1. The research is biased. A huge majority of the people researching climate change support the theory. If it were 50/50 I might consider it.
Sounds like a consensus of researchers to me...
2. All of the equipment used to test the 'evidence' is owned by these biased scientists.
...or, to put it another way, everyone with the equipment to validate the evidence has done so.
3. As the parent said, Al Gore and the 'scientists' all make a ton of money scaring people into sacrificing for their cause. It's a war-on-terror, but on a global scale.
Not as much money as the vested interests (*cough*Oil and motor industries for a start*cough*) in the status quo make from the status quo.
4. The scientist who wants to spread reflective dust into the atmosphere is also spreading BS. If it reflects, then it would reflect light back onto Earth, probably creating a greenhouse effect times ten.
Yes, because we all know that the Earth is a radiant body. Oh, wait...
5. The average temperature rises once every century because of El Nino
Lisa, in this family we *obey* the laws of conservation of energy. But yes, the El Nino-related short term rises show what damage a small increase in temperature can cause.
6. The scientists neglected to mention that the salt concentration in the ocean might be rising due to a lack of carbon in the atmosphere to break down potassium chloride and sodium nitrate.
They also neglected to mention that it might be caused by phlogiston.
7. Show me one experiment I can verify myself with the tools in my garage.
Sure, after you show me the garage tools you used to experimentally verify Rutherford's work. And your home-made supercollider.
8. When the script for An Inconvenient Truth was written by Steven Soderberg as a science-fiction thriller, it was bought and discarded. Exactly four months later, about the time it takes a documentary to be produced and filmed, Al Gore's movie came out. Coincidence?
Um yes.
You didn't bother shooting for 9 and 10 then? Or is your numeracy as strong as your logic..?
One could get in to a discussion about OT versus NT but a quick look at e.g. Leviticus will reveal a whole bunch of 'laws' which most modern Christians choose to ignore yet others which they hold to be absolute truths to live their lives by.
The thing is, that the OT/NT discussion is the key here. The NT thing is that loving God, and loving other people fulfils the entire OT law, without the specific list of items.
Now many evangelicals like to pick and choose from the specific list according to their own tastes/prejudices, but you're right, to be consistent, one should go the whole hog, as Christianity doesn't actually have a concept of big sins/little sins - a sin is a sin is a sin (pace Catholicism). But they don't like it when you point this out, as much of it is clearly absurd to western society. As are the bits they like to pick out. One good exposition of this is the one from the The West Wing:
"I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleaned the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be?"
"My chief of staff, Leo McGarry, insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police?"
"Here's one that's really important cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7 If they promise to wear gloves can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point?"
"Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother, John, for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads?"
But just because some people like to pick specifics from a menu doesn't mean that this is at all an accurate, authentic description of Christianity.
Why do you want to foil the harvesters? Feeding them bogus addresses helps you build a honeypot database which, combined with graylisting, is just about the most effective anti-spam measure there is. I need tips on how to get my bogus addresses into more spammers databases!
Dunno about your bogus addresses, but if you just want a tarpit of falsies, then you want SpamPoison links on your site.
What you want to do is use it as training data for your bayesian filter, so your filter not only blacklists the email address, it learns more of the spammer's armoury. And as you *know* it's going to be spam, you can run it through half a dozen times marked as spam.
. How often do you write a closing P tag? Do you close your IMG tags like you should (<IMG SRC=.../>)? Most people don't. If you did that in XHTML, you're page would be wrong and if the browser is in strict mode, things die with an error. Improper nesting can also cause this (<P>Some <B>stuff<B> things <B>).
No, I write a closing p tag, because I write in correct XHTML. Likewise, I believe you meant <img src="..."/> and <strong> rather than <B>
You would have to write little bits to parse out every comment and story submission that's in HTML and then output it into valid XHTML. That's a TON of work.
Nah, not so much. There are some pretty good automatic parsers to handle that - I'd be less worried about the old stuff anyway - just output all the old stuff with an appropriate HTML doctype (3.2 for much of it it would seem), and stream-parse and correct the new content before the Preview page.
How well do these capacitors retain their charge? How many charges are they good for? The biggest concern I've heard of against fuel cell cars is that their cells are worthless after five years or so.
This is only a problem if the cost/effort of replacing them is significant. Otherwise, it's part of your normal service schedule.
if you have USB power you have an outlet. In rare cases where your out in the middle of no where with nothing but a notebook and a GPS unit running on AA batteries, and you need to keep the GPS charged so you can make it out there before dark, I guess these would be of use.
A surprisingly high number of recent GPS receivers charge via USB (and have a car power outlet->USB converter). My Globalsat BT-339 certainly does (and does 11 hours of operation from a full charge).
Somewhat. Unilever is co-owned by a British company and a Dutch company that are separately listed, but happen to share the same board and operate as a single entity.
This reminds me of the organic eggs that cost so much in stores. Here you have something that is the same/inferior but it makes you feel good, so pay more than you would for it.
I see that you're no gourmand who appreciates a *really* good egg.
Clock-for-clock, the optimized WinChip core (yes, even the C7 uses the very same core) can only process one integer and one floating-point instruction in parallel. This makes it 2-3x slower per-clock than modern CPUs. So, while you're still waiting on your Via C7 to crunch those numbers (at 20w), a Core2 Duo or A64 X2 system can do it in 1/4-1/6 the time (at 35w), and clock down to low-power state (3-5w).
So do real-world comparison tests. Run similar tasks over a period of time on machines built on the 2 architectures and compare the actual power demand.
China was specifically exempted as a developing nation as were many other countries... palpable unfairness of constricting our economic growth while other nations are unfettered
More accurately: this is avoiding the unfairness of us having polluted to high heaven and back while getting through the stage of economic growth that developing nations have not yet reached or completed. It avoids the charge of us pulling up the ladder behind us.
The "best" part about Kyoto was that even if it worked, it wasn't going to reduce anything. We would be lucky if we tread water under this agreement, and it's likely that global emissions will increase under the Protocol.
Because the initial limits were too generous (and some countries issued more permits than they had headroom to). Your (correct but misunderstood) argument is that it wasn't stringent enough.
And if you haven't heard about global cooling you haven't read enough. It was all the rage in the late 70s and early 80s. Then the advocates pretty much turned on a dime and started talking about global warming in the same 'threat of doom' tone.
Y'know, back in the day, the earth going round the sun was all the rage. Then the advocates pretty much turned on a dime.
and none of the younger generation want to live there any longer,
Hyperbole. If the younger generation wanted to leave we all could.
You didn't see the last census numbers then..? There's a huge hole in men aged 18-30 not explicable through birth & death data, which is analysed as being due to emigration.
People grumble and worry about the government, but not nearly as much as in the USA.
Perhaps that's because people aren't really paying attention. Can't see even the most rabid members of PNAC seriously proposing ID Cards.
28 days is the current limit, although the government wanted 90 days.
shooting unarmed civilians or searching people for [...] being Asian is fine, of course, and a necessary response to terrorism.
Replace Asian with Irish and that was the case for a *long* time. Travelling in possession of an Irish Accent was a defacto offence throughout the 70s and 80s, which is why the treatment meted out at airports these days is making me absolutely furious, having had enough friends and relatives who were on the receiving end of this.
a scale model of Stonehenge built from office chairs
After the presentation, an open mic picked up Ballmer saying
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the stock was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
The low-tech solution for the one with clothes in the dryer is this
Not so much with the drier as the washer, but last time I was in an apartment with a shared laundry room, my low-tech solution was that the washer took 45 minutes (this was in Switzerland, so it was *exactly* 45 minutes). One DVD episode of TWW takes 43 minutes, with credits at either end. So put laundry on, head upstairs, watch TWW, head downstairs, and it would be shedding the very last of the spin cycle momentum.
And we'll gently pass over the fact that, being Switzerland, one had to book the washer drier 3 months in advance (I was only *there* for 3 months). Fortunately, my efficient neighbours invariably finished theirs in time to allow me a laundry load before the 10.30 laundry curfew.
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Sounds like a consensus of researchers to me...
...or, to put it another way, everyone with the equipment to validate the evidence has done so.
Not as much money as the vested interests (*cough*Oil and motor industries for a start*cough*) in the status quo make from the status quo.
Yes, because we all know that the Earth is a radiant body. Oh, wait...
Lisa, in this family we *obey* the laws of conservation of energy. But yes, the El Nino-related short term rises show what damage a small increase in temperature can cause.
They also neglected to mention that it might be caused by phlogiston.
Sure, after you show me the garage tools you used to experimentally verify Rutherford's work. And your home-made supercollider.
Um yes.
You didn't bother shooting for 9 and 10 then? Or is your numeracy as strong as your logic..?
Now many evangelicals like to pick and choose from the specific list according to their own tastes/prejudices, but you're right, to be consistent, one should go the whole hog, as Christianity doesn't actually have a concept of big sins/little sins - a sin is a sin is a sin (pace Catholicism). But they don't like it when you point this out, as much of it is clearly absurd to western society. As are the bits they like to pick out. One good exposition of this is the one from the The West Wing:
But just because some people like to pick specifics from a menu doesn't mean that this is at all an accurate, authentic description of Christianity.
Bah, blacklists are for wimps :-)
What you want to do is use it as training data for your bayesian filter, so your filter not only blacklists the email address, it learns more of the spammer's armoury. And as you *know* it's going to be spam, you can run it through half a dozen times marked as spam.
So, spammers, suck on this: yumyum@easyweb.co.uk.
No, I write a closing p tag, because I write in correct XHTML. Likewise, I believe you meant <img src="..." /> and <strong> rather than <B>
Nah, not so much. There are some pretty good automatic parsers to handle that - I'd be less worried about the old stuff anyway - just output all the old stuff with an appropriate HTML doctype (3.2 for much of it it would seem), and stream-parse and correct the new content before the Preview page.
This is only a problem if the cost/effort of replacing them is significant. Otherwise, it's part of your normal service schedule.
If they have the master password, can they not su already?
Ba-dum tsch
So do real-world comparison tests. Run similar tasks over a period of time on machines built on the 2 architectures and compare the actual power demand.
More accurately: this is avoiding the unfairness of us having polluted to high heaven and back while getting through the stage of economic growth that developing nations have not yet reached or completed. It avoids the charge of us pulling up the ladder behind us.
Because the initial limits were too generous (and some countries issued more permits than they had headroom to). Your (correct but misunderstood) argument is that it wasn't stringent enough.
In the UK, PayPal *are* regulated. The Financial Services Authority takes a dim view of electronic money institutions operating outwith their regulatory purview.
If it walks like a duck, the FSA (rightly) wants to regulate it like a duck.
28 days is the current limit, although the government wanted 90 days.
Replace Asian with Irish and that was the case for a *long* time. Travelling in possession of an Irish Accent was a defacto offence throughout the 70s and 80s, which is why the treatment meted out at airports these days is making me absolutely furious, having had enough friends and relatives who were on the receiving end of this.
Ain't the Interwebs wonderful: Swift: Webkit-based browser for Windows.
Ellen? Is that you?
And we'll gently pass over the fact that, being Switzerland, one had to book the washer drier 3 months in advance (I was only *there* for 3 months). Fortunately, my efficient neighbours invariably finished theirs in time to allow me a laundry load before the 10.30 laundry curfew.
Bah. We had to use pens and rulers. Did me fine for my BMus.
At least we had manuscript paper, mind, unlike previous generations who had to draw their own.