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Comment Re:Bad Question (Score 1) 629

Cutting back isnt about reversing climate change that's already happened, it's about stopping its continued growth

When do you think the impact of the industrial revolution, to date, will fully be absorbed by the biosphere?

When do you think the reduction of carbon inputs will begin to reduce the impact to the biosphere?

I am asking for an integer, plus or minus a thousand years.

Comment Re:Ok, Greens. (Score 1) 629

doubt about AGW

You misread me -- my question is NOT regarding the warming.

If we accept the inputs are creating an output, what on Earth makes you conclude that the actions we take in the midst of a massive human output of "bad X" will, in fact, minimize the impact of a global trend which is causing immediate, measurable harm? The plans you seem to advocate will take a thousand years to impact what is already set in motion.

You see, we are a global society, which makes global waste, which turns, in part, to heat. That heat will cook the poor.

It will be ugly, brutish and nasty. And pretending it won't happen is folly.

Comment Re:Cue the next disaster (Score 1) 629

The wild conspiracy theory phase is actually how it started.

But while I have you here, how long is it supposed to take to reverse centuries of carbon pollution's effect on atmospheric heat retention?

I have a pretty solid hunch it's going to be longer than "centuries," but I'd like to see what others think.

Submission + - Trump Campaign and Russian Bank

xtsigs writes: Slate's story, Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia? was slashdotted on Nov 1, 2016 (Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank). It generated a fair bit of discussion which quickly fractured into a partisan shoot out.

With the benefit of additional investigation and a bit more perspective, the New Yorker re-examines the issue (Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?). We may expect a repeat of the bickering of the uninformed, misinformed, and the refuse-to-look-at-facts-to-be-informed (as well as those that wish to instill such confusion). Still, the article is worth the long read for the patient and concerned, especially those with enough experience and technical knowledge to appreciate the analysis.

Comment Re: Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg! (Score 1) 191

The problem with your line of thinking here is that these companies already had government contracts, and

Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. And Elemental was just one of hundreds of Supermicro customers.

So, as far as being the "reason" for dumping Supermicro at that time, "government contracts" do not compute.

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