Now you can try to argue "believe climate change is not occurring"...but really it's occurring. Argument is whether we're causing it.
Beyond what you already mention there's another question: Is the change on balance beneficial, detrimental or neutral?
Who knows what a person actually means when they answer the question. "Is climate change occurring?" Due to politicization of the subject the phrase "climate change" has taken on its own meaning that is distinct from the meaning of the words making it up and changes from person to person.
The unemployment rate is hideously gamed and massaged with black box models, assumptions and seasonal adjustments.
If you want something that gives you a big-picture view then take the raw number of working adults and divide by the population. That gives you the employment rate.
In reality, all the study did was take a survey/test that included current events and which news sources you view, there's no control group, there's no attempt to isolate which is the cause and which is the effect, and there's no meaningful result except to say that people go to the news source that agrees with their views, which isn't exactly ground breaking insight.
They didn't even limit their questions to objectively provable facts.
Just to give one example: Has the US "lost jobs" or "gained jobs"? The way you word that question is going to greatly influence how people answer. If the number of jobs increased in absolute terms, but the increase was less than the number of people who entered working age due to population growth do you count this as a gain or a loss? Many of the other questions are similarly subjective and easily manipulated.
Between the institute that ran the survey and Fox News it's hard to tell who is the pot and who is the kettle.
Ripple doesn't have scarcity. This is an essential aspect of monetary systems.
Scarcity in absolute terms isn't what's important - as long as the ratio between number of currency units and the goods and services in the economy the currency will have a stable purchasing power.
You do. The economy consists of people trading goods and services with each other. Those goods are the wealth of the economy. Currency is simply a token we pass around to make this bartering more efficient. When you want to trade with someone who doesn't have what you want you accept currency in exchange for your good or service and take it to someone who does have what you want.
In Ripple, if I do work for you, say I mow your lawn, the fact that you owe me a debt is marked in our Ripple accounts... and that's it. Now let's say I go to the grocery store and want to buy some food. My debt to the grocery store is recorded in our accounts. I can run up as much debt to the grocery store as they will allow. Finally, the owner of the grocery store goes to your shop and gets a haircut. The owner of the store now has a debt marked to you.
So it works exactly like any other form of currency.
This is exactly what currency is - a means of exchanging debts around no matter if your currency is paper, metallic or electronic.
It's not userland behavior or otherwise there wouldn't be a default policy in the kernel. I didn't like the default policy so I changed it in my copy of the kernel source and now it's fixed forever.
Since I use one copy of the kernel source that is NFS shared on my LAN now it's one less thing I need to configure on each machine.
Specifically, add setterm -powersave off to something like rc.local and forget about it.
It's been a while but I was tried something like that but it didn't always work so I just started patching the kernel. Maybe it works now but there's no reason for me mess with a solution that already works.
Of course if you are running a custom kernel anyway, guess one more patch doesn't hurt anything.
I've been using kernel.org kernels instead of distribution kernels for ages. WIth git it's even easier because I can just say "git rebase v2.6.whatever" when a new version is released and my two very minor patches will get applied automatically.
I already fixed one annoyance in the kernel in an extremely simple patch that I've been applying for years. I don't want console blanking and I never found a reliable userspace solution to turn it off so I just changed the default in the kernel. Now it never bothers me.
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c index 281aada..a044b99 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vt.c +++ b/drivers/char/vt.c @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ int console_blanked;
static int vesa_blank_mode;/* 0:none 1:suspendV 2:suspendH 3:powerdown */
static int vesa_off_interval; -static int blankinterval = 10*60; +static int blankinterval = 0*60;
core_param(consoleblank, blankinterval, int, 0444);
Someday I want to do the same thing with num lock. I want it to be ON all the time with no possibility of turning it off ever. Since I don't always use X for everything the place to do it would be in the kernel but I don't know where.
Anybody that's capable of teaching oneself already does that.
That's true, but it misses the point.
Very few people are capable of teaching themselves because their ability to do so did not survive the conditioning of schooling, wherein the elimination of said ability is an explicit design characteristic of those institutions.
Being able to 'teach yourself' is one of those 'x-factors'.
Being able to "teach yourself" is normal. That's what human beings evolved to do and children start doing it from day 1 of life.
The reason you believe this skill is so rare is because modern educational methods were specifically designed to inhibit this natural ability. See John Taylor Gatto's book linked else where in the thread.
Trouble is that's not how life works. Life is basicly just chemicles interacting in a perticular way, and if you change the conditions enough you make it imposible for the same set of chamicles to exibit the behavior we call life.
One of the problems is that the concept of "life" isn't really well defined yet.
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I don't like any of them.
Beyond what you already mention there's another question: Is the change on balance beneficial, detrimental or neutral?
Who knows what a person actually means when they answer the question. "Is climate change occurring?" Due to politicization of the subject the phrase "climate change" has taken on its own meaning that is distinct from the meaning of the words making it up and changes from person to person.
The unemployment rate is hideously gamed and massaged with black box models, assumptions and seasonal adjustments.
If you want something that gives you a big-picture view then take the raw number of working adults and divide by the population. That gives you the employment rate.
They didn't even limit their questions to objectively provable facts.
Just to give one example: Has the US "lost jobs" or "gained jobs"? The way you word that question is going to greatly influence how people answer. If the number of jobs increased in absolute terms, but the increase was less than the number of people who entered working age due to population growth do you count this as a gain or a loss? Many of the other questions are similarly subjective and easily manipulated.
Between the institute that ran the survey and Fox News it's hard to tell who is the pot and who is the kettle.
This article isn't about atomic weights changing. It's about estimates of isotopic ratios found in nature changing.
Scarcity in absolute terms isn't what's important - as long as the ratio between number of currency units and the goods and services in the economy the currency will have a stable purchasing power.
You do. The economy consists of people trading goods and services with each other. Those goods are the wealth of the economy. Currency is simply a token we pass around to make this bartering more efficient. When you want to trade with someone who doesn't have what you want you accept currency in exchange for your good or service and take it to someone who does have what you want.
So it works exactly like any other form of currency.
This is exactly what currency is - a means of exchanging debts around no matter if your currency is paper, metallic or electronic.
It's not userland behavior or otherwise there wouldn't be a default policy in the kernel. I didn't like the default policy so I changed it in my copy of the kernel source and now it's fixed forever.
Since I use one copy of the kernel source that is NFS shared on my LAN now it's one less thing I need to configure on each machine.
It's been a while but I was tried something like that but it didn't always work so I just started patching the kernel. Maybe it works now but there's no reason for me mess with a solution that already works.
I've been using kernel.org kernels instead of distribution kernels for ages. WIth git it's even easier because I can just say "git rebase v2.6.whatever" when a new version is released and my two very minor patches will get applied automatically.
What about when I'm not running X?
I already fixed one annoyance in the kernel in an extremely simple patch that I've been applying for years. I don't want console blanking and I never found a reliable userspace solution to turn it off so I just changed the default in the kernel. Now it never bothers me.
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 281aada..a044b99 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ int console_blanked;
static int vesa_blank_mode; /* 0:none 1:suspendV 2:suspendH 3:powerdown */
static int vesa_off_interval;
-static int blankinterval = 10*60;
+static int blankinterval = 0*60;
core_param(consoleblank, blankinterval, int, 0444);
static DECLARE_WORK(console_work, console_callback);
Someday I want to do the same thing with num lock. I want it to be ON all the time with no possibility of turning it off ever. Since I don't always use X for everything the place to do it would be in the kernel but I don't know where.
What I want to know is how I can patch the kernel to force num lock on and ignore all attempts to turn it off.
...Ignorance is Strength and we've always been at war with Eastasia.
Not really.
They should also edit the last line to read, "The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to complete apathy."
This joke has been around for at least 100 years, referencing different Apple products as appropriate.
What makes it funny each time is the reaction of Apple users, not necessarily the joke itself.
Q: What's the hardest part about using an iPhone?
A: Coming out to your parents
That's true, but it misses the point.
Very few people are capable of teaching themselves because their ability to do so did not survive the conditioning of schooling, wherein the elimination of said ability is an explicit design characteristic of those institutions.
Being able to "teach yourself" is normal. That's what human beings evolved to do and children start doing it from day 1 of life.
The reason you believe this skill is so rare is because modern educational methods were specifically designed to inhibit this natural ability. See John Taylor Gatto's book linked else where in the thread.
Clearly autodidactism is not for you.
Just how many distributions does he develop for? He's a openSUSE developer and a Gentoo developer, are there any others?
Actually the United States is a socialist oligarchy.
They just tell you that you're free because it makes you more productive.
Use Bitcoin (at least until they outlaw it)
One of the problems is that the concept of "life" isn't really well defined yet.
Keep going with that line of reasoning - the next step would be lifeforms that are dependent on it.
Delay all email deliveries for one hour. What could possibly go wrong?