I find the resistance to taking even the slightest measure a little ridiculous. Much like evolution, no one has definitively proved anything. Also like evolution, the basic mechanics are of global warming are understood and the theory has been sitting around 100+ years waiting for someone to poke holes in it (GW was first posulated in 1890). No one has.
In simpliest terms:
There is no doubt adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will tend to raise temperatures. There is no doubt that we are adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. There is no doubt that temperatures are rising.
Q.E.D.
How is global warming wishful thinking for anyone? There were people in the Bush administration who wanted to go to war in Iraq; the desire to manipulate data was there. This is not the case with global warming.
Oh, and you're "scientist" Mr. Benny Peiser takes money from ExxonMobil. He contributed to a book called Adapt or Die: The science, politics and economics of climate change (how ironic) published by the group Internation Policy Network. IPN recieves funding from ExxonMobil. (Google is your friend.)
Global warming is happening. We are contributing to it. There was more confirmation just the other day with NASA measurements. ExxonMobil and some other companies are the only reason there still exists any doubt. If you would like to understand more about how ExxonMobil pulls this off, read this.
So essentially, you trust ExxonMobil's take on Global Warming more than you trust Science and Nature's.
Some youngsters may not recall how things were when NIN released Pretty Hate Machine. industrial music wasn't popular. Glam rock was dying, and so was the 80's synth pop, and the only thing going was Hip Hop. Every junior high and high school probably had a couple Ministry fans but there wasn't much. Pretty Hate Machine was a breakthrough album for that generation, like Nirvana's first one, Bleach. It didn't sell like a pop album, but definately introduced a generation to a new style of music, with dubbed copies getting passes around alot. (NIN becoming mainstream and selling like a pop album didn't come until Closer came out on the radio, which was kinda like Nirvana's Nevermind)
It was a very big change at the time in the direction of music.
I'm a little out of the loop right now, but about a couple years back spent a lot of time evaluating IDE's and I found IntelliJ IDEA to be the best thing out there. It was definitely waay better than Eclipse at the time, and I was more productive with it than VS. (I spent more time with it though.) It was also written in Java, but performs really well.
I also prefer the Javadocs to MSDN documentation. Javadoc puts all the information for a class on one page which I thought made understanding a class very easy and limited how much you have to navigate to find the things you're looking for.
I got several people in my office using it and even those that were totally dependent on a GUI editor admitted that it was a better IDE. The auto-completion was just as helpful and *a lot* less intrusive than VS.
Lastly, IntelliJ can be extended to implement features that people want. A favorite in my office was VI emulation in the editor.
Anyway, I'm not in anyway associated with IntelliJ, but I'd recommend checking it out. It was pricey but not as expensive as Borlands stuff, and they give a free month to evaluate it. I found it worthwhile. Runs on linux and macs too.
There is something really strange about the CNN study : There are 6 questions, which if you picked totally randomly you would get yourself 2.75 points. (5 of the questions have 2 choices,.5 points for each for 2.5 points - one question has 4 choices for an additional.25 points for an average 2.75 points out of a possible 6.0)
However, the average score for someone that is not a late night viewer is actually lower than random guessing, at 2.62. I'm gonna have to check the actual study to see why this happened. Maybe this is just a strange statistical thing or the sample size is too small, but im betting that it is another case of great misinformation from the Bush Administration. This wouldn't be the first time that such an effect was shown. I'd really like to see a break down of how people fared on each question by political party and other factors.
No, Kyoto does NOT place higher standards on the U.S. Any country that polluted as much as the U.S. would be held to the sane standards. There only happens to be one country causing like 40% of the world's pollution.
Read this link earlier on Plastic, supposedly from the spouse of an EA employee. I don't know if it's authentic, but its pretty compelling. Since you're such a reader, I thought you might like.
I don't know if it's well past silly. A little high, maybe, but think about it : These lawyers worked for several years on something that they had no idea that they would ever even see any money for.
I don't know what the going rate on legal advice is, but I imagine its a couple hundred and hour, even for a bad lawyer. Now, take into account the fact that didn't know that were even going to get paid. Then add interest for it taking years. Easily over 1k/hour, I think. A good lawyer taking on MS... hmmmm... maybe a couple grand per hour isn't unreasonable.
This is hardly convincing. There is some debate about what should be included in a dictionary, but there is no doubt what someone means when they say "That is not a word." They mean that it is not a word in Standard Written English.
As the entry notes, 'irregardless' is non-standard. Nifty article about disagreements about words here.
If we use m-w's definition of what is a word, 'fizzle my shizzle fo nizzle' is a phrase made up of words. This is pure glafinacation (which is a word, cuz i just used:P).
My mother runs a library. The advantage of the having internet access at a library is that they often have subscription accounts to some of the good online content, like journals and electronic book repositories.
These allow libraries to have access to a lot of internet content that would be useful for research, but can only be gotten with a subscription. I also allows small town public libraries (like my mom's) to carry information that would usually only show up in college science+tech libraries.
I suggest asking your librarian if they provide access to any of these online repositories before deciding on the usefulness of internet access at public libraries.
Globalism isn't inevitable. The only thing that is inenitable is that people supporting Globalism will use this argument when the flaws of Globalism are shown, rather than try to produce some valid counter-argument.
In the long run, it's good for everyone
Err, where's the data on that? We've tried unfettered capitalism. It failed, and led to the Great Depression. There are indicators when capitalism is getting out of control. These include wage stagnation, from lower tier employess having to compete for crumbs, huge profit growth, from the great profits companys make from exploiting job competition. If you haven't noticed, the pay of CEOs and such has been skyrocketing for the last 30 years, but the middle class has seen very little growth.
Anyway, there was a pretty good article about the "inevitability argument" and the state of global capitalism in Harpers in March. They didn't put the article on their site, but I think the full text can be found here.
I don't shop at Wal-mart because they presume to make moral decisions on behalf of their clientele. I prefer to make my own decisions about what is morally correct.
The two cases I know of where this is a factor is in selling modified albums, with the consent of the artist, to change *evil* content, and refusing to stock certain birth control in their pharmacies.
I would be pissed if I bought an album at Wal-mart and came home to find that it wasn't *really* the ablum but some modified version.
So does china block long-distance phone calls too? I mean couldn't you just dial-up NetZero in, say, LA and sign on? I bet the penalty would be pretty severe but...
Not really, just trying to making better choices about what you mean when you use words. Like i entered the word "Cocoa" in the search engine. Since it knows i'm interested in programming and politics, it downplays stuff about the foodstuff cocoa (unless about the politics of cocoa trade) and focuses on the math and programming interpretations of the word. Wierd thing is, when i entered it, i meant the programming topic, but the page about the politics of cocoa trade looks pretty interesting.
My first impressions are pretty good. The links that im not interested in on the first page drop pretty fast when i use the slider. But i hope the extra time its taking to do the searches are just a beta thing.
The pdf on that page is pretty interesting and has alot of the information I was looking for... and 97% is really impressive! (have to take company literature with a grain of salt tho, i guess)
So, basically, the current nuclear economy goes: Uranium Ore get refined, used in plant, produces spent rods, rods (can) get recycled. I rustled up a page on Uranium Deposits, which I can try to figure out the max amount of energy we can pull out of them, and that guide.
It looks like from some of the DoE literature that all plutonium is coming from spent rods too. So that can be taken into account too.
This is the kind of things I like to know when people start telling nuclear power is the way to go. I wish I wouldn't have dozed so much in college physics:)
Makes me kinda optimistic towards the possibilities (of reducing the dependence on fossil fuels)... I mean 25 years, thats a third a lifetime without any major accidents (that i know of )...
I have probably spent most of my life within 20 miles of the FERMI II plant in Monroe, MI without even giving it a thought.
So I'm wondering about the viability large-scale long-term use of nuclear power... Anyone know how much nuclear material there is?
I was listening to some radio program where the a guy was making some kinda analogy, like power from the sun is like our energy *income* and fossil fuels are what we have *in the bank* and were spending our savings like mad... Is that a similar or not with nuclear fuels?
I've also heard the we may be able to develop power sources from the nuclear wastes we generate in the future, to get even more energy from them.
But alas, IANANP so I have no clue. Anyone know more about this?
Oh, spelling... and i guess proper tag brackets would be nice...
Okay, ill try this again:
<sarcasm>
And if I want my browser to auto-generate stupid limericks in a foreign language, am I gonna have to code that too?!? Sheesh Microsoft!!! Get with the times!!!
</sarcasm>
Yeah I don't see this having alot of use outside of graphic art and CAD really soon. I mean, as a programmer, i already use my left hand quite a bit for hot keys (though it might be able to get more out of it with a better input device.)
Maybe this will catch on if and when stuff like 3D desktops and Project Looking Glass become more mature.
Yeah and from that view this is the sweetest deal they could find. They're rolling out Windows Server and have to fund just one company that can
1) Try to revoke licenses of AIX, Dynix, etc.
2) Scare other companies out of contributing to Linux (Sun, HP, etc.)
3) Spread FUD about Linux amongst users.
To you it's evil corporate behaviour. To Microsoft, it's marketing. They fscked with all the competing servers at once.
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I find the resistance to taking even the slightest measure a little ridiculous. Much like evolution, no one has definitively proved anything. Also like evolution, the basic mechanics are of global warming are understood and the theory has been sitting around 100+ years waiting for someone to poke holes in it (GW was first posulated in 1890). No one has.
In simpliest terms: There is no doubt adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will tend to raise temperatures. There is no doubt that we are adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. There is no doubt that temperatures are rising. Q.E.D.
The guy isn't even a climatologist. Benny Peiser is expertise is "Social Anthropology & Sport Sociology".
Oh, and you're "scientist" Mr. Benny Peiser takes money from ExxonMobil. He contributed to a book called Adapt or Die: The science, politics and economics of climate change (how ironic) published by the group Internation Policy Network. IPN recieves funding from ExxonMobil. (Google is your friend.)
Global warming is happening. We are contributing to it. There was more confirmation just the other day with NASA measurements. ExxonMobil and some other companies are the only reason there still exists any doubt. If you would like to understand more about how ExxonMobil pulls this off, read this.
So essentially, you trust ExxonMobil's take on Global Warming more than you trust Science and Nature's.
Some youngsters may not recall how things were when NIN released Pretty Hate Machine. industrial music wasn't popular. Glam rock was dying, and so was the 80's synth pop, and the only thing going was Hip Hop. Every junior high and high school probably had a couple Ministry fans but there wasn't much. Pretty Hate Machine was a breakthrough album for that generation, like Nirvana's first one, Bleach. It didn't sell like a pop album, but definately introduced a generation to a new style of music, with dubbed copies getting passes around alot. (NIN becoming mainstream and selling like a pop album didn't come until Closer came out on the radio, which was kinda like Nirvana's Nevermind)
It was a very big change at the time in the direction of music.
I also prefer the Javadocs to MSDN documentation. Javadoc puts all the information for a class on one page which I thought made understanding a class very easy and limited how much you have to navigate to find the things you're looking for.
I got several people in my office using it and even those that were totally dependent on a GUI editor admitted that it was a better IDE. The auto-completion was just as helpful and *a lot* less intrusive than VS.
Lastly, IntelliJ can be extended to implement features that people want. A favorite in my office was VI emulation in the editor.
Anyway, I'm not in anyway associated with IntelliJ, but I'd recommend checking it out. It was pricey but not as expensive as Borlands stuff, and they give a free month to evaluate it. I found it worthwhile. Runs on linux and macs too.
However, the average score for someone that is not a late night viewer is actually lower than random guessing, at 2.62. I'm gonna have to check the actual study to see why this happened. Maybe this is just a strange statistical thing or the sample size is too small, but im betting that it is another case of great misinformation from the Bush Administration. This wouldn't be the first time that such an effect was shown. I'd really like to see a break down of how people fared on each question by political party and other factors.
No, Kyoto does NOT place higher standards on the U.S. Any country that polluted as much as the U.S. would be held to the sane standards. There only happens to be one country causing like 40% of the world's pollution.
Enjoy...
Been out for years... use your index finger to pull down opponents thumb... game over.
I think the application you are looking for is called Mute. It is anonymous and allows searching. However, it is very slow.
I don't know what the going rate on legal advice is, but I imagine its a couple hundred and hour, even for a bad lawyer. Now, take into account the fact that didn't know that were even going to get paid. Then add interest for it taking years. Easily over 1k/hour, I think. A good lawyer taking on MS... hmmmm... maybe a couple grand per hour isn't unreasonable.
As the entry notes, 'irregardless' is non-standard. Nifty article about disagreements about words here.
If we use m-w's definition of what is a word, 'fizzle my shizzle fo nizzle' is a phrase made up of words. This is pure glafinacation (which is a word, cuz i just used :P).
These allow libraries to have access to a lot of internet content that would be useful for research, but can only be gotten with a subscription. I also allows small town public libraries (like my mom's) to carry information that would usually only show up in college science+tech libraries.
I suggest asking your librarian if they provide access to any of these online repositories before deciding on the usefulness of internet access at public libraries.
Seriously... Couldn't they schedule this during the Basketball playoffs or something?!? Err, wait a second.
Globalism isn't inevitable. The only thing that is inenitable is that people supporting Globalism will use this argument when the flaws of Globalism are shown, rather than try to produce some valid counter-argument.
Err, where's the data on that? We've tried unfettered capitalism. It failed, and led to the Great Depression. There are indicators when capitalism is getting out of control. These include wage stagnation, from lower tier employess having to compete for crumbs, huge profit growth, from the great profits companys make from exploiting job competition. If you haven't noticed, the pay of CEOs and such has been skyrocketing for the last 30 years, but the middle class has seen very little growth.
Anyway, there was a pretty good article about the "inevitability argument" and the state of global capitalism in Harpers in March. They didn't put the article on their site, but I think the full text can be found here.
The two cases I know of where this is a factor is in selling modified albums, with the consent of the artist, to change *evil* content, and refusing to stock certain birth control in their pharmacies.
I would be pissed if I bought an album at Wal-mart and came home to find that it wasn't *really* the ablum but some modified version.
So does china block long-distance phone calls too? I mean couldn't you just dial-up NetZero in, say, LA and sign on? I bet the penalty would be pretty severe but...
My first impressions are pretty good. The links that im not interested in on the first page drop pretty fast when i use the slider. But i hope the extra time its taking to do the searches are just a beta thing.
So, basically, the current nuclear economy goes: Uranium Ore get refined, used in plant, produces spent rods, rods (can) get recycled. I rustled up a page on Uranium Deposits, which I can try to figure out the max amount of energy we can pull out of them, and that guide.
It looks like from some of the DoE literature that all plutonium is coming from spent rods too. So that can be taken into account too.
This is the kind of things I like to know when people start telling nuclear power is the way to go. I wish I wouldn't have dozed so much in college physics :)
I have probably spent most of my life within 20 miles of the FERMI II plant in Monroe, MI without even giving it a thought.
I was listening to some radio program where the a guy was making some kinda analogy, like power from the sun is like our energy *income* and fossil fuels are what we have *in the bank* and were spending our savings like mad... Is that a similar or not with nuclear fuels?
I've also heard the we may be able to develop power sources from the nuclear wastes we generate in the future, to get even more energy from them.
But alas, IANANP so I have no clue. Anyone know more about this?
Hmmm, what did i do wrong?...
[/sarcam ;)]
Oh, spelling... and i guess proper tag brackets would be nice...
Okay, ill try this again:
<sarcasm> And if I want my browser to auto-generate stupid limericks in a foreign language, am I gonna have to code that too?!? Sheesh Microsoft!!! Get with the times!!! </sarcasm>
EAT THAT M$ FANBOI!!! MUAHAHAHAHA
[/sarcam ;)]
Maybe this will catch on if and when stuff like 3D desktops and Project Looking Glass become more mature.
1) Try to revoke licenses of AIX, Dynix, etc.
2) Scare other companies out of contributing to Linux (Sun, HP, etc.)
3) Spread FUD about Linux amongst users.
To you it's evil corporate behaviour. To Microsoft, it's marketing. They fscked with all the competing servers at once.