Re: Take that Obama! China builds world's fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.politics.obama, comp.sys.intel, comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Take that Obama! China builds world's fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips
Date	2016-06-21 19:59 -0700
Message-ID	<D38F4D24.75BAB%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 6/21/16, 7:52 PM, in article
luGdnXS1-e3KYPTKnZ2dnUU7-RudnZ2d@earthlink.com, "Big Bad Bob"
<BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local> wrote:

> On 06/21/16 18:32, Gary Heston so wittily quipped:
>> Yes, heavily edited.
>> 
>>   [ ... ]
>> 
>>>>>>> Climate change is ignored because dealing with it *costs* money.
>> 
>>   [ ... ]
>> 
>>   You do realize that the earths' climate has been changing constantly
>>   for over four BILLION years? Throughout that time, the climate has
>>   been both significantly warmer and significantly cooler than it is
>>   now. All without intervention by that minor skin irritation called
>>   "humanity". 
>> 
>>   Climate change is simply a fact of life to be noted; sometimes it'll
>>   be warmer, sometimes colder, mor stormy or less. It has never been a
>>   static system, and never will be until the sun goes nova and blasts
>>   away the atmosphere and oceans. And at that point humanity will have
>>   spread to other star systems, or vanished and been replaced.
>> 
>>   The doomsday screaming is a combination of politics and fraud.
>> 
>>   [ ... ]
>> 
>>>>> The US could *invest* in green technologies and make money. And save money
>>>>> in
>>>>> the long run.
>>   [ ... ]
>> 
>>   Nope. Spain tried to convert to solar and wind; it's destroyed their
>>   economy. Even Google tried to power a data center with wind/solar, and
>>   even they couldn't make it work.
>> 
>> 
>>   The best energy source available in terms of reliability and
>>   cleanliness is nuclear.
>> 
>> 
>>   Gary
>> 
>>   (I say at least four billion years because the estimates I've seen
>>   regarding the earths' age is 4.5 billion years, and I'm allowing
>>   500,000,000 years for the planet formation to stablize enough for a
>>   climate to form.)
>> 
>> 
> 
> I pretty much agree with you.  careful engaging 'Snit', though, he's one
> of the worst *kinds* of trolls.  you might want to feed him for a while,
> but he'll just get really LOUD and obnoxious and vent all over every
> forum in existence, waste time writing a thesis on you personally and
> how fucked your ideas are, etc. etc. etc. - it's funny to watch, yeah,
> but gets boring pretty fast.  Lately I just tell him to fuck off, if
> anything at all.
> 
You are the one attacking - not me. I will just ask you to stick to the
topic and NOT write derogatory fan fiction about people.


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