It is a few straw men and false equivocations. But let's take a hit on these. The Ozone Hole nuts attempted to murder Asthmatics by getting Primatine Mist off the market spontaneously and without much warning. Admittedly, the FDA could have stepped in and fixed it faster, but that's who you're trusting. However, the Ozone Hole wasn't much of a "prediction" about the future. The ability for them to anticipate the consequences of their actions was actually quite poor. So, yeah, fuck them.

Acid Rain, is also pretty much not a prediction but rather a matter of fact. There wasn't a "prediction" that the acid rain would come if they did X, Y or Z. Rather the acid rain was there.

Same with Y2K, the code that would fail was already there and already known. However, much of Y2K was blown out of proportion and exaggerated by the very people you're trusting with Climate Change. The electric grid was never going to shut down and usher in a new dark age if we did nothing. At worst, the banks would have been offline for a month while they were forced to upgrade a few things. An economic hit, but not the end of the world they painted in the media. Heck, some people ran headlong into Y2K and got that cute little 19100-year glitch. Did it take everything down? No, it's just a bit of a joke to laugh at. The Banks were the only real concern, and because of how banks work, most of them knew long before Y2K that there was a problem and fixed it before the rollover.

Climate change is Dooms Day Cult Goal Post Moving. My children weren't supposed to know what snow was. At one point the point was 2016, then the UN put it at 2012. In 2008 they predicted it would be 10 degrees warmer in 10 years, or 2018. In 2014, they had anywhere between 50 and 500 days for "climate chaos". The truth is NONE of the weather that we have has moved outside the bounds of statistical normal. The predictions waver from no more snow to "extreme" snow. But all the numbers in the GHCN dataset show that they are statistically, Normal. The "outliers" in the dataset are always around the 1930s with the Dust Bowl. If we use the extremes for the last hundred years the last decade has been tame in comparison. You can "fix" that by dropping all the inconvenient data and making it impossible to calculate a proper statistical normal, but the weather been tame. We haven't even had the weird weather of 96 and 97 repeat tapping down on the "Climate Chaos" nuts. And the nuts who want to blame hurricanes so badly make excellent examples of how you can manipulate statistics to say the opposite of what they do because they like to use the Dollar value as a metric. Never accounting for Inflation or GDP to normalize their data at all. Because Fear is what the doomsday cultist sells.

Perhaps I would care if there wasn't a clear track record of the little boy who cried wolf.

It's been an endless parade of Goal Post Moving. It's the same with all Dooms Day Cults. Pick a date and claim it to be the "end of days." When the date comes, claim you were off and offer a new date. Rise and Repeat.

"But if they did that, people wouldn't believe them!" Sure, if you say so, It hasn't stoped all the other Dooms Day Cults from doing the same exact thing.

A decade ago, this would be nonsensical. It sounds nonsensical because most of us have not updated our view of Nintendo since the 80s. However, as shocking as it may be, Nintendo has allowed the racier content on their systems more than Sony and MS have on their systems in recent years. It was Sony's censorus ass that cause Devil May Cry to have lens flare censor bars. Not Nintendo, not MS, and not Steam. Just Sony.

The problem is they have the motive to lie to keep the secrets secret. Even if it's a plausible lie like "Weather Balloon" for their eventually reviled "Spy Balloon." How is anyone supposed to believe any of it when the "truth" could be another lie to hide the "real" truth? Best to say nothing.

All that is mostly circumstantial or not in dispute. Has he cheated in online matches? Yes, and he's only disputing the amount of cheating on that. If you're accusing a person of cheating in person, expect someone to have found the communication device.

It's not about making a Robot look human. It's more about making humans look like robots. I can make my mouse movements and clicks appear instant like a robot. Just run the browser in a VM, and make the VM update the mouse only when I click, so it appears to teleport. Once I appear to be a robot, you'll just purge my data with all the other robots.

Who needs to be bullied into stopping the nonsense USB naming convention? They make the alphabet soup Wi-Fi look rational. This has to be because they were made fun of for the USB4 version 2.0. Just adopt a proper version numbering system. Would USB 4.2.0 be so hard? Besides being a baseline connector, they've hidden many compatibility issues behind a "Universal" label. Have a USB3 device and a USB3 port... oh sorry, that old 2.0 cable just can't carry that single, no USB3 for you.

Sounds like an attempt to get more lousy science by creating part of the adversarial network needed to generate even more legit-sounding papers.

Cover yes, however, solar panels generate heat. That heat will likely go into the canal as it will also increase the efficiency of the solar panels. The other issue, California already generates a lot of Megawatts during the peak periods for solar. Unless they are creating storage, they are going to exceed their capacity by quite a margin.

The Condon Committee was formed after Bluebook was criticized in 1966. Hynek was a part of Bluebook much earlier in the 50s. I've seen the video archives of him dismissing sightings as swamp gas.

Why is this a surprise to anyone? Project Bluebook famously dismissed most sightings as "Swamp Gas." They don't care about what the answer is. They just want it dismissed even as "unexplained aliens." Would the Pentagon publish a report that said that sighting was our secret replacement for the Black Bird? No, and they wouldn't publish a report that said that sighting was of China's super secret spy plan flying over DC. They don't care about the public report as long as it doesn't point to thier real stuff. They probably have a black ops report that identifies the important ones, but the public will never see it. The "mystery" of easily explained "lights in the sky" keeps the stuff they don't want to be looked at secret. It does make it harder when they try to come clean that Roswell was their secret spy balloon and not the "weather balloon" false story.

Yes, and No. A physical Switch game doesn't always need to install, but it may need space for updates since updates aren't stored on the cartridge. There is unique activation to claim some reward points but that doesn't stop anyone from trading the game to someone else. Many of the PS3 and onward have required installs, but trading the disks still work. There are a lot more games like Destiny that the game parts can only be purchased for an individual account. Makes games bought for a family of kids very difficult.

This seems more like they are trying to dictate the desired behavior to the wrong entity. The desired behavior seems to be that of a java applet where, in theory, it can only access the site that served it from within the browser. Even if the applet makes a request to a different site the sand box should stop it. If the demanded browsers to do the stupid 90's era warnings again it would probably work the way they are demanding.

Watching Hysteria unfold and the perpetrator being unable to recognize their descent into madness is terrifying and fascinating. The crazies are the only ones to worry about, but at this point, there aren't many who are sain if there were any.

I believe certs have to expire because they will be eventually broken by future tech.