Originally posted by Justarius1

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by Justarius1

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by Justarius1

Originally posted by deviliscious

I can see both sides of this. I do not think voice changers should be used for general gaming. Instead, have a strictly RP sever that has voice changers so that everyone playing knows if your on that server that is the case.  That way, it is expected, and if I want to go on a server and sound like Darth Vader and say " Luke I am your father." or sound like schwarzenegger and say, " I'll be back." I can because that is something I could never do for real.

Have regular voice chat on the other servers. I can see how gender does matter from a female perspective. To have a guy pretend to be a girl and "invade" our inner circles is not only intrusive, it is insulting. Girls ARE different than guys. We tell each other everything. We talk about things with each each other we never would with men and men should not be coming in to spy on us!

Men are not allowed in womens restrooms, and they should not be allowed in our " girl" talk. They can go have their own conversations with the boys, and allow us our space as well. Men should not be disguising themselvesas females to sneak up on us. Men should not be disguising themselves as women to give us a bad reputation by fondling their pixels, scamming sad lonely men, or to " trick" someone. No, That is just not right. I think not only should voice chat be implemented in regular gaming, but cams as well.

My guild used cam or in person interviews for recruits only. This was a good practice because you can really determine their personality and get to know a person prior to allowing their character into the guild.

Really?  Honestly?  As I've stated here, I'm a 30 year old married male who has never played a female character.

I don't care at all if some guy wants to impersonate a woman in guild chat.  I treat men and women the same in MMOs, as I think it should be.  

As for you saying men should not be allowed to "trick" someone - I agree.  Neither should women.  But sad, lonely people seem to always find a way to be tricked and manipulated in this life, one way or another.  Might as well be online where minimal damage can be done...

(That was tongue in cheek for those who don't get my sense of humor.)

Really what? What exactly are you addressing?
 

You just proved my point that Men are different than women. Men do not care if the person they are talking to is a male or female, but alot of women do. Women talk to women different than they do men. Women usually have their guard up around men, and discuss more personal issues among women. To have a man try to impersonate us and breach the  "gender barrier" by thinking they have a right to be included in conversations they know nothing about is just messed up. When men know what it is like to have a period, have their feet hurting from dancing in heels all night, and break out into hives from a Mary Kay makeover party they can then be invited to join our conversations, but as themselves, not as a female impersonater.

 

Let me guess - you're really young.  When you're over the age of 30 you'll find that men and women don't really keep their "guard up" like that.  I have male and female friends I talk to about everything.

So does my wife.

My wife doesn't care if men come in to her "female" conversations.  (I actually read this post to her and she just laughed, asking, "How old is the poster of that?")

When you graduate from school, these things matter much less.  And really, how many men do you think are making girl characters so they can listen in on girl talk?  Do you personally know of any?  I sure as Hell don't.

If you're a man who wants to impersonate a woman so you can listen to a woman talk about retaining water, um, buddy, more power to ya...  I've never met a guy like that in my life.

I guess it depends on the woman.  I have been out of schoolfor quite some time. LOL. I still hang out with my girlfriends, we still keep secrets from the men, as does my Mother, and Grandmother as well.  Maybe it is just how some of us were raised.  And yes, I have known a few guys that pretended to be girls just to find out what was going on. When I first started playing MMO's , we had a "Female only guild". Guys often tried to pretend to be girls to get in and it was so sad when they were busted. Usually they would slip up somewhere, besides they couldn't pull it off at a real guild party.

I guess the core difference is not whether or not someone is using the game as a dating site, or their age,but rather whether or not they separate game from the rest of their life. Some do, some don;t. When you actually hang out and do things for real with guild mates it is different than just some anonomous person online. Having gone fishing, had parties, gone clubbing, gone to concerts, gone shopping, gone to the movies ( all as friends) with guild members it puts things in a different light. The world is a small place, I do not believe in " make believe". Some people treat players as strangers, some treat them as friends, there is a difference.

 

Actually, no, it's maturity.  I've met some of my fellow guild members across various games and made friendships that endure to this day.  Their gender continued to not really matter to me.  Perhaps it is "how I was raised" but personally, I enjoy my relationships with both men and women, and see very little difference in the way we interact together.

I think another poster summed it up best when he said at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter to me.  My wife would like a chat filter to pretend to be a guy for rp and other purposes :D - but aside from that, it's not something that really matters to me.  If I get to know a person their gender ultimately won't matter when I meet them, if ever, in "real life."

I love it when people use the term " maturity". It has everything to do with personality. You may feel it is "immature" to not want to hang out with people that some of us consider mentally unstable, lame, a self centered pitty party.. but for some of us life is too short to waste it on a drama queen.
 

Some of us do not enjoy soap operas, watch television, or even care about THAT NONSENSE. You laugh, you cry or you die and If you are still laughing life is good. It is a choice on how you want to spend your time on this earth, and some of us choose not to waste it wallowing in drama. Life throws out enough drama, to not have people create it themselves. That is how some of us see it. There are better things to do. To me all that BS, is just that ...BS wasting my time. Basically unless it is an emergency, I don;t want to hear about someones " I am a girl trapped in a mans body"  nonsense. LOL!

Edit- What I mean by emergency: say some freak serial killer kidnapped a girl and placed her inside a male cadaver, that would be considered an emergency .. but some mentally twisted dude pulling a Marilyn Manson .. that is his problem, please keep it away from me. LOL

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by Saerain

Has anyone ever tried even the most state-of-the-art voice changers? They are not convincing, in my experience. I can't imagine any serious confusion being a problem for a few years to come.

And when it does occur, why care?

 

Not that they would matter all that much considering the best guilds are always off site. Guilds use cams &  their own voice programs anyways and if your not willing to play by the guilds rules, you won;t be accepted anyhow.  It isn;t like we use their in game chat options all that much because ALL in game chat blows chunks as it is. So if some dude was pretending to be a girl, as soon as they did a guild interview they wouldn;t make it pass step one anyways so it wouldn;t matter.

It only matters to those "in game only guilds" which everyone knows they are full of creeps so why would anyone want to do that? LMAO

 

 

I never join guilds. Just not my thing. Often group with people in guilds, just not a joiner.

I guess you like this sort of play:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grCTXGW3sxQ

LOL! No, I have never been in a guild remotely like that. College guilds are a bit different. They are started on campus, with people you actually hang out with and expand, but have strict "out of game requirements". The only person from "The Guild" show that would have even had a remote possibility of being admitted to our guild would have been the Asian chic. We actually had a girl in our guild that reminded me of her. But like I said before, Having strict personality requirements and weeding out the over emotional bi polar, kids, and creepy people made for a much better group in and out of game.
 

Our applicants had to go through a video or in person interview before even being allowed to "tag" along on events. They actually had to attend out of game events before being admited. (  get them drunk and see how they REALLY are)

Originally posted by Saerain

In recent years, I've come to consider guild websites almost completely redundant, considering the guild tools in the games I play, namely EVE. I can't think of anything they offer that isn't available in-game, unlike back in EverQuest's days. With the exception of truly enormous super-guilds, I suppose.

I guess because I have always been in "college" guilds, it is a bit different. We actually do things together for real, so posting those type of guild events would not be appropriate in an " on site" forum. We have our own rules.. not having someone else dictating them to us. We play together in and out of game, so who is actually in the guild actually matters moreso than some in game only guild.

Originally posted by Saerain

Has anyone ever tried even the most state-of-the-art voice changers? They are not convincing, in my experience. I can't imagine any serious confusion being a problem for a few years to come.

And when it does occur, why care?

Not that they would matter all that much considering the best guilds are always off site. Guilds use cams &  their own voice programs anyways and if your not willing to play by the guilds rules, you won;t be accepted anyhow.  It isn;t like we use their in game chat options all that much because ALL in game chat blows chunks as it is. So if some dude was pretending to be a girl, as soon as they did a guild interview they wouldn;t make it pass step one anyways so it wouldn;t matter.

It only matters to those "in game only guilds" which everyone knows they are full of creeps so why would anyone want to do that? LMAO

The easy solution is to only have voice changers available on RP only servers.  Have a disclaimer and titled server explaining it. That way EVERYONE in game knows that if your on that server no one is who they claim to be. Pretty simple. The rest of the servers can have regular voice chat and cams for the REAL people. win-win situation.

Originally posted by Midare

LOL Well of course men tried to sneak into a "women only" guild. It is human nature to try and gain access to anything we're barred to. It isn't like a ladies rest room where they could potentially see your genitals. That is the same as how men are up in arms about the women-only travel agency in Australia.

 

Really, if there was a "mens club" guild women would try to sneak in as well. Wasn't this very idea touched upon during a Family Guy episode?

 

One thing I have to wonder, in your Women's Guild... who would you accept? A Female to Male transexual: who has shared your womanly experiences of menstruation and possibly childbirth but who now looks/sounds/acts totally male... or a Male to Female transexual who looks and sounds female, tot he point where you'd have to check deep inside to confirm a lack of uterus... but who has never had nor ever will menstruate nor have children?

 

Are either of these parties welcome? Why or why not? How far in your questioning is valid to go in order to "verify" your members? These people exist and some of them play MMO games, so do individuals who are just at the start of transitions... some of whom you'd bar entry from a Ladies group because they're "men" but who may have wanted to paricipate online because they cannot afford to start their transition yet (too poor or young and living in a fundimentalist house).

 

In some ways I think it is sad that people both fixate on gender and self-segregate by it. The world is more complicated than "man and woman", and barring people entry or fixating on needing a hard male/female lable to apply on people seems to limit our abilities to get to know one another as individuals. We pre-judge people's motives, "eww a man is eaves dropping on girl stuff, he's a pervert/weirdo/whatever," without bothering to find out why they're interested in taking part in all our reindeer games.

We lose opportunities to learn by acting like that.

Well Rudolph, Personality was the most important thing taken into consideration for membership. We did not allow people that were over emotional, bi polar, emo, or had gender confusion into our guild. Not because we hated them, but because they would not be able to "hang" with our personalities well. Sorry, but the women in our guild pretty much looked at " manic depression" as an excuse for copping out and being lame.  Yes, you may think that mean, but if you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen! We just didn't have time for that nonsense. And yes, women ARE meaner than men.

Originally posted by Devour

Originally posted by johnmatthais

 Besides the fact that the community reeks a stench unimaginable, why all the Runescape hate?

Because Jagex basically did an NGE to Runescape.

Yes, and that new environment included turning the game into a kiddie turnstall and running off most of the adult players.
 

They basically ignored their player base and decided they wanted it to be a " Junior MMO" instead of improving the game and making a Real mmo.  The game had so much potential, and they decided to trash all that and take the kiddie route instead. It's a shame.... they could have done so much with it.

Classes. Utterly ridiculous. Just because your good at one thing does not mean you cannot be good at another. Stupidest Idea EVER.

Originally posted by Justarius1

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by Justarius1

Originally posted by deviliscious

I can see both sides of this. I do not think voice changers should be used for general gaming. Instead, have a strictly RP sever that has voice changers so that everyone playing knows if your on that server that is the case.  That way, it is expected, and if I want to go on a server and sound like Darth Vader and say " Luke I am your father." or sound like schwarzenegger and say, " I'll be back." I can because that is something I could never do for real.

Have regular voice chat on the other servers. I can see how gender does matter from a female perspective. To have a guy pretend to be a girl and "invade" our inner circles is not only intrusive, it is insulting. Girls ARE different than guys. We tell each other everything. We talk about things with each each other we never would with men and men should not be coming in to spy on us!

Men are not allowed in womens restrooms, and they should not be allowed in our " girl" talk. They can go have their own conversations with the boys, and allow us our space as well. Men should not be disguising themselvesas females to sneak up on us. Men should not be disguising themselves as women to give us a bad reputation by fondling their pixels, scamming sad lonely men, or to " trick" someone. No, That is just not right. I think not only should voice chat be implemented in regular gaming, but cams as well.

My guild used cam or in person interviews for recruits only. This was a good practice because you can really determine their personality and get to know a person prior to allowing their character into the guild.

Really?  Honestly?  As I've stated here, I'm a 30 year old married male who has never played a female character.

I don't care at all if some guy wants to impersonate a woman in guild chat.  I treat men and women the same in MMOs, as I think it should be.  

As for you saying men should not be allowed to "trick" someone - I agree.  Neither should women.  But sad, lonely people seem to always find a way to be tricked and manipulated in this life, one way or another.  Might as well be online where minimal damage can be done...

(That was tongue in cheek for those who don't get my sense of humor.)

Really what? What exactly are you addressing?
 

You just proved my point that Men are different than women. Men do not care if the person they are talking to is a male or female, but alot of women do. Women talk to women different than they do men. Women usually have their guard up around men, and discuss more personal issues among women. To have a man try to impersonate us and breach the  "gender barrier" by thinking they have a right to be included in conversations they know nothing about is just messed up. When men know what it is like to have a period, have their feet hurting from dancing in heels all night, and break out into hives from a Mary Kay makeover party they can then be invited to join our conversations, but as themselves, not as a female impersonater.

 

Let me guess - you're really young.  When you're over the age of 30 you'll find that men and women don't really keep their "guard up" like that.  I have male and female friends I talk to about everything.

So does my wife.

My wife doesn't care if men come in to her "female" conversations.  (I actually read this post to her and she just laughed, asking, "How old is the poster of that?")

When you graduate from school, these things matter much less.  And really, how many men do you think are making girl characters so they can listen in on girl talk?  Do you personally know of any?  I sure as Hell don't.

If you're a man who wants to impersonate a woman so you can listen to a woman talk about retaining water, um, buddy, more power to ya...  I've never met a guy like that in my life.

I guess it depends on the woman.  I have been out of schoolfor quite some time. LOL. I still hang out with my girlfriends, we still keep secrets from the men, as does my Mother, and Grandmother as well.  Maybe it is just how some of us were raised.  And yes, I have known a few guys that pretended to be girls just to find out what was going on. When I first started playing MMO's , we had a "Female only guild". Guys often tried to pretend to be girls to get in and it was so sad when they were busted. Usually they would slip up somewhere, besides they couldn't pull it off at a real guild party.

I guess the core difference is not whether or not someone is using the game as a dating site, or their age,but rather whether or not they separate game from the rest of their life. Some do, some don;t. When you actually hang out and do things for real with guild mates it is different than just some anonomous person online. Having gone fishing, had parties, gone clubbing, gone to concerts, gone shopping, gone to the movies ( all as friends) with guild members it puts things in a different light. The world is a small place, I do not believe in " make believe". Some people treat players as strangers, some treat them as friends, there is a difference.

Originally posted by Zorvan01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU

I almost posted this link before I clicked on yours! LMAO
 

Originally posted by Zorvan01

Originally posted by deviliscious

When men know what it is like to have a period,

I once was so bloated and constipated that when I finally took a dump my ass felt as big as the Brooklyn Tunnel. So not only do i know what a period feels like, I have also experienced birth.

have their feet hurting from dancing in heels all night,

Try wearing cowboy boots as a main piece of footwear, one night in heels ain't shit.

 and break out into hives from a Mary Kay makeover party

 I once used my ( now ex) wife's Nair on my face to attempt to get out of having to shave.

they can then be invited to join our conversations, but as themselves, not as a female impersonater.

I'd make an ugly woman, so thanks for the invitation, you won't regret it.

 

ROFLMAO!  Good to see you 'round these parts! I was wondering what happened when I saw you disappeared.
 

Originally posted by Sabiancym

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by Sabiancym

 I probably jumped the gun, but we'll just have to wait and see if any more details come out.

 

I doubt it was suicide, unless he felt the need to write FED on his own chest.

 

And what other reason for writing FED on someone and then hanging him is there other than fear, or hatred of the government?

 

 

Maybe someone's Counter strike clan just lost to <FED> ?

Of course it could be a mentally unstable democrat like that kid who was breaking windows too...
 

 

Could be, but it's in Kentucky......so the odds are against it.

How you like them odds?
 

Originally posted by Justarius1

Originally posted by deviliscious

I can see both sides of this. I do not think voice changers should be used for general gaming. Instead, have a strictly RP sever that has voice changers so that everyone playing knows if your on that server that is the case.  That way, it is expected, and if I want to go on a server and sound like Darth Vader and say " Luke I am your father." or sound like schwarzenegger and say, " I'll be back." I can because that is something I could never do for real.

Have regular voice chat on the other servers. I can see how gender does matter from a female perspective. To have a guy pretend to be a girl and "invade" our inner circles is not only intrusive, it is insulting. Girls ARE different than guys. We tell each other everything. We talk about things with each each other we never would with men and men should not be coming in to spy on us!

Men are not allowed in womens restrooms, and they should not be allowed in our " girl" talk. They can go have their own conversations with the boys, and allow us our space as well. Men should not be disguising themselvesas females to sneak up on us. Men should not be disguising themselves as women to give us a bad reputation by fondling their pixels, scamming sad lonely men, or to " trick" someone. No, That is just not right. I think not only should voice chat be implemented in regular gaming, but cams as well.

My guild used cam or in person interviews for recruits only. This was a good practice because you can really determine their personality and get to know a person prior to allowing their character into the guild.

Really?  Honestly?  As I've stated here, I'm a 30 year old married male who has never played a female character.

I don't care at all if some guy wants to impersonate a woman in guild chat.  I treat men and women the same in MMOs, as I think it should be.  

As for you saying men should not be allowed to "trick" someone - I agree.  Neither should women.  But sad, lonely people seem to always find a way to be tricked and manipulated in this life, one way or another.  Might as well be online where minimal damage can be done...

(That was tongue in cheek for those who don't get my sense of humor.)

Really what? What exactly are you addressing?
 

You just proved my point that Men are different than women. Men do not care if the person they are talking to is a male or female, but alot of women do. Women talk to women different than they do men. Women usually have their guard up around men, and discuss more personal issues among women. To have a man try to impersonate us and breach the  "gender barrier" by thinking they have a right to be included in conversations they know nothing about is just messed up. When men know what it is like to have a period, have their feet hurting from dancing in heels all night, and break out into hives from a Mary Kay makeover party they can then be invited to join our conversations, but as themselves, not as a female impersonater.

I can see both sides of this. I do not think voice changers should be used for general gaming. Instead, have a strictly RP sever that has voice changers so that everyone playing knows if your on that server that is the case.  That way, it is expected, and if I want to go on a server and sound like Darth Vader and say " Luke I am your father." or sound like schwarzenegger and say, " I'll be back." I can because that is something I could never do for real.

Have regular voice chat on the other servers. I can see how gender does matter from a female perspective. To have a guy pretend to be a girl and "invade" our inner circles is not only intrusive, it is insulting. Girls ARE different than guys. We tell each other everything. We talk about things with each each other we never would with men and men should not be coming in to spy on us!

Men are not allowed in womens restrooms, and they should not be allowed in our " girl" talk. They can go have their own conversations with the boys, and allow us our space as well. Men should not be disguising themselvesas females to sneak up on us. Men should not be disguising themselves as women to give us a bad reputation by fondling their pixels, scamming sad lonely men, or to " trick" someone. No, That is just not right. I think not only should voice chat be implemented in regular gaming, but cams as well.

My guild used cam or in person interviews for recruits only. This was a good practice because you can really determine their personality and get to know a person prior to allowing their character into the guild.

Originally posted by Illius

I'm plenty assertive.  I just think I'm picking the wrong ones.  On the upside, I'm too drunk to care right now.  The booze is working!

I certainly hope you aren't taking ANY of this advice...\

Best advice: be yourself, she will figure it out sooner or later anyways.. better to know you guys don't get along sooner rather than later. Faking, pretending, changiung yourself or expecting someone else to change is just  a waste of time for both of you.

Forcing something that just isn't working is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole.  It just isn't meant to be.

So they are scrapping mechscape, changing it, and calling it something else now? This is not surprising, considering Jagex's history with not being able to make up their minds.

"Sadly the game was not as complete as we wanted and we spent the first few months trying to “fix” the game where we could. About a month or so ago we took the decision to stop trying to “fix it” as we still wouldn’t have the game we wanted and the game certainly did not meet all the objectives and specifications established in the original game design document and therefore it would be better to go back to the founding principles and build the game we always wanted –Andrew is now overseeing the project and working very closely with the team to build Stellar Dawn, not all was lost as we naturally have developed the game engine substantially over the last few years and the new designs benefits massively from this as well as a ton of experience within the team as to what works and what doesn’t. So whilst the content and a lot of the game play will change from what was previously built almost everything else will go straight back into Stellar Dawn."

•MechScape has been reborn as "Stellar Dawn"
•It will benefit from the engine improvements made for MechScape
•The gameplay and content will be different (so anything you heard about the game may no longer be the case)
•"Stellar Dawn will have a PVP aspect" (source)
•It will have free/members as RuneScape does, but will probably be more expensive. (source, source)
•RuneScape creator and Jagex founder Andrew Gower is now in charge of the project
•They hope it'll be ready to launch in 2010 (but no guarantees)

www.mechscapeworld.com/forums/index.php

12 killed, 31 wounded. 1st shooter killed, may have been a second shooter, 2 suspects apprehended. Shooter was a US soldier.

Originally posted by Enkindu

Originally posted by deviliscious

Yes, I fully understood everything you have said thus far. LOL Your data appears to be older than mine.
 

There are OTHER factors than just the CO2 emissions, and the suns energy readings to take into consideration, The gaping hole in our elctromagnetic field, the speed at which our poles are moving, the earths core  and mantle activity, the changes in the rotation of the earth , our gravitational pull, and many other factors that are not all being included in the assessment that we will continue on a path of global warming.

 In Fact ,NASA has had a few things to say about the suns  recent activity and other issues that affect our climate that may shed some new light on the subject:

Deep Solar Minimum

Are Sunspots Disappearing?

New Solar Cycle Prediction
 

Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High

Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field
 

SATELLITES REVEAL A MYSTERY OF LARGE CHANGE IN EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELD 

A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
 

Co-seismic Excitation of Earth Rotational and Gravitational Changes
 

 

These are all interesting articles but I don't see anything here that I would particularly connect with global temperature variation.  Which were you looking at? God knows space weather and geodesy are not my specialties.

From my understanding it works like this:
 

Quiet Sun- reduced magnetic &thermal flux= reduced solar wind- geomagnetic field drops- Galactic cosmic ray flux- more snow and low level clouds- more heat reflected (more albedo effect)= colder climate.

Active sun - enhanced magnetic and thermal flux = solar wind- geomagnetic shield response- less low level clouds- less heat reflected ( more albedo effect)= warmer climate

There are cycles of global warming and cooling like waves in the ocean modulated by sunspot peak frequency. When the waves are close together the planets warm, when the waves are wider spaced the planets cool.

The cause of the magnetic cycle may be in the Sun- Jupiter center of gravity.

With our current technology there is not much we can really do about that. We can however, better prepare our people to adapt and survive the conditions that lie ahead.

I will discuss this further when i have time, I have business to attend to in the meantime. I hope that clarifies it at least a bit in the meantime

Originally posted by Enkindu

Originally posted by deviliscious

LOL! sure you can quote me.

 

Sweet!   Thanks- that actually made me laugh.  My fiance will appreciate the "jackass" reference.

Quick question: Did you get the medical analogies or was I misremembering your background? They were primarily for you in any case.

Also, found pretty good evidence against the solar hypothesis (Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke is pretty credible):

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The Misconception:   Recent global warming is caused by the sun.
The Reality: The output of energy from the sun has been monitored by satellites for thirty years and has not increased during this period of rapid global warming.

 

 

 

 

It’s true that the sun provides the energy (both light and heat) that drives the Earth’s climate; without the sun, the Earth would be a chilly place indeed! When the amount of energy coming from the sun changes, the climate responds in proportion to the change. However, scientists have been observing the sun with sophisticated satellites for three decades—during the period of greatest warming—and have observed no trends in solar activity.

Satellite observations clearly show the well-known 11-year solar cycle, during which the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface varies by about 0.1 percent. This cycle causes the global temperature to fluctuate up and down by about 0.2° F, much less than the observed warming of about 1° F in the past 50 years. More importantly, the solar cycle causes an up-and-down cycle, not an upward trend similar to the trend in the global temperature. The sun’s output has not increased over the past three decades (Figure 1).

Recently, two NASA scientists concluded that the solar effect on climate was “negligible” during the last 25 years and that “none of the natural processes can account for the overall warming trend in global surface temperatures.”1 After analyzing several different types of data for solar activity (i.e. sunspot number, open solar flux, cosmic rays, and total solar irradiance), two respected solar physicists found that “all the trends in the Sun that could have had an influence on the Earth’s climate have been in the opposite direction to that required to explain the observed rise in global mean temperatures.”2 Similarly, after compiling the available evidence from many different studies, the U.S. Global Change Research Program concluded that “direct satellite measurements of solar output show slight decreases during the recent period of warming.”3

How do we know that the sun isn't causing the warming? We've been measuring the output of energy from the sun for thirty years from space and there's no net change.
Prof. Bill Chameides
Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment
Duke University

Yes, I fully understood everything you have said thus far. LOL Your data appears to be older than mine.
 

There are OTHER factors than just the CO2 emissions, and the suns energy readings to take into consideration, The gaping hole in our elctromagnetic field, the speed at which our poles are moving, the earths core  and mantle activity, the changes in the rotation of the earth , our gravitational pull, and many other factors that are not all being included in the assessment that we will continue on a path of global warming.

 In Fact ,NASA has had a few things to say about the suns  recent activity and other issues that affect our climate that may shed some new light on the subject:

Deep Solar Minimum

Are Sunspots Disappearing?

New Solar Cycle Prediction
 

Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High

Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field
 

SATELLITES REVEAL A MYSTERY OF LARGE CHANGE IN EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELD 

A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
 

Co-seismic Excitation of Earth Rotational and Gravitational Changes
 

Originally posted by zchmrkenhoff

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by zchmrkenhoff

The solution to global warming is space colonization. It's the time to begin terra-forming the planets around us and begin settling them. Like Agent Smith said, the species most like humans is a virus. We exist in one area, use all of the resources up, and move on. It seems we've almost used this planet up hmm? Time to move on then. We're a race of nomads... let's just migrate ^^

Silly. We do not want to " use all the resources up and move on " like a bunch of grasshoppers. we are more intelligent than grasshoppers and can renew resources instead of just devouring them.
 

Yes, space colonization would be nice in the future, but unstead of  using , abusing and discarding planetslike a bunch of parasitic insects, we instead create reneable resources and put back into planets what we take out of them. However, we are not advanced to a point that space colonization is even a viable option.

If this be the case, I suggest we build huge Jurassic Parks all over the world, but use them as massive slaughterhouses to turn oil into a renewable resource for the far future and just dump all the dead dinosaurs into a huge pit. Hm?

Or we could do this:
 

Oil Creation Theory Challenged by Fuel-Making Fungus

Or this:

Energy from Urban Waste

Converting trash gas into energy gold

In combination with other methods I see this as a viable option.