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A quick summary of information:
Most recent unconstitutional AND illegal TSA practice: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1258192/pg1
More details of the incident: http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/tsa-screener-terrorizes-3-year-old-girl
 
Food for thought:
  - Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty~Thomas Jefferson
  - Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe - Noah Webster
 
{{These links and info copied from other posts, but the information is so important I am sure the authors won't mind uncited references.}}

As linked earlier, here's video of them doing it to a screaming 3-year-old:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/tsa-screener-terrorizes-3-year-old-girl

Is that all? Here ya go:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/tsa-screener-terrorizes-3-year-old-girl

According to one of the replies to my comment the damage can affect the driving.

http://www.examiner.com/video-game-in-national/gran-turismo-5-has-realistic-damage-and-effects-system-full-detailed-breakdown

I still like it to be like an old Papyrus sim and when you hit a wall head on the is dead and in bits but at least they're moving towards the right direction.

But I'm glad you brought up Israel. Israel is perhaps the only country more despised in the Arab world than the US, and yet Israel has never had anyone blow up an airplane. Have you ever been through Israeli airport screening? There is a very good reason for it, and it has (so far) worked flawlessly.

It sounds to me like you are using Israel as an example of why we should use the scanners. I've read in various news outlets that Isreal doesn't use the "naked scanners" because they don't work because they are ineffective and invasive. I've been through the Tel Aviv airport three times this year (and twice in through land crossings); I can say without a moment's hesitation that they are far less physically invasive than our TSA. No doubt Israeli security is very good... they absolutely do not fuck around with security, and they don't use the standard TSA tactics. That should tell you something.

I think you're right though - we should emulate Israel as they are far better at security than us. Step one: get rid of the kabuki dance and employ measures that are actually effective.

Bonus quote: "I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines (they are useless). I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747, that is why we have not put body scans our airport." - Rafi Sela, Israeli security expert who designed the security in Israel’s largest airport.

No, the difference is that Iran stones women, Saudi Arabia beheads them. Both agree that Facebook is immoral though.

Physics is damage. Damage to affect the physical simulation and alignment deviation. The damage may affect the operation, which stopped running straight, and is not stable in the corner to express a variety of symptoms depending on the amount of damage. On all models.

More info here

Better video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GCgDKNEwyY

Actual explanation of the event:
http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-los-angeles/missile-launch-over-southern-california-explained

TL;DR: Was a jet airliner's contrail and the perfect upper-atmospheric moisture level + winds.

I'm sure what follows everything south of this post involves China, Iran, and Dr. Evil.....

The timing of this sale is interesting not because of the defeat of the recent measure but the departure of the Ozzie, Allard, and Bach this year. Incidentally 75 million is the full amount of his sale. He's sold 49 million of the shares already. My opinion is that he's run out of people to blame or they were smart enough not to stick around to be blamed. It was disclosed that his bonus was cut in half this year because of the decline of Windows Mobile in the market place and the failure that was the Kin. After the dot com crash of 2000, MS stock has never passed $40 a share for his entire tenure, staying mostly in the mid 20s. Even though MS is highly profitable, the board may feel that MS cannot grow with him at the helm.

The only difference is that in Civ III I get to kill people.

And in Farmville, people kill you!.

(I realize that this girl probably would have killed her baby anyway as she didn't know not to shake it; whether the baby interrupted a game, tv, or a texting/phone conversation. Sad for sure.)

Facebook conspiracy: Data mining for the CIA

My loyal readers may recall that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has some grotesque tentacles: the Information Awareness Office (IAO); TIA (Total Information Awareness, renamed Terrorism Information Program); and TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System).

It is commonly believed that in 2003 an irate American people forced the government to stop these Orwellian command-and-control police state operations--or did they?

Congress stopped the IAO from gathering as much information as possible about everyone in a centralized nexus for easy spying by the United States government, including internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and all other available data. The government's plan was to emulate Communist East Germany's STASI police state by getting mailmen, boy scouts, teachers, students and others to spy on everyone else. Children would be urged to spy on parents.

These layers of the mind control infrastructure were seemingly dead and buried. But was the stake actually driven through its evil heart? History leads us to believe that it was not.

Then shazam here comes the privacy killing juggernaut called Facebook.

Facebook, however, does what Chairman Mao, Joseph Stalin, or Adolf Hitler could not have dreamt of - it has a half billion people willingly doing a form of spy work on all their friends, family, neighbors, etc.--while enthusiastically revealing information on themselves. The huge database on these half a billion members (and non-members who are written about) is too much power for any private entity--but what if it is part of, or is accessed by, the military-industrial-national security-police state complex?

We all know that "he who pays the check, calls the shots," therefore; whoever controls the purse strings controls the whole project. When it had less than a million or so participants, Facebook demonstrated the potential to do even more than IAO, TIA and TIPS combined. Facebook really exploded after its second round of funding--$12.7 million from the venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager, James Breyer, was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital front established by the CIA in 1999. In-Q-Tel is the same outfit that funds Google and other technological powerhouses. One of its specialties is "data mining technologies."

Dr. Anita Jones, who joined the firm, also came from Gilman Louie and served on In-Q-Tel's board. She had been director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense. This link goes full circle because she was also an adviser to the secretary of defense, overseeing DARPA, which is responsible for high-tech, high-end development.

But as bad as the beginning of Facebook is, the parallels between the CIA's backing of Google's dream of becoming "the mind of God," and the CIA's funding of Facebook's goal of knowing everything about everybody is anything but benign.

Furthermore, the CIA uses a Facebook group to recruit staff for its National Clandestine Service. Check it out if you dare.

Do not become a victim of this full frontal assault on your personal information. Think twice about putting your entire life on Facebook or by that matter on any social media site. None of it is ever private. Everything you put online stays online forever in a server farm somewhere for anyone to analyze you and the people you love. They do not care about your privacy at all and put great value on uncovering all they can about you. They have an agenda that will become more and more apparent to people as time goes by. Believe it or not there is a great change coming in our culture that many choose to be blind too. The mass loss of liberty and freedom we are experiencing is just a signal to the direction this is all going.

A fake steelworker is nothing compared to a fake candidate from a fake party: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20101007/NEWS01/101007081/Democrats-Adler-campaign-backed-Tea-Party-candidate There are other similar attempts except nobody from Reid's team is spilling the beans yet.

A good article explaining why doesn't Frodo just ride an eagle to mount doom.

How the Swedish butter/margarine brand Bregott want you to see cattle living:
http://www.bregott.nu/

Quite ideal but not very uncommon cow life in Sweden (quite realistic, some may have worse grass or bigger area + more animals but still pretty normal):
http://www.par-mikael.se/bilder/kor.jpg

Obviously not a farm longer but still how I'm used to see them:
http://www.arosmotorveteraner.se/foton/20061118222926.JPG

Pretty normal interior I believe, maybe slightly smaller / dirtier at older farms:
http://www.stjarneberg.se/DCP_0895.JPG

Larger scale but still nothing like how I assume it's in the US and even more so in Brazil:
http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/ny%20ladugard%202.jpg
http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Ladug%C3%A5rd%201.jpg (may look boring)
http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Liggb%C3%A5s%201.jpg (clean)
http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Kor%203.jpg (looks like they have it quite ok)
http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Kallhall%201.jpg (cute!)

The winters obviously lead to cattle being inside during that half+ year.

I can understand how you need antibiotics in conditions like this:
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/hogfarm.jpg
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID1513/images/pig-factory-farms.jpg
http://candobetter.org/files/pigFarm01.jpg

And that's not much of a life ...

I think the animals would be much better threatened (but maybe "perform" worse and get worse med-care) in small family farms. Atleast then they more or less become your pet.

Unless free from prejudice and narrow-mindedness, i.e. liberal,

Like when conservatives get shouted down whenever they are to speak at college campuses? Like how brown^H^H^H purple shirted SEIU thugs lock out anyone with an opposing view, sometimes using violence? that kind of "free from prejudice and narrow-mindedness"?

Sorry, but liberals are no longer the ones with open minds, willing to listen to all opinions and give them a fair shot and even consider foreign ideas in their own minds. Those true liberals got shouted down and mashed under the thumb of "progressive" liberals long ago. Even other progressives who stray too far from the group think gets silenced.

You should have seen the way Democrats treated each other at the local Democratic caucuses required by Democrats in Texas to elect a candidate. It was held in my local town at City Hall. I was there. It was a sight to see:
Manuella: "Excuse me, every one of you up there is an Obama supporter. Wouldn't it be fair if we had some Clinton supporters up there?'
Person in charge: "Denied"
Manuella: "Well, shouldn't there at least be one Clinton supporter there to oversee everything?"
Person in charge: "Who would you recommend?"
Manuella: "Well, I could do it."
Person in charge: "OK. What's your name? OK, Manuella. Anyone else? John? OK. All in favor of Manuella?"
Group: "Aye"
Person in charge: "OK, all in favor of John?"
Group: "Aye"
Person in charge: "John is the Clinton monitor"
Manuella: "But John has an Obama button on..."

Somehow we need to put a stop to this practice of appointing "Czars". Anyone who can't pass muster with the Senate shouldn't be calling shots in the Executive Branch.

That's precisely what we need, even more dependence on the totally fucking broken US Senate. Right now there are record numbers of Presidential appointees in limbo, not getting debated, not getting a confirmation vote, not getting anything. These people aren't controversial, nobody thinks they'll do a bad job or that they're even partisan. Most of 'em will eventually get confirmed someday. It's just that right now some politicians in the Senate think it's more valuable to slow this process down to score electoral points. It's not like we need people managing the OMB or the Fed or any of that shit. It basically runs itself, right?

Now, if you're a politician this is all in a day's work. I mean, I get it. They get something out of this, it's a power game. But for an outsider to say "hey, let's throw some more of our critical government functions into this crazy broken process, that'd be a good idea", that's just fucking ludicrous. While we're up to stupid things, why don't we solve our nuclear waste problem by burying it in school playgrounds? These ideas are of roughly the same intellectual caliber.

And don't get me started on this Czars nonsense, where every remaining position the President does have the power to appoint is suddenly referred to as a "czar" (even if that term is nowhere in the title) and we're all supposed to be outraged that the President is appointing people to do the fucking job of running the government like we expect him to.

Taxes are about freedom as much as your "rights, personal integrity and in extension safeguarding a free and democratic society" are. In fact, I would suggest that any government who's tax rates are greater than 20% on personal income is deeply infringing upon the right to pursue happiness.

Of course, well regulated citizenry is key to socialistic bliss. And damn everything else, I want to download music and not pay the artists a wit for it.

Speak all you want about sticking it to the man, and how you're for the poor oppressed artists and whatnot. And poor starving artists still exist, in spite of all the attempts of the Pirate Party and geeks protesting the MAFIAA.

The point is, here we are, ten years into the age of File Sharing and whatnot, and all those people downloading all that music and not paying for it are doing is making noise and giving me a headache.

Meanwhile government fines people for growing food in their backyard.

Government skimming off the top of the productivity of people is 100 times worse than anything the MAFIAA is doing to artists.

On the other hand, Steve Jobs was right. This is a bigger problem for Adobe. Let them admit thet they need some help wit Flash...maybe Linus hackers can help out.

Bottom line: Flash sucks on Android big time.

Actually, flash doesn't suck on android - at least on my N1 running cyanogen's CM6. Even in the article you link they admit "When Flash 10.1 for Android is good, it’s great, but when it’s bad, ...". Then they go on claiming that only videos optimised for mobile phones are smooth on the android, but that hasn't been my experience. I didn't set out to test exactly the same sites as on that article, but on regular usage (Portuguese, Italian and UK news sites, youtube [directly with the browser claiming it is a desktop pc], atdhe, etc.) I never had any of the symptoms described in that article. Some jerkiness from time to time, yes, but that was mostly due to slow net connections or overloaded sources. The games I didn't try - I was never a fan of flash games - but I assume most games make assumptions that won't work on touch screens. I don't see exactly how that is a failure with flash, though.

All in all, I never got the bugs and inconveniences reported in that article. And judging from the comments section there, I wasn't the only one. I know flash bashing is fashionable here at slashdot, but the article you quote is too much against mine and other users real life experience to be trusted. And don't take just my work for it, check this article, for another example of flash working on android, or this one for a take from a iphone user on the same "problem".

Bottom line: Flash doesn't suck on my android phone, or of any of my friends; and I'd rather have it available than having a "benevolent dictator" deciding I can't use it on my phone just because.

A shooting is a national headline in a country which has 31 guns per 100 residents (Sweden). USA does have 90 guns per 100 residents (according to wikipedia) but 31 is not a low number. Why is gun crime not just 1/3 of what it is in the USA? Different rules and different mentality? Or are the other 60 guns per 100 persons mostly handguns and sprayfire weapons specialized for killing people and no good for hunting?

What has skewed the gun violence in America is the gang problem we have all over the country. I don't have any statistics for you but I'm sure that increases our gun crime rate significantly. It definitely increases the gun-related murder rate significantly.

Speaking from experience, very few gun owners in the US have guns that are not either used for personal safety or hunting. Head to any sporting goods store and you'll see rows and rows of rifles that are all used for hunting with a few exceptions. A significant ratio of the handguns can be used for hunting but are typically for personal safety. But it's not like we can purchase 'sprayfire' (I assume you mean automatic) weapons in WalMart. Any weapons like that are either licensed, documented, and regulated, or simply illegal.

If it was just as easy as 'more guns = more gun violence' then we would've seen that happen, but we haven't. And cities that have or had full gun bans (Washington D.C. and Chicago) had some of the highest gun-related crime and violence.

the two biggest countries in category A .. already have nuclear weapons in abundance .. there is only two countries that has for sure used and continues to use nuclear weapons in the form of depleted uranium weapons .. and that is america and israel .. and in all cases they have been used against civilian population .. with the us having the largest stockpile and israel the third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons .. and if you think you need to worry about other countries aspirations .. the greatest nuclear threat that the world has ever known .. will be the next american president .. an apocalyptic messianic gun-toting zionist psychopath by the name of shara palin .. Shara

Wondering what exactly was preventing him from playing with his left hand, i read TFA. As far as i can tell, he finds it impossible to play with his left hand because there was never a checkbox for him to use to signify he was a lefty. He never explains what was so hard about using it left handed, or why his right hand couldn't work.

I imagined one such scenario would be a game that requires you to write words and letters with your right hand while manipulating the dpad with your left. That does sound challenging. I checked out this video http://www.examiner.com/video-game-in-chicago/base10-the-dsi-and-lefties-left-out and the gameplay seems to consist of drawing horizontal and vertical lines through big squares. I fail to see how this couldn't be done left handed.

i couldn't watch the entire video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/19/AR2010071903686.html

This article sums it up well in that it's a group with no official racist views but is filled with an unknown amount of racists: http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/07/tea-party_racism

The tea party, of course will not have an official racist POV because even they know it would be incredibly stupid to have that out in the open. But when one of their top players is stupid enough write a letter mocking black people, gets caught and has to be sacked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsPSUxV07x8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUsBvkfQKUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vrXJ5-EuoE
Anyone could sit here for days posting links to videos and sites showing examples of Tea Party racists. Sure they like to claim there have been plants but there aren't that many plants and the fact one of their highest people was clearly racist to the point where they had to get rid of him goes to show there is a lot of racism in the tea party. If we're going to attack moderate muslims for not tackling their extremists then the same should be done to the tea party.

The tea party won't do that because the people who aren't textbook racists are still the sort that want to just simply keep the brown people out of their country while forgetting their country was stolen from brown people.

Searching for tea party god or tea party christianity will bring up tons of official tea party sites talking about god. Some people like to claim it's not a religious group but it is they mention god often and their mascot, Palin, always talks about god. Like with the racism, it's easy to find links where tea party idiots have been intolerant of other religious beliefs.

http://www.examiner.com/humanism-freethought-in-tampa-bay/atheists-challenged-by-tea-party-patriots
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Holy-water-Two-teachers-tossed-for-allegedly-tossing-holy-water-on-atheist-94795819.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/mark-williams-tea-party-l_n_582591.html
http://race.change.org/blog/view/tea_party_plans_kkk-style_attack_on_muslim_place_of_worship
so much for freedom of religion - http://www.teapartypatriots.org/BlogPostView.aspx?id=3e3c9354-e295-4195-bb8a-0e50fd522cf9

Again, there is plenty of material out there showing the tea party's hate for anything atheist or Muslim.

The mere fact the tea party came out just as we had our first black president pretty much shows their mentality. They had no problem with Bush driving up the national debt because it was money spent on killing brown people who didn't believe in Jesus.

http://northgapatriots.ning.com/

Look at their "9 VALUES AND 12 PRINCIPLES" even if it's actually 9 principles and 12 values in the list but at least they tried.

Search for tea party patriots god on google

http://www.teaparty-patriots.com/#Judeo-Christian_Nation

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/BlogPostView.aspx?id=51ff1a75-d8bd-4980-97e9-0bab90018d23

Atheists challenged by Tea Party Patriots - http://www.examiner.com/humanism-freethought-in-tampa-bay/atheists-challenged-by-tea-party-patriots

I'll leave it there because quite frankly there is shit loads found on Google that supports my side and it doesn't even cover stuff like Tea party mascot Palin who brings up god all the time. The tea party is very much a religious group trying to rewrite the history of the US and seem to think freedom of religion means freedom to believe in Jesus.

Regarding the Holocaust: Got a source? Last I heard, Hitler himself had dark brown hair. I haven't heard that bit about persecuting hair color since I was in grade school. Thanks for the memories.

Regarding the health reform bill: Got a source? Everything I'm seeing shows no clear consensus, at which point it falls to the legislature to decide on their own. Even that was pretty evenly split.

Regarding arrest: In the event that you get arrested and it does screw up your lifestyle significantly, you have the right to sue for wrongful arrest. Mistakes happen, and you have the ability to try to get things fixed. That would be a great time to point out that, hypothetically, the police used only a GPS device, rather than an audio recorder, to show your association. Show that the arrest wasn't justified, and you can get it almost erased from history. Of course, the easiest route is to simply talk to your boss and try to get the job back after the facts have come out.

Regarding attorneys: Who did you think presents the evidence to a judge? It's the attorney general and the other assistant attorneys, and those with other titles depending on the state.

This is one typical example: Coast Guard halts Jindal's DIY Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup crew.

There was also Obama's refusal to waive the Jones act due to union pressure, and many other examples of federal idiocy getting in the way of the cleanup. Not to mention, the blatantly illegal attempts to keep the press from getting photos and video of the damage and the cleanup efforts.

-jcr

I figure if someone is willing to run a cracker till the sun burns out they can have my data...

Or at least until the the bit rot sets in.. apparently either can happen soon.

In addition to the commentary posted here, Cryptome and another blog have both come to the conclusion that this is little more than a publicity stunt.

There's exactly one article on examiner.com that seems to form the foundation of whatever credibility this group may have. That article breathlessly enumerates some of the "big names" on their roster, but doesn't seem to either vet their credentials or even confirm their membership.

Snow job.

There is already decent evidence to suggest that Lamo never talked to Manning, but was given the logs by this secretive private catch-all spy network "Project Vigilante" and told to turn them in.

Decent evidence? As reported by Socky McSockpuppet?

More likely story: Glen Greenwald has a huge gay crush on Bradley Manning because he'd like to have his own turncoat soldier boy toy. Also "Project Vigilant" scares the poo poo out of Glen because they'd be able to reveal the extent of his sockpuppetry.

Some of the names behind Project Vigilante:

...the list of its officials, which includes Mark Rasch, who headed the DOJ's Internet Crime Unit for 9 years; Kevin Manson, a retired Homeland Security official; George Johnson, who "develop[ed] secure tools for the exchange of sensitive information between federal agencies" for the Pentagon; Ira Winkler, a former NSA official; and Suzanne Gorman, former security chief of the New York Stock Exchange. These are people with extensive, sophisticated expertise in compiling highly invasive data about individuals' Internet activities, and more so -- given their background -- how to package it in a way that can be used by federal agencies.

From here and here.

So... perhaps it is a honeypot as well? In any case, the real operation is run backend to your ISP.

Adrian Lamo worked as an Analyst for Project Vigilant - which specializes in collecting any and all data from major ISP's where the EULA permits third parties (i.e. pretty much all of them).

Lamo also just happened to turn in chat logs for military whistleblower Bradley Manning. There is already decent evidence to suggest that Lamo never talked to Manning, but was given the logs by this secretive private catch-all spy network "Project Vigilante" and told to turn them in.

This article, and:

http://collateralmurder.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/
http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2010m6d20-Censored-news-Pentagon-attacks-Wikileaks-more-gulf-drilling-approved-Fed-fights-reform-more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html
http://thestatsblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/britannica-versus-wikipedia/

I'm not an Ayn Rand fan, but here the government made big mistakes as well:

"In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The U.S. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," remarked Visser, despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer --the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge. Even after the U.S. refused, the Dutch kept their vessels on standby, hoping the Americans would come round. By May 5, the U.S. had not come round. To the contrary, the U.S. had also turned down offers of help from 12 other governments, most of them with superior expertise and equipment --unlike the U.S., Europe has robust fleets of Oil Spill Response Vessels that sail circles around their make-shift U.S. counterparts.
"
Read more: http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html#ixzz0uXqOLNzS

"Crucial offers to help clean up BP’s oil spill came “from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that . . . possess some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships.” But the Obama administration didn’t accept their help, because doing so would require it to do something past presidents have routinely done: waive rules imposed by the Jones Act, a law backed by unions."

http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner~y2010m6d14-Obama-blocked-cleanup-of-BP-oil-spill-by-Americas-allies-Failed-to-issue-needed-Jones-Act-waiver

1. Microsoft has opened up a few Brick and Morter Stores designed for strictly Microsoft Technologies

2. Microsoft is realeasing a new Mobile Phone OS shortly which will allow XBOX Live integration in combination with their "hopefully" intuitive UI and NetFlix video streaming.

3. Microsoft already tried to cut in to the market with the Zune. Why not some other device that they themselves built.

4. Microsoft now has an in with the ARM chipset

5. The XBOX 360 will be hitting the 5 years old mark this November

I guarantee (and by guarantee; I am fairly certain; and by fairly certain, I am completely speculating) that Microsoft is hedging their bets in order to enter the Hardware market in a more agressive fashion. And with their own brick and mortor store, they can guarantee "local" educated and informed support for their newest products.

That article is old. The dutch ships have been working in the gulf for a while now.

http://www.examiner.com/x-325-Global-Warming-Examiner~y2010m6d15-Dutch-Skimmers-now-working-in-Gulf

-b

The fundamental problem is this: users are still stupid, so we can't get past The September that Never Ended.. If we can do that, we can get past the "always Winter and never Christmas" phase, and geeks can cry out "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of [Helsinki]!"

What is a 'Climatologist,' precisely?


Basically, they are all people from other fields because there is no associates/bachelors/masters degrees in climatology.

None of the big names in climatology have advanced degrees in statistics, but they should, because they is the primary discipline that they are practicing.

BTW where I live (North America) 2009 was one of the coldest summers on record. I'm curious where all this supposed heat was? It certainly wasn't here. http://www.examiner.com/x-3420-Cleveland-Weather-Examiner~y2009m9d10-2009-Coldest-US-summer-in-recent-history-300-lowtemp-records-set

Visiting India

Alright. So that brings us 'round to the group of scientists who say "global warming is a natural part of earth's up-and-down cycle". These scientists get called idiots and they are not allowed to publish. Why are they being censored and insulted?

BTW where I live (North America) 2009 was one of the coldest summers on record. I'm curious where all this supposed heat was? It certainly wasn't here.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3420-Cleveland-Weather-Examiner~y2009m9d10-2009-Coldest-US-summer-in-recent-history-300-lowtemp-records-set

Oh and one more thought: Did you know that we're in the middle of an Ice Age? Earth's natural state, where it spent 80% of its lifespan, is without ice on the poles. Modern day earth has ice on the poles, so we're actually near one of earth's coldest points, when you look at the billion years.

Ummm....John Christy lead IPCC author is a "skeptic".

"I am mainly skeptical about those who claim to be so confident in understanding the climate system that they know what it is going to do in the next 100 years. This is my main complaint - overconfidence. We of all professions should be the most humble because there is so much about the climate system that we simply do not know."

"I just recently had a paper on snowfall in the southern Sierra published showing no trend in the last 94 years which indicates natural water resources in the San Joaquin Valley are fine, so that shortages are clearly a function of management and law"

"Natural variability is still the major driver of the climate changes that create challenges for society. The one confident conclusion we can make about added CO2 is that the biosphere has clearly been invigorated"

"the wealthier the country is, the better is its environment"

http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2010m7d1-Global-warming-Interview-with-John-ChristyModels-sensitivity-the-PNAS-paper-and-more

Obviously another right winger.

-john

Conservative propaganda? Facts are facts. Unfortunately the Lame-stream media will never touch something that may tarnish this administration. You have to dig deeper no matter how unpleasant it may be.
Sherlock.
All entities are clueless.
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more.
Jones Act a non-factor.
If the want of a strong decisive administration, instead of a group of clueless community organizers, makes me a conservative, then so be it. It makes it easier to make fun of the bed-wetters. Eventually it will be exposed how this was all an elaborate plan to sabotage the oil industry to gain backing for the Cap and Trade bill to further the government take over of industry. Kind of a head scratcher as to why less than a month before the explosion and leak, the administration opens up previously restricted offshore areas to oil and gas exploration and drilling. Flies in the face of the environmental platform. Now we know why. More Government control.

In this case, I would be more worried about the ultra-conservative nuts (like the Texas republican party) harassing for allowing any rights at all.

The images were taken down from the NASA site.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2010m1d27-Giant-UFOs-around-the-Sun-NASA-claims-malfunction-physicist-says-giant-ET-UFOs-use-Suns-star-gate

First of all smart phones (as we in the US know them) are almost non-existant in Japan. Secondly, gaming on smart phones is not very enjoyable or easy unless you have tiny fingers. Handheld gaming devices are designed to be more comfortable to hold in a gaming position.

I've heard variants on this argument for years ("Japanese phones are so much more advanced than what we have here!"), and having been to Japan on a number of occasions, I just never saw it. Other than streaming TV shows onto surprisingly bulky phones, I just didn't see anything particularly advanced or interesting.

Now that the iPhone is the best selling cell phone in Japan (not just smart phone, best selling cell phone), perhaps it's time to put these arguments aside. Hell, people are lining up to get on waiting lists for the new iPhone. Granted, people in Japan seem to love lining up for almost anything, but it's still significant.

The iPhone has done extremely well. Even in Japan. Perhaps that's why Nintendo sees Apple as a threat.

According to Safra Catz they did this out of stupidity ""Integrity matters... Don't be afraid to look stupid over integrity."

http://www.examiner.com/x-43195-SF-Technology-Examiner~y2010m5d11-Oracle-President-Safra-Catz-shares-wisdom-at-PBWC-Annual-Conference

Guess what? The Libertarian Party was formed by fed up Republicans. Nixon was not a liberty and small government Republican so other Republicans started the Libertarian Party. The first meeting of the LP was held in David Nolan's home in 1971. Republican though he was, Goldwater Republican, he opposed Nixon's "imposition of wage and price controls, as well as his closing of the foreign gold window". Nolan was also influenced by Ayn Rand, and if there's one thing that Democrats love to hate it's anything Randian.

Ron Paul even ran for president on the LP ticket in 1988.

Falcon

think that procedure will just preserve rotten meat at least

Not much different than standard cryonics procedure, then, which "preserves" freezer-burned meat.

More importantly, Alcor is to be paid $53,000 for freezing this hunk of meat. This has nothing to do with the wishes of the deceased, or about any long, long, long shot of reviving freezer-burned meat; it's all about the benjamins.

This, kinda lame.

The Gundam mecha model (jpeg), however, looks fucking awesome.

I'm looking forward to the Doraemon model! =D

This, kinda lame.

The Gundam mecha model (jpeg), however, looks fucking awesome.

Um... no. No they would not.

Yes they would. Simple economics says that as the cost of something goes up people look for cheaper sources or reduces the amount needed. That has been proven throughout history, even if not by choice. And as today's conventional energy gets more expensive people will move to other sources.

Geothermal, while prevalent in some parts of the world, is not that big of a resource here. And most of the places where geothermal is available are national parks. Could you imagine the uproar if you tried to build a power plant at Yellowstone?

The only reason it is not big here, in the US, is because little has been done to develop it. And it is even used in New York City. I myself have proposed geothermal in Yellowstone, but you're right so called environmentalists even oppose offshore and onshore wind farms. "Not in my backyard!" Of course I'd want a Yellowstone geothermal power plant to be blended into the landscape and I'd love both solar panels and a wind turbine on my property.

Solar is nowhere near efficient enough to power the country. It can be a nice boost, hardly economic, and government subsidies are not enough to help. For starters, government subsidies exist

Wow! Solar power got $62 million for R&D. That's dwarfed by coal's $3.302 Billion in 2007 alone or Nuclear Power's $145 Billion over the years. "My Climate Bill 'Has Huge Subsidies For Clean Coal! Huge!'" Wars are even started over oil.

There are also several tax breaks you can receive for "greening" your home, but it will never be enough to make it cost effective

Tell all those who build off the grid that it's not effective. Solar hot water has a payback period as short as 5 to 6 years, and the equipment lasts a lot longer. The payback for PV panels is much harder but estimates have been as low as 7 years and panels come with 20, 25, even 30 year warranties. Even pro-rated replacing equipment is cost competitive. Individually owned PVs aren't the only way to go solar either. The same publication you provide a link to your article, Science Daily, also has this article, Solar Power in Ontario Could Produce Almost as Much Power as All U.S. Nuclear Reactors, Studies Find. On large scales concentrated solar power may be more effective. Another article it has, Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Hurting Global Environment, Security, Study Finds.

Oh, and does he consider the subsidies conventional energy gets too in the study? Does he factor in the billions of dollars coal and nuclear power get? The only mention I see about them is where "he favors more state and federal funding for research and development." Personally I don't think government should be subsiding most of what it does, whether energy or farms or ...

Of course, as the Kennedys showed us, some people don't like the way they look. You remember Ted Kennedy, right? That big green liberal that BLOCKED wind power because it might disrupt the view from some of his mansions?

I don't know how many tymes I commented, but I didn't find any, I posted about how Kennedy or that NIMBY environmentalists opposed wind farm o

insisting that the distribution is not good enough is empty handwaving--unless of course you can support it with a model that demonstrates that a more uniform distribution gives different conclusions.

Isn't that Mcyntre and McKitrick's complaint?

I see no value in such a contrafactual assumption. Perhaps if you have a mathematical model of climate for which you can show that only one station would be sufficient then that would be worthy of discussion.

But that's exactly the problem -> the model is the proof of the model. Any arbitrary model can claim to be its own justification.

If you want to argue that millions of years ago a volcano made a significant contribution to CO2 and climate, I'm willing to look at the evidence, but I don't see the relevance to our discussion of global warming in the modern era.

The relevance is the assertion that the difference between lags and leads of CO2 is due to "added" CO2 (the consequence being that we ignore things like outgassing from the ocean, because it isn't "added"). My supposition would be that millions of years ago a volcano made a signifiant contribution to CO2, which did not have a signifiant impact on climate because of the negative feedback effects not properly modeled yet. This would serve as a contradiction to your assertion that leads in CO2 are due to "added" CO2 - unless you further ad hoc assert that volcanic CO2 is of a different quality than man emitted CO2.

You need to postulate some fairly contrived circumstance to generate an artifactual trend--as evidenced by the fact that you have not yet managed to come up with a scenario that would do it.

So, you are insisting that you cannot possibly find a trend that does not exist. Interesting.

I've read the article. It is a toy model that omits so many of the factors that influence climate in the real world as to be of no relevance.

The whole point of the toy model is to take it to its extreme and show that CO2 models of runaway warming are flawed even in the simplest form. It is, as you say, the "sanity check".

...concluded that Mann's conclusions are essentially correct.

Shame on you. That whitewash should be patently obvious to someone with such a iron grip on statistics.

No, I haven't read anything of the sort in the IPCC report. Kindly quote the section of the IPCC report that predicts runaway warming as a consequence of anticipated levels of CO2.

They call it the "runaway greenhouse effect" -
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch4s4-references.html

And here's the refutation:

http://www.examiner.com/x-32936-Seminole-County-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2010m2d9-New-research-into-greenhouse-effect-challenges-theory-of-manmade-global-warming

this behavior is not at hoc, but a necessary consequence of the well established physical chemistry of CO2.

This behavior is of course ad hoc. CO2 has no memory, and the climate system cannot distinguish between "added" CO2 and "non-added" CO2 -> physically, no such animal exists.

You have insisted that there are examples of massive releases of CO2 due to volcanoes. If you can find evidence of this, without a temperature increase following, then this would be a problem for the model.

As devil's advocate, I'll assert that the AGW defense of that would be the assertion that aerosols like SO2 balance it out. But I'll keep in mind that you'll accept that evidence as a falsification of AGW.