If you really, really wanted to save the polar ice caps, you'd create a time machine and travel back..say, 19,000 years ago. Back when the polar ice cap extended down into what is modern day Illinois.
Which predates SUVs and industrialization by around...19,000 years or so.
That is one of the global warming metrics, right? Save the shrinking polar ice cap, right? You'd need to go back to a time when you can't blame humans. Even then, you'd have to go back yet again to the previous ice age, or any of the numerous ice ages.
So...at some point 20,000 to 30,000 years from now, someone's going to say,"We've got to save the non-ice cap areas!"
Wait...are you referring to something along the lines of Al Gore's temperature to atmospheric C02 content?
The same graph where he shows "that C02 controls temperature"? The very graph where C02 flies sky high and the mean temperature continues to meander along?
Because that graph doesn't show the correlation that Al Gore or you, Mr. Educate Yourself, says that it does.
I do plenty of reading, you need to give thinking a try.
...just regurgitate what famous people tell you. Like how to "save" the ice caps.
If you really, really wanted to save the polar ice caps, you'd create a time machine and travel back..say, 19,000 years ago. Back when the polar ice cap extended down into what is modern day Illinois.
Which predates SUVs and industrialization by around...19,000 years or so.
That is one of the global warming metrics, right? Save the shrinking polar ice cap, right? You'd need to go back to a time when you can't blame humans. Even then, you'd have to go back yet again to the previous ice age, or any of the numerous ice ages.
In order to understand that simple scientific concept, you'd to do more than regurgitate Al Gore and co.
I had a server room with 5 Dell Edge Server and each server had 15 disks (14 + hot spare).
That's 75 disks total. After a month, just 1 disk failed, which I chocked up to pure statistics (no other disk had failed 6 months later). I called the Dell tech at 8:30 AM. Even though it no big deal (the host spare had kicked in), they had a tech out to install the disk by 11:30 AM that same day.
I'm a consultant and have dealt with Dell on behalf of numerous customers over the years and that story has been indicative of how Dell treats its business customers. Granted, if you're an individual, YMMV.
I also do tech support. Even when I go out to install a new computer, I get unsolicited comments about how much the end-user hates Vista.
And that's the big difference between XP and Vista. When XP came out, the techs bitched and moaned, but the end user was happy. Now, both the techs [i]and the end-users[/i] are expressing displeasure with the OS.
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I'm putting this on a t-shirt!
Life is turning out to be more like GTA every day.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go kill a hooker.
That's like a moron, such as yourself, saying that all brushfires are started by mankind.
If you really, really wanted to save the polar ice caps, you'd create a time machine and travel back..say, 19,000 years ago. Back when the polar ice cap extended down into what is modern day Illinois.
,"We've got to save the non-ice cap areas!"
Which predates SUVs and industrialization by around...19,000 years or so.
That is one of the global warming metrics, right? Save the shrinking polar ice cap, right? You'd need to go back to a time when you can't blame humans. Even then, you'd have to go back yet again to the previous ice age, or any of the numerous ice ages.
So...at some point 20,000 to 30,000 years from now, someone's going to say
just like "African-Americans"?
He's regurgitating, not thinking.
Wait...are you referring to something along the lines of Al Gore's temperature to atmospheric C02 content?
The same graph where he shows "that C02 controls temperature"? The very graph where C02 flies sky high and the mean temperature continues to meander along?
Because that graph doesn't show the correlation that Al Gore or you, Mr. Educate Yourself, says that it does.
I do plenty of reading, you need to give thinking a try.
What part of the cyclical nature of the Earth's temperature did I ignore?
...just regurgitate what famous people tell you. Like how to "save" the ice caps.
If you really, really wanted to save the polar ice caps, you'd create a time machine and travel back..say, 19,000 years ago. Back when the polar ice cap extended down into what is modern day Illinois.
Which predates SUVs and industrialization by around...19,000 years or so.
That is one of the global warming metrics, right? Save the shrinking polar ice cap, right? You'd need to go back to a time when you can't blame humans. Even then, you'd have to go back yet again to the previous ice age, or any of the numerous ice ages.
In order to understand that simple scientific concept, you'd to do more than regurgitate Al Gore and co.
Program "M" for moron.
Hell yeah! I've seen this movie! It rocks!
Wait...what?
They're not happy until you're not happy.
What the hell? Are the US and the UK governments in a contest to see who can abuse their citizens the most? I say this and I'm an American!
I use to enjoy watching entertainment set in a dystopia of a ruined world lorded over by an oppressive government (i.e. Blade Runner and Neuromancer).
Now...not so much...
I'll second the parent poster.
I had a server room with 5 Dell Edge Server and each server had 15 disks (14 + hot spare).
That's 75 disks total. After a month, just 1 disk failed, which I chocked up to pure statistics (no other disk had failed 6 months later). I called the Dell tech at 8:30 AM. Even though it no big deal (the host spare had kicked in), they had a tech out to install the disk by 11:30 AM that same day.
I'm a consultant and have dealt with Dell on behalf of numerous customers over the years and that story has been indicative of how Dell treats its business customers. Granted, if you're an individual, YMMV.
Well, the search feature isn't working.
I'm a casual Slashdot reader. I usually just check the front page on Slashdot. This is the first time that I've heard about the Idle section.
If it has funny stuff like this, I'm there.
I think that, once in a blue moon, putting something on the front page from other sections that don't normally make it there is a good thing.
I also do tech support. Even when I go out to install a new computer, I get unsolicited comments about how much the end-user hates Vista. And that's the big difference between XP and Vista. When XP came out, the techs bitched and moaned, but the end user was happy. Now, both the techs [i]and the end-users[/i] are expressing displeasure with the OS.
It's not "USian", it's "American", you twit.
Remember, boys and girls, it's only racist if you're white and only sexist if you're male.
I believe that the old saying of, "Luck favors the bold" applies here.
And the result was "Err:503". What's your point?
Ahh...not a fan of the ladies, are you Trebek?!
Executives are employees, too.
Personally, I think we should just let the politicians die. But that's just me...
Well it's good to know that, after I commit my first robbery, every robbery after that is no big deal.