Let's talk about the religion of global warming. We'll set aside for a minute the emails about how we "use Michael's trick to hide the decline". In the religion, we have to cut CO2 output right now by 10 or 20% to supposedly cut down on the run-away global warming. Oddly, performing this feat requires only that we ramp up regulation to levels that the left has been salivating over for years.
The people who are the loudest advocates for this live lifestyles of wasteful mansions and private jets that make their CO2 output literally hundreds of times as much as mine. Better yet, Al Gore has managed to make about $900,000,000 over the last 10 years through various companies that sell "carbon offsets" and such. He has a stake in people believing this.
Then there's the fact that global warming causes *everything*. Warm winter? Global warming. Terrible winter with lots of snow? Global warming. Bad hurricane? Global warming. Few hurricanes during the season? Global warming.
Every single thing in that list has been attributed to global warming in the press.
Then we have the fact that the earth hasn't warmed in the last 10 years.
I believe that the earth is warming. We're coming out of the little ice age still, and in the larger scheme we're still coming out of an ice age. Looking back, we have ice ages and non-ice-ages. This is normal. I can even believe that humans are partly the cause of our current warming. It's not just CO2, either. We have tons of methane generated by the cattle that we keep, and it's a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
The problem that I and a lot of others have is the idea that if we don't dramatically alter our lifestyle now (in a way that will destroy our economy) this global warming will be a runaway disaster. It won't. Sorry, it just won't.
Obviously, the people who most push this are doing so to benefit from it. It's like watching a preacher telling you how much *you* are supposed to give, while he lives a lavish lifestyle and clearly benefits from your believing him.
The fact of global warming (the earth is getting a little warmer) - I'm there. The religion - I can do without. Separate the two if you want to convince others that there's something to this.
I doubt we're talking about new cars. The regulation drives up the price of new cars, so people hold on to their old car longer or buy a small used car instead.
I get sometimes 3 or 4 calls in one day from "Account Services", a scam company that tries to get credit card info from people. I'm on the do-not-call list, and they sometimes even call my cell phone. They do robo calls and they spoof caller id. It's illegal in many different ways.
But I can't get the FCC to pay any attention to them, and I've tried.
They might as well up the penalties to $5 Trillion + death penalty. It doesn't matter. If you're not going to enforce it the actual penalty is irrelevant.
Right. And maybe 1% of developers out there write code that is that critical. *Maybe* 1%. Most are writing web sites or internal applications that have nowhere near that kind of criticality.
The people in line don't do enough business to sustain the post office. Their bread and butter has always been mass mail, and it's dying as the internet takes over.
I have a 15C that my sister bought for me in December of 1985 as a gift for college. It is my primary calculator - I've never found anything better. I don't program it as I used to, but it's still a damned fine piece of equipment. And in those years, I've changed the batteries 3 times, by the way.
Actually, what we need is to make judges legally liable for *any* warrant that they sign. As it is, they have no skin in the game and therefore an immoral or unethical judge, such as the one in this case, has absolutely *no* reason to not sign the warrant. Nothing will happen to him, not his problem.
If, on the other hand, the victim had the ability to sue the judge for damages, the judge would make sure the police had their shit together completely before he'd even consider signing the warrant.
I do "web development" using Rails/Postgres just fine on my Mac, and deploy to Linux. Ruby, Postgres, etc. are high enough up the food chain that it's all the same as long as you have a POSIX/UNIX/LINUX foundation under you. I have literally never had a problem.
As for the package managers, I use Mac Ports. It works. I suppose Fink does, too, but Ports was closer to what I'm used to from BSD and I've never had a serious problem. I have had minor problems that I could fix (db4 being a prime example), but it's always been easy. And it works.
If the author wants to program under Linux, fine. But it's unlikely to help the problems that he has.
Ah, yes, the evil Koch brothers are pulling all the strings.
Let me make this easy for someone even of your low intelligence: I'm not involved with the Libertarian Party. I'm a libertarian. Small "l".
You know, it's almost odd how you ignored the rest of that (which perfectly rebuts your premise) and also ignored the challenge to refute one single statement from the original. But, I've never found a left-wing-nut who actually could debate using facts. Not sure why I thought you might be the first.
Let's see. Teabagger? Nope, sorry. I'm a libertarian. I like some of what the Tea Partiers stand for, actually a lot. But I know that they're conservatives who still want to throw pot smokers in jail.
Now, if 99% of what I wrote is "baseless drivel", then surely you can pull one single statement out and refute it. Just one. I'm waiting.
I don't know what statutes you want me to cite. But let me tell you about my state of Tennessee, which will help you understand.
We have some of the most restrictive liquor laws, thanks to a collusion between the wholesale liquor industry in the state and the Democrat party. Steve Sharp (D, need I say?) was a particular tool of theirs back when I was working in that industry. The laws are terrible:
1. If you're going to start a new wholesaler, the current wholesalers get to vote on whether you get a license. Guess how that always ends up. 2. Nobody can own more than a single retail liquor store. This is to keep the wholesalers from having to deal with larger companies with buying power. I had this explained by the guy who was running the lobbying group at the time. 3. This, of course, means no wine or liquor in grocery stores or Walmart. Beer is handled separately. 4. Retail stores are all closed on Sunday.
This is because of Democrats covering for big business through regulation in exchange for "campaign contributions". This is not due to Republicans, who have just now got a majority in the state for the first time in 100+ years. None of these laws help consumers, citizens of the state, or the general public. They exist solely to benefit the wholesale liquor industry, and the laws were written by their lobby's lawyer. Again, I had this explained to me by the head of the lobby.
This is the difference between benefitting "business", which generally benefits *everybody*, and benefitting "big business" at the expense of everybody. Liquor is harder to come by and more expensive because of these policies.
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Right - *so many problems* that you just don't know where to begin. How about you name one?
Remember - mod me down as "troll" if you can't argue with facts...
Let's talk about the religion of global warming. We'll set aside for a minute the emails about how we "use Michael's trick to hide the decline". In the religion, we have to cut CO2 output right now by 10 or 20% to supposedly cut down on the run-away global warming. Oddly, performing this feat requires only that we ramp up regulation to levels that the left has been salivating over for years.
The people who are the loudest advocates for this live lifestyles of wasteful mansions and private jets that make their CO2 output literally hundreds of times as much as mine. Better yet, Al Gore has managed to make about $900,000,000 over the last 10 years through various companies that sell "carbon offsets" and such. He has a stake in people believing this.
Then there's the fact that global warming causes *everything*. Warm winter? Global warming. Terrible winter with lots of snow? Global warming. Bad hurricane? Global warming. Few hurricanes during the season? Global warming.
Every single thing in that list has been attributed to global warming in the press.
Then we have the fact that the earth hasn't warmed in the last 10 years.
I believe that the earth is warming. We're coming out of the little ice age still, and in the larger scheme we're still coming out of an ice age. Looking back, we have ice ages and non-ice-ages. This is normal. I can even believe that humans are partly the cause of our current warming. It's not just CO2, either. We have tons of methane generated by the cattle that we keep, and it's a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
The problem that I and a lot of others have is the idea that if we don't dramatically alter our lifestyle now (in a way that will destroy our economy) this global warming will be a runaway disaster. It won't. Sorry, it just won't.
Obviously, the people who most push this are doing so to benefit from it. It's like watching a preacher telling you how much *you* are supposed to give, while he lives a lavish lifestyle and clearly benefits from your believing him.
The fact of global warming (the earth is getting a little warmer) - I'm there. The religion - I can do without. Separate the two if you want to convince others that there's something to this.
Never mind that Wang can't reach them...
I wonder if that caused a spike in traffic...
I think IE9 is malicious content...
I doubt we're talking about new cars. The regulation drives up the price of new cars, so people hold on to their old car longer or buy a small used car instead.
When I buy stock, I actually own a piece of a company. A lottery ticket is either a winner or not.
Hello, broken window fallacy calling. Hello?
I get sometimes 3 or 4 calls in one day from "Account Services", a scam company that tries to get credit card info from people. I'm on the do-not-call list, and they sometimes even call my cell phone. They do robo calls and they spoof caller id. It's illegal in many different ways.
But I can't get the FCC to pay any attention to them, and I've tried.
They might as well up the penalties to $5 Trillion + death penalty. It doesn't matter. If you're not going to enforce it the actual penalty is irrelevant.
C+=10
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ARIN announced that IPv4 addresses haven't run out after all...
The ones around here do. I bought a couple of LEDs last month to "repair" one of my old electronics kits for the kids.
Government report says is was a dry run:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/010096.php
The Bush Administration really wanted to have enemies so they could have wars.
Um, you may have missed it, but Bush isn't President anymore. It's Obama now - the guy who you rubes thought would end all these wars and such.
Right. And maybe 1% of developers out there write code that is that critical. *Maybe* 1%. Most are writing web sites or internal applications that have nowhere near that kind of criticality.
Government bureaucracy + unionized workers. I highly doubt it can be "fixed".
The people in line don't do enough business to sustain the post office. Their bread and butter has always been mass mail, and it's dying as the internet takes over.
I have a 15C that my sister bought for me in December of 1985 as a gift for college. It is my primary calculator - I've never found anything better. I don't program it as I used to, but it's still a damned fine piece of equipment. And in those years, I've changed the batteries 3 times, by the way.
12 people killed themselves over a period of 16 months? Out of how many people? Without knowing that, it's a meaningless number.
Actually, what we need is to make judges legally liable for *any* warrant that they sign. As it is, they have no skin in the game and therefore an immoral or unethical judge, such as the one in this case, has absolutely *no* reason to not sign the warrant. Nothing will happen to him, not his problem.
If, on the other hand, the victim had the ability to sue the judge for damages, the judge would make sure the police had their shit together completely before he'd even consider signing the warrant.
The problem is immunity.
What's the local time on Mercury for that?
I do "web development" using Rails/Postgres just fine on my Mac, and deploy to Linux. Ruby, Postgres, etc. are high enough up the food chain that it's all the same as long as you have a POSIX/UNIX/LINUX foundation under you. I have literally never had a problem.
As for the package managers, I use Mac Ports. It works. I suppose Fink does, too, but Ports was closer to what I'm used to from BSD and I've never had a serious problem. I have had minor problems that I could fix (db4 being a prime example), but it's always been easy. And it works.
If the author wants to program under Linux, fine. But it's unlikely to help the problems that he has.
Ah, yes, the evil Koch brothers are pulling all the strings.
Let me make this easy for someone even of your low intelligence: I'm not involved with the Libertarian Party. I'm a libertarian. Small "l".
You know, it's almost odd how you ignored the rest of that (which perfectly rebuts your premise) and also ignored the challenge to refute one single statement from the original. But, I've never found a left-wing-nut who actually could debate using facts. Not sure why I thought you might be the first.
So long.
Let's see. Teabagger? Nope, sorry. I'm a libertarian. I like some of what the Tea Partiers stand for, actually a lot. But I know that they're conservatives who still want to throw pot smokers in jail.
Now, if 99% of what I wrote is "baseless drivel", then surely you can pull one single statement out and refute it. Just one. I'm waiting.
I don't know what statutes you want me to cite. But let me tell you about my state of Tennessee, which will help you understand.
We have some of the most restrictive liquor laws, thanks to a collusion between the wholesale liquor industry in the state and the Democrat party. Steve Sharp (D, need I say?) was a particular tool of theirs back when I was working in that industry. The laws are terrible:
1. If you're going to start a new wholesaler, the current wholesalers get to vote on whether you get a license. Guess how that always ends up.
2. Nobody can own more than a single retail liquor store. This is to keep the wholesalers from having to deal with larger companies with buying power. I had this explained by the guy who was running the lobbying group at the time.
3. This, of course, means no wine or liquor in grocery stores or Walmart. Beer is handled separately.
4. Retail stores are all closed on Sunday.
This is because of Democrats covering for big business through regulation in exchange for "campaign contributions". This is not due to Republicans, who have just now got a majority in the state for the first time in 100+ years. None of these laws help consumers, citizens of the state, or the general public. They exist solely to benefit the wholesale liquor industry, and the laws were written by their lobby's lawyer. Again, I had this explained to me by the head of the lobby.
This is the difference between benefitting "business", which generally benefits *everybody*, and benefitting "big business" at the expense of everybody. Liquor is harder to come by and more expensive because of these policies.