And show some f***ing consistency, please. If you're going to shout down "conservatives" for being unqualified to talk about climate change please shout down "liberals" and "greens" that talk about, and accept, climate change as being unqualified to talk about it too.
Yes, be consistent... if you shout down people who are wrong, you should also shout down people who are right.
A few weeks ago I had my dog on a bike harness and we were cycling / galloping down a street in Salt Lake City (about 15 mph). Some guy was yakking on his phone and obliviously started wandering backwards off the curb into an intersection while facing 180 degrees away. I slammed on the brakes (along with someone driving a car) and my dog's leash broke off its safety hitch since he'd made a split second decision to pass the guy on his right side. The dude turned around and said, "what the hell [can't you see I'm on the phone here]?" This was in Salt Lake City; I didn't know he could have been fined $50. Although around here, they ticket cyclists for not having their bikes registered. The rules for driving in Utah are shocking to anyone from out-of-state; they were apparently written for demolition derby. I've seen safer driving in Mad Max movies. You have right of way if you think someone can slam on their brakes and leave streaks in the road without T-boning your ass. (I guess you have to, since you can never see around the guy next to you straddling the crosswalk with his Ford F300.) I'm always seeing drivers holding phones against their heads and gesticulating with their other hand to people who aren't physically present, instead of actually touching the steering wheel. (And I won't say much about the baby strollers around here, except that they're often going side-by-side in formation.)
Someone needs to sue these dicks- if I had to repair my computer for national security reasons because of someone's incompetent malfeasance, I would want to get paid for the time wasted. If you're a lawyer specializing in class action suits, this warning from the DHS is like a Superfish on a platter!
An electrical outlet is not at the boundary of a closed thermodynamic system. With an electric car, the waste heat is produced at the power plant before the energy is converted to electricity and sent on its way to you in the first place. In general heating is a wasteful use of electricity; if your utility burns fossil fuels to generate power, you'll have a lower carbon footprint from heating something with oil or gas than with electricity. That waste heat can go into your house or car instead of the air above a cooling tower miles away.
What a pity this wasn't discovered sooner... Skyler White could have asked Saul Goodman to hire his Eastern European hacker again to launder Walt's meth money through that car wash using HTTP GET requests.
You're not supposed to do any heavy back-end work with node itself; it can handle simple database interactions and streaming etc. but anything that requires serious computation is supposed to be forked off to a separate process. Unfortunately it encourages misuse by providing a toehold for JavaScript programmers to start worming their way deeper into server processing.
This is why I love Slashdot- just make an offhand analogy to something like airplane patents in a story about patent trolls, and eventually half the comments on the page are about airplanes. Can we just add "flying machines" to the tag list?
Because those are short term predictions made days ahead by weathermen. Weather is less predictable in the short term than climate in the long term. Over a longer term (meaning years, not days) temperatures haven't been "colder than predicted".
if its the same temp as predicted - it shows "the models are right"
So?
if its warmer than predicted - OMG global warming!!!!
14 of the 15 hottest years on record have been this century. (The exception was 1998, an El Nino year.) 15 years is a longer term than weathermen deal with.
People do seem to understand the difference between short term and long term phenomena if it's a stock price we're talking about. I don't hear people asking "if Apple stock is rising, then what about the high prices during 2012?" as if it was the medieval warming period. But if it's a planet's temperature- "la la la la, fingers in my ears, I can't hear you!"
I see these two arguments being made over and over in these threads.
This one:
"Correlation is not causation. So if something correlates, it means it's being caused by something else."
And this:
"They're saying we're going to get more hurricanes? I guess they were driving SUVs and burning fossil fuels in 1667 when a hurricane hit Jamestown, Virginia, right? Huh? Huh?"
They certainly couldn't have "responded to pressure from Numic-speaking peoples moving onto the Colorado Plateau" since the invaders weren't driving SUVs. My own theory is that a tribe of invading Wikipedians altered that page during the 300 seconds before I saw your post.
Ahh no. [posts link to site funded by ALEC, Exxon Mobil, and Richard Mellon Scaife] But yes keep telling yourself that the warm periods weren't global and miraculously just materialized where people could record it.
How about we fix the climate models before using them to predict things?
How about these guys take into account the rising temperatures in oceanic heat reservoirs instead of restricting their analysis to lagging indicators like air temperature?
If they can't predict things, they can't predict things.
The medieval warm period wasn't as warm as it is today, and it was restricted to the North Atlantic. It was actually colder in Eurasia and the entire southern hemisphere.
It mostly worked, although now I have trouble remembering people's names when I see their faces. I lost my job as an engineer because I was ditzy and forgetful for a few months after they removed a chunk of my brain out, but it was worth it. They used me as a subject in a study on recognizing numbers (since part of my skull was in a refrigerator somewhere). They also sent pulses onto cortical surface electrodes to see where the seizure focus was, and those produced visual hallucinations on the left side of my field of vision. Things in the left side of the room would look fuzzy, or colorful, or repulsive, or beautiful, etc. depending on which electrodes they zapped.
I had epilepsy for 30 years, about one seizure every two weeks, before finally getting brain surgery last year. The seizures were deeply hallucinogenic, physically severe, often lasted 10-20 minutes, and they left me with a huge hangover; afterwards I had to sleep about 12-18 hours in one go, maybe wake up for maybe four hours, then go back to sleep for another 12-18 hour stretch. I was like my brain was rebooting like Windows after a blue screen. If I wasn't able to sleep, I would become really sick, get intense migraines, and start throwing up, and recovery took several days longer.
A big problem was people instantly making 911 calls. I was routinely being dragged off to an ER all the time, waking up in one at least once a month. They all knew me there, and realized after a while what the deal was, so I would be wheeled into a corner and left behind a curtain while they tended to more serious cases. I had to wait there for hours staring up at fluorescent lights and struggling to keep from vomiting and choking to death (since they liked to strap me on the bed face up). It usually took six to ten hours to get out of there- I had to wait for the lab to finish their ritual of drug assays for PCP, LSD, THC, cocaine, methamphetamine, and all kinds of other shit that they knew were going to come back negative. And this was before the ACA, so with a huge preexisting condition I couldn't get insurance from anybody, and had to pay out of pocket costs for meds which I couldn't afford half the time because this shit made it hard to get a job in the first place. When seizures came, I had about ten second warning from a visual aura. If I was outside I would quickly jump underneath nearby bushes or hide behind parked cars just so no one would see me and call the ER. I would wake up and stagger home bleeding, getting lost, and trying to stay out of sight. I did have a bracelet that said DO NOT CALL 911, along with my wife's number, but no one ever took it seriously. I wanted her to know so she could come pick me up, but I always wound up in the jaws of an ER instead.
Don't assume this guy and his wife want a 2 year old calling 911. That may be the last thing they need. I can see why he would want to know, right away. He's lived with her and is going to be better equipped to handle her than the paramedics will. if they can't get any clues from a toddler, the emergency responders have to figure out what's going on themselves, and that makes it a painful mess. There isn't a lot that an ER can do with a seizure anyway except strap the person down so they don't thrash around and get bruises. There's always the possibility of status epilepticus (which I've had many times) but you should wait until a seizure lasts for more than five minutes. They look scary, maybe like the person is dying, and of course there's the danger of thrashing around and hitting things. But in general a seizure doesn't do any lasting damage to the brain.
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Yeah I always knew that. The charge leaks away after a couple days, but the first thing you do is find them and short them out. Then you remove them, charge them back up, and sneak up on other kids with your new disposable taser.
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"The simpleton's theory is usually correct."
And show some f***ing consistency, please. If you're going to shout down "conservatives" for being unqualified to talk about climate change please shout down "liberals" and "greens" that talk about, and accept, climate change as being unqualified to talk about it too.
Yes, be consistent... if you shout down people who are wrong, you should also shout down people who are right.
A few weeks ago I had my dog on a bike harness and we were cycling / galloping down a street in Salt Lake City (about 15 mph). Some guy was yakking on his phone and obliviously started wandering backwards off the curb into an intersection while facing 180 degrees away. I slammed on the brakes (along with someone driving a car) and my dog's leash broke off its safety hitch since he'd made a split second decision to pass the guy on his right side. The dude turned around and said, "what the hell [can't you see I'm on the phone here]?" This was in Salt Lake City; I didn't know he could have been fined $50. Although around here, they ticket cyclists for not having their bikes registered. The rules for driving in Utah are shocking to anyone from out-of-state; they were apparently written for demolition derby. I've seen safer driving in Mad Max movies. You have right of way if you think someone can slam on their brakes and leave streaks in the road without T-boning your ass. (I guess you have to, since you can never see around the guy next to you straddling the crosswalk with his Ford F300.) I'm always seeing drivers holding phones against their heads and gesticulating with their other hand to people who aren't physically present, instead of actually touching the steering wheel. (And I won't say much about the baby strollers around here, except that they're often going side-by-side in formation.)
Someone needs to sue these dicks- if I had to repair my computer for national security reasons because of someone's incompetent malfeasance, I would want to get paid for the time wasted. If you're a lawyer specializing in class action suits, this warning from the DHS is like a Superfish on a platter!
An electrical outlet is not at the boundary of a closed thermodynamic system. With an electric car, the waste heat is produced at the power plant before the energy is converted to electricity and sent on its way to you in the first place. In general heating is a wasteful use of electricity; if your utility burns fossil fuels to generate power, you'll have a lower carbon footprint from heating something with oil or gas than with electricity. That waste heat can go into your house or car instead of the air above a cooling tower miles away.
Don't buy their stock, and don't get in a car with one of their drivers.
What a pity this wasn't discovered sooner... Skyler White could have asked Saul Goodman to hire his Eastern European hacker again to launder Walt's meth money through that car wash using HTTP GET requests.
You're not supposed to do any heavy back-end work with node itself; it can handle simple database interactions and streaming etc. but anything that requires serious computation is supposed to be forked off to a separate process. Unfortunately it encourages misuse by providing a toehold for JavaScript programmers to start worming their way deeper into server processing.
This is why I love Slashdot- just make an offhand analogy to something like airplane patents in a story about patent trolls, and eventually half the comments on the page are about airplanes. Can we just add "flying machines" to the tag list?
Michael Mann. Great.
Ask him why the shepherd nomadic Genghis Khan led Mongol hordes bothered leaving Mongolia in the MWP.
Maybe because they were nomadic.
if its colder than predicted - its weather
Because those are short term predictions made days ahead by weathermen. Weather is less predictable in the short term than climate in the long term. Over a longer term (meaning years, not days) temperatures haven't been "colder than predicted".
if its the same temp as predicted - it shows "the models are right"
So?
if its warmer than predicted - OMG global warming!!!!
14 of the 15 hottest years on record have been this century. (The exception was 1998, an El Nino year.) 15 years is a longer term than weathermen deal with.
People do seem to understand the difference between short term and long term phenomena if it's a stock price we're talking about. I don't hear people asking "if Apple stock is rising, then what about the high prices during 2012?" as if it was the medieval warming period. But if it's a planet's temperature- "la la la la, fingers in my ears, I can't hear you!"
I see these two arguments being made over and over in these threads.
This one: "Correlation is not causation. So if something correlates, it means it's being caused by something else."
And this: "They're saying we're going to get more hurricanes? I guess they were driving SUVs and burning fossil fuels in 1667 when a hurricane hit Jamestown, Virginia, right? Huh? Huh?"
I don't remember a year as wet as this one in 30 years.
It seems a lot of Americans don't even realise how rain gets into the sky in the first place.
They certainly couldn't have "responded to pressure from Numic-speaking peoples moving onto the Colorado Plateau" since the invaders weren't driving SUVs. My own theory is that a tribe of invading Wikipedians altered that page during the 300 seconds before I saw your post.
I learned this from the global warming skeptics:
Cons:
Ahh no. [posts link to site funded by ALEC, Exxon Mobil, and Richard Mellon Scaife] But yes keep telling yourself that the warm periods weren't global and miraculously just materialized where people could record it.
Ahh no., I didn't just tell myself.
How about we fix the climate models before using them to predict things?
How about these guys take into account the rising temperatures in oceanic heat reservoirs instead of restricting their analysis to lagging indicators like air temperature?
If they can't predict things, they can't predict things.
Can't argue with logic.
The medieval warm period wasn't as warm as it is today, and it was restricted to the North Atlantic. It was actually colder in Eurasia and the entire southern hemisphere.
Is Pluto a major or minor planet?
It mostly worked, although now I have trouble remembering people's names when I see their faces. I lost my job as an engineer because I was ditzy and forgetful for a few months after they removed a chunk of my brain out, but it was worth it. They used me as a subject in a study on recognizing numbers (since part of my skull was in a refrigerator somewhere). They also sent pulses onto cortical surface electrodes to see where the seizure focus was, and those produced visual hallucinations on the left side of my field of vision. Things in the left side of the room would look fuzzy, or colorful, or repulsive, or beautiful, etc. depending on which electrodes they zapped.
I had epilepsy for 30 years, about one seizure every two weeks, before finally getting brain surgery last year. The seizures were deeply hallucinogenic, physically severe, often lasted 10-20 minutes, and they left me with a huge hangover; afterwards I had to sleep about 12-18 hours in one go, maybe wake up for maybe four hours, then go back to sleep for another 12-18 hour stretch. I was like my brain was rebooting like Windows after a blue screen. If I wasn't able to sleep, I would become really sick, get intense migraines, and start throwing up, and recovery took several days longer.
A big problem was people instantly making 911 calls. I was routinely being dragged off to an ER all the time, waking up in one at least once a month. They all knew me there, and realized after a while what the deal was, so I would be wheeled into a corner and left behind a curtain while they tended to more serious cases. I had to wait there for hours staring up at fluorescent lights and struggling to keep from vomiting and choking to death (since they liked to strap me on the bed face up). It usually took six to ten hours to get out of there- I had to wait for the lab to finish their ritual of drug assays for PCP, LSD, THC, cocaine, methamphetamine, and all kinds of other shit that they knew were going to come back negative. And this was before the ACA, so with a huge preexisting condition I couldn't get insurance from anybody, and had to pay out of pocket costs for meds which I couldn't afford half the time because this shit made it hard to get a job in the first place. When seizures came, I had about ten second warning from a visual aura. If I was outside I would quickly jump underneath nearby bushes or hide behind parked cars just so no one would see me and call the ER. I would wake up and stagger home bleeding, getting lost, and trying to stay out of sight. I did have a bracelet that said DO NOT CALL 911, along with my wife's number, but no one ever took it seriously. I wanted her to know so she could come pick me up, but I always wound up in the jaws of an ER instead.
Don't assume this guy and his wife want a 2 year old calling 911. That may be the last thing they need. I can see why he would want to know, right away. He's lived with her and is going to be better equipped to handle her than the paramedics will. if they can't get any clues from a toddler, the emergency responders have to figure out what's going on themselves, and that makes it a painful mess. There isn't a lot that an ER can do with a seizure anyway except strap the person down so they don't thrash around and get bruises. There's always the possibility of status epilepticus (which I've had many times) but you should wait until a seizure lasts for more than five minutes. They look scary, maybe like the person is dying, and of course there's the danger of thrashing around and hitting things. But in general a seizure doesn't do any lasting damage to the brain.
I see an opportunity here to promote my Hello World! Java enterprise software suite! Features include Singleton, Factory, and Strategy. This library incorporates advanced programming paradigms with modules that can be found in many top tier major player agile dynamic business enterprise organization synergistic application software shops! (Note that this is not the thread-safe version.) I would just paste it below, but apparently Java can't get past the "lameness filter" anymore... figures.
Available also on a coffee mug. Support free software!
Was Carter president 12 years ago when we started a war against a wrong country? :P
Yeah I always knew that. The charge leaks away after a couple days, but the first thing you do is find them and short them out. Then you remove them, charge them back up, and sneak up on other kids with your new disposable taser.