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The Left loves.....blogging their useless opinions to find people with similar views.

Conservatives love blogging a lot.

Bloviating is a human tradition that knows no political parties (a couple of those blogs look reasonably good, too).

http://stevetodd.typepad.com/m...

Read that post written by Steve. It explains reasons why DG decided to use Windows NT for Clariion.

That kist has been thoroughly debunked here... http://lizditz.typepad.com/fil...

Man more power to them! After all they've got the balls to do what pics have been trying for years: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/...

You focus on the wrong word. Go back one more. Suck on *this* rock. Singular, specific. Mars is a second point of existence, where a catastrophic event would need to be several magnitudes larger (Sol going nova, for example), rather than just nuclear holocaust, to wipe out humans. Move beyond the solar system, and we would have more chance of surviving what nature throws at us, and what we throw at each other.

Well put, if I had mod points you would get em! Rather than expounding and expanding upon the theme, but what the heck here goes my karma...

One thing that always struck me as sickening was the implications of a ban on nuclear testing in outer space. If one considers the potential for extra atmospheric atomic power, testing nuclear technology in space is essential. The vacuum of space is the only safe place to constructively explode or experiment with dangerous fissile radioactive materials. Cooling reactions is not a problem neither is super-heating things without causing atmospheric pollution problems. Therefore the technology of metallurgy could advance as rapidly as our computer tech has, so could propulsion tech!

Notice there is no ban on the use of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere or where ever on planet earth during war currently proposed and supported by any of the club of nations that posses nuclear technology. Unless we get to this point of cooperation as a species and we develop as a species in a cooperative way we will never become what we were put here to be. Somehow we cannot simply come to understand the only reason why we kill each other in war has always been caused by primitive tribalism and the fight for resources, religion and social politics are just convenient excuses for the truth about wars.

The human body will need to evolve very quickly to adapt to space in fact we could become a low gravity entity. FOR all those who are scared of these assumptions, consider this question. If we have a brain and all these things are indeed possible then why do we doom ourselves to extinction by not cooperating and rapidly evolving beyond this planet! If all we do with genetics is consume the resources and over populate the planet then indeed we are doomed as a species. Our destiny is to replace ourselves with a species that does not rely upon resources that are not sustainable long term

Here is a link to a picture of a proposed prototype replacement humans

Here's an interesting definition http://leiterreports.typepad.c...

Functionally defined, "SJW" designates someone who monitors cyberspace for slights or miscues that reveal bias, and then exploits the various tools of social media to shame the offender, express outrage, and summon the digital mob, whilst achieving for themselves a righteous fame that ties their identities and their actions to the heroes and achievements of the civil rights movement, the landmark moments of which preceded their adulthood. SJWs divide the world, GWB-like, into the evildoers ("shitlords") and the oppressed, with the possible, but problematic remainder, being allies, whose status is ever tenuous and usually collapses into shitlord. SJWs do not distinguish between major and minor offenses -- unintentionally using "transgender-ed" instead of "transgender" is as unforgivable as any other act of oppression -- nor do they distinguish repeat and systematic from first-time offenders. They employ a principle of interpretation that is something like the opposite of charity. (If the utterance gives offense under one interpretation, that interpretation is correct.) It is a harsh "justice".

Indeed, it's unclear whether SJWs do not fully grasp the cruelty and inhumanity of their cybermob shame tactics, the anguish it causes, typically to the socially clueless and ASD spectrum types (itself a form of ableism), or just people with older, less plastic, brains, who are unable to keep pace with the rapidly shifting pronoun and non-slur requirements, or whether this is fully grasped, and indeed the retributive point of the exercise. In any case, the SJW hallmark is cruelty in the name of compassion. (And creating incredibly dangerous environments in the name of "safe space".)

Well, as a Nietzsche scholar, I can hardly tell you anything you don't already see better here. The difference between the Christian slave revolt and this one is that with Christianity at least, there is forgiveness.

No, because of FATCA.

Many banks in Europe will not let them have an account if their US Citizenship is know because of FATCA.

Further, they would be considered an expat, and have to file regularly.

Some good articles on the Tax situation:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...

No, because of FATCA.

Many banks in Europe will not let them have an account if their US Citizenship is know because of FATCA.

Further, they would be considered an expat, and have to file regularly.

Some good articles on the Tax situation:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...

No, because of FATCA.

Many banks in Europe will not let them have an account if their US Citizenship is know because of FATCA.

Further, they would be considered an expat, and have to file regularly.

Some good articles on the Tax situation:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...

You do understand that cheating at taxes is more of a democrat thing than a republican thing right?

http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...

I know it's hard for the delusional to find their world isn't as they thought, but the fact of the matter is that it would seem that either someone is lieing to you or you are ignoring reality all together. So please, look up the suicide prevention number in your area, make sure you are near a phone, then read that link. You can also do searches for words groups together like "democrat tax cheats" and see lists of people that are near the top of the party.

But hey, stay hydrated and avoid cool aid if everyone is wearing Nike sneakers if at all possible.

I've heard of similar things. For example, this guy sending air, water, and sugar.

As long as you have the right safety labels, there shouldn't be a problem. The guy in the above link screwed up with the "Rocket Fuel" label.

If they were sending a mill, why did they say "It's a machine for making guns"? IT could have been labeled as coming from "GG Machine Works", and if they needed a declaration of contents it's just "a CNC machine."

I can't even think of the countless things I've shipped. Usually I'm only asked on International shipments for the customs declaration. If I explain what's in them, it's too complicated, so they just put "computer parts" or "tools".

I've received some things that surprised people, like ammunition (legally marked and shipped as such, handled by UPS), a truck front axle, and all kinds of weird smaller things.

Scott Adams is also a creationist

Interesting, I'd like to see a reference for that. Did he change his stance since 2007? Back then he wrote:

"I sometimes call myself an atheist because it’s too hard to explain Spinoza’s version of god. And it’s too hard to explain that agnosticism is the only intellectually defensible position."

Which would put him in the same category of belief as Einstein.

The best pictures are almost always taken by amateurs, because the best situations are so rare, and at least 99% of photos are taken by amateurs now.

Personally, I don't think there are many photos better than the crasher squirrel.

First, warm, but not the hottest dozen in history. Do you even realize when you're being absurdly hyperbolic?
http://c3headlines.typepad.com...
(from the 1990 IPCC report: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports...)

Second: Climatologists have been scrambling for an explanation of why their models predicted constant warming, but it seems to have vanished for much of the past 15 years.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
This has led to the current theory that the oceans have absorbed far more warming than modeled previously. Could be science, or could be desperately shifting goalposts. Your mileage will vary based on your politics, most likely.

you idiot.

they didn't falsely attack private citizens.
they weren't an attack tool of the DNC.
they ddnt lie to congress.

the entire IRS "scandal" was manufactured from whole cloth.

There seems to be a very large gap between your understanding of events and the facts. Here is a modest start for you.

IRS admits targeting conservatives for tax scrutiny in 2012 election

The IRS Scandal, Day 623

Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner reportedly pleaded with her supervisor not to deeply inquire about whether the IRS had unfairly targeted Tea Party and conservative groups for tax-exempt status just ahead of the 2012 presidential election, according to new emails obtained by a government watchdog group.

Joseph H. Grant, former Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division deputy director, was specifically asked by Lerner to refrain from visiting the tax agency's Cincinnati office and keep from asking specific questions related to any Congressional inquiries, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit.

Lerner wanted to work for Obama activist group

Lois Lerner talked about working for Obama’s group Organizing for Action while she had official oversight over it

I was wondering how long it would take before the slashdot conservative majority brought out that conspiracy conjecture again.

So, you're here to "correct the record" and explain why the IRS really didn't do it even though they admitted it? Clueless and hopeless.

The question isn't "did they do it," but how much are they covering up and how close does it get to the seats of Democratic party power?

IRS admits targeting conservatives for tax scrutiny in 2012 election

The IRS Scandal, Day 623

I find that many people claiming aging is absolutely inevitable are suffering from a case of sour grapes. SENS is a very real, very realizable goal. The human body is of limited complexity and we're putting the pieces of the puzzle together fast. Skepticism is understandable, after all people have been promising cures for aging ever since the emperor of China ate mercury. But recent advances show real promise and are based on real research.

It's popular to say one wishes for death at an arbitrary age... until one is that age and it's time to try to live or try to die. The upshot of recent newsis there's a very real chance that the first person to reach escape velocity is already alive. Here's to hope for a prosperous and very long life for each of us.

You're regurgitating complete nonsense. Once again, here’s figure 1 from Peterson et al. 2008. Notice that papers predicting warming vastly outnumbered those predicting cooling, even in the 1970s. Ironically:

• The term “global warming” was first used in a 1975 Science article by Wally Broecker called “Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?”.
• Sawyer 1972 estimated climate sensitivity as 2.4C, and Schneider 1975 gave a preliminary range of 1.5C to 3.0C.
• Manabe and Wetherald, 1975: “The Effects of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the climate of a General Circulation Model.”
• In 1977, Freeman Dyson wrote that the “prevailing opinion is that the dangers [of the rise in CO2] greatly outweigh the benefits.”
• In 1977, Robert M. White, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wrote a report for the National Academy of Sciences that said “We now understand that industrial wastes, such as the carbon dioxide released in the burning of fossil fuels, can have consequences for climate that pose a considerable risk to future society.” [White, Robert, 1978, Oceans and Climate Introduction, Oceanus, 21:2-3]
• The 1979 JASON report “The long-term impact of atmospheric carbon dioxide on climate” estimated climate sensitivity as 2.4C to 2.8C.
• The National Academy of Science’s 1979 Charney report estimated climate sensitivity as 1.5C to 4.5C and said “If carbon dioxide continues to increase, [we] find no reason to doubt that climate changes will result, and no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible.”

While Jane is reading those papers, he should also consider addressing this issue with his basic thermodynamics:

Your own insistence that power in = power out (assuming perfect conversion and no entropic losses) belies this argument. You are arguing against yourself and you refuse to see that. If power in = power out (your own stipulation) ... [Jane Q. Public, 2014-12-14]

I'm not the only one insisting that power in = power out through any boundary where nothing inside is changing. Once again, that's a fundamental principle called "conservation of energy". Here are some introductions: example (backup), example (backup), example

No,no. Global cooling. Haven't you read the scientific papers from top agencies and researchers from the 70's. Sheesh

You're regurgitating complete nonsense. Once again, here’s figure 1 from Peterson et al. 2008. Notice that papers predicting warming vastly outnumbered those predicting cooling, even in the 1970s. Ironically:

• The term “global warming” was first used in a 1975 Science article by Wally Broecker called “Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?”.
• Sawyer 1972 estimated climate sensitivity as 2.4C, and Schneider 1975 gave a preliminary range of 1.5C to 3.0C.
• Manabe and Wetherald, 1975: “The Effects of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the climate of a General Circulation Model.”
• In 1977, Freeman Dyson wrote that the “prevailing opinion is that the dangers [of the rise in CO2] greatly outweigh the benefits.”
• In 1977, Robert M. White, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wrote a report for the National Academy of Sciences that said “We now understand that industrial wastes, such as the carbon dioxide released in the burning of fossil fuels, can have consequences for climate that pose a considerable risk to future society.” [White, Robert, 1978, Oceans and Climate Introduction, Oceanus, 21:2-3]
• The 1979 JASON report “The long-term impact of atmospheric carbon dioxide on climate” estimated climate sensitivity as 2.4C to 2.8C.
• The National Academy of Science’s 1979 Charney report estimated climate sensitivity as 1.5C to 4.5C and said “If carbon dioxide continues to increase, [we] find no reason to doubt that climate changes will result, and no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible.”

How about the district formerly represented by Barney Frank in Massachusetts? It even has the gerrymander look to it.

http://sisu.typepad.com/.a/6a0...

I also agree that women are more likely to encounter threats of violence on the net

http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

Yep, men are more likely to be threatened with violence online.

See also : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

But forget 'on the net', lets look at the real world:
http://nortonbooks.typepad.com...

Equality would be a wonderful thing.

Just wait, there will be a flood of posts claiming that threads made over the internet, even if they contain your home address, are not "serious" and should be ignored.

How does including someone's home address make a threat more or less serious? Perhaps you are young and do not recall that not that long ago, Americans had delivered to the home annually a book that listed the addresses of most citizens of their city or town. Unless one takes extraordinary steps to hide, one's address is not private information.

My address has been on my resume on my website since the 1990s. Some random asshole posting "I'm going to kill that Tom Swiss for what he said on Slashdot!" wouldn't worry me any more or any less than some random asshole posting "I'm going to kill that Tom Swiss, who lives at 2119 Arlonne Drive in Catonsville, MD, 21228, for what he said on Slashdot!"

So how worried should I be over some random asshole posting a threat? Seems to me that the ratio of "I'm going to kill you!" posts to actual assaults is so low that I shouldn't worry. Over a quarter-century of flamewars (I was active on FidoNet BBSes starting around 1988) a few people have posted that they were going to kick my ass, none have ever showed up to do so.

If anyone is going to object "But you're a man, not a woman!", you need to keep in mind that as a man I am more likely, not less, to be a victim of violence.

Meh, you act as if your view is gospel and anything else is just stupid.

Think about that for a minute...

Is 28 years more or less reasonable than 18, or 38?

Then we have to address revisions to works. My example, I believe, was quite reasonable for VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray.

Gone With The Wind was expensive to restore and redo for Blu-Ray:

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/...

If you are being honest, you'll take 5 minutes and read that, the work that was done to make the modern copy look so good was not cheap.

How about this one:

http://miamiherald.typepad.com...

Ben Hur cost $1 million dollars to restore.

You think that should be free? You think that would even be available if they couldn't sell it or prevent you from making copies?

Perhaps a 20 to 30 year copyright on a specific version of each work, so that old VHS copies could be handed out, but the Blu-Ray could not be, at least not for awhile.

In 20 years, they would have to release the codes to unlock the encryption on the disks, but by that time perhaps something new will be out, so you can watch the old 1080p copy, but the new 8k 4D super duper version would still be protected.

Just tossing out ideas...

The laffer curve is a fictional construct of corporate greed.It is laughed out of any conference of economists for it's absurd leaps of faith and lack of supporting evidence.

https://www.princeton.edu/~rvd...
http://scienceblogs.com/goodma...
http://business.time.com/2012/...
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/L...
http://economistsview.typepad....

Rolodex 1753, Smith-Corona Super12, roll of stamps.

You left out the desk. ;)

Of course! It's all rainbows, sunshine, lollipops and unicorns up here so there's nothing interesting to report.

Yup. And honored by a "mainly Canadian economics blog", no less.

https://www.google.com/search?...

All the Raspberry Pi in a gameboy box stories you could ever want.

You have to wonder what the progression of these will be

Raspberry Pi does Coleco Football
http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/526...

Raspberry PI does Merlin
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Probably not this
http://retrothing.typepad.com/...

Seeing as people are still selling and making new ones and I am sure the people doing so actually guard their rights.

So from the article.. http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/...

While no humans fell ill as a result of the bird flu breach, CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden has called it “the most distressing" in a series of safety breaches at the agency because of the public risk posed by the virus.
Researchers at a high-security CDC influenza lab learned of their mistake in May. The contaminated bird flu samples had been sent to poultry researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who noticed their chickens all died.

So it went from one high-contamination zone (or whatever those things are called) in research-center to another *lower-than-previous-lab*-contamination zone research-center where they noted a much higher fatality-rate in the chickens.. None of the potentially exposed workers and that is basically anyone that where in the room when they opened the vial, dressed in their lower-level safety gear or anyone that handled the chickens dressed in their lower-level safety-gear...

I would still say that the labs are secure enough, but improvements are always welcome..

But the cost of providing those services isn't the same. First, the probability of a forest fire is roughly proportional to the area of land, because lightning doesn't care.

You are missing a key point. the land does not disappear if one person owns 50 acres or if 50 people own 1 acre each right next to each other. It is still there and still costs the same. Like you said, lightning doesn't care.

Second, people are more likely to steal from big, expensive houses than slums, and people are more likely to build big, expensive houses on large pieces of land than small ones, so police protection tends to be (at least to some extent) proportional to land area as well.

Not really. Expensive homes are more likely to have high dollar security systems, cameras, and serial numbers recorded. Middle class homes would be a more probable target. Slums of course are still there as opportunity remains and according to the data, people with income of 7.500 or less are victims of theft and violent crimes like assault more than people with incomes over 75k.

http://nortonbooks.typepad.com....

Even things like utilities cost more for larger pieces of land, because the utility companies have to run their cables past your property to get to the next potential customer, and the longer your property is, the more it costs to do so. They only get one customer per property, so larger properties effectively raise the installation cost for everyone on your block.

They must do it different where you live. In my neck of the woods, the utility company will come a maximum of 25 feet into the property for their demarcation point. Anything after that and it is up to the property owner to run.

Now, the distance between properties don't mean anything because the land doesn't magically disappear of you own less.

Actually, they are, to some degree. When's the last time you heard of somebody breaking into a falling down shack because they thought the person might have stuff worth stealing? And as I said, forest fires are proportional to area. And house fires... well, those are more determined by the age of the home than anything else, so those tend to be inversely proportional to the cost of the home, but they're still mathematically related. :-)

Only if you start with incorrect assumptions in the first place. But please tell me, how likely is it that someone would have a million dollar home on 50 acres of land with a falling down shack that someone thinks is stuffed full of goodies? The falling down shack is more likely on less expensive property or maintained. You see, rich people don't like looking at the trash we regular people have to put up with. The shack would likely either be repaired, removed, or replaced before it appears falling down.

I don't recall a circuit court ever actually invalidating a law.

Google is your friend.

Medical schools aren't under grad institutions. Attending a community college on your way to a bachelors degree in no way disqualifies you from attending medical school or graduate school.

So we're back at square one: saying Community Colleges are the solution to people who don't have rich parents or willing to risk a lifetime of student loan debt is to tell them a high level degree in medicine (or science or engineering) is beyond their reach, as CC's don't have doctoral programs.

Secondly your point was that the prestige of your undergrad school is what qualifies or disqualifies you for graduate or medical school. I pointed out that it's bullshit.

Huh? Where did I say anything about the prestige of the school? I'm not the girl that decided that certain....compromises were worth getting a degree from Duke.

SUNY tuition is has ever had anywhere near that rate of increase.

Most of the country has.

So where does 85-90% of the pollution come from?

I'm assuming the impurities in the snow, except for the odd volcanic eruption, are black carbon emissions. This chart suggests Europe, China and the US are equally responsible. China and the US emit the most carbon dioxide which, since it is also emitted when burning fossil fuel, is a good second indicator of where the black carbon is coming from. The second graph seems to blame the US and China more then any individual European country but the EU still has their part to play.

China is burning more coal than the US, CN 65% - US 37%. However, they are also using more renewable energy sources then the US, ~28% vs 12% (US). Both China and the US are expanding their nuclear sectors to double capacity, currently China has 1% vs the US 19%. Worth to note is that the US uses a lot more natural gas then China does (%-wise) which adds to their CO2 emissions but not black carbon. Values for China and for the US.

Point is: everyone's to blame. Besides, Europe and the US have had 100 years to develop their industries so they should already have gotten past the 40 year old upstarts problems, right?

Aside from the whole organic-3D-printing-of-entire-humans angle, this isn't a new idea. Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth features an extraterrestrial colony of humans descended from machine-grown progenitors.

There's also Greg Egan's fascinating short story Glory.
A tiny anti-matter powered package traveling at near light speed is sent to an exo-planetary system.
That's used as a seed to generate humans + technology using data sent electromagnetically.
http://outofthiseos.typepad.co...
(And it's in the 25th Year's Best Science Fiction)

Here's a nice overall view, again, see chart 4, which shows men are more likely to be victims of violent crime OVERALL: http://nortonbooks.typepad.com...

True. But it is still a fact that Australia is predicted to get drier in the interior. And a hotter, too. It's already undergone a statistically significant measurable shift in its climate.

That is what it is a prediction. Australia was once a tropical jungle, the remains can be seen in the wet tropics of North Queensland and also the antarctic beeches near Nimbin on th NSW border. People assume global warming means a desert. Not correct. It also means a jungle. El nino brings rain to Australia when the ocean os warm and so on. Its just not the case that a dry desert will automatically be the result. Its all hypothetical. I vote for a jungle.

True. But it is still a fact that Australia is predicted to get drier in the interior. And a hotter, too. It's already undergone a statistically significant measurable shift in its climate.

Anyway, I think Australia would really benefit from this concept. They need to get it approved just once (scale won't influence the rate of NIMBYism, those opposed to the repository would oppose it at any scale), they'll get a HUGE amount of income for little work, and they'll pretty much have nuclear power suppliers held hostage thereafter, as none are going to want to go back to having to try to get local permission to build a repository after their public has been told that it wouldn't happen. And they'll have a tremendous resource for any sort of future isotope or fuel refining that might prove economically viable. I mean, imagine that... picture having all of the world's spent fuel, and then having a technical solution or geopolitical situation that makes it cheaper to get fuel from the waste than to mine new uranium. You're suddenly the near-exclusive nuclear fuel supplier to the entire world. Or supplier of medical isotopes, or isotopes for goods irradiation, or whatever else the future may demand.

According to the linked article, one place that is nosediving in the US is California. Whether that is more due to immigration or per-student spending dropping behind the US average due mainly to referendums on property taxes, I don't know.

I live in South Florida. Broward County is north of Miami-Dade County. Like any urban city, the politicians and school boards are full of corruption and conflicts of interest.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com...
http://stateimpact.npr.org/flo...

Seemingly everyone from the janitors to the superintendents are in on the take. They have hired felons in all levels. Some of them interact with kids:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach....

So yeah, the fact that there's no money for teaching after the all prostitutes and the payoffs and the other criminal activity is no surprise.

I work in the school system, btw.

Don't take my word, just Google it.

This referenced article is rediculous. First of all, the title says "Downfall of the Roman Empire", but Caesar FOUNDED the Roman Empire, so clearly it did not cause the empire's fall. I suspect they meant the fall of the Roman REPUBLIC, which preceded the empire. But it's still garbage. What most emperors wanted was power, not concrete buildings. The article doesn't even begin to make a connection between the two. If you want more about the history of the (Western) Roman republic and empire, listen to AWESOME "The History of Rome" podcast: http://thehistoryofrome.typepa... It's fantastic.

This blogger about all things Russia thinks the entire Snowden/Putin exchange, including the follow-up Guardian article, was orchestrated: http://3dblogger.typepad.com/m...

Many disagree with you as to whether these things are or should be rights. Some believe that people should be left to starve or freeze to death if they are unwilling or unable to work. (This viewpoint is not uniquely American.)

Deriding people who hold such views for their lack of compassion is non-productive. To win them over, it may be more effective to show how helping the poor benefits them - if indeed it does. For example, public health care benefits everyone who has direct or indirect contact with the public - even the rich - through the prevention of epidemics.

In the Simpsons, the local school puts on a play ("The Nice Man Giveth") to show Mr Burns the personal value of education, when poorly-educated students accidentally serve him rat poison, can't read a map to drive him to hospital, and fail to operate correctly on him. While it does not work in that particular instance, perhaps those who seek funding from the public could do a better job of explaining why the public should care.

It's a little more than that, though... remember the story with the Glasshole in the bar from last month who got attacked?

I seem to remember that the problem was some patron was aggressively annoyed that the glass-user might be filming them so the glass-users response was to start filming them. The problem was bery much idiots in that case.

The video starts with the patrons already attacking the Glasshole, so no, she started filming them after she was attacked. And frankly, filming people committing a crime is quite a reasonable response.

That bar - along with most bars - have security cameras. Cameras that are casually pointed at people the whole time.

No, they are qualatatively different. The cameras go on a loop, old data is discarded...

Unless you own the bar, you don't know that for sure.

... and no one looks at it unless something happens. Most of it is forgotten, not uploaded to a company which rather creepily claimed to want go right up to the border of being creepy (Schmidt's words, not mine), or be plasteres on the persons blog in perpetuity.

That's also true for most people's blogs - no one looks at them unless something happens like, say, some idiot attacks the person with the camera and blog.

Taking a photo (with the flash off) can look exactly like the person is texting.

If you're taking a picture of the floor, or a selfie from a very strange angle, then sure. To take a photograph of anything interesting, you need to hold the phone up and that's obvious.

Here is literally the first result for a Google Image Search for "people texting". The three on the left are indistinguishable from people taking pictures. Flip through that search and I'd say about half of the photos have people holding their phone up in front of their faces. Point being that while some people text while holding their phone down at their waist, apparently just as many do it while holding the phone up to their eyes.

Way back when this came out, I read about it in National Review. Here is the original: http://iowahawk.typepad.com/io...

Windows Phone

Palm

What other people think.

You mean like IAM Roles for EC2 which makes credentials show up on your instance and the SDK uses them automatically? And which launched in 2012?

Seriously, it's as easy as S3Client s3 = new S3Client(); and the SDK does the rest. If devs are still hardcoding credentials, I have no sympathy.

I already have a mask picked out. Hides me from the facial recognition cameras. And other drivers give me lots of room as well.

The market economy, based on deep human psychological propensities, is an extraordinarily effective societal instrumentality for planning and coordinating the production and distribution of scarce, rival, excludable commodities.

... Obama is just like Bush, only he spends more ...

he does? hrm, you're going to have to inform the rest of the world that they've got the numbers wrong ...

Mann referred to himself as a Nobel prize recipient - which the IPCC has stated he's not allowed to do. Why are you posting obvious falsehoods in his defence throughout this thread?

Care to elucidate what these falsehoods were? Are you saying the sequence I described (That is, some denialists mistook a certificate that Michael Mann had on display for a Nobel peace prize, claimed it was fake, only later to find it wasn't a Nobel Peace prize, but a real certificate he really received from the IPCC, thanking him for his contributions to winning the Nobel Peace Prize) did not actually occur?

Dr. Mann is a climate scientist whose research has focused on global warming. In 2007, along with Vice President Al Gore and his colleagues of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

https://www.facebook.com/Micha... [facebook.com]

He WAS awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Vice President Al Gore and his colleagues of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It is one thing to engage in discussion about debatable topics. It is quite another to attempt to discredit consistently validated scientific research through the professional and personal defamation of a Nobel prize recipient.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/... [typepad.com]

Presumably this was written by a legal counsel, not by Mann himself. Perhaps he had an opportunity to correct the wording and didn't, when he should have. Perhaps not.

Notably, this piece of paper, which appears to the heart of your concern, was tested via an appeal against the lawsuit in question. The appeal was thrown out, because Steyns lawyers admitted it had no substance: see here.

Accordingly, your own argument is spurious and without substance.

PS: I'm also a "Nobel laureate" if Mann is:

A peace prize made possible by the people has now been passed on to the people. The EU won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, but the European Parliament believes this honour belongs to everyone. During a special ceremony in Strasbourg, the prize was symbolically handed over to 20 citizens of different ages and nationalities to represent the people of Europe.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... [europa.eu]

Well, this is a matter of discussion between yourself and the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

Litigious Laureate

From Dr. Mann's complaint filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia - Civil Division
"As a result of this research, Dr. Mann and his colleagues were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."