Yes, there have been warmer periods in the past. But this is actually a good argument for being more proactive in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Lets the warmer periods in the past were caused by increased sun activities. What happens if that happens again? With increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the next Medieval warm period could be disastrous for us. We are already above the temperatures from the MWP, if the sun decides to throw some more heat on us what happens? We know the climate goes up and down due to other factors, adding more greenhouse gases increases the upper bounds.
Nature could be nice to us and throw up some volcanic ash and the sun could radiate less heat and help us all out. Talk about Faith and Trust....
Notice also how Jews have never changed what they're called even though many people associate the word "Jew" with "cheap" and "scheming". Somehow keeping the same name hasn't turned everyone against the Jews. People who are anti-semitic would be so no matter what name you call Jews. And of course Jews have done well by having a good sense of humour about things.
By changing names and saying the old name is wrong, you're actually helping racists by giving them another slur they can use.
actually the main reason for NASA being founded was to improve the US's rocket technology so they could better deliver nuclear weapons to other continents. NASA has a pretty big connection to the military, the line is pretty blurred as to what amount of NASA's funding actually is military spending.
I recall at the time Vin Diesel formed his own game development studio to makes sure they got the game right. Apparently he was well aware of the problem with video game made from licensed movies. The game was a prequel to the movie so they didn't have to wait for the movie to be finished pre-production to start work. They already knew how Riddick would look like and they were free to make the setting to look anyway they liked because it didn't appear in the movie.
You simply don't trust the user to do the expected behavior. Check everything the user entered. I ask the user for a number between 1 and 100. Then I check what the user entered. if its not the value I'm looking for throw up an error and ask them again. I never trust that the user is going to enters the value I am expecting.
You have to have the expectation that the user is a) barely literate b) malicious c) prone to typos or d) all of the above. Yes most users are none of those things. But if a million people are using your software, some of them will be. Just be prepared for that.
I spend a lot of time writing code that checks variables and writing error messages. Its boring, but it pays off when there are far less complaints. And as the software becomes more complex, I can be sure that the variables are in the correct ranges.
As soon as you trust that the user is going to type his username when you prompt for it, some asshole is going to type "; -- DELETE * FROM Users Be prepared for the worst.
An unpaid developer works on stuff that is interesting to him. A paid developer works on stuff that is interesting to his manager.
If I'm working for MS and I notice a certain feature is a bit buggy, I might want to take a look and fix those bugs. But there is a deadline and the marketing department want a certain feature added so they can put another checkbox on their next ad. So the bugs don't get fixed.
But if I'm working on an open source project and I notice a feature is a bit buggy I can go ahead and fix it because my manager isn't breathing down my neck to add some other feature.
I'm working for a company that uses MS products. My manager notices a feature is buggy. I report it to MS and.... nothing happens. So I find work arounds and show the other people at my company how to make the feature work despite the bugginess.
I'm working at a company that uses open source products. My manager notices a feature is buggy. I report it, and if the manager is still breathing down my neck, I find the bad code, fix it, send a patch to the project maintainers.
MS's priority is to add features to make their software more marketable. Open source software's priorities are whatever is important to each developer working on it. That may mean adding more features (like MS) or making the features more robust (unlike MS).
witches are those who follow a pagan religion. There really are people that follow pagan religions so yeah witches are something that exists. Though most of those burnt at the stake were not actually witches.
You could accurately model the universe with the ptolemaic system. basically the planets wouldn't be orbiting the earth directly, but they'd each be orbiting a point in space and that point would be orbiting the earth. Well its more complicated than that, the point would be orbiting another point that would be orbiting another point, etc. etc. and the planet would be orbiting that. With enough calculus you could make an accurate solar model. Similar things would have to be done for the galaxy.
Of course it would be so complicated it would slow down astronomical research to a crawl. Luckily copernicus came along and made life so much simpler for astronomers.
Its hard to tax profit. Profit is so easy to hide that putting a tax on it is pointless.
Ok you put a 1% tax on my profit. I just form a dummy corporation somewhere that doesn't tax profit and have the real corporation sell stuff to them at cost. The real corporation makes no profit while the dummy corporation makes gobs of profit.
Revenue is harder to hide. You have to buy materials, pay workers, etc. so there has to be revenue.
The National Football League is a non-profit organisation too. They make all kinds of deals with advertising, exclusive broadcast rights, etc.
I think Mozilla has a much better case for being a non-profit than the NFL. Their goals are to improve the internet by making standards compliant open source products. And since most borowsers, not just their own, are becoming more standards compliant, I'd say they have improved things for all users of the internet.
And since their products open sourced there is nothing stopping you from taking any of their software, and compete with them using the code they wrote themselves. In fact ubuntu has made a deal with MS to make bing the default search engine on firefox on ubuntu systems. This makes a pretty good case that mozilla isn't motivated by profit but is actually motivated by a desire to make code that is of a public benefit.
The NFL on the other hand doesn't have such a strong case.
Remember when the government had to spend a trillion dollars bailing out corporations because they completely screwed up the financial sector?
Here's a tip for you: There are only so many good investments out there. When there is too much money in the hands of the corporations they run out of good things to invest in. But they have all this money laying around so they start investing in things they shouldn't. And when those investments fail, what inevitably happens? See 1929 and 2009.
Learn some basic economics, son. Cutting taxes in a bad economy doesn't help. Wow I paid less taxes this year, what do I do with it? The economy is bad right now so I better not spend it, I'll save it just in case. So you've just given more money to the bankers who have already proven themselves to be completely incompetent. Good job there buddy.
Stimulus is required because the government is the only player that is willing to spend as opposed to saving money in a bad economy. Corporations don't spend in a bad economy. Individuals don't spend in a bad economy. Only government is above the individual microeconomic decisions and is capable of making decisions on a macroeconomic level. More spending improves the economy. When the economy is good everyone is willing to spend, so the government can cut taxes, pay off debt, or whatever it wants. But when the economy is bad no one except the government is willing to spend.
Think of it like building a fire. Cutting taxes is like putting more wood on the fire. Stimulus is like throwing on some kerosene and lighting a match. When the fire is going good, throwing a couple of more logs on it helps. When the fire is out throwing more logs on it doesn't help. It just makes a higher log pile, and if yo keep throwing more logs onto it, it gets too high it falls over.
I can see some uses for it, like watching movies on a plane, reading ebooks, playing games, etc. but thats only if it has good battery life. If it has gps, it would be good to take in the car. A good GPS unit alone costs at between $300 to $500.
There's a lot of ifs in there... battery life being the biggest one. Yeah a laptop does all these things, but being smaller than a laptop I could see it being useful in some situations.
I think its comparable to the macbook air... it's less functional than a macbook pro, but if you want to have something small for writing up you're blog or work on writing your novel, its ideal. The iPad doesn't improve much over the iPhone, but if you want something thats better for reading, watching movies, playing games, etc. then this is it.
It just adds another product to their line. iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, you see a pretty smooth spectrum of capability. Most people want stuff from the ends of the spectrum, but there are a few people that want something in between. Apple prefers those people to buy their products rather than someone else's.
Its not going to sell like the iPod or iPhone, but I think it'll sell enough that it'll make Apple a little bit of money.
its a chicken and the egg... do pedos wank off to child porn because they are attracted to children? or are they attracted to children because they spend all day wanking off to child porn?
It may be like Pavlov's dog. You see child porn, have a wank, which gives you positive reinforcement. Now whenever you think of children you pop a boner. What's going to happen the next time you're left alone with a child?
Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging people to see children as sex objects. If you get aroused when thinking about children, don't seek out child porn. Seek psychiatric help.
you know there is a thing called "business class" which has the larger seats yo desire? Of but you want a cheap fare too? How do you think the fares got to be cheap?
I fly on discount arilines all the time, and the space is adequate for me. Good enough that I wouldn't pay extra for more space. Don't like it? Then do some research and find an airline that gives you more space.
You don't even have to go to North Korea to see the difference. South Koreans and Japanese are generally not as fat as North Americans and Australians. But talk to a Korean or Japanese person living in North America or Australia and they'll tell you that they started gaining weight as soon as the left their home country.
But apparently your DNA magically changes as soon as you move to a new continent.
This is ridiculous. I weigh about 150 pounds, but if I say I have a phobia about people sitting in the seat next to me, the airlines should give me the seat for free?
There ain't no such thing as a free seat you know. Yeah its free for the fat guy, but the cost of that seat is being subsidised by the rest of the passengers on the flight that can fit into one seat. Why should I be required to pay a precentage of someone else's seat.
Southwest has a good policy. If you can't fit into one seat, you have to buy another seat. if the flight isn't sold out then they give you back the money for the extra seat.
You can travel the world more freely now than ever before. 100 years ago you'd have to spend weeks on a boat to get to another continent. Now you can easily fly to the other side of the world in less than 24 hours. and adjusted for inflation its much cheaper than a second class ticket on any ocean liner 100 years ago.
You can smoke any drug you want, have your concubines, etc, but like in any other time in history it requires you to get off your ass and find those things. I'm typing this from Bangkok right now, and for better or for worse, all the things you want are available here. Also the addiction, STDs etc are here too, but you think that didn't exist 100 years ago?
Maybe its better you don't travel. Already too many people around here who think the availability of sex slaves is a good thing.
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Yeah when its cold all the moisture gets frozen from the air. This is why on a cold windy day you need chapstick, the air is really dry.
Yes, there have been warmer periods in the past. But this is actually a good argument for being more proactive in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Lets the warmer periods in the past were caused by increased sun activities. What happens if that happens again? With increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the next Medieval warm period could be disastrous for us. We are already above the temperatures from the MWP, if the sun decides to throw some more heat on us what happens? We know the climate goes up and down due to other factors, adding more greenhouse gases increases the upper bounds.
Nature could be nice to us and throw up some volcanic ash and the sun could radiate less heat and help us all out. Talk about Faith and Trust....
Yeah thats pretty dead on.
Notice also how Jews have never changed what they're called even though many people associate the word "Jew" with "cheap" and "scheming". Somehow keeping the same name hasn't turned everyone against the Jews. People who are anti-semitic would be so no matter what name you call Jews. And of course Jews have done well by having a good sense of humour about things.
By changing names and saying the old name is wrong, you're actually helping racists by giving them another slur they can use.
actually the main reason for NASA being founded was to improve the US's rocket technology so they could better deliver nuclear weapons to other continents. NASA has a pretty big connection to the military, the line is pretty blurred as to what amount of NASA's funding actually is military spending.
I recall at the time Vin Diesel formed his own game development studio to makes sure they got the game right. Apparently he was well aware of the problem with video game made from licensed movies. The game was a prequel to the movie so they didn't have to wait for the movie to be finished pre-production to start work. They already knew how Riddick would look like and they were free to make the setting to look anyway they liked because it didn't appear in the movie.
You simply don't trust the user to do the expected behavior. Check everything the user entered. I ask the user for a number between 1 and 100. Then I check what the user entered. if its not the value I'm looking for throw up an error and ask them again. I never trust that the user is going to enters the value I am expecting.
You have to have the expectation that the user is a) barely literate b) malicious c) prone to typos or d) all of the above. Yes most users are none of those things. But if a million people are using your software, some of them will be. Just be prepared for that.
I spend a lot of time writing code that checks variables and writing error messages. Its boring, but it pays off when there are far less complaints. And as the software becomes more complex, I can be sure that the variables are in the correct ranges.
As soon as you trust that the user is going to type his username when you prompt for it, some asshole is going to type "; -- DELETE * FROM Users
Be prepared for the worst.
An unpaid developer works on stuff that is interesting to him. A paid developer works on stuff that is interesting to his manager.
If I'm working for MS and I notice a certain feature is a bit buggy, I might want to take a look and fix those bugs. But there is a deadline and the marketing department want a certain feature added so they can put another checkbox on their next ad. So the bugs don't get fixed.
But if I'm working on an open source project and I notice a feature is a bit buggy I can go ahead and fix it because my manager isn't breathing down my neck to add some other feature.
I'm working for a company that uses MS products. My manager notices a feature is buggy. I report it to MS and.... nothing happens. So I find work arounds and show the other people at my company how to make the feature work despite the bugginess.
I'm working at a company that uses open source products. My manager notices a feature is buggy. I report it, and if the manager is still breathing down my neck, I find the bad code, fix it, send a patch to the project maintainers.
MS's priority is to add features to make their software more marketable. Open source software's priorities are whatever is important to each developer working on it. That may mean adding more features (like MS) or making the features more robust (unlike MS).
witches are those who follow a pagan religion. There really are people that follow pagan religions so yeah witches are something that exists. Though most of those burnt at the stake were not actually witches.
You could accurately model the universe with the ptolemaic system. basically the planets wouldn't be orbiting the earth directly, but they'd each be orbiting a point in space and that point would be orbiting the earth. Well its more complicated than that, the point would be orbiting another point that would be orbiting another point, etc. etc. and the planet would be orbiting that. With enough calculus you could make an accurate solar model. Similar things would have to be done for the galaxy.
Of course it would be so complicated it would slow down astronomical research to a crawl. Luckily copernicus came along and made life so much simpler for astronomers.
ummmm... isn't BluRay Disc a proprietary format? Seems to be working out ok for sony.
Its hard to tax profit. Profit is so easy to hide that putting a tax on it is pointless.
Ok you put a 1% tax on my profit. I just form a dummy corporation somewhere that doesn't tax profit and have the real corporation sell stuff to them at cost. The real corporation makes no profit while the dummy corporation makes gobs of profit.
Revenue is harder to hide. You have to buy materials, pay workers, etc. so there has to be revenue.
The National Football League is a non-profit organisation too. They make all kinds of deals with advertising, exclusive broadcast rights, etc.
I think Mozilla has a much better case for being a non-profit than the NFL. Their goals are to improve the internet by making standards compliant open source products. And since most borowsers, not just their own, are becoming more standards compliant, I'd say they have improved things for all users of the internet.
And since their products open sourced there is nothing stopping you from taking any of their software, and compete with them using the code they wrote themselves. In fact ubuntu has made a deal with MS to make bing the default search engine on firefox on ubuntu systems. This makes a pretty good case that mozilla isn't motivated by profit but is actually motivated by a desire to make code that is of a public benefit.
The NFL on the other hand doesn't have such a strong case.
Remember when the government had to spend a trillion dollars bailing out corporations because they completely screwed up the financial sector?
Here's a tip for you: There are only so many good investments out there. When there is too much money in the hands of the corporations they run out of good things to invest in. But they have all this money laying around so they start investing in things they shouldn't. And when those investments fail, what inevitably happens? See 1929 and 2009.
Learn some basic economics, son. Cutting taxes in a bad economy doesn't help. Wow I paid less taxes this year, what do I do with it? The economy is bad right now so I better not spend it, I'll save it just in case. So you've just given more money to the bankers who have already proven themselves to be completely incompetent. Good job there buddy.
Stimulus is required because the government is the only player that is willing to spend as opposed to saving money in a bad economy. Corporations don't spend in a bad economy. Individuals don't spend in a bad economy. Only government is above the individual microeconomic decisions and is capable of making decisions on a macroeconomic level. More spending improves the economy. When the economy is good everyone is willing to spend, so the government can cut taxes, pay off debt, or whatever it wants. But when the economy is bad no one except the government is willing to spend.
Think of it like building a fire. Cutting taxes is like putting more wood on the fire. Stimulus is like throwing on some kerosene and lighting a match. When the fire is going good, throwing a couple of more logs on it helps. When the fire is out throwing more logs on it doesn't help. It just makes a higher log pile, and if yo keep throwing more logs onto it, it gets too high it falls over.
I can see some uses for it, like watching movies on a plane, reading ebooks, playing games, etc. but thats only if it has good battery life. If it has gps, it would be good to take in the car. A good GPS unit alone costs at between $300 to $500.
There's a lot of ifs in there... battery life being the biggest one. Yeah a laptop does all these things, but being smaller than a laptop I could see it being useful in some situations.
I think its comparable to the macbook air... it's less functional than a macbook pro, but if you want to have something small for writing up you're blog or work on writing your novel, its ideal. The iPad doesn't improve much over the iPhone, but if you want something thats better for reading, watching movies, playing games, etc. then this is it.
It just adds another product to their line. iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, you see a pretty smooth spectrum of capability. Most people want stuff from the ends of the spectrum, but there are a few people that want something in between. Apple prefers those people to buy their products rather than someone else's.
Its not going to sell like the iPod or iPhone, but I think it'll sell enough that it'll make Apple a little bit of money.
its a chicken and the egg... do pedos wank off to child porn because they are attracted to children? or are they attracted to children because they spend all day wanking off to child porn?
It may be like Pavlov's dog. You see child porn, have a wank, which gives you positive reinforcement. Now whenever you think of children you pop a boner. What's going to happen the next time you're left alone with a child?
Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging people to see children as sex objects. If you get aroused when thinking about children, don't seek out child porn. Seek psychiatric help.
you know there is a thing called "business class" which has the larger seats yo desire? Of but you want a cheap fare too? How do you think the fares got to be cheap?
I fly on discount arilines all the time, and the space is adequate for me. Good enough that I wouldn't pay extra for more space. Don't like it? Then do some research and find an airline that gives you more space.
Maybe the customer next to him did in fact complain. But his twitter isn't followed by as many people as Smith's so nobody wrote an article about it.
The people at the gate made a judgement call, the captain made a different call. The captain has final say, so he had to get off the plane.
You don't even have to go to North Korea to see the difference. South Koreans and Japanese are generally not as fat as North Americans and Australians. But talk to a Korean or Japanese person living in North America or Australia and they'll tell you that they started gaining weight as soon as the left their home country.
But apparently your DNA magically changes as soon as you move to a new continent.
This is ridiculous. I weigh about 150 pounds, but if I say I have a phobia about people sitting in the seat next to me, the airlines should give me the seat for free?
There ain't no such thing as a free seat you know. Yeah its free for the fat guy, but the cost of that seat is being subsidised by the rest of the passengers on the flight that can fit into one seat. Why should I be required to pay a precentage of someone else's seat.
Southwest has a good policy. If you can't fit into one seat, you have to buy another seat. if the flight isn't sold out then they give you back the money for the extra seat.
You can travel the world more freely now than ever before. 100 years ago you'd have to spend weeks on a boat to get to another continent. Now you can easily fly to the other side of the world in less than 24 hours. and adjusted for inflation its much cheaper than a second class ticket on any ocean liner 100 years ago.
You can smoke any drug you want, have your concubines, etc, but like in any other time in history it requires you to get off your ass and find those things. I'm typing this from Bangkok right now, and for better or for worse, all the things you want are available here. Also the addiction, STDs etc are here too, but you think that didn't exist 100 years ago?
Maybe its better you don't travel. Already too many people around here who think the availability of sex slaves is a good thing.