I know a lot of atmospheric scientists, and I don't believe I've ever heard one suggest that the current increases in CO2 levels were going to lead to "runaway warming"
""We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus," - SH
MIT Technology review chimes in with another climatologist saying it could happen.
How dare you try to whitewash the shameful history of climate alarmism by acclaimed scientists and celebrities.
Whether atmosphere will go to 1200 ppm, I have no idea. I can't predict human behavior.
You can't? Humans are the most eminently predictable of species, in aggregate.
Maybe we'll get another world war, crippling economy and energy infrastructure, leading to dramatic drop in output.
Nope, too much to lose now.
What I'm saying is that you do not NEED anything like that, even with a great economy in most countries CO2 output is inevitable, precisely BECAUSE of human behavior.
Electric cars are 100% preferable for everyone, if they can get them at a reasonable price. No-one like pollution from power plants, so as solar and nuclear become cheaper and easier to make use of the switch is inevitable. You literally could not stop the future adoption of such technologies over traditional power generation if you tried. In China the very poorest of people use electric scooters because they are simply cheaper and more reliable than small engines. It's also a lot easier to instal solar power in remote areas than run power lines out to them.
Even now the US has seen a lot of CO2 output reduction simply because of the greater use of natural gas (much cleaner to burn) for poor generation. That's an example of a quick interim step that already has brought about reduction in output, there is no way we can reach the theoretical level of CO2 doom even if we wanted to. Simply because of how humans are.
CO2 is also being taken from the atmosphere by the Earth's ecosystem. It's still a net gain but the trend of overall CO2 emission reduction is very clear, there's no way we will reach the level described even if we did nothing but carried on with existing adoption of solar/nuclear power, and electric vehicles.
Can you point out any models that show CO2 levels even close to 1200ppm? Even the worst case I can find is 1000ppm by 2100 (still a long, long ways off and more than enough time to fully integrate renewable energy across most of the world).
If all of you will think way back to where we first were supposed to be alarmed about global warming, it was exactly because too much CO2 was supposed to lead to runaway warming.
Well obviously that never happened, and this new paper is admission that fundamental concern was misplaced In fact now we see we need to get to a very high CO2 level we probably cannot even reach, to MAYBE risk a CO2 rise because of cloud interaction (the idea is only theoretical). It's quite apparent at this point that interaction of CO2 with a real world atmosphere is quite a lot more complex than any climate scientist is willing to admit.
Further proof that what we were told to worry about, should never have been a concern to start with. We seriously need to stop our focus on CO2 and start re-examining real sources of pollution again and focus on those.
you're going to feel responsible for everyone killed with the technology you created
Why would a hammer maker feel remorse at creating a tool that drives nails to build a home as easily as it can stave in a skull?
People who feel remorse for misuse of a tool have too delicate a psyche for the real world, something else would have affected them the same way eventually.
This is the kind of misappropriation of technology for violent uses that makes developers kill themselves in later years
I'm not sure why someone would kill themselves for helping an organization who delivers massive amount of assistance for natural disasters around the world, but OK.
As Elon pointed out, he gave that figure in the last earnings report way before that tweet....
Like Musk said - how embarrassing for the FCC! It sure does seem like someone there has it in for Tesla, very likely someone at the FCC is compromised by some large short holder that is sweating bullets.
One, if the hardware maker is not the OS maker, they can only provide hooks and leave it up to the OS.
For desktops that is probably true, although they could have a "lock system" button... you could put it right next to the "Turbo" button some systems used to offer.:-).
For laptops though, the hardware maker could easily have some kind of physical interlock that disabled anything but power (or even that) to outside ports until the case was opened. The problem there of course, is people that want to run laptops docked which is probably why no-one has done that....
Two, I don't want all my storage unmounting every time I walk away from my desk.
That is the problem with that approach, if you controlled both hardware and software you could disable all ports not actively connected, and disable that if anything was unplugged.
In the end though how IOS does it is probably a pretty good compromise, if nothing is connected for several hours disable the hardware port until the system is unlocked (there again on desktops it would have to leave anything already connected from system lock).
That's actually not quite right - at the time they said that web apps were a "sweet" solution - but they never claimed native apps were a bad idea.
In contract, has has said a number of times they think combining iOS and macOS is a bad idea. They can and will bring elements from one to the other that make sense, but they've always maintained keeping a difference is a good idea.
Black Panther is about the costume color, not skin color... so it would be totality cool with everyone being played by, say, the same actress as Captian Marvel...
I am personally OK with the tradeoff of much better local performance, for an increased security risk around physical presence.
After all, a hardware maker can do things to make sure ports are disconnected when systems are locked, or in the most drastic cases you can physically render external ports inoperable.
The left wing of the Democratic party (Berniecrats? Justice Democrats? Call 'em what you like) will do it
The faster left, or the farther right, you go the more likely you are to see the U,S, military involved in foreign wars.
That is why the closest you are ever going to get to an anti-war president is Trump, who is not really Republican or Democrat and far from either end. But even he can't do this easily, just look at the reaction from left AND right when he suggested we actually pull out of Syria and Afghanistan.
I still think it will happen under his presidency though. As will some kind of agreement with North Korea that opens that country for trade and eliminates the military standoff there.
That sir is a really interesting point. I didn't think much about either case, but you are right that in terms of consistency people should just be upset by one as the other.
The fake furniture thing would be funny but I don't think a Hololens could really do a very realistic job of erasing something that was actually there... at the very least it would be a pretty bad design to try.
The thing I liked about the Hololens (and pretty much any AR system) is that you could see so well was was really around you so you could use it in a real living room or other space with mixed objects. It made me realize an important aspect of any AR system really is that it knows what is around so it doesn't obscure anything too badly, or at most skins it to look like something else.
I knew the original game was set on a Ring, but was any of the video content set there? All I can remember was Forward Unto Dawn which I could have sworn was set on a planet. Was there some other movie?
There's a live action TV show coming out, but for me I was thinking mostly of movies...
So just how well do you think Blank Panther would have fared with "immature trolls" if they had cast Matthew McConaughey as the lead?
Or maybe, just maybe, fans of specific characters just don't like to see large deviations from source material without good reason.
I never read Captain Marvel so I have no strong feelings about it myself, apart from the trailers making the movie appear a bit generic - I'm sure I'll rent it at some point though (like I have for pretty much every marvel movie). To me the thematically competing Shazam seems more fun.
Maybe they could give fans what they want by giving Captain Marvel a "Crying Game" reveal at the end...
I don't remember Integral Trees well enough to opine on its suitability as a movie, but I've wanted a Ringworld movie for quite some time...
Are there any movies that have even had that concept, or a Dyson sphere in it? I can't think of any. Seems like there must have been some movie that had something on that scale, even if just in passing...
Mote in God's Eye would be really great as well. So much you could mine from classic SF.
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I know a lot of atmospheric scientists, and I don't believe I've ever heard one suggest that the current increases in CO2 levels were going to lead to "runaway warming"
Maybe check Google before you post?
Results include such notables as Steven Hawkins:
""We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus," - SH
MIT Technology review chimes in with another climatologist saying it could happen.
How dare you try to whitewash the shameful history of climate alarmism by acclaimed scientists and celebrities.
Whether atmosphere will go to 1200 ppm, I have no idea. I can't predict human behavior.
You can't? Humans are the most eminently predictable of species, in aggregate.
Maybe we'll get another world war, crippling economy and energy infrastructure, leading to dramatic drop in output.
Nope, too much to lose now.
What I'm saying is that you do not NEED anything like that, even with a great economy in most countries CO2 output is inevitable, precisely BECAUSE of human behavior.
Electric cars are 100% preferable for everyone, if they can get them at a reasonable price. No-one like pollution from power plants, so as solar and nuclear become cheaper and easier to make use of the switch is inevitable. You literally could not stop the future adoption of such technologies over traditional power generation if you tried. In China the very poorest of people use electric scooters because they are simply cheaper and more reliable than small engines. It's also a lot easier to instal solar power in remote areas than run power lines out to them.
Even now the US has seen a lot of CO2 output reduction simply because of the greater use of natural gas (much cleaner to burn) for poor generation. That's an example of a quick interim step that already has brought about reduction in output, there is no way we can reach the theoretical level of CO2 doom even if we wanted to. Simply because of how humans are.
CO2 is also being taken from the atmosphere by the Earth's ecosystem. It's still a net gain but the trend of overall CO2 emission reduction is very clear, there's no way we will reach the level described even if we did nothing but carried on with existing adoption of solar/nuclear power, and electric vehicles.
Can you point out any models that show CO2 levels even close to 1200ppm? Even the worst case I can find is 1000ppm by 2100 (still a long, long ways off and more than enough time to fully integrate renewable energy across most of the world).
If all of you will think way back to where we first were supposed to be alarmed about global warming, it was exactly because too much CO2 was supposed to lead to runaway warming.
Well obviously that never happened, and this new paper is admission that fundamental concern was misplaced In fact now we see we need to get to a very high CO2 level we probably cannot even reach, to MAYBE risk a CO2 rise because of cloud interaction (the idea is only theoretical). It's quite apparent at this point that interaction of CO2 with a real world atmosphere is quite a lot more complex than any climate scientist is willing to admit.
Further proof that what we were told to worry about, should never have been a concern to start with. We seriously need to stop our focus on CO2 and start re-examining real sources of pollution again and focus on those.
you're going to feel responsible for everyone killed with the technology you created
Why would a hammer maker feel remorse at creating a tool that drives nails to build a home as easily as it can stave in a skull?
People who feel remorse for misuse of a tool have too delicate a psyche for the real world, something else would have affected them the same way eventually.
This is the kind of misappropriation of technology for violent uses that makes developers kill themselves in later years
I'm not sure why someone would kill themselves for helping an organization who delivers massive amount of assistance for natural disasters around the world, but OK.
All those government TLA's start to blend together, what can I say.
I would complain about lack of the ability to quickly correct a misspelling, but hell if even Twitter can't manage it...
As Elon pointed out, he gave that figure in the last earnings report way before that tweet....
Like Musk said - how embarrassing for the FCC! It sure does seem like someone there has it in for Tesla, very likely someone at the FCC is compromised by some large short holder that is sweating bullets.
Aren't you afraid having Deutsche Telekom as your carrier?
Who on earth would have reason to fear Germany at this point? So no, In fact so no I have T-Mobile as my cellular carrier.
China is far more realistic to be concerned about for all sorts of reasons.
Reasonable point, he was kind of implying he wanted to be able to instal such an OS on what he had...
But still, if he truly cared he would go with Apple hardware to get at the OS that did what he wanted.
M$ has nothing much left in consumer appeal so is going down the death machine route, taking up their role in the mass extinction of humanity.
Well I certainly rather they'd be doing that than trying to push Windows 10.
One, if the hardware maker is not the OS maker, they can only provide hooks and leave it up to the OS.
For desktops that is probably true, although they could have a "lock system" button... you could put it right next to the "Turbo" button some systems used to offer. :-).
For laptops though, the hardware maker could easily have some kind of physical interlock that disabled anything but power (or even that) to outside ports until the case was opened. The problem there of course, is people that want to run laptops docked which is probably why no-one has done that....
Two, I don't want all my storage unmounting every time I walk away from my desk.
That is the problem with that approach, if you controlled both hardware and software you could disable all ports not actively connected, and disable that if anything was unplugged.
In the end though how IOS does it is probably a pretty good compromise, if nothing is connected for several hours disable the hardware port until the system is unlocked (there again on desktops it would have to leave anything already connected from system lock).
I remember that also (was pretty good) but I was thinking more specifically of movies...
Although I can't even think of any other TV examples which is surprising. It's such a great concept it's amazing no-one has built more around it.
That's actually not quite right - at the time they said that web apps were a "sweet" solution - but they never claimed native apps were a bad idea.
In contract, has has said a number of times they think combining iOS and macOS is a bad idea. They can and will bring elements from one to the other that make sense, but they've always maintained keeping a difference is a good idea.
There's a blank page at the end.
Black Panther is about the costume color, not skin color... so it would be totality cool with everyone being played by, say, the same actress as Captian Marvel...
I am personally OK with the tradeoff of much better local performance, for an increased security risk around physical presence.
After all, a hardware maker can do things to make sure ports are disconnected when systems are locked, or in the most drastic cases you can physically render external ports inoperable.
The left wing of the Democratic party (Berniecrats? Justice Democrats? Call 'em what you like) will do it
The faster left, or the farther right, you go the more likely you are to see the U,S, military involved in foreign wars.
That is why the closest you are ever going to get to an anti-war president is Trump, who is not really Republican or Democrat and far from either end. But even he can't do this easily, just look at the reaction from left AND right when he suggested we actually pull out of Syria and Afghanistan.
I still think it will happen under his presidency though. As will some kind of agreement with North Korea that opens that country for trade and eliminates the military standoff there.
That sir is a really interesting point. I didn't think much about either case, but you are right that in terms of consistency people should just be upset by one as the other.
Climate change is worse for the overall health of a fragmented ecosystem.
That is incorrect, because fundamentally more energy in a system means more opportunity.
So you have no idea what you're talking about then.
That is correct, and also what I stated plainly to be the case...
The second biggest change in her story is the name of her alien cat.
Ok, NOW I am pissed also. You do NOT mess with cat names. INTERNET RAGE ON.
putting their heads through the TV.
The fake furniture thing would be funny but I don't think a Hololens could really do a very realistic job of erasing something that was actually there... at the very least it would be a pretty bad design to try.
The thing I liked about the Hololens (and pretty much any AR system) is that you could see so well was was really around you so you could use it in a real living room or other space with mixed objects. It made me realize an important aspect of any AR system really is that it knows what is around so it doesn't obscure anything too badly, or at most skins it to look like something else.
I knew the original game was set on a Ring, but was any of the video content set there? All I can remember was Forward Unto Dawn which I could have sworn was set on a planet. Was there some other movie?
There's a live action TV show coming out, but for me I was thinking mostly of movies...
So just how well do you think Blank Panther would have fared with "immature trolls" if they had cast Matthew McConaughey as the lead?
Or maybe, just maybe, fans of specific characters just don't like to see large deviations from source material without good reason.
I never read Captain Marvel so I have no strong feelings about it myself, apart from the trailers making the movie appear a bit generic - I'm sure I'll rent it at some point though (like I have for pretty much every marvel movie). To me the thematically competing Shazam seems more fun.
Maybe they could give fans what they want by giving Captain Marvel a "Crying Game" reveal at the end...
I don't remember Integral Trees well enough to opine on its suitability as a movie, but I've wanted a Ringworld movie for quite some time...
Are there any movies that have even had that concept, or a Dyson sphere in it? I can't think of any. Seems like there must have been some movie that had something on that scale, even if just in passing...
Mote in God's Eye would be really great as well. So much you could mine from classic SF.