psychoak

psychoak

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Your sarcasm meter is clearly broken. Ice core readings show that the last interglacial was substantially warmer than the current climate, by as much as 5C, despite a lower CO2 level. They're not part of a grand conspiracy, they're just selectively ignored whenever they don't fit the political agenda. You can't get precision from them either, they show temperatures at highly insulated points on the globe that are slow to react to the actual g

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

They're micro quakes, we get them by the thousands every year, it's normal. The Denmark Meteorological Institute has detailed Arctic sea ice mapping data going back to 1893. Our satellite records, which is all we use, for what I find to be obvious reasons, starts in 1979. A cold year in a long run of cold years. Even the warmists will admit that the 70's were a downward trend in temperature. Those relics of the past? They show t

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Reply to 4K home theatre system in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Gas amplifier? Solid state and vacuum tube amps are the only ones I've seen anyone using for music applications. OLED's are getting closer to CRT quality, they should have black levels and contrast more in line with my defunct NEC Multisync FP2141SB soon... Oh how I miss it. :( LCD is much easier on the eyes, but it's not a better image. The problem with CRT is eye fatigue from the refresh rate, it can have absolutely

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Alas, the flogging may have killed the horse, but the gullibility of mankind will kill me... There isn't anything unusual about the current weather around the world. It has been, quite depressingly, unusually inactive by recorded history's standards. There aren't loads of hurricanes, typhoons, or hurricanes and typhoons in places they shouldn't be. There aren't abnormally high numbers of tornadoes, tornadoes in places they shouldn&#

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Reply to 4K home theatre system in Personal Computing Sins Forums

OLED's are vastly superior, they do not get rid of color shift entirely however. Color shift comes from two sources, the glass/plastic surface, and the design of the actual pixels. Pixels are designed two ways, stacked, and single layer. Single layer pixels are 3 part, or however many colors there are, and greatly reduce the clarity one can achieve because of the added space they take up. Any high resolution endeavor is going to be stacked, red/blu

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Reply to 4K home theatre system in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Curved screens do have an advantage, but they don't work because they're a brain dead application. Particularly true for LCD's, when you're watching a TV from an angle, you get a color shift, there is the glare issue as well, but that can be mitigated. Color shift happens across the screen because you see it from different angles, this problem is magnified as the size of the screen increases relative to your viewing distance. A curved screen

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Reply to Modder's "Get-an-Answer" Thread in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Um... that ever worked? That condition determines when something spawns, so if your planet is owned by Tech, whatever is there will spawn on game start. Pretty sure there isn't, and never has been a way to lock the factions, but if there is someone figured it out and never shared with the class. It's been a frequently bitched about shortcoming in the map designer.

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Reply to 4K home theatre system in Personal Computing Sins Forums

First thing to understand is that there is no 4k content. There isn't even much 2k content. Your bluray player is already sending out heavily compressed images, the streaming stuff online isn't even laughably close, using high compression and low color depth to fake a high resolution. Uncompressed 1080p 8 bit video wouldn't even run on a gigabit internet connection, requiring over a terabyte to store a 2 hour movie. Blurays are running more

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Reply to pacov's League of Legends general discussion thread - strategies, etc #3 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Karthus is still being played primarily by highly skilled Karthus players, very low pick rate for a supposedly really strong champion, it doesn't appear to be reliable freelo like the other mids listed. Unless they fix that stupid DFT, they're just going to make it the only possible choice for champs with DOT's, so these are pretty tard moves regardless.

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote]You confuse the polar ice pack with the Arctic in order to jump to a fact that you like. And you completely ignore the difference between fresh and salt water, haven't even considered albedo, don't understand the disruption of the thermohaline currents you're incorrectly trying to cite, etc, etc...[/quote] There's no land at the north pole, this isn't a fact I like, it's simply a fact. You specifically listed the arctic and antarctic

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Well, apparently, these days facts are indeed determined by popular opinion, but that's just because people are, as a factually accurate description, idiots. In the real world, where everyone resides but few live, facts are those things which are found to be true by observation or experience. :) [quote]Good grief. All the ice is not already in the water. You might notice that the Arctic and the Antarctic aren't underwater, so that conclusively demonstrates

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Reply to IP, monkey selfies, and now PETA. in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Annabelle died quite quite a few years back, so unless we're going for Speaker for the Dead... Uvah, animals are quite adept at lying. I had a dog that would shit in the house as revenge for leaving him alone, and then hide the evidence in an attempt to avoid the spanking. He'd drag around things like rugs, newspapers, covering his mess up before you got back. The little bastard was a real pain in the ass but when it was too cold to leave him o

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Reply to [Mod]Star Wars: Interregnum [Beta 2.5 Release, 12-20-23] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Strike craft are ship specific entries in the entity files, assuming tie defenders are research locked and the executor isn't already full, you could copy the locked tie defenders as a new asset, add it to the executor, and remove the research lock. If it's already full of strike craft, you'll have to do more work.

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="2627" id="3605960"] Is anyone of you like me in that you don't care about data that's presented in some site that average Joe don't know about? All those sites that's been linked to, no matter what they're called, are "distant" to me. I know it sounds SO mainstream and perhaps ignorant but really, I almost only care about my own observations about the weather and YouTubeclips that explain thin

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