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Algebra is an invention with roots in ancient Babylonia and with contributions from the Greeks but that in it's modern form largely came from the Islamic world.

Invention? You mean discovery? And by "modern form", you mean the discoveries of al-Galois? Oh wait, that was Evariste Galois and it was the 1800s already!

one of the two times Isaac Newton was heard to laugh

A cool story, but all it illustrates is mostly our shoddy history record. Note that I didn't say a word about Elements or Euclid, so I'm not sure what was your point there. Purely geometric methods never got to the point that you needed for a large portion of rocket engineering problems the solution of which made Von Braun and his projects successful.

Also, none of the things you wrote contradict what I wrote, which is what I'm pretty sure is basically a statement from Keith Devlin that I read some years ago. So don't complain to me about that.

So, are you really trying to claim the Nazi's where not socialist, yet claimed they where?

No, Nazis were not socialist.

https://www.britannica.com/sto...

I'm going to do you a big favor. Here is the entire Encyclopedia Britannica article on "Were the Nazis Socialists?" Maybe if you learn the actual history of where the "socialist" part of "national socialist" comes from, and what happened to socialists during the Night of Long Knives, you'll give up the notion that "Nazis were socialists tho" once and for all. But I doubt it.

Were the Nazis socialists? No, not in any meaningful way, and certainly not after 1934. But to address this canard fully, one must begin with the birth of the party.

In 1919 a Munich locksmith named Anton Drexler founded the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers’ Party). Political parties were still a relatively new phenomenon in Germany, and the DAP—renamed the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP; National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party) in 1920—was one of several fringe players vying for influence in the early years of the Weimar Republic. It is entirely possible that the Nazis would have remained a regional party, struggling to gain recognition outside Bavaria, had it not been for the efforts of Adolf Hitler. Hitler joined the party shortly after its creation, and by July 1921 he had achieved nearly total control of the Nazi political and paramilitary apparatus.

To say that Hitler understood the value of language would be an enormous understatement. Propaganda played a significant role in his rise to power. To that end, he paid lip service to the tenets suggested by a name like National Socialist German Workers’ Party, but his primary—indeed, sole—focus was on achieving power whatever the cost and advancing his racist, anti-Semitic agenda. After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, in November 1923, Hitler became convinced that he needed to utilize the teetering democratic structures of the Weimar government to attain his goals.

Over the following years the brothers Otto and Gregor Strasser did much to grow the party by tying Hitler’s racist nationalism to socialist rhetoric that appealed to the suffering lower middle classes. In doing so, the Strassers also succeeded in expanding the Nazi reach beyond its traditional Bavarian base. By the late 1920s, however, with the German economy in free fall, Hitler had enlisted support from wealthy industrialists who sought to pursue avowedly anti-socialist policies. Otto Strasser soon recognized that the Nazis were neither a party of socialists nor a party of workers, and in 1930 he broke away to form the anti-capitalist Schwarze Front (Black Front). Gregor remained the head of the left wing of the Nazi Party, but the lot for the ideological soul of the party had been cast.

Hitler allied himself with leaders of German conservative and nationalist movements, and in January 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him chancellor. Hitler’s Third Reich had been born, and it was entirely fascist in character. Within two months Hitler achieved full dictatorial power through the Enabling Act. In April 1933 communists, socialists, democrats, and Jews were purged from the German civil service, and trade unions were outlawed the following month. That July Hitler banned all political parties other than his own, and prominent members of the German Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party were arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Lest there be any remaining questions about the political character of the Nazi revolution, Hitler ordered the murder of Gregor Strasser, an act that was carried out on June 30, 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives. Any remaining traces of socialist thought in the Nazi Party had been extinguished.

Sure, let's figure out the real reason why people in sub-saharra Africa routinely get murdered for being penis thieving sorcerers or how the theat of vampires causes public panics. Got a flameproof suit?

There's environmental issues such as disease and pollution, and childhood malnutrition. There's the obvious lack of education leading to the %60 literacy rate, and then there's the lovely cultural habit of keeping marriage within the family. All of which contributes to an average IQ rate of about 70, which by western standards borders on mental retardation. Being borderline retarded makes one more susceptible to violent action by way of wild rumors, I would guess.

But where's the real problem? Nobel prize winner Dr.James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, got into real trouble for speculating on that. Since step one to resolving any problem is to acknowledge it exists, I'd lean towards the human propensity to sugar coat ugly realities being one of the issues.

No, he got in trouble for being a racist cunt. You are trying to misrepresent that because you are also a racist little fucking cunt. Other evidence includes the fact that you are posting on this website for racist cunts for the benefit of an audience of racist cunts.

Sure, let's figure out the real reason why people in sub-saharra Africa routinely get murdered for being penis thieving sorcerers or how the theat of vampires causes public panics. Got a flameproof suit?

There's environmental issues such as disease and pollution, and childhood malnutrition. There's the obvious lack of education leading to the %60 literacy rate, and then there's the lovely cultural habit of keeping marriage within the family. All of which contributes to an average IQ rate of about 70, which by western standards borders on mental retardation. Being borderline retarded makes one more susceptible to violent action by way of wild rumors, I would guess.

But where's the real problem? Nobel prize winner Dr.James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, got into real trouble for speculating on that. Since step one to resolving any problem is to acknowledge it exists, I'd lean towards the human propensity to sugar coat ugly realities being one of the issues.

Right. This is what I get when I look up the Nuremberg laws as you have told me to do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , https://www.britannica.com/top...

So laws forbidding Jews and German from marrying and just generally removing rights from Jews have something to do with this how?

Having foreign-based income doesn't count, by the way.

Yes, it does.

"Arguably, as the legal scholar Laurence Tribe and others have suggested, the clause would forbid even competitively fair transactions with foreign states, because the profit accruing to the officeholder would fall within the ordinary meaning of âoeemolument,â and because such arrangements would threaten exactly the kind of improper influence that the clause was intended to prevent."

"The only thing that can go horribly wrong is..."

Sounds like something that Persian emperor Xerxes I would have said.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Xerxes-I

Want to begin your downfall? Become bloated, arrogant, and assume success is yours for the taking.

Ads for political purpose are a different animal, as there are a series of laws that must be followed.

Bullshit. The only political ads that are allowed to be limited by the government are those ads actually commissioned by a political candidate Or donations directly to a political candidate, and compliance with the campaign financing rules are the responsibility of that politician's campaign.

From anyone else, Political advertising is protected speech: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

And under the supreme court ruling: Facebook's free speech rights mean that they can post any advertisement they want without being subject to any limitation.

The court concluded that “no sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.” Although thus agreeing with Citizens United’s claim that Section 203 was unconstitutional as applied to Hillary,

The Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters are examples of humans not being able to manage nuclear power plants in a safe fashion.

https://www.britannica.com/sci...

Umm, it's not established that the medieval warm period (MWP) was global, and it seems quite likely that it was restricted to parts of the northern hemisphere.

Though this article does mention that anthropomorphic climate change deniers quite like the idea of the MWP, I leave it to the reader to decipher why.

What's your definition source? I ask because here are six that don't require direct conquest.

https://www.merriam-webster.co...
https://dictionary.cambridge.o...
https://www.google.com/search?... (no idea where google gets its definitions but there it is)
https://www.collinsdictionary....
https://www.britannica.com/top...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.oxforddictionaries....

They got degrees in applied Taylorism.

It isn't difficult to figure out the term for the 'evil' essence of an MBA degree, but few people use it to describe them.

https://www.britannica.com/top... Yes, quite a useless explanation.

That might be the first known case in the USA.

The name sake is that they got infected due to showering in their barracks in France because the water never was hot enough and the Legionnells lived in the water tanks. That is actually where they live, in open water, small puddles, home irrigation systems etc.

To get an AC duct infected by Legionnells, the AC must be in a pretty odd condition.

No, it's name has NOTHING to do with the French Legion. I actually remember when the very first outbreak occurred to a group of members of the American Legion. It was named "Legionnaires Disease" before anyone knew what the cause was. Here is the relevant quote from Wikipedia: "Legionnaires' disease acquired its name in July 1976, when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention of the American Legion at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. Of the 182 reported cases, mostly men, 29 died.[36] On January 18, 1977, the causative agent was identified as a previously unknown strain of bacteria, subsequently named Legionella, and the species that caused the outbreak was named Legionella pneumophila.[37][38]" And here is the link to the Encyclopedia Brittanica article on the disease: https://www.britannica.com/sci...'

The global warming properties of natural methane are much higher than the properties of carbon dioxide after it is burnt.

https://www.britannica.com/sci...

This is not at all true. First off, mathematics itself has many different highly specialized sub-fields, many of which don't communicate effectively between each other. An complex analyst and a homotopy theorist speak very different mathematical languages, and may have difficulty communicating their ideas to each other. It is reasonable to suggest that this represents a different "cultural" background (as per Tylor's definition, these differences are differences in knowledge and belief, as well as differences in language).

Additionally, mathematicians from different parts of the world conduct mathematics differently. The internet and the wide-spread adoption of English as the de facto language of discourse has ameliorated this problem some in recent history, but there are still very significant cultural differences between American, European, Russian, and Japanese mathematics (for example). The approach that one takes in tackling a mathematical problem does depend quite a bit on where one learns it. As a historic example, Ramanujan was interesting to Hardy not just because he was producing interesting results, but because he was producing these results in an idiosyncratic way which differed immensely from the British approach.

Hence the original question

is it obtuse because he's trying to pull a fast one, or does it appear obtuse because he's form a different cultural background than?

is entirely reasonable.

You said: The US Federal Reserve System is a stand-alone government entity, like the National Park Service or the IRS. this is clearly not the case. I said the FED was privately owned which means it is not owned by the everyday, average man on the street taxpayer.

Again, you're just glossing over everything.

You are at once saying the above and Stocks in the Fed are the way to participate for the membership FDIC-insured banks Can a bank purchase stocks in the IRS? No so, clearly the Federal Reserve is like no other government entity, clearly it is a unique structure.

Is the Federal Reserve owned by private banking interests? Yes it is, therefore it is privately owned. What "owning" means is a different discussion.

Even encyclopedia Britannica says A Federal Reserve bank is a privately owned corporation established pursuant to the Federal Reserve Act to serve the public interest; . So does that mean all of the 12 member banks that own shares in the Federal Reserve Corporation privately owned? Yes they are. Are the other member banks privately owned? yes they are. Does the Federal Reserve "stand-alone" without these member banks? No it does not.

Therefore the Federal Reserve can't be described as "a stand-alone government entity" because it isn't.

Also, your list is just a pure BS from a conspiracy site.

You are engaging in double think. Look at the act for yourself. Calling everything a conspiracy is a way of reducing the variables to one thing you can refute with minimum thought. Nothing personal but calling something a conspiracy theory is like admitting you're not capable of examining the arguments rationally because it means challenging your assumptions and thinking - please see my sig.

Obviously people paradigms are challenged by this information so show me where the budget funds the federal reserve to back up what you say if indeed this all is a conspiracy. The LAW spells out how the Federal Reserve behaves and is structured with history left to describe why it got that way. There is nothing conspiratorial about looking at the facts in law and drawing a conclusion as opposed to someone's opinion to support a point. If you don't agree, that's fine, however throwing your emotional turds at me isn't what I qualify as a convincing argument.

For a Russian plant you are damn ignorant of basic Russian geography. Look up Vladivostok, and notice both where it is and when Russia stole the territory from China. Hint: It was 1689; and 200 years of occupying a nearby port is exactly why they fought over the Liaodong peninsula. Try a real source for once.

From Encyclopedia Britannica: "Noble savage, in literature, an idealized concept of uncivilized man, who symbolizes the innate goodness of one not exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization.

The glorification of the noble savage is a dominant theme in the Romantic writings of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For example, Émile, ou, De l’education, 4 vol. (1762), is a long treatise on the corrupting influence of traditional education; the autobiographical Confessions (written 1765–70) reaffirms the basic tenet of man’s innate goodness; and Dreams of a Solitary Walker (1776–78) contains descriptions of nature and man’s natural response to it."

It wasn't necessarily an offensive term back then; the early European Americans did compete with them for resources and land.

More links here.

Moore's law is about transistors per unit area. Adding cores increases both. Only new manufacturing techniques to cram in more transistors will let the trend continue, and they are indeed pushing the limits of what's physically possible.

At 7nm we're talking features that are only about three dozen atoms wide. The current roadmap has 5nm production in a few years. This kind of thing is well outside my knowledge but I'm pretty confident you can't make devices smaller than a single atom, so they are rapidly approaching a wall one way or another! =Smidge=

Let's break this down and make it simple. Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years. Simply put this is the founded definition. Also, Moore's prediction proved accurate for several decades, and has been used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set targets for research and development. Advancements in digital electronics are strongly linked to Moore's law: quality-adjusted microprocessor prices, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras. Digital electronics has contributed to world economic growth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Moore's law describes a driving force of technological and social change, productivity, and economic growth. For those that need a more in-depth understanding of Moore's Law go here: https://www.britannica.com/tec... Why? That we are all on the same page about the true definition of Moore's Law.

We (read every resident of a Western democracy) have been living in the kind of a surveillance state for the last decade as would have given the head of the KGB at the height of the Soviet Union an absolute erection.

The East German Stasi might be a better historical parallel, and it's really not so much an argument that we're better off than China as it is a testament to the similarities between all forms of government.

Information is power. Controlling your domestic populace is key to expanding your nation's international influence. One could successfully argue the chance of being voted out of office for being pro-surveillance in a western democracy is increasingly infinitesimal; yet, in China, the likelihood is virtually nil.

Actually, This is exactly what being a Republic is all about.

Nope. Back to Civics Class with you.

States can do this.

Not according to the FCC order. Or the Constitution.

So now what happens is we get to see how this affects the speeds and the revenue. If it is overall positive, then it can be reconsidered at the Federal level. If it turns out to suck, then maybe not.

Nope. Now we get to see Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, all rush to the FCC and now that they've bought it off, use the power of government to seize our assets and oppress us with their corporate entelechy.

Which will suck, but you're in perpetual denial, so...

It's how America was designed to work.

To the contrary, America was design to work with Federal Supremacy over interstate commerce. This was deliberate and clearly delineated in the Constitution.

that it's only because we're forcing China to do the polluting for us, so it's still our fault! Remember, he who has the gold must be guilty of exploitation

It could be worse, last I checked we paid in cash instead of opium....that and nobody is forcing China to enforce their environmental laws about as often as the USA enforces their immigration laws.

I've studied old greek in high school, thus a long time ago.
Most of my sources are printed on paper (and collection dust out of my reach somewhere back at my parent's)

As an online encyclopedia that usually is valued a lot by those who think wikipedia is utter garbage, I would point to Britanica.

Among all the paper source I've had, the mythology books by Robert Graves were among my favorite (and will cover way much more than simple trivial elements like what are Greek god's traditional epithets).

And you know you could use this question as an opening to go talk to that cute geeky shy girl from humanities.

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

Accepting mussolini's propaganda as an accurate description of fascism is like taking The Democratic Republic of North Korea's word that they are a democracy.

Instead, lets take the word of more neutral sources:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
Encyclopedia Britannica

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Oxford English Dictionary

> Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?

These players:
The people who absolutely lose their shit at the thought of black people kneeling that they walk out of a football game.
The television network that fired a reporter who would not toe the line on climate change reporting
Colorado Republican lawmakers want to punish striking teachers with jail time.
Harper’s Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay - The New York Times
Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired | Fox News
Joyce Peterson on Twitter: "Happening in Nashville right now: lawmakers trying to penalize the @CityOfMemphis for removing confederate statues by slashing a quarter million dollars in funding. https://t.co/ZAg0ntZl30"
Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election
Memphis-Based Journalist Taken Into ICE Custody After Arrest While Covering Protest (Updated) - Rewire.News
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest 'obvious bias'
‘Black-ish’ Political Episode on Kneeling Canceled Over ‘Creative Differences’ – Variety
Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him | Ars Technica
AprilDRyan on Twitter: "It is back again. Not called on today for a question. It has been how long? Oh, my last question was about @StormyDaniels! And, I was just told I am on a list. Whatever! I have been doing this for 21 years. I am not new to the rode
Trump attends event about campus political correctness crisis, accidental

I think it's time that we reintroduce an old concept, Ostracism .

It the transition to a Postmodernism philosophical belief and has been ongoing for decades, the dominant culture in media and now taught in schools.

Postmodernism rejects your concept of an objective natural reality whose existence and properties are logically independent of human beings.

I understand that the feminist movement has already started defining the former bunch as "third wave feminists" - ie what we call feminazis or fascists who just want to promote their own anti-men, pro-privilege biases.

https://www.britannica.com/top...

irrationals, which are as numerous as the whole of real numbers?

Irrationals are, actually, a lot more numerous than rational numbers. Of the latter there are just as many as there are integers (and naturals), whereas the set of the former is a lot more powerful.

Yes, the parallels with human society make me sad too...

I'd apply a number of filtering criteria (age, criminal conviction, level of education, earned income) to filter out the "best" people according to my elitist standards, and then randomly select them for a draft. If they refused, half of their property would be taken and they'd be imprisoned.

In my community, it is unfortunate that the elected officials tend to be their most successful while in office. It is the best position that many have ever had. I would prefer elected office to be the worst, lowest paying, crappiest job that they have ever had. I do not want to pick someone that desires to be in office. I'd rather draft someone that has many better things to do, and has already proved themselves as a capable, successful, leader.

However american scientiests seem to use it as synomym for 'proof'. Which is pretty clear from all the /. posts using the word.

But falsification is completely the opposite of proof. Proof is what mathematicians do - you can invent/discover an elegant theory and prove it is mathematically consistent.

You can't do that with physics because there are loads of elegant and consistent theories which don't match reality at all and a few arguably less elegant ones and less consistent ones which do - so you need to have experimental evidence to decide which theories are compatible with reality.

E.g. look at renormalisation in quantum mechanics. It's not elegant at all and arguably mathematically invalid, but it does produce a theory which matches reality very well indeed.

https://www.britannica.com/sci...

Renormalization, the procedure in quantum field theory by which divergent parts of a calculation, leading to nonsensical infinite results, are absorbed by redefinition into a few measurable quantities, so yielding finite answers.

Quantum field theory, which is used to calculate the effects of fundamental forces at the quantum level, began with quantum electrodynamics, the quantum theory of the electromagnetic force. Initially it seemed that the theory led to infinite results. For example, the electron's ability constantly to emit and reabsorb "virtual" photons (i.e., photons that exist only for the time allowed by the uncertainty principle) means that its total energy and its mass are infinite. However, by redefining the mass of the "bare" electron to include these virtual processes and setting it equal to the measured mass-that is, by renormalizing-the problem is removed.

Quantum electrodynamics has been the prototype for other quantum field theories. In particular, the highly successful electroweak theory, which incorporates the weak force together with the electromagnetic force, has proved to be renormalizable. Also, quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force, appears to be renormalizable. However, a renormalizable theory that includes all the fundamental forces, in particular gravity, remains elusive.

Except for when it's about Democrats. Because in previous circumstances, the Democrats running the senate proposed blocking any Bush court appointees "so close to the end of his term" as well ... except unlike the Scalia vacancy, the Dems said they considered a year and a half to be the threshold. Get over your hypocritical self.

Oh ScentCone, you know that the history goes much further back when it was the actual Federalists.

Unless your school education was deficient, is that it? Were you not properly educated in school? Or did you find yourself skipping out to go down to the pond with Opie? Well, better hope you never need to know your Roman Numerals.

I'll no doubt regret agreeing with Spun on anything, but he's right.

Science, and for that matter logic has been condemned as an instrument of the patriarchy for around 30 years now. It's a core tenet of Post-Modernism that logic itself is a tool of oppression to be discarded, and Post-Modernism devoured academic feminism decades ago. I read peer-reviewed papers (in philosophy) to this effect in the early 90s, and it's only become more mainstream in academia.

If you look at history serious science (not pseudo-science) has been at best tolerated and worst condemned usually with loss of life since science has a tendency to find out how things actually work in the real world. This, of course, makes many religions very uncomfortable since the God of the gaps is shrinking.

You only have to look at the Theory of Evolution (not to be confused with Abiogenesis ) and Astronomy which is not to be confused with the so-called psudo science of Astrology.

Even today you have smart (I am being polite here) people who deny the evidence preferring to believe some "old" books that were purportedly written by their deity of choice but strangely all have earthbound writers and publishers.

the case arose in 2008 when Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit corporation, released the documentary Hillary: The Movie, which was highly critical of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Citizens United wished to distribute the film through video-on-demand services to cable television subscribers within a 30-day period before the start of the 2008 Democratic primary elections and to advertise the film in three specially produced television commercials.

https://www.britannica.com/eve...

You mean that you are so ignorant and lacking education that you can't understand, right? Islamic art is more significant than you can imagine.

Wouldn;t the cycle be:

* Carbon builds up and increase heat
* Ocean evaperate
* Carbon and other particalate form clouds
* Rain scrubs out the carbon and the cycle resets

Also, are we coming out the Little Ice Age? So the heating is mostly natural?

Actually, black material captures photons in the visible spectrum and increases in temperature.

Thermal radiation ranges in wavelength from the longest infrared rays through the visible-light spectrum to the shortest ultraviolet rays. The intensity and distribution of radiant energy within this range is governed by the temperature of the emitting surface. The total radiant heat energy emitted by a surface is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature (the Stefan–Boltzmann law).

Britannica.

In case you didn't know, the visible spectrum is between UV and IR.

How does a microwave oven heat up food even though it emits no thermal radiation?

A microwave oven does emit thermal radiation to heat up food. Microwave radiation is thermal radiation. For some reason, pre-college teachers and books have a mistaken notion that thermal radiation = infrared radiation. All frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum carry energy, from radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet, and X-rays to gamma rays. All frequencies of radiation heat up an object that they strike and therefore can be thermal radiation. When physicists use the term "thermal radiation", they either mean radiation that has the ability to heat up an object it strikes. Or they mean a broad spectrum of frequencies with a certain shape that depends on the emitter's temperature.

So yeah, a theoretically-perfect black object (we have what, 99.7% material now?) captures a lot more thermal radiation than a PV panel. I suppose a transparent PV passing near-100% of what it doesn't convert to electricity would be a good first pass, and then take the rest through a mechanical system. Still.

You are a fucking idiot. Learn to read, and quit lying like a fucking idiot. Lying sacks of shit like you, and others on this thread, are why people say conservatives are the party of stupid.

https://www.britannica.com/top...

According to a study published today in Nature Plants, by the end of this century, increasing temperatures could [emphasis mine -mi] make it impossible to grow coffee in about half of Ethiopia's coffee-growing regions.

Once again, a "scientific" article carefully avoids making a scientific statement... Because such statements need to be falsifiable (among other requirements).

And I don't blame the authors — in the 4 decades of the "global warming" hysteria, plenty of predictions have been made. Those among them, that were falsifiable, ended up getting falsified indeed (any attempt to rebut this post must cite counter-examples or be returned unopened) — hence the switch from the firm "will" to the evasive "could". It still mongers the fears just as well, but without quite as much embarrassment, when the prediction fails...

The fear of commitment is like that of the insurance lizard: "15 minutes call could save you 15% or more".

Comey is also a lawyer, so not sure why the headline seems to suggest something special about a lawyer being nominated to lead the FBI.

https://www.britannica.com/bio...

The word usually refers to visible light

Yes, that's exactly my point. And any sampling of dictionary definitions will confirm this.

• Encyclopedia Britannica: "electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye"
• Merriam Webster: "something that makes vision possible", "the sensation aroused by stimulation of the visual receptors", "specifically : such radiation that is visible to the human eye"
• Oxford: "The natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible."
• Cambridge: "the brightness that comes from the sun, fire, etc. and from electrical devices, and that allows things to be seen"

I would suggest this ubiquity constitutes a standard definition, at least in terms of commonly accepted usage.

In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength

And that's why I called your post an oversimplification, instead of incorrect. It is more accurate to say light and radio are both forms of EM radiation, than simply to state radio == light.

We are currently in a period of temporary warming due to the high amount of mid-20th century solar activity. Our conditions in the current period are identical to temporary warming known as the Medieval Warming. Now just as then, global temperatures are controlled by the sun and solar activity.

We are now entering a era of minimal solar activity, identical to the Maunder Minimum which brought about the horrible period of death, disease, and famine known as the Little Ice Age. If history and science has anything to say in the matter, we should be consuming more carbon fuels, and engaging in an expansion of carbon emissions in order to stave off another ice age, another epoch of frozen crops, famine, disease, plague, and death.

We are currently in a period of temporary warming due to the high amount of mid-20th century solar activity. Our conditions in the current period are identical to the temporary warming known as the Medieval Warming Now just as then, global temperatures are controlled by the sun and solar activity.

Our current conditions are not identical to the MWP. The current rate of warming is much faster than during the MWP and it's likely that globally temperatures are warmer now than they were back then.

We are now entering a era of minimal solar activity, identical to the Maunder Minimum which brought about the horrible period of death, disease, and famine known as the Little Ice Age. If history and science has anything to say in the matter, we should be consuming more carbon fuels, and engaging in an expansion of carbon emissions in order to stave off another ice age, another epoch frozen crops, famine, disease, and plague.

There has been some recent research that indicates the main cause of the Little Ice Age was a series of large volcanic eruptions in the 1200s. The Maunder Minimum may have exacerbated the LIA some but probably wasn't a primary cause.

We are currently in a period of temporary warming due to the high amount of mid-20th century solar activity. Our conditions in the current period are identical to the temporary warming known as the Medieval Warming Now just as then, global temperatures are controlled by the sun and solar activity.

We are now entering a era of minimal solar activity, identical to the Maunder Minimum which brought about the horrible period of death, disease, and famine known as the Little Ice Age. If history and science has anything to say in the matter, we should be consuming more carbon fuels, and engaging in an expansion of carbon emissions in order to stave off another ice age, another epoch frozen crops, famine, disease, and plague.

https://www.britannica.com/sci...

Pretty picture right there. I specifically read the part about forests extending to the South Pole. I thought I remembered that but I haven't studied that stuff in about 3 decades so I did a little research. If you think I'm wrong I'd appreciate some proof. I'm not trying to show you up, just interested.

This isn't a simple case of whether or not water is on top of land. The Earth's crust is thinner under the oceans than under land masses.

Basically the crust is expanding at mid-oceanic ridges. The molten magma that surfaces in those regions solidifies into thin crustal plates. These plates are pushed apart until they meet resistance (other plates), and begin to bump up against each other. When they do that, the crust squashes and thickens - both above and below the water. The part that thickens above the water form continents and land masses.

The argument here is that the crust under New Zealand is one such thickened region, just that most of it is still underwater. However, every map of the plates I've seen places New Zealand at the edge of the Australian plate (i.e. there is no major tectonic activity between New Zealand and Australia). So it would seem to me to be more correct to say the Australian continent is actually larger than Australia and encompasses New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

If there's a revision to the continents that's needed, Europe and Asia need to be combined into a single Eurasian continent.

Freedom of, and freedom from are exactly the same thing. Some are NOT religious, and that is a valid choice under our system.

Excerpt from Article 6 of the Constitution:

"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

As to the rest about the founders, we'll never really know since we can't ask them. I've known many people who go to church because that is what they are expected to do in their community and they don't wish to be ostracized for their non-belief. I'm not going to go looking for sources because you're not one to read said sources and evaluate accordingly, but just in case: https://www.britannica.com/top...

The beaners never owned 'California'. The Spanish claimed S Cal. Russia had a colony at Ft. Bragg.

Not sure why I am attempting dialog with someone who calls them "beaners", but you should check out a map of the territory Mexico lost to the United States

We want to make a PR stunt to show that regulation is killing innovation in the industry and that we're the hip and cool future while our legal team thinks we'll be able to backpedal in time to avoid major economic penalties.

Or, our legal team actually thinks we don't need such a permit and the CA DMV is incorrect in their conclusion.

Believe it or not, sometime entities disagree about the interpretation of the law. And, even more shocking, the disagreement often breaks along the lines of government agencies believing that the regulation is expansive and the regulated entity believes that the regulation is permissive[1].

I mean, I'm curious to learn really which party has the better of the law as it currently exists. And if that's not right from a policy perspective, I'm keen to see how the rule can be changed in the future.

[1] This is Miles' law and happens without any conscious effort.