I've never really understood why the passport isn't just the de-facto personal ID
It's hard to stuff a passport into a card slot in your wallet. It's also too powerful. Hand it to some seedy shop owner and you could end up on a no-fly list on suspicion of international terrorism. The damage from a cloned driver's license is much more local.
That's just false. The Chrétien Liberal Party *was* a centrist party, but all the Liberal Party under all subsequent leaders has been an eco-leftist party. A particular spectacle in the recent election was that the Liberal Party was solidly to the left of the NDP.
It's time a climate superPAC be formed to create an NRA-like political entity with teeth. Science, math, and logic just don't work on the dumb and the greedy. You gotta bribe politicians with campaign money (or lack of) to get action in our society. That's just the ugly truth. The other side will say the existence of a superPAC is evidence of political motivation over science, but they say that anyhow now. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
From this content, it's impossible to tell which side you're on.
this is how they will explain away the other post from earlier stating that ice is growing. Blame the sensors!
NASA will just do one of its famous "adjustments" to the observations, like it has for the land-temperature network. If you cool the past and heat the present one time for an adjustment, you have randomly selected one of the six possibilities. When you do it ten times in a row, the odds of that being a random correction are one in 6^10 = 60-million.
Small, cheap, expendable drones carrying the equivalent of a hand grenade could attack individual enemy soldiers. Slightly bigger ones could carry the equivalent of the warhead of an RPG, come close overhead of an armoured vehicle, and fire down into it. Ukraine could certainly use such things.
Search And Rescue teams should carry "Stingray" mobile cell towers with them to locate missing persons in the wilderness. Any phone in range would try to connect with them.
Still, batteries cost about $3,000 for every $1 worth of electricity they store. If we cycle them every day and save 10% on the stored power, it will take 82 years to break even. But then, the battery will wear out within ten years. And then there's the opportunity cost to consider for the capital spent up front.
viable replacement for animated GIFs either, even though png was supposed to take care of that
That effort was borked by the Second-System Effect among the PNG developers. All they needed was a simple way to replace the animated-GIF functionality. It seems that WebM will be the replacement for animated GIFs, decades later.
This is what killed JPEG-2000 as a mass-market format. While it gives images apparently 1/2 to 1/3rd the size of an equivalent-quality JPEG, it takes dozens of times as long to decode. Result: unusable footnote. A similar thing could be said for general compression formats like BZIP2 and 7-Zip versus GZIP. Given its self-inflicted gunshot wound right out of the gate of being GPLv3-only, if one were to go to all the effort of implementing a buggy *open* driver, would it suffer the same fate as JPEG 2000?
You're getting it for free, with conditions. Conditions that you (or someone else) can work around. If you don't like the conditions, go create your own format.
In this case, the conditions mean that this format is DOA, so we can safely ignore it and get on with our lives.
The ocean has continued to rise in the meantime at the same rate it has since 1650, about 3mm per year. It obviously wasn't caused by anthropogenic CO2 before 1950, so why would a continuation of the same effect be attributed to it after?
The reason you don't know this is because you probably derive most of your 'information' from sources that actually don't deal in science.
You mean like the IPCC? Perhaps you could explain why the objective, full-coverage satellite data shows no warming for nearly 20 years while the CO2 level has continued to rise exponentially. This suggests that the CO2 sensitivity used by the alarmists in their failed predictions is way too high, at the least. Also, the issue is not "AGW"; it's Catastrophic AGW caused specifically and exclusively by CO2 concentrations. (As doomed-to-fail plans to limit CO2 emissions is the only thing the alarmists are even talking about, rather than feasible, cheap plans like geo-engineering.) Every time someone takes a step, they cause a small earthquake. Does that mean they should sit very still and starve to death? Similarly, if a small amount of AGW isn't seriously dangerous, does that mean we should kill hundreds of millions of people through energy poverty to fail to solve something that really isn't that much of a problem? What will you do if the global temperature starts falling in the next five years while CO2 concentrations continue to rise exponentially? Will you admit you were wrong?
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It's hard to stuff a passport into a card slot in your wallet. It's also too powerful. Hand it to some seedy shop owner and you could end up on a no-fly list on suspicion of international terrorism. The damage from a cloned driver's license is much more local.
Bill C-51 was supported by the Trudeau Liberal Party as well. Don't expect the new government to repeal and significant part of it.
That's just false. The Chrétien Liberal Party *was* a centrist party, but all the Liberal Party under all subsequent leaders has been an eco-leftist party. A particular spectacle in the recent election was that the Liberal Party was solidly to the left of the NDP.
Excellent -- another language I'll never have to learn.
From this content, it's impossible to tell which side you're on.
Or, you can look at the IPCC's predictions of today from 20 years ago and see just how shaky a foundation these predictions are built on top of.
NASA will just do one of its famous "adjustments" to the observations, like it has for the land-temperature network. If you cool the past and heat the present one time for an adjustment, you have randomly selected one of the six possibilities. When you do it ten times in a row, the odds of that being a random correction are one in 6^10 = 60-million.
You must be relieved, then, that the taxpayers have been propping up the alarmist cause with *BILLIONS* of dollars, soon to be trillions.
Lrrr: We will raise your planet's temperature by one million degrees a day, for five days, unless we see McNeal at 9pm tomorrow - 8 central!
Small, cheap, expendable drones carrying the equivalent of a hand grenade could attack individual enemy soldiers. Slightly bigger ones could carry the equivalent of the warhead of an RPG, come close overhead of an armoured vehicle, and fire down into it. Ukraine could certainly use such things.
What does it do for me if I'm not an obese child? Or, should we file this in the "causes cancer" circular filing cabinet?
Sony is liable for Slander Of Title, falsely claiming you own someone else's copyright.
Search And Rescue teams should carry "Stingray" mobile cell towers with them to locate missing persons in the wilderness. Any phone in range would try to connect with them.
Haven't we had enough of this SJW crap for the month?
Still, batteries cost about $3,000 for every $1 worth of electricity they store. If we cycle them every day and save 10% on the stored power, it will take 82 years to break even. But then, the battery will wear out within ten years. And then there's the opportunity cost to consider for the capital spent up front.
And they have a motive to overcharge you.
The job ain't done 'til Lotus don't run!
That effort was borked by the Second-System Effect among the PNG developers. All they needed was a simple way to replace the animated-GIF functionality. It seems that WebM will be the replacement for animated GIFs, decades later.
This is what killed JPEG-2000 as a mass-market format. While it gives images apparently 1/2 to 1/3rd the size of an equivalent-quality JPEG, it takes dozens of times as long to decode. Result: unusable footnote. A similar thing could be said for general compression formats like BZIP2 and 7-Zip versus GZIP. Given its self-inflicted gunshot wound right out of the gate of being GPLv3-only, if one were to go to all the effort of implementing a buggy *open* driver, would it suffer the same fate as JPEG 2000?
In this case, the conditions mean that this format is DOA, so we can safely ignore it and get on with our lives.
Yes. Swinzig's Law: The number of people talking about how long Moore's Law will last doubles every 18-24 months.
Does the $1-million supercar signal the end of the compact car, too? I mean, the supercar is better, right?
Why not a million-bazillion kilometers if you're just dishing out self-serving lies?
The ocean has continued to rise in the meantime at the same rate it has since 1650, about 3mm per year. It obviously wasn't caused by anthropogenic CO2 before 1950, so why would a continuation of the same effect be attributed to it after?
You mean like the IPCC? Perhaps you could explain why the objective, full-coverage satellite data shows no warming for nearly 20 years while the CO2 level has continued to rise exponentially. This suggests that the CO2 sensitivity used by the alarmists in their failed predictions is way too high, at the least. Also, the issue is not "AGW"; it's Catastrophic AGW caused specifically and exclusively by CO2 concentrations. (As doomed-to-fail plans to limit CO2 emissions is the only thing the alarmists are even talking about, rather than feasible, cheap plans like geo-engineering.) Every time someone takes a step, they cause a small earthquake. Does that mean they should sit very still and starve to death? Similarly, if a small amount of AGW isn't seriously dangerous, does that mean we should kill hundreds of millions of people through energy poverty to fail to solve something that really isn't that much of a problem? What will you do if the global temperature starts falling in the next five years while CO2 concentrations continue to rise exponentially? Will you admit you were wrong?