"I have a hard time recommending his film An Inconvenient Truth due to his factual errors and exaggerated claims." (My Emph.)
They are not HIS claims thay are the IPCC's claims, he got the (well deserved) award for communicating those claims to the public. None of the claims are exaggerated rather there is a tendency for critics and shills to highligh his presentations of the worst "business as usual" senario in a range of senarios. I don't expect anyone to listen to a random/. post, so here is a link to what some well known IPCC contributors and climatologists thought of the movie.
Note that the recent well publicised "Artic ice melt" has far exceeded the worst of the senarios predicted by both the 97 & 2007 IPCC reports, even "alarmists" underestimated that one by ~30yrs. Recent observation here in Australia also seem to show an "exaggeragion" over IPCC predictions. The IPCC report represents established science and it's 2007 predictions for Australia and the Artic are starting to look very conservative, OTOH: 1-2 years is not a trend.
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WOPR can solve it one digit at a time, 60 digits is no problem.
By definition either the loser/winner was "lying" at some point, otherwise there would be no contest.
That's the whole problem with Judge Judy, she thinks her subjective observations are fact and then proceeds to villify the people who are sitting in front of her by screaming liar at the top of her voice.
If someone lies to the court then the remedy is a charge of purgury. If they can't be charged then they should STFU.
If they take this to the next step we're all screwed!
Clippy with a direct feed from the users brain would be like a tinfoil hat infected with a CIA root kit. Mark my words: They have been plugging mice into computers for decades, mice are the ideal lab animal, it won't be long before corporate technology is able to reproduce tinfoil hats, soon as you put on the infected hat - bam - they suck your brain so dry that start voting for your favorite on "Big Brother".
"explain how starlight could be billions of years old on a 3 day old earth."
Ok I will bite - perhaps the stars were already there billions of years before the Earth?
Also the idea of the visible universe being the inside of a black hole is not new, Hawking's brief history of time mentions it (although I think the idea predates the book). It also says that a black hole of universe sized proportions would not have the huge tidal forces associated with stellar sized black holes, therefore you could cross the event horizon (ie: fall into the hole) without noticing it.
"I support more excessive remedies for people who bring lawsuits or escalate civil action to court under fraudulent circumstances"
There is always a winner and a loser in court, what your suggesting amounts to "excessive remedies" for all cases. What about unpaid parking fines, US jails are full of such "criminals" already, should we execute traffic offenders to make way for file-sharers?
"You see you can't oppose the US/Israeli policy in the mid-east without being a terr'ist.."
...or modded as flamebait it would seem. The US has trained more international terrorists in the "art of constructive chaos" than anyone else for most of my 50yrs (closeley followed by the UK and France), it has often been under the guise of the war on drugs. It would seem to me that the "dogs of war" turned on the hand that stopped feeding them after the cold war.
We seem to have gone off on a tangent, I also like where I live and I generally support the cameras as operated in this state (for the reasons described in my previous post). Also I was born in the UK and arrived here as a "two bob immigrant" with my parents in 1964.
I did live in the bush for a year or two working on a sawmill in the early eighties - no cameras, no parking meters, no traffic lights, no shops, no doctor, no garbage collection, no rent, no TV, no town water, pretty much the best part of fuck all - except for a random electricity supply and one of those ridiculously expensive public phone boxes.
There are plenty of complaints about cameras over here and you lose points as well as, rather than instead of paying the fine. And yeah, who wants to loose a few hundred bucks on the off chance you can save 50, but if your license were at stake as it can be for repeated infringements over here? Not sure how much our contractors are paid but it's NOT based on the revenue generated by fines, camera placement is determined by traffic volume and accident records (Victoria is the state that has for 40yrs pioneered stuff like seat-belts, the shock ads for road saftey, booze busses, drug busses, ect).
Our state government is into casino's for money and trafic control for safety (and real estate prices). We also have madatory seatbelts / child restraints and random alchol/drug tests where refusal means arrest. I've lost more than one aquaitance thru car crashes, on the whole I think the camera's here are a goodthing(TM), the state's poulation has roughly trebled since I first got a license in the 70's and a larger percentage of those people have cars - yet the road toll has dropped from around 12-1500yr to 3-400yr. Not all due to camera's but it's much harder to drive like an idiot and keep you license than it was when I was doing it in the 70's.
There is a guy in the news here who has just been convicted of murdering his three young sons in an act of revenge and financial self interest. He drowned them on farther's day by driving his car into a lake and then tried to use the "blacked out during a coughing fit" combined with the "I don't recall" defence - his idiotic story failed miserably when he got into court.
"and all the people that were running things before are probably either dead, or terribly unpopular"
They were ALL painted with the "loyal Bathist" brush and sacked on the third day of the invasion and as you say that created a power vacum that sucked in the various factions and random opportunists from all over the place. Up until that point I was willing to give some credit to the US for attempting to rid the ME of a lose cannon that they (along with the UK and France) had created. The British on the other hand seem to have made good on the promise they made to the Shia in the south before the first invasion but had dropped when the UNSC stopped short of removing Sadam with force (with terrible repurcusion for the Shia in the 90's). The US would have had a much worse situation if it wasn't for this tacit agreement between the UK and the Shia to keep both the Sunni's and the US out of the south.
The British are packing up and leaving the Shia largely intact and in charge of themselves, 80% of Iraqi's and 70% of American's want a peacefull, orderly withdrawal and I would imagine the Shia in the south see themselves becoming as autonomous as the Kurds in the north. Once the last of the knucklehead hawks are gone from the whitehouse the US will calm down enough to be politically able to take up Iran's repeated offers of dialogue and make peace with the ordinary Sunni's who (unsurprisingly) feel betrayed by their former sponsers - wether they do or don't is a different question.
A similar "favoured tribe" senario is what lead to the Rawanda genocide after colonial rule, Iraq's population are better educated but given the right circumastances...
It was not my intention to make an ideological point so I am not surprised if you found a moot one. I was just pointing out that the OP's appeal to the magna carta is kinda ironic considering how the meaning of "freemen" has changed over the centuries and now includes women.
The magna carta came about because wealthy merchants were losing money and property due to their funding of fudal wars, so they basically did what is still done today with an out of control executive - they cut of the supply of money in order to bring about accountability. Now that commerce is well and trully global it won't be long (in historical terms) before a global version of the magna carta reins in some of the more destructive aspects of the 500yro concept of a nation state.
Where do you live? Here in Australia you have to sign a statutory declaration naming the driver if you intend to claim it was not you. The quite reasonable argument goes along the lines of: If the car was not stolen then who did you lend it to? If you answer "I don't know" their answer is: Perhaps you do lend your car to strangers thus voiding your insurance, you are still responsible for the car and I hope this fine will discourage you from that reckless practice in the future.
That is not possible with PC's but many people think it is. If you do drop evidence of massive fraud on their PC make sure the bot uninstalls without a trace.
"Sad to see that in Bush's America this apparently only applies to freemen, not single moms"
Whilst I agree that the magna carta is at the roots of modern democracy and the RIAA are a bunch of souless pricks, "freemen" was a restrictive term back then and did not include women, children or slaves.
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"I have a hard time recommending his film An Inconvenient Truth due to his factual errors and exaggerated claims." (My Emph.)
/. post, so here is a link to what some well known IPCC contributors and climatologists thought of the movie.
They are not HIS claims thay are the IPCC's claims, he got the (well deserved) award for communicating those claims to the public. None of the claims are exaggerated rather there is a tendency for critics and shills to highligh his presentations of the worst "business as usual" senario in a range of senarios. I don't expect anyone to listen to a random
Note that the recent well publicised "Artic ice melt" has far exceeded the worst of the senarios predicted by both the 97 & 2007 IPCC reports, even "alarmists" underestimated that one by ~30yrs. Recent observation here in Australia also seem to show an "exaggeragion" over IPCC predictions. The IPCC report represents established science and it's 2007 predictions for Australia and the Artic are starting to look very conservative, OTOH: 1-2 years is not a trend.
WOPR can solve it one digit at a time, 60 digits is no problem.
"(code begins) (open paren) (String begins) (sentence begins) (sentence ends) (String ends) (close paren) (code ends)"
It may "make sense" but as is common in programming it does not fit the original simple requirement, in other words: where has the quote gone?
"just extreme penalties for the liars"
By definition either the loser/winner was "lying" at some point, otherwise there would be no contest.
That's the whole problem with Judge Judy, she thinks her subjective observations are fact and then proceeds to villify the people who are sitting in front of her by screaming liar at the top of her voice.
If someone lies to the court then the remedy is a charge of purgury. If they can't be charged then they should STFU.
If they take this to the next step we're all screwed!
Clippy with a direct feed from the users brain would be like a tinfoil hat infected with a CIA root kit. Mark my words: They have been plugging mice into computers for decades, mice are the ideal lab animal, it won't be long before corporate technology is able to reproduce tinfoil hats, soon as you put on the infected hat - bam - they suck your brain so dry that start voting for your favorite on "Big Brother".
"explain how starlight could be billions of years old on a 3 day old earth."
Ok I will bite - perhaps the stars were already there billions of years before the Earth?
Also the idea of the visible universe being the inside of a black hole is not new, Hawking's brief history of time mentions it (although I think the idea predates the book). It also says that a black hole of universe sized proportions would not have the huge tidal forces associated with stellar sized black holes, therefore you could cross the event horizon (ie: fall into the hole) without noticing it.
A big fat joint will do the same trick - with hilarious side effects.
"I support more excessive remedies for people who bring lawsuits or escalate civil action to court under fraudulent circumstances"
There is always a winner and a loser in court, what your suggesting amounts to "excessive remedies" for all cases. What about unpaid parking fines, US jails are full of such "criminals" already, should we execute traffic offenders to make way for file-sharers?
No, but I recognise the sig as Cat Stevens.
Absolutely, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. /pedant
"I'll meet you on the Dark Side of Iapetus"
/pedant
I belive the word is "see" rather than "meet", also there is nothing in the lyrics that states what moon they were talking about.
"Do we have to explain FPS as well? (First Person Shooter) How about 3D?"
I had to think for second what RTS was, OTOH the GP obviously knows the meaning of "bot".
"You see you can't oppose the US/Israeli policy in the mid-east without being a terr'ist .."
...or modded as flamebait it would seem. The US has trained more international terrorists in the "art of constructive chaos" than anyone else for most of my 50yrs (closeley followed by the UK and France), it has often been under the guise of the war on drugs. It would seem to me that the "dogs of war" turned on the hand that stopped feeding them after the cold war.
We seem to have gone off on a tangent, I also like where I live and I generally support the cameras as operated in this state (for the reasons described in my previous post). Also I was born in the UK and arrived here as a "two bob immigrant" with my parents in 1964.
I did live in the bush for a year or two working on a sawmill in the early eighties - no cameras, no parking meters, no traffic lights, no shops, no doctor, no garbage collection, no rent, no TV, no town water, pretty much the best part of fuck all - except for a random electricity supply and one of those ridiculously expensive public phone boxes.
"He's not self-righteous or delusional. He's a con-man. He hoped he could extort a bunch of cash out of a big company"
:)
So that would be "just plain greedy arsehole", no?
"I tend to avoid anyplace using them"
That would pretty much resrict you to walking or public transport here.
There are plenty of complaints about cameras over here and you lose points as well as, rather than instead of paying the fine. And yeah, who wants to loose a few hundred bucks on the off chance you can save 50, but if your license were at stake as it can be for repeated infringements over here? Not sure how much our contractors are paid but it's NOT based on the revenue generated by fines, camera placement is determined by traffic volume and accident records (Victoria is the state that has for 40yrs pioneered stuff like seat-belts, the shock ads for road saftey, booze busses, drug busses, ect).
Our state government is into casino's for money and trafic control for safety (and real estate prices). We also have madatory seatbelts / child restraints and random alchol/drug tests where refusal means arrest. I've lost more than one aquaitance thru car crashes, on the whole I think the camera's here are a goodthing(TM), the state's poulation has roughly trebled since I first got a license in the 70's and a larger percentage of those people have cars - yet the road toll has dropped from around 12-1500yr to 3-400yr. Not all due to camera's but it's much harder to drive like an idiot and keep you license than it was when I was doing it in the 70's.
There is a guy in the news here who has just been convicted of murdering his three young sons in an act of revenge and financial self interest. He drowned them on farther's day by driving his car into a lake and then tried to use the "blacked out during a coughing fit" combined with the "I don't recall" defence - his idiotic story failed miserably when he got into court.
"and all the people that were running things before are probably either dead, or terribly unpopular"
They were ALL painted with the "loyal Bathist" brush and sacked on the third day of the invasion and as you say that created a power vacum that sucked in the various factions and random opportunists from all over the place. Up until that point I was willing to give some credit to the US for attempting to rid the ME of a lose cannon that they (along with the UK and France) had created. The British on the other hand seem to have made good on the promise they made to the Shia in the south before the first invasion but had dropped when the UNSC stopped short of removing Sadam with force (with terrible repurcusion for the Shia in the 90's). The US would have had a much worse situation if it wasn't for this tacit agreement between the UK and the Shia to keep both the Sunni's and the US out of the south.
The British are packing up and leaving the Shia largely intact and in charge of themselves, 80% of Iraqi's and 70% of American's want a peacefull, orderly withdrawal and I would imagine the Shia in the south see themselves becoming as autonomous as the Kurds in the north. Once the last of the knucklehead hawks are gone from the whitehouse the US will calm down enough to be politically able to take up Iran's repeated offers of dialogue and make peace with the ordinary Sunni's who (unsurprisingly) feel betrayed by their former sponsers - wether they do or don't is a different question.
A similar "favoured tribe" senario is what lead to the Rawanda genocide after colonial rule, Iraq's population are better educated but given the right circumastances...
It was not my intention to make an ideological point so I am not surprised if you found a moot one. I was just pointing out that the OP's appeal to the magna carta is kinda ironic considering how the meaning of "freemen" has changed over the centuries and now includes women.
The magna carta came about because wealthy merchants were losing money and property due to their funding of fudal wars, so they basically did what is still done today with an out of control executive - they cut of the supply of money in order to bring about accountability. Now that commerce is well and trully global it won't be long (in historical terms) before a global version of the magna carta reins in some of the more destructive aspects of the 500yro concept of a nation state.
Where do you live? Here in Australia you have to sign a statutory declaration naming the driver if you intend to claim it was not you. The quite reasonable argument goes along the lines of: If the car was not stolen then who did you lend it to? If you answer "I don't know" their answer is: Perhaps you do lend your car to strangers thus voiding your insurance, you are still responsible for the car and I hope this fine will discourage you from that reckless practice in the future.
That is not possible with PC's but many people think it is. If you do drop evidence of massive fraud on their PC make sure the bot uninstalls without a trace.
"So basically, he's saying he did what he believes is right in the face of opposition, and you call him a self-righteous asshole. "
Self-righteous arsehole, delusional arsehole, or just plain greedy arsehole - still an arsehole.
"Tell me, when RMS does what he believes is right in the face of opposition, what is he?"
The choices would seem to be: Boringly obvious arsehole, pedantic arsehole or just plain ineffective arsehole.
"Sad to see that in Bush's America this apparently only applies to freemen, not single moms"
Whilst I agree that the magna carta is at the roots of modern democracy and the RIAA are a bunch of souless pricks, "freemen" was a restrictive term back then and did not include women, children or slaves.
"I think its fascinating that people think that creatures generally need to "grasp the idea" of doing something to be able to do it."
Perhaps "grasp the benifit" is more apt as a comparison to human behaviour.
Crows with frickin lasers!