I was actually pretty delighted to find that if you push gnome3 over xrdp it basically murders that bizare full screen menu thing and replaces it with the good old trusty drop down menu of old. Twas rather pleasing actually.
But yeah, add to that mix of new interfaces everyone hates, the launchpad on OSX mountain lion. Oh hey lets create the IOS launchpad for a device with no touchscreen! However apple was smart enough to make it entirely optional, just trash it off the taskbar and replace it with the old application folder popup and its like nothing ever changed. I hope they are getting useage stats on that before pulling a microsoft and really stuffing things up.
(Actually now I think about it , the bizare backwards scroll bars can be added to the "WTF" design category, again optional fortunately)
For what its worth, most mac users I know, dont' actually use safari.
Safari exists only, as far as I'm concerned, as a historic relic of apple reacting to the fundamentally broken version of IE microsoft used to produce for macs that people used by default..... so they forked the KDE browser. Go figure (Hey I'm not saying webkit is bad, its actually excellent, but back in the day, dear lord was it a mess)
Aye, I spent some time with family up "near" southern cross, "near" kalgoorlie, where the nearest house was around 200km away. Go bush around here, and distances get epic.
You do realize medicare/medicaide is more expensive than private insurance, don't you? Sure, you may not pay for it up front when visiting the doctor or paying for your drugs, but you do pay for it in taxes, along with everyone else.
No. Not true. Study after study has shown that INCLUDING taxes, government run healthcare almost always is cheaper, more efficient and more comprehensive
British healthcare is great. Granted the bloody conservatives have been busily trying to run it into the ground (Makes the case for privatizing it easier I guess?) but its still a world class system.
He had pancreatic cancer. Its generally one of those cancers where your fucked no matter how you try and attack it. He certainly didnt help his case with the daft hippy crap, but its unlikely a full science approach would have saved him.
Jobs was kind of always into the hippy shit. 60s lsd head and all that. He did realise eventually that it was time to hand it over to the pros. Unfortunately by that stage it was too late.
The Australian experience of an increase in forcible rape after guns were banned.
And also before. In fact the gun ban was so devestating, that it actually went and caused rapes to increase at an even faster rate before the gun ban then after, using TIME TRAVEL.
Not only that, but HIV cases went up, and even pirate attacks in somalia.
Oh sure none of this has anything to do with a gun ban here, because we've never actually allowed the ownership of guns for self defense (nor needed it, we had a low murder rate before the ban and an even lower one after it) but hey lets throw out some random statistics to confuse and baffle people.
Yep. Pretty much any linguist worth his salt will tell you that unofficial and incorrect useage of language is largely how language evolves.
Old german didn't evolve into old english via committee, nor did old english evolve into new english via committee. It came from peasants abusing language , speaking in slang, fucking up grammar and generally speaking however felt comfortable. And here we are centuries later, with the language of academia, commerce and international relations (yeah yeah, french guys, i know, but your fighting a losing battle fellas)
No it doesn't, and if you want to look at that data. You'll see that we've been in a cooling trend for the last 10 years.
Dude, don't just make stuff up. Thats not a fair way to debate. The last 10 years have been some of the hottest on *record*, thats a non disputable fact.
Just because some specific locations have been colder doesn't mean shit. Heating over the oceans causing massive shifts on high and low pressure systems will naturally cause some places to get more wind and aerosol cooling, but that does not detract from the overall system.
Look, heres climate change explained. This isn't hard stuff, we've known how this works since scientists started warning about climate change in the 1800s. The sun beams a whole bunch of heat at earth. Some reflects, some absorbs and increases the amount of energy , in the form of thermal (heat) and kinetic (winds) and to some extent even electrical ionization (lightning). Now CO2 has a number of spectral absorbsion lines that essentially absorb infrared light as well as a number of sidebands of various importance. These where discovered I think by fourier in the 1800s (Who was quite concerned about CO2 greenhouse efffect from the coal fueled industrial era of the time. You can see these absorbsion lines when you shine light through dense CO2 and then refract the light through a prism, although you might need an infra red camera to catch it (I'm sure a chemistry dude would be able to unfumble my explination here). Well this means that its heating up, and absorbing the thermal energy at those frequencies in the atmosphere with all sorts of fun effects but notably as gasses heat up they expand and this brings high pressure areas, some of which is of course going to produce *drum roll* cold places. But none of this changes the simple calculus of how much energy is input into the system vs how much leaves. To deny a fundamental scientific fact of CO2s IR absorbsion and thus heat retention properties like this requires novel physics to be invented and namely a mechanism that somehow stops the physics working here. So far none are proposed, nor need to be, since all the *VALID* data agrees with the theoretically and empirically unescapable conclusion that humans are generating climate change.
At this stage , nobody in the sciences disagrees other than a few cranky people with padded-helmet political views. And thats really all there is to it.
Has anyone actually sat down and worked out the CO2 conversion rate (I realise theres a tonne of different variables here such as nuke or renwables, gas fired vs coal fired stations) in terms of the power used to create these "coins"?
Um, no. MVC is a design pattern (i.e. a set of concepts for programming) that can apply to any language, CSS is declarative style markup (that apparently some people think should be the next programming language) that depends upon another markup language (HTML, XML).
No. He got it right. Done properly, HTML is semantic. Its data. Its not a neat paralllel to a model , but its in the ballpark. CSS is the layout, its a view. It takes the model and presents it. And Guess what Javascript is?!
Yes clearly Canadas population will be angry that tax evaders will be made to contribute to the resources of other people that they consume without paying.
All seems reasonable to me. Our civil society is founded on the fact that since the government actually costs money, then people need to pay tax. Trying to hide money in bitcoin ought be seen as tax evasion, unless they are paying taxes on that money.
Libertarian types trying to sponge off the taxes of hard working tax payers via tax evasion need to stop being so greedy and stealing other peoples money.
Why is it that worshipers label all atheists as 'raging' while they play no-true-scotsman fallacy games
Because of all the talk-circut atheists racing around claiming to speak for the rest of us atheists and acting like intolerant assholes.
I might personally find christianity, islam, judaism, etc to be silly and mystical ways of viewing the world, but as long as they aint fucking with my shit, who am I to to get angry at them for believing in space ghosts?
Just like its been observed that conservatives are more obsessed with homosexuals than even homosexuals themselves, maybe us atheists need to be a little less obsessed with christianity/etc and start thinking about what *positive* things our atheism can bring to the world.
I sort of think though that having a hundred or so bil sitting in the bank makes for a hell of a warchest in case shit gets ugly.
Apples crashed before, notably with the circumstance of "Steve wasnt there". And he's not there again. But unlike last time, Apple has the capability of lasting *decades* of being barely profitable without having to make ugly decisions that could potentially kill the company, by virtue of a ridiculous warchest.
And that means apple can now play a very long game with its opponents, something it can't do if it just gives the money to its shareholders.
Kind of. The way it works is it has to create a false belief, even if its true. Let me give you an example.
Lets say for a made up example Barrack Obama has asthma, and uses a ventolin puffer, and lets say in his rushed life he isnt using a preventative. Well docs advise against using a ventolin puffer and no preventative, but its something legal, and common, its just poor management.
Fox news goes to air and claims "Barrack Obama revealed to be a dependent drug abuser".
Well lets see. He IS using a drug, specifically an Asthma one. And he is dependent, because of Asthma. And he is abusing it by not being on a proper asthma management plan.
But its defamatory. Because a reasonable person (Defamation laws tend to be strict on this. "My autistic child", or "The crazy person selling 9/11 truther postcards" do not count as a reasonable person. it has to be a normal sane and sensible adult) could conclude from that headlines that the potus is abusing something like heroin or coke or something. Which he is not. The other thing defamation has to do is damage a reputation to the point it harms them. If the potus' bank foreclosed on him out of a policy of not supporting junkies, then all the pieces would be in place to sue the crap out of FOX for defamation.
Note: (1) I have no idea if the potus has asthma, I just made this example up. (2) The US in actuality DOES recognize the truth as a defense and is a pretty hard country to get a defamation conviction to stick. (3) The US courts would also be reluctant to grant the lawsuit out of fear of chilling free comment on political matters. (4) Its really really expensive to sue someone for defamation, maybe 9 out of 10 defamation lawsuit threats are just bluff.
Unlikely. Factory fires (This started off as a fire) happen all the time. This one was just unfortunate enough to happen where a metric shit tonne of amonium nitrate happened to be.
[quote]If the warmistas can just find the missing heat, the debate would be over. But there's the rub.[/quote]
You know it depresses the shit out of me that people on slashdot can use the word "warmista" to mean "scientist" and not get downvoted into oblivion.
Come on guys, lets not act like frigging creationists here. Your all getting crazy at scientists but are any of you guys actually climate scientists with the qualifications to tell me *why* you think the science is wrong.
And no cherry picking dubious graphs off cranky sites like watts-up doesn't count.
I wish apple would realise this. I love mac pros and macbooks,but they just are not the same sort of product and it feels like apple has forgotten about the humble mac pro.
Yeah dude. Political scientists don't think like that and tend to be fairly serious minded men. If activists are putting in bogus data, its going to stick out like a sore thumb.
This seems to be more like some of the research google was doing spotting emerging trends via language use.
Go read the stuff about the 8 stage genocide model and specifically on the 'symbolization' phase. I suspect its more about looking for trends like where a population for instance stops saying "jews" and starts saying "kikes" or whatever, whith the observation that a population is heading towards the crucial dehumanization phase needed to allow people to sleep at night whilst committing genocide.
The problem with climate change is theres a debate happening and theres research happening, and they are not happening in the same place.
Within the scientific community, there isnt really a debate about it anymore. We actually know climate change is happening, and its largely driven by human CO2 output. That much isn't controversial [i]amongst scientists[/i].
But there IS a debate amongst the political class who appear to have developed a raging case of the Dunning Kruger effect, and latched onto a tiny minority of scientific outsiders and cranks, and become bedazzled by the graphs and arguments from "experts" who are actually no such thing. (Seriously, when your local newspaper starts quoting a high school graduate journalist with a pretend lord title [monckton,, he's not actually a real lord, or a scientist or mathematician] you know the newspaper has no idea how to identify an expert in the field).
In my view the problem is that the public simply dont know how to identify actual experts on the topic. The newspapers are bombarding people with false expertise and as a result a very sizeable minority of lay people believe that there is still an open question about the topic, and thats proven itself very harmful to the politics of actually acting on the problem.
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I was actually pretty delighted to find that if you push gnome3 over xrdp it basically murders that bizare full screen menu thing and replaces it with the good old trusty drop down menu of old. Twas rather pleasing actually.
But yeah, add to that mix of new interfaces everyone hates, the launchpad on OSX mountain lion. Oh hey lets create the IOS launchpad for a device with no touchscreen! However apple was smart enough to make it entirely optional, just trash it off the taskbar and replace it with the old application folder popup and its like nothing ever changed. I hope they are getting useage stats on that before pulling a microsoft and really stuffing things up.
(Actually now I think about it , the bizare backwards scroll bars can be added to the "WTF" design category, again optional fortunately)
For what its worth, most mac users I know, dont' actually use safari.
Safari exists only, as far as I'm concerned, as a historic relic of apple reacting to the fundamentally broken version of IE microsoft used to produce for macs that people used by default. .... so they forked the KDE browser. Go figure (Hey I'm not saying webkit is bad, its actually excellent, but back in the day, dear lord was it a mess)
Aye, I spent some time with family up "near" southern cross, "near" kalgoorlie, where the nearest house was around 200km away. Go bush around here, and distances get epic.
No. Not true. Study after study has shown that INCLUDING taxes, government run healthcare almost always is cheaper, more efficient and more comprehensive
British healthcare is great. Granted the bloody conservatives have been busily trying to run it into the ground (Makes the case for privatizing it easier I guess?) but its still a world class system.
He had pancreatic cancer. Its generally one of those cancers where your fucked no matter how you try and attack it. He certainly didnt help his case with the daft hippy crap, but its unlikely a full science approach would have saved him.
Pancreatic cancer is a death sentence generally.
Jobs was kind of always into the hippy shit. 60s lsd head and all that. He did realise eventually that it was time to hand it over to the pros. Unfortunately by that stage it was too late.
And the US with one of the highest crime rates in the world has one of the highest gun ownership rates.
Whats your point here?
And also before. In fact the gun ban was so devestating, that it actually went and caused rapes to increase at an even faster rate before the gun ban then after, using TIME TRAVEL.
Not only that, but HIV cases went up, and even pirate attacks in somalia.
Oh sure none of this has anything to do with a gun ban here, because we've never actually allowed the ownership of guns for self defense (nor needed it, we had a low murder rate before the ban and an even lower one after it) but hey lets throw out some random statistics to confuse and baffle people.
Yep. Pretty much any linguist worth his salt will tell you that unofficial and incorrect useage of language is largely how language evolves.
Old german didn't evolve into old english via committee, nor did old english evolve into new english via committee. It came from peasants abusing language , speaking in slang, fucking up grammar and generally speaking however felt comfortable. And here we are centuries later, with the language of academia, commerce and international relations (yeah yeah, french guys, i know, but your fighting a losing battle fellas)
Dude, don't just make stuff up. Thats not a fair way to debate. The last 10 years have been some of the hottest on *record*, thats a non disputable fact.
Just because some specific locations have been colder doesn't mean shit. Heating over the oceans causing massive shifts on high and low pressure systems will naturally cause some places to get more wind and aerosol cooling, but that does not detract from the overall system.
Look, heres climate change explained. This isn't hard stuff, we've known how this works since scientists started warning about climate change in the 1800s. The sun beams a whole bunch of heat at earth. Some reflects, some absorbs and increases the amount of energy , in the form of thermal (heat) and kinetic (winds) and to some extent even electrical ionization (lightning). Now CO2 has a number of spectral absorbsion lines that essentially absorb infrared light as well as a number of sidebands of various importance. These where discovered I think by fourier in the 1800s (Who was quite concerned about CO2 greenhouse efffect from the coal fueled industrial era of the time. You can see these absorbsion lines when you shine light through dense CO2 and then refract the light through a prism, although you might need an infra red camera to catch it (I'm sure a chemistry dude would be able to unfumble my explination here). Well this means that its heating up, and absorbing the thermal energy at those frequencies in the atmosphere with all sorts of fun effects but notably as gasses heat up they expand and this brings high pressure areas, some of which is of course going to produce *drum roll* cold places. But none of this changes the simple calculus of how much energy is input into the system vs how much leaves. To deny a fundamental scientific fact of CO2s IR absorbsion and thus heat retention properties like this requires novel physics to be invented and namely a mechanism that somehow stops the physics working here. So far none are proposed, nor need to be, since all the *VALID* data agrees with the theoretically and empirically unescapable conclusion that humans are generating climate change.
At this stage , nobody in the sciences disagrees other than a few cranky people with padded-helmet political views. And thats really all there is to it.
Has anyone actually sat down and worked out the CO2 conversion rate (I realise theres a tonne of different variables here such as nuke or renwables, gas fired vs coal fired stations) in terms of the power used to create these "coins"?
Um, no. MVC is a design pattern (i.e. a set of concepts for programming) that can apply to any language, CSS is declarative style markup (that apparently some people think should be the next programming language) that depends upon another markup language (HTML, XML).
No. He got it right.
Done properly, HTML is semantic. Its data. Its not a neat paralllel to a model , but its in the ballpark.
CSS is the layout, its a view. It takes the model and presents it.
And Guess what Javascript is?!
Now your getting it!
Yes clearly Canadas population will be angry that tax evaders will be made to contribute to the resources of other people that they consume without paying.
All seems reasonable to me. Our civil society is founded on the fact that since the government actually costs money, then people need to pay tax. Trying to hide money in bitcoin ought be seen as tax evasion, unless they are paying taxes on that money.
Libertarian types trying to sponge off the taxes of hard working tax payers via tax evasion need to stop being so greedy and stealing other peoples money.
Less intuitive than Dwarf fortress but roughly as engaging, is how I'd describe it.
Also: Elephants need 75 days of gameplay till your skilled enough for your dwarves to ride them, for no good reason.
Ie a total nightmare to get past the learning curve, but when you do, it's possible one of the most engaging and intricate games available.
Because of all the talk-circut atheists racing around claiming to speak for the rest of us atheists and acting like intolerant assholes.
I might personally find christianity, islam, judaism, etc to be silly and mystical ways of viewing the world, but as long as they aint fucking with my shit, who am I to to get angry at them for believing in space ghosts?
Just like its been observed that conservatives are more obsessed with homosexuals than even homosexuals themselves, maybe us atheists need to be a little less obsessed with christianity/etc and start thinking about what *positive* things our atheism can bring to the world.
I sort of think though that having a hundred or so bil sitting in the bank makes for a hell of a warchest in case shit gets ugly.
Apples crashed before, notably with the circumstance of "Steve wasnt there". And he's not there again. But unlike last time, Apple has the capability of lasting *decades* of being barely profitable without having to make ugly decisions that could potentially kill the company, by virtue of a ridiculous warchest.
And that means apple can now play a very long game with its opponents, something it can't do if it just gives the money to its shareholders.
Kind of. The way it works is it has to create a false belief, even if its true. Let me give you an example.
Lets say for a made up example Barrack Obama has asthma, and uses a ventolin puffer, and lets say in his rushed life he isnt using a preventative. Well docs advise against using a ventolin puffer and no preventative, but its something legal, and common, its just poor management.
Fox news goes to air and claims "Barrack Obama revealed to be a dependent drug abuser".
Well lets see. He IS using a drug, specifically an Asthma one. And he is dependent, because of Asthma. And he is abusing it by not being on a proper asthma management plan.
But its defamatory. Because a reasonable person (Defamation laws tend to be strict on this. "My autistic child", or "The crazy person selling 9/11 truther postcards" do not count as a reasonable person. it has to be a normal sane and sensible adult) could conclude from that headlines that the potus is abusing something like heroin or coke or something. Which he is not. The other thing defamation has to do is damage a reputation to the point it harms them. If the potus' bank foreclosed on him out of a policy of not supporting junkies, then all the pieces would be in place to sue the crap out of FOX for defamation.
Note: (1) I have no idea if the potus has asthma, I just made this example up. (2) The US in actuality DOES recognize the truth as a defense and is a pretty hard country to get a defamation conviction to stick. (3) The US courts would also be reluctant to grant the lawsuit out of fear of chilling free comment on political matters. (4) Its really really expensive to sue someone for defamation, maybe 9 out of 10 defamation lawsuit threats are just bluff.
Unlikely. Factory fires (This started off as a fire) happen all the time. This one was just unfortunate enough to happen where a metric shit tonne of amonium nitrate happened to be.
[quote]If the warmistas can just find the missing heat, the debate would be over. But there's the rub.[/quote]
You know it depresses the shit out of me that people on slashdot can use the word "warmista" to mean "scientist" and not get downvoted into oblivion.
Come on guys, lets not act like frigging creationists here. Your all getting crazy at scientists but are any of you guys actually climate scientists with the qualifications to tell me *why* you think the science is wrong.
And no cherry picking dubious graphs off cranky sites like watts-up doesn't count.
I wish apple would realise this. I love mac pros and macbooks ,but they just are not the same sort of product and it feels like apple has forgotten about the humble mac pro.
Yeah dude. Political scientists don't think like that and tend to be fairly serious minded men. If activists are putting in bogus data, its going to stick out like a sore thumb.
This seems to be more like some of the research google was doing spotting emerging trends via language use.
Go read the stuff about the 8 stage genocide model and specifically on the 'symbolization' phase. I suspect its more about looking for trends like where a population for instance stops saying "jews" and starts saying "kikes" or whatever, whith the observation that a population is heading towards the crucial dehumanization phase needed to allow people to sleep at night whilst committing genocide.
The problem with climate change is theres a debate happening and theres research happening, and they are not happening in the same place.
Within the scientific community, there isnt really a debate about it anymore. We actually know climate change is happening, and its largely driven by human CO2 output. That much isn't controversial [i]amongst scientists[/i].
But there IS a debate amongst the political class who appear to have developed a raging case of the Dunning Kruger effect, and latched onto a tiny minority of scientific outsiders and cranks, and become bedazzled by the graphs and arguments from "experts" who are actually no such thing. (Seriously, when your local newspaper starts quoting a high school graduate journalist with a pretend lord title [monckton,, he's not actually a real lord, or a scientist or mathematician] you know the newspaper has no idea how to identify an expert in the field).
In my view the problem is that the public simply dont know how to identify actual experts on the topic. The newspapers are bombarding people with false expertise and as a result a very sizeable minority of lay people believe that there is still an open question about the topic, and thats proven itself very harmful to the politics of actually acting on the problem.
How are they going to produce jailbreaks if they report it?
It would be irresponsible of them to deliberately collaborate with restricting user freedoms.