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My parents gave me a Coleco Quiz Wiz game in the late 1970's. The trivia book had 1,001 questions with an electronic keyboard that could plug into different trivia books. I went through three trivia books before I discovered that I had a memorized the answers for all 1,001 questions, which were identical for all the trivia books. In fact, you don't even need a trivia book. You could punch in the same numbers and letters to get the correct answer. I threw it away in disgust because I expected the answers for each trivia book to be different. As an adult who have gotten back into electronics as a hobby, the circuits in many electronic games from that era were quite simple to implement repetitive game play.

https://steveffisher.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/retro-coleco-quiz-wiz-computer-game/

Far too much hype (from the media, the FAA and a bunch of pilots who realize that drones may eventually take their jobs). How about we consult a real "straight shooting" former US military pilot who now works for a major US airline as a passenger jet Captain?

Airliners vs drones, calm down

I think this guy (who puts his life on the line every day) is a far more credible source of information than a bunch of FAA bureaucrats and a media focused on creating click-bait headlines.

I find the info quite aggressive agains WP, the plugin indeed has been banned, and before this second post...

So; wordpress reacts to bad publicity not to threats to their users. That's actually worse than if they did nothing because if they did nothing we'd hear about it all the time whereas now the questions are, "What else did Wordpress manage to close down just before it got written about on Slashdot? What else is Wordpress hiding?"

Somewhere there are wordpress users who have installed this and either have not yet had their credentials stolen or have not yet had them used against them. Notifying their users should be the top priority. This should be front page on their site. This should be the top news on their blog. There is nothing there. Wordpress is still hiding things and letting down their users. This posting is not nearly aggressive enough.

Wordpress.com is very different than the community wordpress.org, one is a commercial entity that offers free and paid hosted wordpress services and the latter is the upstream/open source wordpress community that offers wordpress for self-hosting.

Neither of these entities are responsible for or have any control over 3rd party plugins like the one mentioned in the article. This would be like blaming Microsoft for someone releasing Win32 shareware that hijacked credentials.

I find the info quite aggressive agains WP, the plugin indeed has been banned, and before this second post...

So; wordpress reacts to bad publicity not to threats to their users. That's actually worse than if they did nothing because if they did nothing we'd hear about it all the time whereas now the questions are, "What else did Wordpress manage to close down just before it got written about on Slashdot? What else is Wordpress hiding?"

Somewhere there are wordpress users who have installed this and either have not yet had their credentials stolen or have not yet had them used against them. Notifying their users should be the top priority. This should be front page on their site. This should be the top news on their blog. There is nothing there. Wordpress is still hiding things and letting down their users. This posting is not nearly aggressive enough.

Wordpress.com is very different than the community wordpress.org, one is a commercial entity that offers free and paid hosted wordpress services and the latter is the upstream/open source wordpress community that offers wordpress for self-hosting.

Neither of these entities are responsible for or have any control over 3rd party plugins like the one mentioned in the article. This would be like blaming Microsoft for someone releasing Win32 shareware that hijacked credentials.

I find the info quite aggressive agains WP, the plugin indeed has been banned, and before this second post...

So; wordpress reacts to bad publicity not to threats to their users. That's actually worse than if they did nothing because if they did nothing we'd hear about it all the time whereas now the questions are, "What else did Wordpress manage to close down just before it got written about on Slashdot? What else is Wordpress hiding?"

Somewhere there are wordpress users who have installed this and either have not yet had their credentials stolen or have not yet had them used against them. Notifying their users should be the top priority. This should be front page on their site. This should be the top news on their blog. There is nothing there. Wordpress is still hiding things and letting down their users. This posting is not nearly aggressive enough.

I find the info quite aggressive agains WP, the plugin indeed has been banned, and before this second post...

So; wordpress reacts to bad publicity not to threats to their users. That's actually worse than if they did nothing because if they did nothing we'd hear about it all the time whereas now the questions are, "What else did Wordpress manage to close down just before it got written about on Slashdot? What else is Wordpress hiding?"

Somewhere there are wordpress users who have installed this and either have not yet had their credentials stolen or have not yet had them used against them. Notifying their users should be the top priority. This should be front page on their site. This should be the top news on their blog. There is nothing there. Wordpress is still hiding things and letting down their users. This posting is not nearly aggressive enough.

What's the differene between building a mine and the European Central Bank's current policy? Fiat inflation - you heard it here first.

Control.

Central control by an unaccountable bureaucracy. That does not sound like a good thing to me.

The US was on the gold standard until around 1972. The only thing surprising is that the subsequent fiat system has exceeded the average lifespan of fiat currencies. Central authorities controlling currency will always try to extract more value out of it, even when it is backed by precious commodities. The difference is that when the greed of the controllers overwhelms the system and causes it to collapse, the people actually have some value they can extract. You don't have that option with fiat currencies.

And items that were classified had their classification removed before being emailed per Hillary's instruction. She had her staff / interns scan/fax shit, remove the designation, and then email it. When it hit her email it wasn't marked classified. It's the equivalent of painting over a handicapped parking spot then parking on it.

You have evidence for this claim? Perhaps a link?

An image of the email in question, from Hillary. The text says: "If they can't, turn into non paper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure." Technically, that's a federal crime punished by 10 years in prison.

Citation required. To go stereotypical, Asians consistently outperform other groups having similar (low) incomes. The common cultures associated with each minority group however, have very different priorities regarding the value of education.

Minimum wage is a band aid measure, a rather crude one at that, to create a society where everybody is doing $something 39.5 hours per week

Minimum wage and public aid were a great system for the 1900s. I don't call out minimum wage and public aid as bad because they're outdated; I call them out as bad because we have new factors. The new factor approaching us looks a lot like the Industrial Revolution, and I know how to navigate that safely. I also know my solutions would have been inappropriate until very recently.

As we know, unions never work in the real world.

Trade unions were an excellent device in a world where labor laws were weak and the economy was too volatile and too poor to sustain sweeping policy changes. Today, they're sort of a wash: unions are hateful, spiteful, ineffective things come to distort our economy and slow progress; they also *sometimes* help the worker.

The United Auto Workers union kept many Ford factories open when Ford had no demand for cars, and so Ford paid lots of money to literally tens of thousands of benched workers sitting around doing nothing. That cost amortizes across the cost basis of each vehicle--their wage costs become part of the basic labor cost of making a car, even though they're not physically involved--and so the price of vehicles must increase, and the consumer buying power decreases. This impact, across all American auto makers, was a huge driving force for the early 2000s auto manufacturer bail-outs.

We see that the unions kept some people in jobs, but we ignore that the general increase in goods and the tax cost (which comes out of consumer pockets eventually, somehow) reduced the ability of the consumer to *create* other jobs: we experienced a recession, and many of those jobs were lost because others kept their jobs and produced nothing. It's not one-to-one: we paid people (buying power) and they produced nothing (non-productive labor time), so less stuff was made per dollar spent and less stuff was made per person in population, thus dollars bought less and people had less. That means we were poorer, which means we had less ability to sustain jobs, which means more unemployed. 50,000 benched workers drawing a paycheck means 60,000 unemployed somewhere else.

Again: it's sort of a wash. I don't know if the unions absolutely must go because they're toxic, or if they're still a benefit to the population as a whole (not just the rich or the poor). I want to move power into the hands of the individual. I don't want to discourage work; I want economic freedom. I want the ability to not work and to survive--miserably, maybe, but with a roof over your head and good food in your stomach--without penalizing everyone else for a bleeding-heart utopian fantasy. No massive taxes, no taxing the rich to death because "they don't need all that money"; just the power to walk away if your employer is an asshole. I firmly believe that will outweigh the power of trade unions, and that any remaining need we have for them will evaporate immediately.

I've heard a number of curious stories through the years about friends of co-workers who live entirely off government benefits already. Usually the story goes that they get bored and want to do something, so they apply for some jobs, do a few interviews, and ultimately walk away from the employment market for one simple reason: if they were to take any jobs that had been offered to them, their benefits would evaporate.

It's called a welfare trap.

A citizen's dividend or universal guaranteed income seems like the perfect answer to both problems.

That's the point. I saw the UBI thing and wrote a competent plan, instead of an ideal. I drew up goals, risks, and strategies. I dug into the Federal Government's spending and finances. I invented new

You'd probably enjoy this. If you don't know of it already.

Just imagine the babies.

Furries everywhere are cheering and masturbating.

This is year 7 of the Obama train wreck

Interesting comment. I'm not American so take this with a grain of salt. But what stick do you use to measure train wreckedness?
This little graphic seem to indicate it hasn't been as wrecky as you believe?
https://rationalopinionsblog.f...

You have to admit, the last guy was a lot worse.

> Let me know when I can use an Apogee or Apollo or Avid interface with a Linux box.

Some Apogee products are USB audio compliant, so they are plug-and-play and always have been. Other Apogee products started getting Linux support five years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Apollo? Sure thing:
https://thecrocoduckspond.word...

Some professional "hardware" runs on embedded real-time Linux - all that DAW functionality isn't done by tubes anymore, there's an OS inside that workstation. And that OS is not Windows.

You will want to download a real time kernel and use Jack, not Alsa, for professional audio work.
 

Stop working for shitty salaries in overpriced cities and the executives running these corporations will stop expecting people to ruin themselves in order to bloat the executive bonuses.

When you're staring at the want ads, on line job sites, the newspaper jobs section and anything else you can think of to find a job because you graduated 5 months ago and you're still looking for something that pays more than minimum wage, you notice something very disturbing. There are literally thousands of job postings for minimum wage jobs, and almost no postings for anything that would be considered middle class or up (maybe 1 listing in 20). Just because we have low unemployment doesn't mean that underemployment isn't rampant as hell. Sure there are plenty of other places to work, but they all pay the same crap starvation wages. Starbucks still pays the same crappy wage so that those fortunate enough to have found a solid job don't have to pay too $4 for a latte (ohhhhh, never mind, they charge that much anyways). So, all of these employees on the bottom decide to collectively have themselves a strike. What would it accomplish? The powers that be just ride it out and wait 3 weeks. Those employees will be back, and willing to do absolutely anything because, as this person so ineloquently stated, no money, no eat.

The basic trouble with the labor market, is that workers do not have the luxury of simply not engaging in the market if the terms are unfair. The employer can file chapter 11 and shut their doors, or can wait out a strike, or can simply fire the employee and get another one. In short, they have options. The employees however are stuck with the tyranny of having a stomach and an undeniable need to put food in it with shocking regularly. In short, they have no options.

What happens at the negotiating table when one party A needs party B, but party B doesn't need party A? Party A gets hosed. The free market theory requires that all parties have the option not to take part if the deal is not in their best interest. With the labor market, that is not the case. Workers must earn money or die. Whether the employers know that when they set wages is irrelevant, as they take advantage of it to offer minimum wage jobs nonetheless.

12.7% of American workers make less than $10 per hour. 51% of American workers make less than $14.50 per hour. That means that the average American employee will not earn more than $14.50 per hour until they are 40 years old.

Since 1980, median individual income has risen from $20,500 per year to $27,000 per year, an annual increase of about 0.8% per year. Over that same period, inflation has averaged 3.37%. after 35 years of that, buying power is only 28% of what it used to be, and wages are only up 31%. This means that the total buying power of the median wage today is only 36% of the median buying power in 1980. In effect, wages have fallen to 1/3 of what they were in 1980. This is partly offset by a massive increase in the number of women who are working (2 income households), as well as a marked increase in the number of hours that individual employees are working.

As if that wasn't enough, we are fast approaching a debt crisis, as our debt to GDP is quickly approaching the highest in American history. We have been giving out massive tax break to the wealthy for almost 40 years, and financing it by going into nati

Senator Richard Burr is a well known North Carolina Dick.

He began his career as a clown, and is rapidly going downhill.

To best understand his world view, take this photo and add a small Hitler moustache.

If you are especially proud of your artistic ability, you might want to share it with him.
 
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While still not having the cojones to post under your own name. Guess what... that's dishonest. When you have an account but hide behind Anonymous Coward.

Fascinating. If Jane/Lonny weren't a psychopath, he might be able to recognize that not logging when debating someone who desperately tries to suppress speech he doesn't like is (at least) less dishonest than a man logging in as a woman and trying to convince everyone that he's a woman. But Jane/Lonny can't recognize that, can he?

"The psychopathic tendency to not care about the consequences of their actions, no matter how badly they affect others, can be linked to their "remarkable ability to rationalize their behavior,"

And why do you feel it necessary to lie? You still haven't answered that question. Strange, isn't it? 4 years ago someone else accused you of lying by "quote-mining" out of context. It is very clear that is exactly what you did. And there is no doubt it was you, because it's the same Blogger account and others referred to your account here on Slashdot by name.

That's not what I referred to. The comment I referred to was on a different site.

Where? Link?

Hardly surprising that the ‘Australian Foreign Affairs Says UN Assange Ruling Not Binding’ when Australian laws enforced by authorities appointed by Australian governments aren’t even considered to be legally binding. An example being the false records of Australian newspapers published fraudulently sold by Australian state & national public libraries as authentic ‘archives’ of newspapers published. – The sale of false records as authentic archives is not a crime according to Australia’s Consumer protection law enforcement authorities. The fake archives assist to conceal Australian government[s’] [of both political parties], law enforcement and news media crimes, maladministration & corruption. News articles published have been erased or altered for the false records. UK PM Cameron & his government considers the assistance Ecuador has provided to Assange as worthy of a UK Foreign Office official diplomatic complaint but is silent on the evidence of fake ‘archives’ of newspapers being imported from Australia [sold by British Libraries UK London] & not worthy of any complaint. The UK’s & Australian governments share the common circumstances of being dependent on Murdoch news media to be elected. The Australian crimes, corruption & maladministration concealed by fake newspaper archives (of national significance & costing billions of dollars) concern events in the state of South Australia where Rupert Murdoch began his media empire with the first newspaper he ever owned & where he maintains a newspaper publishing state monopoly. More information & documents [the evidence] at https://rjrbtsrupertsfirstnews... UK PM Cameron, who has decided to renege on his commitment to proceed with the Leveson [Part 2] Inquiry into UK media crimes, is capable of asking his friend Rupert Murdoch about his involvement in his news media's concealing serious crimes by the use of fake 'archives' of his newspapers published, but appears reluctant to do so, preferring to betray citizens of the UK. The BBC, being merely a representative of the UK government & not independent, has no objections to the deception of UK taxpayers.

There's nothing to stop them from charging him at any point, except that they're nowhere near having a case against him. Obviously I'd agree that if they did charge him then taking him into custody would be another matter. Remember, taking refuge in an embassy does not prevent criminal charges from being made against you. However, I'll remind you that he is wanted for questioning and skipping bail, not because he has been found guilty of one of the four original charges (the other three have already been dropped as being pretty blatantly false).

Other countries have different legal processes. This is what stops them from charging him. He is wanted for arrest. The High Court judgment makes this clear - see paragraph 142 for the statement from the Swedish prosecutor.

The US repeatedly confirms that a criminal national security investigation into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is ongoing; this is not a conspiracy, its wide out in the open. They have already sentenced Chelsea (Bradley) Manning to 25 years for parting with the information that Wikileaks disclosed, so its safe to say at the very least in some kind of happy skippy rainbows and unicorns world that he would be detained for questioning if he entered US juristiction.

Sweden isn't part of the US jurisdiction though. Fantasies of rendition aside, there's no reason to think that he'd be extradited to the US from Sweden. If the US wanted him they'd have applied for extradition from the UK - they've already shown to be willing to do this (e.g. Richard O'Dwyer). For a legal extradition from Sweden they'd need the UK to approve anyway.

I didn't expect to convince you of anything. I did want to show other people what kind of person you are, and that I was right about you all along.

According to Lonny Eachus, that's dishonest. You don't want Lonny Eachus to think you're a dishonest woman, do you?

Thanks for so easily handing me the opportunity.

The opportunity to show that your accusations are just blatant psychological projection?

And why do you feel it necessary to lie? You still haven't answered that question. Strange, isn't it? 4 years ago someone else accused you of lying by "quote-mining" out of context. It is very clear that is exactly what you did. And there is no doubt it was you, because it's the same Blogger account and others referred to your account here on Slashdot by name.

Fascinating! Jane accuses Layzej of lying by quote-mining out of context and claims "no doubt" that was Layzej's comment because others referred to his account here on Slashdot by name. And yet Jane can't bring himself to quote the comment which referred to Layzej's account and led Jane to his "no doubt" conclusion. Odd, isn't it? Especially since Jane's entire accusation revolves around quote-mining out of context. Let's see that comment:

As Al points out below, layzej reads like a “false flag” comment, an attempt to post lies about WUWT in hopes that others will take the bait, and then be used to discredit the climate realist community. There is a layzej at slashdot who seems to be a climate realist – I suppose this “layzej” here could be a spoof meant to discredit the original as well.

Possibiity B is that layzej decided what’s an acceptable strategy for the Romney campaign is good for everyone else to do. That would be a mistake, but it’s interesting that a comment to a blog post is being held to a higher ethical standard than the campaign for the likely Republican nominee.

Isn't that fascinating! The comment that led Jane to "no doubt" that Layzej is quote-mining out of context actually says "this “layzej” here could be a spoof meant to discredit the original as well."

Jane, are you trying to show everybody that your accusations are just blatant psychological projection, or are you just so far gone that you can't even recognize that that's what you're doing?

I didn't expect to convince you of anything. I did want to show other people what kind of person you are, and that I was right about you all along.

According to Lonny Eachus, that's dishonest. You don't want Lonny Eachus to think you're a dishonest woman, do you?

Thanks for so easily handing me the opportunity.

The opportunity to show that your accusations are just blatant psychological projection?

And why do you feel it necessary to lie? You still haven't answered that question. Strange, isn't it? 4 years ago someone else accused you of lying by "quote-mining" out of context. It is very clear that is exactly what you did. And there is no doubt it was you, because it's the same Blogger account and others referred to your account here on Slashdot by name.

Fascinating! Jane accuses Layzej of lying by quote-mining out of context and claims "no doubt" that was Layzej's comment because others referred to his account here on Slashdot by name. And yet Jane can't bring himself to quote the comment which referred to Layzej's account and led Jane to his "no doubt" conclusion. Odd, isn't it? Especially since Jane's entire accusation revolves around quote-mining out of context. Let's see that comment:

As Al points out below, layzej reads like a “false flag” comment, an attempt to post lies about WUWT in hopes that others will take the bait, and then be used to discredit the climate realist community. There is a layzej at slashdot who seems to be a climate realist – I suppose this “layzej” here could be a spoof meant to discredit the original as well.

Possibiity B is that layzej decided what’s an acceptable strategy for the Romney campaign is good for everyone else to do. That would be a mistake, but it’s interesting that a comment to a blog post is being held to a higher ethical standard than the campaign for the likely Republican nominee.

Isn't that fascinating! The comment that led Jane to "no doubt" that Layzej is quote-mining out of context actually says "this “layzej” here could be a spoof meant to discredit the original as well."

Jane, are you trying to show everybody that your accusations are just blatant psychological projection, or are you just so far gone that you can't even recognize that that's what you're doing?

As Michael Chrichton pointed out once, it's odd that Nasa changed the 1880 temperature chart after publishing it.

I couldn't find a good link, but this blog covers it pretty good:

https://stevengoddard.wordpres...

I'm not saying that global warming, or climate change, or whatever you want to call it doesn't happen. I'm just a bit sceptical about the "Either you are with us or you are against us"-mentality of it all.
Let's do what we can to compesate and at the same time be open to information for all sides.

It's more specific than that.

Now, do you know what happened at the point where those lines diverged? Did your school ever cover what Tricky Dick Nixon did to screw everyone over?

-jcr

And everyone warmist knew that the so-called "pause" was due to a series of mild La Niñas following the extra-strong El Niño in 1998, but that didn't stop the denialists crowing over it.

Every record-breaking hottest year/month/whatever will be during a strong El Niño; that's obvious, as that's the hottest point in the ENSO cycle. What's important is that this El Niño-boosted January was hotter than every other El Niño-boosted January we've ever seen. Again.

We've had so many hottest-ever records recently that people are apparently getting blasé about them. Reminder: in the absence of a rising trend, record-breaking temperatures become steadily less common - each new record would require an ever-more unlikely confluence of factors to boost temperatures still higher than the last record.

A constant stream of highest-yet record temperatures is more than just weather; it's a rising trend.

No.

I'll take even your own example of a unicorn. IF I had only claimed 'a unicorn exists because I say so, but I can't be bothered to provide proof' - much like you do with your arguments - then one would have a point. However, if I link to a scientific paper stating unicorns do exist and why, then, when you still claim it's not true, it's for you to demonstrate the earlier conclusion is false - with counterarguments that are also verifiable. Saying you can't be bothered to read it, or that it's 'old data' doesn't cut it.

So the matter is not your preconceived idea about whether unicorns do or do not exist - which was what you were implying with the use of such an analogy - but whether it can be demonstrated by falsification whether it exists or not.

In the case of the stochastic nature of the weather, I already gave you the definition of stochastic - so no semantic discussion can arise -, I logically argued why the weather conforms to that definition, and I even gave you a link to a scientific paper which confirmed it.

your only answer basically is, that it isn't because you say so. and you can't link to any proof of what you say, because it isn't. that's a tautology. Since the paper claims differently, one can reasonably assume other papers would contradict it, if it were true, as you so vehemently keep insisting that it isn't. Well, then: I merely ask that you provide a link to sites or papers that show the opposite, and confirm your claim. Idem for the 'no need' for backup of gas/coal/oil plants.

And, here, I'll give you some more links that demonstrate the fact that renewables need backup of classical plants, ALSO in Denmark and Germany:

The 'hidden' coal plants are not hidden at all - if you bother to do some basic research before claiming something, that is. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). And of course they also have gas-fired power stations too. For the necessity of Denmark to rely on gasturbines/plants as backup: https://carboncounter.wordpres...
and for Germany: https://www.dissentmagazine.or... and https://www.bcgperspectives.co...

I'll even give the quote:

"Prices in 2023 may therefore be 10 to 20 percent higher than those in 2013. (See Exhibit 8.) Note that this calculation includes all applicable taxes and levies, including a “security of supply component” (hidden today in grid use fees) used to finance the development of sufficient backup capacity to cover peak demand hours that lack sufficient feed-in from renewables."

Note that, while it deals with prices, it mentions the fact that part of it is due to develop sufficient backup capacity. Ergo - let's use logic here - if there WAS NO NEED for backup, they wouldn't need to develop it, nor augment to prices for it. Hence, backup is needed.

And if you're still not convinced: http://energytransition.de/201...

I'll give you the relevant quote yet again:

"Essentially, Germany needs to have a dispatchable installed capacity at the level of its peak demand for the year, which is currently around 80 gigawatts and occurs on winter evenings – when the sun does not shine. A large part of that 80 gigawatts therefore needs to be built as dispatchable gas turbines."

Again: it is CLEARLY stated that gasturbines are needed as backup. Once again, the conclusion can only be that renewables ARE de facto, in need of backup. And they will always be, until one has developed storage-capacities that can cover long time-spans (several weeks at least). And I hve also already indicated in my first post

You're citing a truther page? As I said, not interested in discussing your crazy.

I don't really give a damn what you call it. I cited a website which has been signed off by over 2400 professional architects and engineers as being factually accurate.

That *IS* the expert scientific consensus on the matter. You have now confirmed your hypocrisy, and demonstrated that you don't care what the evidence is: if you don't like it you just put a pejorative label on it and deny it.

I knew that before, because I've seen you do it many times. But it's nice to have such crystal clear confirmation.

And why do you feel it necessary to lie? You still haven't answered that question.

Strange, isn't it? 4 years ago someone else accused you of lying by "quote-mining" out of context. It is very clear that is exactly what you did. And there is no doubt it was you, because it's the same Blogger account and others referred to your account here on Slashdot by name.

Isn't it interesting that I pointed out exactly the same behavior here, long before I knew that page existed? I wonder. Is it just some bizarre coincidence? Or a pattern? Maybe we should ask others to vote on it.

Anonymous: 'Re:Why os this on /. .. Has this got anything to do with the actual science of anthropology? and how do you pronounce SJW' link

Judith Shulevitz on the breathtaking inanity of college “safe spaces”

Alright. I think I understand now. I also figured I'd spend a minute and check with Google as my memory is sometimes a bit foggy but it turns out that I'm still remembering the suicide lane properly. I'm also recollecting the troubles properly. It does seem that there's a raised awareness about them but they still exist.

I figured, what the hell, and even went and got you a picture of one - if for nothing else than to make it a bit more clear. Link:
https://northfieldnomo.files.w...

That's a mild one. You see 'em in areas that have been built up and had room to expand or plan ahead. Sometimes, yikes, you see them with a total of five lanes! That's just crazy talk and every bit as dangerous as you might imagine. They're usually in urban areas, typically where there are a lot of stores, and that means a lot of distracted driving.

I don't usually like to say things in terms of absolutes so I'll couch this one too. I can't, off the top of my head, think of any situation where the suicide lane is the optimal solution. In any area and traffic level that I can think of where it would be borderline acceptable wouldn't have traffic enough to justify its use. I really can't think of one place where it is the optimal solution and I'm having to work hard to fabricate a situation where it's even borderline acceptable.

Ah well, I'm glad that you do *not* have to deal with a traffic design like the one in the picture. I do not know you personally but it'd still be unfortunate for you to have to risk it. It is one of the more dangerous traffic patterns out there and I was actually a bit worried/disheartened that the engineers had proposed it. I'd not even wish that sort of risk on even the resident trolls. ;-)

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That's a myth.

I just want the robots to be soft and squishy and look exactly like Isabel Lucas.

https://obxe.files.wordpress.c...

If you can't move your eyes at all, then I don't see how you can "attend" to anything. Vision isn't possible without continuous saccades, your eyes are always moving.

You can actually focus your attention on objects in your periphery without moving you eyes to it. In vision therapy there is an exercise where you stare fixedly at a dot in the center of the page while finding letters that are scattered throughout the page. You can actually do this with some practice, although it's not particularly natural. Here is the exercise:

https://visionhelp.files.wordp...

An interesting aspect of the test is that letters away from the center are printed much larger since the resolution of your vision drops sharply the further away you get from the fixation point.

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If you can't move your eyes at all, then I don't see how you can "attend" to anything. Vision isn't possible without continuous saccades, your eyes are always moving.

You can actually focus your attention on objects in your periphery without moving you eyes to it. In vision therapy there is an exercise where you stare fixedly at a dot in the center of the page while finding letters that are scattered throughout the page. You can actually do this with some practice, although it's not particularly natural. Here is the exercise:

https://visionhelp.files.wordp...

An interesting aspect of the test is that letters away from the center are printed much larger since the resolution of your vision drops sharply the further away you get from the fixation point.

Snow Bikes are a thing up here in Alaska.

> remember that she directed at least one aide to circumvent classified channels by manually retyping classified information, stripping it of its classification markings,

Uh no. She directed the aide to remove the classified parts of the document and the markings - because what remained was no longer classified - in order to be able to send it over unsecure channels. That is an utterly normal, if somewhat tedious process. Ever see a redacted classified document released through FOIA? That's exactly the same thing. It happens on a regular basis when unclassified information is generated on classified systems but needs to be available on unclassified systems.

Although I don't know where you got the "retyping" part - declassification procedures rarely require re-typing, just certification by a subject matter expert that the edited document does not contain any classified information.

Umm...Why would I be Satya? If you read my post history, I'm a pretty big critic of Windows Phone. It's biggest problem is that it's just not relevant...to anybody...And that starts with its UI. A few years back, somebody at Microsoft created this blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thinku...

It's a well written post, with a few wonderful examples of why information overload is bad. Even with their UI talent knowing information overload is a real problem, they go and create a UI that looks like this:

http://in4mactiondotcom2.files...

Now look at Android's stock UI, which has these variations depending on OEM:

http://images.techhive.com/ima...

After the Dark Ages, where the Church basically did their best to wipe out human knowledge and sanitize everything...

I was under the impression that it was rather the opposite. In reality the "dark ages" were neither literally nor figuratively dark. The name was given by Italians who were butthurt about not ruling the world anymore.

It also seems that Christianity (Catholic monks in particular) was responsible for preserving western culture, civilization, and knowledge during the "dark ages" not destroying it.

Even a gutter press site like Cracked seems to disagree with you on this matter.

Contrariwise, there's a lot of evidence that certain modern, "scientific", and atheistic governments have destroyed and censored knowledge (I've linked only a few obvious and famous examples but there are others).

How about getting him Tool's album Lateralus. It's concept is based on several mathematic principles. Though, this might be something you'd want to give him when he's older. https://scholarhero.wordpress....

For the edification of the Slashdot community, here is one of the women that's on his list of "hot conservative women":

"Debbie Schlussel"

https://blogomatica.files.word...

Here's another woman on his list demonstrating how hot conservative women are (trigger warning: If you're heterosexual, this photo may make your nuts shrivel up permanently):

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1793...

No. Stop being paranoid. Look at the chart. https://climatecrock.files.wor... The past is substantially warmed by the corrections. The trend is REDUCED by the adjustments.

Not so massive that you can see it though right? And keep in mind, those adjustments actually REDUCED the trend: https://climatecrock.files.wor...

Quite the opposite. The adjustments actually lowered the overall trend. Here you can see unadjusted and corrected reconstructions side by side. Notice that the two are virtually identical in recent history. https://climatecrock.files.wor...

https://soezooscope.files.word...

<southpark>Pixar did it!</southpark>

different means and different algorithms to convert that data into temperature

Right. Which one is correct? The GGP says that we should trust satellite reconstructions over ground station reconstructions because the satellite records agree with the unmodified surface station data. That is not true. The satellite records do not agree with surface station data. They do not even agree with each other. You know what does agree with the unmodified surface station data? The modified surface station data. They are indistinguishable over the satellite period: https://climatecrock.files.wor...

Here are corrected and the unadjusted data side by side. Both tell the same story: https://climatecrock.files.wor...

I have this thought about warming, and one of the causes.
1) The earth is gradually getting larger in diameter due to astroids and space dust
2) The earths spinning around its axis and around the sun is slower by one second per year than it was about 50 years ago.
3) Atmospheric sun screening (polution) is preventing the heated earth from radiating energy out to the solar system.

Yes, infinitesimal changes to 1),2),3) may be the real causes (combined) of Global Warming

Programming is not a building block.

Were you ever told to study or take notes in school? Do you know how to do either of those? Think before you answer.

Did you know organization aids in memorization? Did your teachers tell you rhythm and rhyme increase the ease with which you can learn something, or only leverage that fact, most likely thinking they were adding entertainment to keep a class full of distracted kids attentive?

Surely someone tried to feed you acrostics. Even engineers know this one.

What about mathematics? Are you still counting on your fingers and carrying the two? If you memorize your multiplication tables (by brute force) and practice using a Japanese 4/1 abacus, you can immediately compute arithmetic operations in your head. Memorize a simple system of numerical storage (Dominick's, Mnemonic Major, number shape, PAO) and use a digital computation algorithm and you can keep three registers straight while you compute infinite digits in any square root in your head faster than you can write or voice the numbers.

People think too much about goals and not about foundations. They also think children too stupid to understand anything complex, instead of thinking about how people think. You would think folks would say, "Hey, we can describe memory to children in great technical detail, because a child will stare at you blankly, think for about four seconds, and immediately recognize the mechanism you've described!" Instead they say, "Associative? You want to tell children memory is visual and associative? They're not going to understand that! It's too complex!" It's ludicrous; it's like claiming you can't tell a child teeth grind up food and wet it with saliva so it can safely transport down the esophagus to the stomach. They bite a chicken nugget, chew, swallow, and feel it move, and immediately understand what you're babbling about.

As a result, we don't teach children to learn. We force them to learn by whatever means necessary, but give them no tool to drive information into their minds. We don't teach them study methods, note-taking methods, or deliberate practice; we don't teach them any concepts of executive function or mnemonics; and we even avoid showing them highly-structured, systematic approaches to basic mathematics, under the assumption that children cannot handle structure and require a sort of free-play type of classroom learning.

Children need to start with a basic study of the mind. First a brief overview of memory in function, including a high-level overview of the neurology involved and an introduction to mnemonic devices, but excluding mnemonic systems. Then an explanation of leveraging human memory through systems of study and note-taking, like SQ3R and the Affinity Diagram device. These provide the easy foundation to ingesting new information.

Once you've transferred these, you can teach and apply deliberate practice and executive function. Deliberate practice is a method of technical, goal-oriented practice producing constant and immediate results: you recognize your weaknesses and focus on those, while trying to judge if you're improving. Executive function includes a broad array of loosely-related behaviors, notably in eliminating distraction, managing time, and orga

We don't have to go into the future: There never was a pause.

Check out the satellite data for lower tropospheric temperature, and the balloon dataset for correlation. These are both fairly robust measurements of temperature, in that urban heat island effect etc do not have to be 'adjusted' out (or not).

Yeah, do that and you'll notice (unless you are Ted Cruz) that they have been drifting apart for some years now. https://tamino.wordpress.com/2...

It's true that water vapor is the greenhouse gas that causes the most greenhouse effect but it's also true that water is present in all three phases of normal matter on the Earth and it easily transforms from one to the other. The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is strictly limited by temperature and to some extent by the availability of water to evaporate. If there's too much it precipitates out. And while there's a relationship between water vapor and clouds they are two quite different things when it comes to the greenhouse effect. Again the level of water vapor in the atmosphere is strictly limited by temperature. If we could magically reduce CO2 in the atmosphere to 200 ppm the cooling would cause the level of water vapor to also drop and pretty quickly we would be starting a new glacial period. Water vapor by itself can not drive climate change but is strictly a feedback of other things that do drive climate.

Nearly, but not quite. However, you do have an inkling of the idea - that temperature drives water vapor and that has a large effect on the climate. Now we have already established that the effect of CO2 on water vapor is negligible, with the low *OBSERVED* ECS and TCS.

We've already covered the effect of solar magnetic activity on cloud formation (and thus, climate) through the work of Dr Nir Shaviv and Professor Svensmark. Now you can learn more from the man who literally wrote the (post-graduate) textbook on atmospheric physics (although you probably cannot follow the math):
"Climate Scientist Murry Salby Demolishes the Global Warming Alarm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Climate Scientist Murry Salby Returns! - Presents NEW SCIENCE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ok, the optimum CO2 level from my point of view would be somewhere between 300 and 350 ppm, enough to conteract the slow cooling trend from changes in Milankovitch Cycles but not so much that it causes major warming. But it's still an irrelevant question.

Ah, here we have the reactionary wanting to head back to pre-industrial levels. Do you not understand that dropping the CO2 to this level will cut crop yields massively, and thus starve BILLIONS? as a zealot you don't care, right? the only thing that matters is your sanctimony and feeling of self-worth for propagating the warmunist groupthiink.

After the sea ice low minimum in 2012 (which was more than 2 standard deviations below the trend line) Arctic sea ice rebounded to slightly above the trend line in 2013. In science this is commonly called regression to the mean. 2014 ASI minimum was lower than 2013 and in 2015 it was the 4th lowest on record. None of the ASI minimums after 2006 are greater than the lowest records before 2006 (back to 1979 when the satellite measurements started).

And? What is magical about the cold year 1979? why is it superior to 2006? you don't know ! because there is no reason - apart from the fact you warmunists are the ultimate in conservative reactionaries. What matters is that the derivative of ice change is basically zero, with natural variability on top (dominated by wind effects, as it tuns out). You have no reason to worry about this - since the polar bears are increasing in number - but you are simply afraid of any change at all. It is irrational.

Baffin Island is really close to Greenland so it doesn't surprise me it shows similar trends. How about some records from Siberia, China, Chile or New Zealand?

Here is New Zealand - looks exactly the same as the USA
https://stevengoddard.wordpres...
And local bodies concur

No one ever cherry picked 1998. The comments I have always seen use 1997 as the start of the pause, with the El Nino year of 1998 the anomaly that it was.
Such as this graph I just pulled from some random site.
https://bobtisdale.files.wordp...

No one ever said we are not warming because "1998!!!!!!!".