That's how we need to frame this debate. It's not doom doom doom. It's what is the ideal climate for the planet, and how do we achieve and stabilize the ideal?
Otherwise, we leave oursevles to the mercy of forces which have alternatively melted Antarctica and frozen North America.
Steering by scraping the guard rails is easier than trying to hold the line, especially in the Metreon parking garage. And yes, after playing GTA, I found myself in traffic behind one of those carrier trucks they use for jump ramps.
I was playing Manhunt thinking those same thoughts. Gosh, I hope they're wrong about the link between video games and violence.
This little code snippet was useful back when they had atari and other computers on display in department stores. While mom was off shopping, I could type in a quick program that would clear the screen and print the command prompt (which is all those displays did back then). Then the first person to walk up and touch a key would be greeted with a big error message and random screen color fireworks. Yes, that would amuse me back then.
By the time I took a computer class in high school -- the old TRS80 days -- I was well into programming. I learned how to share files over the network, had a book of BASIC games, and we basically turned the class into a video game workshop. We turned out spoofed and modified games like Asterisk Blasters, Catholic School Girl Invaders, and Are You Stupid (an Interactive Quiz Game).
The modern equivalent would probably be this: have the child set up a web server and add progressively more sophisticated features: a blog, Java applets, sessions, database, etc.
"There has never been proposed or discussed a ban on stem cell research in the US."
Wrong. The administration is busy pushing a ban by international treaty, as a rider on the UN cloning treaty. Such a ban has no chance of passing, so the only effect is to scuttle any international cloning treaty. It may be intentional, so Bush can tell his supporters he is "pro-life" when he only pushes measures guaranteed to fail, but to say there is no proposed ban is misleading and false.
Absolutely right that Kyoto does not solve the problem. The first global trade agreement did not form the WTO. It is a first step on a thousand mile journey. If you're going to refuse to take that first step because you think it's going to stop there, or if you're going to wait for a measure that does everything at once, forget it. Head in sand.
And what of people who claim the science is not conclusive yet? When UCS and others claim it is? What happens if the scientists are right and the earth warms up killing polar bears and half of all life on earth? Will the global warming deniers then blame the scientists for not being conclusive enough?
"Kerry tried to attach a caveat to that, namely that he voted for the authorization so that Bush could back up his threats of military power, but Kerry didn't want Bush to actually use it. In a nutshell, he said that he wanted the threat of military force to be a bluff"
And Bush at the time said he wante authorization to use force so that he wouldn't have to. Check the record!
"Economist has no respect for Kerry either. To use their word, they recognize that his vacillations lose a lot of respect."
And Bush's "steadfastness" has our respect in the free world at 15%.
"The media is claiming that we're losing the peace. However, they said that about Afghanistain in 2002. They said that about France and Germany in 1946."
And they said that about Vietnam in 1968.
"Furthermore, the actual troops in Iraq support Bush's plan to Kerry's, by a fairly large margin."
Just like Vietnam. You think a soldier in a military outfit has the "big picture" view? Then why have civilian control over the military? Who decided not to let them run the country?
And tell me why we have a 3 year recovery from a 6 month recession. If Bush wins, I see one advantage: he won't be able to blame anyone else anymore for his failures.
And trust me, if Clinton had the same record over the past 4 years, Republicans would be calling for impeachment. They did it for less.
When Bush says "Check the record," he knows darn well nobody ever does.
The Day After Tomorrow was crap. But there is no way to make an interesting movie about the real effects of climate change. Scuba trip to New Orleans? Florida an uninhabited storm-buffer? California coastline moved twenty miles east? Children learning about Venice in history class? A bunch of island countries we never heard of are gone? That's just not Hollywood.
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"The earth has been warming and cooling for hundreds of years."
Don't you mean thousands of years?
The Longhorns are the Devil! Gig 'em Aggies!
Yeah, like I'm going to watch a Janet Jackson half time show instead of getting more beer.
It's just a trick to get me to watch Hillary Duff next time!
Millhouse: No one who has an HDTV would say that!
Nelson: Get him!
The "Intelligent Design Theory" would suggest we have nothing to worry about. Ever.
It's all a vast right-wing conspiracy to submerge the blue states!
While I'm sure you've already recreated lost species from fossilized tree sap, the rest of us are a bit skeptical about his scientific credentials.
Was his novel peer-reviewed? Or is the scientific process just liberal propaganda now?
That's how we need to frame this debate. It's not doom doom doom. It's what is the ideal climate for the planet, and how do we achieve and stabilize the ideal?
Otherwise, we leave oursevles to the mercy of forces which have alternatively melted Antarctica and frozen North America.
You'd still have to deal with the food.
The models predict 100 years, not 700 years.
Weathermen only predict 5 days. Can a weatherman predict 5 weeks? No? Then the 5 day forecast must be a propaganda tool!
See how silly that sounds?
Do you also believe that we can revive extinct species from fossilized tree sap?
That would be a good argument against the endangered species act, wouldn't it?
Two trillion also represents the amount of new debt under the Bush administration.
So under your worst-case scenario, we could have completely paid for Kyoto with 8 years of not having Bush as president.
Online deathmatch mode would be kewl.
Steering by scraping the guard rails is easier than trying to hold the line, especially in the Metreon parking garage. And yes, after playing GTA, I found myself in traffic behind one of those carrier trucks they use for jump ramps.
I was playing Manhunt thinking those same thoughts. Gosh, I hope they're wrong about the link between video games and violence.
Someone once told me the best way to make a laser into a weapon is to put the power supply in an airplane and drop it on your enemy's head.
Simple solution. Put the laptop in the pizza box, and put the pizza box in the trash. It will be safe until the garbage man comes.
This little code snippet was useful back when they had atari and other computers on display in department stores. While mom was off shopping, I could type in a quick program that would clear the screen and print the command prompt (which is all those displays did back then). Then the first person to walk up and touch a key would be greeted with a big error message and random screen color fireworks. Yes, that would amuse me back then.
By the time I took a computer class in high school -- the old TRS80 days -- I was well into programming. I learned how to share files over the network, had a book of BASIC games, and we basically turned the class into a video game workshop. We turned out spoofed and modified games like Asterisk Blasters, Catholic School Girl Invaders, and Are You Stupid (an Interactive Quiz Game).
The modern equivalent would probably be this: have the child set up a web server and add progressively more sophisticated features: a blog, Java applets, sessions, database, etc.
How many have terrorized by viscious roving gangs of physicists?
"There has never been proposed or discussed a ban on stem cell research in the US."
Wrong. The administration is busy pushing a ban by international treaty, as a rider on the UN cloning treaty. Such a ban has no chance of passing, so the only effect is to scuttle any international cloning treaty. It may be intentional, so Bush can tell his supporters he is "pro-life" when he only pushes measures guaranteed to fail, but to say there is no proposed ban is misleading and false.
Absolutely right that Kyoto does not solve the problem. The first global trade agreement did not form the WTO. It is a first step on a thousand mile journey. If you're going to refuse to take that first step because you think it's going to stop there, or if you're going to wait for a measure that does everything at once, forget it. Head in sand.
And what of people who claim the science is not conclusive yet? When UCS and others claim it is? What happens if the scientists are right and the earth warms up killing polar bears and half of all life on earth? Will the global warming deniers then blame the scientists for not being conclusive enough?
"Kerry tried to attach a caveat to that, namely that he voted for the authorization so that Bush could back up his threats of military power, but Kerry didn't want Bush to actually use it. In a nutshell, he said that he wanted the threat of military force to be a bluff"
And Bush at the time said he wante authorization to use force so that he wouldn't have to. Check the record!
"Economist has no respect for Kerry either. To use their word, they recognize that his vacillations lose a lot of respect."
And Bush's "steadfastness" has our respect in the free world at 15%.
"The media is claiming that we're losing the peace. However, they said that about Afghanistain in 2002. They said that about France and Germany in 1946."
And they said that about Vietnam in 1968.
"Furthermore, the actual troops in Iraq support Bush's plan to Kerry's, by a fairly large margin."
Just like Vietnam. You think a soldier in a military outfit has the "big picture" view? Then why have civilian control over the military? Who decided not to let them run the country?
And tell me why we have a 3 year recovery from a 6 month recession. If Bush wins, I see one advantage: he won't be able to blame anyone else anymore for his failures.
And trust me, if Clinton had the same record over the past 4 years, Republicans would be calling for impeachment. They did it for less.
When Bush says "Check the record," he knows darn well nobody ever does.
No, but Jar Jar follows the characters around in every scene, to add colorful commentary that the kids just love. Movie magic!
"If SENATOR Kerry doesn't agree with Bush, why doesn't he introduce bills to try to change things?"
You mean like introduce a bill to prevent the president from acting stupidly? I'd like to see that.
SB1209 requires by law the president exercise his constitutional powers intelligently, and take english lessons.
The Day After Tomorrow was crap. But there is no way to make an interesting movie about the real effects of climate change. Scuba trip to New Orleans? Florida an uninhabited storm-buffer? California coastline moved twenty miles east? Children learning about Venice in history class? A bunch of island countries we never heard of are gone? That's just not Hollywood.