Unfortunately, if you look at the data, CO2 production keeps going up.
Nope. CO2 emissions keep going up. The past few years CO2 production has actually leveled off and in many countries started to decline as a result of civilisations taking action.
If we do *not* get the results predicted by the study above, would that invalidate the theory of global warming?
Nope, It would invalidate the one paper making the one prediction. AGW is an amalgamation of a wealth of scientific models and and studies that are trending in a similar direction.
If not, what testable predictions does the global warming theory make, whose failure *would* invalidate the theory?
If the long term averaged mean global temperature deviates from its correlation to atmospheric CO2 then you'll have invalidated one of the fundamental pillars around which much of AGW research is based.
Instead you make some claim of some arbitrary temperature the GP didn't mention (god knows in what relation to, he mentioned 12 different years). By the way the number you're looking for is +2.03 degrees, not 0.02 https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc...
But the real disappointment is that someone modded you up.
Again, must be a localised problem. Where I live: Stadium was re-purposed as a concert venue (despite guarantees that it would never be used as such during construction) because the local concert venue isn't large enough anymore, the skate park is as full as ever, and if it's not it's only because the riff-raff have relocated to the hugely popular freestyle trampolining centres, the arcade... yeah that died a while back here too.
As for the younger crowd not socialising in public... have you heard of Pokemon Go? Yes I'm being facetious, but I would challenge with the young crowd are socialising in public more than they ever have in the past. Not that I think kids running amok outside has had anything to do with the popularity of music, binge drinking, or combinations of the two.
I didn't say I don't do it. I just said it takes 30 seconds to get a cup of coffee, whereas leaving the building to smoke a cigarette has a far longer lower time limit. If you're the only one who wants coffee it doesn't take much of your time. If you're the only one smoking then it does.
But honestly, when I step out for a smoke I step out with one or two of my co-workers, we actively discuss what we're working on and solve some problems, and then go back at it.
Good for you. I mostly hear talk of football and bitching about how cold it is.
Are we going to give similar breaks to single employees without children and how great that is?
Why are you taking children to work and letting them distract you?
Are we going to count those who take 5 coffee breaks a day?!
Why? It takes 30 seconds to get a cup of coffee. If you have an inefficiency maybe put more coffee machines in the office. The extra caffeine will help productivity too.
How about those gym nuts that disappear for an hour a day (not including lunch) to go for a run and promise they'll make the time up later?!
Are you now talking about people who have addictive habits that negatively impact their work, or are you talking about lazy people not doing their required number of hours? We have a gym in the office. Some lunchtime exercise is great for giving you a productive afternoon rather than sitting in a food coma.
Spare me your sanctimonious bs.
Someone fundamentally missed the point, which was that the smokers had a negative impact on the workplace. The rest of what you list does not.
I have a record player, what's your point? The term foothold implies widespread adoption and continued development. ADAT over TOSLINK is not one of those cases. Compared to AES3 in the professional world it's rarer than rockinghorse poo, and where it is implemented it is often done so with separate master word clocks (not optical) to get around the flaws in the proprietary standard.
Sounds like a localised problem. In places in the world that abolished indoor smoking some 10-15 years ago bands and bars are none the less flourishing, many with queues to get into even when no band are playing, and relatively unknown bands have no trouble selling out venues.
It's a sad case when in your area the only thing people went to bars for was to smoke. That used to be a reason for many of us NOT to go.
The crapware installed by OEM resellers are the biggest culprit.
I see you've never owned a Surface product. I say that not because of the lack of crapware, but because of the poor quality of MS drivers. Eventually the bugs were sorted out, but I've had everything from wake from sleep problems, wifi problems, banding on the graphics card, CPU not sleeping due to interrupts decimating battery life, etc.
On multiple occasions the fix was to force the vendor driver to install, i.e. force Intel's graphics driver to install over the MS provided one. For obvious reasons those fixes tended to last precisely 1 month.
To be clear are you suggesting that unreliability of hardware should include the festering cesspool of software that users introduce in their machines? Sure MS has made it easy with an absolute horrid record of drivers, firmware and patches on their Surface devices. But to me the reliability of a device is almost exclusively determined by what issues I would need to RMA it for, and software bugs doesn't fit that description.
In general I get the sense from my work that the devices are reliable. They've only had 1 failure in the 15000 deployed.
Personally I've owned 2 Surface Pros and sent one of them back, and replaced the keyboard and pen on the other (all warranty claims, all which were handled quickly and with ease). So my own experience doesn't match that of the bulk orders that are going through my work.
I've seen a few stories which spit out about numbers as random as the software used to calculate the digits of PI. If you know of any reliable numbers (and consumer reports aren't it anymore) then let me know.
MS relies on customers contacting them to complain which isn't always the case.
So customers are retarded? For all the problems I've had with the Surface (1 surface failure, 1 keyboard failure, 2 pen failures spread across ownship of 2 different models of SurfacePro) one consistent thing is that MS have been ultra forthcoming with RMAs and turnaround times about as fast as DHL can get the device to them.
Hey, um, "Nimble Fingers" is a dangerous thing to type into a search bar.
Depends on how your search bar is setup. You really need to duckduckgo with SafeSearch turned off to get anything NSFW. Even google with SafeSearch off doesn't show much beyond a child toy store, a music shop, references to a WoW achievement, and a typing skill trainer.
What actually impressed me is the choice weird porn search engine bing.com didn't produce anything either with Safe Search turned off.
Oh cute, you think people get smoke breaks. They may call them smoke breaks in your part of the world but the reality is they are just breaks which are already given to everyone equally.
And if smokers in general stuck to those breaks then there wouldn't be a problem, but they don't so their is.
In any case a positive incentive to stop smoking is far better than one to start smoking.
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Unfortunately, if you look at the data, CO2 production keeps going up.
Nope. CO2 emissions keep going up. The past few years CO2 production has actually leveled off and in many countries started to decline as a result of civilisations taking action.
If we do *not* get the results predicted by the study above, would that invalidate the theory of global warming?
Nope, It would invalidate the one paper making the one prediction. AGW is an amalgamation of a wealth of scientific models and and studies that are trending in a similar direction.
If not, what testable predictions does the global warming theory make, whose failure *would* invalidate the theory?
If the long term averaged mean global temperature deviates from its correlation to atmospheric CO2 then you'll have invalidated one of the fundamental pillars around which much of AGW research is based.
Good luck.
Hotter by 0.02 degrees.. AND THE MARGIN OF ERROR IS 0.1 degrees.
Science! Learn it!
If you were a scientist you'd not be looking at individual temperatures but at trends: http://www.economist.com/node/...
Instead you make some claim of some arbitrary temperature the GP didn't mention (god knows in what relation to, he mentioned 12 different years). By the way the number you're looking for is +2.03 degrees, not 0.02 https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc...
But the real disappointment is that someone modded you up.
Again, must be a localised problem. Where I live: Stadium was re-purposed as a concert venue (despite guarantees that it would never be used as such during construction) because the local concert venue isn't large enough anymore, the skate park is as full as ever, and if it's not it's only because the riff-raff have relocated to the hugely popular freestyle trampolining centres, the arcade... yeah that died a while back here too.
As for the younger crowd not socialising in public... have you heard of Pokemon Go? Yes I'm being facetious, but I would challenge with the young crowd are socialising in public more than they ever have in the past. Not that I think kids running amok outside has had anything to do with the popularity of music, binge drinking, or combinations of the two.
Audi A4 TFSI 1.4 Kerb weight 1295kg from Audi's own website. Look it up.
and poorer performing
Oh I thought you said "lowest power gasoline versions". Must be hard to play sports with those goalposts running around the field.
I didn't say I don't do it. I just said it takes 30 seconds to get a cup of coffee, whereas leaving the building to smoke a cigarette has a far longer lower time limit. If you're the only one who wants coffee it doesn't take much of your time. If you're the only one smoking then it does.
You'd be mad not to contact the manufacturer for a defect regardless, if for no other reason than to see if something is cheaply repairable.
But honestly, when I step out for a smoke I step out with one or two of my co-workers, we actively discuss what we're working on and solve some problems, and then go back at it.
Good for you. I mostly hear talk of football and bitching about how cold it is.
Are we going to give similar breaks to single employees without children and how great that is?
Why are you taking children to work and letting them distract you?
Are we going to count those who take 5 coffee breaks a day?!
Why? It takes 30 seconds to get a cup of coffee. If you have an inefficiency maybe put more coffee machines in the office. The extra caffeine will help productivity too.
How about those gym nuts that disappear for an hour a day (not including lunch) to go for a run and promise they'll make the time up later?!
Are you now talking about people who have addictive habits that negatively impact their work, or are you talking about lazy people not doing their required number of hours? We have a gym in the office. Some lunchtime exercise is great for giving you a productive afternoon rather than sitting in a food coma.
Spare me your sanctimonious bs.
Someone fundamentally missed the point, which was that the smokers had a negative impact on the workplace. The rest of what you list does not.
I have a record player, what's your point? The term foothold implies widespread adoption and continued development. ADAT over TOSLINK is not one of those cases. Compared to AES3 in the professional world it's rarer than rockinghorse poo, and where it is implemented it is often done so with separate master word clocks (not optical) to get around the flaws in the proprietary standard.
Sounds like a localised problem. In places in the world that abolished indoor smoking some 10-15 years ago bands and bars are none the less flourishing, many with queues to get into even when no band are playing, and relatively unknown bands have no trouble selling out venues.
It's a sad case when in your area the only thing people went to bars for was to smoke. That used to be a reason for many of us NOT to go.
Actually it's a lot of Asian cultures. I've heard about it in Korea, but I've experienced it in Japan and mainland China.
The crapware installed by OEM resellers are the biggest culprit.
I see you've never owned a Surface product. I say that not because of the lack of crapware, but because of the poor quality of MS drivers. Eventually the bugs were sorted out, but I've had everything from wake from sleep problems, wifi problems, banding on the graphics card, CPU not sleeping due to interrupts decimating battery life, etc.
On multiple occasions the fix was to force the vendor driver to install, i.e. force Intel's graphics driver to install over the MS provided one. For obvious reasons those fixes tended to last precisely 1 month.
To be clear are you suggesting that unreliability of hardware should include the festering cesspool of software that users introduce in their machines? Sure MS has made it easy with an absolute horrid record of drivers, firmware and patches on their Surface devices. But to me the reliability of a device is almost exclusively determined by what issues I would need to RMA it for, and software bugs doesn't fit that description.
I don't doubt the 1 in 100000 number. I am willing to bet they are talking exclusively hardware failures there.
In general I get the sense from my work that the devices are reliable. They've only had 1 failure in the 15000 deployed.
Personally I've owned 2 Surface Pros and sent one of them back, and replaced the keyboard and pen on the other (all warranty claims, all which were handled quickly and with ease). So my own experience doesn't match that of the bulk orders that are going through my work.
I've seen a few stories which spit out about numbers as random as the software used to calculate the digits of PI. If you know of any reliable numbers (and consumer reports aren't it anymore) then let me know.
MS relies on customers contacting them to complain which isn't always the case.
So customers are retarded? For all the problems I've had with the Surface (1 surface failure, 1 keyboard failure, 2 pen failures spread across ownship of 2 different models of SurfacePro) one consistent thing is that MS have been ultra forthcoming with RMAs and turnaround times about as fast as DHL can get the device to them.
Surface devices have had a lot of widespread reported problems like hot bag, wifi, etc.
Yeah but critically a metric fuckton of them are just shoddy windows bugs and nothing to do with failing hardware.
When I still used Linux, I experienced problems booting maybe 1 time out of every 4 or 5 attempts, usually due to some issue involving systemd.
Maybe computers just aren't for you. Have you considered restricting your technology use to iPads?
Hey, um, "Nimble Fingers" is a dangerous thing to type into a search bar.
Depends on how your search bar is setup. You really need to duckduckgo with SafeSearch turned off to get anything NSFW. Even google with SafeSearch off doesn't show much beyond a child toy store, a music shop, references to a WoW achievement, and a typing skill trainer.
What actually impressed me is the choice weird porn search engine bing.com didn't produce anything either with Safe Search turned off.
The Japanese don't "hit the bar". The British "hit the bar". The Japanese "challenge their co-workers to a competitive drinking session".
Last time I checked, smoke breaks are unpaid...
Oh cute, you think people get smoke breaks. They may call them smoke breaks in your part of the world but the reality is they are just breaks which are already given to everyone equally.
And if smokers in general stuck to those breaks then there wouldn't be a problem, but they don't so their is.
In any case a positive incentive to stop smoking is far better than one to start smoking.
Wait what? There's still backwards countries where you're allowed to smoke indoors in a company building?
*mind blown*
Because artificial light feels just like sunshine...
I live in England you insensitive clod.
Wow, someone is buying cheap shit and then reflecting on the entire industry.