[valis]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Hi Tim,

Good read also! Thanks!

Colors, colors - I don't need no stinking colors! I don't allow system colors nor the default settings of the webpages. I use currently - a black screen background, and a browser background of a shady dark grey with yellow lettering with blue hyperlinks to unvisited links, and black to visited links. I'm experimenting wrt backgrounds and webpage colors - some work, some don't. I'd especially like to see a finer grain of control over web objects like mouseover backgrounds - that's the ticket!

-- Tom

I'll have to check that system colors thing out....are you using ff or IE? I'm with you on the hyperlink thing, except I don't have mine underlined, nor do they change color when visited. Always monotone gray. If I can't remember what page I've read, I'm in deep yogurt.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by sy2

So is this calling natural selection into question now also, in addition to evolution?

You could reword this to say that those who seem to believe global warming is a natural phenomenon are also those who tend to believe that "God did it, and he'll take care of it."

That's a fair statement.

And I'm pretty unbiased on this - I believe in evolution by natural selection wholeheartedly, I don't subscribe to any particular belief in a higher being as my creator, and I think that global warming may very well be a natural cycle that we'd be experiencing with or without humanity's emissions taken into consideration. I'm also open to the possibility that I'm dead wrong, although I'm very certain about #1, pretty damn certain about #2, and merely confident about #3.

So take THAT stereotypes.

Our level of bias about any subject is in direct proportion to our level of confidence in our opinion - divided by the level of its importance to ourselves.

I freely admit my bias when it comes to God's existance, and my lack of belief in cross-species macro evolution.

However, I am confident that natural selection does weed out traits within species.

Example; If tall people died everytime they bumped their head on a door jam, then over a significant amount of time, the percentage of tall people would drop significantly. (perhaps not completely)
But they would never morph into ducks.

What thread is this again?

[lotuseclat79]

Hi LAN,

So, you freely admit to your bias wrt "God's existance" - uh, no such word as existance! Is that a stance God assumes to exist?

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by valis

I'll have to check that system colors thing out....are you using ff or IE? I'm with you on the hyperlink thing, except I don't have mine underlined, nor do they change color when visited. Always monotone gray. If I can't remember what page I've read, I'm in deep yogurt.

Hi Tim,

I run FF on Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS Live CD (in memory) w/no disks mounted and a restricted iptables firewall. I have all of the FF extensions I used stored away on disk and run two different init scripts (one from root, one from user account) to initialize my environment the way I like it - web surfing from a user account, and also reset my computer clock to UTC for DST (by my atomic watch) everyday.

I like plain yogurt (Columbo 32oz from BJ's) - w/blueberries +walnuts - good for digestion.

-- Tom

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Hi LAN,

So, you freely admit to your bias wrt "God's existance" - uh, no such word as existance! Is that a stance God assumes to exist?

-- Tom

Existence

And yes, I freely admit to my own bias on the matter.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Hi Tim,

I run FF on Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS Live CD (in memory) w/no disks mounted and a restricted iptables firewall. I have all of the FF extensions I used stored away on disk and run two different init scripts (one from root, one from user account) to initialize my environment the way I like it - web surfing from a user account, and also reset my computer clock to UTC for DST (by my atomic watch) everyday.

I like plain yogurt (Columbo 32oz from BJ's) - w/blueberries +walnuts - good for digestion.

-- Tom

Hey The tech threads are that way ---->





May the Yogurt Schwartz be with you.

[lotuseclat79]

New evidence puts 'Snowball Earth' theory out in the cold
Article here.



The theory that Earth once underwent a prolonged time of extreme global freezing has been dealt a blow by new evidence that periods of warmth occurred during this so-called 'Snowball Earth' era.

-- Tom

[bill.aam]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

New evidence puts 'Snowball Earth' theory out in the cold
Article here.



The theory that Earth once underwent a prolonged time of extreme global freezing has been dealt a blow by new evidence that periods of warmth occurred during this so-called 'Snowball Earth' era.
-- Tom

Periods of warmth have occurred in the past? Blasphemy!!!!

[LANMaster]

Gore refuses to take energy pledge

Won't promise to consume no more power than average American

Al Gore, who has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, has rejected a senator's request that he take a pledge to use no more energy than the average American.

As WND reported earlier, the former vice president's home consumes more electricity each month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to data compiled by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research from the Nashville Electric Service.

The request was put to Gore by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who is the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, during a congressional hearing this week at which Gore was asking Congress to impose new taxes to address global warming. (Ed .... was there ever any doubt about what the global warming issue is all about? )

Inhofe showed Gore a film frame from "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore's award-winning film about the cause of global warming, where it asks viewers: "Are you ready to change the way you live?"

"There are hundreds of thousands of people who adore you and would follow your example by reducing their energy usage if you did. Don't give us the run-around on carbon offsets or the gimmicks the wealthy do," Inhofe told Gore.

"Are you willing to make a commitment here today by taking this pledge to consume no more energy for use in your residence than the average American household by one year from today?" Inhofe asked.

Gore refused

More

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by bill.aam

Periods of warmth have occurred in the past? Blasphemy!!!!

Hi Bill,

Glad to see your sense of humour prevail! D'oh, was that sarcasim?

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

Gore refuses to take energy pledge

Won't promise to consume no more power than average American




Gore refused

More

Hi LAN,

So, let's up the tax rate on energy usage - uh, most Americans are against that as the costs of energy are already too high for most to afford.

Seems like Gore should be willing to convert to Solar Energy and other means of energy production like windmills or geothermal energy production so he can reduce his bills and sell energy back to the energy grid producers in his area - then most folks would have a much different view of his efforts to follow what he professes to be his priciples.

-- Tom

[poochee]

Gore defends his carbon credentials
Group skeptical of global warming notes his home is big energy user

Updated: 1:50 p.m. PT Feb 28, 2007
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Following criticism by a conservative group of Al Gore's large home energy consumption, a Gore spokeswoman defended the former vice president's lifestyle, saying he invests in enough renewable energy to make up for the home's power consumption.

Utility records show the Gore family paid an average monthly electric bill of about $1,200 last year for its 10,000-square-foot home.

The group said that Gore used nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours last year and that his average monthly electric bill was $1,359. Johnson said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service.

But company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never gave it any information.

Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said that "sometimes when people don't like the message, in this case that global warming is real, it's convenient to attack the messenger."

Kreider said Gore purchases enough energy from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and methane gas to balance 100 percent of his electricity costs.

Gore, who also owns a home in the Washington area, has said he leads a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To balance out other carbon emissions, the Gores invest money in projects to reduce energy consumption, Kreider said.

Excerpt from:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17382210/

[compushlep]

Don't aim at the messengers ... shoot out them ol' light bulbs instead!
Not sure what made me remember this article, possibly it was seeing Person here ... but anyhow, here's a positive development from down under (we won't talk about PM Howard's overall stance on climate change, he can't seem to be able to make up his mind from day to day, heh).

A simple thing, like replacing light bulbs, can lead to great energy savings and thus reducing the CO2 excretions ... errr ... emissions. I hear they got students going door to door replacing all the residential incandescents with new fluoro bulbs ... for free.

Light bulbs get the flick
LINK


Kudos to Ausies and anyone else who's on board with this program (like parts of California, Canada ... etc.)

[GoneForNow]

Don't know if this has been previously posted but this is an interesting British documentary as a counterpoint to Big Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". The film is a little over an hour long and very well done. Raises some interesting points and highlights the fundamental flaw in Big Al's theory.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...65474899458831

[SIR****TMG]

Thanks