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I've been following global warming for a long time now doing a lot research on the side for the last couple of years. Here are some facts about global warming. Some of which you hear and don't hear from the main stream media:

1.) The world appears to be getting warmer with many computer models showing an increase in global temperature.
2.) Tying a trend to warmer temperatures based on older data from the early 1900's is suspect at best. Good, reliable, accurate scientific equipment that measures the temperature wasn't readily available until recently (late 1900's).
3.) The sun's activity has increased by approx. 10% in the last 15 years. In other words, it's getting hotter.
4.) Apparently, the Earth magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 10 years. I'm an electrical engineer and during my studies in particle physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be affected by magnetic fields. I keep hearing about the increased activity of our Sun and believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetic field due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth and the Sun is spewing out more heat, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this?
5.) Jupitor is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_j r.html)
6.) Mars is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ mars_snow_011206-1.html)


How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets? I doubt it's all those cars being driven there.

Is it possible that the warmer temperatures that Earth is experiencing are caused by cyclical natural phenomena? What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years (source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/060821191 826.o0mynclv.html)? What about the American dust bowl in the early 1930's? Was that caused by huge carbon emissions or was it a small natural climate cycle that just happens? Also, how do you explain huge ice ages on Earth? Were those climate changes, which are no doubt more extreme than what's going on now, caused by the combustion engine?

If you are going to bash my country at least get the facts right. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/22/060622055 545.07o4imol.html

A stay on the verdict has already been issued, move along, appeal set for Sept 7th... http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/18/D8JIS7J00 .html

Karr told investigators he drugged and had sex with the 6-year-old beauty queen before accidentally killing her, a senior Thai police officer said Thursday. An autopsy done a day after her body was found said a blood screening showed no drugs or alcohol in her body but said she had vaginal abrasions.

Actually not true

Yes, it is.

I have a couple friends (and FOFs) who were there, and got sick from exposure from it still, even if it was old stuff.

"Usless as weapons" does not mean "harmless". Lots of things in this world are toxic and have to be properly disposed of. You can get sick from exposure to lead paint and asbestos, but that doesn't make them WMD's. I repeat: it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.

Finally, if these really were WMD's, do you really think the Bush Administration wouldn't have been screaming about it from every rooftop? Of course they would have.

A certain amount of ignorance is forgivable, as Senator Fuckwit shot his mouth off about 500 chemical weapons found in Iraq. Of course, he was totally, completely wrong for reason's previously mentioned: chemical and biological weapons degrade over time. A drop of that sarin gas on your skin might have killed you in 1984, but if you'd have to liberally injest the stuff before getting a lethal dose twenty years later, it can no longer be considered a WMD. And anyone who continues to insist to the contrary, after knowing the facts, is a bald-faced liar.

Seems to have worked for Canada and a host of other Western countries.

You mean Canada?

Or do you only count successful attacks?

Or perhaps you mean places like Spain? The families of a couple hundred commuters there would probably disagree with your thoughts on that.

Maybe we should figure out why people want to blow us up, and stop doing those things...Hmmm? Hmmmm?

I think that we know what they want.

In our country we have a writer (Egon Bondy) who foreseens this (book Cybercomix).
There was written in his book that:
* Workers are working for the world elites
* The technology is pushed so far that workers turns to be replacable by machines
* World is full of useless (for the elites) people (people loose the buying force because of loosing jobs...)
* Elites decide to build the moon base :-) Funny why to have a moon base? How many people could live/work there? Only researchers?
Who will own the patents of the research results? Is it benefitting all of us? Why not to solve visible and well known Earth problems with that funds
instead of investing to uncertainity? Shouldn't we learn first how to live on the Earth in pease (not only between us but in with the nature too)
before expanding in the space?

Japan Plans 30-Year Supercomputer Forecasts: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/18/D8IUNBSO0 .html => do they know something that we don't know? :-)))

Egads! That is scary stuff. Next they'll be making them for interfacing with Japanese love sims. Lister's groin attachment suddenly doesn't seem so much science fiction.

I wonder if that judge would have gotten in so much trouble if he had used one of these things instead of his pump? Nevermind. I don't want to think about it.

Why do microsoft bods keep using the term 'rich' to descibe their technology?

I can think of 50 BILLION reasons why.

But we've been doing adult stem cell therapy to treat previously untreatable heart desease in Thailand for a couple of years already. It isn't approved yet in the U.S. so people come here to do it, including some famous people (sort of), like Don Ho (story http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/23/D8ELPR3G8 .html)

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/27/D8GK1QTO0 .html

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  Bloggers would be entitled to the same exemption from the campaign finance law that newspapers and other traditional forms of media receive.

"There will be no second class citizens among members of the media," Toner (FEC chairman) said.
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I realize that this is in an entirely difference sphere of influence, but it could definitely be used as an argument against Apple's case.

More bad ideas for pranksters.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure why VA Linux bothers paying the slashdot "janitors". They could be replaced with a 10 line perl script that monitors digg stories (and posts them 2 days later) and roland piquiepealle's blog.

Yeah, me too. Remember Gregory Peck and Jimmy Stewart in the 1952 version of "Brokeback Mountain". Now THAT was a classic. Nothing like that crappy remake that came out last year. WHAT was that studio thinking?

I don't understand how throwing in gay cowboys somehow makes the story line good. Screw Gregory Peck.. I liked this concept better when it was called Romeo & Juliet. Syriana was boooorrriiiinnngggg. Capote was booorriiiinnnngggg. Munich was ok. The only compelling movie I saw all year was Crash, and it's the only one I've told people they should see. I'm glad it won the Oscar. Brokeback was a well directed, well produced, shittier version of Romeo and Juliet. Them being gay doesn't somehow increase its plot value, to me.

On the flipside, this entire story is "spin". The box office lost 8% last year, curiously DVD sales are up 8% in 2005. Both are about equal, now, at roughly 22 billion. Let's not forget the 7 billion we spent renting, them, either.

Didn't Bush state a couple weeks ago that scientists in this country were on the verge of a fantastic energy breakthrough? Could this be it? If we are indeed tapping an unknown energy source, perhaps from another verse or dimension, the possibilities could be near endless.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/20/D8FT3GH02 .html

If they don't want people viewing their photos, how about not putting them on the web in the first place???

It's not clear whether they've done that or not.

"The judge found, however, that Google did not violate Perfect 10's copyrights by linking to pages that Perfect 10 claims are using its images without permission."

It may be that the porn guys require you to pay to view these images, and that they've been posted by someone else on a www server beyond legal reach and thumbnailed from there by Google.

Or it might just be that they're really anal about copyrights.

Is this that kind of games child play that have good and bad prizes. If it is I think a few people already got prizes from Microsoft and Yahoo.

On the "good prizes" side, Google gave China a better firewall.

I'm sure Exxon and friends, with their 'oh snap look what's going on in the Middle East right now' speculative price hikes will manage to edge it closer to $200 this year. I mean, just take a look at the record profits these megacorps are raking in. All it will take this year is the threat of action against Iran, a few hurricanes here and there, and bam, another huge hike.

  Keep in mind that Cheney is still sitting on the board at Halliburton, which has recorded record quarters since the beginning of the Iraq war, by winning closed-bidding contracts for reconstruction. Strangely enough the US military is tasked with keeping Halliburton contractors safe while they work..which isn't always successful. If you look carefully at the list, you'll see the majority of KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root, a Haliburton company) employees were involved in logistics, i.e. truck drivers. Convoys are popular targets for IEDs. KBR has been a thorn in the side for Halliburton, and they've considered selling it off for awhile, due to the PR nightmare and litigation that ended in a 4 billion dollar settlement over asbestos claims.

Here's a guy who may be in the market for this thing... no longer a need to keep hands on the wheel. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/31/D8FFUHC01 .html

I guess Republicans feel canines who support their efforts should be lauded, while females that question their motives should be arrested.

Developing Google Linux would distract you from what?

Making popup ads?

Participating in censorship?

Missing shareholder expectations because you've saturated a finite market?

Not wanting to step on Red Hat's toes is a completely laughable excuse for at least two reasons: RH is a bit player compared to Microsoft (whom you pick fights with every other day), and as has been mentioned numerous times in this thread, Google has a much stronger brand than Red Hat.

Everyone else has already done the heavy lifting. All we're asking you to do is slap a purdy GUI on it and throw your name behind it, but you can't man up.

Google states that "while removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission." Assuming that Google's only alternative was to refuse to censor their results, and hence be completely filtered by the Great Firewall, I would argue that that option would have been more consistent with their mission than their chosen path.

The absence of the world's largest, most popular search engine inside the Chinese firewall would have been as glaringly obvious as a pink elephant. The Chinese people aren't idiots, they know their government censors information, and they would know why Google had suddenly been blocked by the firewall. Word would get out, through the grapevine and other unofficial channels, and it might even constitute an embarrassing loss of face for the Communist party. Of course, the Chinese would much prefer that Baidu, Sino, or one of their own home-grown search engines be the #1 search engine, but they would still know that the only truly reliable search engine, the one that refuses to censor their information, was Google, and had been blocked by their government. Unlike Americans, the Chinese have long memories, and such an association would pay off in PR and face for Google in the long term.

Google on the other hand might take a stock price hit, but no investor could say they were't warned that Google might make decisions based on long-term considerations rather than short term stock-price-propping, or that Google's corporate values might sometimes conflict with the best interests of their stock price. However, such a move would certainly solidify the image of Google as a singular organization with the most honest and accurate search results worldwide, truly dedicated to its mission of organizing all the world's information.

Furthermore, Google's refusal to cooperate with the Chinese Government might have opened the door for other search engines, media, and businesses to follow suit, and emboldened the Chinese people and businesses to demand more unfettered access to information and less government interference. Someone mentioned on /. in a comment on one of the other articles about Google's recent decision that one problem that international businesses, particularly media, face in dealing with China is that they all deal individually with the Chinese government, and hence have little to no leverage. The Chinese government needs multinationals right now as much as, or more than, multinationals need China, but China needs them in aggregate rather than individually, so can take a divide-and-conquer approach at regulating them. What is needed is an industry organization, formal or informal, dedicated to upholding freedom of the press, to which all media companies operating in China can belong, a support network that mutually resists the pressure by the Chinese government on any one company to censor information. Google refusing to censor its results could have been a step in that direction, and if any company has the clout to the lead the formation of such an organization, it's Google.

So this appears to be an unfortunately wasted opportunity, for Google to make a strong political statement based on its values, that might have hurt it in the short term but most likely have paid off in PR and face in the long-term.

Google, we expected better.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/10/D8F1LRCO5 .html

This other poster offers a small sample of the poor relations with mexico .

US border patrol have been shot at by mexican army .

http://www.nbpc.net/news/incursion/otaymesa.html

Before you blather on and try to make your "opinion" right via volume, you
might do a little research before blasting blowhard leftist rhetoric .

I am neither a democrap, or rebulicorp, I take each issue individually .

The state of New Mexico, and Arizona have declared a state of emergency via their governors .

This request for help has gone "totally" ignored and unheard .

Thus formed dangerous groups like the minutemen at the border .

It is just a matter of time before things get out of hand and members
of that group have received death threats .

School books being circulated in the US mention the nation of Aztlan and
speak of plans to reclaim the SW portion of the US for hispanics to make
a new nation .

What you are seeing is a cross border beginnings of a civil war in the SW US .

For those who don't "get it" go back to being an ostrich and stick your head
back in the sand, and get ready to get goosed .

Peace !
Ex-MislTech

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/10/D8F1LRCO5 .html

You see, Mexico is dominated by a white elite. They require illegal immigration into the us as a check valve against social unrest. This illegal immigration is causing hospitals to shut down and a huge welfare burden to the entire southwest of the United States.

Mexico refuses to even acknowledge that illegal immegration to the US is a crime. In fact, they publish brochures on how to stay away from law enforcement as well as how to receive benefits. But if I were to sneak into Mexico illegally Mexico would not hesitate to call my incursion illegal and either imprison me or deport me.

The people of the US southwest are fed up and this whole issue will come to a head sooner or later. I don't see Mexico's stance as one of good relations.

I am not anti-immigration. I am anti-illegal immigration. Ignored illegal immigration is a slap in the face of all of those who came here legally, through the proper channels. So I would consider it a great evil. Especially if you require ER treatment in south Arizona...

Hmm. Somehow I'm just not finding this +Insightful.

but judging by the shortsidedness of the current global warming fun (it was almost 70 in St. Louis yesterday) it isn't surprising

I'm not sure which "side" you're finding short. I suppose you mean shortsightedness, as in "not seeing clearly into the future." Ignoring that, let's take your comment into consideration and use another city's weather to see if you're making a good case. Hmmm... judging by the fact that it's a balmy -20F in Moscow, I'd say that we weren't planning ahead well enough for the coming ice age. What, one day's weather doesn't indicate a pattern? Oh.

And what were you thinking... that the people burning coal 100 years ago had a good solid grip on a mechanism that, even today, brilliant people armed with super computers are having trouble getting to the bottom of? Or did you mean people 20 years ago? Or last week?

Seeing as how the last space shuttle disaster was caused by something hitting it

It hit itself! Come on now. Do you even watch the non-nerd news? Even they reported that correctly.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/28/D8EPGENO2 .html
^^ Ironically that sets a cookie until 2038

Hang in there, dude.

Putin's liberal economic adviser resigns, saying Russia 'not free'
Dec 27 8:09 AM US/Eastern

President Vladimir Putin's outspoken liberal economic adviser Andrei Illarionov announced his resignation to protest what he said was an end to political freedom in Russia. "It is one thing to work in a partially free country, as Russia was six years ago. It's another when the country has stopped being politically free," Illarionov, 44, was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS news agency on Tuesday...

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/27/051227130 907.obcu6uet.html

Or perhaps it was a Briton after all, since one in four of them are obese.

Better read this. Unless you are Canadian.

Colorado: http://www.ioerror.us/2005/11/22/denver-bus-riders -forced-to-show-id-or-risk-arrest-and-prosecution/
Florida: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/28/D8E5RPBO5 .html
Nevada: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62438,00. html

Welcome to the United Soviet States of America. Right have you!

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges and tearfully resigned from office, admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to conspirators.

His constituents sent this sleazeball to DC eight freaking times. How could any congressional district be that incredibly stupid?

Meanwhile, George II seeks to essentially eliminate the privacy act. How many senators and reps will lose their jobs for refusing to put a stop to this? How many judges will be thrown off the bench for refusing to declare it unconstitutional?

I've said it before... people deserve what they elect.

This (TFA) is the most unbelievably bad science I've ever seen. It is an abomination of the art.

PLEASE, please, /. ers, TRY and raise yourselves up above reporting and commenting on this sort of asinine shit.

Instead, focus on the REAL problem in the world, the uncvilized assholes in the Middle East ...

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/25/D8E3HI1G0 .html

THESE (and the filthy Chinese, the world's worst polluters) are the sorts of people ruining the planet. Not us.

Here comes the first lawsuit...
Texas Sues Sony Under Anti-Spyware Law
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/21/D8E11IK00 .html

Bird Flu Scam: Donald H. Rumsfeld - Former Chairman of Gilead Sciences

Related: Bird Flu "Pandemic" Antidote: Wash Hands

Related: Spain: Bird Flu Sparking Human Epidemic Is 'Science Fiction'

Related: STRATFOR on Bird Flu: Calm Down

.. given that he's also pressuring vendors like EBay not to sell stun guns and Tasers to people living in the Empire State - see http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000570062864/. You have to wonder what he's trying to accomplish, banning non-lethal weapons and closing down fantasy chatrooms - see http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/12/D8D6IBDO0 .html. Are there no more pressing matters demanding a state AG's attention? Oh, right - there's re-election. http://www.spitzer2006.com/ That trumps all other issues..

I guess that's the same strategy many poor in the US have taken. Living pay-check-to-pay-check, up to their eyeballs in credit-card debt, but they've got the flat-screen TV and a new car every couple years. No matter how many laptops you give away, you won't teach good judgement.

But just today, the U.N. says the ozone layer is healing.

LA might just need this right now...

Man Charged With Shooting at Helicopter. As I said before, this is true.

Man Charged With Shooting at Helicopter.