think the reason this is news is because the Bush administration is still trying to pretend that this is not proven science... that it's just a theory that can be ignored. They want to ignore it because it's inconvenient for their business cronies, and those business cronies fund party activities and candidates' re-elections. I don't think there will be any changes on this front until this administration is out of office, no matter how much evidence is presented. It's quite unfortunate.
Just the same it was a big inconvience for Bill Clinton to do anything real about Osama Bin Laden because he was too busy getting his knob polished in the white house. It was also unfortunate that his economic policies didn't attend to the coming dot bomb bubble and threw us into a recession.
It was also a major inconvience for Kofe Annon to give up all that oil for food money he and his son were stealing to actually ENFORCE their 14 fucking resolutions against Saddam and Iraq.
Leave the fucking politics out of the discussion. Bush is ignoring the Koyoto treatie because it's stupid and designed to allow countries that produce less emissions blackmail countries that produce more for their "emission tickets."
It's the same thing with smoking bans...if the product is soo bad for people, BAN THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF TOBACCO. If CO2 is going to kill us all, then BAN COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS. BAN SUVs. But do not my friend, tell me to enter agreements no other country has the intention of meeting.
A piece of paper will not save you from the CO2 doom you so fear, nor will removing the current administration, after all, a Liberal in the whitehouse isn't going to turn off the power in the US to save a few seals for you.
The point was there are natural forces beyond our control that can create, and consume these same "harmful" emissions in the blink of an eye.
Sensational reporting aside, the jury is out on all manmade effects on climactic change.
It is however a lot easier to say "US CO2 emissions caused a heat wave and killed thousands" and get it published than to say "We have done some research and have found some ties to CO2 production and increased global and local temperatures, we can make no solid conclusions at this time but will continue studying."
Which took choice excerpts from the Nature article, without providing a link back to the source for verification and further study. The site itself screams of biased reporting and sensationalizm.
I do read the root articles, have subscriptions to Science News and Scientific American, and I have made my own conclusions. Very simply, we don't have the slightest clue as to what man has, or has not done to the global ecosystem via CO2. We can only guess based on imperfect and often (as has been reported over the years in various journals) flawed models of the earth's climate change.
Yea I'm pretty much a complete dolt when it comes to anything science related. Thats why I spend so much time reading an commenting on/. You know, to not learn anything.
The point was the whole site is a BS biased page which cherry picks articles to best suite thier needs. Did you notice for example there was no link back to the primary source in Nature? No? Maybe thats because if you read the entire story in Nature they offered a different conclusion, or better yet, no conclusion at all.
Statistics and "modeling" can be used to show that BREATHING causes cancer, but the conclusion is still false.
Wow that site is completely unbiased and the "article" contains ZERO facts. I espeically like the "How I became an Ebay Power Seller" and "Anti-Bush T-Shirts" links. Just shows you how deep and concerned this person is for life on this planet.
The best quote it has is this - "This new research - reported today (2 December) in Nature - shows how human influence, mainly fossil fuel burning, can be blamed for increasing the risk of such a heatwave"
CAN be blamed on increasing the risk..thats it folks. Move along.
If you must keep reading you'll learn that all they did was "simulate" the 2003 year using god knows what kind of broken model and came to this conclusion..
"We found that although the high temperature experienced in 2003 was not impossible in a climate unaltered by man, it is very likely that greenhouse gases have at least doubled the risk"
There you have it folks, green house gases may, or MAY NOT increase the risk of heat waves.
Meanwhile Mt. St. Helens is getting ready to produce more CO2 than the US has produced in 100 years. It is already dumping between 50 and 250 tons of Sulfer Dioxide into the air EVERY DAY. (Note a common updated coal fired power plant produces some 20ish tons a day).
Call me when the other half of the planet buys a clue.
Things like your anual mortgage payment and lender, your former street addresses/counties.
Does your doctor know mortgage lender and payment?
Certainly it's not fool proof and there will be abuses, but I think its a step in the right direction.
I was always a bit mystified that I had to pay to see something that can be used against me at any time.
If anything it should be exactly the opposite; lenders and other agencies should have to PAY to see my credit report and it should be mailed to me anually for free.
I agree, he either threw the game himself or was asked to throw it by the producers.
Another thing I found strange was the woman's bet.
She had roughly 10k going into final jepordy and only wagered $1 more than Ken's current standing. Which means she must have known that he A) was going to get the question wrong or B) wasn't going to wager enough to beat her 20k.
With a Business and Industry final catagory one has to believe she would have wagered it all.
Imagine that, only two maps. Maybe ValvE should have some kind of map making contest to help fill that void. They could offer a $5000 first prize and maybe two $3000 second prizes. That would be cool, and then you wouldn't have to complain about only two maps.
You should have purchased the silver package on steam and then played the origional Half-Life (in the source engine no less) first.
Then 90% of your complaint would be taken care of, not to mention you'd have another 30+ hours of game time for 10 bucks.
I find it humerous that you can complain about continuity without having played the first, especially since Valve has made is so easy and cheap to do so now.
I'll give you the fact that Steam IMHO sucks donkey balls. I did everything necessary to play offline and yet it still tells me I can't. Great, now I can't play on the road unless I pay 10 bucks in the hotel to get online first or dialup somewhere.
Republican, conservative president appoints a conservative judge to bench (duh) and Democrat liberals do everything in their power to oppose it including fillabuster because a conservative is just wrong. They are praised as heros for protecting our country.
Now when a Democrat liberal president appoints liberal judge to bench and Republican conservatives try to block it they are partisan stalling and hurting the nation.
You can't have it both ways.
What is one supposed to do? Always appoint a judge the other side likes, but your party doesn't?
Courts don't write law, they are there to interperet it. If you don't like the laws as they are written, or want new laws that no one is writing then vote the right people into congress.
Geeks never did go to radio shack. Geeks were always at home reading comic books fantasizing about one day meeting a woman with super powers.
NERDS on the other hand, have long been handy with a soldering iron, and any other tool on your basic electronics work bench.
I am a Nerd, I am a systems administrator, I have a fully populated electronics workbench at home though I have no formal tranining in the field. Currently I am working with PIC microcontrollers. Its a nice blend of coding, computer interfacing, and EE.
Ok, so I don't know if you are just dumb or blinded by your misplaced hatred for a very good president.
I just re-read the transcript of the town hall debate.
Here is the question: "GRABEL: President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made a wrong decision, and what you did to correct it. Thank you."
Note, the town hall style does not require each candidate to answer the question. Only the candidate asked has to answer directly. The other candidate has 1.5 minutes to either answer or rebutt what was said. Here is how Kerry started his answer: "KERRY: I believe the president made a huge mistake, a catastrophic mistake, not to live up to his own standard, which was: build a true global coalition, give the inspectors time to finish their job and go through the U.N."
Typical Iraq rehetoric from Kerry, never does he try to point out three of his own mistakes.
After another set of 30 second rebuttals from each candidate we have gibson saying "GIBSON: That's going to conclude the questioning. We're going to go now to closing statements, two minutes from each candidate."
And thus it was the end of the debate.
I was modded troll for my post (because I dissented from popular opinion) even though I was exactly correct.
Kerry was NEVER obliged to answer the question such is the format of the town hall debate, nor would he have even if Bush had laid out three answers.
It was a bull shit question. CNN, CNBC and every major news paper in this country point out what they believe to be the presidents mistakes every day. The reality is that we cannot possibly know the entire internal workings of the white house and its foreign policy. Decisions are made based on many global, unseen, and even secret circumstances.
There was no puff ball ending, you either watched a different debate, or are too stupid to properly defend your candidate.
I can't figure out why they would give into Wallmart.
Sure wallmart might currently sell 1 in 5 CDs sold. But if they drop stock because their demands are not met customers will have to go to other retailers and pay full price for the same disk.
Your going to lose some sales but in the end, walmart doesn't make the profit from the sale, and possibly loses a music customer who can't find what they want.
I disagree with you, I think Bush answered that question exactly how I would have.
It was the last question of the debate, it was loaded, and designed to allow Kerry to end the debate with an attack on Bush. Kerry isn't in office and wouldn't have to answer with three of his own mistakes, instead he used his two minutes to further trash Bush. Thats bull shit, and dirty pool if you ask me. The question itself is legit, but needed to be worded better, and honestly should have opened the debate, not closed it.
Bush did what he had to do, which was say "Ah, you almost got me on that one, but tell you what, why don't you just sit down and I'll see you next wed."
Nice sig BTW: It always makes me chuckle when I hear someone say "anyone but Bush" hatred breeds only evil.
"1GHz Transmeta processor 20GB hard drive (shock-mounted) 256MB DDR RAM Dimensions: 4.9" x 3.4" x.9" Weight: 14 ounces 800 x 480 W-VGA 5" transflective display (indoor/outdoor readable) 3D accelerated graphics with 8mb video RAM QWERTY thumb keyboard with mouse buttons and TrackStik® 802.11b wireless Bluetooth® wireless 4-pin FireWire® (1394) USB 1.1 3.5mm stereo headphone jack Microphone Digital pen Removable lithium polymer battery Battery life up to three hours, depending on usage OQO docking cable includes: 3D accelerated 1280 x 1024 VGA video output Additional USB Additional FireWire (1394) Ethernet DC power Audio out
additional features Active hard drive protection that safely parks hard drive heads upon detecting freefall Screen that slides on rack and pinion mechanism to reveal thumb keyboard Shift, control, function and alt keys that have smart-lock with LED indicators Thumbwheel allows for traditional scrolling as well as enhanced features Ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts backlight to appropriate level External antenna connector for 802.11b (in addition to built-in diversity antennas)
Now the part that stands out to me (besides the USB 1.1, I guess Firewire is the way to go) is the 3 hour battery life, depending on usage.
Ok so we've basically stepped back in time 5 years to ultra crappy laptops that don't last long enough to fly half way across the US.
I'm guessing that if you're using the wifi that battery time is probably less than 2 hours. Reminds me of the Ipaq I used to have that lasted all of an hour without plugging it in. Talk about your useless wireless POC.
Please give the poor human population on this planet a sign that will let them know the world is much more complex, and better balanced than we could ever hope to understand. Show us, in some manner, that we as humans cannot destroy our world.
Ok, I have a P4 3Ghz, ATI Radeon 9800, 3 HDD's (which do not sleep) and a 21" CRT monitor. The only power saving feature I use is putting the CRT into sleep mode after 15 minutes. Otherwise the computer and drives run full time.
My electricy bill is at times lower that $30 a month. No, I do not use the spread your payments out option.
Oh man, you've got it all figured out. I can't believe how easy it is to see now!
I mean, he couldn't possibly have assumed that as soon as the US invaded Iraq Saddam would blow up and set on fire all of his oil wells. No, he'd wouldn't dare do the very same thing he did in Kuwait in 1991. I mean, thousands of buring oil wells takes like what, a week to fix.
Yea, I can see him now...Fooled you guys, we're going in for free oil...
I'll be playing Doom3 or Painkiller during the structured news confrence often called a debate.
Nearly all of campaigning is an insult to intelligent voters who keep abreast on important issues. Both sides are full of shit, and most of us know it.
Agreeing to disagree aside one last comment/question if you would entertain it.
Wouldn't you think it possible that Iraq may have been trying to purchase nuclear materials for sale to other nations/groups?
Last I heard Tony Blair and the others that backed the original story are still backing it as truth.
Perhaps Iraq did not, or could not have a nuclear program becasue of inspections/sanctions but that would not stop them from helping other nations (Iran, Syria, Libia...etc) having hopes of trading this material for refined material later.
Its just a thought, and a rather frightening one at that.
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think the reason this is news is because the Bush administration is still trying to pretend that this is not proven science... that it's just a theory that can be ignored. They want to ignore it because it's inconvenient for their business cronies, and those business cronies fund party activities and candidates' re-elections. I don't think there will be any changes on this front until this administration is out of office, no matter how much evidence is presented. It's quite unfortunate.
Just the same it was a big inconvience for Bill Clinton to do anything real about Osama Bin Laden because he was too busy getting his knob polished in the white house. It was also unfortunate that his economic policies didn't attend to the coming dot bomb bubble and threw us into a recession.
It was also a major inconvience for Kofe Annon to give up all that oil for food money he and his son were stealing to actually ENFORCE their 14 fucking resolutions against Saddam and Iraq.
Leave the fucking politics out of the discussion. Bush is ignoring the Koyoto treatie because it's stupid and designed to allow countries that produce less emissions blackmail countries that produce more for their "emission tickets."
It's the same thing with smoking bans...if the product is soo bad for people, BAN THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF TOBACCO. If CO2 is going to kill us all, then BAN COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS. BAN SUVs. But do not my friend, tell me to enter agreements no other country has the intention of meeting.
A piece of paper will not save you from the CO2 doom you so fear, nor will removing the current administration, after all, a Liberal in the whitehouse isn't going to turn off the power in the US to save a few seals for you.
Get a fucking clue.
Renoylds called, they thank you for your support.
The point was there are natural forces beyond our control that can create, and consume these same "harmful" emissions in the blink of an eye.
Sensational reporting aside, the jury is out on all manmade effects on climactic change.
It is however a lot easier to say "US CO2 emissions caused a heat wave and killed thousands" and get it published than to say "We have done some research and have found some ties to CO2 production and increased global and local temperatures, we can make no solid conclusions at this time but will continue studying."
No, I'm commenting on the site linked to by /.
Which took choice excerpts from the Nature article, without providing a link back to the source for verification and further study. The site itself screams of biased reporting and sensationalizm.
I do read the root articles, have subscriptions to Science News and Scientific American, and I have made my own conclusions. Very simply, we don't have the slightest clue as to what man has, or has not done to the global ecosystem via CO2. We can only guess based on imperfect and often (as has been reported over the years in various journals) flawed models of the earth's climate change.
Yea I'm pretty much a complete dolt when it comes to anything science related. Thats why I spend so much time reading an commenting on /. You know, to not learn anything.
The point was the whole site is a BS biased page which cherry picks articles to best suite thier needs. Did you notice for example there was no link back to the primary source in Nature? No? Maybe thats because if you read the entire story in Nature they offered a different conclusion, or better yet, no conclusion at all.
Statistics and "modeling" can be used to show that BREATHING causes cancer, but the conclusion is still false.
Wow that site is completely unbiased and the "article" contains ZERO facts. I espeically like the "How I became an Ebay Power Seller" and "Anti-Bush T-Shirts" links. Just shows you how deep and concerned this person is for life on this planet.
The best quote it has is this - "This new research - reported today (2 December) in Nature - shows how human influence, mainly fossil fuel burning, can be blamed for increasing the risk of such a heatwave"
CAN be blamed on increasing the risk..thats it folks. Move along.
If you must keep reading you'll learn that all they did was "simulate" the 2003 year using god knows what kind of broken model and came to this conclusion..
"We found that although the high temperature experienced in 2003 was not impossible in a climate unaltered by man, it is very likely that greenhouse gases have at least doubled the risk"
There you have it folks, green house gases may, or MAY NOT increase the risk of heat waves.
Meanwhile Mt. St. Helens is getting ready to produce more CO2 than the US has produced in 100 years. It is already dumping between 50 and 250 tons of Sulfer Dioxide into the air EVERY DAY. (Note a common updated coal fired power plant produces some 20ish tons a day).
Call me when the other half of the planet buys a clue.
Things like your anual mortgage payment and lender, your former street addresses/counties.
Does your doctor know mortgage lender and payment?
Certainly it's not fool proof and there will be abuses, but I think its a step in the right direction.
I was always a bit mystified that I had to pay to see something that can be used against me at any time.
If anything it should be exactly the opposite; lenders and other agencies should have to PAY to see my credit report and it should be mailed to me anually for free.
I agree, he either threw the game himself or was asked to throw it by the producers.
Another thing I found strange was the woman's bet.
She had roughly 10k going into final jepordy and only wagered $1 more than Ken's current standing. Which means she must have known that he A) was going to get the question wrong or B) wasn't going to wager enough to beat her 20k.
With a Business and Industry final catagory one has to believe she would have wagered it all.
For the record, I liked Ken.
Imagine that, only two maps. Maybe ValvE should have some kind of map making contest to help fill that void. They could offer a $5000 first prize and maybe two $3000 second prizes. That would be cool, and then you wouldn't have to complain about only two maps.
I wish there was a moron filter on the interlink.
You should have purchased the silver package on steam and then played the origional Half-Life (in the source engine no less) first.
Then 90% of your complaint would be taken care of, not to mention you'd have another 30+ hours of game time for 10 bucks.
I find it humerous that you can complain about continuity without having played the first, especially since Valve has made is so easy and cheap to do so now.
I'll give you the fact that Steam IMHO sucks donkey balls. I did everything necessary to play offline and yet it still tells me I can't. Great, now I can't play on the road unless I pay 10 bucks in the hotel to get online first or dialup somewhere.
I purchased mine 9am CST USA and installed it a short while later. Took a good 20 minutes for it to unlock but is now 100% offline playable.
Note: Retail copies require the CD in the drive to play. Boo.
What happens if your side is the wrong one?
Some one explain this to me:
Republican, conservative president appoints a conservative judge to bench (duh) and Democrat liberals do everything in their power to oppose it including fillabuster because a conservative is just wrong. They are praised as heros for protecting our country.
Now when a Democrat liberal president appoints liberal judge to bench and Republican conservatives try to block it they are partisan stalling and hurting the nation.
You can't have it both ways.
What is one supposed to do? Always appoint a judge the other side likes, but your party doesn't?
Courts don't write law, they are there to interperet it. If you don't like the laws as they are written, or want new laws that no one is writing then vote the right people into congress.
This blocking of judges seems rather silly.
I thought USB type keys were limited to 100k writes before failure. How many times or how long can you use this device before wearing out the key?
Geeks never did go to radio shack. Geeks were always at home reading comic books fantasizing about one day meeting a woman with super powers.
NERDS on the other hand, have long been handy with a soldering iron, and any other tool on your basic electronics work bench.
I am a Nerd, I am a systems administrator, I have a fully populated electronics workbench at home though I have no formal tranining in the field. Currently I am working with PIC microcontrollers. Its a nice blend of coding, computer interfacing, and EE.
Ok, so I don't know if you are just dumb or blinded by your misplaced hatred for a very good president.
I just re-read the transcript of the town hall debate.
Here is the question: "GRABEL: President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made a wrong decision, and what you did to correct it. Thank you."
Note, the town hall style does not require each candidate to answer the question. Only the candidate asked has to answer directly. The other candidate has 1.5 minutes to either answer or rebutt what was said. Here is how Kerry started his answer: "KERRY: I believe the president made a huge mistake, a catastrophic mistake, not to live up to his own standard, which was: build a true global coalition, give the inspectors time to finish their job and go through the U.N."
Typical Iraq rehetoric from Kerry, never does he try to point out three of his own mistakes.
After another set of 30 second rebuttals from each candidate we have gibson saying "GIBSON: That's going to conclude the questioning. We're going to go now to closing statements, two minutes from each candidate."
And thus it was the end of the debate.
I was modded troll for my post (because I dissented from popular opinion) even though I was exactly correct.
Kerry was NEVER obliged to answer the question such is the format of the town hall debate, nor would he have even if Bush had laid out three answers.
It was a bull shit question. CNN, CNBC and every major news paper in this country point out what they believe to be the presidents mistakes every day. The reality is that we cannot possibly know the entire internal workings of the white house and its foreign policy. Decisions are made based on many global, unseen, and even secret circumstances.
There was no puff ball ending, you either watched a different debate, or are too stupid to properly defend your candidate.
I can't figure out why they would give into Wallmart.
Sure wallmart might currently sell 1 in 5 CDs sold. But if they drop stock because their demands are not met customers will have to go to other retailers and pay full price for the same disk.
Your going to lose some sales but in the end, walmart doesn't make the profit from the sale, and possibly loses a music customer who can't find what they want.
I disagree with you, I think Bush answered that question exactly how I would have.
It was the last question of the debate, it was loaded, and designed to allow Kerry to end the debate with an attack on Bush. Kerry isn't in office and wouldn't have to answer with three of his own mistakes, instead he used his two minutes to further trash Bush. Thats bull shit, and dirty pool if you ask me. The question itself is legit, but needed to be worded better, and honestly should have opened the debate, not closed it.
Bush did what he had to do, which was say "Ah, you almost got me on that one, but tell you what, why don't you just sit down and I'll see you next wed."
Nice sig BTW: It always makes me chuckle when I hear someone say "anyone but Bush" hatred breeds only evil.
Ok here are the specks from the oqo.com site.
.9"
"1GHz Transmeta processor
20GB hard drive (shock-mounted)
256MB DDR RAM
Dimensions: 4.9" x 3.4" x
Weight: 14 ounces
800 x 480 W-VGA 5" transflective display (indoor/outdoor readable)
3D accelerated graphics with 8mb video RAM
QWERTY thumb keyboard with mouse buttons and TrackStik®
802.11b wireless
Bluetooth® wireless
4-pin FireWire® (1394)
USB 1.1
3.5mm stereo headphone jack
Microphone
Digital pen
Removable lithium polymer battery
Battery life up to three hours, depending on usage
OQO docking cable includes:
3D accelerated 1280 x 1024 VGA video output
Additional USB
Additional FireWire (1394)
Ethernet
DC power
Audio out
additional features
Active hard drive protection that safely parks hard drive heads upon detecting freefall
Screen that slides on rack and pinion mechanism to reveal thumb keyboard
Shift, control, function and alt keys that have smart-lock with LED indicators
Thumbwheel allows for traditional scrolling as well as enhanced features
Ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts backlight to appropriate level
External antenna connector for 802.11b (in addition to built-in diversity antennas)
Now the part that stands out to me (besides the USB 1.1, I guess Firewire is the way to go) is the 3 hour battery life, depending on usage.
Ok so we've basically stepped back in time 5 years to ultra crappy laptops that don't last long enough to fly half way across the US.
I'm guessing that if you're using the wifi that battery time is probably less than 2 hours. Reminds me of the Ipaq I used to have that lasted all of an hour without plugging it in. Talk about your useless wireless POC.
Please give the poor human population on this planet a sign that will let them know the world is much more complex, and better balanced than we could ever hope to understand. Show us, in some manner, that we as humans cannot destroy our world.
God: Cue Mount St.Helens eruption.
Fools.
Unless you live in a tight nit community in Warroad, MN where snowfall and winter temperatures prevent riding a bike 9 months out of the year.
Lets not forget grocery shopping, kids, and any other number of times you need more than a bike.
Good idea though.
Ok, I have a P4 3Ghz, ATI Radeon 9800, 3 HDD's (which do not sleep) and a 21" CRT monitor. The only power saving feature I use is putting the CRT into sleep mode after 15 minutes. Otherwise the computer and drives run full time.
My electricy bill is at times lower that $30 a month. No, I do not use the spread your payments out option.
Oh man, you've got it all figured out. I can't believe how easy it is to see now!
I mean, he couldn't possibly have assumed that as soon as the US invaded Iraq Saddam would blow up and set on fire all of his oil wells. No, he'd wouldn't dare do the very same thing he did in Kuwait in 1991. I mean, thousands of buring oil wells takes like what, a week to fix.
Yea, I can see him now...Fooled you guys, we're going in for free oil...
Take the blinders off, liberal idiot.
I'll be playing Doom3 or Painkiller during the structured news confrence often called a debate.
Nearly all of campaigning is an insult to intelligent voters who keep abreast on important issues. Both sides are full of shit, and most of us know it.
Agreeing to disagree aside one last comment/question if you would entertain it.
Wouldn't you think it possible that Iraq may have been trying to purchase nuclear materials for sale to other nations/groups?
Last I heard Tony Blair and the others that backed the original story are still backing it as truth.
Perhaps Iraq did not, or could not have a nuclear program becasue of inspections/sanctions but that would not stop them from helping other nations (Iran, Syria, Libia...etc) having hopes of trading this material for refined material later.
Its just a thought, and a rather frightening one at that.