Nature corrects itself. It's called mass extinction or ecologic disaster. It's a simple control loop: The environment will get worse until the number of humans on the planet is cut way down, one way or another.
I'm pretty sure that only "enthusiast" mobos will have the elaborate BIOS features. Consumer boxes and garden variety mobos probably won't. It would only confuse end users and generate support calls, thus increasing the cost for the manufacturer.
Ah the cornucopian/techophile standpoint. Because humans could adapt to a couple inches of sea level rise they will be able to adapt to a few meters too. Manhattan may be defensible (I've also seen the standpoint that it isn't) but South Florida is most definitely not defensible because it's all sand and porous limestone.
My viewpoint today: 6 degrees C by 2050? I might live to see that - bring it on! Pass the popcorn, Hollywood is crap compared to this. But then I don't have any kids.
Yeah. Vast scientific dispute... like if it's 90% or 100% caused by anthropogenic emissions. Oh and science changes daily. Every day there's a new article about a result in quantum mechanics or quantum theory that revises some old beliefs. That clearly proves that quantum theory is wrong. Those physicists clearly don't know what they're talking about if some are proved wrong every day. I can really see why people doubt quantum physics.
He he. Just read the comments and you have proof that the paper is spot on. The issue is that tooth fairies have way more influence in American politics than facts. If you've been raised with tooth fairies (and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Jesus) then you've never learned to think objectively. (From a fellow German.)
History is written by the winners. Politics (at least in the US) is driven by who has the biggest purse to buy TV time. People can be told to believe anything (See Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and Hitler. Oh and religions.) So what are you surprised about? There is an objective truth in science (which is formalized reality), but that doesn't mean that people believe it. They believe what they like, and what they like has been programmed into their brains when they were kids.
Nobody who is an AGW "believer" has a problem with people who say "OK, the science has shown that 90%+ of GW is anthropogenic, but I believe that reducing CO2 emissions is not cost effective compared to the cost of climate change." That's a totally valid viewpoint, for example Lomborg's today (after his conversion.) What riles "believers" like me is the standpoint that the science can't be true because it would be too expensive to do anything about it.
Those analyses have bee done. The problem is that the cost of unchecked global warming will be so ridiculously high that nobody believes the numbers. What's the cost of Manhattan or other cities flooding? Once? Repeatedly? When will they be given up? And they *will* be flooded. Maybe not this century, but AGW will not magically stop in 2100 if we continue to emit lots of CO2.
That's stupid. The Greens aren't even part of the government, they are in the opposition. The decision to shut down nuclear power was because Merkel could see that she was doomed after Fukushima if she didn't do it, the polls were so much in favor. Remember that was just weeks after the government had decided to extend the run time of older reactors, a decision that was considered a colossal mistake.
I didn't mean it to be funny at all. Sarcastic maybe. Now the big question is, do I get a bonus for a post that's Insightful, Informative, Interesting and Funny, 1 each?
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Yup. Cheap POS. Mine died shortly after warranty was up.
http://mail.openstudy.com/
So who has the .cats domain?
Well *I* can't watch Fox News, it makes me want to puke. Stupid propaganda.
Except Shep Smith maybe.
Nature corrects itself. It's called mass extinction or ecologic disaster.
It's a simple control loop: The environment will get worse until the number of humans on the planet is cut way down, one way or another.
By "elaborate features" I mean SETUP features to add another private key or disabling secure boot.
I'm pretty sure that only "enthusiast" mobos will have the elaborate BIOS features. Consumer boxes and garden variety mobos probably won't. It would only confuse end users and generate support calls, thus increasing the cost for the manufacturer.
Not funny, unfortunately.
Ah the cornucopian/techophile standpoint. Because humans could adapt to a couple inches of sea level rise they will be able to adapt to a few meters too.
Manhattan may be defensible (I've also seen the standpoint that it isn't) but South Florida is most definitely not defensible because it's all sand and porous limestone.
You have a persecution complex. Stop discussing with those people.
My viewpoint today: 6 degrees C by 2050? I might live to see that - bring it on! Pass the popcorn, Hollywood is crap compared to this.
But then I don't have any kids.
Yeah. Vast scientific dispute... like if it's 90% or 100% caused by anthropogenic emissions.
Oh and science changes daily. Every day there's a new article about a result in quantum mechanics or quantum theory that revises some old beliefs. That clearly proves that quantum theory is wrong. Those physicists clearly don't know what they're talking about if some are proved wrong every day. I can really see why people doubt quantum physics.
He he. Just read the comments and you have proof that the paper is spot on.
The issue is that tooth fairies have way more influence in American politics than facts. If you've been raised with tooth fairies (and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Jesus) then you've never learned to think objectively.
(From a fellow German.)
History is written by the winners.
Politics (at least in the US) is driven by who has the biggest purse to buy TV time.
People can be told to believe anything (See Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and Hitler. Oh and religions.)
So what are you surprised about?
There is an objective truth in science (which is formalized reality), but that doesn't mean that people believe it. They believe what they like, and what they like has been programmed into their brains when they were kids.
Nobody who is an AGW "believer" has a problem with people who say "OK, the science has shown that 90%+ of GW is anthropogenic, but I believe that reducing CO2 emissions is not cost effective compared to the cost of climate change."
That's a totally valid viewpoint, for example Lomborg's today (after his conversion.)
What riles "believers" like me is the standpoint that the science can't be true because it would be too expensive to do anything about it.
Those analyses have bee done. The problem is that the cost of unchecked global warming will be so ridiculously high that nobody believes the numbers.
What's the cost of Manhattan or other cities flooding? Once? Repeatedly? When will they be given up?
And they *will* be flooded. Maybe not this century, but AGW will not magically stop in 2100 if we continue to emit lots of CO2.
We have increased the CO2 concentration by almost 40% and chances are we'll double it.
What about the basic physics of the greenhouse effect? Fourier and Arrhenius didn't use any models.
You can approximate the effect with pen and paper.
What's your price?
And it's HUGE on patch Tuesday, especially if it breaks the update completely and is retried repeatedly until MS fixes it.
Compared to Google's P/E, it should be around $16. And nobody knows yet if they can monetize their customers as well as Google.
Try to say "I plan to kill the President" in the US and see what the fuck happens to you.
There are always things that are illegal to say.
That's stupid. The Greens aren't even part of the government, they are in the opposition.
The decision to shut down nuclear power was because Merkel could see that she was doomed after Fukushima if she didn't do it, the polls were so much in favor. Remember that was just weeks after the government had decided to extend the run time of older reactors, a decision that was considered a colossal mistake.
I didn't mean it to be funny at all. Sarcastic maybe.
Now the big question is, do I get a bonus for a post that's Insightful, Informative, Interesting and Funny, 1 each?