There is some ice spread around the world but the vast majority of it is located on Greenland and Antarctica. When ice there melts it leaves the vicinity and more or less spreads evenly around the globe through the global ocean.
That's pretty telling, then, since the ice in Antarctica is actually expanding. It's only melting in Greenland.
Of course that is what a lot of us that are being called "denialist", which just FYI is an regressive term designed to shut down discussion by comparing anybody that doesn't buy magic beans to Holocaust deniers,...
It's the climate science deniers that are trying hard to make the link between denial in general and Holocaust denial specifically so they can look like a persecuted minority.
Just FYI - Anonymous is run by a division of the CIA. It's not surprising that their efforts against Trump are lackadaisical - there are CIA assets (that aren't in Langley most of the time) that actually support Trump's efforts (if not is methods). And, of course, the CIA is currently in a proxy war with the Pentagon, which is vehemently opposed to Trump, because is clearly a problem for the Military Industrial Complex.
Sort of. It's kind of a chicken-or-egg problem right now. You have the studios afraid of losing money to copyright infringement, and trying to make up perceived losses by controlling how distribution happens and at what cost. Then you have folks driven to bootleg video somewhat by cost, but mostly due to the (lack of) availability of content they want to see, when, and how.
Frankly, as difficult as it is sometimes to find something in particular you want to see in some form you can actually watch, it takes a lot of effort to get to it on the torrent networks, too. These things have become these private closed clubs, and you have to build up a social network of torrenters and gain some reputation as a "sharer" to even be allowed into the clubs. It's crazy the amount of resources some people put into doing that stuff. I have to think the reason has more to do with availability than cost, and if the studios would open up distribution the bootlegging would not be as much of a problem.
Well, somebody has to write the code that talks to the database and presents REST / SOAP interfaces for all those HTML / CSS / JavaScript web coders to consume... THAT sure isn't writing itself.
Kik is one letter short of being kike (a racist name for a Jewish person). How brilliant.
It's pronounced "kick" (which is also one letter away). This is how companies create trademarks these days. They take a normal, everyday word, misspell it, then trademark it. Let's see.. "SyFy", "Cuore", "Stihl" (an original!), "Lite", "Lync", "Google" even (the spelling of the big number is "googol").
... I hope you're kidding. Don't reinvent the wheel - if someone else has already written the code then there's no reason to re-write it. That's a huge waste of man hours.
Instead you should package all dependencies in such a way that they can be retrieved without requiring the other guy to still be offering it. Yes, that means a snapshot of the version you rely of should be in your repository because you also can't guarantee that a given version will be available as long as your own project is.
Exactly. And this is the very reason we went to using Maven and a private Nexus server. Nexus will go out periodically and find all the security patches, bug fixes, etc. (and upgrades, if you want them) for all of your dependencies, and keep a local copy. If the upstream repository goes dark (this actually happens a lot), you still have a copy of the latest version.
I'm sure there are other similar system that do the same thing. How are people managing their "nuget" packages?
What? Are you crazy? You can't go handing over prime tropical real estate to third world dictators (or third world leaders at all, for that matter). These scientists have a great idea, and I'm sure there will be tons of junkets by congressmen, business professionals, and all sorts of elite university researchers. All paid by the expense account of course - what a capital plan!
I mean, we let Haiti take over all that prime vacation land for SOOO long! Good thing that "natural" earthquake came along and rubblized everything, so we could use "humanitarian" funds to help build a new 5-star resort hotel for the elites!
That's because he's using a better technique. You see, when the President issues an Executive Order, it has to be written up ahead of time, signed, and publicly disclosed in full. Then after the signing and disclosure, the agency administration issues regulations to implement it.
What works better now for Obama is to issue Executive Actions. These have exactly the same force of law as Executive Orders, but they do not require disclosure, they are informally given to administrators to implement, typically verbally through meetings at the cabinet level and below. Administrators then codify the requirements and publish them in the Federal Register.
So more Executive Actions, less Executive Orders - quite expected from "the most transparent administration ever" (ah hrmph).
They want to set a precedent for this case (because "Ter'ism"!), then they can use the same technique to force Apple to crack all those other phones from drug dealers, child molesters, polluters, litterers, and jay-walkers.
Oh, and by the way, they have recently up'd the ante on the whole thing by claiming that they don't want to have to do it, but if Apple doesn't want to cooperate, next they'll just demand the source code for iOS so they can modify it themselves.
The only reason to stay on 7 or 8 at this point is principle
Nope. There are software incompatibilities, believe it or not. WMC, for instance, is not supported and there's no easy way to get it back. There are some hacks on the Internet to make it work, but even with that some features still fail. There are lots of printers with no driver available, too. Even if there is a compatible built-in, you lose feature. None of the built-in drivers support PIN printing.
What's the differene between building a mine and the European Central Bank's current policy?
Fiat inflation - you heard it here first.
Control.
Central control by an unaccountable bureaucracy. That does not sound like a good thing to me.
The US was on the gold standard until around 1972. The only thing surprising is that the subsequent fiat system has exceeded the average lifespan of fiat currencies. Central authorities controlling currency will always try to extract more value out of it, even when it is backed by precious commodities. The difference is that when the greed of the controllers overwhelms the system and causes it to collapse, the people actually have some value they can extract. You don't have that option with fiat currencies.
People are happily exchanging bitcoins for goods and services and back again. In fact they're so happy with it that they exceed the capacity of the network.
Well they aren't going to be exchanging them for much longer, because the exchange mechanism is broken (sort of) by design.
If you sell some stuff for bitcoins, then buy some other stuff for bitcoins, then it is just inane to claim that you have been scammed.
It wasn't intended as a scam by the creator, but it became one because of the developers that took over, that didn't view bitcoins as a currency, but rather as a store of value. They don't care that it takes hours or days to close a transaction, because they are not really on board with the idea that bitcoins can be used like money. They only see it as an investment.
Mike Hearn lays out the issues much better than I can, in his open resignation letter. Everyone knew it was coming but the people in charge refused to do anything about it despite the warnings. I really think it's because they don't care about the use of bitcoin in commerce. They view it as nothing but mattress money or a digital investment. Only time will tell how much people lose as there will be less and less people interested in bitcoin at all.
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But CO2 is both a heat sink in the lower atmosphere AND a heat reflector in the upper atmosphere. So it's a zero-sum game.
Shhh... you'll disrupt the AGW disciples in their catechism.
There is some ice spread around the world but the vast majority of it is located on Greenland and Antarctica. When ice there melts it leaves the vicinity and more or less spreads evenly around the globe through the global ocean.
That's pretty telling, then, since the ice in Antarctica is actually expanding. It's only melting in Greenland.
Of course that is what a lot of us that are being called "denialist", which just FYI is an regressive term designed to shut down discussion by comparing anybody that doesn't buy magic beans to Holocaust deniers, ...
It's the climate science deniers that are trying hard to make the link between denial in general and Holocaust denial specifically so they can look like a persecuted minority.
Really? What are you on? I want some...
Where are my delivery drones and flying cars?
That was what he meant about having a lot of practice failing.
It's the 2016 political rhetoric! ;)
Probably a douchebag like you.
I'm no douchebag.
I'm a shitass.
You fucktard.
Yes, and replaced him with... another douchebag.
Clearly, you don't know shit about Dave Brat. You ignorant fucktard.
Just FYI - Anonymous is run by a division of the CIA. It's not surprising that their efforts against Trump are lackadaisical - there are CIA assets (that aren't in Langley most of the time) that actually support Trump's efforts (if not is methods). And, of course, the CIA is currently in a proxy war with the Pentagon, which is vehemently opposed to Trump, because is clearly a problem for the Military Industrial Complex.
Democrats are probably not going to kick a Democrat out of office and Republicans are probably not going to kick a Republican out of office.
Republicans are better at ousting the douchebags than Democrats are. They got rid of Eric Cantor, didn't they?
That's part of the problem, not the solution.
Sort of. It's kind of a chicken-or-egg problem right now. You have the studios afraid of losing money to copyright infringement, and trying to make up perceived losses by controlling how distribution happens and at what cost. Then you have folks driven to bootleg video somewhat by cost, but mostly due to the (lack of) availability of content they want to see, when, and how.
Frankly, as difficult as it is sometimes to find something in particular you want to see in some form you can actually watch, it takes a lot of effort to get to it on the torrent networks, too. These things have become these private closed clubs, and you have to build up a social network of torrenters and gain some reputation as a "sharer" to even be allowed into the clubs. It's crazy the amount of resources some people put into doing that stuff. I have to think the reason has more to do with availability than cost, and if the studios would open up distribution the bootlegging would not be as much of a problem.
So... what upcoming Hollywood movie are we promoting with this story? Hmmm?
OMG something is horribly wrong. TapeCutter posted something insightful and I agree with him!!
Well, somebody has to write the code that talks to the database and presents REST / SOAP interfaces for all those HTML / CSS / JavaScript web coders to consume... THAT sure isn't writing itself.
Kik is one letter short of being kike (a racist name for a Jewish person). How brilliant.
It's pronounced "kick" (which is also one letter away). This is how companies create trademarks these days. They take a normal, everyday word, misspell it, then trademark it. Let's see.. "SyFy", "Cuore", "Stihl" (an original!), "Lite", "Lync", "Google" even (the spelling of the big number is "googol").
... I hope you're kidding. Don't reinvent the wheel - if someone else has already written the code then there's no reason to re-write it. That's a huge waste of man hours. Instead you should package all dependencies in such a way that they can be retrieved without requiring the other guy to still be offering it. Yes, that means a snapshot of the version you rely of should be in your repository because you also can't guarantee that a given version will be available as long as your own project is.
Exactly. And this is the very reason we went to using Maven and a private Nexus server. Nexus will go out periodically and find all the security patches, bug fixes, etc. (and upgrades, if you want them) for all of your dependencies, and keep a local copy. If the upstream repository goes dark (this actually happens a lot), you still have a copy of the latest version.
I'm sure there are other similar system that do the same thing. How are people managing their "nuget" packages?
How about just giving it back to Cuba?
What? Are you crazy? You can't go handing over prime tropical real estate to third world dictators (or third world leaders at all, for that matter). These scientists have a great idea, and I'm sure there will be tons of junkets by congressmen, business professionals, and all sorts of elite university researchers. All paid by the expense account of course - what a capital plan!
I mean, we let Haiti take over all that prime vacation land for SOOO long! Good thing that "natural" earthquake came along and rubblized everything, so we could use "humanitarian" funds to help build a new 5-star resort hotel for the elites!
Saying "no" involves being jailed for contempt of court, and the FBI getting the keys anyway. They were fucked legally, in many senses of the word.
... and they were held in contempt anyway. For complying. But being douchy about it.
A majority of people, for example, think Apple should roll over for the FBI "just this once" because terrorism . . .
And they want Trump for POTUS, too. No wonder nobody ever accused them of being intelligent.
Considering the other choices available, you can't really claim they're all that dumb, either.
Considering he has faced an obstructionist Republican party for his entire term he's actually doing better than most of our recent President's.
Yea, sure, don't let facts get in the way of your blind partisan hand waving.
That's because he's using a better technique. You see, when the President issues an Executive Order, it has to be written up ahead of time, signed, and publicly disclosed in full. Then after the signing and disclosure, the agency administration issues regulations to implement it.
What works better now for Obama is to issue Executive Actions. These have exactly the same force of law as Executive Orders, but they do not require disclosure, they are informally given to administrators to implement, typically verbally through meetings at the cabinet level and below. Administrators then codify the requirements and publish them in the Federal Register.
So more Executive Actions, less Executive Orders - quite expected from "the most transparent administration ever" (ah hrmph).
They want to set a precedent for this case (because "Ter'ism"!), then they can use the same technique to force Apple to crack all those other phones from drug dealers, child molesters, polluters, litterers, and jay-walkers.
They spell out what they expect pretty specifically right in the order.
Oh, and by the way, they have recently up'd the ante on the whole thing by claiming that they don't want to have to do it, but if Apple doesn't want to cooperate, next they'll just demand the source code for iOS so they can modify it themselves.
The only reason to stay on 7 or 8 at this point is principle
Nope. There are software incompatibilities, believe it or not. WMC, for instance, is not supported and there's no easy way to get it back. There are some hacks on the Internet to make it work, but even with that some features still fail. There are lots of printers with no driver available, too. Even if there is a compatible built-in, you lose feature. None of the built-in drivers support PIN printing.
What's the differene between building a mine and the European Central Bank's current policy? Fiat inflation - you heard it here first.
Control.
Central control by an unaccountable bureaucracy. That does not sound like a good thing to me.
The US was on the gold standard until around 1972. The only thing surprising is that the subsequent fiat system has exceeded the average lifespan of fiat currencies. Central authorities controlling currency will always try to extract more value out of it, even when it is backed by precious commodities. The difference is that when the greed of the controllers overwhelms the system and causes it to collapse, the people actually have some value they can extract. You don't have that option with fiat currencies.
People are happily exchanging bitcoins for goods and services and back again. In fact they're so happy with it that they exceed the capacity of the network.
Well they aren't going to be exchanging them for much longer, because the exchange mechanism is broken (sort of) by design.
If you sell some stuff for bitcoins, then buy some other stuff for bitcoins, then it is just inane to claim that you have been scammed.
It wasn't intended as a scam by the creator, but it became one because of the developers that took over, that didn't view bitcoins as a currency, but rather as a store of value. They don't care that it takes hours or days to close a transaction, because they are not really on board with the idea that bitcoins can be used like money. They only see it as an investment.
Mike Hearn lays out the issues much better than I can, in his open resignation letter. Everyone knew it was coming but the people in charge refused to do anything about it despite the warnings. I really think it's because they don't care about the use of bitcoin in commerce. They view it as nothing but mattress money or a digital investment. Only time will tell how much people lose as there will be less and less people interested in bitcoin at all.