Most of these articles are about droughts that were actually occurring at the time they were reported. Way to defeat your own argument.
And which are no longer droughts today. That weather is cyclic does NOT disprove that carbon is a long-term problem we need to address; it disproves the idea that climate change is an unstoppable apocalypse that will do God's work of eliminating humanity.
Smallpox and starvation were long-term problems once. Then we put applied science to work.
I'm old enough to remember Comdex, the town's all-IT ultimate nerdfest. Vegas loved Comdex because it filled every single hotel room, but at the same time hated it because it meant a full week when the tables were deserted and the girls went lonely. But it did bring a large contingent of Asian slot players.
No form of looking through something at the sun is safe, so always use projection.
Rummage through your pile of Amazon boxes for a long skinny one. Cut a hole in the center of one end, and then tape a piece of aluminum foil over the hole to cover it completely. Make the smallest possible pinhole in the foil, to project the sun onto the other end of the carton. Cut a sheet of white paper to fit flat inside the end where the image is projected.
On eclipse day, all you need to do is go for beer and select a virgin for sacrifice.
There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:
You have to admit that this new ability to edit human genes does have the potential to be used in some pretty damned creepy and dangerous ways. Couple that with human nature and you're almost assured it will be, at some point.
But if we refuse to use it for good, we're not putting the GMO toothpaste back in the tube. We would be leaving the field wide open for North Korea and ISIS.
Having a PhD doesn't magically turn you into someone who's *not* petty, childish, ignorant, and completely willing to attack someone's work out of personal animus or a desire to punish thoughtcrime.
That's why peer reviews have to show and sign their work, as well as being in the same discipline as the reviewed paper. But there is no reason this process cannot take place on cheap public websites (not those 'open access' sites where reading is free but posting a paper costs thousands). Those are run by traditional publishers in a last-ditch attempt to keep their model afloat.
The fact that there's a finite number of coins lead to a gold rush and speculation bubbles instead of a stable growth,
How would a cryptocurrency work without a limit on the number of units in circulation? Real currencies are managed by central banks, whose job it is to maintain a reasonable ratio of unit value to what the currency trades for. Private currencies work only if the unit is expressed as a specific tradable commodity, like gold, and because cryptocurrencies are not externally managed at all, they work only if the money supply is algorithmically limited.
Real currencies are ideally managed to grow at the same rate that the country's economy as a whole grows (zero flation). This is really difficult to achieve in practice. Most currencies grow faster than the underlying, because that's politically the easy way out, causing them to inflate (it keeps taking more units to buy a loaf of bread). A few currencies, like the Swiss franc, grow more slowly than the economy (bread keeps getting "cheaper," or deflation). This is what is happening with BTC.
Eutrophication actually being reported is being caused by fertilizer runoff, not additional rain. Early predictions of climate change forecast drought everywhere. Now we're worrying about excess rain. Are liberals incapable of reporting good news?
Like that's still not an obvious conflict of interest. Apple does morally owe the UW inventors something for their IP, but this judge failing to recuse is going to cost them at appeal. Apple's legal defense fund has the same mass as the core of Pallas.
You think that's bad? There's this web site called Slashdot, with grim, dark green banners on every posting and rounded corners on all rectangles, straight out of 1984.
Which - so long as you stick to the standard version - still loads fast on all platforms because it isn't weighed down by gigabytes of scripting. No having to choose the one browser on each machine or device that supports the scripting system the site uses. No rococo monstrosities like LiveFyre commenting or 'endless' pages.
"Women won't have sex with me" is the kind of complaint you get from one man whose whole demeanor doubtless radiates low sperm count. "All sex is rape," on the other hand, is the war cry of a whole class of academic women whose goal seems to be to drive men off campus.
A combination of obesity in men (besides not being able to spell) and the most highly educated women, those in academia, hating men. This is turning into a rocket ride to Idiocracy.
What hipsters are whining about right at the moment is how the vinyl turntables they are buying today fall short of their their memories of high-end Seventies hardware. You would think that they could now make their own, better, Arduino-based turntable. But no.
Slashdot Mirror
So they won't have to worry about the GMO flowers turning them into autistic zombies.
The Japanese do eat chrysanthemums, so since this was their idea clearly they don't have a problem either.
Shame on you Apple, you and your planned obsolescence.
So that's why the sleeves on my Apple costume are always too short?
Yet no one has come up with an Indian specific IQ test?
Yes they have. It's administered over the phone.
Apparently Laurene has decided to skip buying a freaking island and is buying a freaking ocean instead.
Perhaps The Atlantic will freak less often now that she owns it.
Most of these articles are about droughts that were actually occurring at the time they were reported. Way to defeat your own argument.
And which are no longer droughts today. That weather is cyclic does NOT disprove that carbon is a long-term problem we need to address; it disproves the idea that climate change is an unstoppable apocalypse that will do God's work of eliminating humanity.
Smallpox and starvation were long-term problems once. Then we put applied science to work.
"These are a few of the usual suspects doing their typical unscientific scare mongering. "
Notice how they use their mod points as weapons.
I'm old enough to remember Comdex, the town's all-IT ultimate nerdfest. Vegas loved Comdex because it filled every single hotel room, but at the same time hated it because it meant a full week when the tables were deserted and the girls went lonely. But it did bring a large contingent of Asian slot players.
No form of looking through something at the sun is safe, so always use projection.
Rummage through your pile of Amazon boxes for a long skinny one. Cut a hole in the center of one end, and then tape a piece of aluminum foil over the hole to cover it completely. Make the smallest possible pinhole in the foil, to project the sun onto the other end of the carton. Cut a sheet of white paper to fit flat inside the end where the image is projected.
On eclipse day, all you need to do is go for beer and select a virgin for sacrifice.
There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
http://news.mit.edu/2017/clima...
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fl...
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/0...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/0...
Let's just say that if you sell stock photos of dry lake beds, you're probably a millionaire by now.
Funny thing is that the part of the world that thinks abuse and pedophilia are OK is also the part of the world that opposes genetic engineering.
You mean Hollywood and Berkeley?
"I make well above the medium family income by myself, but there is nothing reasonable about the cost of harvesting and saving those stem cells."
You're confusing cost with price.
You have to admit that this new ability to edit human genes does have the potential to be used in some pretty damned creepy and dangerous ways. Couple that with human nature and you're almost assured it will be, at some point.
But if we refuse to use it for good, we're not putting the GMO toothpaste back in the tube. We would be leaving the field wide open for North Korea and ISIS.
Need to find out how to mirror Sci-Hub before it gets taken down.
Every year or so, back up the repository to Wikileaks.
Because that works so well on Yelp.
Having a PhD doesn't magically turn you into someone who's *not* petty, childish, ignorant, and completely willing to attack someone's work out of personal animus or a desire to punish thoughtcrime.
That's why peer reviews have to show and sign their work, as well as being in the same discipline as the reviewed paper. But there is no reason this process cannot take place on cheap public websites (not those 'open access' sites where reading is free but posting a paper costs thousands). Those are run by traditional publishers in a last-ditch attempt to keep their model afloat.
The fact that there's a finite number of coins lead to a gold rush and speculation bubbles instead of a stable growth,
How would a cryptocurrency work without a limit on the number of units in circulation? Real currencies are managed by central banks, whose job it is to maintain a reasonable ratio of unit value to what the currency trades for. Private currencies work only if the unit is expressed as a specific tradable commodity, like gold, and because cryptocurrencies are not externally managed at all, they work only if the money supply is algorithmically limited.
Real currencies are ideally managed to grow at the same rate that the country's economy as a whole grows (zero flation). This is really difficult to achieve in practice. Most currencies grow faster than the underlying, because that's politically the easy way out, causing them to inflate (it keeps taking more units to buy a loaf of bread). A few currencies, like the Swiss franc, grow more slowly than the economy (bread keeps getting "cheaper," or deflation). This is what is happening with BTC.
Eutrophication actually being reported is being caused by fertilizer runoff, not additional rain. Early predictions of climate change forecast drought everywhere. Now we're worrying about excess rain. Are liberals incapable of reporting good news?
But, given the population and the cost of geriatric medicine to the economy, is extending human life that much of a good idea?
If some innovation comes along that extends life, you are perfectly free not to take it. In your case, please take advantage of this option.
But he had a moral requirement as a man to try to stop the rapes.
The patent on stopping rapists is held by the descendants of a guy named Colt.
Like that's still not an obvious conflict of interest. Apple does morally owe the UW inventors something for their IP, but this judge failing to recuse is going to cost them at appeal. Apple's legal defense fund has the same mass as the core of Pallas.
I think this may be the most irrelevant /. submission ever.
Perhaps one of the eleven or so recruits that this will affect was a nerd before joining up.
You think that's bad? There's this web site called Slashdot, with grim, dark green banners on every posting and rounded corners on all rectangles, straight out of 1984.
Which - so long as you stick to the standard version - still loads fast on all platforms because it isn't weighed down by gigabytes of scripting. No having to choose the one browser on each machine or device that supports the scripting system the site uses. No rococo monstrosities like LiveFyre commenting or 'endless' pages.
"Women won't have sex with me" is the kind of complaint you get from one man whose whole demeanor doubtless radiates low sperm count. "All sex is rape," on the other hand, is the war cry of a whole class of academic women whose goal seems to be to drive men off campus.
Obesisty?
A combination of obesity in men (besides not being able to spell) and the most highly educated women, those in academia, hating men. This is turning into a rocket ride to Idiocracy.
"Millennials have this really disgusting complexion"
Maybe, but you can't actually tell because of their tats.
What hipsters are whining about right at the moment is how the vinyl turntables they are buying today fall short of their their memories of high-end Seventies hardware. You would think that they could now make their own, better, Arduino-based turntable. But no.