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Back in the 80s my family moved over a thousand miles away for dad to go to school. We were AAA members, and my parents visited the local AAA and got a TripTik. It seems they still have them (at least in name - seems to be an app or something now), but back then it was a linear map that was bound at the top. You would flip through the pages and the roadway you were to take was always oriented up / down along the paper. They would custom build it for you, inserting the appropriate sheets into the booklet, to get you to your destination. Then of course you could follow it backwards for the return trip. I remember they even manually highlighted the route, and would mark areas of construction on the map. They would also show points of interest and good places to stop.

Here are some pictures (random sources off the internet that match what I remember):
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Fold out detail:
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Here's one that's been stamped marking an area where delays might occur:
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As long as 4700 years ago in Old Kingdom Egypt, trip guides using papyrus, folded in a succession with annotations (move your asses up the canyon on the left that has the gnarled old beobab tree . . .), guided Egyptians travelling to gold mining sites in the Egyptian and Nubian deserts.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that men are better suited to be software "engineers" because they have dicks. Personally, I am also uncomfortable with women driving cars, because they lack this handy appendage.

I often use my dick when driving for hitting the turn signal, changing the radio station, etc. I have no doubt that there are many ways having a dick can aid a software "engineer", but I can't give you any examples because being a software engineer is a menial job in which I have no interest.

Oh, and this is a photograph of James Damore, the hypermasculine and very well-suited for being a software "engineer" former Google employee who totally thinks men are better suited to being software "engineers". (note: in the photo, he is standing between two normal-sized men who are probably not software "engineers" and who almost certainly have both used James Damore like a woman.)

https://heavyeditorial.files.w...

This is James Damore, the fired Google software engineer ubermensch who thinks the biological differences between men and women should matter in the Google workplace: Here is a photo of James Damore who believes that men are more biologically suited to work as software engineers. Go ahead, look at him.

https://heavyeditorial.files.w...

James Damore has four years experience writing code. He took the time to write a 10-page manifesto on gender differences and distribute it using company resources instead of, you know, doing work. He got his ass fired and now he is a hero to other whiny ass manbabies.

Again, in case you missed it, here is a photo of James Damore, who is big on "biological differences".

https://heavyeditorial.files.w...

This is James Damore, the fired Google software engineer ubermensch who thinks the biological differences between men and women should matter in the Google workplace: Here is a photo of James Damore who believes that men are more biologically suited to work as software engineers. Go ahead, look at him.

https://heavyeditorial.files.w...

James Damore has four years experience writing code. He took the time to write a 10-page manifesto on gender differences and distribute it using company resources instead of, you know, doing work. He got his ass fired and now he is a hero to other whiny ass manbabies.

Again, in case you missed it, here is a photo of James Damore, who is big on "biological differences".

https://heavyeditorial.files.w...

Women are physically weaker than men.

Have you seen a photograph of James Damore, the former Google employee who wrote a ten page document about diversity without a single reference? Here, let me help you. Here is a photograph of James Damore.

https://heavyeditorial.files.w...

Now I don't know if you meant to imply that physical strength is required to be a software engineer. I don't know if you've ever met a software engineer. But James Damore looks like he could get his ass kicked by a 12 year old girl scout with asthma. And by the way, James Damore, software engineer ubermensch, has exactly four years' experience writing code. Maybe he should have channeled some of the energy and outrage that he used on his 10-page manifesto (without a single reference, did I mention?) into actually spending some time becoming a software engineer and growing some hair on his balls.

We can start with a similar field and try to figure out why boys play video games significantly more than girls.

Boys do not play video games significantly more than girls. About the same percentage of boys and girls play video games (nearly all, by the way). But boys play video games more often and for longer, because (my theory) they are less inquisitive and more likely to put in 8 hour sessions of Tekken.

And "playing video games" is not a "similar field" to being a software engineer. The first is repetitive and non-creative, and the second requires some modicum of problem solving. If you've logged 400-plus hours into COD4 Modern Warfare, you are no longer problem solving, you're banging a lever that gives you a cookie.

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Back in the 80s my family moved over a thousand miles away for dad to go to school. We were AAA members, and my parents visited the local AAA and got a TripTik. It seems they still have them (at least in name - seems to be an app or something now), but back then it was a linear map that was bound at the top. You would flip through the pages and the roadway you were to take was always oriented up / down along the paper. They would custom build it for you, inserting the appropriate sheets into the booklet, to get you to your destination. Then of course you could follow it backwards for the return trip. I remember they even manually highlighted the route, and would mark areas of construction on the map. They would also show points of interest and good places to stop.

Here are some pictures (random sources off the internet that match what I remember):
https://img0.etsystatic.com/00...

Fold out detail:
https://yearofadventure.files....

Here's one that's been stamped marking an area where delays might occur:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-2gf...

This is a good place to start.

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and

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Please site a reference for this. There was no secret plan. Nixon was quoted before the 1968 elections saying “If I had any way to end the war, I would pass it on to President [Lyndon] Johnson.” All evidence prior to the 1968 election was that Nixon would end the war, not win the war, through a combination of diplomatic and military pressure. He actually did increase the aggressiveness of aspects of the war such as going after the enemy in sanctuary areas, but as a strategy of applying pressure, rather than seeking an all out military victory.

I am not trying to defend Nixon or his strategy, I just don't like political narratives based on false and misleading information.

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He just points his camera at something, and then adds public domain music on top of it. And he needs new headphones for that, for all those bee clients.

The FCC proposal does cite its sources.

For example, the FCC points to this study: https://haljsinger.wordpress.c...

So where's the data? Well, the FCC has provided it openly and publicly. Anyone who doesn't see the data isn't looking for it, and I'd include both this senator and reporting about his remarks in it. Certainly, we should be suspicious of any news source highlighting this senator's lack of awareness without also covering the other senator's familiarity with the data.

"Don't down-mod him. He's entertainment. the more visible he is, the more people get to enjoy the show" - by BarbaraHudson ( 3785311 ) on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:42PM (#54836425)

They surely do & YOU did this well "FRANK"?

I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised by mmell

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I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo

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Reminds me of this.

Your average corporate mid-level manager in the US makes what? 4-8x what a grunt worker would? 30k vs 120k?

Imagine that your mid-level managers in all of those factories make 100x what a farmer only 40min away makes. Or 10-20x what the technician who travels 40 min a day (one way) makes. That's a level of wealth disparity that's common place in every street in Chinese cities but pretty rare in the US.

Unfortunately, here in Silicon Valley, 10-20x income disparities are not uncommon at all. :(

The idea is not so much giving them an income, but replacing the bloated and inefficient welfare systems with a basic income - hint: basic.

It means you get enough to survive without much luxury, and if you want more (as everyone does) then you go out and earn some more. Any job paying anything is a net benefit to you.

right now, crap jobs are not taken up because it pays more to sit on welfare. UBI fixes that.

It also gives another factor in that some things do not pay much at all, eg if you're trying to start something, or be an artist, then this enables those things to occur. Society can be improved by this. And, as almost everyone gets it, it means we are more productive as a society as a whole.

UBI might sound a bit left-wing loony stuff, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Of course, if it ever gets implemented the lefties won't know which way their heads should spin, as it does have to replace welfare.

The only problem with it is that it costs a lot of money to implement, but considering welfare programmes already have reached massive levels of expenditure anyway, its become a possibility now

RIP Romero and Landau.

Another hero died this weekend: Maryam Mirzakhani, one of the most prominent mathematicians of our time, who had died this weekend too, at the much too young age of 40. Here's a bit on that by Terrence Tao.

I believe that you are absolutely incorrect about there being a _law_ about not surcharging CC usage.

This issue was very much on my radar a couple of decades ago. There was a class action lawsuit against the biggest CC player about this. There was a blog that followed it, and while they dumped the custom domain, it appears that the content from the blog is here: https://waytoohigh.wordpress.c...

What it actually was... there was a _contract_term_ from your credit card processing bank that stipulated that you could not surcharge for CC. Some got around it by the cash discount, but eventually enough did that that they caught on to it, and forbid it by contract. And this was essentially a contract of adhesion, and every processor carried through the same restrictive terms. Didn't like the terms? Don't accept any of the big [four] CCs.

I was working at a very small retail merchant during that period, not even 'mom and pop', just 'pop'; and was very attuned to what it cost us. I remember seeing cease and desist letters from the CC company over our policy of not allowing CC payments for transactions Since the conclusion of the law suit, I've observed many more merchants declaring either a minimum transaction for a CC, or a processing fee on transactions under a threshold amount.

I didn't know that a low-end Toyota does zero to sixty in 5.6 seconds (baseline model) and costs 2-3 cents per mile with 1/10th the moving parts of a typical car. Kudos to Toyota for upping their game!

And I'm sorry that going from a six-figure two seater to a $35k passenger car in half a decade, with a clear plan laid out to contine the trend (Gigafactory and its planned successors) isn't fast enough of a cost reduction timeline for you.

https://deadhomersociety.files...

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sounds just like a troll justifying trolling...

abuse is abuse

Sure let's go with that. Going by your own post, the above is harassment. Please send victimbux to email address next to UID.

But let's roll with some examples: Kotaku defends why they incited harassment against nintendo. Leftwing journo say's they're being harassed after lying and sicing antifa on other journalists. One of the "big name" people who claimed Gamergate=harassment engaging in harassment. Her organization engaging in targeted harassment, media gives no shits because it doesn't fit the narrative. People directly linked to her organization engage in doxing and harassment. Just remember it's okay when one ideology does it, but only one. Also remember existing is harassment. If you want more examples, try Tim Pool.

If I threw [you] into an M.R.I. machine right now... I can tell you what words you're about to say, what images are in your head. I can tell you what music you're thinking of. That's today, and I'm talking about just shrinking that down

So, it currently takes a huge freakin' MRI to just be able to read the brain's thoughts*. And to the best of my knowledge, no one has figured out a way of inputting a thought into the brain electronically. And she thinks she can accomplish both with a device the size of a cap in eight years? Good luck with that.

They already have a prototype.

This is a snapshot of the app implementing it.

Be real, Chris Christie looks slimmer than you...plus he doesn't wear a corset. I doubt you have friends who stand around giving you complimentary comparisons to the state governor, because you social life seems to be logging on to Slashdot, telling weird stories about yourself, and the arguing with people who make fun of you.

Anyway, notice the lack of neck rolls or corset on https://thenypost.files.wordpr....

Or, you could, you know, actually present facts, such as a summary of the lower court rulings and the full appeals ruling. The judge did not find that "Tesla defamed TopGear" and was liable for "£100,000 damages". In Europe, if you lose a court case, you generally bear all of the cost of proceedings. The short of the case: The lower court judge argued (and the appeals judge concurred) that viewers should recognize that the show is an entertainment program and that reasonable buyers should understand that range is relative to how you drive a vehicle; that Tesla couldn't show that the statements were "calculated" to cause damage; and that Tesla failed to put forth a compelling case that they lost sales because of the program.

Or, you could, you know, actually present facts, such as a summary of the lower court rulings and the full appeals ruling. The judge did not find that "Tesla defamed TopGear" and was liable for "£100,000 damages". In Europe, if you lose a court case, you generally bear all of the cost of proceedings. The short of the case: The lower court judge argued (and the appeals judge concurred) that viewers should recognize that the show is an entertainment program and that reasonable buyers should understand that range is relative to how you drive a vehicle; that Tesla couldn't show that the statements were "calculated" to cause damage; and that Tesla failed to put forth a compelling case that they lost sales because of the program.

ODROID XU4 === $60

This guy built one for about $200 and claims he got over 80MB/s through SMB.
But it looks like that enclosure he bought ate up a huge chunk of that price. If you're willing to put all the parts into a leftover beigebox or a shoebox or something then you could probably get it all for less than $100 including the price of the ODROID XU4.

This guy did something similar but doesn't say how much he spent.

The drivers behind you do not want to have to hit their horn to make you move when the light changes

Who is forcing them to break the law?

Gwyneth Paltrow also wants women to steam clean their vaginas and stuff them with jade eggs.

Gwyneth Paltrow also wants women to steam clean their vaginas and stuff them with jade eggs.

Your argument is a version of a logical false dichotomy that is called a "Perfect Solution Fallacy".

Chromebooks come the closest, being far ahead of Windows or Mac PCs. Of course, there are tradeoffs and limitations that may not be acceptable to some.

Could it be the rate of temperature change is unprecedented throughout the history you described

Probably not. Look at this reconstruction, for example. You'll see there were times in the past temperature changed just as quickly. Here's another one.

You can see more if you do a search for "temperature reconstruction graph." Of course I picked two graphs that show my point most dramatically, but in many (not all) of the reconstructions you will see dramatic swings of temperature over time.

I don't know anything about coral, though.

The snow on Kilimanjaro was predicted to disappear by 2015 or thereabouts.

Actually it was the glaciers that were predicted to disappear. At that altitude snow will stall fall in winter.

Of course, it actually didn't.

Umm, the last photo in that series is from 2008. Here is a more recent picture of Kilimanjaro

Science is all about forming hypotheses, then making falsifiable predictions.

While that is indisputably a part of what science is about it would be a very naive falsificationism to describe that as all that science is about. Some people seem to think the philosophy of science ended in 1934.

What testable predictions do we have for Ethiopian coffee? What year will coffee be untenable as a crop? What year will coffee be untenable as a crop? Wait a couple of years and see if these predictions are correct - sounds like a valid test of climate change. What's the problem with doing that?

The problem is that you are using the occurrence or not of one particular epiphenomenon in an attempt to falsify the core theory, (all the more unforgivable since there are more direct and central measures in this case), which nicely illustrates one of the problems with the Popperian approach.

This alarmism is based on an extrapolation of current conditions. Extrapolations 80 years into the future have a long history of looking laughably silly in hindsight.

The snow on Kilimanjaro was predicted to disappear by 2015 or thereabouts.

Of course, it actually didn't.

Science is all about forming hypotheses, then making falsifiable predictions.

What testable predictions do we have for Ethiopian coffee? What year will coffee be untenable as a crop?

Wait a couple of years and see if these predictions are correct - sounds like a valid test of climate change.

What's the problem with doing that?

(If you don't like waiting years, then let's look at previous testable predictions and see how well they held up. Anyone have a list of testable predictions?)

You mean like these?

Where are you when we really need you?

This is right from the alinsky playbook, and was reported as their strategy ack in November. Raise fake criminal charges, then file massive amounts of frivolous suits.

Can you tell us where in the "alinsky playbook" that strategy exists?

Here's a PDF of the entire Rules for Radicals. Please enlighten us.

https://chisineu.files.wordpre...

Those robots will do jack squat against real snowfall, dumbass.

You'll note that for 65+ that's about a 10% labor force participation rate. Considering the 55+ rate is 30% they are retiring about on schedule. The peak of the baby boom hasn't hit 65 yet. Rate for 55-59 is over 70%. Putting these groups together is a really good example of 'lying with statistics'!

https://timedotcom.files.wordp...

And if you can't be bothered to slog through all that, Here it is in condensed form.

(And if so, then Huxley is winning.)

Here's a link to a blog posting I made awhile back listing some of the great books that I was assigned in high school, but never read then (except for the Cliff's Notes versions). I've since read and loved them all.

https://noctslackv2.wordpress....

Regards,

~Eric

I read mine when I was 7 or 8.

It was actually my second dictionary. My first one was a Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary from the late 1940s. It had several dozen pages in the middle of color images of plants, animals, world flags, and other things.

The monumental amount of stupi-....one of the first things a 'hacker' does when launching an attack is obscure their origins.

Lawyers like to think that they're clever. Like most 'clever' people they do not see the gigantic holes in their knowledge. It could be offset by maybe having the odd lawmaker who is not a lawyer, but what do you think the chances of that are? lol.

You know what the difference between today and the 1980's were? That the attack in San Bernardino and Pulse Nightclub both could have been stopped. What happened?

Omar got reported, and yet the authorities ended up doing nothing.

But then, the same goes for others.

I suppose we could live in the Draconian Police State you want, but I suspect you'd hate that.

And how about more in the UK, with those girls raped and being sold as sex slaves(just a fyi it's happening in the US too).

Yes, yes, West Texas is full of it.

And the muslims trying to take over schools to turn them into extremist breeding grounds(see trojan horse scandal).

No, that's Christians.

Well what do you know? In those dozens of cases it was all the same thing too.

I think we've got a problem. You know what it is? People are too politically correct and afraid of being labeled racist/islamophobe/etc.

Nope, it's the other way around. People are obsessively racist, islamophobic, and otherwise unable to see the problems are all over.

So afraid that they'll turn a blind eye to people preparing to carry out a terrorist attack. Until that changes this isn't going to change either. We could, avoid the whole "implement internet agenda thing." The answer is in this paragraph. And you know as well as I do that the left has a very long history the last decade of going after people for daring to say "that muslim looks like they're going to blow people up."

Yeah, that's because you say it so much, then you attack some Sikhs.

After all, that's what happened in Rotterdam and why 1000+ girls were raped and used as sex toys after all....for over a decade.

Clean your own closet first.

You don't really care though, that's why you won't even bat an eye at the stuff in your own backyard.

You'll do nothing but scream and pout in a tantrum.

Apparently you are, not only that you're an idiot to boot. The "line that I'm pushing" is people are afraid of doing something and being labeled racist for doing it.

To make it very simple for you: They're willing to look the other way because of fear, and they're willing to look so hard in the other direction that people are dying because of it.

Yes, the FBI is unable to investigate right-wing terrorism because of that attitude.

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First flaw: Ignoring how money gets into the system to pay out a UBI for 330 Million people. Print more like the Weimark Republic which ends up with collapse due to inflation (takes more than the current GDP of the USA to pay a basic living wage to the populace) or tax the producers

Income represents production. You make, you sell, people buy, that's income. Businesses deduct wages and supply from income, so eventually income represents profits plus wages. That means income represents everything produced and sold.

Printing money won't work. You have to use money as an abstraction to redistribute wealth--that is, products and services. Wealth only exists if it's produced, so you have to redistribute existing money. That's why we have taxes instead of just a printing press to make new dollars for every Government expense.

The latter already happens at a staggeringly high rate

The United States can deploy a Universal Social Security at a trillion dollars less burden on the taxpayer. That counts pay-outs in excess of taxes taken as "taxpayer burden". If you pay $20,000 in taxes and, under the USS, pay a total of $15,000 including the benefit (i.e. removing the money you receive from the taxes you pay), that's $5,000 less of burden. If you pay $500 in taxes and you end up with $7,000 from the Government, someone had to pony up that $6,500 difference--you put down the first $500 and we just gave it back.

No need to raise anyone's taxes.

The idea of UBI has been around for at least 70 years and nobody has seen any working models

Technical progress. The cost to produce things constantly goes down by way of reducing the total labor involved in that production. That means more stuff is produced per person each year--more-correctly, more stuff is produced per labor-hour worked.

Welfare isn't even possible if it requires 5% of our income and everyone is 2.5% of their income away from starving. Find a way to make more food with less labor and now everyone's 7% away from starving and you can (technically) take the extra.

The Universal Social Security I designed would have utterly crushed the United States in 1950. The income span would theoretically be $40k-$70k/year--nobody would be any richer than $70k. As if that wouldn't collapse the economy easily enough, you'd have to tax the rich at rates above 135% of their income if you used a stable taxation model. That's because a stable model uses a progressive-tax general fund and a flat-tax Social Security financing source, and the highest tax bracket would have still been over 90% while the USS tax in 1950 would have been over 40%.

In 2013, the USS tax needs to be 17%; it replaces 55% of the income taxes; and we can do it without increasing taxes on any income class.

numerous countries in Central and South America have started out with that ideal and quickly turned into tyrannical authoritarian regimes

There are a lot of bad UBI systems and, as stated above, you need to be a highly-developed economy in an absolute sense. Your level-of-technology has to be such that production of the things a UBI buys reflects a sufficiently-small proportion of your economy or you're proposing Marxism instead of cheap welfare.

Here is a shock: progress isn't inevitable. Digital computers are not going to get faster and faster indefinitely. Already we are seeing that processor speed is only marginally improving year over year.

Barring a major catastrophe such as a nuclear war, progress is nearly inevitable. Moore's law may break down, but that isn't even the biggest driver of progress in the computing industry. In one estimate provided by a Berlin professor stated that algorithmic improvements were 43x more influential than hardware improvements in solving complex numerical problems he studied.

Computers don't have to infinitely increase in speed for our progress to continue for quite some time.

A consumption tax.

It'd have to be high, and would eat some of the benefits, but a 25% consumption tax should cover it (quick Google has us consumer spending around 12 trillion).

You also get some of it by rolling back SS payments for people that have had the basic income their whole life.

If it's a 25% consumption tax, you get a benefit from it up to almost 100k.

Here's a smarter look at how it could really be done (uses a lower number and makes assumptions about low income businesses starting).

https://bluecollarlunch.wordpr...

https://litigationguy.wordpres...

same bill being considered, from one of them law people.

Pulling out of the climate agreement unfortunately makes me think of this cartoon: https://climatesanity.files.wo...

Why would I care then? Are you implying that transgender people are in some way dangerous to my child?

Have you no critical-thinking skills?

Chester the Molester does. He figures this will be a pretty sweet opportunity to go into the women's bathroom after your little girl goes in by just saying he identifies as female today.

Aw, are we trying critical thinking today?

1. 1. Where is it legal for Chester to molest? If Chester were following any laws at, he'd avoid the biggest one first. This isn't an end-all argument, just used to judge impact vs consequences.
2. 2. Almost all the people this law will affect are law abiding citizens. People too afraid to think just haven't noticed most of them before.
3. 3. So, now you're creating a law that makes more people uncomfortable than there are right now, and tempting a whole lot of law-abiding citizens to break the law. (I think it's like speeding on the highway, I'd be for autobahn-style laws that actually make sense but I digress).
4. 4. It makes me wonder why are normally anti-government-regulation types all of a sudden wanting over-regulation?
5. 5. So I looked it up, and found that the idea that sexual predators benefitting from bathroom choice is a myth, and most of the victims of bathroom violence are actually the trans-gender people.

My perspective may stem from timing - most of the recent ugliness and arguing online over recent events started around the same time I returned to school, so I was relearning to argue at the same time I was learning to site sources for college papers. That being said, it made it easier to weed some of the truth, as well as shape said perspective.

1. Any source using a clip, video or audio, must include enough context to fully stand by, or must have an unedited source that can be easily found. An example of this is the famous clip Democrats repeatedly used of Donald Trump's mocking of the handicapped journalist - especially when Republican groups started trying to erase it.
2. If there's no common clip/source, news must be able to be found from three similar, but truly different, sources. These sources must say something similar enough in actions, while not word-for-word outside of the quotes - two places can't use the Associated Press as their source, for example, or it's counted the same. This was a common thing I've noticed with conservative sites - they may change two or three sentences, or add a few paragraphs (usually an opinion or criticism), but otherwise it'd be the exact same thing, as if it was copied-and-pasted.
3. If the first source comes from an opinion, that opinion must site sources in a similar fashion. (Anyone can write blogs - such as I did before the election on a similar subject: https://w2ed.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/the-resources-i-follow-for-political-information )

While it's not a perfect system - it doesn't weed out anything leaning towards a particular slant - it does verify that something is legitimately true. It's too easy to get wrapped in something that's a lie - and with everyone want to steer you in their circle, even something as simple as my system is still better than nothing. The trick isn't to rely on one news source - especially if you're worried abut the topic, or will argue about it. Instead, if you can't find the source or something unedited, treat it like your professor expecting your final paper.

Stop bringing climate change into stories where it doesn't belong. Blaming things on climate change that have nothing to do with it only serves to make the climate change deniers case seem stronger.

You are right that the other AC should have taken much more care to post evidence because by posting like that he's opening up for criticism, however there's fair reason to believe climate change is bad for bees and a fair amount of supporting evidence. What you should remember is that scientists are very much intimidated away from giving climate change explanations with threats to leak mail and attacks in the media. At the same time there's a huge amount of money available from oil and coal companies for scientists who will support their (climate-change denial) agenda. This means that there can very easily be claims that this has nothing to do with climate change even when it does.