Just for the record. I have read very respectable papers on both sides of the man-made warming argument. Enough to conclude that we don't really know for sure if our contribution is indeed significant. Scientists don't even agree on how much influence variations in solar input affect us. Here's a quote I'd like your opinion on:
"The ice-core data is frequently cited as principal evidence to argue that CO2 is the earth's main climate driver. It is, in a way, the jewel in the crown of the theory of man made global warming. But the ice-core data does not show that CO2 drives climate. It shows, very clearly, that variations in temperature precede rises in atmospheric CO2 - not the other way round. The two phenomena are divided by a time lag of several hundred years."
You said it yourself, climate change is real. We both agree... How much of it we are causing and how important it is to mobilize the entire planet's resources on that specific issue is not at all as clear as all that the zealotry and propaganda would like us to think.
Sounds a lot more to me like an agenda so well revealed by Jacques Chirac when he said that Kyoto was one of the most important tools for global governance. To me, that is an even bigger threat to world order than 5 extra degrees of average temperature. But that's getting into political views and that definitely is material for endless arguments.
It's cow belches that are the problem, and even those, while not negligible, don't approach the total greenhouse effect of human-emitted CO2.
Well, okay, you *have* done your research. Now what *is* the total greenhouse effect of human-emmited CO2?
Seems like this would be a very important figure to mention in order to back up your statement. We use metric here, so centigrade per mole would be appreciated. Anything short of that is speculation and that's exactly my point.
Yes, you did mention a lot of facts, but when it came to the actual effect on temperature, all I read was assumption.
I may not have provided very good facts to prove that man-made warming isn't substantial, but that isn't the point at all. The point is that so far most of what we hear is assumptions on the *effect* of figures like those you stated. To be fair, both sides are probably guilty in that respect.
I'd also like a bit of clarification on exactly why solar activity is not an important factor. I was kind of under the impression that the sun provided a decent amount of our heat. Note that it isn't just Mars warming up... I'd expect variations in solar output to have a proportional effect on our temperature. Then again, common sense doesn't apply to many thing these days.
Regardless of it all, deforestation is a bigger threat in my opinion than SUVs. And (assumption) tackling that could do a bit more good on the CO2 front than a global tax on carbon while at the same time helping with problems like floods, habitat destruction, etc. We get religious zealotry on climate change yet we practically ignore hundreds of other much bigger (in my opinion) problems.
It's a growing trend these days that very few facts are being used to drive very bold assumptions for the sake of political agendas. I too agree that there *is* global warming. But the numbers on what actually causes it are avoided like the plague. Why? Because while global warming itself might be an issue, the effect that human activity has on it is less than 5% of the total CO2 emissions. And the dreadful horrible CO2 emissions we ought to establish a tax on breathing for is not a big part of that 5%. We should be more worried about methane for example, but there isn't much money to be made on taxing cow farts. Truth is that a fair part of that warming isn't just global, Mars is getting warmer too. There are two sides to every story and one should do their own research. Pretty easy to get the man-made camp's story, they scream the loudest. In my experience though, the camp with hard scientific facts is the one being shunned and ignored. Do your own research and trust your logic more than the force-fed emotional bull we're forced to endure. Truth is mostly inconvenient to the man-made global warming camp.
Nah, they're too busy *playing* it internally and pretending to be working.
All in the sales pitch.
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Given the choice between two identically performing chips, one of which restricts your ability to do something, I'd bet most people would choose to get the unrestricted one.
The obvious marketing trick here is: "This lets you watch all these new HD movies on your computer."
I think loses and setbacks are ok in games. I mean if you can't lose, its not a game really is it?
That reminded me of the game Loom (LucasArts) where past some very early (and easy) point, it is impossible to die in the game. Mind you, it's been a while since I played it, but I think it's impossible to *lose* past that point either.
Seriously, I think remote-controlling animals is pretty unethical.
Then again, this could be a good thing... Might put some political pressure into protecting sharks. They are in serious overfishing trouble nowadays. If one is going to use sharks as spies, might as well make sure there are plenty of sharks everywhere.
For me it's not all about looks. Pixels might come cheap these days, but the reason why I buy a higher resolution monitor is so I can use those pixels to display more information.
All the candy wrapping is just a waste to me, no matter how good it might look.
I remember a post here on Slashdot about a pair of guys (A blacksmith and a metallurgist) from Florida I think who said the secret was merely related to a certain quantity of tungsten in the steel and pounding it *very hard*. If someone can dig out the link...
The same kind as those who buy Bose home audio products...... that is people who buy stuff because they were told it's better and don't have the sense or sensory ability to notice a difference.
I currently run windows and it made me have another look at Ubuntu... And also made me feel like giving it a shot. Marketting (however annoying or ridiculous) works. Never on/for everyone, but always on/for someone...
Unless the entire disk content is signed, now you can modify the data the game will use... Which makes it potentially feasible to use something like a buffer overflow attack (crash the signed code to have it execute something else). The cost in DL media would be pretty steep mind you. But hey, it's a 'start'.
Disclaimer: I don't actually know if that can really be done, but I'm no xbox hacker.
Anybody ever tried to pass legislation about adults buying candy and driving around? I don't have exact numbers, but I'd be willing to bet that the proportions of child molestation cases that internet predators isn't that significant. Actually, statistically speaking, kids probably have a lot more to fear *from their own family* than the internet and I find that more troubling than a web forum.
... there's no proof of him *NOT* existing. Ah ha! So... Can you prove without a shadow of a doubt that Santa truely doesn't exist? Huh? Huh? Who sent you? You're with *them* aren't you? On the payroll to dismantle the so-called Santa 'myths' huh? Your mind tricks won't work on me... I've a friend who was *abducted* by Santa and he knows you're all just part of the big cover up!
Sony has held the all mighty hardware thrown for an astounding eleven years at the time of writing this.
Buying out competition and throwing hardware. Whatever we might say, this kind of spelling is dangerous if read by the wrong CEO. I say this article might get the creature's brain in a dangerously excited state.
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Just for the record. I have read very respectable papers on both sides of the man-made warming argument. Enough to conclude that we don't really know for sure if our contribution is indeed significant. Scientists don't even agree on how much influence variations in solar input affect us. Here's a quote I'd like your opinion on:
"The ice-core data is frequently cited as principal evidence to argue that CO2 is the earth's main climate driver. It is, in a way, the jewel in the crown of the theory of man made global warming. But the ice-core data does not show that CO2 drives climate. It shows, very clearly, that variations in temperature precede rises in atmospheric CO2 - not the other way round. The two phenomena are divided by a time lag of several hundred years."
You said it yourself, climate change is real. We both agree... How much of it we are causing and how important it is to mobilize the entire planet's resources on that specific issue is not at all as clear as all that the zealotry and propaganda would like us to think.
Sounds a lot more to me like an agenda so well revealed by Jacques Chirac when he said that Kyoto was one of the most important tools for global governance. To me, that is an even bigger threat to world order than 5 extra degrees of average temperature. But that's getting into political views and that definitely is material for endless arguments.
It's cow belches that are the problem, and even those, while not negligible, don't approach the total greenhouse effect of human-emitted CO2.
Well, okay, you *have* done your research. Now what *is* the total greenhouse effect of human-emmited CO2?
Seems like this would be a very important figure to mention in order to back up your statement. We use metric here, so centigrade per mole would be appreciated. Anything short of that is speculation and that's exactly my point.
Yes, you did mention a lot of facts, but when it came to the actual effect on temperature, all I read was assumption.
I may not have provided very good facts to prove that man-made warming isn't substantial, but that isn't the point at all. The point is that so far most of what we hear is assumptions on the *effect* of figures like those you stated. To be fair, both sides are probably guilty in that respect.
I'd also like a bit of clarification on exactly why solar activity is not an important factor. I was kind of under the impression that the sun provided a decent amount of our heat. Note that it isn't just Mars warming up... I'd expect variations in solar output to have a proportional effect on our temperature. Then again, common sense doesn't apply to many thing these days.
Regardless of it all, deforestation is a bigger threat in my opinion than SUVs. And (assumption) tackling that could do a bit more good on the CO2 front than a global tax on carbon while at the same time helping with problems like floods, habitat destruction, etc. We get religious zealotry on climate change yet we practically ignore hundreds of other much bigger (in my opinion) problems.
It's a growing trend these days that very few facts are being used to drive very bold assumptions for the sake of political agendas. I too agree that there *is* global warming. But the numbers on what actually causes it are avoided like the plague.
Why? Because while global warming itself might be an issue, the effect that human activity has on it is less than 5% of the total CO2 emissions.
And the dreadful horrible CO2 emissions we ought to establish a tax on breathing for is not a big part of that 5%. We should be more worried about methane for example, but there isn't much money to be made on taxing cow farts. Truth is that a fair part of that warming isn't just global, Mars is getting warmer too.
There are two sides to every story and one should do their own research. Pretty easy to get the man-made camp's story, they scream the loudest. In my experience though, the camp with hard scientific facts is the one being shunned and ignored. Do your own research and trust your logic more than the force-fed emotional bull we're forced to endure.
Truth is mostly inconvenient to the man-made global warming camp.
Nah, they're too busy *playing* it internally and pretending to be working.
Given the choice between two identically performing chips, one of which restricts your ability to do something, I'd bet most people would choose to get the unrestricted one.
The obvious marketing trick here is: "This lets you watch all these new HD movies on your computer."
... maybe they just fell asleep at the wheel.
Just kidding...
I wish our governments understood that last line in your post.
I think loses and setbacks are ok in games. I mean if you can't lose, its not a game really is it?
That reminded me of the game Loom (LucasArts) where past some very early (and easy) point, it is impossible to die in the game. Mind you, it's been a while since I played it, but I think it's impossible to *lose* past that point either.
Arabs are also semites... A more accurate prejudice would make this selective-Semitism, not anti-Semitism
Seriously, I think remote-controlling animals is pretty unethical.
Then again, this could be a good thing... Might put some political pressure into protecting sharks. They are in serious overfishing trouble nowadays. If one is going to use sharks as spies, might as well make sure there are plenty of sharks everywhere.
For me it's not all about looks. Pixels might come cheap these days, but the reason why I buy a higher resolution monitor is so I can use those pixels to display more information.
All the candy wrapping is just a waste to me, no matter how good it might look.
I remember a post here on Slashdot about a pair of guys (A blacksmith and a metallurgist) from Florida I think who said the secret was merely related to a certain quantity of tungsten in the steel and pounding it *very hard*. If someone can dig out the link...
The same kind as those who buy Bose home audio products... ... that is people who buy stuff because they were told it's better and don't have the sense or sensory ability to notice a difference.
I currently run windows and it made me have another look at Ubuntu... And also made me feel like giving it a shot. Marketting (however annoying or ridiculous) works. Never on/for everyone, but always on/for someone...
That they can't inter-breed.
Unless the entire disk content is signed, now you can modify the data the game will use... Which makes it potentially feasible to use something like a buffer overflow attack (crash the signed code to have it execute something else). The cost in DL media would be pretty steep mind you. But hey, it's a 'start'.
Disclaimer: I don't actually know if that can really be done, but I'm no xbox hacker.
Now I just *have* to make one when the game comes out. I hope they have some good procedural 'yelling ape' sounds and sweat marks overlay textures.
Anybody ever tried to pass legislation about adults buying candy and driving around? I don't have exact numbers, but I'd be willing to bet that the proportions of child molestation cases that internet predators isn't that significant. Actually, statistically speaking, kids probably have a lot more to fear *from their own family* than the internet and I find that more troubling than a web forum.
... there's no proof of him *NOT* existing. Ah ha! So... Can you prove without a shadow of a doubt that Santa truely doesn't exist? Huh? Huh? Who sent you? You're with *them* aren't you? On the payroll to dismantle the so-called Santa 'myths' huh? Your mind tricks won't work on me... I've a friend who was *abducted* by Santa and he knows you're all just part of the big cover up!
Well, both mplayer and VLC support keymapping. You'll find VLC's interface to mapping keys a tad easier though.
You should have seen the speed of that chair... The deadly precision with which it hit that wall!
Sony has held the all mighty hardware thrown for an astounding eleven years at the time of writing this.
Buying out competition and throwing hardware. Whatever we might say, this kind of spelling is dangerous if read by the wrong CEO. I say this article might get the creature's brain in a dangerously excited state.
No wait! Let me patent software that automatically increases the font size first!
Increase your font size then ;)