Oxygen is a corrosive byproduct of Plants, and would be considered "pollution" by almost all standards used today, except that certain forms of life depend upon it.
water vapor
carbon dioxide
methane
nitrous oxide
ozone
Those are GREEN house gases, Guess what water vapor does in sufficient quantity? Reflect radiation (not absorb it), called Anisotropic solar reflectance. But that is hardly ever mentioned, because it doesn't happen in smaller scale greenhouse tests.
The problem for Global Warming Alarmists is that there is no way to test for such a thing.
The difference between that "holy" book and most others is that it takes a definitive viewpoint that all men are flawed and the ONLY redemption is by faith. Science doesn't deal, ever, with how flawed man really is. Science assumes that we can "fix" whatever flaws we have with science, where that book makes the exact opposite case.
And from EMPIRICAL evidence, the book is 100% accurate on that point, while science is 0%. I guess we just need to give science more time to catch up. huh?
I'd explain the two stories to you, but I doubt you'd even care as to why they are important to the whole narrative.
Please. If ANY tea party looked ANYTHING like what this was, John Stewart would have been all over it, and it would have been "news"
This was day 14 (or whatever) of an ongoing protest against whatever... yawn. This is the MO of the leftwing pseudo anarchists at every protest. Hardly news if it is SOP. It is like reporting that lions eat antelopes.
Define "Life Saving Medicine" in such a way that it eliminates Smokers dying of lung cancer, Drinkers dying of Liver and Kidney Disease, McDonalds Snackers dying of Heart failure, idiot motorcycle riders falling off and cracking their skull etc etc etc.
Or how about "Emergency Rooms" that are being filled with NON-EMERGENCY health problems... simply because they cannot refuse to take someone.. ever.
Which gets to Rationed care, because there is no such thing as UNLIMITED MEDICAL RESOURCES so that all people can get all the care they WANT. Should my 80 Year old mother get her back operated on, or should she be passed off for some young motorcycle accident victim?
When one starts to apply specifics to the platitudes of the Socialists, one can quickly see why looking at the world through rose tinted glasses doesn't make the world rose tinted.
We have the best medical care in the world here, and people want it for free, which will only bring us down to 3rd world care in short order. AND when it does, we won't be able to unwind the horrific consequences short of National Bankruptcy. We are already seen unintended consequences of the law, AND some pretty scary bits that are actually IN the law.
People who want the platitudes don't care enough about the specifics. Just ask them and you'll see them pan the questions I'm asking here. They don't care about the results, they only care about intentions.
To top all of this off, there are TOO MANY (D) people calling on the suspension of Democracy right now to ever let them have office ever again. Talk about scary.
What a bunch of spoiled rotten cry babies. Most of them are nothing more than Hippie Wannabies protesting "the man" and complaining when the "man" uses a little pepper spray. Clears the sinuses.
"they grabbed one guy around the neck, and threw him to the ground"
Duh, that's what cops do when they arrest you. It isn't brutality, it is proper procedure.
That's were Thin Clients work best. Low network overhead, everything is on the backend. Works over any modern "high speed" internet connection. Why send 25MB Flash Animation across a link 15 times, when you can just send the screen scrapes. Its not like you need 250 FPS is it?
Every example given in that article doesn't include Hoaxes and Frauds, like the examples I've given above. Nor does it deal with people who BLINDLY accepted those hoaxes and frauds as fact. They weren't wrong based on observation, they were wrong because they were manufactured errors. And yet, science blindly accepted those as facts without any demonstration.
Here, look at Piltdown Man, proof of Evolution. Yay, we proved Evolution lets write a PhD Thesis on that. Yay, I got my PhD, and am now teaching Antropology at University on a class about Evolution, showing Piltdown Man as Fact! (wash, rinse, repeat for 50+ years)
Can you tell me that wasn't blind faith?
And it is one reason why I love hard sciences like Physics more than soft sciences like Anthropology.
THAT is the problem, especially on the two examples I've given. Or how about the Global Warming problem where UEA had all the data, and nobody else did? Or how they conveniently "lost" it. And still people who question it are rejected by the mass hysteria crowd, many of whom are "scientists"?
Why don't we simply REJECT the unverifiable out of hand in cases like this?
My point, there is a lot of "faith" in science, it is just obfuscated in scientific terms and rhetoric, and when people like myself point it out, people get all huffy and indigent, and start the name calling (how is THAT scientific?)
Doesn't fix the problem with people getting degrees based on fraudulent information and hoaxes, does it?
I believe in Time Travel. I'm traveling through time right now, same as everyone else. Rotating around Sol, rotating around MilkeyWay, expanding through empty space, relative to other bodies elsewhere;) THAT, and my DeLorean is equipped with MrFusion:-D
How does science deal with the inevitable flaws in humans? We are not perfect creatures, and science has come to the wrong conclusions many many times in the past, and have been dogmatic about it.
How many PhD's were given based on a Thesis supporting the concept of Piltdown Man? How many of those were revoked upon realization that it was nothing more than a hoax?
People did these things were basing their finale of their eduction, their crowning achievement on FAITH that what came before was true. Those PhD's went on to teach others about the very same Piltdown man, wrote whole works on it, and had others base PhD's upon it. It wasn't fully stricken from the records for nearly 50 years in education.
I've made this point before, but nobody has ever convinced me that Science cannot be snowed by people wanting to believe in something. Global Warming (used to be cooling) is another fine example of Science Faith. Remember the guy saying he saw Polar Bears drowning for lack of Icepacks? Wrote a paper or two, people wrote PhD Thesis on it, turns out another "hoax" of science based on FAITH and a strong desire for their faith to be actualized.
People who claim Science is without bias are liars. The only thing Science can do is self correct when the lies are exposed. And that is the most common rebuttal I get to these points. In the meantime all those people who were wrong about frauds and hoaxes continue to teach people how great science is.
Don't get me wrong, the scientific method is great at teaching about this world as it exists, but it is ultimately flawed by people, who are flawed.
LIbertarians (like myself) realize that both Governments and Corporations (Government Licensed) end up in bed together, and that invariably results in corruption and nepotism (aka Campaign Donations for Government Contracts) Both (D) and (R) do it, it is just that (D)s tend to give passes to (D) administrations and (R) to (R) administrations.
Market works fine when people leave it alone, more so than when people over regulate the crap out of it to the point of dysfunction. At some point, the government will try to tax chickens, and home gardens.
Choice fixes these types of problems. IF we had competing DMVs both seeking higher effeciencies and better service and lower costs and so on, we'd have better DMV. The problem is, when DMV sucks, where can you go elsewhere to get better service? You can't.
The "Capitalism sucks" crowd can never ever fix DMV, and nobody runs for office promising better service from DMV or Postal Service or any number of other entities that are hugely inefficient wastes of money. And unlike Capitalism, you can't get rid of an agency once it is created, and the ones we have created turn into untamed monsters regardless of the intended original stated goals of said organization.
This is because to care about a stock, you have to care about the company. To care about the company, it can't be run by professional Board Members who are appointed by Professional Stock Managers. The simple plan is to immediately divest yourself of any stock the moment that Institutional Investors (ie Wall Street) gain control of the Board.
Look for smaller companies that don't have professional boards and haven't been discovered by institutional investors. Or don't care, and buy Market based Mutual Funds.
I wish the guys designing cars spent more time actually trying to fix what they've designed. Why does the alternator on my van require specialized tools to pull out? Yeah, it still has three bolts in the standard location, but they tucked the damn thing in so that you cannot get to the third bold unless you have a socket set that can bend three ways to get to it.
What should have been a ten to fifteen minute job took almost two hours, as I had to remove all sorts of things just to get to the third bolt.
In the same way, IF you decided to do IT work, keep this in mind as you apply for CS jobs. This can be a PLUS in the interview: "Yeah, I've spent the last two years working in IT, and I've noticed a bunch of things that CS people don't take into account when they design systems that would make it easier to support in the field. I can bring that experience to the table and help make the system better."
You know, like having to remove a Power Supply to add ram.
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I don't deny the equation, I deny that it is as simple as the equation suggests. The world is pretty complex.
Oxygen is a corrosive byproduct of Plants, and would be considered "pollution" by almost all standards used today, except that certain forms of life depend upon it.
It all depends on your perspective.
water vapor
carbon dioxide
methane
nitrous oxide
ozone
Those are GREEN house gases, Guess what water vapor does in sufficient quantity? Reflect radiation (not absorb it), called Anisotropic solar reflectance. But that is hardly ever mentioned, because it doesn't happen in smaller scale greenhouse tests.
The problem for Global Warming Alarmists is that there is no way to test for such a thing.
Funny, but that is exactly what that old book written by nomads basically teaches. Men are flawed. Hmmmm Funny that!
The difference between that "holy" book and most others is that it takes a definitive viewpoint that all men are flawed and the ONLY redemption is by faith. Science doesn't deal, ever, with how flawed man really is. Science assumes that we can "fix" whatever flaws we have with science, where that book makes the exact opposite case.
And from EMPIRICAL evidence, the book is 100% accurate on that point, while science is 0%. I guess we just need to give science more time to catch up. huh?
I'd explain the two stories to you, but I doubt you'd even care as to why they are important to the whole narrative.
When people fear their government more than the government fears its people, it is a sad day.
Please. If ANY tea party looked ANYTHING like what this was, John Stewart would have been all over it, and it would have been "news"
This was day 14 (or whatever) of an ongoing protest against whatever ... yawn. This is the MO of the leftwing pseudo anarchists at every protest. Hardly news if it is SOP. It is like reporting that lions eat antelopes.
When Tea Party protests something, they are ORDERLY and obey the rules, They don't need cops with riot gear to keep people in line.
See the difference?
Pot, Meet Kettle.
Just sayin. -- stolen from my daughter who probably stole it from one of her friends.
Better?
Define "Life Saving Medicine" in such a way that it eliminates Smokers dying of lung cancer, Drinkers dying of Liver and Kidney Disease, McDonalds Snackers dying of Heart failure, idiot motorcycle riders falling off and cracking their skull etc etc etc.
Or how about "Emergency Rooms" that are being filled with NON-EMERGENCY health problems ... simply because they cannot refuse to take someone .. ever.
Which gets to Rationed care, because there is no such thing as UNLIMITED MEDICAL RESOURCES so that all people can get all the care they WANT. Should my 80 Year old mother get her back operated on, or should she be passed off for some young motorcycle accident victim?
When one starts to apply specifics to the platitudes of the Socialists, one can quickly see why looking at the world through rose tinted glasses doesn't make the world rose tinted.
We have the best medical care in the world here, and people want it for free, which will only bring us down to 3rd world care in short order. AND when it does, we won't be able to unwind the horrific consequences short of National Bankruptcy. We are already seen unintended consequences of the law, AND some pretty scary bits that are actually IN the law.
People who want the platitudes don't care enough about the specifics. Just ask them and you'll see them pan the questions I'm asking here. They don't care about the results, they only care about intentions.
To top all of this off, there are TOO MANY (D) people calling on the suspension of Democracy right now to ever let them have office ever again. Talk about scary.
" Hope and Change" and "Change we can believe in"
Nuff said
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/reasonmclucus/reasonmclucus/15835660/professor-emiritus-hal-lewis-resigns-from-american-physical-society/
See #3: "This is not science; other forces are at work."
My point exactly.
What a bunch of spoiled rotten cry babies. Most of them are nothing more than Hippie Wannabies protesting "the man" and complaining when the "man" uses a little pepper spray. Clears the sinuses.
"they grabbed one guy around the neck, and threw him to the ground"
Duh, that's what cops do when they arrest you. It isn't brutality, it is proper procedure.
Yawn. Leftwing Psuedo Anarchists protesting Wall Street ... again
That's were Thin Clients work best. Low network overhead, everything is on the backend. Works over any modern "high speed" internet connection. Why send 25MB Flash Animation across a link 15 times, when you can just send the screen scrapes. Its not like you need 250 FPS is it?
Every example given in that article doesn't include Hoaxes and Frauds, like the examples I've given above. Nor does it deal with people who BLINDLY accepted those hoaxes and frauds as fact. They weren't wrong based on observation, they were wrong because they were manufactured errors. And yet, science blindly accepted those as facts without any demonstration.
Here, look at Piltdown Man, proof of Evolution. Yay, we proved Evolution lets write a PhD Thesis on that. Yay, I got my PhD, and am now teaching Antropology at University on a class about Evolution, showing Piltdown Man as Fact! (wash, rinse, repeat for 50+ years)
Can you tell me that wasn't blind faith?
And it is one reason why I love hard sciences like Physics more than soft sciences like Anthropology.
"verification of the results."
THAT is the problem, especially on the two examples I've given. Or how about the Global Warming problem where UEA had all the data, and nobody else did? Or how they conveniently "lost" it. And still people who question it are rejected by the mass hysteria crowd, many of whom are "scientists"?
Why don't we simply REJECT the unverifiable out of hand in cases like this?
My point, there is a lot of "faith" in science, it is just obfuscated in scientific terms and rhetoric, and when people like myself point it out, people get all huffy and indigent, and start the name calling (how is THAT scientific?)
Doesn't fix the problem with people getting degrees based on fraudulent information and hoaxes, does it?
I believe in Time Travel. I'm traveling through time right now, same as everyone else. Rotating around Sol, rotating around MilkeyWay, expanding through empty space, relative to other bodies elsewhere ;) THAT, and my DeLorean is equipped with MrFusion :-D
How does science deal with the inevitable flaws in humans? We are not perfect creatures, and science has come to the wrong conclusions many many times in the past, and have been dogmatic about it.
How many PhD's were given based on a Thesis supporting the concept of Piltdown Man? How many of those were revoked upon realization that it was nothing more than a hoax?
People did these things were basing their finale of their eduction, their crowning achievement on FAITH that what came before was true. Those PhD's went on to teach others about the very same Piltdown man, wrote whole works on it, and had others base PhD's upon it. It wasn't fully stricken from the records for nearly 50 years in education.
I've made this point before, but nobody has ever convinced me that Science cannot be snowed by people wanting to believe in something. Global Warming (used to be cooling) is another fine example of Science Faith. Remember the guy saying he saw Polar Bears drowning for lack of Icepacks? Wrote a paper or two, people wrote PhD Thesis on it, turns out another "hoax" of science based on FAITH and a strong desire for their faith to be actualized.
People who claim Science is without bias are liars. The only thing Science can do is self correct when the lies are exposed. And that is the most common rebuttal I get to these points. In the meantime all those people who were wrong about frauds and hoaxes continue to teach people how great science is.
Don't get me wrong, the scientific method is great at teaching about this world as it exists, but it is ultimately flawed by people, who are flawed.
LIbertarians (like myself) realize that both Governments and Corporations (Government Licensed) end up in bed together, and that invariably results in corruption and nepotism (aka Campaign Donations for Government Contracts) Both (D) and (R) do it, it is just that (D)s tend to give passes to (D) administrations and (R) to (R) administrations.
Market works fine when people leave it alone, more so than when people over regulate the crap out of it to the point of dysfunction. At some point, the government will try to tax chickens, and home gardens.
Choice fixes these types of problems. IF we had competing DMVs both seeking higher effeciencies and better service and lower costs and so on, we'd have better DMV. The problem is, when DMV sucks, where can you go elsewhere to get better service? You can't.
The "Capitalism sucks" crowd can never ever fix DMV, and nobody runs for office promising better service from DMV or Postal Service or any number of other entities that are hugely inefficient wastes of money. And unlike Capitalism, you can't get rid of an agency once it is created, and the ones we have created turn into untamed monsters regardless of the intended original stated goals of said organization.
This is because to care about a stock, you have to care about the company. To care about the company, it can't be run by professional Board Members who are appointed by Professional Stock Managers. The simple plan is to immediately divest yourself of any stock the moment that Institutional Investors (ie Wall Street) gain control of the Board.
Look for smaller companies that don't have professional boards and haven't been discovered by institutional investors. Or don't care, and buy Market based Mutual Funds.
I know that guy! He also thinks he is above fixing anything, including his own code.
I wish the guys designing cars spent more time actually trying to fix what they've designed. Why does the alternator on my van require specialized tools to pull out? Yeah, it still has three bolts in the standard location, but they tucked the damn thing in so that you cannot get to the third bold unless you have a socket set that can bend three ways to get to it.
What should have been a ten to fifteen minute job took almost two hours, as I had to remove all sorts of things just to get to the third bolt.
In the same way, IF you decided to do IT work, keep this in mind as you apply for CS jobs. This can be a PLUS in the interview: "Yeah, I've spent the last two years working in IT, and I've noticed a bunch of things that CS people don't take into account when they design systems that would make it easier to support in the field. I can bring that experience to the table and help make the system better."
You know, like having to remove a Power Supply to add ram.