Oh but currencies do have intrinsic value in terms of gold and other previous metal assets, oil, gas and other energy reserves, the countries GDP and other tangibles. Bitcoin there is nothing, nada.
* theft of physical wallets - the criminal justice system, the police and the courts. Compare that to Bitcoin - someone steals your wallet and you're FUCKED with no recourse to any recompense. * absence of realistic application of frameworks to tackle customer problems, disputes and charge backs with CASH - look up insurance, regulatory authorities and banking charters. What is there for Bitcoin? You're on your own. * exposure to potential losses because of high volatility in value of the CASH currencies - which can be easily hedged using real gold and precious metals, oil and other commodities. Bitcoin? Nothing. Your only hope is that there is a bigger idiot waiting to take them on for real currency * legal and financial risks associated with trusting strangers with your CASH - direct recourse to the legal systems of many countries. Bitcoin? They'll laugh when you complain. * and breach of anti-money laundering laws where people can carry CASH because of lack of complete information on tracking of CASH between anonymous random strangers - which is why there are anti-money laundering laws with actual teeth. Money laundering with Bitcoin? Just ask Ross Ulbricht how that's going.
The only bigger idiot is the person who moderated your comment as "insightful". Perhaps he's like to buy some Bitcoins and a few special tulips to sweeten the deal.
This has nothing to do with global warming. Its an excuse to change diet of people who can't object to something less natural than eating meat or fish.
As it stands, the IR absorption by CO2 seems pretty well understood. The amount we have released is very well understood. Shy of one of the other variables changing dramatically, the course is pretty well set.
To Judgment Day, for we're on the Highway to Hell!
The sun might start providing less energy, or the soot from more volcanoes reflect more of that energy away from the earth. In that case, we may have thwarted a disaster with our CO2 pollution.
Aaaannnnndddd you've got yourself an exit strategy in case all of the predictions of thermageddon are proven wrong (like all of the others). The Sun didn't cause the rise but it can cause the fall.
Bits may be infinite, and information is held as bits, but useful, timely and correct information is still a rare commodity and merits payment. Witness Wikipedia which has not put the written word out of business when it is useful, timely and correct. Being first and inaccurate is worth nothing at all.
Q1: Your schoolchildren are not achieving as much as they should because your teachers don't have the knowledge to answer the advanced questions of your brightest students.
Do you a) immediately mandate a digital policy in order to save money on books or b) get better teachers
Does it run Linux? Is it in direct competition with Microsoft? Does it use Open Source? Has the NSA been using its information to monitor domestic terrorism? and Can I get it all for free via torrent?
Life is too short to spend so much time tweaking config files, and too short to use ugly, obtuse, opaque systems like Unity. I never thought I'd ever say this, but I love OSX.
I think you've nailed this ridiculous TFA on the head. The people who want to hack config files all the time are those people who have no lives.
For the rest of us, we want power and convenience without being boxed in by geeks or corporations. Ubuntu is fulfilling its role for large numbers of people who don't want to hack config files or search for obscure libraries to get shit done.
The operating system is there for a purpose. I do not live to make the OS happy.
As for the idiots who went to Slackware: "Good luck with losing your virginity".
That's easy - the claimed acidification was between a guesstimate between what it might have been in the 17th Century and today.
Since the change in pH claimed is nowhere near the range of variation in the oceans, we can safely call bullshit. There are shelled organisms that live right next to carbon dioxide seeps in the tropical oceans that thrive in these supposedly acidified waters.
As Walter White would say "Always respect the chemistry"
Quite so. Even if all of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were to get absorbed into the oceans it would barely register as a change in pH. For all of that money, why not train some environmentalists in basic chemistry?
But the loss of sea-ice is at most measured over the last 30 years. So therefore by your statements, the apparent loss of Arctic sea ice cannot be proven to be related to climate change, whether natural or not.
Yes, you're right. Here's a load of data points showing that the Antarctic Sea Ice Area is well above the long term average and has been growing slowly for at least 15 years.
Slashdot Mirror
The same problems - yes. The same solutions? No
Oh but currencies do have intrinsic value in terms of gold and other previous metal assets, oil, gas and other energy reserves, the countries GDP and other tangibles. Bitcoin there is nothing, nada.
The need to feel superior while actually being taken for a ride. That's all I came up with.
And here are the answers for the hard-of-thinking
* theft of physical wallets - the criminal justice system, the police and the courts. Compare that to Bitcoin - someone steals your wallet and you're FUCKED with no recourse to any recompense.
* absence of realistic application of frameworks to tackle customer problems, disputes and charge backs with CASH - look up insurance, regulatory authorities and banking charters. What is there for Bitcoin? You're on your own.
* exposure to potential losses because of high volatility in value of the CASH currencies - which can be easily hedged using real gold and precious metals, oil and other commodities. Bitcoin? Nothing. Your only hope is that there is a bigger idiot waiting to take them on for real currency
* legal and financial risks associated with trusting strangers with your CASH - direct recourse to the legal systems of many countries. Bitcoin? They'll laugh when you complain.
* and breach of anti-money laundering laws where people can carry CASH because of lack of complete information on tracking of CASH between anonymous random strangers - which is why there are anti-money laundering laws with actual teeth. Money laundering with Bitcoin? Just ask Ross Ulbricht how that's going.
The only bigger idiot is the person who moderated your comment as "insightful". Perhaps he's like to buy some Bitcoins and a few special tulips to sweeten the deal.
Bitcoin et al are far too volatile to be used as a reserve of wealth, and have no intrinsic value.
This has nothing to do with global warming. Its an excuse to change diet of people who can't object to something less natural than eating meat or fish.
I predict a revolt amongst the ranks
To Judgment Day, for we're on the Highway to Hell!
Aaaannnnndddd you've got yourself an exit strategy in case all of the predictions of thermageddon are proven wrong (like all of the others). The Sun didn't cause the rise but it can cause the fall.
Denial. Slashdot style.
They're not denying climate science, they're criticising a recent manifestation of creationism masquerading as climate science.
All of that measured warming in the Antarctic continent occurs where there are volcanoes while the rest hasn't warmed up at all.
So STFU and learn something.
Bits may be infinite, and information is held as bits, but useful, timely and correct information is still a rare commodity and merits payment. Witness Wikipedia which has not put the written word out of business when it is useful, timely and correct. Being first and inaccurate is worth nothing at all.
Sounds like standard denial to me.
Slackware - still proudly refusing to be virtualized. VMware Tools won't install.
Still, according to some people here its better than sex - but how would they know?
Q1: Your schoolchildren are not achieving as much as they should because your teachers don't have the knowledge to answer the advanced questions of your brightest students.
Do you
a) immediately mandate a digital policy in order to save money on books or
b) get better teachers
Answers to the South African Dept of Education.
Hint: one of these answers might be racist.
Whereas an e-book reader should last for centuries.
The Slashdot questions are:
Does it run Linux?
Is it in direct competition with Microsoft?
Does it use Open Source?
Has the NSA been using its information to monitor domestic terrorism?
and
Can I get it all for free via torrent?
What do I need open source forks for?
I think you've nailed this ridiculous TFA on the head. The people who want to hack config files all the time are those people who have no lives.
For the rest of us, we want power and convenience without being boxed in by geeks or corporations. Ubuntu is fulfilling its role for large numbers of people who don't want to hack config files or search for obscure libraries to get shit done.
The operating system is there for a purpose. I do not live to make the OS happy.
As for the idiots who went to Slackware: "Good luck with losing your virginity".
But that doesn't sound scary - who will fund a study of ocean neutralization?
That's easy - the claimed acidification was between a guesstimate between what it might have been in the 17th Century and today.
Since the change in pH claimed is nowhere near the range of variation in the oceans, we can safely call bullshit. There are shelled organisms that live right next to carbon dioxide seeps in the tropical oceans that thrive in these supposedly acidified waters.
As Walter White would say "Always respect the chemistry"
First they must pass remedial math
[citation needed]
Quite so. Even if all of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were to get absorbed into the oceans it would barely register as a change in pH. For all of that money, why not train some environmentalists in basic chemistry?
The oceans aren't acidifying - they are alkaline and there are massive buffers in the oceans chemistry that prevent it changing very much.
But the loss of sea-ice is at most measured over the last 30 years. So therefore by your statements, the apparent loss of Arctic sea ice cannot be proven to be related to climate change, whether natural or not.
Yes, you're right. Here's a load of data points showing that the Antarctic Sea Ice Area is well above the long term average and has been growing slowly for at least 15 years.
http://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/antarctic_sea_ice_extent_zoomed_2013_day_45_1981-2010.png
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/image1.png
Perhaps sea ice extent oscillates between the North and South Poles
Why should we listen to fossil-fuel sponsored shills like Nuccitelli?
Or
Why does the above question only matter when a person questions AGW?