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The Earth is not getting warmer! by SplashMyBandit · 2013-09-17 16:15 · Score: 0, Informative · on Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice In Antarctica

The data shows that after a spike in Earth's surface temperature two decades ago the temperature has stopped rising for 16 years. Even the British Meteorological Office has finally been forced to concede that the warming predicted from climate models has not occurred. Rather than confess that Global Warming is and always was based on poor science, the British Met Office now says warming has "paused" (as if they knew the future, which they clearly don't, since they've been wrong so far).

Then we have climate 'scientists' like James Hansen and Michael Mann who have been fraudulently manipulating NOAO and NASA data that didn't fit their climate warming alarmist hypothesis.

Yes, I know this information will be a big surprise for many of you. Before you call me a "loon" (or the favorite word of the anti-scientific climate alarmists, a "denier") or mod me down, I urge you to consider the science and analysis displayed here (mixed in with other articles): http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/

If anyone has any questions about the graphs, or data that contradicts them then I'll be interested to hear it. I have an open mind - I'm just following the Scientific Method and going where the data leads. I hope you do too :)

The simplest explanation for the observed ice cap data, Antarctic ice growth, lack of any hurricanes in the US this August, drop in wildfires in the Continental US, many US States recording below average winter temperatures, etc etc is simply that the predicted "Global Warming" has not continued. In fact, there appears to be a very slight cooling (especially in the Southern Hemisphere). The weather has simply been going up and down as it always does on a year-to-year basis, with no real trend over the hundred year timescale.

Why does it matter? because the current meme of "Global Warming" is out of dat

The Earth is not getting warmer! by SplashMyBandit · 2013-09-17 16:15 · Score: 0, Informative · on Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice In Antarctica

The data shows that after a spike in Earth's surface temperature two decades ago the temperature has stopped rising for 16 years. Even the British Meteorological Office has finally been forced to concede that the warming predicted from climate models has not occurred. Rather than confess that Global Warming is and always was based on poor science, the British Met Office now says warming has "paused" (as if they knew the future, which they clearly don't, since they've been wrong so far).

Then we have climate 'scientists' like James Hansen and Michael Mann who have been fraudulently manipulating NOAO and NASA data that didn't fit their climate warming alarmist hypothesis.

Yes, I know this information will be a big surprise for many of you. Before you call me a "loon" (or the favorite word of the anti-scientific climate alarmists, a "denier") or mod me down, I urge you to consider the science and analysis displayed here (mixed in with other articles): http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/

If anyone has any questions about the graphs, or data that contradicts them then I'll be interested to hear it. I have an open mind - I'm just following the Scientific Method and going where the data leads. I hope you do too :)

The simplest explanation for the observed ice cap data, Antarctic ice growth, lack of any hurricanes in the US this August, drop in wildfires in the Continental US, many US States recording below average winter temperatures, etc etc is simply that the predicted "Global Warming" has not continued. In fact, there appears to be a very slight cooling (especially in the Southern Hemisphere). The weather has simply been going up and down as it always does on a year-to-year basis, with no real trend over the hundred year timescale.

Why does it matter? because the current meme of "Global Warming" is out of dat

The Earth is not getting warmer! by SplashMyBandit · 2013-09-17 16:15 · Score: 0, Informative · on Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice In Antarctica

The data shows that after a spike in Earth's surface temperature two decades ago the temperature has stopped rising for 16 years. Even the British Meteorological Office has finally been forced to concede that the warming predicted from climate models has not occurred. Rather than confess that Global Warming is and always was based on poor science, the British Met Office now says warming has "paused" (as if they knew the future, which they clearly don't, since they've been wrong so far).

Then we have climate 'scientists' like James Hansen and Michael Mann who have been fraudulently manipulating NOAO and NASA data that didn't fit their climate warming alarmist hypothesis.

Yes, I know this information will be a big surprise for many of you. Before you call me a "loon" (or the favorite word of the anti-scientific climate alarmists, a "denier") or mod me down, I urge you to consider the science and analysis displayed here (mixed in with other articles): http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/

If anyone has any questions about the graphs, or data that contradicts them then I'll be interested to hear it. I have an open mind - I'm just following the Scientific Method and going where the data leads. I hope you do too :)

The simplest explanation for the observed ice cap data, Antarctic ice growth, lack of any hurricanes in the US this August, drop in wildfires in the Continental US, many US States recording below average winter temperatures, etc etc is simply that the predicted "Global Warming" has not continued. In fact, there appears to be a very slight cooling (especially in the Southern Hemisphere). The weather has simply been going up and down as it always does on a year-to-year basis, with no real trend over the hundred year timescale.

Why does it matter? because the current meme of "Global Warming" is out of dat

The Earth is not getting warmer! by SplashMyBandit · 2013-09-17 16:15 · Score: 0, Informative · on Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice In Antarctica

The data shows that after a spike in Earth's surface temperature two decades ago the temperature has stopped rising for 16 years. Even the British Meteorological Office has finally been forced to concede that the warming predicted from climate models has not occurred. Rather than confess that Global Warming is and always was based on poor science, the British Met Office now says warming has "paused" (as if they knew the future, which they clearly don't, since they've been wrong so far).

Then we have climate 'scientists' like James Hansen and Michael Mann who have been fraudulently manipulating NOAO and NASA data that didn't fit their climate warming alarmist hypothesis.

Yes, I know this information will be a big surprise for many of you. Before you call me a "loon" (or the favorite word of the anti-scientific climate alarmists, a "denier") or mod me down, I urge you to consider the science and analysis displayed here (mixed in with other articles): http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/

If anyone has any questions about the graphs, or data that contradicts them then I'll be interested to hear it. I have an open mind - I'm just following the Scientific Method and going where the data leads. I hope you do too :)

The simplest explanation for the observed ice cap data, Antarctic ice growth, lack of any hurricanes in the US this August, drop in wildfires in the Continental US, many US States recording below average winter temperatures, etc etc is simply that the predicted "Global Warming" has not continued. In fact, there appears to be a very slight cooling (especially in the Southern Hemisphere). The weather has simply been going up and down as it always does on a year-to-year basis, with no real trend over the hundred year timescale.

Why does it matter? because the current meme of "Global Warming" is out of dat

The Earth is not getting warmer! by SplashMyBandit · 2013-09-17 16:15 · Score: 0, Informative · on Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice In Antarctica

The data shows that after a spike in Earth's surface temperature two decades ago the temperature has stopped rising for 16 years. Even the British Meteorological Office has finally been forced to concede that the warming predicted from climate models has not occurred. Rather than confess that Global Warming is and always was based on poor science, the British Met Office now says warming has "paused" (as if they knew the future, which they clearly don't, since they've been wrong so far).

Then we have climate 'scientists' like James Hansen and Michael Mann who have been fraudulently manipulating NOAO and NASA data that didn't fit their climate warming alarmist hypothesis.

Yes, I know this information will be a big surprise for many of you. Before you call me a "loon" (or the favorite word of the anti-scientific climate alarmists, a "denier") or mod me down, I urge you to consider the science and analysis displayed here (mixed in with other articles): http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/

If anyone has any questions about the graphs, or data that contradicts them then I'll be interested to hear it. I have an open mind - I'm just following the Scientific Method and going where the data leads. I hope you do too :)

The simplest explanation for the observed ice cap data, Antarctic ice growth, lack of any hurricanes in the US this August, drop in wildfires in the Continental US, many US States recording below average winter temperatures, etc etc is simply that the predicted "Global Warming" has not continued. In fact, there appears to be a very slight cooling (especially in the Southern Hemisphere). The weather has simply been going up and down as it always does on a year-to-year basis, with no real trend over the hundred year timescale.

Why does it matter? because the current meme of "Global Warming" is out of dat

Re:Look over here, look over here! by Uberbah · 2013-09-17 08:03 · Score: 1 · on Another Climate-Change Retraction

And yet the people who have been to the Pacific gyre say it is mostly Asian trash.

Do you think more people living there than the rest of the planet combined might have something to do with that?

Re:Nissan Leaf by BVis · 2013-09-17 06:26 · Score: 1 · on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car?

And even with a 250 mile range, road trips are not feasible in the near future regardless of what Elon Musk tells you.

Oh really.

Re:So now we are waiting by stoploss · 2013-09-17 01:13 · Score: 1 · on SkyOS Now Free (As In Beer)

... for SkyNet?

No, that already exists. We're just waiting for the moment it becomes self-aware and inevitably concludes we are a threat.

Re:What I'd love to see by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-16 11:48 · Score: 0 · on Another Climate-Change Retraction

The IPCC reports based on data that was deleted instead of being risked for peer review? I'll get right on that non-peer reviewable research from a biased source that depends on gloom and doom for more funding.

IPCC raw data deleted despite FOIA requests for it. A question NO AWG supporter is able to answer.

Re:In before by Pino+Grigio · 2013-09-16 05:41 · Score: 1 · on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change

What are you talking about "false"? Here's how accurate the models actually are. It's so terrible it's embarrassing. Is there a scientist alive who'd validate and defend models that are so utterly shite? Would you base policy on such rubbish? The bit they got almost right is only almost right because it's been tuned to fit it backwards in time.

Re:Not Completely Safe by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-16 01:54 · Score: 0 · on USB "Condom" Allows You To Practice Safe Charging

How hard can it be to find a charger larger than this? Sheesh.

Re:Biolite anyone by khb · 2013-09-15 09:56 · Score: 1 · on Engineers Aim To Make Cleaner-Burning Cookstoves For Developing World

Reading some of the other citations (cooking stove treatise, etc.) it seems that lessons from the 5th century haven't propagated yet.

http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/following-the-trail-of-tumuli/rebellion-in-kyushu-and-the-rise-of-royal-estates/village-settlement-patterns-the-homestead-emerges/the-kamado-stove-innovation-improves-home-life/

The key benefits of using "high" technology are cleaner burning and electricity generation for upfront investment (which presumably is being donated).

The southern japanese solution does deal with a lot of the household air pollution but doesn't address the global impact.

But it does beg the question about why traditional ceramic solutions aren't the basis for sustainable solutions. Even with an additional blower (which could be pedal powered) it does seem a lot more deployable (but not nearly as much engineering fun)

Re:How is this news? by xenobyte · 2013-09-14 22:03 · Score: 1 · on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business

Tangerine Dream made a lot of money in appearances with seldom a real instrument appearing on the stage.

Must be a recent thing?

In the old days (70's to early 80's) absolutely everything were live and they spent many hours setting up and tuning the old analogue synths so they could perform fluently despite the limitations of the primitive gear. They often performed with the lights off (only light came from from images projected onto the backdrop) and without a front sound man, mixing everything onstage as they went. The idea was to let the music grow organically and allow the audience to focus on the music, not the gear or the performers. Some of the early records were made the same way. It was only in the 1980's they started to separate things into songs which somehow became even more normal as they made more and more soundtracks.

It worked. To this day nobody has come close to recreating a similar organic flow in the world of electronic music. I'm writing this while listening to "Ricochet" from 1975. It consists of two long compositions mixed from taped recordings of the England and France portions of their autumn 1975 European Tour. The original recordings are hours of free flow improvisation sometimes going nowhere, sometimes ending in abrupt dead ends and restarts.

Here's an image also from the tour in 1975, specifically their appearance in Coventry Cathedral: http://sacvs.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/australian-tour-1975.gif
I would say that there's a lot of gear in evidence! - So unless you define 'real instrument' as something Mozart would recognize, there's plenty of instruments on stage!

Here's a modern picture: http://cdn.synthtopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/edgar-froese-tangerine-dream.jpg
Again lots of gear and even some regular drums in evidence.

In other words: I call bullsh*t on your comment about no 'real instruments' on stage.

Meet the Fact Checkers of the Chinese translations by mynamestolen · 2013-09-11 19:06 · Score: 2 · on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King

https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/review-chinese-translation-of-stephen-king-%E6%96%AF%E8%92%82%E8%8A%AC%C2%B7%E9%87%91%EF%BC%89bag-of-bones-%E5%B0%B8%E9%AA%A8%E8%A2%8B/

Re:Critic? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-11 03:44 · Score: 0 · on The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis

Arnold?
That's funny, I remember Christopher Walken as Quaid in Total Recall.

other effects of microwave energy by strstr · 2013-09-10 18:53 · Score: 1 · on Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius

It goes beyond thermal effects. This scares the day lights out of me. RF is an energy source, an invisible one, when it flows through human tissue, it has been shown to push and apply force to tissue. Dr. Carole Smith has talked about the government using terahertz radiation (similar to microwave energy) for remote brain and environment scans, and mind reading tech, and in that case, she says the radiation, even though non-ionizing, would pose the risk of stretching and dehydrating tissue, even neurons.

Dr. Carole Smith article: http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/intrusive-brain-reading-surveillance-technology-hacking-the-mind-by-carole-smith/

The brain and nervous system also respond to electromagnetic energy, and it can cause hallucinations and discomfort. People can also feel radiation on their bodies/on their skin, even the sensation of light. I just wanted to point out that there are other risks to this technology than just the risk of being heated. It could even permanently damage or alter your brain, by stretching neurons or having other effects on the soft tissue the longer you're around the source of energy (It even inhibits and interferes with nerve function.) Cause, microwaves/photons create drag on cells, can push/pull it around. More powerful versions of this technology can be used to hurt a person from afar, to damage a persons mind, or beam voices and other signals direct into the mind, and the NSA has that patented (NSA Signals Intelligence Electronic Brain Link/Remote Neural Monitoring).

link : http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html

If it weren't for the convenience of electricity, and the money involved.. we might ban it, because it might actually be responsible for many human and animal illnesses and defects. People in the city who are closest to the strongest of these signals for example have a much higher chance of getting schizophrenia, whereas people in the country do not tend to develop the disorder at such a higher rate. We do know that electromagnetic energy causes hallucinations directly and destabilizes and interferes with brain function, as it disrupts the ability of the brain to operate normally, interfering with it's signaling process and what have you.

Re:Funny by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-10 14:46 · Score: 0 · on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology

Oh boy, this again. It's totally okay to be sexist and racist as long as it's self-aware. Excluding the fact that this wasn't actually self-aware. It was a joke specifically designed to reinforce the idea that it's okay to stare at women in public because all they are is statues to be gawked at. In the technology sector women face huge amounts of actual sexism, all the time, which I sort of assumed everyone was aware of. They are mocked and belittled, denied jobs, connections, promotions, because they lack credibility as tech experts, because they have boobs. Women in tech get reminded EVERY DAY that women don't understand computers (ha ha!) that women should stay in the kitchen (ha ha!) that ugly women are worthless as human beings (ha ha!), that women should be fine with being harassed by their male coworkers and women who aren't are all frigid bitches (ha ha!) and so much more. Don't you think this has an effect? That it keeps women out of tech? If your "joke" is designed to put down women and make them uncomfortable, it's not really a joke anymore, is it? It's harassment. If your ironic sexism is actually hurtful and upsetting, it's not ironic anymore, is it? It's just sexism. Why do you think nobody feels comfortable telling "ironic" racist jokes in mixed-race crowds? Because deep down, people know it's still kind of racist. A black person who hears a joke like that will be made uncomfortable and hurt. That's not funny. It's not lighthearted. It keeps people down, like it's designed to do.

Every joke has a target and a message. If the target were sexism, that would be fine. But it's not. The message is, "haha women are basically just for sex, so it's totally natural for men to make them uncomfortable all the time because if they didn't want that kind of treatment, why would they wear makeup, right?" And you expect women to laugh at that? You expect ANYONE to be okay with that?

for more articles that explain this better than I can, please see:
Kotaku article on nerd sexism: http://kotaku.com/5868595/nerds-and-male-privilege
Blog post on why women are unhappy in the geek community: http://sakurasaurus.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-girl-geek-community-is-hidden-ever-wondered-why/
Why women don't just "lighten up": http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/
Women nerds speak out against systemic sexism in the industry:http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/28/4155650/women-in-the-gaming-industry-share-their-number-one-reason-to-be-in

tl;dr The huge, painful, actual problem of sexism >>>>>>>> your desire to not have to be "PC". Deal with it!

~cue the jokes about how I'm PMSing

Re:This is how by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-10 08:02 · Score: 0 · on German Federal Police Helicopter Circles US Consulate

Disclaimer: I live and grew up in Germany, but I am not a German.

Most Americans seem to be unaware of the intensity of West Germany's internal problems; the seriousness of the civil unrest and violent demonstrations occurring in the early 1970's.

If you don't mind me asking, were you old enough to have been there when it was happening? If so, were the social implications being exaggerated; was West Germany on the verge of collapse?

Re:who cares? by nabsltd · 2013-09-10 01:28 · Score: 1 · on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs

here is a random person who did the math and found out that the licensing cost of MSSQL is more than balanced by the lower support cost in a large installation.

Part of the assumptions in the listed prices are that only Microsoft SQL Server won't have a support contract.

Re:who cares? by Jaime2 · 2013-09-10 00:44 · Score: 1 · on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs

There are plenty of benchmarks that show MSSQL and Oracle with better price/performance ration than MySQL. Here is an example of a benchmark and here is a random person who did the math and found out that the licensing cost of MSSQL is more than balanced by the lower support cost in a large installation.

I'm not saying that MySQL isn't a good choice, just that the licensing cost is only a small part of the cost of a DBMS installation, so MySQL being open source really isn't that big of a price advantage unless the installation is very small. And for small customers, both Microsoft and Oracle have a free option.

Re:One data point? by DiamondGeezer · 2013-09-08 19:50 · Score: 3, Informative · on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter?

Yes, you're right. Here's a load of data points showing that the Antarctic Sea Ice Area is well above the long term average and has been growing slowly for at least 15 years.

http://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/antarctic_sea_ice_extent_zoomed_2013_day_45_1981-2010.png
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/image1.png

Perhaps sea ice extent oscillates between the North and South Poles

Re:One data point? by DiamondGeezer · 2013-09-08 19:50 · Score: 3, Informative · on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter?

Yes, you're right. Here's a load of data points showing that the Antarctic Sea Ice Area is well above the long term average and has been growing slowly for at least 15 years.

http://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/antarctic_sea_ice_extent_zoomed_2013_day_45_1981-2010.png
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/image1.png

Perhaps sea ice extent oscillates between the North and South Poles

Re:Already Got One by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-08 04:37 · Score: 0 · on Can Even Apple Make a Watch Insanely Smart?

Shame its crap :( Ive got one too - http://uxxv.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/the-pebble-watch-geek-curiosity-not-for-public-consumption/

Maybe you should get a better phone. Seriously, I've used mine on two different Android phones and the problems you list are definitely not with the watch. Should Pebble be blamed if Apple can't get multitasking and bluetooth pairing right?

Re:Already Got One by DJRikki · 2013-09-08 01:06 · Score: 4, Informative · on Can Even Apple Make a Watch Insanely Smart?

Shame its crap :( Ive got one too - http://uxxv.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/the-pebble-watch-geek-curiosity-not-for-public-consumption/

Re:Moon Aerosmith by Tablizer · 2013-09-07 18:03 · Score: 1 · on NASA Finds, Fixes Small Glitch in LADEE Moon Probe

It really does:

http://ourstorybeginsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/lady_in_moon.jpg

Re:Remember the allegations of OpenBSD IPsec stack by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-07 08:41 · Score: 0 · on John Gilmore Analyzes NSA Obstruction of Crypto In IPSEC

this guy seems to be intelligent and he made a couple good observations

https://yorkporc.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/premenos-and-cryptome/

any other smart cookies here on slashdot care to chime in? bonus points if you are a crypto researcher

The eBafia/PreyPal crooked complex by PhilipCohen · 2013-09-06 10:07 · Score: 1 · on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account

Ah, the clunky "PreyPal"; still running a most unprofessional, clunky operation. Yes, the banks are too expensive but at least their operation is professionally run and you can actually get prompt customer support when you need it for a credit card matter ... And, just for fun, the latest febrile hallucination from the Ho, Ho, Ho at eBay “No Seller Fees ! Get Paid with ebaY Vouchers! Who Needs Cash Anyway?” http://cappnonymous.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/no-seller-fees-get-paid-with-ebay-vouchers-who-needs-cash-anyway/#more-3026 eBay is running a limited-time promo whereby sellers can avoid all eBay selling fees if they agree to be paid with eBay vouchers (redeemable only at the “company store”) instead of real money: “Keep 100% of Your Selling Price! Pay No Fees – Limited Time Offer!” http://pages.ebay.com/sell/nosellfees/ Gee, eBay is offering to forgo their Final Valuation Fee (FVF) income in the hope that sellers will agree to let eBay keep 100% of the sale price in eBay’s own piggy bank! Looks like eBay is now competing for deposited funds directly with its other “pretend bank”, PreyPal What’s up eBay, won’t the guys at PreyPal let you play with their users’ uninsured deposited funds in the PreyPal “pretend bank”? And, how many clunky, uninsured “pretend” banks can any one unscrupulous commercial entity offer to its naïve consumers? Talk about crazy ideas, this one has to take the cake. What can this nonsense be all about? Utter desperation for cash is the only thing that I can think of. Or, are buyers now getting really that thin on the ground? Hmmm, maybe that could explain those massive “oceans of red” that we now see in the completed listings of scrupulous sellers ... But, seriously, who would take up this offer? Given that it would undoubtedly help eBay with their cash flow, it would do nothing for the seller’s cash flow. And, who would be silly enough to trust this latest non-FDIC insured eBay “pretend bank”—or the PreyPal pretend bank for that matter—with the safekeeping of any but the smallest amount of their funds? Regardless ... eBay's crooked marketplace ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas The clunky "PreyPal" ... http://bit.ly/UVXx53 And the ongoing joke of it all ... http://bit.ly/YvxFEg “Ignorance can be fixed, stupid is forever.”—Don Wood ... Clearly, John Donahoe’s condition is forever

Double fail! by taikedz · 2013-09-06 07:42 · Score: 2 · on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA

This study fails on two counts: Americans are statistical outliers; the conclusion is fallacious due to poor understanding of causality.

For those for whom this is TL;DR -- Americans are the worst possible population to base any form of human study on (let alone a flawed study) - ref Solomon Asch's conclusion. The short summary @ neuroecology ; the longer discussion @ pacific standard.

Among Westerners, the data showed that Americans were often the most unusual, leading the researchers to conclude that “American participants are exceptional even within the unusual population of Westerners—outliers among outliers.”

But try this little thought experiment: take some random Anyville, USA. How much have they travelled, how diverse is their population? How do populations move? How many are going to marry from the same town, as did their parents and grandparents, and how many are going to have children and grandchildren doing the same? And even if the population started out with diversity, you can lather, rinse, repeat the marriage/procreation suds and end up with a genetically similar pool of people - the town itself holds massively similar people on average.

Those of us who are more footloose and have moved around further are still statistical anomalies, insomuch as we often hail from outside of these wells of similarity. That is not to say that since we're so different, we cannot make friends with those whose families are long time residents, nor does it exclude the idea of having a multicultural community of extremely different people, DNA-wise.

But at its core, the fault of this study is basic: a textbook example of correlation-causation fallacy.

Re:MORE DISINFORMATION by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-05 02:06 · Score: 0 · on Leaked Documents Detail Al-Qaeda's Efforts To Fight Back Against Drones

Yes, yes. Of course it is the wrong decision. However, there will be a natural gas pipeline. Russia will allow encroachment of their territory in Europe. Alternatively, Russia can join the NWO.

My favorite part of this is the nuclear warheads moving about the east coast of the US without sign off or tracking by the military or our leaders. hmmmm....

http://globalclarity.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/exclusive-high-level-source-confirms-secret-us-nuclear-warhead-transfer-to-east-coast/

Even better is that they are moving to the bases with the B2 bombers. Why were they designed again? Ohhhh, right. To hit targets in Russia. Nice!!!

Well boys, its been fun!

The powers that be will nuke Russia if that is what it takes to get what they want. Why you ask? Because they want to kill a few billion of us anyways.

Re:This shouldn't be news by philip.paradis · 2013-09-04 20:15 · Score: 4, Informative · on Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case

The prosecutors didn't suppress evidence - the judge ruled that experts couldn't testify. And that's his bloody job.

The judge is elected by and paid by taxpayers. The majority of those taxpayers will never be privy to the inner workings of the trial, whether by chance or by intent to remain ignorant of local trial proceedings. However, the judge's opponent in the next round of elections will take any opportunity (s)he can to paint the incumbent as incompetent or lenient on criminals, which might be enough to sway the election. Do the math before you rush to such quick judgement.

I also suggest you take a few minutes to review this information.

Re:Gee, he's got my vote by lennier1 · 2013-09-04 14:45 · Score: 1 · on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office

We already know that he has the necessary qualifications for a career in politics.
Back in the '80s he happily sold out people when it gave him an advantage (look up his connection to Gravenreuth, a German lawyer).
Starting point for your own research: http://eclamus.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/megaupload/

Re:Degenerate? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-04 00:55 · Score: 0 · on Social Media's Role In Peer Pressure

They might have a point - could end up like these degenerates

(heh, captcha is 'narcotic')

Re:Beware of Microsofties bearing gifts by jfanning · 2013-09-03 20:03 · Score: 1 · on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business

You do know that Tomi rewrites history and he himself pointed out that Nokia was screwed before Elop took over? He conveniently forgets that fact in his one man campaign against Elop.

http://dominiescommunicate.wordpress.com/

Re:So much does not work by MobyDisk · 2013-09-03 04:36 · Score: 1 · on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored

But there is a wonderfully effective way to use computers in education. You look at student's marks.

It's a trap! Actually, research is quite divided on how much teacher performance correlates to student grades. It's not simple at all! That is the kind of thing this web site is there for. To educate teachers about these kinds of tricky correlations.

At the very least, if one is to use student marks to evaluate a teacher, you must first control for other factors. Take your example: The 8th grade middle-school math teacher stunk. So the next year, the 9th grade high-school math teacher looks bad because 1/2 the class came from tat middle school.

Or another: A local disaster occurred in one of the districts that feeds the school. Many families are left homeless. Those students are mostly taking Mrs. Smith's Algebra class. Or perhaps students are moved into this district from the disaster district. The result is Mrs. Smith looks like a poor teacher.

It is actually possible to control for these factors, and some studies do that. That is how they create these lists of factors that impact student success. (Like this one, which doesn't jive with what I've been reading about, but at least it illustrates the point.

Re:and there goes the Nokia Android by 21mhz · 2013-09-03 03:56 · Score: 1 · on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business

Meego was another Maemo, not WebOS, it have its own lineage as example.

I used WebOS in a figurative sense: an also-ran mobile OS that was too little, too late.
They muddled the lineage by banding up with Intel, meaning that the platform was going to be rebased on Moblin.

Was sabotaged by Symbian fans inside Nokia first, then the days before it was released Elop said that it had no future, cut all future hopes for development for the platform, and released just one phone with it, just because already made it.

Revisionism. The strategy change announcement was made half a year before the N9 was released. And well before Elop, it was decided internally that the software on the N9 is a one-off with no future, because MeeGo proper was being developed in parallel, with a late 2011 shipping date in mind (yes, that's when they shipped the Lumia 800 after the big turnaround). See, Nokia was really big on nonsensical parallel development back then. Anyone who knows the development story of the N900 and the N9 can confirm that.

Is even against that that sold pretty well.

This is a myth created by Tomi Ahonen and a few commenters on a tech blog.

the Windows 7.x phones that Microsoft killed before they come out to the market saying that they will have no future neither (but most people that buys windows phone only hears windows phone, not version, so even with that had sales).

You mean the phones that are still supported and getting newly released apps? Keep telling that to people stuck on buggy Gingerbread phones.

Re:Paranoia... by SplashMyBandit · 2013-09-02 12:27 · Score: -1 · on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA

Actually, it is the Muslim Brotherhood who are infiltrating. They already dictate what can and can't be said in FBI/CIA/DoD and all US Government training manuals - since the US doesn't want to cause "offense" to people whose stated goal to destroy the US using its "own miserable hand" (yeah, madness to let the enemies of liberty dictate your training!). Furthermore, the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't need to infiltrate the security agencies, since it is already setting policy in the White House:
Citattions:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates (reporting from an *Egyptian* source)
Huma Abedin is a Muslim Brotherhood "princess" and Hilliary Clinton's closest advisor
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/more-secrets-from-huma-abedin/
http://culturaljihad.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/strange-bedfellows-white-house-and-muslim-brotherhood/

Ever wonder why the US acted as the "Al Qaeda Air Force" in Libya, and is about to do the same in Syria? It's because of the "Red/Green Alliance". The alliance between the International Socialists (including the US Democrat Party) and the Muslim Brotherhood/Islamists (note: Hamas and Al Qaeda are descendent organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood).

It is not "paranoia" if they really are out to get you. It is not paranoia if the policy of the US has been consistent in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood at the expense of popular secular democratic uprisings (think the Iranian "Green Revolution" in 2009 where Obama held off commenting until it was crushed; and now the White House and Ambassador Patterson are actively trying to get the Muslim Brotherhood re-instated in Egypt against the popular will).

This is *on topic* as it is describing the general background setting in Snowden's comments about arttempted CIA penetration is being made. I can supply any references you need for any of my statements. I also think people who are concerned about infiltration of the CIA etc should realise they have already been neutered by political correctness. Stephen Coughlin and the Center for Security Policy have several excellent videos where they show the difference in words used between the 9/11 Commission Report and the report into the Fort Hood shooting by Major Nadal Hussein (who is a self-declared jihadi but everyone keeps calling "workplace violence" in the worst outbreak of Marxist Political Correct self-delusion in recent memory).

In Depth Fisking for the time crunched: by Hanzie · 2013-09-01 11:16 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil

Larry Correia (multi NYT bestselling author of Monster Hunter International) did a point by point slam on this article:

Fisking Slate over Public Schools

Naked link to same article:
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/fisking-slate-over-public-schools/

The woman who wrote the slate article is married with 3 kids in New York. Strangely, last year she wrote in Slate about how happy she will be to stop paying $5000/month on private preschools.

In Depth Fisking for the time crunched: by Hanzie · 2013-09-01 11:16 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil

Larry Correia (multi NYT bestselling author of Monster Hunter International) did a point by point slam on this article:

Fisking Slate over Public Schools

Naked link to same article:
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/fisking-slate-over-public-schools/

The woman who wrote the slate article is married with 3 kids in New York. Strangely, last year she wrote in Slate about how happy she will be to stop paying $5000/month on private preschools.

Larry Correia wrote an interesting refutation by qbzzt · 2013-09-01 10:49 · Score: 1, Interesting · on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil

Click here for a refutation of her argument.

Re:Capacity by Third+Position · 2013-08-31 15:44 · Score: 1 · on Particle Physicists Facing Insane Competition For Work

Hence, I offer you the Dark Enlightenment.

Re:Here's what holds ME back. by EnglishDude · 2013-08-30 09:05 · Score: 1 · on How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action

You just don't bother seeing what's on the market. I sold my 9 year old Honda Civic for $3,000 that gets 40mpg(imp)/30mpg(US) and brought a replacement car, a 6 year old small family car for $3000 that gets 80mpg(imp)/65mpg(US) - I made no overall loss and saved $3,000 a year in fuel costs. How is getting a fuel efficient car more expensive than a gas guzzler? Hint - fuel efficient cars are not just Prius. My car is a diesel Opel Astra (similar to the Saturn Astra) not quite an unusual or rare car, certainly not here in the UK. And no, the car isn't new, the second link goes to a review page dated 10th Oct 2002. I've never ever paid more than $5,000 for a car in my lifetime, and I drive one of the most fuel efficient cars in the small family category anyone can get.

Re:Here's what holds ME back. by EnglishDude · 2013-08-30 08:57 · Score: 1 · on How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action

What do you mean? I sold my 9 year old Honda Civic for $3,000 that gets 40mpg(imp)/30mpg(US) and brought a replacement car, a 6 year old small family car for $3000 that gets 80mpg(imp)/65mpg(US) - I made no overall loss and saved $3,000 a year in fuel costs. How is getting a fuel efficient car more expensive than a gas guzzler? Hint - fuel efficient cars are not just Prius. My car is a diesel Opel Astra (similar to the Saturn Astra) not quite an unusual or rare car, certainly not here in the UK. And no, the car isn't new, the second link goes to a review page dated 10th Oct 2002.

So yes, it's cheap to get a fuel efficient car, just don't get a hybrid, they guzzle more gas than my car.

Create an ice age by bhlowe · 2013-08-30 06:08 · Score: -1, Troll · on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise

Why don't figure out how to trigger an ice age.. That will solve everything.

In reality, despite the a decade or more of indoctrination, school age kids (under 17) have NOT actually experienced ANY global warming.

Re:fossil fueled debate by XxtraLarGe · 2013-08-29 10:42 · Score: 3, Funny · on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us

Gonna need proof there was life on Mars or that whatever life we have here somehow came from Mars.

I'm not saying it was aliens, but...

Re:Makes many less violent, and some more violent by dragon-file · 2013-08-28 11:03 · Score: 2 · on Study Suggests Violent Video Games May Make Teens Less Violent

See, you'd think that, but then look at some of the fire arm stats: http://www.factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/

Basicly it shows that firearm sales went up and the number of firearm related murders, assaults and robberies went down.

Then look at the number of deaths in other categories such as drunk driving or just driving in general: http://danieljmitchell.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/causes-of-death-cartoon.jpg

Long story short (too late), people like to focus on the little things and blow them out of proportion while completely ignoring the larger issues or ignoring the fact that the majority of people get along just fine.

Just another piece of the puzzle by afanofhydrogen · 2013-08-27 11:24 · Score: 1 · on Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development

If they can pull it off this will certainly be a huge win for the “Hydrogen Economy” that guys like this have been talking about for years: http://rogerbillingshydrogen.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/dr-roger-billings-hydrogen-is-in-his-dreams/ Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and with fuel cells like this, it can play nice with a lot of energy platforms such as wind, solar, and even natural gas because it makes it easier to store and transport energy and can be efficiently converted back and forth from electricity with little or no pollution and no overseas oil bill.

Re:Rebublicans don't give a shit about truth by RenderSeven · 2013-08-27 04:33 · Score: 2 · on Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes

Goldman Sachs is behind carbon trading - Article Here. Billions to be made trading a trillion dollars of carbon credits with Goldman setting themselves up to be the broker. Millions and millions in lobbying and campaign contributions. Gore is a tool, but Goldman is truly evil.

Re:YAFF by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-27 03:55 · Score: 0 · on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered

Yet Another False Flag operation. Has everyone seen the newly leaked emails alleging that the United States is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack precisely to justify this invasion? See this and this and this and this and this and this and this.

-1 for posting an alternative point of view that has links to back up assertion? The neocon contingent of /. mods must be out in force today.

YAFF by lazylion · 2013-08-27 02:37 · Score: -1, Troll · on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered

Yet Another False Flag operation. Has everyone seen the newly leaked emails alleging that the United States is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack precisely to justify this invasion? See this and this and this and this and this and this and this.

Re:Female programmers by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-26 18:38 · Score: 0 · on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley?

I've never seen anyone actually use "womyn" except when insulting feminists, claim women can't be sexist, or claim that all men are rapists (which I assume is a reference to this). I'm not sure what feminists you've been reading, but may I recommend some different ones? The whole Shakesville feminism 101 is worth reading, albeit quite long, so instead I'll point you to a specific essay On Feminists Being Alleged Man-Haters. There's a tag devoted to feminism addressing things that are bad for men too labeled Patriarchy Ain't a Picnic for Men Either.

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