I am sick to death of the amount of advertisements in my daily life as it is. There is no way that I would support something that would increase them. For that matter, I take steps to try and REDUCE them. If I'm interested in something or have a need for a product I just look it up online anyway.
Tivo -- I NEVER watch live TV anymore. Better to let it "get ahead" of real time so that I can skip through the ads.
FireFox -- with the AdBlocker extension and to cut down on popups.
Climatology is based on long term models which use the best data we have now
That's pretty much my point right there. For both climatology and meterology, I don't think we have enough data points to make consistently accurate and dependable projections. We need more data. The weather can be foracasted a couple of days in advance with semi-reasonable accuracy. Even then, though, they are not always correct. Like this past weekend it was supposed to rain. Did it? Nope, just cloudy all weekend. I long for the day when, like in Back to the Future II, they could predict down to the second how long the rain would last.
As for predicting when a storm is going to hit certain areas at specific times that's easy enough to do....Speed/Time.
You do realize that CO2 and the hole in the ozone layer are two unrelated things, right?
Yes, but when sheeple start spouting off that "The World Is Going To End Any Day Now(tm)" all because of Global Warming(tm), I felt obliged to point out this article I read last week. I have a hard time believing all of these "experts" especially when they can't even accurately predict tomorrows weather....or heck even if it's going to rain latter tonight.
The hole in the ozone layer has actually SHRUNK 20% from last year. More evidence that the scientist do no fully understand the ecosystem enough to make alarmist predictions.
Do I detect someone who is a wee little bit technophobic?
If one of those kids you talked about wanted to cause trouble, all they would have to do is drop rocks from a freeway overpass or throw a homemade spike strip on the road.
Same effect except this ones a WHOLE lot easier to do than make a herf gun.
Even though this article from the Baen Free Library is about books it applies equally well to file sharing.
Check out the entire article at
Baen Free Library
"And, just as important -- perhaps most important of all -- free books are the way an
audience is built in the first place. How many people who are low on cash and for that reason
depend on libraries or personal loans later rise on the economic ladder and then buy books
by the very authors they came to love when they were borrowing books?
Practically every reader, that's who. Most readers of science fiction and fantasy develop
that interest as teenagers, mainly from libraries. That was certainly true of me. As a
teenager, I couldn't afford to buy the dozen or so Robert Heinlein novels I read in libraries.
Nor could I afford the six-volume Lensmen series by "Doc" Smith. Nor could I afford any of
the authors I became familiar with in those days: Arthur Clarke, James H. Schmitz, you name
it.
Did they "lose sales?" In the long run, not hardly. Because in the decades which
followed, I bought all of their books -- and usually, in fact, bought them over and over again
to replace old copies which had gotten too worn and frayed. I just bought another copy of
Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters, in fact, because the one I had was getting too long in
the tooth. I think that's the third copy of that novel I've purchased, over the course of my
life. I'm not sure. Might be the fourth. I first read that book when I was fourteen years old --
forty years ago, now -- checked out from my high school library."
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I am sick to death of the amount of advertisements in my daily life as it is. There is no way that I would support something that would increase them. For that matter, I take steps to try and REDUCE them. If I'm interested in something or have a need for a product I just look it up online anyway. Tivo -- I NEVER watch live TV anymore. Better to let it "get ahead" of real time so that I can skip through the ads. FireFox -- with the AdBlocker extension and to cut down on popups.
Climatology is based on long term models which use the best data we have now
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That's pretty much my point right there. For both climatology and meterology, I don't think we have enough data points to make consistently accurate and dependable projections. We need more data. The weather can be foracasted a couple of days in advance with semi-reasonable accuracy. Even then, though, they are not always correct. Like this past weekend it was supposed to rain. Did it? Nope, just cloudy all weekend. I long for the day when, like in Back to the Future II, they could predict down to the second how long the rain would last.
As for predicting when a storm is going to hit certain areas at specific times that's easy enough to do....Speed/Time.
The hole in the ozone layer has actually SHRUNK 20% from last year. More evidence that the scientist do no fully understand the ecosystem enough to make alarmist predictions.
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The proof: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=114733200
Look. It all very very simple.
I own the vehicle.
I do not want the EDR.
I should be allowed to remove/disable it.
End of Story.
Do I detect someone who is a wee little bit technophobic? If one of those kids you talked about wanted to cause trouble, all they would have to do is drop rocks from a freeway overpass or throw a homemade spike strip on the road. Same effect except this ones a WHOLE lot easier to do than make a herf gun.
LOL! My sentiments exactly!