I have been labled as a troll in the past for daring to suggest that all these junk scientists would never create scary situations that need to be studied in order to get funding. I went ahead this time and created a trail. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) gets its funding from teh federally funded National Science Foundation (NSF). The link here http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/piSearch.do;jsessio nid=83F4C1F20457F86AF555A5B06DE33BB5?SearchType=pi Search&page=1&QueryText=NCAR&PIFirstName=&PILastNa me=&PIInstitution=&PIState=&PIZip=&PICountry=&Sear ch=Search#results
Shows a list of all of the grants the NCAR has received from the NSF. This one in particular: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardN umber=0612388 Shows that they got a half million dollars to come up with this scare. $436200.00 to be exact. Agencies like this must be funded in order to stay in existence. In order to get funded, they must create a need. What better need that the the whole North Pole melting! The truth is, we have not been collecting data long enough to know what normal is as far as greenhouse gasses or the temperature of the earth. The Climate is going to do what it is going to do. Why waste millions of dollars of taxpayers money to come up with unsubstantiated scares created just to get more funding.
The ONLY irony is that the lawyer fees were more than the penalty and restitution combined. These guys were using the oldest trick in the book... Spyware that claims to remove spyware. Good Riddance!
~AR
I think this is great. Even if you don't believe the 7 days thing, you have to ignore massive evidence if you believe that life simply happened with no catalyst from outside of our plane of existence. Even Darwin admitted that there were holes in his thoery. With all of the skeletons they have found, they have yet to find the "missing link". I for one will probably take my family to visit this once it opens.
~AR
So I am a little foggy on Sci-Fi (Fiction Reality). Been a while since I read them. I did think Arwen left on the boat. Guess I gotta go get a set and read them again.
I think there were also a few other changes. If I am not mistaken, Arwen acutally left on the boat and Aragorn ended up with Eowyn. I wish they had put Bobadil in there though. They would have had to find a rare hottie to play Honeyberry!
~AR
I had a customer once that left the same TR3 backup tape in the driver for several years. When their hard drive crashed and they really needed the backup, to say it was caked with dust in an understatement. I don't know how OnTrack got the data off of that tape, but my hat is off to them!
Cheers!
Since you mention Taxpayers, I am pondering the point of moon exploration. Since the moon was once part of the Earth, there shouldn't be any minerals there that are not found here. Mining those minerals here on Earth costs a minute fraction of the amount it would take to get the from the moon. Space travel's biggest benefit to the average citizen is teh technology it generates that get converted to civilian use. Other that than, we can look at cool pictures and gloat about the fact that we can go to the moon, but thats about it. Is that worth the billions of dollars that are poured into NASA each year?
~AR
As much as there is good information on Wikipedia, there is just as much bad. It is really more of an opinion site than an actual encyclopaedia. This is evident by this virus debacle. So if someone says that global warming is a reality just because it shows up on Wikipaedia, this should not be considered a valid reference any more than the link to the vorus fix that nailed some users.
~AR
When spam first started arising and my mailbox started filling up with unsolicited pornography, there were no spam filters and I was left to deal with it the best I could. I would track down through ARIN and the InterNIC who owned the addresses that were either hosting the spam mail server or hosting the spam web page. While many administrators would quickly take action to stop the spammers, I began to notice a pattern in China and Russia of particular blocks of addresses that were the source of the spam. The administrators for these blocks of addresses would not reply to my inquiries. Basically the spammers owned these blocks and since they were in China it was up to APNIC (The Chinese counterpart to ARIN) to do something about it. They always referred me to the administrator for the address block. Catch 22! Besides the fact that the UN is corrupt and should be defunded anyway, we sure don't want them to be in charge of the internet. The fact that it is China pushing for this makes it doubly suspicious.
~AR
That group of character witnesses for the ACLU ranks right up there with the president of Hustler Magazine testifying as a character witness for Bill Clinton. They ARE the problem. They don't care what effect their material has on kids, they just want to make money off of it. I hope the DOJ can pull through on this one.
~AR
While that article is pretty outrageous, we forget some of the social issues right here that contribute to swelling of the lower class. The biggest problem, in the US anyway, is that the US government pays unwed mothers to have children. If you are a single woman with no job, just have up to 4 kids and the government will provide you a home and pay you a set amount each month for each child. They will throw in food stamps on top of that! Whatever you do, do not marry anyone because then they will reduce your monthly payment or take it away completely. Same thing about work. The more you work, the less your government check will be so why waste your time with a job? Maybe you live in poverty, but poverty in the US means you get a place to live, car, cell phone, television, 3 squares/day. Is that so bad? Ask the guys in India sleeping on the sidewalk.
~AR
One problem with government employees is that once they get a job, it is almost impossible get rid of them. I knew a guy that worked at an AFB that was transfered to another dept because he was too productive. The problem was he was increasing the output of the dept and this was causing the management to expect a higher production level. This meant the rest of the dept would have to contribute to this and they didn't like it. Didn't have the internet back then, but with the internet, I can see this problem only getting worse.
AR
I personally liked 1 2 and 3. I was also a fanatic about the original series. Frankly, I would like to see him finish what he started. Star Wars is all "Lucas" and anything less just wouldn't measure up in my opinion.
AR
Lucas owes us 7, 8 and 9. How can he in good conscience quit before delivering movies that we have waited a lifetime for. The whole notion that Star Wars 7, 8, and 9 won't make money is pretty ludicrous.
AR
I wish we had companies like that in the US. Spammers have a lot of nerve suing someone for blocking their unwanted garbage. What is more amazing is that spam is illegal in the United States also, yet the spammer can get a court order to allow him to spam. Go figure...
AR
I play WoW on a RP Server. There is not a whole lot you can do to a CGF (Chinese Gold Farmer) other than try to beat him to the object he is farming. We do kick them out of group if we identify them. They are usually really quiet and don't seem to pay attention to what the rest of the group is doing. Once you see them roll "Need" on an object they can't possibly use, you know for sure and can kick them out. The biggest issue I see is that their activities drive up the price of articles at the Auction House. Mods like Auctioneer will scan the prices for an object and its average price can be artificially inflated.
~J
I pay big money to send my child to a private school to keep her out of the clutches on liberal teachers and their unions. However, I still have to pay taxes to fund the public school system. Why shouldn't the public school system provide what amounts to assistance to home schooling familys? I know several kids that were home schooled and they excel academically. They easily got into college and have done well. In fact, all of the kids I know that were home school were accepted into college. Perhaps home schooling is the way to go. In any case, it is not unreasonable to ask that assistance be provided from the public school system which we all have to pay for.
~AR
Organleggers exist today. I know a person that had to have an emergency appendectomy while he was in Mexico. When he got back to the US, he started feeling bad and went to the doctor. An MRI revelaed that he was missing a kidney. The Mexican doctor had stolen his kidney while he was performing the appendectomy.
Ross,
Read this article which is a recent Slashdot Thread:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220
The volcano of which I am thinking is Mt St. Helens. Where do you get your numbers on the amount of CO2 released by humans. There is a book by Dixie Lee Ray called "Trashing the Planet" that addresses all of the issues you mention and many others.
You also mention that volcano eruptions cause the Earth's temperature to drop because the sulphur compounds reflect heat. You then say that mankind releases 8181 times more that that. Why is it that the Sulphuric compounds from volcanos protect us and the same compounds from humans are destroying us?
And if you decide to answer this, please leave out the insults to my intellegence. Calling people names doesn't make your argument any more valid.
Jim
"If current arctic melting trends continue, you'll be able to visit the North pole in a boat by 2015. Not an icebreaker, mind you, just a normal boat with a 1000 mile range. A 32ft sailboat will do just fine."
You are dreaming. Not gonna happen!
"The fact that you don't understand why both statements are true and important tells everyone reading this a lot more than I could possibly point out by explaining it to you. So I'll just quote your incredulity and close my argument here."
You close your argument because you have none. There is no way Global Warming can cause higher and lower tempertatures. Either the Earth is getting hotter or it is getting colder. Both of which happen during the normal course of teh existence of the Earth. To say that mankind is responsible is nonsense. 1 volcano eruption relases more greenhouse gasses than all of mankind for the last 50 years. But go ahead an apply for your grants to study it if you like, but don't tell me what kind of car I should drive, or what kind of lawn mower I should use, or if I can even have a barbecue in my back yard. You sound like Ted Dantzen in the middle 80's.
If you read between the lines, providers like Google and other media outlets want to provide paying customers with higher bandwidth for certain media, yet they don't want to have to pay for it themselves. Not that I am in to big corporations, but why should AT&T have an obligation to provide higher bandwidth for free that Google or another media outlet might be charging for? Remember that the Internet doesn't just happen. Telecom companies provide the backbone on which we all ride and for which we should be grateful.
Cheers
Global warming is all about funding. It is simply a scare tactic by "scientists" to get money to study something that really isn't a problem. Every time they are asked about it, they "need more funding" to research it more. Keep in mind that every time they get a grant, the person getting the grant gets 10% right off the top. There were areas in the United States last summer that had record high temperatures. This of course was due to global warming. There were areas in the United States this past winter that had record low temperatures. According to "scientists", this too is caused by global warming. They have it both ways. No matter what the weather does, global warming is the culprit and they need more money to study it. Global warming is a racket and the liberal left has bought it hook line and sinker. Their hate for George Bush and the lifestyle that they themselves enjoy has clouded their view. Remember when Ted Dantzen predicted back in the 80's that some time in the 90's that the world would run out of fresh water and there would not be enough to sustain life. Surely we should be all dead from thirst by now. Thanks goodness all the liberals donated money to Green Peace and such. That is probably what saved us... Not!
Cheers
Slashdot Mirror
I have been labled as a troll in the past for daring to suggest that all these junk scientists would never create scary situations that need to be studied in order to get funding. I went ahead this time and created a trail. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) gets its funding from teh federally funded National Science Foundation (NSF). The link here http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/piSearch.do;jsessio nid=83F4C1F20457F86AF555A5B06DE33BB5?SearchType=pi Search&page=1&QueryText=NCAR&PIFirstName=&PILastNa me=&PIInstitution=&PIState=&PIZip=&PICountry=&Sear ch=Search#results
Shows a list of all of the grants the NCAR has received from the NSF. This one in particular: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardN umber=0612388 Shows that they got a half million dollars to come up with this scare. $436200.00 to be exact. Agencies like this must be funded in order to stay in existence. In order to get funded, they must create a need. What better need that the the whole North Pole melting! The truth is, we have not been collecting data long enough to know what normal is as far as greenhouse gasses or the temperature of the earth. The Climate is going to do what it is going to do. Why waste millions of dollars of taxpayers money to come up with unsubstantiated scares created just to get more funding.
The ONLY irony is that the lawyer fees were more than the penalty and restitution combined. These guys were using the oldest trick in the book... Spyware that claims to remove spyware. Good Riddance! ~AR
The EULA indicates that everything in the game belongs to Blizzard, Characters, Gear, Gold, whatever. Looks like Bliz is in for a heck of a 1099. ~AR
I think this is great. Even if you don't believe the 7 days thing, you have to ignore massive evidence if you believe that life simply happened with no catalyst from outside of our plane of existence. Even Darwin admitted that there were holes in his thoery. With all of the skeletons they have found, they have yet to find the "missing link". I for one will probably take my family to visit this once it opens. ~AR
So I am a little foggy on Sci-Fi (Fiction Reality). Been a while since I read them. I did think Arwen left on the boat. Guess I gotta go get a set and read them again.
I think there were also a few other changes. If I am not mistaken, Arwen acutally left on the boat and Aragorn ended up with Eowyn. I wish they had put Bobadil in there though. They would have had to find a rare hottie to play Honeyberry! ~AR
I had a customer once that left the same TR3 backup tape in the driver for several years. When their hard drive crashed and they really needed the backup, to say it was caked with dust in an understatement. I don't know how OnTrack got the data off of that tape, but my hat is off to them! Cheers!
Since you mention Taxpayers, I am pondering the point of moon exploration. Since the moon was once part of the Earth, there shouldn't be any minerals there that are not found here. Mining those minerals here on Earth costs a minute fraction of the amount it would take to get the from the moon. Space travel's biggest benefit to the average citizen is teh technology it generates that get converted to civilian use. Other that than, we can look at cool pictures and gloat about the fact that we can go to the moon, but thats about it. Is that worth the billions of dollars that are poured into NASA each year? ~AR
As much as there is good information on Wikipedia, there is just as much bad. It is really more of an opinion site than an actual encyclopaedia. This is evident by this virus debacle. So if someone says that global warming is a reality just because it shows up on Wikipaedia, this should not be considered a valid reference any more than the link to the vorus fix that nailed some users. ~AR
Who wants to be found that easily. If your Mother in Law can find you, then who else can? ~AR
When spam first started arising and my mailbox started filling up with unsolicited pornography, there were no spam filters and I was left to deal with it the best I could. I would track down through ARIN and the InterNIC who owned the addresses that were either hosting the spam mail server or hosting the spam web page. While many administrators would quickly take action to stop the spammers, I began to notice a pattern in China and Russia of particular blocks of addresses that were the source of the spam. The administrators for these blocks of addresses would not reply to my inquiries. Basically the spammers owned these blocks and since they were in China it was up to APNIC (The Chinese counterpart to ARIN) to do something about it. They always referred me to the administrator for the address block. Catch 22! Besides the fact that the UN is corrupt and should be defunded anyway, we sure don't want them to be in charge of the internet. The fact that it is China pushing for this makes it doubly suspicious. ~AR
That group of character witnesses for the ACLU ranks right up there with the president of Hustler Magazine testifying as a character witness for Bill Clinton. They ARE the problem. They don't care what effect their material has on kids, they just want to make money off of it. I hope the DOJ can pull through on this one. ~AR
While that article is pretty outrageous, we forget some of the social issues right here that contribute to swelling of the lower class. The biggest problem, in the US anyway, is that the US government pays unwed mothers to have children. If you are a single woman with no job, just have up to 4 kids and the government will provide you a home and pay you a set amount each month for each child. They will throw in food stamps on top of that! Whatever you do, do not marry anyone because then they will reduce your monthly payment or take it away completely. Same thing about work. The more you work, the less your government check will be so why waste your time with a job? Maybe you live in poverty, but poverty in the US means you get a place to live, car, cell phone, television, 3 squares/day. Is that so bad? Ask the guys in India sleeping on the sidewalk. ~AR
One problem with government employees is that once they get a job, it is almost impossible get rid of them. I knew a guy that worked at an AFB that was transfered to another dept because he was too productive. The problem was he was increasing the output of the dept and this was causing the management to expect a higher production level. This meant the rest of the dept would have to contribute to this and they didn't like it. Didn't have the internet back then, but with the internet, I can see this problem only getting worse. AR
I personally liked 1 2 and 3. I was also a fanatic about the original series. Frankly, I would like to see him finish what he started. Star Wars is all "Lucas" and anything less just wouldn't measure up in my opinion. AR
Lucas owes us 7, 8 and 9. How can he in good conscience quit before delivering movies that we have waited a lifetime for. The whole notion that Star Wars 7, 8, and 9 won't make money is pretty ludicrous. AR
I wish we had companies like that in the US. Spammers have a lot of nerve suing someone for blocking their unwanted garbage. What is more amazing is that spam is illegal in the United States also, yet the spammer can get a court order to allow him to spam. Go figure... AR
I play WoW on a RP Server. There is not a whole lot you can do to a CGF (Chinese Gold Farmer) other than try to beat him to the object he is farming. We do kick them out of group if we identify them. They are usually really quiet and don't seem to pay attention to what the rest of the group is doing. Once you see them roll "Need" on an object they can't possibly use, you know for sure and can kick them out. The biggest issue I see is that their activities drive up the price of articles at the Auction House. Mods like Auctioneer will scan the prices for an object and its average price can be artificially inflated. ~J
I pay big money to send my child to a private school to keep her out of the clutches on liberal teachers and their unions. However, I still have to pay taxes to fund the public school system. Why shouldn't the public school system provide what amounts to assistance to home schooling familys? I know several kids that were home schooled and they excel academically. They easily got into college and have done well. In fact, all of the kids I know that were home school were accepted into college. Perhaps home schooling is the way to go. In any case, it is not unreasonable to ask that assistance be provided from the public school system which we all have to pay for. ~AR
Organleggers exist today. I know a person that had to have an emergency appendectomy while he was in Mexico. When he got back to the US, he started feeling bad and went to the doctor. An MRI revelaed that he was missing a kidney. The Mexican doctor had stolen his kidney while he was performing the appendectomy.
Well it looks like it is worse than I thought and not nearly as bad as you thought. Lets lay this one to rest.
Peace
Ross, Read this article which is a recent Slashdot Thread: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220 The volcano of which I am thinking is Mt St. Helens. Where do you get your numbers on the amount of CO2 released by humans. There is a book by Dixie Lee Ray called "Trashing the Planet" that addresses all of the issues you mention and many others. You also mention that volcano eruptions cause the Earth's temperature to drop because the sulphur compounds reflect heat. You then say that mankind releases 8181 times more that that. Why is it that the Sulphuric compounds from volcanos protect us and the same compounds from humans are destroying us? And if you decide to answer this, please leave out the insults to my intellegence. Calling people names doesn't make your argument any more valid. Jim
"If current arctic melting trends continue, you'll be able to visit the North pole in a boat by 2015. Not an icebreaker, mind you, just a normal boat with a 1000 mile range. A 32ft sailboat will do just fine." You are dreaming. Not gonna happen! "The fact that you don't understand why both statements are true and important tells everyone reading this a lot more than I could possibly point out by explaining it to you. So I'll just quote your incredulity and close my argument here." You close your argument because you have none. There is no way Global Warming can cause higher and lower tempertatures. Either the Earth is getting hotter or it is getting colder. Both of which happen during the normal course of teh existence of the Earth. To say that mankind is responsible is nonsense. 1 volcano eruption relases more greenhouse gasses than all of mankind for the last 50 years. But go ahead an apply for your grants to study it if you like, but don't tell me what kind of car I should drive, or what kind of lawn mower I should use, or if I can even have a barbecue in my back yard. You sound like Ted Dantzen in the middle 80's.
If you read between the lines, providers like Google and other media outlets want to provide paying customers with higher bandwidth for certain media, yet they don't want to have to pay for it themselves. Not that I am in to big corporations, but why should AT&T have an obligation to provide higher bandwidth for free that Google or another media outlet might be charging for? Remember that the Internet doesn't just happen. Telecom companies provide the backbone on which we all ride and for which we should be grateful. Cheers
Global warming is all about funding. It is simply a scare tactic by "scientists" to get money to study something that really isn't a problem. Every time they are asked about it, they "need more funding" to research it more. Keep in mind that every time they get a grant, the person getting the grant gets 10% right off the top. There were areas in the United States last summer that had record high temperatures. This of course was due to global warming. There were areas in the United States this past winter that had record low temperatures. According to "scientists", this too is caused by global warming. They have it both ways. No matter what the weather does, global warming is the culprit and they need more money to study it. Global warming is a racket and the liberal left has bought it hook line and sinker. Their hate for George Bush and the lifestyle that they themselves enjoy has clouded their view. Remember when Ted Dantzen predicted back in the 80's that some time in the 90's that the world would run out of fresh water and there would not be enough to sustain life. Surely we should be all dead from thirst by now. Thanks goodness all the liberals donated money to Green Peace and such. That is probably what saved us... Not! Cheers