WRT extreme weather events, the insurance industry respectfully disagrees with your analogy, and they put their money where their actuary tables tell them to.
Yes, "go look for yourself", WP is a good start since they have a page for each of those subjects. However I'm wondering where you got the "+5 informative" idea that any of these periods were warmer than now, because when I "looked for myself" I found the opposite of what you claim wrt temperature.
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He's a little fucking late, don't you think?
Nope, handing over the report and quitting at the same time is perfect timing, especially if you want to draw attention to why you are quitting. Finishing what he started shows he's a professional, had he quit half way through they would have simply replaced him with someone more malleable.
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fucking magnets [how do they work]"
"I'm not going to be able to give you an answer as to why magnets attract each other, except to say that they do." - Feynman.
Oddly enough, the conservative party here in Oz call themselves the Liberal Party because freedom is like motherhood and tasty pastry treats, everyone supports it. However the pertinent question to ask is; freedom to do what?
Conservative freedom: the freedom to kill millions by polluting our tap water.
Liberal freedom: the freedom to kill millions by removing chlorine treatments that pollute our tap water.
Liberal freedom: the freedom to get high and make an arse of yourself.
Conservative freedom: the freedom to get drunk and make an arse of yourself.
Likewise, "progress" is just another motherhood concept, with the pertinent question being; progress by what means, toward what goal?
Right there is the core problem with communism, flower power, and dare I say, libertarianism. They will never work because they completely disregard observable human nature in favour of the fantasy that their ideology is so great that people will somehow forget about greed, envy, avarice, ect and just start being nice to each other while snacking on the fruits that magically spring forth from the font of their chosen ideology.
Star Trek replicators could certainly satisfy everyone's needs, but nothing will ever satisfy everyone's wants. In fact I'm pretty sure one of the first uses of such technology would be a dictator replicating his loyal thugs as fast as he can.
Since you don't have to work
Hahaha. Sorry but in the 80's a lot of people (including me) thought that industrial robots would replace factory workers and by the early 21st century and we would all be working 3-4 days a week instead of 5-6. To a large extent factory workers have indeed been replaced by robots on a massive scale, the robots also took over a lot of clerical jobs such as bank tellers, but despite all the "spare time" these robots have created we're still working the same hours to maintain the same standard of living.
When an internal meeting has video it's generally a sign that the meeting doesn't actually need to happen - it's better done through a couple emails or a quick IRC-equivalent chat. Again, outside the world of a scientist I expect this to be different.
I agree (because that's how I operate best). However a large chunk of the population (including many scientists*) can't communicate effectively using text alone, they need the added visual cues one gets from a full -conversation-, (video or face to face), so they can understand it properly. Maybe it's because the other person can see them and this at least makes them focus so as not to appear rude, maybe it's a benign neurological difference, maybe it's just mild illiteracy, I suspect it's all of those and more, but who knows? - And even if we did know how does one go about standardising and optimising human behaviour without some sort of nightmare re-Nedification scenario?
Of course there are also some discussions where it's just basic respect for human dignity to have it face to face, and we all know that doing TheRightThing(TM) often incurs an expense.
scientists* - themselves are often accused of being so "smart" they've lost the ability to communicate their ideas to non-scientists and instead have taken to muttering at their shoes.
52yo Aussie here, currently hooked on "World of Tanks", my 78yo dad can also play a decent game of doom. When I was a kid, old farts had train sets or pinball machines in their shed, so the only thing that's really changed are the toys.
The US is our #2 customer, (#1 is China). We're not going to throw either of them out just because they tried to chat up the sales staff, especially when said staff enjoy being chatted up.
How are such skills even *remotely* useful to peple such as lumberjacks, casino dealers, chefs, cashiers, clothing designers or nurses?
Coincidently I was a "lumberjack" in the early 80's, programming was very useful to me as a way of getting out of a life of low paid manual labour.
Come to think of it the crusty old manager of the sawmill would ask you maths questions before he would give you the "cream job" of picking house lots from the green-chain. However the only worker making any real money was the guy operating the large break down saw, it had more knobs and switches than a small aircraft and was a very specialised skill. Of course a gigantic band saw with a 4 meter high jaw that can manipulate and slice up a 40ton log to within 1/64th of an inch would be controlled by a computer these days, and I wouldn't be surprised if house lots are now picked and packed by one guy operating a few industrial robots.
And yes, we did occasionally sing the lumberjack song.
Chaotic systems can and do have stable statistics. Kick the system and it will find a new "dynamic equilibrium" with a new set of stable statistics. For example it's trivial to determine how long it will take a particular volume of water to reach boiling point (climate), it's impossible to predict when and where the first bubble will appear (weather).
Pretty serious people, whose livelyhood depends on grants given to those who have the ability to make others worry, are pretty worried.
I'm not denying anything. I just think a little scepticism isn't always a bad thing.
That's not "scepticism", that's hubris. You're either a parrot or you're simply projecting your lack of morals onto others.
Yep, I have the option to disable the ads on slashdot. It's been sitting there for a quite a while, like the ads on this site it's in an unobtrusive box that's easy to ignore, so I do.
Morality aside, since everything on the net is copyright by default it IS my right to download and keep anything I can find (obvious exception is pedo-candy). AFAIK downloading (leech style) is not illegal in any western country, it's uploading that's the problem.
Seems to me that over the last 10yrs or so the MAFIAA have been very successfully in their campaign to convince people (including way too many slashdotters), that downloading is illegal. From a moral POV, I would really like to see the authorities take them to task over what amounts to a seriously fraudulent advertising campaign. A just punishment would be to fine them twice what they spent on the campaign and give it to a court appointed executor to spend on correcting the misinformation....one can dream, right?
It's another one of those things where there isn't a common usage much less an unwritten rule
Enquiry = A question, most commonly used in the context of an individual asking for information from an organisation.
Inquiry = A formal investigation.
Both terms are in common usage here in Oz, OTOH I have never heard of "fettling".
Tored, sadly I believe you're intelligent but a deliberate (paid?) troll on the subject of climate change. I don't want a conversation with you, I was just pointing out to others your original deception about what the graph says.
So what? Water vapour can only ever act as a feedback because the troposphere is basically chemically saturated with the stuff, CO2 can act as both a feedback and a forcing. But I assume you knew that and are just trolling.
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WRT extreme weather events, the insurance industry respectfully disagrees with your analogy, and they put their money where their actuary tables tell them to.
Brilliant! As a token of my appreciation for the laugh I offer this link.
Yes, "go look for yourself", WP is a good start since they have a page for each of those subjects. However I'm wondering where you got the "+5 informative" idea that any of these periods were warmer than now, because when I "looked for myself" I found the opposite of what you claim wrt temperature.
He's a little fucking late, don't you think?
Nope, handing over the report and quitting at the same time is perfect timing, especially if you want to draw attention to why you are quitting. Finishing what he started shows he's a professional, had he quit half way through they would have simply replaced him with someone more malleable.
fucking magnets [how do they work]"
"I'm not going to be able to give you an answer as to why magnets attract each other, except to say that they do." - Feynman.
Oddly enough, the conservative party here in Oz call themselves the Liberal Party because freedom is like motherhood and tasty pastry treats, everyone supports it. However the pertinent question to ask is; freedom to do what?
Conservative freedom: the freedom to kill millions by polluting our tap water.
Liberal freedom: the freedom to kill millions by removing chlorine treatments that pollute our tap water.
Liberal freedom: the freedom to get high and make an arse of yourself.
Conservative freedom: the freedom to get drunk and make an arse of yourself.
Likewise, "progress" is just another motherhood concept, with the pertinent question being; progress by what means, toward what goal?
While we are on the subject, I should also tell you that love and marriage are not related in any way.
I dunno about that, many conservatives seem to love the money they married.
Yes, as an Aussie I can't help but laugh when Americans say their MSM is a "godless, left-wing propaganda machine".
you don't need an incentive.
Right there is the core problem with communism, flower power, and dare I say, libertarianism. They will never work because they completely disregard observable human nature in favour of the fantasy that their ideology is so great that people will somehow forget about greed, envy, avarice, ect and just start being nice to each other while snacking on the fruits that magically spring forth from the font of their chosen ideology.
Star Trek replicators could certainly satisfy everyone's needs, but nothing will ever satisfy everyone's wants. In fact I'm pretty sure one of the first uses of such technology would be a dictator replicating his loyal thugs as fast as he can.
Since you don't have to work
Hahaha. Sorry but in the 80's a lot of people (including me) thought that industrial robots would replace factory workers and by the early 21st century and we would all be working 3-4 days a week instead of 5-6. To a large extent factory workers have indeed been replaced by robots on a massive scale, the robots also took over a lot of clerical jobs such as bank tellers, but despite all the "spare time" these robots have created we're still working the same hours to maintain the same standard of living.
When an internal meeting has video it's generally a sign that the meeting doesn't actually need to happen - it's better done through a couple emails or a quick IRC-equivalent chat. Again, outside the world of a scientist I expect this to be different.
I agree (because that's how I operate best). However a large chunk of the population (including many scientists*) can't communicate effectively using text alone, they need the added visual cues one gets from a full -conversation-, (video or face to face), so they can understand it properly. Maybe it's because the other person can see them and this at least makes them focus so as not to appear rude, maybe it's a benign neurological difference, maybe it's just mild illiteracy, I suspect it's all of those and more, but who knows? - And even if we did know how does one go about standardising and optimising human behaviour without some sort of nightmare re-Nedification scenario?
Of course there are also some discussions where it's just basic respect for human dignity to have it face to face, and we all know that doing TheRightThing(TM) often incurs an expense.
scientists* - themselves are often accused of being so "smart" they've lost the ability to communicate their ideas to non-scientists and instead have taken to muttering at their shoes.
52yo Aussie here, currently hooked on "World of Tanks", my 78yo dad can also play a decent game of doom. When I was a kid, old farts had train sets or pinball machines in their shed, so the only thing that's really changed are the toys.
Nah, it's because we allow people to say "Fuck" while their fucking on broadcast TV.
The US is our #2 customer, (#1 is China). We're not going to throw either of them out just because they tried to chat up the sales staff, especially when said staff enjoy being chatted up.
How are such skills even *remotely* useful to peple such as lumberjacks, casino dealers, chefs, cashiers, clothing designers or nurses?
Coincidently I was a "lumberjack" in the early 80's, programming was very useful to me as a way of getting out of a life of low paid manual labour.
Come to think of it the crusty old manager of the sawmill would ask you maths questions before he would give you the "cream job" of picking house lots from the green-chain. However the only worker making any real money was the guy operating the large break down saw, it had more knobs and switches than a small aircraft and was a very specialised skill. Of course a gigantic band saw with a 4 meter high jaw that can manipulate and slice up a 40ton log to within 1/64th of an inch would be controlled by a computer these days, and I wouldn't be surprised if house lots are now picked and packed by one guy operating a few industrial robots.
And yes, we did occasionally sing the lumberjack song.
I really wish people would stop panicking over what amounts to very little.
And I really wish people would stop digging up the rotting corpses of long dead talking points.
Chaotic systems can and do have stable statistics. Kick the system and it will find a new "dynamic equilibrium" with a new set of stable statistics. For example it's trivial to determine how long it will take a particular volume of water to reach boiling point (climate), it's impossible to predict when and where the first bubble will appear (weather).
Pretty serious people, whose livelyhood depends on grants given to those who have the ability to make others worry, are pretty worried.
I'm not denying anything. I just think a little scepticism isn't always a bad thing.
That's not "scepticism", that's hubris. You're either a parrot or you're simply projecting your lack of morals onto others.
Yep, I have the option to disable the ads on slashdot. It's been sitting there for a quite a while, like the ads on this site it's in an unobtrusive box that's easy to ignore, so I do.
I'd really prefer that google Not be ranking websites because of content
Ahhhh, you want the Schrodinger algorithm.
Morality aside, since everything on the net is copyright by default it IS my right to download and keep anything I can find (obvious exception is pedo-candy). AFAIK downloading (leech style) is not illegal in any western country, it's uploading that's the problem.
Seems to me that over the last 10yrs or so the MAFIAA have been very successfully in their campaign to convince people (including way too many slashdotters), that downloading is illegal. From a moral POV, I would really like to see the authorities take them to task over what amounts to a seriously fraudulent advertising campaign. A just punishment would be to fine them twice what they spent on the campaign and give it to a court appointed executor to spend on correcting the misinformation....one can dream, right?
Yes and no.
Put a 100K people out of work because a few executives broke the law, yeah that's actual justice!
It's another one of those things where there isn't a common usage much less an unwritten rule
Enquiry = A question, most commonly used in the context of an individual asking for information from an organisation.
Inquiry = A formal investigation.
Both terms are in common usage here in Oz, OTOH I have never heard of "fettling".
Tored, sadly I believe you're intelligent but a deliberate (paid?) troll on the subject of climate change. I don't want a conversation with you, I was just pointing out to others your original deception about what the graph says.
So what? Water vapour can only ever act as a feedback because the troposphere is basically chemically saturated with the stuff, CO2 can act as both a feedback and a forcing. But I assume you knew that and are just trolling.