he should then stand up and make his reasons known why he donated to the "cause", he's now in a public role and that's what happens when you become a public figure that has dominion over others.
"Well then you should carefully measure your stand on this since we can already see in Europe, and its starting in the US, the use of various speech laws by gay activists to hammer others and deprive them of rights."
"And, before anyone pipes up that an individual belief is not the same as a corporate belief, a corporation is made up of humans." - only until the corp needs to pay its taxes in full and not find ways of avoiding it etc, then its a "corporation of no human characteristics"
look and feel is still personal, try configuring the look and feel of Dolphin before moaning about it. I don;t like Unity colours, whats wrong with a task bar if it does the job you want it to do? again its all personal taste. every desktop is easy to use. click an icon it loads a program, thats the same for all DEs. if you prefer a DE that removes all the config from you then fine for you, don't diss other DEs because you have taste issues
"the fact that the report itself shows that observed reality disagrees with the predictions presented is pretty fundamental." - now how did all those 600+ scientists miss that conclusion?
"some believe the earth is flat and only 6k years old" - fortunately those idiots can be mostly ignored as they are not really dangerous but climate sceptics are idiots and potentially dangerous to the planet
A lot more of the electricity generated is coming from clean renewable sources and as its new tech and thinking, its going to take a while to replace the ancient dirty tech.
if you did your bit and everyone else did their bit to reduce carbon use then it would happen quicker but there are too many selfish, lazy people with the "fuck it" attitude.
Most people can only see a few years ahead if you are lucky, but i think the majority of that group only see a few days ahead so its a difficult task to get people to think of others in future times
Nope, cynicism is not an argument for refuting the report.
1. ahh Kyoto - i guess you got your figures from the oil industry think tanks
2. If countries like the US actually voluntarily participated in climate measures i.e. did not listen to the huge pockets of the oil/pollution based industries, then maybe your fears of "international police" (as opposed to the self imposed American International Police that start wars everywhere in the pursuit of oil) would be unfounded. You appear to be a conspiracy theorist.
If every person, (and i mean everyone including those that won't do a thing until it affects them personally), played a part, albeit a small part in reducing their carbon usage then the larger carbon based entities would have to follow suit. There are just too many people in this world that say "I'm don't appear to be affected by this so i don't care about the others actually impacted by it".
Are implying a world conspiracy of all the worlds scientists (or 99%)? How much do you do towards environmental cleanliness, sounds like "not a lot" by your total bias against the report?
Sounds like you'd never ever believe it even if you were hit with a huge clue bat. So if you want to point all the lies in the report (with evidence of course) produced by 600+ scientists from around the world using 10000+ studies by 1000s of other scientists, please go ahead.
Trying to sound clever and objective by being totally negative doesn't help your cause. Neither does saying you have no affiliation to "evil oil companies" and other pollution producing industries, it implies you have sympathy for them.
The only politics in this argument is from the detractors who do not want a replacement energy system because it screws up their wallets.
"So, if someone said to you, "your house is likely to catch fire in the future", and then your house caught fire 15 years later, you'd be thinking "damnit! I was warned this would happen, I should have listened to that guy 15 years ago and moved"??"
if that person said it would catch fire in the future because of faulty wiring (or something else) then i'd fix the wiring.
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(1) Homosexuality is punishable by death according to the Leviticus 20:13, not just a sin, its a capital offence along with blasphemy
he should then stand up and make his reasons known why he donated to the "cause", he's now in a public role and that's what happens when you become a public figure that has dominion over others.
"Well then you should carefully measure your stand on this since we can already see in Europe, and its starting in the US, the use of various speech laws by gay activists to hammer others and deprive them of rights."
can you expand on "deprive them of rights"?
Apple is very gay, its a fashion icon manufacturer that appeals to the fashion victims
"And, before anyone pipes up that an individual belief is not the same as a corporate belief, a corporation is made up of humans." - only until the corp needs to pay its taxes in full and not find ways of avoiding it etc, then its a "corporation of no human characteristics"
how did he come out against Prop 8 when he donated money to it?
rebutting intolerance practised by others is not intolerance.
have you not observed the intolerance mandated and practised by religion for the last 1000's of years?
look and feel is still personal, try configuring the look and feel of Dolphin before moaning about it. I don;t like Unity colours, whats wrong with a task bar if it does the job you want it to do? again its all personal taste. every desktop is easy to use. click an icon it loads a program, thats the same for all DEs. if you prefer a DE that removes all the config from you then fine for you, don't diss other DEs because you have taste issues
if you insulated it properly then cooling as well as heating would be cheaper
" but nobody gives a shit about people in poor countries." - especially climate sceptics and deniers
Flooding is also detrimental to growing food as much as drought is detrimental.
Can you point to a list of names of the politicians that wrote the report, i'd be interested to see that.
the UN is worldwide, using scientists from around the world. In whose imagination is that "not world wide"
"the fact that the report itself shows that observed reality disagrees with the predictions presented is pretty fundamental." - now how did all those 600+ scientists miss that conclusion?
are they important climate scientists or people just trying to help?
"some believe the earth is flat and only 6k years old" - fortunately those idiots can be mostly ignored as they are not really dangerous but climate sceptics are idiots and potentially dangerous to the planet
"My old granny used to say you catch more flies with honey than vinegar" - you'd catch even more using shit
A lot more of the electricity generated is coming from clean renewable sources and as its new tech and thinking, its going to take a while to replace the ancient dirty tech.
if you did your bit and everyone else did their bit to reduce carbon use then it would happen quicker but there are too many selfish, lazy people with the "fuck it" attitude.
Most people can only see a few years ahead if you are lucky, but i think the majority of that group only see a few days ahead so its a difficult task to get people to think of others in future times
Nope, cynicism is not an argument for refuting the report.
1. ahh Kyoto - i guess you got your figures from the oil industry think tanks
2. If countries like the US actually voluntarily participated in climate measures i.e. did not listen to the huge pockets of the oil/pollution based industries, then maybe your fears of "international police" (as opposed to the self imposed American International Police that start wars everywhere in the pursuit of oil) would be unfounded. You appear to be a conspiracy theorist.
If every person, (and i mean everyone including those that won't do a thing until it affects them personally), played a part, albeit a small part in reducing their carbon usage then the larger carbon based entities would have to follow suit. There are just too many people in this world that say "I'm don't appear to be affected by this so i don't care about the others actually impacted by it".
Are implying a world conspiracy of all the worlds scientists (or 99%)? How much do you do towards environmental cleanliness, sounds like "not a lot" by your total bias against the report?
Sounds like you'd never ever believe it even if you were hit with a huge clue bat. So if you want to point all the lies in the report (with evidence of course) produced by 600+ scientists from around the world using 10000+ studies by 1000s of other scientists, please go ahead.
Trying to sound clever and objective by being totally negative doesn't help your cause. Neither does saying you have no affiliation to "evil oil companies" and other pollution producing industries, it implies you have sympathy for them.
The only politics in this argument is from the detractors who do not want a replacement energy system because it screws up their wallets.
"Instead it looks terrible," - thats your fault if you cannot configure a linux desktop to look good.
" is glitchy" - eh????
" and suffers so many usability issues" - eh????
PBUK me thinks
"So, if someone said to you, "your house is likely to catch fire in the future", and then your house caught fire 15 years later, you'd be thinking "damnit! I was warned this would happen, I should have listened to that guy 15 years ago and moved"??"
if that person said it would catch fire in the future because of faulty wiring (or something else) then i'd fix the wiring.
Taxis are the obvious first users of this system, would help to make the city less smelly