All this week, stories are running how every global climate model has been proven wrong by observation
That just says it's warming at a slower rate than anticipated, not that it isn't warming. The only thing that means is that there is more time on the countdown to doomsday but it's still coming.
they teach children in kindergarten to take cold showers and scold their parents for running air conditioning or brushing their teeth with the sink running
hmm, if only there were these plants that could grow and used carbon dioxide as fuel......
Plants cannot remove the amount of CO2 being emitted daily. Also, when plants die, they release almost all of the sequestered CO2. If they didn't, don't you think they would have run out of CO2 long before humans arrived on the scene?
How much, exactly, are hominids to blame for this and what penalties should we apply to individual ones?
Exactly enough to make all the difference. We shouldn't penalize people or corporations for releasing CO2, we should charge them the amount of money that it costs to clean up their mess. If you put 30 tons of CO2 into the air, then you have to pay to have it removed. We have the technology to actually do this, it's not hypothetical.
I cannot believe how freaked out everyone is about carbon, when it is a basic and abundant element of the planet...
Nobody is worried about carbon, after all we are carbon-based lifeforms. However, people are worried about carbon dioxide.
the amount in the atmosphere is minuscule to begin with, never mind whatever we are adding in being a tiny fraction of what it is already.
Doubling the amount of naturally occurring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not minuscule. Also, have you seen how thick the Earth's atmosphere is? It's a tiny bubble around the planet surface.
It is so sad to see rational people get lost in a death cult that makes absolutely no sense to anyone with a shred of scientific understanding of the climate, or indeed basic material science...
Feel free to point out exactly where the calculations have gone wrong. You'll be the world's savior and petrol companies would pay you billions for that proof.
The amount of time and talent required to develop that technology before all of it's competitors is worth far more than $2.6B if Uber can release a product or service within the same year as Waymo. Frankly, this technology is worth hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars. All of Uber's financing and assets should have been excoriated from them in their entirety. I hope I'm not underselling just how large an impact this technology is going to have.;)
Okay. My state usually goes Democrat. If my vote is going to change the outcome in my state, it means the state goes 50-50. In that case, the Republicans have won in other states, and my state's electors will make no difference.
I feel like you didn't read my post at all.
"Even if your vote changes the county AND the state, your state has to have enough electoral votes for it to matter." Yes, your state may have slightly different rules but the point remains.
Before you tell me how this could be changed... "Removing the state level and just making it all counties would dramatically increase the value of your vote."
I swear, people go into rage mode when they read something upsetting, become entirely illiterate and then completely fail to read the rest of the post.
Honestly, if you are in a field that is competitive enough where others would want to copy your work, you should at least take the proper measures to ensure that somebody cannot just walk in the building and access your data. Your drives should be encrypted at the very least.
Anything that senses, decides, and reacts is conscious. The more complex the decision step, the more conscious it is.
By that token, you could claim atoms are conscious. It lost an electron so it "decided" it wanted an electron to replace it. Not complex enough? How about microprocessors "deciding" to compute the instructions you give it?
I suppose what I'm getting at is that the distinction for "deciding" needs to be clarified.
I can imagine a lot of things but I'll use humanity's best working theory until a better one comes along because that's science. Science has continually lacked a perfect understanding and has altered its position to more accurately describe the universe.
Besides, if I'm wrong, the worst thing that will happen is I'll be embarrassed and change my view. However, if you're wrong, people will die unnecessarily and lives will be ruined.
Yes! You're getting it now! Terrorism is extreme violence that is intended to make political change by instilling fear.
See? I can play that game too. So be very careful who you accuse of terrorism, because there's a big chance you are someone who supports a group which some people would happily consider as "terrorist", meaning you are probably a terrorist yourself.
I do not support any person or group that promotes or uses violence to instill fear. Violence is a crude and ineffective tool for people who lack (metaphoric) vision.
The experts you cited said your statement could not be responsibly made at this time. The differences in storm strength are not significant.
And yet we know from science that despite being "not significant" it is stronger and thus more destructive.
If a voter wants jerks to stop bullying him, how does it matter if you say you disagree with his understanding of his situation?
How is this voter being bullied? Also, facts always matter. Your everyday survival depends on facts.
You don’t seem to want to listen to him.
What is it that I am not listening to? Concerns over job losses? The government created programs to help miners transition into other jobs... and now it's getting axed. Coal country is dying and waiving every coal related regulation will not stop that because natural gas is cheaper.
So why should he listen to you? (And before you come up with an answer, remember he’s not listening to you because you’re distinctly not on his side. So lecturing will not be heard.)
If you want to do yourself in, that's your business. However, when you threaten the future of humanity, it's everyone's business. You do not have to listen but you will have to endure as the world changes despite your objections.
Yea they lost their creditability by adding a feature that got voted in by a majority. You can't win all the time you need to get over it.
It was voted in by member with a financial incentive to do so. That specifically is called a conflict of interest.
we need to see why without the layers on cynicism DRM was voted in. Because it seems to help solve some problems that they needed to have solved.
Actually, I know what problem it solves, it solves the "I'm contractually required to use DRM" problem that various members have with Hollywood studios. There literally is no other problem that it solves, I've read the specification.
Without a standards organization that can actually make portable standards (see lack of CDM documentation), it's time that we must construct a new standards body that isn't afraid to do what it claims it will do rather than what they must in order to appease their corporate masters.
The W3C has lost it's credibility. The time has come to form a new standards body for the web.
It would be trivial to implement via plugin but that seems like a terrible feature. Why would you need so many projects open all at once upon starting?
The first sentence was enough to establish the original comment was an irresponsible exaggeration. You guys should stop exaggerating if you want Americans to take any action on Climate.
How am I exaggerating? I said it's making them stronger and more destructive which is true. Right now it's marginal (to our instruments) but it's still 100% true.
Many people want the US out of the Paris agreement for spite alone, because they're tired of being bullied by jerks.
No, some people in the US want out of the Paris agreement because they are being told that they are being bullied by jerks. The reality of the matter is much different. That aside, the laws of physics is the biggest jerk of all because it does not care if you are good, evil, kind, nice, ambivalent or indifferent. The laws of physics bows to no man.
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They did a comparison between the highest end Intel chips and the EPYC 7601. Not to spoil it but EPYC blew the panties straight off of Intel's chips while using less power. It's no wonder Intel has been flailing in the media.
All this week, stories are running how every global climate model has been proven wrong by observation
That just says it's warming at a slower rate than anticipated, not that it isn't warming. The only thing that means is that there is more time on the countdown to doomsday but it's still coming.
they teach children in kindergarten to take cold showers and scold their parents for running air conditioning or brushing their teeth with the sink running
[citation needed]
hmm, if only there were these plants that could grow and used carbon dioxide as fuel......
Plants cannot remove the amount of CO2 being emitted daily. Also, when plants die, they release almost all of the sequestered CO2. If they didn't, don't you think they would have run out of CO2 long before humans arrived on the scene?
How much, exactly, are hominids to blame for this and what penalties should we apply to individual ones?
Exactly enough to make all the difference. We shouldn't penalize people or corporations for releasing CO2, we should charge them the amount of money that it costs to clean up their mess. If you put 30 tons of CO2 into the air, then you have to pay to have it removed. We have the technology to actually do this, it's not hypothetical.
I'll be dead anyway so why should I change my behavior?
This is the pinnacle of selfishness.
When has anybody advocated anything like that? The only thing I've seen advocated was alternative solutions to the same energy issues.
I cannot believe how freaked out everyone is about carbon, when it is a basic and abundant element of the planet...
Nobody is worried about carbon, after all we are carbon-based lifeforms. However, people are worried about carbon dioxide.
the amount in the atmosphere is minuscule to begin with, never mind whatever we are adding in being a tiny fraction of what it is already.
Doubling the amount of naturally occurring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not minuscule. Also, have you seen how thick the Earth's atmosphere is? It's a tiny bubble around the planet surface.
It is so sad to see rational people get lost in a death cult that makes absolutely no sense to anyone with a shred of scientific understanding of the climate, or indeed basic material science...
Feel free to point out exactly where the calculations have gone wrong. You'll be the world's savior and petrol companies would pay you billions for that proof.
The amount of time and talent required to develop that technology before all of it's competitors is worth far more than $2.6B if Uber can release a product or service within the same year as Waymo. Frankly, this technology is worth hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars. All of Uber's financing and assets should have been excoriated from them in their entirety. I hope I'm not underselling just how large an impact this technology is going to have. ;)
Just what everyone was waiting for: Systemd on the go! ;)
Okay. My state usually goes Democrat. If my vote is going to change the outcome in my state, it means the state goes 50-50. In that case, the Republicans have won in other states, and my state's electors will make no difference.
I feel like you didn't read my post at all.
"Even if your vote changes the county AND the state, your state has to have enough electoral votes for it to matter."
Yes, your state may have slightly different rules but the point remains.
Before you tell me how this could be changed... "Removing the state level and just making it all counties would dramatically increase the value of your vote."
I swear, people go into rage mode when they read something upsetting, become entirely illiterate and then completely fail to read the rest of the post.
Honestly, if you are in a field that is competitive enough where others would want to copy your work, you should at least take the proper measures to ensure that somebody cannot just walk in the building and access your data. Your drives should be encrypted at the very least.
A microprocessor does not choose, it only does what its told to do based on variables given to it.
How is that different from a brain?
Anything that senses, decides, and reacts is conscious. The more complex the decision step, the more conscious it is.
By that token, you could claim atoms are conscious. It lost an electron so it "decided" it wanted an electron to replace it. Not complex enough? How about microprocessors "deciding" to compute the instructions you give it?
I suppose what I'm getting at is that the distinction for "deciding" needs to be clarified.
I can imagine a lot of things but I'll use humanity's best working theory until a better one comes along because that's science. Science has continually lacked a perfect understanding and has altered its position to more accurately describe the universe.
Besides, if I'm wrong, the worst thing that will happen is I'll be embarrassed and change my view. However, if you're wrong, people will die unnecessarily and lives will be ruined.
Oh, you mean terrorism. And I guess you also mean terrorism.
Yes! You're getting it now! Terrorism is extreme violence that is intended to make political change by instilling fear.
See? I can play that game too. So be very careful who you accuse of terrorism, because there's a big chance you are someone who supports a group which some people would happily consider as "terrorist", meaning you are probably a terrorist yourself.
I do not support any person or group that promotes or uses violence to instill fear. Violence is a crude and ineffective tool for people who lack (metaphoric) vision.
The experts you cited said your statement could not be responsibly made at this time. The differences in storm strength are not significant.
And yet we know from science that despite being "not significant" it is stronger and thus more destructive.
If a voter wants jerks to stop bullying him, how does it matter if you say you disagree with his understanding of his situation?
How is this voter being bullied? Also, facts always matter. Your everyday survival depends on facts.
You don’t seem to want to listen to him.
What is it that I am not listening to? Concerns over job losses? The government created programs to help miners transition into other jobs... and now it's getting axed. Coal country is dying and waiving every coal related regulation will not stop that because natural gas is cheaper.
So why should he listen to you? (And before you come up with an answer, remember he’s not listening to you because you’re distinctly not on his side. So lecturing will not be heard.)
If you want to do yourself in, that's your business. However, when you threaten the future of humanity, it's everyone's business. You do not have to listen but you will have to endure as the world changes despite your objections.
Or is it rather 300,000 accounts from people who were not politically correct?
Nope, terrorism.
Yea they lost their creditability by adding a feature that got voted in by a majority. You can't win all the time you need to get over it.
It was voted in by member with a financial incentive to do so. That specifically is called a conflict of interest.
we need to see why without the layers on cynicism DRM was voted in. Because it seems to help solve some problems that they needed to have solved.
Actually, I know what problem it solves, it solves the "I'm contractually required to use DRM" problem that various members have with Hollywood studios. There literally is no other problem that it solves, I've read the specification.
No idea what exactly you are working on but it's clearly designed like shit.
Without a standards organization that can actually make portable standards (see lack of CDM documentation), it's time that we must construct a new standards body that isn't afraid to do what it claims it will do rather than what they must in order to appease their corporate masters.
The W3C has lost it's credibility. The time has come to form a new standards body for the web.
Is there some reason we can't say "good job, Julian!" and think that maybe his actions are doing some good for the world?
Probably because this is the internet. Everyone on the internet hates everyone.
It would be trivial to implement via plugin but that seems like a terrible feature. Why would you need so many projects open all at once upon starting?
I was referring to my vote for President.
So was I.
The first sentence was enough to establish the original comment was an irresponsible exaggeration. You guys should stop exaggerating if you want Americans to take any action on Climate.
How am I exaggerating? I said it's making them stronger and more destructive which is true. Right now it's marginal (to our instruments) but it's still 100% true.
Many people want the US out of the Paris agreement for spite alone, because they're tired of being bullied by jerks.
No, some people in the US want out of the Paris agreement because they are being told that they are being bullied by jerks. The reality of the matter is much different. That aside, the laws of physics is the biggest jerk of all because it does not care if you are good, evil, kind, nice, ambivalent or indifferent. The laws of physics bows to no man.