2011-02-02, 17:51 | Link #11802 |
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Feds Tackle Sports-Streaming Pirate Sites
"The U.S. government seized 10 domains connected to broadcasting professional
sports Wednesday as part of a widespread crackdown on internet piracy. The court-ordered seizures, as part of the government’s Operation in Our Sites, are aimed at web sites that sell counterfeited goods, as well as sites that facilitate illegal music, film and broadcasting-rights piracy. The move comes days before one of the world’s biggest sporting events, the Super Bowl this Sunday." See: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...sports-piracy/ |
2011-02-02, 17:56 | Link #11803 | |
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Whether we are the cause or not, we certainly need to be doing what we can to mitigate the impacts. And its pretty clear we're not (ranging from better planning on where to build houses, assessing growth impact on ecosystems, building-to-get-along-with-nature rather than defying it, you name it). Humans often can't even agree on whether a sidewalk would be a good thing for the school children because someone doesn't want to help pay for it. I figure we're totally fscked on a planetary scale
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2011-02-02, 22:22 | Link #11804 |
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I'm going to argue in favor of AGW-tied global climate change, but as a disclaimer Al Gore is the reason I haven't watched Futurama or the Simpsons in years. He's also why I laugh whenever I hear "Nobel Peace Prize". Earlier records of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) can be historically tracked through ice core samples drilled in the Antarctic. IIRC, the top end of samples reaches 800.000 yrs, and looking at the trapped gasses and the state of isotopes inside allow factors like temperature variation to be tracked and correlated to global conditions. These records are viable because the snow that's fallen and compressed to ice trapped air samples as well as various particulate matter drifting around at the time. From these samples we have been able to get a tangible record of historic CO2 levels along with other GHGs, and comparing this to recent history we know we've been letting out more gas than would be present during the natural cycle. If you want me to write something up explaining how this ties in to anthropogenic sources of GHGs, I'll do that. I think what opponents of AGW tend to forget is water vapor's properties in atmospheric heat transport and its role as positive feedback GHG, and the role of oceans as a huge reservoir for the extra energy that AGW induced global warming is supposedly building up. If you want me to write up something on water vapor and ocean temperatures/currents, and bring up associations with more energetic weather patterns I'll see what I can throw together. There is no smoking gun of course, but we have many observable changes in atmospheric GHG composition that can be tied to anthropogenic activities, and we have ice core samples to let us reasonably believe why this is out of sync with a "natural" timeline with much less anthropogenic intensive inputs. |
2011-02-02, 22:25 | Link #11805 | ||
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The three sources you're referring to are probably East Anglia, NOAA, and I assume GISS? After the final analysis of the hottest years of the last decade came in, the temperature difference between 2005 and 2010 was only .018 degrees F (.01C). http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20110113/ While that may sound important, it's not as fantastic as it seems. Considering how Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" has been proven to be erroneous, it's clear that the Medieval Warming period had temps which matched the current temperatures. http://www.worldclimatereport.com/in...1998-2005-rip/ That's relevent because the NOAA information you linked to only deals with the last 130 years (approx.), not the last 1000. It's also reporting on the average of the mean temps of air, sea, and land from around the world. Even GISS admits it has flaws. Does that completely discredit AGW? No, I don't think it does. What it does do is bring AGW into proper perspective rather than making it into the ManBearPig of Al Gore. AGW may very well be a contributing factor in the current climate changes going on, but not the only (or even major) factor. As GISS director James Hansen said: Quote:
I also said it was the Northern Hemisphere that is experiencing one of the coldest winters on record, and it is. http://www.skepticalscience.com/Dece...old-spells.htm I said nothing about the Southern Hemisphere. I said Anthropogenic Global Warming (Al Gore's version of it) is a farce, NOT global warming itself. The Heliogenic model of Global Warming (the sun causing Global warming) is far more likely a major (if not the major) factor considering the amount of energy it is capable of giving off towards the Earth. http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm NASA's Goddard Institute has only just recently started exploring the effects of the Sun on our climate. From 2003: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/...rradiance.html Over the last 100 years the Sun has caused considerable change in the temps of our little planet. http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/wi...unclimate.html On top of this is the effects of the Earth's procession or global wobble. http://global-warming.accuweather.co...ate_cha_1.html Then there's the proven effect of Vulcanism: http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...anoes-affect-w The combinations of these three natural causes of global climate change are considerable and take a collectively large chunk out of what is perceived to be man-made or anthropogenic global warming. Whether or not hydro-carbons from industrialization have exacerbated this phenomena to the extent the IPCC claims is not easily discernable due to whole issue getting politicized. Too much of the climate data over the last thirty years has yielded to political interests (yes the so called "Climategate" did expose some of this) and thus much of it must be considered corrupted by individuals willing to do so for political and financial gain, Al Gore being chief among these. The IPCC itself admits to considerably large mistakes they've made in their own claims about the effects of man on global climate. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8467480.stm Therefore, only a reactionary would be willing to focus their energies on a claim put forward by individuals (scientists or not) who have been proven to be at least in error, whether honestly or not is debatable. That is why I think it best to focus not on the bogeyman of AGW, but rather on the problem that is clearly undeniable...period, no science necessary. When China has rivers that litterally turn red and foamy due to pollution, you know there's a problem. That was my point BTW. We don't need ManBearPig to get people to recognize there's a problem with pollution and a need to move to cleaner, cheaper, sources of fuel (like Hydrogen for example). Many major car manufacturers already have working concept vehicles that use hydrogen gas. Call me an anti-corporate bastard all you want, but methinks that the Oil Cartels are hedging their bets and playing both sides of the AGW debate. An international Cap and Trade commodities market could make for one heck of a nice addition to the DOW Jones industrial and thus a lot of coroprate investors very happy. James Hansen (in an op-ed for the NYT) apparently agrees with me. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/07hansen.html
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2011-02-02, 23:37 | Link #11806 | |
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Top Gear BBC gets into polemic after Mexico's ambassador in London has complained to the BBC over "offensive and xenophobic" comments made about his country on Top Gear.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12338053 This is the polemic video AFter the incident, James May one of the Top Gear anfitrions answered this trough his tweeter: Quote:
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2011-02-02, 23:43 | Link #11807 | |
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2011-02-03, 06:32 | Link #11808 | |
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Do Illegal Copies of Movies Reduce the Revenue of Legal Products? The case of TV animation in Japan
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2011-02-03, 07:41 | Link #11809 | |
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Iran could make nuclear weapon in 1-2 years: IISS
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2011-02-03, 10:28 | Link #11810 | |
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However 3 sports mexican comentators showed the polemic video at their show and answered back to the Top Gear comentators, subtitled video so everyone can understand it.
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2011-02-03, 11:28 | Link #11811 |
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I don't understand a word of Mexican Evil Rick, but I'll second your request for a translation.
I too would like to know what those Mexican gentleman are saying in reply to that awful BBC program's comments.
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2011-02-03, 11:45 | Link #11813 | |
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Thanks Evil Rick, you gotta inform grandpa (me) of these things every now and then. I'll check it out on Youtube. In other news... Oysters disappearing worldwide http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story...ing-worldwide/
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And in the O, Canada Internet department (via /.): Quote:
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2011-02-03, 13:35 | Link #11815 | |
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Evidence showed "beyond reasonable doubt" that Person X was buying a gun should its brain decide to shoot someone. Or... Evidence showed "beyond reasonable doubt" that smoking enough marijuana will make you high. A requirement if you want to take the IISS serious. Or... The international institute for chitchat (eggcorn) said in a report that evidence showed "beyond reasonable doubt" that who is bare-footed certainly wears no shoes.
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2011-02-03, 15:23 | Link #11816 |
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ABC Exclusive, Mubarak Interview
Terrestrial (US) ABC News got a big scoop, apparently cut into the daily soap opera today (they almost never do this anymore).
Veteran Reporter Christiane Amanpour got to the presidential palace to interview Mubarak and the VP. Big stuff. http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=12833673 |
2011-02-03, 15:50 | Link #11817 | |
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I got a gut feeling it is Ishihara's cronies in big OLD Anime that are at work (older distribution companies).....they couldn't produce good enough figurines and products and thus blame the fansubbers for their demise. They are losing their edge to the more creative marketing competition.
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2011-02-03, 16:19 | Link #11818 | |
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before even the dust settles...
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/pos..._egypt_is_lost ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columni...aspx?id=206121 Quote:
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2011-02-03, 16:51 | Link #11819 |
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Government-backed candidate dropped from Haiti presidential runoff
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1892650/
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2011-02-03, 17:46 | Link #11820 |
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Planned Parenthood under attack!
Undercover videos prompt some in Congress to demand nation's largest abortion provider lose federal funding http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...ed-parenthood/ |
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