there would be a great deal more consensus on this and other issues.
Consensus is not scientific, it's social, and can be strongly influenced by those who make the most noise or have the greatest stature.
Science is not subjective.
But it is (usually, and especially in cases like this) lacking in adequate knowledge. (Soot, which reports now say causes 20% of AGW, wasn't even mentioned in the 2007 IPCC report.)
Global warming gets you colder winters at the poles because of the increased air circulation. He also claimed that the winters would become _shorter_, and I assume the summers then would also be warmer.
black carbon... recent studies estimating that it is responsible for 18 percent of the planet's warming
But the awareness of black carbon's role in climate change has come so recently that it was not even mentioned as a warming agent in the 2007 summary report by the (IPCC) that pronounced the evidence for global warming to be "unequivocal."
BTW, if 1/5 of the cause of AGW was "discovered" less than 2 years ago, what are scientists going to discover 2 years from now? That it's really 2/5 of the cause? Or something else that's totally unexpected?
While the developed world spends even more money that we don't have on projects with dubious worth?
no mention of the Arctic ice, which is the ice that's usually pointed to by climate scientists as a sign of global warming.
You mean the ice which "experts" authoritatively stated was going to all melt away, and that much of it was already gone, because their remote sensors said so?
Except that the people who actually flew out there, and the satellites that orbit the poles showed that the non-existent ice actually exists?
Back when a single mainframe + disk farm really did take up an entire large data center, the company I work for (up north of N.Y.C.) vented in outside winter air to save on cooling costs.
That summarises my experience with many people in the US. They are convinced that their country, their way of doing things, their existence is the ultimate mode of being.
That's the standard belief of any (physically and economically) expanding civilization. But now that it has expanded as much as it can, it's slowly turning into Europe,,,
Users will just hit the "turbo" button all the time because non-instantaneous is too slow. This both defeats the purpose (since everything will run at turbo) and will annoy the user (when "turbo" isn't fast enough).
IOW, you think the Stanford researchers are placing too much faith in the intelligence of the Great Unwashed?
It was a toggle button, so it would slow or speed the CPU depending on it's state when you pushed the button. Of course, few wanted to run in "normal" speed unless they had to.
Now, it's the opposite. You want to run slowly, a often as you can, to preserve battery charge. But the "turbo button" moniker still applies.
I thought the chip gets the power, not the application. Am I reading this right?
Remember that tech "journalists" are usually clueless fools, so reality may be way different than what's in the article.
I'm thinking more that it might be like the Turbo button that PCs had in the semi-old days, when CPU speeds were in the 5-16MHz range. Of course, I haven't RTFA...
Even if we assume no historical context outside the Nuremburg trials, this would not make the defense any more valid when applied to a lesser injustice.
Sure it does (make it valid), because honest people can disagree about whether smoking pot should be legal, but no one can argue as to whether genocide is wrong or not.
But I suppose dealing with reality isn't as much fun as riding a high horse.
So many people were so stupidly anti-W (on one hand, they'd criticize him mercilessly, and on the other hand write that anyone who criticized W would get thrown in Gitmo) then worshiped B.O. so blindly that it's just really pissed me off.
I have a whole lot of spleen left to vent at these hypocritical jackasses.
(Note that I remember the flip side: people who viscerally hated the Clintons but unflaggingly supported W.)
Slashdot Mirror
solar panels on my own roof ... For greener energy, I think the premium is worth it.
Except for all the lead, mercury and cadmium needed to produce PV cells.
Three Mile Island. Three Mile Island. Three Mile Island. That's the only one you have to know
TMI's operator's insurance company payed out US$40M in lawsuits. Not much, even in 1980 dollars.
there would be a great deal more consensus on this and other issues.
Consensus is not scientific, it's social, and can be strongly influenced by those who make the most noise or have the greatest stature.
Science is not subjective.
But it is (usually, and especially in cases like this) lacking in adequate knowledge. (Soot, which reports now say causes 20% of AGW, wasn't even mentioned in the 2007 IPCC report.)
Global warming gets you colder winters at the poles because of the increased air circulation. He also claimed that the winters would become _shorter_, and I assume the summers then would also be warmer.
Let us then keep an eye on this sea ice graph. The peaks and valleys should get more extreme.
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
How much of the melting, though, is caused by coal and wood soot from India and China?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/science/earth/16degrees.html>
BTW, if 1/5 of the cause of AGW was "discovered" less than 2 years ago, what are scientists going to discover 2 years from now? That it's really 2/5 of the cause? Or something else that's totally unexpected?
While the developed world spends even more money that we don't have on projects with dubious worth?
no mention of the Arctic ice, which is the ice that's usually pointed to by climate scientists as a sign of global warming.
You mean the ice which "experts" authoritatively stated was going to all melt away, and that much of it was already gone, because their remote sensors said so?
Except that the people who actually flew out there, and the satellites that orbit the poles showed that the non-existent ice actually exists?
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/19/0420255
And that anchored ice in the Arctic?
Because dark Asian soot is blowing north and west, settling on (Arctic, Alaskan and Rocky Mountains) ice, holding heat and thus melting the ice.
Soot filters on those thousands of Chinese dirty coal-fired plants would do wonders for re-thickening the ice that really is thinning.
Do you have any real inkling of just how old the technology in the F-15 is?
Do you think that the USAF has never upgraded it's original F-15As? Even the C models have been significantly upgraded.
That means most F-15 airframes are getting old, too. And need to be replaced because they're worn out.
Older F-15s are being phased out. Only the F-15E Strike Eagles (manufactured 1985 to 2001) will remain in service.
the propagandists, the money-changers and the war machine makers are guilty of crimes against humanity.
Then let me introduce you to Smedley Butler, a tragi-heroic dupe.
growing of subculture here at SlashDot who advocate murder as a perfectly legitimate method of advancing their social grievances.
I wonder if that DHS report mentions them along with disaffected Army veterans...
No one can validly argue that marijuana should be illegal either. :-P
They can because I say say they can...
No, the fetus mostly makes its own.
It doesn't seem to be that simple. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17135133?ordinalpos=30&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
Isn't Staropramen the Brno brewery?
Prague. The similarly-named Pivovar Starobrno is in Brno.
Back when a single mainframe + disk farm really did take up an entire large data center, the company I work for (up north of N.Y.C.) vented in outside winter air to save on cooling costs.
budweiser is czech
Budweiser is the Germanized form of the Czech word Budiwoyz. Anheuser-Busch did a piss-poor job of imitating the beer made there.
Anyhow, Staropramen Lager is infinitely superior to Urquell and Budvar.
you noob
Prague was a great city when I visited it in my early 30s, more than 10 years ago...
That summarises my experience with many people in the US. They are convinced that their country, their way of doing things, their existence is the ultimate mode of being.
That's the standard belief of any (physically and economically) expanding civilization. But now that it has expanded as much as it can, it's slowly turning into Europe,,,
Personally I live in Sweden and ... virgin at 30.
But Anheuser-Busch says that all Swedish babes are hot and will jump in bed with you if you drink Bud-wei-ser?
Many people already have argued that genocide is not wrong. Just ask someone from Germany, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, or Darfur.
Point taken. I should have written no one can validly argue as to whether genocide is wrong.
Users will just hit the "turbo" button all the time because non-instantaneous is too slow. This both defeats the purpose (since everything will run at turbo) and will annoy the user (when "turbo" isn't fast enough).
IOW, you think the Stanford researchers are placing too much faith in the intelligence of the Great Unwashed?
The Turbo button slowed the CPU.
It was a toggle button, so it would slow or speed the CPU depending on it's state when you pushed the button. Of course, few wanted to run in "normal" speed unless they had to.
Now, it's the opposite. You want to run slowly, a often as you can, to preserve battery charge. But the "turbo button" moniker still applies.
I thought the chip gets the power, not the application. Am I reading this right?
Remember that tech "journalists" are usually clueless fools, so reality may be way different than what's in the article.
I'm thinking more that it might be like the Turbo button that PCs had in the semi-old days, when CPU speeds were in the 5-16MHz range. Of course, I haven't RTFA...
Yeah, I was disappointed to learn the module wasn't named Serenity.
I always thought that Serenity was a poor name for a space station module. Better would be Dortmunder or Magellan.
Even if we assume no historical context outside the Nuremburg trials, this would not make the defense any more valid when applied to a lesser injustice.
Sure it does (make it valid), because honest people can disagree about whether smoking pot should be legal, but no one can argue as to whether genocide is wrong or not.
But I suppose dealing with reality isn't as much fun as riding a high horse.
So many people were so stupidly anti-W (on one hand, they'd criticize him mercilessly, and on the other hand write that anyone who criticized W would get thrown in Gitmo) then worshiped B.O. so blindly that it's just really pissed me off.
I have a whole lot of spleen left to vent at these hypocritical jackasses.
(Note that I remember the flip side: people who viscerally hated the Clintons but unflaggingly supported W.)
I find it very endearing that someone felt the need to explain what Lynx is on SlashDot.
Most of the people who read /. use Windows, where Lynx just isn't that popular.
Anyone who has ever busted a pot smoker is not a very good person at all. "I was just doing my job" is no excuse.
Associating marijuana smokers with Holocaust victims is a quick way to get you pegged as "idiotic ass-hat".
The warrant had nothing to do with the pen and paper he was using during the search and everything to do with technology.
The warrant mentioned seizing all "sticky notes". He was taking his notes on... sticky notes.