Posted by: 48%er at August 12, 2010 07:22 PM (kcqZS)

So give up our cars and they'll behead us last?

OT: How to Fix a Dysfunctional Senate: Cut 98 Senators

WASHINGTON—Apparently the Senate can work quickly after all. You just have to limit it to two senators.

On Thursday, the chamber approved a $600 million border-security bill in 31 minutes, from opening gavel to final passage. While their colleagues were enjoying a summer recess, Sen. Chuck Schumer flew in from New York and Sen. Ben Cardin drove his Pontiac from Baltimore to represent the entire Senate in the cavernous chamber.

I'm starting to wish they were right.  That way all the fucking climate scientists and their media lackeys would be killed in the glorious cleansing cataclysm.  I have a pretty good feeling about the next global disaster, whatever it may be.  The weak and stupid (welfare scum and muslims and 3rd worlders) will be wiped away, while the strong, smart, and industrious survive. 

BRING IT!

Sadly, so such thing will happen.  Weather will simply continue to be weather. 

SummerÂ’s heat and drought is unrelenting through September,

As opposed to, I suppose, Winter's cold and wetness, unrelenting through April.

This Nostradamus was quite the predictor, don't you think?

Miss'80sBaby -- And it took them 31 minutes?

That's like the football game between the US and Poland. The US team left the field and the Polish team scored three plays later.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at August 12, 2010 07:25 PM (Yq+qN)

WTH?   Got a link?

He said modelers of climate systems are "very keen" to develop supercomputer modeling ...

Oh, their running models on supercomputers. That's good enough for me.

(My portfolio of collateralized debt obligations must be worth a fortune by now. Maybe I'll cash some in and buy myself a supercomputer.)

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at August 12, 2010 07:25 PM (Yq+qN)

WTH?   Got a link?

Yes, I too am interested in the quorom of two.

The weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization says - although those scientists always shy from tying individual disasters directly to global warming.

They weren't so Johnny on the spot last winter, like when the greenhouse summit was cancelled due to snow.

the two cocksucker Democrats from NH who wished death to Sarah have resigned

28 Sorry. From The WSJ: http://tinyurl.com/2cz7j9n

It's actually perfectly legal, which is why it's worrisome.

What's this?

You hear about this? Former failed NYC mayor David Dinkins gave the middle finger to a heckler outside of the place of Rangel's b-day party.

The "O" shall lie about everything

And the multitude will be all like, "What the fuck?"

The Detroit Lions won 0 games in 2008 and 2 games in 2009. Based on this trend, their regular season record in 2020 should be 24 wins and -8 losses.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 12, 2010 07:40 PM (eRjGt)

Or further review, we stand by our readings of 600C temperatures. This global warming is worse then even we thought!

40 Miss'80sBaby, I'm in Fort Worth and it only got down to 87 degrees last night. Supposedly there will be "tropical" storms by Monday.

Muskwa,

It was actually a bit cooler than that in my hometown of Houston, but it's been in the high 80s in East TX as well. The good thing about H-town is that the clouds roll-in from the Gulf, but it's not always that way here in East TX. I would be quite happy if it rained more during the summer.

_{/Though I'd void that if it involved hurricanes. Tropical storms are okay, but no hurricanes.}

Posted by: denny crane at August 12, 2010 07:41 PM (I+7Zv)

He's right behind you, but don't look he's faster than Billy Clinton driving to Mickey Dee's

I think it's for real, andycanoodle.

No one in NH is defending these guys. And one of them, Harrigan?, is definitely o-u-t.

but I do appreciate your use of kabucki...and your keen eye

It's actually perfectly legal, which is why it's worrisome.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at August 12, 2010 07:37 PM (Yq+qN)

Yeah, I know it's legal.   I was just a little concerned about what bill they were doing that with.   I hadn't heard, and I don't trust any of those jerks.

Thanks.

Especially considering Schumer's joke: "We had a long list of things we were tempted to bring up and pass."

I thank them for showing restraint, but that's about it. Don't trust them, either.

Thanks.

YW.

So what do the last 11-12 years of NON-WARMING indicate MOTHER FUCKERS??

And, what will the temperature on my birthday in February 2011 be??

Put LIBTARDS in academic/philosophic/theoretical positions and you get NONSENSE.

Remember the movie with MEL GIBSON and RICHARD DOOFUS and JOHN GOODMAN and that whore HOLLY HUNTER and they put out fires with airplanes?

RICHARD DOOFUS died and then MEL GIBSON was banging HOLLY HUNTER and then he got sick of her and called her a [REDACTED].

72 We actually had 'heavy snow' here in East TX back in March, which was lovely.

I think we do go through periods where temps are hotter or colder than normal, but it's not something we can control. It has always happened, & it will continue to happen as long as the Earth exists. That's just the way things are.

and then BRIAN DENNEHY kicked MEL in the balls and then MEL set BRIAN on FIRE

^

DAD?

Posted by: gus at August 12, 2010 08:03 PM

Don't go to Wisconsin in August.

Another prophet of disaster, who said this ship is lost.

Another prophet of disaster, leaving you to count the cost.

Taunting with visions, afflicting us with fear,

Predicting war for millions, in the hope that one appears.

No point asking when it is.

No point asking who's to go.

No point asking what's the game.

No point asking who's to blame.

'Cuz if you're gonna die....

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.

If you're gonna try, well, stick around.

If you're gonna cry, just move along.

If you're gonna die, you're gonna die.

14 the Beast is rising, the Frenchman did surmise.

Through earthquakes and starvation, the Warlord will arise.

Terror, Death, Destruction, fall from the Eastern Sands.

But the truth to all prediction, is always in your hands. 

No point asking when it is.

No point asking who's to go.

No point asking what's the game.

No point asking who's to blame.

'Cuz if you're gonna die....

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.

If you're gonna try, well, stick around.

If you're gonna cry, just move along.

If you're gonna die, you're gonna die.

Truck Monkey.  I'm in Wisconsin.  It's 97 degrees today.  They are sweating their balls off at the PGA in Sheboygan.

53 They did predict correctly that it would get hotter in the northern hemisphere during the summer.  They got that right.

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Blind pig, meet truffle.

"They" have got the hurricane season, which AGW was supposed to make much worse, completely wrong ever since Katrina.

I fart in the general direction of your so-called enviro-seers!

Ace, I have seen your future. A case of bourbon, a dark basment and scribled out verses predicting the future for guillable masses.

You forgot about the people living in the crawl space under the stairs.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 12, 2010 08:09 PM (c0A3e)

Racist!

All things being equal, I prefer the world sterilizing meteor impact.

But that's just me.

half right.

the 3rd party candidate won't be Ron Paul, though.

First we had the models who were too skinny.  Next we had the Victoria's Secret models who were too sexy for TV.

And now we have models who want to destroy the earth?

I'm not liking where this is headed.

Remember NIGHT OF THE COMET?

That'd be awesome.

105 Wow, a few minutes ago I thought a mariachi band had broken into my house but then I realized it was the cicadas in the back yard. Bastards are noisy as hell this year. Must be global warming, eh?

LOL.

Seriously, though, they've actually been rather quiet here this yr, don't know why. So, I keep seeing them, but don't hear them as much.

Things will happen

to people on lands

I was a greenskeeper for five years and the tried and true long term weather forecaster was none other than the Farmer's Almanac. They measure wooly worms and use tidal charts and probably look at horse shit too but they always nailed the general forecast.

On a golf course, successful weather analysis can make or break the yearly budget. It always tickled me that old fashioned weather watching was more accurate than modern forecasting models.

#114  First we had the models who were too skinny.  Next we had the Victoria's Secret models who were too sexy for TV.

And now we have models who want to destroy the earth?

Told you decadence would be the undoing of us all.  Did anybody listen?  Nooo...

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 12, 2010 08:31 PM (9PzaA)

Yes, it was something Americans did before we were focused on "Service Economy". They would take stuff and make stuff out of it.

Now, we can serve people.

Are we talking about fembots?

Posted by: CDR M at August 12, 2010 08:29 PM (5I8G0)

Holy delusional camel jockey.  Do they want to destroy the world too?

In the headlines:  "Easy Liberal Lay Reporter Jennifer Loven..." 

Hee hee.

131 126 Gladly.  Your mind is too decadent, and I want for a decadence-free mind to drink from. 

So you're stealing minds instead of souls? Or you only talk to nuns?

Now, we can serve people.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at August 12, 2010 08:37 PM (zqzYV)

Are you looking for a job by any chance?

I am really enjoying the Rick Sanchez Hour tonight.  Such depth.  Such concern.

I'll be enjoying happy hour with Rick Sanchez later on tonight baby!

There is some tentative evidence that the sun may be involved. Earlier this year astrophysicist Mike Lockwood of the University of Reading, UK, showed that winter blocking events were more likely to happen over Europe when solar activity is low – triggering freezing winters (New Scientist, 17 April, p 6).

Now he says he has evidence from 350 years of historical records to show that low solar activity is also associated with summer blocking events (Environmental Research Letters, in press). "There's enough evidence to suspect that the jet stream behaviour is being modulated by the sun," he says.

Blackburn says that blocking events have been unusually common over the last three years, for instance, causing severe floods in the UK and heatwaves in eastern Europe in 2007. Solar activity has been low throughout.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at August 12, 2010 08:43 PM (kJXs1)

Cut. Jib. Newsletter?

I predict I will use Mittens Romney or William Henry Harrison as a sock this week. 

The worst of the computer models:

This is an update to a thread, some months back, which was in a Monte series about derivatives, the Black-Scholes formula, the Ivy League and AIG.  I intended to post this little bit then but I didnÂ’t have the time.

As Monte wrote, Black-Scholes, an imperfect formula to determine hedging risk, was certainly a main part of the problem at AIG, but there was a more proximate culprit.

Based on a three part series in the Washington Post, the site TPM writes:

 Â“According to computer models devised by Gary Gorton, a Yale Business Professor and consultant to the unit, there was a 99.85 percent chance that AIGFP would never have to pay out on these deals. Essentially, this would happen only if the economy went into a full-blown depression, in which case, the AIGers believed, the counter-parties would be wiped out, and therefore would hardly be in a position to demand payment anyway. With the backing of Cassano, then the COO, Savage greenlighted the deals. Credit default swaps were born.”

AIGFP is AIG Financial Products, the group that wrote all those derivatives contracts. Cassano, who became head of the unit, had neither the training nor experience to verify this risk assessment of near zero, nor did he commission a second opinion.  It was apparently too good to check.

Armed with his Yale calculation of near-zero risk (no doubt based in part on Black-Scholes), Cassano then cut loose his band of young, eager, Ivy League traders to wreak contracts of at least 60 trillion, including billions in profits and tens of millions in bonuses.  Since there was “no risk”, at no time was a reserve established or rights to collateral sought.

(In all my years in banking I have never seen anything so strange – you could loan Bill Gates a hundred bucks and still assume some element of risk.)

Furthermore, at no time did any internal or external audit detect even a shiver of risk. 

None of this came out in recent congressional hearings of course.  Cassano only evaded, danced, blamed the auditors and admitted that he had blocked the AIG Risk Assessment Team from looking at his group.  Even had he used the terms “spectacularly stupid” and “cataclysmically wrong” it still would have ranked high in the history of understatements.

In the annals of destruction caused by computer models, this one surely ranks above even those that informed Al GoreÂ’s predictions of 20-foot sea level rises and iceless polar caps.  The IPCC has only cost us several billion so far and we have got 160 billion into AIG, not including a few related matters.  The 160 billion actually went through AIG and onward to Goldman, Deutsche bank and several dozen others to pay off CDS contracts, the failure of which would have been otherwise assured, and Yale risk assessment notwithstanding.

In the old Soviet Mayday parade, the joke goes; one man marched alone after the battalions of soldiers and the ranks of tanks and artillery.  When asked about it, an old hand remarked: “That is the economist; he has more destructive power than anything you have seen so far.”

Perhaps we should now update this old joke and include Yale professors and computer models.

And almost nobody knows this story: the computer model behind the almost-destruction of the world financial system.

Cry “havoc” and let slip the Yale Professors!

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 12, 2010 08:46 PM (Adi4S)

Wanna go to Vegas with me?  I need some cash.

Heh, DS, yeah, but only for the ladies or the shows.  Not for the gambling.  

Posted by: George Costanza at August 12, 2010 08:53 PM (vdfwz)

Ha.

I watched a Magnum PI episode on hulu a few weeks ago.  Season one.  The bad guy was Ted Danson.  With a barely visable bald spot.  This was 1980.

Posted by: dananjcon at August 12, 2010 08:48 PM (CpbMn)

This could be the worst hurricane season since Katrina!!!1!

Look! Look! Another weak circulating storm that could become a tropical depression is crossing Florida headed towards New Orleans!!!1!1! OMG! The BP clean up is in danger!!!!!1

Now, we can serve people.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at August 12, 2010 08:37 PM (zqzYV)

Are you looking for a job by any chance?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 12, 2010 08:41 PM (bgcml)

Why yes, I have a background serving at McD's and my local cigar store. I also can edit recordings and like servicing older woman. Want to see my resume?

Posted by: bho at August 12, 2010 08:56 PM (Hl08B)

I'd rather play hookie.

Posted by: pst314 at August 12, 2010 08:51 PM (XP0Bd)

Just kill anyone who is involved in the discipline (coff) of Earth Science.

I guess its just too hard to see a connection between freakish weather  and one of the lowest Solar min  on record. 

I wonder at the stupidity of people that can not see a connection between what the sun does and our weather.   do this people not understand that the SUN controls ALL our weather?  

Posted by: pst314 at August 12, 2010 08:51 PM (XP0Bd)

Too Jewish

I watched a Magnum PI episode on hulu a few weeks ago.  Season one.  The bad guy was Ted Danson.  With a barely visable bald spot.  This was 1980.

OK, we have been making shit up and winging it for the last couple of years, but now we're going to level with you.

Yup, that's what we're going to do. Um hum. We are, really.

Well, not exactly. But we will be earnest.

Umm, no, not really.

Give us money!

Posted by: pst314 at August 12, 2010 08:55 PM (XP0Bd)

I sent Ace a link to an article I saw in the L.A. Times online earlier this week but I know it gets lost in all the stuff he gets. It was all about how it's been so cool in Californis this summer that everything is not ripening normally. Same as VDH is saying I guess.That's why I sent it --- GLOWBAL WARMING !!!11!

I sent Ace a link to an article I saw in the L.A. Times online earlier this week but I know it gets lost in all the stuff he gets. It was all about how it's been so cool in Californis this summer that everything is not ripening normally. Same as VDH is saying I guess.That's why I sent it --- GLOWBAL WARMING !!!11!

Posted by: NotreDameus at August 12, 2010 09:04 PM (5I8G0)

I like to keep up with that stuff too and I always laugh because it seems 9 out of 10 times we have these showers it's cloudy here.

I predict the Raiders will win the SuperBowl.

But will they beat the 'Boys tonight? Kickoff comin' up.

All these Facebook quizzes keep telling me I'm great!

How do they do it????

Nothing to do with weather but my 6 year old niece just played me a Miley Cyrus cover of Every Rose Has It's Thorn.

The end is near.

Nothing to do with weather but my 6 year old niece just played me a Miley Cyrus cover of Every Rose Has It's Thorn.

Every night has its dawn
Every cowboy sings a sad, sad song

Is...um...that true?

Look! Look! Another weak circulating storm that could become a tropical depression is crossing Florida headed towards New Orleans!!!1!1! OMG! The BP clean up is in danger!!!!!1

Posted by: The Weather Channel at August 12, 2010 08:55 PM (lM2oC)

I laugh because I have no tears left to cry. Seriously, though, no one would have given a thought about Bonnie or the other tropical storms if it hadn't been for what happened with Katrina or because of the oil-spill clean-up.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 12, 2010 07:40 PM (eRjGt)

Yeah, and not by a few degrees either, by hundreds of degrees for some datapoints.

Posted by: Guy who really loves New Mexico and art snobs

Remember when that guy Chaos used to write his name under every overpass and bridge abutment?

Posted by: Muskwa at August 12, 2010 09:14 PM (DXa2e)

Yeah and get better ratings if the news is terrible.  I spose that goes for all the news.  The Weather Channel really needs bad news though.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 12, 2010 09:17 PM (9PzaA)

With bacon

Posted by: alexthechick at August 12, 2010 09:19 PM (eRjGt)

No doubt. 

Geraldo the macho man loves gettin out there and hamming it up as well.  Would love to see him blow away. 

Is she so ugly that rain curves away from her?

Wookie magnetic force.

Geraldo the macho man loves gettin out there and hamming it up as well.  Would love to see him blow away. 

Saw him take a header into the surf at Galveston last summer. Did my heart good.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 12, 2010 09:22 PM (eRjGt)

Then Sheppard Smith could cry about it, on seen, in his Ole Miss baseball hat.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 12, 2010 09:19 PM (eRjGt)

I'm a weather geek too and if it isn't Jim Cantore nearly getting washed over a pier in a hurricane or Mike Seidel getting his ass kicked by a supercell in Oklahoma, the severe weather is always good fun!

I love watching Storm Stories.

Posted by: Miss Marple (redneck teabagger) at August 12, 2010 09:25 PM (bixjr)

No unfortunately I haven't.  Looks like Muskwa might have though.

In the reign of the Unicorn Master,

The Oracle of Gore foresees the plight:

The seas evaporate, the New City steams, the Midddle West drowns!

Oh right, there were all those record low temperatures last winter, so fuck, never mind.

-Nostradamus's first cousin, Earl

233 Remenber when cinemax showed skinemax? Good times.

They don't anymore?  Darn...

Posted by: Janeane at August 12, 2010 09:29 PM (aOKEC)

Good God, don't give the feminists any ideas.  This notion would surely trump the less pressing issue of women getting stoned to death in the enlightened Islamic countries.

Saw him take a header into the surf at Galveston last summer. Did my heart good.

Posted by: Muskwa at August 12, 2010 09:23 PM (DXa2e)

nothing is ever going to top his face being impacted by a beautifully thrown stacking chair.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 12, 2010 09:26 PM

Hah! 

Some would say that I have failed because the oceans haven't stopped rising.

The Earth, however, is healing itself. Pakistan still has a bit of pink eye and death-related stiffness, and then there's the herpes outbreak over by Australia, but George Bush left it worse off than even I thought.

You'd think you'd be thanking me.

Posted by: King Barry I at August 12, 2010 09:28 PM (vdfwz)

I'm on my knees...yoohoo

nothing is ever going to top his face being impacted by a beautifully thrown stacking chair.

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Pro Debate Squad, And Summoner Of Meteors at August 12, 2010 09:33 PM (eCAn3)

Wasn't that thrown by a Kluxer?

Bobby Byrd's greatest, and only worthwhile achievement.

Posted by: Janeane at August 12, 2010 09:29 PM (aOKEC)

Good God, don't give the feminists any ideas.  This notion would surely trump the less pressing issue of women getting stoned to death in the enlightened Islamic countries.

It's discrimination that hurricanes aren't given African-American names.  Chamiqua is a bad-ass name to give to a hurricane.

I was just thinking; I know how to start some shit-----

Well my Eagles are gonna be on TV tomorrow night.

It's discrimination that hurricanes aren't given African-American names.  Chamiqua is a bad-ass name to give to a hurricane.

Posted by: Shelia Jackson Lee at August 12, 2010 09:37 PM (9hSKh)

If we have to have a big hurricane this year, I'd love for it to be named Michelle.  The jokes would be endless.

257 I think most everyone except the greenies welcomes the idea of a warmer planet.

We wants the warmth too!

Posted by: Janeane at August 12, 2010 09:29 PM (aOKEC)

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"All racial groups should be represented," Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials "would try to be inclusive of African-American names."

A sampling of popular names that could be used include Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn, according to the paper.

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P.S.  This wasn't a joke.  Sheila Jackson-Lee actually said that.

If we have to have a big hurricane this year, I'd love for it to be named Michelle.  The jokes would be endless.

We'll have to get a shitload of them to get to M.

Geraldo the macho man loves gettin out there and hamming it up as well.  Would love to see him blow away. 

That was one of the last images on our TV screen before the power went out during Ike.

Posted by: Shelia Jackson Lee at August 12, 2010 09:37 PM (9hSKh)

Dang!  You beat me to it.  Good job. 

I think your cell phone is ringing.

Now that I think of it, we already had the feminists pissed about hurricanes.  Once upon a time hurricanes were only named after women. 

Not anymore.

#258  If we have to have a big hurricane this year, I'd love for it to be named Michelle.  The jokes would be endless.

LOL.  If that happened, I'd die of laughter.

That was one of the last images on our TV screen before the power went out during Ike.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at August 12, 2010 09:40 PM (Yq+qN)

Ike wasn't all bad huh.

Posted by: kbdabear at August 12, 2010 09:41 PM (vdfwz)

You noticed them too.

It's discrimination that hurricanes aren't given African-American names.  Chamiqua is a bad-ass name to give to a hurricane.

Posted by: Shelia Jackson Lee at August 12, 2010 09:37 PM (9hSKh)

I want a hurricane to be named Pootytang.

Posted by: kbdabear at August 12, 2010 09:41 PM (vdfwz)

Hurricanes never really interested me much, despite living in SC.

Wasn't that thrown by a Kluxer?

Bobby Byrd's greatest, and only worthwhile achievement.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 12, 2010 09:35 PM (IRwVS)

I think it might have been. There should be an annual TV award for that.

Posted by: kbdabear at August 12, 2010 09:41 PM (vdfwz)

BUNK

Posted by: kbdabear at August 12, 2010 09:41 PM (vdfwz)

Michael in MI?

"All racial groups should be represented," Lee said

Possible Native American hurricane names:
Hurricane Broken Rubber
Hurricane Two Dogs Fucking

Posted by: CDR M at August 12, 2010 09:51 PM (5I8G0)

Hurricane, tropical depression, what's the difference?

"All racial groups should be represented," Lee said

Possible Icelandic hurricane names:
Hurricane Bjarnhéðinn 
Hurricane Friðþjófur
Hurricane Ragnheiður   

You know what....I'm starting to think all cultures shouldn't be represented.

You know what....I'm starting to think all cultures shouldn't be represented.

You know what....I'm starting to think all cultures shouldn't be represented.

Posted by: gator at August 12, 2010 09:55 PM (aOKEC)

I think the Icelandic "culture" should get blown to hell by that giant fucking volcano they use as a "green" geothermal heat source.

O/T:  H/A linked this Weekly Standard smackdown of the NYT:

The New York Times used to be called the Gray Lady of American newspapers. The sobriquet implied a certain stateliness, a sense of responsibility, the possession of high virtue. But the Gray Lady is far from the grande dame she once was. For years now she has been going heavy on the rouge, lipstick, and eyeliner, using a push-up bra, and gadding about in stiletto heels. She’s become a bit—perhaps more than a bit—of a slut, whoring after youth through pretending to be with-it. I’ve had it with the old broad; after nearly 50 years together, I’ve determined to cut her loose.

. . .  

The New York Times Magazine has always been dull, but earlier it erred on the side of seriousness. Now it is dull on the side of ersatz hipness.

"All racial groups should be represented," Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials "would try to be inclusive of African-American names."

If they do that, it's gonna be 'Oh sure, name a the fuckin hurricane after a black guy!'

In fact I think that's the whole plan.

Shiela Jackson Lee orders the bureaucrats to name the storms with 'african american' names, then the NAACP sues them for $5M and kicks 2M back into campaign organizing.

All types of people should be represtented:

Hurricane Yenta

Hurricane Shitnozzle

Hurricane Douchebag

Hurricante Termagant

Hurricane Shitsome Cloaca

The hurricane name "Michelle" was retired in 2001

she has blown her last

Posted by: Jones at August 12, 2010 10:09 PM (ZH73Z)

Is "Worf" still in the bullpen?

Heh, Jones.

Hurricane Pimp Hand

> "SummerÂ’s heat and drought is unrelenting through September,
The people cannot escape, tens of thousands die."

Wow, this prediction was fulfilled perfectly! Remember when Obama said that 10,000 died in the Kansas tornado?

youtube.com/watch?v=tjO8Qc5s1fY

Florida, Alabama and Georgia are being overrun by aggressive rock pythons and Burmese pythons released into the wild by jackasses who had them as pets, and each female python lays 100 eggs twice a year, and the infestation of those dangerous snakes is predicted to move north into the Carolinas and as far west and north as Texas and Ohio within the next two years, and our useless government isn't bothering to address that issue either, because whacko environmentalists actually want to have those extremely dangerous snakes protected.

If dogs, cats, rabbits, squirrels, birds, etc., are mysteriously disappearing in your neighborhood lately, you can be pretty sure that you've already got one or more pythons in your neoghborhood, and small children could be next as their food supply of other mammals diminishes, and as they get bigger and more aggressive, too.

I predict the Obamas will take two more vacations in this month alone.

And also that Michelle will be scowling in all the pictures.

This is too easy.

Unless your code is very, very, very good (or completely cooked), you're going to almost always get something....unexpected.

Actually, not almost always. Always.

And not unless your code is very, very, very good. Always.

Chaos Theory predicts that given enough time, you'll always have wildly divergant results from certain complex systems like weather because you lack infinite precision in your measurements of the initial variables.

And the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle suggests that having infinite precision is literally impossible.

So such systems will always eventually result in something unpredictable and seemingly chaotic. No matter how well you understand them, no matter how much computational power you have or how good your code is, there will remain a sort of relative 'event horizon' beyond which you cannot predict anything at all.

For that matter... the climate of the earth is fuckin huge. Like... the size of the earth. Lots of people get lots of wild ideas about what computers can do...  Let me put it this way.

Let's say you wanted to build a computer that could model and track every single piece of matter in the entire universe, and be a model of the entire universe.

Well, there is already a model of the entire universe - it's called the universe. And it took every single thing in the entire universe to model everything in the entire universe. So it would with a computer.

To build a computer that could model everything in the universe, it would require... (at least, and likely much more than) all the matter in the universe to build it.

Even if you could have infinite precision in your measurements and knew everything about the climate system on Earth, to build a computer that would completely accurately model the entire climate of Earth would require a computer at least as large as the Earth itself.