So go back to your bitching about who is at fault, while the rest of the scientific community tries to find solutions to save your ass.
Actually no, that's where specialization comes in. Some people are thinking about this problem to save my ass. It will be my turn to save YOUR ass when you land in my emergency department. See, the whole global warming thing is not my problem really. There are people better trained, better equipped and more motivated to deal with it than me. Just like I know more about their bodies, physiology, pathology and pharmacology than they do.
I think I'm still allowed to speak about anything I choose, however. You make it sound as if I am personally responsible for dooming millions of people to certain death for my banter.
Look, this isn't rocket science. Does carbon dioxide reflect certain infrared wavelengths or does it not? It does. Is the amount of co2 in the atmosphere increasing or decreasing? It is increasing. Are human beings producing co2 or are we removing it from the atmosphere? We are producing it. There you go
Are humans capable of producing more CO2 per decade than say, a single volcanic eruption?
Does the amount of organisms capable of removing CO2 from the atmosphere increase as this new atmosphere provides an environment closer to the optimum for them?
Does the increase of CO2 (which is far denser than oxygen or nitrogen) at relatively LOW altitudes (because of this density) have ANY effect on the upper atmosphere? In fact, is heat really retained at ALL by a thin surface layer of CO2?
The "facts" are not as clear cut as you would like them to be. Of course it's easy if you only listen to what you WANT to hear.
How many people here would get on an airplane if only about 90% of the principles behind aerodynamic science were understood? Or if the designers were only 85% sure it would fly?
There's a problem with your argument here. Knowledge is always advancing. Back in the 1920's, people were willing to fly. Heck even the Wright brothers were willing to fly before they even knew if their aircraft would fly or not. Aerodynamics and aircraft design were very rudimentary in the first half of last century.
Our increased knowledge has allowed us to design aircraft that can move larger amounts of people with greater safety, however this by no means implies that we've reached the limits of knowledge in the fields you mention. Therefore your argument is a non-sequitur. People's willingness to fly is unrelated to knowledge of aerodynamics. It's more related to the availability of aircraft, price, comfort and safety (which is dependent on much more than just aerodynamics and aircraft design).
That being said, 99% of the time when people claim stuff against common sense, they are talking bullshit.
Agreed. That's why (good) scientists learn to think critically. Forget "famous" magazines, peer review, past research, etc. The bottom line is always - what supports these claims and DOES IT MAKE SENSE.
For what? For it to suddenly not cost anything to produce professional entertainment? For Pixar to spend several years and untold hundreds of thousands of animation and rendering hours/servers to produce a movie using only volunteers? For a 50-seat orchestra to not mind doing a film soundtrack for free? For it to cost nothing when an artist brings in talent from other continents to collaborate on a project?
Whoa whoa whoa there, the artist is entitled to be paid for his work. The point you're missing is the artist usually gets a PITTANCE and it's the MIDDLE MAN who is keeping most of the profits. Publishers are now OBSOLETE. If I can download a pirated copy of a CD for free through a bandwidth sharing tool like bit-torrent, your publisher can't claim 90% of the take for "distribution" anymore. THIS is what inflates the price. Your $20 CD gets $5 to the brick and mortar store (which you have to pay transport to get to), $12 for the publisher and his pals, and maybe $1 for materials/shipping and maybe $2 for the artist.
We have the means to push this media out far far cheaper by doing away with the middle-man and doing it entirely electronically. THIS is what the middle men are fighting against, because it is their death knell. And you are just falling for it.
Yeah well next time you speed I hope you get caught and sentenced to life in prison. Your own fault for putting lives at risk... oh, life in prison a little harsh for you? I think it's fair. Just like a couple years in jail and 6 figure fines are fair for copying a DVD.
You make it sound like double standards are a new thing to the human race.
Even better - people have had their houses searched and have been arrested for having devices that permit them to use pirated console games, and yet no one has ever had their door kicked in for owning a dual cassette player.
Want big budget films like Transformers and Bourne?
Honestly? Not really. Oh the teenagers love those, but teenagers love whatever you tell them to love. So does Hollywood prefer to make $360M with a $150M movie, or $100M with a $5M movie? Which has the better ROI, I wonder?
This is not necessarily true. Quite a few low budget indie films have made it big over the past few years.
Of course if Hollywood keeps feeding us crap, then the people are going to eat crap. However "how many millions can we spend on this movie" seems to be the official "my dick is bigger than yours" contest between Hollywood film studios nowadays.
Not only that, but they insist on rolling the shuttle over to fly upside down underneath the main engines which increases the likelihood of debris from the main engines hitting the payload.
Not at that speed. Gravity becomes negligible when creating vectors compared to the wind resistance. Upside down, vertical, horizontal, it doesn't matter. There's only one real direction: DOWNWIND. That's the only place your debris is going to go.
Now you could make the argument that some of the streams of air are shaped to blow debris onto the shuttle, that I would buy. Gravity has nothing to do with it, however.
Which it's important to know if theres a 250-foot frikken robot with frikken lasers on its frikken head out there roaming around all mad because NASA ripped its arm off.
Perhaps the fact that it has "Canada" written on it is a clue as to where we should look first...
I wonder whether within my lifetime, the US will go from world dominance to scratching around for a world role. It only took about 40 years for the British Empire to go from "sun never setting" to "small island in Northern Europe".
Some think this process has already begun.
I live in a small central American country that is refusing to take part (we're still debating it, while everyone else signed it blindly 2-3 years ago) in CAFTA (the "Central American Free Trade Agreement") in favor of: The European Union. This is a country (Costa Rica) that has traditionally had VERY strong economic ties with the US. Now we are moving more towards Europe and China. Better deals, less red tape, and fewer broken promises.
Oh the US can live without Costa Rica, but perhaps this is the beginning of a trend.
Now look at the current economic situation in the US. The housing industry is down and soon this will start showing impacting the economy as current projects are completed. People have bought homes on credit at record prices, and now can't afford to pay for their mortgages. Fuel prices are sky high, and the dollar is down meaning imports will be more expensive in dollars. The US imports much more than it exports. All this is inflationary. At a time when people are living on borrowed cash. Perhaps America will pull through. This time. But it is balancing on a knife edge right now.
You really can't afford to elect another asshole next time around.
Apparently the chances of being taught good fundamental math is lower than the chance of meeting IRL a freak
I wouldn't be so sure. There are plenty of sites that can help with basic math, if you just look for them. I guess you belong to the "overblown" club, huh?
Back to the topic: However if it's POSSIBLE to do it, a good lawyer can use that in a case. A determined person who knows what they are doing can easily go through someone's wireless net. In fact, if you're going to do something illegal it becomes desirable to do exactly that. Prove that MY client is guilty, Mr. plaintiff. IP is not necessarily irrefutable proof.
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So go back to your bitching about who is at fault, while the rest of the scientific community tries to find solutions to save your ass.
Actually no, that's where specialization comes in. Some people are thinking about this problem to save my ass. It will be my turn to save YOUR ass when you land in my emergency department. See, the whole global warming thing is not my problem really. There are people better trained, better equipped and more motivated to deal with it than me. Just like I know more about their bodies, physiology, pathology and pharmacology than they do.
I think I'm still allowed to speak about anything I choose, however. You make it sound as if I am personally responsible for dooming millions of people to certain death for my banter.
Wait a minute. Did you just say that Freemon Dyson is ignorant ". . .of both the scientific method and the subject at hand?"
:-)
You sound like a heretic too. I'd keep my mouth shut if I was you, or we'll burn YOU as well!
Look, this isn't rocket science. Does carbon dioxide reflect certain infrared wavelengths or does it not? It does. Is the amount of co2 in the atmosphere increasing or decreasing? It is increasing. Are human beings producing co2 or are we removing it from the atmosphere? We are producing it. There you go
Are humans capable of producing more CO2 per decade than say, a single volcanic eruption?
Does the amount of organisms capable of removing CO2 from the atmosphere increase as this new atmosphere provides an environment closer to the optimum for them?
Does the increase of CO2 (which is far denser than oxygen or nitrogen) at relatively LOW altitudes (because of this density) have ANY effect on the upper atmosphere? In fact, is heat really retained at ALL by a thin surface layer of CO2?
The "facts" are not as clear cut as you would like them to be. Of course it's easy if you only listen to what you WANT to hear.
How many people here would get on an airplane if only about 90% of the principles behind aerodynamic science were understood? Or if the designers were only 85% sure it would fly?
There's a problem with your argument here. Knowledge is always advancing. Back in the 1920's, people were willing to fly. Heck even the Wright brothers were willing to fly before they even knew if their aircraft would fly or not. Aerodynamics and aircraft design were very rudimentary in the first half of last century.
Our increased knowledge has allowed us to design aircraft that can move larger amounts of people with greater safety, however this by no means implies that we've reached the limits of knowledge in the fields you mention. Therefore your argument is a non-sequitur. People's willingness to fly is unrelated to knowledge of aerodynamics. It's more related to the availability of aircraft, price, comfort and safety (which is dependent on much more than just aerodynamics and aircraft design).
That being said, 99% of the time when people claim stuff against common sense, they are talking bullshit.
Agreed. That's why (good) scientists learn to think critically. Forget "famous" magazines, peer review, past research, etc. The bottom line is always - what supports these claims and DOES IT MAKE SENSE.
We need more people to stand up against the global warming onslaught.
I wear my eyepatch and parrot every day. What do YOU do to prevent global warming?
He spoke out against global warming!
BURN HIM!!!!
also, first
STUPID OLD OLD WHITE MEN
Funny you had to bring color into this. Like "rap" songs are completely different and original and have been for the past 30 years...
Find your courage in a bottle, like a real man.
REAL courage can be found hanging at the end of a rope.
For what? For it to suddenly not cost anything to produce professional entertainment? For Pixar to spend several years and untold hundreds of thousands of animation and rendering hours/servers to produce a movie using only volunteers? For a 50-seat orchestra to not mind doing a film soundtrack for free? For it to cost nothing when an artist brings in talent from other continents to collaborate on a project?
Whoa whoa whoa there, the artist is entitled to be paid for his work. The point you're missing is the artist usually gets a PITTANCE and it's the MIDDLE MAN who is keeping most of the profits. Publishers are now OBSOLETE. If I can download a pirated copy of a CD for free through a bandwidth sharing tool like bit-torrent, your publisher can't claim 90% of the take for "distribution" anymore. THIS is what inflates the price. Your $20 CD gets $5 to the brick and mortar store (which you have to pay transport to get to), $12 for the publisher and his pals, and maybe $1 for materials/shipping and maybe $2 for the artist.
We have the means to push this media out far far cheaper by doing away with the middle-man and doing it entirely electronically. THIS is what the middle men are fighting against, because it is their death knell. And you are just falling for it.
Yeah well next time you speed I hope you get caught and sentenced to life in prison. Your own fault for putting lives at risk... oh, life in prison a little harsh for you? I think it's fair. Just like a couple years in jail and 6 figure fines are fair for copying a DVD.
You make it sound like double standards are a new thing to the human race.
Even better - people have had their houses searched and have been arrested for having devices that permit them to use pirated console games, and yet no one has ever had their door kicked in for owning a dual cassette player.
Want big budget films like Transformers and Bourne?
Honestly? Not really. Oh the teenagers love those, but teenagers love whatever you tell them to love. So does Hollywood prefer to make $360M with a $150M movie, or $100M with a $5M movie? Which has the better ROI, I wonder?
This is not necessarily true. Quite a few low budget indie films have made it big over the past few years.
Of course if Hollywood keeps feeding us crap, then the people are going to eat crap. However "how many millions can we spend on this movie" seems to be the official "my dick is bigger than yours" contest between Hollywood film studios nowadays.
You would think that with billions of dollars and thousands of talented engineers
Hey this is a government program you are talking about. They fired all the talented people YEARS ago.
Not only that, but they insist on rolling the shuttle over to fly upside down underneath the main engines which increases the likelihood of debris from the main engines hitting the payload.
Not at that speed. Gravity becomes negligible when creating vectors compared to the wind resistance. Upside down, vertical, horizontal, it doesn't matter. There's only one real direction: DOWNWIND. That's the only place your debris is going to go.
Now you could make the argument that some of the streams of air are shaped to blow debris onto the shuttle, that I would buy. Gravity has nothing to do with it, however.
Which it's important to know if theres a 250-foot frikken robot with frikken lasers on its frikken head out there roaming around all mad because NASA ripped its arm off.
Perhaps the fact that it has "Canada" written on it is a clue as to where we should look first...
I wonder whether within my lifetime, the US will go from world dominance to scratching around for a world role. It only took about 40 years for the British Empire to go from "sun never setting" to "small island in Northern Europe".
Some think this process has already begun.
I live in a small central American country that is refusing to take part (we're still debating it, while everyone else signed it blindly 2-3 years ago) in CAFTA (the "Central American Free Trade Agreement") in favor of: The European Union. This is a country (Costa Rica) that has traditionally had VERY strong economic ties with the US. Now we are moving more towards Europe and China. Better deals, less red tape, and fewer broken promises.
Oh the US can live without Costa Rica, but perhaps this is the beginning of a trend.
Now look at the current economic situation in the US. The housing industry is down and soon this will start showing impacting the economy as current projects are completed. People have bought homes on credit at record prices, and now can't afford to pay for their mortgages. Fuel prices are sky high, and the dollar is down meaning imports will be more expensive in dollars. The US imports much more than it exports. All this is inflationary. At a time when people are living on borrowed cash. Perhaps America will pull through. This time. But it is balancing on a knife edge right now.
You really can't afford to elect another asshole next time around.
The title of this story is misleading and the story is as well. Pirates copy DVD's, not create new consumer electronics products.
Wait, in a few years they will change it to "terrorists".
How are the Western economies ever going to compete, once the East gets properly established?
They're not. And then the years of tariffs, non-cooperation, trade restrictions and political threats will come back and haunt us.
My bad, I meant whax not knoppix
And god forbid; you should run into; a foulest fiend, enemy of everyone; semicolon.
Apparently the chances of being taught good fundamental math is lower than the chance of meeting IRL a freak
I wouldn't be so sure. There are plenty of sites that can help with basic math, if you just look for them. I guess you belong to the "overblown" club, huh?
Inadequate protection
Enjoy your computer AIDS
Back to the topic: However if it's POSSIBLE to do it, a good lawyer can use that in a case. A determined person who knows what they are doing can easily go through someone's wireless net. In fact, if you're going to do something illegal it becomes desirable to do exactly that. Prove that MY client is guilty, Mr. plaintiff. IP is not necessarily irrefutable proof.