"this project is mostly made possible by an American company with solid venture fundings"
god i'm sick of this bullshit. seriously, stop trying to blame the white man for EVERYTHING. this whole scheme is made possible by communist control freaks in china. they would make this happen with or without this company.
i mean come on, now it's america's fault when china does fucked up things? i'm not even american and even i'm sick of the retarded american bashing.
that fact that we evolved in the first place is plenty enough proof. it's not much of a jump to see chimps evolving into a humanoid species given another million years and the conditions.
" Is it ok to be an alarmist? To announce doomsday news? To scare everyone?"
frankly, no, it's not ok. not when your talking about making far reaching economic fuckups that will hurt people who can least afford it. not when there's still HUGE holes in the hypothesis that man made c02 is warming the planet.
you people KEEP talking about science, yet you apply very little to you model of global climate. fuck, you can't even fix a y2k bug in your model software and you expect us to listen to you?
what you mean like the climate change paper put out by the UN, claiming it was compiled by over 2000 leading scientists? the one which dozens of scientists have since requested their names be removed from, the one which many of those 2000 scientists are actually just slobs who proof read the paper?
you'd be very hard pressed to fine untainted research on global climate. how about YOU go out and provide us a link if it's so easy?
"if you'd bothered to follow the news, happen to search for new data for verifying the models"
ahem, didn't we just go through this today, with proof that the current accepted models had a y2k bug, and that 1998 AREN't the hottest years on record, but the 1930's are? i suggest you stop talking about models right now good sir.
bullshit. ctrl-alt-del, end task. done. this is nothing more then a window spawned by JS at full screen, with one clever trick to get around script blockers. this is a total none event. it's the Y2K of JS hacks.
.. I can tell not many people here have ever written a capital expenditure proposal or any other proposal for that matter.
When your talking to managment you need to talk in terms of VALUE. what value does switching to OSS give the business? what are the risks involved? what are the alternatives? these are all the questions running through managments mind. i can easily put forward the value of OSS, in it's low up front cost, but it has a substantial risk of long term costs. the alternative of MS software presents an up front cost, but that might not out weigh the risk given it's a much less risky option.
HAHA are you honestly trying to compare the life span of an MS product to open source projects? they supported win98 for 8 years, win2k for 7 years.... compared to what, 12 months tops for most OSS projects? don't even go there sunshine you will get eaten alive, MS do get somethings right you know, and the life span of their products is one of them.
As shown in the past, it's often the very very simple hacks like finding an unprotected machine and installing sub7 on it that brings down the giants. A high level of technical experience is NOT a prereq. for a serious hack
the BMI standard has been shown time and time again to be a flawed system. vitals such as blood pressure, liver function and body fat are far better measures of a persons health.
We take their freedom and force women to be house wives, they screech, we give them freedom to work anywhere they like and when women exercise that right and pick their fields, they screech. why the fuck does this ALWAYS need to be the white mans fault somehow? maybe women just don't like IT?? did these geniuses ever think of that? From experience i've found there's just as many women in HOBBY groups as at work (in IT) meaning it's all about womens choice and interest in IT.
how about the people who write these crap about "needing" more women in IT shut the fuck up and just let people make their own choices. Women have all the protection and all the oppertunity they need to become very successful in IT, all they need to supply is the effort and talent.
This sounds like yet another nonsense variation of the brown note myth. absolute rubbish. makes me wish i knew some senators i could sell some snake oil to and get me a slice of defence budget pie.
i cook - a lot. and i program a lot. in fact i grow my own herbs and brew my own beers, purely for taste. as far as most herbs go fresh (real fresh, not 2 week old supermarket "fresh") is the best.
There very good reasons that home made always tastes better then anything manufactured in a lab, and it's nothing to do with love or "vibe" or any of that hippy crap.
one reason, is that at home we have the ability to adapt to variations in the raw product, which you will get no matter how hard you try to control in a lab.
the other, is that the taste and smell receptors in our mouth are many factors more sensitive then lab equipment, meaning cooking "till it's done" is just a laymans way of saying a good cooks sense of smell is a much better indication of when food is ready then any lab insturment.
so while the IDEA that food can be scientifically expressed is correct, we are a LONG way from being able compete with those old nanna's down the road who make that awesome apple pie.
you just confusing the issue, criminals don't go into an "arms race" the sheer notion is flawed. their too stupid and not well funded enough. I can tell you right now criminals love gun control, because it lowers the bar for them. they all still go in armed, without any fear of anyone fighting back. you do realise you confirm this point for us in your last sentence, by admitting there's a lot of gun injuries in the USA - it's criminals who are causing the injuries, not honest people carrying for protection.
Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't the GPL stipulate that you only need to give away source code when you MODIFY the original, there by copying left? merely distributing the original unmodified achieves nothing.
your quoting wikipedia which loses you most of your credibility right away on this issue, but then you proceed to cite wiki's source as a link to an amazon book sale? how the hell does that prove anything, do you expect me to buy the fucking book to double check?
while it is correct that C02 does enhance the greenhouse effect, a point i didn't dispute, "to a great degree" is up for debate. compared to water vapour? compared to the SUN?
and your kidding me, do you really need a source for air masses of different temp. driving weather conditions? christ, watch the god damn news tonight and the weather man will explain it for you as he talks about cold fronts moving in and causing rain.
this is high school science we are talking about, and you people can't even get THAT right yet you want to make far reaching economic policy based on these ideas?
geothermal activity means a much higher potential of earth quakes, a power plant is a hugely complex and dangerous environment - not a great place to put one. as i said, there are limited places where it can be done, but really it's not a solution to our power needs. It could service a local area very well though. but replacing all nuclear reactors with it is just rubbish.
"every ton of CO2 released into the atmoshere has a devastating effect on our lives"
OH PLEASE!!!! I can't stand the stupid greenhouse gas man made global warming rubbish being forced down my throat any longer!
C02 is a very minor greenhouse gas, with there being no substantial evidence out there that c02 drives climate change.
Here's a little science for you - the severity of our weather is determined by the tempature difference between 2 air masses, if the poles melt and the avgerage temperature increases it actually results in MORE calm weather (not necessarily a good thing for everyone as it might mean less rain for many places), the cult of global warming seems to completely skip this simple fact and blame every storm on global warming.
all these increased c02 graphs they are throwing out there, they all ignore the fact that the c02 increases happen AFTER the fucking warming, the reason being that it takes decades to warm the oceans, which are THE significant source of C02 on the planet.
This whole C02 causes the greenhouse effect is misconstrude nonsense taken from the 1970's fever of GLOBAL COOLING, in which one professor (his name escapes me) put forward that we could combat this global warming with C02, which which he was laughed at.
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god i'm sick of this bullshit. seriously, stop trying to blame the white man for EVERYTHING. this whole scheme is made possible by communist control freaks in china. they would make this happen with or without this company.
i mean come on, now it's america's fault when china does fucked up things? i'm not even american and even i'm sick of the retarded american bashing.
that fact that we evolved in the first place is plenty enough proof. it's not much of a jump to see chimps evolving into a humanoid species given another million years and the conditions.
QuantumG makes another retarded comment then runs. Not News.
Is that you RMS? still pissed off some student stole your thunder?
frankly, no, it's not ok. not when your talking about making far reaching economic fuckups that will hurt people who can least afford it. not when there's still HUGE holes in the hypothesis that man made c02 is warming the planet.
you people KEEP talking about science, yet you apply very little to you model of global climate. fuck, you can't even fix a y2k bug in your model software and you expect us to listen to you?
i'm yet to see a single intelligent response to any of the points made in that video. i suspect you will be more of the same.
you'd be very hard pressed to fine untainted research on global climate. how about YOU go out and provide us a link if it's so easy?
ahem, didn't we just go through this today, with proof that the current accepted models had a y2k bug, and that 1998 AREN't the hottest years on record, but the 1930's are? i suggest you stop talking about models right now good sir.
I guess global warming really was the non event, and Y2K did strike!
bullshit. ctrl-alt-del, end task. done. this is nothing more then a window spawned by JS at full screen, with one clever trick to get around script blockers. this is a total none event. it's the Y2K of JS hacks.
When your talking to managment you need to talk in terms of VALUE. what value does switching to OSS give the business? what are the risks involved? what are the alternatives? these are all the questions running through managments mind. i can easily put forward the value of OSS, in it's low up front cost, but it has a substantial risk of long term costs. the alternative of MS software presents an up front cost, but that might not out weigh the risk given it's a much less risky option.
HAHA are you honestly trying to compare the life span of an MS product to open source projects? they supported win98 for 8 years, win2k for 7 years.... compared to what, 12 months tops for most OSS projects? don't even go there sunshine you will get eaten alive, MS do get somethings right you know, and the life span of their products is one of them.
so fucking what? it doesn't change the position it would leave the company in.
As shown in the past, it's often the very very simple hacks like finding an unprotected machine and installing sub7 on it that brings down the giants. A high level of technical experience is NOT a prereq. for a serious hack
the BMI standard has been shown time and time again to be a flawed system. vitals such as blood pressure, liver function and body fat are far better measures of a persons health.
huh, so our saying it's all bullshit to!
how about the people who write these crap about "needing" more women in IT shut the fuck up and just let people make their own choices. Women have all the protection and all the oppertunity they need to become very successful in IT, all they need to supply is the effort and talent.
This sounds like yet another nonsense variation of the brown note myth. absolute rubbish. makes me wish i knew some senators i could sell some snake oil to and get me a slice of defence budget pie.
i cook - a lot. and i program a lot. in fact i grow my own herbs and brew my own beers, purely for taste. as far as most herbs go fresh (real fresh, not 2 week old supermarket "fresh") is the best.
one reason, is that at home we have the ability to adapt to variations in the raw product, which you will get no matter how hard you try to control in a lab.
the other, is that the taste and smell receptors in our mouth are many factors more sensitive then lab equipment, meaning cooking "till it's done" is just a laymans way of saying a good cooks sense of smell is a much better indication of when food is ready then any lab insturment.
so while the IDEA that food can be scientifically expressed is correct, we are a LONG way from being able compete with those old nanna's down the road who make that awesome apple pie.
you just confusing the issue, criminals don't go into an "arms race" the sheer notion is flawed. their too stupid and not well funded enough. I can tell you right now criminals love gun control, because it lowers the bar for them. they all still go in armed, without any fear of anyone fighting back. you do realise you confirm this point for us in your last sentence, by admitting there's a lot of gun injuries in the USA - it's criminals who are causing the injuries, not honest people carrying for protection.
Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't the GPL stipulate that you only need to give away source code when you MODIFY the original, there by copying left? merely distributing the original unmodified achieves nothing.
while it is correct that C02 does enhance the greenhouse effect, a point i didn't dispute, "to a great degree" is up for debate. compared to water vapour? compared to the SUN?
and your kidding me, do you really need a source for air masses of different temp. driving weather conditions? christ, watch the god damn news tonight and the weather man will explain it for you as he talks about cold fronts moving in and causing rain.
this is high school science we are talking about, and you people can't even get THAT right yet you want to make far reaching economic policy based on these ideas?
geothermal activity means a much higher potential of earth quakes, a power plant is a hugely complex and dangerous environment - not a great place to put one. as i said, there are limited places where it can be done, but really it's not a solution to our power needs. It could service a local area very well though. but replacing all nuclear reactors with it is just rubbish.
OH PLEASE!!!! I can't stand the stupid greenhouse gas man made global warming rubbish being forced down my throat any longer!
C02 is a very minor greenhouse gas, with there being no substantial evidence out there that c02 drives climate change.
Here's a little science for you - the severity of our weather is determined by the tempature difference between 2 air masses, if the poles melt and the avgerage temperature increases it actually results in MORE calm weather (not necessarily a good thing for everyone as it might mean less rain for many places), the cult of global warming seems to completely skip this simple fact and blame every storm on global warming.
all these increased c02 graphs they are throwing out there, they all ignore the fact that the c02 increases happen AFTER the fucking warming, the reason being that it takes decades to warm the oceans, which are THE significant source of C02 on the planet.
This whole C02 causes the greenhouse effect is misconstrude nonsense taken from the 1970's fever of GLOBAL COOLING, in which one professor (his name escapes me) put forward that we could combat this global warming with C02, which which he was laughed at.