So, you are not one of the people who has trouble recognizing which parts of AGW are settled science and which parts aren't? Is that what you are saying?
Nope, that's just you trying to act like a smart ass by implying that _you_ do.
If you want details, I believe that the following is settled: a) Climate doesn't change spontaneously, something has to drive it b) Global temperature is slowly going up (we keep on inventing better instruments to measure it, they keep telling us the exact same thing) c) The only major heat source around here is the Sun d) Greenhouse gases are the only gun producing any smoke at the moment (solar output isn't increasing) e) CO2 is a greenhouse gas f) Man is producing a lot of CO2 (and at the same time destroying some of the CO2 absorbing capability of the planet)
On a more "personal opinion" level, I believe: g) The public consensus in the USA on AGW is very different from the rest of the world (via. paid lobbying and paid-for media stories). h) The AGW "debate" in the USA closely resembles the Creation-vs-Evolution "debate", ie. a never-ending game of Whac-a-Mole against arguments that sound plausible but never stand up under scrutiny, no matter how convinced the creationists were when they were parroting them. One side has to spend vast resources to produce hard evidence, the other side doesn't feel they have any burden of proof whatsoever, they just make stuff up.
The list of arguments I refer to in (h) looks something like this. Maybe you've heard some of those arguments over the last few years. Well, guess what...?
Disagree? Perhaps you'd like to inject _your_ facts into this.
Persuading some other countries to spend money on it doesn't make it un-American.
It's America's idea, they're footing 90-odd percent of the bill and it's fast becoming a trillion-dollar white elephant (Drones! Who could have predicted those?).
"Why doesn't my meter read Amps anymore? What do you mean there's a fuse? Where is the fuse? How do I replace it?"
I've had so many cheap crap multimeters die that I've lost count. I've also bought used meters by the box because they were all "failed", and some of them were really just a blown fuse
Does anybody know why multimeter fuses are so well hidden and so damn difficult to replace? Normally you have to take the whole thing apart, with screws hidden under rubber feet, etc..
Why aren't they under a simple flap or in the battery compartment?
Calculus is how we scientifically communicate nature to each other, not away for nature to implement mathematics. Flies are not doing calculus any more than you catching a thrown ball is doing calculus. This headline, and perhaps the grant proposal, is written for stupid people. I hope this explains it for you.
When somebody throws a ball to you, how do you figure out how to catch it?
Mechanical/electrical systems can do calculus, stupid.
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Actually it doesn't resemble the Creation/Evolution debate at all, and I get the heebie-jeebies when someone says it does.
The scientific side isn't as solid, agreed, but the actual "debate" resembles it very strongly.
Nope. That's all my own conclusions.
I'll take that reply as a "no", shall I? You're not prepared to state anything about what you believe.
Not before I figured you wouldn't inject a single fact or tell us what _you_ believe is settled.
Those are all strawmen.
Facts: Global warming exists, mankind is driving it.
Everything else is just a case of "when?" and "how bad?" (which we obviously can't tell you)
There is no expectation of privacy in public.
Sure there is. Try going around getting up close to people, looking over their shoulders to see what they're doing, etc.
See how long you can last before being punched in the face and told to "mind your own business".
yet idiots have no problems with phones being pointed at them.
It's pretty obvious when a phone is being pointed *at* you instead of being used to play games/text/whatever.
And it will provoke a reaction from "idiots". Try it and see.
So, you are not one of the people who has trouble recognizing which parts of AGW are settled science and which parts aren't? Is that what you are saying?
Nope, that's just you trying to act like a smart ass by implying that _you_ do.
If you want details, I believe that the following is settled:
a) Climate doesn't change spontaneously, something has to drive it
b) Global temperature is slowly going up (we keep on inventing better instruments to measure it, they keep telling us the exact same thing)
c) The only major heat source around here is the Sun
d) Greenhouse gases are the only gun producing any smoke at the moment (solar output isn't increasing)
e) CO2 is a greenhouse gas
f) Man is producing a lot of CO2 (and at the same time destroying some of the CO2 absorbing capability of the planet)
On a more "personal opinion" level, I believe:
g) The public consensus in the USA on AGW is very different from the rest of the world (via. paid lobbying and paid-for media stories).
h) The AGW "debate" in the USA closely resembles the Creation-vs-Evolution "debate", ie. a never-ending game of Whac-a-Mole against arguments that sound plausible but never stand up under scrutiny, no matter how convinced the creationists were when they were parroting them. One side has to spend vast resources to produce hard evidence, the other side doesn't feel they have any burden of proof whatsoever, they just make stuff up.
The list of arguments I refer to in (h) looks something like this. Maybe you've heard some of those arguments over the last few years. Well, guess what...?
Disagree? Perhaps you'd like to inject _your_ facts into this.
The problem a lot of people have understanding AGW is separating the science that is settled from the unsettled predictions.
Nope.
The main problem is seeing through the fog created by the anti-AGW lobby.
https://www.google.es/search?q...
They think they're being free thinkers, that the AGW people are the ones drinking the establishment cool-aid. In reality it's the other way around.
Persuading some other countries to spend money on it doesn't make it un-American.
It's America's idea, they're footing 90-odd percent of the bill and it's fast becoming a trillion-dollar white elephant (Drones! Who could have predicted those?).
But the F35 is more or less combat ready in its basic form.
Translation: "Not really ready yet...."
$599 isn't expensive for a phone?
Speaking as a graphic designer with over two decades of experience
Anybody who starts a phrase with "Speaking as a...." usually has no clue.
The difference between 300dpi and 600dpi dithered images on monochrome laser printers is easy to see.
there is a reason that graphic designers have always targeted a print resolution of 300 dpi for colour images.
Maybe the problem is with your printers and/or the medium you print on.
I've got one of them.
If I showed it to you and said "What color is that?" you'd most likely say "orange".
"Why doesn't my meter read Amps anymore? What do you mean there's a fuse? Where is the fuse? How do I replace it?"
I've had so many cheap crap multimeters die that I've lost count. I've also bought used meters by the box because they were all "failed", and some of them were really just a blown fuse
Does anybody know why multimeter fuses are so well hidden and so damn difficult to replace? Normally you have to take the whole thing apart, with screws hidden under rubber feet, etc..
Why aren't they under a simple flap or in the battery compartment?
It's not like fuse holders haven't been invented or anything. https://www.google.es/search?q...
I didn't read the article, but the summary says MORE THAN 30K. Maybe they matched them 1:1 which lead to the extra valuation.
Yes, but at Fluke prices that's still only half a dozen multimeters.
PS: I've got one of those Sparkfun multimeters. It's more 'orange' then 'yellow'.
After all, why would a game developer use DX12 over DX11 (or even DX9) if it is only supported by a small subset of their market?
That never stopped them from doing it before. XP had majority market share when DX10/11 were launched.
It's Window 8 only, right?
Pardon the ignorance, what are you referencing?
It's called "popular culture".
It's what happens outside basements...
Vegas doesn't predict. They set the lines/odds so that there is equal money on both sides of a bet.
"Equal"?
Surely the house always takes a cut...
Aka: "Never attribute to malice that which be adequately explained by stupidity".
Calculus is how we scientifically communicate nature to each other, not away for nature to implement mathematics. Flies are not doing calculus any more than you catching a thrown ball is doing calculus. This headline, and perhaps the grant proposal, is written for stupid people. I hope this explains it for you.
When somebody throws a ball to you, how do you figure out how to catch it?
Mechanical/electrical systems can do calculus, stupid.
They didn't get out of anything, they're dead.
Sometimes their victims still have a lot of years left.
What is the point of an exchange in the bitcoin world ?
Somebody has to have large reserves of real money for when people want to sell their bitcoins.
Will their surviving relatives be able to pay for the bullet with bitcoins?
The government will grab it all as "death tax".
This way the heirs won't be left arguing over what to sell to pay off the government.