From TFA: Tedesco said if the variability were random, then over a 30-year period one would expect the record years to be evenly distributed
What absolute rubbish from yet another climate scientist who fails to understand random numbers. Random numbers does not mean "evenly distributed" numbers - especially over such a small sample size. It could be the same number every year for 5 years in a row and still be random, just like you can throw "6" several times in a row with dice and it does not mean that the dice are loaded. That's what random MEANS. Look at the stock market with it's bull runs and bear markets - yet many claim that it's a totally random phenomenon despite this, and tests for randomness support this idea. When he has 500,000 points of data I will start trusting tests for "randomness". But under 30 years' worth of average temperatures and a guy's opinion?
While I don't have a clue on whether his data is true or not, it certainly concerns me that someone who makes such unfounded statements is doing this research in the same way I would be concerned about a paramedic performing a neurosurgical procedure. Apparently he's another pseudoscientist already set on his idea and is collecting information to support his bias.
It's all very good to observe this process but since there is little we can do to stop it, at least we should make an effort to observe and document it properly to see if someone can come up with a plausible, reproducible explanation for it. Putting alarmist, or worse, rabid green "spin" on it is only going to discredit the research in the long run.
Sigh, if your model doesn't explain your observations there's a problem with your model, not with the world. You are saying that there are "regulations" while complaining that the market doesn't act the way you expect. Perhaps those regulations don't have the same effects that you predicted, or perhaps there's something else that you're missing.
As far as I know, a truly free market only requires the rule that goods and services be paid for. Any other rule just adds artificial limitations.
Wait, wait - you're comparing apples to oranges. Windows 7 Home Basic to the other versions? Seriously?
So what you're saying is that an "emerging market" should only have access to a crippled version of Windows. Or they can pay twice as much for a "regular" version of Windows.
but I thought there was no such things as shortages in a free market?
Where do you see a free market? There is no free market, everything is regulated, certain corporations are protected by law, and One Big Agency is assigned the duty of handing out IP addresses. That's not a free market. And by the way, it answers your question: since it's not a free market this is why there are problems.
The answer will be: whatever is cheaper. ISP's don't give a shit about the user or they would be constantly upgrading and improving their networks instead of running software to screw up people's access by throttling or shaping (Yeah we'll sell you x MB/s bandwidth but you're not allowed to use it).
They give a shit about profits though - so they won't let the whole network collapse - but only when they really really really have to. Ahh, monopolies. By the way, weren't we supposed to run out of IP's last year?
Funny, I live in a third world country and in fact it costs MORE here for a "localized" version. And then you have to pay customs duty on top, unless you download it. Are you SURE?
The PC (Windows), gaming is almost dead compared to what is was a few years ago.
Funny how a market can be "almost dead" and yet have some record-breaking sales figures. This is just like Hollywood complaining that no one is going to the movies anymore (piracy, right?) even when box office records are broken every weekend.
Nah, my kids are all grown up and I have plenty of cash. When I feel I have a little too much I try to lose some on the stock market, but it doesn't always work.
If Microsoft did this, somehow the screws would allow hackers to remotely take over your system. Five years from now a patch would be applied in the form of masking tape over the screw heads.
DMCA does not apply in China. Of course if it's copyrighted (which I doubt since Apple didn't invent it), you Americans would be fucked by your own laws. Well it wouldn't be the first time.
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From TFA: Tedesco said if the variability were random, then over a 30-year period one would expect the record years to be evenly distributed
What absolute rubbish from yet another climate scientist who fails to understand random numbers. Random numbers does not mean "evenly distributed" numbers - especially over such a small sample size. It could be the same number every year for 5 years in a row and still be random, just like you can throw "6" several times in a row with dice and it does not mean that the dice are loaded. That's what random MEANS. Look at the stock market with it's bull runs and bear markets - yet many claim that it's a totally random phenomenon despite this, and tests for randomness support this idea. When he has 500,000 points of data I will start trusting tests for "randomness". But under 30 years' worth of average temperatures and a guy's opinion?
While I don't have a clue on whether his data is true or not, it certainly concerns me that someone who makes such unfounded statements is doing this research in the same way I would be concerned about a paramedic performing a neurosurgical procedure. Apparently he's another pseudoscientist already set on his idea and is collecting information to support his bias.
It's all very good to observe this process but since there is little we can do to stop it, at least we should make an effort to observe and document it properly to see if someone can come up with a plausible, reproducible explanation for it. Putting alarmist, or worse, rabid green "spin" on it is only going to discredit the research in the long run.
Sigh, if your model doesn't explain your observations there's a problem with your model, not with the world. You are saying that there are "regulations" while complaining that the market doesn't act the way you expect. Perhaps those regulations don't have the same effects that you predicted, or perhaps there's something else that you're missing.
As far as I know, a truly free market only requires the rule that goods and services be paid for. Any other rule just adds artificial limitations.
Wait, wait - you're comparing apples to oranges. Windows 7 Home Basic to the other versions? Seriously?
So what you're saying is that an "emerging market" should only have access to a crippled version of Windows. Or they can pay twice as much for a "regular" version of Windows.
Then you wonder why there's piracy.
but I thought there was no such things as shortages in a free market?
Where do you see a free market? There is no free market, everything is regulated, certain corporations are protected by law, and One Big Agency is assigned the duty of handing out IP addresses. That's not a free market. And by the way, it answers your question: since it's not a free market this is why there are problems.
The answer will be: whatever is cheaper. ISP's don't give a shit about the user or they would be constantly upgrading and improving their networks instead of running software to screw up people's access by throttling or shaping (Yeah we'll sell you x MB/s bandwidth but you're not allowed to use it).
They give a shit about profits though - so they won't let the whole network collapse - but only when they really really really have to. Ahh, monopolies. By the way, weren't we supposed to run out of IP's last year?
Someone thought that slashdotting the site would help more...
[citation needed]
Funny, I live in a third world country and in fact it costs MORE here for a "localized" version. And then you have to pay customs duty on top, unless you download it. Are you SURE?
I want to know what software he used to make those cats!
Psst. Someone tell this guy about "noise" and "filters" and the like. On or off. That's a good one, lol.
not all world turns on the hinge of governments which are vulnerable to riaa, mpaa, bsa, this that.
Nah that only happens in "free" countries. Oh, wait...
That's a wife? I thought it was a cow.
I suspect this would come from Windows Update (which is enabled by default, remember).
Which is the first thing a pirate turns off, remember?
And Microsoft believes that of those 640 American dollars/year, 250 of them should be spent on an OS.
(Seriously the monthly wage for factory workers is around $200/month. China is improving in that respect)
I guess that in a way, you already have.
The PC (Windows), gaming is almost dead compared to what is was a few years ago.
Funny how a market can be "almost dead" and yet have some record-breaking sales figures. This is just like Hollywood complaining that no one is going to the movies anymore (piracy, right?) even when box office records are broken every weekend.
Starflight...
Not to mention the structural weaknesses inherent in the Twin Towers.
Thanks, your request to get my post modded down got me a +5. You really should have asked for them to mod me up.
Nah, my kids are all grown up and I have plenty of cash. When I feel I have a little too much I try to lose some on the stock market, but it doesn't always work.
If Microsoft did this, somehow the screws would allow hackers to remotely take over your system. Five years from now a patch would be applied in the form of masking tape over the screw heads.
I have sex in the missionary position too.
Apple customers should already know that they are fucking idiots. At least by the time their credit card statement arrives.
DMCA does not apply in China. Of course if it's copyrighted (which I doubt since Apple didn't invent it), you Americans would be fucked by your own laws. Well it wouldn't be the first time.
type pentalobular screwdriver in google - how fucking hard can that be?