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  1. Re: Oh really? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody sold global cooling in the 70s, outside of scifi.

  2. Re: Second warmest on record? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Vinyards all over England.
    Never any vinyards in Norway.

  3. Re: Second warmest on record? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My favourite bought are Lindesfarne and Bunratty. You can't import them in the US as mead due to food regulstions there.

    For homemade, a mix of light raw and white honey will ferment like crazy. Tannin is good for smoothing, I use half a pint of Yorkshire Gold tea. Purists would murder me in the streets if they knew.

  4. Re: Second warmest on record? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Romans reported vineyards in Scotland?

    Do tell.

    Photo of text, transcription and the museum it is in.

    Also, Scotland has microclimates. It's not blean, desolate and cold, except towards Westminster.

  5. Re: "On record" = laughable on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, they really weren't. Stop using Infowars as your encyclopedia. Find me a peer reviewed paper in a reputable journal that said that, with proof that other scientists backed the claim.

    You won't find the paper.

    That's because it exists only in fantasy.

    Give over, you can live your life in fantasy but don't expect us to live in your fantasy too.

  6. Re: "On record" = laughable on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Irrevelant. It was warmer in the Jurassic because CO2 and O2 were greatly elevated, as was humidity, and the magnetosphere was three times as strong.

    It was also constant. The Jurasic didn't warm up at a fantastic pace, things were ADAPTED to the conditions.

    The biosphere was healthy and diverse, not massively degraded.

    All these factors impact the significance of temperatures. But they're never considered by deniers in their bid to corrupt the data by eliminating the facts that don't fit their claims.

  7. Re: "On record" = laughable on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    You won't find them.

    The claim is founded on assuming Greenland is Vinland from Lief Errikson's saga. In other words, a fraudulant saga.

  8. Re: "On record" = laughable on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, no travel over the poles. They'd have had a hard time sailing over the southern one, even if they'd known it existed.

    But, no, Lief Erikkson sailed to Newfoundland following the known course of Brenden the Navigator. And he was the furthest north.

    Nobody sailed north of the north wind, as the Arctic region was known.

    If deniers are resorting to fraudulent sagas, even they know they've lost the debate.

  9. Plenty of religions don't advocate overpopulation. Norse Paganism, for example. Large families are described as the work of the Ice Giants and Jotuns by Snorri. They also had very incorrect ways to control population.

  10. Re: Second warmest on record? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not is there much evidence the Norse drank wine that wasn't imported. That would be in the timeframe you claim wine was made.

  11. Re: Second warmest on record? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There are vineyards in Chester, up in the northwest of England.

    No, it's never been so cold you couldn't. Beer developed alongside wine and, when hops were added, became cheaper and easier to transport. Even in major wine countries like France.

    Same reason everywhere has bees but mead isn't commonly drunk.

  12. Is it worth bothering? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, that's such an obvious conspiracy theory troll. You're not even trying to make the fiction that you believe it sound real.

  13. Re: Second hottest year on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And that matters why?

  14. Re: Missed a verb there on Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Worked for Reiser. Ish.

  15. The correct approach on Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Is surely to provide a better abstraction layer.

    I should not have to care if x32, DEC or the Prime Radiant are supported by the kernel admins. Patches should largely just work with minimal hacking.

    In turn, it should not be such hard work to maintain code. Different systems have different ways to achieve the same thing with different optimizations possible.

    All of that can be stuck in helper code, well almost all, which means there is far less maintenance.

    This is not esoteric wisdom, its the basis behind all abstraction layers and the arch directory.

    If there's a problem, it's because the job is half done.

    Remove support only if nobody is stuck without it and it's trivial for users to add if they do need it.

  16. The scientists and engineers wete the ones who put forward the official version. And they don't disagree with it at all.

    They would, however, doubtless love to throw you into a pig sty for debasing them.

  17. Doesn't work.

    If it did, you wouldn't need a Constitution, as different ideas would live or die on their own merit.

    Problem is, ideas aren't alive. Mind you, humans are only 45% human and bacteria control much of the brain.

    The thing is, it simply doesn't work. Ideas are more like viruses, spreading wildly out of control, dying back into reservoirs to mutate and emerge again from their carriers.

    There us no logic. Humans don't do logic. Hunans are just hairless chimps with only marginally more brain. We're as violent, as crude and as prone to stupid decisions.

    Studies on risk analysis showed humans are hard-wired to make bad choices.

    The Stamford prison guard experiment and Rhythm 0 art project showed just how bad.

  18. Re: Wrong answer. Correct answer is on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Sorry. First Amendment only applies in restricted form to commercial speech and this is commercial, not private. The SCOTUS has also ruled that exceptions exist in which 1A doesn't apply at all.

    So, no.

  19. Re: Probably just had the wrong pizza joint on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it has. The Republicans aren't interfering in the least in his use of illegal immigrants for slave labour.

  20. Re: Probably just had the wrong pizza joint on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.gocomics.com/pearl...

    This explains everything.

  21. Re: Comcast tried to block ours... on Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On being asked for a comment, Hel stated that she has standards.

  22. Re: No conflict, here's how to resolve on Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Small is never better.

    You know what you call a small government? A monarch.

    Scale efficiency peaks out at a certain point, but you always want as large as possible below this limit.

  23. Re: How shared is that 1G/1G 2.5 gpon split 16/1 3 on Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt it'll be shared. Fibre is cheap. It's digging up roads that costs, but if you own them, it's not nearly so bad.

  24. Nobody with a brain calls Comcast, and Chattanooga is doing nicely with their ten gigabit to the home metronet. How's yours?

  25. Re: Muni ISPs should be based on Distributism on Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What you're talking about is a form of corporate socialism, but not quite a cooperative socialism. Neither involve state ownership and both involve corporations that can make profits in the manner you describe.