Maybe you can send Gabe a pamphlet of how to really develop for the PS3 and see how the problems are really features. It worked for Sony and Lair, right?
Here's how I understand it -- unlike CO2, there can only be so much water vapor in the air before it's saturated and it starts falling out as rain or moisture.
Not by an "order of magnitude", dammit. Read the article. It has shuffled around the hottest years a bit, the changes are mostly small, and the global impact is miniscule. Remember the "global" in "global warming"?
The lady presenting Assassin's Creed is Jade Raymond, darling of male gamers because she's an attractive and nerdy game producer who's also a young woman. She could've been in a wheelchair with an electronic voice, Hawking-style, and people would still fawn over her. I must admit she is rather charming... Almost as charming as Assassin's Creed.
The genocide itself and the war crimes prosecution are two seperate things. It wasn't the UN that failed Rwanda in 1994, it was the whole world, especially those nations who could help but didn't. Both the UN and the US have apologized for their inaction.
As for fighting aids, I believe UNAIDS does what it can against gag rules (hello USA) and other religious insanity holding them back.
Find me a warzone or refugee camp where abuse doesn't happen. If it invalidates a whole organization and campaign, the US should've been out of Iraq a long time ago due to what american soldiers have done. Both the UN and the US deal with their rotten apples.
Hmm, starve to death or risk getting shot at by a warlord now and then? It wouldn't be a tough choice even if it was as common as you make it sound.
Like I wrote, The Oil For Food Program didn't fail. It provided Iraqis with food exceptionally well. As for the smuggling, the UN didn't have the resources or the authority to stop it. That job fell squarely on the nations upholding the embargo - the US and the UK. They did nothing about UN warnings about corruption and smuggling, which began years before the OFFP. The indenpendent inquiry comittee invesigating the matter has said so in their final reports. Maybe you should try reading them.
Blind UN bashing is a joke. Putting Syria on the human rights council is also a joke, but so is the self-righteous criticism from the nation running the Guantanamo camp. Who can do it better? Who has a viable alternative? Noone, only a lot of political whining.
"2) This is a UN body. Can you name for me three UN successes in the past 25 years? Just three. I can name three failures in about two seconds... Rwanda, Darfur, Oil for Food program, 17 Iraqi resolutions, Lebanon, Iran, North Korea... Oh, I was only supposed to stop at three?"
It has already been pointed out that this is a fallacious argument, but I'll bite.
Things the UN does well:
Food aid (World Food Programme)
Aid to Refugees (UNHCR)
Protecting Children (UNICEF)
Peacekeeping (Congo, Eritrea, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Haiti, etc, etc — 61 operations in total since 1948)
Intervenor of Last Resort (Congo, Liberia)
Running Elections (Iraq)
Reproductive Health and Population Management (UN Population Fund, UNFPA)
Wait, was I supposed to stop at three things? Sorry, my bad. Also, the Oil For Food Programme was actually successful in bringing food to the Iraqi people, despite the failure of the US and UK to police smuggling. As for the other failures, well, the UN does what the Security Council tells them to. You can't hold that against the UN itself. Go complain to Russia, China or why not the US?
The heat generated by my computer is cosy now during winter. I assume it's the same for all gadgets to some extent. Of course, this becomes a nuisance come summer...
Pure, clean water is the waste product of hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells, isn't it? So when you get energy from hydrogen you're also creating more pure water.
Unless you're too proud to drink from an exhaust pipe, there's your water.
So, to counter your argument with something similarly simplistic, the Internet will be fine under US control until your politicians start a War on the Internet, Operation Internet Storm or decides for an online regime change.
When you're not worrying about starving to death or being shot by the secret police tomorrow, you're more likely to worry about bigger issues. You also have the power to do something about it. Even now China is showing signs of environmental awareness.
I didn't pick the short time period to lie to anyone, and as far as I understand neither did the scientists from whom I got the information. They mean that since solar irradiation has been constant since 1940 and we've still experieced the highest CO2 and temperature rises since then, the relevance of solar irradiance could very well be small. They make much better arguments over at realclimate.org than this however, so I suggest you go there and read what the actuual scientists have to say.
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Maybe you can send Gabe a pamphlet of how to really develop for the PS3 and see how the problems are really features. It worked for Sony and Lair, right?
The PS3 version is being developed by EA UK, not Valve UK.
Is there a video of the Q&A available somewhere?
Here's how I understand it -- unlike CO2, there can only be so much water vapor in the air before it's saturated and it starts falling out as rain or moisture.
1934 and all that
Not by an "order of magnitude", dammit. Read the article. It has shuffled around the hottest years a bit, the changes are mostly small, and the global impact is miniscule. Remember the "global" in "global warming"?
The lady presenting Assassin's Creed is Jade Raymond, darling of male gamers because she's an attractive and nerdy game producer who's also a young woman. She could've been in a wheelchair with an electronic voice, Hawking-style, and people would still fawn over her. I must admit she is rather charming... Almost as charming as Assassin's Creed.
The EU will maybe pass a law against minimum battery life or some such. Then there will be support for Vista!
Jack Thompson has already blamed this on video games. What a fucking vulture.
Looking at yourself in a cold mirror would logically make you look cooler.
The genocide itself and the war crimes prosecution are two seperate things. It wasn't the UN that failed Rwanda in 1994, it was the whole world, especially those nations who could help but didn't. Both the UN and the US have apologized for their inaction.
As for fighting aids, I believe UNAIDS does what it can against gag rules (hello USA) and other religious insanity holding them back.
Find me a warzone or refugee camp where abuse doesn't happen. If it invalidates a whole organization and campaign, the US should've been out of Iraq a long time ago due to what american soldiers have done. Both the UN and the US deal with their rotten apples.
Hmm, starve to death or risk getting shot at by a warlord now and then? It wouldn't be a tough choice even if it was as common as you make it sound.
It doesn't matter what you think, the UN peace keepign missions are going along as nicely as can be expected for such work. If you disagree, who else is doing a better job? Who can take over?
Like I wrote, The Oil For Food Program didn't fail. It provided Iraqis with food exceptionally well. As for the smuggling, the UN didn't have the resources or the authority to stop it. That job fell squarely on the nations upholding the embargo - the US and the UK. They did nothing about UN warnings about corruption and smuggling, which began years before the OFFP. The indenpendent inquiry comittee invesigating the matter has said so in their final reports. Maybe you should try reading them.
Blind UN bashing is a joke. Putting Syria on the human rights council is also a joke, but so is the self-righteous criticism from the nation running the Guantanamo camp. Who can do it better? Who has a viable alternative? Noone, only a lot of political whining.
"2) This is a UN body. Can you name for me three UN successes in the past 25 years? Just three. I can name three failures in about two seconds... Rwanda, Darfur, Oil for Food program, 17 Iraqi resolutions, Lebanon, Iran, North Korea... Oh, I was only supposed to stop at three?"
It has already been pointed out that this is a fallacious argument, but I'll bite.
Things the UN does well:
Food aid (World Food Programme)
Aid to Refugees (UNHCR)
Protecting Children (UNICEF)
Peacekeeping (Congo, Eritrea, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Haiti, etc, etc — 61 operations in total since 1948)
Intervenor of Last Resort (Congo, Liberia)
Running Elections (Iraq)
Reproductive Health and Population Management (UN Population Fund, UNFPA)
War Crimes Prosecution (Yugoslavia, Rwanda)
Fighting AIDS (WHO, UNAIDS)
Bringing up invisible issues (landmine victims, diseases, child soldiers, slavery, etc)
Wait, was I supposed to stop at three things? Sorry, my bad. Also, the Oil For Food Programme was actually successful in bringing food to the Iraqi people, despite the failure of the US and UK to police smuggling. As for the other failures, well, the UN does what the Security Council tells them to. You can't hold that against the UN itself. Go complain to Russia, China or why not the US?
Unfortunately the electronic voting systems are not totally disjointed from the election system in the same way.
I just bought a 3D printer and now I'm printing more printers to sell for $100. I'll be rich!
Good point. I realized I forgot the ladies after I posted. So let's not forget the robot husbands.
The coming of robot wives and that I'll finally get to have sex!
The heat generated by my computer is cosy now during winter. I assume it's the same for all gadgets to some extent. Of course, this becomes a nuisance come summer...
Pure, clean water is the waste product of hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells, isn't it? So when you get energy from hydrogen you're also creating more pure water.
Unless you're too proud to drink from an exhaust pipe, there's your water.
Where does it say seeing people have the right to tell them apart?
Maybe they revised the motto to "live free or don't"?
Classic ad hominem.
The OFFP was successful in its mission. Saddam didn't make all that money mainly be circumventing OFFP regulations, but through oil smuggling, something the UN itself didn't have the power or mandate to stop. The US did, however, and not onyl failed — with they even helped with the smuggling.
So, to counter your argument with something similarly simplistic, the Internet will be fine under US control until your politicians start a War on the Internet, Operation Internet Storm or decides for an online regime change.
When you're not worrying about starving to death or being shot by the secret police tomorrow, you're more likely to worry about bigger issues. You also have the power to do something about it. Even now China is showing signs of environmental awareness.
I didn't pick the short time period to lie to anyone, and as far as I understand neither did the scientists from whom I got the information. They mean that since solar irradiation has been constant since 1940 and we've still experieced the highest CO2 and temperature rises since then, the relevance of solar irradiance could very well be small. They make much better arguments over at realclimate.org than this however, so I suggest you go there and read what the actuual scientists have to say.
Dead... on Mars!