"You really think the Earth is too complicated to know "anything" about."
No, I think that YOU think its a lot simpler than it is.
"You are like the Republicans in the Senate who just say "You're doing it wrong" while refusing to say "This is how you should be doing it"
Huh?
I would be happy to have a debate with you on the issue of Global Warming. But I will not waste my time unless you are willing to find a position you believe in.
Not a problem, whether or not you choose to believe I have a valid position is up to you; but picking and choosing the rules of the debate to fit YOUR agenda is disingenuous and a typical tactic I see from your type.
"You claim the earth is not getting hotter? Prove it."
No, your camp is making a claim; that the earth is going through a global warming trend; the burden of proof is on you. 100 years of data is not sufficient, it simply isn't, isn't. Unless you want to make some kind of claim about human activity causing the last ice age of 10K or so years ago. THEN we have some data to work with.
I don't care if you want to buy into this religion of global warming, I really don't. But when you start messing with me or my friend or family saying we all need to pay more taxes to fix what has yet to be a proven problem; then we'll tangle.
Not so fast. [from the article] 97 percent of -which- scientists? All scientists in exsistence? You're not going to tell me this guy polled ALL climatologists in the world for this data. He picked and chose who he asked. Come on... polls are not hard science. You and your buddies are still hoping for an outcome YOU desire; that we're all doomed unless everyone the world over drinks the cool aid YOU prescribe.
"By turning down the prize he brings wide attention to the issue, which could actually change the situation."
What issue? What situation?Don't get me wrong, I mean, if the guy doesn't want the money he doesn't have to take it. But I'm seeing a bunch of hand wringing here about a nothing issue, in my opinion. If the guy doesn't want to be bothered, if he wants to be a nutty recluse and be left alone to work out more math problems and what not, great. But if he's turning down the money to make some kind of political point wouldn't it have been better to take the money then turn around and set up a fund to combat prize-giving, or whatever his beef is?
"So, uh, if you won't actually read the evidence, how can any possible amount of evidence convince you?"
Don't be surprised when you act like a fervent fanatic that people take your claims with a grain of salt, no matter how immanent or obvious the evidence may be. That fact is that you are making claims about a very dynamic system; one that is way too complex to know anything about one way or the other. For every scientist you can produce who makes this claim I'm sure I can produce one who advises maybe we should take a longer look at the "evidence", study in this particular discipline that has occurred for only the last 20 years, AT MOST.
To claim the earth is 1) getting hotter and 2) because of any particular reason, is brazen and smacks of agenda. Here's a clue; you're not the first person (organization?) to make a dire prediction regarding the earth. People have been making this very claim, with varying causes, for thousands of years. Forgive us if your sense of urgency doesn't appear to be shared by the rest of us.
...who gives a mad f*ck what he has to say about anything? Let him say whatever he wants. He has the same right to say whatever he wants about anything, just like everyone else in the country. Why in the world should it cause such a ruckus? My reaction to his comments were "Ok Grandad, go back to bed now..." I'm just kind of wondering why any one really cares about anything he has to say about technology or current trends or video games. The man obviously pines for the days when people went to the "theater" to view a "cinema" and then he can go write about it in his "news paper column" and then enjoy drinks at the writer's lounge of the Sun Times. These new-fangled gizmos and internets and what not simply aren't for him.
"Good luck getting the average person to know the difference between all of the cables with the same connectors."
No, I don't think that's the architecture being described. It appears to me, if I read this http://www.hdbaset.org/files/HDBaseT_Comparison_Table_Nereus.pdfchart correctly we'll be plugging everything in to one port in the media device (tv). We'll be getting our ac, ethernet, and video sigs from one cable. Kind makes me wonder what the amperage rating for 10baseT copper is...
Yeah, this really isn't anything new or newsworthy; that some Russian web site is charging $50 to give you already existing tools in a nice package; now that's news!
As the other commentator said, liberals don't have a lock on consistency either. This deal about Arizona, however? Your way off the mark. The national border is the Fed's JOB. Coming off and claiming its some kind of conservative inconstancy in policy is DISINGENUOUS. That's a BS point.
"You're already letting Fox win by letting them get away with far more truth bending and even outright lies that the "liberal media" could ever get away, and then calling it a wash."
I watch the news as I get ready for work in the morning. I generally flip around to avoid the commercials and when my bias meter goes haywire, generally. One month, on a lark, I decided to leave the channel alone and count the bias as I saw it, attempting to be as neutral as possible. This was during the last prez election, wherein Obama won. The worst offender, in my opinion, was MSNBC, BY FAR. It was no wash, not even close. Aside from some outright lies (I counted three in one week during the week I monitored MSNBC), I noted numerous plainly inaccurate stories and a number snide comments about Bush that were completely missing from Fox with regard to Obama. Not one snide opinion piece, and perhaps 2 inaccurate news pieces, which were followed up with corrections the next week. Not one mention of inaccurate reporting from MSNBC for that week. From as unbiased an experiment as I could muster I found Fox far more honest and up front than MCNBC. Second runner up was CNN. Your comments about Fox just don't hold up in my experience. Oh, if we include radio, NPR was by far much more prodigious with snide comments about the previous administration, in a number of radio shows. Some are indeed comedic, but several comments came from shows that are ostensibly about world news. The BBC also ran closely behind, but being a foreign (to me) service, I paid less attention to it.
"Only if you're fond of false equivalencies, or an Obama fanboy. Of which there definitely are some on Dkos..."
Some? Get real. The agenda on DKos is Liberalism, pure and simple. Its says so right on the front page. If you want a politically left view point, then DKos is for you. If want a right, then its Limbaugh. If you want pure news with out a slant... well, I guess you're SOL.
Whatever you think, I agree with the Pr0n vendors; flash is ancient technology, and as long as you have to wear special gear to view 3D, it ain't ready yet.
Their insistence on supporting IE 6.0 is odd considering Microsoft itself is winding down support for it. I know I've heard/read anecdotal evidence that a lot of users are still using it; to that I say 1) They need to move on, & 2) I personally don't know anyone still using it. If you buy a new system your getting Windows 7 (whether you want it or not), and I'm not even sure how you'd begin to back grade IE; so the majority of those users must not have installed or updated their Windows installs in... 5-6 years?
I think one of the funniest thoughts I've been able to cull from the whole deal is the mental picture I've formed of the record label execs and the toasts they're having right now to celebrate this; as if they've somehow driven the final nail in the coffin of file sharing.
"...the sneering arrogant IT guys, the mailing lists full of flaming personal attacks leveled by closet bullies empowered by semi-anonymity, the phallic-compensating gadget consumerists, constantly "helpful" types who manage to insult while trying to rescue, and the sexually inept who use pinup wallpaper and leer at any woman in eyeshot."
I've rarely worked in such a place. I've worked in small pre-ipos and world-scale organizations and in my experience the percentage of places with these kinds of conditions were quite low. I can think of ONE place that was like that and I left to work somewhere else after figuring it out. The rest of the time I've worked with only professionally-acting people, more or less. IT people who acted like you are describing have been pretty rare, and when I did encounter them they were quite young, and I was able to dismiss them or otherwise ignore them. I find it amazing that a place that employed such people as a rule would be successful enough to b e successful.
I think if your willing to bum-rush me with a child or a woman with a bomb strapped to their back you can probably kill me. I also think that if your sick enough to say that some one who has done these things in the name of God is beyond any kind of redemption. I hope that eventually the world will decide radical islam is a rabid dog to be put down. Finally, I will say that if you live by the sword be prepared to die by it. You'll never sleep, you'll never be satisfied, you'll never know peace. You claim the same of Americans, but let me tell you, I sleep well at night. Muslims the ones who are always gnashing their teeth and cursing Jews and preparing for war. That's not much of a life in my opinion. Let me ask you something; Say radical Islam is successful in wiping out all Jews, and the Americans are beaten back to the new world and not any threat. Will Islam finally rest? Honestly, my guess is no. There's still the schism between Sunni & Shi'a, and those pesky Sufis always preaching peace... its like a never ending laundry list of violence. Screw Islam, I'm sick of hearing about that nonsense.
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I did. My response stands. A flip comment is meaningless.
"You really think the Earth is too complicated to know "anything" about."
No, I think that YOU think its a lot simpler than it is.
"You are like the Republicans in the Senate who just say "You're doing it wrong" while refusing to say "This is how you should be doing it"
Huh?
I would be happy to have a debate with you on the issue of Global Warming. But I will not waste my time unless you are willing to find a position you believe in.
Not a problem, whether or not you choose to believe I have a valid position is up to you; but picking and choosing the rules of the debate to fit YOUR agenda is disingenuous and a typical tactic I see from your type.
"You claim the earth is not getting hotter? Prove it."
No, your camp is making a claim; that the earth is going through a global warming trend; the burden of proof is on you. 100 years of data is not sufficient, it simply isn't, isn't. Unless you want to make some kind of claim about human activity causing the last ice age of 10K or so years ago. THEN we have some data to work with. I don't care if you want to buy into this religion of global warming, I really don't. But when you start messing with me or my friend or family saying we all need to pay more taxes to fix what has yet to be a proven problem; then we'll tangle.
Not so fast. [from the article] 97 percent of -which- scientists? All scientists in exsistence? You're not going to tell me this guy polled ALL climatologists in the world for this data. He picked and chose who he asked. Come on... polls are not hard science. You and your buddies are still hoping for an outcome YOU desire; that we're all doomed unless everyone the world over drinks the cool aid YOU prescribe.
"By turning down the prize he brings wide attention to the issue, which could actually change the situation."
What issue? What situation?Don't get me wrong, I mean, if the guy doesn't want the money he doesn't have to take it. But I'm seeing a bunch of hand wringing here about a nothing issue, in my opinion. If the guy doesn't want to be bothered, if he wants to be a nutty recluse and be left alone to work out more math problems and what not, great. But if he's turning down the money to make some kind of political point wouldn't it have been better to take the money then turn around and set up a fund to combat prize-giving, or whatever his beef is?
"So, uh, if you won't actually read the evidence, how can any possible amount of evidence convince you?"
Don't be surprised when you act like a fervent fanatic that people take your claims with a grain of salt, no matter how immanent or obvious the evidence may be. That fact is that you are making claims about a very dynamic system; one that is way too complex to know anything about one way or the other. For every scientist you can produce who makes this claim I'm sure I can produce one who advises maybe we should take a longer look at the "evidence", study in this particular discipline that has occurred for only the last 20 years, AT MOST.
To claim the earth is 1) getting hotter and 2) because of any particular reason, is brazen and smacks of agenda. Here's a clue; you're not the first person (organization?) to make a dire prediction regarding the earth. People have been making this very claim, with varying causes, for thousands of years. Forgive us if your sense of urgency doesn't appear to be shared by the rest of us.
...who gives a mad f*ck what he has to say about anything? Let him say whatever he wants. He has the same right to say whatever he wants about anything, just like everyone else in the country. Why in the world should it cause such a ruckus? My reaction to his comments were "Ok Grandad, go back to bed now..." I'm just kind of wondering why any one really cares about anything he has to say about technology or current trends or video games. The man obviously pines for the days when people went to the "theater" to view a "cinema" and then he can go write about it in his "news paper column" and then enjoy drinks at the writer's lounge of the Sun Times. These new-fangled gizmos and internets and what not simply aren't for him.
Now that's what I'm talking about.
"Good luck getting the average person to know the difference between all of the cables with the same connectors."
No, I don't think that's the architecture being described. It appears to me, if I read this http://www.hdbaset.org/files/HDBaseT_Comparison_Table_Nereus.pdfchart correctly we'll be plugging everything in to one port in the media device (tv). We'll be getting our ac, ethernet, and video sigs from one cable. Kind makes me wonder what the amperage rating for 10baseT copper is...
You clever use of pun makes me wet with envy.
Yeah, this really isn't anything new or newsworthy; that some Russian web site is charging $50 to give you already existing tools in a nice package; now that's news!
Yeah, its easily ironic if you're liberal.
As the other commentator said, liberals don't have a lock on consistency either. This deal about Arizona, however? Your way off the mark. The national border is the Fed's JOB. Coming off and claiming its some kind of conservative inconstancy in policy is DISINGENUOUS. That's a BS point.
"You're already letting Fox win by letting them get away with far more truth bending and even outright lies that the "liberal media" could ever get away, and then calling it a wash."
I watch the news as I get ready for work in the morning. I generally flip around to avoid the commercials and when my bias meter goes haywire, generally. One month, on a lark, I decided to leave the channel alone and count the bias as I saw it, attempting to be as neutral as possible. This was during the last prez election, wherein Obama won. The worst offender, in my opinion, was MSNBC, BY FAR. It was no wash, not even close. Aside from some outright lies (I counted three in one week during the week I monitored MSNBC), I noted numerous plainly inaccurate stories and a number snide comments about Bush that were completely missing from Fox with regard to Obama. Not one snide opinion piece, and perhaps 2 inaccurate news pieces, which were followed up with corrections the next week. Not one mention of inaccurate reporting from MSNBC for that week. From as unbiased an experiment as I could muster I found Fox far more honest and up front than MCNBC. Second runner up was CNN. Your comments about Fox just don't hold up in my experience. Oh, if we include radio, NPR was by far much more prodigious with snide comments about the previous administration, in a number of radio shows. Some are indeed comedic, but several comments came from shows that are ostensibly about world news. The BBC also ran closely behind, but being a foreign (to me) service, I paid less attention to it.
"stop tourists"
Yes, lets stop the tourist scourge. (?)
"Only if you're fond of false equivalencies, or an Obama fanboy. Of which there definitely are some on Dkos..."
Some? Get real. The agenda on DKos is Liberalism, pure and simple. Its says so right on the front page. If you want a politically left view point, then DKos is for you. If want a right, then its Limbaugh. If you want pure news with out a slant... well, I guess you're SOL.
Whatever you think, I agree with the Pr0n vendors; flash is ancient technology, and as long as you have to wear special gear to view 3D, it ain't ready yet.
And for me, mine would be Goldbach's conjecture.
In a consume-oriented society. Need a friend? Just rent one.
Their insistence on supporting IE 6.0 is odd considering Microsoft itself is winding down support for it. I know I've heard/read anecdotal evidence that a lot of users are still using it; to that I say 1) They need to move on, & 2) I personally don't know anyone still using it. If you buy a new system your getting Windows 7 (whether you want it or not), and I'm not even sure how you'd begin to back grade IE; so the majority of those users must not have installed or updated their Windows installs in... 5-6 years?
I think one of the funniest thoughts I've been able to cull from the whole deal is the mental picture I've formed of the record label execs and the toasts they're having right now to celebrate this; as if they've somehow driven the final nail in the coffin of file sharing.
"...the sneering arrogant IT guys, the mailing lists full of flaming personal attacks leveled by closet bullies empowered by semi-anonymity, the phallic-compensating gadget consumerists, constantly "helpful" types who manage to insult while trying to rescue, and the sexually inept who use pinup wallpaper and leer at any woman in eyeshot."
I've rarely worked in such a place. I've worked in small pre-ipos and world-scale organizations and in my experience the percentage of places with these kinds of conditions were quite low. I can think of ONE place that was like that and I left to work somewhere else after figuring it out. The rest of the time I've worked with only professionally-acting people, more or less. IT people who acted like you are describing have been pretty rare, and when I did encounter them they were quite young, and I was able to dismiss them or otherwise ignore them. I find it amazing that a place that employed such people as a rule would be successful enough to b e successful.
I think if your willing to bum-rush me with a child or a woman with a bomb strapped to their back you can probably kill me. I also think that if your sick enough to say that some one who has done these things in the name of God is beyond any kind of redemption. I hope that eventually the world will decide radical islam is a rabid dog to be put down. Finally, I will say that if you live by the sword be prepared to die by it. You'll never sleep, you'll never be satisfied, you'll never know peace. You claim the same of Americans, but let me tell you, I sleep well at night. Muslims the ones who are always gnashing their teeth and cursing Jews and preparing for war. That's not much of a life in my opinion. Let me ask you something; Say radical Islam is successful in wiping out all Jews, and the Americans are beaten back to the new world and not any threat. Will Islam finally rest? Honestly, my guess is no. There's still the schism between Sunni & Shi'a, and those pesky Sufis always preaching peace... its like a never ending laundry list of violence. Screw Islam, I'm sick of hearing about that nonsense.
"Governments are slow to adopt streamlined purchasing systems because they're spending tax dollars and so everything has to be accounted for..."
That's the plan, anyway... the reality... not so sure.
Allah can suck it. Hezbollah, Al Quaida, Militant Mulims everywhere, come and get me.
...if you purchased a brand new SATA-based mass-storage device in the last few weeks; THROW IT AWAY! Here comes SATA II...