And to emphasize my point, what is the computation that actually is being performed? It's not "solving the double spending problem" or the other related problems. It's a computation which allows BitCoin issues to be addressed by attaching important BitCoin features, particularly bitcoin creation and transactions to the proof of work of the computations. As a result, we can substitute any other computation which has similar enough features to generate a proof of work and requires significant computation to perform.

You read the first page anyway lol

I do understand what they are doing now. It doesn't significantly change the system, if the computation work has outside utility.

That is incorrect.

Sure, I really would like that to be true too. But that "fact" doesn't explain the Maunder minimum which appears to be a fluctuation in solar power output considerably greater than the threshold your assertion. I notice that some researchers are actually claiming that a 0.2 W per square meter change in solar output somehow causes climate changes on par with a supposed 2 W per square meter heating today from greenhouse gases (other than water vapor).

I think this is typical of the current silliness in climate research that one can assert without supporting evidence that solar output doesn't change significant on the scale of millennia while ignoring the only known solar fluctuation which correlates with significant climate variations of the time.

Warming is obviously a lot more complex than CO2 levels, because warming has continued to basically flatline as it has for decades now. So why are we still so concerned about CO2 emissions when the runaway effect predicted is simply not occurring?

There are simply too many natural processes in the earths climate that deal with variances in heat, most variances from other causes are vastly greater than the current minuscule levels of CO2 we see (they are historically high but factor in very little in terms of atmospheric mix).

If we're lucky, we'll get a nice 2C boost for a few hundred years out of all combined warming effects, before sliding into yet another ice age. Sadly I do not think we will be that lucky.

Of course. But Fox News isn't the only outside interest in existence.

You haven't even read it.

Quantum effects really start dominating when insulator or in some cases semiconductor (which acts as insulator) layers get to about 6 atoms thick.

Still a way to go.

No, it just means that you are not actually doing anything of any importance or interest.

The problem with systemd tools is that they depend on systemd more than just for booting or starting things. The dependencies run deep.

Whereas with a web server like Apache, you can use it with any init system; with systemd tools, you can not use them with any other init system. Logind is stuck with systemd.

I know.
But you are still wrong.
The link in my sig could clear your ignorance, but you will not read it.

The argument is 'splitting hairs' because it's getting at the wrong point. The problem with systemd isn't that the init scripts (or unit files) depend on systemd......it doesn't matter if sys5 init scripts can't run without sys5 scripts or whatever. No one cares about that.

The point is that cron or apache or qmail can all be started with any init system. Systemd utils can't be started without a specific init system, which means logind (and by implication Gnome) can't be started without systemd. That is definitely against the unix way.

How about anti-authoritarian, in all its forms?

IF a dude (or dudette) came in with a gunshot or knife would or something like that, I could understand. Pain, even that I could understand. But many of those were simply some vague illness.

But if this was an isolated case, then I would be in agreement. But it isn't. My wife/kids and mom were involved in a car accident, where my mom broke vertebra and ribs, and my wife and kids were in a great deal of pain. I watch a couple dozen people with "flu" like symptoms go in. A car accident verses the flu. You take the major injury car accident people first and you make sure they aren't suffering internal bleeding.

His point is that 'init scripts' are only scripts......you don't need 'system V' or anything to run them; all you need is bash. Even systemd can run init scripts, or you can run them from the command line.

However, init can't start the system without the scripts, so in that way systemV depends on the scripts, not the other way around. The point is trivial like splitting hairs, but technically true.