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There's a bit of fuss in Australia at the moment because despite our unemployment, they are allowing foreign workers to be imported.

That would be because unemployed Australians refuse to move to where the work is, whereas foreign workers are happy to.

just look at the UK and Germany with far lower levels of both CO2 and Sulphur per capita.

I'm not sure that's true, at least looking at the data from that site. Most countries in the world have per capita sulfur production that is close.

Also, I'm not sure your focus on sulfur is entirely justified when there are many other pollutants, including the particulate matter which is the focus of this article.

This is not Wikipedia. If you want a citation just ask for one. Before you do that you are expected to do a bit of searching. However, since you are probably just going to go on whining, here's your citation. I'm not a qualified climate scientist so I can't tell you if it's true or not. However the same is certainly true of all the people who are going to come running in to tell us how it is completely made up.

Near where I live there is a new Mini that parks next to a Volvo, I just had to photograph the comparison: http://bit.ly/L7Yq7Q As a lover of the original Mini, it's shocking just how far they have strayed from the template whilst still having the cheek to call it a Mini. BMW missed a trick, they really should have re-launched the Maxi.

... are so misinformed as to make their political views and opinions invalid. Just looking at american slashdotters talk about 'the left' or 'the liberals' is informative at how effective american media has been at propaganda. If you don't think you are a victim of propaganda I would point you to this talk here:

http://bit.ly/dYaWUc

As someone who lives in canada, we know that THERE IS NO LEFT IN NORTH AMERICA anymore. Canada for a long time was a little left of center then america but that stopped 30 some years ago (around 1970's) and we've been on the same hard right path as america ever since. Our "liberals" are really conservatives in terms of ideology (pro corporate, anti public welfare). They've been making the same policy choices along american lines and now with harper and co, harper is stealth privatizing healthcare by making uninformed ideologically driven cuts to evidence based government policies and downloading federal deficit onto the provinces.

You can't talk politics in north america anymore with any kind of sanity at all. The human mind does not work like a rational machine and I think the more you understand about the limitations of your own mind, the less emotional investment you have in your own political views - because you know your response is based on flawed brain structures you inherited that force you to interpret the world in a particular way without your consent.

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Anonymous @YourAnonNews
YES The Pirate Bay is down. YES it's under DDoS attack. NO we don't know who from. We'll update as we hear more. http://bit.ly/L75LB3 #TPB

Microsoft v. Motorola: using or abusing the legal system? The two consumer technology powerhouses are embroiled in a spectrum of legal debate over decade-old patents. http://bit.ly/IYHYrD

The US is working on it. Actually they're working harder at it than the rest of the world at this time. http://bit.ly/JJYML Give them some more time and I'm pretty sure you've found their solution.

A cancer like this.

Almost all the minerals available on the Moon are also present on the Earth in sufficient quantities that mining them on the Moon and transporting them back is not economical. As a result, most discussion of mining on the Moon is geared towards how to make a lunar base self-sustaining, not how to make it an economically viable alternative to terrestrial mining. http://bit.ly/IeyKWF

http://bit.ly/IAXJB0 he disagrees

What experience have you had with London 'Transport' System?

FYI

http://bit.ly/GXCpJK (from a googleusercontent.com/VeryLongUrl :( )

The population of London and Bangkok are similar at ~7M. That chart showed up to a 30minute wait in London! I don't ever remember waiting longer than 4 minutes to take transit in Bangkok, and they're considered a developing country.

Perhaps London isn't suitable for the Olympics, or living...

What experience have you had with London 'Transport' System?

FYI

http://bit.ly/GXCpJK (from a googleusercontent.com/VeryLongUrl :( )

"If you have to resort to fooling people instead of legitimately making a good argument, you don't have a leg to stand on."

Except this is not how the human mind works. The fact that you even give credence to republicans at all shows how intellectually bankrupt you are.

http://bit.ly/dYaWUc

From the summary:
"the Sawfish window manager project announced...."

Its a Window Manager...says it right there. if you want, you can even look it up without going to the page the same way you can look up any term you don't understand: http://bit.ly/HFbsr9

Here you go: http://bit.ly/GNCkXg

"I am still stunned that people think this way..."

Don't be. Human reasoning doesn't work the way the enlightenment thought.

http://bit.ly/dYaWUc

San Francisco Bay Area Event (March 20 @ 6 PM, Stanford GSB Cemex Auditorium) — The Uploaded Life: Personal evolution through self tracking

Description:

What happens when we add the power of Social/Mobile and always-on personal devices to the evolving health markets? What are the successful Quantified Self business models that entrepreneurs are now exploring? Join the conversation at the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) event, The Uploaded Life: Personal evolution through self tracking, on Tuesday, March 20th at the Stanford School of Business Cemex Auditorium. 6:00 - 7:00 pm Demos, Networking and Refreshments; 7:00 - 8:30 pm Panel Discussion, moderated by Gary Wolf, Co-Founder of The Quantified Self and contributing editor to Wired. Panelists include three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond. Event website: http://bit.ly/yGBApV

The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people.

Only a ginger can call another ginger, ginger

no, i mean something more like this: let me google that for you.

There is no independently verifiable evidence that CO2 is the cause of the slight warming that has occurred since the Little Ice Age in the real atmosphere. There is a slight Linear+Cyclic Warming since at least the 1880, 132, years ago and significantly despite CO2 being pumped out in vastly increased quantities since the 1940s/50s the temperature has not deviated from the slight Linear+Cyclic Warming. CO2 has not caused Temperature to deviate!

To show warming is not to show the cause of the warning. That is the mistake you alarmists make. You think that the warming is the whole ball of wax. It isn't since you've not shown causation in the REAL ACTUAL ATMOSPHERE.

Girma Orssengo's analyses using the standard observational temperature and CO2 data sets shows that Mother Nature has falsified the alleged CAGW Hypothesis. It's well worth your time to comprehend this elegant and clear analysis.

" *Effect Of CO2 Emission On Global Mean Temperature*

Examination of Figure 3 shows that the Global Mean Temperature Anomaly (GMTA) for 1940 of 0.13 deg C is greater than that for 1880 of –0.22 deg C. Also, the GMTA for 2000 of 0.48 deg C is greater than that for 1940 of 0.13 deg C. This means that the GMTA value, when the oscillating anomaly is at its maximum, increases in every new cycle. Is this global warming caused by human emission of CO2?

The data required to establish the effect of CO2 emission on global mean temperature already exist. The global mean temperature data are available from the Climate Research Unit of the Hadley Centre shown in Figure 3, and the CO2 emission data are available from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre [8]. *For the period from 1880 to 1940, the average emission of CO2 was about 0.8 G-ton, and the increase in the GMTA was 0.13+0.22=0.35 deg C. For the period from 1940 to 2000, the average emission of CO2 was about 4 G-ton, but the increase in GMTA was the same 0.48-0.13=0.35 deg C. This means that an increase in CO2 emission by 4/0.8=5-fold has no effect in the increase in the GMTA. This conclusively proves that the effect of 20th century human emission of CO2 on global mean temperature is nil.*

*Note that the increase in GMTA of 0.35 deg C from 1880 to 1940 (or from 1940 to 2000) in a 60 year period has a warming rate of 0.35/60=0.0058 deg per year, which is the slope of the linear anomaly given by Equation 1. As a result, the linear anomaly is not affected by CO2 emission. Obviously, as the oscillating anomaly is cyclic, it is not related to the 5-fold increase in human emission of CO2.

Figure 4, with high correlation coefficient of 0.88, shows the important result that the observed GMTA can be modeled by a combination of a linear and sinusoidal pattern given by Equation 3. This single GMTA pattern that was valid in the period from 1880 to 1940 was also valid in the period from 1940 to 2000 after about 5-fold increase in human emission of CO2. As a result, the effect of human emission of CO2 on GMTA is nil.* "
http://pathstoknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/predictions-of-gmt.pdf

Furthermore the conclusive counter evidence analysis based upon *observational data* by Girma Orrsenago puts a nail in the coffin of the AGW Hypothesis as promoted by the CO2 Climate Doomsday AGW Rapture proponents. *Orrsenago shows that Nature falsified the CAGW hypothesis*.

Hole in Man Made Global Warming.

a) Global Mean temperature (GMT) => http://bit.ly/zISeEo
For the period from 1880 to 1940, GMT increased by about 0.35.
For the period from 1940 to 2000, GMT increased by about nearly the same 0.35.

b) Human CO2 emission => http://bit.ly/wD1SZj
For the period from 1880 to 1940, CO2 emission increased by about 150 G-ton.
For the period from 1940 to 2000, CO2 emission increased by about 840 G-ton.

How come the increase in CO2 emission by 460% has not caused any change in the GMT?

There is no independently verifiable evidence that CO2 is the cause of the slight warming that has occurred since the Little Ice Age in the real atmosphere. There is a slight Linear+Cyclic Warming since at least the 1880, 132, years ago and significantly despite CO2 being pumped out in vastly increased quantities since the 1940s/50s the temperature has not deviated from the slight Linear+Cyclic Warming. CO2 has not caused Temperature to deviate!

To show warming is not to show the cause of the warning. That is the mistake you alarmists make. You think that the warming is the whole ball of wax. It isn't since you've not shown causation in the REAL ACTUAL ATMOSPHERE.

Girma Orssengo's analyses using the standard observational temperature and CO2 data sets shows that Mother Nature has falsified the alleged CAGW Hypothesis. It's well worth your time to comprehend this elegant and clear analysis.

" *Effect Of CO2 Emission On Global Mean Temperature*

Examination of Figure 3 shows that the Global Mean Temperature Anomaly (GMTA) for 1940 of 0.13 deg C is greater than that for 1880 of –0.22 deg C. Also, the GMTA for 2000 of 0.48 deg C is greater than that for 1940 of 0.13 deg C. This means that the GMTA value, when the oscillating anomaly is at its maximum, increases in every new cycle. Is this global warming caused by human emission of CO2?

The data required to establish the effect of CO2 emission on global mean temperature already exist. The global mean temperature data are available from the Climate Research Unit of the Hadley Centre shown in Figure 3, and the CO2 emission data are available from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre [8]. *For the period from 1880 to 1940, the average emission of CO2 was about 0.8 G-ton, and the increase in the GMTA was 0.13+0.22=0.35 deg C. For the period from 1940 to 2000, the average emission of CO2 was about 4 G-ton, but the increase in GMTA was the same 0.48-0.13=0.35 deg C. This means that an increase in CO2 emission by 4/0.8=5-fold has no effect in the increase in the GMTA. This conclusively proves that the effect of 20th century human emission of CO2 on global mean temperature is nil.*

*Note that the increase in GMTA of 0.35 deg C from 1880 to 1940 (or from 1940 to 2000) in a 60 year period has a warming rate of 0.35/60=0.0058 deg per year, which is the slope of the linear anomaly given by Equation 1. As a result, the linear anomaly is not affected by CO2 emission. Obviously, as the oscillating anomaly is cyclic, it is not related to the 5-fold increase in human emission of CO2.

Figure 4, with high correlation coefficient of 0.88, shows the important result that the observed GMTA can be modeled by a combination of a linear and sinusoidal pattern given by Equation 3. This single GMTA pattern that was valid in the period from 1880 to 1940 was also valid in the period from 1940 to 2000 after about 5-fold increase in human emission of CO2. As a result, the effect of human emission of CO2 on GMTA is nil.* "
http://pathstoknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/predictions-of-gmt.pdf

Furthermore the conclusive counter evidence analysis based upon *observational data* by Girma Orrsenago puts a nail in the coffin of the AGW Hypothesis as promoted by the CO2 Climate Doomsday AGW Rapture proponents. *Orrsenago shows that Nature falsified the CAGW hypothesis*.

Hole in Man Made Global Warming.

a) Global Mean temperature (GMT) => http://bit.ly/zISeEo
For the period from 1880 to 1940, GMT increased by about 0.35.
For the period from 1940 to 2000, GMT increased by about nearly the same 0.35.

b) Human CO2 emission => http://bit.ly/wD1SZj
For the period from 1880 to 1940, CO2 emission increased by about 150 G-ton.
For the period from 1940 to 2000, CO2 emission increased by about 840 G-ton.

How come the increase in CO2 emission by 460% has not caused any change in the GMT?

OpenSUSE has really become a terrible, bloated thing since they decided to go with The Colonel instead of a Linux Kernel.

That's illegal. Why haven't these police officers been arrested?"

Cops get let off all the time, some examples: http://bit.ly/dWV5ab
This cop is not suffering from dementia, they showed him on the TV afterwards walking, talking, and smiling. In addition, it is typical in VA to be held indefinitely if your are unable to stand trial, as VA has no insanity defense.

Remember the Katrina shootings: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/mistrial-declared-in-katrina-shooting_n_1239525.html
After enough mistrials, the case will likely be quietly dropped as the public forgets. Shit it has been 7 years already.

Do I really need to mention the Rodney King riots?

I'd never seen anything quite so unpleasant from Facebook.

Oh well.

Because constantly shifting privacy settings and suddenly finding out something you thought was "private" (to the degree such things are on a social site) are now shared with the world is totally awesome.

As to What's Hot (I agree they shouldn't have made it blend in with other posts)...

Turn it's slider down to zero. Poof, no more What's Hot.

http://bit.ly/zcvTPK

Some of these sites, like MEST (Meltwater) are quite promising, but it is yet to be seen if they will produce good coders. The "tinkerer" economies (Japan, southern China, Singapore, Korea) with few natural resources have always seemed to leapfrog the natural-resource based economies, but most of the investment in Africa has been in resources. Nations earning $3.5k per person per year are getting online at 10 times the rate of growth of the OECD. The tinkering there has a lot of potential. The most opportunity currently is probably in repair and refurbishing, but eventually programming may follow. http://bit.ly/xAMhds I'd like to see all the internet cafes, used computer stores, etc. put on the map as well.

Yes, we have reports of Taliban groups intercepting video streams from current surveillance drones, but there's no suggestion that they have access to the control links in any fashion.

No, of course not. ...No, wait - the Iranians only hijacked a surveillance drone, not a remotely operated nuclear bomber. no problem then... http://bit.ly/vVkpes

lmgtfy http://bit.ly/AwgQMK

I knew what you were referring to... my suspicion is that you don't.

Were you logged into a Google account? Because if you weren't, then Google didn't do anything.

If you were, then Google worked around the Safari restriction to show you what you had asked to be shown. The degree of "invasion of privacy" is really debatable here. You had basically expressed two opposing requests, one to Safari and one to Google. Google fulfilled your request to Google in spite of the fact that you'd given opposite information to Safari. And what Google actually did was to (a) enable "+1" button to work and (b) personalize the ads shown to you.

Also, it's worth pointing out that Google has now stopped this practice -- but Facebook continues. Not that being better than Facebook on privacy is anything to be proud of, but it does show that Google tries to do the right thing. Facebook had long made a practice of working around these sorts of browser privacy settings in order to make the ubiquitous "Like" buttons work. I'm sure some Google engineers figured that wasn't unreasonable so that the "+1" buttons could work, and also figured that nobody must mind because no one had ever called Facebook on it. When called on it, Google stopped, though.

In any case, I agree with the AC at the top of this thread... if this is the extent of Google's "pattern of privacy abuse", someone's FUD machine has been extraordinarily effective.

jo_ham AKA bonch is a faggot. Here is proof of his faggotry.

... in canada. It's using a massively out-dated first past the post system while others use proportional representation. The country has been a two party liberal/con dictatorship for a long time and the elites like it that way. There is very little difference between how liberals and conservatives enact policy. Both govern from the right. Mots Canadians sadly are just as stupid as their american counterparts. In fact a majority of Canadians don't even know how parliament works. Voting today is a mere exercise in corporate marketing and branding then in anything else.

I'd say most modern government structures in the 21st century are obsolete because of what science has discovered about the human mind.

http://bit.ly/dYaWUc

lmgtfy http://bit.ly/AwgQMK

A voluntary non-slave workforce with choices of places to work is the cure for most workplace ills. For better or worse, Foxconn is a place that people can quit from, and many people do, it's high turnover. For now, Foxconn is better than the textile mills in the area, so it's not a management emergency yet. But they appear to be responding to these complaints, and responding to them professionally to constructive criticism. http://bit.ly/x5VT83 Personally I like the melting-pot story... when Cantonese and Mandarin and Hong Kong and Taiwanese people find themselves not defined by their language or culture but by the positions (management, labor, services, etc.), creating wealth and resolving problems, it's been a good thing.

For more information check: http://bit.ly/aXS77Q

For all bystanders: "Volume licences" from Microsoft are upgrade only. You cannot buy bare metal with no license, and put a VL image on it. They are, for example, to upgrade a Windows XP Professional OEM license (or retail I believe) to a Windows 7 Professional license.

You are also entitled to:
-Reimaging rights. If you bought computers that came with Windows 7 Pro OEM licences, you are allowed, at no charge, to install your Windows 7 Pro VL image on it.

-Downgrade rights. If you bought computers that came with Windows 7 Pro OEM licences, you are allowed, at no charge, to install your Windows XP Pro VL on it.

While I dislike some of Microsoft's licencing policies, I don't advocate piracy, particularly in a school or business.

Oh Chrome is Becoming a Thing? Bitch Please. Tell that to all the IE users. Here's a thing: THING

It was the so-called E911 law, it was 2002, and I was paying attention. It required location tracking for emergency purposes, and it was well understood that that meant GPS wired-in to every phone. 2005 was the deadline for all phones to be so-equipped if they were to be sold. I held on to my pre-2005 phone until 2007, when my provider informed me my phone would no longer work at a certain date, would I like a free, GPS-enabled phone?

You imply I'm lying, yet this is well known. Why is ignorance on your part evidence of lying on mine?

Here:
http://bit.ly/yymPGS ...In 2000, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order requiring wireless carriers to determine and transmit the location of callers who dial 9-1-1. The FCC set up a phased program: Phase I transmitted the location of the receiving antenna for 9-1-1 calls, while Phase II transmitted the location of the calling telephone. The order set up certain accuracy requirements and other technical details, and milestones for completing the implementation of wireless location services. Subsequent to the FCC's order, many wireless carriers requested waivers of the milestones, and the FCC granted many of them. By mid-2005, the process of Phase II implementation was generally underway, but limited by the complexity of the coordination required from wireless carriers, PSAPs, local telephone companies and other affected government agencies, and the limited funding available to local agencies which need to convert PSAP equipment to display location data (usually on computerized maps). Such rules do not apply in Canada.[27]
FCC rules require that all new mobile phones will provide their latitude and longitude to emergency operators in the event of a 9-1-1 call. Carriers may choose whether to implement this via Global Positioning System (GPS) chips in each phone, or by means of triangulation between cell towers. Due to limitations in technology (of the mobile phone, cellular phone towers, and PSAP equipment), a mobile caller's geographical information may not always be available to the local PSAP. Technologies are currently under development to remedy this situation and improve performance.[28] Although there are now technological ways to obtain the geographical location of the caller, a 9-1-1 caller commonly still needs to be aware of the location of the incident about which he or she is calling."

Went into effect 2002 or so, wrapped up in 2005. They had a choice, triangulation or GPS, and while it was mixed at first, it's GPS all the way now, as it had to be.

It was intended for emergencies, and of course the use was immediately expanded by Homeland Security, the DEA, and other police-like entities who wanted this wonderful new trick. Cops can log onto a website and find any phone they choose. Some carry phone readers that can stripmine any phone of data while you wait, altho that of course is hogwash until I tediously have to look it up for someone who doesn't read news feeds every day.

The primary use of the GPS on phones by cops has been drug busts. It has many solid, good uses, but it also inevitably is used by domestic spying agencies. And India is just being above board about it.

Perhaps for you to place the subject in, smartass?

It's not as stupid as this. http://bit.ly/yLaFnY

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If Slashdotted get it from the torrent...

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Honestly, it's not really a big deal to install some romex and a 240VAC outlet.

There are youtube videos and other resources on the web that will teach any able-bodied person with an IQ above that of breadfruit how to do it without being harmed or endangered. No electrician required.