1) Is the earth getting warmer?
Sure looks that way. 2) Are humans doing anything that could be causing this?
Probably. 3) So is what we're doing causing the warming?
I'll have to give that a firm "maybe". Causation ain't correlation, y'know. 4) Would more data, over a longer timespan, help.
Yep. 5) So we should wait for more, better data?
Snag is, if the "hunch" that we're the cause is right, then that'll be *way* to late. 6) So we've got to make a really important decision based on insufficient data?
Sucks, don't it? 7) If we just carry on regardless, how bad will it get?
Probably not too bad. Scare stories sell papers, that's all. 8) So just carry on then?
Economic analysis of the situation says that the best estimate is that it's in our
common, long term, best interest to avoid the warming. 9) "Common"??? "Long term"??? So nothing's going to get done?
Nope. Remember, Holland=bad retirement area. 10) And finally, why are ther always ten questions?
And why do they all have nothing to do with the article???
Doesn't yet come with a feature to autorun on 120 different machines every hour... Might as well let it install. Can't do any harm. (Does Sony do a rootkit stick yet?)
Nope. That's not how it works. The government "says" it's recording everyone, just to scare'em into being good. But when the excrement inpacts the extractor, chances are you'll find out there wasn't actually any budget for *tape* so no recording actually exists! SNAFU rules!
I use FireFox for web development. I use Safari for general surfing. I very rarely quit out (just close the MacBook's lid...) After a week of uptime, and a week of use of Safari, it had got reeeaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. So I quit it. 17 MINUTES of thrashing like a dead whale later, it finally died. 17 minutes to quit on a 1.83GHz Core Duo with 2GB of memory. Wow. I mean really. Wow. That. App. Leaks!!! (Safari has saft installed, and RSS disabled. This box was also running mail.app, terminal, SOHOnotes, gvim and iTunes. I checked!)
Known facts = raw data. Understanding, explainations and predictions = theories. You're advocating the end of science and the start of stamp collecting.
Similar here. Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 with 144MB. Slow, but still useable. Wouldn't want to run iTunes, but browsing with 2-3 windows and reading mail is doable.
Yep, I agree. Ruby's slow. Probably slower than the rest at just about everything. Except speed of code development. So for my one-off scripts that run for 45s in ruby instead of 0.1s in perl, well what's mattered to me is that it took 5 mins to write, rather than the 90mins + a brain tumor that perl does*
* I last used perl at about 4.036, tried to get into "objects" with perl 5, and jumped to ruby for the sake of my sanity.
Taking up arms against them is also a ridiculously extreme idea. If you want to help remove the RIAA's power, here's a few ideas:
- Learn a musical instrument and join the free culture movement.
I did that, then my government (UK) made it illegal for me to play in public (unless the building has paid a fee and undergone very expensive and pointless building work, so very few have) The juke box can get turned up to 11, tho', and that's OK.
1) Put up a webpage showing a nipple. 2) Americans call in an air strike, "for the sake of the children" 3) The school next to you gets flattened. 4) No more noisy brats next door, the value of your house goes up. 5) Profit!
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Strawman. Miles fails the googlefight against "km"
1) Is the earth getting warmer?
Sure looks that way.
2) Are humans doing anything that could be causing this?
Probably.
3) So is what we're doing causing the warming?
I'll have to give that a firm "maybe". Causation ain't correlation, y'know.
4) Would more data, over a longer timespan, help.
Yep.
5) So we should wait for more, better data?
Snag is, if the "hunch" that we're the cause is right, then that'll be *way* to late.
6) So we've got to make a really important decision based on insufficient data?
Sucks, don't it?
7) If we just carry on regardless, how bad will it get?
Probably not too bad. Scare stories sell papers, that's all.
8) So just carry on then?
Economic analysis of the situation says that the best estimate is that it's in our
common, long term, best interest to avoid the warming.
9) "Common"??? "Long term"??? So nothing's going to get done?
Nope. Remember, Holland=bad retirement area.
10) And finally, why are ther always ten questions?
And why do they all have nothing to do with the article???
Who says the government would tell us it is doing this?
Gentlemen and ladies. Nerds and ne'er-do-wells. *This* is why we need a "-1 GoatSE" mod option. ... tainted.
I feel
That explains *so* much about VMS ...
Just like WinNT did Posix ...
"War on Copyright Infringement" ??? Na. "Pirate Purge"
Doesn't yet come with a feature to autorun on 120 different machines every hour... Might as well let it install. Can't do any harm. (Does Sony do a rootkit stick yet?)
Just "open /Applications/FooBarBaz.app" What's so hard about that?
It's already been paid for out of taxation.
That doesn't seem to apply any more...
Cool! So what features of a modern OS is emacs still lacking? (Other than a decent text editor?)
> Americans generally do come around and do the right thing eventually.
"The Americans will always do the right thing, once they have exhausted the alternatives." W.Churchill
Any chance of something like this for Thunderbird?
Yeah, it's so much better when the crucial one's get looked after by the president's brother.
Can it delete multiple collapsed threads yet, or does it *still* just snip off the first email and leave the rest to bug you later???
Nope. That's not how it works. The government "says" it's recording everyone, just to scare'em into being good. But when the excrement inpacts the extractor, chances are you'll find out there wasn't actually any budget for *tape* so no recording actually exists! SNAFU rules!
I use FireFox for web development. I use Safari for general surfing. I very rarely quit out (just close the MacBook's lid...)
After a week of uptime, and a week of use of Safari, it had got reeeaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
So I quit it. 17 MINUTES of thrashing like a dead whale later, it finally died. 17 minutes to quit on a 1.83GHz Core Duo with 2GB of memory. Wow. I mean really. Wow. That. App. Leaks!!! (Safari has saft installed, and RSS disabled. This box was also running mail.app, terminal, SOHOnotes, gvim and iTunes. I checked!)
Known facts = raw data. Understanding, explainations and predictions = theories.
You're advocating the end of science and the start of stamp collecting.
Similar here. Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 with 144MB. Slow, but still useable. Wouldn't want to run iTunes, but browsing with 2-3 windows and reading mail is doable.
4) Natalie Portman + hot grits
Wrong! Aliens *really* want to meet a chimp with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other.
Why else do they always say "Take me to your leader"???
Yep, I agree. Ruby's slow. Probably slower than the rest at just about everything.
Except speed of code development.
So for my one-off scripts that run for 45s in ruby instead of 0.1s in perl, well
what's mattered to me is that it took 5 mins to write, rather than the 90mins +
a brain tumor that perl does*
* I last used perl at about 4.036, tried to get into "objects" with perl 5, and
jumped to ruby for the sake of my sanity.
Taking up arms against them is also a ridiculously extreme idea. If you want to help remove the RIAA's power, here's a few ideas:
- Learn a musical instrument and join the free culture movement.
I did that, then my government (UK) made it illegal for me to play in public (unless the building has paid a fee and undergone very expensive and pointless building work, so very few have) The juke box can get turned up to 11, tho', and that's OK.
1) Put up a webpage showing a nipple.
2) Americans call in an air strike, "for the sake of the children"
3) The school next to you gets flattened.
4) No more noisy brats next door, the value of your house goes up.
5) Profit!