I believe my.sig has somehow become relevant... I noticed this behavior a while back. It's a very strange feeling when you post something so insightful or thought-provoking that someone on the other side has to go back and downmod two-week-old posts in an attack on your karma.
'Tis not thy name that is my enemy.(40) Thou art thyself, completely evil. What's DRM? it is not aid, nor help, Nor safety, nor right, nor any other part that ever good could come of!
What's in a name? That which we call DRM, by any other name, would still smell like offal. So DRM would, were it not DRM call'd, Retain that deep imperfection which he owes, without that title. DRM, doff thy name, but still be recognized; And by any name, for thy evil is still part of thee, GTFO.
French is largely stagnant - oddly enough, because the French actively try to keep "un-French" words OUT of their language. There was the idiocy a few years back when the French government actually outlawed the word "e-mail" in official gov't correspondence in favor of the longer "courier electronique" phrase, trying their damndest to keep that "eeevil" english wording out of their parlance. It didn't work well.
Eastern languages, particularly those that rely on a pictorial/tonal (rather than phonetic) processing structure, have significant issues with adding new words and just as much with "losing" words. There are a number of older works from these cultures where the ability to read them aloud has been lost because nobody is sure today how they were supposed to be pronounced. Likewise, been to Japan lately? Their "solution" has been to simply insert Engrish words (or French, German, etc) when there is no preexisting translation available. Of course, this makes things silly, arguably as silly as switching around between any other pictorial and phonetic system at will.
Of course, you also have "shifts" that develop. Brits, Americans, and Canadians speak three largely different forms of "English" (and then there's the underclass poor, who have their own all again). Likewise, compare Spanish-Spanish to Mexican-Spanish to Venezuelan-Spanish.
As for the world "adopting" something else... well let's see. So far, I've seen Indians trying to code... poorly... and insert comments in their native language (which promptly sends people screaming for translators), or else trying to comment their poorly-written code in poorly-written engrish. As for Cantonese/Mandarin... good question. Probably you're going to see much the same.
The patent system is broken. Patents are only supposed to be given to truly innovative work, not simple "evolutionary" changes (e.g. "the logical next step.") Thanks to "patent-slamming" (the practice of companies like IBM, Micro$oft, and others sending in thousands on thousands of patent filings per year on the theory that if even 1% gets through they can patent-troll those and block competition), the patent office is overworked. The overworked patent office, in turn, has been granting patents to all sorts of things that never, ever should have qualified.
A great example of this was Wizards of the Coast's "patent" on card game mechanics, to wit "The method of claim 3, wherein said step of designating one or more of the cards comprises rotating the one or more cards on the playing surface from an original orientation to a second orientation", which under a proper analysis done by any COMPETENT and non-overworked patent attorney should have been invalidated by prior art by the collected works of one Edmund Hoyle over two hundred years ago.
The patent playing field is broken and needs a re-set, with strong rules preventing things like patent-slamming from happening and getting back to the point where only true innovation is rewarded with a patent. Until that time, we're fucked.
3) pirates crack the new (weaker) ps3 without homebrew's help
Why not 4) homebrew and pirates work together semi-implicitly to crack the new (weaker) PS3 as happened with the Wii?
The Wii's "pirate" and "homebrew" crowds are not that different. Yes, there are the standouts (like marcan, whose definition of "piracy" often puts him at odds even with other people normally considered homebrewers, such as people who enjoy rewriting/redrawing banners for the hell of it and eventually led to the modern "bannerbomb" hack) but for the most part the question is not "what" they do, but "with what intentions." For instance, a utility capable of installing a homebrew game is usually equally capable of installing a copied download title. A utility to preserve "non-preservable" save games (like Super Mario Galaxy's save file, which for some inexplicable reason won't normally let users copy it to the flash card for safekeeping/transport) can easily upload hacked files full of cheat codes or worse. Little bits of code here and there have all sorts of purposes.
It's my guess that we'll see the "pirate" and "homebrew" circles working together, especially the emulator crowds (countdown to a PS3 snes9x port, just for the fun of it?). And they'll crack the new PS3, likely in a way that cracks the old "chubby" PS3 as well, at which point there'll be a softmod for the PS3.
Sorry, but the statistics bear out the contrary position. My own analysis (based on "nongamer" relatives/friends/etc that bought a Wii) is the same. Generally, they buy the Wii, they buy 2-3 other games tops, and then they don't buy another game for at least a year.
If they love the games they are playing? Great. I wish more games were like that. I have a VERY short list (perhaps 20-30 titles) of games I deemed worthy to hold on to and re-play, over a 15-year gaming history.
Unfortunately, that spending model doesn't help the games market. Just like the Gamecube days, there are a handful of titles that could have been "must-play" variety, but the long tail - the "ooh this looks good" - is missing. It goes straight from Zelda down to "yet another shitty anime-looking golf game that doesn't implement motion sensing properly."
Welcome to 70% of the districts in the US. They're all gerrymandered one way or the other. Most of them don't even give a crap what their "supporters" think, because the votes that keep them in office are not "supporters", just idiots who vote based on whether they see that "R" or "D" next to the name.
And it won't change, because that 70% would never vote to outlaw gerrymandering, or anything else that threatens their power.
Israel doesn't quite have "Nationalized health care" in the way you're claiming.
Israel's system is much closer to the Massachusetts system whereby insurance is compulsory, but multiple organizations still compete for members (they each get a percentage of the national fund equal to their registered percentage of population). Organizational differences (most notably, that the free "minimum care" package provided to all Israelis is not nearly as comprehensive as what Massachusetts demands as a minimum-coverage standard, and most Israelis wind up purchasing "supplemental packages" at increased expense) account for why Israel's system is not failing, whereas Massachusetts's model has gone deeply into the red.
But... aren't the laptops already across the border when they are searched?
Perhaps, but the US government has the authority (and exercises it) to establish "processing zones" for the examination of people and goods being transported/imported to the US before releasing them to move freely within said borders.
Otherwise, according to your rather tortured and fuzzy "logic", we'd have to locate airports at the precise border of the US and disallow any international flights except for those which land there. But since that makes little sense on the face of pure logistics, we instead establish the security system such that the plane touches down, and then passengers/cargo are inspected before being released from the confines of the airport itself.
This goes the same for the inspection of ships at a port as well, for example. The "border" of the US may have been crossed at the line of the territorial waters, but the ship and cargo may be inspected at any time by the authority of the US as delegated to the port authority or other law enforcement agencies.
and why are Mexican "illegals" not permitted
I see you are trying to troll and get a rise out of someone here, as well as exposing your rather pointless agenda. Please grow up.
Stepping back to serious land, if we're going to go to Mars, we need to colonize the Moon first, and perhaps actually work on a bit of terraforming (mooniforming? luniforming?) just to see what we can, and can't, make work.
Besides, if we can get it properly set, then we can send all the old folks to the moon and they can walk around in lightened gravity. Just imagine, our satellite turned into a rest home for the elderly;)
Please retake Thermodynamics 101. You obviously failed the first time.
Heatsinks for processors work by passing a carrier (water, forced air, some other fluid) past a source of heat. Often, a "Heat Sink" also involves vaned metal, in order to increase the surface area and thus the speed at which the heat energy can be transferred. The other method by which one can increase the speed of the transfer is to pass the carrier through in a colder state.
Now, once your carrier has reached equal temperature with the source, no more heat will be transferred. We get around this by cycling the carrier (in a closed loop for water systems, a generally "open" loop involving the room/building for forced air, though you can fuck up if you put your computer in a spot with lousy ventilation and gradually heat and recycle the available trapped air) to keep it "fresh" and at a lower temperature.
Now, if he's expecting to get ridiculously cold temperatures (he thinks he's going to maintain 16 Celsius year-round... not gonna happen!) then no. He may be able to get a small amount of cooling for the water as it passes, but he's more likely to simply heat the water for a while.
I said it before and I'll say it again: for the depth he's putting this pipe, he'll get about the same cooling effect as if he'd just hung the damn copper loop on his wall and let the house's conditioned air absorb heat from it.
PS: rechecked location. He's in Tassie, Australia. Very coastal, very similar temperature-wise to coastal US temps. Yeah. This is gonna be REAL disappointing for him. The laws of thermodynamics, much like gravity, don't play very well with wishful thinking.
The "large area of cement" isn't going to work nearly as well as you think. Your "basement concrete floor" temperature is still within 10 or so degrees of your ambient air temperature.
Now, assuming he lives in Moosefuck, Alaska or something, perhaps the ground underneath his house is significantly cool enough to provide some help. Given the flora in the area, I rather doubt that. Further, the fact that he's building a slab, rather than a proper basement foundation, indicates that he's somewhere in the Southern/Southeastern US, in a low-lying area where building a basement foundation means digging down below the water line.
The net effect, going by thermodynamics, of his given rig is going to be roughly the same as if he'd bolted his circuit of copper to the wall by his bed and just let it vent heat into the ambient, air-conditioned house.
He's barely going down at all. Maybe two feet deep, tops. His slab, at that depth, is going to have an insignificant (less than 15F) temperature difference with the external.
Now if you go down SIGNIFICANT distance, you can reach an earth-neutral temperature. The further down you go (until you reach a stable point, which will depend on your local ground type) the cooler you will be.
If he were to go down 10+ feet or so, and then set up the circuit like he is indicating, it wouldn't be too bad. As it stands, he's gonna have one of the most inadequate foundation slabs I've seen in any case, and his "copper pipe cooling" is not going to give him nearly the cooling he is hoping for. I hope to god he isn't in an area with frequent foundation shifts, or he's fucked as it is, copper piping or no.
6 ft down doesn't actually provide much cooling. If you want a "neutral" temp, you need to go well underneath the slab.
Plus, you're "sinking" to a temp of 40-50F, and you have to consider that the concrete itself is a fair insulator, so you won't actually lose as much heat as you hope.
You are appealing to reason, but you categorically dismiss people that hold the view you are opposing as crazies?
Everyone I've ever met who believes in "global man-caused climate change" also believes that Jenny McCarthy, MD, can "cure" children of autism.
By the way, those "crazies" happen to include the vast majority of climatologists
Please look again at the research. Given that the majority of the UN "climate change" panel members are NOT climatologists, and a number of climatologists quite the panel in protest of its unscientific methods, you're not on solid ground making that claim.
There are some serious criticisms of Anthropogenic Climate Change that need to be addressed, but that those that hold that view are "crazies" is not one of them.
Then the movement should stop putting their crazies front-and-center as their spokespeople.
Actually, what we need to do changes dramatically depending on whether it is natural - in which case we need to adapt in one way - or "human-caused" - in which case we need to adapt in other ways.
Many of the things suggested by the "climate change" crowd are actually DETRIMENTAL if the change is natural rather than "human-caused."
In that case, we're really stupid to say, "Not my fault!" and do nothing, because whatever the cause, when low-lying areas get inundated and crop failures start, it doesn't matter whose fault it is, it's going to be a mess.
In the early 20th century, the "dust bowl" phenomenon was caused by poor farming techniques that caused massive erosion. The proper response was to change farming techniques and, in many cases, change what crops were grown/rotated. Many of the proposed "solutions", however, were absolute bullcrap and again, in a number of cases, would have actually done more harm than good (but at the same time, became briefly popular).
And of course, there's plenty of shortsighted crap going on right now as well. For instance, the recent Obama administration ban on CFC-based inhaler delivery systems for drugs like Albuterol. There IS no proper replacement for these. As my friend said, "fuck you Obama, I need that to LIVE."
Yes, we should be researching alternatives. At the same time, the amount of CFC's emitted by humankind in a year is less than 1/100th that emitted by volcanic eruption, and the amount emitted by medical inhalers so small as to be statistically irrelevant. The ban is "feelgood" for Obama's unthinking cronies, while horrible for people who need their medications and now have to hunt for substitutes that are an order of magnitude less effective at best.
Please examine the three cases I put forth. I see you did not bother to do any research.
I examined the so-called "sockpuppetteer" they were accused of being reincarnations of. I saw no topic-space collision. I saw no pattern of bad behavior. What I did see, was a group of trollish embedded Wikipedia-controllers with delusions of article ownership, who played the troll game and then proceeded to scream "sockpuppet" in a way that was ridiculous but triggered the expected result - an admin with an axe to grind coming in to ban first and not ever ask questions.
I took a step back and examined the original "sockpuppetteer" as well. In my opinion, the original Arbcom case was a travesty bordering on being a kangaroo court, and the verdict had no basis in fact whatsoever. Of course, anyone who ever bothered to bring this up on Wikipedia is invariably accused of being a "sockpuppet" or something else, and banned themselves.
The system is broken, abusive, and self-perpetuating. The articles on Wikipedia are worth the toilet paper one might print them on, and only for the same purpose.
Yeah, you've got a lot of people agreeing with you: 20% of all scientists and a whopping 3% of all climatologists.
Funny. I could have cherry-picked similar "numbers" decades back to "prove" that "science said" that smoking cigarettes was healthy.
Consider the following: 90% of those idiots in Hollyweird think they need to be on the "climate change" bandwagon. Going on historical record, if I'm on the other side from them, I'm 90% likely to be on the scientifically correct side. After all, the hollyweird nutjobs are the same morons who are push the anti-vaccination bullshit right now.
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I believe my .sig has somehow become relevant... I noticed this behavior a while back. It's a very strange feeling when you post something so insightful or thought-provoking that someone on the other side has to go back and downmod two-week-old posts in an attack on your karma.
How about this one?
'Tis not thy name that is my enemy.(40)
Thou art thyself, completely evil.
What's DRM? it is not aid, nor help,
Nor safety, nor right, nor any other part
that ever good could come of!
What's in a name? That which we call DRM,
by any other name, would still smell like offal.
So DRM would, were it not DRM call'd,
Retain that deep imperfection which he owes,
without that title. DRM, doff thy name, but still be recognized;
And by any name, for thy evil is still part of thee,
GTFO.
No kidding.
French is largely stagnant - oddly enough, because the French actively try to keep "un-French" words OUT of their language. There was the idiocy a few years back when the French government actually outlawed the word "e-mail" in official gov't correspondence in favor of the longer "courier electronique" phrase, trying their damndest to keep that "eeevil" english wording out of their parlance. It didn't work well.
Eastern languages, particularly those that rely on a pictorial/tonal (rather than phonetic) processing structure, have significant issues with adding new words and just as much with "losing" words. There are a number of older works from these cultures where the ability to read them aloud has been lost because nobody is sure today how they were supposed to be pronounced. Likewise, been to Japan lately? Their "solution" has been to simply insert Engrish words (or French, German, etc) when there is no preexisting translation available. Of course, this makes things silly, arguably as silly as switching around between any other pictorial and phonetic system at will.
Of course, you also have "shifts" that develop. Brits, Americans, and Canadians speak three largely different forms of "English" (and then there's the underclass poor, who have their own all again). Likewise, compare Spanish-Spanish to Mexican-Spanish to Venezuelan-Spanish.
As for the world "adopting" something else... well let's see. So far, I've seen Indians trying to code... poorly... and insert comments in their native language (which promptly sends people screaming for translators), or else trying to comment their poorly-written code in poorly-written engrish. As for Cantonese/Mandarin... good question. Probably you're going to see much the same.
It would never work.
The patent system is broken. Patents are only supposed to be given to truly innovative work, not simple "evolutionary" changes (e.g. "the logical next step.") Thanks to "patent-slamming" (the practice of companies like IBM, Micro$oft, and others sending in thousands on thousands of patent filings per year on the theory that if even 1% gets through they can patent-troll those and block competition), the patent office is overworked. The overworked patent office, in turn, has been granting patents to all sorts of things that never, ever should have qualified.
A great example of this was Wizards of the Coast's "patent" on card game mechanics, to wit "The method of claim 3, wherein said step of designating one or more of the cards comprises rotating the one or more cards on the playing surface from an original orientation to a second orientation", which under a proper analysis done by any COMPETENT and non-overworked patent attorney should have been invalidated by prior art by the collected works of one Edmund Hoyle over two hundred years ago.
The patent playing field is broken and needs a re-set, with strong rules preventing things like patent-slamming from happening and getting back to the point where only true innovation is rewarded with a patent. Until that time, we're fucked.
Depends. How many dead voters can vote electronically in Chicago?
3) pirates crack the new (weaker) ps3 without homebrew's help
Why not 4) homebrew and pirates work together semi-implicitly to crack the new (weaker) PS3 as happened with the Wii?
The Wii's "pirate" and "homebrew" crowds are not that different. Yes, there are the standouts (like marcan, whose definition of "piracy" often puts him at odds even with other people normally considered homebrewers, such as people who enjoy rewriting/redrawing banners for the hell of it and eventually led to the modern "bannerbomb" hack) but for the most part the question is not "what" they do, but "with what intentions." For instance, a utility capable of installing a homebrew game is usually equally capable of installing a copied download title. A utility to preserve "non-preservable" save games (like Super Mario Galaxy's save file, which for some inexplicable reason won't normally let users copy it to the flash card for safekeeping/transport) can easily upload hacked files full of cheat codes or worse. Little bits of code here and there have all sorts of purposes.
It's my guess that we'll see the "pirate" and "homebrew" circles working together, especially the emulator crowds (countdown to a PS3 snes9x port, just for the fun of it?). And they'll crack the new PS3, likely in a way that cracks the old "chubby" PS3 as well, at which point there'll be a softmod for the PS3.
Sorry, but the statistics bear out the contrary position. My own analysis (based on "nongamer" relatives/friends/etc that bought a Wii) is the same. Generally, they buy the Wii, they buy 2-3 other games tops, and then they don't buy another game for at least a year.
If they love the games they are playing? Great. I wish more games were like that. I have a VERY short list (perhaps 20-30 titles) of games I deemed worthy to hold on to and re-play, over a 15-year gaming history.
Unfortunately, that spending model doesn't help the games market. Just like the Gamecube days, there are a handful of titles that could have been "must-play" variety, but the long tail - the "ooh this looks good" - is missing. It goes straight from Zelda down to "yet another shitty anime-looking golf game that doesn't implement motion sensing properly."
Welcome to 70% of the districts in the US. They're all gerrymandered one way or the other. Most of them don't even give a crap what their "supporters" think, because the votes that keep them in office are not "supporters", just idiots who vote based on whether they see that "R" or "D" next to the name.
And it won't change, because that 70% would never vote to outlaw gerrymandering, or anything else that threatens their power.
Israel doesn't quite have "Nationalized health care" in the way you're claiming.
Israel's system is much closer to the Massachusetts system whereby insurance is compulsory, but multiple organizations still compete for members (they each get a percentage of the national fund equal to their registered percentage of population). Organizational differences (most notably, that the free "minimum care" package provided to all Israelis is not nearly as comprehensive as what Massachusetts demands as a minimum-coverage standard, and most Israelis wind up purchasing "supplemental packages" at increased expense) account for why Israel's system is not failing, whereas Massachusetts's model has gone deeply into the red.
But... aren't the laptops already across the border when they are searched?
Perhaps, but the US government has the authority (and exercises it) to establish "processing zones" for the examination of people and goods being transported/imported to the US before releasing them to move freely within said borders.
Otherwise, according to your rather tortured and fuzzy "logic", we'd have to locate airports at the precise border of the US and disallow any international flights except for those which land there. But since that makes little sense on the face of pure logistics, we instead establish the security system such that the plane touches down, and then passengers/cargo are inspected before being released from the confines of the airport itself.
This goes the same for the inspection of ships at a port as well, for example. The "border" of the US may have been crossed at the line of the territorial waters, but the ship and cargo may be inspected at any time by the authority of the US as delegated to the port authority or other law enforcement agencies.
and why are Mexican "illegals" not permitted
I see you are trying to troll and get a rise out of someone here, as well as exposing your rather pointless agenda. Please grow up.
Stepping back to serious land, if we're going to go to Mars, we need to colonize the Moon first, and perhaps actually work on a bit of terraforming (mooniforming? luniforming?) just to see what we can, and can't, make work.
Besides, if we can get it properly set, then we can send all the old folks to the moon and they can walk around in lightened gravity. Just imagine, our satellite turned into a rest home for the elderly ;)
What competent person would want to work for the government if they can work someplace nice?
Well, that explains quite a bit about our elected representatives.
Please retake Thermodynamics 101. You obviously failed the first time.
Heatsinks for processors work by passing a carrier (water, forced air, some other fluid) past a source of heat. Often, a "Heat Sink" also involves vaned metal, in order to increase the surface area and thus the speed at which the heat energy can be transferred. The other method by which one can increase the speed of the transfer is to pass the carrier through in a colder state.
Now, once your carrier has reached equal temperature with the source, no more heat will be transferred. We get around this by cycling the carrier (in a closed loop for water systems, a generally "open" loop involving the room/building for forced air, though you can fuck up if you put your computer in a spot with lousy ventilation and gradually heat and recycle the available trapped air) to keep it "fresh" and at a lower temperature.
Now, if he's expecting to get ridiculously cold temperatures (he thinks he's going to maintain 16 Celsius year-round... not gonna happen!) then no. He may be able to get a small amount of cooling for the water as it passes, but he's more likely to simply heat the water for a while.
I said it before and I'll say it again: for the depth he's putting this pipe, he'll get about the same cooling effect as if he'd just hung the damn copper loop on his wall and let the house's conditioned air absorb heat from it.
PS: rechecked location. He's in Tassie, Australia. Very coastal, very similar temperature-wise to coastal US temps. Yeah. This is gonna be REAL disappointing for him. The laws of thermodynamics, much like gravity, don't play very well with wishful thinking.
The "large area of cement" isn't going to work nearly as well as you think. Your "basement concrete floor" temperature is still within 10 or so degrees of your ambient air temperature.
Now, assuming he lives in Moosefuck, Alaska or something, perhaps the ground underneath his house is significantly cool enough to provide some help. Given the flora in the area, I rather doubt that. Further, the fact that he's building a slab, rather than a proper basement foundation, indicates that he's somewhere in the Southern/Southeastern US, in a low-lying area where building a basement foundation means digging down below the water line.
The net effect, going by thermodynamics, of his given rig is going to be roughly the same as if he'd bolted his circuit of copper to the wall by his bed and just let it vent heat into the ambient, air-conditioned house.
Scratch that. Greater detail on the pics.
He's barely going down at all. Maybe two feet deep, tops. His slab, at that depth, is going to have an insignificant (less than 15F) temperature difference with the external.
Now if you go down SIGNIFICANT distance, you can reach an earth-neutral temperature. The further down you go (until you reach a stable point, which will depend on your local ground type) the cooler you will be.
If he were to go down 10+ feet or so, and then set up the circuit like he is indicating, it wouldn't be too bad. As it stands, he's gonna have one of the most inadequate foundation slabs I've seen in any case, and his "copper pipe cooling" is not going to give him nearly the cooling he is hoping for. I hope to god he isn't in an area with frequent foundation shifts, or he's fucked as it is, copper piping or no.
Only if you simply go straight down and back up again.
If you do it in a circuit, like most heatsink coil setups, you have significantly less depth, and it looks like that's what he is doing.
Welcome to the era where corporations own the government.
That goes for the D-Disney Democrats and the R-Rockwell Republicans equally, btw.
6 ft down doesn't actually provide much cooling. If you want a "neutral" temp, you need to go well underneath the slab.
Plus, you're "sinking" to a temp of 40-50F, and you have to consider that the concrete itself is a fair insulator, so you won't actually lose as much heat as you hope.
Oh wait, there is a replacement: HFA inhalers.
No, there isn't. HFA inhalers are crap.
While we're at it, can we please smack a few scientists around and make them pay attention to the dangers of extrapolating needlessly?
You are appealing to reason, but you categorically dismiss people that hold the view you are opposing as crazies?
Everyone I've ever met who believes in "global man-caused climate change" also believes that Jenny McCarthy, MD, can "cure" children of autism.
By the way, those "crazies" happen to include the vast majority of climatologists
Please look again at the research. Given that the majority of the UN "climate change" panel members are NOT climatologists, and a number of climatologists quite the panel in protest of its unscientific methods, you're not on solid ground making that claim.
There are some serious criticisms of Anthropogenic Climate Change that need to be addressed, but that those that hold that view are "crazies" is not one of them.
Then the movement should stop putting their crazies front-and-center as their spokespeople.
And also, they need to stop lying about their financial stake in this.
Actually, what we need to do changes dramatically depending on whether it is natural - in which case we need to adapt in one way - or "human-caused" - in which case we need to adapt in other ways.
Many of the things suggested by the "climate change" crowd are actually DETRIMENTAL if the change is natural rather than "human-caused."
In that case, we're really stupid to say, "Not my fault!" and do nothing, because whatever the cause, when low-lying areas get inundated and crop failures start, it doesn't matter whose fault it is, it's going to be a mess.
In the early 20th century, the "dust bowl" phenomenon was caused by poor farming techniques that caused massive erosion. The proper response was to change farming techniques and, in many cases, change what crops were grown/rotated. Many of the proposed "solutions", however, were absolute bullcrap and again, in a number of cases, would have actually done more harm than good (but at the same time, became briefly popular).
And of course, there's plenty of shortsighted crap going on right now as well. For instance, the recent Obama administration ban on CFC-based inhaler delivery systems for drugs like Albuterol. There IS no proper replacement for these. As my friend said, "fuck you Obama, I need that to LIVE."
Yes, we should be researching alternatives. At the same time, the amount of CFC's emitted by humankind in a year is less than 1/100th that emitted by volcanic eruption, and the amount emitted by medical inhalers so small as to be statistically irrelevant. The ban is "feelgood" for Obama's unthinking cronies, while horrible for people who need their medications and now have to hunt for substitutes that are an order of magnitude less effective at best.
Please examine the three cases I put forth. I see you did not bother to do any research.
I examined the so-called "sockpuppetteer" they were accused of being reincarnations of. I saw no topic-space collision. I saw no pattern of bad behavior. What I did see, was a group of trollish embedded Wikipedia-controllers with delusions of article ownership, who played the troll game and then proceeded to scream "sockpuppet" in a way that was ridiculous but triggered the expected result - an admin with an axe to grind coming in to ban first and not ever ask questions.
I took a step back and examined the original "sockpuppetteer" as well. In my opinion, the original Arbcom case was a travesty bordering on being a kangaroo court, and the verdict had no basis in fact whatsoever. Of course, anyone who ever bothered to bring this up on Wikipedia is invariably accused of being a "sockpuppet" or something else, and banned themselves.
The system is broken, abusive, and self-perpetuating. The articles on Wikipedia are worth the toilet paper one might print them on, and only for the same purpose.
Yeah, you've got a lot of people agreeing with you: 20% of all scientists and a whopping 3% of all climatologists.
Funny. I could have cherry-picked similar "numbers" decades back to "prove" that "science said" that smoking cigarettes was healthy.
Consider the following: 90% of those idiots in Hollyweird think they need to be on the "climate change" bandwagon. Going on historical record, if I'm on the other side from them, I'm 90% likely to be on the scientifically correct side. After all, the hollyweird nutjobs are the same morons who are push the anti-vaccination bullshit right now.