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These sorts of tactics are going to bloat the pirate population, pass the rum me-hearty, y'aarrrrrrr.

Thank goodness! At least one major corporation is finally trying to do something about global warming.

and be touched by his noodly appendage

I noticed that "this" links to the flying spaghetti monster site.
People must be going "look at this" or similar.

No offense intended to believers ...

I've wanted to know about the reasons for ice ages since I first found out about them as a kid. To live in an age where scientific research is finally revealing their actual history - probable cause and effect over a timescale of hundreds of millions of years - is a joy and a privilege!

And so relevant to the concerns of our day and age ...
This is much more interesting and plausible than doctrinal handwaving!

SLM

The number of Pirates is inverse to the amount of Global Warming. Here's a link to a study: Global Average Temperatures vs. Number of Pirates.

we need pirates to prevent global warming?

Yes we do

It seems to me that this might conflict with the Environmental Science merit badge. After all, we all know that a lack of pirates is the main reason for global warming. Boy Scouts should be punished for not being pirates, and being a pirate should be a prerequisite to earning the Environmental Science merit badge.

Yes, I realize the article is not about a merit badge, and that environmental science is different than environmentalism

it's Flying Spaghetti Monster, you heretical infidel!

Awesome. This global warming trend sucks. The world needs more pirates.

http://www.venganza.org/

after all,
it has long been known that piracy is directly linked to global warming.
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

This is what virtually all climate scientists believe (and by "believe" I mean "have concluded from painstaking scientific research involving paleoclimatology, basic therodynamics, oceanography" etc...). Not "believe" as in "I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster."

As long as it's conceptually possible to come up with a falsifying experiment, even if it's wildly impractical, it's still a scientific theory. We may yet come up with ways to test the theory.

So, in other words...

You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

First, it was 'Talk Like a Pirate' Day, then Microsoft released an "IE Patch", and now we're discussing hooks? Sounds like we'll have that global warming thing reversed in no time!

Some salty lubbers have yet to be Touched by His Noodly Appendage. Tis right up there with grog, lootin' and pillagin' in my books.

Yar!

Yarrg. Thee be correct. This be a good marke'ing scheme for Pirates, but it be bad for global warming.

http://www.keeptothecode.com/12features.html

Does this mean we'll finally defeat global warming today?? (see http://www.venganza.org/)

The parent is not offtopic! I think the moderators didn't get the joke about the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion.

Oh come on. This SO needs a funny mod. For those that don't get it, http://www.venganza.org/ and scroll down a couple screens. There's proof.

You place it on me to give you all the information you want,
First of all, you are the one with a positive proposition, hence you are the one required to substantiate your argument. I know, science is hard because it requires evidence, something you don't have -- So you decide to attack with religous arguments and demand others who don't buy into your religion of the Greenhouse Effect being the root cause of temprature change to accept your "god given" commandments not to release CO2 into the air.

Actually as far as the flow of information has gone in this argument, it has gone from me to you.

Now I would like to point out an equally valid (perhaps even more valid) non-sun based global warming based theory. It is called The Flying Spaghetti Monster theory
http://www.venganza.org/
I would like to point out that this theory has more serious standing scientificially because it can show a correlation between Piracy and Global Warming as well as a cost effective solution such as encouraging Pircay as an occupation to High School dropouts as a way to fight both Global Warming and getting the kids to move out of the house.

when the greenhouse gas proponents show at least that level of critical thinking and analysis, I'll start giving what they are saying some creedence.

Oh, the fight is still ongoing and the pirates are definitely losing. As you can see here our efforts to raise the global temperature, thereby killing off pirates, as met with substantial success. Unfortunately for us, however, we will soon feel the lash of his noodly appendage for annihilating his chosen people.

Oh, the fight is still ongoing and the pirates are definitely losing. As you can see here our efforts to raise the global temperature, thereby killing off pirates, as met with substantial success. Unfortunately for us, however, we will soon feel the lash of his noodly appendage for annihilating his chosen people.

I agree.

All they seem to have is a weak correlation between the number of this gene and intelligence (which is arguable - I know some really dumb people) and as we've all learnt many times "Correlation does not imply causation."

Right! Correlational data is completely useless, because it could mean lots of things! I mean, it's entirely plausible that being intelligent causes you to have this gene. Or that some unmeasured third variable causes both. What are these hacks thinking even running this kind of study?

I for one vote on the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Well Mr. SmartyPants, think about it.

Have you seen any large wooden ships in the area? Seen any flags with skull and crossbones? Huh? Have you?

Still don't see it? Man, some scientist you'd make...

No drunken songs heard in the night? No parrots? Eyepatches?

Good God man, it's the PIRATES! There aren't any in the area, and haven't been for a while. It's scientific fact: the absence of pirates leads to global warming.

Don't pretend they didn't teach you this in school.

We need a *massive* pirate infusion here. I mean, invite them from madagascar or something. Just get enough pirates in there to balance the ecosystem.

And who exactly do you think lives in those buring trees in the Amazon? Pirates.

Which is exactly WHY they must be protected!

For those who believe that something in the sky created the earth in six days, and then created man from the sand and blew life into his nostrils, and then got pissed at the human race after awhile and flooded the earth except for one drunk who built a huge boat to house all male and female creatures, and then saved the life of a man by having a whale swallow him up, and then sent himself (his son) in the flesh to Earth to tell us that he doesn't really hate us anymore --- rather he loves us -- and then allowed him to nail himself to a tree to save our souls...

Praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Only a tiny minority of Americans will ever use the fact of the Earth revolving around the Sun in their lifetimes. Indeed, the vast majority of the American public will never deal with science directly in their working lives.

But it would help if the people in charge of regulating science and technology (hi there, Ted Stevens) had at least a basic understanding of what it is they're regulating. Since America is a republic, that means it would help a lot if the general public knew at least enough about science to know when the people we elect say things as dumb or dumber than "I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday."

The only difference is, most of the general MySpace-enabled population understands that Ted Stevens is a moronic jackass. But most of us have no clue how moronic the whole stem cell debate often is, not to mention evolution. If the general population understood enough about evolution, we wouldn't have the situation like Kansas where they are legislating this moronic "debate" into schools, so that we'll get a whole new generation of morons in Kansas who will ask for the same thing.

Anyone who finds validity in "Intelligent Design" should read about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and anyone who still doesn't get it either completely missed the point of FSM or is in denial.

Arrogant? Elitist? Maybe, but am I wrong?

User-created content is at the center of YouTube's web-2.0 pedigree: the idea that the "new" fluid Internet model will be based on user interaction and contribution.

It seems that this is presicely what is meant by how the internet is a World of Ends. As upload capability becomes more and more prevalent, it will become more representative of the global population. The question then becomes- Is this a good thing?

Shallow content, rumormonging, and misinformation will lead to a populace that is more popular, but will it be more true?

While the pr0n crowd gets its own category, it would seem those who use the Internet to illicitly acquire copyrighted materials would simply fall into a subcategory of the Obsessive, and not an important enough one to be mentioned in the article

Some of us work at universities and we call it research. We have these things called Fair Use exemptions.

Besides, everyone knows we have a severe lack of pirates, which is causing the current global warming crisis.

Bottom line is this, we went to the Moon! If you truly believe that it was a hoax, please read this - and then for the love of FSM, get off the ADD drugs and re-evaluate...

Are there Jedi (70k last time) and Pastafarian tick boxes?

I would love to see one of those graphs with 1600 "things" on it.

I'd imagine it would look something like this

Does anybody see what I see? Hmmm...

If they catch all of the pirates, Hong Kong could very well land themselves in some very hot water with the U.N. as this in no doubt aids in the proliferation of global warming

You're probably being facetious, but see The Church's homepage.

What about the simple and clear (~1) coorelation between number of users per OS and number of virus/malware/spyware/etc. targeting that OS. It's easy to tout your security numbers when you're 2% of the market. .......because GM cars are stolen 100000x more than Fiats in North America, is a Fiat more secure than a GM?

Now that I think of it, this entire article and the entire Windows vs. Macs argument is purely pirates and global warming. Once again evidence that His noodly appendage touches all facets of our lives. Repent!

For those unfamiliar with this important discovery, here's a link.

Okay, I'm not finding a cure for Alzheimer's, but at least I'm exploring the world of the Flying Spaghetti Monster with http://www.darwinathome.org.

I like this theory better: "You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature." http://www.venganza.org/

This is the alternative model. The rest of us know that such waves actually propogate via infinitely long strands of pasta.

But seriously - if things all point to a likely model, and nothing (rationally) points to an alternative, why kill yourself (and your budget) documenting hollow alternatives just so that you're sticking to academic form?

I always thought that globabl temperatures are inversely proportional to the number of pirates.

As a ninja, pirates are your mortal foe. So I blame you, Pancake Ninja, indirectly for the rise in the Earth's temperatures.

Your claims of IHOP expansions affecting temperatures are nothing more than FUD to distract people from your true role in global warming.

(P.S. Have you ever considered training monkies at your dojo?)

This should make the Flying Spaghetti Monster happy, anyway.

Sure, until you get into that whole "separation of church and state" thing...

;)

Pirates coming to America... Does this mean that global warming is starting to reverse itself?

The grandparent was inferring to http://venganza.org/piratesarecool4.jpg as part of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

This is nothing more than a couple of no-names who decided to set up a web page and call themselves a political party because they thought it was cool.

This should make the Flying Spaghetti Monster happy, anyway.

With that name they'll get the religious left on their side. As a Pastafarian I can state that by definition our religion will have to fully support the Pirate Party.