If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Policy / Politique
The fee for tournament organizers advertising on ChessTalk is $20/event or $100/yearly unlimited for the year.
Les frais d'inscription des organisateurs de tournoi sur ChessTalk sont de 20 $/événement ou de 100 $/année illimitée.
You can etransfer to Henry Lam at chesstalkforum at gmail dot com
Transfér à Henry Lam à chesstalkforum@gmail.com
Dark Knight / Le Chevalier Noir
General Guidelines
---- Nous avons besoin d'un traduction français!
Some Basics
1. Under Board "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQs) there are 3 sections dealing with General Forum Usage, User Profile Features, and Reading and Posting Messages. These deal with everything from Avatars to Your Notifications. Most general technical questions are covered there. Here is a link to the FAQs. https://forum.chesstalk.com/help
2. Consider using the SEARCH button if you are looking for information. You may find your question has already been answered in a previous thread.
3. If you've looked for an answer to a question, and not found one, then you should consider asking your question in a new thread. For example, there have already been questions and discussion regarding: how to do chess diagrams (FENs); crosstables that line up properly; and the numerous little “glitches” that every new site will have.
4. Read pinned or sticky threads, like this one, if they look important. This applies especially to newcomers.
5. Read the thread you're posting in before you post. There are a variety of ways to look at a thread. These are covered under “Display Modes”.
6. Thread titles: please provide some details in your thread title. This is useful for a number of reasons. It helps ChessTalk members to quickly skim the threads. It prevents duplication of threads. And so on.
7. Unnecessary thread proliferation (e.g., deliberately creating a new thread that duplicates existing discussion) is discouraged. Look to see if a thread on your topic may have already been started and, if so, consider adding your contribution to the pre-existing thread. However, starting new threads to explore side-issues that are not relevant to the original subject is strongly encouraged. A single thread on the Canadian Open, with hundreds of posts on multiple sub-topics, is no better than a dozen threads on the Open covering only a few topics. Use your good judgment when starting a new thread.
8. If and/or when sub-forums are created, please make sure to create threads in the proper place.
Debate
9. Give an opinion and back it up with a reason. Throwaway comments such as "Game X pwnz because my friend and I think so!" could be considered pointless at best, and inflammatory at worst.
10. Try to give your own opinions, not simply those copied and pasted from reviews or opinions of your friends.
Unacceptable behavior and warnings
11. In registering here at ChessTalk please note that the same or similar rules apply here as applied at the previous Boardhost message board. In particular, the following content is not permitted to appear in any messages:
* Racism
* Hatred
* Harassment
* Adult content
* Obscene material
* Nudity or pornography
* Material that infringes intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any party
* Material the posting of which is tortious or violates a contractual or fiduciary obligation you or we owe to another party
* Piracy, hacking, viruses, worms, or warez
* Spam
* Any illegal content
* unapproved Commercial banner advertisements or revenue-generating links
* Any link to or any images from a site containing any material outlined in these restrictions
* Any material deemed offensive or inappropriate by the Board staff
12. Users are welcome to challenge other points of view and opinions, but should do so respectfully. Personal attacks on others will not be tolerated. Posts and threads with unacceptable content can be closed or deleted altogether. Furthermore, a range of sanctions are possible - from a simple warning to a temporary or even a permanent banning from ChessTalk.
Helping to Moderate
13. 'Report' links (an exclamation mark inside a triangle) can be found in many places throughout the board. These links allow users to alert the board staff to anything which is offensive, objectionable or illegal. Please consider using this feature if the need arises.
Advice for free
14. You should exercise the same caution with Private Messages as you would with any public posting.
Uniquely qualified to serve on the CFC executive. :p
Well at last, a sentence from Gary that is comprehensible.
Wrong, but at least we can understand his meaning.
But this thread is about climate change. Gratuitous cheap shots at the CFC executive are off topic, unless Gary is blaming the CFC for climate change too.
But this thread is about climate change. Gratuitous cheap shots at the CFC executive are off topic, unless Gary is blaming the CFC for climate change too.
I didn't understand what your claim to be "old and blind" has to do with climate change so I simply tried to help you out. :D
Didya know, this being March (and I don't think that is disputable) the average temperature in these parts increase by 2 degrees every week for the month?
On March 8 of 2000, temperatures in London and Windsor were high.. Outliers are not uncommon.
On March 8 of 2000, temperatures in London and Windsor were high...
How much of that white stuff you call snow did you have those days?
Well, surprise surprise, I did not measure the snowfall on March 8, 2000.
However, I do remember most years as a young lad in the 60's having lots of the white stuff to build some impressive snowbanks for our backyard rink. In recent years, less snow. Now I am sure Vlad will be happy to remind us that this is insufficient data to prove climate change is happening or that it is manmade.
Nevertheless, I am just saying....there is less snow now that when I was a child.
And I have the hockey sticks to prove it. :D
Well, surprise surprise, I did not measure the snowfall on March 8, 2000.
However, I do remember most years as a young lad in the 60's having lots of the white stuff to build some impressive snowbanks for our backyard rink. In recent years, less snow. Now I am sure Vlad will be happy to remind us that this is insufficient data to prove climate change is happening or that it is manmade.
Nevertheless, I am just saying....there is less snow now that when I was a child.
And I have the hockey sticks to prove it. :D
I'm sure Paul's friends are busy forging memos to prove its true and Paul will post the results as some kind of smoking gun proof. I currently am left with a wave/particle duality when it comes to Paul. Either he is just dumb or being intentionally dishonest. Either way these two theories offer adequate explanations of his every post in this thread and others.
It was kind of cold today. I could use some global warming, man-made or otherwise. There are always people claiming that we are on the verge of some disaster or another. Peak oil, AGW, AGC, the Club of Rome, peak wheat. Cassandra's abound but somehow we keep muddling our way through and there is more oil today than there was the first time I argued about peak oil with someone over a decade and a half ago.
Life is good. When the oil runs out, if it ever does we will just use coal and natural gas. No Mel Gibson Mad Max scenarios are even necessary.
...
Life is good. When the oil runs out, if it ever does we will just use coal and natural gas. No Mel Gibson Mad Max scenarios are even necessary.
And let's not forget nuclear energy....talk about a virtually inexhaustible energy source.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
And let's not forget nuclear energy....talk about a virtually inexhaustible energy source.
I was reading they are going to revamp Darlington for the second half of its life span. I worked on that when it was being built and somehow it doesn't seem that long. They were saying in the Newspaper the NDP is critical of the decision. Kind of caught me by surprise considering how many union jobs are involved.
Well, surprise surprise, I did not measure the snowfall on March 8, 2000.
However, I do remember most years as a young lad in the 60's having lots of the white stuff to build some impressive snowbanks for our backyard rink. In recent years, less snow. Now I am sure Vlad will be happy to remind us that this is insufficient data to prove climate change is happening or that it is manmade.
Nevertheless, I am just saying....there is less snow now that when I was a child.
And I have the hockey sticks to prove it. :D
This is purely psychological. As a boy you noticed the snow because you played in it and welcomed it. As an adult you try to ignore it and hope it will go away. This is less evidence than a journey down the windmills of your mind. Rosebud.
Last edited by Zeljko Kitich; Monday, 5th March, 2012, 03:25 AM.
I'm sure Paul's friends are busy forging memos to prove its true and Paul will post the results as some kind of smoking gun proof. I currently am left with a wave/particle duality when it comes to Paul. Either he is just dumb or being intentionally dishonest. Either way these two theories offer adequate explanations of his every post in this thread and others.
It was kind of cold today. I could use some global warming, man-made or otherwise. There are always people claiming that we are on the verge of some disaster or another. Peak oil, AGW, AGC, the Club of Rome, peak wheat. Cassandra's abound but somehow we keep muddling our way through and there is more oil today than there was the first time I argued about peak oil with someone over a decade and a half ago.
Life is good. When the oil runs out, if it ever does we will just use coal and natural gas. No Mel Gibson Mad Max scenarios are even necessary.
Maybe Paul is like Schrodinger's cat; both of those things at the same time until you open the box and determine which one this time?
Maybe Paul is like Schrodinger's cat; both of those things at the same time until you open the box and determine which one this time?
Indeed. What the so called climate scientists and AGW global industry don't seem to realize is that when they get caught lying again and again the great unwashed masses start tuning them out and they become irrelevant.
Disasters and disaster scenarios sell newspapers so I can understand why the mainstream media supports AGW and peak oil chicken little theories but you would think that the public at large would learn after so many false alarms over the years from the same people. The local paper prints howlers on a regular basis when writing articles on green energy policies like the time when they misplaced a decimal place to prove that solar/wind energy was viable. Oddly enough my letter to the editor pointing out the error was not printed. The author of the piece on the editorial page was the president of a local green energy company that has promised many green energy jobs.
Some of those same companies are promising returns of $200,000 as if that was a yearly income rather than revenues over a 20 year period. They are leaving the explanation of the difference between revenues and net income to the fine print and make some optimisitic assumptions about, electricity yields, maintenance and the life of the components that may severely impact the bottom line. Best case is that you get a 12 percent return if all of the optimistic and unrealistic assumptions come true. I know one family that ran the numbers and there have been other reports in the media of people who have run the numbers and come to the same conclusions.
So the homeowners are not going to be making money. The green energy companies seem to be going bust at an alarming rate. Hydro ratepayers are getting screwed. The point of all this is to reward certain government friends with sweetheart deals.
Tweet
Comment