I grant that Gore, and hundreds of other politicians, voted for funding and new taxes for the Internet. But that does not mean he took the initiative in creating the Internet. Even when Al Gore tried to take credit for some of the funding for when ARPANET transitioned to NSFNET, he was still exaggerating. Yes, he recognized a good thing when he saw it. But, he was not involved in the early funding of ARPAnet, the initial NSFNET, or even the initial effort to further increase funding for NSFNET. He merely became a government cheerleader of a prior movement that had little opposition. It was the strong pressure within the Reagan Administration to privatize government operational activities that lead to the privatization of the Internet. Not only is it fair to lampoon Gore for claiming to have created the Internet, it's accurate. If there are any questions, ask Al Gore, who admitted that it was mistake to have claimed to have created the Internet.
MIT's Magazine of Innovation:
"A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics"
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_ muller101504.asp
http://www.techcentralstation.com/102704F.html
http://www.oism.org/oism/lecture/viewer/lecturepla yer.htm
http://www.john-daly.com/
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.html
Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick rock!
"MIT: Global Warming Bombshell. A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics" http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_ muller101504.asp
http://www.techcentralstation.com/102704F.html
http://www.oism.org/oism/lecture/viewer/lecturepla yer.htm
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.html
Please! Keep up with the news. The Global Warming Theory has been debunked by Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.
I like the National Review's comparison of Michael Mann to ex-professor Michael Bellesiles, who was striped of his tenure because of historical fraud.
"The fundamental scientific pillars of the Kyoto Accord is based on flawed calculations, incorrect data and a biased selection of climate records."
The corrected graph of Earth's thermal history http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/no-hockey.gif
QUOTE: Steve McIntyre and University of Guelph economics professor Ross McKitrick, obtained the original data used by Michael Mann of the University of Virginia to support the notion that the 20th-century temperature rise was unprecedented in the past millennium. A detailed audit revealed numerous errors in the data. After correcting these and updating the source records they showed that based on Mann's own methodologies, his original conclusion was flawed. Mann's original version resulted in the famous "hockey stick" graph that purported to show 900 years of relative temperature stability (the shaft of the hockey stick) followed by a sharp increase (the blade) in the 20th century (see graph). The corrected version of the last thousand years actually contradicts the view promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and removes the foundation for claims of 20th-century uniqueness.
To understand the significance of the McIntyre/McKitrick announcement, it is important to consider how our understanding of long-term climate history has evolved over the past decade. In its 1990 and 1995 "Assessment Reports", the IPCC clearly identified two major global climatic events in the past millennium, as confirmed by thousands of papers written by quaternary geologists during the past century -- a "Medieval Warm Period" (MWP) from about 800 to 1300 A.D. that was as much as two degrees Celsius warmer than today, and a far colder "Little Ice Age" (LIA) from about 1300 to 1900 A.D. The effects of these events were felt worldwide with convincing evidence of both the MWP and LIA found in Europe, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Peru and even in China, Japan and Australia. As part of our emergence from the LIA, scientists agreed there had been a gradual warming throughout the 20th century, although the reasons for this were hotly contested with increasing greenhouse gases (GHG) and changes in the output of the sun being leading contenders.
In recent years, however, the case for solar variations being the 20th century's major climate driver has become much stronger, much to the consternation of Kyoto supporters. After all, if long before human-induced GHG emission became significant, temperatures were considerably higher than today, there would be little reason to think today's temperatures were anything unnatural. This was especially true since long-term solar records indicated that both the MWP and LIA were closely correlated with changes in solar activity, and the output of the sun has indeed been increasing during the past century's 0.6C warming. Supporters of the GHG-induced warming hypothesis desperately needed a "smoking gun" to prop up the need for Kyoto.
This was conveniently supplied by Mann, Bradley and Hughes in their 1998 paper (referred to as "MBH98") in which they reduced the MWP and LIA to non-events outside Europe and unveiled their "hockey stick." The paper concluded, "Our results suggest that the latter 20th century is anomalous in the context of at least the past millennium. The 1990s was the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year, at moderately high levels of confidence."
Of course, Kyoto fans were delighted. Despite being at odds with most of the scientific literature, and the fact that the MBH98 study was only one of thousands of possible millennial temperature constructions, advocates of the GHG hypothesis of climate change started to promote Mann's results as the definitive global temperature history. Within a year, with little real
Microsoft is the corporate manifestation of a bag lady at the edge of the bazaar--it believes in its own delusions of grandeur that are substantiated only by the trinkets of ill-gotten code that it can stuff into its shopping cart operating system. Microsoft wanders around the edge of the bazaar, snarling at free performers and the merchants, spiting at their standards and products. Prowling the edge, Microsoft can only peddle its opium to the suits that also skirt the bazaar. These suits, unlike their serfs, fear that they will become confused in this arena of ideas. Microsoft does market the best opium, and with its profits, can afford to sit and watch the bazaar. Awakening from its stupor, Microsoft slowly responds to cries for better fixes. Microsoft trips the performers juggling their standards and lures a few merchants away from their products. Microsoft ties together these new trinkets together with some string that it found earlier, as bag ladies often do. This string keeps the suits from trying to buy just one trinket. One day, a performer and a merchant walk out to the edge of the bazaar and asks, "Microsoft, why do you not work within our open bazaar named Innovate. Microsoft scoffs. They reassure Microsoft and say, "We all have the right to Innovate and you are welcome to join our community. The greedy bag lady screams out, "I alone must have the right to Innovate!"
Since the source code for antivirus programs cannot be publicly reviewed, and you have to be running Linux in root to get a virus, installing antivirus on a Linux computer is a pointless security risk that will slow down your system.
By the way, I've always been amused by all the Windows administrators that are unaware of NT/W2K floppy root kits that reset the administrative password in a minute.
QUOTE All code changes made by Lindows.com to the above products are sent back to these organizations and/or will be made available for download here.http://net2.com/lindows/source/ (Keep in mind that LindowsOS hasn't even released a Beta version of LindowsOS, so the source code is very unstable and changing continually.)
Are we all invited? How many karma points do we need to get invited? Where and when will the wedding/convention be? Who will preside? Can't be Linus, because he can't get a notary license. Will your marriage vows be based on GPL? Or, better than marriage, just form an "Limited Liability Company with Durable Medical Power of Attorney", so your rights do not change for state to state.
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I grant that Gore, and hundreds of other politicians, voted for funding and new taxes for the Internet. But that does not mean he took the initiative in creating the Internet. Even when Al Gore tried to take credit for some of the funding for when ARPANET transitioned to NSFNET, he was still exaggerating. Yes, he recognized a good thing when he saw it. But, he was not involved in the early funding of ARPAnet, the initial NSFNET, or even the initial effort to further increase funding for NSFNET. He merely became a government cheerleader of a prior movement that had little opposition. It was the strong pressure within the Reagan Administration to privatize government operational activities that lead to the privatization of the Internet. Not only is it fair to lampoon Gore for claiming to have created the Internet, it's accurate. If there are any questions, ask Al Gore, who admitted that it was mistake to have claimed to have created the Internet.
http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citi488.html
Gore stating "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." is a pretty straight forward lie. Not at all out of context.
r e_internet_inventor.mp3
http://www.geocities.com/omnipyre/multimedia/algo
All of Gore's "misstatements" seen in the context of his history, makes it clear he was a compulsive liar.
http://www.hench.net/2002/z070202a.htm
If the car is running Linux, does that mean it will never crash?
u ll_CRASH.jpg
http://www.linuxhotbox.com/fun/linux-wallpapers/f
How to report a Yahoo bug
h tml
to Yahoo.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/support/contacts/bugs.
MIT's Magazine of Innovation: "A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics" http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_ muller101504.asp
http://www.techcentralstation.com/102704F.html
http://www.oism.org/oism/lecture/viewer/lecturepla yer.htm
http://www.john-daly.com/
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.html
Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick rock!
"MIT: Global Warming Bombshell. A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics" http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_ muller101504.asp
http://www.techcentralstation.com/102704F.html
http://www.oism.org/oism/lecture/viewer/lecturepla yer.htm
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.html
Please! Keep up with the news. The Global Warming Theory has been debunked by Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.
I like the National Review's comparison of Michael Mann to ex-professor Michael Bellesiles, who was striped of his tenure because of historical fraud.
"The fundamental scientific pillars of the Kyoto Accord is based on flawed calculations, incorrect data and a biased selection of climate records."
The corrected graph of Earth's thermal history http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/no-hockey.gif
QUOTE: Steve McIntyre and University of Guelph economics professor Ross McKitrick, obtained the original data used by Michael Mann of the University of Virginia to support the notion that the 20th-century temperature rise was unprecedented in the past millennium. A detailed audit revealed numerous errors in the data. After correcting these and updating the source records they showed that based on Mann's own methodologies, his original conclusion was flawed. Mann's original version resulted in the famous "hockey stick" graph that purported to show 900 years of relative temperature stability (the shaft of the hockey stick) followed by a sharp increase (the blade) in the 20th century (see graph). The corrected version of the last thousand years actually contradicts the view promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and removes the foundation for claims of 20th-century uniqueness.
To understand the significance of the McIntyre/McKitrick announcement, it is important to consider how our understanding of long-term climate history has evolved over the past decade. In its 1990 and 1995 "Assessment Reports", the IPCC clearly identified two major global climatic events in the past millennium, as confirmed by thousands of papers written by quaternary geologists during the past century -- a "Medieval Warm Period" (MWP) from about 800 to 1300 A.D. that was as much as two degrees Celsius warmer than today, and a far colder "Little Ice Age" (LIA) from about 1300 to 1900 A.D. The effects of these events were felt worldwide with convincing evidence of both the MWP and LIA found in Europe, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Peru and even in China, Japan and Australia. As part of our emergence from the LIA, scientists agreed there had been a gradual warming throughout the 20th century, although the reasons for this were hotly contested with increasing greenhouse gases (GHG) and changes in the output of the sun being leading contenders.
In recent years, however, the case for solar variations being the 20th century's major climate driver has become much stronger, much to the consternation of Kyoto supporters. After all, if long before human-induced GHG emission became significant, temperatures were considerably higher than today, there would be little reason to think today's temperatures were anything unnatural. This was especially true since long-term solar records indicated that both the MWP and LIA were closely correlated with changes in solar activity, and the output of the sun has indeed been increasing during the past century's 0.6C warming. Supporters of the GHG-induced warming hypothesis desperately needed a "smoking gun" to prop up the need for Kyoto.
This was conveniently supplied by Mann, Bradley and Hughes in their 1998 paper (referred to as "MBH98") in which they reduced the MWP and LIA to non-events outside Europe and unveiled their "hockey stick." The paper concluded, "Our results suggest that the latter 20th century is anomalous in the context of at least the past millennium. The 1990s was the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year, at moderately high levels of confidence."
Of course, Kyoto fans were delighted. Despite being at odds with most of the scientific literature, and the fact that the MBH98 study was only one of thousands of possible millennial temperature constructions, advocates of the GHG hypothesis of climate change started to promote Mann's results as the definitive global temperature history. Within a year, with little real
Microsoft is the corporate manifestation of a bag lady at the edge of the bazaar--it believes in its own delusions of grandeur that are substantiated only by the trinkets of ill-gotten code that it can stuff into its shopping cart operating system. Microsoft wanders around the edge of the bazaar, snarling at free performers and the merchants, spiting at their standards and products. Prowling the edge, Microsoft can only peddle its opium to the suits that also skirt the bazaar. These suits, unlike their serfs, fear that they will become confused in this arena of ideas. Microsoft does market the best opium, and with its profits, can afford to sit and watch the bazaar. Awakening from its stupor, Microsoft slowly responds to cries for better fixes. Microsoft trips the performers juggling their standards and lures a few merchants away from their products. Microsoft ties together these new trinkets together with some string that it found earlier, as bag ladies often do. This string keeps the suits from trying to buy just one trinket. One day, a performer and a merchant walk out to the edge of the bazaar and asks, "Microsoft, why do you not work within our open bazaar named Innovate. Microsoft scoffs. They reassure Microsoft and say, "We all have the right to Innovate and you are welcome to join our community. The greedy bag lady screams out, "I alone must have the right to Innovate!"
http://www.geocities.com/grok42tampabay/
Since the source code for antivirus programs cannot be publicly reviewed, and you have to be running Linux in root to get a virus, installing antivirus on a Linux computer is a pointless security risk that will slow down your system.
By the way, I've always been amused by all the Windows administrators that are unaware of NT/W2K floppy root kits that reset the administrative password in a minute.
Found where the Lindows source will be posted
QUOTE
All code changes made by Lindows.com to the above products are sent back to these organizations and/or will be made available for download here.http://net2.com/lindows/source/ (Keep in mind that LindowsOS hasn't even released a Beta version of LindowsOS, so the source code is very unstable and changing continually.)
Are we all invited? How many karma points do we need to get invited? Where and when will the wedding/convention be? Who will preside? Can't be Linus, because he can't get a notary license. Will your marriage vows be based on GPL? Or, better than marriage, just form an "Limited Liability Company with Durable Medical Power of Attorney", so your rights do not change for state to state.