You know, in the 70's they were predicting Global Cooling. Back then, shouldn't we have transformed the economies of the entire planet to deal with the possibility of that? You don't want to wait for more accurate data, just in case? We should be generating billions of tons of greenhouse gases right now to fix GC!
That's the problem with GW. You're running around in panic mode, not really sure what's happening, but want to be doing something, no matter how stupid it turns out to be in the end. During the Bubonic Plague, they went around killing off all the cats to prevent the spread of the disease. Turns out it was caused by rats, and killing the cats helped the disease spread faster. How do you know your panicked reactions will not turn out to be as stupid as killing the cats? Doing "something" is just an attempt to make yourself feel that you have control over the problem, but rarely does it accomplish anything useful when you don't understand the problem itself. So go ahead and kill off the cats if it makes you feel better, but understand that your kids will probably be cursing you as "stupid twits" when things are better understood.
Also, the warming of the oceans will expand the water.
Water is odd about being heated or cooled compared to most other materials. Water actually expands when it is cooled, which makes it less dense as it cools, which is the reason why ice floats. This is also why freezing pop cans is a bad idea.
It is BAD SCIENCE like this that makes the anti-GW people challenge the GW adherents. Fudge factors in the computer programs are the least of it.
Autism is a growing problem in western society because of the myopic focus that is encouraged. Most people can't even see the bigger picture anymore. The devil is in the details.
Autism is a growing problem in western society because of the larger numbers that are diagnosed with the problem. There may not be any actual increase, just a larger percentage of people labeled with the problem. For example, let's say they could detect 60% of the people to have some form of autism, now they can detect 70%. Does that really mean the condition is more rampant, just because you can detect it at lower levels?
The devil is really in the details, and statistics can lie. Especially when you are using different means of counting your data points.
Considering that it had flames shooting out the back, I hop not. Otherwise the poor citizens of Batburg will have more problems with radiation sickness than they had from all the super villions.
Remember when we had Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NMRI)? They had to drop the 'N' for people to accept it, even though it had nothing to do with radiation.
Maybe we could use some made up word for describing Thorium. Instead of "Radioactive Thorium" we could have "Blaverated Thorium", then you could sell the heck out of it.
you're supposed to predict 20 years for horrible disasters to occur. In 20 years: Global Cooling will destroy civilization. We're going to run out of gas in 20 years. We only have enough coal for 20 years. California will be hit with a super earthquake within 20 years. Mt. Saint Helens will erupt within 20 years. Population growth will cause massive starvation within the next 20 years. Global Warming will kill all life on Earth within 20 years.
Critical disasters are ALWAYS predicted within 20 years.
It depends on where you were living I guess. I was in the UK at the time and my school got the first computer in the county in 1979 - a Commodore Pet 3008.
HA! I knew that crap about "Baby", the "Ferranti Mark 1", and all those other fakes was pure bunk, and all that stuff at Bletchey park was also totally fake! Here we have a native who blows those fake storiess out of the water! Everyone knows that all computer development occurred in the USA!
Some of the early clone boards available through Jameco were socketed like this. They also had intresting manuals, translated from the original Japenese into something vaugly resembling English. Very polite if not very useful. Sections went something like: "If you wish to enable this function, please to turn switch 7 on. Else, please to turn switch 7 on."
The original Planet of the Apes had a lot going for it: a compelling lead, an interesting story, a convincing world, a couple of good quotable catch phrases, and of course the not-really-all-that-surprising twist ending.
Beyond "you damn dirty apes", what other good quotes were there?
Except the budget itself is law, and it authorized the debt by requiring more expenses than are supported by income.
What budget? Obama hasn't ever passed a budget. We are not running on a budget right now, just a series of "wink! wink!" ignore this and keep the government running..
Actually, it sounds like somebody already ran the numbers, and if certain things didn't happen, then the downgrade would be triggered. Why wait 10 months for something you know right now?
1) Plan on buying something useless for $100. 2) Haggle the price down to $75, then buy 10 of them. 3) Congratulations, you've saved $250.
1) Terrorist threatens to kill 100 orphans. 2) Government argues for months, but finally does nothing. Terrorist kill 99 orphans. 3) Congratulations, you've managed to save one orphan.
Your "crazy uncle Bob", who insists that you drive under the speed limit, stay off the sidewalks, and obey the traffic rules. I'm sure the insurance company ignored your 300 unpaid traffic tickets and raised your premiums because of him.
Do you realize that under Obama, the debt has increased more than all the previous presidents combined. And he hasn't finished a single term yet. So yes, I'd say that this party is responsible for 3 years of reckless spending!
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You know, in the 70's they were predicting Global Cooling. Back then, shouldn't we have transformed the economies of the entire planet to deal with the possibility of that? You don't want to wait for more accurate data, just in case? We should be generating billions of tons of greenhouse gases right now to fix GC!
That's the problem with GW. You're running around in panic mode, not really sure what's happening, but want to be doing something, no matter how stupid it turns out to be in the end. During the Bubonic Plague, they went around killing off all the cats to prevent the spread of the disease. Turns out it was caused by rats, and killing the cats helped the disease spread faster. How do you know your panicked reactions will not turn out to be as stupid as killing the cats? Doing "something" is just an attempt to make yourself feel that you have control over the problem, but rarely does it accomplish anything useful when you don't understand the problem itself. So go ahead and kill off the cats if it makes you feel better, but understand that your kids will probably be cursing you as "stupid twits" when things are better understood.
Also, the warming of the oceans will expand the water.
Water is odd about being heated or cooled compared to most other materials. Water actually expands when it is cooled, which makes it less dense as it cools, which is the reason why ice floats. This is also why freezing pop cans is a bad idea.
It is BAD SCIENCE like this that makes the anti-GW people challenge the GW adherents. Fudge factors in the computer programs are the least of it.
Autism is a growing problem in western society because of the myopic focus that is encouraged. Most people can't even see the bigger picture anymore. The devil is in the details.
Autism is a growing problem in western society because of the larger numbers that are diagnosed with the problem. There may not be any actual increase, just a larger percentage of people labeled with the problem. For example, let's say they could detect 60% of the people to have some form of autism, now they can detect 70%. Does that really mean the condition is more rampant, just because you can detect it at lower levels?
The devil is really in the details, and statistics can lie. Especially when you are using different means of counting your data points.
Considering that it had flames shooting out the back, I hop not. Otherwise the poor citizens of Batburg will have more problems with radiation sickness than they had from all the super villions.
Remember when we had Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NMRI)? They had to drop the 'N' for people to accept it, even though it had nothing to do with radiation.
Maybe we could use some made up word for describing Thorium. Instead of "Radioactive Thorium" we could have "Blaverated Thorium", then you could sell the heck out of it.
you're supposed to predict 20 years for horrible disasters to occur. In 20 years: Global Cooling will destroy civilization. We're going to run out of gas in 20 years. We only have enough coal for 20 years. California will be hit with a super earthquake within 20 years. Mt. Saint Helens will erupt within 20 years. Population growth will cause massive starvation within the next 20 years. Global Warming will kill all life on Earth within 20 years.
Critical disasters are ALWAYS predicted within 20 years.
It depends on where you were living I guess. I was in the UK at the time and my school got the first computer in the county in 1979 - a Commodore Pet 3008.
HA! I knew that crap about "Baby", the "Ferranti Mark 1", and all those other fakes was pure bunk, and all that stuff at Bletchey park was also totally fake! Here we have a native who blows those fake storiess out of the water! Everyone knows that all computer development occurred in the USA!
Some of the early clone boards available through Jameco were socketed like this. They also had intresting manuals, translated from the original Japenese into something vaugly resembling English. Very polite if not very useful. Sections went something like: "If you wish to enable this function, please to turn switch 7 on. Else, please to turn switch 7 on."
Isn't this how the 6 Million Dollar man started? Maybe they're just doing reruns this summer.
Have they tested it against Aliens yet? What good is it if you can't fling Aliens out an airlock with it?
These are obviously eggs laid by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to save the world from Global Warming. They will hatch into Pirates.
At first, I read that as Microsoft patents "Ping of Death". And it didn't surprise me.
They've already dealt with this problem. Haven't you seen how well they deal with this with the Airoport Screening?
Daddy? Is that you?
The original Planet of the Apes had a lot going for it: a compelling lead, an interesting story, a convincing world, a couple of good quotable catch phrases, and of course the not-really-all-that-surprising twist ending.
Beyond "you damn dirty apes", what other good quotes were there?
Reading the reviews of various movies mentioned here, I realize that "Plan 9 from Outer Space" wasn't that bad after all.
...and, yes, I'd wear John Wayne Gacy's sweater, if it were clean, I needed a sweater, and it at-least-sorta fit.
Why do most serial killers have the same middle name?
Well, it does have plenty of Nitrogen, which is something plants like. You may want to dilute it a bit, though.
You mean, drink a lot of beer?
Except the budget itself is law, and it authorized the debt by requiring more expenses than are supported by income.
What budget? Obama hasn't ever passed a budget. We are not running on a budget right now, just a series of "wink! wink!" ignore this and keep the government running..
Actually, it sounds like somebody already ran the numbers, and if certain things didn't happen, then the downgrade would be triggered. Why wait 10 months for something you know right now?
We shouldn't REQUIRE a GD debt increase to begin with.
Shouldn't you say, a 5th debt increase since Obama took charge?
1) Plan on buying something useless for $100.
2) Haggle the price down to $75, then buy 10 of them.
3) Congratulations, you've saved $250.
1) Terrorist threatens to kill 100 orphans.
2) Government argues for months, but finally does nothing. Terrorist kill 99 orphans.
3) Congratulations, you've managed to save one orphan.
There, fixed that for you.
Your "crazy uncle Bob", who insists that you drive under the speed limit, stay off the sidewalks, and obey the traffic rules. I'm sure the insurance company ignored your 300 unpaid traffic tickets and raised your premiums because of him.
Do you realize that under Obama, the debt has increased more than all the previous presidents combined. And he hasn't finished a single term yet. So yes, I'd say that this party is responsible for 3 years of reckless spending!
This should be ready to service the ISS about the time it is scheduled to be crash landed.