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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 23, 2014, 08:14:30 PM »
In the United States, over the past 10 years, the production of renewable electricity with non-hydroelectrical techniques has increased by over 150%, giving it the highest rate of increase by percentage in the USA. Currently, renewable energy currently constitutes about 6.25% of the United States' current electricity production, as opposed to the 2% in 2004. This easily demonstrates the results of recent efforts to use renewable energy rather than fossil fuels.

That is a result of recent subsidy programs in place, whereas you're suggesting atrocious tax hikes which do literally nothing to help.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 22, 2014, 08:08:04 PM »
It's happened before. Historically speaking, every species that has become dominant over the Earth has screwed it up so badly that they could no longer survive on it. The only difference is that we're smart enough to stop before we go too far. Hopefully.

Huh? Are you saying that the dinosaurs were somehow responsible for getting themselves nuked by an asteroid?

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Technology & Information / Re: Coin (not to be confused with bitcoin)
« on: March 22, 2014, 04:28:40 PM »
Yeah. I heard about this a long time ago. Just about everyone agreed that having one electronic vehicle for all of your finances is all kinds of dumb.


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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Discovery a challenge to UA?
« on: March 22, 2014, 03:03:38 PM »
So what?

When discussing science you never ask "why" or else you'll get a basic logic response. "Why is an apple an apple?" Because it is an apple. There is no "why" in science. "How is an apple an apple?" Well, that's a different question entirely, isn't it?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 22, 2014, 03:00:35 PM »
This thread is awful.  I don't even know which side is making worse arguments now.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 22, 2014, 03:52:10 AM »
Is this an online course for crashing the economy? If it is, there are better ways to do it.  If it isn't, well... that's a shame.

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Technology & Information / Re: Sony's Project Morpheus
« on: March 21, 2014, 11:11:41 PM »
Why, Sony? Who is the one thinking of all your accessories? You should probably fire them.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Discovery a challenge to UA?
« on: March 21, 2014, 11:09:11 PM »
If gravitation can occur in the heavens, then why can't gravitation occur on the earth?

The Earth is not the heavens.

I specifically would like to hear from FEers who do not subscribe to any sort of gravitation, if there are any here.
:'(

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Discovery a challenge to UA?
« on: March 21, 2014, 05:04:39 AM »
http://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=1309.msg21116#msg21116

Curious to know what FEers who do not subscribe to gravitation of any kind make of the article that DDDDats linked to.  Would this make you reconsider the existence of UA?

Gravitation can occur in the heavens.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Satellites
« on: March 21, 2014, 03:13:45 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN

/thread

Next idiot RE'er, please.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 03:03:02 AM »
Less than ten percent of people actually own a car. Owning a car comes with certain responsibilities, and if you aren't willing to accept those responsibilities, then go to Somalia. It isn't our responsibility to deal with the crap you pump into the atmosphere. If you want to use the atmosphere as a dumping zone, then you're going to pay the fee.

Wow.

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There isn't a thing about that computer that Steve Jobs would have approved of.

He would approve of the idea, but I doubt Apple would release a computer looking like stacked turds. It'd be sleek, white, and have a big honking Apple logo on it somewhere. They would say it uses quantum tunnel cooling or some made-up shit.

Hey, I'm not arguing for Razer here, just upgrading certain parts as they require. Of course, if I'm forced to upgrade multiple parts due to sockets or other circumstances then I do, but otherwise I'm going to be a cheap bastard and only upgrade what I need.

Like Thork said, a computer is more or less stuck in time due to the parts you get. When I built my first computer a few years ago I thought I'd just be able to update parts one at a time, but then I needed more powerful mining cards, and then I needed PCI slots that could handle the bandwidth. This ultimately ended with getting a whole new computer, because just getting a new GPU would bottleneck at the slots, and getting a new motherboard and GPU without a new processor is impossible due to socket compatibility. In the end the only computer parts that stay the same for me are the hard drives and the case.




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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 02:10:21 AM »
Rather than tax fuel, governments should concentrate more on subsidizing the research and development, as well as implementation of alternative energy vehicles. While this certainly isn't the best method of getting things done, it is a lot better than taxes, which, even if they are on the company as you suggested, get pushed to the consumer regardless.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 02:03:07 AM »
EU and UK gets ass pounded for gas taxes. The US actually pays more in gas subsidies than it receives back in gas taxes, which is why comparatively our gas is mindbogglingly cheaper than the EU and UK.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:22:06 AM »
What is to gain by this? Or by hiding this?

Most countries would refrain from saying something in order to prevent disclosure of their full radar capabilities, at least that is the most logical reason without resorting to straight conspiracy bullshit.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?
« on: March 20, 2014, 04:52:28 AM »
There isn't a spot on Earth that isn't being radar'd to death by one nation or another, and commercial airplanes don't exactly have small radar signatures. Someone knows where this plane is and for whatever reason, isn't saying anything or is purposefully hiding it.

Definitely illuminati.

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I think that some people might disagree with you.

Uhh, what? They're not advertising that mineral oil is the best way to cool a computer, they're just trying to make it look interesting. That aquarium computer would die out if they actually used it to play games for hours on end. Oil gets hot, and stays hots, and that radiator is only cooling the oil that is circulating. The oil directly around the processors is going to barely move, if at all, as oil is very resistant to convection currents due to its viscosity. Mineral oil computers are only good for low-end computers that are used in short bursts.

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Also, mineral oil is the absolute worst way to cool off a gaming computer. This isn't a combustion engine, computers have very high heat densities and oil submersion is not a good way to cool a small, very hot object. It seems their choice to do that would only be to make it semi-novel so they can patent the shit out of it.

It also guarantees eventual part failure due to heat. Maybe this is on purpose? They can't be accidentally this stupid, can they?

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That case looks more like it was an attempt to build a computer that emphasized vanity over utility while managing to have neither characteristic. Some major problems:

1. It requires manufacturers tailor their equipment directly to Razer. If I wanted to be shafted and forced to buy proprietary gadgets from one company, I'd buy a Mac. At least Apple can make the process of bending you over and fucking you a cultural phenomenon.

2. The Razer CEO claims that this will reduce wastage by allowing the easy trading of old hardware to lower end consumers. I don't think he has ever been to E-bay before, someone should probably tell him about that.

3. Computer parts are already easily interchangeable and standardized enough to allow various manufacturers and consumers to choose their flavor. No one that builds their computer for gaming would also be willing to buy a Razer Walled-Garden Brand computer.

4. "Christine's a bit different because if we went out and built our own modules and platform, we would literally be creating a walled garden, which is something that we don't want to do," he said. "We want to be able to go out there with a couple of big OEMs and be able to say, look, maybe Razer does all the super high-end stuff. You guys can do all the mass-market stuff and stuff like that. --- Uhh, this is exactly what Apple does, and we call it a walled garden because that is exactly what it is.


Basically Razer wants to corner the gaming market, but forgets PC gamers aren't lemmings. While I do own some Razer products (and they are fairly good at what they do), I would never pay a premium to have this new gaming PC that only Steve Jobs would approve of.

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