We're inception-style 3-links deep here, but this article, linked from Watchdog, is actually somewhat more interesting -- http://www.onesecondafter.com/...
It adjusts the colour temperature of your monitor according to sunrise / sunset times, helping to trigger your circadian rhythm. Almost completely fixed my sleep pattern problems. http://justgetflux.com/
"Plastic containers holding explosives and the chemicals used to manufacture them, are stored in a room in the town of Nablus in what is described as the biggest bomb factory ever discovered in the West Bank, Tuesday Jan. 13 1998. Police said that three quarters of a ton of explosives were seized and four activists from the Muslim militant Hamas group were arrested."
That's truly disgustingly shameful photo selection by the NY Daily Times to try to stoke fear.
It's mostly true that reactions dependent on kinetics speed up with temperature. Ozone holes, though, are a very very different process. The ozone hole results from surface reactions on polar stratospheric clouds. The colder it gets, the easier it is for those clouds to form, and the more severe the rate of ozone depletion.
Do some homework before calling "bullshit".
(I am an atmospheric chemist, I am not your atmospheric chemist, etc...)
For those who don't know, we just had a federal election up here in May. The conservatives, led by a radical right winger, took absolute power (a majority of seats in the house of commons) with only 39% of the vote. 61% of Canadians voted for more centrist or progressive parties that - for the most part - have a fair amount in common, but because the vote was split between the other parties, the conservatives cleaned up.
The system is utterly broken, but the decline in voting rates over recent decades (mostly in younger voters who recognise how appallingly unjust the system is and are disenfranchised by it) won't improve much with online voting techno-fixes. If you want people to engage in their democracy, we need a proportional representation (or at a minimum a ranked-ballot) voting system that makes people feel like their vote won't be wasted because depending on which party you vote for, or chance of where you live.
How that gets translated into "New Study Trashes Global Warming" is beyond me.
Simple: The author of the article is a well-funded climate denier working for the Heartland Institute. Same folks who tried to convince people that there was no link between second hand smoke exposure and cancer.
Right. And no skeptic would ever tell you that climatologists the world over might, you know, actually know a thing or two about climateology... because they would lose their lucrative big-oil money.
Previously, temperature shifted due to ice ages, and CO2 amplified that shift (CO2 being responsible for the significant proportion of the actual temperature increase). This time, we've kicked things off instead.
...we need to be a little faster than that. Despite the current wars and recession, we live (historically) in a period of unprecedented wealth and global political stability. If we don't sort out our energy use before 2030, we aren't going to have the global stability necessary to mess around in space much longer.
I don't doubt your good faith, but you didn't check.com (or if you did, you didn't check back to the originating dns servers). It's certainly been seized, whereas the article says it hasn't.
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We're inception-style 3-links deep here, but this article, linked from Watchdog, is actually somewhat more interesting -- http://www.onesecondafter.com/...
It adjusts the colour temperature of your monitor according to sunrise / sunset times, helping to trigger your circadian rhythm. Almost completely fixed my sleep pattern problems. http://justgetflux.com/
Confirmed: that photo has NOTHING to do with this story. It's an Associated Press photo from the 1998 discovery of a bomb factory in the West Bank:
http://www.apimages.com/OneUp.aspx?st=k&kw=98011301827
"Plastic containers holding explosives and the chemicals used to manufacture them, are stored in a room in the town of Nablus in what is described as the biggest bomb factory ever discovered in the West Bank, Tuesday Jan. 13 1998. Police said that three quarters of a ton of explosives were seized and four activists from the Muslim militant Hamas group were arrested."
That's truly disgustingly shameful photo selection by the NY Daily Times to try to stoke fear.
> I don't like their product, management or their methods.
Why the self-hate? You are the product.
Yes, thousands. In Guelph alone, there were at least 7,670 - EC knows this from records they were able to subpoena from RackNine - http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Fraudulent+robocalls+absolutely+outrageous+Mayrand/6383004/story.html - those same records matched the CPC's CIMS database exactly. Now that's just the ones that "pierre poutine" set up - it's looking increasingly likely he was a rogue, but there was an underlying and much more pervasive and carefully executed national strategy - http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/24/pol-election-calls-poll.html - If pierre poutine hadn't gone and blown it by going overboard, we might never have found out.
There's growing evidence that Canada's Conservatives learned how to do this kind of fraud south of the border - e.g. a growing tangled web of links between them and US firms used by the republicans... http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1140344--conservative-mps-used-top-republican-firm-during-may-election
61% of voters did not vote for the conservatives. It was the fundamentally flawed electoral system that translated 39% support into a "majority".
And if you're not a professional astroturfer being paid directly or indirectly by Sony, why don't you answer PopeRatzo's question?
One ID to rule them all, One ID to find them
One ID to SELECT them all and in the darkness LEFT JOIN them.
FTFY
this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/12/1025555/-Open-Letter-to-that-53-Guy
It's mostly true that reactions dependent on kinetics speed up with temperature. Ozone holes, though, are a very very different process. The ozone hole results from surface reactions on polar stratospheric clouds. The colder it gets, the easier it is for those clouds to form, and the more severe the rate of ozone depletion.
Do some homework before calling "bullshit".
(I am an atmospheric chemist, I am not your atmospheric chemist, etc...)
What do you think Princess Leia was sticking in to R2-D2 man?
I think that what a galactic princess sticks into her droid in private is none of your business.
> The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit
Bwahahahahahaha
For those who don't know, we just had a federal election up here in May. The conservatives, led by a radical right winger, took absolute power (a majority of seats in the house of commons) with only 39% of the vote. 61% of Canadians voted for more centrist or progressive parties that - for the most part - have a fair amount in common, but because the vote was split between the other parties, the conservatives cleaned up.
The system is utterly broken, but the decline in voting rates over recent decades (mostly in younger voters who recognise how appallingly unjust the system is and are disenfranchised by it) won't improve much with online voting techno-fixes. If you want people to engage in their democracy, we need a proportional representation (or at a minimum a ranked-ballot) voting system that makes people feel like their vote won't be wasted because depending on which party you vote for, or chance of where you live.
If I work hard to bike, walk, and use transit as much as possible, why should I subsidise your heavy car use?
That is the real win-win of capitalism.
Ah yes, the "trickle down effect". Consider your understanding of economics downgraded to AA+
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How that gets translated into "New Study Trashes Global Warming" is beyond me.
Simple: The author of the article is a well-funded climate denier working for the Heartland Institute. Same folks who tried to convince people that there was no link between second hand smoke exposure and cancer.
Right. And no skeptic would ever tell you that climatologists the world over might, you know, actually know a thing or two about climateology... because they would lose their lucrative big-oil money.
Yes, but that changes nothing.
Previously, temperature shifted due to ice ages, and CO2 amplified that shift (CO2 being responsible for the significant proportion of the actual temperature increase). This time, we've kicked things off instead.
It's not hard to understand. Recommended reading: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/the-lag-between-temp-and-co2/
That was simply Harper's attempt to spin it and blame the opposition party. Try this link instead: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2010/10/13/policy-cost-canada-103.html
Canada's just jealous because their persistent stupidity at the UN finally turned other countries against them last year.
everyone else forgot to post
I enjoy your optimism, but...
The 2030's see an energy revolution.
...we need to be a little faster than that. Despite the current wars and recession, we live (historically) in a period of unprecedented wealth and global political stability. If we don't sort out our energy use before 2030, we aren't going to have the global stability necessary to mess around in space much longer.
I don't doubt your good faith, but you didn't check .com (or if you did, you didn't check back to the originating dns servers). It's certainly been seized, whereas the article says it hasn't.