Of course, when the people supposedly in the right are doing this:
According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who's been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point.
Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive Intelligence Review, and began by making it clear that the sea level claims made by the IPCC are a lot of nonsense (emphasis added throughout, h/t Eduardo Ferreyra):
[W]e can see that the sea level was indeed rising, from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per year. Not more. 1.1 is the exact figure. And we can check that, because Holland is a subsiding area; it has been subsiding for many millions of years; and Sweden, after the last Ice Age, was uplifted. So if you balance those, there is only one solution, and it will be this figure.
That ended in 1940, and there had been no rise until 1970; and then we can come into the debate here on what is going on, and we have to go to satellite altimetry, and I will return to that. But before doing that: There's another way of checking it, because if the radius of the Earth increases, because sea level is rising, then immediately the Earth's rate of rotation would slow down. That is a physical law, right? You have it in figure-skating: when they rotate very fast, the arms are close to the body; and then when they increase the radius, by putting out their arms, they stop by themselves. So you can look at the rotation and the same comes up: Yes, it might be 1.1 mm per year, but absolutely not more.
1.1 mm per year? That means that if this were to continue for 1000 years, sea levels would be 1.1 meters higher. Doesn't sound very catastrophic, does it?
Mörner then addressed what in his view was a ridiculous error by the IPCC:
Another way of looking at what is going on is the tide gauge. Tide gauging is very complicated, because it gives different answers for wherever you are in the world. But we have to rely on geology when we interpret it. So, for example, those people in the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], choose Hong Kong, which has six tide gauges, and they choose the record of one, which gives 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level. Every geologist knows that that is a subsiding area. It's the compaction of sediment; it is the only record which you shouldn't use. And if that figure is correct, then Holland would not be subsiding, it would be uplifting. And that is just ridiculous. Not even ignorance could be responsible for a thing like that.
But that was just the beginning of Mörner's problems with the IPCC:
Now, back to satellite altimetry, which shows the water, not just the coasts, but in the whole of the ocean. And you measure it by satellite. From 1992 to 2002, [the graph of the sea level] was a straight line, variability along a straight line, but absolutely no trend whatsoever. We could see those spikes: a very rapid rise, but then in half a year, they fall back again. But absolutely no trend, and to have a sea-level rise, you need a trend.
Then, in 2003, the same data set, which in their [IPCC's] publications, in their website, was a straight line--suddenly it changed, and showed a very strong line of uplift, 2.3 mm per year, the same as from the tide gauge. And that didn't look so nice. It looked as though they had recorded something; but they hadn't recorded anything. It was the original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a "correction factor," which they took from the tide gauge. So it was not a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside. I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow --I said you have introduced factors from outside; it's not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don't say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we wou
Not very, but you can stick a solar plant in the middle of a sunny nowhere with a big water source and get as much as you want. So really it doesn't have to be all THAT energy efficient.
How is the existence of some kind of creator any less complex than the idea that the universe just suddenly sprang into being? Personally both arguments are largely irrelevant until after one dies anyway.
Money is simply a centralized system of relative worth, ergo money is always made out of thin air. Before it was based upon the gold standard, but at the end of the day that's a useless metric as the supply of gold is finite and the actual money itself is still just a means of agreed upon exchange. Unless you'd see us using the direct barter system which works oh so well.
Good god. No crime was committed in the "Rove Affair",better known as the Plame Affair, although there was the travesty of sending a staff official to jail over not remembering the exact fucking date of a, to him, relatively unimportant phone call that occurred at least 8-16 months ago(Don't know exact span of time). End of discussion, unless all of you assholes suddenly have eidetic memories.
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Just because you download something does not in any way, shape, or form mean you were likely to buy it. Now, it is true that there will be a percentage of people who would otherwise have bought an album, but that percentage is, quite honestly, probably no more than 10% of people who download 50% or more of said album. And except for the "elite" pushed upon the masses by the record labels, the vast majority of artists will experience a large enough gain in listenership that the people who do buy the album will outweigh the lost sales.
Dude, they fucking removed flying capability cause the 360 can't support the draw rate needed. Now, it's true that flying's not THAT integral to the game, but it's quite a nice addition. That's however the biggest most clear cut example. What else did they have to gimp to support the 360's lack of ability that we don't know about?
The solution was to simply come up with a ballot that you couldn't fill out improperly
Heh, there's no such thing as idiot-proof, and since all that is required to be able to vote is age and lack of major felonies, there are a whole lot of idiots who do so
The PS3 is a perfectly good console, but when it comes to somewhat life realistic interaction with the games instead of just button pushing, it's left far in the dust compared to the Wii. End of story.
Let me get this straight. It's a net based phone application, which you need access to the internet to be able to use anyway, but yet an url where you can find the source code for the relevant part of the app isn't sufficient? Can someone help explain the insanity here, or am I not seeing something blindingly obvious?
Of course, the PS3 was meant to have a life cycle of 7-10 years, with the 360 having a life cycle of half that. Which is a really, really bad sign for MS. As it goes now, they might break even by the end of the 360's life cycle. Maybe. If they're lucky, and if the release of more and more exclusives on the Wii and PS3 doesn't end up burying them completely, which in the short run for the Wii it seems to be doing, and in the long run for the PS3 it probably will end up doing.
We cant even provide healthcare for our people, and we're in serious fucking debt and we refuse to tax the corporations that now have the highest dow jones ever... SOMETHING is serverely broken... and by something, i mean everything.
What a fucking twit. Currently we're running around 3 trillion in debt each year because of your precious health care and safety net in the form of Medicare and SocSec, but you never see that reported because our gov. is highly dishonest about the way it calculates debt.
Econ 101 asshole, so listen up. There are two primary types of accounting. The first is known as cash accounting. It's what you or I, or really, really small companies use. The second is known as accrual accounting. It's what every major corporation uses. The difference is rather simple. Let's say you take out a loan for 1 million dollars. In five years you have to pay back 10 million dollars. You made an extra thousand dollars over the year with that money. Cash accounting looks at this and says you made a profit of 1 million 1 thousand dollars. Accrual accounting looks at those same numbers and tells you you're still in the hole 8,999,000 dollars. Guess which one the government uses. You get two guesses and the first doesn't count. As for taxing corporations, you're blind as a fucking bat if you think the corps aren't either going to pass the increase directly to the customer, or take their business HQ elsewhere.
Communism is impossible given the nature of current humanity. Now maybe if you gave everyone lobotomies. Communism is the natural refuge of dictators who want to control sheep from behind the curtain of ideology. Fascism is the natural refuge of dictators who dispose of the curtain.
Actually, if you cut out the fructose and replace it with straight glucose variants, keeping everything else the same, you will in fact gain less weight or begin to lose weight.
Your Wii plays GC games perfectly because all it IS is a souped up Wii. It's a great system, but apart from the motion sensing, there nothing NEW at all about the Wii itself.
?? I don't think anyone's been saying the PS3 will be a 'danger' to the Wii at all. In fact, nintendo will probably come out with another console before the PS3 surpasses Wii sales. If it ever does, given that Nintendo played this round extremely well. That being said, it IS a danger to the 360, especially with mouse/keyboard compatibility, which means that you can theoretically have console/PC multiplayer without dumbing down the game like you must do for Live.
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How about, FPRPG? First person role-playing game?
According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who's been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point. Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive Intelligence Review, and began by making it clear that the sea level claims made by the IPCC are a lot of nonsense (emphasis added throughout, h/t Eduardo Ferreyra): [W]e can see that the sea level was indeed rising, from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per year. Not more. 1.1 is the exact figure. And we can check that, because Holland is a subsiding area; it has been subsiding for many millions of years; and Sweden, after the last Ice Age, was uplifted. So if you balance those, there is only one solution, and it will be this figure. That ended in 1940, and there had been no rise until 1970; and then we can come into the debate here on what is going on, and we have to go to satellite altimetry, and I will return to that. But before doing that: There's another way of checking it, because if the radius of the Earth increases, because sea level is rising, then immediately the Earth's rate of rotation would slow down. That is a physical law, right? You have it in figure-skating: when they rotate very fast, the arms are close to the body; and then when they increase the radius, by putting out their arms, they stop by themselves. So you can look at the rotation and the same comes up: Yes, it might be 1.1 mm per year, but absolutely not more. 1.1 mm per year? That means that if this were to continue for 1000 years, sea levels would be 1.1 meters higher. Doesn't sound very catastrophic, does it? Mörner then addressed what in his view was a ridiculous error by the IPCC: Another way of looking at what is going on is the tide gauge. Tide gauging is very complicated, because it gives different answers for wherever you are in the world. But we have to rely on geology when we interpret it. So, for example, those people in the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], choose Hong Kong, which has six tide gauges, and they choose the record of one, which gives 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level. Every geologist knows that that is a subsiding area. It's the compaction of sediment; it is the only record which you shouldn't use. And if that figure is correct, then Holland would not be subsiding, it would be uplifting. And that is just ridiculous. Not even ignorance could be responsible for a thing like that. But that was just the beginning of Mörner's problems with the IPCC: Now, back to satellite altimetry, which shows the water, not just the coasts, but in the whole of the ocean. And you measure it by satellite. From 1992 to 2002, [the graph of the sea level] was a straight line, variability along a straight line, but absolutely no trend whatsoever. We could see those spikes: a very rapid rise, but then in half a year, they fall back again. But absolutely no trend, and to have a sea-level rise, you need a trend. Then, in 2003, the same data set, which in their [IPCC's] publications, in their website, was a straight line--suddenly it changed, and showed a very strong line of uplift, 2.3 mm per year, the same as from the tide gauge. And that didn't look so nice. It looked as though they had recorded something; but they hadn't recorded anything. It was the original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a "correction factor," which they took from the tide gauge. So it was not a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside. I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow --I said you have introduced factors from outside; it's not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don't say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we wou
Not very, but you can stick a solar plant in the middle of a sunny nowhere with a big water source and get as much as you want. So really it doesn't have to be all THAT energy efficient.
How is the existence of some kind of creator any less complex than the idea that the universe just suddenly sprang into being? Personally both arguments are largely irrelevant until after one dies anyway.
99.9999% is less than 99.9%? Interesting, guess I have to go beat the crap out of my math teachers for lying to me then.
Money is simply a centralized system of relative worth, ergo money is always made out of thin air. Before it was based upon the gold standard, but at the end of the day that's a useless metric as the supply of gold is finite and the actual money itself is still just a means of agreed upon exchange. Unless you'd see us using the direct barter system which works oh so well.
Good god. No crime was committed in the "Rove Affair",better known as the Plame Affair, although there was the travesty of sending a staff official to jail over not remembering the exact fucking date of a, to him, relatively unimportant phone call that occurred at least 8-16 months ago(Don't know exact span of time). End of discussion, unless all of you assholes suddenly have eidetic memories.
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Just because you download something does not in any way, shape, or form mean you were likely to buy it. Now, it is true that there will be a percentage of people who would otherwise have bought an album, but that percentage is, quite honestly, probably no more than 10% of people who download 50% or more of said album. And except for the "elite" pushed upon the masses by the record labels, the vast majority of artists will experience a large enough gain in listenership that the people who do buy the album will outweigh the lost sales.
Dude, they fucking removed flying capability cause the 360 can't support the draw rate needed. Now, it's true that flying's not THAT integral to the game, but it's quite a nice addition. That's however the biggest most clear cut example. What else did they have to gimp to support the 360's lack of ability that we don't know about?
Heh, there's no such thing as idiot-proof, and since all that is required to be able to vote is age and lack of major felonies, there are a whole lot of idiots who do so
Only if you deleted the key after the investigation started.
The PS3 is a perfectly good console, but when it comes to somewhat life realistic interaction with the games instead of just button pushing, it's left far in the dust compared to the Wii. End of story.
Let me get this straight. It's a net based phone application, which you need access to the internet to be able to use anyway, but yet an url where you can find the source code for the relevant part of the app isn't sufficient? Can someone help explain the insanity here, or am I not seeing something blindingly obvious?
Of course, the PS3 was meant to have a life cycle of 7-10 years, with the 360 having a life cycle of half that. Which is a really, really bad sign for MS. As it goes now, they might break even by the end of the 360's life cycle. Maybe. If they're lucky, and if the release of more and more exclusives on the Wii and PS3 doesn't end up burying them completely, which in the short run for the Wii it seems to be doing, and in the long run for the PS3 it probably will end up doing.
Yes, but software can be patched. Hardware is a much more expensive endeavor to fix.
What a fucking twit. Currently we're running around 3 trillion in debt each year because of your precious health care and safety net in the form of Medicare and SocSec, but you never see that reported because our gov. is highly dishonest about the way it calculates debt.
Econ 101 asshole, so listen up. There are two primary types of accounting. The first is known as cash accounting. It's what you or I, or really, really small companies use. The second is known as accrual accounting. It's what every major corporation uses. The difference is rather simple. Let's say you take out a loan for 1 million dollars. In five years you have to pay back 10 million dollars. You made an extra thousand dollars over the year with that money. Cash accounting looks at this and says you made a profit of 1 million 1 thousand dollars. Accrual accounting looks at those same numbers and tells you you're still in the hole 8,999,000 dollars. Guess which one the government uses. You get two guesses and the first doesn't count. As for taxing corporations, you're blind as a fucking bat if you think the corps aren't either going to pass the increase directly to the customer, or take their business HQ elsewhere.
Communism is impossible given the nature of current humanity. Now maybe if you gave everyone lobotomies. Communism is the natural refuge of dictators who want to control sheep from behind the curtain of ideology. Fascism is the natural refuge of dictators who dispose of the curtain.
Actually, if you cut out the fructose and replace it with straight glucose variants, keeping everything else the same, you will in fact gain less weight or begin to lose weight.
Actually, it more has to do with the tariffs on cane sugar than the subsidies themselves. Same effect though.
Given that the "fire sale" will last probably over a month, should it really be considered one?
Gary, Indiana, the biggest cesspool in Indiana, if not the US, is a bastion of blue state thought processes. It's worked out REAL well.
Says the country with a bunch of nickel refineries which have a several mile dead zone around them from all the acid rain.
Your Wii plays GC games perfectly because all it IS is a souped up Wii. It's a great system, but apart from the motion sensing, there nothing NEW at all about the Wii itself.
Except any exclusive content is NOT likely to feature a cameo at all, ergo, it's much, much less of one.
?? I don't think anyone's been saying the PS3 will be a 'danger' to the Wii at all. In fact, nintendo will probably come out with another console before the PS3 surpasses Wii sales. If it ever does, given that Nintendo played this round extremely well. That being said, it IS a danger to the 360, especially with mouse/keyboard compatibility, which means that you can theoretically have console/PC multiplayer without dumbing down the game like you must do for Live.