I'm not asserting that the recent increase in CO2 levels is purely anthropogenic, I'm asserting that it is poppycock to pretend that none of it is anthropogenic.
'imply' is used in two very different ways. One means, roughly, 'to suggest', and in that sense, correlation very much does imply causation (scientists often start their search for explanations by examining things that are correlated). Another usage indicates a logically necessary connection, and that is the one the phrase uses.
Anyway, all the shit we have burned means that there is more than simple correlation to point at, there is an explanatory mechanism available.
I don't think it is entirely clear that government is separate from the people that create it (or suffer the presence of it). It sort of sucks for the people who don't like the actions that government takes, but that seems to be the way things go.
In the second paragraph there, where society is responsible for the actions of government. 'Gotta eat' doesn't really break down the comparison, personal debtors do that to.
Why? In theory land, the productivity of the nation is entirely available to the government (well, sort of, there are problems actually collecting it). It certainly isn't a precise comparison.
I guess it comes down to whether you consider the debt to be owed by the government or by society, the GDP is certainly available to society, it just happens to have more pressing concerns than the contracts and obligations the government has entered into.
It's fun to compare the U.S. national debt to the personal debt that many people blithely take on; it isn't uncommon for people to have debts amounting to 5 or 6 years of their entire income, whereas the national debt in the U.S. is still less than a single years GDP (projections for 2020 put the National debt then at about 1.25 times GDP, if I am understanding the correctly, maybe somewhat higher). Now, the government doesn't get to use the entirety of GDP to pay off its debts, but neither do most of those people get to apply their entire income to their debt. So one of the most creditworthy entities to ever exist (the U.S. government is somewhat less likely to disappear than a person is likely to randomly die, and it hasn't defaulted on much of anything yet) gets shat on for borrowing mildly (Maybe; I'd be comfortable with a government that only spent the money it had collected, except maybe in extraordinary circumstances).
Another fun, circular way to look at it is that the government hasn't borrowed too much money until no one will loan them any more money.
I make up single use lies for the security questions and store them in Password Safe (from what I gather, Keepass has better support for more platforms). That solves the Palin problem. Of course, I then can't access my bank account from other computers, but I don't trust all that many other computers, so that doesn't hurt all that much.
Malware doesn't care about the difference between you typing in a password and swiping your thumb on a fingerprint scanner.
And really, we will be stuck with PINs until banks decide that the costs of moving to something more secure are smaller than eating the costs of fraud (if you are talking about U.S. atm transactions, the bank usually eats those losses; I'm not sure how various PIN payment schemes around the globe shake out).
Go to Wisconsin. I'm in Michigan, which has what I understand to be relatively low taxes on alcohol and a bottle deposit(also, retail prices are under rather close state control), and when I go to Wisconsin, I do double takes when I see how low prices are.
To be worth much, you have to do all your risky activity inside of a VM. Running a 'safe' VM on top of a compromised system is only going to buy a little bit of protection.
Really, I'm sure that designers at least considered being able to easily bank ram back when they were working on the 386, but for consumer systems, no way would it have made sense. Even if you could have figured out a way to wire it all together (in a consumer system), just buying 1 GB of memory in the late 1980s would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, so this isn't quite as shortsighted as the DOS memory limit.
The group of people who own 32 bit computers with enough space for a great deal more than 4 GB of RAM, desperately want that space filled, and really don't want to spend $150 on Windows 7, is going to be quite small (and I'm not sure 32 bit Windows 7 will even fix the problem).
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I'm not asserting that the recent increase in CO2 levels is purely anthropogenic, I'm asserting that it is poppycock to pretend that none of it is anthropogenic.
'imply' is used in two very different ways. One means, roughly, 'to suggest', and in that sense, correlation very much does imply causation (scientists often start their search for explanations by examining things that are correlated). Another usage indicates a logically necessary connection, and that is the one the phrase uses.
Anyway, all the shit we have burned means that there is more than simple correlation to point at, there is an explanatory mechanism available.
It's okay, the low prices make up for it.
(With apologies to Lewis Black)
You have to be a lunatic to compare present CO2 levels to pre-industrial revolution levels and think that man isn't behind some of it.
They largely moved on to questioning whether the long term consequences are as dire as Al Gore would have us think.
No one serious is questioning increasing CO2 levels, or that CO2 levels have some impact.
The obvious reply to this is 'goto hell;'.
Note that I don't actually feel that sentiment.
I don't think it is entirely clear that government is separate from the people that create it (or suffer the presence of it). It sort of sucks for the people who don't like the actions that government takes, but that seems to be the way things go.
In the second paragraph there, where society is responsible for the actions of government. 'Gotta eat' doesn't really break down the comparison, personal debtors do that to.
Why? In theory land, the productivity of the nation is entirely available to the government (well, sort of, there are problems actually collecting it). It certainly isn't a precise comparison.
I guess it comes down to whether you consider the debt to be owed by the government or by society, the GDP is certainly available to society, it just happens to have more pressing concerns than the contracts and obligations the government has entered into.
I bet you drive or ride on roads all the time.
It's fun to compare the U.S. national debt to the personal debt that many people blithely take on; it isn't uncommon for people to have debts amounting to 5 or 6 years of their entire income, whereas the national debt in the U.S. is still less than a single years GDP (projections for 2020 put the National debt then at about 1.25 times GDP, if I am understanding the correctly, maybe somewhat higher). Now, the government doesn't get to use the entirety of GDP to pay off its debts, but neither do most of those people get to apply their entire income to their debt. So one of the most creditworthy entities to ever exist (the U.S. government is somewhat less likely to disappear than a person is likely to randomly die, and it hasn't defaulted on much of anything yet) gets shat on for borrowing mildly (Maybe; I'd be comfortable with a government that only spent the money it had collected, except maybe in extraordinary circumstances).
Another fun, circular way to look at it is that the government hasn't borrowed too much money until no one will loan them any more money.
I make up single use lies for the security questions and store them in Password Safe (from what I gather, Keepass has better support for more platforms). That solves the Palin problem. Of course, I then can't access my bank account from other computers, but I don't trust all that many other computers, so that doesn't hurt all that much.
Malware doesn't care about the difference between you typing in a password and swiping your thumb on a fingerprint scanner.
And really, we will be stuck with PINs until banks decide that the costs of moving to something more secure are smaller than eating the costs of fraud (if you are talking about U.S. atm transactions, the bank usually eats those losses; I'm not sure how various PIN payment schemes around the globe shake out).
Go to Wisconsin. I'm in Michigan, which has what I understand to be relatively low taxes on alcohol and a bottle deposit(also, retail prices are under rather close state control), and when I go to Wisconsin, I do double takes when I see how low prices are.
Lots of beers sell for a buck. But not at the bar.
Computer did not feed my kitten.
At least the payment in the Microsoft ads is blatant (they often show a scene where they hand the people cash!).
To be worth much, you have to do all your risky activity inside of a VM. Running a 'safe' VM on top of a compromised system is only going to buy a little bit of protection.
I don't think that would help, mad-clickers implicitly trust everything.
Just go 64 bit.
Really, I'm sure that designers at least considered being able to easily bank ram back when they were working on the 386, but for consumer systems, no way would it have made sense. Even if you could have figured out a way to wire it all together (in a consumer system), just buying 1 GB of memory in the late 1980s would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, so this isn't quite as shortsighted as the DOS memory limit.
It's already mentioned repeatedly in the comments, but the answer is PAE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
The group of people who own 32 bit computers with enough space for a great deal more than 4 GB of RAM, desperately want that space filled, and really don't want to spend $150 on Windows 7, is going to be quite small (and I'm not sure 32 bit Windows 7 will even fix the problem).
They did a better job with Subaru than with Degree, so there is some hope for the future.
Do you watch them at a medium pace?
Better to time simultaneous missions, so any conflicts can be extended to Mars.