Thoroughly debunked ? In your dreams maybe. We have records of the actual suns output reaching back to the first satellites we put up to observe it. Maybe 40 years of data. The sun has cycles that last millions of years, but you're relying on 40 years of data to "debunk" arguments you don't like.
1)Don't use words like "deny" - this is not faith this is science, and until people like you *prove* your case, you only have an hypothesis. 2)Even if your hypothesis turns out to be correct, you seem to be overlooking the fact that with increased temperatures comes an increased risk of reaching the "tipping point", which is where the earths natural climate balance swings back to extreme cold, *not* hot. 3)While CO2 concentration may be higher than we have recorded, this does not mean it is higher than it has ever been before. And no, it does not necessarily lead to higher temperatures, at least not for long. 4)There IS a debate, but you apparently aren't part of it. 5)Yeah right, a couple of hookers trying to win a vote aim for mass hysteria to win for their side - how unusual. 6)Global "warming" has existed since the end of the last global "cooling" period. Global cooling is *real* as well.
I have said before and I'll say it again now - the human race has NO CHANCE of altering the climate at a whim. We would be better to prepare for extreme cold than extreme heat. Imagine this scenario - the ice melts, 95% say. Lots of land goes under water. Heat rises, we get lots of rain. So much that the planet is covered by clouds. This changes the albedo of the earth so that heat from the sun is reflected into space. Suddenly, all that water cools and ice forms where before there was land. Here's a quote -
From palaeoclimatic records scientists now know that during the last 2 million years the Earth's climate has fluctuated between periods of relative warmth and relative cold, with global average surface temperature changing by as much as 5C between the two climatic regimes. Although over the longer term (50 million years) the Earth has become much colder since the age of the dinosaurs, with permanent ice cover at both the North and South poles, the size of the polar ice caps has repeatedly grown and shrunk roughly every 100,000 years. The colder periods, called glacials or Ice Ages, have usually lasted for 80,000 to 100,000 years, whilst the intervening warmer intervals have been much shorter, lasting about 10,000 years. The last Ice Age or glacial period on Earth ended roughly 14,000 years ago. At that time, much of Northern Europe and North America lay under huge ice sheets that today remain only in Greenland. At present we may be coming towards the end of the latest warmer interglacial period, although mankind's alteration of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas pollution makes predicting the long term future of our global climate difficult.
Now tell me again that the trend is towards warming.
And this is why you're fucked - many reasons NOT to do something, but ironically every argument you state has an equal and opposite argument against air travel. Peoples travel habits are related to the PLACES they go. Not to the method. An East West line might take 13 hours, but then you wouldn't need a hotel before work. You could get to the centre of the city instead of hiring a car or taxi. 13 hours with a bed, a tv, and WiFi, not to mention the peace and quiet. You talk about threats from bombs and the like but don't seem to remember what happened a few years ago when your planes became bombs ! Just change your last 2 paragraphs using trains instead of airliners and planes instead of trains or rails.
There are possibly many different aspects to dark matter. There only common factor is we don't know how to detect them yet. For an example take the atom. The name means "indivisible", or the smallest unit, but guess what, we found out that that premise was false. If they keep claiming to find new particles, then tally the mass there should gradually be a reduction in the amount of matter unaccounted for. Assuming of course that the "missing" mass is necessary, and there isn't another reason for the observed behaviour of the universe.
The problem is not with the denunciation per se, but the fact that the law is unjust, and the sole result of a coercive monopoly on trash collection, aided by an ecological agenda undermining individual freedom.
You should have screamed when recycling became mandatory, you should have screamed at the monopoly on roads and trash collection.
Did you just read a book or something ? "Coercive monopoly on trash collection" ? Jesus, you need a blowjob ! If the government funded councils didn't force collection, the roads would be clogged. Maybe you've forgotten that people used to throw their shit in the street. I mean shit. Recycling is encouraged but not enforced really well. No one opens bags to check the contents, it's just easy to see if an idiot throws bottles in a paper bin. And I don't see why recycling shouldn't be enforced anyway. Partly because of the shit issue above, and also anything that doesn't get recycled goes in the ground. My taxes are paying for ever more expensive holes in the ground, and it's a waste of money when probably 85 -90 % of household rubbish can be recycled. Maybe if you lived in the real world you might recognise the inherent laziness in the modern world. If it's not untidy, it's because there is a rule somewhere that gets enforced. BTW most trash collection in the UK is done by private contractors, paid by the area council. And I'll just ignore the roads comment entirely.
Bandwidth or total data transfer ? They are not the same. Somebody with 24 Mbps ADSL has more bandwidth than somebody with 8 Mbps ADSL, but they both might have a transfer cap of 40 GB per month. Oh, that's right, language changes, get used to it. Fuck science, definite terms are so 20th century.
What I don't understand, however, is why the incubation time vs. slaughtering age argument doesn't call into question the USDA's entire testing regime. What is the point of testing 1% of cows with a test that isn't going to work in most cases anyway?
See also: Airport security theater
Or maybe they might catch one, and that gives more data about where the disease is and how it spreads. Or do you suggest doing nothing ?
Informative but irrelevant. The microscope is *instead of* looking for DNA. We already established we don't know what to look for with DNA, other than known types. But a microscope can *see*, no prior knowledge needed. We were kinda hoping that alien life would actually be in our dimension, so we should be able to see it. I am hoping that when alien life is finally discovered, it will show that we are just another species differentiated by distance like the Galapagos island creatures. Humans are only really just starting high school in the learning stakes.
Take a thin wire and connect it to the + and - terminals on your car battery (use thick leather gloves so you don't get burned) and see what happens when you stuff too much power down a wire.
There is a good chance the battery will explode, either from a spark igniting the gases, or the direct short melting the battery and then exploding the gases. Gloves won't help. Not to mention that there are electrical systems in cars that use very large voltages and currents. Just because the car may not be running, doesn't mean the voltage is locked away.
This ranks with demonstrating the principle of the revolver by playing russian roulette.
While there is nothing to say such an object exists, imagine a large body with an orbital period of hundreds of thousands of years. If it were on an orbit which brought it directly towards the earth, how would we know ? Sure they might detect the object, but it is possible for it not to appear to move against the rest of the sky. AFAIK, most discoveries of large objects are because of their apparent movement, but relative distance between earth and such objects is not monitored as easily. Unless they start passing in front of closer objects, they're not very easy to identify as "incoming". Ok, you can calculate direction based on either red or blue shift, but that technique is of more use with stars, not dark rocky bodies.
I can't tell if you're joking. WE are the backups. Unless we get living humans off the planet, residing in a sustainable environment, then any large object hitting the earth could take us all out - permanently.
That's pretty simplistic, and of course wrong. Ask yourself - why do we have clean water and they don't ? According to you there is no reason, as we all have the same innate intelligence. In the real world somebody has to organise the people to guarantee the clean water supply. And that's what's missing in places like Rwanda. They are too busy fighting amongst themselves to provide the basic necessities of life properly. So for them to progress to western levels they actually have to progress - it doesn't happen naturally by mere right of existence, or the existence of "intelligence". And exporting better technology to these places might provide a short term boost, but is worthless if no-one is learning the basics to create their own technologies. Somebody has to be able to fix this technology or they are forever dependent on the west. At some stage thinking has to turn into doing. I can imagine the scene in any western country if the government were to suddenly cease to exist. Things would just stop getting done. Sure the people with the knowledge would still exist, but the guy who fixes the water main isn't going to get paid for turning up every day. Pick your utility - the same situation applies. We would be back in the dark ages within 20 or 30 years, maybe excepting small pockets of rich people who could keep their lifestyle going. So like I said, back to the dark ages. And people still don't seem to realise that if you forget the mistakes of the past you get to repeat them. All in all, intelligence is not the driving factor in "civilisation", cooperation is. And that cooperation usually has to be enforced, hence government. Your standard of living depends on the quality of the government, not how bright each individual is. Bad government uses guns to get its own way, so doesn't need a happy healthy population. Good government knows that it costs less to keep people happy than to fight them, and they can enjoy the benefits of that cooperation too.
I have an IP cam which serves video on demand to an ffserver instance on my web server. FFmpeg converts it to flash on the fly.You can use swf or flv outputs.
I agree, but it's not the sense of competition that's needed, it's something for the spooks to do ! Back in the late 70's early 80's things were pretty tense and the cold war was just something you had got used to. But there was a lot of people involved in that "war". Suddenly it was all over and every body realised they were basically out of work. Now they're busy again AND they've got hi-tec. Happy days, happy days.
So 9/11 was part of a trend ? Seems to me the bin laden family and the bush family were both involved in that one before and after. When was the last attack on US soil by foreign terrorists pre 9/11 ?
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Thoroughly debunked ? In your dreams maybe.
We have records of the actual suns output reaching back to the first satellites we put up to observe it. Maybe 40 years of data. The sun has cycles that last millions of years, but you're relying on 40 years of data to "debunk" arguments you don't like.
2)Even if your hypothesis turns out to be correct, you seem to be overlooking the fact that with increased temperatures comes an increased risk of reaching the "tipping point", which is where the earths natural climate balance swings back to extreme cold, *not* hot.
3)While CO2 concentration may be higher than we have recorded, this does not mean it is higher than it has ever been before. And no, it does not necessarily lead to higher temperatures, at least not for long.
4)There IS a debate, but you apparently aren't part of it.
5)Yeah right, a couple of hookers trying to win a vote aim for mass hysteria to win for their side - how unusual.
6)Global "warming" has existed since the end of the last global "cooling" period. Global cooling is *real* as well.
I have said before and I'll say it again now - the human race has NO CHANCE of altering the climate at a whim. We would be better to prepare for extreme cold than extreme heat.
Imagine this scenario - the ice melts, 95% say. Lots of land goes under water. Heat rises, we get lots of rain. So much that the planet is covered by clouds. This changes the albedo of the earth so that heat from the sun is reflected into space. Suddenly, all that water cools and ice forms where before there was land.
Here's a quote -
From palaeoclimatic records scientists now know that during the last 2 million years the Earth's climate has fluctuated between periods of relative warmth and relative cold, with global average surface temperature changing by as much as 5C between the two climatic regimes. Although over the longer term (50 million years) the Earth has become much colder since the age of the dinosaurs, with permanent ice cover at both the North and South poles, the size of the polar ice caps has repeatedly grown and shrunk roughly every 100,000 years. The colder periods, called glacials or Ice Ages, have usually lasted for 80,000 to 100,000 years, whilst the intervening warmer intervals have been much shorter, lasting about 10,000 years. The last Ice Age or glacial period on Earth ended roughly 14,000 years ago. At that time, much of Northern Europe and North America lay under huge ice sheets that today remain only in Greenland. At present we may be coming towards the end of the latest warmer interglacial period, although mankind's alteration of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas pollution makes predicting the long term future of our global climate difficult.
Now tell me again that the trend is towards warming.
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And this is why you're fucked - many reasons NOT to do something, but ironically every argument you state has an equal and opposite argument against air travel. Peoples travel habits are related to the PLACES they go. Not to the method. An East West line might take 13 hours, but then you wouldn't need a hotel before work. You could get to the centre of the city instead of hiring a car or taxi. 13 hours with a bed, a tv, and WiFi, not to mention the peace and quiet.
You talk about threats from bombs and the like but don't seem to remember what happened a few years ago when your planes became bombs !
Just change your last 2 paragraphs using trains instead of airliners and planes instead of trains or rails.
There are possibly many different aspects to dark matter. There only common factor is we don't know how to detect them yet.
For an example take the atom. The name means "indivisible", or the smallest unit, but guess what, we found out that that premise was false.
If they keep claiming to find new particles, then tally the mass there should gradually be a reduction in the amount of matter unaccounted for. Assuming of course that the "missing" mass is necessary, and there isn't another reason for the observed behaviour of the universe.
The problem is not with the denunciation per se, but the fact that the law is unjust, and the sole result of a coercive monopoly on trash collection, aided by an ecological agenda undermining individual freedom.
You should have screamed when recycling became mandatory, you should have screamed at the monopoly on roads and trash collection.
Did you just read a book or something ? "Coercive monopoly on trash collection" ? Jesus, you need a blowjob !
If the government funded councils didn't force collection, the roads would be clogged. Maybe you've forgotten that people used to throw their shit in the street. I mean shit.
Recycling is encouraged but not enforced really well. No one opens bags to check the contents, it's just easy to see if an idiot throws bottles in a paper bin. And I don't see why recycling shouldn't be enforced anyway. Partly because of the shit issue above, and also anything that doesn't get recycled goes in the ground. My taxes are paying for ever more expensive holes in the ground, and it's a waste of money when probably 85 -90 % of household rubbish can be recycled.
Maybe if you lived in the real world you might recognise the inherent laziness in the modern world. If it's not untidy, it's because there is a rule somewhere that gets enforced.
BTW most trash collection in the UK is done by private contractors, paid by the area council. And I'll just ignore the roads comment entirely.
You can get the tax online - no documents needed. Presuming you actually had insurance, MOT etc.
Bandwidth or total data transfer ?
They are not the same.
Somebody with 24 Mbps ADSL has more bandwidth than somebody with 8 Mbps ADSL, but they both might have a transfer cap of 40 GB per month. Oh, that's right, language changes, get used to it. Fuck science, definite terms are so 20th century.
See also: Airport security theater
Or maybe they might catch one, and that gives more data about where the disease is and how it spreads.
Or do you suggest doing nothing ?
Within, the word you are groping for is "within" your means.
Yeah 4 years is a long time for a Rover.
Informative but irrelevant.
The microscope is *instead of* looking for DNA. We already established we don't know what to look for with DNA, other than known types. But a microscope can *see*, no prior knowledge needed. We were kinda hoping that alien life would actually be in our dimension, so we should be able to see it.
I am hoping that when alien life is finally discovered, it will show that we are just another species differentiated by distance like the Galapagos island creatures. Humans are only really just starting high school in the learning stakes.
Take a thin wire and connect it to the + and - terminals on your car battery (use thick leather gloves so you don't get burned) and see what happens when you stuff too much power down a wire.
There is a good chance the battery will explode, either from a spark igniting the gases, or the direct short melting the battery and then exploding the gases.
Gloves won't help. Not to mention that there are electrical systems in cars that use very large voltages and currents. Just because the car may not be running, doesn't mean the voltage is locked away.
This ranks with demonstrating the principle of the revolver by playing russian roulette.
They do make strips with individual switches for each outlet now ...
While there is nothing to say such an object exists, imagine a large body with an orbital period of hundreds of thousands of years. If it were on an orbit which brought it directly towards the earth, how would we know ? Sure they might detect the object, but it is possible for it not to appear to move against the rest of the sky. AFAIK, most discoveries of large objects are because of their apparent movement, but relative distance between earth and such objects is not monitored as easily. Unless they start passing in front of closer objects, they're not very easy to identify as "incoming". Ok, you can calculate direction based on either red or blue shift, but that technique is of more use with stars, not dark rocky bodies.
I can't tell if you're joking.
WE are the backups.
Unless we get living humans off the planet, residing in a sustainable environment, then any large object hitting the earth could take us all out - permanently.
£77 is how much it cost including ebay fees and paypal !
Ha ha !
Because the guy doesn't have wheels ?
That's pretty simplistic, and of course wrong.
Ask yourself - why do we have clean water and they don't ? According to you there is no reason, as we all have the same innate intelligence. In the real world somebody has to organise the people to guarantee the clean water supply. And that's what's missing in places like Rwanda. They are too busy fighting amongst themselves to provide the basic necessities of life properly. So for them to progress to western levels they actually have to progress - it doesn't happen naturally by mere right of existence, or the existence of "intelligence".
And exporting better technology to these places might provide a short term boost, but is worthless if no-one is learning the basics to create their own technologies. Somebody has to be able to fix this technology or they are forever dependent on the west. At some stage thinking has to turn into doing.
I can imagine the scene in any western country if the government were to suddenly cease to exist. Things would just stop getting done. Sure the people with the knowledge would still exist, but the guy who fixes the water main isn't going to get paid for turning up every day. Pick your utility - the same situation applies. We would be back in the dark ages within 20 or 30 years, maybe excepting small pockets of rich people who could keep their lifestyle going. So like I said, back to the dark ages. And people still don't seem to realise that if you forget the mistakes of the past you get to repeat them.
All in all, intelligence is not the driving factor in "civilisation", cooperation is. And that cooperation usually has to be enforced, hence government. Your standard of living depends on the quality of the government, not how bright each individual is. Bad government uses guns to get its own way, so doesn't need a happy healthy population. Good government knows that it costs less to keep people happy than to fight them, and they can enjoy the benefits of that cooperation too.
Yeah right, but at least those "go-karts" can go round *corners* and in both directions too ! Calling anything on a banked oval "racing" is ludicrous.
I have an IP cam which serves video on demand to an ffserver instance on my web server. FFmpeg converts it to flash on the fly.You can use swf or flv outputs.
I agree, but it's not the sense of competition that's needed, it's something for the spooks to do !
Back in the late 70's early 80's things were pretty tense and the cold war was just something you had got used to. But there was a lot of people involved in that "war". Suddenly it was all over and every body realised they were basically out of work.
Now they're busy again AND they've got hi-tec. Happy days, happy days.
So the only thing missing at the moment is the canada sized grain of salt then.
Good job that'll never happen.
So 9/11 was part of a trend ?
Seems to me the bin laden family and the bush family were both involved in that one before and after. When was the last attack on US soil by foreign terrorists pre 9/11 ?