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I keep saying this, but a small European Country having really good stats, isn't the same as the USA having mediocre stats. Have you seen the size of the US vs Europe?

https://becovegan.files.wordpr...

However, since I don't have a list of countries that beat the US, my assumption is that at least some of them are european.

Was going to say this as well. Applies to just about anything. Look socialism/gun control/etc. works so well among these 100 people that all look and act the same, why can't it work in American?

I keep saying this, but a small European Country having really good stats, isn't the same as the USA having mediocre stats. Have you seen the size of the US vs Europe?

https://becovegan.files.wordpr...

However, since I don't have a list of countries that beat the US, my assumption is that at least some of them are european.

I've dealt with dozens of lightning strikes here in lightning prone South Florida.
Direct lightning strikes usually take out a Enet port on the switch and whatever is connected to the other end PC/laptop enet port.

Lost my laptop PCI cardbus bus devices, 1Gb enet, Wifi, memory card reader and a switch port on the other end.
Usually extra grounding, and multiple layers of surge suppressors/chokes protects my electronics.

Note: The ethernet spec, includes isolation requirements in the several Kilo Volt range. Thus something like this won't do much damage. You'll need something more like a HV stun weapon to do some real damage.

Partisans are so selectively forgetful:

https://swiftjonathan.files.wo...

So do you agree we need to arrest and charge everyone involved in climate science because the divergence between their predictions and the actual reality is quite extreme? It seems quite bizarre to me that you'd punish dissenters when all you have to do is compare reality with climate scientists predictions (almost all of which have turned out to be wrong so far). Just who is the denier in this scenario?

The denialists are already claiming that they are victims of a left-wing anti-capitalist conspiracy

It's true though isn't it. If you look at the major pressure groups and activist scientists involved in it, they're all pretty much anti-capitalist. The waters are somewhat muddied by big capitalist involvement, mostly through the desire to trade things like carbon credits.

As always all you need to do is follow the money: Scientific institutions want big government research funding so people who dissent tend not to get tenure. Financial services want big government subsidy and/or legislation to set up cap & trade markets they can wrap their tentacles around, green industries want subsidy for their uneconomic energy generation schemes and the big oil and gas producers outside of the west (Russia, Middle East) don't want countries without these resources to frack shale.

This is all notwithstanding the state of the "science" (I use that term in its broadest possible sense). If you look at the divergence between actual reality and climate models, it's easy to see how puffed up and overblown the whole thing is.

Does it look like bomb?

But there is nothing that could be an explosive.

if you are looking for a 'stick' or something for 'explosive', I'm afraid you;ll be walking away disappointed

Now, take a look at the power of C4 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The explosion showcased on the vid above only takes 400g of C4, something that can be fit inside the palm of a grown-up

Now, of course a real bomb for a classroom does not need 400g of C4. 100g is enough to cause real damage

Now, a pix of a REAL suitcase bomb which was designed to cause massive damage...

https://ellisonblog.files.word...

... and a pix of an IED
https://a.disquscdn.com/upload...

I do believe that overwhelmingly the people of Iran like the United States. Perhaps, folks have forgotten this

Iran did a candlelight vigil for 9/11 victims. And our president didn't even bother to acknowledge it. For all the shit that we threw at Iran, it was because of the U.S. it is a theocracy because of fucking oil. It was a liberal, western loving country at one point.

Mohamed said "I built the clock to impress my teacher. But he didn't "build" anything. Instead he took a working alarm clock out of it's cabinet and mounted the components into a pencil case (a small briefcase). Because he omitted a single step (he neither tied a detonator to the clock alarm wires nor packed the briefcase with explosives/shrapnel) it legally/formally is not a bomb. But it likely could be made a bomb in minutes.

He spoke of it as an "invention" but he almost undoubtedly knows better. I would never have spoken of such a device as an "invention" at the age of 10, much less 14 - to me it would have been "a disassembled clock" and no "invention" at all. Mohamed's English is too good for him to not know the true meaning of "invention".

Considering that Mohamed's father is a fervent islamist and after reading fuller accounts of the incident such as the article linked to above, it appears to me, at this time, that the authorities were probably correct and that Mohamed and his father are likely guilty of an attempted bomb hoax.

Historically, in territories controlled by Muslim polities, religious minorities have not fared particularly well.

Totally untrue, unless you're judging by the post-Islam governments of the colonially forged middle east of today. Muslims are NOT represented by and do NOT support the maniacal loonies in power across the middle east today.

Jewish massacres in particular have happened like clockwork across Islamdom.

[citation needed]. Also, this and this kinda ruins your "Muslims hate Jews" narrative.

The rest of your post is plain wrong. Muslims as a whole do NOT support groups like the Taliban, ISIS, Boko Haram, etc and the only way you'd think otherwise is by having little or no contact with actual Muslims. I am a Muslim. I am very active in the Muslim community both locally and internationally. Support for those groups is, to judge generously, minuscule, and confined to the least educated among us. 5 minutes talking to them and they change their mind. I know, I've been involved in de-radicalisation efforts.

I get that you were raised as a Muslim, and almost everybody who is raised in a faith believes that faith is correct and most importantly morally good and right. Does anyone who practices a religion believe their religion is bad?

I was raised in a Muslim family, but never had the religion forced upon me. I explored other religions freely, went to a Uniting Church school and had lengthy conversations with out pastor. I also spent time learning about the Buddhist faith. Islam for me is as active a choice as any other aspect of my lifestyle. Don't go making assumptions on my behalf, it's borderline insulting.

They don't seem to feel the need to make up a false white-washed history of Christianity.

I'm not making up a "false white-washed" history of Islam. I'm using documented facts and verified historical accounts to counter claims made that are simply not true.

It would be great if more people across the Muslim world would stand up against suicide bombings, against beheadings, against fundamentalist states, and against the persecution of religious minorities. Sure, some do, but not enough to seemingly affect real change anywhere around the world.

ALL of those things are explicitly forbidden in our faith. Without question, or exception. This is why we all call BS when those groups claim to do what they do in the name of Islam. They are doing it in the name of furthering their own political ends.

Also, the very moment the west stops sending foreign aid to regimes like the Saudi government, the Pakistani ISI, the Nigerian rebels, and other shadowy power centers throughout the Muslim world, that will be the moment we clean out the lunatics running around running amok.

When Muslims acted as a political bloc, the overwhelming majority of political interactions were positive. Political leaders were well known as the place of last resort for Jews escaping persecution in Europe. In fact a Muslim leader saved Jews from the Spanish Inquisition. They were famed for their willingness to send aid, no strings attached in an era when foreign aid was virtually unknown.

An honest and comprehensive reading of history simply does not support the proposition that Muslims are a sleeping mass of West-hating, xenophobic barbarians, waiting for the right moment to cleanse the world of infidels. There just isn't any real evidence to support this proposition.

Idiocracinism. It's real, and it here. Now.

The commonality is involved parents who help their kids when struggle, demand they toe the line when they get hardheaded, and have expectations for success.

This is "obvious" and something that everyone "knows", but there is actually very little supporting evidence. Although involved parents, who buy lots of books, read to their kids, and push them to study, are correlated with academic success, they don't cause it. Once you correct for the things that DO matter (IQ of biological parents and family income) all of that correlation vanishes.

The secret to academic success is simple: be born to smart, rich parents.

I literally have no idea what you're talking about. Fire alarms? Rather than just making vague accusations and then posting unrelated lists of names how about you form a coherent argument.

Oh you don't know about the SJW's pulling fire alarms, trying to drown people out so they can't speak, and so on? And those names? Very much related, so are their followers. That was a coherent argument after all. I'm sure you'd also support someone like sarah nyberg, you know the one that's being all buddy-buddy with their SJW friends, after it came out that they're a pedophile and actively perused their 8 year old cousin.

So you have actually gone out and fought for social justice! A real warrior! Not just a fake internet one.

Of course that's not social justice, or even justice.

So far that's just on social media, so although it's gotten people fired, it doesn't quite look like Germany in the 30s yet.

It's looking more like Germany in the '30s every day.

http://www.slate.com/content/d...

https://prod01-cdn06.cdn.first...

https://markosun.files.wordpre...

No he didn't prove it is infeasible. For one, that would require a method to prove that the compilers are indeed wholly independent, which hasn't been provided. Also, note that people in some sub-field of technology tend to move around. An engineer who has worked on one compiler is *more* likely to also work on another compiler at some stage than any random engineer. The DDC technique *assumes* that diverse compilers are independent - it takes it on trust. Wheeler's work if anything re-inforces the essence of Thompson's philosophical point, that we must either completely build and control every aspect of our system OR we must trust to at least some degree in someone else. Note also that someone can frustrate this technique by deliberately making their software not build reproducibly, for apparently innocent reasons (e.g. D Wheeler had such issues with using tcc for DDC). A fuller version of my critique of "Diverse Double-Compiling".

That sounds like I'm being very dismissive of DDC, but I'm not. It could be really useful, *if* it is feasible to actually regularly reproduce builds. Debian is working on this, and hopefully they'll get there - but it's not a trivial task either. However, DDC does not fully counter Thompson's attack - not in the normal absolute sense of the word "fully" at least.

In the 1970s many believed the opposite of global warming...

CIA report on global cooling:
http://www.climatemonitor.it/w...

I realize many of you were not around during this time, the link below shows many articles and videos that came out during that time:
https://stevengoddard.wordpres...

They were wrong then, and I believe they are wrong now... Or perhaps intentionally misleading everyone...
In the search for power, leaders must find a hook to entice people to give up their rights, property and freedoms.

I know... Godwin's Law, so before anybody dismisses the following line, think about it...

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels

In this case, the
actual temperatures greatly deviate from the models and indicate that
global cooling is occuring

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

Oh now I see...

https://stevengoddard.wordpres...

That was 4.2 miliion, not 4.2 thousand.

The 22 million is folks listed on forms by individuals who applied for a government security clearance. That's employees, contractors and all of their immediate family.

That having been said, nearly 40 million people in the US either work for the government as employees or work for them indirectly under one contract or another.

https://markstoval.wordpress.c...

Whoops, sorry, reading comprehension fail :)

40 million direct and indirect employees, though...wow. 12.5% of the population. How much are your income taxes again? Not that Canada's doing any better in that regard. I'd be curious to see what the comparative numbers north of the border are...

That was 4.2 miliion, not 4.2 thousand.

The 22 million is folks listed on forms by individuals who applied for a government security clearance. That's employees, contractors and all of their immediate family.

That having been said, nearly 40 million people in the US either work for the government as employees or work for them indirectly under one contract or another.

https://markstoval.wordpress.c...

Fundamentally what Shannon developed can be summarized by the following formula:

I mistook my sock for a wife once.

Seriously though, the dude wrote some great stuff on human perception of music and the brain's processing of musical information.

http://www.oliversacks.com/boo...

Plus, he was kind of a badass:

https://rhystranter.files.word...

http://media.jrn.com/images/b9...

It's sad when one of these bright lights goes out.

Would have been true, if not for the environmentalist anti-nuke nuts.

Spoken like a true nutter yourself, but at least you're consistent.

For a more reasonable and fact-based view, see Maury Markowitz's reasoning: Why fusion will never happen

You can argue all the technical superiorities of fission over wind all you want - in fact, they're pretty much all true. It is a fact that wind cannot be dispatched while nuclear has a CF around 90% and provides all sorts of baseload. Here's the problem with all of those arguments: the bank doesn't give a crap.

In summary, it's economics and bankers, not some leftist boogie man that you love to point to.

Shows, again, that you know shit about any of these things.

Until NASA's real, actual use-this-money budget comes in 20 year cycles it's just science fiction. Here is a chart of NASA's budget. I'm not going to say whether it's too much or too little in this comment, that's not the point. The big problem is NASA has no idea whether sequestration and budget games, the presidential fad this decade, or party politics is going to increase, eliminate, or do weird things with their budget. Maybe they'll have money for Orion or maybe the President will do away with it with the sweep of a pen. Maybe we can send up ten shuttles a month at a low cost per shuttle. Or maybe we'll have to cut that way, way back until the cost is hard to justify. From Mars to space stations to earth science the fad of the day dictates what NASA is building this year -- and worse, where it's building it.

There have been noises in the direction of stabilizing things and NASA is a fairly popular, if misunderstood, organization. But it's not enough. We need a NASA funding omnibus bill that sets NASA funds, be they generous or miserly, and NASA plans in stone.

Achieving practical nuclear fusion for power generation would be a very nice step forward. But "holy grail" is rather overselling it, I suspect.

Even when practical, we're still talking very big, very expensive plants that depend on a long supply chain for all its parts, the high-purity fuel and so on. When you consider the building, running and maintenance costs, and the cost of dealing with the spent fuel (much better than for fission plants of course) the energy won't be all that cheap.

And they'll be competing with rapidly dropping costs for solar and other renewables.

Quite - almost any tech advances that will help fusion will also help other energy sources.

And the cost(s) would be unbelievably huge. Multiple times a fission reactor's cost.

I found this story quite interesting - and disappointing. Essentially argues that we'll never have fusion and gives his (Maury Markowitz's) reasons for it: Why fusion will never happen.

For me, this seems to capture the gist of his argument nicely:

You can argue all the technical superiorities of fission over wind all you want – in fact, they’re pretty much all true. It is a fact that wind cannot be dispatched while nuclear has a CF around 90% and provides all sorts of baseload. Here’s the problem with all of those arguments: the bank doesn’t give a crap.

So the places that are building nukes are invariably where the local government is willing to put up the money, generally interest free. We have new reactors in China and Korea, and everyone else is doing basically nothing. Actually in the US all the money is backed by the government, and the companies have ignored it anyway. It’s just too expensive and economically risky.

At the time, the stories coming out were that there was a delay in the request for assistance, which is required before the federal government can come help.

In an emergency, with lives at stake, you are supposed to do what is needed and worry about the "proper" paperwork and chain of command later. Insisting you can't save lives without XQA dash 5 filled out is the kind of crap that our soldiers in WWII used to call chickenshit.

insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickenshit is so called — instead of horse — or bull — or elephant shit — because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously. Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war

This is pretty much an exact characterization of the response we got from the Federal government at the time, and the excuses that are still thrown up for their inaction today. Of course this is the exact flavor of shit you can expect when the POTUS in question hires a political donor to head an Emergency response agency instead of an experienced disaster response leader (as the POTUSes before and after him did).

When disaster strikes, and the locals aren't equipped to deal with it on their own, we need leaders, not chickenshits. That's what we are supposed to have a federal government for.

Where's the conspiracy theory for that?

I think all the conspiracy theories were ruined by the realities. People being reasonable wreck everything. I hate them.

Obama: "sea level rise" is "hitting ... across the country". Absolute bullshit. Sea has been rising at exactly the same rate for 300 years. [Lonny Eachus, 2015-08-03]

Once again, absolute bullshit. Once again, I did the math by calculating trends and accelerations for Church and White 2011 reconstructed sea level data. This PDF was made using my R code which accounts for autocorrelation- the red lines are 2 sigma uncertainties. The trends and accelerations are calculated over periods which all end at 2009.5

If the sea "has been rising at exactly the same rate for 300 years" then the estimated trends on page 1 should have exactly the same value regardless of the starting year. But that's not true. More recent trends are higher than trends starting in the 1880s.

The second page also fits an acceleration term to those sea level data. If the sea "has been rising at exactly the same rate for 300 years" then those accelerations should be zero or at least average to zero. But that's not true. Every single best-fit acceleration is positive. Using the entire dataset, the acceleration since ~1880 is positive and statistically significant.

What rise there has been shown has not varied from the same rate of rise the last 300 years. [Lonny Eachus, 2015-08-25]

As usual, Jane/Lonny Eachus just keeps making up numbers rather than actually doing the math.

Nobody is claiming the ocean is not rising. But it’s rising at the same average < 1mm per year rate for hundreds of years. [Lonny Eachus, 2015-08-25]

Nonsense. The best estimate of the rate of global sea level rise hasn't ever been as low as Lonny claims, not even starting in 1880. More importantly, recent trends like those starting in 1990 are almost three times higher than the made-up "< 1mm per year rate" which Lonny Eachus wrongly assures us has not varied for hundreds of years.

The most charitable explanation is that Lonny Eachus is such a busy professional that he doesn't have time to download global sea level data and run the code I've given him. So...

The new significance.zip (backup copies) contains my R statistics folder, including many data sets and the R code which produced that sea level acceleration PDF.

The new significance.r (backup copies) can load many datasets, one (and only one) of

https://egyptiantea.files.word...

This really looks like a farm.

The only actual farmland I've seen with wind turbines eschew dense packing for broad spread, making wind power not only opportunistic, but low-density. Not inefficient, but ineffective: generating a megawatt here or there is different than generating hundreds of megawatts.

In other words: faced with dedicating a square of land to a wind farm or dedicating a square of land to solar, a dedicated solar array will produce 8 times as much output. Faced with not dedicating a square of land, you can usually get better output from a PV cell--farmland being an exception, since the PV produces more shade; wind turbines of practical size placed on street lighting would not generate nearly as much power as PV panels of the same space usage on the same street lighting.

I could theoretically generate 800W of wind power at my house, or 7,000W of solar using just my roof space. That's an 800W output residential turbine that might run at 34% of its output (in my case, it'd actually be 8%; Texas gets 34% in well-placed installations), producing an actual 2380kWh (in my case specifically, about 561kWh); the 7kW PV array (theoretical 24 hour max output: 61000kWh) will generate, in practice, 9850kWh on average. Were my lot vacant, it may fit two wind turbines (4700kWh); it would take four at the high-capacity output of a Texas wind farm to meet what my solar panels do in just my roof space--which is 900 square feet on a 4500 square foot lot (capable of generating 49,250kWh of output if it were blanketed in solar panels, instead of 4,700kWh blanketed in wind turbines; and my panels aren't two-axis tracking, but fixed axis monocrystaline at 15.7% efficiency, at a sub-optimal azimuth).

Farms with turbines are like slapping a wind turbine in my back yard and producing that projected 2,400kWh per year. They spread their turbines more widely than my back yard, but also use bigger turbines. Even a dense, dedicated wind farm is blown out of the water by a dense, dedicated solar farm.

That would be the Chrome API that doesn't offer the hooks NoScript requires to work.

Meanwhile in the real world, the Firefox is team is working with Giorgio Maone to make sure the new API provides the features add-ons like NoScript need.

As I posted above, only 5950 people voted. For contrast 8363 people voted on the last slashdot poll, so we aren't talking about a whole lot of fans, making it an easy balance to swing either way with relatively small numbers of voters. Meanwhile here's Scalzi telling his fellow travellers how to vote, and more details on the exact votes here.

Meh, digging into the numbers a bit, it seems 5950 people voted. For contrast 8363 people voted on the last slashdot poll, so we aren't talking about a whole lot of fans, making it an easy balance to swing either way with relatively small numbers of voters. There's more detail on the breakdown of the voting here.

This doesn't corroborate with what I'm reading. It seems the Sad Puppies were formed as an opposition to the CHORFs (Cliquish, Holier-than-thou, Obnoxious, Reactionary, Fanatics) which apparently embody the SJW mindset of disregarding works from authors with differing political views. Everywhere I'm seeing the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies described as being very much the same, though the founders of both these blocs seem to disagree that they are the same https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/we-are-not-rabid/. And what Yiannopoulis is saying in the article seems to be that the SJWs bloc voted no award as opposition to the Sad and Rabid Puppies. FTA: "Puppies supporters say that slew of âoeno awardâ wins this year can at least partially be attributed to the fact that SJW votes were concentrated on that choice, while Puppies votes were distributed between as many as four deserving authors. The âoeno awardâ results in the novella and short story categories are a particular slap in the face to ordinary fans, who remember the genreâ(TM)s roots in short-form pulp magazine writing."

I couldn't find any other news sites that had published anything about this. Also, NHK has shortened the article for some reason since I first saw it.

However another good source of info is:

How to Remove Lenovo's Alleged 'Bootkit' Software

and also:

Windows 10 Privacy Checklist mentions this issue

Here's an interesting case for unionization in tech:
https://michaelochurch.wordpre...
Discuss.

Regardless of what regulatory conspiracies may or may not have contributed, Concorde was ultimately doomed by the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s which caused oil prices to quadruple. Any claims that it was financially viable are a fantasy. By the time it retired it was barely eeking out money in what is probably the most profitable route in the world (London/Paris - New York/DC), meaning it would've lost money pretty much everywhere else.

GP has it a bit wrong - people weren't sure if supersonic transport or large efficient planes were the future back when oil was cheap in the 1960s. Once oil prices shot up, it was obvious which was better.

Got any other pointless comparisons to make?

Retired Pope Ratzenberger looks a lot like Emperor Palpatine?

https://todayinawesome.wordpre...

You'll be given cushy jobs!

DC-10s are broken because they can't fly with two engines! And they're pretty hard to keep right side up. The pitch is way too sensitive... Damn things always were junk.

https://normsaysno.wordpress.c... https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Changes in CO2 levels will always lead to changes in global temperature regardless of the source of the change in CO2. CO2 changes from human activity have been happening for a long time (thousands of years) but mostly until after WW II they were small enough to not be particularly noticeable.

As far as an 18 year pause any rigorous statistical analysis shows the warming trend for the past 18 years is indistinguishable from the warming trend since 1970. The pause is all in the eye of the deniers. Here's the analysis by a statistician.

"hard statistical evidence that most likely terrorists are muslims"

Yeah........ when you ignore inconvenient cases such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the burning of churches in the south, dozens of mass shootings, etc. You have to have a pretty narrow view of "terrorism" and/or interpret "most likely" to be 51% or slightly higher to type that statement without without cringing at the hypocrisy.

Says the moron who thinks that the number of churches burned in the USA by white supremecists equals the 400 burned in Syria, 37 in Egypt, and over 400 in nigeria, all by Muslims. And that;s not even starting on Hindu temples and Buddhists shrines. Also are you comparing "dozens of mass shootings" to the tens of thousands killed by IS and the total number could be in millions.

I found this illuminating:

https://dcgmentor.wordpress.co...

Wrong kind of ass - http://image1.masterfile.com/e... but if that's your thing https://emfguy.files.wordpress...

http://wattsupwiththat.com/200...

And the next prediction of pretty much the same thing:

https://climatesanity.wordpres...

Noooo.... a drone-mower?

Surely this will have "high powered" cameras onboard that will violate my privacy and how long before one of these mowers jumps a berm, soars into the air and brings down a commercial passenger jet?

Don't you people read the carefully researched and highly objective news stories on the dangers of drones????

But please, ignore this guy Chris Manno, what would he know... he's just an ex-USAF pilot who now flies commercial airliners for American Airlines. He clearly has no credibility when compared to the deluded ravings of some lowly intern in a tabloid newspaper or some government regulator who's hell-bent on restricting any freedoms they may have overlooked last year.

Yes, you're both the /. elites, only you two understand how the world works, and if anyone has other ideas, you're there to snark them down.

I know a little bit.

I'm focusing in on those people that were harmed by "reform". Here we are at the end of hope and change and health insurance costs more than ever and for a lot of people, it comes with more exclusions.

Yeah, and every time one of th smart people try to ope up venues to sharehow the magic negro and his hordes of Kenyan communists have completely wrecked the country with their death panels meting out punishment to 99 percent of us......

They don't get that. They don't get the response they want. More like they get people who are happy that they are getting healthcare.

Republican heart and soul, Canadian Theodore Cruz, the man responsible for such a vehement hate for Obamacare, that he purposely shut the country's governement down:

http://www.mediaite.com/online... Cathy McMorris Rogers:

https://politicalfails.wordpre...

Here is an actual story of a cofirmed Obama hater, who knew that this obamacare is the worst thing that ever happened. My wife's boss.

His wife had breast cancer, and he had a blood clotting problem. She was in remission, would appear by this time, cured, and he'sdoing well.

Oh, but that insurance. His proper insurance provided by American insurance companies with the fair and balanced plans was ratcheted up - three times in one year alone, eventually raised to about 4000 a month. And he and his wife were now stuck. No good old fashioned American upward mobility, because once they defaulted or tried to get a new policy was denied this American - no one would insure them. At all - preexisting conditions, you know.

And I'm not certain the Republicans would want to tell a long time supporter to "die quickly".

Today, he has quietly switched to Obamacare, is paying a fuckton less money for healthcare. And by the way, Ted Cruz and his family? On Obamacare. The only ones benefiting are the ones getting a full or partial free ride.

I love this myth from the know-it-alls that the poor are left with just the ER or they die in the gutter. There are local public health clinics. There are services for the poor at many major hospitals or other health care centers.

Great bolshy yarblockos. This myth you speak of. There are a lot of Doctors at emergency rooms that differ from your "experience" . Perhaps it's because they see the poor come in everyday. And then you really step in it by this pearl of wisdom repeated again because it's worth repeating.:

"There are services for the poor at many major hospitals or other health care centers."

"There are services for the poor at many major hospitals or other health care centers."

No shit Sherlock. It's those emergency rooms you declare are only used by people with actual emergencies . And guess who pays for that in the end......

Regradless, in the last year of my father's life back in 2011, we were graced with several emergency room visits. In each visit, there were quite a few people there who were by general appearance, obviously not from the higher socioeconomic classes. Most of them looked healthy, other than minor things, or a child with a cold or something. In talking with one of the ER room doctors, I asked about them. "Those are the poor uninsured" and he explained how they didn't have regular doctors, and with no insurance, they used the emergency room for general medicine. I noted that must be a nuisance, and he noted that they were getting the world's most expensive health care for things like an earache. And that the cos

Then @KenCaldeira should commit suicide immediately. He emits 40,000 ppm CO2. Talk about unacceptable levels! @tan123 [Lonny Eachus, 2015-08-11]

Lonny Eachus' comment was a remark about the logical fallacy of Caldeira's statement that "no amount" of CO2 emission is safe or acceptable, when he emits a rather large amount all by himself. No SANE, rational person could read it in context, and honestly think it was a call for anybody to actually commit suicide. You can't even get this right. What a loser. [Jane Q. Public, 2015-08-12]

No, Lonny. Your despicable statement was morally and scientifically wrong. He doesn't emit "a rather large amount all by himself" because breathing simply can't raise CO2 levels.

Well, do you truly understand that EPA's proposed regulations (truly, no joke) declare your body a toxic polluter? Because you exhale 40,000 ppm CO2. [Lonny Eachus, 2014-10-27]

The EPA does not distinguish among sources, or whether it is "circulation". Emission is emission. Emission from vehicles burning ethanol is also "circulation", via a very real and rather simple cycle, yet EPA still classes it as emission. So you are wrong in principle and fact. [Jane Q. Public, 2015-08-12]

Lonny Eachus, please support your ridiculous accusation that the EPA declares your body a toxic polluter because you exhale 40,000 ppm CO2. You know, with a quote from an actual link.

That might help SANE, rational people see your point, because until now the only people making those ridiculous claims are WUWTers like Jane/Lonny Eachus. Until you provide a quote from an actual link it just seems like you're projecting your ignorance onto yet another organization.

Then @KenCaldeira should commit suicide immediately. He emits 40,000 ppm CO2. Talk about unacceptable levels! @tan123 [Lonny Eachus, 2015-08-11]

Apparently Lonny is still pretending to be confused about the fact that breathing is like the circulation pump in a pool. It simply can't raise CO2 levels. [Dumb Scientist]

Apparently you are confused about context. As usual. [Jane Q. Public, 2015-08-12]

Wow! Lonny Eachus, I just gave you an effective defense and you rejected it! You might have a chance if you swear you were just confused about how breathing can't raise CO2 levels, and only said this out of confusion: "@KenCaldeira should commit suicide immediately. He emits 40,000 ppm CO2."

Are you now saying that you already knew that breathing can't raise CO2 levels, but you made your despicable statement anyway? Hopefully not. Think, Lonny! Think!

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