[quote who="psychoak" reply="408" id="3400388"] Read what you post. geoscientists (a category of licensure that includes climatologists, geologists, glaciologists, meteorologists, geophysicists, and paleo-climatologists)[/quote] PPS-IF we are going to starting ranking the types of scientists who should or should not be speaking on CLIMATE change, I would think that the atmospheric scientists' opinions should have greater weight the
[quote who="heft" reply="3" id="3400351"] I am ashamed to say that I don't know how to make a backup bootable... Any hints on how to do that? [/quote] If you didn't ask the question, I was going to Heft :). Thanks guys. Doc...great advice again, as usual :).
[quote who="psychoak" reply="404" id="3400356"] You are factually inaccurate in a great many ways, regularly. A survey of a thousand people is indeed a survey. Surveys are small cross sections of a wider group. There are surveys taken of the national voting base that number less than the one you're trying to pretend doesn't count, and they have margins of error well within the realm of useful. Direct from Forb
[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="397" id="3400301"] Quoting flagyl, reply 388Did you read the IPCC's summary released on the 27th? Did you see how they took the time to quantify the degree of consensus and the quality of the research? I thinks they already are. Sure did! But then the scientist in me got my spider senses tingling. What is the basis for their certainty? They offered no supporting data, no qualifying degree. Nothing. If you
[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="395" id="3400295"] Quoting flagyl, reply 366(I presented you with the position statements of SCIENTIFIC associations. organizations and academies. Not Forbes and opinion articles). No, So did I, Science organizations are not data, nor research. nor do they create one or do the other. If you bother to check the links you will find them all sourced to the appropriate papers. I suggest you check the links b
I'm sure you guys have heard of life hacks (ie-putting loose cords into toilet paper rolls, using a can opener to open blister packaging or painting the top of keys that look similar all a different color so you can identify them). I was wondering if anyone has any PC life hacks that they wanted to share. I'm sure that over the years, you guys have come up with some clever schemes to maintain a happy computing life :).
A society of geologists are lobbyists? Redefine "scientist" as "lobbyist" and then you can dismiss anything they say as an attempt to manipulate policy. The trick, of course, is to convince someone that a scientist is a lobbyist (without any proof, of course...just a strawman attack). I'm sure that line of reasoning is effective, depending on the target that one is trying to manipulate. That's why it is used so often.
[quote who="Fistalis" reply="29" id="3400024"] Blunt honesty and lack of political correctness and/or diplomatic tact. I personally find those traits quite endearing [/quote] Situationally, yes. In general, no.
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="388" id="3399953"] Quoting flagyl, reply 387That is, they are willing to base their professional reputations on this opinion. Now, there's a big whup. Methinks it would be better if they worried about basing their professional reputations on the quality of their research, contra their 'opinions'.[/quote] Did you read the IPCC's summary released on the 27th? Did you see how they took the time to
[quote who="myfist0" reply="386" id="3399948"] Quoting flagyl, reply 384Perhaps you could look at the very long list I posted in post #348 which lists over 50 scientific societies that agree that warming is due to humans OK, I bit I looked at the 1st one AAAS, they had many regular articles up to Aug 2012 then stopped. The last one was by Alan I. Leshner who is a psychologist. WTF? And he quotes, as so many of these articles do, a panel of 'exp
[quote who="psychoak" reply="383" id="3399897"] Perhaps you could read the actual study and verify the information yourself? Both the study and the source you jumped at to avoid having to read it are excellently documented. The material is readily available for your perusal. It's a simple matter to look at positively classified papers written by skeptics that got a magic proponent label. Regardless, if they classified every paper accura
[quote who="erischild" reply="1" id="3399894"] Can you raze a city when you capture it? I play defensively. The one time I ended up invading others, I found myself swamped by unhappiness due to number of cities. [/quote] Yes, you can raze any structure in the world; your cities as well as cities that are captured. I believe that the unrest due to an outside occupying force goes down by a certain percentage each turn. Depending on your stra
[quote who="psychoak" reply="381" id="3399886"] http://skepticalscience.com/97-percent-consensus-cook-et-al-2013.html I was bored, I did a google search. Basically, they asked if Humans have cause some global warming, then mislabeled everyone's papers based on their responses. This is an obvious question, and I'm surprised anyone could seriously answer no. Urban amplification alone means we obviously contribute to the temperature, t
[quote who="psychoak" reply="378" id="3399879"] If you read the thread, you'd know which study was being referred to. I'm okay with regurgitating information a few times over in threads, but this particular subtopic came up repeatedly already and there are numerous links throughout the multiple discussions on it. It's entertaining stuff anyway, you shouldn't be skipping to the last page in a months old thread.[/quote]
[quote who="psychoak" reply="371" id="3399800"] He's referencing debunked studies because the idiots that did it actually disproved their own findings. One group did an absolutely massive study on peer reviewed work, the gold standard you yahoos always talk about in your diatribes whenever someone points out that the entire body of evidence has been doctored. It was quite the impressive study, they went through an ungodly number of papers, and cl
Does this help? http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us It seems that there is a method where your driver status can be checked via the browser (I also use the nVidia Experience, but I have desktop, so I am not as concerned about resources being used. I can understand your not wanting to clutter up your laptop. Can I also suggest CCleaner to keep your laptop clutter fr
[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="361" id="3399707"] Quoting Krazikarl, reply 346"the overwhelming majority of scientists" Um, ever heard of the Oregon Petition? Over 31,000 is not "small percentage". [/quote] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition#Criticism
[quote who="psychoak" reply="353" id="3399675"] Karl, basically you're going over previously shredded points that have zero basis in fact, or are just purposefully misleading statements. The 97% support for AGW among scientists is a lie, pure and simple. A group took peer reviewed papers, discounted everything but the ones that picked a side, and among that fraction of a percent of the papers, they had 97% support for AGW. It&#
1)The IPCC is not scrambling to explain anything at this point. The full report will be released in due time. What everyone is buzzing about is a leaked summary (leaked by a climate change denier, by the way named Alex Rawls, who is/was part of the IPCC), not the full report. The summary of the first part of the four part report will be released on Sept 27th. The fourth and final part of the study, the Synthesis Report is due to be released in October 2014 What is
While I do not know how good of a recording app it is, you can use VLC to record your on-screen activities. http://www.wikihow.com/Screen-Capture-to-File-Using-VLC
Thanks for responding guys. I guess I should clarify. When I say "fun", I mean something more along the lines of friendly competition...like playing a game of 21 on the basketball court. Guy time, I guess...not for entertainment, but to compete without the added stress that comes along with formal competition. That said, if I had to choose, I would rather be serious about it and study/practice in such a way that allowed me to protect my loved ones
