You are right riverrat1, the graph ended in 2000, it wasn't a prediction, thanks for that. Still, what does the name of the IPCC have to do with any of my questions? Why change the name? I'll tell you why, because since 1995, the world has not been warming, yet carbon emissions have continued to rise.
Sure. Do we have that now riverat1? Why are there pesky scientists refusing to join this 'consensus' I keep hearing about? How accurate did Michael Mann's Hockey Stick prediction turn out to be? Remember when the cause was called Global Warming? Why change the name to Climate Change if things are actually getting warmer?
We had scientific consensus that the Earth was the center of the universe at one point also. Galileo was flamebait (nobody expects the Spanish inquisition) when he dared to speak out against the consensus at one point also.
Mod me down all you want for asking questions that offend the clergy.
What is a true global warming "believer"? How do you prove scientific "consensus"? Consensus is a political term. As such, it should have miniscule weight, at best, in climate science.
Well there you go. All you have to do now is start a company, attract investment capital willing to work for a lower return on their investment than they can get elsewhere, and go make something someone will pay for. Good luck!
Exactly. That is how foundations work. They are charitable companies.
I guess my point is, the only way to get real investment is to offer a return for the risk. Greed is the best human motivator. Not saying that's good or bad, just that it is what it is.
Anthony, I think your idea is quite noble. In a perfectly altruistic world it might work. The problem, in this world full of real people, is capital. What motivates people to invest it? Do you want to invest your hard earned cash in a company that feeds more homeless, or one that rewards your risk with more money in your pocket?
How to fine tune your caffeine dosage. So what's wrong with that? I hope that sells and they make lots of money. Then I hope I can buy stock in their corporation just at the right time, and get rich too.
I love America. It's full of Americans that sell shit I choose to buy. So much better than the alternatives...
Nope, I don't work for them. The funny part is, as I was typing my entry, I could see people thinking exactly what you said. I don't think you should have been modded down for your comment.
It's a great free app that I can choose to use, or not to use. It has brought me in contact with people I haven't talked to for decades. I hope you become fabulously rich. I also hope that Facebook doesn't engineer itself into oblivion before an alternative comes along...
Hard to argue with that. Information (aka news) is free speech. Protecting it from censorship is what this country is all about. At least according to the first amendment, if not the entertainment industry to which Tom Brokaw belongs.
If he is a newsman, why would he feel uncomfortable with anyone repeating his words?
The last I heard, the Iranians claimed to have hijacked the GPS and told it to land within their borders, and the U.S. claimed it veered off-course and crashed
Something close to that explanation seems feasible, based on what I've read. Perhaps they managed to jam the control signal, but had a hard time calculating GPS interference to correctly guide the aircraft. (Maybe they learned what channels to jam using intel based on a nuisance virus?)
I don't have access to the protocols that govern autonomous drone control in the event of communication failure, so I don't know. There may be some poor Iranian geek explaining to the head chopper in charge why he shot off his mouth to the press, or maybe press reports are innacurate.
I think, based on the Iranian propaganda the BBC reported, which hid the landing gear behind bunting, the drone landed hard at best, and most likely crashed. Iran has falsified images previously.
Either way, we need to get better at this stuff or terrorists win.
squabble squabble ObamaBush squabble squabble envirocorporation squabble squabble
**SOPA ALERT**
SAY WHAT!?!?!!!
STAY AWAY FROM OUR INTERNET OR WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ARGUE ANY MORE!!!
Then all of us millions paid attention, thousands mobilized, and the government was afraid of the monster we have made here in cyberspace.
The good news is, with millions of us watching over this incredible invention that is us, the government is going to have a hard time giving our Internet to any of its cronies...
The continuing degradation of our Rights in bits and pieces is just part of a larger pattern and cycle the US cannot seem to escape.
What if this time around the ride the message is to stop rooting for political parties like you do a football team and pay attention to what the people in those parties are actually doing?
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You are right riverrat1, the graph ended in 2000, it wasn't a prediction, thanks for that. Still, what does the name of the IPCC have to do with any of my questions? Why change the name? I'll tell you why, because since 1995, the world has not been warming, yet carbon emissions have continued to rise.
Sure. Do we have that now riverat1? Why are there pesky scientists refusing to join this 'consensus' I keep hearing about? How accurate did Michael Mann's Hockey Stick prediction turn out to be? Remember when the cause was called Global Warming? Why change the name to Climate Change if things are actually getting warmer?
We had scientific consensus that the Earth was the center of the universe at one point also. Galileo was flamebait (nobody expects the Spanish inquisition) when he dared to speak out against the consensus at one point also.
Mod me down all you want for asking questions that offend the clergy.
What is a true global warming "believer"? How do you prove scientific "consensus"? Consensus is a political term. As such, it should have miniscule weight, at best, in climate science.
Sounds right to me. Those powdered wigs that wrote the U.S. constitution were pretty sharp at protecting our individual freedom.
Well there you go. All you have to do now is start a company, attract investment capital willing to work for a lower return on their investment than they can get elsewhere, and go make something someone will pay for. Good luck!
I guess my point is, the only way to get real investment is to offer a return for the risk. Greed is the best human motivator. Not saying that's good or bad, just that it is what it is.
Anthony, I think your idea is quite noble. In a perfectly altruistic world it might work. The problem, in this world full of real people, is capital. What motivates people to invest it? Do you want to invest your hard earned cash in a company that feeds more homeless, or one that rewards your risk with more money in your pocket?
I love America. It's full of Americans that sell shit I choose to buy. So much better than the alternatives...
Paranoid, or not paranoid enough?
Nope, I don't work for them. The funny part is, as I was typing my entry, I could see people thinking exactly what you said. I don't think you should have been modded down for your comment.
It's a great free app that I can choose to use, or not to use. It has brought me in contact with people I haven't talked to for decades. I hope you become fabulously rich. I also hope that Facebook doesn't engineer itself into oblivion before an alternative comes along...
I think it's cool that we actually caught one!
mmmm fish...
Paranoid, or not paranoid enough...
Rush at me bros, let's see if this new beam weapon works in a quantity vs quality test...
Information needs to be free
Hard to argue with that. Information (aka news) is free speech. Protecting it from censorship is what this country is all about. At least according to the first amendment, if not the entertainment industry to which Tom Brokaw belongs.
If he is a newsman, why would he feel uncomfortable with anyone repeating his words?
The last I heard, the Iranians claimed to have hijacked the GPS and told it to land within their borders, and the U.S. claimed it veered off-course and crashed
I heard that also.
Something close to that explanation seems feasible, based on what I've read. Perhaps they managed to jam the control signal, but had a hard time calculating GPS interference to correctly guide the aircraft. (Maybe they learned what channels to jam using intel based on a nuisance virus?) I don't have access to the protocols that govern autonomous drone control in the event of communication failure, so I don't know. There may be some poor Iranian geek explaining to the head chopper in charge why he shot off his mouth to the press, or maybe press reports are innacurate.
I think, based on the Iranian propaganda the BBC reported, which hid the landing gear behind bunting, the drone landed hard at best, and most likely crashed. Iran has falsified images previously.
Either way, we need to get better at this stuff or terrorists win.
Yet still apt. The more things change, the more they stay the same :D
How often do CPUs can fried by overclocking these days?
I think your base are belong to us.
Buy insurance at your own risk...
squabble squabble ObamaBush squabble squabble envirocorporation squabble squabble **SOPA ALERT** SAY WHAT!?!?!!! STAY AWAY FROM OUR INTERNET OR WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ARGUE ANY MORE!!! Then all of us millions paid attention, thousands mobilized, and the government was afraid of the monster we have made here in cyberspace. The good news is, with millions of us watching over this incredible invention that is us, the government is going to have a hard time giving our Internet to any of its cronies...
OMG I love the Interwebs, they make me LOL!
The continuing degradation of our Rights in bits and pieces is just part of a larger pattern and cycle the US cannot seem to escape.
What if this time around the ride the message is to stop rooting for political parties like you do a football team and pay attention to what the people in those parties are actually doing?
...so they can truly grasp the disdain they have earned.
SOPA? Really?
The court weighs in or it isn't law. If anyone can censor speech, without legal permission, the web is gonna turn Chinese and shit...
Or anyone else with an IPV4 only address?
Who's going to pay for the billions of IPv4 devices that need to be replaced in order to offer IPV6 only services to folks?
I say simply bolt another 8 octets onto existing IPv4 address space, and use the tried and true TCP/IP protocol suite.Backwards compatibility is good.
Call it IPv7...