The first thing these cities need to understand is that they are committing to distributing a MINIMUM of $100 billion dollars EVERY year to countries like North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, etc. Many of those cities do not even have a $100 billion budget, so I am wondering where they will get the money from. You could rob Bill Gates and pay for part of one year, but there is no sunset clause and there are only so many Bill Gates' that you can steal from.
Do not get me wrong, I am 100% for everyone at all levels to reduce or eliminate pollution. The Paris deal was not really going to make that happen as there were not comprehensive controls placed on how the receiving countries would spend the money. It will be like lottery proceeds going to schools. Sure, the schools are getting money from the lottery, but then, the money that was budgeted for the schools now goes somewhere else so there is not even a net win there.
I am weary of the insanity here folks. Most of you are not acting in good faith which really will cause pollution to get worse. If you are truly worried about climate change, start acting in good faith!
The whole point of the tax is to make it more expensive to buy something that costs society money. Is it somehow unjust to have a cigarette tax that pays for lung cancer treatments in public hospitals?
This is LITERALLY hilarious. There is a minimum of $4 of tax for each pack of cigarettes sold. There are millions of packs of cigarettes sold each day. How much of that money was used to pay for someone's medical bills due to complications from smoking?
If you answered $0, then you are correct.
But keep on believing that those taxes are covering externalities. Have a nice life.:)
Every time I see this, I grow confused. America builds more stuff than the rest of the world combined. American industry is astoundingly huge. Regardless of this fact, other countries still emit more pollution than America.
If you really want to divide emissions per capita rather than the amount that is produced, you should remove industry from the calculations; otherwise, you are just trying to guilt regular Americans with bald faced lies.
TL;DR America emits less than pollution per item manufactured than any other country.
So tell me why America would want to be part of this treaty when the only thing that can happen from it is direct economic harm.
This is so true. As someone who has been on Slashdot and Reddit for the past 5-10 years (on Reddit close to when it started), it seems most discussions have become hyper-partisan and you are no longer sure if you are talking to someone who is interested in having a serious conversation about the topic or just wants to vent out his feelings often as facts!
Do you not see the irony in this quote? You and the GP are having a nice calm discussion about a serious topic. Perhaps you are just venting?:)
Clearly, you should publish a paper proving that this theory neatly wraps up all of the unexplained observations that motivate dark matter theories and gain yourself a prestigious tenured post at a top academic institution.
I have been working on writing a paper discussing this topic for more than a year now. Is it wrong to discuss ideas before publishing?
Why would I want a prestigious tenured post at a top academic institution? I do not require money or fame; furthermore, I already have a nice, well paying job.
Thank you for attacking me Sean (Shawn?). Your denigration is very useful and open minded.
Lack of new physics means that we have no explanations for the myriad of things which need new fundamental physics to explain sch as what is Dark Matter? and why is the Higgs boson so much lighter than the scale of quantum gravity?
Gravity is merely a byproduct of the properties of spacetime.
The 'time' aspect of spacetime flows faster the further you get from the mass that created the spacetime. This 'time' differential is what causes the effect known as gravity.
Dark matter does not exist. Galactic rotation curves are the way they are because there is less mass near the edge of the galaxy, which means time is flowing faster near the galactic rim. Hence, the illusion that the stars on the rim of the galaxy are moving objectively faster than they should.
I know you will not speak any of their languages, but the maid is asking to be pulled back in and the Kuwaiti Citizen is telling the maid that she is crazy.
But, when we as citizens don't insist our politicians address campaign finance reform, policies favoring corporations will continue to guarantee price gouging will continue. Campaign finance reform should be made the top issue... Every. Single. Election.
It is sweet that you think it is apathy from the public that is inhibiting campaign finance reform. It must be cozy inside that little world of yours. Come out and take a long look at the guns, blood, and enslavement that actually inhibits such changes. Enjoy.:)
Ironically, on my last trip to Italy, the only person who ripped us off is a taxi driver.
Same here, but in the Netherlands. I almost called the police but it was my last day and I did not need the extra 38 euros he was trying to extract from me. Missing my flight would have been more inconvenient than just letting him have the fucking money. Disgusting that there are people out there so desperate for money that they will steal small amounts at any chance. What kind of desperate life must they be living?
In the case of game system emulators, they should have just said that they're banning the emulation of proprietary game systems (not officially endorsed by the companies owning those game systems in the first place). That policy would have been sensible enough.
I disagree. Why should they even care? Are they afraid that original Xbox games will be playable on the Xbone?
Again, playing in someone elses sandbox is a prescription for trouble for you. For myself, I will never participate in the Microsoft Store.
I have five moderation points and used three of them to mod "politically incorrect" posts +1; insightful and then I wrote a post explaining that posted as AC and the damn site instantly removed my moderation.
If you are moderating and wish to comment you can always post as an Anonymous Coward or have a separate account.
Except that is what he did, he posted as AC (see bolded portion above) and still had his moderations removed. I knew that to be the case from hard experience as well, but they should advertise the fact that is not merely whether or not you are posting AC but also the IP address from where you are posting... which becomes interesting when you are behind your organization's proxy... did anyone else in my organization post while I was modding?
And when _I_ try to do anything, it breaks and when I ask for help, they all point to others because their software is perfect. And do not even try to change settings in a human readable file, because if you are lucky, it will be overwritten by who knows what and that would be the best outcome.
And asking questions on how to do that, the RTFM is not available and the FAQ is something not even the writer or the developer can understand and all other documentation just says : you need X, Y and Z and the versuon you run is not the correct one and if you install the correct one, 7 other programs will break and will never work again.
So all you can hope for is to install something, hope it works and never do any upgrades, because that will break the system.
The first thing I thought of when reading this was Grub2. Am I a bad person?
You really missed a part of computing history by not having an Amiga. It was 10 years ahead of anything IBM/Microsoft were putting out. Literally. I used my Amiga 500 exclusively until 1998. The Amiga 500 was released in 1987.
Windows is so popular because there is only one current version of Windows and everyone knows it and all Windows applications work on it.
Oh really? I know of many games and productivity software that works on XP but not on Windows 10. Even software that ran fine on Windows 7 can have problems on Windows 10. Many programs are poorly written and rely on very specific aspects of the operating system, which changes, even within a particular "release". Do you recall trying to run stuff on Windows XP when Service Pack 2 for XP was released? Yeah, a lot of stuff broke.
If you want to develop for Windows there's no guesswork, and the design decisions you make aren't going to split your potential userbase.
Eh? For developers, it is even worse. Did you bank everything you had on VB6? Too bad. Silverlight? Too bad..Net 2.0? Too bad. Any of the specific versions of IE? lol, too bad. Oh, and if you use Microsoft development tools, telemetry (that you don't get to see) is built right in.
The reasons you think Microsoft operating systems are popular are not really valid reasons.
So there's just as much hate for Fedora is there? Both OS's use Gnome 3 & Systemd....
Definitely not. There is more hate for Fedora/Redhat than there is for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu was absurd for not implementing a full X11 protocol on their display server.
Redhat and Fedora should be burned to the ground for not merely ignoring standards, but for violating them at every turn. If we wanted SystemD we would use Windows or Macs. Same with PulseAudio.
While Mir was interesting, it is still throwing away a lot of functionality, even if it does bring new functionality in.
The root of the problem is someone telling someone else THIS is how it has to be when there is already an accepted standard for that process. Change the standards intelligently and you will have no problems. Start telling people that their software will no longer run and that the 20 or more years of knowledge they have accumulated is now worthless is not a good way to go about doing things. Just sayin'... especially when your new way is not even reliable yet!
Soon you will (sic) offered internet channels instead of speeds. ... The days of ordering just "internet service" are numbered.
What is even funnier about what you are saying is that all web sites, taken together, are not the Internet. http/https are just two protocols. Web sites exist at an even higher layer than the protocols. When you "buy internet service", you are supposed to be buying access to a global communications network, not particular ports, protocols, and services.
And they wonder why terrorism is a thing. "Let's deny reality in order to steal money from you." As a bonus, and the root cause of terrorism, the authorities that are supposed to prevent such criminal machinations are complicit in allowing this to happen. D'uh. Bombs or guillotines. This will not end well.
However why is it even allowed for the ISP to interpret the TCP headers. They are not necessary to transport data to some other IP. Only the target IP should be legally allowed to interpret this data and if anyone else does it it should be considered wiretapping and prosecuted as such.
Just used the last of my mod points. Can someone else mod this up? It is an interesting way to view the issue.
It would be interesting to see how stoned drivers perform on a racetrack with very safe vehicles of course, how fast could they actually go before panicking and giving up.
I have done this. I was in a Mercedes Benz E55 AMG. I had amazing lap times. In fact, the owner of the track told me that he had never had a car that was street legal drive that fast on his track before. He took me aside and showed me his collection of race M3s.
I lapped every Porsche on the track. I suspect they were "noobs" (originally newbs).
There was a Z06 there. It could almost keep up with me in the curves and there was Viper which could almost keep up with me in the straights. There were only two cars that could pass me that day but they never did. One guy spun out on the curve behind the curve that I was in. I was disappointed for him. The other one was a race-modified BMW M3. It would have destroyed me but broke down before it could pass me.
I was doing all this while having the air conditioner on, rocking out to some seriously aggressive music, and smoking a bowl.
Some people should not do anything serious while stoned while others are able to concentrate more clearly while stoned.
But if you want to be a serious software archatect (sic) who understands the global issues and actually builds the future, no, sorry, a high school dropout usually doesn't cut it.
The irony is actually quite coppery.
Look, colleges are great resources for learning. They have a lot of knowledge stored there. Having classes and grades forces you to do things you might not have chosen to do on your own; however, that does not translate into what you are claiming.
Just yesterday I was mapping out a solution to a small software task that involves sampling analog data. My EE degree of 30 years ago (oh shit that long!) kicked in and I knew that I would have to implement a low pass filter at some point in the data stream and knew why I had to do it.
Here's the thing, I am self taught and do not have a high school degree but a low pass filter would have been in my sights too. Why? Because the Navy teaches REALLY good electronics courses.
The point is this: You can get even specialized knowledge without going to college. Yes, I would have loved to have the chance to go to college when I was younger but honestly, I could not even afford the registration fees while working 6 days a week. It is great that you had the chance to go to college but college is not some magical mystical place where you learn things that ordinary humans will never think about.
TL;DR college can be useful if a person who wants to learn things attends. College is NOT the gatekeeper to all such knowledge.
If not Assad, then who? The Russians aren't this stupid.
I think you are misunderstanding geopolitics. Russia may have prompted Assad to do this because they want to test the waters without being directly blamed for it in a way that sticks. I am not asserting that Russia did it. I am merely offering the possibility that Russia being behind it may not be as stupid as seem to think.
Ultimately, it is really fucked up regardless of who did it, but then, once you get to power, people don't matter, power does. That means people end up getting caught up in the gears of the power machine. Too bad for them. It is kind of a shame we can't stigmatize killing people like we do creating (sex) people.
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I checked which cities are part of this.
The first thing these cities need to understand is that they are committing to distributing a MINIMUM of $100 billion dollars EVERY year to countries like North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, etc. Many of those cities do not even have a $100 billion budget, so I am wondering where they will get the money from. You could rob Bill Gates and pay for part of one year, but there is no sunset clause and there are only so many Bill Gates' that you can steal from.
Do not get me wrong, I am 100% for everyone at all levels to reduce or eliminate pollution. The Paris deal was not really going to make that happen as there were not comprehensive controls placed on how the receiving countries would spend the money. It will be like lottery proceeds going to schools. Sure, the schools are getting money from the lottery, but then, the money that was budgeted for the schools now goes somewhere else so there is not even a net win there.
I am weary of the insanity here folks. Most of you are not acting in good faith which really will cause pollution to get worse. If you are truly worried about climate change, start acting in good faith!
The whole point of the tax is to make it more expensive to buy something that costs society money. Is it somehow unjust to have a cigarette tax that pays for lung cancer treatments in public hospitals?
This is LITERALLY hilarious. There is a minimum of $4 of tax for each pack of cigarettes sold. There are millions of packs of cigarettes sold each day. How much of that money was used to pay for someone's medical bills due to complications from smoking?
If you answered $0, then you are correct.
But keep on believing that those taxes are covering externalities. Have a nice life. :)
China also has over four times as many citizens.
Every time I see this, I grow confused. America builds more stuff than the rest of the world combined. American industry is astoundingly huge. Regardless of this fact, other countries still emit more pollution than America.
If you really want to divide emissions per capita rather than the amount that is produced, you should remove industry from the calculations; otherwise, you are just trying to guilt regular Americans with bald faced lies.
TL;DR America emits less than pollution per item manufactured than any other country.
So tell me why America would want to be part of this treaty when the only thing that can happen from it is direct economic harm.
This is so true. As someone who has been on Slashdot and Reddit for the past 5-10 years (on Reddit close to when it started), it seems most discussions have become hyper-partisan and you are no longer sure if you are talking to someone who is interested in having a serious conversation about the topic or just wants to vent out his feelings often as facts!
Do you not see the irony in this quote? You and the GP are having a nice calm discussion about a serious topic. Perhaps you are just venting? :)
Clearly, you should publish a paper proving that this theory neatly wraps up all of the unexplained observations that motivate dark matter theories and gain yourself a prestigious tenured post at a top academic institution.
I have been working on writing a paper discussing this topic for more than a year now. Is it wrong to discuss ideas before publishing?
Why would I want a prestigious tenured post at a top academic institution? I do not require money or fame; furthermore, I already have a nice, well paying job.
Thank you for attacking me Sean (Shawn?). Your denigration is very useful and open minded.
Lack of new physics means that we have no explanations for the myriad of things which need new fundamental physics to explain sch as what is Dark Matter? and why is the Higgs boson so much lighter than the scale of quantum gravity?
Gravity is merely a byproduct of the properties of spacetime.
The 'time' aspect of spacetime flows faster the further you get from the mass that created the spacetime. This 'time' differential is what causes the effect known as gravity.
Dark matter does not exist. Galactic rotation curves are the way they are because there is less mass near the edge of the galaxy, which means time is flowing faster near the galactic rim. Hence, the illusion that the stars on the rim of the galaxy are moving objectively faster than they should.
Moon was a deeply disturbing movie (Firefox thinks movie is not a word? wtf). Only one other movie disturbed me quite as deeply, Star 80.
Honestly, Moon was a bit on the boring side but after finishing it, I have to say it was a really good movie. Highly recommended.
Again, the two parties are not the same: one fights for right, and one fights for evil.
*BLINK* *BLINK*
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*golf clap* Well done sir. Well done indeed. lol
I would rather be a black person in America than an Indian or Filipino in Kuwait.
Do think it is bad here in America? Watch this:
http://news.kuwaittimes.net/we...
I know you will not speak any of their languages, but the maid is asking to be pulled back in and the Kuwaiti Citizen is telling the maid that she is crazy.
$89,000/yr for deflazacort?
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Currently we pay 85$ for a three month supply, or 340/yr.
Unbridled capitalism is awesome eh? I could not possibly see any good coming from regulating it at all. ggwp
But, when we as citizens don't insist our politicians address campaign finance reform, policies favoring corporations will continue to guarantee price gouging will continue. Campaign finance reform should be made the top issue... Every. Single. Election.
It is sweet that you think it is apathy from the public that is inhibiting campaign finance reform. It must be cozy inside that little world of yours. Come out and take a long look at the guns, blood, and enslavement that actually inhibits such changes. Enjoy. :)
Ironically, on my last trip to Italy, the only person who ripped us off is a taxi driver.
Same here, but in the Netherlands. I almost called the police but it was my last day and I did not need the extra 38 euros he was trying to extract from me. Missing my flight would have been more inconvenient than just letting him have the fucking money. Disgusting that there are people out there so desperate for money that they will steal small amounts at any chance. What kind of desperate life must they be living?
In the case of game system emulators, they should have just said that they're banning the emulation of proprietary game systems (not officially endorsed by the companies owning those game systems in the first place). That policy would have been sensible enough.
I disagree. Why should they even care? Are they afraid that original Xbox games will be playable on the Xbone?
Again, playing in someone elses sandbox is a prescription for trouble for you. For myself, I will never participate in the Microsoft Store.
I have five moderation points and used three of them to mod "politically incorrect" posts +1; insightful and then I wrote a post explaining that posted as AC and the damn site instantly removed my moderation.
If you are moderating and wish to comment you can always post as an Anonymous Coward or have a separate account.
Except that is what he did, he posted as AC (see bolded portion above) and still had his moderations removed. I knew that to be the case from hard experience as well, but they should advertise the fact that is not merely whether or not you are posting AC but also the IP address from where you are posting... which becomes interesting when you are behind your organization's proxy... did anyone else in my organization post while I was modding?
And when _I_ try to do anything, it breaks and when I ask for help, they all point to others because their software is perfect.
And do not even try to change settings in a human readable file, because if you are lucky, it will be overwritten by who knows what and that would be the best outcome.
And asking questions on how to do that, the RTFM is not available and the FAQ is something not even the writer or the developer can understand and all other documentation just says : you need X, Y and Z and the versuon you run is not the correct one and if you install the correct one, 7 other programs will break and will never work again.
So all you can hope for is to install something, hope it works and never do any upgrades, because that will break the system.
The first thing I thought of when reading this was Grub2. Am I a bad person?
You really missed a part of computing history by not having an Amiga. It was 10 years ahead of anything IBM/Microsoft were putting out. Literally. I used my Amiga 500 exclusively until 1998. The Amiga 500 was released in 1987.
Windows is so popular because there is only one current version of Windows and everyone knows it and all Windows applications work on it.
Oh really? I know of many games and productivity software that works on XP but not on Windows 10. Even software that ran fine on Windows 7 can have problems on Windows 10. Many programs are poorly written and rely on very specific aspects of the operating system, which changes, even within a particular "release". Do you recall trying to run stuff on Windows XP when Service Pack 2 for XP was released? Yeah, a lot of stuff broke.
If you want to develop for Windows there's no guesswork, and the design decisions you make aren't going to split your potential userbase.
Eh? For developers, it is even worse. Did you bank everything you had on VB6? Too bad. Silverlight? Too bad. .Net 2.0? Too bad. Any of the specific versions of IE? lol, too bad. Oh, and if you use Microsoft development tools, telemetry (that you don't get to see) is built right in.
The reasons you think Microsoft operating systems are popular are not really valid reasons.
So there's just as much hate for Fedora is there? Both OS's use Gnome 3 & Systemd....
Definitely not. There is more hate for Fedora/Redhat than there is for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu was absurd for not implementing a full X11 protocol on their display server.
Redhat and Fedora should be burned to the ground for not merely ignoring standards, but for violating them at every turn. If we wanted SystemD we would use Windows or Macs. Same with PulseAudio.
While Mir was interesting, it is still throwing away a lot of functionality, even if it does bring new functionality in.
The root of the problem is someone telling someone else THIS is how it has to be when there is already an accepted standard for that process. Change the standards intelligently and you will have no problems. Start telling people that their software will no longer run and that the 20 or more years of knowledge they have accumulated is now worthless is not a good way to go about doing things. Just sayin' ... especially when your new way is not even reliable yet!
Soon you will (sic) offered internet channels instead of speeds.
...
The days of ordering just "internet service" are numbered.
What is even funnier about what you are saying is that all web sites, taken together, are not the Internet. http/https are just two protocols. Web sites exist at an even higher layer than the protocols. When you "buy internet service", you are supposed to be buying access to a global communications network, not particular ports, protocols, and services.
And they wonder why terrorism is a thing. "Let's deny reality in order to steal money from you." As a bonus, and the root cause of terrorism, the authorities that are supposed to prevent such criminal machinations are complicit in allowing this to happen. D'uh. Bombs or guillotines. This will not end well.
However why is it even allowed for the ISP to interpret the TCP headers. They are not necessary to transport data to some other IP. Only the target IP should be legally allowed to interpret this data and if anyone else does it it should be considered wiretapping and prosecuted as such.
Just used the last of my mod points. Can someone else mod this up? It is an interesting way to view the issue.
It would be interesting to see how stoned drivers perform on a racetrack with very safe vehicles of course, how fast could they actually go before panicking and giving up.
I have done this. I was in a Mercedes Benz E55 AMG. I had amazing lap times. In fact, the owner of the track told me that he had never had a car that was street legal drive that fast on his track before. He took me aside and showed me his collection of race M3s.
I lapped every Porsche on the track. I suspect they were "noobs" (originally newbs).
There was a Z06 there. It could almost keep up with me in the curves and there was Viper which could almost keep up with me in the straights. There were only two cars that could pass me that day but they never did. One guy spun out on the curve behind the curve that I was in. I was disappointed for him. The other one was a race-modified BMW M3. It would have destroyed me but broke down before it could pass me.
I was doing all this while having the air conditioner on, rocking out to some seriously aggressive music, and smoking a bowl.
Some people should not do anything serious while stoned while others are able to concentrate more clearly while stoned.
TL;DR: People are all different.
Glad to know that the laws of physics can be overridden by man-made laws. GGWP
But if you want to be a serious software archatect (sic) who understands the global issues and actually builds the future, no, sorry, a high school dropout usually doesn't cut it.
The irony is actually quite coppery.
Look, colleges are great resources for learning. They have a lot of knowledge stored there. Having classes and grades forces you to do things you might not have chosen to do on your own; however, that does not translate into what you are claiming.
Ignorance is bliss?
Just yesterday I was mapping out a solution to a small software task that involves sampling analog data. My EE degree of 30 years ago (oh shit that long!) kicked in and I knew that I would have to implement a low pass filter at some point in the data stream and knew why I had to do it.
Here's the thing, I am self taught and do not have a high school degree but a low pass filter would have been in my sights too. Why? Because the Navy teaches REALLY good electronics courses.
The point is this: You can get even specialized knowledge without going to college. Yes, I would have loved to have the chance to go to college when I was younger but honestly, I could not even afford the registration fees while working 6 days a week. It is great that you had the chance to go to college but college is not some magical mystical place where you learn things that ordinary humans will never think about.
TL;DR college can be useful if a person who wants to learn things attends. College is NOT the gatekeeper to all such knowledge.
If not Assad, then who? The Russians aren't this stupid.
I think you are misunderstanding geopolitics. Russia may have prompted Assad to do this because they want to test the waters without being directly blamed for it in a way that sticks. I am not asserting that Russia did it. I am merely offering the possibility that Russia being behind it may not be as stupid as seem to think.
Ultimately, it is really fucked up regardless of who did it, but then, once you get to power, people don't matter, power does. That means people end up getting caught up in the gears of the power machine. Too bad for them. It is kind of a shame we can't stigmatize killing people like we do creating (sex) people.