Right. We can't accurately predict the weather for 5 days. We have blown through HOW many predictions of climate change doom?

It absolutely is not a given. It's not a fact. There certainly is a huge monetary motivation to say it's a fact.

We are uncertain of how much impact we are having.
We are uncertain of what the impact will be.
We are uncertain we can do anything about it.
We do not have a working model.

IF it's true, I hold the scientific community responsible for the mess they have made of proving it. Everything they do makes it LOOK like they are covering shit up. You want data? Oh we deleted it. You have an opinion we don't agree with? STFU. The curves don't match what we said was going to happen ten years ago? Let's smooth out the data. Don't get me started on having Al Gore as a spokeman - who stands to make a LOT of money if this carbon tax bullshit ever gets going.

My thing is - show me a solution that does NOT put us back into the dark ages. We are shutting down shit without a way to fill the gap. You won't let us use nuclear. Solar/Wind/Water...all interesting..but you're going to need a shit ton of batteries and a new infrastructure.

There's a reason electric cars STILL are not catching on.

Arm chair quarterbacking at it's finest.

They were going in with the information they had. Had gone through how many people by that point? The fucker said the house was doused in gasoline. Have you ever remotely been in a situation like that? I didn't think so. You have no idea what you are talking about.

If it had NOT been a ruse, the same people bitching here would be saying the same thing in reverse.

NO ONE has any real details right now - but yes, please continue to make baseless accusations of what they did without any facts.

Yes, blame the cops for doing their job. Stop drinking the 'cops are bad' koolaid.

Great way to start rumors.

Agree with what you have to say but it's become too easy of weapon.

And it's a no win scenario.

You can admit and apologize to your past before they dig it up and you'll lose your life.

You can wait for it to get dug up and apologize and you'll lose your life.

It's funny actually. There's a constant whine to not have personal responsibility for your actions but oh boy don't cross any of those trigger lines 20 years ago or you are screwed.

I see no reason to make it easier for people to be extreme right or left when they are young and then 'clear' it after they get older.

How about don't be a douche to begin with?

Kind of tired of this notion that people should be allow a 'pass' because they were 'young'. People want to be allowed to do stupid stuff without any sort of personal responsibility. That's a lot of what has gotten us to where we are now (and I don't mean Trump elected).

Citation for what renewable energy is profitable without a subsidy or some other form of crutch?

Highly unlikely.

No one is arguing that renewable energy is renewable energy.

HOWEVER, CA touting that is has 50% renewable energy when a LOT of that is coming from OTHER states is horse shit. So those states are at negative what?

As much as CA wishes it were not part of the US, the only relevant number is how much energy in the US is renewable. Despite what people in CA think, CA cannot survive on it's own.

I mean, it's NO different than you saying 'My water bill is down to half!! Look how good I am at water conservation!!! Those hoses coming from my neighbor? I'm just getting water from them.'

It's kind of useless if you have your music broken up into libraries. For instance, I have a Christmas library and a Classical library and then my primary library.

I don't want to shuffle all of these. I want to pick a library and shuffle from that.

Neat idea. Still doesn't solve my issues.

The same predictions that have been coming and going and being wrong for the last 30 years?

Anyone that thinks China is doing anything that will cost it money when it comes to fighting 'climate change' is living in a fantasy land. IF they cancelled any coal plants, it's not because they are trying to 'do the right thing'. It's more likely the never planned to actually build half the new plants.

There _isn't_ strong evidence. There's a lot of conjecture combined with foolish moves that make any sane person question them - hiding data, destroying data, silencing opposition, changing data, etc. My point is, if they are correct, they've done everything they can think of to make it seem like they are lying. It's become more of a religion than a science at this point.

To me, the issue isn't climate change, it's pollution. No one is going to argue that is bad - I'm all for anything that cuts that back and there is no doubt green energy is better for the environment.

BUT...I am NOT for anything that is going to put us back into the stone age. I am NOT ok with shutting down or stopping existing plants when the technology isn't ready to fill in the gap. I am NOT ok with this BULLSHIT carbon credits thing.

Come up with some reasonable solutions and people will support it. Putting us in a situation of rolling brown outs is not one.

IE was a shitty browser.

FireFox was wayyyy better.

Chrome is not a shitty browser.

FireFox is not wayyy better.

It's a knowledge system. Bunch of conditions. It's not 'intelligent' by any stretch of the definition. I laugh every time some super intelligent twit tells how much danger we are in. We may be in danger of them malfunctioning...but not because they will 'decide to kill us'. It'll be because it gets caught in a loop or a sensor fails...in other words, the same reason any OTHER device is dangerous.

Coders should unit test their code. Coders should write unit tests for their code.

QA people are a special breed, just like coders. It takes a set of skills that most coders don't have to properly QA a system against regressions.

This is asinine.

The problem with your entire scenario is...we're not going to nuke NK. We don't need to. We used the nukes in Japan to stop a foe that was fighting to the death for every inch of land - it saved American lives and I'm good with that. It's called war. As Patton put it, I don't want our soldiers to die for our country - I want them to die for theirs.

There's no reason to nuke NK - it wouldn't accomplish anything unless we nuke the entire country and that's simply not going to happen. If we do anything, it'll likely be a tremendous number of cruise missiles combined with stealth fighters dropping precision bombs.

One thing is 100% certain - what we have been doing with NK for the last 3 administrations has not worked and is not going to work. That's simply a fact - to suggest we continue to negotiate with them is the definition of insanity. I'm not so sure China is willing to rein them in or if they _could_ do it quickly enough at this point.

The bottom line is the boy is a clean and present danger to America. Something should have been done about NK a long time ago. We've kicked the can down the road and it's finally hit a dead end.

Wishful thinking. Micro transactions work. They make the companies a ton of money - look at the dumba$$ loot crates.

I promise you at least half the gamers saying how much it sucks have bought at least one item in the games. That translates to a lot of money.

Properly applied, it will do exactly what they are expecting - make it just tough enough that they feel they need an edge. You underestimate the stupidity of the average person as well as the temptation to just click the buy button in game. There's a reason there's all that crap at the check out counter.....it works.

The term was co-opted. They are knowledge systems, not intelligence of any sort. A bunch of if then else conditions. They can do really cool stuff when there are a concrete set of rules.

They cannot intuit things..like that you can pull with a string but not push.

This is a joke. When I was in college...a LONG time ago...they were touting the whole 4GL thing that was going to use natural languages to code and everyone would be able to write software, blah blah blah. That was over 25 years ago and I still write code.

We aren't even close. At the core, a computer is still a ton of on/off switches. It cannot really 'learn'. It's smoke and mirrors when they show it learning patterns.