Quoting the parent comment: "You aren't even a little bit clever and you clearly don't know enough about the state of drones to start making bullshit claims about making it crash."

There is a huge social cost to being disrespectful.

Also, there are SERIOUS issues that make drones insecure. The comment just above this one lists some of them. Others:

1) RFI, Radio Frequency Interference: Someone is outside on the street welding something using an electric welder. Electric welding generates interference on ALL frequencies. The drone receives nothing but noise.

It is not necessary to list some of the places a drone should not land.

2) Drone lands, dog jumps out of the bushes and tackles the drone. Dog thinks someone has thrown an extra large frisbee. Or, dog has been trained to attack all intruders. Drone is damaged beyond repair.

3) It's rare, it happens maybe only once or twice a day, but sometimes there are HUGE gusts of wind. A crash into a tree could result in a drone dropping to the ground and killing someone.

4) Someone shoots at a drone with a BB gun. Drone crashes.

Many more issues have not been considered.

As in if someone anonymously puts up a poster on private land that defames you, you actually get to challenge it in court and if it's found to be libel it's taken down.

Uh, no. Not even close to how it works in reality.

If I put up a poster in my front yard (in the United States) defaming a Japanese doctor, a Japanese court has zero ability to make me take it down.

Look at this from a less "I personally approve of this ruling" angle - If a Saudi court rules that the New York Times needs to recall an issue for an offensive cartoon, would you expect the NYT to actually round up every printed copy in the US, or just to stop the delivery of that day's issue to Saudi addresses?

As the GP said it's more about the rate of change than the absolute number. If the increase in CO2 we are seeing took place over 2,000 years rather than 200 years it wouldn't be nearly as big a deal as natural (and human) systems would have more time to adapt.

Are you somehow incapable of understanding how export control laws work? If they're banned from certain US technology and for purpose, then any route around that through any 3rd party would be illegal.

Aaand... China cares about that why?

"Yes, we'd like to order 33,000 ThinkStation P700s, please? Yes, two E5-2697's, please. No, no OS. No memory either. Also no storage. Video card... hold on, let me ask our chief res... er... office manager... Okay, yes, how many Tesla K80's can you fit in one of those? Let's go with that, then. Do you take UnionPay? No? Hmm, gold bullion? Wow, rough checkout process here! Paypal? Great! Oh, can I get a tracking number when you ship it? Thanks."

Are you somehow incapable of understanding that you can't magically stop someone from getting milk while continuing to sell them live cows?

Speaking of low-flow toilets I installed a high quality (recommended by Consumer Reports) low flow dual flush mode toilet two years ago and it's only plugged once in all that time. The older normal toilet it replaced used to plug weekly. So the problem with most low flow toilets is a matter of design, not the concept.

"US: No more supercomputer simulations for you!"
"China: Okay, we'll just go back to actual above-ground nuclear testing"
"US: But you signed a test ban!"
"China: Come and stop us."

This seriously cannot end well. China already has a large arsenal of nuclear weapons, this goes so far beyond the scale of our pissing contest with Iran as to make it almost laughable (if it didn't potentially involve the world ending in a nuclear holocaust).

we live in the Surveillance Age now and will probably be for the rest of our lives.

Probably true - But I'll still use encryption for my private files and communications. I'll still refrain from screaming what I had for breakfast into the ether. I'll still make up random information when registering for any service that doesn't need real info to perform its core function. I'll still "fuzz" personal details when relevant to discussions on sites such as Slashdot. I'll still bait telemarketers even though they probably know more about me than I do. And, I'll still make Officer Twitchy get a warrant to search my phone, even if it means I get shot in the back trying to peacefully walk away.

Accepting the reality of something doesn't mean you should just give up - We all unavoidably die, why don't we all just commit suicide now and save ourselves the hassle of wasting all that time working and sleeping and exercising-so-we-can-live-longer and such? Sometimes, "accepting" something means "fight harder anyway".

And with this, we learn the real solution to the Fermi paradox - Not warlike tendencies among apex predators capable of becoming sentient, not resource starvation before getting off-planet (though close to that), not Reapers or something similar, not the actual absence of habitable planets - But simply the ease of developing ecosystem-destroying technology vs the complexity of understanding the chaotic interdependence of planet-sized ecosystems.

We had a nice run, humanity. Maybe the Blattarian race that succeeds us in a few million years will do better.

I think it is you who doesn't understand how physics works. The energy imbalance is a function of the change in forcing over time (dF/dT), not the forcing itself. If forcing didn't change the energy imbalance would be zero. That the energy imbalance isn't changing is just evidence that forcing continues to increase due to the anthropogenic rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

What are these measurements you think are inputs to climate models? It's certainly not temperature measurements or precipitation measurements or wind measurements.

It sounds to me like you badly misunderstand how climate models work. As much as possible they are physical models. That is they model the actual physics that combine to produce our climate. Measurements of the actual climate are only useful as something to compare model output against.

Wow, just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

/ Dating myself
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