Certainly I appreciate the anti-establishmentarianism here, but I also find it very interesting that the same kind of "skepticism" of accepted science demonstrated by creationists towards evolution that is almost universally derided here, finds adherents when we start discussing anthropogenic climate change:-)
Yet, to deny the impact of CO2 or worse yet methane seems like denial of basic science, regardless of the exact details. What do you think makes Venus a burning hell?
Follow slashdot for a sufficient amount of time and you will see that whatever is "commonly accepted wisdom" is countered here by the kids who like to think they're smarter than everyone else and that they can see through the conspiracy -- although admittedly IIRC the Iraq War was pretty popular around 2002-03. It is a fairly typical right wing political reaction to just resist everything everyone else seems to be accepting in particular if it requires some sort of collective action, even if it actually was the rational thing to do.
The older I get, the less intellectual respect I have for most of/. tbh.
Interestingly, these people who like to imagine themselves as "rational" tend to just mostly have a political tendency to see a left-wing conspiracy and formulate their opinion based on that, or have financial/economic interests. Even if they might be right, it does not mean their position was correctly founded.
I am not making a statement here regarding global warming per se, just that the climate change deniers do tend to come across as the lunatic fringe. I for once wish they are never vindicated -- although I am willing to change my (currently aligned with consensus) opinion if I see strong evidence -- as that would be a failure of the scientific method and would probably lead us into another dark age where creationists et al run rampant...
I'm Finnish so I certainly do not sympathize with Stalin, but there are two issues with that.. I don't think he genuinely felt like USSR was strong enough to take Germany on (remember, offensives are much more militarily expensive propositions) around 1939-40 (hey, even Finland gave Red Army trouble), and there is the fact that to get to Germany he indeed would have had to roll over the countries in between.
Modern-day Russian historical revisionists are actually trying to push the point that Stalin just "had to" conquer his side of Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact to get some more defense in depth...
That's actually the difference between a theoretical CS Master's and a vocational training. Latter expires, former teaches you the stuff that stays the same, bar some real breakthrough developments in how we understand mechanically computable functions... none have been coming since the theory was first formulated.
Russians really are special, they can often be a rather ultranationalist bunch that feel victimized whenever they don't get to bully others like they would like to.
The problem is that that was not a shortcut.. it was a humongously wrong statement that shows you probably do not understand the concept you're mentioning.
When I was writing my master's thesis, I soon became painfully aware that most CS papers are written very hastily, contain loads of errors and sometimes just simply plain don't make sense.
At least CS is not quite as degenerate as the humanities -- recently I read this "PhD thesis" that was actually approved with lowest grade on a technicality after it was already initially rejected after a defense that was supposedly successful.
I am sort of ashamed of my university knowing that someone can call himself "Doctor" after submitting something like that.
I'm sure it will turn out just like that Itchy & Scratchy episode where they had removed all violence and they were instead just kissing and hugging and handing each other gifts...
Over here in Finland teh evil communist state-controlled pedophile-loving public broadcaster's announcers were quite clear about the footsteps being CGI...
The Marshall plan took care of this in two decades time. Great effort by the US btw, and definitely the kind of diplomacy a modern capitalist society should use and abuse (instead of classic brute-force-diplomacy)
Not to mention that rebuilding certainly requires a LOT of economic activity to take place natively even without the Marshall plan. For example Finland did not receive any, but we got over the war with a similar sort of "economic miracle" that Germany experienced. Certainly Finland was not bombed to pieces like Germany was, but we had to pay war reparations to the USSR (and to consider that they originally "started it", mind you)...
Yes, +1... the GP is very correct. It was the provocation of the USSR into the conflict that was Hitler's great mistake.
Of course, considering that Hitler hated the Soviets and Communism more than anything and specifically felt like the Slavs were the untermenschen that needed to be conquered for Lebensraum, there was a certain urgency to the attack, of course... by the time of the attack the USSR was still weak enough so that the Germans were able to push deep into their territory, but Russia is deep... and eventually this gave the Soviets time to ramp up their production war materiel production, which Germany was never able to match. If the war had only been between USSR and Germany, Germany still would have lost, although it would have taken more time.
I have also always played with the thought of what would have happened if Barbarossa had not occurred if Hitler had not been so ideologically committed to eradicating the Soviet Union... his hatred of "the reds" was so burning you'd think he was a Libertarian or something.:-) We'd essentially have had a Europe full of Germany's vassal states, Britain probably would have made peace and might have been spared actual occupation, which was the plan after Seelöwe failed... US would not really have had reason to go to war, and Germany would have been capable of repelling an outright invasion of the Russians. Interesting stuff, that.
... if I ever come across a webpage with kiddie porn, you can rest assured I'm sending the link to the cops. I have no issues with having an easy reporting system.
They claim to have some sort of adaptation AI there, but one would still have to keep the world in "sync" over longer periods of time... otherwise differences would just accumulate. So I suppose if some computer car needs to slow down because of you, it will just magically accelerate back to its current position or something... doesn't sound too realistic:)
The only thing worse than setting it up in its shuttle-payload-upmass-hostile 57 degree inclined orbit to allow Russian participation is totally cutting off Shuttle participation in 2010.
So you're saying that it should have been a US-only project, only flyable to by the Shuttle and that it's a waste of money? Sounds to me like such a project is better of handled in a co-operative fashion, sharing costs...
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Certainly I appreciate the anti-establishmentarianism here, but I also find it very interesting that the same kind of "skepticism" of accepted science demonstrated by creationists towards evolution that is almost universally derided here, finds adherents when we start discussing anthropogenic climate change :-)
Yet, to deny the impact of CO2 or worse yet methane seems like denial of basic science, regardless of the exact details. What do you think makes Venus a burning hell?
Follow slashdot for a sufficient amount of time and you will see that whatever is "commonly accepted wisdom" is countered here by the kids who like to think they're smarter than everyone else and that they can see through the conspiracy -- although admittedly IIRC the Iraq War was pretty popular around 2002-03. It is a fairly typical right wing political reaction to just resist everything everyone else seems to be accepting in particular if it requires some sort of collective action, even if it actually was the rational thing to do.
The older I get, the less intellectual respect I have for most of /. tbh.
Interestingly, these people who like to imagine themselves as "rational" tend to just mostly have a political tendency to see a left-wing conspiracy and formulate their opinion based on that, or have financial/economic interests. Even if they might be right, it does not mean their position was correctly founded.
I am not making a statement here regarding global warming per se, just that the climate change deniers do tend to come across as the lunatic fringe. I for once wish they are never vindicated -- although I am willing to change my (currently aligned with consensus) opinion if I see strong evidence -- as that would be a failure of the scientific method and would probably lead us into another dark age where creationists et al run rampant...
Nope, been a Linux guy always... since Slackware 3.4 :)
Looks like the distribution of my next clean install is Debian.
Glad I don't comment.
I'm Finnish so I certainly do not sympathize with Stalin, but there are two issues with that.. I don't think he genuinely felt like USSR was strong enough to take Germany on (remember, offensives are much more militarily expensive propositions) around 1939-40 (hey, even Finland gave Red Army trouble), and there is the fact that to get to Germany he indeed would have had to roll over the countries in between.
Modern-day Russian historical revisionists are actually trying to push the point that Stalin just "had to" conquer his side of Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact to get some more defense in depth...
That's actually the difference between a theoretical CS Master's and a vocational training. Latter expires, former teaches you the stuff that stays the same, bar some real breakthrough developments in how we understand mechanically computable functions... none have been coming since the theory was first formulated.
Europe != Russians.
Russians really are special, they can often be a rather ultranationalist bunch that feel victimized whenever they don't get to bully others like they would like to.
You're pretty blub about functional programming, aren't you...
The problem is that that was not a shortcut.. it was a humongously wrong statement that shows you probably do not understand the concept you're mentioning.
When I was writing my master's thesis, I soon became painfully aware that most CS papers are written very hastily, contain loads of errors and sometimes just simply plain don't make sense.
At least CS is not quite as degenerate as the humanities -- recently I read this "PhD thesis" that was actually approved with lowest grade on a technicality after it was already initially rejected after a defense that was supposedly successful.
I am sort of ashamed of my university knowing that someone can call himself "Doctor" after submitting something like that.
So which Karen is it? Greathouse or Ciesla?
I'm sure it will turn out just like that Itchy & Scratchy episode where they had removed all violence and they were instead just kissing and hugging and handing each other gifts...
Just play some random notes... makes for excellent artsy jazz.
I think this is sort of worse :(
Over here in Finland teh evil communist state-controlled pedophile-loving public broadcaster's announcers were quite clear about the footsteps being CGI...
I have this routine with my wrist that burns a lot of calories each time I do it, I'm sure... www.free6.com is a great source of workout material.
Not to mention that rebuilding certainly requires a LOT of economic activity to take place natively even without the Marshall plan. For example Finland did not receive any, but we got over the war with a similar sort of "economic miracle" that Germany experienced. Certainly Finland was not bombed to pieces like Germany was, but we had to pay war reparations to the USSR (and to consider that they originally "started it", mind you)...
Yes, +1... the GP is very correct. It was the provocation of the USSR into the conflict that was Hitler's great mistake. Of course, considering that Hitler hated the Soviets and Communism more than anything and specifically felt like the Slavs were the untermenschen that needed to be conquered for Lebensraum, there was a certain urgency to the attack, of course... by the time of the attack the USSR was still weak enough so that the Germans were able to push deep into their territory, but Russia is deep... and eventually this gave the Soviets time to ramp up their production war materiel production, which Germany was never able to match. If the war had only been between USSR and Germany, Germany still would have lost, although it would have taken more time. I have also always played with the thought of what would have happened if Barbarossa had not occurred if Hitler had not been so ideologically committed to eradicating the Soviet Union... his hatred of "the reds" was so burning you'd think he was a Libertarian or something. :-) We'd essentially have had a Europe full of Germany's vassal states, Britain probably would have made peace and might have been spared actual occupation, which was the plan after Seelöwe failed... US would not really have had reason to go to war, and Germany would have been capable of repelling an outright invasion of the Russians. Interesting stuff, that.
... if I ever come across a webpage with kiddie porn, you can rest assured I'm sending the link to the cops. I have no issues with having an easy reporting system.
They claim to have some sort of adaptation AI there, but one would still have to keep the world in "sync" over longer periods of time... otherwise differences would just accumulate. So I suppose if some computer car needs to slow down because of you, it will just magically accelerate back to its current position or something... doesn't sound too realistic :)
So you're saying that it should have been a US-only project, only flyable to by the Shuttle and that it's a waste of money? Sounds to me like such a project is better of handled in a co-operative fashion, sharing costs...
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Ha-ha!
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