Oh right, the old "the social democrats started it!" excuse. Some of the right-wing politicians who passed this law actually used that one as a reason for not opposing it. While the observation is factually correct, it is not a valid reason to pass bad laws.
And as for your statement that "The opposition (the previous administration) used a law that enabled them to defer a decision for one year", that was done by the green party + the left party + the christian democrats. To refer to that as "the opposition" seems weird, since one of them are part of the current administration and the list excludes the biggest party of the opposition.
"The opposition" includes the green party, the left party and the social democrats. As for the social democrats I have no suggestion for why they chose to vote now, at least none that seems more likely than yours. But as for the two other parties, you have to consider their recent "no" in light of that they are the ONLY parties who have opposed this law all the way through the process. Maybe they really didn't want the law passed?
Try this. I've used it to "correct" a few oddities in the default behavior of my mac, although I probably wouldn't have bothered with it unless I had also needed it for typesetting in LaTeX.
People are living longer and 50 years of copyright protection no longer give lifetime income to artists who recorded hits in their late teens or early twenties
I worked in a factory for two years in my early twenties. Absurdly enough, that does not give lifetime income to me. New legislation is obviously needed.
I predict that drives will get bigger, and that many slashdotters who have not heard of wear levelling will be worried about the limited write cycles of flash and get modded insightful for that.
Maybe these scientists are not interested in playing games with creationists, but are instead trying to do real science? As you have pointed out several times in this thread, creationists don't care about what scientific evidence exists. They draw their "conclusions" anyway, and will do so with or without the scientific result we are discussing here. The only thing that would be hurt by withholding this information is the scientific process itself, which relies on openness and honesty even when faced with new or unfamiliar results.
When Apple Computer made a fraudulent charge to my debit card, it only took a phonecall to the bank and a mailing in of the form they sent me (postage already paid on the response envelope they sent me by the way). Sure enough, the money was gone from my account but it was back within 48 hours from picking up the phone, and of those 48 hours I spent 10 minutes actively working on the case. Not a lot of time spent, and no other resources spent except the ink for the form and the saliva for the envelope.
Indeed, there is nothing inflammatory about it. That's why it shouldn't be modded as flamebait, and it wasn't. It was correctly modded as troll. The post we're discussing was deliberately seeded with the completely false factoid "in western nations, people actually consume more energy than the solar flux of their entire country", in order to gain attention and spark an irrellevant pseudo-discussion. It's a troll in the same category as the classic "Stephen King, dead at 54" post. There's no inflammatory language in that one either.
The reason your reply is a troll is that you could have easily shot down the post using just wikipedia and a pocket calculator, in about twice the time it took you to write your reply. Instead you rushed to support the troll.
You make the flawed assumption that the global warming is all about absolute levels. It is not, it is all about rates of change. Sure, the Earth's climate has bounced all over the place. But it hasn't changed on time scales as short as we are seeing now. And it's the fast changes that makes the planet less habitable, moreso than the target values.
Seagate are pretty funny too. I bought one of their firewire drives a couple of months ago. It contained a particularly hilarious EULA which claimed not only that I had accepted it by plugging in the drive, but that Seagate owned the hardware and licensed it for me to use. But since we have laws where I live it didn't bother me, and the drive works great!
Yes, it is in our best interests, and Monsanto's, to save these specimens. But is it in our best interests to let Monsanto have anything to do with it? No!
I think we're talking past eachother here. Ofcourse you can't use buses to replace every car trip on country roads into a small town. But that's not what was shown in the picture I linked. It's their pollution I'm turning against, more than yours. Their carbon emissions are easier to counteract, and are more unnecessary to begin with. There will always be a place for the car, but commuting in urban areas isn't it. And even in rural areas there's no law of nature that says the cars have to run on fossil fuels, but that's another story.
Point is that not all places -- even those that might seemingly have a need for it -- have public transportation that meets the needs of most of the people in the community.
That's a political decision you (you as in the population in general there, I am not inferring anything about you personally and your voting habits) have made. Good public transportation is not infeasible in Columbus, Ohio. You have just not chosen to have it.
Okay, you showed a picture of a highway during gridlock. The reason gridlock happens on highways? Because work for most people starts at 9 and ends at 5. So everybody hits the highways at the same time. But wait, there's more! Some idiot gets in a wreck, and shuts down one or two lanes of the highway, creating a bottleneck!
No, the primary reason for gridlock on highways is that people roll out their cars on the highways and put them there in long queues.
So. How do you propose a viable mass transit system for a few hundred thousand people commuting anywhere from a mile to 50 miles, that mostly spans two two-hour periods?
Rail.
Must be quick, convenient, and effecient! Go!
No, it doesn't. It just has to be better than being stuck in gridlock.
You claim those Americans who drive cars do so because they live in sparsely populated areas where public transport is impossible. Yet the internet is full of pictures like this one.
Many Americans (and not just Americans, we have plenty of this kind of people here in Sweden too) don't like the sight of public transport. When they see a bus or a subway train full of people travelling in the same direction they think "Oh no! This is probably some kind of socialism! I won't be a part of it!"
I'm really impressed by your "science and math and evidence and stuff", but where in that PDF does it say that doubling the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere doesn't also affect the climate? Is it maybe that "English and reading comprehension and stuff" has taken a back seat position in your debating efforts?
You got it all wrong! A naturally occuring anomaly in the sunspot number proves that the Earth's climate is not affected by the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere... or something...
Remember, the ultimate goal of people riding alone in their cars is to use it as a burka, putting up a wall and shielding themselves from other people. For all I care the authorities can put up powerful CO2 lasers and burn them to a crust.
It is highly unlikely. In Sweden, you'd have to commit repeated gross negligence for the employer to be able to fire you,
If it is sufficiently gross, a single offense is enough. It happened to one of my colleagues, although not for sending an e-mail but rather getting drunk at the company barbecue and assaulting a coworker with an empty beer bottle. And Arbetsdomstolen has upheld firings for something as trivial as stealing a roll of toilet paper from the employer.
and then it is usually with a three months advance notice.
No, you are confusing avskedande with uppsägning.
You cannot have an employee fired and have the guards escort him out the same day as you can in the US.
Yes, you can. You just have to pay him for one week even though he doesn't come in to work anymore.
However, I tend to believe that firing someone over the e-mail in the current discussion would not get past the courts without trouble. Of course, if Microsoft were genuinely upset about this naughty employee writing this terrible e-mail, they could just fire him anyway and pay the fines and damages. Just like Skogaholms did with that nose-picking bakery worker who didn't wash his hands. But we all know Microsoft are not mad at this employee, he did his job and did it good. I don't think they will stage a charade and fire him to appease anyone, the last thing they want is more attention.
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Oh right, the old "the social democrats started it!" excuse. Some of the right-wing politicians who passed this law actually used that one as a reason for not opposing it. While the observation is factually correct, it is not a valid reason to pass bad laws.
And as for your statement that "The opposition (the previous administration) used a law that enabled them to defer a decision for one year", that was done by the green party + the left party + the christian democrats. To refer to that as "the opposition" seems weird, since one of them are part of the current administration and the list excludes the biggest party of the opposition.
"The opposition" includes the green party, the left party and the social democrats. As for the social democrats I have no suggestion for why they chose to vote now, at least none that seems more likely than yours. But as for the two other parties, you have to consider their recent "no" in light of that they are the ONLY parties who have opposed this law all the way through the process. Maybe they really didn't want the law passed?
I must have slept through my history classes, I had no idea the US has even existed for 2000 years.
Try this. I've used it to "correct" a few oddities in the default behavior of my mac, although I probably wouldn't have bothered with it unless I had also needed it for typesetting in LaTeX.
I worked in a factory for two years in my early twenties. Absurdly enough, that does not give lifetime income to me. New legislation is obviously needed.
XP is not an acronym, it's an emoticon.
I predict that drives will get bigger, and that many slashdotters who have not heard of wear levelling will be worried about the limited write cycles of flash and get modded insightful for that.
Maybe these scientists are not interested in playing games with creationists, but are instead trying to do real science? As you have pointed out several times in this thread, creationists don't care about what scientific evidence exists. They draw their "conclusions" anyway, and will do so with or without the scientific result we are discussing here. The only thing that would be hurt by withholding this information is the scientific process itself, which relies on openness and honesty even when faced with new or unfamiliar results.
They're not all like that. Just switch to a bank that doesn't hate its customers. It's that simple.
When Apple Computer made a fraudulent charge to my debit card, it only took a phonecall to the bank and a mailing in of the form they sent me (postage already paid on the response envelope they sent me by the way). Sure enough, the money was gone from my account but it was back within 48 hours from picking up the phone, and of those 48 hours I spent 10 minutes actively working on the case. Not a lot of time spent, and no other resources spent except the ink for the form and the saliva for the envelope.
Indeed, there is nothing inflammatory about it. That's why it shouldn't be modded as flamebait, and it wasn't. It was correctly modded as troll. The post we're discussing was deliberately seeded with the completely false factoid "in western nations, people actually consume more energy than the solar flux of their entire country", in order to gain attention and spark an irrellevant pseudo-discussion. It's a troll in the same category as the classic "Stephen King, dead at 54" post. There's no inflammatory language in that one either.
The reason your reply is a troll is that you could have easily shot down the post using just wikipedia and a pocket calculator, in about twice the time it took you to write your reply. Instead you rushed to support the troll.
You make the flawed assumption that the global warming is all about absolute levels. It is not, it is all about rates of change. Sure, the Earth's climate has bounced all over the place. But it hasn't changed on time scales as short as we are seeing now. And it's the fast changes that makes the planet less habitable, moreso than the target values.
You're the one who is lame, and those who understand physics are exactly those who modded the parent to your post as troll.
Seagate are pretty funny too. I bought one of their firewire drives a couple of months ago. It contained a particularly hilarious EULA which claimed not only that I had accepted it by plugging in the drive, but that Seagate owned the hardware and licensed it for me to use. But since we have laws where I live it didn't bother me, and the drive works great!
Yes, it is in our best interests, and Monsanto's, to save these specimens. But is it in our best interests to let Monsanto have anything to do with it? No!
I think we're talking past eachother here. Ofcourse you can't use buses to replace every car trip on country roads into a small town. But that's not what was shown in the picture I linked. It's their pollution I'm turning against, more than yours. Their carbon emissions are easier to counteract, and are more unnecessary to begin with. There will always be a place for the car, but commuting in urban areas isn't it. And even in rural areas there's no law of nature that says the cars have to run on fossil fuels, but that's another story.
That's a political decision you (you as in the population in general there, I am not inferring anything about you personally and your voting habits) have made. Good public transportation is not infeasible in Columbus, Ohio. You have just not chosen to have it.
No, the primary reason for gridlock on highways is that people roll out their cars on the highways and put them there in long queues.
Rail.
No, it doesn't. It just has to be better than being stuck in gridlock.
You claim those Americans who drive cars do so because they live in sparsely populated areas where public transport is impossible. Yet the internet is full of pictures like this one.
Many Americans (and not just Americans, we have plenty of this kind of people here in Sweden too) don't like the sight of public transport. When they see a bus or a subway train full of people travelling in the same direction they think "Oh no! This is probably some kind of socialism! I won't be a part of it!"
I'm really impressed by your "science and math and evidence and stuff", but where in that PDF does it say that doubling the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere doesn't also affect the climate? Is it maybe that "English and reading comprehension and stuff" has taken a back seat position in your debating efforts?
You got it all wrong! A naturally occuring anomaly in the sunspot number proves that the Earth's climate is not affected by the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere... or something...
And the keyboard demo, which stops disturbingly short of typing "hello.jpg".
Weird, isn't it? It's almost as if the name of the array has something to do with billionaire Paul Allen!
Remember, the ultimate goal of people riding alone in their cars is to use it as a burka, putting up a wall and shielding themselves from other people. For all I care the authorities can put up powerful CO2 lasers and burn them to a crust.
However, I tend to believe that firing someone over the e-mail in the current discussion would not get past the courts without trouble. Of course, if Microsoft were genuinely upset about this naughty employee writing this terrible e-mail, they could just fire him anyway and pay the fines and damages. Just like Skogaholms did with that nose-picking bakery worker who didn't wash his hands. But we all know Microsoft are not mad at this employee, he did his job and did it good. I don't think they will stage a charade and fire him to appease anyone, the last thing they want is more attention.
I used to run a dashboard widget where John Ashcroft's face changed color along with the National Threat Advisory.