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The most cogent analysis of the political situation that I have read in years! 5 stars (Code Project)
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(  Woah! Looks like a snow [er, pale-yellow snow...eek!] blizzard has buried the thought.  )
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Huh? 
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Does it have anything to do with an Eskimo named Nanook? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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OK folks. Nothing to see here. Just move one. Keep movin'.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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SO - if one doesn't log in and wishes to find out domain pricing for acquisition and/or renewal - well the price list has been removed.
At least so I was informed by their customer service. It'll be back up in a week or so. They took it down while they update it.
Amazing Arrogance - Chutzpah with a middle finger!
Corollary Lesson: when you think things can't get any worse, B O H I C A !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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We're having a gloriously balmy "winter" - NY City is predicted to have 70 F (ca. 21 C) by Thursday.
Yet - for the nostalgic amongst the holiday mobs, they still dwell upon the concept of a "White Christmas"*.
Well - fret thee not! We'll get it again, this year. The only difference is that it will be on account of the cherry blossoms.
* By Irving Berlin
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 21-Dec-15 13:52pm.
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"White" Christmas is open for multiple interpretations anyway... 
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you should try living in Australia ! there are people who do hot/baked dinners in the middle of the day, it would be interesting to know the proportions of those who do BBQ's at the beach, fish etc etc
(this being said, this Xmas might be a bit cool & damp thanks to some rain, at least here in Sydney)
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Its an el nino year, nothing to do with 'climate change'.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: nothing to do with 'climate change'.
Just keep saying that and everything will be just fine.
That's how it works. If you don't believe then your safe. Yes. That's it. If you don't believe than your safe.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Just keep saying that and everything will be just fine.
If its a long term trend why wasn't it 21 C last December, and December 2013?
Its an el nino year. Period.
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Well - ya see, the reality, despite the ignorant and/or paid-for whines of some high-profile politicians is:
Global Warming: that would be observable from space as the entire earth warms a bit.
Climate Change: that is what you really see. The zeroth order effects can be greatly simplified as follows . . .
There is more energy in the atmosphere as a whole - this warms the seas a bit. The result is a manifestation of more violent weather. And more of it.
The Easter Pacific (Mexico got hit) recently had the most violent storm ever recorded in the region and (if I recall correctly) the third most violent storm ever record. Weather all over the world has been more than a bit uppity the last few years.
Now sure - you can note that some records that existed for scores of years as proof that such weather excursions happened before - and I always caution that weather is "like that" and you must be cautious about rash judgements.
But this time, I'm afraid, there's just far too much going on to pretend it's just normal climate deviations.
Remember . . . you're really alluding to natural forces and the deviation they induce . . . and we've added to the mix massive return of old carbon to the atmosphere and great reductions in forestation, to name a couple. Simply put, the scale of human abilities to affect the planet noticeably is significantly greater.
The real question you should ask - if you drop the political agenda's - is how could there not be a change in the global environment?
Short term solution - in my opinion - is nuclear power.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: how could there not be a change in the global environment
And we had plenty of change long before CO2, including plenty recently.
The fact is that mitigation is a better course of action because it counters any 'extreme' weather regardless of its cause.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: And we had plenty of change long before CO2, including plenty recently.
I reread that particular line. Left me scratching my head.
Perhaps you should, too (reread, scratching is optional).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Recent as in the last 300 years.
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Nuclear power is never a short term solution to anything. It takes at least a decade and probably more like two to plan, build and bring a nuclear power station online at full capacity and you need tens, hundreds, if not thousands depending on the size of your country to replace all the existing coal/oil/gas fired stations that now exist.
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Then we better get crackin'.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Then we better get crackin'.
The English, the English, the English are best[^]
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest
Way ahead of you!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Remember . . . you're really alluding to natural forces and the deviation they induce
When reading this, if I start to highlight the beginning of the sentence with my mouse then move towards or away from the word deviation then the word deviation wobbles left and right.
I thought I was probably hallucinating so got a colleague to check.
Doesn't seem to happen with any other words, or highlighting any other test, and it doesn't happen in the reply screen.
I'm also sure you don't care about any of this, it adds nothing to the discussion, but it was weird (and I'm still not entirely convinced I'm not hallucinating).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Actually I am interested in that type of stuff. I've been know to put a lot of markup on my CP posts (on occasion) - but none of there or on the entire post.
I'm on FireFox 42.0 and no problem. Did it do this in other browsers, too?
Likely solution: your equipment's haunted. Can be exorcised with a quick dip in salty water.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The words added, carbon, and forestation on that line are also doing it.
I'm on Firefox 43, I have a habit of highlighting the line I am reading when on the web.
Doesn't happen in IE, doesn't happen unless Firefox is maximised on my left hand screen, although as my right screen is in portrait mode that may be the difference.
I think I'll try some more drugs, see if that helps or makes things worse.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I have one box I updated to FireFox 43 yesterday.
It disabled all of my plugins - the important ones refreshed, but this needed to be done manually. Ghostery, however, has been somewhat broken since the first parameters setup. In particular, I cannot open their options nor go to their blog (to see if others have the same problem). Also, I went to [^] and it was blocked as a security risk.
So - it may even be a FireFox 43 weirdness. [FireFox 42 broke the "BetterPrivacy" plugin for weeks]
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Vegemite is the devil's spawn - real men eat marmite.
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