Well in case you haven't noticed were heading into the wall anyways. We already have catastrophes caused by global warming, and it's only the beginning. So it's well worth taking calculated risks.
And invalidating eugenics because of the "hardcore eugenics" that Nazi Germany practised (i.e. castrating people and killing them as opposed to things like pre-natal genetic screening for diseases) is as if you invalidated capitalism because of the 1929 crash.
Well, the problem with the status quo ante we're trying to reach is that it involves anyone jumping on the brakes, knowing it won't be "enough" anyways. So an alternative would be welcome, but I think that, while shortsighted politics are a problem regarding all "jumping on the brakes" to limit emissions, the problem regarding alternative solutions is that there's none.
There's no single solution that we have a scientific consensus on that would be "hey let's build this many cloud machines on our shores". We need a plan B to help with the plan A (limiting emissions) which is hard to stick to, but there's no currently such plan B. You can point to a single, well-defined plan to which you could say "scientists agree that we should do this, we know precisely what to do, we just need the powers that be to jump on board". So I think the problem regarding this plan B is right now a problem for the scientific community.
OMG oh noes there are risks to anything we do! Hey next thing you know you go out of your house, cross the streets and bam you get hit by a car! But I heard that if you look right and left before you cross and wait for any cars to go by you may cross relatively safely. Nah nevermind let's all just hide under the covers.
Yeah, right, that's as if early physicians said "hmmmm it did no good when we tried to bleed these sick guys or give them leeches, maybe we should just leave the human body alone". Oh noes we made mistakes in the past when trying to fix a problem! Let's all stop trying to fix problems!
Besides, we've already done a bunch of geoengineering by releasing all these gases in the atmosphere. Emitting less of them is also geoengineering, so we're knee deep in the shit we created and we have to do something anyways. Instead of pondering "to geoengineer or not to geoengineer" maybe we should look for geoengineering ideas and use all our imagination and knowledge to find out why they wouldn't work or why they would be a bad idea.
Right, so in the 168 hours there are in a week you can't find a single or a couple of them to look for a job offer you might want to send your CV to? Well sucks to be you, really, and not just because of your job.
i hope they fuckin fire me. at least then ill be able to look for another job
Maybe you're not that much smarter than these people then, or at least not very wise;-). Everyone knows that it's much easier to find a new job while you've still got one than when you don't, even more when you've been fired, furthermore from a shitty job. There's a saying out there along the lines of "the first day of a job is the day you start looking for a new job"
What's really stupid is using "stupid" in the place of "not competent" (and "smart" in the place of "competent"). No one has to be stupid. You just can't be competent with anything.
It's been doing it to me too today while using the define: query. But it does it quite often with that query or the calculator, which makes it sound like they don't want to let you use these. That's annoying.
I think that they are really trying to avoid turning Wikipedia into everybody's springboard to fame, i.e. not make it a free advertisement site/directory. I guess that explains why they'd keep a mention/link to a free site while removing one to a commercial site despite both sites having the same merits.
No the joke is on you for whining that I failed to detect your sarcasm while you really failed to detect my sarcasm. As for the rest, yeah, right, it's all about as likely as someone building a moon launcher in their backyard.
No it bloody well isn't, you blithering twit. Supreme ruler doesn't mean dictator. Your loss if you can't grasp the nuance, which is totalitarianism. And I don't care about the rest of your comment lol.
Any head of state can do that. All countries have titles and medals for those kinds of accomplishments. As for "equality", it's the fucking head of state, you can have an issue with how they're chosen, but you can't whine about equality.
I looked it up before making that comment to make sure, mind you. You have to stretch the definition of entity quite a bit to fit money and information in. Maybe you need to do something about your reading skills.
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Yeah, it's like the difference between adopting a safer diet and swallowing pills.
Well in case you haven't noticed were heading into the wall anyways. We already have catastrophes caused by global warming, and it's only the beginning. So it's well worth taking calculated risks.
And invalidating eugenics because of the "hardcore eugenics" that Nazi Germany practised (i.e. castrating people and killing them as opposed to things like pre-natal genetic screening for diseases) is as if you invalidated capitalism because of the 1929 crash.
it's a mistake to claim that it's no more risky than just reducing CO2 emissions.
Don't worry, absolutely no one claimed that.
...and save millions.
*facepalm* can people really be this stupid? It's not like we're madmen with intents to fuck up.
Ha, fucking pussy.
Well, the problem with the status quo ante we're trying to reach is that it involves anyone jumping on the brakes, knowing it won't be "enough" anyways. So an alternative would be welcome, but I think that, while shortsighted politics are a problem regarding all "jumping on the brakes" to limit emissions, the problem regarding alternative solutions is that there's none.
There's no single solution that we have a scientific consensus on that would be "hey let's build this many cloud machines on our shores". We need a plan B to help with the plan A (limiting emissions) which is hard to stick to, but there's no currently such plan B. You can point to a single, well-defined plan to which you could say "scientists agree that we should do this, we know precisely what to do, we just need the powers that be to jump on board". So I think the problem regarding this plan B is right now a problem for the scientific community.
OMG oh noes there are risks to anything we do! Hey next thing you know you go out of your house, cross the streets and bam you get hit by a car! But I heard that if you look right and left before you cross and wait for any cars to go by you may cross relatively safely. Nah nevermind let's all just hide under the covers.
Bonus points to the article for misspelling "fertilizing".
OMG troll. It's from a UK newspaper. Your local dialect and its alternative spellings are irrelevant to them.
Yeah, right, that's as if early physicians said "hmmmm it did no good when we tried to bleed these sick guys or give them leeches, maybe we should just leave the human body alone". Oh noes we made mistakes in the past when trying to fix a problem! Let's all stop trying to fix problems!
Besides, we've already done a bunch of geoengineering by releasing all these gases in the atmosphere. Emitting less of them is also geoengineering, so we're knee deep in the shit we created and we have to do something anyways. Instead of pondering "to geoengineer or not to geoengineer" maybe we should look for geoengineering ideas and use all our imagination and knowledge to find out why they wouldn't work or why they would be a bad idea.
Right, so in the 168 hours there are in a week you can't find a single or a couple of them to look for a job offer you might want to send your CV to? Well sucks to be you, really, and not just because of your job.
i hope they fuckin fire me. at least then ill be able to look for another job
Maybe you're not that much smarter than these people then, or at least not very wise ;-). Everyone knows that it's much easier to find a new job while you've still got one than when you don't, even more when you've been fired, furthermore from a shitty job. There's a saying out there along the lines of "the first day of a job is the day you start looking for a new job"
What's really stupid is using "stupid" in the place of "not competent" (and "smart" in the place of "competent"). No one has to be stupid. You just can't be competent with anything.
Have Volvo engineers ever driven in ice and snow? If they haven't then they know that no vehicle is accident-proof.
I'm pretty sure they do. I'm not so sure about the Volvo PR team though.
Windows RG will do it for you.
It's been doing it to me too today while using the define: query. But it does it quite often with that query or the calculator, which makes it sound like they don't want to let you use these. That's annoying.
I think that they are really trying to avoid turning Wikipedia into everybody's springboard to fame, i.e. not make it a free advertisement site/directory. I guess that explains why they'd keep a mention/link to a free site while removing one to a commercial site despite both sites having the same merits.
No the joke is on you for whining that I failed to detect your sarcasm while you really failed to detect my sarcasm. As for the rest, yeah, right, it's all about as likely as someone building a moon launcher in their backyard.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Trends, as if thousands of people realised their Zune was broke and looked it up online."
Actually that's "30Mb", 30 megabits, or 3.75 MB.
That's the definition of a "King".
No it bloody well isn't, you blithering twit. Supreme ruler doesn't mean dictator. Your loss if you can't grasp the nuance, which is totalitarianism. And I don't care about the rest of your comment lol.
Any head of state can do that. All countries have titles and medals for those kinds of accomplishments. As for "equality", it's the fucking head of state, you can have an issue with how they're chosen, but you can't whine about equality.
OMG what kind of dipshit would call a parliamentary monarchy a dictatorship? I rest my case.
Wow, is Google Translate really THAT bad?
I looked it up before making that comment to make sure, mind you. You have to stretch the definition of entity quite a bit to fit money and information in. Maybe you need to do something about your reading skills.