And, please send all these arguments to/dev/null. Because it's time for the rest of us to talk seriously about what is going on.
The global-warming lobby has been dismissing the dissenters as heretics since day one. That's exactly the problem. The only discussion allowed is between those who agree with this lobby's agenda, while everyone else is slienced and ridiculed.
... the world temperature has only risen.6 degrees in the past century. Still a concern, but it's not like we all need to start riding bicycles and get solar panels installed on all our houses in the next week.
The US refuses to cut emissions
... which is environ-troll for "The U.S. refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol, which penalizes all western nations while leaving China and India free to continue their skyrocketing emissions.
and those of India and China are rising
Hmm. Maybe they should have been written into the Kyoto protocol as well. No matter, I'm sure it's the USA's fault.
Anyone know the historic reason why negative numbers are used for processes with HIGHER priority? It's counterintuitive and everything that's not *nix-like does it differently.
I don't get it. What's so mystical about shopping that you can't be bothered by people using cell phones or blackberries? Do you get annoyed when people talk to each other? Or punch prices into a calculator? If I'm getting on the phone for 5 seconds to ask whether I need to get bread, is that really a problem? If so, I'll be going to your competitor.
Vacuum tubes? Hmph! In my day, we had to pass instructions by shouting them one character at a time into the ear-trumpet of a half-deaf, illiterate programmer. He would then flip the bits by wetting his fingers and toes, then shorting out the leads because we didn't have the kind of money to buy niceties like wires and switches like you young dandies nowadays. Brats!
If it costs more to recycle something than to store in a safe location where it will not pollute, then it is not worth recycling. In the end, you're expending more energy to recycle it than you are taking in. The ACCRC's passing it on to the donater (no good deed goes unpunished) is a cheap way of hiding that cost. Obviously, we don't want lead dumped in Chinese rivers ("we" obviously doesn't include the Chinese enslavers/bureaucrats) so if you can't have it recycled efficiently, then you might as well have it crushed under tons of dirt in a contained area. It's no wonder we can't get people out of the disposable mindset when the well-meaning are penalized.
In 1815 Mt Tamboras eruption caused the year without a summer. It spewed out roughly 40 million tons of gases and ash from April through June. In one year man produces orders of magnitude more pollutants through the burning of fossil fuels than was done in those two months. Apparently it's ok for a volcano to influence the worlds climate but when man throws out, on a continuing basis, enormous quantities of pollutants every year, well that can't have an effect on the climate.
Apparently not, because we've had a summer every year since I was born, at least. Can't speak before 1973. Of course, man creates mostly sulfur and carbon compounds, not ash. Clearly ash and soot (soot emissions were totally ignored by the Kyoto protocol, BTW) have a much greater impact on the climate than "greenhosue gases".
I wonder how many people over there never learn to maneuver their cars properly, and are restricting their choice of eating places/whatever to only places that are designed for large groups of cattle..
I am so very sorry that many of the RABBLE here in the USA are too poor to afford eating establishments with valet parking.
Learning? I don't know about you, but parallel parking was a required part of my driver's test. You were allowed to make one mistake and still pass, but you'd still have to get in that space on a second try. Fortunately, I got it in three inches from the curb on my first attempt.
Indeed - but a small minority of them (people like you) give the rest a bad name.
I don't think you even know me.
As there is no difference between microevolution & evolution
I cited a link in this discussion, showing that the terms microevolution and macroevolution were coined by a biologist and not a creationist. You may disagree with Filipchenko, but many do not.
I didn't realize that insults were part of a rational discussion. No matter. I think you are confusing the issue. I think some of these creationists of whom you speak are pointing out that some structures, such as the eye and the digestive system (I question the eye argument myself) would have to make multiple improvements simultaneously to be an advantage. For example, a stomach is useless without HCl to digest food and the HCl would dissolve your tissues without the specialized lining found in the stomach.
That's very nice, but what you fail to comprehend is that EVERY SINGLE PERSON OF SCIENCE makes the same sort of judgement about people whose scientific belief differs from their own.
That's very nice, but what you fail to comprehend is that EVERY SINGLE PERSON OF POLITICS makes the same sort of judgement about people whose politics differ from their own.
That's very nice, but what you fail to comprehend is that EVERY SINGLE MUSIC LOVER makes the same sort of judgement about people whose taste in music differs from their own.
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Who is part of this "professional network?" The Illuminati? Haliburton? The Stonecutters?
Anyone know the historic reason why negative numbers are used for processes with HIGHER priority? It's counterintuitive and everything that's not *nix-like does it differently.
Come on, kids-- fight nice!
I don't get it. What's so mystical about shopping that you can't be bothered by people using cell phones or blackberries? Do you get annoyed when people talk to each other? Or punch prices into a calculator? If I'm getting on the phone for 5 seconds to ask whether I need to get bread, is that really a problem? If so, I'll be going to your competitor.
Vacuum tubes? Hmph! In my day, we had to pass instructions by shouting them one character at a time into the ear-trumpet of a half-deaf, illiterate programmer. He would then flip the bits by wetting his fingers and toes, then shorting out the leads because we didn't have the kind of money to buy niceties like wires and switches like you young dandies nowadays. Brats!
I'm sure in 1985, Wesson is in every corner drugstore!
If it costs more to recycle something than to store in a safe location where it will not pollute, then it is not worth recycling. In the end, you're expending more energy to recycle it than you are taking in. The ACCRC's passing it on to the donater (no good deed goes unpunished) is a cheap way of hiding that cost. Obviously, we don't want lead dumped in Chinese rivers ("we" obviously doesn't include the Chinese enslavers/bureaucrats) so if you can't have it recycled efficiently, then you might as well have it crushed under tons of dirt in a contained area. It's no wonder we can't get people out of the disposable mindset when the well-meaning are penalized.
Well, not all of them. And you might want to do a little research, as it seems we're eating them again and they taste mighty good!
With really good compression, I'm sure you can get anything down to one byte. One really big byte.
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The requested URL
Now we have a power source for the frickin' laser beams on our sharks' heads!
I, for one, welcome our bacteriopseudoherpetic overlords.
That's not true. I still had 5.x on my W2K server until a few months ago. I think I was using Automatic Updates to get my patches.
Learning? I don't know about you, but parallel parking was a required part of my driver's test. You were allowed to make one mistake and still pass, but you'd still have to get in that space on a second try. Fortunately, I got it in three inches from the curb on my first attempt.
I didn't realize that insults were part of a rational discussion. No matter. I think you are confusing the issue. I think some of these creationists of whom you speak are pointing out that some structures, such as the eye and the digestive system (I question the eye argument myself) would have to make multiple improvements simultaneously to be an advantage. For example, a stomach is useless without HCl to digest food and the HCl would dissolve your tissues without the specialized lining found in the stomach.
That's very nice, but what you fail to comprehend is that EVERY SINGLE PERSON OF POLITICS makes the same sort of judgement about people whose politics differ from their own.
That's very nice, but what you fail to comprehend is that EVERY SINGLE MUSIC LOVER makes the same sort of judgement about people whose taste in music differs from their own.
And your "argument" is nothing more than begging the question.
The problem is that "Doonesbury" and "The Boondocks" belong on the editorial page, not the comics.