Okay Mr. Wizard, what is your basis for saying global warming has anything to do with hurricanes? Just because? All I'm looking for is some sort of data to verify the position, and I don't see any.
Could some form of global warming contribute meaningfully to the formation of hurricanes? Certainly; it isn't impossible. That doesn't mean I see any evidence that it is actually happening. Is there any reason whatsoever to believe that it has? I don't see it. Honestly, I didn't have an opinion on this 3 days ago, and I don't have a lot of emotion invested in the opinion I have formed up to this point. Enlighten me, I'm happy to change my mind when confronted with new information.
While you're at it, you can explain my strawman to me, too. Unless you're saying that my arguement is faulty because I used sarcasm and hyperbole to paraphrase it at the end? How about this then: "I mean, clearly Hurricanes are affected by global warming." Better? Just look at the second image you linked to, note that of the last 11 years, more than half have an ACE of 200+, more than twice the number of years than in the 40+ years before. But even that doesn't prove much. But once we have "proof" it will be too late already.
You are even more naive than I thought. Digg is easier to manipulate than an US election using Diebold machines.
Ease of manipulation & bias are completely different concepts. Go read up on them & come back when you understand the difference. Bullshit - when you can manipulate something that peddles oppinions, you add bias. What are you, dumb? Why, yes, you have proven that already.
What a stunningly significant correlation. I mean, clearly Hurricanes are caused by global warming. How could I ever have doubted. There's that strawman again.
How about because you can put a chart showing hurricane activity (decrease, hold, then increase) on top of a chart showing mean global temperature (steady increase) and there is no correlation over the past 60 years. Would that do it? You mean there is a dent in the number of hurricanes when the often quoted "Global Cooling" occured?
You *do* realize just how fragmentary the fossil record is, don't you? So your argument is that by pure coincidence the fossil record from the hotter periods show less species than that of colder periods?
The point still stands; there is little justification to a link between global warming and increased hurricane activity. Why? Because Global Warming isn't the only thing influencing hurricane activity?
While digg may be biased at least its reign in by its users. You are even more naive than I thought. Digg is easier to manipulate than an US election using Diebold machines.
You mean like last year . . . with the total of 0 hurricanes. Damn youze Global Warming, I'll get you for that!
I think you'll find that over the past few years the average number of hurricanes may be unusual, but it isn't unusually high. 5 not 0. That's in the Atlantic. 11 in the Pacific. And that's just the ones near the USA.
Hi, welcome to earth. We're much older than 600,000 years. By quite a bit.
There's proof that the levels were higher when the Dinosaurs were around, and hey, guess what, there's also evidence that the climate is in a cycle. Meaning you're ignoring that this could be happening normally.
There is also proof that there were much less species then. And "cycles" don't happen without a cause - where is this cause for this cycle?
Actually, I need to pull a trailer on occasion. That's not doable, safely, with a Prius. Please don't assume that everyone needs to compensate for something (or lack thereof). On occasion I need to go to the hospital real fast. I should drive around in an ambulance all the time.
On occasion I need to cross rivers, so I should drive around in an amphibic car, just in case.
On occasion I need to move, so I better drive an 18-wheeler to work.
On occasion I rent a car that fit my current needs.
Not only is that site biased, but it attempts to push its bias onto other sites. I think it's a real pity that Slashdot accepts submissions from there. Never have truer words about digg been said.
Perhaps I didn't include enough context in my quote. The poster I replied to was talking about the stock scandal, not the Greenpeace issue. So which other sides to you want to hear? The SEC?
I can't believe there was more than one idiot who made a comment like this or more than one idiot who modded it up. 1990, with an average lifespan at about 80 years that means anyone under the age of 63 when East Germany fell is probably still alive.
Twenties also includes more than just the age '20'.
Let me revise:
Researcher 1: We've put together the first document!
Researcher 2: Hmm, it's about some kid named Hans, age 12.
Researcher 1: Wow, Hans slit the throat of a border guard who raped his mother. Wait, we are talking about East Germany, not the USA.
It's nobody's business what fantasies people have, and it's nobody's business who sleeps with who, but it is everyone's business when someone becomes a danger - especially to children.
Back in the day, men took wives who were, what, 14-16? Where was the OMGKIDDIEPORN crowd then? Back then, children were property of their father.
Sure, you just can't complain that somebody else is "breaking" the GPL, simply because he agrees with you on the copyright issue.
I don't understand what you mean. Please elaborate. You have proven not to be able to understand even the most simple concepts, so why should I bother.
According to a knowledge base article (#936824) posted yesterday on Microsoft's Help and Support Web site, Vista's Eject command doesn't work with properly with a connected iPod and can cause data corruption (see Techmeme discussion):
Oddly enough, the new Globe and Mail story is a dupe of the old story (now in archive, free part follows).
A report that that some Canadian coins have been compromised by secretly embedded spy transmitters is overblown, according to a U.S. official familiar with the case. "There is no story there," the official, who asked not to be named, told The Globe and Mail.
Actually on second thought, GPL advocates are just going to claim that the GPL is used to simulate a world with no copyright In a world without copyright, e.g. Linksys could use whatever code they liked in their routers.
You can't support GPL without supporting copyright, as it would be unenforceable without copyright.
Bullshit.
It's possible to think that copyright is wrong, but accept the GPL as way of enforcing sharing while copyright exists. That's not an opinion I hold, but at least some seem to. Sure, you just can't complain that somebody else is "breaking" the GPL, simply because he agrees with you on the copyright issue.
Sorry I should have said it wasn't published in the US originally. See, it's not only the US copyright laws that are stupid, but the European ones as well. So what you are actually complaining about is that you can't get it in the USA for some reason, and don't want to bother to get it somewhere else.
...it would be possible to have commented disassemblies of everything that a computer can run openly available. Yeah, and having a disassembly (even well commented) of something written in a higher language (preferably OO) will do you sooo much good.
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Could some form of global warming contribute meaningfully to the formation of hurricanes? Certainly; it isn't impossible. That doesn't mean I see any evidence that it is actually happening. Is there any reason whatsoever to believe that it has? I don't see it. Honestly, I didn't have an opinion on this 3 days ago, and I don't have a lot of emotion invested in the opinion I have formed up to this point. Enlighten me, I'm happy to change my mind when confronted with new information.
While you're at it, you can explain my strawman to me, too. Unless you're saying that my arguement is faulty because I used sarcasm and hyperbole to paraphrase it at the end? How about this then: "I mean, clearly Hurricanes are affected by global warming." Better? Just look at the second image you linked to, note that of the last 11 years, more than half have an ACE of 200+, more than twice the number of years than in the 40+ years before. But even that doesn't prove much. But once we have "proof" it will be too late already.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060316_hurr icane_sst.html
Ease of manipulation & bias are completely different concepts. Go read up on them & come back when you understand the difference. Bullshit - when you can manipulate something that peddles oppinions, you add bias. What are you, dumb? Why, yes, you have proven that already.
While digg may be biased at least its reign in by its users. You are even more naive than I thought. Digg is easier to manipulate than an US election using Diebold machines.
You'll note the dead silence at the news that Mars is warming just as fast (or faster), and by just as much, as the Earth is.
Which of course has nothing to do with the fact that Mars' atmosphere is >95% CO2.I think you'll find that over the past few years the average number of hurricanes may be unusual, but it isn't unusually high. 5 not 0. That's in the Atlantic. 11 in the Pacific. And that's just the ones near the USA.
There's proof that the levels were higher when the Dinosaurs were around, and hey, guess what, there's also evidence that the climate is in a cycle. Meaning you're ignoring that this could be happening normally.
There is also proof that there were much less species then. And "cycles" don't happen without a cause - where is this cause for this cycle?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Gdi6MAd1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0pPT3O6Sk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNV0Y0JAlBc
On occasion I need to cross rivers, so I should drive around in an amphibic car, just in case.
On occasion I need to move, so I better drive an 18-wheeler to work.
On occasion I rent a car that fit my current needs.
Yes. No. What ever yyou say. Sure.
Twenties also includes more than just the age '20'.
Let me revise:
Researcher 1: We've put together the first document!
Researcher 2: Hmm, it's about some kid named Hans, age 12.
Researcher 1: Wow, Hans slit the throat of a border guard who raped his mother.
Wait, we are talking about East Germany, not the USA.
Back in the day, men took wives who were, what, 14-16? Where was the OMGKIDDIEPORN crowd then? Back then, children were property of their father.
I don't understand what you mean. Please elaborate. You have proven not to be able to understand even the most simple concepts, so why should I bother.
Oddly enough, the new Globe and Mail story is a dupe of the old story (now in archive, free part follows).
Bullshit.
It's possible to think that copyright is wrong, but accept the GPL as way of enforcing sharing while copyright exists. That's not an opinion I hold, but at least some seem to. Sure, you just can't complain that somebody else is "breaking" the GPL, simply because he agrees with you on the copyright issue.
...it would be possible to have commented disassemblies of everything that a computer can run openly available. Yeah, and having a disassembly (even well commented) of something written in a higher language (preferably OO) will do you sooo much good.