Funny, I don't remember taking any of my rights away.
But do you remember giving any of your rights away?
Rights can't be given away. They are rights and infringement is never justified because the violated are unwilling/unable to resist. Take slavery for example... Forcing people into slavery is always wrong. Period. If you're enslaving them, the moral responsibility is on you, the slaver. To say that people brought it on themselves because they didn't resist enough is blaming the victim. Doing that is as morally reprehensible as the actual act of taking the rights, because it indicates you are accepting those morally reprehensible actions as justice.
There are times when civil disobedience ought to be an obligation, not just a right.
The right to civil disobedience? A right is an established claim on something. Your right to speak, live free, or defend yourself is not granted, given, or bestowed upon you. You simply have them. The Bill of Rights does not grant these things. It simply enumerates and acknowledges them by explicitly forbidding government infringement of them. Should the government void that social contract and infringe on your rights, it's still your right to decide what to do about it. You've totally misunderstood the whole point of rights. Obligating someone to resist and be punished under unjust law would itself be an infringement of your rights, and that isn't just my opinion. I know of at least one other guy who would disagree with your assertion:
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." —Samuel Adams
The idea that the rest of the world is decoupled from the US economy is silly.
Tell me about it when the world drops the US dollar as its reserve currency. What's silly is the idea that the rest of the world needs the US for anything. The US is the largest debtor nation on the planet and on the verge of bankruptcy. I guess the rest of the world does need us... to pay back the money we owe them. As you've pointed out though, their markets are realizing that we can't pay them back and are adjusting accordingly. They will recover long before the US does... if the US does.
It's not even just that: Katzer also went and got patents over the concepts expressed in JMRI, which were only granted because he failed to disclose JMRI's prior art to the patent office, and then sued the JMRI people for infringement of their own code!
It would be nice if the OSS community chould foot the bill for a few high profile ads publicizing this case, and specifically Katzer's actions. It would go a long way toward creating awareness about the software patent process and how badly it is failing.
How can voters be informed when the media aren't? It seem that whenever I see anything whatever about science on the TV news, they get something wrong, usually badly wrong and backwards.
It's more than the media... Some people refuse to believe legitimate science. Half the students in that study answered a question incorrectly even after being explicitly told the scientifically correct answer.
The average American (at least the ones I talk to) don't think that scientific consensis is that the globe is heatihng and we are responsible.
And irony or ironies, now you're telling us you're a member of the Cult of Climate Change. Don't you think if it were true, you'd have scientific proof instead of a scientific consensus. It's right there in your own words. You're presenting your opinion, not scientific fact.
Here's how real science works. You publish something and other scientists review it. Your peers try their best to tear it down. If it stands up to the harshest scrutiny, it's considered pretty solid scientific research.
Here's how the "science" of climate change works. One paper is published.... The One True Paper... and everyone is expected to fall in line. Peer review of The One True Paper is not allowed. If you attempt to review The One True Paper you are shouted down as a non-believer. Questioning The One True Paper diverts your efforts and money away from the Cult of Climate Change and puts us all in Grave Danger! There isn't time to question The One True Paper. We must "come together" now! We must convert all non-believers immediately or else we are all in Grave Danger! As a member of the Cult of Climate Change, it is your moral duty to save these non-believers from themselves before the damage is irreparable!!! It is the only way to escape the Grave Danger! that we all face. We know this because The One True Paper tells us so.
But I'm wasting my breath. You're clearly a believer. I could present you with a mountain of scientific evidence and it wouldn't make a dent. Your brain shuts down and your religion kicks in the second you realize I'm disagreeing with your religious beliefs. There are a lot of CCC members reading here too, so I'm sure I'll be modded into the ground. That will certainly reaffirm your beliefs. But just in case... keep chanting it to yourself with cult-like repetition, "There is no dispute. There is a consensus. I believe!!!"
Turn on cookies for sites that need it by hitting F12 and hitting 'Accept cookes only from the site I visit'.
That's not only overkill, it's annoying. Just do the "Accept cookies only from sites I visit" part and be done with it.
Besides, disabling cookies hardly stops them from tracking you. They could still hit you with a doublescript.js, which can be much more invasive than a cookie. Their server could glean your browser history based on link color, instead of just track you around affiliated sites. And most doubleclick site already drop doubleclick javascripts on you for banner rotation. All doubleclick has to do is change their code a bit if they aren't doing it already. At least with cookies, they have to be affiliated with the website to know you've been there.
You also need to disable swf files because they can store info cookie style too. You might diable cookies, but if you load doubleclick SWFs you're just as screwed.
Personally, I just use Omniweb and since I can filter links with perl-like regular expressions, I just drop everything from doubleclick... among other offenders.
And yet strangely, when they get a job, they expect to get paid for their own work.
And yet strangely, Cliff isn't asking "Why did you buy my games and what can I do to win your business again?" No, instead he's shouting "Why don't you love me??" He's acting like the weird stalker boyfriend that can't just let it go. Cliff, there are plenty of people making mountains of cash writing games, and they have pirates too. Stop blaming the pirates and focus on making your paying customers happy so they'll return to buy more.
Most people expect to get paid for their work, yes. Cliff expects people to hand him cash for no reason. Even IF the pirates were unable to crack his games, they still wouldn't buy his games. They'd just crack someone else's game. That doesn't put food on Cliff's table, no matter how successful his anti-piracy scheme happened to be. Cliff needs to focus on his income instead of trying to appropriate blame for his lack of it.
You seem to have a different definition of "many" than I do. iPhone adoption has been huge so far, and not just "a small group of fanatics."
As the Washington Post article mentions, Steve Jobs' stated goal for Apple is 10 million iPhones in 2008. A rather modest goal for an industry that pushes more than a billion units a year. For the first half of the year, Apple has only sold 2.4 million iPhones.
Of course, the spin in this article doesn't stop with iPhone "popularity"... The article is also spinning this as a competition between T-Mobile and Apple. There is no competition. You cannot choose T-mobile's app store over Apple's on your iPhone. Likewise, you cannot shop at Apple's store on a T-Mobile phone. Apple's store is irrelevant to T-Mobile's ambitions. Apple exists in its own little walled garden.
Furthermore, it sounds as if T-Mobile is competing with Nokia's Download Store which, BTW, predates Apple's app store... and iPhone for that matter. Why wasn't the actual competition mentioned? That's where the meat is in this news... Will Nokia be blocked by T-Mobile on their locked handsets? Will the T-Mobile store offer a better deal to S60 developers? Will Nokia withhold signed apps from T-Mobile or fast track the signing process for Nokia Download Store developers?
Nope, no real news in this article. It's just fanboy infotisement. How did it even make front page? News for nerds indeed...
Let's say I sent a letter (confessing to a crime, perhaps) to a reporter, who then printed it in a newspaper. Can I then sue him for copyright infringement for quoting me?
No, but if you send it in, they print it, and then you try to reprint that section of the newspaper, they come after you with a DMCA takedown. citation
I guess my main bullet point in this presentation would be to say that free speech is dead in the US... dead and gone. Long gone. Private interests trump your right to speak freely here.
They're just claiming that he had no right to post private communications publicly, and not denying the validity of the emails.
How much money can you get out of a libel claim? With copyright, it's a max of $150,000 per offense. The plaintiff is asking for $75,000. I think that's adequate motivation for not filing a libel suit. This one is an easy victory, and although the final amount will likely be much lower, a big settlement would sting Fortuny much worse than any punishment the court would likely deal out for a libel claim.
But making private conversations public isn't illegal.
Reposting a creative work verbatim is illegal. It's copyright infringement. Reposting the picture is copyright infringement too. If Fortuny didn't have permission to repost, he's in violation of the law. It's open and shut.
Sorry to reply to myself, but carrying that thought one step further... let's say Fortuny's job hunting.
Post a fake job ad on Craigslist (CL) that is similar to the job he's looking for.
Collect responses and fish around for pictures on myspace/facebook.
Using the obtained email headers and pictures, forge messages regarding taboo sex acts and claim to have been luring the unsuspecting men into a trap.
Post them online and make a big stink about it, ensuring a number of employers will see it.
Profit from the reduction on the supply side of available candidates for the jobs you want.
Result, epic troll. And for added credibility, actually do make the deviant sex post and mix those responses into your forged ones. Once a few people admit to answering sex ads, everyone will be assumed guilty on message boards everywhere. Given he is a known troll and admitted liar, it's very plausible, whatever his motivation, that he did something very similar, if not exactly that.
Hmmm, perhaps like an ex-hacker getting job offers in security, Fortuny will start getting job offers as a political advisor... the job would certainly suit a character assassin like him. Imagine the kind of neo-con hit job he could devise if he had Obama's personal email address.
And he'd be right if he pointed you back to your father and said, "Nope. Thank that guy over there for shattering your childhood."
Oh, so Fortuny arrange a date and met the man... is that where his pictures came from? Because, ya know, that would be pretty solid proof.
However, he didn't do that, did he? He claims he simply lied on a message board to obtain them. He could have just as easily started typing in email address at myspace, pulling pictures of men when he got a hit, and then posting malicious lies when he got a picture. He could have been doing both. The basic premise of Fortuny's story is.... he's a liar. You'd have to be pretty gullible if you didn't at least wonder if he's lying now.
But don't just whine because your publicly displayed identifier is being checked against known offenses.
Yeah, tell that to one of these cops when you want their badge number. Go ahead, take a picture smarty. They'll break your camera or your face, and they'll DARE you to do something about it.
The majority is ruling, and complaining, about a minority that is making itself so obnoxious as to border on rude
When the airlines cease operations, I'll sure be glad we have that HANG UP act to make everything better. I'm glad that with the documented illegal torture and sexual abuse of prisoners, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 20% in the past year, massive inflation, job losses, and unprecedented foreclosure rates in some areas.... I'm really glad that congress can be trusted to tackle the real issues facing America today. The HANG UP act certainly ranks right up there with
S.RES.440: A resolution recognizing soil as an essential natural resource, and soils professionals as playing a critical role in managing our Nation's soil resources.
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I never said this was somehow a solution to global warming.
Who said you did?
It's incredibly stupid, and pretty much everyone else who has an interest in it has said so as well.
That's why BeanThere was modded +4 Interesting for implying imipak was off base for stating this is junk science. That's why imipak received a flamebait mod. That's why many posts like this one have multiple positive mods for suggesting this might work, even though, as you've agreed, it is chemically impossible for this process to help one bit. One CO2 comes out, one CO2 goes back in. It's patently absurd.
Clearly, the cultists in the slashdot crowd have been snowed by bs like "Scientists say" and "dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere" in the story. They just swallow it as truth and you're apparently offended because I'm calling it hocus pocus that appeals to the fire and brimstone climate change religion.
I'm not trying to shout you down, as you people who constantly portray yourself off as 'victims' claim.
How soon you forget! You're the one who started in with the name calling. You called me a moron. Don't want me to taking the "victim stance?" If you weren't lobbing callous insults at me, I wouldn't have that option.
In short, you set up a straw man, boy.
And there ya have it folks... "you people"... "boy"... The last resort of the bully. Intimidation. Congratulations, you've completely exposed yourself for what you really are.
I'm sorry, are the chemistry equations I presented incorrect? Have you been offended because I allow scientific fact to guide me rather than labels like "Green," "Carbon footprint," and other feel good nonsense? Are you a climate change cultist too? I wouldn't be surprised.... cults don't usually care for people who think freely and ask questions that challenge dogma.
I can see the moderation on the parents of this thread and so can everyone else. imipak was modded flamebait for calling BS on this global warming "solution" and BeanThere was given +4 Interesting for dismissively telling him to learn more science.
This whole discussion is full of similar mods, and the only reason I didn't get buried in a similar fashion is because I spelled out the problem with this "solution" in the most elementary way possible. Yet YOU are still trying to shout me down. Does the Kool-Aid taste THAT good?
And far from 'the cultists' wanting to stripmine the desert and haul it to the ocean, it is....*drumroll*
Exxon!
Seriously? I didn't know Shell was owned by Exxon. Not that I really care about who's funding the research as long as it isn't public funds, but the third sentence of TFA reads:
Shell is so impressed with the new approach that it is funding an investigation
So, ya know, next time... maybe you could cite your sources like I cited mine. I know it's a real bother for your cult to bring facts to the table, but it would be nice occasionally...
Rather than mod, I think I'd rather comment on this one... Webkit and Opera tied as the first browser engine to pass Acid3. More great news, Safari 3.1 is the first browser to parse all CSS3 selectors. Even though the story is definitely balls deep on FF's cock, there's no reason to be hatin' on FF. Competition is good, right? I think the important point to take away from this article is...IE is falling way behind... So much so that users are abandoning it in droves. Look at all the holes in that chart. At the rate things are going, IE will no longer be the dominant browser by the end of the year.
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please, please, anyone who supports filesharing rights, do not stop the spread of this propaganda, it is guaranteed to backfire
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i swear, it's reefer madness for file sharing
And refer is illegal... I'd rather see someone recaption it into something hilarious with the opposite message before spreading it further.
When you poke a rattlesnake with a stick and it bites you, you are the victim of a rattlesnake bite.
When you try to rape a woman and she tasers you, you are the victim? Interesting that you think in that way...
You may not have chosen to give up your rights, I didn't, but we as American citizens, collectively, have allowed it to be done.
You are blaming the victims.
Funny, I don't remember taking any of my rights away.
But do you remember giving any of your rights away?
Rights can't be given away. They are rights and infringement is never justified because the violated are unwilling/unable to resist. Take slavery for example... Forcing people into slavery is always wrong. Period. If you're enslaving them, the moral responsibility is on you, the slaver. To say that people brought it on themselves because they didn't resist enough is blaming the victim. Doing that is as morally reprehensible as the actual act of taking the rights, because it indicates you are accepting those morally reprehensible actions as justice.
There are times when civil disobedience ought to be an obligation, not just a right.
The right to civil disobedience? A right is an established claim on something. Your right to speak, live free, or defend yourself is not granted, given, or bestowed upon you. You simply have them. The Bill of Rights does not grant these things. It simply enumerates and acknowledges them by explicitly forbidding government infringement of them. Should the government void that social contract and infringe on your rights, it's still your right to decide what to do about it. You've totally misunderstood the whole point of rights. Obligating someone to resist and be punished under unjust law would itself be an infringement of your rights, and that isn't just my opinion. I know of at least one other guy who would disagree with your assertion:
Nice to see that the price for ISO members was high enough to prevent appeals from going through.
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em. It's the OSS way. Fork it, or start your own. It looks like you have enough pissed off people to make a go at it.
The idea that the rest of the world is decoupled from the US economy is silly.
Tell me about it when the world drops the US dollar as its reserve currency. What's silly is the idea that the rest of the world needs the US for anything. The US is the largest debtor nation on the planet and on the verge of bankruptcy. I guess the rest of the world does need us... to pay back the money we owe them. As you've pointed out though, their markets are realizing that we can't pay them back and are adjusting accordingly. They will recover long before the US does... if the US does.
We did this to ourselves
Funny, I don't remember taking any of my rights away.
If there is a recession coming up, people will soon find that they can make do with their old gadgets a bit longer, or go with the cheaper option.
Global recession? I think you underestimate Asia.
It's not even just that: Katzer also went and got patents over the concepts expressed in JMRI, which were only granted because he failed to disclose JMRI's prior art to the patent office, and then sued the JMRI people for infringement of their own code!
It would be nice if the OSS community chould foot the bill for a few high profile ads publicizing this case, and specifically Katzer's actions. It would go a long way toward creating awareness about the software patent process and how badly it is failing.
How can voters be informed when the media aren't? It seem that whenever I see anything whatever about science on the TV news, they get something wrong, usually badly wrong and backwards.
It's more than the media... Some people refuse to believe legitimate science. Half the students in that study answered a question incorrectly even after being explicitly told the scientifically correct answer.
The average American (at least the ones I talk to) don't think that scientific consensis is that the globe is heatihng and we are responsible.
And irony or ironies, now you're telling us you're a member of the Cult of Climate Change. Don't you think if it were true, you'd have scientific proof instead of a scientific consensus. It's right there in your own words. You're presenting your opinion, not scientific fact.
Here's how real science works. You publish something and other scientists review it. Your peers try their best to tear it down. If it stands up to the harshest scrutiny, it's considered pretty solid scientific research.
Here's how the "science" of climate change works. One paper is published.... The One True Paper... and everyone is expected to fall in line. Peer review of The One True Paper is not allowed. If you attempt to review The One True Paper you are shouted down as a non-believer. Questioning The One True Paper diverts your efforts and money away from the Cult of Climate Change and puts us all in Grave Danger! There isn't time to question The One True Paper. We must "come together" now! We must convert all non-believers immediately or else we are all in Grave Danger! As a member of the Cult of Climate Change, it is your moral duty to save these non-believers from themselves before the damage is irreparable!!! It is the only way to escape the Grave Danger! that we all face. We know this because The One True Paper tells us so.
But I'm wasting my breath. You're clearly a believer. I could present you with a mountain of scientific evidence and it wouldn't make a dent. Your brain shuts down and your religion kicks in the second you realize I'm disagreeing with your religious beliefs. There are a lot of CCC members reading here too, so I'm sure I'll be modded into the ground. That will certainly reaffirm your beliefs. But just in case... keep chanting it to yourself with cult-like repetition, "There is no dispute. There is a consensus. I believe!!!"
That's not only overkill, it's annoying. Just do the "Accept cookies only from sites I visit" part and be done with it.
Besides, disabling cookies hardly stops them from tracking you. They could still hit you with a doublescript.js, which can be much more invasive than a cookie. Their server could glean your browser history based on link color, instead of just track you around affiliated sites. And most doubleclick site already drop doubleclick javascripts on you for banner rotation. All doubleclick has to do is change their code a bit if they aren't doing it already. At least with cookies, they have to be affiliated with the website to know you've been there.
You also need to disable swf files because they can store info cookie style too. You might diable cookies, but if you load doubleclick SWFs you're just as screwed.
Personally, I just use Omniweb and since I can filter links with perl-like regular expressions, I just drop everything from doubleclick... among other offenders.
And yet strangely, when they get a job, they expect to get paid for their own work.
And yet strangely, Cliff isn't asking "Why did you buy my games and what can I do to win your business again?" No, instead he's shouting "Why don't you love me??" He's acting like the weird stalker boyfriend that can't just let it go. Cliff, there are plenty of people making mountains of cash writing games, and they have pirates too. Stop blaming the pirates and focus on making your paying customers happy so they'll return to buy more.
Most people expect to get paid for their work, yes. Cliff expects people to hand him cash for no reason. Even IF the pirates were unable to crack his games, they still wouldn't buy his games. They'd just crack someone else's game. That doesn't put food on Cliff's table, no matter how successful his anti-piracy scheme happened to be. Cliff needs to focus on his income instead of trying to appropriate blame for his lack of it.
You seem to have a different definition of "many" than I do. iPhone adoption has been huge so far, and not just "a small group of fanatics."
As the Washington Post article mentions, Steve Jobs' stated goal for Apple is 10 million iPhones in 2008. A rather modest goal for an industry that pushes more than a billion units a year. For the first half of the year, Apple has only sold 2.4 million iPhones.
Of course, the spin in this article doesn't stop with iPhone "popularity"... The article is also spinning this as a competition between T-Mobile and Apple. There is no competition. You cannot choose T-mobile's app store over Apple's on your iPhone. Likewise, you cannot shop at Apple's store on a T-Mobile phone. Apple's store is irrelevant to T-Mobile's ambitions. Apple exists in its own little walled garden.
Furthermore, it sounds as if T-Mobile is competing with Nokia's Download Store which, BTW, predates Apple's app store... and iPhone for that matter. Why wasn't the actual competition mentioned? That's where the meat is in this news... Will Nokia be blocked by T-Mobile on their locked handsets? Will the T-Mobile store offer a better deal to S60 developers? Will Nokia withhold signed apps from T-Mobile or fast track the signing process for Nokia Download Store developers?
Nope, no real news in this article. It's just fanboy infotisement. How did it even make front page? News for nerds indeed...
There has to be such a thing as fair use, or else there really isn't any first amendment.
Ummm, the second thing you said... Welcome to slashdot! Why do you think the GPL was designed and intended to be the antithesis of copyright?
Copyright law has all but destroyed your right to free speech. It's being used to suppress political speech, erase history, and assign private ownership to ridiculous things like silence.
Besides.... do you really think you have a right to speak freely after you watch people hauled off in shackles for reading the First amendment?
Let's say I sent a letter (confessing to a crime, perhaps) to a reporter, who then printed it in a newspaper. Can I then sue him for copyright infringement for quoting me?
No, but if you send it in, they print it, and then you try to reprint that section of the newspaper, they come after you with a DMCA takedown. citation
I guess my main bullet point in this presentation would be to say that free speech is dead in the US... dead and gone. Long gone. Private interests trump your right to speak freely here.
They're just claiming that he had no right to post private communications publicly, and not denying the validity of the emails.
How much money can you get out of a libel claim? With copyright, it's a max of $150,000 per offense. The plaintiff is asking for $75,000. I think that's adequate motivation for not filing a libel suit. This one is an easy victory, and although the final amount will likely be much lower, a big settlement would sting Fortuny much worse than any punishment the court would likely deal out for a libel claim.
But making private conversations public isn't illegal.
Reposting a creative work verbatim is illegal. It's copyright infringement. Reposting the picture is copyright infringement too. If Fortuny didn't have permission to repost, he's in violation of the law. It's open and shut.
Sorry to reply to myself, but carrying that thought one step further... let's say Fortuny's job hunting.
Result, epic troll. And for added credibility, actually do make the deviant sex post and mix those responses into your forged ones. Once a few people admit to answering sex ads, everyone will be assumed guilty on message boards everywhere. Given he is a known troll and admitted liar, it's very plausible, whatever his motivation, that he did something very similar, if not exactly that.
Hmmm, perhaps like an ex-hacker getting job offers in security, Fortuny will start getting job offers as a political advisor... the job would certainly suit a character assassin like him. Imagine the kind of neo-con hit job he could devise if he had Obama's personal email address.
And he'd be right if he pointed you back to your father and said, "Nope. Thank that guy over there for shattering your childhood."
Oh, so Fortuny arrange a date and met the man... is that where his pictures came from? Because, ya know, that would be pretty solid proof.
However, he didn't do that, did he? He claims he simply lied on a message board to obtain them. He could have just as easily started typing in email address at myspace, pulling pictures of men when he got a hit, and then posting malicious lies when he got a picture. He could have been doing both. The basic premise of Fortuny's story is.... he's a liar. You'd have to be pretty gullible if you didn't at least wonder if he's lying now.
This book appears to contain inaccuracies. For instance, this page indicates that Safari through version 3.0 does not support widows. Without even considering that Safari 3.1 was a substantial upgrade in CSS support ... Apple says Safari has supported widows and orphans since Safari 1.3.
When you got violent thugs running around
That's kinda my point; The only violent thugs in the stories I posted were the ones behind the badge.
But don't just whine because your publicly displayed identifier is being checked against known offenses.
Yeah, tell that to one of these cops when you want their badge number. Go ahead, take a picture smarty. They'll break your camera or your face, and they'll DARE you to do something about it.
The majority is ruling, and complaining, about a minority that is making itself so obnoxious as to border on rude
When the airlines cease operations, I'll sure be glad we have that HANG UP act to make everything better. I'm glad that with the documented illegal torture and sexual abuse of prisoners, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 20% in the past year, massive inflation, job losses, and unprecedented foreclosure rates in some areas.... I'm really glad that congress can be trusted to tackle the real issues facing America today. The HANG UP act certainly ranks right up there with
No, the whip company is finding many new potential sources of revenue on the web.
And it sounds like Hasbro picked up the buggy part...
I never said this was somehow a solution to global warming.
Who said you did?
It's incredibly stupid, and pretty much everyone else who has an interest in it has said so as well.
That's why BeanThere was modded +4 Interesting for implying imipak was off base for stating this is junk science. That's why imipak received a flamebait mod. That's why many posts like this one have multiple positive mods for suggesting this might work, even though, as you've agreed, it is chemically impossible for this process to help one bit. One CO2 comes out, one CO2 goes back in. It's patently absurd.
Clearly, the cultists in the slashdot crowd have been snowed by bs like "Scientists say" and "dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere" in the story. They just swallow it as truth and you're apparently offended because I'm calling it hocus pocus that appeals to the fire and brimstone climate change religion.
I'm not trying to shout you down, as you people who constantly portray yourself off as 'victims' claim.
How soon you forget! You're the one who started in with the name calling. You called me a moron. Don't want me to taking the "victim stance?" If you weren't lobbing callous insults at me, I wouldn't have that option.
In short, you set up a straw man, boy.
And there ya have it folks... "you people" ... "boy" ... The last resort of the bully. Intimidation. Congratulations, you've completely exposed yourself for what you really are.
You're a moron
I'm sorry, are the chemistry equations I presented incorrect? Have you been offended because I allow scientific fact to guide me rather than labels like "Green," "Carbon footprint," and other feel good nonsense? Are you a climate change cultist too? I wouldn't be surprised.... cults don't usually care for people who think freely and ask questions that challenge dogma.
I can see the moderation on the parents of this thread and so can everyone else. imipak was modded flamebait for calling BS on this global warming "solution" and BeanThere was given +4 Interesting for dismissively telling him to learn more science.
This whole discussion is full of similar mods, and the only reason I didn't get buried in a similar fashion is because I spelled out the problem with this "solution" in the most elementary way possible. Yet YOU are still trying to shout me down. Does the Kool-Aid taste THAT good?
And far from 'the cultists' wanting to stripmine the desert and haul it to the ocean, it is....*drumroll*
Exxon!
Seriously? I didn't know Shell was owned by Exxon. Not that I really care about who's funding the research as long as it isn't public funds, but the third sentence of TFA reads:
So, ya know, next time... maybe you could cite your sources like I cited mine. I know it's a real bother for your cult to bring facts to the table, but it would be nice occasionally...
Rather than mod, I think I'd rather comment on this one... Webkit and Opera tied as the first browser engine to pass Acid3. More great news, Safari 3.1 is the first browser to parse all CSS3 selectors. Even though the story is definitely balls deep on FF's cock, there's no reason to be hatin' on FF. Competition is good, right? I think the important point to take away from this article is ...IE is falling way behind... So much so that users are abandoning it in droves. Look at all the holes in that chart. At the rate things are going, IE will no longer be the dominant browser by the end of the year.