Central planning is the way forward, comrades. It only failed before because it wasn't done right. This time we shall surely prevail!
Da, tovarich! We must all aid Comrade FirstAsscent in his glorious battle against the evils of capitalism and the bourgeois carbon dioxide menace. Down with the wicked, imperialist sun! Forward into the darkness!  |
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LOL!
Dig deeper.
Been there, done that. Took home the trophy for top debater.  I've been completely on top of the climate issue since 1994. Ditto for overpopulation and the rest of the environmental catastophism topic areas. There's no argument for anthropogenic ManBearPig you can make that I haven't heard before and know the answer to. The sun heats the earth dude. The only other things that can change earth's climate are volcanoes and asteroids. Go peddle your scam somewhere else, nobody here is buying it. Bitcoiners like increasing freedom, not giving the governments of the world more power and control. I used to be like you, scared of ManBearPig and angry at mankind for not understanding how serial it all is. Then I grew up!  |
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I failed to mention a couple other effects:
- Changing precipitation patterns which vastly render existing agriculture unusable
- This increases costs
- Increased storm violence
I added the new post because I saw you were online, and you might not have seen it otherwise.
Here's a handy chart summarizing your very important findings!  |
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The Earth is warming though. There's not enough bad science to change that fact.
Citation please. Or it didn't happen. And if it did, blame the sun, not ManBearPig. What happened to global warming? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stmThis headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.  |
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- Glacier melt creates ice albedo feedback loops, This creates an accelerating warming.
- Glacier calving creates rising sea levels. It also changes ocean currents.
- Warming causes an ocean density decrease. This also creates rising sea levels.
- Warming causes species habitat relocation northwards in the northern hemisphere
- Warming causes species habitat relocation southwards in the southern hemisphere
- Habitat relocation causes annual movement equal to miles per year
- Annual movement in miles per year causes species to hit barriers
- Barriers are suburbs, bodies of water, uninhabitable terrain, etc.
- Barriers cause species extinction
- We are actually undergoing a species extinction rate at an unprecedented rate
- Extinctions destroy ecosystem services and trophic cascades
- All of life (including humanity) require ecosystem services to live
- Extinctions also result in information loss
- The information in question is genetic material, social systems, biological processes, biological structures, etc.
- This information drives technology in the form of research and development
- Potentials are: material science, computer science, medicine, engineering
A burgeoning human population of 7 billion plus people is ever more dependent on technology and future technology to properly survive, and have quality of life. If we destroy our ecosystem services, and continue with high extinction rates, it is analogous to bleeding like crazy.
If we destroy all the information that resides within biodiversity, the ultimate end is a vastly simplified planet, like a desert of sand. There's so much less information to tap in such a world. Our real wealth currently exists untapped in the rich complex state of life.
And I haven't even discussed all the other ecosystem services.
TL;DR:  ZOMGZ WEER ALL GONNA DIEEEEEEE!!! |
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Um, no. Teh voters do not (directly) control law school admission processes.  nice try at winning the "I'm a hero for sniffing a whiff of bigotry" prize though. |
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And let's not overlook this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/15/phil-jones-lost-weather-dataHacked climate emails: Phil Jones admits loss of weather data was 'not acceptable' The climate expert at the centre of a media storm over the release of emails onto the internet has admitted that he did not follow correct procedures over a key scientific paper.
In an interview with the science journal Nature, Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University East Anglia, admitted it was "not acceptable" that records underpinning a 1990 global warming study have been lost. tl;dr ManBearPig is a giant global scam, used to scare children and credulous adults into giving the government more of their money. |
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I'm confused. You are taking fabrication of a result as evidence that the result is not true.
Fabrication indicates that the researchers involved were either dishonest and/or incompetent.
If I find a dishonest and/or incompetent libertarian thinker can we assign libertarianism to the waste bin too?
Yes, you are confused. Specifically, about the nature and scope of the ClimateGate fiasco. You must understand that the ClimateGate critique, of politicized agendas masquerading as science, indicts everything it touches. You must also understand that in real, proper Science presumption is negative and thus the burden of proof is on those who Truly Believe that ManBearPig is super serial. It wasn't just the "result" that was fabricated. Data was intentionally and illegally withheld from the US/UK taxpayers who paid for it, in violation of our respective Freedom of Information Acts and the spirit of the peer-review process. Your attempt at damage control, spinning to minimize ClimateGate's impact, fails: Climategate: the trashy Australian data http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_global_warming_conspiracy_the_trashy_australian_dataA question: what does this say about the data used by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology about their own predictions of warming catastrophe? From CBS News: In addition to (the leaked CRU) e-mail messages, the roughly 3,600 leaked documents posted on sites including Wikileaks.org and EastAngliaEmails.com include computer code and a description of how an unfortunate programmer named “Harry”—possibly the CRU’s Ian “Harry” Harris—was tasked with resuscitating and updating a key temperature database that proved to be problematic. Some excerpts from what appear to be his notes, emphasis added:
I am seriously worried that our flagship gridded data product is produced by Delaunay triangulation - apparently linear as well. As far as I can see, this renders the station counts totally meaningless. It also means that we cannot say exactly how the gridded data is arrived at from a statistical perspective - since we’re using an off-the-shelf product that isn’t documented sufficiently to say that. Why this wasn’t coded up in Fortran I don’t know - time pressures perhaps? Was too much effort expended on homogenisation, that there wasn’t enough time to write a gridding procedure? Of course, it’s too late for me to fix it too. Meh.
I am very sorry to report that the rest of the databases seem to be in nearly as poor a state as Australia was. There are hundreds if not thousands of pairs of dummy stations, one with no WMO and one with, usually overlapping and with the same station name and very similar coordinates. I know it could be old and new stations, but why such large overlaps if that’s the case? Aarrggghhh! There truly is no end in sight… So, we can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!
Dr. von Storch, now at the University of Hamburg’s Meteorological Institute, said Monday that the behavior outlined in the hacked emails went too far… East Anglia researchers ”violated a fundamental principle of science,” he said, by refusing to share data with other researchers. “They built a group to do gatekeeping, which is also totally unacceptable,” he added Climategate: Why it matters The scandal we see and the scandal we don't http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/crugate_analysis/Reading the Climategate archive is a bit like discovering that Professional Wrestling is rigged. You mean, it is? Really? The archive - a carefully curated 160MB collection of source code, emails and other documents from the internal network of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia - provides grim confirmation for critics of climate science. But it also raises far more troubling questions. The allegations over the past week are fourfold: that climate scientists controlled the publishing process to discredit opposing views and further their own theory; they manipulated data to make recent temperature trends look anomalous; they withheld and destroyed data they should have released as good scientific practice, and they were generally beastly about people who criticised their work. We serious, reputable scientists simply cannot give credence to any data emerging from the murky manipulated depths of the pseudoscience known as folk climatology! "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
- Dr Phil Jones, disgraced former head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. |
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Here's my guess, in a week we'll probably look back at this dump as setting the direction of the response to the block halving.
Could be. But the dump happened around the same time as a glitch at Kitco made it seem like gold and silver had dropped by something like 2+%.  I think somebody sold those BTC to try and buy that dip. If so, bet they're pissed it was was just a fake flash crash. |
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iCEBREAKER has sent me a code for each of the 3 Steam games he is selling. The codes worked perfectly, and I encountered no problems when activating them on my Steam account.
I highly recommend buying games from iCEBREAKER, since his prices are very affordable, and he is a legitimate seller.
Thanks for the nice review b!z! |
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- Midnight Sunday morning, UTC-time we'll stop issuing new loyalty points on the "protected" pool.
Are you going to update the OP to reflect the end of loyalty points?  |
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TO: statesattorney@cookcountyil.govDear Miss Alvarez, I was very pleased to read that you have lost your ill-conceived Supreme Court appeal seeking to destroy long established First Amendment protections for any citizens unfortunate enough to live under your oppressive jurisdiction. Perhaps you should have taken your Oath of Office seriously and re-examined your poor understanding of the spirit and letter of the US Constitution, instead of wasting tax money on a fruitless quest to lick the jackboots of our nascent police state. I honestly can't believe anyone with such terrible judgement and ignorance of the law could earn a legal degree, much less rise to an office of prominence! You, Anita Alvarez, are a superb example of how race and gender based affirmative action are doing a disservice to our country by allowing eminently unqualified individuals such as yourself to occupy positions where your manifest incompetence becomes not only a waste of time and money, but threatens our very freedoms and liberties. The McLean County State’s Attorney, Jason Chambers, made no such ridiculous mistake and thus will not suffer your humiliating embarrassment. Of course Mr. Chambers is a white male who was required to work for his job qualifications, unlike you, a Hispanic female affirmative action baby of dubious intelligence and demonstrated hostility toward freedom of speech. Good day Miss! -iCEBREAKER |
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Why can't Keynesians go make their own currency so they can stop trolling?
Keynesians already have dozens of (fake fiat trash) currencies. The dollar, euro, yen, and yuan are the most prominent examples. They come here to hate because they're jealous.  |
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You believe AGW is happening or not?
"AGW?" Puh-leez....AGW is old and busted. Because ClimateGate. The new hotness is ACC. Because if the weather changes, ManBearPig is real. Do try and keep up:  CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/crus_source_code_climategate_r.htmlAs the evidence of fraud at the University of East Anglia's prestigious Climatic Research Unit (CRU) continues to mount, those who've been caught green-handed continue to parry their due opprobrium and comeuppance, thanks primarily to a dead-silent mainstream media. But should the hubris and duplicity evident in the e-mails of those whose millennial temperature charts literally fuel the warming alarmism movement somehow fail to convince the world of the scam that's been perpetrated, certainly these revelations of the fraud cooked into the computer programs that create such charts will. Bottom line: CRU's evidence is now irrevocably tainted. As such, all assumptions based on that evidence must now be reevaluated and readjudicated. And all policy based on those counterfeit assumptions must also be reexamined. Gotcha. We know they've been lying all along, and now we can prove it. It's time to bring sanity back to this debate. The emails are damning enough to global warming believers but the source code that was also leaked from the servers of the now disgraced Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the East Anglia University in England are far more damaging. http://oneutah.org/environment/global-warming/climategate-source-code-more-damning-than-emails/;
; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
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yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
(…)
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; APPLY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION
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yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj valadj is an array that if we plug in the numbers we get Michael Mann’s hockeystick. The programmers have hard coded a predetermined result. “We can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!”
- source code comment for the HADCRUT temperature set Sigh. I suppose it's a Good Thing that Occutards like FA are increasingly infesting even this former bastion of rationality. That indicates word about Bitcoin is spreading among the Max Kremlin lefty airhead types. So in the spirit of ecumenity, welcome to the real world FA! May Satoshi bless you in the future with less ignorance and greater understanding. |
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he speaks alot about bitcoin. and was featured at the london bitcoin conference 2012.
but sometimes he does go crazy with silly sheep noises. so although entertaining. it does taint his professionalism at times
Max is a professional entertainer. He is not a professional Serious Financial Journalist Guy. He's great on bitcoins and anti-banksterism in general, but never forget his criticism is coming from the hard left; he's no libertarian. Max believes in ManBearPig and several other liberal hobgoblins that tarnish his otherwise sterling credibility. Nevertheless I like it when he gets all worked up ala Alex Jones and starts ranting. Stacy finds it amusing and that's all that matters! |
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anyone actually try calling the number on their website? lol
  "Hello operator? I'd like to speak with the internet please." "Is this a nerd drama emergency? I'll put you straight through to the Bitcoin Police!" |
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I don't know how but I accidentally the entire Hashpower.  Was just trying to deselect "offline only" and now the mining worker won't save info for any offline pool (coinlab, guild, or slush). Maybe this has something to do with the 10k share buy that hasn't been processed? Edit: Worker1 is still processing leased shares, but still won't save any settings for an offline pool.  |
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I must thank all of you deniers...  "Deniers?" Thanks for finally Godwinning this stupid thread. When you have to imply those who disagree with you are neo-Nazis, you lose! That's internet code. |
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Are they region locked?
Good question! *reads fine print* http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/graphics/Pages/triple-bundle-terms-and-conditions.aspxsays: Residents of any country in which distribution of the Game are not available*, prohibited by law or export restrictions are not eligible. This includes, but is not limited to, residents of Cuba, East Timor, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, North Korea, Kosovo, Libya, Marwill Islands, Myanmar, Syria, South Sudan, and Sudan. and: * LIST OF COUNTRIES WHERE GAMES ARE NOT AVAILABLE
"AX" "ALAND ISLANDS"
"AS" "AMERICAN SAMOA"
"AI" "ANGUILLA"
"AQ" "ANTARCTICA"
"AW" "ARUBA"
"BM" "BERMUDA"
"BV" "BOUVET ISLAND"
"IO" "BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY"
"KY" "CAYMAN ISLANDS"
"CN" "CHINA"
"CX" "CHRISTMAS ISLAND"
"CC" "COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS"
"CK" "COOK ISLANDS"
"CI" "COTE D'IVOIRE"
"FK" "FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)"
"FO" "FAROE ISLANDS"
“GF" "FRENCH GUIANA"
"PF" "FRENCH POLYNESIA"
"TF" "FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES"
"GI" "GIBRALTAR"
"GL" "GREENLAND"
"GP" "GUADELOUPE"
"GU" "GUAM"
"GG" "GUERNSEY"
"HM" "HEARD AND MC DONALD ISLANDS"
"HK" "HONG KONG"
"JE" "JERSEY"
"MO" "MACAU"
"MH" "MARSHALL ISLANDS"
"MQ" "MARTINIQUE"
"YT" "MAYOTTE"
"MS" "MONTSERRAT"
"NA" "NAMIBIA"
"AN" "NETHERLANDS ANTILLES"
"NC" "NEW CALEDONIA"
"NU" "NIUE"
"NF" "NORFOLK ISLAND"
"MP" "NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS"
“PS" "PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED"
"PN" "PITCAIRN"
"PR" "PUERTO RICO"
"RE" "REUNION"
“SH" "SAINT HELENA"
"PM" "SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON"
"GS" "SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS"
"SJ" "SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN"
"TL" "TIMOR-LESTE"
"TK" "TOKELAU"
"TC" "TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS"
"UM" "UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS"
"VG" "VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH"
"VI" "VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S."
“WF" "WALLIS AND FUTUNA"
"EH" "WESTERN SAHARA" Bouvet Island? WTF? Nobody lives there except penguins and sea lions! |
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