American Journalism sucks because rather than being unbiased, they have an agenda to promote. This is why nation wide targeting of certain groups by the IRS, or NSA spying on Americans is less important than a lane closure on a NJ bridge.
And why is Lois Learner talking to DOJ investigators (not taking the 5th) while taking the 5th in front of congress.
How do you we know this Japanese man isn't lying? 3 weeks ago you would have been a genius if you were the creator of Bitcoin. Remember this article was in progress for 2 months. As of this week you're a complete idiot and borderline scandalous if you invented Bitcoin.
I almost puke this morning when I heard over BBC's news interviewing that female reporter from Newsweek.
She seems to be enjoying basking in her 15-second fame - and during the interview, she actually said that her action on "revealing the true identity of the founder of bitcoin" is not wrong, as it would not harm that Japanese guy in anyway.
We all know that journalism in America sucks, and this is one heck of a prime example how sucks American journalism can be.
As opposed to journalism in other countries which completely censor any bad news as propaganda?
* Designed with the new mobile lifestyle in mind
* More background designs and colors
* Enhanced Bing search
* A beautifully redesigned store.
* Deep cloud integration with OneDrive.
With reasons like that I can't imagine why XP users aren't rushing out to drop $500 on a new PC, $100 on a new monitor and another $300 on a new printer/scanner then replacing/reinstalling all their software and trying to get everything working like it already was...
Uhh. How about the OS is 14 years old, has become deprecated and is no longer optimized for newer hardware. Those are good reasons.
Apple and Linux EOL their OS's in 3 years or less. Microsoft does it after 14 (started after 9) and yet people like you still think it's stupid. You can get a solid pc package with printer/monitor for under $500.
This is a Man-in-the-Middle if the end-user is not notified of it.
It's probably covered in the Corporate Security Policy which the original poster failed to read. Most people don't bother to read these things just like an EULA and then get pissed when they realize what's happening. See NSA.
Yet...
Now is probably a good time to start a Flexcoin exchange which you can then "rob" and shut down in a years time for some easy $500,000.
For all we know Flexcoin themselves could be the culprits. Get all this money, shutdown, say you were hacked and sell off the bitcoins. The whole damn thing is just a electronic ponzi scheme.
I have no idea where this fascination of making windows boot 5 seconds faster and load up paint lighting fast comes into play, its often weeks if not months between times I reboot, and its all my space hungry big ass applications that are slow, not calculator
When you're doing presentations for customers you want your laptop to bootup fast. You want your reads in your applications to zoom because you're attempting to replicate a server class application on a desktop/laptop pc. There's all kinds of other examples but if you reboot every 3 weeks you could probably use a 4 year old machine. You're not utilizing it's potential.
NSA brought gchq in on. This because the y couldn't do it themselves (5th amendment etc.). So they have gchq do the dirty work and then gchq shares the intelligence. Welcome to the new USA.
The GCHQ has been violating personal freedoms far longer than the NSA. It's just accepted on your half of the pond.
Blizzard didn't listen to its customers. It listened to Bob Kotick and the need to cash more.
When WoW was released, the Devs clearly stated that there would never be any paid extras to migrate, change class, change race, etc. Then Burning Crusade came, WoW was reset, and all previously existing content was nullified and underrated. At the initial Devs started to move on... and Blizzard was acquired by Activision... and more Devs moved on.
The game is pretty dead since the second extension and most of the initial Devs left an empty shell Blizzard.
How is close to 8 million subscribers dead? If that's the case then nearly every other game is wasteland. The majority of the developers still remain. They've just expanded so it feels like they don't exist. Blizzard also funnels community feedback through a few individuals instead of the developers talking 1 on 1 with subscribers.
Blizzard did remove a lot of the stale time wasting grinds. They served no purpose other than to waste time . Good riddance I say. I had enough of those in my 5 years of EQ. When you look at the big picture the game itself has changed but the core is still there. FYI: Activision has no affect on Blizzard's decisions. They are separate entities who were formerly owned by Vivendi.
Dear WoW players. Do you remember when the DKs came to be? And how everyone was moaning how, by definition, everyone who had no idea what to do seemed to play a DK?
The reason was simply that DKs started out at level 55. These people did not, like everyone else, start out small with a handful of skills, then get a few new ones every couple levels, with plenty of time to get to know them and get comfortable with them. No, they got everything dumped on their head at once with almost no time to find out what to do and how to play because, well, how would they?
Remember those raids in BRD (for the non-players, that's the first place where those DKs would get to play with the other kids in earnest) were a bit like, as a well known person put it, "a toddler driving a Leopard II tank with a faulty differential lock into a bicycle race of bi-polars"? They had no, zero, zilch, idea how to play their character.
And now, kids, it's like that all over again. Only much, much WORSE. Remember those moans you breathed whenever someone acted like he had no idea what to do, the comment "fuck, did you buy your char on EBay?" in chat? What used to be mostly unlikely will now be very likely: Someone dropped some coin to get a char they have no idea how to play with.
The group finder just got much, much more fun. To watch. Certainly not to play.
I remember playing with my 3 friends in my guild. The ones who actually read what their abilities were and researched a bit on the popular websites. Yeah, they were pro. It doesn't matter how much hand holding you give someone. If they are bad they will continue to be bad. All the resources are available and yet we still have tons of terrible players.
Everyone wanting to emulate WoW's success has absolutely destroyed PC gaming. Watered down content and gameplay that is engineered to be inordinately time consuming? No thanks.
Don't you mean WoW brought a new level of quality to PC gaming? There's so many garbage games out there released early, buggy, completely broken, etc with patches coming months later. WoW decimated those shitty companies by opening our eyes to a game that worked.
Paying your way into accomplishing some of the in-game goals without putting any effort into it sounds like pay to win to me. There is no rule that says you have to win the UltimateGoalOfTheGame (tm) to qualify.
Leveling to max level isn't an accomplishment. You can level any character while watching Gilligan's Island reruns the whole time. Players who believe it's an accomplishment are those who wasted hours of their lives leveling multiple characters before this service was announced.
I played World of Warcraft on and off for a few years. I was a pretty hardcore player from the launch of Burning Crusade through to near the end of Lich King and came back casual for a while for late Cataclysm and early Pandaria. I know the game pretty well and have friends who still play it.
So I can say with confidence that you would be absolutely mad to pay for a boost up to level 90 with prices like that (and if you are a new player, mad to pay at all).
There are two types of people now who might be starting out at level 1; new (or returning-after-a-gap-of-years) players starting their first characters, or veterans levelling an "alt" (a secondary - or indeed tertiary or beyond - character).
If you are a new player, then going through the level-up process is important and you should not skip it. First of all, this is where you learn how to play your character. Most end-game content involves group-play and if you have a brand new player at the level cap staring at a hotbar full of unfamiliar abilities, it will be a long time before you are actually competent enough to play alongside others. The level-up process, during which you are introduced to abilities one or two at a time, takes you at least part of the way along that learning curve for your character. It also exposes you to a lot of the game's lore, if that's your bag (I always found WoW's lore a bit boring and juvenile, but some people like it).
And if you're a veteran player, then there are lots and lots of things you can do to accelerate the level-up process for an alt without handing over real-money. I levelled up three alts while never taking them out of "rested" state (meaning they were getting double xp from kills). Heirlooms allow you to boost the rate of xp gain even faster, to the point where 1-80, by the launch of Pandaria, was just stupidly fast. I doubt even a brand new character takes over 100 hours of game time (or indeed, anything like it). Alts certainly take much less.
So yeah, I can't imagine Blizzard would have too many takers for this. Or at least, I hope they won't.
You learn very little in the leveling up process in today's game. People who say otherwise are stubborn and believe you should suffer the slow process like they did in 2004. Once you hit max level everything changes. There's guides, macros, priority lists, addons, etc that allow you to learn your class quickly and efficiently. Yet WoW still has tons of bad players. So forcing someone to spend extra "wasted" time leveling isn't going to fix them.
flip side: never played WoW, and I have no interest in trying because so many people have been doing it for so long that I'm pretty sure I would flounder about for a year getting killed all the time and called nooby nooby noob noob. This new way I could pay $60 and at least get my foot in the door. Much more tempting.
Your first time through would probably be better suited without using the boost. This will give you a feel for the game itself. The character on the other hand changes completely at max level so learning to play from 1-90 doesn't have much benefit.
This is like if baseball has responded to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal (players paid to throw the World Series) by simply selling the World Series trophy to the highest bidder each year. (Yankees jokes aside.) Does that fix the corruption, sure. Does it save the sport, no. "Pay To Win" is the opposite of a game, it is just normal life.
Pay to win would indicate that you are given an advantage over other players. You have no advantage at 90. You're still responsible for learning how to play and acquiring gear. There's not a single thing in WoW you can purchase for real money that will give you a competitive advantage over another player.
play the game and achieve all those things glaringly pointless.
There is no "achievement" in WoW. If you want a game that involves skill rather than "pay to win", learn to play Chess or Go or any of a number of other things. You cannot pay $60 and suddenly become a master level, because it requires learned skill.
Play the game because you enjoy playing the game. If people are willing to pay $60 to not play the game, it's not a very good sign of the game being any fun. But someone ELSE paying $60 to not play the game, does not remove YOUR ability to play the game if you actually do enjoy it.
Bzzt. After you've leveled your 4th, 5th, 6th, etc character the content you experience while leveling is old. It's awesome the first and second time but it becomes dull after that because it's nothing new. Thus the boost, the heirlooms for extra experience and recruit a friend.
There's also the returning player. You come back after 4 years because your friends have talked you into the playing again. Oh no, you're stuck at level 30. Now you have to spend 2 weeks leveling before being able to play with your friends. Most people will be like screw this and quit or decide not to come back at all. A boost to 90 gives an incentive to return.
Keep in mind you still have 10 levels to go once this service is enabled because 100 will be the new cap.
One way is to spend some thought and create content that can be played on numerous levels and with group OR solo play.
Absolutely true! Mentoring and Sidekicks aren't the only option. Some games have also created "mercenaries" that allow you to play dungeon content with NPCs that act as your party. Though, the problem with that is that you are still playing a massively multi-player game solo, which kind of seems pointless (given there are better single player games).
I'm still a fan of mentoring though. They could have created a "Legacy Dungeon" mode (with some incentive) for higher level characters that would mix them (artificially de-leveled temporarily) with lower level players (friends or random) that are still leveling up. Give both something to do.
Well there are many possible ways to deal with it, but they seemed to have taken the monetize it solution.
At the end of the day you still need to level your character for max level content. Most mentoring systems didn't grant you spells or abilities that the max level character had. Only the stats. So you would be completely broken when it comes to doing true endgame content in a system like this.
Thus the reason for buying a boost.
The second amendment if the Gov't becomes so far out of touch that it uses drones and energy weapons against it's own citizens without just cause. Pretty easy decision considering how effective guerrilla tactics are against our military.
Seen the Snowden character assassination even here on Slashdot. "Look at that traitor with the dodgy face, not the highly unconstitutional government surveillance program which basically takes a huge dump over your privacy rights!"
Not that it would do much good here, but God bless 'em for tryin'!
How exactly is it unconstitutional? Because you believe it is? Laws written 100+ years ago do not cover new technology and monitoring. New laws need to be created and currently the NSA, FBI and CIA have been given permission to conduct surveillance. It's been going on for 50 years...
You give up most of your privacy by connecting online. You are leaving your house electronically. Want privacy? Encrypt.
The Red Paint was, likely, what the navy calls Red Lead. It's a lead-based primer used on ship to protect against corrosion. Perfect for stopping alpha and beta particles. The white paint is also, likely, lead-based but suitable as a base for regular paint.
I just wish they would use lead-based paint when painting the lines on roads...the new, non-lead stuff wears off too quickly. But, the eco-folks would probably have a bear (not literally).
We have to protect the children who crawl onto highways and eat the paint off the roads.
While there is non human fluctuation in CO2, currently humans put out for 32 Gigatonnes of CO2 per year. Far exceeding the amount can go through the carbon cycle in a year.
CO2 traps IR.
Clearly, the current rising trend is due to humans.
Without the excess CO2 we have been emiting, we would not be experiencing the current temperature rise.
This is why we need to napalm China and India. We'll enter an Ice Age nearly overnight.
Yeah, fine her $100 and call it a day. I mean, after all, she already watched Monster-in-Law. Hasn't she suffered enough?
Most of those videos cost in the range of $10 - $25,000 dollars. Blu rays for Netflix can cost their company $100k each. Because the lifetime of the media can be re-used the initial overhead is fairly big.
If people let enough methane escape to change the climate, it would be a short term disaster and teaching opportunity. It seems better than releasing enough CO2 to get the same change in temperature, because with CO2 the the effect would last so much longer.
If we limited reproduction of humans or wiped a 3rd world country off the planet we'd also significantly reduce CO2 being released as well. We're creating the problem by just living which is far worse than oil companies do.
Also temperature change? Have you looked at the weather lately? Global Warming is in full effect here in Minnesota.
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Bitch is often applied to males as well. For example: Male or female, you are a bitch.
Which means you're acting like a woman. How is that not sexist also? :)
American Journalism sucks because rather than being unbiased, they have an agenda to promote. This is why nation wide targeting of certain groups by the IRS, or NSA spying on Americans is less important than a lane closure on a NJ bridge.
And why is Lois Learner talking to DOJ investigators (not taking the 5th) while taking the 5th in front of congress.
How do you we know this Japanese man isn't lying? 3 weeks ago you would have been a genius if you were the creator of Bitcoin. Remember this article was in progress for 2 months. As of this week you're a complete idiot and borderline scandalous if you invented Bitcoin.
Denials are easy to make
I almost puke this morning when I heard over BBC's news interviewing that female reporter from Newsweek.
She seems to be enjoying basking in her 15-second fame - and during the interview, she actually said that her action on "revealing the true identity of the founder of bitcoin" is not wrong, as it would not harm that Japanese guy in anyway.
We all know that journalism in America sucks, and this is one heck of a prime example how sucks American journalism can be.
As opposed to journalism in other countries which completely censor any bad news as propaganda?
Microsoft's list of reasons to upgrade include:
* Designed with the new mobile lifestyle in mind * More background designs and colors * Enhanced Bing search * A beautifully redesigned store. * Deep cloud integration with OneDrive.
With reasons like that I can't imagine why XP users aren't rushing out to drop $500 on a new PC, $100 on a new monitor and another $300 on a new printer/scanner then replacing/reinstalling all their software and trying to get everything working like it already was...
Uhh. How about the OS is 14 years old, has become deprecated and is no longer optimized for newer hardware. Those are good reasons. Apple and Linux EOL their OS's in 3 years or less. Microsoft does it after 14 (started after 9) and yet people like you still think it's stupid. You can get a solid pc package with printer/monitor for under $500.
This is a Man-in-the-Middle if the end-user is not notified of it.
It's probably covered in the Corporate Security Policy which the original poster failed to read. Most people don't bother to read these things just like an EULA and then get pissed when they realize what's happening. See NSA.
Yet... Now is probably a good time to start a Flexcoin exchange which you can then "rob" and shut down in a years time for some easy $500,000.
For all we know Flexcoin themselves could be the culprits. Get all this money, shutdown, say you were hacked and sell off the bitcoins. The whole damn thing is just a electronic ponzi scheme.
Don't they need a reason to deny it?
Of course if they deny it he may end up suing the USPTO again. So instead they do nothing.
I have no idea where this fascination of making windows boot 5 seconds faster and load up paint lighting fast comes into play, its often weeks if not months between times I reboot, and its all my space hungry big ass applications that are slow, not calculator
When you're doing presentations for customers you want your laptop to bootup fast. You want your reads in your applications to zoom because you're attempting to replicate a server class application on a desktop/laptop pc. There's all kinds of other examples but if you reboot every 3 weeks you could probably use a 4 year old machine. You're not utilizing it's potential.
NSA brought gchq in on. This because the y couldn't do it themselves (5th amendment etc.). So they have gchq do the dirty work and then gchq shares the intelligence. Welcome to the new USA.
The GCHQ has been violating personal freedoms far longer than the NSA. It's just accepted on your half of the pond.
Blizzard didn't listen to its customers. It listened to Bob Kotick and the need to cash more. When WoW was released, the Devs clearly stated that there would never be any paid extras to migrate, change class, change race, etc. Then Burning Crusade came, WoW was reset, and all previously existing content was nullified and underrated. At the initial Devs started to move on... and Blizzard was acquired by Activision... and more Devs moved on. The game is pretty dead since the second extension and most of the initial Devs left an empty shell Blizzard.
How is close to 8 million subscribers dead? If that's the case then nearly every other game is wasteland. The majority of the developers still remain. They've just expanded so it feels like they don't exist. Blizzard also funnels community feedback through a few individuals instead of the developers talking 1 on 1 with subscribers. Blizzard did remove a lot of the stale time wasting grinds. They served no purpose other than to waste time . Good riddance I say. I had enough of those in my 5 years of EQ. When you look at the big picture the game itself has changed but the core is still there. FYI: Activision has no affect on Blizzard's decisions. They are separate entities who were formerly owned by Vivendi.
Dear WoW players. Do you remember when the DKs came to be? And how everyone was moaning how, by definition, everyone who had no idea what to do seemed to play a DK?
The reason was simply that DKs started out at level 55. These people did not, like everyone else, start out small with a handful of skills, then get a few new ones every couple levels, with plenty of time to get to know them and get comfortable with them. No, they got everything dumped on their head at once with almost no time to find out what to do and how to play because, well, how would they?
Remember those raids in BRD (for the non-players, that's the first place where those DKs would get to play with the other kids in earnest) were a bit like, as a well known person put it, "a toddler driving a Leopard II tank with a faulty differential lock into a bicycle race of bi-polars"? They had no, zero, zilch, idea how to play their character.
And now, kids, it's like that all over again. Only much, much WORSE. Remember those moans you breathed whenever someone acted like he had no idea what to do, the comment "fuck, did you buy your char on EBay?" in chat? What used to be mostly unlikely will now be very likely: Someone dropped some coin to get a char they have no idea how to play with.
The group finder just got much, much more fun. To watch. Certainly not to play.
I remember playing with my 3 friends in my guild. The ones who actually read what their abilities were and researched a bit on the popular websites. Yeah, they were pro. It doesn't matter how much hand holding you give someone. If they are bad they will continue to be bad. All the resources are available and yet we still have tons of terrible players.
Everyone wanting to emulate WoW's success has absolutely destroyed PC gaming. Watered down content and gameplay that is engineered to be inordinately time consuming? No thanks.
Don't you mean WoW brought a new level of quality to PC gaming? There's so many garbage games out there released early, buggy, completely broken, etc with patches coming months later. WoW decimated those shitty companies by opening our eyes to a game that worked.
Paying your way into accomplishing some of the in-game goals without putting any effort into it sounds like pay to win to me. There is no rule that says you have to win the UltimateGoalOfTheGame (tm) to qualify.
Leveling to max level isn't an accomplishment. You can level any character while watching Gilligan's Island reruns the whole time. Players who believe it's an accomplishment are those who wasted hours of their lives leveling multiple characters before this service was announced.
I played World of Warcraft on and off for a few years. I was a pretty hardcore player from the launch of Burning Crusade through to near the end of Lich King and came back casual for a while for late Cataclysm and early Pandaria. I know the game pretty well and have friends who still play it.
So I can say with confidence that you would be absolutely mad to pay for a boost up to level 90 with prices like that (and if you are a new player, mad to pay at all).
There are two types of people now who might be starting out at level 1; new (or returning-after-a-gap-of-years) players starting their first characters, or veterans levelling an "alt" (a secondary - or indeed tertiary or beyond - character).
If you are a new player, then going through the level-up process is important and you should not skip it. First of all, this is where you learn how to play your character. Most end-game content involves group-play and if you have a brand new player at the level cap staring at a hotbar full of unfamiliar abilities, it will be a long time before you are actually competent enough to play alongside others. The level-up process, during which you are introduced to abilities one or two at a time, takes you at least part of the way along that learning curve for your character. It also exposes you to a lot of the game's lore, if that's your bag (I always found WoW's lore a bit boring and juvenile, but some people like it).
And if you're a veteran player, then there are lots and lots of things you can do to accelerate the level-up process for an alt without handing over real-money. I levelled up three alts while never taking them out of "rested" state (meaning they were getting double xp from kills). Heirlooms allow you to boost the rate of xp gain even faster, to the point where 1-80, by the launch of Pandaria, was just stupidly fast. I doubt even a brand new character takes over 100 hours of game time (or indeed, anything like it). Alts certainly take much less.
So yeah, I can't imagine Blizzard would have too many takers for this. Or at least, I hope they won't.
You learn very little in the leveling up process in today's game. People who say otherwise are stubborn and believe you should suffer the slow process like they did in 2004. Once you hit max level everything changes. There's guides, macros, priority lists, addons, etc that allow you to learn your class quickly and efficiently. Yet WoW still has tons of bad players. So forcing someone to spend extra "wasted" time leveling isn't going to fix them.
flip side: never played WoW, and I have no interest in trying because so many people have been doing it for so long that I'm pretty sure I would flounder about for a year getting killed all the time and called nooby nooby noob noob. This new way I could pay $60 and at least get my foot in the door. Much more tempting.
Your first time through would probably be better suited without using the boost. This will give you a feel for the game itself. The character on the other hand changes completely at max level so learning to play from 1-90 doesn't have much benefit.
This is like if baseball has responded to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal (players paid to throw the World Series) by simply selling the World Series trophy to the highest bidder each year. (Yankees jokes aside.) Does that fix the corruption, sure. Does it save the sport, no. "Pay To Win" is the opposite of a game, it is just normal life.
Pay to win would indicate that you are given an advantage over other players. You have no advantage at 90. You're still responsible for learning how to play and acquiring gear. There's not a single thing in WoW you can purchase for real money that will give you a competitive advantage over another player.
play the game and achieve all those things glaringly pointless.
There is no "achievement" in WoW. If you want a game that involves skill rather than "pay to win", learn to play Chess or Go or any of a number of other things. You cannot pay $60 and suddenly become a master level, because it requires learned skill.
Play the game because you enjoy playing the game. If people are willing to pay $60 to not play the game, it's not a very good sign of the game being any fun. But someone ELSE paying $60 to not play the game, does not remove YOUR ability to play the game if you actually do enjoy it.
Bzzt. After you've leveled your 4th, 5th, 6th, etc character the content you experience while leveling is old. It's awesome the first and second time but it becomes dull after that because it's nothing new. Thus the boost, the heirlooms for extra experience and recruit a friend. There's also the returning player. You come back after 4 years because your friends have talked you into the playing again. Oh no, you're stuck at level 30. Now you have to spend 2 weeks leveling before being able to play with your friends. Most people will be like screw this and quit or decide not to come back at all. A boost to 90 gives an incentive to return. Keep in mind you still have 10 levels to go once this service is enabled because 100 will be the new cap.
One way is to spend some thought and create content that can be played on numerous levels and with group OR solo play.
Absolutely true! Mentoring and Sidekicks aren't the only option. Some games have also created "mercenaries" that allow you to play dungeon content with NPCs that act as your party. Though, the problem with that is that you are still playing a massively multi-player game solo, which kind of seems pointless (given there are better single player games).
I'm still a fan of mentoring though. They could have created a "Legacy Dungeon" mode (with some incentive) for higher level characters that would mix them (artificially de-leveled temporarily) with lower level players (friends or random) that are still leveling up. Give both something to do.
Well there are many possible ways to deal with it, but they seemed to have taken the monetize it solution.
At the end of the day you still need to level your character for max level content. Most mentoring systems didn't grant you spells or abilities that the max level character had. Only the stats. So you would be completely broken when it comes to doing true endgame content in a system like this. Thus the reason for buying a boost.
Venezuela is a hole. Democracy may not be the best solution but what they've been doing for the last 14 years isn't working either.
The second amendment if the Gov't becomes so far out of touch that it uses drones and energy weapons against it's own citizens without just cause. Pretty easy decision considering how effective guerrilla tactics are against our military.
Proof or get out.
Seen the Snowden character assassination even here on Slashdot. "Look at that traitor with the dodgy face, not the highly unconstitutional government surveillance program which basically takes a huge dump over your privacy rights!"
Not that it would do much good here, but God bless 'em for tryin'!
How exactly is it unconstitutional? Because you believe it is? Laws written 100+ years ago do not cover new technology and monitoring. New laws need to be created and currently the NSA, FBI and CIA have been given permission to conduct surveillance. It's been going on for 50 years... You give up most of your privacy by connecting online. You are leaving your house electronically. Want privacy? Encrypt.
The Red Paint was, likely, what the navy calls Red Lead. It's a lead-based primer used on ship to protect against corrosion. Perfect for stopping alpha and beta particles. The white paint is also, likely, lead-based but suitable as a base for regular paint.
I just wish they would use lead-based paint when painting the lines on roads...the new, non-lead stuff wears off too quickly. But, the eco-folks would probably have a bear (not literally).
We have to protect the children who crawl onto highways and eat the paint off the roads.
While there is non human fluctuation in CO2, currently humans put out for 32 Gigatonnes of CO2 per year. Far exceeding the amount can go through the carbon cycle in a year. CO2 traps IR. Clearly, the current rising trend is due to humans. Without the excess CO2 we have been emiting, we would not be experiencing the current temperature rise.
This is why we need to napalm China and India. We'll enter an Ice Age nearly overnight.
Yeah, fine her $100 and call it a day. I mean, after all, she already watched Monster-in-Law. Hasn't she suffered enough?
Most of those videos cost in the range of $10 - $25,000 dollars. Blu rays for Netflix can cost their company $100k each. Because the lifetime of the media can be re-used the initial overhead is fairly big.
If people let enough methane escape to change the climate, it would be a short term disaster and teaching opportunity. It seems better than releasing enough CO2 to get the same change in temperature, because with CO2 the the effect would last so much longer.
If we limited reproduction of humans or wiped a 3rd world country off the planet we'd also significantly reduce CO2 being released as well. We're creating the problem by just living which is far worse than oil companies do. Also temperature change? Have you looked at the weather lately? Global Warming is in full effect here in Minnesota.