For example, should 'fix money' be spent on carbon reduction or flood defences ?
I'm surprised this comment hasn't been rated Insightful.
Perhaps the reason this hasn't been done is because there has not been adequate research on the actual impact that remediation efforts would have. My own guess is that the answer is 'little', and that that would be a Good Thing. Anything that we can do that would have a large impact on the climate also has the potential to make things worse -- and not only a little worse. In programmer parlance, we do not have the luxury of testing things first in a sandbox before deploying to production.
[M]ost people I talk to about climate change have based their entire belief on a logical fallacy ( in this case Appeal to Authority). True or not this isn't science, it is religion.
This is evidenced by the vitrio directed at the sceptics. Where real science is concerned, on the other hand, for example if someone questions the existence of gravity, the common reaction is puzzlement: "are we talking about the same thing?" No one wants to burn down the questioner's house.
Maybe it's the polite alternative for "asshole". There are atheists who are very nice people and don't really care what other people believe or don't believe, such as Sir Terry Pratchett. Then there are the other kind.
Witty writing and engaging characters put these books in the top tier. These books, now long out of print, are: Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World. They can be purchased in the omnibus ebook "New Celebrations" (for the ridiculously low price of $6.99) here: http://www.electricstory.com/authors/author.aspx?authorid=96
Its greatest, and almost unforgiveable, failing, is that Panshin never published the fourth book.
The smoke has yet to clear on this, so putting this at the feet of the Conservative Party of Canada is premature and possibly libellous.
In all likelihood, this is either the work of a rogue agent or even a well-intentioned mistake. More than that, if a rogue agent it is possible that this agent is actually a supporter of one of the opposition parties, either playing a deeper game, or mistakenly including supporters of opposition parties when actually intending to encourage Conservative supporters not to vote. (How would this agent know, for example, who the supporters of a given party are? Votes are secret, after all.)
It is conceivable that this is simply a mistake. For example, suppose that there was some discussion between election officials during the pre-election period about an anticipated uptick in voter participation. It is possible that someone was commissioned to handle notifications, but was not included in a subsequent decision not to make any change. Admittedly, this is not a likely scenario, but until the facts are all in we simply do not know. My personal bet (you saw it here first!) is that this was a botched operation by some union activitists.
For those peeing themselves in their haste to cast blame, patience. On the face of it, it looks like the person behind this will be chased to ground. First, I think that this was paid for by a credit card. Second, according to reports, the audio was professionally produced, meaning that voice actors were used -- voice actors who will likely come forward.
I'm sorry to say this but : The ARTISTS have been the only ones saying that piracy DOESNT hurt them." This is completely false. Piracy does hurt. Think about it, let say you spent 100k$ on your "product" and then you realise that it's on piratebay.org or some other site free to everyone. Don't give me crap with that piracy doesn't hurt. Piracy does hurt and at the same time it gives just enough image to the publisher (or whoever is behind it) to give enough attention so people buy their products.
For the megastars, piracy no doubt takes away from their immediate potential profits. For the small-time artist, however, striving to get recognized, piracy is advertising. Getting 100% of five thousand sales pales in comparison to fifty percent of a hundred thousand sales. The problem, it seems to me, is that the mega-distributors are stuck on business models of the past.
If we are entering another warming spell, as in the Middle Ages, then Canada definitely stands to benefit. Canada is the second largest country in the world, but a large area is only sparsely inhabited because it's simply too cold. In all likelihood, a warmer north with allow greater exploration and uncover new oil reserves. Canadians who want to stop global warming (assuming it's possible) are working against the country's best interests.
It seems to me that the only real check on American "law" as it pertains to non-Americans and other nations is audacity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't due process something that happens within the US itself?
Anthropogenic Global Warming is a tenet of faith and is as "scientific" as "intelligent design". Are we really now going to pollute this site with arguments about whether Mohammud was/was not a child rapist?
Still... if these guys figured out how to compromise the drugster bank accounts and drained several millions into untraceable accounts, they'd have a nice warchest with which to pay for armed countermeasures.
a) this is old news, and b) Muller has already been accused, by the co-author of the report no less, of fudging the fact that warming has actually stalled for the last ten years, although CO2 emissions have not.
It seems to me that for non-gamers the best place for a Windows OS is as a virtual machine. That way you can use it for the things that still require Windows and put it out of the way the rest of the time. You also get to upgrade/migrate to new hardware without going through its tiresome accusations of being a thief.
With any luck, some weightier opposition MPs will make sure that the Conservatives get to wear this when appropriate. I remember when the bill was last before parliament and one of the opposition parties tried to broaden the media levy. The government response was that it "wouldn't work", but now it looks like the real writer of the bill was Obama (countersigned by Disney), so there was no real hope for change.
There are a few requirements to putative statehood. While difficult, they are not impossible. First, you need people, say 10,000 minimum. Then, you need some basic ability to defend yourself, although this could be delegated to neighbouring nations. Finally, you need recognition from other countries. It seems to me this is all possible to do, but if done in accordance with libertarian principles it will be much harder, on the order of "herding cats" hard.
Is everyone in the Gnome / KDE / Unity groups a Microsoft mole, engaged in sucking out utility from those desktop environments? Is there no one there who realizes how big a mistake they made?
It's one thing for a single group to screw the pooch, but for all three to get the same brain-dead urge to redesign smacks of conspiracy.
Interesting point. Of course, it also seems to me that a "brighter future for our children" would also be served by not sticking them with the bill for our debt. The amount per person is about the cost of a decent college education.
So, basically, for anyone to have an argument worthy of debate, they cannot be: Christian, Republican, paid by "Big Oil", or politically incorrect. That makes things so much simpler.
Good call about Spencer. Being weird is a perfect excuse to reject everything he has to say. Of course we'll also have to throw out Isaac Newton's work on optics, mathematics, and gravity, since he also happened to be an alchemist.
I think the only similarity is that they both ran/are running huge deficits, but the purpose for those deficits is very different. Obama is doubling-down on the notion that government spending will pull the economy out of the depths, whereas Reagan's mega-spending was in aid of playing military "chicken" with the Soviets, who bankrupted themselves trying to keep up. Obama, on the other hand, thinks that government makes better investment choices than individuals.
On the international stage, Obama and Reagan also have distinctly different approaches. Obama, in trying to be friends with non-allies, has pushed allied interests to the back -- and has effectively thrown Israel under a bus. Reagan, however, formed close relationships with the UK, and began the process with Canada that has become today's North American Free Trade Agreement -- an economic success. Anyone remember: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" and (during a mike test): "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Reagan was one of America's great presidents. To be fair, though, Obama did win a Nobel Peace Prize... for something....
It is increasingly clear that America is becoming a Police State. Freedoms for which it was once the envy of the world are now being trampled by government enforcers at the behest of corporate interests. When George W. Bush was in office, critics were able to lay these excesses at his feet, but it is now clear that the rot is deeper than that.
So what do you do when the World's Policeman is on the take?
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For example, should 'fix money' be spent on carbon reduction or flood defences ?
I'm surprised this comment hasn't been rated Insightful.
Perhaps the reason this hasn't been done is because there has not been adequate research on the actual impact that remediation efforts would have. My own guess is that the answer is 'little', and that that would be a Good Thing. Anything that we can do that would have a large impact on the climate also has the potential to make things worse -- and not only a little worse. In programmer parlance, we do not have the luxury of testing things first in a sandbox before deploying to production.
[M]ost people I talk to about climate change have based their entire belief on a logical fallacy ( in this case Appeal to Authority). True or not this isn't science, it is religion.
This is evidenced by the vitrio directed at the sceptics. Where real science is concerned, on the other hand, for example if someone questions the existence of gravity, the common reaction is puzzlement: "are we talking about the same thing?" No one wants to burn down the questioner's house.
I've wondered why farmers can't do that too. Why couldn't a farmer call up Monsanto and insist they get their garbage out of his field?
Maybe it's the polite alternative for "asshole". There are atheists who are very nice people and don't really care what other people believe or don't believe, such as Sir Terry Pratchett. Then there are the other kind.
It's hard to go wrong with anything by EFR.
Witty writing and engaging characters put these books in the top tier. These books, now long out of print, are: Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World. They can be purchased in the omnibus ebook "New Celebrations" (for the ridiculously low price of $6.99) here: http://www.electricstory.com/authors/author.aspx?authorid=96
Its greatest, and almost unforgiveable, failing, is that Panshin never published the fourth book.
The smoke has yet to clear on this, so putting this at the feet of the Conservative Party of Canada is premature and possibly libellous.
In all likelihood, this is either the work of a rogue agent or even a well-intentioned mistake. More than that, if a rogue agent it is possible that this agent is actually a supporter of one of the opposition parties, either playing a deeper game, or mistakenly including supporters of opposition parties when actually intending to encourage Conservative supporters not to vote. (How would this agent know, for example, who the supporters of a given party are? Votes are secret, after all.)
It is conceivable that this is simply a mistake. For example, suppose that there was some discussion between election officials during the pre-election period about an anticipated uptick in voter participation. It is possible that someone was commissioned to handle notifications, but was not included in a subsequent decision not to make any change. Admittedly, this is not a likely scenario, but until the facts are all in we simply do not know. My personal bet (you saw it here first!) is that this was a botched operation by some union activitists.
For those peeing themselves in their haste to cast blame, patience. On the face of it, it looks like the person behind this will be chased to ground. First, I think that this was paid for by a credit card. Second, according to reports, the audio was professionally produced, meaning that voice actors were used -- voice actors who will likely come forward.
I'm sorry to say this but : The ARTISTS have been the only ones saying that piracy DOESNT hurt them." This is completely false. Piracy does hurt. Think about it, let say you spent 100k$ on your "product" and then you realise that it's on piratebay.org or some other site free to everyone. Don't give me crap with that piracy doesn't hurt. Piracy does hurt and at the same time it gives just enough image to the publisher (or whoever is behind it) to give enough attention so people buy their products.
For the megastars, piracy no doubt takes away from their immediate potential profits. For the small-time artist, however, striving to get recognized, piracy is advertising. Getting 100% of five thousand sales pales in comparison to fifty percent of a hundred thousand sales. The problem, it seems to me, is that the mega-distributors are stuck on business models of the past.
If we are entering another warming spell, as in the Middle Ages, then Canada definitely stands to benefit. Canada is the second largest country in the world, but a large area is only sparsely inhabited because it's simply too cold. In all likelihood, a warmer north with allow greater exploration and uncover new oil reserves. Canadians who want to stop global warming (assuming it's possible) are working against the country's best interests.
Given the cost of solutions these days, I suppose it would be more accurate to write A$$le.
But I'm above that.
It seems to me that the only real check on American "law" as it pertains to non-Americans and other nations is audacity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't due process something that happens within the US itself?
Anthropogenic Global Warming is a tenet of faith and is as "scientific" as "intelligent design". Are we really now going to pollute this site with arguments about whether Mohammud was/was not a child rapist?
Still... if these guys figured out how to compromise the drugster bank accounts and drained several millions into untraceable accounts, they'd have a nice warchest with which to pay for armed countermeasures.
a) this is old news, and b) Muller has already been accused, by the co-author of the report no less, of fudging the fact that warming has actually stalled for the last ten years, although CO2 emissions have not.
I remember seeing that. It seems that /. is filled with ankle-biters these days.
It seems to me that for non-gamers the best place for a Windows OS is as a virtual machine. That way you can use it for the things that still require Windows and put it out of the way the rest of the time. You also get to upgrade/migrate to new hardware without going through its tiresome accusations of being a thief.
With any luck, some weightier opposition MPs will make sure that the Conservatives get to wear this when appropriate. I remember when the bill was last before parliament and one of the opposition parties tried to broaden the media levy. The government response was that it "wouldn't work", but now it looks like the real writer of the bill was Obama (countersigned by Disney), so there was no real hope for change.
There are a few requirements to putative statehood. While difficult, they are not impossible. First, you need people, say 10,000 minimum. Then, you need some basic ability to defend yourself, although this could be delegated to neighbouring nations. Finally, you need recognition from other countries. It seems to me this is all possible to do, but if done in accordance with libertarian principles it will be much harder, on the order of "herding cats" hard.
Is everyone in the Gnome / KDE / Unity groups a Microsoft mole, engaged in sucking out utility from those desktop environments? Is there no one there who realizes how big a mistake they made?
It's one thing for a single group to screw the pooch, but for all three to get the same brain-dead urge to redesign smacks of conspiracy.
Interesting point. Of course, it also seems to me that a "brighter future for our children" would also be served by not sticking them with the bill for our debt. The amount per person is about the cost of a decent college education.
So, basically, for anyone to have an argument worthy of debate, they cannot be: Christian, Republican, paid by "Big Oil", or politically incorrect. That makes things so much simpler.
Good call about Spencer. Being weird is a perfect excuse to reject everything he has to say. Of course we'll also have to throw out Isaac Newton's work on optics, mathematics, and gravity, since he also happened to be an alchemist.
I think the only similarity is that they both ran/are running huge deficits, but the purpose for those deficits is very different. Obama is doubling-down on the notion that government spending will pull the economy out of the depths, whereas Reagan's mega-spending was in aid of playing military "chicken" with the Soviets, who bankrupted themselves trying to keep up. Obama, on the other hand, thinks that government makes better investment choices than individuals.
On the international stage, Obama and Reagan also have distinctly different approaches. Obama, in trying to be friends with non-allies, has pushed allied interests to the back -- and has effectively thrown Israel under a bus. Reagan, however, formed close relationships with the UK, and began the process with Canada that has become today's North American Free Trade Agreement -- an economic success. Anyone remember: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" and (during a mike test): "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Reagan was one of America's great presidents. To be fair, though, Obama did win a Nobel Peace Prize ... for something ....
It is increasingly clear that America is becoming a Police State. Freedoms for which it was once the envy of the world are now being trampled by government enforcers at the behest of corporate interests. When George W. Bush was in office, critics were able to lay these excesses at his feet, but it is now clear that the rot is deeper than that. So what do you do when the World's Policeman is on the take?
The Gaza border is now open permanently to Egypt. Is it therefore under siege?