the nearby surrounding space is moving faster than light - the 'ergosphere'.
Since feeding black holes tend to shut down their own feeding, it might be the case that the resulting outward pressure pushes away matter spinning in the same direction as the black hole stronger than it pushes away matter spiraling down in the opposite direction, eventually causing a reversal in the spin of the accretion disc.
Breathing hydrogen basically works in the opposite direction of terrestrial biochemistry. The proposed organisms are breathing hydrogen and presumably fixing it to something (say, oxides they've eaten) rather than the other way around as for Earth life.
And even if it was possible, Huygens could not have contaminated things to such a degree as to affect widespread atmospheric phenomenon.
Titan, however, has the problem of being damned cold. I don't think it's a given that radiation is harder to deal with than that amount of greenhouse engineering.
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Because there is no incentive for normal people to spend it.
And the tech industry thrived because the value appreciation of what could be done with technology grew faster than the rate at which the cost of said pieces of technology lost value. That has little to do with the discussion, however - that is simply a reflection of the mass of technology investment.
> No, currency is whatever we decide it is. You are speaking only of one small subset of currency known as fiat currency. There is nothing intrinsic about currency that says it has to devalue over time.
Appreciating resources are not actually used as currency. They're investments.
I have several hundred bitcoins. I have absolutely zero intention of spending them until the libertarians driving it realize that they're duping themselves. Which I expect to take a very long time.
A forum admin who doesn't want to toss a quarter of his/her users.
Honestly when I first found your site my reaction was 'What? No address? It's in my flipping DNS query. No one who uses my sites gives a damn what my address is...' ...which is another point, if someone's out shopping, a resource like yours is good. If someone's looking for information or something else for free, then you need a different criteria.
The black hole at the center of our galaxy is four million solar masses. In comparison, the dark matter halo of our galaxy is on the order of a trillion solar masses.
None of their fans are going to want to see all of their time taken up by community engagement. Some, certainly, are clueless, and enjoy being time vampires. You deal with time vampire 'fans' the same way you deal with time vampires in real life.
If you have an issue with the time commitment, make a rule for yourself and stick to it. "I'm only going to visit the forums on Friday nights." Or something similar. People will give you a wide berth, especially once your forum reaches a decent size (more than 10k members or so). Maybe a bit too wide, even.
That's your loss, she might like it.
It's not new, those popups are being delivered through Flash, rather than javascript.
for correcting themselves, is rather low, don't you think?
It's especially difficult when it becomes clear that measuring extant arctic sea ice, for example, is no longer a cut and dried calculation involving coverage, but also the density of the ice, and thickness. So in that case the error becomes neither intentional nor accidental, but rather one of interpreting the data - but the fact that arctic sea ice is rapidly vanishing has not changed.
Regarding Climate versus Weather, it's New Years Eve in Minnesota, and it's raining. It's been known for a long time that the same system that cooled Minnesota warmed Europe.
So Europe cools while the American midwest warms.
Climate is a vastly interconnected and complex system. Those who recognize the fact that global warming is occurring also recognize this fact. 'Skeptics' will happily latch on to individual errors, localized (either temporally or physically) anomalies, and so on, and ignore the greater picture as it suits them.
And of course you can't only rely on one source. The OP fell into that trap because one year in the period was in fact cooler than before. A one year anomaly does not make a trend, however, and 2010 will most likely be yet another warmest year on record.
1) The sun is the biggest driver of the Earth's Climate
This is like saying the Earth is the biggest driver of the Earth's climate. It's an essentially meaningless statement.
2) There is already more than enough CO2 for a 'full' greenhouse effect so more will not make it 'worse.'
You are simply lying with this one. A 'full' greenhouse effect would mean that 100% of heat is retained. That's impossible, but you can look at worlds where heat retention is in the 99% range, such as Venus.
3) The Earth has been cooling since 2007.
Bull shit. Even if it was true, climate is not weather, the same way macroeconomics is not family household planning. Climate change is measured across decades, not years.
4) Current computer models of the Earth's long-term climate are not necessarily correct.
This is irrelevant to historical analysis, which shows a clear warming trend across decades. But unlike yourself, scientists do endeavor to be honest, and refine their model as new data is available. Most excess heat is getting dumped into the oceans.
There are others, of course, but you get the idea. Never say any of the above in the presence of believers.
Because you'll get called out for being the liar that you are.
India has no defined national language. The two official languages for the entire country are Hindi, and... English. English is preferred in some situations because it does not disadvantage any specific culture where Hindi is not the dominant language in a region.
Fox isn't a news organization either, it's a political propaganda machine. Look at their featured op-ed right now "PETER JOHNSON JR.: What If Your Loved One Was a Hero and No One Cared?" - they don't even mention who is responsible for failing to bring the 9/11 first responder aid bill to the floor.
But let's look at some other sites:
Conservapedia:
Basic: 6%
Intermediate: 71%
Advanced: 21%
Holoscience (Electric Universe)
Basic: 4%
Intermediate: 20%
Advanced: 75%
Bullshit will still raise the reading level. Doesn't make it true.
So will bad writing.
More advanced writing can actually be a sign of poor intellectual merit. This is a guesstimate of readability, and nothing more. Making crap hard to read is still crap.
The people attacking Wikileaks did. Wikileaks' troubles would be nigh irrelevant without the omnipresent glaring vulnerability that is DNS. The mirrors would all be signed wikileaks.org and the client would choose the closest available. Or something to that effect.
Some of the reported DDOS vulnerabilities were dead even before they were released to the public. Sockstress? Meet connlimit.
Buy a bunch of cheap VPSes around the country/world, a Maxmind license, and have a ball.
On a domain.
Like the crosssite.xml or robots.txt files. "Cookies on this site must follow this pattern." Or somesuch.
Most of the rest, I can cope with. Cookie pollution from various forms of injection, not so much.
Land of Devastation always seemed to be a bit of a niche game, unfortunately. Gods I loved it so. Did a lot of work playing with the editor that unfortunately went nowhere : /
I'm forced to wonder how much the likes of Jesus, Muhammad, and Gandhi keep these sorts of folks awake at night. Someone wraps up an easily expressed idea about how the world should be in a world that needs changing and all of the sudden you have an immortal on your hands - killing them won't stop the idea.
.icannsucks is probably safe.
Always frustrating to see them littering all over the place.
Glad for the RPG mention though. Good to know I'm part of what's corrupting America.
Monetizing adult sites is a difficult proposition. Selling material directly is difficult, with so much available for free. Setting up donations for adult sites is nearly impossible for a multitude of reasons, and mainstream advertisers like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft won't touch them. To top it all off, you are paying for even higher bandwidth costs.
So when someone creates a large adult site, and starts feeling the pinch of hosting costs, the "Get 25 cents per visitor who installs our software! We're not evil, really!" convinces some when they see tens to hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Because traditional advertisers won't touch adult sites, it forces porn purveyors to take shadier deals. Which gives the industry a worse reputation, which convinces traditional advertisers that they were right in avoiding them, and so on.
I have experience in this area (see my sig). Harmless fetishes have a bit of a viral quality to them, sometimes following a pattern of Step 1) Revulsion Step 2) ??? Step 3) "You know, that's kind of hot."
Not all galaxies are feeding, so it's not necessarily 10%.
As a random thought: Due to the twisting of spacetime that a spinning black hole generates (frame-dragging), objects rotating against the rotation are going to face a stronger gravitational pull than those moving with it, to the point where the nearby surrounding space is moving faster than light - the 'ergosphere'.
Since feeding black holes tend to shut down their own feeding, it might be the case that the resulting outward pressure pushes away matter spinning in the same direction as the black hole stronger than it pushes away matter spiraling down in the opposite direction, eventually causing a reversal in the spin of the accretion disc.
Just a hypothesis, though.
Some of my non-technical clients are getting plenty fed up with iTunes. There is plenty of room for something better to come along.
Breathing hydrogen basically works in the opposite direction of terrestrial biochemistry. The proposed organisms are breathing hydrogen and presumably fixing it to something (say, oxides they've eaten) rather than the other way around as for Earth life.
And even if it was possible, Huygens could not have contaminated things to such a degree as to affect widespread atmospheric phenomenon.
Titan, however, has the problem of being damned cold. I don't think it's a given that radiation is harder to deal with than that amount of greenhouse engineering.