Obviously, the oil industry is huge and has a lot of money to put into research that would benefit it. However, the overwhwelming majority of the research out there supports the AGW hypothesis. Therefore, if you are correct and science is primarily agenda driven, the AGW group must have even more money than the oil industry.
Where do those funds come from, and how is creating controversy profitable for the group that provides the funding?
I mean, it's conceivable that creating controversy could be profitable for James Hansen. He has made a career out of it. But he's just a guy. How does fabricating evidence in favor of AGW benefit his funding agencies (NASA)? Why would NASA choose to take on the most powerful industry in the world?
What agenda do you think climate scientists are working for? If climate scientists were catering to the powerful, wouldn't they be publishing data and models that the oil industries like?
The fact that there is such strong agreement among climate scientists in the face of such powerful and wealthy opposition is a very good indication that they are not in fact serving an agenda.
Don't be obtuse. If this were expected, Nature wouldn't have published the story. There are serious architectural problems with the way we do science. We'd do well to discuss them frankly.
This is what happens in for-profit research. And for that matter, if you need results to get the next grant, then you're effectively doing for-profit research. The whole practice of science, private and public is essentially profit driven. Until we start rewarding scientists for negative results as well as we do positive results, we're going to see a lot of faulty positive data published. This is why most major published results in cancer science can't be replicated, for instance.
What does "built for a high res display" even mean? Programs are built for displays, the resolution of the display shouldn't matter. I can display an application built to display at 640x480 on my 1600x1200 CRT with no problems whatsoever. It's just small. The same thing should go for Apple's high res disply, or they've fucked something up terribly.
By offering those repair services you add value to Apple's product, thereby encouraging Apple's business model. The right thing to do is guide those who ask to offerings that are owner friendly, and if they still choose to go with Apple let them be bitten by the consequences of that decision.
Daniel Schindler, who has applied for hundreds of new top-level domains, each one under a separate LLC with a name composed of two words from a small set of words, including baxter, big, castle, falls, frostbite, galley, half, hill, holly, june, knob, lone, maple, north, oaks, sand, spring, steel, tigers, town, and victor.
This is why the open access mandate is so important. If you're funded with NIH money, you work will be accessible to the public. Publish in whatever prestigious journal you like, anyone can get a copy from the NIH. After a while, people will just go to the NIH and forget about the original journal entirely.
Ten the un-edited video came out, and it showed the police office walking up to each protester, telling them that if they didn't move they would be pepper-sprayed, and to a person they all sat ad waited for the officer to do what he said he would do.
Yes, he said he would violently repress their right to peaceably assemble, and then he did. Who could find fault with that?
Funny, the police always come off as power tripping pigs with a hard on for authority - demonstrated through their actions and creative editing. But maybe that's just me.
It should, AND losing any video should be a crime in itself. Severity of the punishment should be the same as that for the crime for which the video is needed as evidence.
Pool of Radiance isn't Wizardry. Battles aren't a matter of spamming your best attack over and over until you win or die. It's a tactical RPG, where success depends on how you develop your characters, where you place your characters, and what and when you have them do. It's only repetitive in the way that multiple games of chess are repetitive. It was more sophisticated than Diablo a decade before the first Diablo.
It's a real shame that SSI was devoured by Ubisoft.
Invest in a good cast iron skillet, at least 12", and take good care of it. It will take good care of you for the rest of your life. If you're lucky, you can find a cheap one at a garage sale. Otherwise one from Lodge will do just fine. Some things just haven't been improved on.
A lot more of it is due to being taken advantage of by Goldman Sachs. There's nothing wrong with government providing services that it can pay for. The problem occurs when the government colludes with banks to hide the actual costs of those services.
Further problems happen when the banks who knowingly made loans to insolvent nations demand to be paid back in full, forcing austerity measures on a public who has done nothing wrong, which even further damages the economy of the country. The entire thing is a ploy by Goldman Sachs to turn Greece into an indentured servant.
The only people who did anything wrong in the European crisis are the government leaders and the banks. Those are the only parties who bear any responsibility, and those are the only parties who should have to pay.
Right, now try doing that on a large group of black africans and white europeans. You'll get a bunch of clusters, but the black africans aren't any more likely to be in the same cluster than a white european and a black african. There are going to be similarities between closely related groups, but those similarities don't match up with what we traditionally call race.
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Obviously, the oil industry is huge and has a lot of money to put into research that would benefit it. However, the overwhwelming majority of the research out there supports the AGW hypothesis. Therefore, if you are correct and science is primarily agenda driven, the AGW group must have even more money than the oil industry.
Where do those funds come from, and how is creating controversy profitable for the group that provides the funding?
I mean, it's conceivable that creating controversy could be profitable for James Hansen. He has made a career out of it. But he's just a guy. How does fabricating evidence in favor of AGW benefit his funding agencies (NASA)? Why would NASA choose to take on the most powerful industry in the world?
What agenda do you think climate scientists are working for? If climate scientists were catering to the powerful, wouldn't they be publishing data and models that the oil industries like?
The fact that there is such strong agreement among climate scientists in the face of such powerful and wealthy opposition is a very good indication that they are not in fact serving an agenda.
Don't be obtuse. If this were expected, Nature wouldn't have published the story. There are serious architectural problems with the way we do science. We'd do well to discuss them frankly.
If you can laugh at the state of the world, you're either one sick son of a bitch, or you're in complete denial.
This is what happens in for-profit research. And for that matter, if you need results to get the next grant, then you're effectively doing for-profit research. The whole practice of science, private and public is essentially profit driven. Until we start rewarding scientists for negative results as well as we do positive results, we're going to see a lot of faulty positive data published. This is why most major published results in cancer science can't be replicated, for instance.
What does "built for a high res display" even mean? Programs are built for displays, the resolution of the display shouldn't matter. I can display an application built to display at 640x480 on my 1600x1200 CRT with no problems whatsoever. It's just small. The same thing should go for Apple's high res disply, or they've fucked something up terribly.
By offering those repair services you add value to Apple's product, thereby encouraging Apple's business model. The right thing to do is guide those who ask to offerings that are owner friendly, and if they still choose to go with Apple let them be bitten by the consequences of that decision.
Daniel Schindler, who has applied for hundreds of new top-level domains, each one under a separate LLC with a name composed of two words from a small set of words, including baxter, big, castle, falls, frostbite, galley, half, hill, holly, june, knob, lone, maple, north, oaks, sand, spring, steel, tigers, town, and victor.
Hokey Smoke!
Because it's spelled weird.
This is why the open access mandate is so important. If you're funded with NIH money, you work will be accessible to the public. Publish in whatever prestigious journal you like, anyone can get a copy from the NIH. After a while, people will just go to the NIH and forget about the original journal entirely.
Our problems really *are* due to unscrupulous and stupid commercial banks. It is highly regretteble that we were forced to bail out most of them.
We weren't. We could have bailed out the customers of the banks, and left the banks themselves to fail.
The US is an oligarchy, not a republic.
Yes, democracy is completely dead in the US.
Ten the un-edited video came out, and it showed the police office walking up to each protester, telling them that if they didn't move they would be pepper-sprayed, and to a person they all sat ad waited for the officer to do what he said he would do.
Yes, he said he would violently repress their right to peaceably assemble, and then he did. Who could find fault with that?
Funny, the police always come off as power tripping pigs with a hard on for authority - demonstrated through their actions and creative editing. But maybe that's just me.
It should, AND losing any video should be a crime in itself. Severity of the punishment should be the same as that for the crime for which the video is needed as evidence.
Pool of Radiance isn't Wizardry. Battles aren't a matter of spamming your best attack over and over until you win or die. It's a tactical RPG, where success depends on how you develop your characters, where you place your characters, and what and when you have them do. It's only repetitive in the way that multiple games of chess are repetitive. It was more sophisticated than Diablo a decade before the first Diablo.
It's a real shame that SSI was devoured by Ubisoft.
That's what case locks and intrusion alarms are for.
Meanwhile, I'll be playing Pool of Radiance on my Amiga 500. The only thing I have to worry about is losing my code wheel.
Scientist, but not PI. Why would I write with professionalism on /.? Usually I'm trying to avoid doing that when I'm here.
You didn't put your contact information on FB so that Spokeo can poach that data and use it to sell your information.
If you ask Facebook, that's *exactly* why you put your information on Facebook. That's the only reason Facebook exists.
When did it become acceptable to post information about people without their permission?
Since the First Amendment.
Invest in a good cast iron skillet, at least 12", and take good care of it. It will take good care of you for the rest of your life. If you're lucky, you can find a cheap one at a garage sale. Otherwise one from Lodge will do just fine. Some things just haven't been improved on.
The DNA of Africans and Europeans/Asians differs a lot.
Very true. The DNA of any two random africans differ a lot as well.
I always find it amusing when people who don't know anything about genetics talk about it as if they do. Especially on slashdot.
Genetics is my job, bitch.
A lot more of it is due to being taken advantage of by Goldman Sachs. There's nothing wrong with government providing services that it can pay for. The problem occurs when the government colludes with banks to hide the actual costs of those services.
Further problems happen when the banks who knowingly made loans to insolvent nations demand to be paid back in full, forcing austerity measures on a public who has done nothing wrong, which even further damages the economy of the country. The entire thing is a ploy by Goldman Sachs to turn Greece into an indentured servant.
The only people who did anything wrong in the European crisis are the government leaders and the banks. Those are the only parties who bear any responsibility, and those are the only parties who should have to pay.
Right, now try doing that on a large group of black africans and white europeans. You'll get a bunch of clusters, but the black africans aren't any more likely to be in the same cluster than a white european and a black african. There are going to be similarities between closely related groups, but those similarities don't match up with what we traditionally call race.