1. The real competitor is Microsoft, not any of the other linux distributions, not even Apple or Sun. Apple, Sun, SGI and all linux distributions are allies.
2. Linux Standard Base is a good idea, and ALL linux distros, especially Redhat, should rally behind it. I should be able to do a 'rpm --rebuild somepackage_from_someotherdistro.rpm' and install the resulting rpm file on my LSB compliant distro.
3. Brands are important, but making your distro incompatible with the others is not a good way do differentiate. There are many other ways, currently unexplored, that distros can stand out to their linux competitors.
Imagine that programs in a quantum computer can have bugs that disappear as soon as you try to observe them.
In current programming there are sometimes problems that disappear as soon as you try to debug them, the disappearance apparantly caused by the interaction with the debugger program.
These bugs are called "Heisenbugs".
It just appeared to me that quantum programs could have actual Heisenbugs.
The technology to make far larger storage on the same physical size disk exists for at least three years now, or longer, I can't remember.
The technology is called FMD, Fluorescent Multi-layer Disc.
One can guess at the reason this is not marketed yet, but I think a combination of big-industry interest in current disc technology and capital is the answer.
This tech is some years old now, probably a 12cm disc could hold 1 Terabyte or more with current state of the art tech, but I don't think you will see Sony, Philips and the others agreeing on a standard for that size, no, on a lowly 27 GB...
> With all due respect (...) Some are American citizens, most aren't.
Of course I could have been more nuanced, but that makes the message more convoluted. True, most of the bad guys are not american. I'm not saying the USA are singlehandedly messing up the world.
I'm not saying the american people as such are to blame. That is what a terrorist would think, and then act on.
The problem is that the USA is constantly supporting regimes that they should not have been supporting. Notably, until recently the USA supported the Taliban. And for an economic incentive: a very important oil-pipeline was going to be laid through Afghanistan. No criticism or action against their horrible regime at that time.
The USA only decided that the Taliban had to go, until after they refused, for religious/fundamentalist reason to cooperate with the US.
Then, quite independantly from this all, some terrorists, possibly supported by OBL, commited the 9-11 attacks.
> You're just lost in the bright lights, that's all.
You are taking this personally.
Discussing with people who only have the same opinion as you is a wast of time.
I'm saying, the USA have a foreign policy, covert or not, to support only regimes that will economically/militarily benefit them. Regardless if these regimes are oppressive or not. Regardless of anything.
And no, they are not the only ones doing this. Europe, China, former Soviet Union and other do it too.
But the USA are the only superpower left, and they have got to chance this behaviour to set an example for the rest.
Black Hawk Down a 'true story'? Come on, nothing in that movie really happened that way. The film is completely propaganda, and paid for by the US army.
The US troops commited many war crimes in that country, not to mention their pullback triggered the Rwanda genocides.
But I guess if I critize the US foreign policies I'll be dubbed a terrorist, right?
The US crimes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and their widespread disregard and destruction of the natural environment have everything to do with the fact that almost every people on Earth hold a grudge against the USA (including europeans).
The suffering that has resulted is the feeding ground and root cause for terrorism against the US.
Everyone is shocked and horrified by 9-11 for sure, nobody feels the US people deserved it, but in broader perspective, the US have only themselves to blame for it.
I'm reasonably leftist/radical myself, certainly at american standards. So, my first impulse is to feel sort of sorry for the kid, and feel anger for the cops.
About his political views:
The kid isn't very smart. He also hasn't much interesting to say.
Lot's of things he is against, and almost nothing that he is for. That is always a sure sign of the wrong kind of punkers/leftist/idealists or whatever americans would call this type of people.
The "right" kind of leftist is harder to find and is usually doing hard work for their ideals.
About his methods:
He shouldn't have kept all those computers at home, he should have hosted his stuff offsite in the first place. Or at freenet or something equally elusive.
So as a revolutionist he isn't very effective. Basic survival of the fittest at work, I would say.
About him as a person:
I view this kid simply as a malcontent adolescent. He is only crying for attention, and now he got it. In fact, the people who raided his home did him a favour, if I think about it:
Look at all the attention he got!
Also, he already had the opinion that all police/secret service etc. are fascist bastards anyway, so now that they come raid him, he accuses them of overreacting and being meanies generally.
Well, duh!
Like I said, he is not very smart, like most of his kind
Well, ok. Then use one of those chemical lights that you have to break before they work. Or emulate the light emitting process of fireflies. Or make yourself really radioactive, that will make you glow in the dark..
After a drink and dancing party of academic proportions, I fell asleep drunk in the computer
room of the physics department.
The prof. who found me next day was quite ok about
it and asked me if I knew anything about it. I said, yes, I built some linux networks and do programming.
I'm the paid system administrator for two years now.
Now, now.
You all know that it is not becoming to have fun
at the expense of other peoples distress.
Why don't you all donate your cuecats to the
homeless shelter? ---------------------------------------- ----------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Doing some calculations of my own, I have to concede that I was wrong. It was my prof who said it though, and he was doing these calculations out of the top of his head, "give or take an order of magnitude".
Anyway, all this released energy is in the form of ultraviolet and gamma radiation, and the primary effect is ionization and a cascade of nuclear reactions (by the gamma rays) (at least, proton annihilation is at lambda=~10^-15 m). The first will generate a lot of heat, and the latter will make a lot of matter radioactive.
With a nuclear fission explosion, most of the energy is released as kinetic energy of the nuclear fragments. This gives a hot, expanding plasma; an explosion.
That is quite different from a anti-matter/matter detonation, where ALL of the matter is directly converted to radiation. Half of this radiates off into space, and the other half hits the bedrock. What happens then?
Maybe my prof had calculated that the bedrock would vaporize or something. I was trying to understand 'quark-bags' at the time, so didn't want to pursue this matter then.
Not that we're going to see even a microgram of anti-matter anytime soon. ------------------------------------------- -------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
In the article they are talking about 1 to 1000 grams of antimatter.
One kilogram of antimatter let loose anywhere on the surface of the Earth, or in the atmosphere, will be enough to destroy an entire continent.
And I mean thoroughly destroy, like vaporize. That at least was what my sub-atomic-physics professor told me, and he works at Cern. He knows what he's talking about.
Any macroscopic amount of antimatter is so hideously dangerous to handle, that I can't imagine that it will be stored or produced anywhere on or even NEAR the Earth.
They will have to produce and store it in orbit.
And not even in Earth orbit, but rather in Moon orbit. ------------------------------------------ --------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Computers are fast enough to make an MJPEG stream
of that, which IS sufficiently low-bandwidth to be
saved to disk.
Then you can convert that MJPEG to anything else, like MPEG4 or divx. ------------------------------------------- -------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
/opt is network mounted over here. Distros should support network mounted/usr better, notably SuSE.
If you remove/usr and try to mount it from a server instead, it will fail, because critical files having to do with rpc are on/usr, and that is not mounted yet.
In your case you should make some perl/shell script that does all the removal of old logs for you. Then you can put it into a cron job and your worries are over. ------------------------------------------- -------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
When installing a linux system, you should put at least/tmp and/var on separate partitions.
I always make:
/ 200 MB /tmp 500 MB /var 300 MB /usr >2000 MB /boot 20 MB /home whatever you need
sometimes you need to make partitions
for these as well: /opt /usr/local /data1,/data2 etc.
but if/var is full, you get trouble anyway of course.
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
One of the most important things to me is that X is not resolution independant. In Berlin, as far as I know you can make the resolution coarser/finer, without increasing the size (in real world units like cm or inches, not in number of pixels) of letters, windows etc.
The X protocol postulates that everything has to be drawn pixel accurate, even over the network. That means for instance that if you display a wordprocessor over the network on a computer with a very large screen, you can't just make everything bigger but with better resolution, no, the wordprocessor window and its menus, buttons and glyphs will just be unreadably small.
This is something that for instance MS Windows can do, (but badly), but Berlin can do routinely. And it is something that X cannot do by definition of its protocol.
One could change that, of course, in say X12, but
it would break all backward compatibility. Or at least you would have nice resizable applications alongside with ugly fixed size application.
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actually, MIT is mostly about engineering, not science.
Ok, you win. You will have to agree though that your avarage shoesalesman mr.Bundy knows more about shoes than the quality of engineering at MIT. Unless MIT designes shoes these days. You never know. And, well, lightspeed (300,000km/sec) is not the fastest speed possible, at least in lab conditions.
I would be VERY interested to hear of a particle travelling through real space faster than this. Don't start about 'warped space' or 'wormholes', none of that is invented yet, maybe never will.
Lightspeed is one of the defining eh 'things' of the universe. It is fundamental. It may not have been a constant throughout the history of the universe though. But you are wrong.
Regarding junkiscene^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hjunkscience, they should be poking holes in the bad american policy concerning the environment, not in the arguments of the people who, against severe industrial pressure, are trying to blow the wistle.
And yes, KNMI makes errors, they hardly ever predict the weather correctly, but that is universal among weatherforecasters, isn't it?
But go and see www.knmi.nl and see for yourself. --------------------------------------- -----------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
The link points to www.junkscience.com and I did follow it. It gives no response. And it cannot be pinged.
You are SO convincing.
And if the director of the bloody KNMI is not a real scientist, then who the fuck IS?
It is the national metereological institute, 500 scientist work there, 100 of them doing hardcore research into this climate stuff. It doesn't get more scientifically respectable than that, my friend.
But maybe you, as you say yourself not being a scientist, are in a better position the judge the validity of what is science and what is not?
Maybe I should believe the next shoe-salesman who says that at MIT no science is done, and lightspeed is not the absolute fastest speed.
Or maybe I should use common sense and conclude that someone who references a non-existing website named 'junkscience' and failed to make sense or point to some 'real science' is indeed a TROLL. ------------------------------------------ --------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Your link leads to http://www.junkscience.com .
What is that supposed to mean? I think you are a troll. And even then, how many of your so-called Real Scientists work for the companies who want us to believe there is no problem at all, because if there were a problem, and they had to cut down their pollution, they would go bankrupt?
The same goes for most western governments, who fully realize that a complete transition to clean energy and production methods would lead to 25 years of hardship for all, before the same levels of welfare have been restored, or your Glorified Economy is at the same level. ------------------------------------------ --------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Last week I attended a lecture of the director of the Dutch weather forecast institute. He is a member of the IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change, an United Nations institute like Unesco. He showed hard data and science, and there is no doubt about it: the climate is indeed changing.
It is definitely getting warmer, temperature is already up 1 degree Kelvin, which is fucking much averaged globally. Also there are multiple feedback mechanisms at work, like melting ice-caps, melting gletchers, oceans being able to hold less CO2, therefore aggrevating the situation. (Ever wondered why warm Coca Cola has almost no bubbles anymore? Go figure)
Where it will lead to is an open question, but consider this:
People go through a lot of trouble to shield their children from relatively low risk situations, like:
- falling of their bikes (they all wear helmets),
- sex on TV,
- dirt on the street,
- diaper rash
But when it comes to our childrens future on Earth, AND grandchildren etc. a possibly disastrous climate change is waved away as 'speculative science'.
That is completely insane.
Even a 5% probability that the climate is changing is like playing Russian Roulette with our childrens lives.
And I can tell you that that probability is more like 75%.
We are taking an unacceptable risk with the future of our children.
Do people, and especially Americans (but Europeans have no reason to be proud too) understand this?
Unacceptable Risk
To have even a slight chance of reversing the proces, total emmission of CO2 and other gases have to be cut down by about 80 to 90 %!
At the latest climate conference an agreement was reached to cut down by 8%. Totally inadequate. What has been achieved of this 8%? It has not even be ratified yet, by most countries. America hasn't, and they, with 4% of the Worlds population, cause more than 25% of the rise of CO2-level.
Their emmisions have only accelerated. Even the Netherlands, who did ratify, have a rise of 17%, instead of cutting down 8%.
And did I tell you between 80% and 90% cut-down is
needed?
Nothing could be more important than this, for humans anyway.
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Slashdot Mirror
1. The real competitor is Microsoft, not any of
the other linux distributions, not even Apple or
Sun. Apple, Sun, SGI and all linux distributions
are allies.
2. Linux Standard Base is a good idea, and ALL linux distros, especially Redhat, should rally
behind it. I should be able to do a 'rpm --rebuild somepackage_from_someotherdistro.rpm' and install the resulting rpm file on my LSB compliant distro.
3. Brands are important, but making your distro incompatible with the others is not a good way do differentiate. There are many other ways, currently unexplored, that distros can stand out to their linux competitors.
Only half kidding:
Imagine that programs
in a quantum computer can have bugs that
disappear as soon as you try to observe them.
In current programming there are sometimes problems that disappear as soon as you try to debug them, the disappearance apparantly caused by the interaction with the debugger program.
These bugs are called "Heisenbugs".
It just appeared to me that quantum programs could have actual Heisenbugs.
xvidtune does that and sax2 too
Idiotic racist.
Really. Installing this from source really is quite easy. Just do
./configure [options]
make
make install
And on my matrox card I get hardware scaling and other good stuff.
company that makes fmd
The technology to make far larger storage on the same physical size disk exists for at least three years now, or longer, I can't remember.
The technology is called FMD, Fluorescent Multi-layer Disc.
One can guess at the reason this is not marketed yet, but I think a combination of big-industry interest in current disc technology and capital is the answer.
This tech is some years old now, probably a 12cm disc could hold 1 Terabyte or more with current state of the art tech, but I don't think you will see Sony, Philips and the others agreeing on a standard for that size, no, on a lowly 27 GB...
What about people behind a firewall then?
That is nonsense. Orbitals can overlap. Electrons jump between energy levels; you know, between distinct eigenvalues of Hamilton operators.
> With all due respect (...) Some are American citizens, most aren't.
Of course I could have been more nuanced, but that makes the message more convoluted. True, most of the bad guys are not american. I'm not saying the USA are singlehandedly messing up the world.
I'm not saying the american people as such are to blame. That is what a terrorist would think, and then act on.
The problem is that the USA is constantly supporting regimes that they should not have been supporting. Notably, until recently the USA supported the Taliban. And for an economic incentive: a very important oil-pipeline was going to be laid through Afghanistan. No criticism or action against their horrible regime at that time.
The USA only decided that the Taliban had to go, until after they refused, for religious/fundamentalist reason to cooperate with the US.
Then, quite independantly from this all, some terrorists, possibly supported by OBL, commited the 9-11 attacks.
> You're just lost in the bright lights, that's all.
You are taking this personally.
Discussing with people who only have the same opinion as you is a wast of time.
I'm saying, the USA have a foreign policy, covert or not, to support only regimes that will economically/militarily benefit them. Regardless if these regimes are oppressive or not. Regardless of anything.
And no, they are not the only ones doing this. Europe, China, former Soviet Union and other do it too.
But the USA are the only superpower left, and they have got to chance this behaviour to set an example for the rest.
Black Hawk Down a 'true story'? Come on, nothing in that movie really happened that way. The film is completely propaganda, and paid for by the US army.
The US troops commited many war crimes in that country, not to mention their pullback triggered the Rwanda genocides.
But I guess if I critize the US foreign policies I'll be dubbed a terrorist, right?
The US crimes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and their widespread disregard and destruction of the natural environment have everything to do with the fact that almost every people on Earth hold a grudge against the USA (including europeans).
The suffering that has resulted is the feeding ground and root cause for terrorism against the US.
Everyone is shocked and horrified by 9-11 for sure, nobody feels the US people deserved it, but in broader perspective, the US have only themselves to blame for it.
I'm reasonably leftist/radical myself, certainly at american standards. So, my first impulse is to feel sort of sorry for the kid, and feel anger for the cops.
About his political views:
The kid isn't very smart. He also hasn't much interesting to say.
Lot's of things he is against, and almost nothing that he is for. That is always a sure sign of the wrong kind of punkers/leftist/idealists or whatever americans would call this type of people.
The "right" kind of leftist is harder to find and is usually doing hard work for their ideals.
About his methods:
He shouldn't have kept all those computers at home, he should have hosted his stuff offsite in the first place. Or at freenet or something equally elusive.
So as a revolutionist he isn't very effective. Basic survival of the fittest at work, I would say.
About him as a person:
I view this kid simply as a malcontent adolescent. He is only crying for attention, and now he got it. In fact, the people who raided his home did him a favour, if I think about it:
Look at all the attention he got!
Also, he already had the opinion that all police/secret service etc. are fascist bastards anyway, so now that they come raid him, he accuses them of overreacting and being meanies generally.
Well, duh!
Like I said, he is not very smart, like most of his kind
Well, ok. Then use one of those chemical lights that you have to break before they work. Or emulate the light emitting process of fireflies. Or make yourself really radioactive, that will make you glow in the dark..
After a drink and dancing party of academic proportions, I fell asleep drunk in the computer
room of the physics department.
The prof. who found me next day was quite ok about
it and asked me if I knew anything about it. I said, yes, I built some linux networks and do programming.
I'm the paid system administrator for two years now.
I don't regret it.
Now, now.
- ----------------
You all know that it is not becoming to have fun at the expense of other peoples distress.
Why don't you all donate your cuecats to the homeless shelter?
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
You are incorrect.
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It is all under the BSD license since beta4. Even Richard Stallman had to admit that it made more sense for this type of program.
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Doing some calculations of my own, I have to concede that I was wrong. It was my prof who said it though, and he was doing these calculations out of the top of his head, "give or take an order of magnitude".
- -------------
Anyway, all this released energy is in the form of ultraviolet and gamma radiation, and the primary effect is ionization and a cascade of nuclear reactions (by the gamma rays) (at least, proton annihilation is at lambda=~10^-15 m). The first will generate a lot of heat, and the latter will make a lot of matter radioactive.
With a nuclear fission explosion, most of the energy is released as kinetic energy of the nuclear fragments. This gives a hot, expanding plasma; an explosion.
That is quite different from a anti-matter/matter detonation, where ALL of the matter is directly converted to radiation. Half of this radiates off into space, and the other half hits the bedrock. What happens then?
Maybe my prof had calculated that the bedrock would vaporize or something. I was trying to understand 'quark-bags' at the time, so didn't want to pursue this matter then.
Not that we're going to see even a microgram of anti-matter anytime soon.
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
In the article they are talking about 1 to 1000 grams of antimatter.
- --------------
One kilogram of antimatter let loose anywhere on the surface of the Earth, or in the atmosphere, will be enough to destroy an entire continent.
And I mean thoroughly destroy, like vaporize. That at least was what my sub-atomic-physics professor told me, and he works at Cern. He knows what he's talking about.
Any macroscopic amount of antimatter is so hideously dangerous to handle, that I can't imagine that it will be stored or produced anywhere on or even NEAR the Earth.
They will have to produce and store it in orbit.
And not even in Earth orbit, but rather in Moon orbit.
-----------------------------------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Computers are fast enough to make an MJPEG stream of that, which IS sufficiently low-bandwidth to be saved to disk. Then you can convert that MJPEG to anything else, like MPEG4 or divx.- -------------
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
/opt is network mounted over here. Distros should support network mounted /usr better, notably SuSE.
If you remove /usr and try to mount it from a server instead, it will fail, because critical files having to do with rpc are on /usr, and that is not mounted yet.- -------------
In your case you should make some perl/shell script that does all the removal of old logs for you. Then you can put it into a cron job and your worries are over.
------------------------------------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
When installing a linux system, you should put at least /tmp and /var on separate partitions.
/tmp 500 MB
/var 300 MB
/usr >2000 MB
/boot 20 MB
/home whatever you need
/opt
/usr/local
/data1, /data2 etc.
/var is full, you get trouble anyway of course.
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I always make: / 200 MB
sometimes you need to make partitions for these as well:
but if
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
One of the most important things to me is that X is not resolution independant. In Berlin, as far as I know you can make the resolution coarser/finer, without increasing the size (in real world units like cm or inches, not in number of pixels) of letters, windows etc.- --------
The X protocol postulates that everything has to be drawn pixel accurate, even over the network. That means for instance that if you display a wordprocessor over the network on a computer with a very large screen, you can't just make everything bigger but with better resolution, no, the wordprocessor window and its menus, buttons and glyphs will just be unreadably small.
This is something that for instance MS Windows can do, (but badly), but Berlin can do routinely. And it is something that X cannot do by definition of its protocol.
One could change that, of course, in say X12, but it would break all backward compatibility. Or at least you would have nice resizable applications alongside with ugly fixed size application.
-----------------------------------------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
actually, MIT is mostly about engineering, not science.
- -----------------
Ok, you win. You will have to agree though that your avarage shoesalesman mr.Bundy knows more about shoes than the quality of engineering at MIT. Unless MIT designes shoes these days. You never know.
And, well, lightspeed (300,000km/sec) is not the fastest speed possible, at least in lab conditions.
I would be VERY interested to hear of a particle travelling through real space faster than this. Don't start about 'warped space' or 'wormholes', none of that is invented yet, maybe never will. Lightspeed is one of the defining eh 'things' of the universe. It is fundamental. It may not have been a constant throughout the history of the universe though. But you are wrong.
Regarding junkiscene^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hjunkscience, they should be poking holes in the bad american policy concerning the environment, not in the arguments of the people who, against severe industrial pressure, are trying to blow the wistle.
And yes, KNMI makes errors, they hardly ever predict the weather correctly, but that is universal among weatherforecasters, isn't it?
But go and see www.knmi.nl and see for yourself.
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
The link points to www.junkscience.com and I did follow it. It gives no response. And it cannot be pinged.- --------------
You are SO convincing.
And if the director of the bloody KNMI is not a real scientist, then who the fuck IS? It is the national metereological institute, 500 scientist work there, 100 of them doing hardcore research into this climate stuff. It doesn't get more scientifically respectable than that, my friend.
But maybe you, as you say yourself not being a scientist, are in a better position the judge the validity of what is science and what is not?
Maybe I should believe the next shoe-salesman who says that at MIT no science is done, and lightspeed is not the absolute fastest speed.
Or maybe I should use common sense and conclude that someone who references a non-existing website named 'junkscience' and failed to make sense or point to some 'real science' is indeed a TROLL.
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Your link leads to http://www.junkscience.com . What is that supposed to mean? I think you are a troll. And even then, how many of your so-called Real Scientists work for the companies who want us to believe there is no problem at all, because if there were a problem, and they had to cut down their pollution, they would go bankrupt?- --------------
The same goes for most western governments, who fully realize that a complete transition to clean energy and production methods would lead to 25 years of hardship for all, before the same levels of welfare have been restored, or your Glorified Economy is at the same level.
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
Last week I attended a lecture of the director of the Dutch weather forecast institute. He is a member of the IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change, an United Nations institute like Unesco. He showed hard data and science, and there is no doubt about it: the climate is indeed changing.
- --------
It is definitely getting warmer, temperature is already up 1 degree Kelvin, which is fucking much averaged globally. Also there are multiple feedback mechanisms at work, like melting ice-caps, melting gletchers, oceans being able to hold less CO2, therefore aggrevating the situation. (Ever wondered why warm Coca Cola has almost no bubbles anymore? Go figure)
Where it will lead to is an open question, but consider this:
People go through a lot of trouble to shield their children from relatively low risk situations, like:
- falling of their bikes (they all wear helmets),
- sex on TV,
- dirt on the street,
- diaper rash
But when it comes to our childrens future on Earth, AND grandchildren etc. a possibly disastrous climate change is waved away as 'speculative science'.
That is completely insane.
Even a 5% probability that the climate is changing is like playing Russian Roulette with our childrens lives.
And I can tell you that that probability is more like 75%.
We are taking an unacceptable risk with the future of our children.
Do people, and especially Americans (but Europeans have no reason to be proud too) understand this?
Unacceptable Risk
To have even a slight chance of reversing the proces, total emmission of CO2 and other gases have to be cut down by about 80 to 90 %!
At the latest climate conference an agreement was reached to cut down by 8%. Totally inadequate.
What has been achieved of this 8%? It has not even be ratified yet, by most countries. America hasn't, and they, with 4% of the Worlds population, cause more than 25% of the rise of CO2-level.
Their emmisions have only accelerated. Even the Netherlands, who did ratify, have a rise of 17%, instead of cutting down 8%.
And did I tell you between 80% and 90% cut-down is needed?
Nothing could be more important than this, for humans anyway.
-----------------------------------------------
UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...