That's Antarctic sea ice - other end of the world. And the increase is only 1/3 the area of the ice lost in the Arctic. And note that's *area*, not *volume*. Old sea ice tends to get very thick over the decades, young sea ice, not so much. And I would guess that the increase in Antarctic sea ice is related to the ongoing melting of the continental ice sheet - as fresh water flows out to sea the surface water is becoming much less salty and thus freezes at warmer temperatures. (fresh water floats on salt water, and salt lowers the freezing point - that's why they salt roads to remove ice,).
Nobody claims that global warming will be uniform, in fact it's expected that some areas will get colder as weather patterns change. As will transient cold spells such as the polar vortex related freezes we've been having lately.
You might as well be explaining this to my cat for all the good it will do. At some point, you just have to accept that at this point, climate change denial is simply a religion.
Carnegie Mellon is one of the biggest academic military contractors in the US. They've been developing surveillance tools for the NSA for decades, as well as developing weapons for the purpose of "crowd control" and other aspects of domestic policing..
Look at this article, and when you read the word "cybersecurity" be aware that it's being used as a synonym for "surveillance".
Carnegie Mellon University now implies it may have been subpoenaed to give up its anonymity-stripping technique
I guess they couldn't be bothered to say "no" to the FBI. A "subpoena" does not over-ride intellectual property rights. With all the money Carnegie Mellon has, they might have at least put up a little fight.
But the fact is that this is not the first time that Carnegie Mellon has done work for the government against the public interest.
That sounds intriguing. Who were the murderers involved?
James "Whitey" Bulger and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski are the two most famous. There is also evidence that Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson were subjects. And the doofus who shot John Lennon. A lot of information came out in the Church Committee hearings, but by then the CIA had already destroyed a lot of the records. Fortunately, enough documentation and testimony of participants and "researchers" survived to give a very good idea of MK-Ultra, how it worked and what they were using it for.
I went for years thinking that the whole thing was just a myth. The evidence is pretty clear, though. The program was real and went on for decades.
There's also a very interesting back story about how many of the original researchers died in suspicious circumstances in the year following the Church Committee hearings.
It's one of those "open secrets" like the fact that the Reagan Administration paid and allowed drug cartels to flood the inner cities with crack cocaine to fund anti-Communist death squads in Central and South America. You ask most people and they're like, "Nah, that can't be true." But true it is. And not Alex Jones True, but real life true.
Been to a campus lately? You'll probably get mad. I know the lab I used in the 1980s. It was just like it was in the 1940s. Today the entire campus it seems has been replaced by up to date everything. I bet even the mice are updated and new.
It probably wouldn't do to use the same mice they used in the 1940's.
Wish the stupid ass people would realize all printed material is government fed propoganda, also called psychological warfare.
I realize you're going to get modded into invisibility. But before that happens, I want to say that I believe there's a lot more to the whole ISIS/Daesh story than meets the eye.
I'm old enough to remember when people thought MK-Ultra was just some conspiracy theorists dark fantasy. I mean, how could our government be using hallucinogenics to experiment on people for the purposes of mind control? When it turned out to be true, the story changed to, "Oh that. That was a long time ago, right?" When it turns out that some rather notable mass murderers turned out to have been subjects of MK-Ultra, the story changed back to, "Oh, that's just a conspiracy theory."
When something in the news happens and all you can say is, "What the fuck?!", sometimes you should ask yourself, what indeed, the fuck is going on.
Did you not say that churches compete with, and so are somehow against, modern medicine?
Compete with in the sense that there are people who choose to go light a candle or pray to Jesus instead of getting medical treatment. Educated people, too. It's more common than you'd think, especially with cancer. Chemo can be so onerous as to make people choose faith over medicine. The churches are not "against" modern medicine (well, most of them aren't). But for some people, they represent an alternative. And with medical care so expensive, I'll bet it's an alternative more people choose than you might care to admit.
Modern medicine, which saves countless lives, is somehow opposed by the church, who then, logically, would want people to die.
That's all coming from your own head. Nothing I said indicates any of it.
it's slightly different, it's a conditional purchase/pre-pay.
Yes, it's conditional on the parties being able to deliver. And unlike an actual "purchase" you have no recourse if the condition is not met.
Seriously, crowd-funding is a gigantic scam. Think of the thousands of games getting kickstarted right now and now tell me how many kickstarted games have actually seen a final release where people weren't disappointed. I can count them on one hand and still have enough fingers left over to pick my nose.
After all, it's not that consumers are going to suddenly start doing their own doctoring, any more than we fix our own computers or work on our own cars.
I fix my own computer and work on my own car. I don't do my own doctoring. I'd bet more than a few Slashdot readers fix their own computers and work on their own cars.
We've started Ubering our cab rides now, and the sky has not fallen.
I want you to think about why "Uber for Medicine" is a really bad idea. I bet if you give it a few minutes, you'll come up with some very good reasons that we really don't want anything like Uber for Medicine.
No matter the subject, gotta use the opportunity to hate on Christians. As long as you get a mean and sarcastic jab in, then I guess you've made the world a better place. Is that about it? Note in this case though, how the hater throws hippies in with the fundamentalist Christians.
How do you see hate in my statement?
You sound like the type that also sees hate in a red coffee cup.
I hope they don't outlaw the Cialis commercials because the milfs they use are hot. Seriously, check it out. They're all hot and frisky.
It's less entertaining when they get to the litany of side effects, but when they get to "If you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hours...", I like to shout at the TV, "As if!".
Medicine already has competition: churches, faith healers, supplement companies, homeopathy.
And the competition is doing very well. What good is competition when consumers are desperate and sick? If your wife or kid were to get seriously sick and the doctors in the ER tell you that she needs some expensive treatment and she'll die without it, are you gonna say, "Well, let me think about it and call around to see if I can get a better price"?
The problem with competition in medical care is that the people who need it most are least capable of making informed decisions.
the difference is schools are not allowed to give the students what the students want (and if they do lose funding)
that is what I would call telling someone what they can and cant eat
Personally, I like chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce. And you know what? In the school cafeteria when I was a kid, there was no chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce. But you know what? When I went home, I could eat all the chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce I wanted.
So no, the menu in the school cafeteria is not the same thing as telling someone what they can and cannot eat. It's just saying "this is what's on the free menu at school, you little maggots. you want something else? have your parents put it in a paper bag for your and bring it in your backpack."
So who besides your mom and your religion is telling you what you can and cannot eat?
As long as the FDA doesn't mess with the dick pills that I buy at the gas station. I like that they're right by the counter with the 5-hour energy, slim jims and cherry-flavored Philly blunts. Makes for efficient one-stop shopping.
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You might as well be explaining this to my cat for all the good it will do. At some point, you just have to accept that at this point, climate change denial is simply a religion.
I did not mention Christians at all. I mentioned "churches" and there are certainly non-Christian churches.
Carnegie Mellon is one of the biggest academic military contractors in the US. They've been developing surveillance tools for the NSA for decades, as well as developing weapons for the purpose of "crowd control" and other aspects of domestic policing..
Look at this article, and when you read the word "cybersecurity" be aware that it's being used as a synonym for "surveillance".
https://thetartan.org/2015/8/3...
https://books.google.com/books...
I guess they couldn't be bothered to say "no" to the FBI. A "subpoena" does not over-ride intellectual property rights. With all the money Carnegie Mellon has, they might have at least put up a little fight.
But the fact is that this is not the first time that Carnegie Mellon has done work for the government against the public interest.
James "Whitey" Bulger and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski are the two most famous. There is also evidence that Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson were subjects. And the doofus who shot John Lennon. A lot of information came out in the Church Committee hearings, but by then the CIA had already destroyed a lot of the records. Fortunately, enough documentation and testimony of participants and "researchers" survived to give a very good idea of MK-Ultra, how it worked and what they were using it for.
I went for years thinking that the whole thing was just a myth. The evidence is pretty clear, though. The program was real and went on for decades.
There's also a very interesting back story about how many of the original researchers died in suspicious circumstances in the year following the Church Committee hearings.
It's one of those "open secrets" like the fact that the Reagan Administration paid and allowed drug cartels to flood the inner cities with crack cocaine to fund anti-Communist death squads in Central and South America. You ask most people and they're like, "Nah, that can't be true." But true it is. And not Alex Jones True, but real life true.
Yeah, but you were in your thirties.
It probably wouldn't do to use the same mice they used in the 1940's.
Maybe he's not the deluded one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I realize you're going to get modded into invisibility. But before that happens, I want to say that I believe there's a lot more to the whole ISIS/Daesh story than meets the eye.
I'm old enough to remember when people thought MK-Ultra was just some conspiracy theorists dark fantasy. I mean, how could our government be using hallucinogenics to experiment on people for the purposes of mind control? When it turned out to be true, the story changed to, "Oh that. That was a long time ago, right?" When it turns out that some rather notable mass murderers turned out to have been subjects of MK-Ultra, the story changed back to, "Oh, that's just a conspiracy theory."
When something in the news happens and all you can say is, "What the fuck?!", sometimes you should ask yourself, what indeed, the fuck is going on.
Compete with in the sense that there are people who choose to go light a candle or pray to Jesus instead of getting medical treatment. Educated people, too. It's more common than you'd think, especially with cancer. Chemo can be so onerous as to make people choose faith over medicine. The churches are not "against" modern medicine (well, most of them aren't). But for some people, they represent an alternative. And with medical care so expensive, I'll bet it's an alternative more people choose than you might care to admit.
That's all coming from your own head. Nothing I said indicates any of it.
P.T. Barnum had a word for people who find themselves in situations like yours.
Yes, it's conditional on the parties being able to deliver. And unlike an actual "purchase" you have no recourse if the condition is not met.
Seriously, crowd-funding is a gigantic scam. Think of the thousands of games getting kickstarted right now and now tell me how many kickstarted games have actually seen a final release where people weren't disappointed. I can count them on one hand and still have enough fingers left over to pick my nose.
I fix my own computer and work on my own car. I don't do my own doctoring. I'd bet more than a few Slashdot readers fix their own computers and work on their own cars.
I want you to think about why "Uber for Medicine" is a really bad idea. I bet if you give it a few minutes, you'll come up with some very good reasons that we really don't want anything like Uber for Medicine.
How do you see hate in my statement?
You sound like the type that also sees hate in a red coffee cup.
Do you think most consumers of health care can correctly define "real medicine"?
Absolutely.
The fact that he got elected shows that Joe Barton (R-TX) is smarter than most of the voters in his congressional district.
I hope they don't outlaw the Cialis commercials because the milfs they use are hot. Seriously, check it out. They're all hot and frisky.
It's less entertaining when they get to the litany of side effects, but when they get to "If you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hours...", I like to shout at the TV, "As if!".
Medicine already has competition: churches, faith healers, supplement companies, homeopathy.
And the competition is doing very well. What good is competition when consumers are desperate and sick? If your wife or kid were to get seriously sick and the doctors in the ER tell you that she needs some expensive treatment and she'll die without it, are you gonna say, "Well, let me think about it and call around to see if I can get a better price"?
The problem with competition in medical care is that the people who need it most are least capable of making informed decisions.
Personally, I like chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce. And you know what? In the school cafeteria when I was a kid, there was no chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce. But you know what? When I went home, I could eat all the chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce I wanted.
So no, the menu in the school cafeteria is not the same thing as telling someone what they can and cannot eat. It's just saying "this is what's on the free menu at school, you little maggots. you want something else? have your parents put it in a paper bag for your and bring it in your backpack."
So who besides your mom and your religion is telling you what you can and cannot eat?
I got your Python, right here.
As long as the FDA doesn't mess with the dick pills that I buy at the gas station. I like that they're right by the counter with the 5-hour energy, slim jims and cherry-flavored Philly blunts. Makes for efficient one-stop shopping.
Do you understand the difference between "should and shouldn't" and "can and cannot"?
Google "Lent". Or is no meat on Fridays no longer a thing for Catholics.
In fact, "fish eaters" is so common a term for Catholics that they use it themselves:
http://www.fisheaters.com/
One word: cocaine.