Reality? I see a pattern here with your attack on me over my joke and the attack on the other poster. This site is clearly your escape from reality where you get to attack what you see as subhuman little puppets in the machine to feel superior and take your mind off whatever failures are bothering you in reality. It's not reality so you can put words in my mouth and it doesn't matter - am I correct? It's not reality so you can vent off at the other poster that didn't do much to deserve that bile you sent in his direction - am I correct?
With every pathetic post you are typing to expose more and more character flaws you are building my ego up immensely - but surely you are not such a pathetic creature in real life?
Are you going to be man enough to give an apology for bearing false witness or do I get to continue to see you as a pathetic little weasel attempting to brainwash the kiddies with stories of a past that never happened?
That's the thing - the news came out that it was real then it came to the attention of people that assumed that dealing with climate change was going to itself be a huge economic disaster - so in the short term it was far more convenient for them to pretend it was not real and do nothing. It's about not living up to the responsibility that society expects from people that it puts in charge. It's about being lazy seat warmers. It's about being leeches instead of true leaders. Vote for whatever party you wish, but listen to see if they want to do something about problems or just sit still and let the cash flow into their pockets.
You mean "facts" from people like Bjorn the economist or Monckton the puzzle writer? It's "Twilight" for grown ups. When such mediocre types can pretend to be experts on climate that means anyone can do it so it inflates the ego of the reader - you too can cast yourself in the main role like a teenage girl pretending she's like the main character in "Twilight".
No, if that scenario happens the environmentalists will be lynched for not letting us have nuclear power soon enough to replace man's carbon output.
So the environmentalists ran the governments of Reagan, Bush, Always on Vacation Playboy Prince Bush and Thatcher? Interesting. Do you really believe such a thing or do you just think we are all idiots that will swallow such stupidity? Insane or an utter prick - your choice.
Pretending to be a "random retard" yourself does not help unless you make it clear that you are pretending.
basically, anyone too dumb to come up with an excuse to not be on jury duty
Or someone willing to do their duty as a citizen. I have to admit I have shirked that duty twice due to legitimate circumstances (small businesses can't afford to lose people for long) but I'm not going to denigrate people who do their duty. A junior sysadmin in my current workplace chose to do jury duty recently and he's pretty well dead in the middle of demographic for this website - so you are in that case mocking someone very much like yourself and a lot of the other readers. So does that make us a website full of "random retards"?
Do you really think you have more than zero credibility after being caught putting your own words in someone else's mouth and not being enough of a man to apologize for it?
By being sold below cost. The Saudi stuff isn't going away due to low production costs and being backed by a government if it does end up being sold below cost. The stuff we are discussing is more expensive to produce and has to stand on it's own without the wealth of a rich Kingdom (so strange in 21st century) behind it.
Thus the big carbon producers that were already skating close to the edge financially can be kissed goodbye Enron style if this keeps up. The others that are sensibly managed but sitting on reserves that cost a bit to extract will take longer. There's going to be carnage, lots of unemployed in Texas, knockon effects from governments living off oil revenue etc, and the degree of damage depends on how long this goes on.
A bit of a difference is that now there are Republicans making money out of windmills and solar panels. It's mainstream now despite various crazies tilting at windmills and wishing for glory days of the past that were never quite so glorious as they imagined.
Really only nuclear
Not an option until some effort is put in to make it so. No bank on the planet will touch it and not many governments are going to stump up the cash for civilian nuclear. Then there's the US nuclear lobby that decided the 1970s stuff is good enough and lobbied to shut down the thorium project and anything else with potential that pops up. If the future is nuclear it's either going to be a Chinese knockoff of 1980s German technology or you'll be getting it from India, and the taxpayers will be footing the ball.
It's just not considered "core business" to get that methane and do something about it. We're acting like Nigeria a few years ago, instead of Nigeria now where nearly all of their electricity is generated using the heat from flaring off the gas from wells instead of just having the flame do nothing like they used to. It's a useful resource that's just thrown away.
Read that as "OPEC as led by Saudi Arabia" and you'll see where he is coming from. Parts of OPEC want to make things very difficult for other parts of OPEC.
There's been a few over the last decade and they are now getting turned into products. Among other things it's already been enough to turn the "solar powered light bulb" from a snide joke into a two dollar shop item. It will be interesting to see where things go from here.
The technologies may be mature but the financial deals to run them are not and some are only viable at an oil price much higher than is current. If this continues a lot of producers are going to go broke.
However, then the Saudis may get to compete with whoever snaps up the assets at fire sale prices.
Don't worry about the climate - if we make too much of a mess it will be self correcting over geological time. Worry about the people who won't have enough to eat as part of the correction. If you don't live on a farm in a very fertile area that could be you.
Not sure why you left out something so obvious. The small number of women that made it as far as enrolling in engineering at the same time as I did well once they managed to get into University. For a variety of reasons many girls that had at least as much potential as the boys in the class didn't get to study enough, maths, physics etc to get in. We still get it today, for instance my nieces son is going to be enroled in an expensive school while her daughter has to put up with the local government school. The government school may be quite good but that situation is an example of allocating more resources to the son who is expected to follow in the footsteps of his conservative lawyer father while the daughter's education is not seen to matter.
I live in the real world where propaganda is no substitute for reality and where a liar who puts his own words into someone else's mouth should be ashamed. All this shit, vitriol and propaganda because you can't take a joke.
It could be translated as the unix way is the best way for the job when everything else in the environment acts in the unix way. Clearer and less dogmatic now? It may make sense to steer a car from the back seat with a tiller like in a small boat but mixing it in with all the other car controls creates a mess.
Are there really any 32 bit x86 systems out there that you would install new software
That old fileserver with a bucketload of tiny disks that you can hammer on as much as you like to learn what to do with ZFS when things fuckup. That other old fileserver for that stuff that people want to look at every now and again. Since all it has to do is saturate gigabit to get a file to one computer every now and again there's no performance advantage to buying something new. Netbooks/Tablets. That's the most likely situation since 32 bit x86 machines to fill that role are still on sale. Embedded systems / small form factor systems - some are x86 and are quite capable of being used as a quiet media PC using *BSD.
You will understand when something on a new system doesn't work and you have to fuck about for ages to find out what's going on because of the differences and features that are not implemented yet. Suddenly that experienced IT pro has to hit the books to get around what used to have a trivial solution because it's all different - hence anger. It's just a case of unfinished software replacing something that was rock solid and "the way we always did it". Anger, embarrassment and blaming the new tool that doesn't quite do what the old one did are a common response to having it fuckup on you or trying to setup something non-standard that used to all just go in a trivial rc.local file. Now it's all different and the docs don't all exist yet.
So it's a reaction to hitting the rough edges of immature software and change in general. I have to admit it pisses me off at times too but I'm getting used to it on some dev boxes and my home machine. I don't think it's ready for use everywhere yet, but it's the catch22 that without wide deployment it's never going to be ready for use everywhere. With more use, more developers and a more practical instead of empire building approach to the project (some developers want it to be an octopus with tentacles into everything instead of being an init system) it may become more useful and less annoying, even if some design choices appear to have been make on crack (eg. you don't want fucking binary logs to read on a system that's got stuck halfway to a usable environment).
It's a technical definition - so your mistake above is similar to comparing a wireless bridge to an arched stone bridge built by the Romans. Both are bridges without wires. Similarly "peers" does not mean people in your profession in this context.
Expert witnesses and time. They don't have to understand items that have no bearing on the case so they don't have to be IT professionals just as jurors in a murder case do not have to be crack shots, but do have to know what end of a gun is the dangerous bit.
Lem wrote an awesome story along such lines (a lot of his stuff was political satire set in an SF environment to avoid getting dragged off to prison), and there was a Get Smart episode like that as well.
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Reality?
I see a pattern here with your attack on me over my joke and the attack on the other poster.
This site is clearly your escape from reality where you get to attack what you see as subhuman little puppets in the machine to feel superior and take your mind off whatever failures are bothering you in reality.
It's not reality so you can put words in my mouth and it doesn't matter - am I correct? It's not reality so you can vent off at the other poster that didn't do much to deserve that bile you sent in his direction - am I correct?
With every pathetic post you are typing to expose more and more character flaws you are building my ego up immensely - but surely you are not such a pathetic creature in real life?
Are you going to be man enough to give an apology for bearing false witness or do I get to continue to see you as a pathetic little weasel attempting to brainwash the kiddies with stories of a past that never happened?
So no shame at all for false attribution? Can I quote you on that?
Bring it here. It's 37C inside my fucking house. It's a wonder my computer is running.
That's the thing - the news came out that it was real then it came to the attention of people that assumed that dealing with climate change was going to itself be a huge economic disaster - so in the short term it was far more convenient for them to pretend it was not real and do nothing. It's about not living up to the responsibility that society expects from people that it puts in charge. It's about being lazy seat warmers. It's about being leeches instead of true leaders. Vote for whatever party you wish, but listen to see if they want to do something about problems or just sit still and let the cash flow into their pockets.
You mean "facts" from people like Bjorn the economist or Monckton the puzzle writer?
It's "Twilight" for grown ups.
When such mediocre types can pretend to be experts on climate that means anyone can do it so it inflates the ego of the reader - you too can cast yourself in the main role like a teenage girl pretending she's like the main character in "Twilight".
So the environmentalists ran the governments of Reagan, Bush, Always on Vacation Playboy Prince Bush and Thatcher?
Interesting.
Do you really believe such a thing or do you just think we are all idiots that will swallow such stupidity? Insane or an utter prick - your choice.
Pretending to be a "random retard" yourself does not help unless you make it clear that you are pretending.
Or someone willing to do their duty as a citizen. I have to admit I have shirked that duty twice due to legitimate circumstances (small businesses can't afford to lose people for long) but I'm not going to denigrate people who do their duty. A junior sysadmin in my current workplace chose to do jury duty recently and he's pretty well dead in the middle of demographic for this website - so you are in that case mocking someone very much like yourself and a lot of the other readers. So does that make us a website full of "random retards"?
Do you really think you have more than zero credibility after being caught putting your own words in someone else's mouth and not being enough of a man to apologize for it?
By being sold below cost.
The Saudi stuff isn't going away due to low production costs and being backed by a government if it does end up being sold below cost. The stuff we are discussing is more expensive to produce and has to stand on it's own without the wealth of a rich Kingdom (so strange in 21st century) behind it.
Thus the big carbon producers that were already skating close to the edge financially can be kissed goodbye Enron style if this keeps up.
The others that are sensibly managed but sitting on reserves that cost a bit to extract will take longer.
There's going to be carnage, lots of unemployed in Texas, knockon effects from governments living off oil revenue etc, and the degree of damage depends on how long this goes on.
Not an option until some effort is put in to make it so. No bank on the planet will touch it and not many governments are going to stump up the cash for civilian nuclear. Then there's the US nuclear lobby that decided the 1970s stuff is good enough and lobbied to shut down the thorium project and anything else with potential that pops up. If the future is nuclear it's either going to be a Chinese knockoff of 1980s German technology or you'll be getting it from India, and the taxpayers will be footing the ball.
It's just not considered "core business" to get that methane and do something about it.
We're acting like Nigeria a few years ago, instead of Nigeria now where nearly all of their electricity is generated using the heat from flaring off the gas from wells instead of just having the flame do nothing like they used to.
It's a useful resource that's just thrown away.
Read that as "OPEC as led by Saudi Arabia" and you'll see where he is coming from. Parts of OPEC want to make things very difficult for other parts of OPEC.
There's been a few over the last decade and they are now getting turned into products. Among other things it's already been enough to turn the "solar powered light bulb" from a snide joke into a two dollar shop item. It will be interesting to see where things go from here.
The technologies may be mature but the financial deals to run them are not and some are only viable at an oil price much higher than is current. If this continues a lot of producers are going to go broke.
However, then the Saudis may get to compete with whoever snaps up the assets at fire sale prices.
Don't worry about the climate - if we make too much of a mess it will be self correcting over geological time.
Worry about the people who won't have enough to eat as part of the correction. If you don't live on a farm in a very fertile area that could be you.
Not sure why you left out something so obvious.
The small number of women that made it as far as enrolling in engineering at the same time as I did well once they managed to get into University. For a variety of reasons many girls that had at least as much potential as the boys in the class didn't get to study enough, maths, physics etc to get in.
We still get it today, for instance my nieces son is going to be enroled in an expensive school while her daughter has to put up with the local government school. The government school may be quite good but that situation is an example of allocating more resources to the son who is expected to follow in the footsteps of his conservative lawyer father while the daughter's education is not seen to matter.
I live in the real world where propaganda is no substitute for reality and where a liar who puts his own words into someone else's mouth should be ashamed.
All this shit, vitriol and propaganda because you can't take a joke.
It could be translated as the unix way is the best way for the job when everything else in the environment acts in the unix way. Clearer and less dogmatic now? It may make sense to steer a car from the back seat with a tiller like in a small boat but mixing it in with all the other car controls creates a mess.
Office politics at RedHat.
That old fileserver with a bucketload of tiny disks that you can hammer on as much as you like to learn what to do with ZFS when things fuckup.
That other old fileserver for that stuff that people want to look at every now and again. Since all it has to do is saturate gigabit to get a file to one computer every now and again there's no performance advantage to buying something new.
Netbooks/Tablets. That's the most likely situation since 32 bit x86 machines to fill that role are still on sale.
Embedded systems / small form factor systems - some are x86 and are quite capable of being used as a quiet media PC using *BSD.
You will understand when something on a new system doesn't work and you have to fuck about for ages to find out what's going on because of the differences and features that are not implemented yet. Suddenly that experienced IT pro has to hit the books to get around what used to have a trivial solution because it's all different - hence anger.
It's just a case of unfinished software replacing something that was rock solid and "the way we always did it". Anger, embarrassment and blaming the new tool that doesn't quite do what the old one did are a common response to having it fuckup on you or trying to setup something non-standard that used to all just go in a trivial rc.local file. Now it's all different and the docs don't all exist yet.
So it's a reaction to hitting the rough edges of immature software and change in general.
I have to admit it pisses me off at times too but I'm getting used to it on some dev boxes and my home machine. I don't think it's ready for use everywhere yet, but it's the catch22 that without wide deployment it's never going to be ready for use everywhere. With more use, more developers and a more practical instead of empire building approach to the project (some developers want it to be an octopus with tentacles into everything instead of being an init system) it may become more useful and less annoying, even if some design choices appear to have been make on crack (eg. you don't want fucking binary logs to read on a system that's got stuck halfway to a usable environment).
It's a technical definition - so your mistake above is similar to comparing a wireless bridge to an arched stone bridge built by the Romans. Both are bridges without wires. Similarly "peers" does not mean people in your profession in this context.
Depends what they are seeding.
Expert witnesses and time. They don't have to understand items that have no bearing on the case so they don't have to be IT professionals just as jurors in a murder case do not have to be crack shots, but do have to know what end of a gun is the dangerous bit.
Lem wrote an awesome story along such lines (a lot of his stuff was political satire set in an SF environment to avoid getting dragged off to prison), and there was a Get Smart episode like that as well.