I do like the idea that suggesting somebody relies on Fox News for anything is an insult.
Yes, some climate scientists have been wrong. Some have overstated things, and the popular media loves to report on the scariest, most outlandish predictions. Because those sell papers, and the more reasoned, measured forecasts do not.
Without China's involvement especially we cannot fix the problem, as they've passed the US as worst polluter. But I disagree with any suggestion that this would mean we should try to do anything.
The possibility of a new ice age was definitely out there in popular media. Big cover story in Newsweek, for example. It was the kind of story that sells. And I'm old enough to have been there at the time too.
It was NEVER taken very seriously in the scientific press, though. Go do any searches through the serious scientific magazines and you'll find that even in the 60s and 70s the vast majority of articles in serious scientific journals focused on the possibility of future warming caused by greenhouse gases, not future cooling because an ice age was overdue.
The climate change story is fairly consistent. The changes to climate cause weird weather. Weather that's out of place and unusual for where it's occurring. 80% of the weird weather involves too much heat, but some places will locally see cooler than normal weather at times.
Regardless of weather Fox takes it seriously, it's difficult to find more than a handful of climate scientists who don't accept the science behind climate change and global warming.
Anybody else ever read the book "Robots have no Tails" written over 50 years ago by Henry Kuttner and his wife?
I remember thinking it was fall-over funny as a teenager at least-- one of the stories in the book revolved around an inventor who created the world's most intelligent and capable robot. Unfortunately he created it while he was on a drunken bender and had no idea what purpose he had intended for the robot now that he was sober. In the end he finds that he had created the perfect robot so it could fetch and open beers for him.
It should not be permitted, failure comply with instructions by a border guard should remain illegal.
But a felony conviction and a 2-3 year sentence for that? It should be a misdemeanor, sentenced to time served or community service, and if the tape shows the border guard assaulting him without good cause the guard should be in court as well.
If the original claim, that he attempted to strangle an officer had held water, sure, that's a felony. But it didn't. Nothing in what he did amounts to a felony offense in my opinion.
Fun article, but could have been researched a little better. In its bit on the Fisher Space Pen, it repeats the myth that while we blew millions developing a pen that could write upside down, the Soviets just used pencils, which is a common myth. As one cosmonaut said, "pencil lead breaks...and is not good in space capsule; very dangerous to have metal lead particles in zero gravity"
Virtually defined "deus ex machina"--sudden, arbitrary end of a movie-- for me. The aliens spent all this time and effort trying to get the best possible individual in all the universe to fly their starfighter. In the end, Centauri could have flow the silly thing and pressed the DB button. Cool effect, but lame ending.
But I still like the "Ramming Speed!" line right after that. Despite the fact that I doubt that there is such a setting on a spaceship.
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So via US certified mail, the USPS should have a record of delivery. When suing someone for that much money, you'd have to be an idiot not to pay the extra for confirmation of delivery-- but given that we're talking about corporate lawyers I wouldn't rule that out.
PC prices haven't actually dropped that much in quite a while. They just get bigger/better/faster/more. Raymond is kind of right that PC makers can't afford to sell a Windows PC at less than $350. Which is why they're not going to sell one at less than $350.
I guess he figures that the only reason for.NET is to cover for a loss of income from the Windows monopoly, but I think he follows the logic WAY too far.
related to this-- the government started assessing higher taxes on electric and combined gas-electric vehicles. Drivers were irate that they should be forced to pay more taxes when they were just trying to be environmentally friendly, but reply was that they were essentially avoiding paying their share of the road maintenance by driving one of these cars.
If these cars become common, something will have to be done to keep the taxation equitable. Not sure that this is a very efficient solution, though.
Adventure games certainly haven't died. If you're a parent of grade school age kids, it's hard to avoid Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, etc.
They don't seem to feel the compulsion to add in a couple of ridiculously difficult, illogical puzzles that most of the adventure games for adults did. I enjoyed zork and the like, but later games always seemed to be virtually unsolveable without cheating.
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I do like the idea that suggesting somebody relies on Fox News for anything is an insult.
Yes, some climate scientists have been wrong. Some have overstated things, and the popular media loves to report on the scariest, most outlandish predictions. Because those sell papers, and the more reasoned, measured forecasts do not.
Go look at the actual forecasts by the IPCC, which mostly represents the consensus. You'll find that overall they've been pretty solid. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5825/709.abstract
Without China's involvement especially we cannot fix the problem, as they've passed the US as worst polluter. But I disagree with any suggestion that this would mean we should try to do anything.
The possibility of a new ice age was definitely out there in popular media. Big cover story in Newsweek, for example. It was the kind of story that sells. And I'm old enough to have been there at the time too.
It was NEVER taken very seriously in the scientific press, though. Go do any searches through the serious scientific magazines and you'll find that even in the 60s and 70s the vast majority of articles in serious scientific journals focused on the possibility of future warming caused by greenhouse gases, not future cooling because an ice age was overdue.
The climate change story is fairly consistent. The changes to climate cause weird weather. Weather that's out of place and unusual for where it's occurring. 80% of the weird weather involves too much heat, but some places will locally see cooler than normal weather at times.
Regardless of weather Fox takes it seriously, it's difficult to find more than a handful of climate scientists who don't accept the science behind climate change and global warming.
Anybody else ever read the book "Robots have no Tails" written over 50 years ago by Henry Kuttner and his wife?
I remember thinking it was fall-over funny as a teenager at least-- one of the stories in the book revolved around an inventor who created the world's most intelligent and capable robot. Unfortunately he created it while he was on a drunken bender and had no idea what purpose he had intended for the robot now that he was sober. In the end he finds that he had created the perfect robot so it could fetch and open beers for him.
It should not be permitted, failure comply with instructions by a border guard should remain illegal.
But a felony conviction and a 2-3 year sentence for that? It should be a misdemeanor, sentenced to time served or community service, and if the tape shows the border guard assaulting him without good cause the guard should be in court as well.
If the original claim, that he attempted to strangle an officer had held water, sure, that's a felony. But it didn't. Nothing in what he did amounts to a felony offense in my opinion.
Anybody who watched half the beer ads, or the ad for godaddy had to recognize that they were aiming a whole lot lower than the brain.
Yep, they didn't generate activity in the frontal lobes. I'm sure the ad designers would be shocked
Separate link, which I can't verify, but here it is--Anatoly Solovyev quote
Fun article, but could have been researched a little better. In its bit on the Fisher Space Pen, it repeats the myth that while we blew millions developing a pen that could write upside down, the Soviets just used pencils, which is a common myth. As one cosmonaut said, "pencil lead breaks...and is not good in space capsule; very dangerous to have metal lead particles in zero gravity"
Virtually defined "deus ex machina"--sudden, arbitrary end of a movie-- for me. The aliens spent all this time and effort trying to get the best possible individual in all the universe to fly their starfighter. In the end, Centauri could have flow the silly thing and pressed the DB button. Cool effect, but lame ending.
But I still like the "Ramming Speed!" line right after that. Despite the fact that I doubt that there is such a setting on a spaceship.
"What do we do now?!?" "We die."
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So via US certified mail, the USPS should have a record of delivery. When suing someone for that much money, you'd have to be an idiot not to pay the extra for confirmation of delivery-- but given that we're talking about corporate lawyers I wouldn't rule that out.
PC prices haven't actually dropped that much in quite a while. They just get bigger/better/faster/more. Raymond is kind of right that PC makers can't afford to sell a Windows PC at less than $350. Which is why they're not going to sell one at less than $350.
.NET is to cover for a loss of income from the Windows monopoly, but I think he follows the logic WAY too far.
I guess he figures that the only reason for
related to this-- the government started assessing higher taxes on electric and combined gas-electric vehicles. Drivers were irate that they should be forced to pay more taxes when they were just trying to be environmentally friendly, but reply was that they were essentially avoiding paying their share of the road maintenance by driving one of these cars.
If these cars become common, something will have to be done to keep the taxation equitable. Not sure that this is a very efficient solution, though.
an often funny parody of LOTR written by the Harvard Lampoon back in the '60s. Bored of the Rings
Adventure games certainly haven't died. If you're a parent of grade school age kids, it's hard to avoid Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, etc. They don't seem to feel the compulsion to add in a couple of ridiculously difficult, illogical puzzles that most of the adventure games for adults did. I enjoyed zork and the like, but later games always seemed to be virtually unsolveable without cheating.