None of what you wrote proves that mankind's use of oil is the cause of the climate change. Your assertion requires that I pretend we didn't exist and then later that I pretend that I accept that we ARE the change. That's simply not going to convince me, or anyone else with common sense, sorry.
I actually never said that volcanoes spew ANY CO2. They spew sulfur dioxide that, when combined with moisture in the air, turns into sulfuric acid, that sulfuric acid then acts like a bunch of little tiny mirrors that reflects the light/heat from the sun back out into space which then causes a cooling effect. This HAS been observed.
The irony in your statement is astounding. Do you think the full game is just going to appear magically? If not then someone has to create it and you've just said that you expect to be paid if you create so I guess you're fine with your hypocrisy in wanting to download it from TPB instead of paying them?
"The most dramatic CO2/Temperature increase in history just HAPPENS to coincide with mankind figuring out that they could burn shit from underground."
Ever wonder why the word "coincidence" often has the phrase "just happens to" associated with it? Have you ever wondered why it matches when we *started* figuring this out and were barely using it versus when we were/are at peak usage? Seeing as how volcanoes have more of a measurable and directly observable impact than anything we've ever done, I'm not really buying the whole "mankind burning oil caused this" hypothesis; one good eruption and our global temp has the potential to drop by 1/2 degree or more, yet somehow we're supposed to have some form of effect that is (not so)surprisingly not so easy to observe and/or correlate.
The hour of weeding is done about 5 minutes per week. And what do you mean by "intially prepare his growing plot" specifically? You mean when I first tilled it when it was still covered in grass and weeds? That took 2 hours about 10 years ago and has long been lost to the law of averages; if you're talking about the yearly preparation, that's 1/2 hour of tilling in the spring and one in the fall and I add all my fertilizer, peat, etc. when I do that so it's not the chore you make it out to be.
And I don't worry about pests. I produce enough that giving a few tomatoes to the insects is a small sacrifice, and I've never had a problem with pests eating my habaneros, jalapenos and I'm quite certain they won't touch my new "Ghost Chiles".
Why would it have to be self-maintaining? Sun + water + plants = growth, and I don't worry about pests and weeds are taken care of in a matter of about 5 minutes per week. So unless you have some point you're trying to make otherwise, I call bullshit on you.
Those are good points but there are ways around letting a client make multiple copies of software e.g. a license server, and if the client came to you, they likely don't have someone who is competent enough to alter the source code or else that person would/should have been in charge of finding the software so they could then alter it in the first place.
Gardening might not be totally free but rather an investment because I harvest about $1,000(retail) of vegetables from my garden every year for the investment of about $50 in fertilizer/plants/seeds, an hour of tilling(once in spring and once in autumn) and less than an hour of weeding, etc. over the spring/summer. Even if I charged the $150/hr that I make normally, I still come out way ahead. Gardening has a better cost/benefits ratio since you don't have to deal with storage, distribution, profit margins and taxation.
You mean it can be 50 ft tall? Nope, it can't...yet. That's my point, they would be able to make it any way they like and in an virtually unexhaustible supply versus harvesting a couple feet of it per cow.
Over 10 years ago I was speculating that we could move to cloned meat due to genetics, and strangely I kept wondering if people who were vegetarians for religious purposes would eat it if there was no suffering by an animal. I kept thinking that since filet mignon is judged by how "tall", not wide, it is, it would be a trivial task to make it as tall as you could stand it.
I NEVER say this but...I'm proud of PETA on this one. I normally rail against them and their fucked up practices but this is one instance that I would happily stand behind them because this is a win-win situation.
If Psystar did their job correctly, they will have planned for Apple to attempt to make the OS incompatible and have some form of BIOS/firmware upgrade available. I however think it is HIGHLY irresponsible of them to even offer OS/X with it as it will only attract Apple's attention and you never know what will happen when one wakens a sleeping giant.
Another example, and my favorite, is to dress like a delivery driver and carry a pizza bag. While even the most strict security will check you at the front door, once you're in you will find that you have pretty much free access. Same goes for wearing overalls(and as mentioned below, a hard hat helps at times) and holding a metal clipboard.
Have you forgotten that it is Micro$oft's doing that Vista drivers are incompatible with XP drivers thanks to the whole signing of the drivers thing? At least in that way, they do carry some of the burden.
This is the exact same reasoning that needs to be considered when people start referring to "wifi theft" since a huge portion of it is completely automated for the user.
You speak the absolute truth. Even before domain tasting and $6.95 domains($0.99.info at times) spammers had plenty enough cashflow to pay for any domain name and still make a hefty profit from adspace, etc. I'd say payback on a domain would be at least 10 times what you paid for it, likely in the order of hundreds or thousands. I have poorly marketed sites that pull their weight in ad revenue over the course of a year, and OTOH I have acquaintances("greyhat" spammers) who "splog" and make $10,000 a month. To do so they said one has to dedicate themselves to setting up at least 10 new domains per day, every day. With a 30-day month, that's $3,000-ish in domain names and, assuming they're not using botnets for this, they likely pay close to another $3,000/mo for hosting and yet still clear $10,000. It would be safe to say that the further one embraces the Dark Side, the better the pay.
It's pretty decent. If you are simply standing on solid ground, it won't fool you very well because there's the proprioceptive "sense" which comes mostly from weight shifts in the joints but they got around that by making the wearer stand/sit on what is basically a memory foam pad that causes you to have to constantly adjust your weight in order to be stable. Right now my MotionWare is sitting on a shelf doing nothing(I can see it right now) as it has for the last 7 years or so since they dropped development. I've considered selling it to someone who has inner ear problems because it's supposed to have been developed from the technology in that field. That seems a bit of a waste but I've not had any luck selling it as a VR device though you'd think that some developer would want one for a keepsake if nothing else.
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I know you're being funny but FYI, Robert Palmer, who sang "Addicted to Love", died in 2003.
and is one of the seven SI base units.
B-b-b-b-b-but I thought SI was always base-10, that clearly says 7.
No, not over a single year's span, but it would be easy to determine over several years/decades/centuries.
None of what you wrote proves that mankind's use of oil is the cause of the climate change. Your assertion requires that I pretend we didn't exist and then later that I pretend that I accept that we ARE the change. That's simply not going to convince me, or anyone else with common sense, sorry.
I actually never said that volcanoes spew ANY CO2. They spew sulfur dioxide that, when combined with moisture in the air, turns into sulfuric acid, that sulfuric acid then acts like a bunch of little tiny mirrors that reflects the light/heat from the sun back out into space which then causes a cooling effect. This HAS been observed.
The irony in your statement is astounding. Do you think the full game is just going to appear magically? If not then someone has to create it and you've just said that you expect to be paid if you create so I guess you're fine with your hypocrisy in wanting to download it from TPB instead of paying them?
"The most dramatic CO2/Temperature increase in history just HAPPENS to coincide with mankind figuring out that they could burn shit from underground."
Ever wonder why the word "coincidence" often has the phrase "just happens to" associated with it? Have you ever wondered why it matches when we *started* figuring this out and were barely using it versus when we were/are at peak usage? Seeing as how volcanoes have more of a measurable and directly observable impact than anything we've ever done, I'm not really buying the whole "mankind burning oil caused this" hypothesis; one good eruption and our global temp has the potential to drop by 1/2 degree or more, yet somehow we're supposed to have some form of effect that is (not so)surprisingly not so easy to observe and/or correlate.
You're talking about *written* records and I suspect the GP is talking about other sources of information like geological, archaeological, etc.
Oh, and I'm a mostly-organic gardener and I have the weeds to prove it.
The hour of weeding is done about 5 minutes per week. And what do you mean by "intially prepare his growing plot" specifically? You mean when I first tilled it when it was still covered in grass and weeds? That took 2 hours about 10 years ago and has long been lost to the law of averages; if you're talking about the yearly preparation, that's 1/2 hour of tilling in the spring and one in the fall and I add all my fertilizer, peat, etc. when I do that so it's not the chore you make it out to be.
And I don't worry about pests. I produce enough that giving a few tomatoes to the insects is a small sacrifice, and I've never had a problem with pests eating my habaneros, jalapenos and I'm quite certain they won't touch my new "Ghost Chiles".
Why would it have to be self-maintaining? Sun + water + plants = growth, and I don't worry about pests and weeds are taken care of in a matter of about 5 minutes per week. So unless you have some point you're trying to make otherwise, I call bullshit on you.
Those are good points but there are ways around letting a client make multiple copies of software e.g. a license server, and if the client came to you, they likely don't have someone who is competent enough to alter the source code or else that person would/should have been in charge of finding the software so they could then alter it in the first place.
Gardening might not be totally free but rather an investment because I harvest about $1,000(retail) of vegetables from my garden every year for the investment of about $50 in fertilizer/plants/seeds, an hour of tilling(once in spring and once in autumn) and less than an hour of weeding, etc. over the spring/summer. Even if I charged the $150/hr that I make normally, I still come out way ahead. Gardening has a better cost/benefits ratio since you don't have to deal with storage, distribution, profit margins and taxation.
The parent's comment is proof positive there needs to be a "Sad but True" for moderation.
You mean it can be 50 ft tall? Nope, it can't...yet. That's my point, they would be able to make it any way they like and in an virtually unexhaustible supply versus harvesting a couple feet of it per cow.
Over 10 years ago I was speculating that we could move to cloned meat due to genetics, and strangely I kept wondering if people who were vegetarians for religious purposes would eat it if there was no suffering by an animal. I kept thinking that since filet mignon is judged by how "tall", not wide, it is, it would be a trivial task to make it as tall as you could stand it.
I NEVER say this but...I'm proud of PETA on this one. I normally rail against them and their fucked up practices but this is one instance that I would happily stand behind them because this is a win-win situation.
If Psystar did their job correctly, they will have planned for Apple to attempt to make the OS incompatible and have some form of BIOS/firmware upgrade available. I however think it is HIGHLY irresponsible of them to even offer OS/X with it as it will only attract Apple's attention and you never know what will happen when one wakens a sleeping giant.
Another example, and my favorite, is to dress like a delivery driver and carry a pizza bag. While even the most strict security will check you at the front door, once you're in you will find that you have pretty much free access. Same goes for wearing overalls(and as mentioned below, a hard hat helps at times) and holding a metal clipboard.
Correct, and IIRC the company was a bank.
While I think you are correct, there is a dangerous trend in the marketplace to sue the entire supply chain over patent claims.
Have you forgotten that it is Micro$oft's doing that Vista drivers are incompatible with XP drivers thanks to the whole signing of the drivers thing? At least in that way, they do carry some of the burden.
This is the exact same reasoning that needs to be considered when people start referring to "wifi theft" since a huge portion of it is completely automated for the user.
You speak the absolute truth. Even before domain tasting and $6.95 domains($0.99 .info at times) spammers had plenty enough cashflow to pay for any domain name and still make a hefty profit from adspace, etc. I'd say payback on a domain would be at least 10 times what you paid for it, likely in the order of hundreds or thousands. I have poorly marketed sites that pull their weight in ad revenue over the course of a year, and OTOH I have acquaintances("greyhat" spammers) who "splog" and make $10,000 a month. To do so they said one has to dedicate themselves to setting up at least 10 new domains per day, every day. With a 30-day month, that's $3,000-ish in domain names and, assuming they're not using botnets for this, they likely pay close to another $3,000/mo for hosting and yet still clear $10,000. It would be safe to say that the further one embraces the Dark Side, the better the pay.
Sorry for the delay.
It's pretty decent. If you are simply standing on solid ground, it won't fool you very well because there's the proprioceptive "sense" which comes mostly from weight shifts in the joints but they got around that by making the wearer stand/sit on what is basically a memory foam pad that causes you to have to constantly adjust your weight in order to be stable. Right now my MotionWare is sitting on a shelf doing nothing(I can see it right now) as it has for the last 7 years or so since they dropped development. I've considered selling it to someone who has inner ear problems because it's supposed to have been developed from the technology in that field. That seems a bit of a waste but I've not had any luck selling it as a VR device though you'd think that some developer would want one for a keepsake if nothing else.