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Damn that chorus of 'true believers' - aka, 97% of the worlds scientists:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-overwhelmingly-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/1

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-19/world/eco.globalwarmingsurvey_1_global-warming-climate-science-human-activity?_s=PM:WORLD

I didn't mean the summary here, I meant more like these:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-08-15-cnbc-it-jobs-unemployment_n.htm

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/06/09/tech-sector-unemployment-half-the-u-s-national-average/

http://marketing.dice.com/techtalentdemand/

Maybe they're lying, but reports throughout the recession have said tech sector unemployment has remained at half (or less) of unemployment nationwide.

Driving is definitely possible, but with the high cost of gas these days, it's not really that much cheaper than flying. Even if you pack all the food you'll need along the entire trip, you're still going to need a place to sleep at night. Now, I've done my fair share of cross-country road-trips, and I've spent many a night sleeping in my car at a rest area, but that's not really an option when you've got a family in tow. You could also camp, rather than stay in hotels (which we did a lot when I was a kid; I grew up an Army brat and moved constantly) but most people I've met aren't into camping their way across the country.

Trains aren't an option, either...they cost just as much as a flight; take the same, if not more, time to reach a destination (passenger trains regularly get stopped so that freight trains can pass them, for hours at a time sometimes) and honestly, unless you're going to a major city, odds are very high that the "train station" you're going to end up at is going to be a platform in the middle of nowhere with no place to rent a car, eat (unless you count vending machines or, if you're lucky, a gas station), or do anything really beyond wait for someone to come pick you up. Our rail infrastructure fucking sucks for long haul passenger runs. There are only a handful of routes left that even go cross country anymore. If we had real euro-style high speed rail that wasn't constantly being stopped for mile and a half long freight runs creeping along at 40 mph it would be more realistic of an option, but as it stands now, it's really not. I took Amtrak a few times as a kid and I just won't do that anymore until there are major improvements. The only up-side is the fact that you get a more comfortable seat.

Besides, TSA is moving to trains, so if you're trying to avoid having your rights violated, don't worry, they're going to violate them there, too. TSA is also starting to branch out to the highway as well, so no buses, either. You won't even be able to go to a sporting event or other large crowd event without the TSA being involved soon.

Like it or not, the TSA is going to be pretty much everywhere. I'm sure that at some point in that not-to-distant future trying to avoid the TSA in itself will be a reason to be suspicious. We're literally going to have to stay in our homes or walk from point A to point B to avoid a possible search...

That 4th Amendment sure was cool, wasn't it? I'm gonna miss it....

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/09/oregon-muslim-on-us-no-fly-list-held-after-sailing-to-britain/1

While not exactly TSA related, more CBP related, there was a gentleman who was on the no fly list, who was in the US. Given he couldnt fly, he took a boat to get back home to europe. Sounds reasonable right? Well, he was removed from the cruise ship prior to the ship arriving in port. You can find more info on the identify projects webpage.

Much like antifoidulus mistakenly states that there were no traces of WMD's in Iraq, huh? I remember a few speeches by Colin Powell to the contrary but don't let my memories interfere with your revisionism, "Dude".

Please tell me you are joking about Colin Powell's speeches. See, to take just one example among hundreds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTLmOoPzjs Or maybe http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-08-powell-iraq_x.htm

Powell freely admitted that the information he presented to the UN was untrue, and that he was thoroughly ashamed of his role in justifying the war.

The submitter injected unneeded worry. According to Ford via USAToday: "The driver can overcome assistance and vibration at any time by turning the steering wheel, accelerating or braking" The article also uses the word "nudge" in reference to the control input, so I read all this to mean the system won't be fighting drivers. See: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/12/ford-says-fusion-sedan-will-get-lane-departure-system/1

Don't forget that Israeli Jews commonly spit on young girls who aren't dressed "modestly" and call them whores as they walk to school.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/12/american-girl-8-is-target-of-ultra-orthodox-jews-in-israel/1?csp=obinsite

I fail to see how Jews are any different from Muslims.

I think you're confusing a fraction of Israel's 10% Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, with the broader community of Jews. As far as I know, the behavior to which you're referring is abhorred by a majority of Israeli Jews.

Don't forget that Israeli Jews commonly spit on young girls who aren't dressed "modestly" and call them whores as they walk to school.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/12/american-girl-8-is-target-of-ultra-orthodox-jews-in-israel/1?csp=obinsite

I fail to see how Jews are any different from Muslims.

Or the fundamentalist Christians, for that matter.

Don't forget that Israeli Jews commonly spit on young girls who aren't dressed "modestly" and call them whores as they walk to school.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/12/american-girl-8-is-target-of-ultra-orthodox-jews-in-israel/1?csp=obinsite

I fail to see how Jews are any different from Muslims.

Airplanes are much, much faster.

Except when they're slower than bicycles!

"The DoD budget should be written by DoD administrative staff based on actual, military need, not by a bunch of congressional staffers trying to appease big donors."

Don't presume the cliques in DoD have the OVERALL best interests of the troops in clear focus and aren't fighting over DIFFERENT rice bowls.

We went to war in Iraq with SOFT-SKINNED support vehicles and HMMWVs despite the lessons of Viet Nam and Somalia. Troops had to RE-learn how to build gun trucks, and RE-install gun shields on our APCs.

SFC Paul R. Smith died firing an OPEN machine gun from an unprotected M113:

http://www.combatartfund.org/Images/MOH.PatrickHaskett.jpg

(Most of the ACAV armor kits were REMOVED from M113s in the US inventory before it was realized Iraqis figured out what the VC did in the battle of Ap Bac many years ago. They are back, with the addition of TAGS windowed gunshields. As for the anti-RPG bar armor so common now, it was invented in the 1960s but rejected because it got tangled in Southeast Asian jungle. Tested on an M113, it was forgotten for decadesâ¦)

Viet Nam 113 with gunshields:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2570/4115742434_26c7ccf501_z.jpg

EARMARKS helped field uparmor kits, MRAPs, armored trucks, etc which save many Soldier lives. The stopgap HMMWV armor kits were better than nothing, but HWWWV are still merely light trucks and not armored fighting vehicles like MRAP.

The military is complex and so are its internal politics. If you want ethical earmarks, ask for oversight, but they've done a lot of good.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-09-03-congressmrap_N.htm

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sen-lindsey-graham-defends-certain-congressional-earmarks-us-military

More recently, the buckeye tree, namesake of a certain powerhouse football team in Ohio, has had its range shifted northward due to warming, so that the team's home town is now barely within the trees range, and won't be within it at all in another decade or two.

I assume you are referring to:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-09-12-3324435158_x.htm

which states:
The coalition doesn't have any evidence that the buckeye's range has been pushed north but says global warming threatens to make that happen. and Lytle said healthy adult buckeye trees can tolerate a wide climate range, although seedlings are more sensitive. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan could eventually give buckeye trees a more comfortable habitat.

So, basically... There is no evidence the range has shifted at all. It may shift in the future but the existing trees are not likely to be threatened.

I'm not a denier. I am convinced the science behind AGW is basically true because I have examined the evidence to the best of my ability not because I had a "revelation". I'm in favour of taking reasonable and effective action to reduce CO2.

I don't believe you were trying to intentionally mislead anyone but there are too many sensationalistic articles out there that basically follow the template: *Global warming causes X... We're all going to die! * note: global warming has not been found to cause X

Having grown up in Scandinavia without any air conditioners or even fans, and moving to the US as an adult

One of the statistics that I find horrifying is that nearly fifteen thousand people died in France alone during the 2003 heatwave. The death toll was attributed to the widespread lack of air conditioning in that country. A First World country wherein thousands of people die simply because it was hot outside? What's wrong with this picture?

And what is it with Europeans and turning the A/C off anyway? Both times I've visited Europe I paid extra for the privilege of having A/C in my hotel room. Both times the hotel staff let themselves into my room and turned the A/C off whenever I left the room. This annoyed the hell out of me, particularly given the fact that the A/C was woefully undersized for the square footage of my room and the only way to make it halfway decent was to leave the unit running all the time. In the United States A/C is a standard feature even in budget motels.

Similarly, if you say "wolf" when referring to "pulpits", there isn't much communication.

The "wolf" comes from a parable in the bible. Christ said he was the good shepherd who laid down his life for his flock, and warned of "wolves in sheep's clothing." If we're discussing a book you obviously haven't read, there can be little communication as well.

The eyeball just happened? Illogical!
The moon happened; then the dog/cat/eyeball did. All, very logical

The moon is logical; it's just a big pile of boulders that gravity pulled together. Any three year old can make a snowball. But an eyeball just happening by chance? Pretty unbelievable.

As they say in wikipedia, "Citation needed".

As of the early 21st century, Christianity has around 2.2 billion adherents.[1][2][3] The faith represents nearly one-third of the world's population

Another third are Muslim.

I overestimated the number of Jews; 13 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the seven billion people alive today. But Muslims, Jews, and Christians share the old testament and worship the same God. A quick google shows that only about a third of the world's population are athiests, agnostics, Hindus, Wiccans, Bhuddists, Confucionists, etc. combined.

Your deity seems to worship death; at least, as is evidenced by the idolatry (crosses and thorn tiaras).

The death of that one man, God's own son, resulted in the life of all men. And note that the one man who was executed to save you also healed the sick who would otherwise die, and raised ones who were already dead. And what's more, he didn't stay dead! Also note that death comes to all of us, although people today seem to think they're somehow immune.

Very much similar; they all reject each other.

On the contrary, the Muslims consider Jesus to be a prophet, and he is revered in their religion. The Jews consider him "a Jewish boy who did well" (no citation, a Jew told me that). It isn't the religions that reject each other, it's the people practicing those religions. And even non-Abrahamic religions, such as Bhuddism, hold the same moral values that say stealing, killing, slandering, adultery, are wrong.

I can formulate predictions

So can a computer, but a computer isn't sentient. And note that computer predictions are often better than human predictions. Note that the computer in the linked story was a 1952 Univac, and as the text notes, "a musical Hallmark greeting card has more computing power."

Obama never said WEEKLY. He said $40 per paycheck for a family that earns 50,000.

Do the math. That's biweekly. Most people get paychecks biweekly. Duh.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/12/obama-40-can-make-all-the-difference-in-the-world/1

All the news stories got it right.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/putting-a-human-face-on-the-payroll-tax-numbers/

I don't personally know anyone who has an iPad, but I know plenty of people who bought netbooks in 2008 and wouldn't be able to afford one now. And while I'm not saying at all that having an iPad or even a netbook should be a human right, I think it's misleading to say "consumers want tablets instead of netbooks" when the number of tablets sold are only 50-60% of what netbook sales were and still are (note the headline: "Sales of Tablet computers such as iPad outshine netbooks").

"When an account is suspended for violating the Google+ common name standards, access to Gmail or other products that don't require a Google+ profile are not removed," he said.

Can you source any of the "many reports" you said that indicate otherwise?

It's fundamentally no different than doing it to Jews or black people, there's no genetic sequence to identify those people either.

I don't know about Jews, because that's sort of a complex label. But you can absolutely tell ancestry from a genetic sample. "African descent" (what most people in the U.S. would call "black") is easy to discern from a DNA sample.

Law enforcement agencies have been slower to adopt using this capability because it's considered a political landmine to say (for example) that they know that a murdering rapist is black with only DNA evidence to go by. But it can be done, and it has been done. Here's an example:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-16-dna_x.htm

You can get eye color, hair color, and other traits too. The science is getting better.

That said:

Just because you disagree with something, doesn't make it the same as something else that you disagree with.

Eugenics is selecting based on inherited traits. You can object to both practices without them being the same thing. This organization is doing something that you may object to. But it's distinct from eugenics. That doesn't make it right (or wrong), just different.

An interesting primer on the subject:
http://www.radiolab.org/2008/dec/15/race-doesnt-exist-or-does-it/

I know podcasts can be a PITA because it's slower than reading, but it's worth a listen if you're at all interested in the subject.

Dont know where you get your numbers from.

USA Today: In 2009-10, average published tuition and fees for in-state students at public flagship universities in the U.S. are $8,353, compared to $7,797 at all public doctorate-granting universities and $7,020 at all public four-year institutions:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-10-20-college-costs_N.htm

Annual in-state commuter student tuition at state schools in my area

Delaware - about 11,500. http://www.udel.edu/admissions/finance/
NJ Rutgers - $12,755. http://admissions.rutgers.edu/Costs/TuitionAndFees.aspx
NY SUNY - $14,750. http://www.suny.edu/student/paying_tuition.cfm
Pennsylvania - 15,000 - 17,500. http://tuition.psu.edu/tuitiondynamic/rates.aspx?location=up

Evidences that it's different? NO? I didn't think so.

Evidence? Anyone who has spent 10 minutes caring about this issue knows there are significant differences. Let me save you a few keystrokes on Google and start with much deeper wells, moving from vertical wells to horizontal ones, and greatly increasing the amount of fluids used and waste generated.

Irrelevant i any case, there is no evidence fracking impacts any water supply.

You're a bit behind the times I'm afraid. Again, let me save you a trip to Google:

This information might have been out there for you years ago had Cheney not inserted his Haliburton exemption in his energy bill back in 2005.

I think Microsoft is the Devil, and should die. However, I'm not the one who's ignorant. I happen to be both old enough to have seen what they are made of, and I also happen have the capability to learn from history. A trait far too rare these days. Or maybe you're not really that ignorant, but rather just astroturfing? Let's not forget it's a traditional thing for Microsoft to do.

The reason college athletes have higher GPAs is they generally don't take demanding courses and often are taking the minimum credit load to be considered full time, whereas the folks taking engineering courses have a harder course load.

This may be true for some sports, but not for all.

Most people don't think of track when they think college sports. Most people think of the major pro sports like basketball, football, baseball, etc. For the actual statistics, I'll refer you to the USA Today study at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2008-11-18-majors-graphic_N.htm. I don't really like how they aggregated the date , but it is interesting to put your mouse over each block and see the individual college stats.

It really should be an embarrassment to the colleges that bill themselves as technical schools, that virtually none of their athletes have a technical major. Athletic scholarships are a travesty in my opinion. A scholarship should be based on your potential to excel at your chosen major and your financial situation. Not whether you'll give the school bragging rights for having a winning team (which encourages alumni donations).

What was old is new again.

In a few hours on Nov. 4, 1952, Univac altered politics, changed the world's perception of computers and upended the tech industry's status quo. Along the way, it embarrassed CBS long before Dan Rather could do that all by himself.

Computers were the stuff of science fiction and wide-eyed articles about "electric brains." Few people had actually seen one. Only a handful had been built, among them the first computer, ENIAC, created by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s.

In summer 1952, a Remington Rand executive approached CBS News chief Sig Mickelson and said the Univac might be able to plot early election-night returns against past voting patterns and spit out a predicted winner. Mickelson and anchor Walter Cronkite thought the claim was a load of baloney but figured it would at least be entertaining to try it on the air.

On election night, the 16,000-pound Univac remained at its home in Philadelphia. In the TV studio, CBS set up a fake computer -- a panel embedded with blinking Christmas lights and a teletype machine. Cronkite sat next to it. Correspondent Charles Collingwood and a camera crew set up in front of the real Univac.

By 8:30 p.m. ET -- long before news organizations of the era knew national election outcomes -- Univac spit out a startling prediction. It said Eisenhower would get 438 electoral votes to Stevenson's 93 -- a landslide victory. Because every poll had said the race would be tight, CBS didn't believe the computer and refused to air the prediction.

Under pressure, Woodbury rejigged the algorithms. Univac then gave Eisenhower 8-to-7 odds over Stevenson. At 9:15 p.m., Cronkite reported that on the air. But Woodbury kept working and found he'd made a mistake. He ran the numbers again and got the original results -- an Eisenhower landslide.

Late that night, as actual results came in, CBS realized Univac had been right. Embarrassed, Collingwood came back on the air and confessed to millions of viewers that Univac had predicted the results hours earlier.

In fact, the official count ended up being 442 electoral votes for Eisenhower and 89 for Stevenson. Univac had been off by less than 1%. It had missed the popular vote results by only 3%. Considering that the Univac had 5,000 vacuum tubes that did 1,000 calculations per second, that's pretty impressive. A musical Hallmark card has more computing power.

The UK embassy invasion was in reponse to the sanctions the UK recently placed on Iran. Iran had voted to expell the UK ambassador last week. Imo the embassy invasion could have been orchestrated by the more hard line factions of their political system to ensure there is no back down from the resolution.
Regarding the blowing up of the missile base, that would (imo) more than likely be by saboteurs - the US has declared (Mr Bush (Jr), continued by Mr. Obama) that they will fund and assist dissidents. Although stating it is not about regime change, I personally find that hard to believe.

Well, if give credence to the whole peer review thing, and acknowledge the fact that 97% of the world's scientists say it's real and caused at least in part by man:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-overwhelmingly-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/1

Then it's science.

In fact, I'd argue that it is deniers who are going for the faith based approach. Something like believing that hiding under the blanket will protect you from the monsters under the bed.

And 9 out of 10 Dentists prefer Oral-B.

> Northern Europe and Scandinavia.... both of which are doing pretty well

Scandinavia isn't a county, it's the northern European section which includes Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

So to translate what you said into English:
"Northern Europe and Northern Europe.... both of which are doing pretty well."

There are two automobile manufacturers in "Northern Europe" aka Scandinavia, both Swedish.
Saab is shut down.
Volvo is Chinese.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/07/european-makers-volvo-sales-up-42-in-june/1
Neither is unionized.

Best regards

E
P.S. Southern North America, the Southwest United States, and the State of Arizona are all three great places to live!

Well, if give credence to the whole peer review thing, and acknowledge the fact that 97% of the world's scientists say it's real and caused at least in part by man:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-overwhelmingly-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/1

Then it's science.

In fact, I'd argue that it is deniers who are going for the faith based approach. Something like believing that hiding under the blanket will protect you from the monsters under the bed.

The only people who're actually making money on outsourcing manufacturing are owners of businesses that do it.

If you have a retirement plan, you own a business.

I would at least know that my money goes to workers who work decent hours, get a decent pay, and aren't otherwise abused.

Yes, you will know the workers weren't abused in a traditional sense. However, workers in the US didn't always have the rights they do today. I doubt workers in the 3rd world will remain abused as well. These kinds of reform take time, and we are already seeing conditions improve.

I don't see why it's an either-or. I would rather see citizens of those countries working in jobs that supply their own, domestic market with goods that it needs - and it surely needs a lot.

If undeveloped countries could produce all of the goods they need, they would be called developed countries. They have goods they can't produce economically, so they produce the goods they can in exchange. Believe it or not, China does buy things from the US, despite the huge trade deficit.

What you're describing is, essentially, charity under the guise of a commercial operation.

It's not charity, it's economics. Why give away money in aid, when you can trade goods and services to benefit everyone? In the long run, it reduces costs to everyone, with a temporary loss in wages to the US. The Chinese economy will grow, and increase its demand for goods and services. This increase in demand will be met through importing goods from the rest of the world. The U.S. will have a massive new market to sell it's goods and services and the trade imbalance will vanish or even reverse!

You've really been smoking the hope, huh?

Ask any corporate bean counter about the cost savings (that is, stopping spending money) by going digital.

Here's the thing: the government? It's already all-digital in the places that make sense. Also, you apparently missed the "with Web 2.0 capabilities" bit in the fucking summary, which is a buzzword meaning "giant waste of money." But, hey, it's /., the summary is probably a bit off, right?

plans for improving or maintaining its records management program, particularly with respect to managing electronic records, including email and social media, deploying cloud-based services or storage solutions

Oh, so not so much. That's from the order itself, mind you!

No, this is an order that's going to waste a ton of money to not accomplish anything. The government already uses electronic records where it makes sense. Where it doesn't, they don't.

This tries to force government agencies to move "to the cloud" by executive fiat. It's a recipe for disaster and government waste.

And unlike the previous President, he hasn't been ruling by fiat, executive order and signing statement.

Yeah, not so much, actually.

... set up shop in Tijuana. .

The irony in this statement being that, as much as Mexico complains about US immigration laws, Mexico's immigration laws are much more strict. You do not want to be busted for illegal immigration in Mexico, especially if you're from border countries to the south of Mexico.

We need more engineers and less...

How are you measuring need?

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-07-08-science-engineer-jobs_N.htm

Yeah, a tyranny when children aren't forced to die of childhood ailments that are easily preventable because their parents are either misguided or outright ignorant.

I understand the slippery slope argument, but there has to be a line somewhere; we can't just let people do whatever they fuck they want to their children in the name of liberty. What about the liberty of the child? Using that logic, children are slaves to the whims of their parents, no matter what; their property to do with as they please. Clearly that's not the case; children have rights, too, and of those rights, the right to a safe and healthy childhood is paramount. Just as the state will not allow parents to beat their children, they will not allow their ignorance to be used as a legitimate reason to deny medical care. There is plenty of case law here in the United States that specifically reinforces these issues, and I expect Australia is no different.

The real question is whether the courts view denying vaccinations to be equivalent to denying proper medical care. This is a gray area, just like many aspects of raising a child. Most of the time the state takes the hands off approach you espouse. For instance, nutrition. Judging by the sheer number of morbidly obese children I see every day, and the growing obesity epidemic here in America, you tell me: Is it appropriate to allow a parent to let their child overeat to the point where they are extremely unhealthy? A child can't make this decision for themselves, and even if they could, there's nothing a child can do if their parents are morbidly obese themselves and refuse to change their own lifestyle. I see 8-year-old's in McDonald's that must weigh 100 pounds shoveling Big Macs in their mouths right alongside their 300 pound mothers and fathers and it kills me. What about religion? Is it right that a parent is allowed to raise a child like these kids in the Westboro Baptist Church?

While it bothers me that this shit goes on, I understand that personal liberty is important, and I agree that it's best that the government mind it's business as it were unless the cases are severe (although obviously severity is up to personal interpretation; the two linked videos fit my criteria for severe), vaccination is not just for the individual, it is for the group. Every parent that decides they don't want to vaccinate their child not only risks the life of their child but everyone they potentially come into contact with. There are people with compromised immune systems or other illnesses that would, but aren't able to, take certain vaccines, and because you just "don't trust it" for whatever random reason you have, your child could potentially facilitate their death. Measles, which has 60-70 cases a year typically, has 214 cases currently, due largely to unvaccinated children that could have otherwise been vaccinated.

I love how libertarians misuse the word "violence" to suit their arguments. Taxation is violence, vaccines are violence, blah blah blah. And then you wrap up your little rant there with the funniest/saddest thing I've read all day: "Because the anti-vax movement has already won thanks to people like yourself."

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-10-21/Unvaccinated-behind-largest-US-measles-outbreak-in-years/50852098/1

Yep, victory is yours. Congratulations!!! You idiots will have your 18th century paradise in no time!

Mythbusters did research trying to find one recorded incident of a single piece of wireless electronics causing an incident and couldn't find one.

And they went out of their way to try and cause interference, going so far as to send signals at unshielded, exposed wires and couldn't get anything. And a Congressional study couldn't find a single verifiable claim of interference. Please tell me that you have verifiable evidence that it is occurring.

http://travel.usatoday.com/experts/cox/story/2011-10-03/Ask-the-Captain-A-reader-challenges-in-flight-electronics-rules/50634340/1

First of all, that Snopes article again implies that Bush's statement about Iraq attempting to get yellowcake in some way implied that it was trying to get it from Niger and that it was already proved false. What Bush said was that British intelligence had recently discovered that Iraq was attempting to get uranium from Africa, a statement which the British government said was true after Joe Wilson published his article. Second, what exactly did Joe Wilson do to discover that Iraq had not attempted to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger? Well, he went to Niger and talked to some people over sweetened mint tea and they all told him that Iraq had not approached them to buy uranium. Why do we think they told Joe Wilson the truth?
Finally, I was not basing my statement on the uranium that was shipped to Canada (although, the Snopes article you link to does not actually make my statement false. It actually supports that statement by saying that, "Yes, yellowcake uranium was found in Iraq, but everyone knew about it long before 9/11."). My statement was based on a story about yellowcake uranium being found in a shipment of scrap metal sent to the Netherlands from Iraq after the war.

Cancun is great? Are you referring to the times when the cartel aren't randomly shooting up tourist attractions in the area? http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010/08/cancun-bar-mexico-travel-safety/110694/1

That I thought I read about 3 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/us/30grease.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2008/0506/p01s03-usgn.html
http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2008/05/restaurant_kitchen_grease_thef.html
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/2884/california-cop-is-arrested-for-grease-theft/

And last year
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-09-29-restaurant-grease-thieves_N.htm

But apparently has been around much longer, maybe even before the Simpsons episode (1998)
http://www.salon.com/2000/11/06/grease_wars/

Appeal to authority works in the other direction too, you know. Especially when the source in question was just reporting on the release as published by NASA.

Yeah, whatever. NASA's just part of the leftist lamestream media, amirite?

CO2 outpaces worst-case scenarios yet the heat doesn't show up.

I can't tell if you're trolling, or if you're actually that fucking ignorant.

Perhaps the computer models were wrong*. [* actually, computer models give you whatever result you want if you tweak them the right way, so they technically, they gave the 'right' results]

Likewise, climate models are designed to simulate the physicsof the global ecosystem, and not just perform statistical regressions.

Perhaps next time you might consider having the slightest fucking clue of what you're talking about before joining a discussion with adults?

However, these aren't made up:
1/3 of Americans believe in UFOs

Congressional approval rating

Let's rename the war on terror to be more accurate too ...

Virtual strip-searches, ball-fondling, never-ending but ineffectual id checks, forcing women to drink their own breast-milk, arbitrary rule enforcement, making everyone go bare-foot, singling-out people by the clothes they wear, forcing people to remove nipple rings with pliers, torturing injured flyers, making people piss on themselves, the list is practically endless.

And yet the TSA hasn't caught a single terrorist.

But they sure are doing a bang-up job of destroying human dignity. Therefore I say we rename the War on Terror to The War on Dignity.

If by "these devices" you are referring to the body scanners, they were first installed in a few airports under Bush, and the roll-out has just continued during Obama's term. I'm not sure what you mean by "dem TSA" and "dem DHS" since those are not elected officials and they don't seem to have changed much from Bush to Obama and from Dem to Rep congress.

But then how could some representatives bribe others by adding subsidies for spinach in a war funding bill. I really wish that stuff like this was a joke but it isn't.

The last of the 9 Megaton yield warheads from the US nuclear arsenal was just dismantled last week*, and the largest remaining US weapons have a maximum 'dial-a-yield" of "only" 1.5 Megatons each. Before that, we shut down the W64 model in 2010, and various others under President Bush (43's) administration. If we're going to drag President Obama into this, he just kept another campaign promise AND showed consistency with a position he took ever since his college thesis, and one that most of the public and just about all the experts agree with.

And to get this thread back on topic - Of course judges consider intent. Without intent, murder becomes mere manslaughter. I favor changing some of the laws regarding copyright and downloading issues, but I don't expect judges to not consider whether the intent of a website is to facilitate breaking the law or not. I would much rather see good clean victories for people whose goals include supporting legally protected actions, and judges who have to consider whether there is legitimating intent even if some people misuse the technology, than see a strange distortion of law where judges suddenly can't consider intent at all.

*at a Pantex plant in Texas:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-25/nuke-bomb-disassembly/50901152/1

That's both technically true and so completely misleading that it is effectively a bald-faced lie. Here are some facts:

• The "one or two exceptions" includes the U.S. multi-person dose of seasonal flu shots to this day (Source: CDC.
• These days, about 43% of U.S. adults get the flu shot (source: USA Today)
• I can't find any reputable source to indicate what percentage of people get their flu shots from a multi-dose (thimerosal-laden) container. However, several anti-vaccine sites say 90%, and I'm inclined to suspect that this is in the ballpark given that in many years of getting flu shots from multiple sources, I've never seen a single-dose container.

Thus, more than a third of U.S. adults get a shot containing thimerosal in any given year. That's about ninety million people. Admittedly, that's only about 2% of the adults on the planet, but again, that's 2% every year.

The CDC is working to try to eliminate thimerosal from the flu vaccine, but it hasn't happened yet, and probably won't happen for several more years (at least).

-All video content confiscated except four frames from the many surrounding the pentagon?
---Actually, more has been released. There's really not much to see. You have some low fps cameras trying to catch a fast-moving object. The Pentagon missile theory breaks down under its own weight. I mean, if the evil conspiracy had already lobbed two planes at the WTC, why would they bother doing so much to make it look like a plane at the Pentagon instead of just lobbing another plane at the Pentagon? // Oh, you mean ALL of four frames released in 2006? What about the other dozen or more cameras that could certainly show an approach or something? We have been shown nothing of significance, so why hide the rest? No idea why they do what they do in regard to plane/missle/fighters ... but I do know there is not good reason to deny access to the hundreds of frames confiscated by the FBI.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-16-pentagon-video_x.htm

-All evidenciary building materials confiscated and destroyed at the crime scene around the trade center plaza?
---There was plenty of debris that was later taken back and tested. NYC was in a bit of a hurry to get that massive pile of rubble cleared out. // As if they expected to rebuild immediately so we could forget our loss? That hole sat ages before they really cleaned it up. Additionally they decided to make a new battleship to help us forget. The whole remove it to forget it argument does not hold up.

-First steel framed high rise buildings in history to collapse due to fire (and a near free fall collapse I may add)
---First steel-framed high-rise building (with a rather unique design) to have massive jumbo jets filled with fuel slammed into them, too. // So, you have looked at the floor plans and still think it was a "hollow box" design? First of all the building was designed to take a hit from an even heavier plane, with four engines not just two. The fuel burned off and is not capable of enough heat to generate the molten steel found in the wreckage, and remaining fires were oxygen starved mostly (See smoke for this). You can't really believe that a building with a core of steel girders running vertically could just collapse straight down into itself, do you? Almost 50 columns of steel 52"x22" and the upper ones still 36"x12".
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/groundzero/docs/jfk_column_s.jpg

-WTC Tower #7 reported as collapsed 20 minutes prior to actual collapse.
----DERP because the media was in on it DERP! The BBC knew, right? No. Misinformation as the fire chief had pulled everyone out of WTC7 and said there was a collapse zone around it. This is one of the more idiotic conspiracy bits because it makes no sense to tout it. It was miscommunication and nothing more. Claiming that BBC an/or the NYC fire department was somehow in on it is absurd, but that doesn't stop conspiracy nuts from flinging every piece of dookie they can find at the wall, now does it? // "BBC in on it?" No, but they were given information to report from someone. They had a source for that and just like the whole farce with NORAD and FAA, you can't just say, "Oh, we're sorry ... that is just a misunderstanding." Too many coincidental misunderstandings in one day I would say.

-NORAD rendered useless due to coincidentally occurring training exercises.
----And training exercises happen all the time. // Yes, and the most well equipt and best trained air force on the planet is bourght to it's knees (Once again coincidentally) because on this specific day nearly EVERYONE is playing wargames and not on duty? You are a real piece of work, slashdotters used to be thinkers ... go back to your xbox.

-Bush remaining in publicly known location despite the, "attac

Rebuttal and video of the review

I suppose that many flowers will look different, as well as the plumage of many birds, which have UV color patterns that humans usually do not see:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/aaas/2002-01-03-budgies-glow.htm
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cockatiel_under_blacklight.jpg
http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_ARNI_ANG.html
http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_LATH_PRA.html
http://i.livescience.com/images/i/7881/i02/fish-uv-pattern-100225-02.jpg?1296089823

There are a number of species of animal that can see ultraviolet light, and a number of plant and animal species have evolved to take advantage of this. Parrots are known for having UV patterns in their feathers, butterflies use UV patterns to communicate with each other, and most flowers have UV patterns to attract insects. Some fish-eating birds use UV light to help identify fish underwater.

So if you are truly able to see UV light, you should be seeing a very interesting world!

the base insurance which covers a LOT but not everything (the basics real medicine is covered for ill or injured people, the fruity stuff less and less) is going up from 1107 euro this year to 1211 euro for the next year.

Average rate is now almost $5,000 USD per year. Yay America!

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm

There are people with class-action suits against EA for their monopolistic practices with NFL and NCAA football licenses. This would end people suing them for that, assuming that it's valid and legal to have this sort of thing in a ToS.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/04/class-action-suit-over-ea-football-games-charges-forward/1