"speed kill and don't let anyone fool you with subjective journalism."
Did you actually watch the video?
"speed kill and don't let anyone fool you with subjective journalism."
Did you actually watch the video?
Here's something that will really bake people's noodles: Some have suggested that temperature changes have occurred before increase in CO2 - that is, that temp change causes CO2 change, and not vice versa. Take a look at the Rutan link I posted above if you don't believe me.
the links eventually go dead with no apology or retraction whatsoeverMaybe the Wayback Machine would have something?
Pop quiz: Who will get the most from the "solutions" to "climate chaos"?
What about the good stuff? Honestly, sometimes I worry about "what if those guys are right?" But as mentioned above, that's just emotion, really. It's an example of humanity's love for end of the world doomsday stuff. Once I go back and look at their case, it all falls apart.Exactly. Humans have learned to adapt to extreme conditions in the past. To believe that we couldn't adapt to "extreme" temperature changes is, well, extremely stupid.So doing things that are going to make us worse off (ethanol, cap and trade, solar boondoggles) just makes me angry and sad.
You where able to copy/paste text so you did 75% of the work already ... just select text and hit the reply button.Ah, but mobile Dizzcurse gives no visual indication of this when you highlight text. When one's first experience with Dickers is via desktop, one might expect that indication on mobile also. But thank you for the edification.
I'm not sure what the sea ice on Antarctica a billion years ago has to do with refuting the claim that "Arctic ice drastically increased in the last few years."I'm saying that on a geologic timescale, ten years is nothing. The Proterozoic era, when free oxygen in the atmosphere was sufficient for lifeforms to develop, started around 2.5 billion years ago. Even the Phanerozoic era, which is when abundant animal life existed, began ca. 542 million years ago. Ten divided by 542 million equals 1.845E-8. You can have as many temperature, CO2 or ice area data points as you want, but a decade's worth simply isn't a representative sample when you consider geologic timescale.
I don't see "let's work to prevent this possible significant humanitarian problem" as arguing from emotionYou had stated above:[quote=EvanED]OK, now the concessions: I am probably less convinced than the
Concession 2 is that I'm also not convinced that the predictions are
going to be very accurate. I recently listened to the audiobook version
of Nate Silvers The Signal and the Noise, and that reinforced
that point of view; actual climatologists are often fairly skeptical of
the models as well. There's a lot of uncertainty to it.[/quote]Perhaps, the better way to say it would be that you're working off a hunch. You think that if we don't do something, climate chaos will continue to get worse. That's all well and good - go ahead and act on it on your own behalf, by installing your own solar panels or whatever. However, if you then take that hunch and advocate for increased cost of living for everyone in the short to medium term - not just for privileged white people, but for the Third World, most of which would rather live and work in something more energy-intensive than mud huts - then kindly fuck off.
lolwhat:Wait, what was that you said? Mobile Dicksores is shit for quoting.
Hey look, I don't know how to quote
"My wife is an atmospheric chemist. That fact has made reading this thread very amusing."
Well, then, let's hear what she finds amusing about it.
Apparently Nigeria is shitting bricks because we just stopped buying oil from them, mainly due to our increase in production.
a modern coal plant powering an electric stoveWe shouldn't be lighting coal on fire. Instead, we should be "burning" the thorium from coal in LFTR's. We should also use the abundant energy generated by LFTR's to liquefy the non-thorium part of the coal - and recycle used plastic!!! - into gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum products. While we're at it, we should also use that abundance of energy from LFTR's to build and run water desalination plants by the shitload. Let's see, that covers energy independence, skewering of Big Oil, less pollution (including that eeeeeeeeevil CO2 that plants need, but anyway), clean water by the metric fuckton... I think that would do nicely. By the way, China's on this path already...
The reason I think we need to act is that, from my perspective, the potential costs of not doing something and being wrong in that decision are far, far higher than the costs of acting.IOW, you're making an argument based on emotion. And, if we're planning to spend billions of dollars on your feelings, let's have Al Gore sell all of his worldly possessions first, including his shiny digs.
"Note the continuing downward trend in Antarctic land ice during the last decade." Right, because the Earth has existed for only a decade, and not several billion years...
So, @codinghorror, when do you plan to put full language/culture names in the drop-down?
If a conviction prevents you from getting an accounting job, I've heard you can always apply for the Secretary of the Treasury position instead.And as an added bonus, you can cheat on your taxes, blame tax prep software when you get called on it, and get a light tap on the wrist. America, Fuck Yeah!
No, people actually believe that.Oh, I know.
If all the people that did think that, volunteered, we'd be halfway there.And there's the rub. They always want someone else to get the shaft - not always themselves.
If we can work out a way to reduce our replacement rate until the world human population settles to somewhere between a third and a half of what it is right now, our descendants will probably have much better lives than if we can't.Not sure if trolling.
I thought there were other ingredients (e.g., tellurium) in shorter supplyYep, there are. Guess who has the vast majority of those deposits? And they aren't called rare earth elements because they have a cold red center.
I'll just leave this right here:
Yeah. That Burt Rutan.
Last I checked, most panels cost about $6/Watt. That's not counting batteries, inverters, wiring, miscellaneous hardware (you can't glue those things on to your shingles, obviously) and so on.And let's not forget where they're made - just like everything else these days, it seems. What's used to generate the electricity to make all those panels? Uh huh. Of course, it's instructive to note what that country is planning to do in order to switch away from burning coal. Hint: Coal contains quite a bit of one particular radioactive isotope...
[quote=Frostcat]the only way the rest of your post makes sense is if you believe that a tiny increase in a tiny component of the atmosphere will have drastic consequences, in which case I ask you where's the global warming the last 18 years or so?[/quote]Well, shit, next you'll tell us that the number of sunspots is correlated with power output from the Sun, and there's a rather strong correlation between that and climate chaos! WHERE DOES SUCH MADNESS END?!?!?!1111eleven
Yeah, uh, most of the posts are totally blank here, too. Because Discourse?
In your own .csproj's, drop in some SpecificVersion elements:
<Reference Include="blah.blah.blah, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0123456789abcdef, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
</Reference>
If you're willing to pay a little extra for shipping, I can PM a link to buy it online.Hey now, I thought sales were done for the year. (Den Leader here.)
The girl scouts camp out in front of every grocery store in the area, but I've never seen the boy scouts selling anywhere.Generally, the girls have stay-at-home moms, while the boys have working dads. Some boys have dads who are managers and can nudge their underlings into buying 'corn.
If I were hired as a cryptocurrency developer, I'd probably end up making a hash of things.Aaaaaaand @Groaner lives up to his name. Well played, sir.
Some people think they aren't a part of nature and that laws of nature / physics / economics / mathematics / logic don't apply to them and that you should feel guilty for anything you do that makes them uncomfortable.But hamburger meat comes from unicorns, amirite?!?
Don't worry, it'll be super-duper-awesome when we get single-payer "health" "care."
Pendanted that for you. Modern roundabouts are not the same as traffic circles or rotaries!I learn something new every day: http://www.alaskaroundabouts.com/mythfact1.html
Several municipalities near me (Midwestern US) have bought into roundabouts / rotaries / traffic circles / circuses / whateverthefuck in a big way over the past few years. Personally, I think they're great, but you can spot an out-of-towner by the look of fear on his face as he negotiates one with two lanes.
[quote=Buddy]On the other hand, my personal feeling is that it's not particularly unusual for the people who are responsible for your healthcare to want to get involved in your health.[/quote]No, I'm pretty sure that individuals are responsible for their own health care...
We have plenty of "suicide lanes" here in the States. The ones I've seen are for left turns only, typically; you're not supposed to drive on them for longer stretches.
Some roads also have reversible lanes; however, traffic is allowed to travel in only one direction, and there are prominent signals to indicate which direction traffic is allowed to travel in the lanes. For example, one such lane near me allows travel toward downtown during morning rush hour, and travel away from downtown during evening rush hour.
Ahhh. Corporate security. I guess that just means no hooking up my personal phone to the company mailserver.Or get a phone that has a firewall (at the hardware level, no less) between corporate and personal stuff. Who's that? It's that one company that everyone thinks is going bankrupt.
Nobody cares about whichever compromising photos of your 16-year-old self cosplaying a leek from Leekspin they have on their multi-petabyte servers.Uh huh. By the way, sir, I see that you've been to a cathouse in Vegas several times. Well, sure, the last time was ten years ago, but you were married at the time. You wouldn't want the public to know about this, right - especially your wife and kids? Just consider that, Senator, when that surveillance bill comes up for a vote tomorrow.
until some company like Google or Apple decides to "revolutionize theNeither Google nor Apple has made security and privacy top priority for any of their products and services. You expect me to trust a "smart home" run by either of them? You're Jerry fucking Seinfeld!
world" again by being the first ones to release (and publicize) a product that's not pure shit
A simple example can be seen in the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen, a reaction commonly used to fuel rocket engines:
2H2(g) + O2(g) → 2H2O(g)
@morbiuswilters said:
Was that a joke?Actually, no. Despite all the bullshit you'll hear on Arse Technica and the other iOS/Android fanboi / "BlackBerry is teh ghey" sites, BB10 is for people who want a device that, you know, lets you get shit done on it without getting in the fucking way.
@morbiuswilters said:
I would gladly abandon the god-awful Android app marketplace for a smartphone that was good at email, web browsing and using as a phone.*cough* BlackBerry 10 *cough*
@da Doctah said:
Nah, Lotus 1-2-3 is where it's at.Screw this. I'm going back to VisiCalc.
@morbiuswilters said:
@Shinhan7 said:Yeah, uh, either Horrizon or the Death Star (whichever crap LEC you have) should be able to give you a dry loop for DSL (aka naked DSL), which is DSL sans phone service.The only reason I bought phone service in my new apartment was so I could get ADSL.They don't offer naked DSL where you live?