That ice age was the expected result of the "natural cycles" you idiots like to babble endlessly about. The fact that we're going the opposite direction should have you seriously concerned.
A lot of people's expectations for the consequences of global warming is the sudden deaths of hundreds of thousands, not wide-ranging low-grade economic impacts that risk hundreds of millions in property damage and puts a strain on global food supply.
We're trained to notice disaster, not statistical drift. There will never be the "event" from global warming, which means denial will continue as the costs keep ramping up.
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Oh my god, how dare someone self-identify. People aren't allowed to have their own identities, only the ones you give them.
I'm fairly sure psychopathy is considered a personality disorder, and thus NOT a mental illness. The distinction carries with it certain attributes about treatability, severity, and chemical explanation.
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I don't ask that they name their products to my whims, just that the idiots who submit the articles acknowledge that not everyone has heard of their stupid favorite library.
How does one delineate property borders in space? Orbits with respect to earth's location? The sun's? From Lagrange points? How do I know if you're leaving your space junk in my space-yard?
Not quite, but within most people's understanding of mental illness.
, it's a dysfunction of certain regions of the brain.
Definitely false. Psychopathy is not believed to be caused by failed brain function.
Lack of empathy is a clear indicator of the malfunction.
No, no it isn't. It's a single symptom, one that it shares with other conditions. People are known to be willing to kill dehumanized subjects, without any mental illness, or mentally justify their actions a host of ways. No licensed psychiatrist would diagnose Psychopathy(which is a term that has fallen out of favor for sociopathy and a few other conditions) just on a lack of empathy.
Superficial glibness, cruelty to animals, numerous minor criminal offenses, repeated instances of lack of self control. If you can provide evidence of more than one symptom your argument would have a lot more merit.
No, he wasn't clearly mentally ill. I'm all for publicly funding mental health, but the only mental issue Lanza had was very high functioning autism.
It's really only apparent anything at all was "wrong" was after he slaughtered 28 people. Given that he first killed his mother, then drove elsewhere with the organized intent of killing, it's safe to say he made a conscious decision of some kind to engage in murder.
A good example of a bad summary
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This is like the millionth time that we've had a headline that is "Open source project whose name does not imply function releases new version" And a summary that is "The version number, which we're happy to tell you, was highly anticipated, but forget any discussion of what the project is".
I know we like open source here, but if the project is anything other than linux, a major distro, or a major programming language, this is awful editting, that repeats over and over. Not even mentioning any new features is inexcusable.
For everyone else: Qt is a library/framework for developing GUI applications.
Nope, these are only guidelines. The state reserves the right to punish whomever it wants. The law still says all those completely harmless things are still illegal.
I agree, but other studies find differently: Link.
In particular, if you look at the data from the first study, there was basically just no p >.05 for that correlation. Mass transit can be an important part of long-term congestion reduction, but it hasn't worked everywhere. In context, it has worked here, charlotte, NC.
Because evidence indicates that roadway expansions do not reduce congestion, but increase it in the medium term: study. You know what reduced congestion in my city? Mass transit. They put in a train and more buses, and the congestion in the area dropped substantially.
No, see that would still be regulating guns. Republican NRA types hate the Switzerland model too. Having to be competent, sane, safe with your gun, as well as liable for its usage? TOTALITARIAN. No seriously. I've spoken to enough people who, when filled on the specifics also find it to be unacceptable.
I forget... how many people died? It was a lot compared to the better armed U.S. populace, right?
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I don't know why you left the 90's and 2000's out of that. The 90s granted us the era of inane sitcom dominance, and the 2000s gave us the reality television tsunami and 24 hour news. It's too early to say whether the 2010's dramas are going to be a predominantly good or bad thing.
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Way to cite an editorial that provides no sources for its data as if it were a valid point.
That ice age was the expected result of the "natural cycles" you idiots like to babble endlessly about. The fact that we're going the opposite direction should have you seriously concerned.
A lot of people's expectations for the consequences of global warming is the sudden deaths of hundreds of thousands, not wide-ranging low-grade economic impacts that risk hundreds of millions in property damage and puts a strain on global food supply.
We're trained to notice disaster, not statistical drift. There will never be the "event" from global warming, which means denial will continue as the costs keep ramping up.
Oh my god, how dare someone self-identify. People aren't allowed to have their own identities, only the ones you give them.
Then along comes another satellite occupying a coterminous orbit. Oops.
Come on, think man.
No, it doesn't provide conclusive evidence thereof. Another study I linked elsewhere in the thread did.
Tell that to satellite owners.
I'm fairly sure psychopathy is considered a personality disorder, and thus NOT a mental illness. The distinction carries with it certain attributes about treatability, severity, and chemical explanation.
I don't ask that they name their products to my whims, just that the idiots who submit the articles acknowledge that not everyone has heard of their stupid favorite library.
How does one delineate property borders in space? Orbits with respect to earth's location? The sun's? From Lagrange points? How do I know if you're leaving your space junk in my space-yard?
Serious question.
Psychopathy is a mental illness
Not quite, but within most people's understanding of mental illness.
, it's a dysfunction of certain regions of the brain.
Definitely false. Psychopathy is not believed to be caused by failed brain function.
Lack of empathy is a clear indicator of the malfunction.
No, no it isn't. It's a single symptom, one that it shares with other conditions. People are known to be willing to kill dehumanized subjects, without any mental illness, or mentally justify their actions a host of ways. No licensed psychiatrist would diagnose Psychopathy(which is a term that has fallen out of favor for sociopathy and a few other conditions) just on a lack of empathy.
Superficial glibness, cruelty to animals, numerous minor criminal offenses, repeated instances of lack of self control. If you can provide evidence of more than one symptom your argument would have a lot more merit.
Believe it or not, that's very informative. That tells you it's redundant, rather than risky or damaging.
A comment explaining why a line of code is commented out also never hurts.
No, he wasn't clearly mentally ill. I'm all for publicly funding mental health, but the only mental issue Lanza had was very high functioning autism.
It's really only apparent anything at all was "wrong" was after he slaughtered 28 people. Given that he first killed his mother, then drove elsewhere with the organized intent of killing, it's safe to say he made a conscious decision of some kind to engage in murder.
This is like the millionth time that we've had a headline that is "Open source project whose name does not imply function releases new version"
And a summary that is "The version number, which we're happy to tell you, was highly anticipated, but forget any discussion of what the project is".
I know we like open source here, but if the project is anything other than linux, a major distro, or a major programming language, this is awful editting, that repeats over and over. Not even mentioning any new features is inexcusable.
For everyone else: Qt is a library/framework for developing GUI applications.
Nope, these are only guidelines. The state reserves the right to punish whomever it wants. The law still says all those completely harmless things are still illegal.
I agree, but other studies find differently: Link.
In particular, if you look at the data from the first study, there was basically just no p > .05 for that correlation. Mass transit can be an important part of long-term congestion reduction, but it hasn't worked everywhere. In context, it has worked here, charlotte, NC.
You aren't really familiar with how cable TV worked, are you?
Because evidence indicates that roadway expansions do not reduce congestion, but increase it in the medium term: study. You know what reduced congestion in my city? Mass transit. They put in a train and more buses, and the congestion in the area dropped substantially.
U.S. almost never does concurrent sentences.
You can nuke the bits and destroy the disk. They aren't mutually exclusive operations.
Yeah, I'm sure all those five year olds totally would be better off if they had guns.
No, see that would still be regulating guns. Republican NRA types hate the Switzerland model too. Having to be competent, sane, safe with your gun, as well as liable for its usage? TOTALITARIAN. No seriously. I've spoken to enough people who, when filled on the specifics also find it to be unacceptable.
I forget... how many people died? It was a lot compared to the better armed U.S. populace, right?
I don't know why you left the 90's and 2000's out of that. The 90s granted us the era of inane sitcom dominance, and the 2000s gave us the reality television tsunami and 24 hour news. It's too early to say whether the 2010's dramas are going to be a predominantly good or bad thing.