Earth has a greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. If carbon dioxide increases, then, all things being equal, there will be a greater greenhouse effect.
Now, climate science is notoriously complex and the atmosphere interacts with the biosphere, so the "all things being equal" part is self-evidently nonsense. So maybe there will be some feedback loop or whatever and carbon dioxide can increase without affecting climate. But the burden of proof is on the person advancing that hypothesis, because the default assumption is that warming will occur.
Start with that, and rational discussion can take place.
A reliable sign of someone (or a company) who is incompetent at what they supposedly do is a misplaced desire to fix something that isn't broken.
I have to give them credit though: after so much of Windows did work at some point and since has been deliberately broken, finding the not broken parts is starting to become a challenge.
I think it's great that drones have finally found a positive role in society after all the undeserved hype.
At the same time, while I know you have to test or you don't actually know for sure, we already knew they could carry very small cargo over short distances.
I can see why gratuitous attacks on journalists can be dangerous but sadly at this point I have to assume, based on statistical evidence, that anyone presenting themselves as a journalist is nothing of the sort, until there's proof to the contrary. Everything seems to be about feelings and gut reactions, which has its place but cannot replace facts and critical thinking.
The possibility of Russian interference certainly shouldn't be ignored, but since 2016 it's just been an excuse for the Democrats to avoid asking themselves hard questions about how they alienated so many voters.
Seriously, they lost to Donald Trump! If that's not a wake-up call I don't know what is.
One problem society has is that it is difficult to deal with someone with a little bit of mental illness. There's quite a range where there are people really not able to cope with basic adult responsibilities without help, but where hospitalization is overkill.
Alarmists have a track record of cherry picking data.
But this is way beyond cherry-picking. You can't take percentages (of differently sized populations) and then average them - mathematically that's just flat-out wrong. It's no different than completely inventing a number at random. This is falsified data, not merely biased.
(It's also poor strategy since the actual problem didn't need to be exaggerated, but now their credibility is gone.)
Learning a second language, any second language, can help you to communicate more clearly in both that language and your native language. A hundred years ago people would have studied Latin fully expecting that kind of practical benefit with no expectation of ever actually speaking Latin.
So... you're thinking the legal system of the future will side with regular pedestrians against large corporations operating driver-less cars and their large insurance companies?
I've noticed a trend where people have reached a point of a true inability to extrapolate. Policy decisions are based entirely on feelings, not on facts or even immediate consequences, or the reliability of the story that gave them the feelings in the first place.
I could see how this might be cool from a technology perspective, but I have a lot of difficulty believing that it could reach a level of accuracy that could have any practical value.
The real solution is that any driver relying on "automatic turn signals" needs to be taken off the road and not allowed to drive.
Oracle is making huge amounts of money from my employer by ending support for the version of their product that works and is the foundation for our business processes, and by offering 'newer' versions are deliberately broken products that they can later charge us to 'fix'.
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We've had regional warming since the agricultural revolution. It's brought down entire civilizations.
If I just went with the headline, I might think the capability to cause an irregular heart rates was being promoted as a feature.
That's some serious feature creep.
Here's a good way to think about climate change:
Earth has a greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. If carbon dioxide increases, then, all things being equal, there will be a greater greenhouse effect.
Now, climate science is notoriously complex and the atmosphere interacts with the biosphere, so the "all things being equal" part is self-evidently nonsense. So maybe there will be some feedback loop or whatever and carbon dioxide can increase without affecting climate. But the burden of proof is on the person advancing that hypothesis, because the default assumption is that warming will occur.
Start with that, and rational discussion can take place.
A reliable sign of someone (or a company) who is incompetent at what they supposedly do is a misplaced desire to fix something that isn't broken.
I have to give them credit though: after so much of Windows did work at some point and since has been deliberately broken, finding the not broken parts is starting to become a challenge.
If there was a crime in progress and you had something in the way of probable cause, yes.
I think it's great that drones have finally found a positive role in society after all the undeserved hype.
At the same time, while I know you have to test or you don't actually know for sure, we already knew they could carry very small cargo over short distances.
For a second I was really curious what SPECTRE was up to and what James Bond was going to do about it.
I can see why gratuitous attacks on journalists can be dangerous but sadly at this point I have to assume, based on statistical evidence, that anyone presenting themselves as a journalist is nothing of the sort, until there's proof to the contrary. Everything seems to be about feelings and gut reactions, which has its place but cannot replace facts and critical thinking.
The possibility of Russian interference certainly shouldn't be ignored, but since 2016 it's just been an excuse for the Democrats to avoid asking themselves hard questions about how they alienated so many voters.
Seriously, they lost to Donald Trump! If that's not a wake-up call I don't know what is.
One problem society has is that it is difficult to deal with someone with a little bit of mental illness. There's quite a range where there are people really not able to cope with basic adult responsibilities without help, but where hospitalization is overkill.
Throwing money at the homeless problem has not solved it.
Throwing money at a problem does not result in a solution, it results in a well-funded problem.
For most of rural Africa, the math and logic they need to get through life is limited to making trades at the market and keeping their farm running.
The "math and logic" to keep a farm running (translation: operate a small business) is not trivial.
Alarmists have a track record of cherry picking data.
But this is way beyond cherry-picking. You can't take percentages (of differently sized populations) and then average them - mathematically that's just flat-out wrong. It's no different than completely inventing a number at random. This is falsified data, not merely biased.
(It's also poor strategy since the actual problem didn't need to be exaggerated, but now their credibility is gone.)
Learning a second language, any second language, can help you to communicate more clearly in both that language and your native language. A hundred years ago people would have studied Latin fully expecting that kind of practical benefit with no expectation of ever actually speaking Latin.
the people during the fall of Rome couldn't see it, either.
In fact lots of them saw it. It didn't help, though.
He got people to believe the trains ran on time.
Bullying is not always about money.
...there's more black supremacists and communist agitators... are you against them as well?
Absolutely.
biggest election in any country ever
I guess I just don't follow Indian politics closely enough.
Does the manner of execution determine whether or not you are a medieval theocracy?
No. Saudi Arabia is a medieval theocracy. Saudi Arabia uses beheading in capital punishment.
Correlation is not causation.
So... you're thinking the legal system of the future will side with regular pedestrians against large corporations operating driver-less cars and their large insurance companies?
I've noticed a trend where people have reached a point of a true inability to extrapolate. Policy decisions are based entirely on feelings, not on facts or even immediate consequences, or the reliability of the story that gave them the feelings in the first place.
I support deplatforming all extremists. Nazis and commies alike.
Quite a lot of people define 'extremist' as anyone who disagrees with them.
Some of them even define 'extremist' as anyone who even feels differently that they do.
I could see how this might be cool from a technology perspective, but I have a lot of difficulty believing that it could reach a level of accuracy that could have any practical value.
The real solution is that any driver relying on "automatic turn signals" needs to be taken off the road and not allowed to drive.
Oracle is making huge amounts of money from my employer by ending support for the version of their product that works and is the foundation for our business processes, and by offering 'newer' versions are deliberately broken products that they can later charge us to 'fix'.