Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 21:52:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:52:47 -0700 From: Big Bad Bob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 References: <3f3ce61edaedd5f00d4da3fd27818f9a@anon.holland.remailer.nl> In-Reply-To: X-Why-Are-You-Looking-Here: Jedi Business, move along Approved: yes X-Testing: of course! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 59 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.47.136.67 X-Trace: sv3-ZcGD+frzyeGKC776hGt1fb/OJDwRBJjLPwU2rJQRYmebCenx3vzdqLqWV/9Tp0dGpjyhc5ol3E3ZgXH!9lPO9wIS6t7b4ZLcVgO6ClhqZL+buCMmhb9wCAK7dh4wt/TE7/Mc7Y3YOHNRJUpWLrUY1P/pligO!98yrWein9tw0J9RnC8s0Qi/01ZlTyxeGucI4 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3776 Xref: csiph.com alt.privacy.anon-server:51825 alt.politics.obama:334792 comp.sys.intel:458 comp.os.linux.advocacy:360641 alt.comp.os.windows-10:21741 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. -- your story is so touching, but it sounds just like a lie "Straighten up and fly right"