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You may not, but the problem is that too many of the politicians you vote for do. HRC is on record many times this campaign saying she wants to see the "Australian model" implemented in the US. That means forced confiscation of all personally owned firearms under the guise of "buybacks." The buybacks are mandatory, and you go to prison is you don't comply.

Here's a list of politicians talking about confiscating guns, just from a short period in 2013:

Hawaii legislature proposes gun confiscation
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/...

New York Assemblyman asks colleague not to mention that original proposed SAFE Act included confiscation
http://www.breitbart.com/Breit...

Missouri Democrats introduce legislation to confiscate guns
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-...

VA has veterans who cannot manage their own financial affairs declared prohibited persons unable to own firearms
http://www.humanevents.com/201...

NJ State Senator "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate confiscate confiscate."
http://www.politickernj.com/ba...

Oregon Legislator calls fears of gun confiscation a "paranoid delusion" and then states he is in favor of gun confiscation
http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Governor Cuomo says, "confiscation could be an option."
http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Feinstein suggests "compulsory buyback."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...

CA assembly proposes confiscating 166,000 legally registered guns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bre...

And the classic from 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Do you notice any common political party among the people calling for confiscation?

Putin loves Donald Trump

Western sources who monitor Russian politics told the Washington Examiner that Rykov is a propagandist arm of the Putin government machine. "Rykov is considered to be one of the leading pro-Kremlin bloggers in Russia," said Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia under President Obama who is now a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution think tank. "As you can see from his Twitter feed, he is very active. And he loves Trump."

The Kremlin is trolling for Trump
[this is special one since it has anti-Kremlin, anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-anti-semitic threads running though it, all tied to Trump!]

Is Trump a Sleeper Agent for Moscow?

Trump has spoken highly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, describing him as a strong leader who defends Russian interests and who could be an ally of the United States, especially in the Middle East. Duke believes much the same thing, and has a personal relationship with a long-time adviser to Putin who has devised an anti-American “Eurasian” alliance that includes Iran in the Middle East

just look at what n e o c o n David Frum (@davidfrum) said:
"Russia’s “troll army” now an active presence in US social media too"
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/737385995906076674

"Trolling for Trump may be one of those jobs that Americans just won't do. Requires imported talent"
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/728752525357256704

Lots more craziness from looney n e o c o n s about Trump is out there.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

The companies made unions the scapegoats for their own poor decisions.
Odd how the unions are still there though.
And the auto industry recovered (following a few bailouts).
And American cars are as good as ever.

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Odd: Portland is consistently voted as one of the top places to live in America, with a thriving downtown, high rate of entrepreneurial activity, and a great place to raise a family.

Portland is far more liberal than Detroit ever was.
And its one of the best cities in the nation.

Detroit's problems wasn't liberalism.
It was the loss of its tax base.

As a result of white flight following the migration of minorities migrated to the area for manufacturing jobs, the tax base of the city decreased beyond sustainable levels, even while the city had outstanding obligations (pensions etc) to people who no longer lived there. the result was a migration of money out of the city; city dollars weren't being respent within the city, but in the surrounding area. its a problem almost every major metropolitan area has faced and had nothing to do with liberalism or democrats. Detroit (which has been recovering steadily the past few decades btw) was simply the biggest example of a problem that struck every major manufacturing hub regardless of party affiliation. pointing out Detroit while ignoring all the other parts of the rust belt that has similarly struggled and declined is simply ignorance.

With less oxygen than the atmosphere. Normal air is ~21% O2, and 0.04% CO2. Submarines routinely operate - without any health issues - with O2 levels at 15% and CO2 levels at 2.5%. Turns out that most places you go to have significantly higher CO2 levels than the normal atmosphere. And it doesn't seem to have negative impacts.

And if these researchers think that the media is misrepresenting their research, then they are free to correct the media presentation of it.

Moron.
http://www.examiner.com/articl...

This is the truth about the whole matter:

http://www.examiner.com/article/sinking-solomon-islands-and-climate-link-exaggerated-admits-study-s-author

Good link.
http://www.examiner.com/articl...

However you should have explained that the study's co-author (Dr. Simon Albert) is saying that OTHER people are exaggerating the Solomon Islands - climate change connection.

From the Examiner article:

Dr. Simon Albert, the report's co-author told the Guardian today that numerous media outlets, like the Washington Post and NY Times and Think Progress, have misinterpreted their work by trying to link sea level rise with climate change. According to Albert, the researchers did not study climate change and how it influences shoreline erosion and submersion of certain low-lying islands.

He stands by the his paper and the conclusions they made.

Hopefully people can tell the difference between the two types of Chinese robots

There was a story here awhile ago about the sperm donor robot:

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

That's what they did. This blog has an excellent phortograph of a sheet printer. Whole teams of men would be employed to do the placement of articles, the assembly of printed text from individual characters and fonts

https://chrisseysgreatescape.w...

All the different characters of every font and size were stored in special rack drawers:

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http://www.examiner.com/slides...

Citations provided
http://www.examiner.com/article/twitter-fury-after-1-000-muslims-rape-sexually-attack-women-cologne-germany
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/06/stories-on-cologne-assaults-face-censorship-on-reddit
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/its-not-only-germany-that-covers-up-mass-sex-attacks-by-migrant-men-swedens-record-is-shameful/
http://newobserveronline.com/media-conspiracy-over-cologne-mass-sex-attack/
Four of the first five results from google search ---- censorship cologne | koln muslim attacks

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

The sad truth is that after four years of war in Syria there are few moderates left and those that do exist lack military strength. The Free Syrian Army was always a mosaic of factions and is now largely ineffectual.

The FSA, could be considered the most "moderated" group, actually showed that they are extremists, if not terrorists. Their commander ATE heart of Syrian soldier, or accused of allegedly trafficking in human organs. By no means, this organization is fighting for DEMOCRACY or FREEDOM.

Why, the West continuously claimed, Russian is bombing "moderated groups", they unintentionally reveal, BEFORE the Russian bombing, there are only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, by top general, many were deserted, or hand the armors, weapon to Al Quaeda. Or AFTER the bombing, eventually, the Defense Secretary of U.S Ashton Carter said:

However, the moderate Syrian forces “have not come under attack by either Assad’s forces or Russia’s forces.”

The Pentagon explicitly admitted their 500 million program to train "moderated" rebel is FAILED.
Where is the hell "Western-backed rebel forces" is bombed!?

The whole "remember the Crusades!" bit whenever someone points out that Christianity teaches peace is a bit childish. If you have to go back 400 years to get your example of Christian rampage, isn't that a pretty good record?

The point isn't that Christians are oh so good now. Really it isn't. These things tend to come up whenever people condemn nutcase groups like ISIS, and some evill atheist points out that religions often foster violence. And many do.

Even so, although we domn't see many Christian Terrorists outside of Northern Ireland, it isn't like they are blameless, because the evil takes place on a more personal level, as parents under the word of god as granted in his unerring bible, with the admonition "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." Proverbs 13:24 King James version

Beat their fucking kids to death to show them thay do not hate them!

http://www.goddiscussion.com/7...

The tl:dr version, Mike and Debbie Pearl devout Christians belonging to the Greater Joy ministries. They claim it is the will of God. How dare you believe otherwise, It's right there.

More for your reading pleasure.

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Especially the second one. Cute kid. Look in her eyes. Her parents thought that God wanted them to torture and kill her. It was their religion, the words that instructed them were in their religion's holy book

There is a book put out by a Christian Minister ( that Michael Pearl who beat his child to death in the name of God), called "To Train up a Child" Its been found in a number of homes where people have also killed their children

but as I said earlier, the point isn't that Christianity is better than Islam, or the various other religions.

It is that religion will allow you to justify whatever evil you wish, and absolve yourself from guilt or responsibility, because the God you made conform to what you want to do ordered you to do it. Which by the way, is why religions are inherently evil.

link .. now would be a good time for slashdot to have a discussion on the balkanization of the Internet. Where the media companies are trying to turn Internet media back into television.

Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands

or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.

Had NASA been given the funding and direction, it is virtually certain that humans could have walked on Mars by the mid-1980s.

Whoever wrote that has not a fucking clue in the world.

If this is not about starving people Why would people reject food during a famine?

Why don't you make the same case with bandages, antibiotics, pesticides, fertilizers, construction equipment, medicines, doctors, clothes, shoes or anything that extends life? You know why, it all costs money. To your specific example, is there a precedent for the government taking a patent (that has not expired) from a private entity to release in the public domain? I have not heard of it. If you were a company doing GM RnD, why would you continue that investment if there were a strong possibility that the government would take your patent away and the profit you expected to pay back investors and continue other RnD efforts? If you have a better idea that would keep companies investing in that RnD (it is very expensive) for patent law while servicing more people, lets see it.

Monsanto does some crappy things(I think below in the thread talks about that more and better), but that doesn't undermine the utility of GM (the point of this thread). The utility of GM to stop people starving is there regardless of the actions of the entity that currently markets them. The real harm is the misinformation spread about GMO,

It is the failure to do something like this which makes people extremely suspicious.

It has more to do with FUD and you know it. GGGP made arbitrary lines in taxonomy to promote his political agenda because he doesn't understand species. GP misunderstood endogenous retroviruses and how much of our DNA is from "foreign" sources or how much DNA we share with other species not even closely related to us.

While they are comfortable with full bellies spreading misinformation about GM, that crap influences governments all around the world to reject GMO all this despite the good they can do to the environment and farmers.

Mind sharing some statistics for that claim?

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Sounds like you are regurgitating some hate-talk-radio host's flawed hateful email.

While there isn't a firm definition for "mass shooting" most seem to go by the 4 victims in a single event. This is based on the FBI definition of mass murder being 4 or more victims from a single assailant. HeyJackass,com compiles their own dataset via following sources: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Homicide Watch Chicago, DNAInfo Chicago, Chicago Redeye Homicide Tracker(no longer updated), NBC5 Chicago, City of Chicago Data Portal and CPD CLEARMAP. To date within the city limits of Chicago there have been 17 events of 4 or more victims shot in a single event (http://heyjackass.com/2015-multi-victim-shootings/). Every instance has been black assailants with black casualties. (http://heyjackass.com/2015-multi-victim-shootings/) Chicago being my hometown, it is the only place I follow statistics closely and I cannot say that this trend holds true nationally. Also of note, within the city limits of Chicago, 78.7% of the victims of shootings are black with 68.8% of the assailants being black. (http://heyjackass.com/2015-race-of-victim/)

Mind sharing some statistics for that claim?

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Sounds like you are regurgitating some hate-talk-radio host's flawed hateful email.

Plain out-and-out racism and denying this kid his civil rights.

You have specific evidence that he was singled out because of his race? Or is that your own bias showing?

If so, why then so much less outrage & support for the kid who pointed a chicken finger at another student, or the pop-tart gun kid, or the kid who wrote a story about shooting a dinosaur? I don't think any of them got invited to the White House.

Well, chicken finger kid got a suspension and sent home for the day. Pop-tart kid got a suspension. Only the Dinosaur Hunter (who interesting, is also the only other teenager on this list) got arrested. And Dinosaur Hunter (in theory) actually *did* talk about guns in school.

So for why, I'd give a couple reasons:

Clock Kid didn't even *do* the thing he's accused of. Which moves us up a rung from "massive over-reaction" to "teachers and cops are just making shit up".

There's some escalating reaction from the community as things just get dumber. Dinosaur Hunter's article even references PopTart. So, every time we hear about this sort of stupidity, you get just a bit *more* angry - which we should, because it gets harder to write it off as "oh, just an isolated incident / overzealous teacher".

To be a bit cynical and flippant for a moment, Dinosaur Guy was doing a creative writing exercise, and no-body cares about liberal arts in America. Meanwhile, Clock Kid may be a case of chasing away a potential STEM graduate (you know, future of the nation, shortage in the country, etc etc).

Also, he's getting a lot of attention from geeks who are watching this and thanking our lucky stars that we didn't grow up in this period. Half the stuff the teachers had us do in school in the 90s would get us arrested these days, I'd think.

Plain out-and-out racism and denying this kid his civil rights.

You have specific evidence that he was singled out because of his race? Or is that your own bias showing?

If so, why then so much less outrage & support for the kid who pointed a chicken finger at another student, or the pop-tart gun kid, or the kid who wrote a story about shooting a dinosaur? I don't think any of them got invited to the White House.

but other than that there are no downsides.

Texas ranks in or near the bottom 20% in the nation in education and access to health care, and its poverty level puts in 46th (out of 50), in between Arkansas and Alabama. It has the highest uninsured rate in the nation. It leads all other states in the number of executions of innocent people. Texas has the highest percentage of children who don't have any access to health care.

  http://educationblog.dallasnew...

http://www.texasobserver.org/t...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/0...

http://watchdogblog.dallasnews...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...

Among Texas' other poor rankings are 50th for the EPA's toxic exposure score, 47th for total toxic chemicals released into waterways, 46th for cancer-causing chemicals released, 45th for developmental toxins released, and 49th for reproductive toxins released. So, when you say "diverse ecosystems" I assume you mean there are some places you can live and get cancer and some places you just cannot live.

Texas ranks 50th (out of 50) for greenhouse emissions.

In summary, poverty, poorly educated people, sick kids and an environment disaster not to mention the climate that you mention putting Texas near the bottom of the comfort index rankings do not add up to Texas being a "nice place to live". The highly-touted "Texas Miracle" is a lie.

And here are some unretouched photos of people Texas has elected governor:

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sit...

http://www.highwaygirl.com/hwg...

And the current governor believes a U.S. military exercise in the region is really an all-out invasion by Obama and the US government to take over Texas. Or, he just says that to pander to his pig-ignorant electorate.

I'm sorry friend, but Texas is a shit-hole. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who lives there. In Jesus' name.

What you have are statistics where countries that have lots of power plants have a certain rate of lung cancer and countries with none have a lower rate.

That's far from the only source for such statistics.

That's literally your methodology. And its fallacious.

You're still assuming, thus making an ass of yourself. It's not even a majority of the method for determining that pollution from coal power causes negative health effects.

The reality is that it is a great deal more complicated than that. The power plants obviously are not dangerous to people in and of themselves.

Never been in one, I take it? Steam explosions are a killer, though fortunately rather rare today in developed countries.

It is rather the emissions. And the emissions are only dangerous if you breath them in a given concentration over a given period of time. And even then whether or not you develop cancer at all is a probability and not a certainty.

Again, you're carefully explaining something that I already know. I'll explain it to you again: I know this and state that, because we can statistically determine that coal power increases expenses through various ways, we should internalize that expense by charging for pollution.

To expand upon this, I support charging for ALL pollution, not just that from coal power plants. Steel production would be hit some as well, as would things like paper mills. For cars, well, because monitoring the pollution from 'every' car would be impractical, we'd have to fall back to statistical methods - figure out a baseline, add that to fuel taxes. Then, depending on whether an individual vehicle is estimated to be more or less polluting per gallon of fuel burned, an appropriate differential tax would be charged. Either at purchase or registration, I'm not sure which.

As to emissions from china, its so diluted by that point that it doesn't really matter.

29% of California's air pollution 'doesn't really matter'? Wow...

As to lawn mower taxes you're comparing the bureaucratic overhead of managing a few hundred power plants to managaging the taxation on a lawn mower?

Rejected.

Strawman again. I was looking at one of the biggest tax systems in the country - the taxation of gasoline for the purposes of road funding. Thus, the lawn mower becomes an example. It can also be used for off-roading, standby generators, 4-wheelers, dirt bikes, and everything else other than driving on roads we do with gasoline.

Look, I suggest you stop trying to predict my positions or lines of thought because you're really bad at it. Not putting you down as a person, but I'm rather non-standard on the best of days.

As to geo engineering methods... you've apparently spent literally no time at all looking into such things. This is disappointing.

I read an awful lot, and this is the first time I've seen these proposals. People read different things. The salt crystal proposal looks very interesting, but also very preliminary. 30MW for how large of an area? For 5% reflection gain, how much is this estimated to be?

The second has a proposed effective period of 20 years, and would require 20M tons of SO2 every 1-4 years. You're not fitting that through 'garden hoses'.

As to the gas released... that was actually surfer dioxide. I know... you don't like the idea of emitting that... but the amounts required to get the effect are so low that you really can't complain about it.

For the record, as long as there's reasonable evidence that it'll stay up there until it's degraded to something less dangerous, and that the positive effects outweigh the negative, I'm not opposed to it. Shocking, isn't it?

All I can think of is the "Gox" from Dr Seuss's One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish... This is what having kids does to your brain. haha

The reality is much closer to Somalia.

No, actually. Somalia is what a failed Socialist state looks like. Once again, a Statist Illiberal is caught projecting...

One of the more positive things that has happened recently is that they got starved for victims so they started attacking their own political camps. They were basically doing purity tests. Once everyone is a liberal how do they justify their existence? well... they then ask "how liberal are you"... and they just start goal posting moving to make sure they have enough people to be outraged with at any given time.

So anyway, they were doing that and eventually they hit a segment of their own political contingent that fought back. And now they're a little baffled because a lot of the wind has gone out of their sails. They're getting attacked from all sides now and they're losing credibility rapidly.

Its funny because they're such dogmatic robots that they don't really understand what happened.

We'll see... they'll either be suppressed to the general good of society or they'll osterize most of their political base which will lead to a structural schism in the faction which will weaken them collectively.

Hit. Nail. Head. I wish I had mod points today. What's happening with liberalism today is a case study in self destruction. All we need to do is sit back and watch it play out.

Like those ideological purity tests...if we started measuring conservatives on the basis of how conservative are you, it would surely mark the beginning of the end. Liberal purity tests have pushed their kind so far to the extreme, they're now attacking themselves. And their tactic of keeping one constituency or another outraged at any given time has totally backfired.

I don't really blame liberals for being baffled. They've spent so much time in an echo chamber, they've lost touch. When reality finally slaps them in the face, it is only natural for them to try to figure out what happened. The question is, do they have the capability to make the necessary changes in order to correct their course?

Somehow I doubt it. Liberals are so

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http://nautil.us/blog/why-were...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...

http://articles.economictimes....

First few links from the search engine typing in "why are election polls often wrong"...

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Shut up. Just close your stupid mouth. Sit down. And don't speak again until addressed. You're an idiot. It has been officially noticed.

I'm so glad you cleared that up for us.

It's not just the idea that might be bad - look at this gem from one of the founders of a doomed startup:

Don’t pay employees with cash (they aren’t passionate then)

It's not too hard to see why the platform never got built (one of the other things he complained about - platform never got built).

When Putin charges someone with corruption, it's usually because they control government expenditures and are unwilling to give him his usual kickback.

I should have said that Putin charges people with corruption when they have access to government expenditures and won't give him his cut, if they control a company whose assets he would like to steal (usually via an associate), or if he perceives them as a threat.

http://www.examiner.com/review...

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Well there are a few in the Caribbean: http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Martinique has the lowest rate, with 4.2 per 100k. However, it's only 300k people, compared with 2.7 million in Jamaica (the highest murder rate), so I'm not sure it makes much difference to the overall crime rate in the Caribbean.

The "experts" have focused on squeezing blood out of a turnip or cracking the whip over the decades, but they don't know human nature nor do they show much evidence of catering to well-being (which would have a positive effect on productivity). Everyone has his own particular psychology and ecosystem. My office is like a sensory deprivation chamber -- no natural light, no noise (except the occasional cell block-like clang down the hallway when someone shuts his door. The sheer lack of stimulation in a small cube-shaped space -- as with ~200 pound mammals in old-fashioned zoos -- causes its own pacing back and forth. Evidently human experiments showed that after a certain time people actually begin to hallucinate, given lack of (diverse) sensory input. The senses (plural) evolved for millions of years to hunt for food and avoid danger. Real-time information processing, environmental interaction. Not sitting in a cell, staring at a screen.

Interesting in our modern society is that we have a plethora of terms describing short attention spans, but not nearly as many for a overly-long or poorly directed attention spans. These scenarios, which I've seen occur more frequently over the years, are llikewise responsible for loss of productivity. People focusing obsessively on minutiae, rabbit holes, constantly refactoring, not sticking to an 80/20 or 90/10 rule, etc. The modern office has no evolutionary basis in primate history.

Anyway, this guy summed it up tongue-in-cheek as ADD: Ambition Deficit Disorder: http://www.examiner.com/articl.... It turns out that there are not sufficient rewards in most large organization for hard work.

You know, it didn't help my confusion that their link for more articles about Sierra Nevada was a mix of aerospace and beer

What problem does this solve for Katrina Victims? Why would I want to live in this when I could live in a fema trailer instead?

How much money as Al Gore made of the whole Global Warming theory?

Oh by the way, I an atmospheric scientist and I work with computer models every day. I have serious doubts about how well we can simulate the future climate of earth in 10 years, let alone 100 years into the future. We just recently began incorporating micro-biology into the climate models. They are very crude and in my opinion, it's these very organisms that over the long term, will play an ultimate role in the carbon/oxygen balance. Until we have these features much better modeled, we cannot say with any sort of certainty what the earth's temperature will look like in the long term. At this point, there is still a lot of variability in the outcome, by make very minute changes to the model initial assumptions.

Way to misunderstand it.

Consider your post is the clueless ones and mods have sent it from 0 to +3, well...

Engine Block heaters, heat the engine block, they do not heat the interior of the car. When you have an eletric car, they heat the seats, not the air. It uses less power.

All heaters help, which is why I said block/interior. Even a block heater will help the usual warming system deliver warmer air much faster, interior heaters warm the entire interior and there's the "full package" that does both. And the last car I saw without electric heating in the seats was in the 90s, still doesn't change that windows fog up, your hands get cold and so on. This "seat only" warming is a power saving measure since using power for heating steals range. How comfy do you really think it is to have one hot side - your backside - and one cold side?

ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicles rely on the engine running, even if it's electric HVAC. Electric cars, especially late model ones have entirely eletric HVAC.

*facepalm* Take a look at DEFA warmup, ZeroStart or any other of a ton of integrated or not so integrated solutions to do what you say they don't. Do you live in California or something? The exact same kind of pre-heating solutions have existed for decades.

But in the end, it's never about heating the car, it's about how inefficient it is to maintain a stable temperature. If you can start the car and not turn the heat/cooling on you get better milage... even in a ICE vehicle.

That is blatantly false:

At -20C, the use of a block heater can improve overall fuel economy by as much as 10 percent. In a test program conducted by Environment Canada, a vehicle sitting at -25C was warmed using a block heater and then driven over a simulated urban driving cycle. This resulted in a 25 percent reduction in fuel consumption compared to cold-starting the vehicle and driving it over the same route

For the metric and Google-impaired, -20C and -25C is -4F and -13F respectively.

However because of the heat generated by the engine being added to the heat generated by driving and the ambient heat, electric cars will perform poorer in hot environments because the parts get hotter and can't be cooled as effectively.In a ICE, the thermal limit is higher, but even regular ICE vehicles will suffer in a desert.

Deserts are kinda the opposite end of the scale here. In cold weather, ICE cars perform weak and electrics worse. And yes, electrics like Nissan Leaf use an electric heater to heat the battery when it's too cold. Tesla doesn't, which makes it sluggish the first minutes in the cold. And heating the interior will use electric power that could have been used for range in both. In ICE cars it'll just sap a little of the battery that'll recharge as you drive, in EVs it's a real drain.

This research clearly shows, the comments must be regulated — to ensure, only the certified experts are allowed to express opinions, and that all different points of view are fairly represented. The current so-called "freedom" is, obviously, putting us in danger — and it is over-rated anyway.

To keep the "playing field" level, the hitherto unregulated online news-sources (which also attract the most dangerous comments) shall be subjected to the same rules as TV-broadcasters, thus shutting down the smaller and annoyingly quirky ones among them. The respected (and, incidentally, government-supporting) establishments will thus be (smartly) helped.

Dissemination of information deemed incorrect by the benevolent and omniscient regulators, or failures to represent all points of view fairly, shall lead to the withdrawals of certification and any other licenses — easy to achieve without much fuss because a license, by definition is a permission granted by the Executive, and can be withdrawn (or not-renewed) without having to convince the skeptical Judiciary. Anybody talking about the First Amendment shall be ignored (and put on a watch-list) as a fringe crazy — this is not the 60-ies, you can not protest like that .

Regulation on slashdot hasn't worked for sometime now, though. The level of group think here is astounding. Every now and then I see a 10+ year old article on "This day on Slashdot" and notice just how much better the comments use to be on Slashdot compared to all the +5 insightful one-liners we get these days. Clearly, the mod system hasn't scaled well. Something new needs to be thought up.

This research clearly shows, the comments must be regulated — to ensure, only the certified experts are allowed to express opinions, and that all different points of view are fairly represented. The current so-called "freedom" is, obviously, putting us in danger — and it is over-rated anyway.

To keep the "playing field" level, the hitherto unregulated online news-sources (which also attract the most dangerous comments) shall be subjected to the same rules as TV-broadcasters, thus shutting down the smaller and annoyingly quirky ones among them. The respected (and, incidentally, government-supporting) establishments will thus be (smartly) helped.

Dissemination of information deemed incorrect by the benevolent and omniscient regulators, or failures to represent all points of view fairly, shall lead to the withdrawals of certification and any other licenses — easy to achieve without much fuss because a license, by definition is a permission granted by the Executive, and can be withdrawn (or not-renewed) without having to convince the skeptical Judiciary. Anybody talking about the First Amendment shall be ignored (and put on a watch-list) as a fringe crazy — this is not the 60-ies, you can not protest like that .

But things still get out.

What's changed are the targets. In the '50s it was the leftists. Now the government targets right-wing groups.

For example, a recent training exercise involved "handling" a right wing group called "Free Americans against Socialist Tyranny".

They don't actually exist, but the government is so paranoid of right wingers that they make up groups to train against.

Oh really? NASA is useless?

“It’s critical that the United States ensure its continued leadership in space,” Cruz said.

Give me a single solid example - voter validation leaves a paper trail, so the evidence should be easy to come by.

Utter BS!

What paper trail? You walk in, say you are Joe Blow, live at a given street, make your mark and you get a ballot... the only way you know that this was done fraudulently is if the real Joe Blow comes in later to vote and told that he already did... which mathematically wouldn't always happen depending on how well a fraudulent voter picked their targets.

Want cases of people who were told they already voted? Here are a couple:
http://www.nbc12.com/story/199...
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
And even from Scotland: http://www.itv.com/news/update...

At the end of the day, so long as you keep your mouth shut (unlike this woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) you probably aren't going to get caught: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local... as you don't exactly see many cameras in polling stations synced up to when given names are scratches off as having voted.

This all assumes it's hard to get someone else's ballot, (spoiler: it isn't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We've got to stop with the Neanderthal nonsense...

Neanderthals are *not* the magical missing link, nor does proving/disproving the existence of God or the truth of the theory of Evolution...none of this is in play

This is about legacy academia and how century-old academia wars are burdening good research today.

Another example: Clovis Culture http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Clovis Culture theory has been the bane of anthropologists and archaeologists for decades...the only reason it was so entrenched is b/c of flaws in academia.

Neanderthals are the same. The whole notion of "Neanderthals" being a separate thing is just a miscategorization of traits that modern humans have. Maybe they are rare, and have become less attractive over the millenia, but not any different than any other trait.

Look at Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev

The traits we collectively call "Neanderthal" are a distinction without a difference.

It's a failure of science that some ideas are irrationally difficult to disprove. Usually it is because people are using the research wrongly to prove a non-science point.

Again...Neanderthals can be variations on modern humans and it **does not disprove evolution!!!**

Egalitarianism

Wage gap myth:

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Majors by Gender: Is It Bias or the Major that Determines Future Pay?

There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth

Gender pay gap is not what activists claim

Equal pay statistics are bogus because they don’t compare like with like

Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die

The Wage Gap Myth

Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

Share of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low

Women In Tech Make More Money And Land Better Jobs Than Men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009.

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.

Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers

The 15 Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount.

Young women now earn more than men in UK

Don't blame the victim, that is unless the victim is male, then go for it.. They should apologize for what happened..

http://www.examiner.com/articl...
"like to apologize to everybody ... Portland, the fans, the organization. It was very embarrassing," Oden told reporters. "It was something that happened over a year and a half ago. I'm very sorry, and I'm definitely embarrassed for my family and everybody. It was a lady friend who I was having a relationship with, and it was just for her. It was definitely meant to keep private,"

http://www.rantsports.com/nba/...
"Yes Burke can be considered a victim in this situation. It’s an unfortunate development for the talented guard, but that’s why you simply keep your junk away from cameras."

If Feminists want equality, they need to either hold themselves to the same standards that society seems to hold men to, or start dealing with all issues that fall under equality, not just playing the victim card for the most amount of sympathy.

Furthermore Ebola never did reach Nigerian cities.

Um, ebola certainly reached Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, populated by 17.5 million people. The index case, doctor Patrick Sawyer, even performed surgery while ill and symptomatic.

Well, certainly texting is no more dangerous than shaving, right? Dude, I don't care if you got all four hands and your dick on the wheel, if you're not paying attention, your luck will run out, or worse you'll ruin somebody else's day.

Personally, instead of a bunch of laws designed as revenue generators, I would like to see a much bigger push for these damn autonomous cars, and then they might even be safe enough to fly.

Are you sure?

Absolutely positive?

Seems to be quite a few.

If so, then the next step will be to ban all cellphones, electronic games, laptop computers, et cetera regardless of whether they are operable or not.

It's a long way off, but we'll get to naked travel [SFW] eventually.

Please provide a single scientific proof of anything Al Gore ever accomplished?

OTOH:

Blood And Gore: Making A Killing On Anti-Carbon Investment Hype

Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software

Al Gore Invests $6M To Make BILLIONS In Cap And Trade

Gore lies to Congress about personal finances

Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor

The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade

Al Gore pushes Global Warming for personal profit

Cyber-Thieves Make Millions from Emissions Cap-and-Trade Scam

Obama's draft budget projects cap-and-trade revenue

Cap-and-trade: The biggest scam of all

Experts: Carbon Tax needed and NOT Cap-and-Trade Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)

Leading Global Warming Crusader: Cap and Trade May INCREASE CO2 Emissions

Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators

Fraud in Europe's Cap and Trade System a 'Red Flag,' Critics Say

Spending Cap and Trade Auction Revenues Will Undermine California’s Climate Goals

Yet LFTR get's pooh poohed because it's experimental. Amazing.

Yes... but this student is still wrong on petrodollar politics; and I won't even go into that regurgitated propaganda.
There's no "myth". Many countries, Russia and China included, are tired of the arrogance of a single country dominating the world, and are looking for alternatives to the petrodollar monopoly. One recent example is Russian energy giant Gazprom's clients switching from the dollar to euro or renminbi
Russia and China continue calling for the dollar to be replaced as the international reserve currency. They're also setting up the BRICS version of the World Bank and IMF.

So in other news:
russia-china-banking-deal-to-exclude-dollar-in-transactions-symbolic-blow-to-dollar
alternative-to-dollar-close-to-reality-as-brics-coalition-expands-to-80-nations/a>
The-sun-is-setting-on-dollar-supremacy-and-with-it-American-power

Seriously, you've never seen it? The woman who started the #yesallwomen trend on Twitter had to close her account because of all the rape threats she was getting.

That doesn't surprise me, I'm sorry to say. But I'm given to understand that any high-profile person on Twitter gets all kinds of threats, rape or otherwise. Obviously females are more prone to rape threats than males, but all 4 links (~2 minutes of Google News for "twitter threat") are for males and death threats. It's all the ass-end of the internet and warrants no concern

Not at all. I'm saying it's every geek or nerd's responsibility - along with everyone else's responsibility - to speak up when they see it. *Every* incident? Only if you're personally there for *every* incident, in which case, I'd have to wonder why you're always in the wrong place.

Is it your responsibility to stop *every* fire? No. If you see someone's house on fire, wouldn't it be a good responsible act to call the fire department, rather than just shrugging and walking away? Of course it is. Does it matter that you're not going to stop *every* fire? Of course not.

Fair enough, that's basically what I meant. But it seems like that doesn't really address the problem - you still have little pockets where this BS is tolerated, and I don't know how "nerds" can fix that to the extent that they don't make up those pockets. Seems like a more targeted group term could help.

I thought you said you couldn't think of any instances of harassment, and now you're throwing up specific examples like a Call of Duty server? Which is it?

I don't play Call of Duty, it's just a stereotypical example. I've seen it played a few times, and it seemed like a hell-hole, but there were no women so my statement stands - I've never seen a woman get harassed in an online forum. I've seen places where I suspect a woman likely would get harassed, were one present, but I don't even know what it looks like. Would it really take the form of such cliched, tired kitchen and sandwich jokes? Seems about as scandalous as "ima make u suk my dick fag0t" or a goatse link - what is this, 2002?

It used to be a common word everywhere. Up here in the North where we don't accept that language and speak up when its used, it is not prevalent. As you note, it's southern racists... and apparently no one in their circles is saying "stop using that word".

Precisely, so what's the plan for dealing with those problem circles in particular? (rhetorical question, if I knew I'd be doing it!) Blaming that behavior on "people", even "southern people" isn't very useful for winning allies - but that's essentially what's happening here with "nerds". You (n.b. "people in general") drive a wedge into the community and put people who are otherwise very sympathetic (like me!) on the defensive completely unnecessarily.

Telling people "just grow a thick skin" or "put up with it" is being part of the problem. Sure, you don't harass people... But you're not standing up to those who do, and you're telling their victims to suck it up. That makes you not quite as bad as the harassers, but no where close to being a good person. Ever hear the old poem about "they came for [X group], but I said nothing, because I was not [X]"? It's not supposed to be an endorsement of staying silent.

Here's where you and I disagree. This is a nuanced point for the internet, but basically the worl