Awesome. Now if I'm right neither of us is going to exist in any meaningful form after we're dead, but if you're right, you'll be in hell right alongside me for eternity. You did know lying is a pretty big sin, right?
See you in the lake of fire. Hope you remember to bring something to read other than poorly written transcripts of millennia old oral tradition superstitions!
When I pointed out that Carbon Dating ONLY works on past living material and that it was false to use the metal blade, his argument was that I was wrong and Dobson was correct in using it.
Thats when you assign him a research project on the science of carbon dating, with requirements for quotes from scholarly sources, and tell him his grade hinges on getting it right. Then laugh in his face and go home to have sex with your partner of choice.
We won't get more critical thinkers coming out of the education system until the system learns to value good questions just as much as correct answers. Often a question will tell you more about what someone knows about a subject than having them provide an answer.
This idiot shows up all over the place and seems to be ignorant about every topic he posts on. Doesn't surprise me that he would post some electric universe crap in a discussion about evolution.
The best way to explain it that I've heard is to think of water vapor as the gas tank, and CO2 emissions like the spark plug. Without the spark plugs there to ignite the gas and start the cycle and keep it going, the gas isn't going to get pulled from the tank and burned and the engine isn't going to start. The analogy kind of falls apart though, because in the case of climate change once you start the engine you don't need the spark plugs anymore, the water vapor will eventually be enough to feed back on itself and cause a runaway effect. It probably won't be permanent (or we'd be living on venus) but it will certainly make the planet unlivable for us long enough to cause most of the humans and other animals and crops we depend on for life to die out. We might be able to use Antarctica as an ark, but chances are a jealous government will nuke it rather than let someone else have it...
I can do the job better than many men who are paid for the job.
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... he said as he frenetically licked the cheeto reside from his fingers, typing with the other hand and screaming in muffled tones, "Shut up Mom, I'll come up for dinner later, I'm trying to post to slashdot!"
Of course the majority in every field, especially science, is ALWAYS right. If you were to go to the trouble to study the history of science or any other human endeavor, you would note that the majority has NEVER, even one time, come up with any significant progress for humanity. It has always been the lone Newton, Copernicus, Roemer, Kepler, Darwin, Einstein, Maxwell, Roentgen and countless others that challenged the majority status quo and brought about quantum jumps in scientific understanding. All of them were at first fought tooth and nail by the majority establishment.
You don't know what you're talking about. Advances in science are done slowly, over many years, with hundreds, thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of people contributing to the slow increase of knowledge. The people you talk about then build off of this knowledge and have a leap of intuition that shows a new way to interpret the work of these many, many hard working scientists. Einstein did not spring wholely formed from his father's brow. And for every Einstein, there are thousands of crackpot morons who think they've "figured it all out" and are wrong in such horribly obvious ways that it isn't even worth the time of the scientific community to correct them.
By the way, why should anyone give any consideration to your assertions when you use the term "quantum leap," one of the popular staples of bad science journalists. Anyone with even a basic understanding of what the word "quantum" means would know that a quantum leap in a science is the smallest possible increment of change.
Exactly. Which is why you should check the massive body of peer reviewed science out there to see what the scientific consensus (which is not based on "popular opinion") is. Except you don't care enough to do that, this is all political showmanship to you and your ilk. What you fail to realize is that by failing to act, we're headed for hell on earth.
Now you're just making shit up. There are one of two things going on here: either you haven't read the IPCC reports or you didn't understand them. The same goes for all your fellow travellers in the climate change deniers circles.
My parents' generation just enslaved mine to the Chinese for several trillion dollars rather than face the prospect that they might have royally fucked themselves in their attempts to extract money from nothing.
You just don't understand zero-point economics! We can extract money from the false vaccum!
A flash mob is a phenomenon where people hear about something happening somewhere in the world (either through the "grapevine" or on the news) and all decide to use teleport booths to go there all at the same time. The mob "flashes' into existence and the people can and do often join in on any chaos, causing simple situations to often escalate into full blown riots in the space of a few minutes. Luckily, police recently figured out that they could redirect the teleportation booths into a riot control center, where all the people trying to enter a given address block of booths would be routed and processed, and charged if they showed any criminal intent.
And for those of you uncultured slobs who have no idea what I'm talking about, go to Amazon and start buying books by "Larry Niven."
It is hard for homeless people to maintain the basic equipment for bank robbing. Even if they somehow get their hands on a gun, getting ammo can be hard.
Even more importantly, a vast number of the homeless are suffering from mental illness in moderate to large degrees. Other than people made homeless temporarily by circumstance (forclosure, etc) who are largely only homeless for short (months at a time) periods and never reach a "rob a bank" level of desperation (they have hope that they can get back on their feet), homeless populations are largely made up of people kicked out of mental institutions, stamped 'well', and given a bus ticket and a twenty dollar bill.
Its good to see them backing sensible reforms to end needless piracy by shortening the copyright term to 18 years with a single 18 year extension while also reforming patent laws to outlaw software and buisiness model patents and change the review process for normal patents to make it easier for 3rd parties to file prior art.
Oh wait a minute, I think when they said "reform" they meant to say "ruin."
such security fixes could dry up overnight on a OSS project.
Wow, really? You're really trying that line of reasoning here? Do you even understand what Open Source Software means?
Look, if you're using open source software and the security fixes "dry up overnight" and you're the UK government, you know what you do? You hire a couple of programmers to download the source and start providing fixes. If you're using Microsoft and Redmond decides they need to lay off 5000 people including the team that is working on the bug fixes for the product you're using.... you sit around and wait and send angry letters and make angry phone calls and hope that Redmond decides to provide some customer service, and scream and stomp your foot and both of you realize you can't do anything because all your data is tied up in propriatary formats.
I suspected as much but didn't have time to do more than the basic research before I had to scoot off to class. As soon as I read the summary I had a "Balmer, I knew I recognized your stench when they brought me on board" moment.
"Our own research, however, has concluded that open source software exposes users to significant and unnecessary business risk, as the security is often overlooked, making users more vulnerable to security breaches," said Fortify vice president, Richard Kirk.
US outfit Fortify Software has come up with research to prove it.
Uh, wow, a US company that sells software doesn't want the British government to switch to open source software? What a radical position to take! Of course, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that its hard to price gouge a rich government for security software if they're not running propriatary crap. I'm sure if they had their way the Brits would all be running Vista and MS Office.
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Awesome. Now if I'm right neither of us is going to exist in any meaningful form after we're dead, but if you're right, you'll be in hell right alongside me for eternity. You did know lying is a pretty big sin, right?
See you in the lake of fire. Hope you remember to bring something to read other than poorly written transcripts of millennia old oral tradition superstitions!
When I pointed out that Carbon Dating ONLY works on past living material and that it was false to use the metal blade, his argument was that I was wrong and Dobson was correct in using it.
Thats when you assign him a research project on the science of carbon dating, with requirements for quotes from scholarly sources, and tell him his grade hinges on getting it right. Then laugh in his face and go home to have sex with your partner of choice.
We won't get more critical thinkers coming out of the education system until the system learns to value good questions just as much as correct answers. Often a question will tell you more about what someone knows about a subject than having them provide an answer.
This idiot shows up all over the place and seems to be ignorant about every topic he posts on. Doesn't surprise me that he would post some electric universe crap in a discussion about evolution.
Mmmm... eyeballs....
Billy can you run next door and get a cup of molten salt from Mrs. Smith? We're all out. There's a dear.
Also the UK government didn't buy any salt for the snow we had this week because they thought global warming wasn't going to make it cold enough
You do realize that those guys on talk radio lie to you, right? Right?
Never heard of tenure eh? Not surprising from an anti-intellectual.
The best way to explain it that I've heard is to think of water vapor as the gas tank, and CO2 emissions like the spark plug. Without the spark plugs there to ignite the gas and start the cycle and keep it going, the gas isn't going to get pulled from the tank and burned and the engine isn't going to start. The analogy kind of falls apart though, because in the case of climate change once you start the engine you don't need the spark plugs anymore, the water vapor will eventually be enough to feed back on itself and cause a runaway effect. It probably won't be permanent (or we'd be living on venus) but it will certainly make the planet unlivable for us long enough to cause most of the humans and other animals and crops we depend on for life to die out. We might be able to use Antarctica as an ark, but chances are a jealous government will nuke it rather than let someone else have it...
You ignorant shits amaze me. You really have no idea how the IPCC works do you?
I can do the job better than many men who are paid for the job.
...
Of course the majority in every field, especially science, is ALWAYS right. If you were to go to the trouble to study the history of science or any other human endeavor, you would note that the majority has NEVER, even one time, come up with any significant progress for humanity. It has always been the lone Newton, Copernicus, Roemer, Kepler, Darwin, Einstein, Maxwell, Roentgen and countless others that challenged the majority status quo and brought about quantum jumps in scientific understanding. All of them were at first fought tooth and nail by the majority establishment.
You don't know what you're talking about. Advances in science are done slowly, over many years, with hundreds, thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of people contributing to the slow increase of knowledge. The people you talk about then build off of this knowledge and have a leap of intuition that shows a new way to interpret the work of these many, many hard working scientists. Einstein did not spring wholely formed from his father's brow. And for every Einstein, there are thousands of crackpot morons who think they've "figured it all out" and are wrong in such horribly obvious ways that it isn't even worth the time of the scientific community to correct them.
By the way, why should anyone give any consideration to your assertions when you use the term "quantum leap," one of the popular staples of bad science journalists. Anyone with even a basic understanding of what the word "quantum" means would know that a quantum leap in a science is the smallest possible increment of change.
Moron.
But, popular opinion does not make science.
Exactly. Which is why you should check the massive body of peer reviewed science out there to see what the scientific consensus (which is not based on "popular opinion") is. Except you don't care enough to do that, this is all political showmanship to you and your ilk. What you fail to realize is that by failing to act, we're headed for hell on earth.
Now you're just making shit up. There are one of two things going on here: either you haven't read the IPCC reports or you didn't understand them. The same goes for all your fellow travellers in the climate change deniers circles.
My parents' generation just enslaved mine to the Chinese for several trillion dollars rather than face the prospect that they might have royally fucked themselves in their attempts to extract money from nothing.
You just don't understand zero-point economics! We can extract money from the false vaccum!
A flash mob is a phenomenon where people hear about something happening somewhere in the world (either through the "grapevine" or on the news) and all decide to use teleport booths to go there all at the same time. The mob "flashes' into existence and the people can and do often join in on any chaos, causing simple situations to often escalate into full blown riots in the space of a few minutes. Luckily, police recently figured out that they could redirect the teleportation booths into a riot control center, where all the people trying to enter a given address block of booths would be routed and processed, and charged if they showed any criminal intent.
And for those of you uncultured slobs who have no idea what I'm talking about, go to Amazon and start buying books by "Larry Niven."
It is hard for homeless people to maintain the basic equipment for bank robbing. Even if they somehow get their hands on a gun, getting ammo can be hard.
Even more importantly, a vast number of the homeless are suffering from mental illness in moderate to large degrees. Other than people made homeless temporarily by circumstance (forclosure, etc) who are largely only homeless for short (months at a time) periods and never reach a "rob a bank" level of desperation (they have hope that they can get back on their feet), homeless populations are largely made up of people kicked out of mental institutions, stamped 'well', and given a bus ticket and a twenty dollar bill.
if by justice system you mean prison industry, then yes, everything is working as intended!
I think learnding is a perfectly cromulent word.
Its good to see them backing sensible reforms to end needless piracy by shortening the copyright term to 18 years with a single 18 year extension while also reforming patent laws to outlaw software and buisiness model patents and change the review process for normal patents to make it easier for 3rd parties to file prior art.
Oh wait a minute, I think when they said "reform" they meant to say "ruin."
such security fixes could dry up overnight on a OSS project.
Wow, really? You're really trying that line of reasoning here? Do you even understand what Open Source Software means?
Look, if you're using open source software and the security fixes "dry up overnight" and you're the UK government, you know what you do? You hire a couple of programmers to download the source and start providing fixes. If you're using Microsoft and Redmond decides they need to lay off 5000 people including the team that is working on the bug fixes for the product you're using.... you sit around and wait and send angry letters and make angry phone calls and hope that Redmond decides to provide some customer service, and scream and stomp your foot and both of you realize you can't do anything because all your data is tied up in propriatary formats.
Wow, that was hard to reason out, now wasn't it?
I suspected as much but didn't have time to do more than the basic research before I had to scoot off to class. As soon as I read the summary I had a "Balmer, I knew I recognized your stench when they brought me on board" moment.
Not to mention its an American company with a product to sell, and that product's utility is strongly diminished by using open source software.
"Our own research, however, has concluded that open source software exposes users to significant and unnecessary business risk, as the security is often overlooked, making users more vulnerable to security breaches," said Fortify vice president, Richard Kirk.
US outfit Fortify Software has come up with research to prove it.
Uh, wow, a US company that sells software doesn't want the British government to switch to open source software? What a radical position to take! Of course, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that its hard to price gouge a rich government for security software if they're not running propriatary crap. I'm sure if they had their way the Brits would all be running Vista and MS Office.
Its good to know I'm not the only one who thought Mark Whalburg was just trying to set a new fashion trend in the end of The Departed.