If they're not "implying that the CO2 itself causes poor performance" and it's just about measuring poor ventilation, then why are they using rising CO2 as the gauge instead of the much more relevant declining O2 levels?
Even WITH steering wheels, these "self-driving" cars are fucking dangerous. Too many dumb assholes will trust them too much and just take a nap instead of keeping an eye on what the car is actually doing. And smarter assholes like me will have to share the road with said dumb assholes. I don't like the idea of having a car crash into me because of a buffer overflow in the car's computer and an idiot who thought it would be fine to lay down in the backseat and read while his car did all the driving.
The statement is clearly meant to strongly imply causation, NOT just correlation. She wasn't just making some random observation like "Did you know that student performance has inversely correlated with the rise of Sour Cream sales in the U.S.? Crazy, huh? Of course, the two things have nothing to do with one another, I just thought it was funny to point out."
like say, a picture of the Mona Lisa, or a picture of Ben Affleck being Batman behind the scenes of the new Superman movie, you aren't allowed to sell that picture without permission.
You do have a point, but you've picked two really awful examples to illustrate it. The Mona Lisa is public domain and you can absolutely take pictures of celebrities and sell them to the media (as long as they're in public).
Since when has Nintendo given a flying fuck about their hardcore fans? They've built an entire sales ideology based on selling to the general market and pretty much ignoring hardcore gamers.
You seem to be under the delusion that it is "our way or the highway" situation.
Ironically, it's environmentalists who are most notorious for taking that approach.
Sane person: "Hey, we can convert now to natural gas and nuclear and put a lot less CO2 in the air."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "But they're not ready yet to hand main loads. In the meantime, let's go with nuclear and natural gas and start making some real progress at least."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "What about hydroelectric at least? That's as clean as it gets. You lose some fish, but it generates no CO2."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "You do understand that refusing to compromise at all is essentially the same thing as supporting coal, right? By refusing to support technologies that can have a real impact on CO2 emissions now, just because they're not perfect, you're basically sabotaging any hope of real progress."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "So, we keep burning coal then and nothing changes?"
When it comes to highly poisonous snakes, I think scared (or at least cautious) is a perfectly rational response. While it's true that few die from snakebites each year, I'm sure that's due in large part to Aussies not being stupid around snakes. I suspect that any idiot dumb enough to start fucking around with a brown snake will learn the hard way that there is indeed more to fear than fear itself.
That's the problem with real democracy. The U.S. has always sold democracy as some cure-all that will somehow turn every backwards country into the U.S. in the 1950's. But *real* democracy doesn't do anything of the sort. And lots of electorates, left to their own devices, will immediately vote in some popular dictator or religious zealot. So to stop this, the U.S. has resorted to advancing a kind of pretend democracy--the kind of "democracy" where the U.S. picks all the candidates and the people choose which carbon copy to vote for. Sadly, the U.S. political system itself has become a similar dog-and-pony show.
the bacteria worked to curtail (but not eliminate) the body odor caused by not washing
I used to work with sailors who would come back after long fishing trips. And I can assure you that they definitely did not have this bacteria present.
If the NSA is willing to collect the phones calls, emails, and web browsing history of every American (as Snowden proved), you think they would hesitate for even a micro-second to do the same for some Muslim foreign country where we're at war??
The only democracy that the U.S. ever intended to bring to Afghanistan and Iraq was of the "You can choose pro-U.S. candidate number 1, or pro-U.S. candidate number 2" variety.
I remember it too. It was during the tree-hugging phase in the 70's, IIRC. Environmentalism is a notoriously faddish religion. And at that time it was all the rage to "save the trees." In the 80's this would be dumped in favor of the new hip "save the ozone layer."
You're ashamed that humans invented plastics, which have greatly improved (and even saved) countless lives?
You should become an environmentalist. The entire thesis of their movement is that humans are a disease on this planet (yet oddly enough don't seem to have the balls to actually commit mass suicide themselves). You would fit right in. Maybe you could form a lovely drum circle and all rant about all the ills we terrible humans have brought on the world. Don't forget to get in line for the group tree hug!
Every now and then I check in on it, hoping they've at least made some positive changes that might make beta at least tolerable. But so far, the inability to follow your own comment threads (or even tell if you've been modded on posts) has remained consistently unavailable. They keep telling us "We're listening," but I've never seen a single change made to indicate that. Back to classic again for me.
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This report openly acknowledges that it was sponsored by an organization called "EarthFix." Care to guess how fair and balanced they are?
And my guess is that you're a idiot.
You are aware that "fresh air" has CO2 in it, right? And be very grateful that it does.
If they're not "implying that the CO2 itself causes poor performance" and it's just about measuring poor ventilation, then why are they using rising CO2 as the gauge instead of the much more relevant declining O2 levels?
Even WITH steering wheels, these "self-driving" cars are fucking dangerous. Too many dumb assholes will trust them too much and just take a nap instead of keeping an eye on what the car is actually doing. And smarter assholes like me will have to share the road with said dumb assholes. I don't like the idea of having a car crash into me because of a buffer overflow in the car's computer and an idiot who thought it would be fine to lay down in the backseat and read while his car did all the driving.
The statement is clearly meant to strongly imply causation, NOT just correlation. She wasn't just making some random observation like "Did you know that student performance has inversely correlated with the rise of Sour Cream sales in the U.S.? Crazy, huh? Of course, the two things have nothing to do with one another, I just thought it was funny to point out."
No. What's needed are more permanent classrooms.
Yeah, but then the hippies who sponsored this "news report" won't get $200,000 a pop for their "sustainable" portable classroom.
KATIE CAMPBELL: Other studies show that, as CO2 levels rise, student performance falls.
Yes, that is an honest-to-god quote from this report. No joke.
Sad how the last great player-focused games company has fallen.
Oh bullshit. Nintendo has always been notoriously litigious about their IP and have never given a fuck about their hardcore fans.
like say, a picture of the Mona Lisa, or a picture of Ben Affleck being Batman behind the scenes of the new Superman movie, you aren't allowed to sell that picture without permission.
You do have a point, but you've picked two really awful examples to illustrate it. The Mona Lisa is public domain and you can absolutely take pictures of celebrities and sell them to the media (as long as they're in public).
Since when has Nintendo given a flying fuck about their hardcore fans? They've built an entire sales ideology based on selling to the general market and pretty much ignoring hardcore gamers.
"Osteopathy" is NOT academic. Not even close.
Anyone care to guess how many of those "inaccuracies" they cite involve criticisms of quackery like osteopathy?
You seem to be under the delusion that it is "our way or the highway" situation.
Ironically, it's environmentalists who are most notorious for taking that approach.
Sane person: "Hey, we can convert now to natural gas and nuclear and put a lot less CO2 in the air."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "But they're not ready yet to hand main loads. In the meantime, let's go with nuclear and natural gas and start making some real progress at least."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "What about hydroelectric at least? That's as clean as it gets. You lose some fish, but it generates no CO2."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "You do understand that refusing to compromise at all is essentially the same thing as supporting coal, right? By refusing to support technologies that can have a real impact on CO2 emissions now, just because they're not perfect, you're basically sabotaging any hope of real progress."
Environmentalist: "No, only wind and solar are acceptable."
Sane person: "So, we keep burning coal then and nothing changes?"
Environmentalist: "....basically, yes."
Fishermen are hostile to pretty much everything except bars.
You sure you don't want to know the nature of my "work"?
When it comes to highly poisonous snakes, I think scared (or at least cautious) is a perfectly rational response. While it's true that few die from snakebites each year, I'm sure that's due in large part to Aussies not being stupid around snakes. I suspect that any idiot dumb enough to start fucking around with a brown snake will learn the hard way that there is indeed more to fear than fear itself.
It ain't so bad if you're the one who gets to run Bartertown.
That's the problem with real democracy. The U.S. has always sold democracy as some cure-all that will somehow turn every backwards country into the U.S. in the 1950's. But *real* democracy doesn't do anything of the sort. And lots of electorates, left to their own devices, will immediately vote in some popular dictator or religious zealot. So to stop this, the U.S. has resorted to advancing a kind of pretend democracy--the kind of "democracy" where the U.S. picks all the candidates and the people choose which carbon copy to vote for. Sadly, the U.S. political system itself has become a similar dog-and-pony show.
the bacteria worked to curtail (but not eliminate) the body odor caused by not washing
I used to work with sailors who would come back after long fishing trips. And I can assure you that they definitely did not have this bacteria present.
If the NSA is willing to collect the phones calls, emails, and web browsing history of every American (as Snowden proved), you think they would hesitate for even a micro-second to do the same for some Muslim foreign country where we're at war??
What color is the sky in your world?
The only democracy that the U.S. ever intended to bring to Afghanistan and Iraq was of the "You can choose pro-U.S. candidate number 1, or pro-U.S. candidate number 2" variety.
I remember it too. It was during the tree-hugging phase in the 70's, IIRC. Environmentalism is a notoriously faddish religion. And at that time it was all the rage to "save the trees." In the 80's this would be dumped in favor of the new hip "save the ozone layer."
You're ashamed that humans invented plastics, which have greatly improved (and even saved) countless lives?
You should become an environmentalist. The entire thesis of their movement is that humans are a disease on this planet (yet oddly enough don't seem to have the balls to actually commit mass suicide themselves). You would fit right in. Maybe you could form a lovely drum circle and all rant about all the ills we terrible humans have brought on the world. Don't forget to get in line for the group tree hug!
Every now and then I check in on it, hoping they've at least made some positive changes that might make beta at least tolerable. But so far, the inability to follow your own comment threads (or even tell if you've been modded on posts) has remained consistently unavailable. They keep telling us "We're listening," but I've never seen a single change made to indicate that. Back to classic again for me.