It's a camera model panning technique, which I believe is patented, although if you look around slow enough they might not catch you. The zoom facility is generally crap, though.
"That doesn't mean there isn't increased risk by smoking."
True enough, but I missed your point, I was giving you a real world example. You didn't answer the presupposition about aging, though. Was I close?
In addition to this, you seem to be proclaiming the wondrous technology that is LCD over CRT monitors, when you're still essentially focusing on the same patch of space roughly forty centimeters away. One thing you should have tried when you were suffering the headaches would be adjusting the ratio of mains to refresh rate, adjusting down the contrast and brightness of the monitors and doing something with the ambient light levels around the monitors. Not having a wall behind the monitors forces you to refocus at a greater distance, which increases the amount of work done by the muscles around the cornea.
LCD monitors in their own right don't do a lot for your vision over CRT unless you're using pixel-aliasing or a really whack refresh rate which amplifies the 50/60Hz flicker in most household appliances.
"Of course, all of this is based on the roughly four episodes I could stand to watch."
"Having the Wraith star in pretty much every episode is also a big mistake IMHO."
And therefore we can conclude that this poster is a 'twat', having formed an opinion on the basis of less than 40% of the output and deigning to actually post it.
"Every episode is transparent and stupid."
All four you actually saw, yeah?
"all with an "ideal" ethnic and gender mix inspired in no way by their time, place, or roles."
It's those lefty liberals in entertainment, I tell you. Stick the women in skirts and assume everyone is from Montana.
I know, that's so whack. We were down the store the other day, and like someone pointed out that they sell candles. WTF is that about, don't people know about electricity?
Oh, and there were vegetables, too. Like stuff pulled out of the ground. It's so gross. I mean, the ground, FFS. Worms f*** in that. And we bury dead people.
And there's like these ceramic statues, that people buy, then put on flat surfaces to look at. It's not like they light up or anything...et cetera, et cetera
"Let's assume that they sleep for 90% of the time, and that's still 1,000 years."
Empires fall, people lose interest. Greece was once the center of civilisation. Don't apply your little window of history across the whole universe and enjoy the show.
"their ships can still be shot down with a bazooka"
Stinger SAM, but we'll let that one pass for the moment. Have you considered that a significantly more advanced race might not actually use it's shields out of contempt for a preagrarian race?
"they can't get past the Ancients' iris-shield (which I'm fairly sure the less advanced Tollan could do)."
With a titanium iris, not a forcefield, and the inference was that the Tolan were a lot more advanced than the Gou'ould, and roughly on a par with the Nox, which is why the Tolan were wiped out after the contratemps over the warheads. Certainly nobody else apart from the Asgard could create the ground based cannons.
"because at the moment they seem a lot less impressive than anything in our galaxy."
Well, you wouldn't want them to go and 'pussify the borg' like Star Trek did, would you?
Personally I think a race that views humans as animals is a tad more realistic than having aliens that simply mimic human nature with cartoon inflated attributes. Certainly the introduction of the Tokrah made the snakeheads slightly more fluffy than they needed to be.
"Next to the replicators, they are positively laughable."
You didn't like the replicators, then? Lack of enormous guns?
"Unless it's been entirely pre-plotted like Babylon 5, it's highly likely that it, too, will be episodal."
Oh, it's preplotted. Strangely enough we're on Episode 4 in the UK, and I can tell you that it's extremely good. Not only do the cylons have a plan, but they've infiltrated and they appear to be winning, but holding off over something to do with Gaius Baltar.
Suspend your disbelief and watch this one, it's going to be special. Episode 2 is especially interesting, simply for the level of tension.
"Think about this before assuming biometrics is the answer:"
Even simpler. Biometrics is a layer on top of authentication that simply authenticates the key supplied by the biometrics. Even keycard access can be backed by pin number to authenticate that the holder of the card is who the card proclaims them to be.
The actual authentication is going to be a communication of ID to a server on a challenge/response basis; sidestepping the biometric step and cracking directly is likely to be a lot easier because of the _ASSUMPTION_ of security.
"I'm used to being shat on and talked over by UNIX admins and coders who just assume I know vi, or emacs, or where network interfaces are on bsd or various linux distros, et ceteras."
You know some nice people, then.
I did several years as a graphic designer before moving to coding, and there are two huge consistencies that I've spotted in both jobs.
People generally can't create briefs for toffee.
The majority of my current workload is simply creating a brief where there is none, and getting the customer to sign off on that.
And BTW, I've been patronised by graphic designers in the past about their 'vision' and the overall 'concept' of the work as well. Graphic designers can be the equal in arrogant stubbornness to admins of any ilk.
"Know exactly what you want and be prepared to produce several "along these lines" or "kind of like this, only..." examples to illustrate your point."
I'd add that you have to make the customer work a little to provide you with enough information to even start. You can usually speed up the process by informing them from the word 'go' that you're charging by the hour for any treatments that need to be produced beyond the initial consult. I point out that excessive f***ing around helps neither of us.
"There is no denying the fact that SP2 was responsible for making the PC reset part-way through the bootup procedure."
MOTHER-f**ker...
My main desktop stopped working after SP2. The symptom was a flash of the desktop after login, then the it would just shutdown the user. Hmm. Safe Mode...exact same thing only uglier. Okay...use the administrator account...exact same thing.
Go away and have a think about it. Aha. restore points. Oh, can't login to safe mode, etc.
Windows recovery from the CD. 1.5 hours later, and it won't even get through the boot process for a sodding command prompt. Eventually I reinstall windows, move ephemeral data from the windows box to my BSD server, then proceed to reinstall windows after partitioning. Four days in total trying not to kill data.
The BSD box has been operating almost continuously for three years, as a comparison.
Oh, and before someone mentions mal/spy ware, I should point out that I was protected to the hilt and have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with malware scanners.
"It is not elitest to say someone is far from well rounded."
No, it's a fairly mealy way of saying that they're dumb in a way that they may not understand immediately. Being well-rounded, or diversifying in your interests and behaviours to the point where you can do almost anything is a couple of steps higher on Maslow's hierarchy than most people get; you should be applauded for your achievements, but at the same time understand that you are not _average_ by any stretch of the imagination.
Further to that the vast majority of people using computers out there do not have an interest in them. They want to know about the stuff on the internet, but not about the internet.
"It is, however, unforgivable for a person to *choose* to remain ignorant."
Now that is elitist. For one thing people don't necessarily choose ignorance as the direction of their life, and may not believe that Gilbert & Sullivan are anything more than a couple of old guys. To decry a person on the pleasures that they maintain is to completely misunderstand humanity as a whole.
"Computer People need to expand thier world to other things"
You'd be surprised by the breadth of knowledge shown by 'Computer People' over the age of 24. After you've mastered the basics, it leaves a lot of room for other things.
"Specialization is the autobaun to obsoletion."
You do know that 'species'...oh, never mind.
Generalisation means you never achieve true competence. Mention that around the next Vineyard you visit, as you'll find that they're extremely specialised.
"Leonardo Da Vinci never announced "I'm an artist, what do I care about engineering?""
He also never said 'Midgets make me laugh'. What conclusion are we to draw from that?
"Trust me, DIY projects will save you loads of cash and are not difficult to master."
But building an extension is a different matter to covering a hole in sheetrock. America appears to do much better in this regard than countries that like their buildings to consist of more than one storey, brick construction and have foundations, but I'm guessing that you still have building codes to adhere to.
"The most satisfying project I have completed are the two walk-in closets in my master bedroom"
Congratulations on mastering stud partitioning. I'm sure that you can comfortably create your next dwelling.
"Well the "Beast" in Brussels UN is probably up there also"
Only if we're counting fictional computers thought up by conspiracy theorists.
So, no.
"Big Brother uses in the very near future if not already."
You mean filming some no-marks around the clock in the name of entertainment? Or the fairly silly idea that Europe is spearheading an effort to slap everyone into a database. Have you ever seen the EU decide anything? Do you know that the EC meets in Brussels, not the UN?
" I bet some of the Echelon stuff makes these babies look like.. well.. babies."
They'll be dealing with bandwidth rather than raw computational power, mainly because Echelon is about signal intercept, and they very rarely create these things in isolation. As I recall the NSA used to use computers created for Naval weather analysis until someone outed the Puzzle Palace.
And a mission, dude. Not a good source, when you factor in all of the blanket generalisations and the final conclusion that you can generate all the power you need with $30 billion and renewable sources. The simple fact of the matter is that a lot of renewable sources have downsides that aren't talked about, particularly with scaling; windfarms remove wind energy and whip up the ground layer air that tends to cause a 'blanket' of insulation. Nobody knows the plant/animal life implications of this, or the knock-ons of removing huge amounts of energy from the wind. Likewise large solar farms will change local albedo and also have effects on plant/animal life. Much the same goes for any large scale tidal, ocean thermal and geothermal plants. We simply don't know, and yet it's the naive who insist that simply scaling these things up will cure the problems.
"Since there have been Pebble manufacturing problems in the past so its not like it can't happen."
Fair enough comment, but the nature of manufacturing is that you go through processes that sometimes don't work properly...believe me when I say that we have situations where materials and processes have failed under duress, but when you're dealing with hundreds of pebbles, you're looking at x% failing, with y% being the number that could cause severe problems. It's a game of keeping x% < y%.
The German accident was a pebble getting lodged in a feeder tube and the dislodging attempts damaged the pebbles.
As regards the containment building, there were all kinds of complaints about them being terrorist targets during the eighties which gave rise to one of my favourite bits of film; an F4 phantom at 300 knots being driven into a block with the characteristics of the containment building. The F4 is tinfoil after the impact.
The thing is that there has been no terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities because they're fairly hard targets and really difficult to 'terrorise' compared to a couple of pipebombs in a mall. The US just isn't that ready to understand that terrorism isn't flashy, it's just 1/2 pound of hi-ex wrapped in nails with a timer next to a playground.
The thing is that we need a stopgap between fusion/reliable sources and fossil fuel sources. The sooner we get into it, the better.
"but I do, however, find the concept of the larger countries effectively paying smaller countries under treaty/contract to be very objectionable; seems like an unbalanced money making scheme to me."
Boy, are you going to be surprised when you find out what the WTO actually does.
On the other hand it would make a change from bombing smaller countries, then lending them the money to use larger countries contractors to rebuild, which, if you were a reasonable person, would inflame you more. Apologies, but this is _exactly_ the kind of money-making scheme you need to bootstrap the indias, koreas and sub-saharan African nations out of being international jokes.
Outsourcing is a dumb idea because it shifts the manufacturing base out of a country that is eventually not going to be able to afford the products; the beauty of the GG credit is it's about the highest polluters subsidising the non-polluters.
Kinda like picking up your own litter.
"but if the purpose of the treaty is really to reduce global pollution then it should set the same standards across the board and not allow the third world countries to sell their unused credits."
Fine, although you might want to figure that the US is responsible for _25%_ of that pollution, and this allows for a more gradual phasing of industry rather than unsettling the stock market completely, frightening the populace with energy price hikes and causing general panic whenever someone mentions the price of crude rising more than a smidgeon past $55/barrel. The economy is important; it pays for things.
At least by evening out the gas debt to those countries that have less than one SUV per hundred of population would allow some cash to move to developing nations and would give vast incentives to _actually_ change habits at home once they discover that Ghana is investing heavily in Microsoft stocks.
It ain't perfect, but it's going to be better than trying to get the US to face up to a 25% commitment given that it's taken us the best part of fifteen years to get it to take the problem semi-seriously. And the people who make those decisions are a damn sight more likely to survive any turmoil that could arise.
"I also believe there are other good reasons not to accept it without some big changes."
Slashdot Mirror
"Environmentally Harmful: birds could run into it and die. Doesn't anyone consider birds?"
Yeah, but the time of the dinosaurs is over.
"Scrolling seems to be a bit of an issue though."
It's a camera model panning technique, which I believe is patented, although if you look around slow enough they might not catch you. The zoom facility is generally crap, though.
"That doesn't mean there isn't increased risk by smoking."
True enough, but I missed your point, I was giving you a real world example. You didn't answer the presupposition about aging, though. Was I close?
In addition to this, you seem to be proclaiming the wondrous technology that is LCD over CRT monitors, when you're still essentially focusing on the same patch of space roughly forty centimeters away. One thing you should have tried when you were suffering the headaches would be adjusting the ratio of mains to refresh rate, adjusting down the contrast and brightness of the monitors and doing something with the ambient light levels around the monitors. Not having a wall behind the monitors forces you to refocus at a greater distance, which increases the amount of work done by the muscles around the cornea.
LCD monitors in their own right don't do a lot for your vision over CRT unless you're using pixel-aliasing or a really whack refresh rate which amplifies the 50/60Hz flicker in most household appliances.
"Ah, so you ignored the pre-upgrade instructions that told you to backup your system before beginning the upgrade."
I didn't realise that it was mandatory because SP2 _would_ f*** the system, but I should have guessed.
"Are you sure you're qualified to do the upgrade?"
Your momma checked my credentials before I spooged on her face.
"Of course, all of this is based on the roughly four episodes I could stand to watch."
"Having the Wraith star in pretty much every episode is also a big mistake IMHO."
And therefore we can conclude that this poster is a 'twat', having formed an opinion on the basis of less than 40% of the output and deigning to actually post it.
"Every episode is transparent and stupid."
All four you actually saw, yeah?
"all with an "ideal" ethnic and gender mix inspired in no way by their time, place, or roles."
It's those lefty liberals in entertainment, I tell you. Stick the women in skirts and assume everyone is from Montana.
"I'll stick with my beloved SG-1"
Even series one?
"there were lit TORCHES on the G'ould ship"
I know, that's so whack. We were down the store the other day, and like someone pointed out that they sell candles. WTF is that about, don't people know about electricity?
Oh, and there were vegetables, too. Like stuff pulled out of the ground. It's so gross. I mean, the ground, FFS. Worms f*** in that. And we bury dead people.
And there's like these ceramic statues, that people buy, then put on flat surfaces to look at. It's not like they light up or anything...et cetera, et cetera
"Let's assume that they sleep for 90% of the time, and that's still 1,000 years."
Empires fall, people lose interest. Greece was once the center of civilisation. Don't apply your little window of history across the whole universe and enjoy the show.
"their ships can still be shot down with a bazooka"
Stinger SAM, but we'll let that one pass for the moment. Have you considered that a significantly more advanced race might not actually use it's shields out of contempt for a preagrarian race?
"they can't get past the Ancients' iris-shield (which I'm fairly sure the less advanced Tollan could do)."
With a titanium iris, not a forcefield, and the inference was that the Tolan were a lot more advanced than the Gou'ould, and roughly on a par with the Nox, which is why the Tolan were wiped out after the contratemps over the warheads. Certainly nobody else apart from the Asgard could create the ground based cannons.
"because at the moment they seem a lot less impressive than anything in our galaxy."
Well, you wouldn't want them to go and 'pussify the borg' like Star Trek did, would you?
Personally I think a race that views humans as animals is a tad more realistic than having aliens that simply mimic human nature with cartoon inflated attributes. Certainly the introduction of the Tokrah made the snakeheads slightly more fluffy than they needed to be.
"Next to the replicators, they are positively laughable."
You didn't like the replicators, then? Lack of enormous guns?
"Unless it's been entirely pre-plotted like Babylon 5, it's highly likely that it, too, will be episodal."
Oh, it's preplotted. Strangely enough we're on Episode 4 in the UK, and I can tell you that it's extremely good. Not only do the cylons have a plan, but they've infiltrated and they appear to be winning, but holding off over something to do with Gaius Baltar.
Suspend your disbelief and watch this one, it's going to be special. Episode 2 is especially interesting, simply for the level of tension.
"but when I first became a programmer using a CRT for 3 or 4 years straight, my eyesight deteriorated rapidly from 20 / 20 to needing glasses"
Let me guess, this would be middle to late twenties and your prescription was for longsightedness?
Function of age.
I've been stuck in front of a CRT for at least twenty years and I'm 20/25. Also high risk from Glaucoma, which gets checked fairly regularly.
"Think about this before assuming biometrics is the answer:"
Even simpler. Biometrics is a layer on top of authentication that simply authenticates the key supplied by the biometrics. Even keycard access can be backed by pin number to authenticate that the holder of the card is who the card proclaims them to be.
The actual authentication is going to be a communication of ID to a server on a challenge/response basis; sidestepping the biometric step and cracking directly is likely to be a lot easier because of the _ASSUMPTION_ of security.
"These kids couldn't find their way around a real Unix system with a flashlight and man -k."
You mean, of course, BSD and Solaris rather than that home project the Finnish lad wrote, yes?
"I'm used to being shat on and talked over by UNIX admins and coders who just assume I know vi, or emacs, or where network interfaces are on bsd or various linux distros, et ceteras."
You know some nice people, then.
I did several years as a graphic designer before moving to coding, and there are two huge consistencies that I've spotted in both jobs.
People generally can't create briefs for toffee.
The majority of my current workload is simply creating a brief where there is none, and getting the customer to sign off on that.
And BTW, I've been patronised by graphic designers in the past about their 'vision' and the overall 'concept' of the work as well. Graphic designers can be the equal in arrogant stubbornness to admins of any ilk.
"Know exactly what you want and be prepared to produce several "along these lines" or "kind of like this, only..." examples to illustrate your point."
I'd add that you have to make the customer work a little to provide you with enough information to even start. You can usually speed up the process by informing them from the word 'go' that you're charging by the hour for any treatments that need to be produced beyond the initial consult. I point out that excessive f***ing around helps neither of us.
"There is no denying the fact that SP2 was responsible for making the PC reset part-way through the bootup procedure."
MOTHER-f**ker...
My main desktop stopped working after SP2. The symptom was a flash of the desktop after login, then the it would just shutdown the user. Hmm. Safe Mode...exact same thing only uglier. Okay...use the administrator account...exact same thing.
Go away and have a think about it. Aha. restore points. Oh, can't login to safe mode, etc.
Windows recovery from the CD. 1.5 hours later, and it won't even get through the boot process for a sodding command prompt. Eventually I reinstall windows, move ephemeral data from the windows box to my BSD server, then proceed to reinstall windows after partitioning. Four days in total trying not to kill data.
The BSD box has been operating almost continuously for three years, as a comparison.
Oh, and before someone mentions mal/spy ware, I should point out that I was protected to the hilt and have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with malware scanners.
"multi-national Stargate team"
Of which someone should have pointed out that the United Kingdom is the nation, not Scotland.
Minor point, but still slightly annoying.
"because you have to compile everything from source."
I must have missed something. I always compile from source. But then I also check MD5 hashes.
"This is almost like Linux VS BSD"
That explains it. I'm a BSD admin with a distaste for packages.
"That's enough people to bring about change, if you can work together effectively."
Love the sentiment, now how are you planning to raise the same kind of cash that the RIAA and MPAA can throw at a candidate?
"It is not elitest to say someone is far from well rounded."
No, it's a fairly mealy way of saying that they're dumb in a way that they may not understand immediately. Being well-rounded, or diversifying in your interests and behaviours to the point where you can do almost anything is a couple of steps higher on Maslow's hierarchy than most people get; you should be applauded for your achievements, but at the same time understand that you are not _average_ by any stretch of the imagination.
Further to that the vast majority of people using computers out there do not have an interest in them. They want to know about the stuff on the internet, but not about the internet.
"It is, however, unforgivable for a person to *choose* to remain ignorant."
Now that is elitist. For one thing people don't necessarily choose ignorance as the direction of their life, and may not believe that Gilbert & Sullivan are anything more than a couple of old guys. To decry a person on the pleasures that they maintain is to completely misunderstand humanity as a whole.
"Computer People need to expand thier world to other things"
You'd be surprised by the breadth of knowledge shown by 'Computer People' over the age of 24. After you've mastered the basics, it leaves a lot of room for other things.
"Specialization is the autobaun to obsoletion."
You do know that 'species'...oh, never mind.
Generalisation means you never achieve true competence. Mention that around the next Vineyard you visit, as you'll find that they're extremely specialised.
"Leonardo Da Vinci never announced "I'm an artist, what do I care about engineering?""
He also never said 'Midgets make me laugh'. What conclusion are we to draw from that?
"Trust me, DIY projects will save you loads of cash and are not difficult to master."
But building an extension is a different matter to covering a hole in sheetrock. America appears to do much better in this regard than countries that like their buildings to consist of more than one storey, brick construction and have foundations, but I'm guessing that you still have building codes to adhere to.
"The most satisfying project I have completed are the two walk-in closets in my master bedroom"
Congratulations on mastering stud partitioning. I'm sure that you can comfortably create your next dwelling.
"Well the "Beast" in Brussels UN is probably up there also"
Only if we're counting fictional computers thought up by conspiracy theorists.
So, no.
"Big Brother uses in the very near future if not already."
You mean filming some no-marks around the clock in the name of entertainment? Or the fairly silly idea that Europe is spearheading an effort to slap everyone into a database. Have you ever seen the EU decide anything? Do you know that the EC meets in Brussels, not the UN?
"Anyone have more details/links?"
It would seem that SP2 isn't vulnerable to this; Secunia Page
However, these vulnerabilities are under SP2; Secunia page
"when Microsoft attempted to integrate IE with the OS, IE was allowed access the OS in some very dangerous ways."
It still is, and it still does. Changing program defaults removes the icons, not the ability to run iexplore.exe.
" I bet some of the Echelon stuff makes these babies look like .. well.. babies."
They'll be dealing with bandwidth rather than raw computational power, mainly because Echelon is about signal intercept, and they very rarely create these things in isolation. As I recall the NSA used to use computers created for Naval weather analysis until someone outed the Puzzle Palace.
"But what is this worship of Apple? It makes no sense."
BURN THE HERETIC!
"Only with Mac OS X can you get the combination of commercial software (such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop)"
I'll pass on the GUI and stick with FreeBSD, thanks.
"Here is a source with some known down sides"
And a mission, dude. Not a good source, when you factor in all of the blanket generalisations and the final conclusion that you can generate all the power you need with $30 billion and renewable sources. The simple fact of the matter is that a lot of renewable sources have downsides that aren't talked about, particularly with scaling; windfarms remove wind energy and whip up the ground layer air that tends to cause a 'blanket' of insulation. Nobody knows the plant/animal life implications of this, or the knock-ons of removing huge amounts of energy from the wind. Likewise large solar farms will change local albedo and also have effects on plant/animal life. Much the same goes for any large scale tidal, ocean thermal and geothermal plants. We simply don't know, and yet it's the naive who insist that simply scaling these things up will cure the problems.
"Since there have been Pebble manufacturing problems in the past so its not like it can't happen."
Fair enough comment, but the nature of manufacturing is that you go through processes that sometimes don't work properly...believe me when I say that we have situations where materials and processes have failed under duress, but when you're dealing with hundreds of pebbles, you're looking at x% failing, with y% being the number that could cause severe problems. It's a game of keeping x% < y%.
The German accident was a pebble getting lodged in a feeder tube and the dislodging attempts damaged the pebbles.
As regards the containment building, there were all kinds of complaints about them being terrorist targets during the eighties which gave rise to one of my favourite bits of film; an F4 phantom at 300 knots being driven into a block with the characteristics of the containment building. The F4 is tinfoil after the impact.
The thing is that there has been no terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities because they're fairly hard targets and really difficult to 'terrorise' compared to a couple of pipebombs in a mall. The US just isn't that ready to understand that terrorism isn't flashy, it's just 1/2 pound of hi-ex wrapped in nails with a timer next to a playground.
The thing is that we need a stopgap between fusion/reliable sources and fossil fuel sources. The sooner we get into it, the better.
"but I do, however, find the concept of the larger countries effectively paying smaller countries under treaty/contract to be very objectionable; seems like an unbalanced money making scheme to me."
Boy, are you going to be surprised when you find out what the WTO actually does.
On the other hand it would make a change from bombing smaller countries, then lending them the money to use larger countries contractors to rebuild, which, if you were a reasonable person, would inflame you more. Apologies, but this is _exactly_ the kind of money-making scheme you need to bootstrap the indias, koreas and sub-saharan African nations out of being international jokes.
Outsourcing is a dumb idea because it shifts the manufacturing base out of a country that is eventually not going to be able to afford the products; the beauty of the GG credit is it's about the highest polluters subsidising the non-polluters.
Kinda like picking up your own litter.
"but if the purpose of the treaty is really to reduce global pollution then it should set the same standards across the board and not allow the third world countries to sell their unused credits."
Fine, although you might want to figure that the US is responsible for _25%_ of that pollution, and this allows for a more gradual phasing of industry rather than unsettling the stock market completely, frightening the populace with energy price hikes and causing general panic whenever someone mentions the price of crude rising more than a smidgeon past $55/barrel. The economy is important; it pays for things.
At least by evening out the gas debt to those countries that have less than one SUV per hundred of population would allow some cash to move to developing nations and would give vast incentives to _actually_ change habits at home once they discover that Ghana is investing heavily in Microsoft stocks.
It ain't perfect, but it's going to be better than trying to get the US to face up to a 25% commitment given that it's taken us the best part of fifteen years to get it to take the problem semi-seriously. And the people who make those decisions are a damn sight more likely to survive any turmoil that could arise.
"I also believe there are other good reasons not to accept it without some big changes."
And those would be?