Me too, it was just trying to give helpful advice that may actually result in you being able to maintain healthy relationships with other humans. Try reading your last few posts before being so impolite to others. Perhaps you just like to argue.
Jesus, you are sad. You totally missed the point, and go mad about my little sidepoint, claiming I say the sun is a direct source of energy, while my point was WE DON'T because it wouldn't be afficient. Read, idiot, read..
You basically failed to grasp what I was saying. Why did we not evolve as big moving trees? Not because organisms wouldn't be able to convert sunlight. But because it would not be energy effective. I find your lack of understanding ludicrous. Period.
Organisms can perfectly draw energy directly from the sun, and animals and humans still do (such as vitamine D production). The point is it wouldn't be energy efficient for a moving organism. A tree can grow huge, but a moving tree (the animal) couldn't. Surface, size, gravity, all that. Then it's much more efficient to get the contained energy from other organisms by eating them.
Well since you have been modded Flamebait, the answer seems simple: Apple (fan)boys are gaming this topic. Which is a pity, because it makes them look even worse. They rather tweak reality than simply admit a silly fault and get it over with, like grown-ups. In the meantime the damage is much much bigger than it would have been if Apple had admitted it like grown-ups at once. It is here that the more destructive parts of Steve Jobs genius but narcissistic personality surfaces. So now they can say it was all this single guy, which they removed. How convenient for them.
Me, I'm not claiming anything, but most of the graphs you link to show a long term upward trend.
I'm not a glacier expert (fjords are much more hip), but it strikes me as a phenomenon simply related to gravity and temperature. If the temperature on the long term is increased, the process will be sped up. Comparing a single year or "today" to say the 1920/1930s is not really useful and just cherry picking as a truthiness weapon in your never ending battles against the evils that have actually not posted yet, because the extra effect on the downward forces by the increasing trend of the previous years would already have done its work.
How would they grab him off the street? He's secured by multiple three-letter agencies who won't let him out of his sight. The pissed-off Taliban sympathizer has no chance to take their boy just like that.
Ouch, the feeling of terrible inadequacy, laziness and lack of accomplishment.:P
My father was a scientist. He had a big production, over 100 papers. During evenings and weekends, he often retired to his study to work on these papers. Subject bubbled up and down as his interest floated from one to another, and sometimes they got to the surface, ready to get published.
After many years I realized I'm operating in the same mode. I develop software. I have various open source and other software projects running, like bubbles waiting to get to the surface. I think a lot of people have a thing like this. It doesn't matter whether it is in science, software or arts.
Netherlands and Uruguay have always been good nations but haven't made it to the top in ages.
You really should shut up if you know nothing about football, because the Netherlands is the most consistent top football country. If you say what you said you are a total non-expert. I think the USA will not win the next Basketball gold, because they haven't made it to the top in ages. Similar statement.
I think I'll make some wildly uninformed statements about American sports I know nothing about, because I'm bored. Your "random winner" bigot analysis must explain the vast number of different winners of the World Cup and in major football leagues. Either that or you're talking complete nonsense. Personally I think people should shut up about subjects they clearly know nothing about. Too bad that didn't stop you to present your "clear" insights.
What doesn't shock me is to learn that Americans still are ignorant of the bigger world around them, and still, for some reason, smugly arrogant about it, like it is an accomplishment. You're just looking ignorant however. Next, you are gonna be shocked to learn that Yahoo is king in Japan, Google is marginal in China, and Denmark is not the capital of Amsterdam, and then tell us about it like you have insight on their sanity.
Women are so brilliant they invented the wheel, electricity and space rockets. Moreover, in modern times, unleashed, they founded companies like Youtube and Twitter. Men are just dump and give up easily, and then blame it on the culture of the company they work for.
Electric cars should be cheaper in the future than their fuel burning counterparts. This is because it is a simpler device. It doesn't have to generate the energy from the fuel, the electricity is generated elsewhere. We don't have to drive around with our tiny energy factories (from fuel) any longer. So currently they are vastly overpriced. Which is to be expected from an early adopter product. Personally I think the battery should be easily swappable, possible like fuel is now, you swap it at the battery station. This would solve all problems of battery life time and charging time issues. Of course the current generations of huge built-in batteries don't allow that. In any case, the value of what remains is just of the carriage. So this problem won't go away. The cars are just overpriced once you take out the motor, there is nothing wrong with the value after 5 years, especially when you realize the improvements the batteries will make over the next decades. You pay for innovation, and of course they are hoping the same old prices will stick. That game will stop once electric cars become more common and competition picks up.
Robots are cool. I suggest they get one to do their PR, as the human variant didn't do so well. But if a robot were to do those press conferences, everybody would love BP and totally forget about the disaster even though it is the subject.
Mod me down, Israel fascist. You cannot touch my karma. Thank you for proving my points.
For people who agree with me and want these hypocrites to go to hell:
Stop buying products from Israel.
Vote with your wallet.
You - will - lose. And history will take care of you. How is it to live, knowing all you do will be futile and people will remember you with deep contempt and as an example of how people become evil?
Bye now, asswipes. Go kill a baby. I know it makes you feel good.
We were not discussing other countries. And thanks for your ad hominem "prejudice" remark. No, if they kill civilians and I note that, it's not prejudice. What a bore, that "argument". Too bad you did not have any counter point whatsoever. This and your troll modding buddies, we are not impressed by you folks supporting this state of terror any longer, wherever you are, you know that do you? It only makes you look worse and worse and worse, the aggressive reactions to critics which are always played to the man. You are a coward, just like your silent modding buddies. If you were anything remotely resembling a man of honor, go tell your argument to a civilian who lost his or her entire family because your side doesn't care about the collateral damage. Tell her she is prejudiced. The only bit of care I have left for Israel is that I pity them deeply for being so totally deformed by their war. FUBR. There is only hope for their children.
Israel long lost any claim on morality. In your conflict you repeatedly used a superior military to kill children, women and innocents. A reply where you totally and completely fail to mention the existence of the atrocities you committed, is nothing more than propaganda from someone with a pitch dark soul. You, sir, and your upmodding fans of the dark side, are outrageous. Now go and illegally assassinate an opponent in another country with stolen identities. I know it makes you feel good about yourselves. You know, if two sides fight and killed each others babies, it's almost impossible to break out of. But just shut up instead of ignoring what you did and are doing, and loudly proclaiming your obligatory relief units. A loud mouth is the last thing I expect from a person like you. STFU. We don't like you. No one who's outside this conflict likes you. Israel is filled with creeps. And no, we're not picking sides. It is not mutually exclusive.
This pr fest from google smells. A list of events: 1) Google decides to play and be evil, and go in China and censor their results (define this level of censorship as 50%), 2) China tightens censorship (to 100%), 3) Google takes the moral high ground and says it does not like censoring. Well, they liked 50%, so, they should shut up instead of, once again, act the "do no evil" thing out of pr purposes, and flee like they are morally superior. Google's only real motivation is clearly evident from 1) and is: get more page views, so you can sell more adds and increase profit. Looks like a power play to me. Google is losing on the Chinese market to Baidu. But here comes the White Knight google, aiming at the internet savvy youth who know how to bypass censoring anyway. It is the whole fake thing all over again. If they weren't a fake White Knight, fighting the evil forces of this world, they wouldn't have been in China to start with. And now they lost their right to whine and complain. If only the thing would end. Either stay and be evil or get out and move on. But nooo, this thing will last and last and last. It's about money after all, and hoping the power play will result into an opening and an increased marketing share.
> 'The data might be "perfect" and "complete,"' says Lyons, 'but the world from which it's gathered is anything but that.'"
Exactly, he gave the reason himself. Escapism. Not one I care for at all now, but when I was longer I played a lot of MUD. Does he hate such books and movies too?
Come on people. This is the fundamental problem with the closed and controlled nature of the Apple products, which affect us all and not just individuals making individual choices:
If these Apple products become very successful, the landscape changes. Others will follow. Let's say at some point a majority of devices will be closed media devices. Now people like Steve Jobs control the Net. For example, say you are a small company from Israel with the idea for the next killer app. You release the app and see what is going to happen. This is innovation. The app is called ICQ. Wait, that already happened, not ICQ, but a new killer app. But now Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch and friends control the Net, and simply say "no" to its release because it fuzzes with their universe. Innovation died, freedom died.
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Me too, it was just trying to give helpful advice that may actually result in you being able to maintain healthy relationships with other humans. Try reading your last few posts before being so impolite to others. Perhaps you just like to argue.
Perhaps if you would be less of an asshole, people would be inclined to forgive your lack of reading comprehension while trying to look smug.
Meh, only idiot teenagers point out typing errors to foreigners like they are stupid.
Jesus, you are sad. You totally missed the point, and go mad about my little sidepoint, claiming I say the sun is a direct source of energy, while my point was WE DON'T because it wouldn't be afficient. Read, idiot, read..
Vitamin D from sunlight is bullocks? Reptiles warming up by sunlight is bullocks? Please, he was just waving his feathers.
You basically failed to grasp what I was saying. Why did we not evolve as big moving trees? Not because organisms wouldn't be able to convert sunlight. But because it would not be energy effective. I find your lack of understanding ludicrous. Period.
Organisms can perfectly draw energy directly from the sun, and animals and humans still do (such as vitamine D production). The point is it wouldn't be energy efficient for a moving organism. A tree can grow huge, but a moving tree (the animal) couldn't. Surface, size, gravity, all that. Then it's much more efficient to get the contained energy from other organisms by eating them.
Are you an idiot you have to tell us your anecdotal evidence? Or did you presume we are? Next time, just post nothing, will you.
Well since you have been modded Flamebait, the answer seems simple: Apple (fan)boys are gaming this topic. Which is a pity, because it makes them look even worse. They rather tweak reality than simply admit a silly fault and get it over with, like grown-ups. In the meantime the damage is much much bigger than it would have been if Apple had admitted it like grown-ups at once. It is here that the more destructive parts of Steve Jobs genius but narcissistic personality surfaces. So now they can say it was all this single guy, which they removed. How convenient for them.
Me, I'm not claiming anything, but most of the graphs you link to show a long term upward trend.
I'm not a glacier expert (fjords are much more hip), but it strikes me as a phenomenon simply related to gravity and temperature. If the temperature on the long term is increased, the process will be sped up. Comparing a single year or "today" to say the 1920/1930s is not really useful and just cherry picking as a truthiness weapon in your never ending battles against the evils that have actually not posted yet, because the extra effect on the downward forces by the increasing trend of the previous years would already have done its work.
How would they grab him off the street? He's secured by multiple three-letter agencies who won't let him out of his sight. The pissed-off Taliban sympathizer has no chance to take their boy just like that.
Ouch, the feeling of terrible inadequacy, laziness and lack of accomplishment. :P
My father was a scientist. He had a big production, over 100 papers. During evenings and weekends, he often retired to his study to work on these papers. Subject bubbled up and down as his interest floated from one to another, and sometimes they got to the surface, ready to get published.
After many years I realized I'm operating in the same mode. I develop software. I have various open source and other software projects running, like bubbles waiting to get to the surface. I think a lot of people have a thing like this. It doesn't matter whether it is in science, software or arts.
Netherlands and Uruguay have always been good nations but haven't made it to the top in ages.
You really should shut up if you know nothing about football, because the Netherlands is the most consistent top football country. If you say what you said you are a total non-expert. I think the USA will not win the next Basketball gold, because they haven't made it to the top in ages. Similar statement.
I think I'll make some wildly uninformed statements about American sports I know nothing about, because I'm bored. Your "random winner" bigot analysis must explain the vast number of different winners of the World Cup and in major football leagues. Either that or you're talking complete nonsense. Personally I think people should shut up about subjects they clearly know nothing about. Too bad that didn't stop you to present your "clear" insights.
Only one, modded 5 insightful by himself? I guess it is very insightful to be uninformed and then shocked by knowledge.
What doesn't shock me is to learn that Americans still are ignorant of the bigger world around them, and still, for some reason, smugly arrogant about it, like it is an accomplishment. You're just looking ignorant however. Next, you are gonna be shocked to learn that Yahoo is king in Japan, Google is marginal in China, and Denmark is not the capital of Amsterdam, and then tell us about it like you have insight on their sanity.
Women are so brilliant they invented the wheel, electricity and space rockets. Moreover, in modern times, unleashed, they founded companies like Youtube and Twitter. Men are just dump and give up easily, and then blame it on the culture of the company they work for.
Electric cars should be cheaper in the future than their fuel burning counterparts. This is because it is a simpler device. It doesn't have to generate the energy from the fuel, the electricity is generated elsewhere. We don't have to drive around with our tiny energy factories (from fuel) any longer. So currently they are vastly overpriced. Which is to be expected from an early adopter product. Personally I think the battery should be easily swappable, possible like fuel is now, you swap it at the battery station. This would solve all problems of battery life time and charging time issues. Of course the current generations of huge built-in batteries don't allow that. In any case, the value of what remains is just of the carriage. So this problem won't go away. The cars are just overpriced once you take out the motor, there is nothing wrong with the value after 5 years, especially when you realize the improvements the batteries will make over the next decades. You pay for innovation, and of course they are hoping the same old prices will stick. That game will stop once electric cars become more common and competition picks up.
Robots are cool. I suggest they get one to do their PR, as the human variant didn't do so well. But if a robot were to do those press conferences, everybody would love BP and totally forget about the disaster even though it is the subject.
Mod me down, Israel fascist. You cannot touch my karma. Thank you for proving my points.
For people who agree with me and want these hypocrites to go to hell:
Stop buying products from Israel.
Vote with your wallet.
You - will - lose. And history will take care of you. How is it to live, knowing all you do will be futile and people will remember you with deep contempt and as an example of how people become evil?
Bye now, asswipes. Go kill a baby. I know it makes you feel good.
We were not discussing other countries. And thanks for your ad hominem "prejudice" remark. No, if they kill civilians and I note that, it's not prejudice. What a bore, that "argument". Too bad you did not have any counter point whatsoever. This and your troll modding buddies, we are not impressed by you folks supporting this state of terror any longer, wherever you are, you know that do you? It only makes you look worse and worse and worse, the aggressive reactions to critics which are always played to the man. You are a coward, just like your silent modding buddies. If you were anything remotely resembling a man of honor, go tell your argument to a civilian who lost his or her entire family because your side doesn't care about the collateral damage. Tell her she is prejudiced. The only bit of care I have left for Israel is that I pity them deeply for being so totally deformed by their war. FUBR. There is only hope for their children.
Israel long lost any claim on morality. In your conflict you repeatedly used a superior military to kill children, women and innocents. A reply where you totally and completely fail to mention the existence of the atrocities you committed, is nothing more than propaganda from someone with a pitch dark soul. You, sir, and your upmodding fans of the dark side, are outrageous. Now go and illegally assassinate an opponent in another country with stolen identities. I know it makes you feel good about yourselves. You know, if two sides fight and killed each others babies, it's almost impossible to break out of. But just shut up instead of ignoring what you did and are doing, and loudly proclaiming your obligatory relief units. A loud mouth is the last thing I expect from a person like you. STFU. We don't like you. No one who's outside this conflict likes you. Israel is filled with creeps. And no, we're not picking sides. It is not mutually exclusive.
This pr fest from google smells. A list of events: 1) Google decides to play and be evil, and go in China and censor their results (define this level of censorship as 50%), 2) China tightens censorship (to 100%), 3) Google takes the moral high ground and says it does not like censoring. Well, they liked 50%, so, they should shut up instead of, once again, act the "do no evil" thing out of pr purposes, and flee like they are morally superior. Google's only real motivation is clearly evident from 1) and is: get more page views, so you can sell more adds and increase profit. Looks like a power play to me. Google is losing on the Chinese market to Baidu. But here comes the White Knight google, aiming at the internet savvy youth who know how to bypass censoring anyway. It is the whole fake thing all over again. If they weren't a fake White Knight, fighting the evil forces of this world, they wouldn't have been in China to start with. And now they lost their right to whine and complain. If only the thing would end. Either stay and be evil or get out and move on. But nooo, this thing will last and last and last. It's about money after all, and hoping the power play will result into an opening and an increased marketing share.
> 'The data might be "perfect" and "complete,"' says Lyons, 'but the world from which it's gathered is anything but that.'"
Exactly, he gave the reason himself. Escapism. Not one I care for at all now, but when I was longer I played a lot of MUD. Does he hate such books and movies too?
Come on people. This is the fundamental problem with the closed and controlled nature of the Apple products, which affect us all and not just individuals making individual choices:
If these Apple products become very successful, the landscape changes. Others will follow. Let's say at some point a majority of devices will be closed media devices. Now people like Steve Jobs control the Net. For example, say you are a small company from Israel with the idea for the next killer app. You release the app and see what is going to happen. This is innovation. The app is called ICQ. Wait, that already happened, not ICQ, but a new killer app. But now Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch and friends control the Net, and simply say "no" to its release because it fuzzes with their universe. Innovation died, freedom died.