Science, and the practice of it, demands that research be repeatable and transparent.
We have this quote from TFA:
The CRU is the world's leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.
By deleting the raw data, no one can ever reproduce or review the process by which raw data became tested theory.
This is not the act of a scientist; in fact, this would make you fail in the Elementary School Science Fair of your choice.
The sad truth seems to be that, while Science concerns itself with discovering truth, these scientists have concerned themselves only with discovering funding and prestige.
Climate change theory must now reside with such things as Cold Fusion and Duke Nukem Forever.
A lot has been made in the comments here about how trade and brands are illusions.
Well, our modern, global economy lives on a broad number of highly important illusions. Some of the most important are that paper currency has value, and that brands are worthwhile as a means of product differentiation.
If you take one of these core illusions away - such as paper money valuation - you will quickly see the global economy shatter.
But then ask yourself: "What do I do if the cash I have is now, or will soon be, worthless as a trade instrument"? Do you buy gold and bury it in the backyard? That assumes someone else wants that stuff, which will likely be wrong. Do you buy livestock/seeds and become an urban farmer? That assumes you know how to grow food crops and preserve their nutrient value; as well as raise, slaughter and butcher livestock and then preserve the result. Not to mention that local laws would allow it.
So it seems you have two choices: 1. Go on with the illusions our modern world has developed, understanding that if you elect people with radical agendas, that the whole thing will behave in an unstable fashion for a while. (whether politically right or left)
2. Learn the methods of food generation and preservation your great-grandparents used, move somewhere out-of-the-way (lots of space and no urban laws against farming) with a good growing season, and begin farming/preserving against the death of illusions.
Before you sound off, consider which one lets you continue to post on Slashdot on your Dell computer, in your Ecko gear, while listening to the music you downloaded from iTunes, in between rounds of Valve's Left4Dead2 on your Microsoft Xbox 360, while being 30lbs overweight and unable to lift heavy loads or put in a full day of honest, sweat-generating manual labor?
Oh, and if you choose option 2 - practice your marksmanship and stock ammo, because if the End of Illusions comes, lots of hungry people will come looking for what you've stocked up. They will not be friendly and rational. And you might want to get a few wives too, just to ensure your genetic code lives on to future generations. Infant mortality is a bitch outside the core of civilization.
FYI: People of this persuasion tend to like Montana and Colorado, and fear black helicopters and the Federal Government. (Just setting you up for the local culture)
Compare the attitudes in "And Afghanistan never attacked us either, though Al-Qaeda did. That could have been taken care of by attacking Al-Qaeda directly in their caves and training camps, without having to take over the entire country."
to
"When America attacked the Barbary Pirates, they attacked them in their port cities like Tripoli, by bombarding the cities. They didn't worry about civilians, because the civilians were guilty of allowing the Pirates to stay there and run the place.....We crushed them, and they became quite compliant afterwards. Now, we worry far too much about civilian deaths, which just makes it impossible to win a war."
and understand exactly how indoctrinated to left-wing political nonsense you are. The thing to do is exactly what we did, and by your "analysis" of the Barbary Pirates actions and WWII, you _know_ it.
If you look under the covers, every article quoted by the blog post presented talk about linux in terms of POLICY DECISIONS by GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.
When Munich went Linux, it made some open source folks realize that, if Linux had a hard road getting adoption by the likes of Dell and HP, then they could go the Apple route and be a government mandate (think schools)
And so people began lobbying to get laws passed mandating the use of open-source tools by various government bodies.
For example, in one of the articles (Open Source Socialism by Sonia Arrison) Lee quotes:
But the pressing question is not whether open source can make its creators money, or its purported advantages over proprietary software. The current issue is whether government should be used to force an increase in open source deployment. A good deal of the frenzy is a reaction to the success of Microsoft.....(my snip)....
Microsoft has market power because it creates products that satisfy technology needs at the right price. If the open source community's products better satisfy those needs at a better price, then it shouldn't be necessary to legislate the use of open source in government departments, as some California activists suggested in August. It also shouldn't be necessary to legislate smaller items like the exact parts of a state's information technology (IT) infrastructure that must remain open, as Perens wants to do.
If a government agency chooses to use an open or mixed system for efficiency and cost reasons, that is fine. But forcing the taxpayer's IT budget to favor one type of system over another for purely political reasons is wrong and antithetical to the spirit of the open source community.
This is the primary concern of the libertarians - that choice is not mandated by legislative fiat. We should let the experts employed by the states decide what they'll run.
I expect most folks reading Slashdot would feel the same way, in their own job.
Iran had a "revolution" to oust the Shah which was fermented and backed by the KGB.
People like you seem to forget (or probably weren't told) that there were two sides to the war of manipulation going on back then.
Of course, only an idiot or liar would refer to the 1979 constitution, and the resulting government, as a "democracy", especially in light of the recent "elections".
Iran is RULED by a SUPREME LEADER.
Or, to quote wikipedia: The President is responsible for the implementation of the Constitution and for the exercise of executive powers, except for matters directly related to the Supreme Leader, who has the final say in all matters.
Simple quiz: If a single person has final say in all matters of a State, is that State a: A. Democracy B. Dictatorship
I see England has despised of the ending of the "special relationship". I see the French president considers Obama to be a noob. I see the German chancellor rejecting Obama's policies. I see Poland and the Czech Republic feeling abandoned. I see Russia and China condemning US monetary and trade policies. I see Iran saying Obama is just like his predecessor. I see Pakistan condeming US activity within its borders.
I call bull on this supposed lovefest. The world does not respect/love America any more or less than before. In fact, most of those nations considered to be on the "side" of the US are despairing of the new reek of cowardice and anti-capitalism coming from the White House.
"The world" recognizes that the end of "Cowboy Diplomacy" need not mean that the US does a deep dive into equivocation, isolationism and protectionism.
The world - if it could be so simply encapsulated - simply views the USA in light of its own interests. As it always has, and always will.
Way to go flying off the handle, right past the point.
Summary for the galactically dense: Separating the distribution function from the sales (profit generation) creates more corporate mouths to feed, and therefore more costs. At the same time, the distribution function gets "pinched" for money, and network upgrades and maintenance is actually delayed.
So it's exactly the wrong choice - you get increased costs, plus decreased service and reliability, as proven in CA.
As to people's contracts, the problems with AT+T's mobile data technology were well known before the iPhone came out. If you FREELY CHOSE to sign a contract to get a technology item that was in no way a necessity, assuming (I guess) that a poor data distribution solution would make a full-featured browser sing, then fuck you. I feel no pity for willful fools.
This is exactly the sort of nonsense California implemented when they introduced a "deregulation" of electricity.
This is what allowed Enron to screw a good part of the country, created rolling blackouts during the height of the tech boom, and created a f-ing mess that lingers on today.
If AT+T's network sucks, go for somebody else. Personally, I'll never have financial intercourse with Ma Bell again, because that is one diseased ho. But I digress.
Everything about the world religious nuts don't understand, they attribute to God. Everything about the world evolution nuts don't understand, they call junk.
The major American automakers (and I use that term loosely) STILL HAVE STOCK OF 2008 MODEL YEAR CARS.
The 2010's are due out....and they haven't even sold off all the 2008's yet! Just go to GM's website and look at current offers for your area - at the back of the list are all the deals on '08s.
This stock was generated because of the sweetheart deal the unions had over GM - even laid off, union employees of GM make 95% of full-time salary. So GM just never stopped producing cars. It doesn't make sense to - your biggest cost (labor) still hits you.
This is just back-stock being purchased now. It will create no new production, because there's still a looooooong way to go to sell off all the backlog and clear out all the parking lots in/around Detroit.
n the US, though, things are different. Employers have much more power that they can exert, and as a result, the employees need to exert more collective power.
So....your argument is that employees have too much power over companies, because companies have too much power over employees?
Wow...just...wow.
There's just layers of ignorance and government co-dependency there.
Let me add something to the mix for you: The company can't move to another place without this sort of union abuse because federal laws prohibit that sort of union busting.
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Think to yourself - why would a company with this goal want to offer telephony services?
Are you really sure this is a good idea? Laws about wiretapping are relatively clear-cut, but they may not cover this. Which is a privacy hole you can drive the space shuttle through.
So let me put your comments in a bit of context for the world reading this: poster is a left-wing troll who never checked into what Barack Obama really believed before voting.
Here's the part of the transcript where he leads the caller on, who is really the person who said that, and Rush debunking it.
Try reading the entire FA you link to.
CALLER: I listened to your show last hour, but I don't know who came up with this, but I think they have it backwards. If you want to cool the air or the atmospheric you should paint all cars black.
RUSH: Explain this.
CALLER: Well, black absorbs. I have a black car. It's warmer only on the inside. The air above it is actually cooler. If you want to warm the atmosphere, you're going to paint all cars white. It reflects. It reflects what? Heat and light.
RUSH: Well, but see, we're a little confused on the intention here. Because the story only says that they want to reduce the heat inside cars to reduce automobile air-conditioning usage, and the less automobile air-conditioning usage, the less emissions, the less gasoline used, and therefore the less damage to the planet. Now, what you're saying is --
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: -- that if you're right, if these white cars, if these light colored cars are going to reflect the heat then that's just going to make global warming even worse, right?
CALLER: I would think so.
RUSH: Yeah. And so what you need to do is have every car be black like the old Model Ts were, so that the earth gets cooler.
CALLER: Yes, it will use a little bit more air-conditioning in the summertime than a person with a white car.
RUSH: I bet you don't. I'll bet you that's bogus.
CALLER: Well, no, that is technically true. The car is actually a little bit warmer on the inside, a black car. But, it balances out --
RUSH: Okay, you get in the car in the summertime, let's use Florida.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: I have black cars, and I'll guaran-damn-tee you, if I'm playing golf for five hours, and I got a white car or black car, if I get in either one of those cars, it's gonna be an oven because I lock it and keep the windows up, because everybody knows my car, don't want any vandalism, I don't care if it's ten degrees cooler in the white car or the black car, it's still going to be an oven in there --
CALLER: Oh, yes.
RUSH: -- and the AC is going on full blast!
CALLER: It's hot either way.
RUSH: All right. So the whole thing is just bogus.
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anandtech.com tomshardware.com maximumpc.com pcmag.com (hard to find, though) arstechnica.com sharkyextreme.com
I mean, really....does anyone think it's hard to find this stuff?
You can even find sample builds on amazon.com and on newegg.com if you look around a bit.
Sometimes things sound too good to be true.....Whiter teeth using only household chemicals
Swish daily with hydrogen peroxide for 2 weeks. (the flavor won't be so bad by the end of the term, buck up)
After the first 2 weeks of daily swishing, swish 2 or 3 times a week ongoing.
Over about 3-4 months, your smile will whiten noticably, and your foul Mt. Dew breath will tame out.
A standard mix of hydrogen peroxide (like you use on cuts, don't go to your Chemistry supply store) will cost you under $1 for a bottle that will last a long time.
9 to 10 had its own emulation stuff, the "Classic" layer, and the PPC to Intel transition had Rosetta.
The thing people are missing is that Microsoft is admitting that they stuffed up so badly that they're willing to ship copies of XP to the corporates whilst still getting their latest version out and bought.
Wow, way to drink the kool-aid.
You just posted that you thought the exact same move (emulation of previous OS) is brilliant when done by Apple, and a total screw-up when done by Microsoft.
The kicker is the up-mod.
Of course, for most folks this isn't really that different from Compatibility Mode in XP, but I guess that's old news.
I might remind you that the kinder mindset after WW2 first required the vengeful mindset after WW1 to demonstrate itself to be an absolute failure; and for someone over in the US to gather up enough wisdom to notice.
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We have this quote from TFA:
By deleting the raw data, no one can ever reproduce or review the process by which raw data became tested theory.
This is not the act of a scientist; in fact, this would make you fail in the Elementary School Science Fair of your choice. The sad truth seems to be that, while Science concerns itself with discovering truth, these scientists have concerned themselves only with discovering funding and prestige.
Climate change theory must now reside with such things as Cold Fusion and Duke Nukem Forever.
A lot has been made in the comments here about how trade and brands are illusions.
Well, our modern, global economy lives on a broad number of highly important illusions. Some of the most important are that paper currency has value, and that brands are worthwhile as a means of product differentiation.
If you take one of these core illusions away - such as paper money valuation - you will quickly see the global economy shatter.
But then ask yourself: "What do I do if the cash I have is now, or will soon be, worthless as a trade instrument"?
Do you buy gold and bury it in the backyard? That assumes someone else wants that stuff, which will likely be wrong.
Do you buy livestock/seeds and become an urban farmer? That assumes you know how to grow food crops and preserve their nutrient value; as well as raise, slaughter and butcher livestock and then preserve the result. Not to mention that local laws would allow it.
So it seems you have two choices:
1. Go on with the illusions our modern world has developed, understanding that if you elect people with radical agendas, that the whole thing will behave in an unstable fashion for a while. (whether politically right or left)
2. Learn the methods of food generation and preservation your great-grandparents used, move somewhere out-of-the-way (lots of space and no urban laws against farming) with a good growing season, and begin farming/preserving against the death of illusions.
Before you sound off, consider which one lets you continue to post on Slashdot on your Dell computer, in your Ecko gear, while listening to the music you downloaded from iTunes, in between rounds of Valve's Left4Dead2 on your Microsoft Xbox 360, while being 30lbs overweight and unable to lift heavy loads or put in a full day of honest, sweat-generating manual labor?
Oh, and if you choose option 2 - practice your marksmanship and stock ammo, because if the End of Illusions comes, lots of hungry people will come looking for what you've stocked up. They will not be friendly and rational. And you might want to get a few wives too, just to ensure your genetic code lives on to future generations. Infant mortality is a bitch outside the core of civilization.
FYI: People of this persuasion tend to like Montana and Colorado, and fear black helicopters and the Federal Government. (Just setting you up for the local culture)
Compare the attitudes in "And Afghanistan never attacked us either, though Al-Qaeda did. That could have been taken care of by attacking Al-Qaeda directly in their caves and training camps, without having to take over the entire country."
to
"When America attacked the Barbary Pirates, they attacked them in their port cities like Tripoli, by bombarding the cities. They didn't worry about civilians, because the civilians were guilty of allowing the Pirates to stay there and run the place.....We crushed them, and they became quite compliant afterwards. Now, we worry far too much about civilian deaths, which just makes it impossible to win a war."
and understand exactly how indoctrinated to left-wing political nonsense you are.
The thing to do is exactly what we did, and by your "analysis" of the Barbary Pirates actions and WWII, you _know_ it.
If you look under the covers, every article quoted by the blog post presented talk about linux in terms of POLICY DECISIONS by GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.
When Munich went Linux, it made some open source folks realize that, if Linux had a hard road getting adoption by the likes of Dell and HP, then they could go the Apple route and be a government mandate (think schools)
And so people began lobbying to get laws passed mandating the use of open-source tools by various government bodies.
For example, in one of the articles (Open Source Socialism by Sonia Arrison) Lee quotes:
This is the primary concern of the libertarians - that choice is not mandated by legislative fiat. We should let the experts employed by the states decide what they'll run.
I expect most folks reading Slashdot would feel the same way, in their own job.
It is a good deal to get things for free.
But economists tell us, there is no free lunch.
Politicians show us, government cannot give anyone anything, without first taking it away from someone else, and then skimming off the top.
It is a terrible deal to be forced by the full power of a national government to pay for everyone else's "free" things.
So you see, it's not free. You just used the government to rob someone else.
Here's the ultimate question:
How long can you rob someone before they stop bothering to get any more money for you to steal?
Iran had a "revolution" to oust the Shah which was fermented and backed by the KGB.
People like you seem to forget (or probably weren't told) that there were two sides to the war of manipulation going on back then.
Of course, only an idiot or liar would refer to the 1979 constitution, and the resulting government, as a "democracy", especially in light of the recent "elections".
Iran is RULED by a SUPREME LEADER.
Or, to quote wikipedia:
The President is responsible for the implementation of the Constitution and for the exercise of executive powers, except for matters directly related to the Supreme Leader, who has the final say in all matters.
Simple quiz:
If a single person has final say in all matters of a State, is that State a:
A. Democracy
B. Dictatorship
Cite please.
I see England has despised of the ending of the "special relationship".
I see the French president considers Obama to be a noob.
I see the German chancellor rejecting Obama's policies.
I see Poland and the Czech Republic feeling abandoned.
I see Russia and China condemning US monetary and trade policies.
I see Iran saying Obama is just like his predecessor.
I see Pakistan condeming US activity within its borders.
I call bull on this supposed lovefest. The world does not respect/love America any more or less than before.
In fact, most of those nations considered to be on the "side" of the US are despairing of the new reek of cowardice and anti-capitalism coming from the White House.
"The world" recognizes that the end of "Cowboy Diplomacy" need not mean that the US does a deep dive into equivocation, isolationism and protectionism.
The world - if it could be so simply encapsulated - simply views the USA in light of its own interests. As it always has, and always will.
Just wait until he forks her kernel.....
The real question is, will they release child projects under the GPL?
Way to go flying off the handle, right past the point.
Summary for the galactically dense:
Separating the distribution function from the sales (profit generation) creates more corporate mouths to feed, and therefore more costs.
At the same time, the distribution function gets "pinched" for money, and network upgrades and maintenance is actually delayed.
So it's exactly the wrong choice - you get increased costs, plus decreased service and reliability, as proven in CA.
As to people's contracts, the problems with AT+T's mobile data technology were well known before the iPhone came out. If you FREELY CHOSE to sign a contract to get a technology item that was in no way a necessity, assuming (I guess) that a poor data distribution solution would make a full-featured browser sing, then fuck you. I feel no pity for willful fools.
This is exactly the sort of nonsense California implemented when they introduced a "deregulation" of electricity.
This is what allowed Enron to screw a good part of the country, created rolling blackouts during the height of the tech boom, and created a f-ing mess that lingers on today.
Read more at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010212/wasserman
If AT+T's network sucks, go for somebody else. Personally, I'll never have financial intercourse with Ma Bell again, because that is one diseased ho. But I digress.
Just like they did with allofmp3.com.
Well, at least we finally know what those "hikers" who got "lost" near the Iranian border were really doing.
Everything about the world religious nuts don't understand, they attribute to God.
Everything about the world evolution nuts don't understand, they call junk.
Interesting difference.
There is no stimulus in the CARS bill.
The major American automakers (and I use that term loosely) STILL HAVE STOCK OF 2008 MODEL YEAR CARS.
The 2010's are due out....and they haven't even sold off all the 2008's yet!
Just go to GM's website and look at current offers for your area - at the back of the list are all the deals on '08s.
This stock was generated because of the sweetheart deal the unions had over GM - even laid off, union employees of GM make 95% of full-time salary. So GM just never stopped producing cars. It doesn't make sense to - your biggest cost (labor) still hits you.
This is just back-stock being purchased now. It will create no new production, because there's still a looooooong way to go to sell off all the backlog and clear out all the parking lots in/around Detroit.
So....your argument is that employees have too much power over companies, because companies have too much power over employees?
Wow...just...wow.
There's just layers of ignorance and government co-dependency there.
Let me add something to the mix for you:
The company can't move to another place without this sort of union abuse because federal laws prohibit that sort of union busting.
Care to try again?
try this link from your mobile phone:
http://wapedia.mobi/en/
That way you get the whole thing, up-to-date, and with no trouble or major memory usage.
Several states had more votes than voters in the 200 presidential election.
I wonder why Obama is having a hard time criticizing the Iranian ruling structure, at the same time that Acorn added, "International", to their name.
As Arsenio Hall was fond of saying, it's just a thing that makes you say, hmmm.
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Think to yourself - why would a company with this goal want to offer telephony services?
Are you really sure this is a good idea? Laws about wiretapping are relatively clear-cut, but they may not cover this. Which is a privacy hole you can drive the space shuttle through.
The design/development/implemention is being done by Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting.
Need I say more?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-uwsystempayroll,0,2597575.story
That would be Madison, WI.
So let me put your comments in a bit of context for the world reading this:
poster is a left-wing troll who never checked into what Barack Obama really believed before voting.
Here's the part of the transcript where he leads the caller on, who is really the person who said that, and Rush debunking it.
Try reading the entire FA you link to.
CALLER: I listened to your show last hour, but I don't know who came up with this, but I think they have it backwards. If you want to cool the air or the atmospheric you should paint all cars black.
RUSH: Explain this.
CALLER: Well, black absorbs. I have a black car. It's warmer only on the inside. The air above it is actually cooler. If you want to warm the atmosphere, you're going to paint all cars white. It reflects. It reflects what? Heat and light.
RUSH: Well, but see, we're a little confused on the intention here. Because the story only says that they want to reduce the heat inside cars to reduce automobile air-conditioning usage, and the less automobile air-conditioning usage, the less emissions, the less gasoline used, and therefore the less damage to the planet. Now, what you're saying is --
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: -- that if you're right, if these white cars, if these light colored cars are going to reflect the heat then that's just going to make global warming even worse, right?
CALLER: I would think so.
RUSH: Yeah. And so what you need to do is have every car be black like the old Model Ts were, so that the earth gets cooler.
CALLER: Yes, it will use a little bit more air-conditioning in the summertime than a person with a white car.
RUSH: I bet you don't. I'll bet you that's bogus.
CALLER: Well, no, that is technically true. The car is actually a little bit warmer on the inside, a black car. But, it balances out --
RUSH: Okay, you get in the car in the summertime, let's use Florida.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: I have black cars, and I'll guaran-damn-tee you, if I'm playing golf for five hours, and I got a white car or black car, if I get in either one of those cars, it's gonna be an oven because I lock it and keep the windows up, because everybody knows my car, don't want any vandalism, I don't care if it's ten degrees cooler in the white car or the black car, it's still going to be an oven in there --
CALLER: Oh, yes.
RUSH: -- and the AC is going on full blast!
CALLER: It's hot either way.
RUSH: All right. So the whole thing is just bogus.
anandtech.com
tomshardware.com
maximumpc.com
pcmag.com (hard to find, though)
arstechnica.com
sharkyextreme.com
I mean, really....does anyone think it's hard to find this stuff?
You can even find sample builds on amazon.com and on newegg.com if you look around a bit.
Sometimes things sound too good to be true.....Whiter teeth using only household chemicals
Swish daily with hydrogen peroxide for 2 weeks. (the flavor won't be so bad by the end of the term, buck up)
After the first 2 weeks of daily swishing, swish 2 or 3 times a week ongoing.
Over about 3-4 months, your smile will whiten noticably, and your foul Mt. Dew breath will tame out.
A standard mix of hydrogen peroxide (like you use on cuts, don't go to your Chemistry supply store) will cost you under $1 for a bottle that will last a long time.
But yes, the rest of your stuff is bunk. :)
Cluster Computer Predicts Cluster Fuck For Clustered People.
Film at 11.
Wow, way to drink the kool-aid.
You just posted that you thought the exact same move (emulation of previous OS) is brilliant when done by Apple, and a total screw-up when done by Microsoft.
The kicker is the up-mod.
Of course, for most folks this isn't really that different from Compatibility Mode in XP, but I guess that's old news.
I might remind you that the kinder mindset after WW2 first required the vengeful mindset after WW1 to demonstrate itself to be an absolute failure; and for someone over in the US to gather up enough wisdom to notice.