There is not enough surface area on Earth for trees to take out the carbon. And that's if the trees sequestered carbon, which they don't in any reasonable time frame.
In order to sequester carbon, it has to be removed from the carbon cycle. It takes a long long time before carbon gets sequestered by forests, as demonstrated by the fact that CO2 levels remain pretty much constant over long periods of time without some external factor changing it.
So not only is there not enough surface area for the trees needed, but the length of time needed for it to have any appreciable impact is far too long to avoid the projected warming.
Would you say the same if a woman had written something similar, along the lines of women have a better natural grasp of social complexity and therefore women should be the managers, CEOs, heads of government, etc.?
Of course not. Because you're fragile male ego can't stand the thought that women might actually be better at something than you are.
Yes, because millennials think they're the "first" at everything, and worse they have this weird sense of entitlement like the world should bow down to their every whim.
But is this not what America wanted? Is this not what Americans voted for?
An administration that puts corporations and the rich before everyone else. That's what America wanted. It wasn't some secret or some bait and switch. Any idiot with at least a handful of functioning brain cell could figure out what was going to happen if Trump got elected, and Trump has not failed to deliver.
You voted for this. You got it. No use bitching about it. Maybe next time consider the consequences of electing an asshole like Trump before voting.
Which is stupid as IQ has almost nothing to do with being smart. It's at best a possible measure of potential. High IQ people aren't any more or less prone to being idiots as the rest of the population. They just don't have an excuse to fall back on.
Google is company, and they can do whatever the hell they want with their search results...oh wait, I'm sorry. I forgot who was in power now. A bunch of fucking hypocrites who decry regulation except for when it becomes damaging to their case. Let me rephrase this:
Google is a company, and they can do whatever the hell they want with their search results in order to support the neo-fascist extreme-right/alt-right agenda or we'll send in the jack-booted thugs to silence them.
Here's a tip: Google isn't the only search engine. There are plenty of others. If Google's search results offends their delicate neo-nazi sensibilities then there are a plethora of others to choose from.
Or is the argument that we should add regulations to prevent corporations from acting like and being treated like *gasp* people. Oh the horrors! You mean hold them accountable for their actions? Like selling ad space to Russian front companies to expose millions to foreign propoganda? Oh we can't have that! Think of the poor corporations and their profit margins!
It has nothing to do with not being able to handle the load. It has everything to do with costs. Linux is free. Windows isn't. Most of the tools for supercomputing were written for the linux platform. There are tools for windows but since it's a niche market there aren't nearly as many. And since in the super-computing world having a good desktop/GUI environment doesn't mean squat there is no real incentive to use windows outside of certain circumstances.
In all the time I used it I never encountered any serious problems other than the lack of tools and tracking down a couple numerical inconsistencies (issues with compiler differences). It ran fine. It handled loads fine. There's nothing wrong with it's MPI performance, nor any performance issues with it's infiniband stack. If you have a windows admin they can basically hop right on it with little difficulty, and if you're a windows shop then tying it together with AD and such is pretty simple. If you're going full windows, then it might make sense to consider it but there are very few organizations where that's the case.
This will end up being nothing more than an insecure vector for people you don't know to run programs on your computer.
When you find a secure computer, you let us all know okay?
This isn't going to be any more or any less secure than what currently exists. Webassembly seeks to correct the problem of only having one craptastic language for developing on the web by essentially providing a common language runtime/VM that other compilers can translate code to. Will there be bugs? Of course. Is that any different than what we currently have? No.
They are doing interesting science. Unlike us here in the US who now have laurel imprints on our fat overweight buttocks, the Chinese are actually thinking about the future. They're going to eat our lunch in every field, in every sector, because we have let fat rich assholes systematically dismantle and destroy everything that used to be innovative in this country. The fat cats have drained so much wealth out of the system that just about everyone starts out in debt. Researchers have to fight for scraps from congress's table. The anti-education/anti-intellectual movement in this country will soon achieve it's holy grail of pushing religious dogma into schools and supplanting science.
Just look at our president. That's what America is today. An old bloated idiot standing on the front lawn yelling at clouds.
In another decade or two not only will China be kicking our asses by every conceivable measure, they'll also own this country through the enormous amount of debt fucking morons like Trump and the so-called fiscally conservative Republicans have run up in the name making their buddies richer. The Chinese aren't stupid. They know how this ends, so they're more than happy to keep smiling and watching as we slowly collapse under our own weight.
Actually, bitcoin, litecoin, etc. is all one big scam. A currency with this much fluctuation isn't a currency. It's a penny stock. An unregulated speculative penny stock. When the bottom falls out (and it always does) there's going to more wailers and teeth nashers than ever before.
There are two types of people making money on this. The scammers at the top of the food chain, and the people selling "miners". Everyone else is just going to get screwed.
Welcome to Trumptopia. You weren't really surprised by such statements, were you? This is just par for the course for a president/administration who are more than happy to toss due process out the window, especially if your skin is a different color and/or come from a different country.
"So you can go suck a cock Rosenstein. No one wants to live in a totalitarian state where your half assed ideas comes to fruition."
On the contrary, just under half the voters would absolutely love living in a totalitarian state/banana republic as long as it was run by Trump/Republicans. The latest polls show that number being much less now that they're getting a bit of a taste of what that would be like, but just over a year ago they were all for it.
Paying taxes IS moral. If some douchebag finds and exploits a loophole (like Trump, who actually had segments of the tax code created just to stop his accounting BS back in the 80's and 90's), that is taking money out of MY pocket. Wealthy assholes dodging taxes means it's left to everyone else to make up the shortfall, thus they are effectively stealing from everyone else.
Your argument reminds me of what lawful evil characters use in D&D. Laws without morality will always be exploited, and that is exactly what these rich assholes do.
1. The world will unite and through a massive coordinated and concerted effort will move away from carbon based sources of energy and more towards long term sustainable sources limiting and eventually reducing global warming over the next couple of centuries.
2. The world will continue it's divisive and pointless quibbles as the world heats up, eventually leading to massive resource wars that will all but end humanity thus eliminating CO2 production and bringing the world back to it's natural level over the next several centuries.
Either way, the nature wins. Whether or not we're here to celebrate it's victory is on our shoulders. Considering the current political climate with alt-right neo-fascists gaining traction throughout the world, odds are favoring massive global conflict wiping us out by the end of this century.
Yep, immigration is little more than a political football. Illegal immigration wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't a lucrative alternative. And business wouldn't employ illegal immigrants if it wasn't so profitable to do so. Today's penalties for using illegal immigrant labor comes down to a finger wag and a slap on the wrist. As long as it remains more profitable to employ illegal immigrants than the penalties for doing so, they're going to keep doing it.
But you'll never see republican pushing for harsh penalties against businesses. You'll see them taking idiotic measures, like trying to spend billions on a border wall.
His staff would have to create a specialized version of the Constitution for him to read. All bullet points, with no line being longer than 144 characters and no word beyond a third grade vocabulary. They'd also have to throw in a random statement on every page about how awesome he is or he'd stop reading after the first one or two bullet points.
Not just Californians. Pretty much anyone who isn't rich.
If you read the plan, you'll pick up on some nice smoke-and-mirrors, Kansas-city-shuffles, and other little games. Basically they are cleverly disguising overall tax increases as "tax cuts" for the middle class and poor. Sure, your income tax bill will be lower. But that money your getting back? It isn't staying in your pocket. Look beyond that very small return you're getting and you'll see that money is going right back in the pot anyway.
This tax plan exists for one single purpose: to make the rich richer. Everyone else gets screwed. In other words, just your typical republican garbage.
It's not a "fuck you". It's reality. It's physics, chemistry, and thermodynamics. Do you think mother nature has a personal vendetta against you when an acorn falls from a tree and hits you in the head? Or a seagull decides to drop a deuce on you while flying overhead?
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There is not enough surface area on Earth for trees to take out the carbon. And that's if the trees sequestered carbon, which they don't in any reasonable time frame.
In order to sequester carbon, it has to be removed from the carbon cycle. It takes a long long time before carbon gets sequestered by forests, as demonstrated by the fact that CO2 levels remain pretty much constant over long periods of time without some external factor changing it.
So not only is there not enough surface area for the trees needed, but the length of time needed for it to have any appreciable impact is far too long to avoid the projected warming.
When did Slashdot become a subsidiary of Breitbart?
Then again, with a name like "Orgasmatron" I guess no one should be surprised where you stand. You're not one of the pro-pedo republicans are you?
Would you say the same if a woman had written something similar, along the lines of women have a better natural grasp of social complexity and therefore women should be the managers, CEOs, heads of government, etc.?
Of course not. Because you're fragile male ego can't stand the thought that women might actually be better at something than you are.
Yes, because millennials think they're the "first" at everything, and worse they have this weird sense of entitlement like the world should bow down to their every whim.
Millennials are IoT'd yuppies.
But is this not what America wanted? Is this not what Americans voted for?
An administration that puts corporations and the rich before everyone else. That's what America wanted. It wasn't some secret or some bait and switch. Any idiot with at least a handful of functioning brain cell could figure out what was going to happen if Trump got elected, and Trump has not failed to deliver.
You voted for this. You got it. No use bitching about it. Maybe next time consider the consequences of electing an asshole like Trump before voting.
Breitbart is about as reliable as the weekly world news, only without the entertainment factor.
Neither does a large portion of the US population these days.
Which is stupid as IQ has almost nothing to do with being smart. It's at best a possible measure of potential. High IQ people aren't any more or less prone to being idiots as the rest of the population. They just don't have an excuse to fall back on.
Google is company, and they can do whatever the hell they want with their search results...oh wait, I'm sorry. I forgot who was in power now. A bunch of fucking hypocrites who decry regulation except for when it becomes damaging to their case. Let me rephrase this:
Google is a company, and they can do whatever the hell they want with their search results in order to support the neo-fascist extreme-right/alt-right agenda or we'll send in the jack-booted thugs to silence them.
Here's a tip: Google isn't the only search engine. There are plenty of others. If Google's search results offends their delicate neo-nazi sensibilities then there are a plethora of others to choose from.
Or is the argument that we should add regulations to prevent corporations from acting like and being treated like *gasp* people. Oh the horrors! You mean hold them accountable for their actions? Like selling ad space to Russian front companies to expose millions to foreign propoganda? Oh we can't have that! Think of the poor corporations and their profit margins!
It has nothing to do with not being able to handle the load. It has everything to do with costs. Linux is free. Windows isn't. Most of the tools for supercomputing were written for the linux platform. There are tools for windows but since it's a niche market there aren't nearly as many. And since in the super-computing world having a good desktop/GUI environment doesn't mean squat there is no real incentive to use windows outside of certain circumstances.
In all the time I used it I never encountered any serious problems other than the lack of tools and tracking down a couple numerical inconsistencies (issues with compiler differences). It ran fine. It handled loads fine. There's nothing wrong with it's MPI performance, nor any performance issues with it's infiniband stack. If you have a windows admin they can basically hop right on it with little difficulty, and if you're a windows shop then tying it together with AD and such is pretty simple. If you're going full windows, then it might make sense to consider it but there are very few organizations where that's the case.
But there's no getting around the costs.
I think Web Assembly is a tremendous mistake.
This will end up being nothing more than an insecure vector for people you don't know to run programs on your computer.
When you find a secure computer, you let us all know okay?
This isn't going to be any more or any less secure than what currently exists. Webassembly seeks to correct the problem of only having one craptastic language for developing on the web by essentially providing a common language runtime/VM that other compilers can translate code to. Will there be bugs? Of course. Is that any different than what we currently have? No.
They are doing interesting science. Unlike us here in the US who now have laurel imprints on our fat overweight buttocks, the Chinese are actually thinking about the future. They're going to eat our lunch in every field, in every sector, because we have let fat rich assholes systematically dismantle and destroy everything that used to be innovative in this country. The fat cats have drained so much wealth out of the system that just about everyone starts out in debt. Researchers have to fight for scraps from congress's table. The anti-education/anti-intellectual movement in this country will soon achieve it's holy grail of pushing religious dogma into schools and supplanting science.
Just look at our president. That's what America is today. An old bloated idiot standing on the front lawn yelling at clouds.
In another decade or two not only will China be kicking our asses by every conceivable measure, they'll also own this country through the enormous amount of debt fucking morons like Trump and the so-called fiscally conservative Republicans have run up in the name making their buddies richer. The Chinese aren't stupid. They know how this ends, so they're more than happy to keep smiling and watching as we slowly collapse under our own weight.
Pre-mine = scam. Big pre-mine = big scam.
Actually, bitcoin, litecoin, etc. is all one big scam. A currency with this much fluctuation isn't a currency. It's a penny stock. An unregulated speculative penny stock. When the bottom falls out (and it always does) there's going to more wailers and teeth nashers than ever before.
There are two types of people making money on this. The scammers at the top of the food chain, and the people selling "miners". Everyone else is just going to get screwed.
Welcome to Trumptopia. You weren't really surprised by such statements, were you? This is just par for the course for a president/administration who are more than happy to toss due process out the window, especially if your skin is a different color and/or come from a different country.
"So you can go suck a cock Rosenstein. No one wants to live in a totalitarian state where your half assed ideas comes to fruition."
On the contrary, just under half the voters would absolutely love living in a totalitarian state/banana republic as long as it was run by Trump/Republicans. The latest polls show that number being much less now that they're getting a bit of a taste of what that would be like, but just over a year ago they were all for it.
Paying taxes IS moral. If some douchebag finds and exploits a loophole (like Trump, who actually had segments of the tax code created just to stop his accounting BS back in the 80's and 90's), that is taking money out of MY pocket. Wealthy assholes dodging taxes means it's left to everyone else to make up the shortfall, thus they are effectively stealing from everyone else.
Your argument reminds me of what lawful evil characters use in D&D. Laws without morality will always be exploited, and that is exactly what these rich assholes do.
Just wait till you get to the parts with Trump and the members of his administration.
The CO2 problem will be fixed in one of two ways:
1. The world will unite and through a massive coordinated and concerted effort will move away from carbon based sources of energy and more towards long term sustainable sources limiting and eventually reducing global warming over the next couple of centuries.
2. The world will continue it's divisive and pointless quibbles as the world heats up, eventually leading to massive resource wars that will all but end humanity thus eliminating CO2 production and bringing the world back to it's natural level over the next several centuries.
Either way, the nature wins. Whether or not we're here to celebrate it's victory is on our shoulders. Considering the current political climate with alt-right neo-fascists gaining traction throughout the world, odds are favoring massive global conflict wiping us out by the end of this century.
Interesting times.
" carried those ungrateful, entitled fucks long enough. It has no moral obligation at all to keep paying them when they're not producing."
Fill in with any corporation that has outsourced or imported foreign labor. Remember that when you get outsourced or have to train your replacement.
Yep, immigration is little more than a political football. Illegal immigration wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't a lucrative alternative. And business wouldn't employ illegal immigrants if it wasn't so profitable to do so. Today's penalties for using illegal immigrant labor comes down to a finger wag and a slap on the wrist. As long as it remains more profitable to employ illegal immigrants than the penalties for doing so, they're going to keep doing it.
But you'll never see republican pushing for harsh penalties against businesses. You'll see them taking idiotic measures, like trying to spend billions on a border wall.
His staff would have to create a specialized version of the Constitution for him to read. All bullet points, with no line being longer than 144 characters and no word beyond a third grade vocabulary. They'd also have to throw in a random statement on every page about how awesome he is or he'd stop reading after the first one or two bullet points.
A programmer doing QA:
*runs code*
"Oh c'mon, no one would ever do that. I'm doing this instead."
*marks as tested*
Not just Californians. Pretty much anyone who isn't rich.
If you read the plan, you'll pick up on some nice smoke-and-mirrors, Kansas-city-shuffles, and other little games. Basically they are cleverly disguising overall tax increases as "tax cuts" for the middle class and poor. Sure, your income tax bill will be lower. But that money your getting back? It isn't staying in your pocket. Look beyond that very small return you're getting and you'll see that money is going right back in the pot anyway.
This tax plan exists for one single purpose: to make the rich richer. Everyone else gets screwed. In other words, just your typical republican garbage.
It's not a "fuck you". It's reality. It's physics, chemistry, and thermodynamics. Do you think mother nature has a personal vendetta against you when an acorn falls from a tree and hits you in the head? Or a seagull decides to drop a deuce on you while flying overhead?
Well, it's Slashdot. What did you expect from an article summary?