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Lonny, you were just asked to please find it in your heart to stop hurling these baseless accusations. You responded by continuing to regurgitate Mark Steyn's baseless accusations and saying:

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

Lonny Eachus, please stop telling scientists to commit suicide. That's NOT FUNNY.

It's hard to even pretend that Lonny Eachus's disgusting suggestion was intended as a joke, because:

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]

Truly, no joke, Lonny Eachus is still making the same mistake I've repeatedly tried to explain to him. Breathing simply can't increase atmospheric CO2. But as usual Lonny Eachus just doubles down:

Apparently you didn't understand my comment. Emissions are emissions. You emit or you don't. "No safe level." [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.

A plumber who understood plumbing as well as Lonny Eachus understands the carbon cycle would confuse a pool's circulation pump with a hose filling up the pool. They both pump water! The circulation pump even pumps more gallons per minute. So obviously the circulation pump is why the pool is filling up.

A surgeon who understood surgery as well as Lonny Eachus understands the carbon cycle would confuse a severed artery with the patient's heartbeat. They both pump blood! The heart even pumps more gallons per minute. So obviously the heart is responsible for that inexplicable long-term decreasing trend in blood pressure.

Fortunately, a surgeon that incompetent couldn't affect many people. Spreading misinformation which theatens the future of civilization, on the other hand...

Lonny Eachus, please stop telling scientists to commit suicide. That's NOT FUNNY.

I can think of someone who probably would wear them.

...I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

Lonny, you were just asked to please find it in your heart to stop hurling these baseless accusations. You responded by continuing to regurgitate Mark Steyn's baseless accusations and:

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

Lonny Eachus, please stop telling scientists to commit suicide. That's NOT FUNNY.

It's hard to even pretend that Lonny Eachus's disgusting suggestion was intended as a joke, because:

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]

Truly, no joke, Lonny Eachus is still making the same mistake I've repeatedly tried to explain to him. Breathing simply can't increase atmospheric CO2. But as usual Lonny Eachus just doubles down:

Apparently you didn't understand my comment. Emissions are emissions. You emit or you don't. "No safe level." [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.

A plumber who understood plumbing as well as Lonny Eachus understands the carbon cycle would confuse a pool's circulation pump with a hose filling up the pool. They both pump water! The circulation pump even pumps more gallons per minute. So obviously the circulation pump is why the pool is filling up.

A surgeon who understood surgery as well as Lonny Eachus understands the carbon cycle would confuse a severed artery with the patient's heartbeat. They both pump blood! The heart even pumps more gallons per minute. So obviously the heart is responsible for that inexplicable long-term decreasing trend in blood pressure.

Fortunately, a surgeon that incompetent couldn't affect many people. Spreading misinformation which theatens the future of civilization, on the other hand...

Lonny Eachus, please stop telling scientists to commit suicide. That's NOT FUNNY.

https://igurublog.wordpress.co...

It's funny that you can't see the satire there, a little too subtle for you I see.

But there is a lot of fear from some elements of the free software community at the moment. With companies like Microsoft releasing open source (and indeed permissively licensed) they fear their enemy becoming their friend. What happens when Microsoft becomes an open source software company? If you look at the FSF's page it is mostly comprised of anti-proprietary propaganda, not pro-free. There's no "Hey you should use this Free Software product because it's great", it's all about how you shouldn't use proprietary software and that you should live with the limitations of the free software alternative. So while Microsoft isn't becoming a free software company its movement toward open source means free software has to actually compete with good products, not by spreading anti-proprietary fear and this is a good thing.

https://igurublog.wordpress.co...
http://techrights.org/2015/06/...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/...

When we call software "free", we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of "free speech", not "free beer".

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]

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 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.

But as usual Jane/Lonny Eachus just makes up numbers to support his baseless accusations rather than actually doing the math.

Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable

Many things are achievable but still not worth doing:

Dude 1: "So I got wasted, hooked up with that skanky 60-year old fat chick from the bar, lost my car keys and walked home in the rain, slipped and fell in a pile of dogshit."
Dude 2: "That's...achievable!"

Anyway, the kind of people who work for a living and pay taxes might ask, "so how much is this going to cost me?"

Well it might not be as bad as Obama's plan which, in his own words, would cause electricity prices to "necessarily skyrocket."

Though if we emulate Denmark or Germany then our electric bills will be about 2.5x what they are now. Over at Watts Up With That, Willis Eschenbach plots renewable energy adoption of nations vs. their respective consumer electric price. As he explains, he derives the plot from two graphs first presented together here by Paul Homewood.
 

Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable

Many things are achievable but still not worth doing:

Dude 1: "So I got wasted, hooked up with that skanky 60-year old fat chick from the bar, lost my car keys and walked home in the rain, slipped and fell in a pile of dogshit."
Dude 2: "That's...achievable!"

Anyway, the kind of people who work for a living and pay taxes might ask, "so how much is this going to cost me?"

Well it might not be as bad as Obama's plan which, in his own words, would cause electricity prices to "necessarily skyrocket."

Though if we emulate Denmark or Germany then our electric bills will be about 2.5x what they are now. Over at Watts Up With That, Willis Eschenbach plots renewable energy adoption of nations vs. their respective consumer electric price. As he explains, he derives the plot from two graphs first presented together here by Paul Homewood.
 

No, she mentioned it to point out that she was governor of a state that's a lot closer to a semi-hostile foreign power

Your American Exceptionalism is showing again.

She wasn't presidential material

She's a freaking moron who couldn't find her ass with both hands.

That claim is such utter bullshit that it isn't even worth for a citation. Use your head, man. I mean, how utterly ignorant can you be?

Yes, it's worth a citation. In fact, I have a couple for you. Here's a Fortune Magazine article that shows my claim is true. There's even a nifty graph for you to look at and not understand.

http://fortune.com/2015/04/13/...

https://fortunedotcom.files.wo...

http://nelp.org/publication/gr...

the fact is that the US has one of the highest effective corporate tax rates in the world (go look it up).

Yeah, I looked it up:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex...

And here's the full (peer-reviewed) article, for your perusal. Let's hope you are more capable of perusal than you are of simple Google searches.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Pa...

Microsoft REMOVED THE API that allows the browsers to set themselves as the default WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP so deliberately made it harder to switch, and on top of that switches everyone who does the "Express install" of Windows 10 to Edge regardless of previous default.

In any case, the new draconian EULA Microsoft introduced with 10 that takes away privacy means my decision to abandon Windows for Linux last year was the correct one.

I had to scroll down far enough in the article to see THIS PICTURE to actually understand wtf they were talking about. Once I knew they meant those bloody "USE OUR APP" screens (that are basically a full-screen advert) that you have to click through just to reach the page you actually wanted. Waste of time. Waste of data. Waste of any chance of me actually downloading your app.

Thing is, if I wanted to view the information in your app, I probably would have downloaded it and used it. Chances are, I'm perusing the info in Chrome because I only visit the site once or twice and I don't see any value in wasting space on my phone for an app that works just fine in a browser (IMDB: I am looking at you).

"Most of you who read this blog know this but it bears repeating for others who might not know, Bill Gates is big on charter schools and charter schools are staffed by non-union teachers, basically cheap labor to keep cost down. The corporate reformers have figured that the most expensive item on their tally sheet are teachers so to make a profit they hire non-union labor in the form of Teach for America recruits. TFA, Inc. recruits, most of them straight out of college, receive 5 weeks of training, sign a contract to teach for two years and then they are off and running in mostly low-income communities where the last thing needed is more churn." ref

According to the article, it's a bug in PAM.

Then the article (which I wouldn't bother to read) is misleading.

The bug is inside openssh proper. This is how they fixed it:

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth2-chall.c.diff?r1=1.42&r2=1.43&f=h

Basically, OpenSSH was accepting a list of 'keyboard interactive devices' where the same device apeared thousands of times, completely bypassing the MaxAuthTries setting from sshd_config (default 6).

This is well explained in kingcope's original report.

https://kingcope.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/openssh-keyboard-interactive-authentication-brute-force-vulnerability-maxauthtries-bypass/

It's very much a bug, and the code in auth2-call.c looks silly enough (just like the fix, btw) that there's a high probability of other such gross bugs in there.

And as OpenBSD developer Marc Espie says in his message,

Not surprisingly, as the patch clearly shows, the problem is right smack in the middle of USE_PAM code.

That doesn't seem to be the case.

In fact, my will guess is that the default pam_faildelay is what stays in the way of this bug's being exploitable on Linux.

... does it run [on] Linux?

Oh wait, I'm thinking of that other snake.

... with their new coal power stations

https://notalotofpeopleknowtha...

If France really wants to close down their nuclear power plants, Poland will be more than happy to supply Germany with their excess electricity generated from coal power stations

What about 'Carbon Footprint', you say? Hey, Poland can claim that their 'carbon footprint' is not as high as China, so they get all the greenlights they need to construct even MORE coal power plants

This would be great, but it is likely not true. According to more recent research kid's learning styles is not true. This theory has been reported as fact, but is not backed up by science. In fact it is better to get a kid out of their comfort zone for them to learn more.

https://thinkneuroscience.word...

-Matt

Americans and their "geographical" knowledge. We now all seem to live in Germany suddenly... . Mendel was german that big country - how the hell can you mis it ? - next to Belgium.

He speaks perhaps of the infamous Congo Troubles?

These weren't medical from nature but had everything to do with the greed of King Leopold II and his rubber plantages. If you need to make a list of colonial crimes you will need to have a lot of time at your hands.

It is also extremely cynical to bring the Flemish government in relation with the stuff somebody from the royal family did. The flemish government is not particularly Belgium or the Royal Family minded. Flemish government is to Belgium as the Catalan government is to Spain, also wanting to get their independence.

So what part of the "insane screed" agaisnt Zoe Quinn are you claiming was untrue? And on what evidence?

There's nothing that's untrue that's the thing. The post written by Eron has screenshots, evidence, proof, that Zoe Quinn was an abusive and lying scumbag. And if the the roles had been revered people would have been cheering for her.

critical thinking

Why can't the student's knowledge of logical fallacies be tested?

creativity

Some say creativity can in fact be tested.

or learning skills.

Learning skills such as critical thinking and creativity? (See above.)

LOL. Massage in the hands of conmen and conwomen and congenderneutral can injure, kill, debilitate.
https://kmccready.wordpress.co...

I hate rubbish research and I hate rubbish research on slashdot.
Stick needles in anyone and you affect HPA axis. Doh!
Blast adrenal glands with electricity and you affect HPA axis. Another no brainer.
The real test, if these woo believers wanted to test the magic scientific meridian whacko superpoint stomach meridian point 36 (St36) [help me stop laughing], is to do the magic at various points on the poor bloody rats and see what happens (including the little itty bitty points close to the magic St36).
I sincerely hope no taxpayer money went into this particular egregious piece of flam. Check out this for NZ subsidy of this religion:
https://kmccready.wordpress.co...

The Church of Scientology has been caught producing such fraudulent advertising of their Vulture Ministers who swoop in to disaster zones just for photo ops and human trafficking recruitment.

Apparantly you've never been to Appalachia or Urban Appalachia.

You're welcome.

Rural poor whites are far less prone to crimes than minorities. Deal with it.

Nothing Compares 2 The Wall:

So sad, so tragic, the inevitable slide into sexual worthlessness that accompanies women, the withering tick tock of the cosmic clock stripping their beauty in flayed bits of soulletting mignons like psychological ling chi. A sadistic thief in the night etching, billowing, draping and sagging a new affront to her most preciously guarded asset. The comfort of her children, if she has them, acting as meager respite from the awful realization that she has been sucked dry of her whimsy and power.

But enough of that merriment. Sinead O’Connor, the Irish singer who ripped up a picture of the Pope and sweetly sang a remake of a Prince ballad, and who was, not so long ago despite the shock of her change in appearance, cute enough to bang even with her boyishly short hairstyle, has hit the wall hard enough to cause even Wile E. Coyote to wince in pain.
..
Pixie? No. Not anymore. BIXIE.

Some of you tenderhearted sorts might be tempted to ask why I am torturing a poor woman who has to endure pain enough ensconced in her deteriorating shell. Steady on, bugle boys. I might have a sadistic streak, but I don’t select my targets without some justification which makes the torture that much more pleasurable to inflict. Good old Sinead, fat and unhappy, has an internet blog, of all things!, wherein she laments her lack of a sex life and basically puts out a personal ad for a man to come rescue her from her celibate dreariness. The incomprehensible catch? She makes a list of demands for the type of man she wants....

Everything in the moral zeitgeist burns the youthful fertility of woman in a turbocharged drag race toward a childless impact with The Wall. And then what does the moral zeitgeist offer them as their guts run down the glass?

Dating cons.

And after that he should read why Tomi, the self-proclaimed guy-who-knows isn't all that He's a self-opinionated a*hole who twists or invents facts to suit his bias.

Blackberry fell due to flaws in the network design; they were so centralized that all their customer traffic had to go through their network. So when their network broke, their customers sought other solutions when the risk was finally revealed - one I would say was not predictable before that incident (at least from an outsiders POV; may be someone administering the a local box in an enterprise network who knew more about it might have predicted it). Needless to say, comparing Blackberry's fall and Nokia's fall is a bad comparison, one that should not have been made because of the drastic differences between them and their causes. One was due to technical grounds (Blackberry) while the other was due to management blunders (Nokia).

As to the rest, I'll leave that to more knowledgeable people...

https://thegranddisillusion.wo...

"The love of money is the root of all evil."

And after that he should read why Tomi, the self-proclaimed guy-who-knows isn't all that He's a self-opinionated a*hole who twists or invents facts to suit his bias.

drip coffee maker

So vote with your wallet. Buy cars that are more fuel efficient instead of big and powerfull. Use less electricity by moving away from areas where you are forced to use an airco. Build houses that need less energy.

While you are at it, stop the nuts in California (Talking about the Almonds). Start using public transport. Yes, it will cost more of your time, but demand will increase supply.

Start drinking tap water. Buy less shit that you do not need and is basicaly made from plastic that is made from oil.

Oh, and vote against lobbying. And no, even when Sanders wins and is able to do what he wants to do (and promises to do) this will NOT be solved with one election. Not even with 2 or 3. It is a LONG continues struggle.

But it all mostly boils down to this: https://henrytapper.files.word...

"As I have a daughter, I know better. Of course bias is a big part of it, expressed verbally and non-verbally. Parents and grand-parents who give their daughters princess dresses for christmas and act gleefully if the daughter wear it, express a bias."

Not only that. In Germany, they found out that teachers are unconscious biased against lower class pupils on the sole first-name the kids have. Because lower class parents often name their kids like celebrities or characters in TV-shows, while the more educated classes name their kids more traditionally.

If the kids are called Kevin, Bejoncé, Kanye or Ronny for example, they get lower grades for the same content.

The bias has even a name, it's called 'Kevinism'.

https://namecurator.wordpress....

http://www.ctvnews.ca/kevin-ch...

Sorry, if I'm in charge of security for a church, I'm still frisking the nuns, because to do otherwise would be irresponsible.

Poe's law strikes again. I literally can't tell if you're being satirical or stark raving mad. You're not cold fjord, at least (then I'd know for sure).

I merely convey (often unwelcome) facts to you, and report the goings-on of a mad world. If you cannot separate the teller from the tale, then you are in no position to judge whom is mad. But of course you may be a madman yourself.

What do you make of these?

Fears grow Boko Harm may use suicide bombers dressed as Catholic nuns for attacks
Sublime irony: Muslim TSA guard feels Catholic nun's genitals
In a Chilling Phone Call, Yazidi Woman Made a Sex Slave by ISIS Begs for West to Bomb Brothel
Isis use torture device dubbed 'The Biter' to impale women who breastfeed in public

Islamic State updates horror show

Last December, in a video addressed to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a veiled woman representing "Muslim mothers" argued that beheading was too humane for the Jordanian pilot. She recommended that al-Kaseasbeh be subjected to a traditional Ottoman method of execution called the Khazouk in which the victim is impaled with a thick spike hammered up his rectum and through the torso. She felt that this would deter other foreign pilots from flying missions against the Islamic State. And we may yet see the Khazouk on Youtube.

Does ISIS risk blowback, or is there a plan?

a huge campaign of harassment and astroturfing,

Oh it was a huge campaign of harassment and astroturf alright...

Just because all humans are animals, and some humans are also persons, that doesn't mean all humans are persons. Stories about Artificial Intelligence researchers trying to create persons prove that the English language allows personhood to be entirely independent of animal-ness. So we must make distinctions here for the sake of accuracy, if nothing else. Here is a little table (could be expanded enormously when thinking about the whole Universe):
Entity . . . . . . . . . . | animal | person
typical human. . . . . . . | . .x. .| . x
True A.I. (when perfected) | . . . .| . x
. . . . dolphin. . . . . . | . .x. .| . ?
human hydatidiform mole . .| . . . .|
brain-dead human . . . . . | . .x. .|
. . . . . . dog. . . . . . | . .x. .|
human womb-occupant. . . . | . .x. .|
(Note, while each cell in a hydatidiform mole is a human animal organism, the mole as a whole is as disorganized as a "bacterial mat"; it is not an animal.) The concepts are "human" and "person", are proved to be independent of each other when the language allows non-humans to be called persons (even if, so far, only in terms of religion or mythology or fiction) --and when we know of cases where humans most certainly are not persons. Like brain-dead adult humans on full life-support. The whole reason the legal system allows the "plug" to be pulled is because the person-aspect of the human is dead. Only a living human animal body remains, with no essence-of-personhood present. And with one example, others become possible, too. Like unborn human womb-occupants, whiare also totally animal, and even just before birth have measurably far less of personhood than adult dogs, to say nothing of the personhood of adult dolphins (which in turn is a magnitude still being debated; on what basis could womb-occupants qualify as persons if dogs can't possibly qualify?).

There are a lot of lies spouted during the Overall Abortion Debate. For example, it is a lie to claim that "intrinsic value" exists. It is a lie to claim that an unborn human is not alive. It is a lie to claim that human life matters, in the Grand Scheme of Things. It is a lie to claim that an unborn human is equal to a "baby" or "child" (both of which normally don't have an attached placenta as a vital organ). It is a lie to claim that an unborn human is more than just a mere-animal organism. It is a lie to claim that "human" is always equal to "person" (see all the human life, cuticle cells, getting killed during manicures and pedicures; cuticle cells have the full set of human DNA and modern cloning/stem-cell research shows that any such cell has the potential to act like a zygote --also see "hydatidiform moles" and "brain-dead adults on full life-support" as other examples where "human" does not equal "person"). It is a lie to equate "potential" with "actual" (do you, a potential corpse, want to be buried 6 feet under today?). It is a lie to claim that the finite Earth has endless food-resources for an ever-growing population. It is a lie to claim that fossil fuels will last indefinitely. It is a lie to claim the Earth is not currently overpopulated, when we have such problems as Global Warming, Deforestation, Overfishing, Aquifer Depletion, Farmland Encroachment by Cities, Topsoil Losses, Algae Blooms, and vast amounts of Toxic Waste being dumped into the environment as a side-effect of Mass Production. It is a lie to claim that humanity is immune to a "Malthusian Catastrophe". It is a lie to claim that unborn human animal organisms are "innocent", when they actually act worse than parasites (without actually being parasites). It is even a lie to claim God opposes abortion (see Exodus 20:21, in which causing a miscarriage can be associated with the arbitrary penalty of ZERO). When all the lies are finally extirpated from the Overall Abortion Debate, there will be no valid rationale for illegalizing abortion in this day-and-age.

There are a lot of lies spouted during the Overall Abortion Debate. For example, it is a lie to claim that "intrinsic value" exists. It is a lie to claim that an unborn human is not alive. It is a lie to claim that human life matters, in the Grand Scheme of Things. It is a lie to claim that an unborn human is equal to a "baby" or "child" (both of which normally don't have an attached placenta as a vital organ). It is a lie to claim that an unborn human is more than just a mere-animal organism. It is a lie to claim that "human" is always equal to "person" (see all the human life, cuticle cells, getting killed during manicures and pedicures; cuticle cells have the full set of human DNA and modern cloning/stem-cell research shows that any such cell has the potential to act like a zygote --also see "hydatidiform moles" and "brain-dead adults on full life-support" as other examples where "human" does not equal "person"). It is a lie to equate "potential" with "actual" (do you, a potential corpse, want to be buried 6 feet under today?). It is a lie to claim that the finite Earth has endless food-resources for an ever-growing population. It is a lie to claim that fossil fuels will last indefinitely. It is a lie to claim the Earth is not currently overpopulated, when we have such problems as Global Warming, Deforestation, Overfishing, Aquifer Depletion, Farmland Encroachment by Cities, Topsoil Losses, Algae Blooms, and vast amounts of Toxic Waste being dumped into the environment as a side-effect of Mass Production. It is a lie to claim that humanity is immune to a "Malthusian Catastrophe". It is a lie to claim that unborn human animal organisms are "innocent", when they actually act worse than parasites (without actually being parasites). It is even a lie to claim God opposes abortion (see Exodus 20:21, in which causing a miscarriage can be associated with the arbitrary penalty of ZERO). When all the lies are finally extirpated from the Overall Abortion Debate, there will be no valid rationale for illegalizing abortion in this day-and-age.

Show me someone from the open source community who has helped and donated more towards charities than Bill Gates. Uh huh, that's what I thought.

Bill - is that you? Don't forget to lodge your claims for charitable donations - we filed it under "the spit shield fund".

the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (foundation) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Both entities are tax-exempt private foundations that are structured as a charitable.

One good thing Bill Gates has done. Though not everyone agrees.

I came here to post popehat. My legal blog recommendations:
* Popehat insightful/snarky legal commentary from someone who used to be a federal prosecutor and is now in private practice.
* Lowering the Bar: hilarious legal humor. Recent topics: Hulk Hogan, Donald Trump, drone law, argle-bargle.
*Papers, Please: Lots of TSA and similar topics. Their MO is to file expansive FOIA requests to intelligence and law enforcement agencies, then write stridently about how they were rejected.
* Jetsetting Terrorist: trials and tribulations of somebody erroneously on the do not fly list. (not updated often)
* Taking Sense Away: blog written by TSA employee (no longer updated, but fun to read the archives).
* SCOTUSblog: blow-by-blow news of goings-on at the supreme court. super nerdy.
* Supreme Court Haiku: summaries of supreme court decisions, in haiku form.
* Volokh Conspiracy: insightful pieces on constitutional law and similar topics. primarily conservative, primarily written by law profs.

wow, with all these things in my feedly, it's amazing I get any work done!

For mathematics and physics, I read Not Even Wrong, by Peter Woit.

For theoretical computer science, I read Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP, by Richard J. Lipton and Kenneth W. Regan.

For analyzing the harm that modern feminism is causing, I read Dalrock.

For mathematics and physics, I read Not Even Wrong, by Peter Woit.

For theoretical computer science, I read Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP, by Richard J. Lipton and Kenneth W. Regan.

For analyzing the harm that modern feminism is causing, I read Dalrock.

an unadorned robot ball [...] is about the least threatening robot

Ahem...

I agree. "All men are created equal" is obvious bullshit.

Not all men are created equal. Some are created as sub-human savages who just aren't cut out for civilization, and therefore, probably deserve to be slaves.

the physical reaction to the experience could lead to death.

Horror movies used to have these warnings, and like this one, they were nothing but marketing.

Here's a poster from an old William Castle horror flick where they promise to insure you for $1000 against death by fright.

https://mattmulcahey.wordpress...

And you know what? I bet at some point someone died of natural causes by watching a movie, just as someone will die of natural causes from watching a VR game. Nobody's going to "die of fright" from playing a CAPCOM horror game.

Also, in popular culture a "ban" is almost always a great way to promote sales. CAPCOM's just trying to sell some video games with a more sophisticated, up-to-date version of, "If you have heart disease or are weak of constitution, you should DEFINITELY NOT see this film!".

Any particular reason why they should get different answers than their usual ones? (sorry, can't find the official responses published on their website atm, but they used to have a full list of snarky answers like these).

NASA had proposed several Apollo to Venus back in the 1970's, including a triple flyby that would take 800 days. The rational back then was to keep funding to manned space program going after the Moon landings were completed.

https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/manned-venus-flyby/

I think the rationale behind landing on objects in our Solar System disappeared once it was clear we weren't going to find intelligent life there.

Space mining or interstellar travel may have a purpose, landing on an inhospitable rock/sulphuric acid lake or whatever seems entirely pointless as an end in itself.

Been done:

https://diverswhowanttolearnmo...

1. About climate sensitivity estimates, as you know, are all over the place, however whats important is they keep shrinking as we learn more.

https://landshape.files.wordpr...

2. About my 70s comment:
I did read it in there somewhere, however cannot pin point it right now.

You will find in D.3 though:
https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assess...
"It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together. The best estimate of the human-induced contribution to warming is similar to the observed warming over this period. {10.3}"

Since there was a cooling phase from 1944 until about 1975 it is clear CO2 wasnt warming the planet before that... according to the IPCC.

3. You'll also see that the reference for the last claim I made is in there too.

Now, of course climate has always had an effect on climate. We aren't talking about natural forcing, we are talking about AGW.

Your last sentence is conjecture and speculation as are the supposed feedback's that is supposed to create this runaway warming.

We should throw in some white colored apes that google can mistake for white people, and then it will be fair, and everyone can stop being outraged.

Chimps often have pale skin. This one looks eerily human.

NASA had proposed several Apollo to Venus back in the 1970's, including a triple flyby that would take 800 days. The rational back then was to keep funding to manned space program going after the Moon landings were completed.

https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/manned-venus-flyby/