Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit 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: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:59:32 -0700 Lines: 75 Message-ID: References: <3f3ce61edaedd5f00d4da3fd27818f9a@anon.holland.remailer.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net TOpxIyfHRGcNZnzAGu3pJwdfTdMiJbuwWBP3MXb8ENud7rMX4B Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZAEzAKFwWbnHxn6z4FI/k9BhVRw= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: Take that Obama! China builds world's fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips Thread-Index: AdHMMhmTLSValDoDoUWfsocdRFstSQ== Xref: csiph.com alt.privacy.anon-server:51826 alt.politics.obama:334793 comp.sys.intel:459 comp.os.linux.advocacy:360642 alt.comp.os.windows-10:21744 On 6/21/16, 7:52 PM, in article luGdnXS1-e3KYPTKnZ2dnUU7-RudnZ2d@earthlink.com, "Big Bad Bob" 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. -- * OS X / Linux: What is a file? * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu: * Mint KDE working with folders: * Mint KDE creating files: * Mint KDE help: * Mint KDE general navigation: * Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs? * Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux: * OS / Word Processor Comparison: