See - I'd really love for all the climate scientists to be wrong. I don't want to have to change the way I live (or die trying). Unfortunately, all the arguments against global warming are simply justifications for people to avoid changing their behaviour.
While you're correct about the dangers of farm run-off (much of the current woes of the Great Barrier Reef are attributable to nutrients from the sugarcane farms all along the Queensland coast, the temperature rises (which are already happening as evidenced by a number of serious bleaching episodes) are an even bigger risk.
I also don't understand why everyone keeps banging on about the climatologists only being in it for the money. They could make as much researching other stuff of equal interest, and heaps more by being corporate shills.
No. Global warming is verifiable/falsifiable at some point in the future (whether or not you currently believe in it is a different issue, and irrelevant). The rapture isn't, it's just a fairy story.
It's the rate of temperature change that's the problem. Corals (and other species) can perhaps adapt to a 2 degree change that takes place over 10,000 years, but not when it happens in less than a century.
In fact, purer water does _not_ imply better beer. (Burton pale ales, for instance, are made with fairly hard water.) Yeast needs trace elements, so water that is too pure often has to be adjusted to enable the yeast to do anything at all.
You're much more likely to _need_ to use a limiter on vinyl (so the cutting-lathe doesn't break through to the next groove in the spiral). Properly mastered, CDs will _always_ be capable of greater dynamic range than vinyl.
I've just bought a 2496 (mostly because it has standard RCA plugs for the audio in and out, but also 'cause there's a breakout cable for MIDI), and the sound quality seems pretty good (to my 56-year-old ears).
This is exactly what I've used by choice for about the last 20 years. You've just got to be a bit careful making sure you don't get one lead out of phase with the other, as it's usually not traced.
There are two reasons, it seems to me. One is that atheists are generally smarter and better educated than believers. The other is, that it's useful to understand the mind of your enemy.
Australia certainly doesn't have harsh winters (I live here). There are a few places where it snows, but most places in Australia where people live rarely get below freezing. The desert is a bit colder at night, of course, and some of the mountainous bits get cold, but otherwise, no harsh winters.
The biggest problem is that the school board is in the hands of people who say things like "The Bible says the earth will burn up in the End Times, and that's not addressed in the DVD."
You can _almost_ make a case for him having the right to make sure his own kids are as ignorant and stupid as he is, but he's potentially inflicting that fate on every other child in the school district as well.
Slashdot Mirror
See - I'd really love for all the climate scientists to be wrong. I don't want to have to change the way I live (or die trying). Unfortunately, all the arguments against global warming are simply justifications for people to avoid changing their behaviour.
While you're correct about the dangers of farm run-off (much of the current woes of the Great Barrier Reef are attributable to nutrients from the sugarcane farms all along the Queensland coast, the temperature rises (which are already happening as evidenced by a number of serious bleaching episodes) are an even bigger risk.
I also don't understand why everyone keeps banging on about the climatologists only being in it for the money. They could make as much researching other stuff of equal interest, and heaps more by being corporate shills.
Wow. You've just made a really eloquent case for not electing fundamentalists. (If you ignore the last rather foolish and unsupportable assertion.)
I'll take a society based on secular humanism over a theocracy anytime.
No. Global warming is verifiable/falsifiable at some point in the future (whether or not you currently believe in it is a different issue, and irrelevant). The rapture isn't, it's just a fairy story.
It's the rate of temperature change that's the problem. Corals (and other species) can perhaps adapt to a 2 degree change that takes place over 10,000 years, but not when it happens in less than a century.
He's not a zealot. Without wishing to put words in his mouth, I'd guess that (like me) he's just impatient with wilful stupidity.
In fact, purer water does _not_ imply better beer. (Burton pale ales, for instance, are made with fairly hard water.) Yeast needs trace elements, so water that is too pure often has to be adjusted to enable the yeast to do anything at all.
They still are. I travelled in a new one just the other day.
Well ... it worked for Reagan.
You probably ought to have taken a look at the Wikipaedia entry on Goedel before you posted ... it would have saved you some embarassment.
The other possibility, of course, is to make sure they have a private place to interfere with themselves.
You're much more likely to _need_ to use a limiter on vinyl (so the cutting-lathe doesn't break through to the next groove in the spiral). Properly mastered, CDs will _always_ be capable of greater dynamic range than vinyl.
Plus you get (potentially) much greater dynamic range. That's the major problem with (analogue) vinyl.
So ... when are you Americans going to finally enact the same kind of sensible gun laws we have in Australia? How many dead will it take?
I've just bought a 2496 (mostly because it has standard RCA plugs for the audio in and out, but also 'cause there's a breakout cable for MIDI), and the sound quality seems pretty good (to my 56-year-old ears).
My father-in-law says these cars sound like they have square wheels ...
This is exactly what I've used by choice for about the last 20 years. You've just got to be a bit careful making sure you don't get one lead out of phase with the other, as it's usually not traced.
Sturgeon's Law. ("Ninety percent of _everything_ is crap!")
Bales.
However, I don't believe he needs any, as it didn't look like a straw man to me.
There are two reasons, it seems to me. One is that atheists are generally smarter and better educated than believers. The other is, that it's useful to understand the mind of your enemy.
I've had a look. It's nonsense - the babblings of a lunatic.
I can just imagine it on eBay - "Slightly shop-soiled software company, with some intellectual property. Starting bid $0.50".
Australia certainly doesn't have harsh winters (I live here). There are a few places where it snows, but most places in Australia where people live rarely get below freezing. The desert is a bit colder at night, of course, and some of the mountainous bits get cold, but otherwise, no harsh winters.
I already _have_ a life, thank you.
The biggest problem is that the school board is in the hands of people who say things like "The Bible says the earth will burn up in the End Times, and that's not addressed in the DVD."
You can _almost_ make a case for him having the right to make sure his own kids are as ignorant and stupid as he is, but he's potentially inflicting that fate on every other child in the school district as well.