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but the fact of the matter is that most animals simply don't get cavities. Seriously! I mean, their teeth are very capable of getting cavities, but haven't you wondered why humans have teeth that "go bad" without regular maintenance? Have you ever known a dog to floss?

Have you ever actually owned a dog or a cat? Every one I've ever had eventually developed problems with their teeth as they aged, usually ending with the tooth in question needing to be pulled. You don't even need my personal anecdote, it's right here at the top of a Google search: While dental caries is not common in the domestic pet, it does occur and should be watched for.

The idea that all calories are equal is a tempting one

I didn't claim that all calories are equal, I said that exercise and flossing are more effective ways to improve health than obsessing about sugar intake.

And for the record, I eat like a pig, am overweight, etc (though I'm working on it now that I have time).

Now that you have time?! Thank you for proving my point that most people just can't be bothered. It's your bloody life we're talking about and your excuse for being a fat ass is "I didn't have the time?" You couldn't find three hours a week to go for a fucking walk? That's only 25 minutes a day. I really hate that weak ass excuse. Blame your proclivity for eating, I'm a foodie, I'd understand that, eating is one of the best pleasures of the flesh.

The time excuse is bogus. I have friends that manage to work full time, raise kids, and train for marathons, a commitment that requires running 15 to 40 miles a week. We've had several athletic presidents, including complete fitness nuts, all of whom found the time to maintain their health despite the office. I highly doubt that your obligations are more time consuming than those of the President of the United States.

There are many vague and unsubstantiated ways in which your math and idea are wrong that I don't wish to go into right now.

perhaps you could find some help here http://lmgtfy.com/?q=I'm+wrong

Did you try googling it?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=advanced+...

So, where did Ted Danson actually claim that we were going to kill all ocean life ?

Here's a link to get you started. After that, I'm sure you can figure out the rest on your own. Go get 'em, Tiger!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Knoppix

"I'm armed with Google and have a Masters Degree in speed reading." <--- Every internet know it all

What is this rubbish? Didn't we have these talks a long time ago already?

- Office 2007 and Office 2010 support ODF 1.1

- Office 2013 also supports ODF 1.2

Go open your Microsoft Office, and the option to save in OpenDocument is right there in the Save As dialog.

Whether anyone actually uses it, is the real question.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+o...

"Office 365" refers to subscription plans that include access to Office applications plus other productivity services that are enabled over the Internet (cloud services), such as Lync web conferencing and Exchange Online hosted email for business, and additional online storage with OneDrive and Skype world ...

It doesn't seem to be the same as Office 2007 or Office 2010 or Office 2013.

There was a bit of a clue in the name, but we don't read articles and we don't even read the summary these days

Seriously dude, there is a lot of Internet out there for you if you just go look for it.

Is that your way of saying you have not been paying attention to the news over the last few years nor do you know how to use google?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ruling+bu... >Here, let me help you. Now if you scroll down a bit, you will find at least the bakery and the florist situation. There are a couple others that I know of, one in which a couple offered their farm home to members of their church for weddings because of the "view" and was forced to allow gays to wed there due to state law.

Seriously, google is your friend.

Wiki is not a source of truth, it is a source of editable information often edited for purposes of propaganda. A quick google search finds more articles disproving Wiki than I can count. Here are the first three.

Claiming that killing people saves lives is delusional to the point of insanity. Unfortunately this insanity is alive and well, though today we claim "we must kill all the Muslims to get peace" instead of those "dirty Japs". The only way to justify the delusion is to invent your own version of history, which never happened. Don't worry, I learned the same lessons in public schools and had to learn to think on my own to see the delusion.

If you have doubts, ask yourself if we ever had to land a single troop in Japan to get them to surrender? Check your history! Japan was completely blockaded. They had no ships to defend a convoy, no local production of petroleum, and could not defend themselves from any form of bombardment we were already attacking them with. We had planes fire bombing them at will, without an atomic bomb. There was no reason to invade them, it was only a matter of time before they surrendered. Then ask yourself why we dropped those bombs on non-military targets, because you won't be able to come up with a real answer for that either!.

That is right, we dropped the a-bomb because the US didn't give a shit about human lives or suffering. Our Government had no problem bitching about the Germans with their Jewish concentration camps, but yet we locked up whole families of Japanese Americans in our own. Oh, I know.. we didn't kill the people we put in jail so we were good guys right?

If you want to justify it, at least be honest about the reasons we bombed two cities full of civilians and not military targets. We are the bully that beat up the sickly kid, and people like you laugh about it. Fucking disgusting!

Do a little searching of the news. You should find references that there are at least 850 registered voters over 150 in New York City.

You mean like this?

s vote fraud common in American politics? Not according to United States District Judge Lynn Adelman, who examined the evidence from Wisconsin and ruled in late April that “virtually no voter impersonation occurs” in the state and that “no evidence suggests that voter-impersonation fraud will become a problem at any time in the foreseeable future.”

Or this?

The Brennan Center’s ongoing examination of voter fraud claims reveal that voter fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is nearly non-existent, and much of the problems associated with alleged fraud in elections relates to unintentional mistakes by voters or election administrators.

Or this?

Investigators tell the paper they don't consider the discrepancy fraudulent; the number of votes attributed to deceased voters is too small and their votes are spread out over more than two dozen elections.

County elections commissioner Bill Biamonte said simple clerical errors make it seem as if the dead are voting. For example, a person voting could accidentally sign their name next to a dead person's name rather than their own in a poll registry book.

In several pages' worth of "ny voter fraud" results on Google, the only ones describing anything like what you describe were shamelessly partisan articles on sites regularly described as "right wing echo chambers" (e.g. Fox News, NY Post, Breitbart, National Review, redstate.com, etc.).

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rct+mmr

Anything else, smartass?

Because if there was, you'd already know all about this matter if you were paying any attention at all to The Fair & Balanced Network(tm) Fox News, instead of these here slashdots. Just trust me on this, okay? Here, let me help you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Afo...

Unless somehow, amazingly, Slashdot managed to scoop the very motivated Fox News, of course. I doubt it.

Where did you get the $10 million number?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cost+to+k...

Third one down...

Then surely this just backs up my point, which was that you can't use the current performance as a guarantee of future results. What I was using the past performance for was as proof of that exact point; not that past warming was proof of future warming but that the current pattern cannot be used as proof of the lack of future warming.

My point is that it goes both ways. An apparent 'pause' in warming doesn't predict warmer or cooler (or stable) temperatures tomorrow, next year, or over the next decade. A few decades of observed warming do not - themselves - predict future warming either.

Of course it didn't go back a long way. It was a graph showing more detail of the most recent temperatures to demonstrate how noisy the data is that you can't use a short term phenomenon as a predictor of long term trends. It was not the graph that I was referring to throughout the rest of my post about the previous lulls and drops in temperature not being harbingers of the end of global warming. I was looking at a PDF of a graph while I was writing, but I had intended to link to an online version in my post. Rather than me choose one that you might take issue with, why don't you do a Google search and find one yourself. Whichever you choose they demonstrate my point.

That wasn't really my point; my point was merely that we've only just very, very recently had satellite data added to the mix. And that data, though more complete than anything before it, is still subject to measurement issues. It marks an improvement in our toolbox, but that improvement has only provided an incredibly small amount of new data and we need a whole lot more.

We have a pretty good picture of temperatures dating back thousands of years from various sources like tree growth patterns and ice core samples. So do you really think that scientists suddenly get all stupid about interpreting the measurements made a hundred years ago? That they can't (or didn't think to) correlate between the various measuring stations at the time and factor equipment problems and local environmental changes?

It is no coincidence that temperature graphs for modern times all start in the mid to late 1800s. That is the time that scientists agree is when accurate enough records began. You might like to say that it is only the last 45 years that we have accurate measurements, but the scientific community would beg to differ on that assertion.

Until around the 1930s (in some places, the 1920s, but in vanishingly few places prior thereto), most places where temperature measurements were taken were not scientific labs. They were simple weather stations where the person doing the measuring simply looked at an old mercury thermometer located randomly (sometimes near a heat source). There was little to no training for that person for taking the measurements in a standard way, the equipment used was crude and uncalibrated (not that it would help considering the level of precision available with common thermometers at the time), there was no standard time of day for measurement taking, no verification of measurements, etc. Statistical smoothing (like the kind applied to the surface temperature reconstructions done for data collected prior to about the 1930s) can help weed out a few bad measurements here in there in a largely accurate and precise data set. What it cannot do is take hugely incomplete, inaccurate, imprecise data measured in non-standard ways with crude instruments and numerous unknown outside variables and turn that into something useful enough to demonstrate a fraction of a degree difference in temperature.

All that taken together, the margin of error for surface measurements taken between the early 1800s and the 1930s should be around 1-2C. It just isn't scientifically significant data in a discussion about temperature changes of

Suicidal? How can it be suicidal to reduce our carbon footpr

As any investor will tell you, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Then surely this just backs up my point, which was that you can't use the current performance as a guarantee of future results. What I was using the past performance for was as proof of that exact point; not that past warming was proof of future warming but that the current pattern cannot be used as proof of the lack of future warming.

I would further direct your attention to the fact that your link to the satellite data only goes back to about 1970.

Of course it didn't go back a long way. It was a graph showing more detail of the most recent temperatures to demonstrate how noisy the data is that you can't use a short term phenomenon as a predictor of long term trends. It was not the graph that I was referring to throughout the rest of my post about the previous lulls and drops in temperature not being harbingers of the end of global warming. I was looking at a PDF of a graph while I was writing, but I had intended to link to an online version in my post. Rather than me choose one that you might take issue with, why don't you do a Google search and find one yourself. Whichever you choose they demonstrate my point.

The further back you go (prior to around 1930, there wasn't even standardization or widespread training for temperature measurements at weather stations), the less accurate, precise, and available the data becomes.

We have a pretty good picture of temperatures dating back thousands of years from various sources like tree growth patterns and ice core samples. So do you really think that scientists suddenly get all stupid about interpreting the measurements made a hundred years ago? That they can't (or didn't think to) correlate between the various measuring stations at the time and factor equipment problems and local environmental changes?

It is no coincidence that temperature graphs for modern times all start in the mid to late 1800s. That is the time that scientists agree is when accurate enough records began. You might like to say that it is only the last 45 years that we have accurate measurements, but the scientific community would beg to differ on that assertion.

We are a child trying to understand the inner workings of a nuclear power plant even as we struggle to master basic arithmetic. ... It does mean that setting public policy based on the level of understanding we have today is foolish and that any attempt to purposely alter the climate through mass engineering efforts is downright suicidal.

Suicidal? How can it be suicidal to reduce our carbon footprint to a level that we had in the past, when obviously we didn't all die out back then - either literally or economically. And they say the AGW proponents are alarmists!!

But if you are right and we really don't know enough about the environment, surely the most sensible approach would be to not keep pumping the atmosphere with substances that we don't know what effect it will have on our climate. Stop doing that until we know more. How can you possibly defend doing otherwise? Surely those children who haven't mastered basic arithmetic shouldn't be trying to build nuclear power plants.

It's called "Google". It points here.

Short answer: they are either misquotes or ourright fakes.

Shachar

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=man+not+t...

It's unfair to expect someone to have the education to recognize they're being conned when it's the education system itself who are the con-men. Really, how are kids supposed to figure this out beforehand?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=salary+by...

Fraud is fraud, and victim-blaming isn't appropriate.

You major in Women's Studies and you get a Women's Studies degree. You are told up-front how much it costs. There is tons of information on the kinds of careers you can take. Where is the fraud?

When the education system itself it lying to kids about the necessity and value of a given degree, that's pure Evil.

Oh, I agree: it's evil. And who is doing the lying? High school teachers, mostly in public schools, financed by tax dollars.

Ah, you're the kind who gives "libertarianism" a bad name.

I sure hope so! A "bad name" with people like you is an endorsement.

You're the one who claimed, emphasis mine: "the current understanding of gun rights in the USA is a late 1900s dirty harry style invention of anyone should have a gun ." Don't try and backpedal away from it now.

I could respond to your silly training argument by pointing out:

1. Driving is a privilege, not a constitutionally recognized right.
2. The prefatory clause is not a limiting clause. It was not imagined as such by the people who wrote it nor ever interpreted that way by a court.

Of course, what's the point of having that discussion? You've got the facts so hopelessly wrong that I believe your ignorance is willful. One bloody Google search would have been enough to dispel your misinformed belief about the "current understanding of gun rights in the usa" and you couldn't even be bothered to do that.

Here, let me google that for you.

What are you quoting?

Hey, let's find out.

Looks like Steven L. Woodrow, a partner at law firm Edelson, quoted in a Reuters story from last year.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Increasin...

Any other hard questions?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+i... I've used the digitalriver ISOs several times. The earliest I remember using it was about 4 years ago, no key or login or anything required.

Nothing gets fixed by hiding problems.

Of course, if you're not competent enough to fix things - or even better not to fuck up in the first place - then you HAVE to hide things.

Now, trying to hide broken things THAT ARE ON THE FUCKING INTERNET FOR ALL TO SEE shows a special kind of stupidity.

PS - there's this activity called "testing". It's a thing you can do to find things that are broken BEFORE they can cause real problems. I even Googled it for you...

Wrong.

Wouldn't it make more sense to patch the kernel to make the correct function calls then update to a kernel with more changes that may not be tested/stable for a given usage scenario?

Google is your friend

Shifting your balance is how you turn a motorcycle at anything about parking lot speeds.

Wow. If that's how you ride, try counter-steering sometime. It will blow your mind.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=paternity...

Can you explain how making coloured folks sit in the coloured section of the bus harms them?

*I* Can, but it seems from your position above that you think that would be just fine..

Don't be absurd. You know that isn't what I said. How dare you accuse me of that.

I was clearly advocating taking action to help those disadvantaged. Helping people overcome disadvantage, from lack of opportunity to outright racism, is not discrimination in itself. It's the opposite. That's very clearly what I said, if you didn't understand it then it's most likely because of your preconceptions about my position.

Your second attempt at a strawman is of course totally unrelated. women have the *advantage* of more socially acceptable *choices* including
stay at home parenting

Stay at home parenting is entirely socially acceptable in most of Europe. Perhaps things are different in the US, and you should fix that. The wider point though is just because in some other instances one group has an advantage doesn't mean it becomes acceptable for them to be disadvantaged in others. It's not us vs. them, group vs. group, it's about fairness and equality in all aspects.

Then lets consider there elephant in the corner, TEACHING.
Where is the push to have some gender equality there?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=incentive...

Here, this might help:

RAID

Stop hiding the facts. Hell, just read the damn article.

O RLY? Second paragraph of the damn article:

• In a charter precedent that will go down in the history books as Carter vs. Canada, the court unanimously struck down the ban on providing a doctor-assisted death to mentally competent but suffering and "irremediable" patients.

Since we're buds, I know most of you available brainpower is consumed by keeping your heart and lungs moving, so I'll do you a solid and link the definition. So, yeah, you're gonna see Drano prescribed for an ulcer before you see suicide prescribed for depression.

This is history and all you are doing is showing that you do not know it and do not care how ignorant you look when letting everyone else know the same about you.

All the blathering butthurt on being called out on your latest musings isn't going to make you any less full of it, Dumbass. How'd you launch your self into outer space with these false conflations, anyway? Did Mama Dumbass yell at you when you were a kid:

• "Be careful with that paring knife! Right now you're just cutting apples, but the next thing we know you might be running around trying to scalp indians!!!!"

• "Be careful on your first date! Right now you're just going to see some chick flick, but I don't wanna turn on the news in five years and see you're the next Ted Bundy!!!!"

• "Be careful with that air rifle! Right now you're shooting at paper targets, but the next thing we know you could be buying real firearms and murdering 80 kids like that psycho in Norway!!!!"

Makes as much sense as the crap you've been writing over this thread.

Question: What do we call the material form that is absorbable energy for our metabolism in the food?

Relevant: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=synonym

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=gmail...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=about+pes...

Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.

You come back when you can define pesticide. It's a broad term that includes more than just insecticide. Even worse, you were incorrectly correcting other people.

It's slow.

Having something installed has no effect on your performance unless you actually run it. Not installing Java because some Java applications are slow is stupid. Programs using Java != Java. The JVM isn't running if you're not running Java programs.

It is a security risk just like Flash.

Java != Java Applets. You can have Adobe Flash installed without the browser plug-in just like you can have Java installed without the applet plug-in.

malware attempts do pop-ups asking and recommending Java be installed

So? Malware prompts ask for anything and everything no matter what's installed or not. And again this is an applet issue. If it's not, then you should stop running malware on your computer.

I prefer a web browser with no non-HTML options even being available

Those exist, go use one.

If you don't run any Java programs, then you don't need Java installed. OpenOffice/LibreOffice don't require Java. If that's the only reason you have Java then uninstall Java. Almost all of the code in LibreOffice isn't Java. They aren't Java developers.

Basically everything you said in your post is false. Please enlighten yourself. You seem to be one of those people who only know just enough to be dangerous.

I can't recall a single laptop I've had that has an active network connection when it is off,

So because you've never had a computer with AMT, AMT doesn't exist? That's some weird logic you have. If your computer has WoL (most do) it has an "Active" network connection (as in a passive listening connection), even when you disable WoL, it's still listening, it just doesn't do anything. You don't have to electrically light your "transmit" wires to hear what's on the receive wires.

so how would someone use this AMT on a Lenovo laptop to turn one back on to do anything to it?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wake+on+l...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iot

Smart, but if we're going to substitute the jobs of editors with Google then maybe we should go all out. Instead we're paying useless editors who don't actually do their job and circumventing it through a tongue in cheek website that provides you with a Google search.

Also I'm in China you insensitive clod. Can you Bing it for me instead?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=shut%20th...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iot

Sure. It was really hard to google "NTSA studies speed" and click the first link, but here you go:
  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=NHTSA+stu...

Direct link:http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhtsa.gov%2Fpeople%2Finjury%2Fenforce%2FSpeed_Forum_Presentations%2FFerguson.pdf&ei=qrjHVNy0C8OkgwTDuIHQCg&usg=AFQjCNGC1ELU62qSlGqu5aHElfXjNglI4g&sig2=H8dxIRK6EENhrYUXok6L1Q&bvm=bv.84349003,d.eXY

SInce you couldn't take the time to google, I'll even give you the excerpt:

Low-speed drivers were more likely to be involved in
crashes than relatively high speed drivers

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=baiji

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Why+do+me...

1. Instinct is an extremely well understood term in animal behavior. A non-troll could not have searched 2 seconds and not found the correct meaning of this word in this context. I even gave an example.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=instinct

2. I didn't make any leap- I just said another theory can also explain pack hunting without involving mirror neurons. You made the incredible keep in concluding that I made any leap.

3. I would have appreciated less insolent language from you especially since my post was completely polite.

4. There was more evidence in my follow up post about why instinct explains this better than theory of mind.

>> it is only a matter of time before online agencies attack the armies of intermediaries that are the backbone of the trade

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=online+in...

Yeah, because the internet isn't full of hand-wringing articles wondering why more men don't go into teaching, or wondering how we do something about the tremendous gender gap in teaching.

Oh wait, it actually is full of those articles.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=men+in+te...

You don't hear about it *here* because this is a *Tech* web site. As such, it's far more likely to carry stories about the TECH industries than it is about Education. However, if you go look up educational websites, you'll no doubt find a few articles and posts relating to this very topic.

First of all, parsing error... after reading your response a few times, I think I've deciphered it, though, so here goes...

You do realize that Ubuntu does, in fact, already have a systemd unit for NSS, right? I'm not the only one having this issue and both Debian and Ubuntu maintainers don't seem to know what to do to fix it, but go on ahead and assume it's my failing; deity-forbid you take 2 seconds to google the issue.

Dumbass.

I never had the problem you describe

Good for you? Is your NSS configured to require LDAP (other than the fact that the only local user account with a shell is root)? Otherwise, if NSS will fall back to "files" if LDAP fails, it sounds like your configuration and my workaround are one and the same.

This is BS, I can't even believe Debian and Ubuntu maintainers are so bad, where's the bug report ?

Right here.

So this must actually be a bug tied to sysv compatibility, as you're talking about these broken ifup/ifdown scripts.

No. Read what I wrote.

The current "recommended" workaround is a pair of ifup/down scripts...

In other words, the scripts aren't broken, they don't exist; the workaround is to create them. It's actually the sysv compatibility layer that allows the fix.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=australia...

Thank you very much for proving that I actually did my research, as the first result in your search results is the exact same link I already provided in the post you're replied to.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=australia...