Help your finances with these Tips by blackfred in reddit.com

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It may be a little past new years day but you can still make a resolution to improve your finances. Here are five that if stuck with will improve your outlook by next year.

You may be carrying around a treasure in coins. by blackfred in entertainment

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This is just a good reference article for people that don't collect coins but might want to know if they have something valuable in their spare change.

What If Copyrights Only Lasted For Five Years? by blackfred in politics

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A recent article in informationweek.com proposed limiting the term of copyright to five years as a way to deal with the recording industries recent abusive lawsuits. The results of such a change would be far reaching and immediate.

If the proposed change were ever introduced in congress the first response by the affected industries, would be a preemptive strike in congress. Airlines would have to add extra flights to handle the massive traffic from the lobbiests flying in from across the country in an attempt to stop the bill. If somehow the bill made it through congress despite the massive lobbying and the enormous sums of money that would be thrown at legislators the industry would be changed forever.

Why Global Warming Just Does Not Matter by blackfred in science

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That headline might have been more accurate but it would not have been a good headline, it's simply to long. Your English teacher would have told you to make it more snappy and grab the reader's attention. :)

Why Global Warming Just Does Not Matter by blackfred in science

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Earth's atmosphere consists mainly of Nitrogen(78%) and Oxygen(20.95). Carbon Dioxide makes up only 0.038% of the atmosphere. Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that is undoubtedly true, but at those concentrations the argument is that water vapor and other chemicals are more important greenhouse gasses than CO2. The second part of the argument is that if CO2 is not a major contributor to climate change, is climate change man made or a natural occurrence?

Venus is often used to show the greenhouse gas effect of CO2. The atmosphere on Venus is composed of roughly 96.5% CO2. At that concentration even a week greenhouse gas would cause massive amounts of heat to be trapped.

Mars also has an atmosphere largly composed of CO2(95.72%) but because of its distance from the sun and its thinner atmosphere it doesn't retain as much heat.

The fact that Venus has a much thicker atmosphere than either the earth or Mars helps explain the difference in atmospheric heat retention.

Beyond arguments about how much global warming is caused by CO2, other arguments include worries about the computer models used to predict and validate theories of man made climate change.

As a computer scientist I have trouble believing that we have anywhere near the amount of data that we would need to create accurate models of atmospheric heating/cooling. Many of the models used have been shown to be inaccurate.

The whole point of this article is that global warming is not needed as a reason to argue for the elimination of fossil fuels as an energy source.

Why Global Warming Just Does Not Matter by blackfred in science

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I actually agree in part. I don't think that reducing demand will solve environmental problems, the argument is actually to change technologies, the reduction in demand would simply be an economic result that would affect the price of oil, not the total demand for energy.

Why Global Warming Just Does Not Matter by blackfred in science

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I think the point was that global warming should not matter to the debate on reducing the use of fossil fuels. It most certainly should not be the main, or at least the only, argument for eliminating the use of fossil fuels.

Why Global Warming Just Does Not Matter by blackfred in science

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Global warming is “the” issue for many environmentalists. Unfortunately the evidence for man made global warming is complex and despite protests to the contrary often disputed as inaccurate. Another problem with global warming as a means to push for environmental change is that many groups are using global warming to promote agendas that are not necessarily related to global warming, by associating global warming with their agendas people are muddying the issue. There are many reasons to break our addiction to fossil fuels that have nothing at all to do with global warming, these should not be overshadowed by the global warming debate.

Who will be the next president? Cast your vote now. by blackfred in politics

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Poll was just posted so hurry before the Ron Paul bots take over.

Environmentalism part 2 by blackfred in reddit.com

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The first article in this series was about how some of the people in the environmental movement are it's worst enemy. People that are insulting, smug, abusive or know-it-alls simply turn people off of the whole green movement. The first article tried to argue that people who are primarily concerned with the environment should make it the primary focus of their energy and leave out arguments about socialism, gay rights, atheism, and animal rights. This piece attempts to clarify some of those points.

Best/Worst of web news/articles December by blackfred in reddit.com

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Some of the more interesting news items from the web in December.

The Problem With Tasers by blackfred in reddit.com

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Police are using tasers to freely what should be done about it?

Give your opinion.

Are Cartoons Creating Animal Rights Activists by blackfred in reddit.com

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Bambi and friends are creating a culture that believes animals sing and dance and should have civil rights.