Think the anti-intellectual movement is bad now? Wait until GM's "Chicken Little" series of advertisements encourages SUV owners to run over anyone carrying a book.
Since when does global warming have anything to do with being intellectual?
BTW, I read your journal. You may as well go ahead and add me to your foes list. You can read my opinion on global warming here,here, and here.
The difference is, they find them in reputable, peer reviewed journals, and written by people who actually understand climate science.
Ahh, so you understand climate science do you? Let's just test that little assertion shall we? Pop quiz:
99.9% of all carbon on Earth is located in the:
Lithosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Oceans
The largest contributor of carbon to Earth's atmosphere is:
Soil erosion
Burning fossil fuels
Respiration of organisms in the biosphere
Deforestation
Each year, ____ gigatons of carbon are contributed to the atmosphere by fossil fuels.
4-5
2-3
6-7
8
US government studies have concluded that fertilizing the ocean with iron sulfate could remove ____ gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere in the first year alone.
8
2-3
4-5
6-7
For all four questions, the first answer is the correct answer. If you didn't already know this, please reconsider posting unless you plan to quote someone more educated on the subject than yourself... like for instance, "Dr. Hurricane" William Gray.
I am convinced myself that in 15 or 20 years, we're going to look back on this and see how grossly exaggerated it all was. The humans are not that powerful. These greenhouse gases, although they are building up, they cannot cause the type of warming these models say - two to five degrees centigrade with a doubling of the greenhouse gases.
Oh, but there's plenty of peer reviewed scientific journals to refute him... I just don't have a hyperlink to those right now... I had one around here somewhere. Really, I did. I have proof, I just can't show it to you. You'll have to take my word on it. Everyone believes in global warming anyway... really! They do! Honest... you don't believe me? Wha.. well you must be an Oil Industry SHILL!! Err, Tobacco Industry SHILL!! Uh, I'm confused...
Javascript can compromise anonymity!... Wow.... What else is new? I mean, even if this particular story hasn't been referenced, I think this could qualify as a dupe;-)
I also found out that a teacher at another university was using my powerpoints with out attribution as his own work. AND what I say in class is my intellectual property.
Even though you yourself are just ripping off someone else's work by mostly just repeating what you yourself were taught? If you really are a professor, you're just a work for hire. It's not your intellectual property. It belongs to the university that pays your salary.
If it were me, I'd simply have asked the other professor to share any improvements he made to the powerpoints and encourage others to assist in the development of them as well. That way, you are left with a collaborative effort that transcends any singular person's diminutive knowledge of the subject.
Or, they can trot out a new toy or two that makes it pretty much unbearable to be in that crowd in the first place, AK-47 under your cross-dressing burkha or not.
That's why God made country music. Play that over your loud speakers and they'll all leave.;-)
Did they mention any specific varieties being developed in sub-Saharan Africa? Ahh, I didn't think so. The fat one sure is proud of ol' Norm though. Apparently with Norm, being some random genetic engineer makes him the greatest person in all of human history... clearly ahead of Jesus, who is also in the pile of cards. I'm not religious myself, but I *know* that isn't gonna help Penn and Teller's argument one bit. Also note, Norm's Nobel prize was awarded in 1970... 7 years before scientists discovered genes could be split into segments! So I seriously doubt ol' Norm was saving the starving in Africa with BT-Corn way back then as P&T would have you believe. More likely, he was teaching soil conservation and crop rotation. Techniques that were developed as early as the middle ages and allowed for a population boom large enough to construct all those pretty gothic churches you see today.
So, Zambia turned down GM corn that could have saved millions because Greenpeace nut jobs convinced them it was poison? Wrong again... Unless the British Medical Association qualifies as a bunch of Greenpeace nut jobs. Seems they were concerned bacteria would assimilate antibiotic resistance genes from the corn plants. Tell me, why does a corn plant even need genes for antibiotic resistance? Sounds like P&T are simplifying things a wee bit.
But hey, P&T sure are good at shouting Bullshit and Fuck really loud. They even throw in an unsubstantiated "racist" dig at the opposition. And of course, we all know if TV says so, it must be true.
Using "plasma arcs" to "vaporize" garbage sounds vaguely dangerous.
I guess that's why NIMBYs block garbage incinerators all the time. I don't expect this technology to go very far when you can construct plain ol' garbage incinerators that provide electricity and have cleaner output than any coal fired plant.
"Oh dear they're annoying me with spam. Fuck the 1st Amendment, send them to the salt mines!!" Land of the Free indeed...
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Ahhh, but you've overlooked the most important factor: Window Snyder is female! Therefore neither of your proposed solutions is correct. Slashdot readers, once they have discovered this will completely forget all context in the discussion. They will find pictures, fawn over teh hotness, and begin building web shrines in their basements throughout the globe.
How long will it be until these systems start to look at the ethnicity/gender/age of people and use that to gauge threat level? We're on a slippery slope here...
You can't be on a slippery slope when you're already at the bottom. The current system, off duty cop v1.0, already considers these factors before apprehending suspects. White, 70, female... pass. 'Urban', 17, male... please step over here sir.
Wow, a whole 800,000 years of data for a planet that's 4,500,000,000 years old. That's like, a whole 0.018% of Earth history. Conclusive evidence if I've ever heard any!
But don't let that stop you being a smug Mac weenie and wallowing in your delightful self-delusion that Windows sucks in every way imaginable while using OS X is the closest a mere human can come to basking in the reflected glory of God Almighty Himself.
Wow, aren't you bitter. You're right about one thing though: the more Microsoft copies from the Mac, the better Windows will get. <smugness/>
The Mac startup sound has always been mandatory. Don't like it? Plug in your headphones for a second... The stuff that makes front page these days *sigh*
Something else Microsoft is good at, besides spreading around swiss cheese security solutions, is vaporware. Nothing to see here. Move along. Call me when there is a product announcement instead of a so called leak.
Let's take cancer. People don't know where cancer comes from and think that some habits are better than others. Yet we all can get cancer, regardless if you excercise, etc.
As population increases worldwide, coal combustion continues to be the dominant fuel source for electricity... Although U.S. population growth is slower than worldwide growth, per capita consumption of energy in this country is among the world's highest.
Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations
coal combustion wastes more energy than it produces... the energy content of nuclear fuel released in coal combustion is more than that of the coal consumed
the amount of uranium-235 alone dispersed by coal combustion is the equivalent of dozens of nuclear reactor fuel loadings
Now, consider that the US Government conducted more than 2000 nuclear tests in the roughly 40 years following WWII, 500 of which were above ground tests. Thats roughly one nuke every two weeks, one above ground every two months, for 40 years.
Any job that requires any sort of personality test is usually followed up by a 'training' period and possibly a non-compete agreement. By the time you're done interviewing, testing, training, etc you're dead broke and forced to work there for at least three months before you can quit if you hate the job. Every job I've had that required this process was a terrible one. Due to my experience, this is the point where I would walk out/move on/never call back. It seems designed to leave you in a pinch so you can't leave a horrible workplace once you're hired. There are better jobs out there, so don't waste your time on PHBs.
I watched a Frontline special on PBS online regarding media censorship on the internet in China. They made a point of fingering Yahoo/Google/Cisco/Microsoft and American companies in general for making this possible. Very interesting/insightful/informative. They selected four freshmen from Beijing University and not one of them recognized the "Tank Man" photo from Tiananmen Square in 1989 due to this censorship. The ironic part? After railing on Chinese online censorship for the better part of an hour, you get to part six of the video and a portion of the PBS online video is censored by American law. The screen goes black, and all you get is white text which you must read quickly. Censorship is being used in the United States to wipe out historical events while recorded evidence rots away in locked vaults. In China, we call the end result censorship. In the United States, we call it copyright law...
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Think the anti-intellectual movement is bad now? Wait until GM's "Chicken Little" series of advertisements encourages SUV owners to run over anyone carrying a book.
Since when does global warming have anything to do with being intellectual?
BTW, I read your journal. You may as well go ahead and add me to your foes list. You can read my opinion on global warming here, here, and here.
The difference is, they find them in reputable, peer reviewed journals, and written by people who actually understand climate science.
Ahh, so you understand climate science do you? Let's just test that little assertion shall we? Pop quiz:
For all four questions, the first answer is the correct answer. If you didn't already know this, please reconsider posting unless you plan to quote someone more educated on the subject than yourself... like for instance, "Dr. Hurricane" William Gray.
Oh, but there's plenty of peer reviewed scientific journals to refute him... I just don't have a hyperlink to those right now... I had one around here somewhere. Really, I did. I have proof, I just can't show it to you. You'll have to take my word on it. Everyone believes in global warming anyway... really! They do! Honest... you don't believe me? Wha.. well you must be an Oil Industry SHILL!! Err, Tobacco Industry SHILL!! Uh, I'm confused...Javascript can compromise anonymity! ... Wow. ... What else is new? I mean, even if this particular story hasn't been referenced, I think this could qualify as a dupe ;-)
I also found out that a teacher at another university was using my powerpoints with out attribution as his own work. AND what I say in class is my intellectual property.
Even though you yourself are just ripping off someone else's work by mostly just repeating what you yourself were taught? If you really are a professor, you're just a work for hire. It's not your intellectual property. It belongs to the university that pays your salary.
If it were me, I'd simply have asked the other professor to share any improvements he made to the powerpoints and encourage others to assist in the development of them as well. That way, you are left with a collaborative effort that transcends any singular person's diminutive knowledge of the subject.
:-)
Or, they can trot out a new toy or two that makes it pretty much unbearable to be in that crowd in the first place, AK-47 under your cross-dressing burkha or not.
That's why God made country music. Play that over your loud speakers and they'll all leave. ;-)
Did they mention any specific varieties being developed in sub-Saharan Africa? Ahh, I didn't think so. The fat one sure is proud of ol' Norm though. Apparently with Norm, being some random genetic engineer makes him the greatest person in all of human history... clearly ahead of Jesus, who is also in the pile of cards. I'm not religious myself, but I *know* that isn't gonna help Penn and Teller's argument one bit. Also note, Norm's Nobel prize was awarded in 1970... 7 years before scientists discovered genes could be split into segments! So I seriously doubt ol' Norm was saving the starving in Africa with BT-Corn way back then as P&T would have you believe. More likely, he was teaching soil conservation and crop rotation. Techniques that were developed as early as the middle ages and allowed for a population boom large enough to construct all those pretty gothic churches you see today.
So, Zambia turned down GM corn that could have saved millions because Greenpeace nut jobs convinced them it was poison? Wrong again... Unless the British Medical Association qualifies as a bunch of Greenpeace nut jobs. Seems they were concerned bacteria would assimilate antibiotic resistance genes from the corn plants. Tell me, why does a corn plant even need genes for antibiotic resistance? Sounds like P&T are simplifying things a wee bit.
But hey, P&T sure are good at shouting Bullshit and Fuck really loud. They even throw in an unsubstantiated "racist" dig at the opposition. And of course, we all know if TV says so, it must be true.
Yeah, but that stuff runs right through you. You better have five asses when you're done. ;-)
fast as Java
Enough said... ;-)
could someone please explain again just why China is in the WTO, and the rest of the world 'needs' to do business with them?
Eastasia is our ally. We are at war with Eurasia. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Using "plasma arcs" to "vaporize" garbage sounds vaguely dangerous.
I guess that's why NIMBYs block garbage incinerators all the time. I don't expect this technology to go very far when you can construct plain ol' garbage incinerators that provide electricity and have cleaner output than any coal fired plant.
For approximately the last 15 years, the United States has been engaged in the largest imprisonment program ever attempted by a democratic society.
That was back in the early 90's when the US prison population was around 900,000. In the time since then, the prison population has more than doubled again to nearly 2.2 Million prisoners. To put that into perspective, there is currently only about 1.4 million people on active duty in the US military.
We condemn China for their practices involving prison slave labor, yet we conduct those same practices ourselves... Slavery is back in America, and it's mostly for the poor black people again. Meanwhile, every time we have an article discussing incarceration on Slashdot, we get a bazillion prison bitch jokes that fly in the face of the 8th amendment of the US Constitution. You people KNOW their rights are being violated and you don't care.
"Oh dear they're annoying me with spam. Fuck the 1st Amendment, send them to the salt mines!!" Land of the Free indeed...
Window and Linus need to get married. They could even name their first child Lindow.
Yeah, but the kid would do nothing but WINE. ;-)
We can draw two possible conclusions from this.
Ahhh, but you've overlooked the most important factor: Window Snyder is female! Therefore neither of your proposed solutions is correct. Slashdot readers, once they have discovered this will completely forget all context in the discussion. They will find pictures, fawn over teh hotness, and begin building web shrines in their basements throughout the globe.
Gentlemen, ready your hot grits. :-P
How long will it be until these systems start to look at the ethnicity/gender/age of people and use that to gauge threat level? We're on a slippery slope here...
You can't be on a slippery slope when you're already at the bottom. The current system, off duty cop v1.0, already considers these factors before apprehending suspects. White, 70, female... pass. 'Urban', 17, male... please step over here sir.
Wow, a whole 800,000 years of data for a planet that's 4,500,000,000 years old. That's like, a whole 0.018% of Earth history. Conclusive evidence if I've ever heard any!
But don't let that stop you being a smug Mac weenie and wallowing in your delightful self-delusion that Windows sucks in every way imaginable while using OS X is the closest a mere human can come to basking in the reflected glory of God Almighty Himself.
Wow, aren't you bitter. You're right about one thing though: the more Microsoft copies from the Mac, the better Windows will get. <smugness />
well freedom isn't free and these are the sacrifices that must be made to keep everyone safe.
Freedom != safety.
The Mac startup sound has always been mandatory. Don't like it? Plug in your headphones for a second... The stuff that makes front page these days *sigh*
Boy, it certainly made for a good story though! For about 2 minutes... *sigh* Do some research before posting or blogging next time.
B buh but... This is Slashdot!
Something else Microsoft is good at, besides spreading around swiss cheese security solutions, is vaporware. Nothing to see here. Move along. Call me when there is a product announcement instead of a so called leak.
Leaving text here because it's required to pass the lameness filter.
Some choice quotes:
Now, consider that the US Government conducted more than 2000 nuclear tests in the roughly 40 years following WWII, 500 of which were above ground tests. Thats roughly one nuke every two weeks, one above ground every two months, for 40 years.
I think we all know where cancer comes from.
build the rocket out of nuclear waste and fire that at the sun ;-)
Any job that requires any sort of personality test is usually followed up by a 'training' period and possibly a non-compete agreement. By the time you're done interviewing, testing, training, etc you're dead broke and forced to work there for at least three months before you can quit if you hate the job. Every job I've had that required this process was a terrible one. Due to my experience, this is the point where I would walk out/move on/never call back. It seems designed to leave you in a pinch so you can't leave a horrible workplace once you're hired. There are better jobs out there, so don't waste your time on PHBs.
I watched a Frontline special on PBS online regarding media censorship on the internet in China. They made a point of fingering Yahoo/Google/Cisco/Microsoft and American companies in general for making this possible. Very interesting/insightful/informative. They selected four freshmen from Beijing University and not one of them recognized the "Tank Man" photo from Tiananmen Square in 1989 due to this censorship. The ironic part? After railing on Chinese online censorship for the better part of an hour, you get to part six of the video and a portion of the PBS online video is censored by American law. The screen goes black, and all you get is white text which you must read quickly. Censorship is being used in the United States to wipe out historical events while recorded evidence rots away in locked vaults. In China, we call the end result censorship. In the United States, we call it copyright law...