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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
In fairness, the title says "carbon", not "carbon dioxide". The article itself fingers methane, though, which is even worse. Not that the title here isn't quite misleading enough, of course - it's just not misleading in that particular way.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Which kind of suggests that the future of every planet with life on it is runaway global warming, doesn't it? So what, we should stop trying to regulate our emissions because we're facing certain doom anyway? Well, according to the articl
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Isn't one timesink enough?
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Is there a list of these somewhere? Which ones would you recommend?
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
But for those of us who've been online since before Netscape was founded, email seems natural and adaptable (it can be either formal or informal). Having said which, the usefulness of email has been quite eroded by the small number of socio
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
About the only advantage of the lack of democracy in the European Commission is that it's very difficult to buy people who have security of tenure... I don't know that the term "stunning" is wholly appropriate (yes, I know it was Yahoo's ch
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
I think the thing you're meant to do is the thing you find yourself unable to walk away from. For Lincoln that appears to have been politics.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Er, what's arrogant or critical about correcting a misconception (that The Fountainhead was based on Lloyd Wright's life) with a reference? As to Lloyd Wright's skills as an architect (if that's what "superficial, critical statements about
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
www.digitalgunfire.com, cheese on toast, and instant coffee. (Every so often I think "real coffee is great! I must drink more of it", but as a result I'm building up a collection of filthy abandoned coffee makers...)
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
I don't know; I was quite tickled to find myself described as a BOFH...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Possibly he also rides subway to catch the mood of the passengers, which makes him a politician with a clue.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
I've already got one of those, and I'm nowhere near rich...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Turns out that the problem isn't concurrency per se , but shared mutable memory that an attacking process can sneak in and rewrite before the kernel reads it - and any schoolchild knows that if someone can sneak in and scribble all over so
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
vi - preferably elvis, because I'm a contrarian (and it comes as standard with Slackware)
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
> i'm a schizophrenic ...your interface to reality is unreliable?
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Admittedly it wasn't a very good joke. I could have put it a lot better.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Er, not from inside my tummy, though I have no shortage of allergies.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
In any case, competition - and therefore the market - is necessarily a collective endeavour. You can't come second in a race with only one participant (well, except for some snobbish cake competitions in tiny English parishes).
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Hmm. It looks as though someone's systematically downed every comment of mine they could get to in this thread. If so, that someone should be ashamed of themselves.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Right. You know, finally I did what one of us should have done some 8 or 9 messages back - I went and checked what you actually wrote: > the popularity of her books suggests otherwise [my emphasis] In other words, you weren't actual
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Yes, it is a non sequitur, in that it doesn't follow from the given premises. All that does follow is that one can't determine whether she's a good writer just because she's popular.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Which, given that there's lots of omega 3 in cat food, works out nicely during the pre-funding phase. ;)
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
I had a similar situation just recently - only worse; when I suddenly became aware that I was dreaming, I thought "ah, a lucid dream! So I can do what I want here? Cool... what do I want to do...? Er... er... er... oh bugger I'm waking up n
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
That, and that when it was pointed out, his response was a non sequitur in the purest sense. Anyone who claims the mantle of rationality ought to have a better grasp of basic logic than that.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
That's one explanation, and possibly not the best...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
(You guys do get that I'm joking, right...?)
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Actually, I was thinking about this on the way into Sheffield, and I was wrong to use the term "the pain we cause"; I think what I actually mean is "the pain we have the means to prevent", which does encompass cause, but also covers thing
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Probably not, no, since one of the tests of quality is timelessness.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
You said "popularity => talent" (ie. !popularity \/ talent = T). You also said "Rand has popularity". I presented two cases where I assert popularity /\ !talent = T, ie. !popularity \/ talent = F, to show that !(popularity =&#62
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Yes, but Jeffrey Archer and Jackie Collins are popular .

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