There really hasn't been any significant warming for about 13 years
You are disingenuous at best. The global temperatures are quite noisy compared to the trend, so it's hard to find anyperiod of 13 years where you find a statistically significant trend, either up or down.
If you look at the trend, though, there's no reason to assume the last 13 years are different from the years before that. This article has some nice graphs to show that point:
He is suggesting 99% of drunk drivers bought it to liquor companies
Which isn't true, since a lot of drunk drivers get cheap beer from the super market, or get drunk at a bar.
Even if it were true, it's not all that relevant. You should look at how much of the business of liquor stores doesn't result in drunk driving. You'll find that it's quite a bit, so shutting down liquor stores would harm quite a few legitimate and responsible users of alcoholic beverages.
On the other hand, there's a barely anyone using Usenet binary groups for legitimate purposes, and the few people who do can easily move to a HTTP/FTP server or host a torrent.
There are some small differences though. The ice is mostly fresh water, and the surrounding seas contain salt. The melting will cause a small, net rise in sea level. This is a very small effect, though.
Also, the local gravity field from the ice pulls the surrounding sea water closer to the pole. If the pole loses mass, the water will spread out more.
Not splitting hairs at all. Despite what you may think, it's pretty easy to make a filter that detects binary content, and it doesn't involve checking all the world's dictionaries.
"Yes, man is causing some of this, but there may be other forces we don't understand"
There's nothing wrong with that, but of course, it's very vague. You'll need some probabilities. According to scientific consensus, the chance that man is predominantly responsible is >95%.
If you have reason to believe this chance is much lower, you'll need to come up with some solid numbers. If you can't provide them, don't blame people for labeling you irrational.
Spring snow melting has nothing to do with this though. It's a frozen sheet of ice, slowly sliding into the ocean, and when it's gets too big and thin, a piece breaks off. The last time this happened was in 2001.
Global warming, and local climate change. Past winters were actually warmer than usual, even though people remember them as cold. That's because they only look in their back yard, and not at the world as a whole.
Past winter, it was warm in South America, North Africa, the Middle East, and it was exceptionally warm in the Arctic. All averaged out over the whole world, including oceans, it was +0.43 degree Celsius warmer than the 1951-1980 baseline.
The winter of 2009-2010 was even warmer, at +0.68 deg C, even though the US and Europe were below average.
The end of the glacier is much thinner than the average antarctic ice sheet, and it's already floating in the water, still attached to the glacier. If it breaks off, it's not going to raise water levels any more.
A popular theory says that the thinner ozone layer has increased the polar vortex winds. The vortex acts as a barrier to block warmer air from the rest of the planet.
No idea. Virtually nobody does that anymore. Before internet banking was popular, the banks would issue books of transfer slips. You'd fill one in with amount, account number and name of beneficiary, sign it, and send it to your own bank. The bank would then transfer the money directly in the other account. This used to be free, and you could pick up free envelopes at the bank office that didn't require postage. I think they still have those for people without internet/internet skills, but I'm not sure.
The last time I used one of those was 20 years ago. After that, they introduced banking by dial up modem (directly to the bank), and then internet banking.
Well, I only use the credit card for places where they don't accept debit cards, which is mostly for foreign on-line purchases, hotel bookings, car rentals, plane tickets and that kind of stuff.
For regular purchases in stores, I always use my debit card, or cash.
That sounds silly. My friends just log in to their bank's web site, type in my name, my account number, and the amount they wish to deposit, plus a short personal message. They then confirm the transaction with a security token, and 1 second later, the money pops up into my account. I can log into my bank's web site, and see the transfer, including their name, account number, and the short message they sent me.
Now, if for some reason, somebody wants to send me money but don't have internet access, they can go to their bank, and have them transfer the money into my account.
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If you make your message look exactly like regular text, how is your target audience going to find all the parts ?
And, if you want to encode a 700 MB CD, how are you going to post thousands of little messages in a short time without getting kicked off the server ?
You are disingenuous at best. The global temperatures are quite noisy compared to the trend, so it's hard to find anyperiod of 13 years where you find a statistically significant trend, either up or down.
If you look at the trend, though, there's no reason to assume the last 13 years are different from the years before that. This article has some nice graphs to show that point:
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/the-real-problem-with-the-global-warming-debate/#comments
Which isn't true, since a lot of drunk drivers get cheap beer from the super market, or get drunk at a bar.
Even if it were true, it's not all that relevant. You should look at how much of the business of liquor stores doesn't result in drunk driving. You'll find that it's quite a bit, so shutting down liquor stores would harm quite a few legitimate and responsible users of alcoholic beverages.
On the other hand, there's a barely anyone using Usenet binary groups for legitimate purposes, and the few people who do can easily move to a HTTP/FTP server or host a torrent.
There are some small differences though. The ice is mostly fresh water, and the surrounding seas contain salt. The melting will cause a small, net rise in sea level. This is a very small effect, though.
Also, the local gravity field from the ice pulls the surrounding sea water closer to the pole. If the pole loses mass, the water will spread out more.
Not splitting hairs at all. Despite what you may think, it's pretty easy to make a filter that detects binary content, and it doesn't involve checking all the world's dictionaries.
Some simple rules and patterns will do fine.
The period 1920-1950 was about 0.1 deg C less than 1950-1980, so all the numbers would go up by that amount. Why ?
No. What's your point ?
Are you suggesting 99% of all liquor is consumed by drunk drivers ? If so, I'd like to see your references. If not, your analogy doesn't make sense.
It's relatively easy to block binaries in the discussion groups, though.
If 99% of the "free communication" consists of pirated material, it makes sense to hold the storage/service providers liable.
There's nothing wrong with that, but of course, it's very vague. You'll need some probabilities. According to scientific consensus, the chance that man is predominantly responsible is >95%.
If you have reason to believe this chance is much lower, you'll need to come up with some solid numbers. If you can't provide them, don't blame people for labeling you irrational.
Spring snow melting has nothing to do with this though. It's a frozen sheet of ice, slowly sliding into the ocean, and when it's gets too big and thin, a piece breaks off. The last time this happened was in 2001.
Global warming, and local climate change. Past winters were actually warmer than usual, even though people remember them as cold. That's because they only look in their back yard, and not at the world as a whole.
Past winter, it was warm in South America, North Africa, the Middle East, and it was exceptionally warm in the Arctic. All averaged out over the whole world, including oceans, it was +0.43 degree Celsius warmer than the 1951-1980 baseline.
The winter of 2009-2010 was even warmer, at +0.68 deg C, even though the US and Europe were below average.
The end of the glacier is much thinner than the average antarctic ice sheet, and it's already floating in the water, still attached to the glacier. If it breaks off, it's not going to raise water levels any more.
A popular theory says that the thinner ozone layer has increased the polar vortex winds. The vortex acts as a barrier to block warmer air from the rest of the planet.
Yes. I hope this doesn't come as a big surprise.
Of course there's an alternative. You can always buy the music again in a different format.
They only off-shored because it was cheaper, and it was cheaper because American workers were not competitive enough.
Or just go with the flow, and get used to it.
No idea. Virtually nobody does that anymore. Before internet banking was popular, the banks would issue books of transfer slips. You'd fill one in with amount, account number and name of beneficiary, sign it, and send it to your own bank. The bank would then transfer the money directly in the other account. This used to be free, and you could pick up free envelopes at the bank office that didn't require postage. I think they still have those for people without internet/internet skills, but I'm not sure.
The last time I used one of those was 20 years ago. After that, they introduced banking by dial up modem (directly to the bank), and then internet banking.
Does fbcon render true type fonts, or only simple bitmaps ?
If the value is stable, it doesn't outpace inflation. Instead, it will go at exactly the same pace.
You can only outpace inflation in a exponentially growing economy, and that's just physically impossible. So, there's no guarantee at all.
Well, I only use the credit card for places where they don't accept debit cards, which is mostly for foreign on-line purchases, hotel bookings, car rentals, plane tickets and that kind of stuff.
For regular purchases in stores, I always use my debit card, or cash.
That sounds silly. My friends just log in to their bank's web site, type in my name, my account number, and the amount they wish to deposit, plus a short personal message. They then confirm the transaction with a security token, and 1 second later, the money pops up into my account. I can log into my bank's web site, and see the transfer, including their name, account number, and the short message they sent me.
Now, if for some reason, somebody wants to send me money but don't have internet access, they can go to their bank, and have them transfer the money into my account.