Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx45.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail X-newsreader: xrn 9.03-beta-14-64bit Sender: scott@dragon.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) From: scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) Reply-To: slp53@pacbell.net Subject: Re: self-documenting APL, not COBOL and tricks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc References: <813374505.690130495.484117.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20221114161148.29a862ce392d0a2783e0defb@eircom.net> <20221130105838.5c820b6b03877e5f40f7b8d5@eircom.net> Lines: 33 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:01:47 UTC Organization: UsenetServer - www.usenetserver.com Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:01:47 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 2661 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:222876 comp.os.linux.misc:36253 Charlie Gibbs writes: >On 2022-11-30, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:00:47 +0000 >> The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> If the climate were as unstable as the alarmists conjecture, life would >>> never have evolved as it has. >> >> Yes, yes, but please stop rocking the boat. >> >> We need to get off fossil fuels for obvious reasons (running out, >> nasty combustion products ...) but it seems those are not sufficiently >> alarming to get anyone to do anything until the stuff actually runs out and >> then panic will set in aong with fighting over the scraps. Global warming, >> or climate change as we should now call it, seems to be sufficiently >> alarming. Never mind if people are running around trying things that may >> not work, there's time and resources available to get something that will >> work before it's needed. But only if TPTB remain scared of global warming >> and keep the pressure up, because common sense and simple provable facts >> won't do (which is a sad commentary on human nature). > >It doesn't really matter anyway. Population growth will swallow up the >savings generated by any other measures. If shortages and pollution >don't get us, mass psychosis will (it's already well on the way). > > Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in > too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal > that voluntarily does this to himself. > -- Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long https://www.ecosophia.net/the-end-of-the-industrial-age/