And the temperature was about 8C higher than today meaning no polar ice caps which will be a pretty major problem for coastal communities if it ever gets back up to a global mean temperature of 23C.

The Earth has its own way of regulating things. Be it via melting the ice caps, throwing a killer virus at us, devastating earth quakes, volcanic eruptions and mud slides, tsunami's, etc. Man trying to will Earth into doing what he wants is laughable at best. Therefore Man is trying to will his fellow man into doing what he wants and getting his pockets lined with gold in the mean time. Because Man knows he can't will Earth into doing what he wants, but as long as his fellow men don't all know that, he can extort them. Is what our governments are doing to us under the "Climate" header. Pay pay pay pay, because in the end we may have a solution you can believe in. But pay. Make sure you pay.

And the temperature was about 8C higher than today meaning no polar ice caps which will be a pretty major problem for coastal communities if it ever gets back up to a global mean temperature of 23C.

The Earth has its own way of regulating things. Be it via melting the ice caps, throwing a killer virus at us, devastating earth quakes, volcanic eruptions and mud slides, tsunami's, etc. Man trying to will Earth into doing what he wants is laughable at best. Therefore Man is trying to will his fellow man into doing what he wants and getting his pockets lined with gold in the mean time. Because Man knows he can't will Earth into doing what he wants, but as long as his fellow men don't all know that, he can extort them. Is what our governments are doing to us under the "Climate" header. Pay pay pay pay, because in the end we may have a solution you can believe in. But pay. Make sure you pay.

And the science being right in no way stops governments and others trying to use it to screw money out of us.

PCI express risers? This thread hasn't had that as topic since post 100 or so. I don't even know what topic is current, but if any of the moderators want to whip us back on topic - I hope they know what the topic was then. :)

And the temperature was about 8C higher than today meaning no polar ice caps which will be a pretty major problem for coastal communities if it ever gets back up to a global mean temperature of 23C.

The Earth has its own way of regulating things. Be it via melting the ice caps, throwing a killer virus at us, devastating earth quakes, volcanic eruptions and mud slides, tsunami's, etc. Man trying to will Earth into doing what he wants is laughable at best. Therefore Man is trying to will his fellow man into doing what he wants and getting his pockets lined with gold in the mean time. Because Man knows he can't will Earth into doing what he wants, but as long as his fellow men don't all know that, he can extort them. Is what our governments are doing to us under the "Climate" header. Pay pay pay pay, because in the end we may have a solution you can believe in. But pay. Make sure you pay.

And the science being right in no way stops governments and others trying to use it to screw money out of us.

Ah you do know how it rolls out there. Phew, you had me worried there for a moment. :)

And you ARE a moderator....

True, I sport that title. I also sport the admin title. But I tend not to use the titles when I am part of the argument, discussion etc. I'd rather one of the other moderators takes over for the moderation then. And they can moderate me as well.

And where do you see "post 100"? Mine is on 96625, which I assume is a global count from every thread.

the Index tells me there are 347 posts in this thread (in a bit 348 as mine's added). You can set up how many pages you want in a thread in your preferences. I've set mine for 100 per page. When I go to page 2 for me, thus post 101, there's already no talk about PCI express risers anymore, it's a discussion on how many tasks to run on a GPU and how much memory that takes. So...

And with that said, someone on here does not like that I have my own opinion about these things, or that I am using these boards to post them. So instead of PM'ing me about it, or going into discussion and try to change my opinion, they went over my head to David. Damaging the reputation of BOINC?

Remember, you are allowed to speak your mind on these boards, as long as you don't use foul language every other word. But you're denying that to me because your opinion differs from mine?

Fine. Have it your way. I'll go back to being a moderator only.
You are on ignore.

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There, fixed that.

Personally, I think that the coronavirus is the Earth's (or Gaia's, if you prefer) way of re-balancing the earth's ecology, by removing the super-spreaders (or Frequent Fliers). Nice to see a disease which affects the rich more than the poor.

Water off a duck's back. I've been spanked before, and I like to think that I'm as close to shitproof as the capitalist world permits.

I can't remove stars at this moment, because by removing my titles I removed my access to a certain page. Will get it back, and then add stars to Richard for his post. :)

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Thank goodness we've got an all-purpose thread again - I can't resist this one.

Health minister Nadine Dorries tests positive for coronavirus

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person - not.

By the way, I live in a province that's basically quarantined from the rest of The Netherlands. We've all been urged to work from home, people who work in other provinces are no longer allowed to come to work. Our PM has told us to stay at home and wash our hands. And not shake hands anymore with anyone, after which he shook hands with the head of the RIVM who was with him. All large gatherings in Noord-Brabant have been canceled. All small gatherings as well.

On top of that, to battle the other crisis we have, from the 16th onwards we can't drive faster than 100 kilometers per hour anymore on the motorway (is now 130 kph). That's to stop polluting our nature with NOX. Mind, only cars and motorbikes are affected, not airplanes, because they don't pollute so much, as we stop measuring their NOX output above 3,000 meters. In 2017 planes still accumulated 14% of the yearly NOX output, now, miraculously it's 0.1%.

Luckily we're all dumb enough to believe this.

And here in UK, they have reduced the bank rate to 0.25% so people will spend more of the money they won't have because they won't be able to go to work to earn any. Oh wait, they will be borrowing it hence the relevance of the interest rate. Still if echoed by the building society it might save me a fiver a month.