Unlike the "climatologists", who ignore the earth in the past has had much colder temperatures with much more carbon dioxide, who ignore the sea levels have been rising since the last ice age (and for most of that time much faster than now), who ignore the antarctic land was once a tropical paradise, that Greenland was indeed very green, etc.etc.
I won't deny a minute amount of warming has taken place in the last 100+ years, maybe 0.8 to 1 degree C, whoop de doo, proves exactly nothing except the climate is ever variable on Earth.
wrong, it is well known but not properly accounted for. Ivory tower eggheads coming up with correction factors is NOT the way to account for it. I've lived in two place with airports where the "official" city temperatures are taken, and it is sometimes 3 degrees F higher than those parts of the city far away.
All those things you mention are the result of fossil fuel use; the "cap and trade" scammers would like to curtail progress, hurt economies, and increase unemployment by regulation of a gas essential to life on earth, and also a byproduct of what has made current civilization so great and increased human lifespan. Sure, I'd like to have non-polluting fuels, but the "greenies" won't allow the obvious choice of those types of generation III+ and IV reactors which cannot melt down and which make fuel with only short-term radioactivity.
they are driven by the agendas of their benefactors, who have made markets for cap and trade and other scams of power and money. The CRU is made of the worst offenders, which is why their graphs are the most cooked.
The best climate scientists are those who are rational and not agenda driven nor hysteria provoking. In the past 15 years, the "climatologists" and their benefactors have responded to each weather event by dredging up a tiny subset of their models and saying "we predicted this!". In drought years (which are of course cyclical to those of us who know history) they proclaim "climate change will cause drought!". "climate change will cause floods". "climate change causes heavy winters!". "These strong hurricanes are likely a result of climate change!"
It is consistent with a very small fraction of the largely useless and inaccurate models that have been generated over the past 15 years, the few ones that were cherry picked amount to "cooking the books" by knowing the answers. There, fixed that common misconception of yours.
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But Xubuntu is too bloated a xfce, other distros have nice light ones that you can add only what you need. Give Ubuntu the heave-ho into the trash bin, they jumped the shark and stopped mid-air to sodomize it.
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Look up the driver for the video card you have, and install it. It's not hard, they have instructions. My Debian at home runs the nVidia latest driver just fine.
Fedora blows things out the door before thoroughly testing them. Don't be Red Hat's guinea pig, use a distro that gives a shit about quality.
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Screw that, there are lingering issues with the way Unity clobbers up some files. Instead, apply the patch ( i386 version here )and everything will be good. It fixed all my Ubuntu systems at home and at work, took the suck right out of them
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Nope, the Unity files screw up GNOME and KDE. But, there's a patch that fixes all that. Everything has been good since I applied that patch to my Ubuntu systems at work and home
so our military that wages war for power and profit for a small elite, gets its fuel supply crimped, and that will cause downfall of U.S? Maybe that would be the best thing that could ever happen to us.
yes, I worked for over a decade at place that accelerated things to near light speed, and also collided things that moved at near light speed in opposite directions. we're VERY sure about what I described for the case of normal matter and also antimatter.
Just don't ask my former coworkers about neutrinos of various energies and lightspeed, they'll get back to the world on that in about five months.....
doesn't work that way, from point of view of people inside craft you can accelerate at 1 G indefinitely, from observer on earth they would see ship accelerating at smaller and smaller fraction of 1 G. That fraction becomes smaller as light speed approaches, such that of course light speed is never reached.
Great points, but that mainly is U.S. shortsightedness and stupidity. Easy engineering solutions are available for the issues you raise for others with more vision. Rotation to make 1 G simulated field, biological recycling of air, water and food.....no problem.. Even starship can be made with existing technology, see Medusa design. This professor is an embarrassment to the profession
and the best part is it can be done with existing technology, nothing needs to be invented. This should be rubbed in the face of those such as professor with no vision whose blog article was featured in recent slashdot story
oh, you want normal ponies and single-horned goats as filter writers then. Studies have shown their coding skills are quite marginal, mainly relying on coding generating wizards with J2EE and.NET, rather than the slick meta-programming with erlang of the skittle-poopers.
In my lifetime, mankind went from a single orbit of earth, to landing on the moon, having space stations orbiting earth, planetary and cometary and asteroidal probes. He equates the U.S. with mankind, ignoring that other nations are ramping up their space programs. He ignores that soon we will have the ability with genetic engineering to grow most everything we need on earth, with only solar input, freeing up nuclear fuels like thorium (of which we have centuries of supply) to be used to make hydrogen and oxygen for near term space travel as we master fusion for the longer term. We can make huge generational spaceships and habitats on the moon using solar power and then use the He3 to power them into space to get water and volatiles and metals from comets and asteroids. No vision, no courage, a wimp. The U.S. would have its population all mashed together on the eastern seaboard if our pioneer ancestor were like this psychological marshmallow.
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Unlike the "climatologists", who ignore the earth in the past has had much colder temperatures with much more carbon dioxide, who ignore the sea levels have been rising since the last ice age (and for most of that time much faster than now), who ignore the antarctic land was once a tropical paradise, that Greenland was indeed very green, etc.etc. I won't deny a minute amount of warming has taken place in the last 100+ years, maybe 0.8 to 1 degree C, whoop de doo, proves exactly nothing except the climate is ever variable on Earth.
wrong, it is well known but not properly accounted for. Ivory tower eggheads coming up with correction factors is NOT the way to account for it. I've lived in two place with airports where the "official" city temperatures are taken, and it is sometimes 3 degrees F higher than those parts of the city far away.
by a single degree C or less. whoop de doo.
All those things you mention are the result of fossil fuel use; the "cap and trade" scammers would like to curtail progress, hurt economies, and increase unemployment by regulation of a gas essential to life on earth, and also a byproduct of what has made current civilization so great and increased human lifespan. Sure, I'd like to have non-polluting fuels, but the "greenies" won't allow the obvious choice of those types of generation III+ and IV reactors which cannot melt down and which make fuel with only short-term radioactivity.
they are driven by the agendas of their benefactors, who have made markets for cap and trade and other scams of power and money. The CRU is made of the worst offenders, which is why their graphs are the most cooked.
The best climate scientists are those who are rational and not agenda driven nor hysteria provoking. In the past 15 years, the "climatologists" and their benefactors have responded to each weather event by dredging up a tiny subset of their models and saying "we predicted this!". In drought years (which are of course cyclical to those of us who know history) they proclaim "climate change will cause drought!". "climate change will cause floods". "climate change causes heavy winters!". "These strong hurricanes are likely a result of climate change!"
This is religion, this is hysteria.
I looked at the graph in figure 1 of the article's pdf
Eeeh? who said anything about the ubuntu, I recently ditched that crap
The worlds best have a very different opinion on the matter entirely. Your agenda-driven "climatologists" do not count as such.
Things look different when not done by agenda-driven "climatologist". warmest year was 13 years ago, let's all have some retroactive panic
It is consistent with a very small fraction of the largely useless and inaccurate models that have been generated over the past 15 years, the few ones that were cherry picked amount to "cooking the books" by knowing the answers. There, fixed that common misconception of yours.
But Xubuntu is too bloated a xfce, other distros have nice light ones that you can add only what you need. Give Ubuntu the heave-ho into the trash bin, they jumped the shark and stopped mid-air to sodomize it.
Look up the driver for the video card you have, and install it. It's not hard, they have instructions. My Debian at home runs the nVidia latest driver just fine.
Fedora blows things out the door before thoroughly testing them. Don't be Red Hat's guinea pig, use a distro that gives a shit about quality.
Screw that, there are lingering issues with the way Unity clobbers up some files. Instead, apply the patch ( i386 version here )and everything will be good. It fixed all my Ubuntu systems at home and at work, took the suck right out of them
Nope, the Unity files screw up GNOME and KDE. But, there's a patch that fixes all that. Everything has been good since I applied that patch to my Ubuntu systems at work and home
no, that other place that had its main accelerator shut down last month
so our military that wages war for power and profit for a small elite, gets its fuel supply crimped, and that will cause downfall of U.S? Maybe that would be the best thing that could ever happen to us.
yes, I worked for over a decade at place that accelerated things to near light speed, and also collided things that moved at near light speed in opposite directions. we're VERY sure about what I described for the case of normal matter and also antimatter.
Just don't ask my former coworkers about neutrinos of various energies and lightspeed, they'll get back to the world on that in about five months.....
doesn't work that way, from point of view of people inside craft you can accelerate at 1 G indefinitely, from observer on earth they would see ship accelerating at smaller and smaller fraction of 1 G. That fraction becomes smaller as light speed approaches, such that of course light speed is never reached.
Great points, but that mainly is U.S. shortsightedness and stupidity. Easy engineering solutions are available for the issues you raise for others with more vision. Rotation to make 1 G simulated field, biological recycling of air, water and food.....no problem.. Even starship can be made with existing technology, see Medusa design. This professor is an embarrassment to the profession
That's a good thing, we don't need to be using nuclear pulse launches from Earth, we can lift to high orbit with less hazardous methods
and the best part is it can be done with existing technology, nothing needs to be invented. This should be rubbed in the face of those such as professor with no vision whose blog article was featured in recent slashdot story
oh, you want normal ponies and single-horned goats as filter writers then. Studies have shown their coding skills are quite marginal, mainly relying on coding generating wizards with J2EE and .NET, rather than the slick meta-programming with erlang of the skittle-poopers.
In my lifetime, mankind went from a single orbit of earth, to landing on the moon, having space stations orbiting earth, planetary and cometary and asteroidal probes. He equates the U.S. with mankind, ignoring that other nations are ramping up their space programs. He ignores that soon we will have the ability with genetic engineering to grow most everything we need on earth, with only solar input, freeing up nuclear fuels like thorium (of which we have centuries of supply) to be used to make hydrogen and oxygen for near term space travel as we master fusion for the longer term. We can make huge generational spaceships and habitats on the moon using solar power and then use the He3 to power them into space to get water and volatiles and metals from comets and asteroids. No vision, no courage, a wimp. The U.S. would have its population all mashed together on the eastern seaboard if our pioneer ancestor were like this psychological marshmallow.