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Heh. But I've run into my fair share of good cops, and I appreciate them all the more with every new report on the bad ones.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/1...

The good ones may be a dying breed. I'd rather not hasten that by mislabeling them.

Suppose the US was at war with Country X. Men with guns attacked a US military base in Country X. The US troops fire back, killing the forces of Country X. But aha! One of the enemy was actually a US citizen! So does that mean the US troops cannot shoot at that one person?

Suppose...there was a relevant analogy here. Because none of the people being assassinated are killed on the battlefield - that's why they're assassinations. Markets, weddings, apartment buildings...those are the sites of your typical drone strikes, where people are minding their own business. Not in a firefight with Marines or plotting the next strike with the Legion of Doom. Like Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was blown up at a cafe with his cousin because he was born to the wrong father.

Why is it okay to target non-US citizens with drones, but not US citizens? Why is it okay to shoot them, but not with drones?

It's not that it's "okay", it's that the Constitution provides greater protections for citizens than for non-citizens. But even for non-citizens, it's not okay to target them with signature strikes, where we don't even know who we're killing,

None of this is new. Start here to get your feet wet. Continue on at the Guardian, and finally to the presdent day. If that's too tl;dr, just know that the USG didn't stop being full of shit at every level with the invasion of Iraq. That if a "senior administration official" tells you that water is wet, you just might want to verify their claims.

Perhaps this is all a part of the vast right-wing conspiracy against green energy. Can't let the hippies win!

Really what has been happening to children in the last 50 years or so is an ascending curve of influences, combining to create a new "First World Race"(so to speak).
The effects of these influences have been studied and can be easily found on this "internet library".

Here are a few:
1. The increased intake of Sugar in the American diet.
2. The ill affects of Multi-Tasking
3. How the overuse of consumer electronics is ruining sleep patterns
4. Kids don't play outside as much or at all

So, in effect, we have a new generation that is:
less likely to play outside, interact/understand/empathize with the natural world, can't remember as much due to being able to look things up instantly online, is more likely to display symptoms of ADD/ADHD due to over-intake of sugar and ADD/ADHD drugs, has a much shorter attention span than previous generations, etc, etc.

None of this is any sort of conspiracy, but rather is due to the way technology and our modern world has "evolved" in the last half century.

To me one of the interesting things to note here is that less affluent children don't display these issues because they don't come from families who can afford the ADD-Constantly Connected-Sugar Ridden lifestyle that is now the norm in the middle and upper classes in the First World.

We are now and will continue seeing the affects of this "evolution".

Now maybe you can tell me, how much did the Tails project help dissidents against the Communist governments of Poland, USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and many others? What did the Tails project do to defeat Communist takeover attempts in free European countries like Greece? Nothing.

It didn't exist then and neither did the internet. Today, it would help bring down the "Iron Curtain" and be a valuable instrument in these areas. The CIA also didn't do this out of the goodness of their heart or do defend "freedom" -- they were doing it to expand U.S. power and influence in Europe and check the influence of Russia.

Are you claiming that Cambodia was outside its rights to ask for assistance against the North Vietnamese occupation of its territory?

Cambodia never did this. Can you find a source that says that? And I don't mean their powerless government-in-exile asking for military assisntace, if that was legal, then the Dali Lama could authorize the U.S. to invade Tibet.

The CIA was involved and Nixon's men were former CIA agents.

Heres' a reference

What I wrote has the irritating quality of being true.

No, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts. You've invented your own facts for the purposes of rebuttal, which is quite irritating.

I think the development of the law should be tracked using Git. Amendments are pull requests, and only permissible with a commit signed by the creator.

Instead of tacking amendments to the end of bills as they do now, just patch them directly - make the law simpler. And keep a full audit trail of the whole thing. No more sneaky little amendments by congressional aides like Mitch Glazier (search for "pisher" in the text..)

The problem is that this solution isnt really commercially viable.

Those saws run about $1500.00US compared to average $500.00 US for a saw without the tech: Ridgid, DeWalt, Bosch, Makita.

It could be viable if the power tool industry wasn't such assholes.

If the other companies licensed the tech, the price could come down significantly. But unfortunately, the lawyers have convinced management that it would be a bad idea.

> Obviously, it would be hugely unethical and pointlessly cruel to advocate the use of vaccines whose risks outweigh their benefits

It also fosters distrust in vaccines when they are deliberately replaced with birth control by national governments.

                            http://www.salon.com/2013/01/2...

There are compelling reasons that the attempt to wipe out the last reservoirs of polio among human populations failed. The people scheduled due to be vaccinated were concerned that the vaccine would sterilize them, and it turns out they had _reason_ to be concerned when it turned out the Israelis had done this to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants without their consent or even knowledge. And by the time the people's concerns about vaccine purity and safety could be assuaged, it had expired and was useless.

So thank you very much, Israel, for screwing up the attempt to eradicate polio from the planet. Jenny McCarthy would be proud of you! from protecting those poor children from autism, too!

Schools need computers that you can hook Arduinos up to or Raspberry Pis or install Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Ruby, Visual Studio Express, etc. on. Computers you can install Gimp or Photoshop on.

Schools need to get their act together to properly teach reading, writing, math and science. Unfortunately, our populace is so scientifically illiterate that folks are attacking Cosmos because it doesn't show "their side" - superstitious beliefs based on Iron Age Jewish Myth.

The skills that were mentioned by the parent are not appropriate for K-12 students and will distract from subjects that are being short changed now - let alone if programming and Arduinos.

How can students get any value out of learning the programming and Arduino if they can't understand basic math and science?

still... http://www.salon.com/2013/04/0...

I'd rather be on sugar cubes ^^

Learn to be brutally honest with yourself. Be ready to accept anything and understand your value and dignity as a human being makes up for what ever aspect it is. Punish yourself on your actions, not your thoughts.
Never your thoughts!
I'm finishing up a 30 year journey which has informed me, and being technical I usually think in engineering terms about my head - my desires, idea sources, solution method generation, etc.
I started writing about it and you are welcome to read. I've been as open as possible and still retain dignity, as best I can. The material is adult and political and many will find offensive. Be warned. Salon profile until 3/13/14 http://www.salon.com/profile/s... (in reverse order) and now (since secretly (to me!) banned because of some anti-fem ideas. Psycho-feminists brain control freaks!) FB: www.facebook.com/Steven.Work (it all should be public.)
I lost some (perhaps Salon has it?) from generating directly to web form and thinking because *I* saw it posted - it would be in profile.
(I would like it a serious crime to limit free speech, or manipulate in an attempt too. Such as what Salon did - secretively - should get 'double bonus!')
I'm sorry if this seems aggrandizing, there is just too many relevant suggestions beyond the very good one I gave. If you care - follow, otherwise - ignore please.

But laying this at the feet of "The Left" much less Obama is utter horseshit

Not really, no. This tactic of destroying people's livehoods by virtue of internet slacktivism is unquestionably a page out of the leftist playbook.

You're kidding right?

• Conservative groups call for national boycott of Girl Scout cookies
• Don't Buy Liberalism
• Talk of a religous conservative boycott of Delta, Home Depot and Coke
• American Family Association: Boycotts
• Conservative Group Calls for Boycott of Ben & Jerry's 'Schweddy Balls' Flavor
• Don’t Do Business with Progressive Appeasers
• Oreo Cookies' Gay Pride Backlash: 25 Companies And Products Boycotted For Supporting LGBT Rights

If you think that only liberals boycott companies and people they disagree with, you are living in a cognitive bubble.

Though now that I think of it, in spite of some commonality on identifying what the current problems are, you run into problems when you start to talk about solutions. Take crony capitalism for instance. From the conservative side, this is a particularly strong argument for limited government. The less power and money government has, the less you have to gain by insinuating yourself with politicians. The liberal reaction is that, if there's a problem, it must be that we need more laws to address the problem, plus more bureaucracy to administer the new laws.

In reality, both these approaches have merit but are insufficient. The conservative argument is valid, but government will never be so limited that the opportunity for rent seeking is eliminated entirely. On the other hand, the liberal solution fails to recognize that the new laws and new bureaucracy will be developed by politicians who are already in the pockets of the crony capitalists, so they don't really solve the problem either.

That's kinda the idea behind Aereo (except they do live TV)

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/2...

Naturally the pro-we-ignore-the-earths-climate-has-changed-over-millions-of-years crowd cry foul. I cannot ever recall a group of scientists like these folks be so opposed and go to the lengths they do to squelch any and all dissenting views. That is not science but fanaticism.

I do see a group of fanatics at work, but I'm afraid they aren't scientists. Science is carrying on with business as usual, and squabbling over who is right or wrong is a normal part of the process. The scientific method thrives on criticism and dissent, and insisting that a conclusion must proceed from valid premises and data is not "squelching dissent". Some climatologists are raising objections to both Pielke's methodology and his data cherrypicking - and that's what science does, it hones reasoning through criticism. No conspiracies required.

But if you like conspiracies, remember this is slashdot, where there's no lack of right-wing astroturfers standing by to mod any anti-science or pro-nuclear diatribe as "insightful". That conspiracy is a lot more credible.

Once again, WTF are all you war-hawks wasting your time posting on /. for??

Because they're really chickenhawks. Chickenhawkery is an American tradition, particularly among the well to do and the political class.

Before you start speaking about ripping artists off, read this article. Nobody is entitled to hold our culture hostage for his own profit. If the law says otherwise, the law needs to change.

Try more science, less Braveheart:

http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/1...

The difference between a castle and a hut is much less than the difference between a 1%er's mansion(s and yachts) and a regular house, or especially an apartment which the tenant pays to use at negligible expense to the owner who has already sunk most of the costs involved.

Of course you could argue that inequality under feudalism was infinite since the lords and kings were technically the rightful owners of everything, but that would be falling for capitalism's illusion of choice, a powerful framework for shifting blame to victims in almost any circumstance.

Of course anyone who has looked into the actual data has already discovered the amazing level of lies directed at the male in our society - and keeping him 2nd class. Just ask yourself - just how hard and how long did you have to work to earn your shot at reproduction.. and your sister? Did she just have to find some guy to enslave (18-24 years) .. that's the level or parity we have. Open eyes please.

Men 'earn' more. Normalized. The gap is life choice, not gender.

Actual decent information may be found at www.avoiceformen.com
The level of this is clear and disgusting. In the last year or so I have been staggering at what I realize was brain washing (that we all get! and still kids are.) otherwise this would leap out at you. Instead you will ignore and dismiss - most will.
My crazy comments here: http://www.salon.com/profile/S...

Except that GP was not talking about copying the US' computer-based espionage operations, but the US' various illegal wars.

The story is about Russian hacking. Naturally the subject won't turn to Russian hacking, or even Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but to false allegations of "illegal" wars by the US. Typical, and a diversion.

So, which "illegal wars" is the US uniquely "guilty" of?

You know, there is a bit of a mess unfolding in Ukraine. There are pro-russian and pro-european factions and the russians are obviously supporting the former -- with a completely illegal show of force.

I've heard.

Less well known is that the pro-european factions supported by the West are largely far-right nationalists. Neonazis, pretty much. See, e.g. this piece by Max Blumenthal.

Yes, I'm familiar with Russian charges that they are going to fight fascists in another smaller neighboring country. That was the excuse to invade Finland. The charge is recycled to invade and take territory from Ukraine.

During the Stalin era, Soviet propaganda painted Finland's leadership as a "vicious and reactionary Fascist clique". Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim and Väinö Tanner, the leader of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, were targeted for particular scorn.[52] With Joseph Stalin gaining near-absolute power through the Great Purge of 1938, the Soviet Union changed its foreign policy toward Finland in the late 1930s. The Soviet Union began pursuing the reconquest of the provinces of Tsarist Russia lost during the chaos of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The Soviet leadership believed that the old empire had ideal security and territorial possessions, and wanted the newly christened city of Leningrad to enjoy a similar security. -- Winter War

Yes, that is all too familiar.

As for Max Blumenthal, I'm aware of his work. I don't consider his views useful given their crank fringe attributes.

Are Mainstream Liberals Embracing Max Blumenthal’s ‘I Hate Israel Handbook’?

You can see the nonsense in his piece that you link to. As part of the "proof" he mentions "white supremacist banners and Confederate flags," but somehow passes over the British, French, Canadian, and other flags present. Does that mean that the Ukrainians are also secretly French, British, and Canadian too, or just crypto-Confederates? It contains no small bit of rubbish. He is a useful idiot making excuses for Russia's invasion.

Besides, if it the concern that prompted the invasion really was fighting "fascism," why didn't Russia take care of their own neo-Nazi and fascist problems at home first? It isn't a small problem, and they have been letting it bleed into Ukraine.

Russian Neo-Nazis Are Now Beating Up Gays in Ukraine
Russia neo-Nazis jailed for life over 27 race murders
Russia: Far-Right Nationalists And Neo-Nazis March In Moscow
Viral Vigilantism: Russian Neo-Nazis Take Gay Bashing Online
Russian Neo-Nazis Made These Horrifying Videos of Anti-LGBT Attacks

The Russians seem to be good at finding fascism and fighting it in all their neighbors, not

At the Allentown warehouse, Stephen Dallal, also a "picker," found that his output targets increased the longer he worked at the warehouse, doubling after six months. "It started with 75 pieces an hour, then 100 pieces an hour. Then 150 pieces an hour. They just got faster and faster." He too was written up for not meeting his targets and was fired. At the Seattle warehouse where the writer Vanessa Veselka worked as an underground union organizer, an American Stakhnovism pervaded the depot. When she was on the line as a packer and her output slipped, the "lead" was on to her with "I need more from you today. We're trying to hit 14,000 over these next few hours."

...Less well known is that the pro-european factions supported by the West are largely far-right nationalists. Neonazis, pretty much. See, e.g. this piece by Max Blumenthal.

Oh sweet manipulation....
There is something like 2-3k Right Sector Activists in Kyev... ... so anti-nazi activists says: There are lots of Nationalists here, including Nazis ... ... so Blumenthal combines so it looks like its 1/3 ... ... so you cite him and it is 'largely' ...

This is Russian secret service at work - surely in times of turmoil there are extremists - but
these were mostly normal Ukrainian people fed up with totally corrupt government...
And they were killed not by Nazi but by pro-Russian forces...

Except that GP was not talking about copying the US' computer-based espionage operations, but the US' various illegal wars.

You know, there is a bit of a mess unfolding in Ukraine. There are pro-russian and pro-european factions and the russians are obviously supporting the former -- with a completely illegal show of force.

Less well known is that the pro-european factions supported by the West are largely far-right nationalists. Neonazis, pretty much. See, e.g. this piece by Max Blumenthal.

you seem to forget that the constitution trumps any UN treaty

You seem to forget that very Constitution makes treaties the second highest law of the land. Treaties like the U.N. Charter.

Now, you were saying?

...in his place instead of mindlessly accepting his submissions now? Did fjord go on vacation or something?

What's going on in Ukraine isn't a revolution, it's a fascist coup overthrowing the democratically elected government because they couldn't stand losing the last election. Same as what the right wing of Venezuela is trying to do right now.

Specifically, neo-nazi fascists hating both ethnic Russians and....Jews. Maybe cold fjord's got a splitting migraine with the cognitive dissonance: he's a proud Brownshirt himself, but on the other he's also a Zionist troll, so he can't decide what to do.

wake up masher sounds like you've drinking a bit too much of that constitutional kool-aid all "democracies" have been screwing over their citizens from day 1. this just didn't happen under Obama's watch and blaming him is weak cop out.

here is a good example that Chomsky uses at http://www.salon.com/2013/12/2...

"So, for example, if you go back a century ago, right after the U.S. invasion of the Philippines — a brutal invasion that killed a couple hundred thousand people — there was a problem for the U.S. of pacification afterwards. What do you do to control the population to prevent another nationalist uprising? There’s a very good study of this by Alfred McCoy, a Philippines scholar at University of Wisconsin, and what he shows is that the U.S. used the most sophisticated technology of the day to develop a massive system of survelliance, control, disruption to undermine any potential opposition and to impose very tight controls on the population which lasted for a long time and in many ways the Philippines is still suffering from this. But he also points out the technology was immediately transferred home. Woodrow Wilson’s administration used it in their “Red Scare” a couple years later. The British used it, too."

pick any period in history and these power hungry cunts have always been trying to stay in power no matter what. I haven't got any answers just know that what we call democracy is not working because it always allows the people in power to get away with shit.

I'm quoting the Director of the NSA nearly word for word how the system operates, and how the data is used. If he's lying, then he's on public record and there are Intelligence committees in the US Senate and House which will call him to task for lying to either the public (the news piece I'm quoting from) or them (the House or Senate).

You're talking about James Clapper, right? Here's his words:

To me, collection of U.S. persons’ data would mean taking the book off the shelf and opening it up and reading it And this has to do with of course somewhat of a semantic, perhaps some would say too – too cute by half [definition]. But it is – there are honest differences on the semantics of what, when someone says ‘collection’ to me, that has a specific meaning, which may have a different meaning to [Sen. Wyden].

So you're right, he's not lying, because he gets to make up the meanings of the words he uses, so when he says under oath that the NSA does not "wittingly" collect Americans' data (despite collecting - English as she is spoke - data in the US), he's not lying because all they're doing it is putting it in a book and putting it on the shelf and just not opening the book and reading it, therefore in Bizzaro Clapperverse it is not collected. This despite the fact that the NSA has acknowledged that its powers have been used to spy on lovers. "Accidentally" of course.

At the end you basically get the Church report.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Jimmy Carter’s forgotten history lesson
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/1...
"....President Carter attempted to clean up the CIA, firing almost 20 percent of its employees...."
The good news in 2014 is more people using the web, in the wider press now understand more about aspects of crypto and the reality of the "keys" over time too:
"Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet" (02.03.14)
http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
Welcome to digital East Germany :)

MOD PARENT UP, also around 97 billion gallons went to fracking.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/0...

The rest of the world doesn't have Sen. Bob Corker.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/1...

Actually, the creationists think the universe is 6000 years old,

That is demonstrably false.

If you post a retraction, then you will regain some credibility. If you don't, I can't see how you are any better

"On the other side, Mr. Ham was an advocate for the creation story. He said that God created the Earth in six days, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old..."
http://badgerherald.com/oped/2...

"On the Wednesday edition of his TV show, “The 700 Club,” Robertson indirectly implored Ham to put a sock in it, criticizing Ham’s view that the Earth is only 6,000 years old."
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/0...

"Bill Nye debates Creationist Ken Ham: The Earth is not 6,000 years old"
http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Well, those few needed tweaks never stop piling up. On top of that, UX research and (more importantly) user expectations continue to evolve.

What research? Which users? "Users" aren't a monolithic group, you know. Slashdot attracts a very different crowd from, say, espn.com.

And "UX" is a stupid buzzword. When I go to a website--any website--I'm not looking for an "experience." I'm looking for something that loads quickly, renders readably, and provides the functionality I expect.

To keep up with that, websites either need to constantly change in small increments, or to do it in big chunks.

Or not change at all. That's an option. It really is.

The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.

It's been "cutting it" for fifteen years, more or less; it's certainly changed some during that time, but it's still recognizably the same site. Why shouldn't it be good for (at least) another four?

In another post, you wrote:

For example, fire up the Wayback Machine and look at some popular sites from a decade ago. Many of them look radically different. Can you honestly say they wouldn't look out of place alongside modern sites? If you were browsing through modern news sites and you stumbled across this, would it not give you pause? At some point, your website just looks old and unmaintained -- that's why virtually every major website updates their design.

That BBC page isn't bad. Not great, but at least as good as the current one. And really, a decade ago was when the web was at its best. The browser wars were over, and it was reasonably easy to code a standards-compliant page that rendered well in the major browsers of the day. Sites offered all the functionality you expected, and still managed to load quickly even when a lot of people were still on dial-up (often faster than they do now over DSL and cable).

And for the most part, they looked great! I was a regular Salon reader in those days; please don't try to tell me that the current crapflood looks better. Yahoo was still a useful web index in those days, as opposed to ... whatever it's supposed to be now. Google News was attractive, fast, well-organized and information-rich; it's still not bad, but it's definitely not as useful as it once was. And you know, there was this really nifty technology news site that I absolutely loved; there's still something at that URL, but it looks like the domain might have been hijacked or something.

Not just illegal drugs, either. Antidepressants have been found in urban drinking water supplies.

that's become reactionary anti-American

Dumbfuckers can complain about "anti-Americanism" after there have been some consequences for multiple illegal wars, CIA-backed coups, state-sponsored terrorism and a world-wide kidnapping/torture regime. And not one second before then.

The map is misleading. LA's schools simply MAY teach creationism - the law allows it, but not all necessarily do. Those charter schools? They ALL do: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_texas_public_schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.single.html http://www.salon.com/2013/10/25/christian_textbooks_darwin_inspired_hitler/

In your first link:

C. A teacher shall teach the material presented in the standard textbook supplied by the school system and thereafter may use supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner, as permitted by the city, parish, or other local public school board.

It's been made clear that teachers are permitted to bring Bibles into the science class as "other instructional materials." Bobby Jindal stated as much:

I’ve got no problem if a school board, a local school board, says we want to teach our kids about creationism, that people, some people, have these beliefs as well, let’s teach them about ‘intelligent design.’

It's all about devolving the responsibility to the local school board, where rule changes happen without much accountability and things happen with a wink and a nudge. If you were a teacher a few years ago and brought your Bible into science class, you could be disciplined. Now, though, your boss can't do anything and parents complaints would be unavailing, at least until they tried to take it to court. Thus, a common sight in a Louisiana public school now:

Paintings of Jesus Christ, Bible verses, and Christian devotional phrases adorn the walls of many classrooms and hallways, including the main hallway leading out to the bus pick-up area. A lighted, electronic marquee placed just outside the building scrolls Bible verses every day. “In the main foyer of the school, one display informs students that “ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.” It includes several posters urging students to “Pray,” “Worship,” and “Believe,” while a poster displayed near the waiting area of the main office announces that “[i]t’s okay to pray.

All "supplemental materials" brought in from home, bought with the teacher's own money, and thus protected by state law and encouraged by the state government.

Your second link:

Neither the state board of education, nor any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, director of schools, school system administrator, or any public elementary or secondary school principal or administrator shall prohibit any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.

What it's about is making it impossible to discipline a teacher for teaching religion -- the overt teaching is left up to the teachers, and it's illegal to fire a teacher for teaching the Bible.

Err no he's a traitor because he gave a oath to serve the NSA.. no matter how you cut it he wasn't just a random dude off the street who happened upon a bag of goodies and is now handing them out... he took a oath to protect the bag.. besides it's all pointless banter.. snowden is a CIA Triple Agent http://www.salon.com/2013/06/1... 'leaking' public knowledge to enable the CIA to keep Bashar al-Assad in power http://gulfnews.com/opinions/c... and prepare for war against China by building invade points in north Australia http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11... ...

There are many instances of individual lab / group level fraud in sciences across all fields. However, instances of entire fields committing fraud are unheard of.

No, but there are plenty of instances of entire fields getting it wrong for decades at a time.

who would secure immense fame and funding for themselves by making a breakthrough discovery that contradicts climate science consensus

Scientists in any field don't get famous by showing that the "scientific consensus" is erroneous, they get their grants turned down and their papers rejected. That's why it usually takes decades for major scientific errors to get corrected, and few people have the stomach and stamina to do it.

Career-wise, scientists choose to do experiments that are likely to support the current consensus, and to selectively show only data consistent with the consensus and dismiss data inconsistent with the consensus as experimental error. That's something we observe in many fields, and there is no reason to believe that climate science would be any different. People are slowly coming to realize this, e.g.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/0...

http://www.scilogs.com/next_re...

then I'm inclined (based on the history of how conspiracies work --- they don't last when too many people are involved) to assume there is vanishingly small chance of field-wide fraud.

I agree: the chance of deliberate field-wide fraud is indeed vanishingly small. The chance of field-wide error persisting for decades and remaining unchallenged, however, is very high, in particular given that "there aren't many climate scientists" and the statistics, computations, and models are highly complex and interdisciplinary.

Huge, huge, HUGE difference that I will point out, please pay attention:

What Snowden did is illegal because the government made it illegal to call out the bad behavior of government.

The Iraq Invasion was illegal because there was 100% no purpose to it other than to spread unwanted economic influence into a region that had already been battered previously by us. Did you know that Bush and his administration are STILL wanted for war crimes in most of the world?

Switzerland
Canada
Belgium
Malaysia

The result was at worst neutral, and likely better.

Why President Gore might have gone into Iraq after 9/11, too
What Would Gore Have Done? (WWGHD)

It could have been much better than it was, if only ....

Blame Fannie Mae and Congress For the Credit Mess

Dude, RMS has his issues, but comparing him to Richard Marx? Harsh.

Indeed. What an asshole.

Really? IIRC, Slashdot sold for $1.5M with a few million in additional cash and stock over the next few years.

http://www.salon.com/1999/09/1...

Did Andover do so well that he eventually earned 10X+ the selling price of the site?

VA Linux stock was worth a fortune for a brief period of time if you remember.

Taco has demonstrated that he will sell out for the right price. After that it's only a matter of time before you start seeing featured ads in your news feed.

Taco supposedly personally made between $40-50 million from slashdot. I'm not sure he even needs to work anymore. He is probably just doing it for fun now.

Really? IIRC, Slashdot sold for $1.5M with a few million in additional cash and stock over the next few years.

http://www.salon.com/1999/09/1...

Did Andover do so well that he eventually earned 10X+ the selling price of the site?

Dolphins aren’t as special as you think

Their intelligence, like all intelligence, is a complex matter, but basically, they are not as smart as their reputation suggests; although, stating that they are as smart (dumb) as chickens also overstates things.

You're reading is FAIL --- has Gitmo ended(1)? Is Afghanistan over(2)? Did Iraq linger and linger(3)? A passing familiarity with recent events makes it sarcasm as obvious as a cement truck barreling down the freeway.

(1) Obama did have a plan to close the Gitmo facility, and transfer its practices to the Thomson SuperMax in Illinois, aka Gitmo North. Anyone who can't see the how Obama used the word "close" there in a deceptive manner needs to take some reading comprehension courses. http://www.salon.com/2009/12/15/gitmo_3/

(2) Obama at one point tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan over GWB's numbers. That's the opposite of ending it. http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/22/chart-u-s-troop-levels-over-the-years/

(3) Obama quit Iraq only when the Iraqi government wouldn't extend SOFA. SOFA prevents US soldiers from being tried for crimes committed in Iraq, in Iraqi courts. When Iraq wouldn't extend it and thereby extend the official troop presence, Obama pulled out and everyone gave him credit for peace, when really, he merely failed to make more war.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/10/23/obamas-revisionist-history-on-ending-the-iraq-war-a-lesson-from-the-3rd-presidential-debate/

One of the reasons for that was some IDIOT in the CIA apparently using a polio vaccination program as a cover for a covert operation in Pakistan.

It was actually hep-b vax and it was specifically intended to get info on bin laden in abbotobad. Not clear if it was helpful or not.

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/the_fake_vaccination_scheme_absent_from_the_bin_laden_hunt_debates/

"The Pentagon’s strengthening grip on Hollywood"
http://www.salon.com/2011/08/29/sirota_military_movies/
"The U.S. military's Hollywood connection"
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/21/entertainment/la-ca-military-movies-20110821
http://movieline.com/2013/02/06/military-entertainment-complex-hollywood-pentagon-relationship-battleship-zero-dark-thirty/
Operation Hollywood
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/operation-hollywood
A script often self corrected until the use of mil equipment works out.
The UK, Australia, Germany, France all have their funding mixes for their own culture. The US mil movie/script 'corrections' aspect is well known, has been reported for years.

sure. But this is just one of many relevant google hits for "Hollywood pentagon".

Yes, fines are super scary and super effective. You hold on to that warm fuzzy feeling about that. Fines are business expense. Unless individuals are held accountable there is zero deterrent effect.

and you make the same tired argument that youre better off with no insurance.
the myth of the young invincible is jsut that, a myth.

you may be fine...until you actually need it. and thats a huge gamble to take with your life and your financial well being.
medical costs are the number one cause of bankruptcy in this nation.

"A 2011 study from the Commonwealth Fund found that more than half of uninsured young adults reported having a medical problem but not seeking treatment. Among insured young adults, that number was 19 percent. ( http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Surveys/2012/Jun/Health-Insurance-Tracking-Survey-of-Young-Adults.aspx ) That same survey found that 51 percent of uninsured young adults had difficulty paying medical bills, with 26 percent having been contacted by a collection agency."

"One Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that 17 percent of women ages 18 to 29, and 13 percent of men, have a chronic condition such as cancer or diabetes. Federal data show that young adults have higher rates of car accidents, which could lead to pricey medical bills."

Or this story: http://www.salon.com/2013/09/23/why_nobody_without_insurance_should_skip_obamacare/

its neither a huge scam, nor are you the intended target of these plans.
the ACA was not intended to bring healthcare to the entire nation.
it was intended to fill the gaps, to cover the uninsured and uninsurable, not to bring insurance to those who already have it.
its not some communistic redistribution scam...
(though the very idea and concept of Insurance itself IS A REDISTRIBUTION CONTRACT....becauses thats teh concept of how insurance works!!!)

You dont pay more than your fair share for anyone. it is not welfare.
AND ITS NOT FOR YOU, IF YOU ALREADY HAVE INSURANCE.

You're just another typical right wing nut, completely misinformed about the ACA, its purpose, what it does, and who it affects.
in short, you're an idiot, and so is whoever modded you insightful