All references to "you people" should be interpreted as referring to your mother. Just fyi. I find that "you people" quibble that cited any time the phrase is used to be tiresome. Don't be pedantic. You know exactly what I fucking mean. I defined it several times.
BUT if you can't suss out my identification of that term which is quite clear... then as a short hand it refers to your mother.:)
As to soviets versus chinese... prior to 1969 the soviets and chinese were very tight. The US perceived them as a unified political alliance pushing an equivalent ideology with an equivalent ambition.
Had Stalin been our buddy and not declared his intention to dominate the west and any other scrap of realestate upon the world in the name of communism... if he had not done that... and the chinese had instead been the communist aggressors... the cold war probably never would have happened. And the actual fear of exclusively chinese expansion was relatively minor when divorced from the soviets. It was the soviets we were worried about. The chinese lacked the industrial base to actually be a threat absent Soviet support. Note that the cold war didn't have any major conflicts after the split.
The vietnam war really got going in 1963... and by 1969... the split was dramatically undermining the capabilities and credibility of the great communist dream of global conquest.
As to the north winning... the north simply filled the vacuum created by our departure. Not much of a victory really.
As to the dead... The blood of my own family is in those numbers, little one. I do not disrespect the dead. It was the cold war. You say you understand but then you cite these numbers like they're remarkable in the context of the struggle. Those lives of our honored dead were not shed lightly. They did not die easily. They went down in fury and honor. And it is possible that those live thus shed discouraged further conflicts from the communists and saved more lives still. Without a time machine who can say. But we did what we thought was reasonable at the time to hold the line. And those young men... some of whom had blood flowing in their veins very similar to mine... they held the line.
There was no dishonor in their service.
And if you want to cite numbers... we probably killed about a million Vietcong. We had body counts in those days to evaluate the effectiveness of campaigns. It got pretty gory. Statistics... quotas. Slaughter organized into spread sheets.
The Soviets were supplying aircraft and at the very least pilot trainers. They were supplying many other things. Your suggestion that they weren't involved is in error.
As to vietnam being a trading partner... sure... but if they had not sided with the communists it would have come a generation ago... and they might have gotten assistance. Today... there's no reason for us to do that.
The communists... soviets and otherwise were not good to their acquisitions, allies, and conquests. The soviets famously demanded reparations from every country they conquered during WW2. This retarded their recovery setting back their development by a generation.
The US to the contrary pumped money into such nations with the result that the recovered much more quickly and the US ultimately made a much greater return than if it had punished them through trade... and course, because we were good to such powers they didn't end up hating us. Which is the case of pretty much anyone that had to deal with the soviets being in charge. No one likes them.
To this day, Russia has a hard time making friends because people don't forgive them for what they did during the soviet era.
The US does... we've tried repeatedly to bury the hatchet. The Russians can't do it. They can't let it go. That's a mistake.
As to moral authority... who has claimed it then, cupcake? You can't even begin to comprehend what we deal with and you presume to write the moral codes we're supposed to follow? You don't even understand why we do the things we do much less are you able to judge the philosophies and moral laws by which we must obey.
I've little patience for being judged by people that don't even understand what they're talking about.
... are you attempting to split hairs with me little one?
If the Russians don't deploy a technology or understand how to employ it on the battlefield... then remind me why I have to take what they might have in a warehouse somewhere seriously?
We've been experimenting with night vision since the 1930s and we first employed the early prototypes in WW2. We've subsequently used night vision increasingly in every war since that we've ever fought in.
We LOVE our night vision. There is no time we more prefer to fight than under a new moon with overcast skies. Its too easy.
As to boots... Depends on how many boots... and whether that matters.
Again... we're already talking about sending the Polish in to shore up the Ukrainian border. Are they western? They're very happy to shoot Russians in the face. And they've got better equipment and the stability to hold a line.
It remains baffling to me that people could think a country with an economy half the size of italy... which is Russia... is going to fare well against the US.
The Russians were at one time believed to be a super power. Today... they are not. Their credibility if they want to dance is non-existent. The Russians get really turgid on possibility that someone somewhere is afraid of them. Their foreign policy is a little more than a litany of intimidation. The US is not afraid. We've faced off against far far worse and did not flinch. The Russian Federation with their pretense and bravado is a fucking joke.
the policy changes were precisely what GG was asking for...
I mean... EXACTLY.
As to GG dying down... GG is the dog that gets kicked. It dies down when you stop kicking it. Kick the dog and see exactly how dead it is... And the reality is that it existed before it had a name.
the whole thing started because the media kicked the dog... and they didn't stop... they just kept doing it until the dog go really really pissed. And the dog bit the media... the media said "ouch"... and things have been more civil since. But the dog is still there. Try kicking it and see what happens.
As to Anita... she's actually floundering pretty hard. You're apparently not following that all. Her latest ploy at relevance was citing some japanesy cutey girl thing that she got in a swag bag when she went to E3 which she misrepresented as the E3 access pass. Even many of her supporters were saying "wtf" over that. And very recently she got upset about pregnant ladies in a Fallout mobile game not rushing to put out fires or attack bandits like the non-pregnant men/women. Because that's something pregnant women do right... well known for being fire fighters and soldiers. They just strap a little helmet on their distended bellies and go to war... right guys? Right?
Anyway... she's a fad. The gamers were there before her and will be there after no one even remembers her. Its like attacking action movies or something and expecting either hollywood to stop making them or the people that go to the movies to give even some absurd fraction of a shit what the harpies have to say on the issue.
You say some people take her seriously? Okay... but who takes those people seriously? Nothing times any number... equals nothing.
As to the FBI... so what? People make specious complaints and law enforcement checks it out. No convictions.;)
As to restraining orders... you don't have to do anything to get a restraining order. You just ask for one.
In any case... you're apparently going to keep cruising up and down the Denial river... so believe what you like. There is a long list of developers that have come out as against your antagonistic attack on what was previously a pretty chill community of people that just wanted to be left alone and have a good time. We don't really need anyone else besides our developers and our developers don't need anyone else besides the players. if you don't play the games and don't make the games... you're irrelevant to us. You can't touch us. That applies to any fandom or market.
One of the reasons so many of you twits get so mad at the free market. YOUR developers keep making games... and no one buys them. Take the maker of Sunset. Big SJW blow hard... hates gamers and the gaming community. She even got Leigh Alexander to promote her game... you know, the women that said "gamers don't have to be your market"... and then was fired from her job... she had so many great quotes. I think the best one was "I am gaming. I can make you or break you." Followed by something about how the person she was arguing with should go make her a sandwich or something... So she lost her job and decided to make a gaming advertising and promotion firm.
And this person inline with your laughable faction hired the disgraced games journalist to promote the game. Sales were basically zero. And the developer raged and said she was leaving game development... she hates everyone... And now she's got a promotion on Patreon where you can pay her to to bitch about how the gaming market is bad. Why anyone would do that is a mystery to me but stranger things have happened.
Point is... there is winning... and there is Charley Sheen WIIIIIINNNNIIIIING.
All you're telling me is that you have tiger blood... you're like a warlock... you're saying I couldn't handle your brain because if I tried my head would explode. And other hilarious things Charley said before apologizing and going into rehab again.
Anywho... you're adorable... like a cross eyed kitten. Never change.
You asked for my address and my name... now you're asking for all these other things... I don't understand.
Are you literally retarded?
You want my life's story? You want to know what my first pet was and what I named it? My first pet by a goldfish... and I named it "fish"... there you go. More information... you really are a hilarious panty sniffer.
Press my used underwear to your face and breath it it in you funny little pervert.:D
... hmmm... not really... all the gaming journalism sites updated their ethics policies which was what GG wanted... the "gamers are dead" articles were killed and they haven't done that again.
I think comic con san diego is going to have a GG discussion...
And the developers and publishers have almost entirely sided with the evil gamers... because... they actually buy games.
Most of the important people in anti GG were fired or have been marginalized and a few of the pro GG people have actually openly gotten jobs at some of the bigger gaming news sites like the Escapist.
so... everything you said would make perfect sense... if you said the exact opposite.:-)
Contradict me... I would love to rub your face in a bit more... I am turgid with excitement.:-D
Price of over medicating crazy people instead of locking them up which is what every other country does.
Cross reference the mass shootings in the US with lots of fun psychedelic drugs, being seen by some sort of diplomaed witch doctor... and society at large at no point being alerted that someone really needs to be given a life time supply of pudding and jigsaw puzzles.
You'll find a 100 percent correlation.
Where as there are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of americans that have guns and don't kill anyone.
Now because the media lies about it and people are lazy... most people haven't realized that the least common denominator in this scenario is NOT guns. Its actually really unpredictable drugs that fuck with people's brain in largely poorly understood ways, having some over priced twit talk to you about your feelings... and then not doing anything when the guy starts drawing pictures of dead hookers squirting out of his nose.
And because you won't immediately fall to your knees and thank me for blowing your fucking mind with my divine wisdom... let me further point out that in Switerland they literally give all the men in the society machine guns... and a bag of fucking bullets. All of them.
And how many mass shootings happen there? What? None? Impossible... they were given machine guns which are as assaulty a gun as a gun can be... unless you stapled pissed off rattle snakes to it... RAWR!
Point is... its not guns that kill people... Its crazy that kills people.
You people don't see that Vietnam was just a battle in the cold war. And we only went in on the theory that if Vietnam fell it would cause a domino effect.
Our real objective was to halt the spread of communism. Not because we really cared if Vietnam went communist but because we didn't want the region to go communist... and with it give the soviets an advantage that actually matters.
And win or lose Vietnam... the region didn't go communist. Why is that? Possibly domino theory was crap or possibly whatever ultimately happened to Vietnam, we hurt the soviets. As they say its not the destination... its the Journey.:) We bled them. We destroyed planes. We killed soldiers. We destroyed war material. And whatever you think it escaped no one's attention that we were absolutely f'ing ferocious in battle.
And what did the soviets get out of it? What was that? Jack? Shit? Fucking nothing? So... Understand. Vietnam was just a battle in the cold war. And it worked out rather nicely for us regardless.
Look at everything they ultimately claimed. they didn't effectively use anything.
The biggest losers though were the Vietnamese. They could have been a first world country. And instead they threw in with the communists and look at what it got them.
The best revenge... is living well.;)
And who gets that last laugh every time. 'Merica.;-)
We've not seen them use it. In 2008 they didn't and the Georgians were able to hurt them because of that.
You say they have it... okay... but can you show me where they actually use it?
We've been using it for over a generation. You're telling me I'm wrong because the Russians added it to their inventory in 2009 or something? Show me them actually using it. We haven't seen it.
And that's really besides the point. Its not about any one technology. its about the Russia's assumption that it can get away with this stuff because they're attacking far inferior militaries. Well... all we have to do is bleed them to make it unaffordable. And we'll do that.;)
Actually the lawyers are your best defense in this matter. The people you need to be worried about are the politicians and the judges.
The Lawyers always get a bad rap for using laws the politicians put into law or for winning a case that the JUDGE rules on.
Is it the lawyer's fault if he makes a silly argument and the judge actually buys it? Who's job is it again to not let crap get through the courts? Not the lawyers. That's on the judges. Trust me... world is full of a lot of lazy stupid judges. Ask yourself this... how do you tell a competent lawyer from an incompetent one? You can tell. But then ask yourself this... how do you tell an incompetent judge from a competent one? They're very very very poorly policed for incompetence and when they are incompetent and everyone knows it... they're really hard to get rid of. Nine times out of ten if something stupid happens in a court room... look to the man responsible for the court... which is the judge.
No one ever blames the judges though. Always the lawyers.
Trust me. If you get hit by some stupid law like this... your best friend in the world... is your lawyer... You want him slick and slimy as possible so he can grease you up and get you off. You want him to be the most merciless soulless sociopathic sophist you can get your hands on... with the single proviso that he is your merciless soulless sociopathic sophist.... and not just some dude that is going to knife you for your wallet and then steal the shoes of your corpse. Which can happen too... so... try to avoid that. But if you can manage that one... yep... You want someone that is smart and will fight like hell for you.
The CO2 climate models were based on Venus... that is the relevance.
Everything blocks outgoing energy. Water vapor, CO2, Nitrogen, Oxygen... everything.
You're saying that that little sliver of spectrum that is unique to CO2 is the only frequency that energy is radiated away from earth on? That's nonsense.
As to CO2, its taken up by plants as well. It might take longer but we are seeing plants respond to the increase in CO2. Will the plants sink the carbon in the ground the way it was when it was oil... eventually... that will of course take a very long time. But even then it might not matter because the plants are sucking a lot of that carbon up. And even if they let it go when they die, the total amount of plant biomass wouldn't have to expand by much to take all that extra carbon out of the air.
Will that ultimately happen? I don't know. But there are many indications that the plants are trying to do just that.
The primary issue is that Myhre appears to use "radiative heat transfer" as his primary means of heat transfer in the atmosphere which only makes sense over distances if you're talking about a vacuum... which our atmosphere is not. Therefore, radiative heat transfer is not how heat flows through our atmosphere. It isn't possible. The citation above discusses that and tries to address the problem.
The conclusion it comes to by the way is that the warming effect of CO2 is less than a 3rd of what the IPCC is estimating simply from that one correction. In the paper he modeled a doubling of the CO2... and broke up the atmosphere in layers and lateral zones then modeled the way energy would be transferred between them.
As to puckrin 04, did you look at figures 3 and 4? They overlap completely. Not in intensity but in range and my understanding is that the water is so much more prevalent that the intensity figures may not be relevant... with anything the water vapor touches probably being blacked out by the amount of water vapor. The percentage of the atmosphere that is water vapor is... roughly 2 percent would you say? And CO2 is 0.04%. I'm just saying that if a low peak of the water spectrum touches something the CO2 might have a high peak on it... will the CO2 even matter? Even if the water is MOSTLY transparent to a given spectrum there is so much more of it. We're talking about a difference in concentration of 50 to 1. Even very clear glass is entirely opaque if its thick enough. And as I said... water is NOT opaque to most of CO2's spectrum.
The only situation where I can think the CO2 would be relevant is at high altitude. At low altitude, I can see no way CO2 can do anything unless its concentrations start to rival that of H2O which is not a credible worry. From what I can tell, CO2 concentrates in low altitudes... which means it is hanging out with the water... which means since it is 1/50th the concentration and nearly its entire spectrum is redundant with water vapor... I just don't see how it could matter.
50 to 1 is a massive difference. And look at the overlaps in the spectrums.
Is it that I don't know how to read these charts? That's possible. I consider myself a clever guy... an educated guy... a reasonable guy. But I don't know anything and I am certainly an amateur in all this... so I'm going to make amateur errors. I have the humility to accept that.
Explain why my reading of the spectrum charts is wrong. i don't see it. The portion of CO2 that is not absorbed by water is a TINY silver of the total... and the CO2 is 1/50th of the water... and we're talking about that 1/50th like it is going to wage the dog? The CO2 in comparison to the total atmosphere 1/2500th of the atmosphere. Is this real life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
First, you're making the outdated association of video games = kid's stuff. It was kids stuff... then the kids grew up and kept playing the same games. When the kids were playing baseball and then grew up to play in the MLB... would it make sense to point at the crowd and talk about kids?
Second, as to the amount of skill required... how many people can honestly even compete for an F1 tourny? The number of people permitted to even try is so restrictive that you can't even really say it is that competitive. Who are you competing against and where could anyone practice enough to even get good? its a terrible example.
As to 100m whatever... that's more physical conditioning than it is anything else so far as I'm given to understand.
As to the Super bowl or Rugby... you have a much stronger case here but I would point out that very very few people can play at the high levels in these games. They're not fast enough. They're not tricky enough. They don't master the tactics and strategy enough. And if you think it isn't really really hard... I'd have to conclude you've never tried it.
Things got heated when your faction made it political and attempted to censor the opposition. If you want to have a scientific discussion again... then you need to put the politics away. I don't want to hear anything out of you on the issue that isn't scientific.
If you make a political argument... then you're talking politics. Truth and facts don't matter in politics. its about who has the power. A man holding a gun against your head and giggling... is right and you are wrong... politically. Is broccoli sapient? If the man holding that gun against your head says so then you'd better slowly nod your head and agree.
And if you want to have that discussion, I'll just point out that the trend line for skepticism in the US and UK has been rising steadily despite your faction spending billions in tax dollars to promote your position. You're still losing.... politically.
Now... that's the political argument... we can have that one... talk about who can force whom to do what. I'll rally my rabble angry peasants with pitchforks and noble knights that will be interspersed through the ranks... and you can do the same thing... and we can see which side runs out of potato farmers first.... and forces the opposition's knights to retreat or be captured and ransomed off. Or we can talk science. In which case I don't want to hear anything about sides or politics or political parties or how many people support you. That's all political. Even the consensus argument is ultimately political. You're saying X people agree with you.
So you choose. Do you want to have a political discussion or a scientific discussion? Each has a price.
You talk politics and i don't want to hear about the science. All that matters is how many people either side can get on their side.
If you want to talk science... then I don't want to hear anything about politics.
it is this tendency to hypocritically shift between the two and then damn the opposition for doing the same thing that I won't tolerate. Choose.
Politics or science? And once you've chosen... stick with it.
By this same logic there are quite a few things progressives believe that are contrary to science as well... its very easy to make a given faction look bad when you ask only the questions that put them in a bad light and don't ask any of the questions that put their opposition in the wrong light.
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... which means what? This lack or presence of ownership allows or disallows you from doing what exactly?
The kids need to buy baseballs and bats. And if you play professionally you're going to sign on with an official team or you won't be professional.
You're citing distinctions without meaning.
that is different from professional sports in what way?
All references to "you people" should be interpreted as referring to your mother. Just fyi. I find that "you people" quibble that cited any time the phrase is used to be tiresome. Don't be pedantic. You know exactly what I fucking mean. I defined it several times.
BUT if you can't suss out my identification of that term which is quite clear... then as a short hand it refers to your mother. :)
As to soviets versus chinese... prior to 1969 the soviets and chinese were very tight. The US perceived them as a unified political alliance pushing an equivalent ideology with an equivalent ambition.
Had Stalin been our buddy and not declared his intention to dominate the west and any other scrap of realestate upon the world in the name of communism... if he had not done that... and the chinese had instead been the communist aggressors... the cold war probably never would have happened. And the actual fear of exclusively chinese expansion was relatively minor when divorced from the soviets. It was the soviets we were worried about. The chinese lacked the industrial base to actually be a threat absent Soviet support. Note that the cold war didn't have any major conflicts after the split.
The vietnam war really got going in 1963... and by 1969... the split was dramatically undermining the capabilities and credibility of the great communist dream of global conquest.
As to the north winning... the north simply filled the vacuum created by our departure. Not much of a victory really.
As to the dead... The blood of my own family is in those numbers, little one. I do not disrespect the dead. It was the cold war. You say you understand but then you cite these numbers like they're remarkable in the context of the struggle. Those lives of our honored dead were not shed lightly. They did not die easily. They went down in fury and honor. And it is possible that those live thus shed discouraged further conflicts from the communists and saved more lives still. Without a time machine who can say. But we did what we thought was reasonable at the time to hold the line. And those young men... some of whom had blood flowing in their veins very similar to mine... they held the line.
There was no dishonor in their service.
And if you want to cite numbers... we probably killed about a million Vietcong. We had body counts in those days to evaluate the effectiveness of campaigns. It got pretty gory. Statistics... quotas. Slaughter organized into spread sheets.
The Soviets were supplying aircraft and at the very least pilot trainers. They were supplying many other things. Your suggestion that they weren't involved is in error.
As to vietnam being a trading partner... sure... but if they had not sided with the communists it would have come a generation ago... and they might have gotten assistance. Today... there's no reason for us to do that.
The communists... soviets and otherwise were not good to their acquisitions, allies, and conquests. The soviets famously demanded reparations from every country they conquered during WW2. This retarded their recovery setting back their development by a generation.
The US to the contrary pumped money into such nations with the result that the recovered much more quickly and the US ultimately made a much greater return than if it had punished them through trade... and course, because we were good to such powers they didn't end up hating us. Which is the case of pretty much anyone that had to deal with the soviets being in charge. No one likes them.
To this day, Russia has a hard time making friends because people don't forgive them for what they did during the soviet era.
The US does... we've tried repeatedly to bury the hatchet. The Russians can't do it. They can't let it go. That's a mistake.
As to moral authority... who has claimed it then, cupcake? You can't even begin to comprehend what we deal with and you presume to write the moral codes we're supposed to follow? You don't even understand why we do the things we do much less are you able to judge the philosophies and moral laws by which we must obey.
I've little patience for being judged by people that don't even understand what they're talking about.
... are you attempting to split hairs with me little one?
If the Russians don't deploy a technology or understand how to employ it on the battlefield... then remind me why I have to take what they might have in a warehouse somewhere seriously?
We've been experimenting with night vision since the 1930s and we first employed the early prototypes in WW2. We've subsequently used night vision increasingly in every war since that we've ever fought in.
We LOVE our night vision. There is no time we more prefer to fight than under a new moon with overcast skies. Its too easy.
As to boots... Depends on how many boots... and whether that matters.
Again... we're already talking about sending the Polish in to shore up the Ukrainian border. Are they western? They're very happy to shoot Russians in the face. And they've got better equipment and the stability to hold a line.
It remains baffling to me that people could think a country with an economy half the size of italy... which is Russia... is going to fare well against the US.
The Russians were at one time believed to be a super power. Today... they are not. Their credibility if they want to dance is non-existent. The Russians get really turgid on possibility that someone somewhere is afraid of them. Their foreign policy is a little more than a litany of intimidation. The US is not afraid. We've faced off against far far worse and did not flinch. The Russian Federation with their pretense and bravado is a fucking joke.
the policy changes were precisely what GG was asking for...
I mean... EXACTLY.
As to GG dying down... GG is the dog that gets kicked. It dies down when you stop kicking it. Kick the dog and see exactly how dead it is... And the reality is that it existed before it had a name.
the whole thing started because the media kicked the dog... and they didn't stop... they just kept doing it until the dog go really really pissed. And the dog bit the media... the media said "ouch"... and things have been more civil since. But the dog is still there. Try kicking it and see what happens.
As to Anita... she's actually floundering pretty hard. You're apparently not following that all. Her latest ploy at relevance was citing some japanesy cutey girl thing that she got in a swag bag when she went to E3 which she misrepresented as the E3 access pass. Even many of her supporters were saying "wtf" over that. And very recently she got upset about pregnant ladies in a Fallout mobile game not rushing to put out fires or attack bandits like the non-pregnant men/women. Because that's something pregnant women do right... well known for being fire fighters and soldiers. They just strap a little helmet on their distended bellies and go to war... right guys? Right?
Anyway... she's a fad. The gamers were there before her and will be there after no one even remembers her. Its like attacking action movies or something and expecting either hollywood to stop making them or the people that go to the movies to give even some absurd fraction of a shit what the harpies have to say on the issue.
You say some people take her seriously? Okay... but who takes those people seriously? Nothing times any number... equals nothing.
As to the FBI... so what? People make specious complaints and law enforcement checks it out. No convictions. ;)
As to restraining orders... you don't have to do anything to get a restraining order. You just ask for one.
In any case... you're apparently going to keep cruising up and down the Denial river... so believe what you like. There is a long list of developers that have come out as against your antagonistic attack on what was previously a pretty chill community of people that just wanted to be left alone and have a good time. We don't really need anyone else besides our developers and our developers don't need anyone else besides the players. if you don't play the games and don't make the games... you're irrelevant to us. You can't touch us. That applies to any fandom or market.
One of the reasons so many of you twits get so mad at the free market. YOUR developers keep making games... and no one buys them. Take the maker of Sunset. Big SJW blow hard... hates gamers and the gaming community. She even got Leigh Alexander to promote her game... you know, the women that said "gamers don't have to be your market"... and then was fired from her job... she had so many great quotes. I think the best one was "I am gaming. I can make you or break you." Followed by something about how the person she was arguing with should go make her a sandwich or something... So she lost her job and decided to make a gaming advertising and promotion firm.
And this person inline with your laughable faction hired the disgraced games journalist to promote the game. Sales were basically zero. And the developer raged and said she was leaving game development... she hates everyone... And now she's got a promotion on Patreon where you can pay her to to bitch about how the gaming market is bad. Why anyone would do that is a mystery to me but stranger things have happened.
Point is... there is winning... and there is Charley Sheen WIIIIIINNNNIIIIING.
All you're telling me is that you have tiger blood... you're like a warlock... you're saying I couldn't handle your brain because if I tried my head would explode. And other hilarious things Charley said before apologizing and going into rehab again.
Anywho... you're adorable... like a cross eyed kitten. Never change.
I was clearly talking about my epeen... but if you'd rather my comment refer to a sapient fungus with funny dialog from SC2... I'm cool with it. :-P
You asked for my address and my name... now you're asking for all these other things... I don't understand.
Are you literally retarded?
You want my life's story? You want to know what my first pet was and what I named it? My first pet by a goldfish... and I named it "fish"... there you go. More information... you really are a hilarious panty sniffer.
Press my used underwear to your face and breath it it in you funny little pervert. :D
... hmmm... not really... all the gaming journalism sites updated their ethics policies which was what GG wanted... the "gamers are dead" articles were killed and they haven't done that again.
I think comic con san diego is going to have a GG discussion...
And the developers and publishers have almost entirely sided with the evil gamers... because... they actually buy games.
Most of the important people in anti GG were fired or have been marginalized and a few of the pro GG people have actually openly gotten jobs at some of the bigger gaming news sites like the Escapist.
so... everything you said would make perfect sense... if you said the exact opposite. :-)
Contradict me... I would love to rub your face in a bit more... I am turgid with excitement. :-D
both esports and regular sports are very popular in 21st century planet Earth.
Where are you from?
James Keane
Come and get me.
Price of over medicating crazy people instead of locking them up which is what every other country does.
Cross reference the mass shootings in the US with lots of fun psychedelic drugs, being seen by some sort of diplomaed witch doctor... and society at large at no point being alerted that someone really needs to be given a life time supply of pudding and jigsaw puzzles.
You'll find a 100 percent correlation.
Where as there are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of americans that have guns and don't kill anyone.
Now because the media lies about it and people are lazy... most people haven't realized that the least common denominator in this scenario is NOT guns. Its actually really unpredictable drugs that fuck with people's brain in largely poorly understood ways, having some over priced twit talk to you about your feelings... and then not doing anything when the guy starts drawing pictures of dead hookers squirting out of his nose.
And because you won't immediately fall to your knees and thank me for blowing your fucking mind with my divine wisdom... let me further point out that in Switerland they literally give all the men in the society machine guns... and a bag of fucking bullets. All of them.
And how many mass shootings happen there? What? None? Impossible... they were given machine guns which are as assaulty a gun as a gun can be... unless you stapled pissed off rattle snakes to it... RAWR!
Point is... its not guns that kill people... Its crazy that kills people.
I'll leave you with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Your inability to make a coherent argument is noted... that leads to an automatic concession by default.
Your concession is accepted.
Take fewer drugs the next time you post and you'll likely do better.
Good day, sir.
Okay troll...
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do your worst.
And what was the US's objectives?... Really?
You people don't see that Vietnam was just a battle in the cold war. And we only went in on the theory that if Vietnam fell it would cause a domino effect.
Our real objective was to halt the spread of communism. Not because we really cared if Vietnam went communist but because we didn't want the region to go communist... and with it give the soviets an advantage that actually matters.
And win or lose Vietnam... the region didn't go communist. Why is that? Possibly domino theory was crap or possibly whatever ultimately happened to Vietnam, we hurt the soviets. As they say its not the destination... its the Journey. :) We bled them. We destroyed planes. We killed soldiers. We destroyed war material. And whatever you think it escaped no one's attention that we were absolutely f'ing ferocious in battle.
And what did the soviets get out of it? What was that? Jack? Shit? Fucking nothing? So... Understand. Vietnam was just a battle in the cold war. And it worked out rather nicely for us regardless.
Look at everything they ultimately claimed. they didn't effectively use anything.
The biggest losers though were the Vietnamese. They could have been a first world country. And instead they threw in with the communists and look at what it got them.
The best revenge... is living well. ;)
And who gets that last laugh every time. 'Merica. ;-)
We've not seen them use it. In 2008 they didn't and the Georgians were able to hurt them because of that.
You say they have it... okay... but can you show me where they actually use it?
We've been using it for over a generation. You're telling me I'm wrong because the Russians added it to their inventory in 2009 or something? Show me them actually using it. We haven't seen it.
And that's really besides the point. Its not about any one technology. its about the Russia's assumption that it can get away with this stuff because they're attacking far inferior militaries. Well... all we have to do is bleed them to make it unaffordable. And we'll do that. ;)
Says another baseless insult from another butthurt AC?
OH HEAVENS... whatever will I DO!?... Did I hurt your wuddle feeeelings, kitten?
Try harder... you're too stupid to win with that kind of effort.
Where did the US demand you enact cyber bullying laws?
oh that's right... we never did, you bigoted little cunt. :D
^ First amendment protected speech in 'Merica... Suck it.
Actually the lawyers are your best defense in this matter. The people you need to be worried about are the politicians and the judges.
The Lawyers always get a bad rap for using laws the politicians put into law or for winning a case that the JUDGE rules on.
Is it the lawyer's fault if he makes a silly argument and the judge actually buys it? Who's job is it again to not let crap get through the courts? Not the lawyers. That's on the judges. Trust me... world is full of a lot of lazy stupid judges. Ask yourself this... how do you tell a competent lawyer from an incompetent one? You can tell. But then ask yourself this... how do you tell an incompetent judge from a competent one? They're very very very poorly policed for incompetence and when they are incompetent and everyone knows it... they're really hard to get rid of. Nine times out of ten if something stupid happens in a court room... look to the man responsible for the court... which is the judge.
No one ever blames the judges though. Always the lawyers.
Trust me. If you get hit by some stupid law like this... your best friend in the world... is your lawyer... You want him slick and slimy as possible so he can grease you up and get you off. You want him to be the most merciless soulless sociopathic sophist you can get your hands on... with the single proviso that he is your merciless soulless sociopathic sophist.... and not just some dude that is going to knife you for your wallet and then steal the shoes of your corpse. Which can happen too... so... try to avoid that. But if you can manage that one... yep... You want someone that is smart and will fight like hell for you.
We have the first amendment... so... actually we're fine thanks.
Our government is constitutionally forbidden from passing such laws. *kiss kiss*
Do you want to live in a world where you can't call some fuckwit a cocktoddler?
I don't.
'MERICA! :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The CO2 climate models were based on Venus... that is the relevance.
Everything blocks outgoing energy. Water vapor, CO2, Nitrogen, Oxygen... everything.
You're saying that that little sliver of spectrum that is unique to CO2 is the only frequency that energy is radiated away from earth on? That's nonsense.
As to CO2, its taken up by plants as well. It might take longer but we are seeing plants respond to the increase in CO2. Will the plants sink the carbon in the ground the way it was when it was oil... eventually... that will of course take a very long time. But even then it might not matter because the plants are sucking a lot of that carbon up. And even if they let it go when they die, the total amount of plant biomass wouldn't have to expand by much to take all that extra carbon out of the air.
Will that ultimately happen? I don't know. But there are many indications that the plants are trying to do just that.
As to Myhre 98
http://meetingorganizer.copern...
The primary issue is that Myhre appears to use "radiative heat transfer" as his primary means of heat transfer in the atmosphere which only makes sense over distances if you're talking about a vacuum... which our atmosphere is not. Therefore, radiative heat transfer is not how heat flows through our atmosphere. It isn't possible. The citation above discusses that and tries to address the problem.
The conclusion it comes to by the way is that the warming effect of CO2 is less than a 3rd of what the IPCC is estimating simply from that one correction. In the paper he modeled a doubling of the CO2... and broke up the atmosphere in layers and lateral zones then modeled the way energy would be transferred between them.
As to puckrin 04, did you look at figures 3 and 4? They overlap completely. Not in intensity but in range and my understanding is that the water is so much more prevalent that the intensity figures may not be relevant... with anything the water vapor touches probably being blacked out by the amount of water vapor. The percentage of the atmosphere that is water vapor is... roughly 2 percent would you say? And CO2 is 0.04%. I'm just saying that if a low peak of the water spectrum touches something the CO2 might have a high peak on it... will the CO2 even matter? Even if the water is MOSTLY transparent to a given spectrum there is so much more of it. We're talking about a difference in concentration of 50 to 1. Even very clear glass is entirely opaque if its thick enough. And as I said... water is NOT opaque to most of CO2's spectrum.
The only situation where I can think the CO2 would be relevant is at high altitude. At low altitude, I can see no way CO2 can do anything unless its concentrations start to rival that of H2O which is not a credible worry. From what I can tell, CO2 concentrates in low altitudes... which means it is hanging out with the water... which means since it is 1/50th the concentration and nearly its entire spectrum is redundant with water vapor... I just don't see how it could matter.
50 to 1 is a massive difference. And look at the overlaps in the spectrums.
Is it that I don't know how to read these charts? That's possible. I consider myself a clever guy... an educated guy... a reasonable guy. But I don't know anything and I am certainly an amateur in all this... so I'm going to make amateur errors. I have the humility to accept that.
Explain why my reading of the spectrum charts is wrong. i don't see it. The portion of CO2 that is not absorbed by water is a TINY silver of the total... and the CO2 is 1/50th of the water... and we're talking about that 1/50th like it is going to wage the dog? The CO2 in comparison to the total atmosphere 1/2500th of the atmosphere. Is this real life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Is this going to be forever? :D
I genuinely do not understand.
As to
First, you're making the outdated association of video games = kid's stuff. It was kids stuff... then the kids grew up and kept playing the same games. When the kids were playing baseball and then grew up to play in the MLB... would it make sense to point at the crowd and talk about kids?
Second, as to the amount of skill required... how many people can honestly even compete for an F1 tourny? The number of people permitted to even try is so restrictive that you can't even really say it is that competitive. Who are you competing against and where could anyone practice enough to even get good? its a terrible example.
As to 100m whatever... that's more physical conditioning than it is anything else so far as I'm given to understand.
As to the Super bowl or Rugby... you have a much stronger case here but I would point out that very very few people can play at the high levels in these games. They're not fast enough. They're not tricky enough. They don't master the tactics and strategy enough. And if you think it isn't really really hard... I'd have to conclude you've never tried it.
That was actually my point... You're done. Shoo. *makes brushing motions*
Things got heated when your faction made it political and attempted to censor the opposition. If you want to have a scientific discussion again... then you need to put the politics away. I don't want to hear anything out of you on the issue that isn't scientific.
If you make a political argument... then you're talking politics. Truth and facts don't matter in politics. its about who has the power. A man holding a gun against your head and giggling... is right and you are wrong... politically. Is broccoli sapient? If the man holding that gun against your head says so then you'd better slowly nod your head and agree.
And if you want to have that discussion, I'll just point out that the trend line for skepticism in the US and UK has been rising steadily despite your faction spending billions in tax dollars to promote your position. You're still losing.... politically.
Now... that's the political argument... we can have that one... talk about who can force whom to do what. I'll rally my rabble angry peasants with pitchforks and noble knights that will be interspersed through the ranks... and you can do the same thing... and we can see which side runs out of potato farmers first.... and forces the opposition's knights to retreat or be captured and ransomed off. Or we can talk science. In which case I don't want to hear anything about sides or politics or political parties or how many people support you. That's all political. Even the consensus argument is ultimately political. You're saying X people agree with you.
So you choose. Do you want to have a political discussion or a scientific discussion? Each has a price.
You talk politics and i don't want to hear about the science. All that matters is how many people either side can get on their side.
If you want to talk science... then I don't want to hear anything about politics.
it is this tendency to hypocritically shift between the two and then damn the opposition for doing the same thing that I won't tolerate. Choose.
Politics or science? And once you've chosen... stick with it.
By this same logic there are quite a few things progressives believe that are contrary to science as well... its very easy to make a given faction look bad when you ask only the questions that put them in a bad light and don't ask any of the questions that put their opposition in the wrong light.