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by southern_cross 7y ago
"Greenland is currently losing 3bn tonnes of ice every day" What they aren't telling you here is that it isn't then losing 3bn tonnes of meltwater every day. Rather, most of the meltwater will stay pretty much where it i
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Turn off Javascript if you can, then reload the page.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Those two coal plants are only being run sporadically now, which probably means that they're being run as "peaking" plants, which is a very expensive mode of operation. A year or so ago TVA closed our local coal plant after r
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by southern_cross 7y ago
If ongoing risk from those ancient pathogens were anywhere close to being real, then every year when old glacial mountain ice melts and feeds the streams on which so many areas depend, there would also be serious disease outbreaks and epide
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Probably because extinctions aren't actually occurring at the rate they're being claimed to, that's why. Population collapse from large numbers down to much smaller numbers is one thing (and is probably what's really hap
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by southern_cross 7y ago
30 years ago I walked into a facility (in order to help them with some computer issues) and at the time their main production equipment was over 100 years old, but still going strong. (It had a "Made in 1875" nameplate on it.) The
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by southern_cross 7y ago
In the automotive world (and no doubt others), an awful lot of less-than-brand-new vehicles are kept running using salvaged parts, for the mechanical bits and the body and so on. And even in the computer world, in the old days it was nothin
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Statements like that ring a bit hollow considering the number of security patches that Microsoft has to provide on a ongoing basis for their most "modern" Windows OS, and the thousands to tens of thousands of potential holes still
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by southern_cross 7y ago
One thing that the IT world (being a field which is only a few decades old) is going to have to come to grips with is the fact that, in general, infrastructure doesn't necessarily get thrown out just because it has grown a bit long in
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Conveniently left out of reports like this is that while Greenland may have lost 2B tons of ice, it did not then lose 2B tons of the meltwater. Most of the meltwater will continue to sit there right where it is, and then turn back into ice
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> yes, if the temperature dropped back to where it was a few decades ago, and stayed there. Well, it may very well head back that way yet. (There are even some hints that this process may have already started, but it's far too soon
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Are there any sorts of future developments, either in temperature or new scientific research, that could persuade YOU either of those ideas is NOT mistaken and the anthropogenic global climate change danger position is NOT correct? I'm
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> I asked what you believe there because I think those who doubt it are ill-informed and biased, and so I doubt their arguments on renewables. For someone who has no real skin in the game (I'm a computer nerd, data-handling guy by t
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Well, don't forget that the name "Watson" applies to both Watson Sr. (who founded IBM but who had a somewhat less than stellar reputation, at least at first) and his son Watson Jr., who ran IBM himself for a great many years
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Glue traps (and similar) are a safe, effective, and pesticide-free way of taking care of various bug problems, so there's that. If you want to educate folks on more humane ways of taking care of mice and rats and such that's fine,
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by southern_cross 7y ago
OK, game over then. Bye now!
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> In the early 1990s Black served as the editor-in-chief for OS/2 Professional magazine and OS/2 Week and reported on OS/2 users and technology. He's a journalist, not a techie. Just because he did some tech reporting
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Renewables are probably going to "run out of steam", so to speak (that's a little bit of geothermal humor there) far sooner than most proponents think, for a variety of reasons. If you're well-informed on these matters t
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by southern_cross 7y ago
I don't believe I've actually "defended" IBM anywhere here. In fact, I stated that their response (their own defense) to the whole thing was quite weak, as I recall. But we're talking here about an article which cam
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> Interesting admission considering elsewhere in this thread you've twice admonished me for not having read it. Then you'd better freakin' get on it, huh? And remember I said to read not only the book but discussions and p
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Dude, as I explain in another comment, assigning such codes is mostly a clerical function, meaning that IBM or Dehomag or whoever didn't necessarily have a hand in it. I'm not saying that they didn't, but this doesn't pr
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by southern_cross 7y ago
A quick read of the linked article suggests that maybe the author is somewhat confused about the difference between writing "computer code(s)" (software), which often requires extensive skill, and the assignment of simple numerica
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by southern_cross 7y ago
The locals may have been pretty much oblivious to the actual inner workings of the camps, since I imagine they were kept well away from them by the soldiers. But I personally find it hard to believe that once the crematoria were fired up, t
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Anti-Semitism was pretty common in a lot of places at the time (it still is in some circles, you may note), and the whole idea of eugenics was kind of an "in" thing in much of the scientific community at the time, too. It wasn&#x2
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> If an American company was making and selling trains to Germany during the war specifically tailored for transporting people in large quantities knowing what they were using it for, then I imagine most people would see multiple issues
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by southern_cross 7y ago
I think I did (or maybe just parts of it), but I don't really remember because it came out back in 2001. I do recall reading a lot of discussion about the whole situation back then, and that IBM's response to it seemed rather weak
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by southern_cross 7y ago
I'm probably far more well-informed on the matter of renewables that you are. And I just read another article on so-called stranded assets and such, one which (IIRC) called out Shell as being a "leader" in moving away from fo
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by southern_cross 7y ago
But wasn't the later stuff done by Dehomag, the German subsidiary started by IBM? IBM's direct involvement in Germany apparently ended when the war started in 1941, although Dehomag kept using their equipment. Just because they us
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by southern_cross 7y ago
And the U.S., via its isolationist policy at the time, largely chose to just stay out of a war which was being fought "way over there" and which we had no direct interest in at the time. But then the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Not only did I read the article, but I'm pretty sure that I actually read the book when it first came out, or at least lots of discussion about it, from several angles. This isn't exactly "new" news, after all. It might

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