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Wikipedia is just following in the footsteps of Alphascript

I'm old enough to have grown up believing in the inevitable "ascent of man" and a continuous, rationalist march into the "broad, sunlit uplands" of scientific truth.
I feel physically sick to find myself living in a Tulipomanian bubble.
Shame on you damn hippies.
It's a bit like tatoos really: I regard them as beyond the pale, you see them as getting in tune with your reiki (or some similar new age crap).
Now get off my lawn.

No one is suggesting Lomborg committed fraud or going after him personally. People are suggesting he is wrong.

When you call the title of your book The Lomborg Deception, it's pretty hard to say you are not going after him personally. Deception by definition implies fraud.

We encouter this problem a lot. The majority of the Netflix we get (6 at a time, represent!) are either historical documentaries narrated by people with British accents, silent movies, or anime. I'd say roughly one out of every six discs we receive need to be given a ride in the Skip Dr. I can understand the anime and documentaries being scratched, since they are likely also gotten by people with kids...but the silent movies?!?!?! Who the fuck enjoys silent movies, but treats the medium they are contained on like crap? ::fist shake::

When its a $ 350 Kinesis Advantage Pro keyboard.

So that's when you use an adaptor as I said.

Come on, it's $5.39 - and it even ships via Prime!

Sure it's not included by default but then MOST people are also not going to have a $350 keyboard. But the point is you can use it if you really value it.

http://www.amazon.com/Kikkerland-SUPER-KEYRING-detatchable-Removable/dp/B000KPUETW

Problem solved.

And there are a handful of wonderful keyrings designed to support just that: click together only the key rings you need on your trip into a nice combined keyring.

They look like this:
http://www.amazon.com/KYR60-MC-Troika-Valet-Keyring/dp/B00009R4CM/

There are dozens more for less than its 20 bucks, this one is just the first Google hit for "key chain detachable". Solves many problems, no lost keys, no giant keyrings, no worn out pockets, not a huge mess if I really need all keys for one day.

Other than that, common sense tells us that most of the time
- car and bike keys can be separated with one at home.
- if you drive the same car to work, you can leave the office keys in your car
- keyfob for garage front door and parking lot never need to leave the car
- keys for attic, mailbox, toolsheds never need to leave the house

I have a sort of dual approach:

I have a carabiner with a canvas loop and a threaded chain link on the loop. To that, I have one ring that is work keys (main door, side door, my office, colo, cabs, and VPN RSA fob), one ring that is personal keys (house, gate, mom's house, friend's house, Blizzard RSA fob), and one ring each for our two cars and the associated alarm fobs.

This enables me to remove one set of keys from the set when I need to pack light or loan out a set, and the carabiner - loop - link adds just enough link that I can put the whole mess in my pants pocket and still have it attached to a belt loop, if the jingle is a problem. I generally leave them out, because I don't get nearly as many complaints from people who think I'm sneaking up on them at work that way. *shrug*

Additionally, it makes a nice flail for self-defense. :)

Either a Key Wallet
http://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Leather-Holder-Wallet-Available/dp/B0007IQF5Y

or a belt clip key chain, which keeps the keys outside of your pockets.
http://www.keychains4you.com/belt-clip-key-rings.html

These would come in quite handy in extreme environments. Well at least extreme in regards to motion. Very useful in say a rough terrain spy vehicle. With a device like this expensive, heavy, shock protection for a normal hard drive would not be necessary. It would come in quite handy in blackboxes, and such. In other words there is certainly a market out there beyond gadgeters. It would be a nice feature in a AI car, you could pack a lot of rules and patterns in and retrieve them in rapid succession. Oh, yeas, I see uses for this that would make it worth the high cost. You could just strap this into your lightweight self-driving EV prototype and gain a huge boost over your competitors.

DOH! There goes my secret R&D weapon!

Unfortunately, I see no where to buy one of these. Thank goodness Amazon still has one of Super Talent's 128 GB 3.0 USB RAIDDrive flashdrives! Whew!
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Talent-RAIDDrive-Flash-STU28GSRK/dp/B0037FU7AI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1273175768&sr=8-1

He's not just some guy, he's Ian Bogost. He's much holier than you. Have you read Racing the Beam?

"My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. -- And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. -- Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. -- We shall prevail!"

Yes, Apple fans, you missed the whole point of Apple's "1984" commercial. Apple's real plan was revealed, but you all thought it was a joke. You were wrong. That was the plan. There, you see the ideology behind the iPhone and the iPad. It took 25 years to bring it to fruition. The Information Purification Directive is now a reality.

Read the early writings of megalomaniacs to see what they intend. Early bin Laden, early Lenin, early Business Roundtable, early Jobs - they all revealed their master plan well in advance.

"My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. -- And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. -- Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. -- We shall prevail!"

Yes, Apple fans, you missed the whole point of Apple's "1984" commercial. Apple's real plan was revealed, but you all thought it was a joke. You were wrong. That was the plan. There, you see the ideology behind the iPhone and the iPad. It took 25 years to bring it to fruition. The Information Purification Directive is now a reality.

Read the early writings of megalomaniacs to see what they intend. Early bin Laden, early Lenin, early Business Roundtable, early Jobs - they all revealed their master plan well in advance.

While every keyboard can type A-Za-z, that's not true of Chinese or Arabic, so sites using those TLDs will be effectively off-limits to those that aren't "native".

Bullshit. My conservative estimate is that every major version of Windows, OS X and Linux over the past 7 years supports input methods for Arabic and Chinese, using an ordinary Latin keyboard. Also, you can buy Arabic keyboards if you like, or even just Arabic character stickers for your existing keyboard. And of course, there's also the fact that you can reach Arabic or Chinese-content sites from links or search engines, or the fact that you can copy and paste a foreign script URL on your browser bar.

Can you read any Arabic or Chinese, anyway?

While every keyboard can type A-Za-z, that's not true of Chinese or Arabic, so sites using those TLDs will be effectively off-limits to those that aren't "native".

Bullshit. My conservative estimate is that every major version of Windows, OS X and Linux over the past 7 years supports input methods for Arabic and Chinese, using an ordinary Latin keyboard. Also, you can buy Arabic keyboards if you like, or even just Arabic character stickers for your existing keyboard. And of course, there's also the fact that you can reach Arabic or Chinese-content sites from links or search engines, or the fact that you can copy and paste a foreign script URL on your browser bar.

Can you read any Arabic or Chinese, anyway?

What does open/closed source have to do with this? And just because you already know everything about security doesn't mean that other people do. Everyone has to start somewhere. Otherwise Slashdot for Dummies wouldn't be such a big seller!

Indeed! I absolutely would have bought The Adventures of Mark Twain had it been available in the UK, but it's Region 1 encoded only! BADOING! one lost sale there, and it's not even my fault!

Stick that in your empirically proven facts (I know you were being facetious).

but it's 609

http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-BB-HCM371A-Outdoor-Wireless-Network/dp/B0009PD0ZI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1273093932&sr=1-1

here is the wired PD device (poe 802.3 powered)
for 665
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-BB-HCM735A-Network-splash-resistant-optical/dp/B002PILZV8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1273093861&sr=8-1

but it's 609

http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-BB-HCM371A-Outdoor-Wireless-Network/dp/B0009PD0ZI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1273093932&sr=1-1

here is the wired PD device (poe 802.3 powered)
for 665
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-BB-HCM735A-Network-splash-resistant-optical/dp/B002PILZV8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1273093861&sr=8-1

You'll ruin your mighty-fine blade. Rock it on the cutting board, dice up a big 'ol pile of veggies. This is a cleaver.

Boy, Slashdot needs <WP:Cleaver>-style tags.

Jenkins, 2001 - Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System The First 100 Missions, 3rd Edition.

Heppenheimer 1999 - The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle.

Those two cover some of it, but it'll take you a few weeks to get through it. The rest comes from decades of actually studying the issues and processes.

Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

There, I feel better now.

Here's another postscript. Edge Foundation way back in 1999 ran a question with some historical depth.

EDGE: What Is The Most Important Invention?

From my notes: Joseph Traub, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, David Shaw, David Myers, Milford H. Wolpoff, John McCarthy, Philip Brockman, Howard Rheingold, Samuel Barondes and John Rennie all put forward the scientific method or some variation on scientific progress, alongside all the usual votes for the pill, the printing press, the a-bomb, digital electronics, and hay.

Around the time of that survey, a lot of people convinced themselves that this new model for managing a company (or a software product line) made sense, because that was how the world worked now. No, actually. Even in the dotcom stampede, bad management was bad management. This will hold true of science as well.

The scientific method is way too important in the history of modern civilization to have the IPCC make lite of this tradition in order to win a political grudge match.

Too bad Wolfram used up the title "A New Kind of Science". We could have saved it for IPCC committee reports with 2,500 eminent signatures.

I say this with full conviction that the central human activity of the 21'st century will be paying the piper for high living. I still harbour a dim hope that we'll pay off these days less rashly than we entered into them. Yes, I can see it now. This will all come to pass through a non-contentious political process involving scientific walled gardens, incestuous peer review, and sanctified data hoarding.

As a footnote, I read this the other night and was quite impressed with it. This will mostly appeal to slashdotters with low digit IDs and mild Aspergers, if such a creature exists.

The Art and Science of Cause and Effect

Note that he takes a long view of science as I do. The key slide that just popped into mind is slide 49 with the text:

However, carve a chunk from it, say the object part, and we can talk about the motion of the hand CAUSING this light ray to change angle.

The precautionary principle is fundamentally interventionist. However, the focus of precaution is necessarily a human construct, which depends upon how the image is sliced. This claim is heavily supported in the presentation as a whole.

This insight courtesy of Judea Pearl, who is becoming known as one of the giants of AI. He's a major influence on the recent work of Daphne Koller. Under no circumstances check out the accomplishments of Daphne Koller if you're feeling low about your productivity in the recent week or decade. She's just polished off a nice 1,200 page tome http://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Graphical-Models-Principles-Computation/dp/0262013193/">Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning). I'd rush out to buy this, but I'm not sure my ego can handle the blow.

Even more obligatory book (the best one I know) to get new game designers started:
Jesse Schell — The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
(Game designers. Not developers. That can even mean theme park ride designers. The principles are the same. Also: Jesse Schell should be well known to anyone who is serious about game design business. :)

But seriously, I just bought WCIII: The Frozen Throne for $11, because it is no longer possible to be matched for a battle.net game on WCIII: Reign of Chaos. I guess there is only three months left before The Frozen Throne suffers the same fate.

I missed posting this in the last Cape Wind Farm story. I read this book a couple of years ago and its description of nimby politics is chilling.

Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound

http://www.amazon.com/Eric-Whitacre-Cloudburst-Other-Choral/dp/B000E1XOUS

Got it a couple of years ago while looking for Polyphony stuff after hearing them on the radio :) Even better is

http://www.amazon.com/Morten-Lauridsen-Lux-aeterna/dp/B0007GP69W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1272966899&sr=1-1

Their CD singing Whitacre's stuff isn't bad, but Lux Aeterna is truly awesome.

http://www.amazon.com/Eric-Whitacre-Cloudburst-Other-Choral/dp/B000E1XOUS

Got it a couple of years ago while looking for Polyphony stuff after hearing them on the radio :) Even better is

http://www.amazon.com/Morten-Lauridsen-Lux-aeterna/dp/B0007GP69W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1272966899&sr=1-1

Their CD singing Whitacre's stuff isn't bad, but Lux Aeterna is truly awesome.

The first person broadcasting on a specific frequency in a specific area has the right to do so. Anybody who comes after that and interferes has to adjust the frequency they broadcast on or stop broadcasting.

There would have to be court actions to resolve disputes

I know this is slashdot but if you had read the article I linked to you would have read where it said the courts were resolving the issue:
"For when interference on the same channel began to occur, the injured party took the airwave aggressors into court, and the courts were beginning to bring order out of the chaos by very successfully applying the common law theory of property rights--in very many ways similar to the libertarian theory--to this new technological area. In short, the courts were beginning to assign property rights in the airwaves to their 'homesteading' users."

If someone were to start broadcasting in an area on a frequency someone else was already broadcasting on the first person was able to sue those who were interfering and win the right to continue while those interfering had to stop.

or an agency could be created to manage the spectrum and license parts of the spectrum to people to radiate, the licensing fees would go towards the cost of managing the spectrum.

So only those with large bank accounts were able to broadcast? There is no need for the artificial limit to who can broadcast. There is no spectrum scarcity, The End of Spectrum Scarcity. There actually was no scarcity when licenses were first required and with improvements in electronics more and more broadcasters were able to broadcast.

• The Case For Liberal Spectrum Licenses: A T Economic Perspective[pdf]
• Questioning the Scarcity of the Spectrum: The Structure of a Spectrum Revolution
• Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
• Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation[pdf]
  "Property Rights for Spectrum Markets"
  "Market allocation of radio spectrum was the policy recommendation of Coase (1959). Yet scholars who rst attempted to formulate the enabling mechanism of property rights in frequencies (Coase, Meckling, and Minasian, 1963; Levin, 1968; DeVany, Eckert, Meyers, O'Hara, and Scott, 1969; Minasian 1975) met with limited success. Experience illuminating how such markets would function was scarce. Today, however, data on spectrum rights regimes abound. One body of evidence comes from the U.S. experience with liberal licenses for cellular networks; another from countries that have adopted more general spectrum property regimes."
• The Wireless Craze, the Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, the Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, and the Punchline to Ronald Coase's "Big Joke": An Essay on Airwave Allocation Policy

The FCC needs to be redefined with a much clearer scope

No, the FCC needs to be abolished. It exists only to keep the mass media the mass media reducing competition. Put another way, it's centralized planning with the attending command and control mechanisms. There is no other reason for it to exist.

Falcon

People being forced to choose between becoming criminals and starving is a failure of the social system, not the legal system.

http://www.amazon.com/Miserables-Everymans-Library-Victor-Hugo/dp/0375403175

"You're right that they volunteered, but they did it either out of a sense of patriotism--possibly misplaced patriotism, but patriotism none the less--or economic necessity."

How would you even know what a single person's real motivation was? Sure, they might claim they're doing it out of "patriotism", but for all you know they could be a sadist that enjoys murder, and is just using "patriotism" as an excuse. Samuel Johnson famously said that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel".

But let's assume you know one, or two, or maybe even a dozen Iraq veterans well enough to somehow divine their true motives. There are about 2 million veterans of the current Iraq and Afghanistan wars. How would you presume to know what the motivation of every single one of them was?

Who knows what their motivation was? But let's say it was, as you say, "patriotism... or economic necessity". Is that supposed to excuse their invasion of a country that did not attack the US? And their mass murder of the Iraqi and Afghani people? The destruction of an entire societies? Of turning Iraq from a country with one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East, to one of the very worst in the world, and one of the most dangerous places on the planet?

"I guess I'm worried about the veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars experiencing the same demonization that happened to Vietnam vets."

The American people are not nearly as informed about Iraq and Afghanistan today as the Americans of the 60's and 70's were informed about Vietnam. The US military have learned their lesson regarding allowing unfettered media access to their wars, so have kept a tight reign on information flowing out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Political consciousness and radicalisation was also much greater in the 60's and 70's. So I very much doubt the well deserved indignation and outrage against the vets of Iraq and Afghanistan will be anything like that felt against the veterans of Vietnam.

While we're on the subject, it should be mentioned that stories of Vietnam vets being spat upon as they returned from the war are complete myths. See Jerry Lembcke's "The Spitting Image" for a detailed analysis.

http://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam/dp/0814751466/

Wake me up when he has these to go with it: Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Awesome book, by the way. 2,700+ sorties during WWII -- the mind boggles. Pity it is out of print and thus ridiculously priced...

I can't find a manual can opener anymore that lasts more than a few months. They're all made in china, and they all break very quickly.

You aren't even trying:

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=oxo+openers&tag=googhydr-20&index=garden&hvadid=2961762689&ref=pd_sl_34nkn4xzkc_b

(I don't know where those are made, but they're well built.)

People interested into floating point math will find some very interesting materials and horror stories in the documents collected at the home page of professor William Kahan, the man behind IEEE754 standard.
According to my personal experience the paper by David Goldberg cited in the post isn't that difficult after all. Plenty of interesting materials can also be found in the Oppenheim & Shafer textbook about digital signal processing.

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1272756967/ref=sr_nr_seeall_1?ie=UTF8&keywords=alan%20parsons%20time&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aalan%20parsons%20time%2Ci%3Adigital-music

the Live version is best.

There is another book http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Genes-Kathryn-Lance/dp/0445200049/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0 about a the Earth after a similar situation. I think this plot has already been thought out by SciFi writers.

Did this plot

http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Wind-Kevin-J-Anderson/dp/0765357763/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0

"When a panicky oil company tries to clean up a major spill in San Francisco Bay by dropping genetically engineered oil-eating microbes on it, the little organisms go berserk and start devouring most of the world's long-chain polycarbons (gasoline, plastics, etc.). "

I'm waiting for the 40-year anniversary edition on Gren-Ray. Imagine watching the movie in 6D!

You don't see me buying the Planet of the Ape VHS edition. I just bought the Blu-ray version two years ago!

I'm waiting for the 40-year anniversary edition on Gren-Ray. Imagine watching the movie in 6D!

You don't see me buying the Planet of the Ape VHS edition. I just bought the Blu-ray version two years ago!

It does if you use a XFPS, It's pretty much cheating on most fps's

http://www.amazon.com/XFPS-RATEUP-adapter-PLAYSTATION-3/dp/B0013WI4L6

But the only game i know that supports it natively is Unreal.

what is today doesn't warrant the tomorrow

Yes, yes it does. The way the world is today does determine what happens tomorrow. Burden is on you to show why the future looks different.

there is no tux without young, fresh blood

You again assert things without evidence. The reality is that, first, Tux is a mascot, and it's really grating when you use it as a synonym for Linux -- Tux the mascot will exist as long as Linus wants him to exist, as Linus holds that trademark. Second, Linux the kernel will exist as long as people have a use for it, because as long as people have a use for it, it will financially make sense to contribute to it.

i don't know on which planet u live

This one.

m$ moved strong on the enterprise development domain not only on the desktop

On the desktop, they have a near-monopoly. On the server, not even close -- not even half.

on the desktop tuxi is and will be a no-no.

Tuxi is a word you just made up. Please stop.

And I run Linux on the desktop. Linux desktop marketshare is growing. Slowly, but it's growing.

there is no market dominance without the desktop

Bullshit. IBM dominates the mainframe market. When was the last time they dominated the desktop?

in the last 7 years i haven't seen even one enterprise deployment on linux

You clearly haven't been looking very hard.

on tux i seen only couple of crappy php sites, basta

Johny the user-looser gives no crap on couple of supercomputers or what is running his 4x4 automatic guzzler

And why is Johnny relevant to this discussion? I thought we were talking about whether Linux is dead or dying, and it obviously doesn't need this one particular user, nor the unwashed masses. Never has.

what he cares is seeing his porn nice and smooth

Nope, clearly he cares about more than that. If that's all he cared about, Linux will do it smoother and without the spyware.

I don't often see someone be wrong more than once per sentence...

Here's where we get into the point of "professional tool" vs. "something I install on my home PC".

The GP was talking about software for his job. So no, your point has nothing to do with the topic.

For professional people, the cost of software like Photoshop, VS.Net, Final Cut Pro, and others is almost completely insignificant. Compared to all the other costs of doing business, it's almost crazy not to pay for it. However for the home user, or hobbyist, these products seem completely out of range with what you get out of them.

That's why home users buy Photoshop Elements and they will download Visual Studio Express.

(Side note: This is why I read Slashdot. You have to wade through the muck but there're still nuggets of pure gold here and there.) Sorry ... on topic now:

1.It may not be using the standard floppy disk controler interface and may not be able to support that particular gizmo

Well, if you RTFL (I know, I know ....) then you'd have seen this:

The device connects to your existing power and data (ribbon) cables.

The soundless drive emulates your existing floppy drive to act as if the floppy drive was never removed. This drive will replace most any existing 720k/1.44MB capacity IBM format floppy drive or your money back. Do away with the painfully slow and obsolete floppy disks. Not only will this device work in PCs but, it will also work in machinery or devices that still use floppy drives. This device completely replaces the universal floppy drive of computerized system. If you are not certain this device will work in your equipment, then just ask! 1 Year Warranty. This device also emulates NON IBM type drives (TEAC, etc) and can also be setup as a DRIVE 0, DRIVE 1 configuration

Back to your points:

2.Are YOU going to be the one to tell the boss that the really really expensive piece of equipment has failed and that they cant get warranty service for it because of an unauthorized third party modification just so you dont need to keep floppy disks around?

I agree this is a good thing to consider. It may not always be a good idea even if it works. Definitely a YMMV solution.

3.What do you do about things that actually come on floppy disk (for example the manufacturer may ship new firmware on floppy that you insert and have the machine read). Yes you could reinstall the disk drive for those rare occasions (or find a way to make the floppytousb device work with a USB floppy so you can read the disk you need to) but that's a lot of work.

I wonder if one of the USB floppies would work. While it most likely wouldn't, I sort of like the Goldbergian aspect of running a floppy controller -> USB converter -> USB floppy drive emulator when needed. Hehe. In reality, I'd probably go with a floppy cable that supports 2 drives and run the floppy drive on one and the FloppytoUSB device on the other, just in case.

Nonetheless, this is quite an interesting device. I'll probably pick one up just to fiddle with. I'd love to have the option of USB sticks being available in such odd DOS environment for some clients.

Two Words .... Jury Nullification

This is the worst part of our current system, is that juries are not informed of all the duties that are necessary for them to perform. In this case you were led to believe that your only duty was to judge the facts, and apply those facts to the law.

However every member of society has every right, while on any jury, to judge not only the facts of the case, but the law and how they are being applied. This is the ONLY real safeguard to a free people, and the real power of the Jury.

My biggest sadness is that you felt compelled to convict the man, because the fact and the law told you to. Just so you know, you've admitted that you've proven the state has enslaved us all to laws we can't possibly obey.

Take a look here, and after that, I leave you with two questions ....

The Average Person Commits Three Felonies a Day"

Question one, are you willing to go to jail for doing something that is right, even if it is against the law?

If not, why did you do that to someone else?

The Feds can get you anytime you want ...

The Average Person Commits Three Felonies a Day"

According to this guy, the average person commits three felonies a day. I do not know how accurate that is, but here is another guy who says essentially the same thing.

All I can say is fuck. At worst Mr. Childs deserved to be fired. There was a lot of incompetence involved, and clearly not all of it his.

Put up-to *3* *keyterms* in a *sentence*.
( if you want it to be understanding & remembering )

Same rule applies to charts...

Re the book, though...
Solve & Clarify the STORY, before bothering to try "present"-ifying it.

http://www.amazon.com/Presenting-Win-Telling-Updated-Expanded/dp/0137144172/
NOT affiliated with either amazon.com or with Jerry Weissman.

*Any* operation of mine, this is required study/knowing. Period.

Read the reviews. ( or those of the older editions )

Rule of 3, in the Marines, is:
Never give anyone more than 3 Points of Responsibility.
If there are 4 PoRs,
you need more than 1 person in the operation,
or you've sabotaged their ability to work in instinct-mode.

Lion-tamers use the same Rule of 3 by using a 4 legged chair to hold back lions
( their minds can manage 3 things threatening 'em, not 4 ).

Salamanders published, in Nature mag, awhile ago, that they have the same limit.

Human babies have the same limit, and have known this for a long time ( 3 things, or 3 kinds-of-thing ).

If your chart/graph has 50 kinds of item having its own line,
divide 'em into groups,
and colour-code 'em,
so you get as few valid groups as possible, etc...

Anyways, dig that book, and enjoy the results!

Cheers,

    -Me.

Dear Science Community ... after arguing myself blue in the face with my right-wing relatives that environmentalism transcends politics and just because I like clean air and a healthy earth, doesn't make me a commie, publishing a single report that wildly contradict previous findings makes it practically impossible to defend you. ... Simply leaving the conclusion of the report at "Sorry guys, you know how we told you that we were all going to die if we don't outlaw sulfate aerosols? Yeah, well, we were wrong, and it turns out now we're really fucked up" is just like throwing handfuls of painkillers at Rush Limbaugh's mouth.

Dear BonquiquiShiquavius,

The LA Times and NPR aren't part of the scientific community. They reported on a book written by Eli Kintisch who is a journalist who writes about science. Also not really part of the scientific community.

I don't think geoengineering is a viable solution, so I don't care to read Kintisch's book. But in the article he seems to be repeating the well known facts that aerosols cool Earth's surface and have a shorter lifetime in the atmosphere than CO2. This doesn't "wildly contradict previous findings"-- I've been explaining for years that these nuances are described in detail by the IPCC AR4 WG1 report.

Sincerely,

A dumb member of the scientific community

Mister Smeds had twenty-one heads and only one hat to his name. Poorly read heathens, the lot of you. =)

The wikipedia link you want, the people I was talking about with the term 'TRUTHERS', is over here. See that link? 9/11 Truth movement?

You mean the one that links to the page posted?

complicit - learn it, love it use it.

Hell, Hick's entire book "The Big Wedding" is about the premise that the islamic terrorists were "found assets" that the government allowed to succeed.

From the Amazon review:

With the cumulative power of his original research into the neo-cons, the Bush family, the CIA, and Muslim Brotherhood, Hicks concludes: it's impossible that the White House did not have detailed foreknowledge of 9/11.

Although, I'm not sure why I bother to document the obvious - just like a truther you are sure to come up with some wild story as to why one of the biggest names in the truther movement isn't really a true truther. Crazy is as crazy does.