College kids have been doing this for years and years, go walk around any dorm, new species of microscopic life are constantly evolving in the showers.
Unlike the evolution argument, the AGW crowd is generally seen as doing it not out of any sort of religious conviction, but out of economic greed and maybe a little bit of delusion, most of the anti-global warming activists use global warming as a springboard to attack conservation in general.
However, the delusions that come from rejecting them seem largely to be the same. Most of the AGW seem to think that as long as global warming isn't real then resources are infinite, so we can burn as much oil as we want and hey, since the planet isn't warming up there are absolutely no other problems associated with doing so....save for of course we are running out of oil, regardless of the temperature of the atmosphere.
Other than coal vs. nuclear(if you are AGW then it makes sense to burn coal as a power source, esp. in the US where we have tons of the stuff, and those worried about global warming should be relatively pro-nuke as it emits almost 0 CO2) there really shouldn't be a lot of practical differences between the groups, and yet there are.
Snapshots and data deduplication for starters. That is why time machine can be a real bitch for bigger files, any change to the file means the entire file has to be copied over again. This is part of the reason a lot of OS X fans were quite excited about ZFS, using some of the features available in ZFS would have mean that Apple could have made a much more efficient version of time machine.
Well it did give him plenty of victims, the dude, like most other serial killers he didn't select his victims "randomly", he mostly chose victims who he could get easy access to and whom very few people would miss if she "disappeared", i.e. runaways and prostitutes. In the more desolate areas of the (rich) world, these people can usually be found in spades....
Um, did you read anything on this guy? He couldn't get it up apparently, and that is what supposedly sent him into a rage. Dude was married, so ostensibly he had access to a woman, but if he couldn't get it up he couldn't get it up.....Not to mention you have killers like Ted Bundy who are incredibly charming(Bundy had something like 3 girlfriends at a time at some points in his life, dude even had women fawning over him AFTER they had learned he was a serial killer), but kill anyway......
The situation in Iran and North Korea have been made much worse by the war in Iraq(and Libya as well). The Ahmadinejad government would not be NEARLY as willing to risk their domestic standing(which is getting worse as the oil embargo hits, as the government often buys popularity with oil revenues) if it thought there wasn't a lot to gain by pursuing nuclear weapons. However, after seeing what happened in Iraq when Saddam DID give up his WMDs, and what happened with North Korea after they tested a nuclear weapon, the regime realizes that the best way to protect itself was to pursue WMDs at all costs.
Bush picked Iraq out of his "axis of evil" precisely because they were the country that was least able to defend itself(at least in a conventional sense). He wanted to score a cheap political victory and he did so by starting a war he thought would maybe last 6 weeks. And more recently Gadafi, who ditched his WMD program, is now dead as well. The message to dictators is clear, want to stay in power? Get weapons. THe world is a far more dangerous place because the man-child of a president decided he wanted to play army.
This, exactly this. Staggered working hours are the absolute best thing to ever have been invented:P In all seriousness, I do this as well(though I prefer the other end, coming in later and leaving later). I get so much more done while still being able to meet and discuss with co-workers, clients etc. I really wish more companies would try this, not only are there benefits to productivity, you can reduce traffic, strain on public transport etc. by staggering people's working hours.
I mean, I can't be the only one GLAD they took the cupcake from the woman, I mean yeah the reasoning behind it was absolute pointless paranoia and scaremongering, neither of which I agree with, but the result was nice. Have you been on an airplane in the US recently? Most of the passengers could do without the cupcake.
You seriously think that CodeAcademy is something even remotely unique? Here's a clue, it's not. These "teach yourself programming" things have been around for decades, and there is absolutely NOTHING unique about CodeAcademy save for it's buzz marketing campaign. Thats why people look down on it.
HAHAHAHAHA, you are a fucking idiot, that has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever read on slashdot, and that is saying something. Yeah, you're right, the FUCKING MAYOR OF THE BIGGEST, AND MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN JAPAN OBVIOUSLY HAS NO POWER. And being elected obviously means that his opinions in no way reflect the opinions of the people of that city, which includes the most influential people in the country. You're idiocy made my day, thank you so much for proving how stupid some people are. Thanks again for proving
I believe it because they did abandon them, part of the Agreed Framework was that inspectors would be allowed in and any impedance of the inspectors would have resulted in penalties. It was working, until the man-child came in with his axis of evil bullshit North Korea had suspended it's program, and we have plenty of evidence to show that they did. If Bush had proof that they had violated the Agreed Framework, then I wouldn't have had any issues with him abandoning the program. But he didn't abandon it because they violated it, he abandoned it simply because it didn't jive with his ideology and he wanted to prove his machismo....
Yeah, North Korea isn't a cuddly bear, but there is absolutely jack shit you can do about it. What are you going to do, go back in time and prevent the Japanese occupation? Convince Truman that nuking China would be a good idea? You cannot deal with the world the way you THINK it should be, or the way you WANT it to be, you have to deal with the world as the way it is. North Korea is not a nice place, but further isolating them is the absolute worst thing you can do, so it shouldn't even be considered as a valid diplomatic policy.
See, the North Koreans DID disarm and were working with the US to develop nuclear power that was capable of producing power, but very hard to weaponize. But apparently doing so actually required thought and subtlety to international relations, something Republicans are apparently incapable of actually comprehending. Come in our cowboy man-child president who scrapped the whole deal, called North Korea "evil", and then was shocked when they re-started their weapons program. Same with Iran, and then he, and Obama for that matter, decided to go after the people who WERENT developing WMDs, letting all dictators round the world know that if they develop WMDs they are safe, if they don't, then they will get killed so the president can prove what a "man" he is. Bush was the biggest failure of a president in the post-civil war era, and Obama is only SLIGHTLY better.
The oil embargo wouldn't have starved Japan, but it would have prevented them from continuing to war in China, so it probably wasn't so much the oil embargo as it was the mining of the seas around Japan at the end of the war. Japan has a limited # of usable ports and is surrounded by relatively easy to predict currents, making aerial mining incredibly easy.
Before you call bullshit, you should, oh I don't know, have any fucking idea what you are talking about. Note that I said conservatives, there are a significant # of Japanese politicians and a decent amount of the populace that want nuclear weapons, and by keeping nuclear power alive they essentially always have a path open to do so. Which was my point. So yeah, you're the one full of shit.
You are also assuming energy is the only reason the Japanese build nuke plants, it's not. Apart from the "national pride", there is a much more subtle reason Japan continues to invest in nuclear energy, it basically gives them access to nuclear weapons without actually having nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are of course banned by law, but most experts seem to think that thanks to the nuclear power industry in Japan, Japan has the material, equipment, and expertise to produce nuclear weapons in less than year. Now their ability to mount them on warheads is much less clear, probably depends mostly on how much help they have received and/or would receive from the Americans because pretty much all of the Japan Self Defense Force's limited rocket supply are American. However just the vague threat of being able to produce nuclear weapons, combined with being under the American defense umbrella, is probably enough of a deterrent for the time being.
I expect the Japanese conservatives to continue to push for at least some nuclear power precisely for this reason. They are in a dangerous corner of the world, and it is unclear how much longer the Americans are able and willing to keep Japan under their nuclear umbrella....
Obviously you are too stupid to fucking Google or somehow think that your "analysis" is somehow superior to the massive amount that has been done. A.7% decrease in fuel efficiency is significant, and of course there is this:
"A 2009 study by the non-profit company Resources for the Future looked at the link between obesity and vehicle demand and found that from 1999 to 2005, a 10-percent increase in overweight and obese drivers reduced fuel economy of new vehicle demand by 2.5 percent. The study noted that as the overweight and obesity rates increased, so did the percentage of vans, SUVs, and pickup trucks purchased from 16 percent in the early 1970s to recently more than 40 percent. (Of course, other factors helped drive this market change, such as those crude, commercial-type vehicles becoming more refined and better tailored to commuter duties.)"
But yeah, you're right, that's not quantitative at all.
Because often times culture is a much better reflection of history than a textbook could ever be, and needs to be shared so we can not repeat the mistakes of the past by helping make a real connection to the past.
Case in point, Bill Hicks'(RIP) rants on the Iraq war. As someone who was only in elementary school when the first Iraq war happened, I really only had a very elementary grasp on the situation(didn't help that i lived in an arch-Republican school district and we were essentially fed propaganda). Flash forward to late 2002 and the chicken hawks are on the march again, there attempts to silence the opposition was to shout "we support the troops" and basically insinuate that if you are against the war, you want all American soldiers to die. While I one it was insipid bullshit, what I didn't know was that this exact same song and dance had been done before in the build up to the first Gulf war. Then I went back and listened to some Bill Hicks stuff. Despite the fact that he died in 1994 his routines on the Iraq war basically could have applied just as equally(almost word for word really) to the 2003 war. And while we have things like Wikipedia that do a good job conveying the factual information, no academic explanation could really capture the past and how we are repeating it better than a lot of the media from the day.
This is why a strongly enforced but short copyright is best for society. While I don't agree with the whole "free culture" movement in a lot of regards, as someone has got to pay for it at some point, the inability for young people now not to be able to put themselves in the shoes of someone from the past IS detrimental to society.
Also, go watch some Bill Hicks on youtube, he has been dead for almost 17 years now, so I doubt he will miss the royalties.
While obviously not as significant as increases in car weight(though may be somewhat related to car weight), increases in the weight of passengers is also putting a drag on fuel economy. As we get fatter and fatter, it obviously takes more energy to move us around. Not to mention that the bigger people are, the more they seem to need an SUV, further diminishing fuel efficiency. Like almost all other problems in fuel efficiency, bikes are the answer. Not only do they save fuel when riding, they reduce the size of people's asses so you save fuel in a car too.
BUt unfortunately something in American culture dictates that people must go out of their way to be assholes towards cyclists. So glad I got out of that shithole of a country, I've lost 25 kgs since I've left and am in better shape in my 30s than I was in my 20s largely because I don't have to drive everywhere.
Either you don't live in one of those areas or are intentionally misrepresenting conditions there. Guess what, people lived in those areas LOOOOOONG before the SUV craze ever hit, I grew up in PA in the 80s, almost no SUVs and guess what people weren't dying en masse when the snow hit. If you think you need an SUV for the snow you are either an idiot or a terrible driver, which describes 99% of the SUV drivers really.
Welcome to computer science then I guess. Sometimes a quick greedy algorithm that finds a good enough solution is preferable to taking a huge amount of time to find the real optimum.
In addition to the scientific benefits, scientists can also finally put to rest the stereotype that nerds are weaklings. Since they will have nothing else to do during downtime, they can prove how manly they are through engaging in polar bear combat and then blogging about how to prepare and eat polar bear steaks. Nothing manlier.
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College kids have been doing this for years and years, go walk around any dorm, new species of microscopic life are constantly evolving in the showers.
If you can't name prominent skeptics of AGW position (or think that none exist), then you don't even know what the either side's counter argument is.
99% of scientists? The vast, VAST majority of the scientific community accept global warming as scientifically valid.
Unlike the evolution argument, the AGW crowd is generally seen as doing it not out of any sort of religious conviction, but out of economic greed and maybe a little bit of delusion, most of the anti-global warming activists use global warming as a springboard to attack conservation in general.
However, the delusions that come from rejecting them seem largely to be the same. Most of the AGW seem to think that as long as global warming isn't real then resources are infinite, so we can burn as much oil as we want and hey, since the planet isn't warming up there are absolutely no other problems associated with doing so....save for of course we are running out of oil, regardless of the temperature of the atmosphere.
Other than coal vs. nuclear(if you are AGW then it makes sense to burn coal as a power source, esp. in the US where we have tons of the stuff, and those worried about global warming should be relatively pro-nuke as it emits almost 0 CO2) there really shouldn't be a lot of practical differences between the groups, and yet there are.
Esp. when needing information on the mount command.....
Snapshots and data deduplication for starters. That is why time machine can be a real bitch for bigger files, any change to the file means the entire file has to be copied over again. This is part of the reason a lot of OS X fans were quite excited about ZFS, using some of the features available in ZFS would have mean that Apple could have made a much more efficient version of time machine.
Well it did give him plenty of victims, the dude, like most other serial killers he didn't select his victims "randomly", he mostly chose victims who he could get easy access to and whom very few people would miss if she "disappeared", i.e. runaways and prostitutes. In the more desolate areas of the (rich) world, these people can usually be found in spades....
Um, did you read anything on this guy? He couldn't get it up apparently, and that is what supposedly sent him into a rage. Dude was married, so ostensibly he had access to a woman, but if he couldn't get it up he couldn't get it up.....Not to mention you have killers like Ted Bundy who are incredibly charming(Bundy had something like 3 girlfriends at a time at some points in his life, dude even had women fawning over him AFTER they had learned he was a serial killer), but kill anyway......
The situation in Iran and North Korea have been made much worse by the war in Iraq(and Libya as well). The Ahmadinejad government would not be NEARLY as willing to risk their domestic standing(which is getting worse as the oil embargo hits, as the government often buys popularity with oil revenues) if it thought there wasn't a lot to gain by pursuing nuclear weapons. However, after seeing what happened in Iraq when Saddam DID give up his WMDs, and what happened with North Korea after they tested a nuclear weapon, the regime realizes that the best way to protect itself was to pursue WMDs at all costs.
Bush picked Iraq out of his "axis of evil" precisely because they were the country that was least able to defend itself(at least in a conventional sense). He wanted to score a cheap political victory and he did so by starting a war he thought would maybe last 6 weeks. And more recently Gadafi, who ditched his WMD program, is now dead as well. The message to dictators is clear, want to stay in power? Get weapons. THe world is a far more dangerous place because the man-child of a president decided he wanted to play army.
This, exactly this. Staggered working hours are the absolute best thing to ever have been invented :P In all seriousness, I do this as well(though I prefer the other end, coming in later and leaving later). I get so much more done while still being able to meet and discuss with co-workers, clients etc. I really wish more companies would try this, not only are there benefits to productivity, you can reduce traffic, strain on public transport etc. by staggering people's working hours.
I mean, I can't be the only one GLAD they took the cupcake from the woman, I mean yeah the reasoning behind it was absolute pointless paranoia and scaremongering, neither of which I agree with, but the result was nice. Have you been on an airplane in the US recently? Most of the passengers could do without the cupcake.
I always thought the high incidence of MS in Seattle was due to their headquarters being in Redmond
*ducks
You seriously think that CodeAcademy is something even remotely unique? Here's a clue, it's not. These "teach yourself programming" things have been around for decades, and there is absolutely NOTHING unique about CodeAcademy save for it's buzz marketing campaign. Thats why people look down on it.
HAHAHAHAHA, you are a fucking idiot, that has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever read on slashdot, and that is saying something. Yeah, you're right, the FUCKING MAYOR OF THE BIGGEST, AND MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN JAPAN OBVIOUSLY HAS NO POWER. And being elected obviously means that his opinions in no way reflect the opinions of the people of that city, which includes the most influential people in the country. You're idiocy made my day, thank you so much for proving how stupid some people are. Thanks again for proving
I believe it because they did abandon them, part of the Agreed Framework was that inspectors would be allowed in and any impedance of the inspectors would have resulted in penalties. It was working, until the man-child came in with his axis of evil bullshit North Korea had suspended it's program, and we have plenty of evidence to show that they did. If Bush had proof that they had violated the Agreed Framework, then I wouldn't have had any issues with him abandoning the program. But he didn't abandon it because they violated it, he abandoned it simply because it didn't jive with his ideology and he wanted to prove his machismo....
Yeah, North Korea isn't a cuddly bear, but there is absolutely jack shit you can do about it. What are you going to do, go back in time and prevent the Japanese occupation? Convince Truman that nuking China would be a good idea? You cannot deal with the world the way you THINK it should be, or the way you WANT it to be, you have to deal with the world as the way it is. North Korea is not a nice place, but further isolating them is the absolute worst thing you can do, so it shouldn't even be considered as a valid diplomatic policy.
See, the North Koreans DID disarm and were working with the US to develop nuclear power that was capable of producing power, but very hard to weaponize. But apparently doing so actually required thought and subtlety to international relations, something Republicans are apparently incapable of actually comprehending. Come in our cowboy man-child president who scrapped the whole deal, called North Korea "evil", and then was shocked when they re-started their weapons program. Same with Iran, and then he, and Obama for that matter, decided to go after the people who WERENT developing WMDs, letting all dictators round the world know that if they develop WMDs they are safe, if they don't, then they will get killed so the president can prove what a "man" he is. Bush was the biggest failure of a president in the post-civil war era, and Obama is only SLIGHTLY better.
The oil embargo wouldn't have starved Japan, but it would have prevented them from continuing to war in China, so it probably wasn't so much the oil embargo as it was the mining of the seas around Japan at the end of the war. Japan has a limited # of usable ports and is surrounded by relatively easy to predict currents, making aerial mining incredibly easy.
Before you call bullshit, you should, oh I don't know, have any fucking idea what you are talking about. Note that I said conservatives, there are a significant # of Japanese politicians and a decent amount of the populace that want nuclear weapons, and by keeping nuclear power alive they essentially always have a path open to do so. Which was my point. So yeah, you're the one full of shit.
You are also assuming energy is the only reason the Japanese build nuke plants, it's not. Apart from the "national pride", there is a much more subtle reason Japan continues to invest in nuclear energy, it basically gives them access to nuclear weapons without actually having nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are of course banned by law, but most experts seem to think that thanks to the nuclear power industry in Japan, Japan has the material, equipment, and expertise to produce nuclear weapons in less than year. Now their ability to mount them on warheads is much less clear, probably depends mostly on how much help they have received and/or would receive from the Americans because pretty much all of the Japan Self Defense Force's limited rocket supply are American. However just the vague threat of being able to produce nuclear weapons, combined with being under the American defense umbrella, is probably enough of a deterrent for the time being.
I expect the Japanese conservatives to continue to push for at least some nuclear power precisely for this reason. They are in a dangerous corner of the world, and it is unclear how much longer the Americans are able and willing to keep Japan under their nuclear umbrella....
I've been coding in C++ for 15 years and I still don't know it.
I don't think even Stroustrup completely understands C++
Obviously you are too stupid to fucking Google or somehow think that your "analysis" is somehow superior to the massive amount that has been done. A .7% decrease in fuel efficiency is significant, and of course there is this:
"A 2009 study by the non-profit company Resources for the Future looked at the link between obesity and vehicle demand and found that from 1999 to 2005, a 10-percent increase in overweight and obese drivers reduced fuel economy of new vehicle demand by 2.5 percent. The study noted that as the overweight and obesity rates increased, so did the percentage of vans, SUVs, and pickup trucks purchased from 16 percent in the early 1970s to recently more than 40 percent. (Of course, other factors helped drive this market change, such as those crude, commercial-type vehicles becoming more refined and better tailored to commuter duties.)"
But yeah, you're right, that's not quantitative at all.
Because often times culture is a much better reflection of history than a textbook could ever be, and needs to be shared so we can not repeat the mistakes of the past by helping make a real connection to the past.
Case in point, Bill Hicks'(RIP) rants on the Iraq war. As someone who was only in elementary school when the first Iraq war happened, I really only had a very elementary grasp on the situation(didn't help that i lived in an arch-Republican school district and we were essentially fed propaganda). Flash forward to late 2002 and the chicken hawks are on the march again, there attempts to silence the opposition was to shout "we support the troops" and basically insinuate that if you are against the war, you want all American soldiers to die. While I one it was insipid bullshit, what I didn't know was that this exact same song and dance had been done before in the build up to the first Gulf war. Then I went back and listened to some Bill Hicks stuff. Despite the fact that he died in 1994 his routines on the Iraq war basically could have applied just as equally(almost word for word really) to the 2003 war. And while we have things like Wikipedia that do a good job conveying the factual information, no academic explanation could really capture the past and how we are repeating it better than a lot of the media from the day.
This is why a strongly enforced but short copyright is best for society. While I don't agree with the whole "free culture" movement in a lot of regards, as someone has got to pay for it at some point, the inability for young people now not to be able to put themselves in the shoes of someone from the past IS detrimental to society.
Also, go watch some Bill Hicks on youtube, he has been dead for almost 17 years now, so I doubt he will miss the royalties.
While obviously not as significant as increases in car weight(though may be somewhat related to car weight), increases in the weight of passengers is also putting a drag on fuel economy. As we get fatter and fatter, it obviously takes more energy to move us around. Not to mention that the bigger people are, the more they seem to need an SUV, further diminishing fuel efficiency. Like almost all other problems in fuel efficiency, bikes are the answer. Not only do they save fuel when riding, they reduce the size of people's asses so you save fuel in a car too.
BUt unfortunately something in American culture dictates that people must go out of their way to be assholes towards cyclists. So glad I got out of that shithole of a country, I've lost 25 kgs since I've left and am in better shape in my 30s than I was in my 20s largely because I don't have to drive everywhere.
Either you don't live in one of those areas or are intentionally misrepresenting conditions there. Guess what, people lived in those areas LOOOOOONG before the SUV craze ever hit, I grew up in PA in the 80s, almost no SUVs and guess what people weren't dying en masse when the snow hit. If you think you need an SUV for the snow you are either an idiot or a terrible driver, which describes 99% of the SUV drivers really.
Welcome to computer science then I guess. Sometimes a quick greedy algorithm that finds a good enough solution is preferable to taking a huge amount of time to find the real optimum.
In addition to the scientific benefits, scientists can also finally put to rest the stereotype that nerds are weaklings. Since they will have nothing else to do during downtime, they can prove how manly they are through engaging in polar bear combat and then blogging about how to prepare and eat polar bear steaks. Nothing manlier.