Electric cars are but one direction among many needed. They cure one of the symptoms, and not in a big way; they do solve the problem with the political crises stemming from fossil fuels. The other causative agents remain until addressed.
You need to investigate the proposition that many others believe that global climate change isn't conjecture. There's a lot of really wisely tested data that you can find that's very convincing.
It's certainly an interdisciplinary exercise. An accumulation of various data points regards the evidence of increased air and water temperature, the magnetosphere, variance in climate data, statistical approximation of added components into the atmosphere instead of the ground, the 'machine' and cyclical nature of photosynthesis and accumulated CO2 exchange, the role of methane, and the living machine that is this planet.
Methinks that there are few disciplines that are untouched by the question. There's something oddly holy about that.
First, the rubric of 'global warming' isn't the whole picture, as you cite. It's global climate change. You can add up the amount of CO, CO2, methane, and other gasses we put into the air each day. Cargo ships are the biggest polluters. After that, it would appear that coal-fired plants-- generation stations, steel mills, steam generators-- are next. Vehicular traffic comes after that.
Secondly, we have particulate matter that causes respiratory problems, ranging from cancer and asthma to less statistically significant but very real problems.
Finally, we have causes that come from nature that aren't otherwise man-made or influenced. And more.
The global temperature is raising. As climate shifts, some areas will get colder. Bizarre things will happen, like hurricanes in the US and AUS. We don't have the final equations of the outcome. Weather and climate are incredibly dynamic. We need computing resources and deep thinkers to help the world understand the problem and the plausible and real solutions.
Get enraged. Get real. I'm an engineer. Look at the consequences. Join in, help the world. We're not crying wolf. We're using evidence to help people understand that global climate change has been a direct result of man-made pollutants and policy. It didn't occur 'naturally'. We caused the problem, we can help with the change.
Yes-- we have to deal responsibly with the solutions we engender. There's no doubt about that. But the payoff is important. We're out-fishing our global stocks. We're causing drastic climate changes. We're polluting as though the world was going to end tomorrow. It's a Gandhi thing-- it starts with you, it starts with me. Together, we use our noodles to claw back normalcy and responsibility, so that future generations don't have a cesspool to live in.
Seconded. You can watch the movie, Who Killed The Electric Car, and understand a lot about the fact that technological achievement can provide real solutions and alternatives to the bad habits we've learned.
Old money is really, really unexcited about changing their investment strategy. Today's commodity oil price structure is hilarious as an example. But there are many sectors that feel threatened by change. And they shouldn't.
As a scientist, and researcher, I understand confidence. As a gambler, and a programmer, I also understand confidence. In terms of overwhelming evidence and rational thought, I understand confidence. Were I to gamble, and understand the relationships, I wouldn't change my estimation of the facts.
In denying global weather change is man-made, you leave only women. That makes you misogynistic. The evidence is overwhelming. Yet you deny it.
Beyond particulate matter causing huge health problems, it's also plainly costly. The atmospheric greenhouse gases that we've launched are changing climate to where we're going to incapacitate our agriculture, and are causing the oceans to rise. Ask someone, in say, Kiribati.
The man-made part has been well established, and indeed your "95% confidence level" makes you clearly no kind of gambler.
We'll agree that correlation != causation. And we can also agree that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, craps like a duck, it's likely to be a duck.
So while you're enwrapped in the conjecture of your own tribulations, others of us are trying to warn people, change habits, and save a planet for our great grandchildren. Yeah, it's real, and it's man-made, not the cause of members of Congress' hot fucking air.
It's all about verbs. If they said, "waggles free widget" you'd just scroll off. But hey, "assault" sounds aggressive, doesn't it. Doesn't mean that the actual syncing tool is greater than Halo on Android, but ow you can plop your data in two places.
Nah. Connectivity allows us to test the limits. The bad guys were always there. It's like blaming crime on handguns. Handguns are VERY convenient. So is the Internet.
An incredible amount of uncontestably/unquestionably legitimate commerce and communications goes on every millisecond on the net. Singling out Craigslist-- which is a fantastic site, is like singling out AT&T because you can call people and get drugs, prostitutes, and so on out of the Yellow Pages. Oops, I'm sorry-- they're called escorts and pharmacies.
Then the solution is something like your own cut of BSD, linted of all extraneous code, hardened kernel, with your own control of your own written RPC APIs.
No. It's not that tough. You make it out to be layering against different kinds of vulnerabilities. It's much different than that.
You have an OS with its faults, access RPC with its faults, code with its faults, and libraries with their faults. You can control only parts of this in your code. The rest is choosing solid OS and RPC support, and libraries with known code and behaviors.
Then you build parsers with as much concrete as you can, update platforms, rinse, repeat.
Being 'outed' is not my fear. Their pile of data on individuals is my fear. I can't trust them at all. Their job is to know me and sell my info to others, via ads. My demographic isn't for sale.
Facebook hasn't mined their data sufficiently to give really targeted ads. Google has indeed done this. My experiments say that they know lots about you, ranging from your sexual orientation and marital status to your travel and purchasing propensities. Facebook is just getting started. The ads you see on FB are much more random than Google's.
Try creating an alternate ego and personna on a fresh browser install, like a new instance of Chrome or FireFox or Opera. Be gay if your straight, or straight if you're gay. Travel if you don't (e.g. go to travel sites like kayak, elliot.org), and watch what kind of google ads you get. It's a revelation. Yes, it's a hassle to experiment with, but you'll be amazed the triggers that Google uses.
Your trust is misplaced, in my estimation. You trade your data-- personal data, private data-- and your dignity and for what? Free prattle, Google-sponsored ads. Feel better about that? You use gmail, and expect that they'll stay out of your mail boxes, your contact list, your chats, your docs? I have a bridge for you in Brooklyn.
I, too, am worried about governmental data vacuuming. That's what encryption is for. There's an old aphorism that says that locks keep your friends out, but your enemies have pick tools.
And how do you know this? There are a dozen search engines, and you really have no idea how much data Google stores, then makes available to sites. Google Analytics, while vastly resourceful, gets that way at the cost of immense amounts of YOUR data.
You give lots away and don't realize it. The Google model is built on robbing you of your privacy. You blithely ignore this, ready to get nibbles of content in sacrifice for the dignity that your privacy gives you.
High moral fibers? That's a dubious claim. Your thought of "really nice people" that somehow managed to keep (possibly other) greedy bastards from running the show is mischaracterized. They merely provide somewhat astute competition at the cost of your privacy, and therefore, your dignity.
Proliferating web content through subsidized advertising is much like how the TV industry let the ad sales people out of their cages, resulting in a proliferation of enormous quantities of total content blather. That evolutionary process seemed like growth, but because it panders to quantification rather than qualification of content, it made much of the web entropic.
The entire post is a memorial to how to rationalize a bad installation. If the German Foreign office had to make or fund their own printer and scanner drivers, then there's an IT functionary that deluded them, and needs to be sacked.
Managing expectations is truly important, and it appears that their IT department failed them, and miserably.
Using a VPN doesn't automatically finger you. Keyword filters-- the spoken kind of keywords-- do. If you do data, reboot frequently to change your IP address. Or, if you think about it, change your MAC and IP address by incrementing by 1 or 2 (etc) your address; you're unlikely to bump into a collision. Smart guys figure out address domains.
Otherwise, figure you're being listened to all the time. GSM is as easy to crack as an egg these days. Data ought to be encrypted as mentioned above. Don't save files with names like 'terroristplantonukethebigdam'. Be sane. Be a bit extra paranoid. Have fun.
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Electric cars are but one direction among many needed. They cure one of the symptoms, and not in a big way; they do solve the problem with the political crises stemming from fossil fuels. The other causative agents remain until addressed.
You need to investigate the proposition that many others believe that global climate change isn't conjecture. There's a lot of really wisely tested data that you can find that's very convincing.
It's certainly an interdisciplinary exercise. An accumulation of various data points regards the evidence of increased air and water temperature, the magnetosphere, variance in climate data, statistical approximation of added components into the atmosphere instead of the ground, the 'machine' and cyclical nature of photosynthesis and accumulated CO2 exchange, the role of methane, and the living machine that is this planet.
Methinks that there are few disciplines that are untouched by the question. There's something oddly holy about that.
Yeah, I left those out, and a bunch of other issues to address the poster. No smugness. No ego. Just concern for others.
Didn't talk about DDT in the third world. Didn't talk about lots of stuff. Have a nice day.
Of course. If there were no levity, none of us would be uplifted.
First, the rubric of 'global warming' isn't the whole picture, as you cite. It's global climate change. You can add up the amount of CO, CO2, methane, and other gasses we put into the air each day. Cargo ships are the biggest polluters. After that, it would appear that coal-fired plants-- generation stations, steel mills, steam generators-- are next. Vehicular traffic comes after that.
Secondly, we have particulate matter that causes respiratory problems, ranging from cancer and asthma to less statistically significant but very real problems.
Finally, we have causes that come from nature that aren't otherwise man-made or influenced. And more.
The global temperature is raising. As climate shifts, some areas will get colder. Bizarre things will happen, like hurricanes in the US and AUS. We don't have the final equations of the outcome. Weather and climate are incredibly dynamic. We need computing resources and deep thinkers to help the world understand the problem and the plausible and real solutions.
Get enraged. Get real. I'm an engineer. Look at the consequences. Join in, help the world. We're not crying wolf. We're using evidence to help people understand that global climate change has been a direct result of man-made pollutants and policy. It didn't occur 'naturally'. We caused the problem, we can help with the change.
Yes-- we have to deal responsibly with the solutions we engender. There's no doubt about that. But the payoff is important. We're out-fishing our global stocks. We're causing drastic climate changes. We're polluting as though the world was going to end tomorrow. It's a Gandhi thing-- it starts with you, it starts with me. Together, we use our noodles to claw back normalcy and responsibility, so that future generations don't have a cesspool to live in.
Seconded. You can watch the movie, Who Killed The Electric Car, and understand a lot about the fact that technological achievement can provide real solutions and alternatives to the bad habits we've learned.
Old money is really, really unexcited about changing their investment strategy. Today's commodity oil price structure is hilarious as an example. But there are many sectors that feel threatened by change. And they shouldn't.
As a scientist, and researcher, I understand confidence. As a gambler, and a programmer, I also understand confidence. In terms of overwhelming evidence and rational thought, I understand confidence. Were I to gamble, and understand the relationships, I wouldn't change my estimation of the facts.
In denying global weather change is man-made, you leave only women. That makes you misogynistic. The evidence is overwhelming. Yet you deny it.
Beyond particulate matter causing huge health problems, it's also plainly costly. The atmospheric greenhouse gases that we've launched are changing climate to where we're going to incapacitate our agriculture, and are causing the oceans to rise. Ask someone, in say, Kiribati.
The man-made part has been well established, and indeed your "95% confidence level" makes you clearly no kind of gambler.
We'll agree that correlation != causation. And we can also agree that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, craps like a duck, it's likely to be a duck.
So while you're enwrapped in the conjecture of your own tribulations, others of us are trying to warn people, change habits, and save a planet for our great grandchildren. Yeah, it's real, and it's man-made, not the cause of members of Congress' hot fucking air.
I feel silly that ./ even posted this sucker.
This is redundant, posted far downthread, but it's important here for scrollers: it's all BS--
See http://blog.craigslist.org/2011/02/more-pay-to-play-research-from-aim/
It's all about verbs. If they said, "waggles free widget" you'd just scroll off. But hey, "assault" sounds aggressive, doesn't it. Doesn't mean that the actual syncing tool is greater than Halo on Android, but ow you can plop your data in two places.
Isn't that "assault"? I mean, c'mon.
Nah. Connectivity allows us to test the limits. The bad guys were always there. It's like blaming crime on handguns. Handguns are VERY convenient. So is the Internet.
An incredible amount of uncontestably/unquestionably legitimate commerce and communications goes on every millisecond on the net. Singling out Craigslist-- which is a fantastic site, is like singling out AT&T because you can call people and get drugs, prostitutes, and so on out of the Yellow Pages. Oops, I'm sorry-- they're called escorts and pharmacies.
Then the solution is something like your own cut of BSD, linted of all extraneous code, hardened kernel, with your own control of your own written RPC APIs.
No. It's not that tough. You make it out to be layering against different kinds of vulnerabilities. It's much different than that.
You have an OS with its faults, access RPC with its faults, code with its faults, and libraries with their faults. You can control only parts of this in your code. The rest is choosing solid OS and RPC support, and libraries with known code and behaviors.
Then you build parsers with as much concrete as you can, update platforms, rinse, repeat.
Being 'outed' is not my fear. Their pile of data on individuals is my fear. I can't trust them at all. Their job is to know me and sell my info to others, via ads. My demographic isn't for sale.
Facebook hasn't mined their data sufficiently to give really targeted ads. Google has indeed done this. My experiments say that they know lots about you, ranging from your sexual orientation and marital status to your travel and purchasing propensities. Facebook is just getting started. The ads you see on FB are much more random than Google's.
Try creating an alternate ego and personna on a fresh browser install, like a new instance of Chrome or FireFox or Opera. Be gay if your straight, or straight if you're gay. Travel if you don't (e.g. go to travel sites like kayak, elliot.org), and watch what kind of google ads you get. It's a revelation. Yes, it's a hassle to experiment with, but you'll be amazed the triggers that Google uses.
Your trust is misplaced, in my estimation. You trade your data-- personal data, private data-- and your dignity and for what? Free prattle, Google-sponsored ads. Feel better about that? You use gmail, and expect that they'll stay out of your mail boxes, your contact list, your chats, your docs? I have a bridge for you in Brooklyn.
I, too, am worried about governmental data vacuuming. That's what encryption is for. There's an old aphorism that says that locks keep your friends out, but your enemies have pick tools.
And how do you know this? There are a dozen search engines, and you really have no idea how much data Google stores, then makes available to sites. Google Analytics, while vastly resourceful, gets that way at the cost of immense amounts of YOUR data.
You give lots away and don't realize it. The Google model is built on robbing you of your privacy. You blithely ignore this, ready to get nibbles of content in sacrifice for the dignity that your privacy gives you.
High moral fibers? That's a dubious claim. Your thought of "really nice people" that somehow managed to keep (possibly other) greedy bastards from running the show is mischaracterized. They merely provide somewhat astute competition at the cost of your privacy, and therefore, your dignity.
Proliferating web content through subsidized advertising is much like how the TV industry let the ad sales people out of their cages, resulting in a proliferation of enormous quantities of total content blather. That evolutionary process seemed like growth, but because it panders to quantification rather than qualification of content, it made much of the web entropic.
Thank you.
The entire post is a memorial to how to rationalize a bad installation. If the German Foreign office had to make or fund their own printer and scanner drivers, then there's an IT functionary that deluded them, and needs to be sacked.
Managing expectations is truly important, and it appears that their IT department failed them, and miserably.
But let's blame Linux, 'k?
Old habits are hard to break....
No no no. Helicopters are 'last mile'. To run the grid, use drones. XY the 'hits', then nuke^H^H^H^H rescue them.
Using a VPN doesn't automatically finger you. Keyword filters-- the spoken kind of keywords-- do. If you do data, reboot frequently to change your IP address. Or, if you think about it, change your MAC and IP address by incrementing by 1 or 2 (etc) your address; you're unlikely to bump into a collision. Smart guys figure out address domains.
Otherwise, figure you're being listened to all the time. GSM is as easy to crack as an egg these days. Data ought to be encrypted as mentioned above. Don't save files with names like 'terroristplantonukethebigdam'. Be sane. Be a bit extra paranoid. Have fun.