also too, Google is, in fact, evil. Most companies are, or they at least have a very good incentives to be evil. why people think that companies shouldn't have to participate in society with regards to ethics and morality is one of the great mysteries. they exist solely because we allow them to exist through regulation. why they get some sort of pass to do anything "legal" resulting in a perpetual chase to regulate them to shut down the evil shit they do is ridiculous. See also, regulatory capture and Citizen's United. Remember that it was Republican appointed justices that made bribery legal and saw literally no problem with that.
And speaking of Android, the world really, really, REALLY needs a truly open phone OS. Android is a fucking panopticon scam.
assuming Roy Spencer is correct. uh-huh. You get to assume that the lone wolf is correct, but if I argue that knowledgeable people, who have studied the problem are correct i'm engaging in some sort of "if all your friends jumped in a lake" argument.
"my friends" believe CAGW because knowledgeable people who have studied the problem believe it.
Make an argument on CAGW that is not an appeal to authority then I might believe you
Do you even know what "appeal to authority" as an argument means ? if i tell you that quantum physics is real because a bunch of physicist think it's real, is that an appeal to authority ?
Description: Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.
climate scientist are, in fact, an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.
Well, we can at least halfway agree here. I'll let you ponder on which half.
No we're not agreeing halfway on anything. You make false and disingenuos arguments. we have nothing to agree about. you're denying reality because of some bullshit worldview.
What is it with the slashdot crowd and the "lone wolf" saviour thing ? Is it just the usual right wing astro turfing, or do they really think that it's normal for lots and lots of scientists to be wrong AND lie about it, but that one person is the real purveyor of truth.
Roy Spencer is right but 95% of the climate scientists on the planet are wrong ? really?
We're dumping GIGA tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, a heat trapping gas, and it's doing NOTHING ?
oh wait, I forgot it's all natural variability. oh that's awesome, i'm glad you thought of that. before Roy Spencer came along nobody thought to check to see if maybe this warming is due to natural variability. wow- what a brilliant insight !
Well, all of those lying climate scientists on their big fat research paychecks showed that it isn't natural variability, but THEY'RE ALL WRONG. and they're liars. and Al Gore is fat.
That's bogus logic. If Trump was that bad the US would be nosediving. Talk about bogus logic. The damage that Trump does will in some cases take several months to manifest. There is some bureaucratic inertia involved, and that's great, or we would in fact be nosediving. Really, you don't think Perry as secretary of energy isn't going to do lasting harm ?
The American people hired him to drain the swamp. which he is most certainly not doing. between special deals for coal producers and tax cuts which are heavily. heavily slanted in favor of the rich, the suckers that voted for him are victims of one of the most obvious, and greatest, cons ever.
only on slashdot could such obvious drivel get uprated. Trump has amply demonstrated that he is utterly incapable of being president and is lying, boldly and demonstrably lying pretty much everyday.
you don't think that's a problem, or it's just something that "pisses off" the establishment ?
you are some kind of special trolly schmuck, even for Slashdot.
This government rationing concern trolling comes up all the time.
However those same people are perfectly fine with health insurance company, aka rationing by economic status, which kills people and has them go bankrupt.
Strangely, that doesn't seem to be as much of a concern.
The single most awful thing about win 10 is all the crap I have to leave installed because microsoft.
I don't want edge because it's probably a security threat even if you don't use it. How long before there's an exploit that invokes it even when it's not your default web browser.
and yet - it appears to be very difficult to remove.
anyway. between their tailgating, checking their phone at stoplights and while they are driving. the incredible amount of impatience and just plain idiotic, bad driving you'd think they'd love the opportunity to stay glued to their phone on the way to work.
As has already been demonstrated by the permian extinction event, the biosphere can take a hell of a hit, and life will go on.
I think that you really have to understand timescales here. A 100 million years is a long time, just like space is big, really big. So that's a long damn time, and life will go on. intelligent life, maybe not so much.
as for why we haven't heard from anyone, why isn't the simple answer not the best ? Remember how space is really big ?
if there's no FTL travel, and it's likely there is not, then HOW would we hear from someone ?
It would be an exceedingly difficult thing for the intelligent civilization in the Andromeda galaxy to talk us, and us to them.
First of all, there's the 2,000,000 year latency, and then the amount of power you would need to transmit that signal, etc...
I'm not worried. There's intelligent life elsewhere in the verse. I'm pretty sure we're not going to hear from them any time soon, if ever.
Putting make a dollar ahead of honesty. It's a pervasive problem, it's not obvious to me why "scientific journals" would be immune.
And once again it's a two party problem. The person publishing wants their paper published to put it on their resume, and the journal needs to fill the journal.
The real question is, who's subscribing to this crap ?
A more worrisome tin-foil hat idea - I suppose you could create faux journals to show that journals are not trustworthy and use them to cast doubt on legitimate science.
and i disrespect "independents" because they continue to peddle these false equivalencies.
the democrats absolutely know that things need to be payed for, that's why they raise taxes.
remember those job killing taxes that Obama levied that led to... no job killing... but job growth.
that's why democrats lose elections. they'll tell you that we need to raise taxes to pay for services and you brainy independents won't vote for them, cuz, OMG! they are going raise taxes !
Bayer has absolutely NO incentive whatsoever to admit that their product harms bees.
Unless bees just immediately drop dead upon exposure, they can also say "inconclusive", or come up with a laundry list of weasel words and phrases designed to instill doubt.
It's amazing that they get to have an opinion.
The studies must be done independently, but asking Bayer if they think their product is a problem is never going to get you an honest answer. ever.
I had some relatively minor - most of the time, sometimes not minor at all - trouble with back pain for well over 10 years.
A physical therapist fixed me right up. It took over a year, and I was doing the exercises she recommended every day, EVERY day, for over a year.
also too, massage is extremely useful. i find that it provides very nice temporary relief and it makes it easier to keep things from getting out of whack.
the problem, as is often the case, is that you need a good physical therapist and good LMT.
the want regulations cut down so they can raise prices and establish de facto monopolies.
it's all about rent-seeking.
as for that dickhead Trump, when are the people who voted for him going to admit that maybe the billionaires he put in charge really don't have your best interests in mind ?
but since then Apple has basically refined existing things so they didn't suck.
the ipod was a good mp3 player that they ruined with itunes. of course the point was to sell you music and not a music player, so it made perfect sense that they would shove itunes down your throat.
they they made a cell phone that didn't suck as much as the rest of them. and it's still in that category. android phones are fucking awful since they are google spyware, thanks google.
we need a truly open source mobile phone OS.
that's the next big thing. and apple will have nothing to do with that of course.
1 the source would be available so they never have to worry about obsolesence. 2 in runs on all sorts of hardware so they could maintain very nice consistency across many processor/platforms 3 the NSA is working on secure linux, and could certainly help to harden military grade linux 4 to get work done, they could fund open-source efforts. the work would help the military and the country alike.
probaly makes too much sense. much better to have a closed-source, proprietary system that can never, ever be secure. plus it's more expensive !
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Then your view of reality is severely distorted.
this.
also too, Google is, in fact, evil. Most companies are, or they at least have a very good incentives to be evil. why people think that companies shouldn't have to participate in society with regards to ethics and morality is one of the great mysteries. they exist solely because we allow them to exist through regulation. why they get some sort of pass to do anything "legal" resulting in a perpetual chase to regulate them to shut down the evil shit they do is ridiculous. See also, regulatory capture and Citizen's United. Remember that it was Republican appointed justices that made bribery legal and saw literally no problem with that.
And speaking of Android, the world really, really, REALLY needs a truly open phone OS. Android is a fucking panopticon scam.
assuming Roy Spencer is correct.
uh-huh. You get to assume that the lone wolf is correct, but if I argue that knowledgeable people, who have studied the problem are correct i'm engaging in some sort of "if all your friends jumped in a lake" argument.
"my friends" believe CAGW because knowledgeable people who have studied the problem believe it.
Make an argument on CAGW that is not an appeal to authority then I might believe you
Do you even know what "appeal to authority" as an argument means ?
if i tell you that quantum physics is real because a bunch of physicist think it's real, is that an appeal to authority ?
Description: Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.
climate scientist are, in fact, an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.
Well, we can at least halfway agree here. I'll let you ponder on which half.
No we're not agreeing halfway on anything. You make false and disingenuos arguments. we have nothing to agree about. you're denying reality because of some bullshit worldview.
You mean this Roy Spencer
https://skepticalscience.com/R...
right ?
What is it with the slashdot crowd and the "lone wolf" saviour thing ? Is it just the usual right wing astro turfing, or do they really think that it's normal for lots and lots of scientists to be wrong AND lie about it, but that one person is the real purveyor of truth.
Roy Spencer is right but 95% of the climate scientists on the planet are wrong ? really?
We're dumping GIGA tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, a heat trapping gas, and it's doing NOTHING ?
oh wait, I forgot it's all natural variability. oh that's awesome, i'm glad you thought of that. before Roy Spencer came along nobody thought to check to see if maybe this warming is due to natural variability. wow- what a brilliant insight !
Well, all of those lying climate scientists on their big fat research paychecks showed that it isn't natural variability, but THEY'RE ALL WRONG. and they're liars. and Al Gore is fat.
That's bogus logic. If Trump was that bad the US would be nosediving.
Talk about bogus logic. The damage that Trump does will in some cases take several months to manifest. There is some bureaucratic inertia involved, and that's great, or we would in fact be nosediving. Really, you don't think Perry as secretary of energy isn't going to do lasting harm ?
The American people hired him to drain the swamp.
which he is most certainly not doing. between special deals for coal producers and tax cuts which are heavily. heavily slanted in favor of the rich, the suckers that voted for him are victims of one of the most obvious, and greatest, cons ever.
only on slashdot could such obvious drivel get uprated.
Trump has amply demonstrated that he is utterly incapable of being president and is lying, boldly and demonstrably lying pretty much everyday.
you don't think that's a problem, or it's just something that "pisses off" the establishment ?
you are some kind of special trolly schmuck, even for Slashdot.
but 3D printing, I think, is going to be the real deal.
And yet one more thing that will kill employment levels.
When i can set up a factory full of machines and give them a file to make what i need, that's a whole lot of people i don't need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Remember it's the Military Industrial CONGRESSIONAL Complex.
Defense is a tremendous gravy train.
And it keeps America strong, fuck yeah.
This government rationing concern trolling comes up all the time.
However those same people are perfectly fine with health insurance company, aka rationing by economic status, which kills people and has them go bankrupt.
Strangely, that doesn't seem to be as much of a concern.
The single most awful thing about win 10 is all the crap I have to leave installed because microsoft.
I don't want edge because it's probably a security threat even if you don't use it. How long before there's an exploit that invokes it even when it's not your default web browser.
and yet - it appears to be very difficult to remove.
anyway.
between their tailgating, checking their phone at stoplights and while they are driving.
the incredible amount of impatience and just plain idiotic, bad driving you'd think they'd love the opportunity to stay glued to their phone on the way to work.
i for one welcome our auto pilot overlords.
As has already been demonstrated by the permian extinction event, the biosphere can take a hell of a hit, and life will go on.
I think that you really have to understand timescales here. A 100 million years is a long time, just like space is big, really big. So that's a long damn time, and life will go on. intelligent life, maybe not so much.
as for why we haven't heard from anyone, why isn't the simple answer not the best ?
Remember how space is really big ?
if there's no FTL travel, and it's likely there is not, then HOW would we hear from someone ?
It would be an exceedingly difficult thing for the intelligent civilization in the Andromeda galaxy to talk us, and us to them.
First of all, there's the 2,000,000 year latency, and then the amount of power you would need to transmit that signal, etc...
I'm not worried. There's intelligent life elsewhere in the verse. I'm pretty sure we're not going to hear from them any time soon, if ever.
Never have I read anything positive about systemd.
and what I've read about it's design is extremely non-unixy.
so why did any of the distributions pick it up ?
Isn't that the problem here ?
Putting make a dollar ahead of honesty. It's a pervasive problem, it's not obvious to me why "scientific journals" would be immune.
And once again it's a two party problem. The person publishing wants their paper published to put it on their resume, and the journal needs to fill the journal.
The real question is, who's subscribing to this crap ?
A more worrisome tin-foil hat idea - I suppose you could create faux journals to show that journals are not trustworthy and use them to cast doubt on legitimate science.
and i disrespect "independents" because they continue to peddle these false equivalencies.
the democrats absolutely know that things need to be payed for, that's why they raise taxes.
remember those job killing taxes that Obama levied that led to ... no job killing ... but job growth.
that's why democrats lose elections. they'll tell you that we need to raise taxes to pay for services and you brainy independents won't vote for them, cuz, OMG! they are going raise taxes !
The improvement to the environment in terms of less particulate and chemical contamination made it cost effective a while ago.
the fact that this fact was always ignored as a cost means we're still debating whether renewables are "cost effective".
meanwhile, if only China would manufacture solar cells properly and stop dumping the by-products into the environment.
pollution is, and has been for quite some time, a global problem.
Bayer has absolutely NO incentive whatsoever to admit that their product harms bees.
Unless bees just immediately drop dead upon exposure, they can also say "inconclusive", or come up with a laundry list of weasel words and phrases designed to instill doubt.
It's amazing that they get to have an opinion.
The studies must be done independently, but asking Bayer if they think their product is a problem is never going to get you an honest answer. ever.
I had some relatively minor - most of the time, sometimes not minor at all - trouble with back pain for well over 10 years.
A physical therapist fixed me right up. It took over a year, and I was doing the exercises she recommended every day, EVERY day, for over a year.
also too, massage is extremely useful. i find that it provides very nice temporary relief and it makes it easier to keep things from getting out of whack.
the problem, as is often the case, is that you need a good physical therapist and good LMT.
for their customers.
the want regulations cut down so they can raise prices and establish de facto monopolies.
it's all about rent-seeking.
as for that dickhead Trump, when are the people who voted for him going to admit that maybe the billionaires he put in charge really don't have your best interests in mind ?
http://santarosa-law.com/unite...
oh i'm sorry.
did i interrupt your right-wing meme trolling ?
You say "All of them" and get rate insightful.
Why the fuck do i bother reading the comments here ?
none whatsoever.
they obviously fucked up. he's going to blame it on somebody else.
we won't find out the truth until they fire the scapegoat who will then reveal all.
as soon as the non-disclosure agreement they signed to get their layoff package expires.
but since then Apple has basically refined existing things so they didn't suck.
the ipod was a good mp3 player that they ruined with itunes. of course the point was to sell you music and not a music player, so it made perfect sense that they would shove itunes down your throat.
they they made a cell phone that didn't suck as much as the rest of them. and it's still in that category. android phones are fucking awful since they are google spyware, thanks google.
we need a truly open source mobile phone OS.
that's the next big thing. and apple will have nothing to do with that of course.
be sure and check to see if it's really turned off.
also, bug which keeps it on all the time or exposes a vulnerability when enabled in 3 2 1...
Bloated, spyware, crapware infested OS with barely functional stock applications.
I now completely understand why so many people buy iphones and why there's so much malware on android.
we need an open cell phone OS now more than ever.
you really have to wonder
1 the source would be available so they never have to worry about obsolesence.
2 in runs on all sorts of hardware so they could maintain very nice consistency across many processor/platforms
3 the NSA is working on secure linux, and could certainly help to harden military grade linux
4 to get work done, they could fund open-source efforts. the work would help the military and the country alike.
probaly makes too much sense. much better to have a closed-source, proprietary system that can never, ever be secure.
plus it's more expensive !
" I think we ought to have more choices rather than fewer choices with the government controlling our everyday lives"
Naturally if it's corporations attempting to control or interfere with our everyday lives, they are totally ok with that.
hypocritical twats.