Week after week, month after month, year after year we get stories of how much better one or other incarnation of Linux is on your PC than Windows x.x. And yet MisFit a.k.a Microsoft thunders on still doing business, still the standard across the globe.
Fact is for most people, even many geeks, operating systems are yesterday's news unless you are a keen hacker. I use operating systems because they support applications I need. Windows supports most applications so I use it. Rarely do I have to fire up a Linux and when I do it is because I need a specific app (usally OS) not available on XP. Vista, I'll get round to that sometime.
Exactly - imagine how lefty slash dotters would squeal if the situation was reversed.
The bigger question is the power that sites like Google have in controlling what we have access to. Sure you can get it elsewhere, but Google search is now a major conduit for selecting info.
I suspect Google's "Do no evil" is not what is is cracked up to be.
Darl McBride is a fine example of the lack of justice in the US court system. His immense incompetence and cynicism destroyed a company that - if managed correctly - could have benefited from OS or at least lived with it while still using the SCO name. Instead he went down the litigation route making millions for himself while destroying the company.
Only the kids who have electricity will be able to pull these scams. The others will use them as a lid to stop the chickens eating the corn in the pot. Only a geek could come up with such an impractical use of resources for the developing world. A kind of "let them eat cake" solution for the developing world poor.
A ship sailed from Vancouver to Halifax via the Northwest passage in 1940.
The ship was called the St Roch. It was captained by Henry Larsen.
The achievement was overshadowed by the start of WWII.
Larsen made a return trip in 1944.
Bet a $1,000 that the scientist(s) conducting the experiment are liberals. Increasingly one sees it over and over in science - experiments structured to confirm not a hypothesis, but a political point of view (dare I say prejudice). Global warming, HIV, reading ability, intelligence etc. etc.
Puzzling why they don't simply use a good old pencil and paper. The cost of one hand held can provide lots of paper and pencils and/or medicine. Years ago I worked in a hospital in Swaziland and rule lined exercise books for recording medicial situations did quite well. But things and understanding moves on so can the poster please explain the benfits of the hand held approach.
May I draw your attention to the following articles that indeed show there is a correlation between Mars and Earth's tmeperature changes. Religion is a system based on belief not fact: I see you have got Global Warming Religion. "Gaia blesses you:>".............
Two new developments in climate science are rocking the media driven "consensus" on global warming. National Geographic has an article from February 28, 2007 entitled, "Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says," and a February 26, 2007 release from the Danish National Space Center announced "A new theory of climate change", detailing the "remarkable results of research on cosmic rays and climate." (See also: Climate Skeptics Vindicated as Growing Number of Scientists & Politicians Oppose Alarmism & Panel of Broadcast Meteorologists Reject Man-Made Global Warming Fears- Claim 95% of Weathermen Skeptical )
Most people who believe in God don't smear ash on their face or even go to church on Sunday (as you claim). Hyperbole seems silly in such a discussion. I recall that Einstein was a believer in God though he did not specifically follow any faith. I guess by your standards he wasn't much of a scientist. It may surprise you that many people who are religious do not find it incompatible with evolution. Sure there believers who do immoral things, but then again there are plenty of non-believers e.g. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot who have not led particularly moral lives either. I am not much of a believer, but wonder why you are so strident in your non-belief - almost as if you have a kind of proselytzing faith called atheism? You seem desperately keen to impose your (non) belief on others. Clearly 'belief' comes in many shapes and forms.
Great posting....... I was going to ask him why he seemed so obsessed with God not existing - and trying to impose his views on others (since it does not seem to matter one way or the other). But you did is much more elegantly.
You must be aware of two things: the last D-O event is loosely spoken of as an ice-age and the events are characterized by rapid temperature changes. Mann's hockey stick graph of current temperature changes has been debunked (some believe) or at least seriously questioned by a number of researchers - in other words temperature changes are probably not occuring at the rate originally suggested.
The National Academy follow up was ambiguous regarding Mann's claims about the recent decade being the hottest on record.
There are differences of opinion regarding the recent little ice age. There appears to be 3 to 4 minima with the most extreme occuring in the 1700s.
The real point, which you seem to gloss over, is not whether global warming exists, but rather whether the warming is man made or natural. Hansen's rantings come down unequivocally on the side of man made warming - he seems to lay the blame almost at ExonMobil's door. Inconvenient facts such as the planet Mars also heating up or previous warming period are simply ignored with the argument that "this time it is happening faster".
Do you understand that the left wing MSM have a vested interest in reporting and talking up all conclusions that indicate man made global warming is occuring? And that Hansen has indeed strayed into the MSM with his almost hysterical defence of his position. Also do you understand that your posting is incredibly condescending.
12,000 years or so ago Eastern Canada and the US was under a sheet of us about 1 kilometer thick. Water levels were much lower and indeed Beringia - connecting Asia to the American landmass existed. Then inexplicably over a relatively short period of time - about 2,000 years - the ice melted. So climate change can be rapid. Similarly in the mini ice age of the 1700s the Thames in London froze. This mini ice age lasted about 50 years. Again relatively short time periods.
So do not assume all rapid climate change is man made. We simply don't know (despite Hansen's passionate non-scientific pleas to the contrary).
I see, it is all settled then. The high priest of man made global warming has spoken. The rest are deniers. One solution to the problem is to execute all deniers. Soon we will have a mighty consensus and when warming stops in 20 or 30 years the church of global warming can claim a victory in saving the planet.
Perhaps the most succinct, but pertinent posting in the debate: Hansen's letter has a proselytizing zeal about it that goes far beyond normal scientific discussion.
Are you responses always so garbled or is it because you are worked up that anyone might question the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis. I write from Toronto that 10,000 years ago was under a kilometre of ice. Evidence suggests it melted in about 2,500 years. Pretty fast for a kilometre of ice.
I guess it was those first nations, crossing over Beringia, that caused the problem with their stone age SUVs.
Surely you don't just blindly trust 'experts' - in about 1974 the 'Club of Rome' report done by the leading experts of the time report predicted catastrophic societal collapse well before the turn of the century. They were wrong. Paul Erhlich, the foremost population scientist of the 60s and 70s, predicted in the "Population Bomb' book, population collapse before the turn of the century. Another expert wrong.
Maybe you've got to live a bit longer to discover experts and their models are often no better at predicting outcomes than the man in the street, or worse, a simple coin flip.
Aussie and the UK are not the only places that discourage complex study. When I lived in New Zealand the school actively discouraged studying math and indeed encouraged my daughter to take the hair dressing option. (As an aside I should mention that my daughter is now an economist with an economics masters degree)
The 'dumbing down' schooling was one of the main reasons we decided to leave NZ for North America. Despite all the problems of NA there is at least an attempt here by certain schools to encourage higher educational aspirations. In NZ (or at least in Auckland) many kids were encouraged to leave school at 16.
Not only governments, but scandalously news agencies like Associated Press too (which is almost worse since one naturally distrusts governments, but is more forgving of news agencies). Recall in the recent war in Lebanon there was an AP photographer who merrily doctored images and added content to his war pictures - and even simpler than Photoshop he just posed pictures. It may be that this has been going on for longer than we realize.
Oh how cloyingly politically correct. The fact is that all humans once hunted animals. Then we moved on. Time for these "indigenous people" to do the same. I bet when they are not hunting they are at the local MacDonalds like everyone else. The reason you had bacon this morning is that there are pigs specially farmed for consumption. In fact I'd put money on it that whale meat is not their main source of food. So why kill this old whale. Bit like the Eskimos - oops sorry, Inuit, who hunt seals using Skidoos and SeaDoos and high powered rifles and then claim it is an ancestral thing.
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Week after week, month after month, year after year we get stories of how much better one or other incarnation of Linux is on your PC than Windows x.x. And yet MisFit a.k.a Microsoft thunders on still doing business, still the standard across the globe.
Fact is for most people, even many geeks, operating systems are yesterday's news unless you are a keen hacker. I use operating systems because they support applications I need. Windows supports most applications so I use it. Rarely do I have to fire up a Linux and when I do it is because I need a specific app (usally OS) not available on XP. Vista, I'll get round to that sometime.
Exactly - imagine how lefty slash dotters would squeal if the situation was reversed. The bigger question is the power that sites like Google have in controlling what we have access to. Sure you can get it elsewhere, but Google search is now a major conduit for selecting info. I suspect Google's "Do no evil" is not what is is cracked up to be.
They are all the rage in the Middle East
The Black Swan effect. Lack of evidence does not prove the non existance or possibility of something.
Darl McBride is a fine example of the lack of justice in the US court system. His immense incompetence and cynicism destroyed a company that - if managed correctly - could have benefited from OS or at least lived with it while still using the SCO name. Instead he went down the litigation route making millions for himself while destroying the company.
Only the kids who have electricity will be able to pull these scams. The others will use them as a lid to stop the chickens eating the corn in the pot. Only a geek could come up with such an impractical use of resources for the developing world. A kind of "let them eat cake" solution for the developing world poor.
A ship sailed from Vancouver to Halifax via the Northwest passage in 1940. The ship was called the St Roch. It was captained by Henry Larsen. The achievement was overshadowed by the start of WWII. Larsen made a return trip in 1944.
Bet a $1,000 that the scientist(s) conducting the experiment are liberals. Increasingly one sees it over and over in science - experiments structured to confirm not a hypothesis, but a political point of view (dare I say prejudice). Global warming, HIV, reading ability, intelligence etc. etc.
Puzzling why they don't simply use a good old pencil and paper. The cost of one hand held can provide lots of paper and pencils and/or medicine. Years ago I worked in a hospital in Swaziland and rule lined exercise books for recording medicial situations did quite well. But things and understanding moves on so can the poster please explain the benfits of the hand held approach.
Isn't the number 42
Nothing wrong with his name :> Hout = wood; Koop=buy.
May I draw your attention to the following articles that indeed show there is a correlation between Mars and Earth's tmeperature changes. Religion is a system based on belief not fact: I see you have got Global Warming Religion. "Gaia blesses you :>" .............
Two new developments in climate science are rocking the media driven "consensus" on global warming. National Geographic has an article from February 28, 2007 entitled, "Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says," and a February 26, 2007 release from the Danish National Space Center announced "A new theory of climate change", detailing the "remarkable results of research on cosmic rays and climate." (See also: Climate Skeptics Vindicated as Growing Number of Scientists & Politicians Oppose Alarmism & Panel of Broadcast Meteorologists Reject Man-Made Global Warming Fears- Claim 95% of Weathermen Skeptical )
Most people who believe in God don't smear ash on their face or even go to church on Sunday (as you claim). Hyperbole seems silly in such a discussion. I recall that Einstein was a believer in God though he did not specifically follow any faith. I guess by your standards he wasn't much of a scientist. It may surprise you that many people who are religious do not find it incompatible with evolution. Sure there believers who do immoral things, but then again there are plenty of non-believers e.g. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot who have not led particularly moral lives either. I am not much of a believer, but wonder why you are so strident in your non-belief - almost as if you have a kind of proselytzing faith called atheism? You seem desperately keen to impose your (non) belief on others. Clearly 'belief' comes in many shapes and forms.
Great posting....... I was going to ask him why he seemed so obsessed with God not existing - and trying to impose his views on others (since it does not seem to matter one way or the other). But you did is much more elegantly.
You must be aware of two things: the last D-O event is loosely spoken of as an ice-age and the events are characterized by rapid temperature changes. Mann's hockey stick graph of current temperature changes has been debunked (some believe) or at least seriously questioned by a number of researchers - in other words temperature changes are probably not occuring at the rate originally suggested.
The National Academy follow up was ambiguous regarding Mann's claims about the recent decade being the hottest on record.
There are differences of opinion regarding the recent little ice age. There appears to be 3 to 4 minima with the most extreme occuring in the 1700s.
The real point, which you seem to gloss over, is not whether global warming exists, but rather whether the warming is man made or natural. Hansen's rantings come down unequivocally on the side of man made warming - he seems to lay the blame almost at ExonMobil's door. Inconvenient facts such as the planet Mars also heating up or previous warming period are simply ignored with the argument that "this time it is happening faster".
Do you understand that the left wing MSM have a vested interest in reporting and talking up all conclusions that indicate man made global warming is occuring? And that Hansen has indeed strayed into the MSM with his almost hysterical defence of his position. Also do you understand that your posting is incredibly condescending.
12,000 years or so ago Eastern Canada and the US was under a sheet of us about 1 kilometer thick. Water levels were much lower and indeed Beringia - connecting Asia to the American landmass existed. Then inexplicably over a relatively short period of time - about 2,000 years - the ice melted. So climate change can be rapid. Similarly in the mini ice age of the 1700s the Thames in London froze. This mini ice age lasted about 50 years. Again relatively short time periods. So do not assume all rapid climate change is man made. We simply don't know (despite Hansen's passionate non-scientific pleas to the contrary).
I see, it is all settled then. The high priest of man made global warming has spoken. The rest are deniers. One solution to the problem is to execute all deniers. Soon we will have a mighty consensus and when warming stops in 20 or 30 years the church of global warming can claim a victory in saving the planet.
Perhaps the most succinct, but pertinent posting in the debate: Hansen's letter has a proselytizing zeal about it that goes far beyond normal scientific discussion.
Are you responses always so garbled or is it because you are worked up that anyone might question the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis. I write from Toronto that 10,000 years ago was under a kilometre of ice. Evidence suggests it melted in about 2,500 years. Pretty fast for a kilometre of ice. I guess it was those first nations, crossing over Beringia, that caused the problem with their stone age SUVs. Surely you don't just blindly trust 'experts' - in about 1974 the 'Club of Rome' report done by the leading experts of the time report predicted catastrophic societal collapse well before the turn of the century. They were wrong. Paul Erhlich, the foremost population scientist of the 60s and 70s, predicted in the "Population Bomb' book, population collapse before the turn of the century. Another expert wrong. Maybe you've got to live a bit longer to discover experts and their models are often no better at predicting outcomes than the man in the street, or worse, a simple coin flip.
Aussie and the UK are not the only places that discourage complex study. When I lived in New Zealand the school actively discouraged studying math and indeed encouraged my daughter to take the hair dressing option. (As an aside I should mention that my daughter is now an economist with an economics masters degree) The 'dumbing down' schooling was one of the main reasons we decided to leave NZ for North America. Despite all the problems of NA there is at least an attempt here by certain schools to encourage higher educational aspirations. In NZ (or at least in Auckland) many kids were encouraged to leave school at 16.
Not only governments, but scandalously news agencies like Associated Press too (which is almost worse since one naturally distrusts governments, but is more forgving of news agencies). Recall in the recent war in Lebanon there was an AP photographer who merrily doctored images and added content to his war pictures - and even simpler than Photoshop he just posed pictures. It may be that this has been going on for longer than we realize.
Oh how cloyingly politically correct. The fact is that all humans once hunted animals. Then we moved on. Time for these "indigenous people" to do the same. I bet when they are not hunting they are at the local MacDonalds like everyone else. The reason you had bacon this morning is that there are pigs specially farmed for consumption. In fact I'd put money on it that whale meat is not their main source of food. So why kill this old whale. Bit like the Eskimos - oops sorry, Inuit, who hunt seals using Skidoos and SeaDoos and high powered rifles and then claim it is an ancestral thing. "Political correctness is destroying America"