Nissan makes more expensive cars and owns Infinity etc. Tesla owners are NOT in the demographic of the Leaf. As with other typically poor/. articles it sparks a discussion by nerds who are annoyed with the article or the often horrible summary.
The Leaf sells really well and they don't much profit as they planned because it's a starter car; something the industry doesn't do much... like when they make their 1st truck for example. By profit, the car is a loser (compared to other models;) but it's purpose is investment in the future. The Leaf is the top car in it's bracket (not that there are many to compete with.) It's one approach before going to the higher end model of the car, Tesla is the other approach.
Given that new cars take years to make; this indicates they are aiming for a higher niche and probably going towards the same target as Tesla... 3 years in the future, a 50k car; probably 4 wheel drive SUV car (cross over or whatever you want to call it. A wannabee SUV that breaks if you actually try to treat it half like a jeep.)
I've test driven the Leaf 3 times (just for fun.) Initially it was great, the other 2 times the dealership was not friendly about it. They know they won't make the $$$ from it and I found it extremely odd when I was defending the car against the salesman's critique. I suspect some policy or something was formed after the 1st few months at the dealership. I TOTALLY understand why Tesla sells the way they do; it's amazing any Leaf can sell under such resistance! Me? I can't charge it yet so I have to wait until I move or something. Large cities have many rental companies to fill in the rare gaps when you need a gas hog; and it's cheaper than owning one.
"The Fifth Estate" isn't a Hollywood film then?;-) Women are sex objects in most their films; they didn't have gratuitous sex scenes in the film? Maybe there is some merit to the film?
I didn't say they were convicted, I said "like say" "where they were convicted." People were really upset about those acquittals and IF the judge just let them off after being found guilty people would have been many times more upset and the judge probably would have needed police protection for a decade. That was the point I was making and I don't think I was so unclear about it.
It was a perfectly valid hypothetical because the connection was how upset people would be about it; given they were already upset with the outcome. Microsoft was convicted and then let off almost completely during the sentencing and that should really piss the public off. What is the point of laws and millions of tax dollars spent enforcing them only to have it end up being for nothing in the end whenever we go up against a wealthy criminal?? At least Martha Stewart served time... like the only wealthy person who has for something that is common practice today; makes you wonder what was going on that she even was convicted at all...let alone sentenced to something...
As far as Zimmerman, I'd not have backed down, I don't care if the prosecutor was purposely doing a lousy job. There is no way you start a fight and get off with self defense in a sane world. Reality is that if the kid won and shot Zimmerman in self defense it wouldn't have come out the same way; race is still a problem. The media sucks, I gave up on them even for simple issues; race is beyond their IQ. Hell, I would make everybody serve minimum jail time for murder no matter what the circumstances are. If the murder was worth it then a few years in jail is a small price to pay for your life or your family's life or whatever. If it was temporary insanity, then you have to spend a few years at the funny farm... just to make sure you don't have something more than 1 time temporary insanity. Life sucks, sometimes you are unlucky but surviving instead of dying is good luck even if you have to serve a few years in jail.
The second the rape BS comes up it should be a dead give away this is not a legitimate source. Somebody who knows the situation because they have close contact and work with him (at least since he got on the CIA's radar) clearly must know the obvious facts about the Rape BS. But instead decides to act like a CIA operative and push the government's propaganda 110%?? Paid operative before or after is still a paid operative (that doesn't mean spy and who knows what secrets the ghostwriter has, except the NSA...) No, this isn't paranoia, it is common sense. Hell, to say Assange is paranoid is totally idiotic if you have any sense of what he is involved in.
American media is extremely obsessed with the cult of personality; far more than other nations. This is an indirect assault upon Americans by shooting the messenger in ways that highly effective and distracting in the USA (more so than other nations.) The whole point is to make life a living hell on earth as visibly as possible, including thinly veiled BS character assassination so anybody with half a brain can see what is going to happen to anybody who threatens the USA with truth. It is Terrorism plain and simple. The legal system can be made into the punishment (which is why the founders put in that part about a speedy trial in the defunct 6th Amendment ) and if he gets into the USA it'll be the punishment BEFORE conviction and after exoneration he'll still be stuck in Gitmo for his retirement.
Ecuador isn't spending as much as the USA or their bitch, the UK.
It doesn't matter if he is a kiddie fiddler, courageous acts are not exclusively done by saints. If anything it should be more impressive when a "'vain, secretive, paranoid, jealous, rapist" does something that people "above reproach" are too cowardly to do. You'd think Americans would be wiser given how many grow up watching the popular redemption theme in their movies; which has gone to extremes in making everything dark and flawed.
The poor majority doesn't need internet and can't have it. As long as the poor back the government and will take action, as they did in the past - it's not the same situation.
The bourgeoisie were not removed and retain a great deal of power outside of the government they used to own. It is a difficult situation where the poor try to setup a modern democracy with a more old-school marketplace without the established powers locally or abroad helping; in fact, they do things to undermine success. It's not good for multinational exploiters and power brokers like the IMF to have free countries succeed.
It is pretty much human history, the ones with power will not be civil about relinquishing it and want nothing to change because it was going great FOR THEM. Many under those conditions become conservative, not by ideology but for self interest... to the point where they can drown out actual conservatives and give them a bad reputation for being self centered psychopaths...
Any success is met with a new group of middle class people in the middle between protecting their gains and wanting more; who can easily be distracted and subjected to even more propaganda. To me it seems akin to middle management... they are wannabes, easy to control and feel like they belong with the administrators who look down upon them. The better they do the more resistance to progress forms - causing a somewhat stable boom/bust political cycle only if they are lucky... Then you have middle and upper classes fighting against the poor. Class warfare is as old as... well... the human sized brain.
A modern problem with openness is that is a double edged sword; historically, it was a big threat to the elite but increasingly it is becoming a powerful tool for them as well. I often wonder if democracy is possible anymore as social sciences make working control schemes that leverage open communications. You don't need to censor to gain similar powers anymore. So, if you were trying to do the "right thing" how do you counter an enemy with more mind weapons? It's a Brave New World (book reference intended.)
A famious trial like say O.J. Simpson or Trayvon Martin ending with guilty verdict where they were CONVICTED but the judge then gave them a $1 fine and let them go free and they never had to admit wrong doing on their part...
People wouldn't get over it. they shouldn't either. Microsoft has been using their power to impose plenty of other horrible things onto us over the years and I frankly am not surprised they are not worse given how they can not be punished in the USA.
Reality is that if you get around the capital costs, the power of the monopolies in the area is flexed. Then regulations become a problem; the regulators themselves are all rooting for you (I've known some) but when the pressure comes in... forget it. Then you have a fight on your hands. They'll go above you and get the state to pass a law against any town doing their own ISP. Or they'll create regulations that make it costly to enter the market or they'll spread around lies to make life miserable. If you get going they'll find every possible misstep or anything that can be misconstrued and make sure every official hears about it so much they'll want to act just to end the harassment.
It can be done but it is not easy; nowhere near as easy as it should be and it would be if the public were competent citizens and supported decent officials at positions of real power.
Best thing one can do is try to build up underground momentum so that when the beasts have awoken you have a chance.
The USA was probably the richest in uranium on earth. Now we have none, it's all gone except for a negligible amount in the grand canyon and the public is opposed to destroying grand canyon to get at it. The USA imports the stuff today.
Yes, we do process it for others; apparently, just a single corporation does, so it's not all ending up used in our own nation. We've sold it for power and weapons for other nations. I'm sure somebody is making a billion being the middleman between India and Pakistan in a nuclear rivalry the US helped create...
Getting the USSR to lessen the ridiculous amounts they had was a major motivation but we didn't need to cut ours down so much in order to do that; we re-purposed our own while decommissioning many of our weapons as well. That wasn't really necessary; like I said, there were other motives besides just the security of Russia.
The US is not OPEC and doesn't touch the combined output of OPEC; it true that we are currently producing more than ever now that policies (during Obama) have begun to kick in (FYI, not an Obama fan; but he deserves credit.)
The world pays for their Oil in US Dollars... that is what makes people want US Dollars. After gold was dropped, OIL largely took over because it's something of REAL value (as opposed to gold) and to get it, you needed US Dollars. So the US Dollar became much more valuable than it was when it was backed by piles of useless gold at Fort Knox. If the world didn't need US Dollars to buy oil there would be a surplus of US Dollars on the world market. A really huge surplus and since the money is not backed by anything real other than it's relative worth... that would be really BAD.
But Saudi Arabia owns our ass. big time. They can do anything they want and we can't stop them. OPEC holds the dollar's value and they can kill it tomorrow if they wish to do so. Short term maybe we can survive the economic collapse to prop the dollar back up again but it's a huge short term risk. Thank Nixon.
Fact: The cost of water is TINY even when it is scarce because it's a socialized resource. Bringing in water great distances can be costly initially unless done really poorly it eventually ends up cheap.
The REAL cost of water that you really pay for is the SEWAGE cost. SEWAGE processing is some expensive shit.;-) They couldn't measure sewage but they could measure the water they also run into your house; also done by the city. Every place that doubled the two services up (almost everywhere with city water) puts the sewage treatment costs into the water costs. It's not precise but if you use a lot of water you are more likely putting out more sewage too. This is why most cities forbid wells once they run city sewer because then people get nearly free sewer service because they don't use the metered water service.
I know somebody who invented a sewage measuring device, but it never got anywhere because they don't want the added cost of requiring it in new developments... plus they'd keep measuring the water too and water meters are cheaper. Averaging out the sewage costs to water usage is a simple cheap accounting solution.
If you really want to cut water use, start making people store their own rain water and subsidize it with the water bills; eventually removing most the city water system. Sewage would also have to be done along with this, obviously. That would require a great deal of changes since sewage is a complex problem nobody thinks about (we just pollute... BTW, modern treatment is only partially effective.) Then you have to ban products being put down the drain... we should have done that already... those flushed drugs end up in the ecosystem and back in us (not to mention the bad kinds of microbiological evolution it promotes.)
Exactly! I hope he patents this obvious design so others can't use it.
Nothing beats real world radio buttons, knobs, push knobs, sliders, buttons... especially the ones with tactile feedback. Think of keyboards...
This has nothing to do with "get off my lawn" syndrome. The old way is sometimes the better way. I would think techies would be less impressed by new tech; therefore, they could be more level headed about adopting it. But it seems that it splits when they get "over the hill" in their 30s; which only adds to the stereotype that they are warn out in the industry.
Car Temp: most people I know simply go to the extreme of HOT or COLD with no concept of how it works. Cut costs and just have a fan control - let the car decide binary heat/cold. The users are not smart enough for more than that (fan off == do nothing.) Or placate them.... "My car has an Overdrive heater setting! The knob lights up and everything! How great is that?!"
2) Water is great at storing and DISPERSING heat; it raises averages even if it still freezes part time.
3) Anecdotal to mention some areas that are frozen today and ignore the larger trend. Can you see the forest or just the trees?
4) Net energy increases to the atmosphere are not going to be uniformly distributed (if that was the case, we'd likely not ever have much WIND which is created by the uneven temperatures.)
5) Higher energy input, NOT uniformly distributed is going to increase the severity of the natural flow to equilibrium. Global Warming doesn't make weather, it makes it stronger. You can't definitively proof such a thing. Give an athlete performance enhancing drugs and you'll not likely notice without blood tests... (the fact they relatively improve might clue you in... but that involves looking at historical trends and using fuzzy things like statistics.)
6) Polar vortex always existed; not as common and they are weaker than the equatorial vortex (with many names: hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones.) Note: they exist almost entirely above land/ice unlike the equatorial ones.
Finally, you can't seriously discuss terraforming Mars in 100 years and deny global warming.
People who KNOW better can see what the P.R. companies are up to in this modern age of online social marketing and perhaps do something to counter it besides simply post comments on/. At least we know the arguments they are paying to be made at this critical time so when we run into them being used it won't be as much of a shock.
In addition, we can become more aware of the talking points being promoted and then identify the paid shills or gullible suckers.
Bush Admin classified internet as NOT being a telecommunications service (obviously it is! lawyers...)
I think this was why the court rightfully struck down FCC regulation; I didn't follow the case but I remember then the FCC classified internet and the implications of that so when they started sticking their nose into internet I thought they didn't have the powers anymore... sounds like I was correct.
There never was a free market; especially in this area. Even having 3 competing companies is not a free market; it's not like anybody can just enter into that industry. They depend upon approval and regulation of the public's air waves or the public's land (next to the public land the roads are on-- without which we'd not have much of anything... the commons are necessary.)
They don't care about anything except the public finding out the truth.
A big part of that is terrorism against their staff and the press to make sure they never dare oppose them. They will make strong "examples" out of deviants and just like in history, the more desperate they get to prevent it, the more extreme the "examples".
The benefit of knowing some history is why they are not dumping acid on the faces of these people opposing them; something the Taliban has yet to learn (poor education; history repeats.)
You are just a sore loser. His point is valid and his expertise (if true) makes it even stronger so then you smear his point simply because 95% of lawyers are scum?
Besides, you seriously think the people who constantly campaign on how they want to completely kill the EPA are going to put forward something that would improve it? Most their party works around fucking things up and then campaigning against the messes they help create in an idiotic cycle that should be obvious to a competent citizenry.
Doesn't matter- this isn't a bunch of browsers, this is a specific browser running on a device - it does not require abstraction libraries loaded full of browser specific work arounds (hacks.) If he can't write his own AJAX without jQuery then he's not that good.
Looked to me that they have certain ways they want some things done and not libraries which work around them. It could be certain hacks in jQuery raised concerns so it is forbidden.... after all that increasingly bloated and slow library is made for desktop browsers it's not tested against customized browsers on weak devices.
We have to stop training people jQuery when there is a fully functional API (remember it was broken IE that created the need for things like jQuery.)
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Nissan makes more expensive cars and owns Infinity etc. Tesla owners are NOT in the demographic of the Leaf. As with other typically poor /. articles it sparks a discussion by nerds who are annoyed with the article or the often horrible summary.
The Leaf sells really well and they don't much profit as they planned because it's a starter car; something the industry doesn't do much... like when they make their 1st truck for example. By profit, the car is a loser (compared to other models;) but it's purpose is investment in the future. The Leaf is the top car in it's bracket (not that there are many to compete with.) It's one approach before going to the higher end model of the car, Tesla is the other approach.
Given that new cars take years to make; this indicates they are aiming for a higher niche and probably going towards the same target as Tesla ... 3 years in the future, a 50k car; probably 4 wheel drive SUV car (cross over or whatever you want to call it. A wannabee SUV that breaks if you actually try to treat it half like a jeep.)
I've test driven the Leaf 3 times (just for fun.) Initially it was great, the other 2 times the dealership was not friendly about it. They know they won't make the $$$ from it and I found it extremely odd when I was defending the car against the salesman's critique. I suspect some policy or something was formed after the 1st few months at the dealership. I TOTALLY understand why Tesla sells the way they do; it's amazing any Leaf can sell under such resistance! Me? I can't charge it yet so I have to wait until I move or something. Large cities have many rental companies to fill in the rare gaps when you need a gas hog; and it's cheaper than owning one.
"The Fifth Estate" isn't a Hollywood film then? ;-) Women are sex objects in most their films; they didn't have gratuitous sex scenes in the film? Maybe there is some merit to the film?
I didn't say they were convicted, I said "like say" "where they were convicted." People were really upset about those acquittals and IF the judge just let them off after being found guilty people would have been many times more upset and the judge probably would have needed police protection for a decade. That was the point I was making and I don't think I was so unclear about it.
It was a perfectly valid hypothetical because the connection was how upset people would be about it; given they were already upset with the outcome. Microsoft was convicted and then let off almost completely during the sentencing and that should really piss the public off. What is the point of laws and millions of tax dollars spent enforcing them only to have it end up being for nothing in the end whenever we go up against a wealthy criminal?? At least Martha Stewart served time... like the only wealthy person who has for something that is common practice today; makes you wonder what was going on that she even was convicted at all...let alone sentenced to something...
As far as Zimmerman, I'd not have backed down, I don't care if the prosecutor was purposely doing a lousy job. There is no way you start a fight and get off with self defense in a sane world. Reality is that if the kid won and shot Zimmerman in self defense it wouldn't have come out the same way; race is still a problem. The media sucks, I gave up on them even for simple issues; race is beyond their IQ. Hell, I would make everybody serve minimum jail time for murder no matter what the circumstances are. If the murder was worth it then a few years in jail is a small price to pay for your life or your family's life or whatever. If it was temporary insanity, then you have to spend a few years at the funny farm... just to make sure you don't have something more than 1 time temporary insanity. Life sucks, sometimes you are unlucky but surviving instead of dying is good luck even if you have to serve a few years in jail.
I for one think box cutters should be legal. Just watch somebody try to pull some shit with a box cutter today.
The second the rape BS comes up it should be a dead give away this is not a legitimate source. Somebody who knows the situation because they have close contact and work with him (at least since he got on the CIA's radar) clearly must know the obvious facts about the Rape BS. But instead decides to act like a CIA operative and push the government's propaganda 110%?? Paid operative before or after is still a paid operative (that doesn't mean spy and who knows what secrets the ghostwriter has, except the NSA...) No, this isn't paranoia, it is common sense. Hell, to say Assange is paranoid is totally idiotic if you have any sense of what he is involved in.
American media is extremely obsessed with the cult of personality; far more than other nations. This is an indirect assault upon Americans by shooting the messenger in ways that highly effective and distracting in the USA (more so than other nations.) The whole point is to make life a living hell on earth as visibly as possible, including thinly veiled BS character assassination so anybody with half a brain can see what is going to happen to anybody who threatens the USA with truth. It is Terrorism plain and simple. The legal system can be made into the punishment (which is why the founders put in that part about a speedy trial in the defunct 6th Amendment ) and if he gets into the USA it'll be the punishment BEFORE conviction and after exoneration he'll still be stuck in Gitmo for his retirement.
Ecuador isn't spending as much as the USA or their bitch, the UK.
It doesn't matter if he is a kiddie fiddler, courageous acts are not exclusively done by saints. If anything it should be more impressive when a "'vain, secretive, paranoid, jealous, rapist" does something that people "above reproach" are too cowardly to do. You'd think Americans would be wiser given how many grow up watching the popular redemption theme in their movies; which has gone to extremes in making everything dark and flawed.
The moon isn't smooth for a reason. Do you want stuff smashing into your solar panels? better off in space where you don't attract much of anything.
The poor majority doesn't need internet and can't have it. As long as the poor back the government and will take action, as they did in the past - it's not the same situation.
The bourgeoisie were not removed and retain a great deal of power outside of the government they used to own. It is a difficult situation where the poor try to setup a modern democracy with a more old-school marketplace without the established powers locally or abroad helping; in fact, they do things to undermine success. It's not good for multinational exploiters and power brokers like the IMF to have free countries succeed.
It is pretty much human history, the ones with power will not be civil about relinquishing it and want nothing to change because it was going great FOR THEM. Many under those conditions become conservative, not by ideology but for self interest... to the point where they can drown out actual conservatives and give them a bad reputation for being self centered psychopaths...
Any success is met with a new group of middle class people in the middle between protecting their gains and wanting more; who can easily be distracted and subjected to even more propaganda. To me it seems akin to middle management... they are wannabes, easy to control and feel like they belong with the administrators who look down upon them. The better they do the more resistance to progress forms - causing a somewhat stable boom/bust political cycle only if they are lucky... Then you have middle and upper classes fighting against the poor. Class warfare is as old as... well... the human sized brain.
A modern problem with openness is that is a double edged sword; historically, it was a big threat to the elite but increasingly it is becoming a powerful tool for them as well. I often wonder if democracy is possible anymore as social sciences make working control schemes that leverage open communications. You don't need to censor to gain similar powers anymore. So, if you were trying to do the "right thing" how do you counter an enemy with more mind weapons? It's a Brave New World (book reference intended.)
Should we trust anything coming out from the US Department of Commerce?
A famious trial like say O.J. Simpson or Trayvon Martin ending with guilty verdict where they were CONVICTED but the judge then gave them a $1 fine and let them go free and they never had to admit wrong doing on their part...
People wouldn't get over it. they shouldn't either. Microsoft has been using their power to impose plenty of other horrible things onto us over the years and I frankly am not surprised they are not worse given how they can not be punished in the USA.
Me too!
Mod parent up.
I think the best fitting term is FOOL, not moron.
Reality is that if you get around the capital costs, the power of the monopolies in the area is flexed. Then regulations become a problem; the regulators themselves are all rooting for you (I've known some) but when the pressure comes in... forget it. Then you have a fight on your hands. They'll go above you and get the state to pass a law against any town doing their own ISP. Or they'll create regulations that make it costly to enter the market or they'll spread around lies to make life miserable. If you get going they'll find every possible misstep or anything that can be misconstrued and make sure every official hears about it so much they'll want to act just to end the harassment.
It can be done but it is not easy; nowhere near as easy as it should be and it would be if the public were competent citizens and supported decent officials at positions of real power.
Best thing one can do is try to build up underground momentum so that when the beasts have awoken you have a chance.
The USA was probably the richest in uranium on earth. Now we have none, it's all gone except for a negligible amount in the grand canyon and the public is opposed to destroying grand canyon to get at it. The USA imports the stuff today.
Yes, we do process it for others; apparently, just a single corporation does, so it's not all ending up used in our own nation. We've sold it for power and weapons for other nations. I'm sure somebody is making a billion being the middleman between India and Pakistan in a nuclear rivalry the US helped create...
Getting the USSR to lessen the ridiculous amounts they had was a major motivation but we didn't need to cut ours down so much in order to do that; we re-purposed our own while decommissioning many of our weapons as well. That wasn't really necessary; like I said, there were other motives besides just the security of Russia.
Now they can lick the backside of Steve Jobs.
Others can place him on the envelope skew; maybe tear an edge... then pound it with their fist just to "make sure it is attached."
Aside from this: http://swampland.time.com/2014...
The US is not OPEC and doesn't touch the combined output of OPEC; it true that we are currently producing more than ever now that policies (during Obama) have begun to kick in (FYI, not an Obama fan; but he deserves credit.)
The world pays for their Oil in US Dollars... that is what makes people want US Dollars. After gold was dropped, OIL largely took over because it's something of REAL value (as opposed to gold) and to get it, you needed US Dollars. So the US Dollar became much more valuable than it was when it was backed by piles of useless gold at Fort Knox. If the world didn't need US Dollars to buy oil there would be a surplus of US Dollars on the world market. A really huge surplus and since the money is not backed by anything real other than it's relative worth... that would be really BAD.
But Saudi Arabia owns our ass. big time. They can do anything they want and we can't stop them. OPEC holds the dollar's value and they can kill it tomorrow if they wish to do so. Short term maybe we can survive the economic collapse to prop the dollar back up again but it's a huge short term risk. Thank Nixon.
Fact: The cost of water is TINY even when it is scarce because it's a socialized resource. Bringing in water great distances can be costly initially unless done really poorly it eventually ends up cheap.
The REAL cost of water that you really pay for is the SEWAGE cost. SEWAGE processing is some expensive shit. ;-) They couldn't measure sewage but they could measure the water they also run into your house; also done by the city. Every place that doubled the two services up (almost everywhere with city water) puts the sewage treatment costs into the water costs. It's not precise but if you use a lot of water you are more likely putting out more sewage too. This is why most cities forbid wells once they run city sewer because then people get nearly free sewer service because they don't use the metered water service.
I know somebody who invented a sewage measuring device, but it never got anywhere because they don't want the added cost of requiring it in new developments... plus they'd keep measuring the water too and water meters are cheaper. Averaging out the sewage costs to water usage is a simple cheap accounting solution.
If you really want to cut water use, start making people store their own rain water and subsidize it with the water bills; eventually removing most the city water system. Sewage would also have to be done along with this, obviously. That would require a great deal of changes since sewage is a complex problem nobody thinks about (we just pollute... BTW, modern treatment is only partially effective.) Then you have to ban products being put down the drain... we should have done that already... those flushed drugs end up in the ecosystem and back in us (not to mention the bad kinds of microbiological evolution it promotes.)
Exactly! I hope he patents this obvious design so others can't use it.
Nothing beats real world radio buttons, knobs, push knobs, sliders, buttons... especially the ones with tactile feedback. Think of keyboards...
This has nothing to do with "get off my lawn" syndrome. The old way is sometimes the better way. I would think techies would be less impressed by new tech; therefore, they could be more level headed about adopting it. But it seems that it splits when they get "over the hill" in their 30s; which only adds to the stereotype that they are warn out in the industry.
Car Temp: most people I know simply go to the extreme of HOT or COLD with no concept of how it works. Cut costs and just have a fan control - let the car decide binary heat/cold. The users are not smart enough for more than that (fan off == do nothing.) Or placate them.... "My car has an Overdrive heater setting! The knob lights up and everything! How great is that?!"
1) Reflectivity of ice vs snow is different.
2) Water is great at storing and DISPERSING heat; it raises averages even if it still freezes part time.
3) Anecdotal to mention some areas that are frozen today and ignore the larger trend. Can you see the forest or just the trees?
4) Net energy increases to the atmosphere are not going to be uniformly distributed (if that was the case, we'd likely not ever have much WIND which is created by the uneven temperatures.)
5) Higher energy input, NOT uniformly distributed is going to increase the severity of the natural flow to equilibrium. Global Warming doesn't make weather, it makes it stronger. You can't definitively proof such a thing. Give an athlete performance enhancing drugs and you'll not likely notice without blood tests... (the fact they relatively improve might clue you in... but that involves looking at historical trends and using fuzzy things like statistics.)
6) Polar vortex always existed; not as common and they are weaker than the equatorial vortex (with many names: hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones.) Note: they exist almost entirely above land/ice unlike the equatorial ones.
Finally, you can't seriously discuss terraforming Mars in 100 years and deny global warming.
People who KNOW better can see what the P.R. companies are up to in this modern age of online social marketing and perhaps do something to counter it besides simply post comments on /. At least we know the arguments they are paying to be made at this critical time so when we run into them being used it won't be as much of a shock.
In addition, we can become more aware of the talking points being promoted and then identify the paid shills or gullible suckers.
Bush Admin classified internet as NOT being a telecommunications service (obviously it is! lawyers...)
I think this was why the court rightfully struck down FCC regulation; I didn't follow the case but I remember then the FCC classified internet and the implications of that so when they started sticking their nose into internet I thought they didn't have the powers anymore... sounds like I was correct.
There never was a free market; especially in this area. Even having 3 competing companies is not a free market; it's not like anybody can just enter into that industry. They depend upon approval and regulation of the public's air waves or the public's land (next to the public land the roads are on-- without which we'd not have much of anything... the commons are necessary.)
They don't care about anything except the public finding out the truth.
A big part of that is terrorism against their staff and the press to make sure they never dare oppose them. They will make strong "examples" out of deviants and just like in history, the more desperate they get to prevent it, the more extreme the "examples".
The benefit of knowing some history is why they are not dumping acid on the faces of these people opposing them; something the Taliban has yet to learn (poor education; history repeats.)
You are just a sore loser. His point is valid and his expertise (if true) makes it even stronger so then you smear his point simply because 95% of lawyers are scum?
Besides, you seriously think the people who constantly campaign on how they want to completely kill the EPA are going to put forward something that would improve it? Most their party works around fucking things up and then campaigning against the messes they help create in an idiotic cycle that should be obvious to a competent citizenry.
Doesn't matter- this isn't a bunch of browsers, this is a specific browser running on a device - it does not require abstraction libraries loaded full of browser specific work arounds (hacks.) If he can't write his own AJAX without jQuery then he's not that good.
Looked to me that they have certain ways they want some things done and not libraries which work around them. It could be certain hacks in jQuery raised concerns so it is forbidden.... after all that increasingly bloated and slow library is made for desktop browsers it's not tested against customized browsers on weak devices.
We have to stop training people jQuery when there is a fully functional API (remember it was broken IE that created the need for things like jQuery.)