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"women who have become wage earners"

Did you even read the article? Employers don't hire women in Iran, which is closer to the root of the problem. Barring them from school is just applied economics.

The article that I read says only that

The Oil Industry University, which has several campuses across the country, says it will no longer accept female students at all, citing a lack of employer demand. Isfahan University provided a similar rationale for excluding women from its mining engineering degree, claiming 98% of female graduates ended up jobless.

and said nothing about any other universities or fields of study.

Obama has shown what he is very clearly when he confiscated GM from the owners and handed it over to the union labour (in fact the non-union labour was also left out to dry). He does not believe in ownership of means of production. As to him being a socialist, it is you, who must be kidding.

One pushed through a big health care reform which will cover millions of uninsured people while the other is moving as far away from his (mostly identical) program as possible.

- They are identical on this topic. First of all Romney's plan is Obama's plan. Secondly Romney is not going to cut anything from either Medicare or SS. It's not his plan.

Paul Ryan is a complete joke, total sell out, a fraud. His 'plan' makes rosy assumptions that will never come true about the interest rates and growth of economy and he never cuts anything from any budget.

Even his supposed cuts to the rate of growth of the government are nonsense, they can't start for another 10 years, that's what the point is that he is bringing across - if you are 55 or over, you will not be affected by his cuts.

But there are no cuts. No cut is a cut unless it's done in the first term of presidency, everything else is a funny game they like to play. Even the so called 'sequestration', or automatic cuts that were the deal to avoid the US rating from being cut further by the rating agencies (political beats, not real rating agencies), even this is not going to happen and this was the agreement just 1 year ago.

Why would anybody care what anybody says about any cuts 10 and more years into the future? USA doesn't have 10 years, the US dollar and bonds will be destroyed much earlier than that.

One believes that progressive taxation is essential to prosperity. The other has done everything he can to make the tax system regressive.

- ha, the ONLY difference between Romney and Obama in this is that the top earners will have the SAME CUTS as the rest of them under Romney's plan, and Obama, as the Marxist that he is, is leading the class warfare, so he is going to give tax cuts to everybody except the top 1% (that's his platform).

(As to 'believing in progressive taxation' - what a stupid idea. Progressive taxation is simply theft, nothing else, it cannot grow anything by definition, it removes the investment funding from the productive part of society and moves it to the unproductive part).

One believes we need to regulate the financial sector to ensure stability. The other has pledged to tear down what little regulation we have.

- USA has over 100,000 regulations of financial institutions in place, that's first. Secondly - Obama is not going to do anything more than than Romney.

Here is the real problem - the financial sector is the symptom of the dying economy, it's not the cause of it. It doesn't produce anything on its own, it can only discover prices and allocate resources, the production is dying not because of the financial sector, but because of the size and power of government, that destroyed the savings, investments and incentives to create the welfare state. Regulating or not regulating the financial sector will do absolutely nothing to fix the economy, this is about as meaningful as your idea on progressive taxes.

By the way, James Calaghan was one of the PMs in UK, here is what he said at the 1976 Labour Party conference, when UK was doing what US is doing now:

"We used to think you could spend your way out of recession and increase employment by boosting government spending, I tell you, in all candour, that that option no longer exists. And in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion⦠by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next stepâ¦

As to the energy sources, this is again, a market decision, not government decision to make and it will not be.

There is no difference between Romney and Obama.

So there are also benefits to older fathers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9325945/Children-of-older-fathers-are-more-likely-to-live-longer.html Besides which, it's been known for a long time that older men tend to have less viable and more deformed spermatazoa, so TFA is not surprising.

The presumption is that if she knew the condom was removed, she would have rescinded her consent and tried to stop having sex.

did assange know that? did she state that explicitly?

consent is just like any other agreement: it is invalid if it was arrived at fraudulently.

that's a whole tin of worms.

Got a link to that? I would love to read it.

My sources are in Danish, but just google negative interest, and you will find several sources. Note there is a small handful of countries that has this situation now, Switzerland, Denmark and Germany I know of, and some links mentions Finland and Netherlands.

It is already mentioned on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate#Negative_interest_rates,

Wall-Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/eurocrisis/2012/07/06/the-dangers-of-negative-interest-rates/

The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/9456634/Negative-interest-rates-spell-final-defeat-for-beleaguered-savers.html

I'm concerned about it becoming a mainstream practice, not that it happens in niche markets.

It already is mainstream - the international import and export of clothing is restricted. In the UK, Tesco famously lost the court case over grey importing of Levi jeans, which they were selling at half the retail price of the officially imported jeans. And so now the only jeans you will in the UK (and the rest of the EU) are officially imported ones. The same thing happens with clothing, motor vehicles, basically everything where there are official distribution channels.

Allowing grey importing would ultimately lead to convergence on a single global price for everything. I think that would be interesting, but let's play devil's advocate - some publisher release a movie. Americans and Europeans are willing to pay perhaps $10 to download. Indians and Chinese are willing to pay perhaps $0.50 to download. But in a single, free market, there can be only one fixed price - so what should it be? If you price it closer to the Western price, then the product is inaccessible to Chinese and Indian people. But if you price it closer to the lower salaries, then your profit margins will be much lower, so you aren't going to do that. You can't please everyone when there is such huge wage disparity in the world. So, you conclude that the practical pricing model is the one that restricts distribution to only Westerners and wealthy people from elsewhere. So there is a counter-argument that dividing the world up and practising price discrimination actually helps the consumer, by enabling them to access the product they want at a price that they are able to pay. Now, I'm not saying that I agree with that point of view, but that's the counter-argument. Price discrimination is an important concept in business; having a range of similar items at varying price points allows your customer to pay a price point that they are comfortable with, rather than forcing them to choose between simply buying or not buying. See, for example, Starbucks coffee.

Already, three major cities in Japan have been turned into an uninhabitable
nuclear wasteland, where no life can exist for millions of years, and you want to continue this trend? Already, Europeans have done the right thing and are starting to go along in banning radiation and nuclear. Germany is closing all its existing reactors. Do you want to be worse than Germany?

Later, when Interpol announced that he was wanted for questioning, he promptly went to a nearby police station and turned himself in.

Lies.

• November 20 - An international arrest warrant for Assange is issued by Swedish police via Interpol.
• November 30 - Interpol issues a ''red notice'' for Assange.
• December 8 - Assange presents himself to London police and appears at an extradition hearing where he is remanded in custody.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9343503/Julian-Assange-rape-accusations-timeline.html

Media studies... pah. You can get a degree in Facebook today. How about that for the ultimate in uselessness.

This sounds like it would be worth a try:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5158972/Starlite-the-nuclear-blast-defying-plastic-that-could-change-the-world.html
The inventor sounds a little eccentric, but if it does the job I'm sure someone can deal with that

And another .. there are plenty more of her gaffes, giyf. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9345345/Theresa-May-accused-of-unacceptable-and-regrettable-behaviour-by-judge.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9473078/Theresa-May-to-run-the-UK-as-Westminster-empties.html

And May is a US patsy - she'll roll over for the RIAA, let alone the state department

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/13/theresa-may-extradition-richard-odwyer

So what happens when she's in charge ? I guess she sends in the police, pushes Assange to wherever her masters tell her, and then gets blamed / sacked as an apology for the resulting diplomatic outcry. Which is handy, as she's a liability the government would love to lose.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/14/olympics-theresa-may

this.

I would have transfered schools had they tried something like this. Theoretically the students are all adults. Maybe you should treat them like it?

Adults?! Surely you jest, Mr. Coward?

They are children and should be treated as such. Their brains aren't developed enough to understand many things out there, they lack judgement and are prone to do somethng quite stupid and even harmful. And even if they're over 18, I STILL wouldn't trust them too much.

Here's a prime eample. Fortunately for Ms. Dell, she had a team of guardian angels watching her. Do you think the average kid has parents or guardians that have the time to watch everything a kid does - especially when not at home?

And this is a school we're talking about. All you need is one girl to get postings from an old guy and that school and this guy will be up to their asses in lawyers and cops.

The British government are not the country, I doubt there are many people in the UK who would support this action and even fewer who are happy with the way the government sucks up to the US.

If THAT's the case, then CHANGE YOUR GOVERNMENT, for crying out loud !! You guys in UK are still calling yourself a "democratic country", right? You still have the right to change your government, right? RIGHT ??

this one didn't exactly win the election
it's a coalition of the VERY right wing conservatives and the whores of UK politics.. the Liberal democrats who broke every election promise to jump into bed and form this coalition which is pretty much shitting on everyone
from the point of view of many reports over the last week or so this coalition is in trouble and many do not see it lasting till the next general election as quoted here in the Telegraph a right wing rag.

I am taking it you are an American, always the ones to shoht loudest about this sort of thing. Well 'buddy' a vote of no confidence would have to go through the House of Commons and it would need this coalition to break up first as with both those parties they have a majority to vote on the govt side.
Last time one worked was 1979 however i can't see labour putting one up to be honest as to be quite frank they fear that the fucking conservatives might just win an outright majority. Labour got HUMPED out of office last election however as i said no single party got a majority so the Lid Dems jumped into bed with the tories and this is what we have.

It's interesting but after reading an article about `secret' diplomacy and how important it is for the relationships between nation states, I rather think that shutting down Wikileaks is a good thing. Assange himself seems to me to be a vain man on an ego trip, not unlike the Australian who swam into the Thames here in the UK to disrupt the University boat race. It's all about them, isn't it.

Sounds like your citation-free post is just parroting a second hand reference to the rather breathless, and uncorroborated, 2007 report that was in the Telegraph five years ago. A single missile fired, unnamed sources, lots of conjecture, the attack was readily defeated. So if sensational reports are that the Taliban has had numbers of SAM-7s for years, and all they lack is BATTERIES for their old Stingers, how is it that there has not been widespread use and some successes? Hmm? I smell crap. Whether it is purposeful fantasy, or mistaken guesswork, it ain't happenin'.

And all those so-called suitcase nukes we have been told have been floating around in wrong hands for years? How is it none of those has been used?

source:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9475307/London-slips-down-list-of-best-cities-despite-glorious-Olympics.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_most_livable_cities

So from the point of view of every one else outside the US, Obama is a somewhat right-of-center candidate, and Romney is basically Hitler. So yeah, we root for Obama.

That could also mean that Europe is dominated by leftism? When you find it normal to arrest a person for saying that "homosexuality is a sin", then you are quite leftist, yes?

People forget that the Left nowadays if very focused on feminism, abortion, affirmative action, immigrants; people think that a country is "right-wing" because it has private banks... They have missed the whole New Left development.

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-12598896
3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7952526/Last-Catholic-adoption-agency-faces-closure-after-Charity-Commission-ruling.html

So from the point of view of every one else outside the US, Obama is a somewhat right-of-center candidate, and Romney is basically Hitler. So yeah, we root for Obama.

That could also mean that Europe is dominated by leftism? When you find it normal to arrest a person for saying that "homosexuality is a sin", then you are quite leftist, yes?

People forget that the Left nowadays if very focused on feminism, abortion, affirmative action, immigrants; people think that a country is "right-wing" because it has private banks... They have missed the whole New Left development.

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-12598896
3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7952526/Last-Catholic-adoption-agency-faces-closure-after-Charity-Commission-ruling.html

Average lowest of £727 is scotland
Per the chart, 71+ averages the lowest at £436, the average of £971 from the other article would be for somebody closer to 30, with an average driving record.

Still waiting for where you source a 'mere' £150 from. Basically, I'll dispute that your insurance figure has any real meaning on reality as you're very far from average, and might be getting a deal such as I'm figuring the automatic driving vehicles might get.

It's a touch annoying to not have a '£' on my keyboard for this conversation. ;)

Source on that £150? I found £971

Now, you specified good driver, and I'll admit to rounding up; $1k is about what my comprehensive coverage costs.

Might want to double check that your insurance is valid, apparently there are fraudulent "ghost brokers" running around.

You guys even have cancellation fees?. It's my understanding that they're pretty much unheard of(probably illegal) here in the USA. In addition, increasing from ~700 to 7k while switching to advertising your monthly payment where you used to have your annual price can be considered fraud.

Source on that £150? I found £971

Now, you specified good driver, and I'll admit to rounding up; $1k is about what my comprehensive coverage costs.

Might want to double check that your insurance is valid, apparently there are fraudulent "ghost brokers" running around.

You guys even have cancellation fees?. It's my understanding that they're pretty much unheard of(probably illegal) here in the USA. In addition, increasing from ~700 to 7k while switching to advertising your monthly payment where you used to have your annual price can be considered fraud.

Source on that £150? I found £971

Now, you specified good driver, and I'll admit to rounding up; $1k is about what my comprehensive coverage costs.

Might want to double check that your insurance is valid, apparently there are fraudulent "ghost brokers" running around.

You guys even have cancellation fees?. It's my understanding that they're pretty much unheard of(probably illegal) here in the USA. In addition, increasing from ~700 to 7k while switching to advertising your monthly payment where you used to have your annual price can be considered fraud.

Thing is, I'm actually rather against Islam myself (or really anti-religion in general, just seeing Islam as the most dangerous and aggressive of the bunch at the moment)

How strong is that dislike for religion?
Do you agree with churches having an active voice in society (see link 1 below)?
Do you agree with the legally-enforced marginalization of Christian viewpoints on family values (see links 2-6)?
Do you believe in conspiracy theories involving Jews or Opus Dei?
Does Mitt Romney's or Rick Santorum's religion bother you?
Do you support the right of a valedictorian to pray?

I found your comments well-balanced, except for this one. I would like to know your opinion on this matter.

If you find 6 links to be too much, please read at least links 1 and 2. I guarantee you will find them informative.

==Links==
===Church-state balance===
1. "Why Church and State Must Be Separate" by Benedict XVI, http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/ratzinger2.html

===Legally-enforced marginalization of Christianity===
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html
3. "Christian foster couple lose 'homosexuality views' case", http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-12598896
4. "Last Catholic adoption agency faces closure after Charity Commission ruling"
            http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7952526/Last-Catholic-adoption-agency-faces-closure-after-Charity-Commission-ruling.html
5. "Defining Religious Liberty Down", http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/douthat-defining-religious-liberty-down.html
6. "Controversy over Heaven" http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/controversy-over-heaven

Thing is, I'm actually rather against Islam myself (or really anti-religion in general, just seeing Islam as the most dangerous and aggressive of the bunch at the moment)

How strong is that dislike for religion?
Do you agree with churches having an active voice in society (see link 1 below)?
Do you agree with the legally-enforced marginalization of Christian viewpoints on family values (see links 2-6)?
Do you believe in conspiracy theories involving Jews or Opus Dei?
Does Mitt Romney's or Rick Santorum's religion bother you?
Do you support the right of a valedictorian to pray?

I found your comments well-balanced, except for this one. I would like to know your opinion on this matter.

If you find 6 links to be too much, please read at least links 1 and 2. I guarantee you will find them informative.

==Links==
===Church-state balance===
1. "Why Church and State Must Be Separate" by Benedict XVI, http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/ratzinger2.html

===Legally-enforced marginalization of Christianity===
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html
3. "Christian foster couple lose 'homosexuality views' case", http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-12598896
4. "Last Catholic adoption agency faces closure after Charity Commission ruling"
            http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7952526/Last-Catholic-adoption-agency-faces-closure-after-Charity-Commission-ruling.html
5. "Defining Religious Liberty Down", http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/douthat-defining-religious-liberty-down.html
6. "Controversy over Heaven" http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/controversy-over-heaven

And yet, some people are comforted by such nonsense

but if you think it is

Whoosh!

This puzzle,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9359579/Worlds-hardest-sudoku-can-you-crack-it.html

will have you 'guess' no less than 10 times. I don't see right now how it measures in the 'richter' scale in the original article.

Sudoku can be fun, but I prefer chess.

Let me know what you think of this sudoku problem.

For fun I'll toss in a chess problem too.

I thought that in 2008 until McCain picked Palin and I saw (as in I knew personally) die-in-the-wool conservatives actually announce they were supporting Obama this time.

McCains VP choice was simply misunderstood. The role of the vice president is to be a spare. McCains young but clueless choice made sense if the VP was viewed as spare parts.

Romney comes across as a moderately competent political moderate

From his venture-capital experience he's had practice at seeking out what profits him while avoiding risk. So when he knows that revealing his tax returns or saying more about owning 9% of a Chinese electronics appliance manufacturer that many U.S. companies outsource to, he knows to clam up. (That is also a lesson some learned from Richard Nixon, whose approval rating went down every time he spoke publicly). McCain had full access to Romney tax returns and went with Palin instead. That says something. Romney also heavily panders or at least pays momentary lip service to whatever group he's targeting at a particular moment. It's not moderate to be unwilling to publicly support any restrictions on assault weapons, it's pandering. He comments and actions later often don't agree. Ask any log-cabin Republican about that.
Saying whatever profits or otherwise suits him, he cannot be trusted.
His non-scripted comments in the EU down he's not very good on his feet. Unless you're impressed with him not even remembering a British officials name and calling him Mr. Leader. While he promised transparency and press access including to fund raisers on the way, but he denied them access in Israel. Policy comments made relating to Iran were reckless. Describing the differences in quality of life between Israelis and Palestinians as "cultural advantages" with no mention of settlements or occupation could best be viewed as Palinism.

He only answered three questions for the press traveling with him, and a Romney representative actually said "Kiss my ass" and "shove it" to the press while in Poland.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/mitt-romney/9441636/Mitt-Romney-aide-in-new-kiss-my-ass-gaffe.html

And, in catering to older confused Republicans that think the cold war is still going, he names Russia as number 1 geopolitical foe. This as Russia grants NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. (A bunch of supply trucks coming from Pakistan were blown up recently).

I wonder what he thinks of the Swedish Teddy Bear invasion.

There was a study done that showed building wind farms to generate power did create a measurable temperature increase.

Saw an interesting and partially-related piece yesterday about scheduled and unscheduled power-outages in neighbouring Pakistan and the social unrest that can result from them.

We all know the old adage about a civilised society being just three missed meals away from barbarism. In the modern world, I wonder whether something similar could be said for the power supply. And might broadband ever fall into the same camp?

No, they've just been allowing the same ones who came up with credit default swaps come up with their cap and trade scam, remember those? Nearly wiped out the economy while making insider corps crazy rich?

Cap and trade is a scam by the dems friend that lets them hand out YOUR money to THEIR friends, isn't that nice? don't that make you feel happy peasant? How about how they are listening to the AlGore while ignoring that Rev Al has set himself up to become a billionaire off the scam? BTW did you know he has the brass balls to say that farting around in his private Lear jet and fleet of limos is carbon NEUTRAL, because he pays himself carbon credits from his own company? This would be like me moving money from my right to my left pocket, calling it "wealth redistribution" and getting a fucking tax break for it!

This is of course ignoring the facts that Obama has a "jobs czar" that got paid taxpayer money to send jobs to China, over 10,000 in fact, that his VP is a paid shill for the media companies, the 20 billion he passed out to "friends of Obama" using "green energy" as an excuse, that every single petition that has been anything other than "Can you tell us how you are so wonderful?" has gotten a flowerly "LOL fuck off peasant" response, refused to stop illegals and tied the hands of Arizona when they tried to protect Americans which are dying every day. But that's okay, right? after all he's "one of us" so he is "good" and therefor the other must be "bad" right? All go to hell except cave 76!

Maybe you ought to look at your dear leader's record and tell me what EXACTLY would have been different if it had been McSame instead of Nobama? The ONLY difference i can see is instead of giving away your money under the guise of "national defense" he gives it away under "green jobs", yep that makes a big difference friend, handing out money to the top 5% is totally different if it has the word green in it! It has what plants crave!

"Climate Change" is a natural phenomenon. Climate has always been changing, in regular intervals, since the Earth was formed. And the variations in the Earth's temperature are due to changes in activity of the entity who warms it - the Sun. It's the variations in the Earth's temperature that lead to variations in the CO2 levels, and not the other way around. And this happens with a 800 years discrepancy. (Read the explanation here or here.)

The whole story about "Man-made Global Warming" is a fraud. (See this very good documentary, for example.)

The main scientists involved in this great swindle have already been exposed in a scandal known as "Climategate", in which it was denounced that the scientific data presented has been faked.

This hasn't only been exposed in the so-called alternative media, but has also been talked about in the mainstream one.

(I'm surprised that the people at slashdot don't seem to have read about this(?)...)

You are all being brainwashed and lied to. And this whole story is just an excuse to preserve valuable natural resources for the elites promoting it.

(And no, I'm not an ignorant person who doesn't read scientific or generalistic newspapers (controlled by this same persons). I'm a person who also swallowed this fraud for about 10 years, until I realized I was being lied to...)

There are many lunatic environmentalists that claim "civilization as we know it will be no more" because of global warming, unless we reduce global population by 90%, or mandate 20 years of zero economic growth for "rich countries", or something equally absurd. Some borderline sociopaths have even calculated the carbon footprint of African babies. Oh, and waging a campaign of hate against "deniers" does not help (see that infamous 10/10 video).

See
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/8165769/Cancun-climate-change-summit-scientists-call-for-rationing-in-developed-world.html
2. http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm (lots of examples of ridiculous alarmism)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_parity

Now, let me make myself clear: AGW is probably real and it makes sense to work against it. Still, the end is NOT nigh, and there is no reason for authoritarian measures such as reducing human population or severely crippling the economy.
The market is already moving in the right direction. If we want to accelerate it, then some slight subsidy for renewable coupled with some slight overtaxing of oil/coal is enough.

The grandparent may have shot from the hip, but his main point stands.

There are many lunatic environmentalists that claim "civilization as we know it will be no more" because of global warming, unless we reduce global population by 90%, or mandate 20 years of zero economic growth for "rich countries", or something equally absurd. Some borderline sociopaths have even calculated the carbon footprint of African babies. Oh, and waging a campaign of hate against "deniers" does not help.

And as TFA explains, all this alarmism, lies and hatred are for nothing. The price of solar power is collapsing, and wind is going down too. It is predicted half the world will reach residential solar grid parity as early as *2015*; wind will reach grid parity by 2025. And there are even other options such as next-generation nuclear.

If the government still thinks the market is moving too slowly, I can accept some light intervention (by slightly subsidizing renewables and slightly overtaxing oil and coal, for example). But reducing human population, crippling the economy, or creating an oppressive UN environmental agency to erode national sovereignty, are all unthinkable.

See
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/8165769/Cancun-climate-change-summit-scientists-call-for-rationing-in-developed-world.html
2. http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
3. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100058296/1010-who-are-you-going-to-kill-to-help-save-the-planet/
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_parity

The grandparent may have shot from the hip, but his main point stands.

There are many lunatic environmentalists that claim "civilization as we know it will be no more" because of global warming, unless we reduce global population by 90%, or mandate 20 years of zero economic growth for "rich countries", or something equally absurd. Some borderline sociopaths have even calculated the carbon footprint of African babies. Oh, and waging a campaign of hate against "deniers" does not help.

And as TFA explains, all this alarmism, lies and hatred are for nothing. The price of solar power is collapsing, and wind is going down too. It is predicted half the world will reach residential solar grid parity as early as *2015*; wind will reach grid parity by 2025. And there are even other options such as next-generation nuclear.

If the government still thinks the market is moving too slowly, I can accept some light intervention (by slightly subsidizing renewables and slightly overtaxing oil and coal, for example). But reducing human population, crippling the economy, or creating an oppressive UN environmental agency to erode national sovereignty, are all unthinkable.

See
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/8165769/Cancun-climate-change-summit-scientists-call-for-rationing-in-developed-world.html
2. http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
3. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100058296/1010-who-are-you-going-to-kill-to-help-save-the-planet/
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_parity

"Climate Change" is a natural phenomenon. The Earth's climate has always been changing, in regular intervals, since the Earth was formed. And the variations in the Earth's temperature are due to changes in the activity of the entity who warms it - the Sun. It's the variations in the Earth's temperature that lead to variations in CO2 levels, and not the other way around. And this happens with a 800 years discrepancy. (See explanation here or here.)

The whole story about "Man-Made Global Warming" is a fraud. (See this very good documentary, for example.)

The main scientists involved in this swindle have already been exposed in a scandal known as "Climategate", in which it was denounced that the data presented has been faked.

This was not only exposed in the so-called alternative media, but has also been talked about in the mainstream one.

(I'm surprised that the people at slashdot don't seem to have read about this(?)...)

You are all being brainwashed and lied to. And this whole story is only a big excuse to preserve valuable natural resources for the elites promoting this lie.

And no, I'm not an ignorant person who doesn't read newspapers (controlled by this same persons). I'm a person who also swallowed this fraud for about 10 years, until I realized I was being lied to.

No, there is no one coherent "Marxism." Even the authors you mentioned are all over the map in terms of their philosophy. Hell, even your favorite Catholic church has strong Marxist claims, or have you already forgotten the social justice encyclicals of JPII?

No. Defending the poor is absolutely different from being Marxist.

What makes these men dangerous to freedom is the cultural Marxism they have developed. See, for example, England sending people to jail for criticizing homosexualism.

That's false. You are referring to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. The Waddington Amendment [wikipedia.org] specifically protects the right to do so. And what does that have to do with Marxism? You could just as easily chalk that up to overzealous Humanism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html

Cultural Marxism explicitly supports the marginalization of conservative speech. See the Herbert Marcuse concept of "repressive tolerance". It is no coincidence that these so-called "hate speech" laws are overwhelmingly supported by Marxism-inspired parties.

And many countries which are growing quickly(like Germany).

Growing 0.45% a year in 2009-2011 is not "quickly". And, the average (-0.3%) is more significant than the extremes.

The US has grown an average 0.3% per year in 2009-2011; Europe has shrunk 0.3% per year.

Citation please. Not sure of the context.

The CIA world factbook lists the growth in 2009, 2010 and 2011. I simply averaged them via the straightfoward
avg = (((1 + g1 / 100) * ( 1 + g2 / 100) * (1 + g3 / 100)) ** (1. / 3)) * 100 - 100

The European population is aging, because each European woman has only 1.6 children. Yet their strong Marxist unions will not allow increasing the retirement age. The situation is unsustainable; expect the current troubles to get worse.

Do you just ignore countries like Germany when it suits your narrative? Do you not know that they have in fact raised their retirement age to 67 and are in discussions about raising it to 69?

I am speaking of the European _average_. And Germany will have to increse the retirement age much more; it has 1.41 children per woman.

And, the excess government spending is of course caused by socialism.

Ah, yes, those darned socialists, their concern for their fellow citizens and their unwillingness to be worked to death. How dispicable.

A poll has shown that conservatives donate 30% more to charity than liberals.
Also, ruining your country's finances is not very responsible.

Ah, if only we atheists really could take the credit. Alas, it is mostly due to the availability of contraception, the educational level of females in a society and financial mobility. Religion does seem to cause spikes, but then, that argues that your little churches will be outbred by Muslims in short order, so I suppose you are screwed either way.

Except that the Muslim fertility rate has been not only declining, but collapsing.

You mentioned Christianity as an authoritarian dictatorship, and that is from the Middle Ages.

Certainly, it wielded that power then. It attempts to do so now, and would certainly do so again if ever given the required political power. Something which I am very much opposed to.

False. Freedom of religion/conscience/speech has been written down at the Second Vatican Cou

...is because they have major interest in broadcasting as well. They have the monopoly on cable delivered television in the UK (satellite as well, since it is owned by Sky). It's like asking the Crown Prosecution Service to deliver a compelling case against a police officer for wrongful death.

It will never happen.

The real scoop about how it is:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-in/9084151/How-the-Yakuza-went-nuclear.html

Thyroid cysts or nodules are being found in 36% of 38,000 Fukushima children. A 2001 study in Nagasaki found an incidence of 0%. Thyroid is associated with iodine, as the substance is essential to its function. Iodine-131 was a considerable component of the contaminants released in the incident.

Hey, so you'll be all for someone with a degree certificate like this one

And before you say "what a fake", I'd rather employ someone with that than a 3 year social media degree from some real universities!

Your comment about programming is totally wrong though, I learned C coding way back, so I guess that means all the modern 'best' practices I should now be using is obsolete and my coding habits are full of poor practices? I doubt it - and before you think my OO skills are fully updated, I'm just having to learn about javascript coding that requires more of a functional approach. But none of that's a problem, because I got a degree 20 years ago that taught me all about C coding best practices that I can apply to my OO or Functional code!

In short, a degree helps you to know that a graduate is able to be trained to a certain high standard (well, once was). It does not tell you anything about their skill levels.

While I'm all for trolling Muslims, they are not going to decide to ignore the teachings of their faith and be peaceful, respect equality, free speech just because of logic. They're incapable of basic decent humanity, let alone logic. Oh and to preempt those who say that pointing out the evils of Islam is "racist", white Muslims are Just as Capable and likely to be terrorists as brown ones, and there are plenty of brown victims, the peaceful Coptic Christians for example.

I still don't understand what the big deal is....

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The EU says M$ has to inform users they can use other browsers. Why?

Because they made a legally binding agreement to do so: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/6825561/Microsoft-and-EU-reach-browser-settlement.html

Note the first sentence, which starts:

The European Commission has accepted Microsoft's offer of rolling out a web browser 'ballot box' across its range of Windows machines

The 'Browser Ballot' was a much less onerous punishment than the EU initially sought, and Microsoft couldn't even live up to those terms. As such, Microsoft is 100% responsible for their own negligent/nefarious (choose one) behavior in this instance.

Does Ford, Mercedes, BMW or any other car maker have to inform their owner they can use a different radio in the dash? or that they can use different tires than what comes on them? And why is this not an issue for Apple and Safari? Or better yet, why not an issue for Ubuntu? Ubuntu does not inform me that i can use something other then Firefox when i log in.

Not a single one of them made a legally binding agreement as part of a settlement in a case where they were found to abuse a monopoly position. Microsoft's monopoly position has been a well-established a fact for over a decade now -- please try to keep up.

Another one. I have not mentioned race at all. You don't even know what race I am. White Muslims are Just as Capable and likely to be terrorists as brown ones, and there are plenty of brown victims, the peaceful Coptic Christians for example

Behold! Chrisq feels the need to tell everyone just how much of a racist fuck he is. You are the problem, not the Muslims.

Behold dave420 feels the need to show everyone what an idiot he is. I have not mentioned race at all. You don't even know what race I am. White Muslims are Just as Capable and likely to be terrorists as brown ones, and there are plenty of brown victims, the peaceful Coptic Christians for example

Do you actually get better management by paying $100M per year than if you pay $1M per year?

Apparently, most shareholders believe that the answer to that question is "yes", especially at the biggest blue chip banks like JP Morgan and Goldman. Although you will notice that the Citi board, which has not done as well in recent quarters, received some fairly stern questioning of Vikram Pandit's bonus. In fact, I think that they eventually forced him to accept a substantial cut as a result of the worse than expected performance. Sounds like the system is working to me.

Seriously. Are we going to have a nuclear war or something?

Maybe..

"the MI6 chief said it was now likely [Iran] would achieve their goal by 2014, making a military strike from the US and Israel increasingly likely."

>>(...) evolution has been an insanely successful theory. We literally wouldn't have today's understanding of biology without it.

If you and the previous commenter give some documented examples, you might make me believe in macro-evolution again. I already believe DNA allows certain variation within species ( micro-evolution ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroevolution

>> You seem to be terribly confused. First, there has been no "retraction", just publication of two papers which disagree with the original one.

I'll trust you on that one

>> the actual claim was "We found this bacterium living in an arsenic-rich environment on earth , (....) That never meant "OMG BACTERIA CAN GROW ABSOLUTELY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!!".

You're quite alone in your opinion. I googled hundred of major magazines, newspapers and blogs. They somehow made the same association I did:

Time magazine: “Scientists who hope to discover alien life someday”
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2034601,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8174040/Life-as-we-dont-know-it-discovery-could-prove-existence-of-aliens.html
http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-nasas-form-life-untrue-015324767.html
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

>>You're parroting a really stupid creationist lie () that Zadel's fraud had anything to do with evolution or abiogenesis.(...)nobody outside of creationists ever thought Zadel's paper had any implications for abiogenesis.

On the hoax, the reputable Science magazine stated:
"they initially hailed the result, which appeared to have major implications for the pharmaceutical industry as well as for understanding of the origins of life."
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/pdf_extract/265/5168/21

>> failed fruit fly experiments ( ) you've grossly misinterpreted the meaning of the results as a fatal failure for evolution. (The abstract you linked pretty clearly indicates that evolution took place!)

The abstract states: “We conclude that, at least for life history characters such as development time, unconditionally advantageous alleles RARELY arise, are associated with SMALL net fitness gains or CANNOT FIX because selection coefficients change over time.” [ emphasis mine ] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844486

>> nothing more than an example of creationist quote mining

I did not mine for quotes. I was informed of many problems of abiogenesis at a presentation by Dr. Wing Sung. Such as lack of protection from UV damage in reducing atmospheres and from oxidation reactions in atmospheres like ours.

Background on Dr. Sung: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoVZe1NhmOI

I still have photocopies of his presentation slides with sidenotes in Mandarin. I can scan and email them to you if you like.

>> (...) have to expect from people who have decided that anything which contradicts their interpretation of a religious text must ipso facto be false. (...) They're not in it to discover reality, they're in it to preserve their delusions.

Before seeing Dr. Sung's presentation, I used to be a theistic evolutionist. I accepted your “reality”, sir. I accept the gap theory.

I guess, the nuclear test would have to be much much closer to register as one pixel vs. the sun, if you want to compare it vs. a type 1a supernova. Maybe 100m from the nuclear blast is about similar to type 1a supernova at 150,000,000,000m, or about where the sun is, and then *maybe* you may compare the two on the scale of one pixel (the nuke) vs. sun in terms of brightness over about 5 seconds.

A nuclear device can only come close to brightness comparison if you are looking at scales of microseconds or similar. And that comparison only works because of the limitations of speed of light!

To keep it in perspective, a supernova can blow away Earth's like planet atmospheres over a distance of *light years*. It can irradiate and destroy ozone layers at a distance of hundreds and hundreds of light years, and some at a few thousand light years.

Some cosmic BOOMs are so large, that they will glow more brightly than the rest of the visible universe combined. And the longer you look, the larger BOOMs are seen :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7893771/Nasa-satellite-blinded-by-biggest-ever-star-explosion-seen-in-space.html