Not only will we adapt, but even if everything the alarmists claim is true, we're going to need our freedom to cope with the effects. Imagine for example if we really did have to evacuate all our coastal cities: can you even imagine the cluster-fucks that would ensue if we had to depend on the Ray Nagins of the world to direct that effort?
Doc, I'm going to remind you of the words of the Sage of Baltimore:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H. L. Mencken
Now, I'll admit that I was among the people who found "global warming" to be plausible as a threat, but after I saw the code in the climategate material, I concluded that they were cooking the books. ESR did a nice job of describing it here.
We did compromise, and the Constitution is the result of that compromise. We delegated certain limited powers to the central government, and despite the fact that they routinely ignore the limitations in the Constitution, it is nevertheless the entirety of the legal basis for the government's existence.
One of the NeXTSTEP gigs I did back around '96 or so was at UBS/Warburg in Chicago. The only dress code I heard about was the rule that the Chicago merc had that you must wear a tie on the trading floor. Those of us writing code wore whatever we wanted (usually jeans and long-sleeved shirts because it was COLD in Chicago.)
I'd love to see them expand to a system with enough salt that they'd have a week or more of reserve heat capacity. This is an elegant and simple way to solve the time of use/time of generation issue.
I don't think that oxygen outgassing would be an issue, since the salt is going to be in a pressurized system.
Oh, for crying out loud. Price-fixing is NEVER a good idea. It has been disastrous since Diocletian first tried it. Whenever government intervenes in the market to force a price different than the market price, it will either cause shortages (if the price is forced low), or overproduction (if the price is forced up.)
If you still fail to understand the damage that governments do when they try to run the economy, you need a remedial history course.
Wickard v. Filburn is easily the worst decision the Supreme Court ever made.
I'd put it behind Raich, personally. In that case, the supreme court usurped for the federal government the power to forbit an individual to treat themselves for a life-threatening illness.
That's a great example of just how stupid and evil FDR was. In the midst of the greatest economic depression the country had ever seen, he intervened to make food more expensive.
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having to buy a new device every 24 months.
Who says you have to? A device doesn't quit working just because there's a newer model available.
-jcr
What's to excuse? Bugs happen, they get fixed. This one becomes a non-issue in two more days.
-jcr
Roosevelt aided freedom
I'm sure that will come as a great surprise to Mr. Korematsu and thousands more who were imprisoned for their race during the Roosevelt regime.
-jcr
There's got to be more than one SMS app on Android, surely?
-jcr
Speaking of AGW and scientists, since climategate it's been far more difficult for the Hockey Team to suppress papers that don't toe the party line.
-jcr
Though I am emotional about the conceited insistence of some people on denying a major threat
Show me a major threat, Doc. AGW isn't it.
-jcr
Not only will we adapt, but even if everything the alarmists claim is true, we're going to need our freedom to cope with the effects. Imagine for example if we really did have to evacuate all our coastal cities: can you even imagine the cluster-fucks that would ensue if we had to depend on the Ray Nagins of the world to direct that effort?
-jcr
What you are seeing is esr as a proxy for every geek dilettante in climate science
I read that code myself, doc. ESR pointed it out, but I know fudge factors when I see them, and that wasn't the only one.
climate change denial
Oh, for crying out loud. I can see that this is an emotional issue for you, so let's just agree to disagree, m'kay?
-jcr
Doc, I'm going to remind you of the words of the Sage of Baltimore:
Now, I'll admit that I was among the people who found "global warming" to be plausible as a threat, but after I saw the code in the climategate material, I concluded that they were cooking the books. ESR did a nice job of describing it here.
-jcr
The actual threat is the expansion of government power demanded by the alarmists of all stripes.
-jcr
I'll just up my CO2 emissions by a couple of tons. I haven't been using my fireplace nearly enough lately.
-jcr
I did, and somehow I ended up with a link back to /.? WTF?
-jcr
WTF is going on with links?
-jcr
You forgot a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po> link to the song.
-jcr
We did compromise, and the Constitution is the result of that compromise. We delegated certain limited powers to the central government, and despite the fact that they routinely ignore the limitations in the Constitution, it is nevertheless the entirety of the legal basis for the government's existence.
-jcr
One of the NeXTSTEP gigs I did back around '96 or so was at UBS/Warburg in Chicago. The only dress code I heard about was the rule that the Chicago merc had that you must wear a tie on the trading floor. Those of us writing code wore whatever we wanted (usually jeans and long-sleeved shirts because it was COLD in Chicago.)
-jcr
I think burglary was more a Nixon thing. ;-)
-jcr
Funny, I could have sworn that there were burglaries before he was elected...
-jcr
Exactly. Steam turbines are available off the shelf, have been for many decades.
-jcr
If it's hot enough to boil water, it's hot enough to get useful power out of it.
-jcr
I'd love to see them expand to a system with enough salt that they'd have a week or more of reserve heat capacity. This is an elegant and simple way to solve the time of use/time of generation issue.
I don't think that oxygen outgassing would be an issue, since the salt is going to be in a pressurized system.
-jcr
Oh, for crying out loud. Price-fixing is NEVER a good idea. It has been disastrous since Diocletian first tried it. Whenever government intervenes in the market to force a price different than the market price, it will either cause shortages (if the price is forced low), or overproduction (if the price is forced up.)
If you still fail to understand the damage that governments do when they try to run the economy, you need a remedial history course.
-jcr
Wickard v. Filburn is easily the worst decision the Supreme Court ever made.
I'd put it behind Raich, personally. In that case, the supreme court usurped for the federal government the power to forbit an individual to treat themselves for a life-threatening illness.
-jcr
The purpose of the law was to raise wheat prices
That's a great example of just how stupid and evil FDR was. In the midst of the greatest economic depression the country had ever seen, he intervened to make food more expensive.
-jcr
, the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Clause was for the federal government to facilitate free trade between the states.
Not so much for the federal government to facilitate it, as to prohibit the states from interfering with it, I'd say.
-jcr