2000 years of global extreme climate events from historical records: http://www.breadandbutterscien...

773 A.D. In 773 A.D., a severe drought struck Shensi (now Shaanxi province) in central China at Sian.

In 773 A.D., there was a great drought in Shensi province in China.

774 A.D. In Scotland, there was a severe famine with a plague.

Winter of 774 / 775 A.D. In the year 675, there was the greatest frost in England.
[This entry was out of chronological order and I believe Short was referencing the year 775 A.D.]

775 A.D. In England, there was a drought with excessive heat, after a great frost.

The winter was so hard that the Euxine Sea (Black Sea) was quite frozen over. The ice was 30 foot or
cubits thick. People could walk 50 or 100 leagues (150 to 300 miles, 240 to 480 kilometers) on the ice
from the Danube River to the Euphrates River. On the ice fell 30 cubits deep of snow. When the ice
broke, it appeared like great mountains on the sea, which demolished and carried down whole villages
standing on the shore. This winter was succeeded by so excessive heat during the summer that all springs
dried up.72 [The Danube River probably refers to the Danube Delta in Europe, eastern Romania and south
western Ukraine. The Euphrates River rises in Turkey, passes through Syria, and joins with the Tigris
River in southeastern Iraq to form the Shatt al Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.]

In the year 775, “Snow fell, and lay 30 Cubits on a Level.”

[In Byzantium], the summer was hot and all the wells dried up.62 [Byzantium at this time included
Turkey, and the western part of the Balkan peninsula.]

In 775 A.D. during the period 1-30 August, floods struck Chekiang (now Zhejiang province) on the east
coast of China at Hangchow.

I'd say that's a good description of your argumentative style in this thread :)

Fact of the matter: Mann has referred to himself on several occasions as the winner of a Nobel Prize. He is not.

No, he was not.

Thus it is incorrect to refer to any IPCC official, or scientist who worked on IPCC reports, as a Nobel laureate or Nobel Prize winner.

The above quote is from the IPCC official statement on the matter: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/nobel/N...

To freshen your memory - this is the exact statement still available in a post by Mann on his own Facebook page:

Dr. Mann is a climate scientist whose research has focused on global warming. In 2007, along with Vice President Al Gore and his colleagues of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Irrelevant - that's what he or someone under his guidance submitted to a court - "a Nobel prize recipient". Whatever happened later to that submission does not change the wording that was used.

I fail to understand what benefit you see from posting falsehoods into a discussion. Are you often in denial to proven facts?

Mann referred to himself as a Nobel prize recipient - which the IPCC has stated he's not allowed to do. Why are you posting obvious falsehoods in his defence throughout this thread?

Dr. Mann is a climate scientist whose research has focused on global warming. In 2007, along with Vice President Al Gore and his colleagues of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

https://www.facebook.com/Micha...

It is one thing to engage in discussion about debatable topics. It is quite another to attempt to discredit consistently validated scientific research through the professional and personal defamation of a Nobel prize recipient.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/...

PS: I'm also a "Nobel laureate" if Mann is:

A peace prize made possible by the people has now been passed on to the people. The EU won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, but the European Parliament believes this honour belongs to everyone. During a special ceremony in Strasbourg, the prize was symbolically handed over to 20 citizens of different ages and nationalities to represent the people of Europe.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/...

I assume he will claim he mined them (which could very well be true - an early adopter could've easily mined that many - although it will be interesting to see how the argument will be countered with block chain analysis) and that they aren't taxable until the gain in value is realised (by selling them for dollar).

Don't know about Ferrari, but this Lamborghini purchase for bitcoin is legit: http://fr.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sn0gi/someone_on_4chan_actually_bought_a_lamborghini/

... which followed this Tesla purchase from the same dealer: http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/cars/bitcoin-used-for-tesla-model-s-purchase-at-lamborghini-dealership-1.6568853

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

I know a lot about Bitcoin. "Mining" and "Verifying transactions" are the same thing.

We need the latter even when there will be "no" new coins minted (tiny block reward). The miners (= the ones who verify the transactions) will still get the transaction fees.

Thank you, non EU-citizen, for trying to explain to an EU-citizen what the correct action is ;) As would be quite obvious to anyone reading this - but you - you're of course wrong.

No.

1) Apple isn't the seller. The post Lessig referred to applied to those having bought their phone from the carrier. The correct action in the EU is to make your claim towards the seller - not the manufacturer.

2) Lessig himself did try the reinstall.

Why is it apparently this important for you to misrepresent the issue?

I live in the EU. If the product does not work as advertised it's completely irrelevant whether it's due to software or hardware. The seller is responsible for making sure that it starts working as intended.

The definition of "as intended" is judged by price level and what's considered the norm in the relevant market place. I.e, you cannot just claim your product is "special" and get away with it.

According to a poll made by Novus on behalf of the Pirate Party 9 out of 10 Swedes reject having personal communication monitored if there's no suspicion of a crime.

http://press.piratpartiet.se/2013/09/24/87-av-svenskarna-ar-emot-att-deras-kommunikation-overvakas-och-13-kan-tanka-sig-att-rosta-pa-piratpartiet-i-eu-valet/

Wait what? It's no secret that the reason FRA exists is to tap the underwater cables carrying almost all of Russia's traffic and hand it over to the US. There was an uproar against the creation of FRA in Sweden - but it was met with statements from our prime minister to the effect of "It's best for us all if we don't talk about this anymore".

Earlier documents put in context with recent revelations show that Sweden has been systematically wiretapping Russia on behalf of the United States. This is clear after putting a number of previous questionable agreements and developments in context today.

http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/07/documents-sweden-wiretapping-russias-international-traffic-for-the-nsa/

What, by doing the same thing as was already standard but swapping two of the three signals?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#TRRS_Standards

They most certainly are not - if you don't happen to cherry pick ~1850 (the coldest part of the whole Holocene) as a starting point.

Until a few decades ago it was generally thought that all large-scale global and regional climate changes occurred gradually over a timescale of many centuries or millennia, scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. The tendency of climate to change relatively suddenly has been one of the most suprising outcomes of the study of earth history, specifically the last 150,000 years (e.g., Taylor et al., 1993). Some and possibly most large climate changes (involving, for example, a regional change in mean annual temperature of several degrees celsius) occurred at most on a timescale of a few centuries, sometimes decades, and perhaps even just a few years. The decadal-timescale transitions would presumably have been quite noticeable to humans living at such times, and may have created difficulties or opportunities (e.g., the possibility of crossing exposed land bridges, before sea level could rise)

http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/transit.html