The type of weapon that can hit an object moving at 600 miles an hour 7 miles above the surface has much better tracking than a consumer level GPS relaying information via a laptop over a satellite internet connection.
No, not fair at all. Unless you give a "fairness" handicap for stupidity.
What this guy is trying to do is use an existing application written in Perl in an existing site that was written in PHP. There is no such solution as "rewrite both the Perl application (MagickWand) and the website and likely other supporting libraries and infrastructure in a toy language like Python or Ruby -- which despite their cumulative fanboys' enthusiam, have never evolved the necessary community to support mainstream development."
100% of large corporation CEOs live in 100% white communities. Even the black and hispanic ones, which by percentage, are vastly less than the population of Provo Utah.
"just ask your nearest vet if they are full of love for the VA Department at the moment."
Which is credible evidence that it was just a publicity stunt designed to lower morale among active duty soldiers and influence retired Republican voters.
Take for instance a fairly representative
A lot of people are getting viruses from downloading programs. Microsoft's solution: make it more cumbersome to download programs.
But don't make it impossible, because sometimes you just need to download a program. Make it have an extra 5 steps or whatever. Give them a modal popup that says "What you are about to do is really really scary. Are you wearing diapers in case you soil yourself? Continue | Cancel" And don't let them do anything else (including getting up to put on their Depends undergarments) until they click either "Continue" or "Cancel."
Net result, fewer people are willing to go through the hassle of downloading programs, and so fewer people get virus from downloading programs.
The same strategy goes for ActiveX and a host of other things.
But then a year or two later, some script kiddie writes a OLE bot that clicks through the warnings and makes downloading easier. Only it isn't secure. So you download a secure knockoff, only to find it has spyware installed!
If you'd notice, at the top of his garish, unreadable page is
"Email Newsletters: Surviving Inbox Congestion"
He is a consultant for spammers, basically. Okay, not the lowest level of spammers, but the next level up, which put in the fine print on their product registration (X will not share your information with anyone outside of X, it's subsidiaries, or partners. X may change it privacy policies at any time, but our current iteration of privacy policies promises post changes in an undisclosed location until this part of our policy changes.)
Which brings me to my own pet peeve. Why can't I get a spell checker spam filter? If you have more than 100% of words in a letter that fail a spell check, junk it.
If I'm a have and my self-painting robot house breaks, I'm going to pay someone a premium to fix it for me. They'll probably end up with a newer model self-painter than me if they work hard.
If only there were a reliable way to gauge the demand for teachers and assure their quality. Then a totalitarian communist education system would totally rock!
What about a broken standard -- for instance span width? Firefox forces you to use tables for formatting, due to a bad spec that is self-contradictory, but IE knows better.
The plane might crash if the fire isn't put out, but you'd rather crash it and hope you can walk away from the engine fire (and all the new fires that may be caused by a forced landing.)
If you believe the Global Warming crackpots, there's about a trillion tons of carbon dioxide gas jammed inside that coal that will all be released in the next few years. Something in the order of millions of tons a year.
Iceland has geothermal energy due to volcanic activity and Brazil is turning communist and destroying their economy. Neither is a workable solution worldwide.
Get your own data. Religionists should be just as able to carefully guard their models and data as climatologists. And should be allowed just as much leeway to revise their models and massage their data to match their conclusions in the face of contradictory evidence.
"Our current models predict the historical climate that we have on record"
Okay, so I'm going to give you a series of numbers and I want you to create a model that uses those numbers as a pattern.
1,2,3,4
You come up with a model that looks something like:
x=x+1
And surprise, your model works with the data you modeled it on. That's amazing!
Now on to critique the model itself. First of all, you don't have a starting point for x. What if X starts at 6? That kind of ruins your results, doesn't it? But what if the actual pattern was
1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4
It's best to check your model against future results before saying you've got a sure thing. Next, what if the actual function is different than your model. So even if the next number is 5, what if the real function that give's you the output is
x = (100 * y) mod 5 - 19 for y = rand(10)
So what? Well, suppose your model got it right. x=x+1 for x starting at 0. Don't think that an input of y=6 is going to change x from becoming 5. Y isn't an input into x.
Even but maybe it is. Maybe Y is in the function maybe it's:
x = x + (1 * y)
Well, if y = 0.02, it doesn't really change the outcome that much, does it?
But what if Y really is some big number like 72? Well, maybe your model is wrong. Maybe it's really:
x = (x/1+y) + 1
Then if you throw in a big input, you're going to have a major change, but not the one you expected, enen though with your minor input, the change was within your model's expected behavior.
But maybe you got everything right. Even though you had a very limited range to pattern your model on. And we'll even ignore the very likely possibility of bad data. The question then becomes -- do we really want to change Y, even knowing what the outcome will be?
But we're a long ways from getting to that discussion, and you're saying that once we get there, you're not even going to answer it.
There are only 7 states where a felon cannot vote after release:
Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Nebraska and Virgnia.
There are 29 states that do not allow a felon currently on probation to vote. 33 States do not allow parolees to vote, and only 48 states deny the vote to incarcerated felons.
The truth is all fine and dandy, but where is the evidence?
Temperature recordings in a few cities were on average 1 degree warmer one year compared to another year in a time frame where the accuracy of temperature recordings varies closer to 5 degrees is not data. It's not even an anecdote. Sure, the snow was deeper when I was a kid, but just because I had to walk uphill both ways to school doesn't mean there is a global gravitation crisis.
Maybe pumping the air full of air makes the world a hotter place, but we won't know until we study it. Me, I'm betting on the ice age that was predicted last week. Of course, to hedge, they're claiming that global warming may cause that too.
Art is simply putting paint on a brush and then smearing it around until it looks like something. I don't know what dictionary your reading from. Oh, wait there's another definition--
nevermind, it says "see Garfunkle, Art"
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The type of weapon that can hit an object moving at 600 miles an hour 7 miles above the surface has much better tracking than a consumer level GPS relaying information via a laptop over a satellite internet connection.
What laptop do you have, a toughbook?
No, not fair at all. Unless you give a "fairness" handicap for stupidity. What this guy is trying to do is use an existing application written in Perl in an existing site that was written in PHP. There is no such solution as "rewrite both the Perl application (MagickWand) and the website and likely other supporting libraries and infrastructure in a toy language like Python or Ruby -- which despite their cumulative fanboys' enthusiam, have never evolved the necessary community to support mainstream development."
It's already been done: http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html
100% of large corporation CEOs live in 100% white communities. Even the black and hispanic ones, which by percentage, are vastly less than the population of Provo Utah.
After all, they didn't work their way up to middle management just so the unwashed hordes can enjoy the same benefits they have.
Telecommuting is a status symbol to them, pure and simple.
"just ask your nearest vet if they are full of love for the VA Department at the moment."
Which is credible evidence that it was just a publicity stunt designed to lower morale among active duty soldiers and influence retired Republican voters.
Take for instance a fairly representative A lot of people are getting viruses from downloading programs. Microsoft's solution: make it more cumbersome to download programs. But don't make it impossible, because sometimes you just need to download a program. Make it have an extra 5 steps or whatever. Give them a modal popup that says "What you are about to do is really really scary. Are you wearing diapers in case you soil yourself? Continue | Cancel" And don't let them do anything else (including getting up to put on their Depends undergarments) until they click either "Continue" or "Cancel." Net result, fewer people are willing to go through the hassle of downloading programs, and so fewer people get virus from downloading programs. The same strategy goes for ActiveX and a host of other things. But then a year or two later, some script kiddie writes a OLE bot that clicks through the warnings and makes downloading easier. Only it isn't secure. So you download a secure knockoff, only to find it has spyware installed!
If you'd notice, at the top of his garish, unreadable page is "Email Newsletters: Surviving Inbox Congestion" He is a consultant for spammers, basically. Okay, not the lowest level of spammers, but the next level up, which put in the fine print on their product registration (X will not share your information with anyone outside of X, it's subsidiaries, or partners. X may change it privacy policies at any time, but our current iteration of privacy policies promises post changes in an undisclosed location until this part of our policy changes.) Which brings me to my own pet peeve. Why can't I get a spell checker spam filter? If you have more than 100% of words in a letter that fail a spell check, junk it.
If I'm a have and my self-painting robot house breaks, I'm going to pay someone a premium to fix it for me. They'll probably end up with a newer model self-painter than me if they work hard.
Probably in larger part because practically the only thing you can do with a degree in math is teach math.
If only there were a reliable way to gauge the demand for teachers and assure their quality. Then a totalitarian communist education system would totally rock!
What about a broken standard -- for instance span width? Firefox forces you to use tables for formatting, due to a bad spec that is self-contradictory, but IE knows better.
The plane might crash if the fire isn't put out, but you'd rather crash it and hope you can walk away from the engine fire (and all the new fires that may be caused by a forced landing.)
If you believe the Global Warming crackpots, there's about a trillion tons of carbon dioxide gas jammed inside that coal that will all be released in the next few years. Something in the order of millions of tons a year.
Iceland has geothermal energy due to volcanic activity and Brazil is turning communist and destroying their economy. Neither is a workable solution worldwide.
Make it 200:1 and you've got a bet
Get your own data. Religionists should be just as able to carefully guard their models and data as climatologists. And should be allowed just as much leeway to revise their models and massage their data to match their conclusions in the face of contradictory evidence.
A sure sign of someone being wrong is accusing anyone who points out flaws in their reasoning as a crank.
"Our current models predict the historical climate that we have on record" Okay, so I'm going to give you a series of numbers and I want you to create a model that uses those numbers as a pattern. 1,2,3,4 You come up with a model that looks something like: x=x+1 And surprise, your model works with the data you modeled it on. That's amazing! Now on to critique the model itself. First of all, you don't have a starting point for x. What if X starts at 6? That kind of ruins your results, doesn't it? But what if the actual pattern was 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 It's best to check your model against future results before saying you've got a sure thing. Next, what if the actual function is different than your model. So even if the next number is 5, what if the real function that give's you the output is x = (100 * y) mod 5 - 19 for y = rand(10) So what? Well, suppose your model got it right. x=x+1 for x starting at 0. Don't think that an input of y=6 is going to change x from becoming 5. Y isn't an input into x. Even but maybe it is. Maybe Y is in the function maybe it's: x = x + (1 * y) Well, if y = 0.02, it doesn't really change the outcome that much, does it? But what if Y really is some big number like 72? Well, maybe your model is wrong. Maybe it's really: x = (x/1+y) + 1 Then if you throw in a big input, you're going to have a major change, but not the one you expected, enen though with your minor input, the change was within your model's expected behavior. But maybe you got everything right. Even though you had a very limited range to pattern your model on. And we'll even ignore the very likely possibility of bad data. The question then becomes -- do we really want to change Y, even knowing what the outcome will be? But we're a long ways from getting to that discussion, and you're saying that once we get there, you're not even going to answer it.
And no one who denies the fiction of Global Warming can be "for" fiction.
The phrase "takes one to know one" comes to mind.
There are only 7 states where a felon cannot vote after release:
Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Nebraska and Virgnia.
There are 29 states that do not allow a felon currently on probation to vote. 33 States do not allow parolees to vote, and only 48 states deny the vote to incarcerated felons.
The truth is all fine and dandy, but where is the evidence?
Temperature recordings in a few cities were on average 1 degree warmer one year compared to another year in a time frame where the accuracy of temperature recordings varies closer to 5 degrees is not data. It's not even an anecdote. Sure, the snow was deeper when I was a kid, but just because I had to walk uphill both ways to school doesn't mean there is a global gravitation crisis.
Maybe pumping the air full of air makes the world a hotter place, but we won't know until we study it. Me, I'm betting on the ice age that was predicted last week. Of course, to hedge, they're claiming that global warming may cause that too.
Art is simply putting paint on a brush and then smearing it around until it looks like something. I don't know what dictionary your reading from. Oh, wait there's another definition-- nevermind, it says "see Garfunkle, Art"