macrowhat

They underestimated Richard Stallman

Also, what the fuck does this have to do with tech?

Well we're not a bunch of pussies and shit

Why is this crap on hackernews? Get over it, we're gonna keep eating sweet delicious cows.

I've told recruiters to straight up lick my butt before

God, these whores make me want to vomit

I used to make comments like this when I was young, but then I grew old and gained wisdom instead.

Might be time to dust off those NLTK skills. Can probably answer this over the weekend.

Okay sorry, I was being Quick Draw McGraw with the articles.

This was the article published by time referencing the "New Ice Age": http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9449.... I knew I saw it before ;) And of course, the paper you linked quotes many, many more that perpetuates the myth. I'll be bookmarking that!

A quote:

"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

So the scientific community seems to have the same perspective as I, whereby the media alarmists cause unnecessary fear among the population that accepts their orthodoxy unabated.

I don't know about that

That mostly mirrors my sentiment, although I'd say that the government is inhibiting industrial growth foremost in the US, unfortunately without regard for the American workers that it hurts. Then for some strange reason, the same people who criticize industrial pollutants here turn around and revere China's industrial growth, all the while promoting "cheap goods" without taking responsibility for the pollution their goods cause there. Glaring hypocrisy.

This is why I'm so skeptical of climate alarmists. It wasn't that long ago the alarmism was centered around a "big freeze" (http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19731203,00.html). I see it as a feeble attempt to acquire power and funnel money from hard-working citizens to the "scientific" community, without providing any tangible benefits. What do you guys think?

I think it will. In retrospect he was pretty good.

Its blatant anti-Trump sentiment

Well, I don't expect more than far-leftist "opinions" from this once-great institution. My message for Thomas is that democracy only works when you have cultural cohesion. So why even act surprised?

very interesting

Thanks. I'm better but far from healthy. Doctors are pretty much useless. I bought a PRS Kingfisher and learned to slap from Davie504 :)

I ended up with a pinched nerve a couple of years ago and couldn't walk for a long time--lost the feeling in my leg. Totally sucked. My girlfriend left me at almost my lowest point too, even after casually agreeing to marry six months earlier (not officially though).

I was living in NYC and my building porter and I started jamming to cheer me up. He had no musical training but just played from his heart. He also started doing push-ups and exercising with me in my apartment in-between recording, which helped a lot with my health. After 11 months the building supervisor got pissed and put an end to it--came to my door screaming at us. Good times haha.

After jamming for so long we had a good collection of music and I decided to assemble it into a full album, particularly a rock opera, telling the story of us making the album.

We plan to release it this year, but I've been sharing some of the nearly completed songs with friends and family. This is the last song on the album:

https://soundcloud.com/systemcheck/ecstasy/s-Gl2Rm

My building porter Alfred (what a name huh?) is now a friend for life.

I like this \m/