This is possibly the most deliberately confusing way to try to explain our chances of war to anyone
It's typical politician talk. If you look into the facts, you'll find most of the numbers they spout are really meaningless. When Nancy states that 98% of catholic women use contraceptives, when you look into the details you'll find out the study only includes women who use contraceptives. When Obama says that the unemployment rate went down, he leaves out the fact that the employment rate is also down.
Politicians always fudge their numbers, or just lie about them. This is just another example.
If they are getting extra power from heat, could they make a device that ran on heat without needing any electricity input? Maybe output electrons instead of photons? That would open up a large number of useful applications. Temp sensors, RTG's, CPU coolers, refrigeration, biomedical power,...
I agree with you on hydrogen but battery swapping is stupid. The latest electric cars can already do a half-hour quick charge to 80%, and they already have more range than the average American's driving distance so pretty soon overnight charging will be all you need.
They also have a limited charging lifetime, and are expensive as hell to replace. It's like buying a $50 ink jet printer, and finding out that ink refills are $65.
Amazingly, jobness is also at a 4 year low (number of people who have jobs). Amazing what statistics you can come up with when you leave off people who have run out of unemployment insurance.
Suffice to say that science insists on verification.
Except in the case of Global Warming. There all you need is a random event, and a wild-ass "theory" to tie it to Global Warming, and money will be thrown your way. Prove it false, and you are out of a job.
Now, if they could only get some science done to prove any of it. It shouldn't be the skeptics problem to anything, it's the adherents that should come up with the proofs.
Voting on a topic is not science. If it were, then we could vote PI to be a more reasonable number, like 5. 5 is a much easier number to work with. Why don't we all vote on what value of PI we want to use?
The "Millennium Bug" fear mongers spreaded fears so wide that even ridiculous fear such as "Planes dropping from the sky" were uttered by many
I heard that some expected all nuclear power plants, as well as the nuclear bombs, would all detonate because of Y2K.
The "Global Meldown" fear mongers? Island nation wiped out, mass extinction of plants and animals, and so on
Don't forget the Japan earthquake. That's been blamed on global warming too.
On another message I got modded down to "-1 Troll" because the fear mongers do not like people like me who can see through their facade of lies and they will do anything to sweep the truth under the rug
That's nothing. With one post, my karma went from excellent to terrible because I quoted one of Obama speeches.
I see Al Gore on the list of pro-GW scientists. He is a competent preacher, although he flunked out of divinity school. I'm glad to see that scientists on both sides of this issue are treated exactly the same.
If you want to have a major effect in this field, maybe you should get the same degrees as Global Warmings greatest proponent. What degrees did Al Gore earn again?
took less than 60 days to evolve into many-celled clusters that behaved as individuals
This is not possible. All the school book selection panels agree, evolution is not possible. That is why they all schools teach Intelligent Design (creationism) instead.
From what I've read, corn is one of the worst crops to use for ethanol production. There are much better crops that could be more efficiently used. Ethanol production has little to do with providing useful fuel. The major reasons for making it are political. The "Green Earth" believe it to be "greener" than normal gas and will vote for anyone who supports it, and the farmers will vote for it because of the subsidies. The fact that it is really just a waste of food is not part of their calculations.
Fact: asteroids have been striking our planet from the beginning of the Earth until present. Fact: Asteroids are going to continue falling on our planet until the end of time.
Clearly, this means we shouldn't do anything to protect ourselves. And if for some reason we strongly suspect that some of our own actions have the side effect of raising the chances of an asteroid striking us, well, we shouldn't do anything about it.
Ok,because of these asteroids, we should tax everyone thousands of dollars every year so that we can paint "monkey crossing" in ten foot wide letters on the beaches during our vacation^Hjunkets. It would be just as useful as most of the plans to "fight" global warming.
We're supposed to build several big-ass homes using more than 40 times as much power as a normal persons home, then complain about how those peons are greedily over using resources, and demand that they pay us for "carbon credits" for their excessive usage. That's the Al Gore way.
Or take over a car company, force them to build an hybrid "electric" car that averages similar mileage as a gas version, and requires government subsidies to be possible for people to buy, then claim it as a successful vehicle when you can only sell one thousand of them. The Barack Obama way.
Or just lock yourself in the oval office, hiding cigars in the interns. The Bill Clinton way.
Slashdot Mirror
This is possibly the most deliberately confusing way to try to explain our chances of war to anyone
It's typical politician talk. If you look into the facts, you'll find most of the numbers they spout are really meaningless. When Nancy states that 98% of catholic women use contraceptives, when you look into the details you'll find out the study only includes women who use contraceptives. When Obama says that the unemployment rate went down, he leaves out the fact that the employment rate is also down.
Politicians always fudge their numbers, or just lie about them. This is just another example.
If they are getting extra power from heat, could they make a device that ran on heat without needing any electricity input? Maybe output electrons instead of photons? That would open up a large number of useful applications. Temp sensors, RTG's, CPU coolers, refrigeration, biomedical power, ...
Did they check to see if their time servers are synced properly? Maybe the power is time-travelling from a previous test.
I agree with you on hydrogen but battery swapping is stupid. The latest electric cars can already do a half-hour quick charge to 80%, and they already have more range than the average American's driving distance so pretty soon overnight charging will be all you need.
They also have a limited charging lifetime, and are expensive as hell to replace. It's like buying a $50 ink jet printer, and finding out that ink refills are $65.
Because joblessness at 4 year lows,
Amazingly, jobness is also at a 4 year low (number of people who have jobs). Amazing what statistics you can come up with when you leave off people who have run out of unemployment insurance.
Suffice to say that science insists on verification.
Except in the case of Global Warming. There all you need is a random event, and a wild-ass "theory" to tie it to Global Warming, and money will be thrown your way. Prove it false, and you are out of a job.
Obvious: That's not a moon! It's a space station!
What are the ethical problems of starting with human stem cells instead of pork or beef?
Maybe we could also do radioactive spider burgers, to activate our spidey senses?
If it's going to hotmail, doesn't that mean you are the spam source?
Now, if they could only get some science done to prove any of it. It shouldn't be the skeptics problem to anything, it's the adherents that should come up with the proofs.
Voting on a topic is not science. If it were, then we could vote PI to be a more reasonable number, like 5. 5 is a much easier number to work with. Why don't we all vote on what value of PI we want to use?
>
The "Millennium Bug" fear mongers spreaded fears so wide that even ridiculous fear such as "Planes dropping from the sky" were uttered by many
I heard that some expected all nuclear power plants, as well as the nuclear bombs, would all detonate because of Y2K.
The "Global Meldown" fear mongers? Island nation wiped out, mass extinction of plants and animals, and so on
Don't forget the Japan earthquake. That's been blamed on global warming too.
On another message I got modded down to "-1 Troll" because the fear mongers do not like people like me who can see through their facade of lies and they will do anything to sweep the truth under the rug
That's nothing. With one post, my karma went from excellent to terrible because I quoted one of Obama speeches.
I see Al Gore on the list of pro-GW scientists. He is a competent preacher, although he flunked out of divinity school. I'm glad to see that scientists on both sides of this issue are treated exactly the same.
If you want to have a major effect in this field, maybe you should get the same degrees as Global Warmings greatest proponent. What degrees did Al Gore earn again?
International Organization To Assess Earth Defense From Space Dangers
Is it really time for me to upgrade my tin-foil hat again?
took less than 60 days to evolve into many-celled clusters that behaved as individuals
This is not possible. All the school book selection panels agree, evolution is not possible. That is why they all schools teach Intelligent Design (creationism) instead.
That must be one humongous internet cafe!
From what I've read, corn is one of the worst crops to use for ethanol production. There are much better crops that could be more efficiently used. Ethanol production has little to do with providing useful fuel. The major reasons for making it are political. The "Green Earth" believe it to be "greener" than normal gas and will vote for anyone who supports it, and the farmers will vote for it because of the subsidies. The fact that it is really just a waste of food is not part of their calculations.
It's more amazing when you determine the amount of change collected per terrorist caught.
Lets see: $400,000 / 0 = infinity;
Just lets you feel good about getting your privates manipulated.
Since nobody needs more than 640K, how much space would this take up?
We really need something to help create more vermin. Never have enought of them.
Will "The Librarian" be included? He might take it amiss if he's excluded.
Donkey Kong! They really should have an app for that if they do this!
Fact: asteroids have been striking our planet from the beginning of the Earth until present. Fact: Asteroids are going to continue falling on our planet until the end of time.
Clearly, this means we shouldn't do anything to protect ourselves. And if for some reason we strongly suspect that some of our own actions have the side effect of raising the chances of an asteroid striking us, well, we shouldn't do anything about it.
Ok,because of these asteroids, we should tax everyone thousands of dollars every year so that we can paint "monkey crossing" in ten foot wide letters on the beaches during our vacation^Hjunkets. It would be just as useful as most of the plans to "fight" global warming.
We're supposed to build several big-ass homes using more than 40 times as much power as a normal persons home, then complain about how those peons are greedily over using resources, and demand that they pay us for "carbon credits" for their excessive usage. That's the Al Gore way.
Or take over a car company, force them to build an hybrid "electric" car that averages similar mileage as a gas version, and requires government subsidies to be possible for people to buy, then claim it as a successful vehicle when you can only sell one thousand of them. The Barack Obama way.
Or just lock yourself in the oval office, hiding cigars in the interns. The Bill Clinton way.
I was just about to try to launch something that looks just like this through my homemade time machine. Guess I won't bother now.