What if Microsoft uses your stuff and makes a billion off of it ? OR you patent something (god forbid) and Microsoft steals it ? They hold all the cards. You can sue them, but they can sue you because you used their patented stuff to make your work. Personally, I feel that any recognition of software patents is a bad thing, so while you are getting all excited, we in Europe are having the rug pulled out from under us. The EU council is already preparing to pass ACTA in secret thereby avoiding democratic debate. We don't want software patents. One-Click is bad enough, how is anybody going to learn programming if Hello World gets patented ? What happens to GPL'd code if patents take hold via the MS-PL ? I'm not aware of the BSD licence being used in patent battles, but it seems MS are actively encouraging people to patent their work, thereby giving MS free and total access (and control) to all of it.
You are overlooking one important energy source: Jupiter itself. Because of ongoing differentiation, Jupiter produces about twice as much energy as it receives from the Sun. Given this and the fact that this source is coming from below rather than above, it is likely the more important contribution to the dynamics of the atmosphere.
So the Sun provides one third of Jupiters energy ? Seems like the sun could play a fairly significant role in the weather on Jupiter then.
That cannot be true. Linux is my desktop, has been my desktop for years, and will remain my desktop. If what you are after is a windows clone before you regard linux as "ready for the desktop", then you can keep it. I'll go to *BSD. Most criticism seems to come from people who expect everything done for them, and if they can't point and click their way through a task, then linux is at fault. God forbid they ever actually take an interest in the workings of the environment. If they want rigidly proscribed ways of doing things, they can use windows. If they want to be in control of their system, they can use *nix. *nix was never about ease of use for idiots, it is about power and fine grained control over your own environment (NOT other peoples).
Part of the cost of a free operating system, is that the non-free ones have patents and obfuscation preventing you from achieving like for like results. So in some areas it is impossible to compare. So you have to get creative - instead of whining about how X doesn't work, you find a way to get the result you want without using X. But of course whining costs nothing.
I have no respect for people who after having complained, when asked "what have you done to [find out||fix||test] this issue, they say "nothing", as if it's my responsibility to somehow psychically connect to their machine, diagnose and fix all their issues (taking account of what they may or may not have done to complicate the issue), while they watch TV and fart. My response to those people is "Get Stuffed " !
Yeah, like Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, Belgium - in fact most civilised countries in the world.
If you want to live in a dog eat dog world go and do it. See how long you last. I don't believe communism is responsible for the recent financial meltdown, throwing people out of work and their homes. Idiot. At the rate the world population is growing, you will either get along with others peacefully or you will engage in constant war. No one group or person has any more intrinsic rights than any other, so why pretend they do ? Unless you want everything YOUR own way of course, which marks you out as a selfish asshole, no better than Madoff.
I tether my Trinity with a laptop and I use T-Mobile, in the UK. I don't have unlimited anything - I have a sim only contract, with 50 min talk included, plus HSDPA plus tethering for less than £20 per month. (The HSDPA tethering option is 10/month)
Where did I say a 12 foot leash ? The ones I wore and have seen others using are maybe 3 feet long. It's all very well saying it's better to hold their hand, but what if you need 2 hands for getting money from your wallet, or carrying shopping bags ? The point of the article was that kids don't think before they act. So even if you think you have them trained not to wander off, or suddenly decide to chase a pigeon, if you really want to be in control of the situation you make it impossible for them to get away, using whatever means are at your disposal. Carrying a kid around gets wearing on both the kid and the parent, plus you can't use both hands if needed. It also leads to lazy fat kids. Using a harness or reins allows them to get exercise in a controlled environment, and allows them to learn the skills they need to survive without learning the hard way. None of this is exclusive, of course you let the kid run around in the park, yes you can hold their hand under certain circumstances, but when you know you are going to find it hard to juggle a small child and other tasks in a dangerous environment it is only prudent to use another means of restraint at that time. If you choose to rely on the intellect of a 3 year old to preserve its own life, then you are going to be sadly surprised.
So if I'm an utter moron, why does the graph indicate that over the past 400,000 years, there is a natural peak at which CO2 levels cease rising and suddenly drop ?
This surely indicates that there is a natural limit beyond which CO2 uptake by the atmosphere is not viable, and a significant change takes place to lower levels. If you were to study a graph showing levels dating back millions of years, you would see that even though AGW has caused levels to go higher than any time in 400,000 years, there are peaks much higher in the overall record. The overall trend is repetition of up then suddenly down.
I am not claiming man has had no influence on the (very) recent climate, or that we won't see significant effects from that influence. I am merely pointing out, that as the historical record shows, the beginning of our influence began towards the end of what seems to be a well established cycle. It is therefore quite possible that even though we may have hastened the downturn in that cycle, that downturn was already going to happen. Trying to prevent us reaching the top of the cycle is already moot. We will eventually see a significant drop in CO2 levels as the system resets. Trying to hold on to the halcyon days of pre-AGW is ridiculous. Training the general public to expect constantly increasing temperatures is lying on a grand scale. Even if the pundits were to mention that our rising emissions are hastening the return of global ice sheets, it would be more honest than threatening rises in temperature and long term flooding. Statistically, the future points to a massive downturn in CO2 levels, and yet we are being terrorised with reports of a constant rise in levels.
And the hockey stick graph misrepresents the situation. CO2 was not constant prior to the 1800s, the trend is upwards. Yes it rose at a steeper rate after the 1800s, but the hockey stick doesn't show that whole picture. It is merely statistical mummery to prove the graph makers point. The hockey stick is what is used to brow beat the general public. If you zoomed in on that long term graph to the same scale as the hockey stick graph, you would find many "hockey stick" events. What really makes me mad is when the pundits speak about "stopping" global warming. We have no way of doing that, and even if we did, due to our position at very nearly the top of a long term warming cycle, it would very likely be too late anyway. All we can do is limit our effects, and deal with it.
Do you really think that our influence has ended a repeating cycle millions of years old and CO2 will rise forever if left unchecked ? If not, then you agree with me. I also think it is unlikely that humans can have evolved at such a rate as to go from primitive apes to controlling the climate in the space between the bottom of 1 climate cycle and the top of the next (roughly 100,000 years). Please note I am not suggesting we do nothing, I am suggesting we be realistic, given the entirety of the data we currently hold. All the facts tell us we are in the last throes of an interglacial period. Do you disagree with that too ? Can we prevent another ice age ? Be serious. If I were to place a bet I would bet on another ice age coming. Would I ever win that bet, or is global warming going to continue for ever ? Which way would you bet (given the historical record)?
My Dell Precision 690 workstation has 12 GB of FB ECC RAM. It dual boots XP64 and Fedora 9 x86-64. If I cold boot to Fedora, I get a stream of beep codes, all of which are memory related. If I cold boot to XP I don't get a single beep. However, if I cold boot to XP and then after say 10 minutes, reboot into Fedora, I don't get any beep codes at all. I put this down to temperature, but either way, XP is not finding any errors at all. I am more inclined to trust Fedora in this case, but as I don't appear to get garbled files, or crashing software, I am letting it ride for now.
This is pretty obvious really. What irritates me is parents who don't get it. If you accept that a 3 year old child will do something before considering the consequences then allowing a kid to run in the street, or trusting it not to touch the red hot stove is really idiotic.
I'm always angered when I see young mothers in the street letting their toddlers get 20 or 30 yards ahead or behind with no thought for the consequences. If that kid decides to run in the road, there is no way to get there in time. I've almost run over a kid like that - ran straight out from behind a parked car. Fortunately for all concerned I had already seen the kid as it disappeared behind the car. The father gave me a filthy look as I slammed the brakes on, and I was really tempted to get out and hammer him. Why should I suffer the (undeserved) guilt of killing a kid if the father was to blame. Apparently I'm supposed to care more about the kid than the parents do. BTW, it was dark, the parked car was parked illegally, and I was driving about 20mph in a 30 mph limit. The road was 2 lanes and one way. If the kid had continued running after I stopped it would have been caught by the guy on my left passing me at higher speed.
When I was a kid my parents kept me on reins so I was never more than 2 feet and a tug away. Parents these days seem to think that is treating your kids like a dog. Stupid people. You cannot guarantee your kids safety by training when they are too young to consider their actions. No matter how bright they are. There is no fail safe with toddlers, you have to make sure there is no fail at all (as far as possible). It is not a matter of putting the big knife on a higher shelf, it is a matter of locking the big knife away. Don't hide the gun in a shoebox, lock the gun away. Etc.
Take ditch digging, for example. 200 years ago digging a 100 meter long ditch, a meter deep could probably take a few dozen men with shovels a few days. Now, one guy with an excavator can dig the same ditch in a day or two all by himself.
And what exactly do those few dozen men do now ? Work in an office ? This is the hidden threat of mechanisation, and automation. People still need jobs, still need money, but there is no Utopia on the horizon where we all live lives of leisure. And strongly capitalist societies see little need to pay for people to do nothing, but are quite interested in paying out less in overhead. Where does that leave the working public ?
The Chinese are investing heavily in African states, so those dollars are being spread around, despite US indifference to third world issues. In fact there seems to be more non-western investment in the third world than ever. Only to be expected, really. Then in 20 or 30 years, the west will be wondering where it all went wrong.
I posted my position on this on the Hungry Crustaceans topic the other day. Look at the graphs, look at historical records in the rocks. Ask yourselves, did we cause global warming or are we merely part of it ? I think the graphs speak for themselves. The hockey stick graph is a lie because it makes it seem as if the normal CO2 level was almost constant. This cannot be further from the truth.
Aim at surviving the consequences, or it will be too late to organise anything.
They never mentioned gravity. They said the down force makes it weigh more. Weight is measured with scales, and under sufficient down force the scales will read a higher value, thereby *weighing* more. The mass hasn't changed, gravity hasn't changed but the scales aren't lying. Large trucks have multiple axles to distribute the weight. Each axle measures less when *weighed* than if all the weight was on one axle. It is pedantic to claim the item doesn't effectively *weigh* less (or more). An items mass never changes, but how much it *weighs* changes under varying circumstances. If you got rid of the atmosphere the measured weight would change. Since air pressure is part of the definition of weight, increasing air pressure should changed the measured weight. Down force is effectively suck anyway. All they were doing was demonstrating the amount of extra force by using a common metric. All that extra force is doing is counteracting any lift and leaving you in the same position you would be if the lift did not exist. If you really had 400kg extra force then the vehicle would suffer higher friction. As it is, the lift cancels the friction - balance is restored.
I see I'm flamebait am I ? Seems the kids have got mod points today. Consider a man who regularly visits a brothel that the police are watching. When arrested he claims he was only there because he liked the piano playing. Either grow a pair and use TPB in the open, or attempt to hide by subscribing to a service that is run by TPB and is obviously designed to obscure the type of traffic passing over it. What do you think the authorities are going to think ? Are there no other VPN services that are not run by TPB ? Why did you choose to buy service from them, especially since most of you are in the US and TPB is in Sweden ? It is not a fucking game.
Your protestations that you are using the VPN legitimately look silly when the authorities will keep confiscating servers, and shutting down access. Surely anybody with half a brain would want a reliable service, not one subject to legal interference every 5 minutes, especially since you claim you are not using it for nefarious purposes. And don't give me any crap about downloading linux isos. I know of no linux distribution that relies on TPB as a tracker or even for publicity.
I have nothing against TPB, but this is just stupid. Like a small child trying to hide something by swapping it from hand to hand, you are so obvious you just make things worse.
Did you read what I replied to ? The OP was saying we could get rid of routers. I have 4 machines off of 1 ADSL line. I don't want all 4 machines connected to the net as servers. Why do I need a public IP for all 4 machines ? And without a switch or router (which can be the same device) how do I connect 4 machines to my network ? Gigabit wifi ? Null modem cables ?
So, back to the cynical perspective, in order to control the climate, we need to control emission of CO2 (or so the popular media says), which, conveniently, means taking control of fossil fuel burning. Now, if we (the developed western countries) can do this on a worldwide basis, we can maintain our technological lead and control over the affairs of the planet. What's not to like? Gain control of the climate, maintain control of the geo-political situation, preserve investments in coastal regions, it's all good.
I agree, but we cannot hope to learn how to gain control over the climate in the time we apparently have left. Which means we are either being FUDded, or they are going to fuck it up.
Personally, I'm with Stephen Hawking in thinking that we should be devoting 0.25% of GDP (about double what we currently are) to getting off this rock and making viable settlements elsewhere.
Couldn't agree more. That is not to say evacuate the earth, but at least have some colonies.
The big question is, what proportion of humanity have the right to know what's really going on. I dislike being spoken down to from a position of ignorance. Maybe the govt.s already know what has to be done and are just keeping it quiet to prevent panic. Or maybe they are making plans which benefit them from the coming situation. Or even that they are going with the flow, just to say they tried to do something but nobody would listen. Probably all 3 options in some respect. I really hope they are not relying on it not happening soon, because soon has a habit of becoming now.
I tend towards a ying & yang approach. If we force the situation too much one way, we will pay in another. Cycles are good. They exist for a reason. This is why I prefer to limit our own emissions but not attempt to go any further until we have a lot more knowledge. You've seen the problems with introducing non-native predators, and preventing forest fires. Imagine the backlash from deliberately interfering with the climate.
Even if you are using a VPN, you are still connecting to an IP administered by TPB. That is cause for suspicion even if nobody can read the data. What excuse have you got for connecting to TPB at all ? Whether the authorities can see the torrents is irrelevant.
The odds are that his vision is highly reliant on invalid assumptions. He needs someone who understands the hardware to go over the idea and see if it's at all possible.
I wonder how much of his idea has been tested. I had an idea, and being a stubborn bastard as well as ignorant of electronics, I decided to learn by doing. I quickly found that I was focussed on the end product when I found that I couldn't provide enough power in the space I had decided to work with. It was not an option to make more space available (at least not unless I prototyped using surface mount, which is expensive). But at least I found out by designing a schematic, getting the parts and soldering it up. It was a waste of money, but spare diodes are never wasted and I have a new interest. So my idea which I wanted to get built yesterday is on the back burner until I can find a way around it. This is without mentioning that I was probably infringing on someones patent anyway - I never checked. Also, just as I was coming to this final realisation, I came across someone already selling something that was almost exactly what I wanted. I could hack their gear to get my result. Selling it would be harder of course. And it was still too big.
Yes, that's true, but unless the food chain is 100% efficient, some of that captured CO2 is going to end up as sediment. As I said, they appear to have been expecting 100% efficiency which is slightly unscientific. Using any other argument is calling for extinction of life because it releases CO2. Trees are one of the most visible carbon stores, but even they are subject to decomposition and predation by insects. There is no final answer to CO2, we can not hope to regulate it except by releasing less ourselves, which does not solve the overall issue. I do not believe that it is such a major issue as is being promoted. Sure the sea levels will rise, and the weather will be even less predictable, but unless you think the earth was created for man and man alone, it is pretty egotistical to expect things to remain the way we are currently used to.
Change is inevitable. We will have another ice age, we will have earthquakes and volcanoes, and continental drift continues irrevocably. Just take a look at the history of the planet and realise the magnitude of what the climate change lobby are trying to accomplish. Have a look at this (scroll to the bottom) and notice the approximate lengths of the periods. The Cenozoic Era is approaching the length of the Jurassic or the Triassic periods, and you should know from geological history that sea levels and lifeforms differed widely during each of those periods. There were inundations and desertification happening regularly enough to form layers in what are now rocks. Is this all over and done with just because we are here ?
In my opinion, we should be expecting a change not fighting one. See this graph. Does the present CO2 level look out of the ordinary with what has gone before, many times ? I argue that we should be preparing for a drop of around 8C global average not a rise of that amount. I predict (there I said it) that we will see massive sea level rises followed by a rapid cooling followed by another global rise in ice levels. There are many mechanisms to explain how this will happen. High temperatures and higher seal levels can increase cloud cover which can result in a higher planetary albedo, so causing drops in temperature, and rapid ice formation. The ice causes drops in sea level, which allows plants to get going again and CO2 rises starting the warming cycle off again.
Of course when I say "we will see" I don't mean us, I mean mankind. We (as in us) will probably see the start of the end of this cycle, so to speak. This is why I never trusted the hockey stick graph. If you look at that Vostock graph, you can see the exponential rise in CO2 levels started roughly 20,000 years ago. If you zoom in you can find multiple "hockey stick" type rises. Blame that on human machinery if you can. I believe this shows that there is a natural limit to how much CO2 the atmosphere can take and we were already pretty close to that limit before we burnt the first lump of coal. Trying to stop or reverse the process now is ludicrous. It (CO2) will go down naturally, and attempting to hold back natural planetary rhythms so that we don't get our feet wet is both short sighted and naive. We should be looking at how we are going to survive despite the changes not trying to prevent them from happening. We should be trying to understand what drives the approx. 120,000 year cycle of CO2 levels. For all we know it could be that galactic rotation brings us closer to larger x-ray/gamma ray sources or some other driver of astronomical change. We simply don't know enough, and chicken little squawking about something that is historically documented as inevitable is a waste of time and effort.
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What if Microsoft uses your stuff and makes a billion off of it ? OR you patent something (god forbid) and Microsoft steals it ? They hold all the cards. You can sue them, but they can sue you because you used their patented stuff to make your work.
Personally, I feel that any recognition of software patents is a bad thing, so while you are getting all excited, we in Europe are having the rug pulled out from under us. The EU council is already preparing to pass ACTA in secret thereby avoiding democratic debate. We don't want software patents. One-Click is bad enough, how is anybody going to learn programming if Hello World gets patented ? What happens to GPL'd code if patents take hold via the MS-PL ? I'm not aware of the BSD licence being used in patent battles, but it seems MS are actively encouraging people to patent their work, thereby giving MS free and total access (and control) to all of it.
Pure poison for truly open source.
Does it hurt ?
I'm more upset he didn't reference the Logos at the bottom of the page. He did all the proprietary ones.
So the Sun provides one third of Jupiters energy ? Seems like the sun could play a fairly significant role in the weather on Jupiter then.
That cannot be true. Linux is my desktop, has been my desktop for years, and will remain my desktop.
If what you are after is a windows clone before you regard linux as "ready for the desktop", then you can keep it. I'll go to *BSD.
Most criticism seems to come from people who expect everything done for them, and if they can't point and click their way through a task, then linux is at fault. God forbid they ever actually take an interest in the workings of the environment. If they want rigidly proscribed ways of doing things, they can use windows. If they want to be in control of their system, they can use *nix. *nix was never about ease of use for idiots, it is about power and fine grained control over your own environment (NOT other peoples).
Part of the cost of a free operating system, is that the non-free ones have patents and obfuscation preventing you from achieving like for like results. So in some areas it is impossible to compare. So you have to get creative - instead of whining about how X doesn't work, you find a way to get the result you want without using X. But of course whining costs nothing.
I have no respect for people who after having complained, when asked "what have you done to [find out||fix||test] this issue, they say "nothing", as if it's my responsibility to somehow psychically connect to their machine, diagnose and fix all their issues (taking account of what they may or may not have done to complicate the issue), while they watch TV and fart.
My response to those people is "Get Stuffed " !
Yeah, like Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, Belgium - in fact most civilised countries in the world.
If you want to live in a dog eat dog world go and do it. See how long you last. I don't believe communism is responsible for the recent financial meltdown, throwing people out of work and their homes.
Idiot.
At the rate the world population is growing, you will either get along with others peacefully or you will engage in constant war. No one group or person has any more intrinsic rights than any other, so why pretend they do ? Unless you want everything YOUR own way of course, which marks you out as a selfish asshole, no better than Madoff.
You didn't mention "in the USA".
I tether my Trinity with a laptop and I use T-Mobile, in the UK. I don't have unlimited anything - I have a sim only contract, with 50 min talk included, plus HSDPA plus tethering for less than £20 per month. (The HSDPA tethering option is 10/month)
Why don't TomTom lose the FAT support and make it a network interface ? FTP can read & write to whatever file system it needs to. UPnP ?
Where did I say a 12 foot leash ? The ones I wore and have seen others using are maybe 3 feet long. It's all very well saying it's better to hold their hand, but what if you need 2 hands for getting money from your wallet, or carrying shopping bags ? The point of the article was that kids don't think before they act. So even if you think you have them trained not to wander off, or suddenly decide to chase a pigeon, if you really want to be in control of the situation you make it impossible for them to get away, using whatever means are at your disposal. Carrying a kid around gets wearing on both the kid and the parent, plus you can't use both hands if needed. It also leads to lazy fat kids. Using a harness or reins allows them to get exercise in a controlled environment, and allows them to learn the skills they need to survive without learning the hard way. None of this is exclusive, of course you let the kid run around in the park, yes you can hold their hand under certain circumstances, but when you know you are going to find it hard to juggle a small child and other tasks in a dangerous environment it is only prudent to use another means of restraint at that time. If you choose to rely on the intellect of a 3 year old to preserve its own life, then you are going to be sadly surprised.
So if I'm an utter moron, why does the graph indicate that over the past 400,000 years, there is a natural peak at which CO2 levels cease rising and suddenly drop ?
This surely indicates that there is a natural limit beyond which CO2 uptake by the atmosphere is not viable, and a significant change takes place to lower levels. If you were to study a graph showing levels dating back millions of years, you would see that even though AGW has caused levels to go higher than any time in 400,000 years, there are peaks much higher in the overall record. The overall trend is repetition of up then suddenly down.
I am not claiming man has had no influence on the (very) recent climate, or that we won't see significant effects from that influence. I am merely pointing out, that as the historical record shows, the beginning of our influence began towards the end of what seems to be a well established cycle. It is therefore quite possible that even though we may have hastened the downturn in that cycle, that downturn was already going to happen. Trying to prevent us reaching the top of the cycle is already moot. We will eventually see a significant drop in CO2 levels as the system resets. Trying to hold on to the halcyon days of pre-AGW is ridiculous. Training the general public to expect constantly increasing temperatures is lying on a grand scale. Even if the pundits were to mention that our rising emissions are hastening the return of global ice sheets, it would be more honest than threatening rises in temperature and long term flooding. Statistically, the future points to a massive downturn in CO2 levels, and yet we are being terrorised with reports of a constant rise in levels.
And the hockey stick graph misrepresents the situation. CO2 was not constant prior to the 1800s, the trend is upwards. Yes it rose at a steeper rate after the 1800s, but the hockey stick doesn't show that whole picture. It is merely statistical mummery to prove the graph makers point. The hockey stick is what is used to brow beat the general public. If you zoomed in on that long term graph to the same scale as the hockey stick graph, you would find many "hockey stick" events. What really makes me mad is when the pundits speak about "stopping" global warming. We have no way of doing that, and even if we did, due to our position at very nearly the top of a long term warming cycle, it would very likely be too late anyway. All we can do is limit our effects, and deal with it.
Do you really think that our influence has ended a repeating cycle millions of years old and CO2 will rise forever if left unchecked ? If not, then you agree with me. I also think it is unlikely that humans can have evolved at such a rate as to go from primitive apes to controlling the climate in the space between the bottom of 1 climate cycle and the top of the next (roughly 100,000 years). Please note I am not suggesting we do nothing, I am suggesting we be realistic, given the entirety of the data we currently hold. All the facts tell us we are in the last throes of an interglacial period. Do you disagree with that too ? Can we prevent another ice age ? Be serious. If I were to place a bet I would bet on another ice age coming. Would I ever win that bet, or is global warming going to continue for ever ? Which way would you bet (given the historical record)?
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An utter moron.
My Dell Precision 690 workstation has 12 GB of FB ECC RAM. It dual boots XP64 and Fedora 9 x86-64.
If I cold boot to Fedora, I get a stream of beep codes, all of which are memory related. If I cold boot to XP I don't get a single beep.
However, if I cold boot to XP and then after say 10 minutes, reboot into Fedora, I don't get any beep codes at all. I put this down to temperature, but either way, XP is not finding any errors at all. I am more inclined to trust Fedora in this case, but as I don't appear to get garbled files, or crashing software, I am letting it ride for now.
Yeah, like there's anything like "spooky action at a distance" anyway.
This is pretty obvious really. What irritates me is parents who don't get it. If you accept that a 3 year old child will do something before considering the consequences then allowing a kid to run in the street, or trusting it not to touch the red hot stove is really idiotic.
I'm always angered when I see young mothers in the street letting their toddlers get 20 or 30 yards ahead or behind with no thought for the consequences. If that kid decides to run in the road, there is no way to get there in time. I've almost run over a kid like that - ran straight out from behind a parked car. Fortunately for all concerned I had already seen the kid as it disappeared behind the car. The father gave me a filthy look as I slammed the brakes on, and I was really tempted to get out and hammer him. Why should I suffer the (undeserved) guilt of killing a kid if the father was to blame. Apparently I'm supposed to care more about the kid than the parents do.
BTW, it was dark, the parked car was parked illegally, and I was driving about 20mph in a 30 mph limit. The road was 2 lanes and one way. If the kid had continued running after I stopped it would have been caught by the guy on my left passing me at higher speed.
When I was a kid my parents kept me on reins so I was never more than 2 feet and a tug away. Parents these days seem to think that is treating your kids like a dog. Stupid people. You cannot guarantee your kids safety by training when they are too young to consider their actions. No matter how bright they are.
There is no fail safe with toddlers, you have to make sure there is no fail at all (as far as possible). It is not a matter of putting the big knife on a higher shelf, it is a matter of locking the big knife away. Don't hide the gun in a shoebox, lock the gun away. Etc.
And what exactly do those few dozen men do now ? Work in an office ? This is the hidden threat of mechanisation, and automation. People still need jobs, still need money, but there is no Utopia on the horizon where we all live lives of leisure. And strongly capitalist societies see little need to pay for people to do nothing, but are quite interested in paying out less in overhead. Where does that leave the working public ?
The Chinese are investing heavily in African states, so those dollars are being spread around, despite US indifference to third world issues. In fact there seems to be more non-western investment in the third world than ever. Only to be expected, really. Then in 20 or 30 years, the west will be wondering where it all went wrong.
I posted my position on this on the Hungry Crustaceans topic the other day. Look at the graphs, look at historical records in the rocks. Ask yourselves, did we cause global warming or are we merely part of it ? I think the graphs speak for themselves. The hockey stick graph is a lie because it makes it seem as if the normal CO2 level was almost constant. This cannot be further from the truth.
Aim at surviving the consequences, or it will be too late to organise anything.
It won't with that attitude.
They never mentioned gravity. They said the down force makes it weigh more. Weight is measured with scales, and under sufficient down force the scales will read a higher value, thereby *weighing* more. The mass hasn't changed, gravity hasn't changed but the scales aren't lying. Large trucks have multiple axles to distribute the weight. Each axle measures less when *weighed* than if all the weight was on one axle. It is pedantic to claim the item doesn't effectively *weigh* less (or more). An items mass never changes, but how much it *weighs* changes under varying circumstances. If you got rid of the atmosphere the measured weight would change. Since air pressure is part of the definition of weight, increasing air pressure should changed the measured weight. Down force is effectively suck anyway.
All they were doing was demonstrating the amount of extra force by using a common metric. All that extra force is doing is counteracting any lift and leaving you in the same position you would be if the lift did not exist. If you really had 400kg extra force then the vehicle would suffer higher friction. As it is, the lift cancels the friction - balance is restored.
I see I'm flamebait am I ? Seems the kids have got mod points today.
Consider a man who regularly visits a brothel that the police are watching. When arrested he claims he was only there because he liked the piano playing. Either grow a pair and use TPB in the open, or attempt to hide by subscribing to a service that is run by TPB and is obviously designed to obscure the type of traffic passing over it. What do you think the authorities are going to think ? Are there no other VPN services that are not run by TPB ? Why did you choose to buy service from them, especially since most of you are in the US and TPB is in Sweden ? It is not a fucking game.
Your protestations that you are using the VPN legitimately look silly when the authorities will keep confiscating servers, and shutting down access. Surely anybody with half a brain would want a reliable service, not one subject to legal interference every 5 minutes, especially since you claim you are not using it for nefarious purposes. And don't give me any crap about downloading linux isos. I know of no linux distribution that relies on TPB as a tracker or even for publicity.
I have nothing against TPB, but this is just stupid. Like a small child trying to hide something by swapping it from hand to hand, you are so obvious you just make things worse.
Did you read what I replied to ? The OP was saying we could get rid of routers. I have 4 machines off of 1 ADSL line. I don't want all 4 machines connected to the net as servers. Why do I need a public IP for all 4 machines ? And without a switch or router (which can be the same device) how do I connect 4 machines to my network ? Gigabit wifi ? Null modem cables ?
I agree, but we cannot hope to learn how to gain control over the climate in the time we apparently have left. Which means we are either being FUDded, or they are going to fuck it up.
Couldn't agree more. That is not to say evacuate the earth, but at least have some colonies.
The big question is, what proportion of humanity have the right to know what's really going on. I dislike being spoken down to from a position of ignorance. Maybe the govt.s already know what has to be done and are just keeping it quiet to prevent panic. Or maybe they are making plans which benefit them from the coming situation. Or even that they are going with the flow, just to say they tried to do something but nobody would listen. Probably all 3 options in some respect. I really hope they are not relying on it not happening soon, because soon has a habit of becoming now.
I tend towards a ying & yang approach. If we force the situation too much one way, we will pay in another. Cycles are good. They exist for a reason. This is why I prefer to limit our own emissions but not attempt to go any further until we have a lot more knowledge. You've seen the problems with introducing non-native predators, and preventing forest fires. Imagine the backlash from deliberately interfering with the climate.
Even if you are using a VPN, you are still connecting to an IP administered by TPB. That is cause for suspicion even if nobody can read the data. What excuse have you got for connecting to TPB at all ? Whether the authorities can see the torrents is irrelevant.
The odds are that his vision is highly reliant on invalid assumptions. He needs someone who understands the hardware to go over the idea and see if it's at all possible.
The symbol itself is straight forward, the properties are harder to define. It was easier to take an existing symbol and edit the properties.
Eagle is available on linux too.
I wonder how much of his idea has been tested. I had an idea, and being a stubborn bastard as well as ignorant of electronics, I decided to learn by doing. I quickly found that I was focussed on the end product when I found that I couldn't provide enough power in the space I had decided to work with. It was not an option to make more space available (at least not unless I prototyped using surface mount, which is expensive). But at least I found out by designing a schematic, getting the parts and soldering it up. It was a waste of money, but spare diodes are never wasted and I have a new interest. So my idea which I wanted to get built yesterday is on the back burner until I can find a way around it.
This is without mentioning that I was probably infringing on someones patent anyway - I never checked. Also, just as I was coming to this final realisation, I came across someone already selling something that was almost exactly what I wanted. I could hack their gear to get my result. Selling it would be harder of course. And it was still too big.
Change is inevitable. We will have another ice age, we will have earthquakes and volcanoes, and continental drift continues irrevocably. Just take a look at the history of the planet and realise the magnitude of what the climate change lobby are trying to accomplish. Have a look at this (scroll to the bottom) and notice the approximate lengths of the periods. The Cenozoic Era is approaching the length of the Jurassic or the Triassic periods, and you should know from geological history that sea levels and lifeforms differed widely during each of those periods. There were inundations and desertification happening regularly enough to form layers in what are now rocks. Is this all over and done with just because we are here ?
In my opinion, we should be expecting a change not fighting one. See this graph. Does the present CO2 level look out of the ordinary with what has gone before, many times ? I argue that we should be preparing for a drop of around 8C global average not a rise of that amount. I predict (there I said it) that we will see massive sea level rises followed by a rapid cooling followed by another global rise in ice levels. There are many mechanisms to explain how this will happen. High temperatures and higher seal levels can increase cloud cover which can result in a higher planetary albedo, so causing drops in temperature, and rapid ice formation. The ice causes drops in sea level, which allows plants to get going again and CO2 rises starting the warming cycle off again.
Of course when I say "we will see" I don't mean us, I mean mankind. We (as in us) will probably see the start of the end of this cycle, so to speak. This is why I never trusted the hockey stick graph. If you look at that Vostock graph, you can see the exponential rise in CO2 levels started roughly 20,000 years ago. If you zoom in you can find multiple "hockey stick" type rises. Blame that on human machinery if you can. I believe this shows that there is a natural limit to how much CO2 the atmosphere can take and we were already pretty close to that limit before we burnt the first lump of coal. Trying to stop or reverse the process now is ludicrous. It (CO2) will go down naturally, and attempting to hold back natural planetary rhythms so that we don't get our feet wet is both short sighted and naive. We should be looking at how we are going to survive despite the changes not trying to prevent them from happening. We should be trying to understand what drives the approx. 120,000 year cycle of CO2 levels. For all we know it could be that galactic rotation brings us closer to larger x-ray/gamma ray sources or some other driver of astronomical change. We simply don't know enough, and chicken little squawking about something that is historically documented as inevitable is a waste of time and effort.
To finish up with a small quote from wikipedia