Skeptics tell us that the climate models are riddled with errors, and cannot be trusted.... How can you base environment policies on models that are shown to have such large errors?
Yes, absolutely. Instead of believing the propaganda from Big Oil that nothing is wrong, we should instead believe in the propaganda from political interests attempting to divert our attention from other matters and scientific communities whose funding is dependent on the support of those political interests that our doom is upon us and we must stop doing anything.
As the sun will grow larger and larger, our planet is going to heat more and more, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.... But it's a fact we can see a slight difference, and it's a fact that WE make a slight difference on climate change. But our destiny is that of our Sun
The thing is, increased CO2 (if that was the only factor in climate change) is probably an overall boon to the biosphere. It would mean more tropical regions and more usable land in far northern latitudes.
30 years ago when my parents were in school they were saying we're headed to another Ice age. I still haven't seen any definitive evidence that we're not in a cycle. Our sample time is far too short.
no amount of conservation will cause a reversal in the current climate change trends
While you say "reversal" and that is technically correct, you are obviously using this to avoid any action at all based on your own ridiculous hyperbole:
short of shutting down nearly every energy source on the planet, shutting down all factories and eradicating all internal combustion engines...notice, that's a BIG if.
Climate change is the main threat to polar bears today. A diminishing ice pack directly affects polar bears, as sea ice is the platform from which they hunt seals. Although the Arctic has experienced warm periods before, the present shrinking of the Arctic's sea ice is rapid and unprecedented.
In addition to hedwards' comment, AT&T split fiber into NSA rooms across the country. These fibers carried all traffic, not just foreign bound/incoming. Therefore, since a live copy of everything was (still is) being handed over without controls to the government -- that is a warrantless wiretap on everyone.
Based on leaked details of how these NSA rooms were setup, I am absolutely certain that my packets were copied into the NSA room. What none of us know (without lawsuits) is whether this information was stored or inspected.
I want to know why the current president wants to hide wiretaps from FISA. Are the targets and reasons so ridiculous that even FISA would turn off its rubber-stamping machine? Without the lawsuits, we won't find out.
It took malicious jerks like J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon to get Congress to realize there needs to be judicial oversight of these operations. Let's not go down that road again.
Good or bad has always been subjective and local in scope to a species. Probably, the more communicative the species, the more this concept becomes defined. Note that I did not say "intelligent."
It has? At what price? Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens killed, many more injured?
Oh wait, we were going after Al Qaeda? So the USA ended up killing more of its own citizens than the sum total of Al-Qaeda attacks?
Iraq was a stable country. The USA didn't like Iraq and Iraq didn't like the USA. So what? The USA stopped Iraq from invading an ally, and that's where it should have remained. Iraq didn't have WMDs and wasn't sheltering or funding Al-Qaeda.
Do you attack people when they give you a dirty look? Even if they are the scum of the earth?
And your logic is specious because you're obviously picking and choosing:
Better to save a few million lives and be feared and despised because we carry - and use - a big stick than the sit back and try to tell little Johnny Dictator that he really shouldn't be genocidal and continue to kill people... Why isn't the USA in Africa? More than one country there has killed more of their own citizens than Iraq could ever dream about.
Give peace a chance, but after that prepare for an ass kicking. Is that like fucking for virginity?
I suppose you're trying to give a backhanded compliment. But if you needed to do a report on Franklin to figure out that he wasn't a president, I feel sorry for you. Your classmates must have been laughing at you.
The whole notion of greenbacks being referred to as "dead presidents" is somewhat new. I just thought of them as important historical people, many of whom had been President. It's a sad state of ignorance. FFS, it's not like it's the $1 bill, it's the highest denomination in circulation! And then there's the $10 bill... You'd think people never paid attention in class or held these denominations.
My point is it's a stupid saying because it's wrong on the most important part.
There are people just outside your building living in tents? I will presume that since you have the luxury of posting on/. you regularly give them a few packages of TP and bottles of clean water. I mean, I really hope so. I know you can't simply raise them up to your standard of living, but at least some of them wouldn't have to live completely like animals.
Locations SINTEF has approximately 2000 employees, 1300 of which are located in Trondheim and 450 in Oslo. We have offices in Bergen, Stavanger and Ålesund, in addition to offices in Houston, Texas (USA), Skopje (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) and a laboratory in Hirtshals (Denmark). SINTEF's head office is in Trondheim. Perhaps the submitter didn't want the scientists in Denmark to feel left out?
Good luck processing EVERYTHING. One word: Sandvine.
Doesn't have anything to do with my identity... it has everything to do with the "-1, I disagree" karma hit on Slashdot: Groupthink for Nerds, (Leftist) Propaganda that Matters. Well, golly gee, with such well-versed prose as that, I don't understand why anyone would moderate you negatively.
That said, most of us on the right don't care because they aren't wiretapping domestic calls without warrants, they're wiretapping international calls. I've got nothing to worry about since I've never made a call with a destination outside of the US and Canada (and in fact, most people don't regularly call out of the country) and I'm not calling suspected terrorists when I do so. So sayeth you.
Fox News casually omits that the fibers that carry ALL data are split off into the NSA surveillance rooms. The telecoms have been and still are blindly giving EVERYTHING to the US gov't without any warrant in place. That data, if you are still ignorant of what ALL means, is foreign and domestic, phone calls, e-mail, web browsing, ftp, bit torrent -- EVERYTHING. While we know the US gov't has gotten a copy of everything, we don't know just which data has been kept and inspected. Who cares about some piddly phone records, when the US gov't was given the keys to the kingdom!
So, if you don't care, maybe you will when the Democrats wrest back control of the Presidency, both Houses of Congress, and stack the deck in the Supreme Court.
And don't you dare tell me you have nothing to hide, *Anonymous Coward*.
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So, the N. Pole is growing while the S. Pole is growing new ice despite a big hole in the ozone and chiken little claims of global warming.
MYTH: Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming
Read the whole article.
Skeptics tell us that the climate models are riddled with errors, and cannot be trusted. ... How can you base environment policies on models that are shown to have such large errors?
MYTH: We can't trust computer models
Yes, absolutely. Instead of believing the propaganda from Big Oil that nothing is wrong, we should instead believe in the propaganda from political interests attempting to divert our attention from other matters and scientific communities whose funding is dependent on the support of those political interests that our doom is upon us and we must stop doing anything.
MYTH: It's all a conspiracy
As the sun will grow larger and larger, our planet is going to heat more and more, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it. ... But it's a fact we can see a slight difference, and it's a fact that WE make a slight difference on climate change. But our destiny is that of our Sun
Climate Myths:
Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans
We can't do anything about climate change
The thing is, increased CO2 (if that was the only factor in climate change) is probably an overall boon to the biosphere. It would mean more tropical regions and more usable land in far northern latitudes.
Climate Myths:
CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas
Higher CO2 levels will boost plant growth and food production
Mars, Pluto, and Jupiter are also warming.
Which has nothing to do with us.
30 years ago when my parents were in school they were saying we're headed to another Ice age. I still haven't seen any definitive evidence that we're not in a cycle. Our sample time is far too short.
Climate Myths:
They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
It's been far warmer in the past, what's the big deal?
Read the articles and follow their links.
no amount of conservation will cause a reversal in the current climate change trends
While you say "reversal" and that is technically correct, you are obviously using this to avoid any action at all based on your own ridiculous hyperbole:
short of shutting down nearly every energy source on the planet, shutting down all factories and eradicating all internal combustion engines...notice, that's a BIG if.
MYTH: We can't do anything about climate change.
Get off your lazy butt.
you forgot the fact that this is likely to lead to an ice age.
MYTH: Warming will cause an ice age.
Read the entire article.
Ahhh, so that's why the polar bear population has doubled since 1960.
MYTH: Polar bear numbers are increasing.
The Guardian can be wrong? Shocking!
That's a myth.
From the same article:
Climate change is the main threat to polar bears today. A diminishing ice pack directly affects polar bears, as sea ice is the platform from which they hunt seals. Although the Arctic has experienced warm periods before, the present shrinking of the Arctic's sea ice is rapid and unprecedented.
I mean what about all the volcanos erupting
MYTH: Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter.
Feel free to skip to the section labelled "Volcanic misunderstanding".
In addition to hedwards' comment, AT&T split fiber into NSA rooms across the country. These fibers carried all traffic, not just foreign bound/incoming. Therefore, since a live copy of everything was (still is) being handed over without controls to the government -- that is a warrantless wiretap on everyone.
Based on leaked details of how these NSA rooms were setup, I am absolutely certain that my packets were copied into the NSA room. What none of us know (without lawsuits) is whether this information was stored or inspected.
I want to know why the current president wants to hide wiretaps from FISA. Are the targets and reasons so ridiculous that even FISA would turn off its rubber-stamping machine? Without the lawsuits, we won't find out.
It took malicious jerks like J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon to get Congress to realize there needs to be judicial oversight of these operations. Let's not go down that road again.
Good or bad has always been subjective and local in scope to a species. Probably, the more communicative the species, the more this concept becomes defined. Note that I did not say "intelligent."
It has? At what price? Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens killed, many more injured?
Oh wait, we were going after Al Qaeda? So the USA ended up killing more of its own citizens than the sum total of Al-Qaeda attacks?
Iraq was a stable country. The USA didn't like Iraq and Iraq didn't like the USA. So what? The USA stopped Iraq from invading an ally, and that's where it should have remained. Iraq didn't have WMDs and wasn't sheltering or funding Al-Qaeda.
Do you attack people when they give you a dirty look? Even if they are the scum of the earth?
And your logic is specious because you're obviously picking and choosing:
Better to save a few million lives and be feared and despised because we carry - and use - a big stick than the sit back and try to tell little Johnny Dictator that he really shouldn't be genocidal and continue to kill people... Why isn't the USA in Africa? More than one country there has killed more of their own citizens than Iraq could ever dream about. Give peace a chance, but after that prepare for an ass kicking. Is that like fucking for virginity?I suppose you're trying to give a backhanded compliment. But if you needed to do a report on Franklin to figure out that he wasn't a president, I feel sorry for you. Your classmates must have been laughing at you.
The whole notion of greenbacks being referred to as "dead presidents" is somewhat new. I just thought of them as important historical people, many of whom had been President. It's a sad state of ignorance. FFS, it's not like it's the $1 bill, it's the highest denomination in circulation! And then there's the $10 bill... You'd think people never paid attention in class or held these denominations.
My point is it's a stupid saying because it's wrong on the most important part.
Have all the Washingtons you can carry.
Wait, wait! I need to attach a wind turbine to this thread.
OK, go.
You keep the ones with the dead presidents. I'll keep the others. I'll only insist on having the same number, to be fair. Deal?
There are people just outside your building living in tents? I will presume that since you have the luxury of posting on /. you regularly give them a few packages of TP and bottles of clean water. I mean, I really hope so. I know you can't simply raise them up to your standard of living, but at least some of them wouldn't have to live completely like animals.
Who do you think will clean the robots? Waiting for... Robo-snake technician. It might rival Geoduck farmer.
From SINTEF's website:
LocationsSINTEF has approximately 2000 employees, 1300 of which are located in Trondheim and 450 in Oslo. We have offices in Bergen, Stavanger and Ålesund, in addition to offices in Houston, Texas (USA), Skopje (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) and a laboratory in Hirtshals (Denmark). SINTEF's head office is in Trondheim. Perhaps the submitter didn't want the scientists in Denmark to feel left out?
Fox News casually omits that the fibers that carry ALL data are split off into the NSA surveillance rooms. The telecoms have been and still are blindly giving EVERYTHING to the US gov't without any warrant in place. That data, if you are still ignorant of what ALL means, is foreign and domestic, phone calls, e-mail, web browsing, ftp, bit torrent -- EVERYTHING. While we know the US gov't has gotten a copy of everything, we don't know just which data has been kept and inspected. Who cares about some piddly phone records, when the US gov't was given the keys to the kingdom!
So, if you don't care, maybe you will when the Democrats wrest back control of the Presidency, both Houses of Congress, and stack the deck in the Supreme Court.
And don't you dare tell me you have nothing to hide, *Anonymous Coward*.
That's what AT&T and the NSA would have you think!
Because the one in the submission was fairly content free. You can come to your own conclusions about what its unattributed original source is.
Exciton-based circuits eliminate a 'speed trap' between computing and communication signals
A wikipedia article, but still better than the submission
I'm still scratching my head, but at least it's not drawing blood anymore.