...you must live in perpetual fear. Whenever you're starting to focus on the reality of life, new fear WILL be injected into it to distract you.
Nice bit of cynicism, I like it. But as a former cybersecurity professional who has worked inside of electric power plants, let me remind you that there is a difference between scaremongering (ala Global Warming, mass extinction, and other such nonsense) and REAL threats such as that in TFA.
I've known for years about this threat. It's nice to finally see someone in the mainstream press take notice.
Unfortunately, I'm not optimistic that THE solution will ever be seriously considered: QUIT USING WINDOW$ ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL SYSTEMS.
And according to Occam's Razor, probably the right one.
One must make an awful lot of assumptions to accept your explanation -- one of which is that this President is actually competent -- and you still haven't explained why GM (for instance) is being rewarded for failure while many others are left twisting in the wind. My explanation, on the other hand, is sufficient to explain the situation.
To me, this says a lot more about your ideology than anything else.
eez. I realize that we get a lot of overheated (excuse the pun) rhetoric from proponents of AGW, but do you skeptics really have to take your rhetorical bandwagon so far in the opposite direction?
Global Warming: A theory based reams of data with the support of a majority of the scientists who have worked in the field of climate studies.
<loud buzzer> WRONG.
First of all, we're not dealing with a single theory here. We are dealing with three different statements*, only one of which is true.
Secondly, the sum of the three statements is believed by only a tiny minority of scientists (meaning: climatologists actively working in, or retired from actively working in, the field).
The idea that "the vast majority" of climatologists agrees with the Global Warming Alarmists is pure bunk. Just because a majority of scientists agree with the first statement does NOT mean that they agree with all three statements.
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"The Earth has warmed over the last 150 years" (true)
"This is caused by humans emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere" (partially true; the human contribution is extremely tiny)
"It will cause an environmental apocalypse" (100% false)
Detailed global circulation models that predict climate accurately are still young.
No, they are nonexistent. There are no models that accurately predict climate.
However, the physics of CO2 in the atmosphere is well understood.
Yes, such as the fact that Earth's current concentration of CO2 is already near its asymptote for heat absorption, and increasing -- even doubling -- the amount of atmospheric CO2 will make a difference that is very near zero.
Do we keep on adding more CO2 to the atmosphere as if none of those effects will happen? Or do we change course?
Considering that the only way to "change course" involves killing hundreds-of-millions to billions of human beings, and condemning the rest to a pre-Industrial-age existence with all of its attendant poverty and disease, I vote for the former.
There is simply NO way to avoid adding CO2 to the atmosphere without destroying civilation. And it won't do a damn thing to global temperatures, since those are caused by changes in solar radiation, not by carbon dioxide.
I guess if we all complained until we were blue in the face, businesses -might- make more of an effort to keep the certificates in line with the actual sites. However, the answer received in this case: 'Sorry I can't escalate that' shows that the corporations know we'll suck it up and deal.
Amen.
Which is why I refuse to do online banking: too many of them just don't "get it". I use the phone, even though Capital One charges me ten bucks for certain transactions done over the phone.
You must mean, "While the games are ongoing, don't you? And the answer is Yes.
Wouldn't they be, like, watching it?
Only when their own kid is playing. The rest of the day is spent walking around bored, chatting with neighbors, and waiting for the kid's next event.
I don't see a significant advantage over having several cards and swapping them around.
Never shot one of these events, have you? When you've got four or more soccer matches / softball games going on at the same time, or a hundred Taekwondo / Karate / wrestling matches, or a wedding reception -- you don't exactly have time to keep running over to your table to change cards....
I don't see the need for it nor do I see many uses elsewhere.
Not a pro, eh?
Think event photography. For an example, think youth sports. You're shooting a game with an eye-fi card while an associate runs the laptop. Parents come up to your table and order prints, which your associate cranks out right there on the spot.
And while your associate is doing the dirty work (i.e., collecting filthy lucre), you just keep on shooting the game.
Need I say, "3. Profit!"?
It's very useful, to a wide range of pros. Of course, no pro in zir right mind is going to run Linux on that laptop, but there's no question how much money the card itself can make for you.
Pretty much as predicted over two years ago in South Park episodes 1012-1013 ("Go God Go") in which people 500 years in the future are using this thing to make computer screens in mid-air....
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First the pirates, then the stockmarket, then sunspots. Is there anything that global warming doesn't affect?!
Uh, in the case of pirates, you have the relationship backwards. Global warming does not cause pirates; it's a lack of pirates that causes global warming.
...you must live in perpetual fear. Whenever you're starting to focus on the reality of life, new fear WILL be injected into it to distract you.
Nice bit of cynicism, I like it. But as a former cybersecurity professional who has worked inside of electric power plants, let me remind you that there is a difference between scaremongering (ala Global Warming, mass extinction, and other such nonsense) and REAL threats such as that in TFA.
I've known for years about this threat. It's nice to finally see someone in the mainstream press take notice.
Unfortunately, I'm not optimistic that THE solution will ever be seriously considered: QUIT USING WINDOW$ ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL SYSTEMS.
Researchers say Vortex2 is the largest attempt in history to study tornadoes, and will involve more than 50 scientists, 40 research vehicles....
...all of which are Dodge Ram pickup trucks, I presume?
Or, to quote Freewheelin' Franklin, "Zork will get you through times of no Xanax better than Xanax will get you through times of no Zork."
The reason s/he posted as anonymous coward is obvious: s/he has karma to protect.
Now please do the right thing and make an exception to the usual rules about not modding ACs.
Pretty simplistic view
And according to Occam's Razor, probably the right one.
One must make an awful lot of assumptions to accept your explanation -- one of which is that this President is actually competent -- and you still haven't explained why GM (for instance) is being rewarded for failure while many others are left twisting in the wind. My explanation, on the other hand, is sufficient to explain the situation.
To me, this says a lot more about your ideology than anything else.
eez. I realize that we get a lot of overheated (excuse the pun) rhetoric from proponents of AGW, but do you skeptics really have to take your rhetorical bandwagon so far in the opposite direction?
Calm down. It's a joke.
they've bailed out some companies while letting others fail with no clear motive
Actually, the motive is very clear, at least in the case of General Motors. It's spelled "Labor Unions".
Global Warming: A theory based reams of data with the support of a majority of the scientists who have worked in the field of climate studies.
<loud buzzer> WRONG.
First of all, we're not dealing with a single theory here. We are dealing with three different statements*, only one of which is true.
Secondly, the sum of the three statements is believed by only a tiny minority of scientists (meaning: climatologists actively working in, or retired from actively working in, the field).
The idea that "the vast majority" of climatologists agrees with the Global Warming Alarmists is pure bunk. Just because a majority of scientists agree with the first statement does NOT mean that they agree with all three statements.
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*
Detailed global circulation models that predict climate accurately are still young.
No, they are nonexistent. There are no models that accurately predict climate.
However, the physics of CO2 in the atmosphere is well understood.
Yes, such as the fact that Earth's current concentration of CO2 is already near its asymptote for heat absorption, and increasing -- even doubling -- the amount of atmospheric CO2 will make a difference that is very near zero.
Do we keep on adding more CO2 to the atmosphere as if none of those effects will happen? Or do we change course?
Considering that the only way to "change course" involves killing hundreds-of-millions to billions of human beings, and condemning the rest to a pre-Industrial-age existence with all of its attendant poverty and disease, I vote for the former.
There is simply NO way to avoid adding CO2 to the atmosphere without destroying civilation. And it won't do a damn thing to global temperatures, since those are caused by changes in solar radiation, not by carbon dioxide.
Anybody who took District Attorney School 101 knows this....
(pinky to corner of mouth) ...EVIL District Attorney School?
the next questions driving research will be: Is that planet habitable? Does it have an Earth-like atmosphere?
Does it have Global Warming?
I guess if we all complained until we were blue in the face, businesses -might- make more of an effort to keep the certificates in line with the actual sites. However, the answer received in this case: 'Sorry I can't escalate that' shows that the corporations know we'll suck it up and deal.
Amen.
Which is why I refuse to do online banking: too many of them just don't "get it". I use the phone, even though Capital One charges me ten bucks for certain transactions done over the phone.
Bastards.
"OOooo, gettin' frisky are we?"
-- Fat Bastard, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
everything is a pollutant when it is present in concentrations such that the current local environment can not deal with them[sic].
And therefore, C0(sub)2 is not a pollutant. So what's your point?
Never shot one of these events, have you?
Neither have you.
Yes, I have. With film. Took days to get results, weeks to scan, and by then the parents had all lost interest.
Srsly, hundreds of bouts simultaneously?
Never been to a Taekwondo tournament, have you?
Or maybe his brain has started to decline, and he's just forgotten how to spell it....
Guilty as charged. Now GET OFF MY...
...have you seen my glasses?
While the game is ongoing?
You must mean, "While the games are ongoing, don't you? And the answer is Yes.
Wouldn't they be, like, watching it?
Only when their own kid is playing. The rest of the day is spent walking around bored, chatting with neighbors, and waiting for the kid's next event.
I don't see a significant advantage over having several cards and swapping them around.
Never shot one of these events, have you? When you've got four or more soccer matches / softball games going on at the same time, or a hundred Taekwondo / Karate / wrestling matches, or a wedding reception -- you don't exactly have time to keep running over to your table to change cards....
Think back to when you were ten, you put a random term into Google
When I was ten, a google was a fixed (i.e., not random) value. Also:
So, no, I can't relate to your example. Now get off my lawn.
I don't see the need for it nor do I see many uses elsewhere.
Not a pro, eh?
Think event photography. For an example, think youth sports. You're shooting a game with an eye-fi card while an associate runs the laptop. Parents come up to your table and order prints, which your associate cranks out right there on the spot.
And while your associate is doing the dirty work (i.e., collecting filthy lucre), you just keep on shooting the game.
Need I say, "3. Profit!"?
It's very useful, to a wide range of pros. Of course, no pro in zir right mind is going to run Linux on that laptop, but there's no question how much money the card itself can make for you.
I shoot semi-pro photography. I do studio shots and 'tethering' is a PITA. a wireless (a good one!) solution is needed.
Dude. Get a Nikon.
Their wireless remote solution is ridiculously expensive (as is everything with Nikon's name on it) but I've seen it in action and it works very well.
Anyone else notice the instances of him using the device (bookstore, grovery store) were conspicuously dimly lit?
No, I was too distracted by the fact that the paper towels were in a refrigerated case.
Pretty much as predicted over two years ago in South Park episodes 1012-1013 ("Go God Go") in which people 500 years in the future are using this thing to make computer screens in mid-air....
As his administration continues to work on a stimulus plan that can save America's economy....
The Obama administration is not working on ANY plan that can save America's economy.
Hmmm, true. My bad.