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Actually, those very models (Tree rings, Ice cores) are constantly adjusted so that they better fit surface temperature records over the last hundred years. Specifically, the same surface data that showed significant cooling from the 1930s to 1970s and was massaged out of the record. Whenever someone finds a model that doesn't agree with the current consensus, they tweak and correct their models until they provide the conclusion they were seeking. e.g. Doctored Data, Not U.S. Temperatures, Set a Record This Year . This happens, by the way, in much less politically charged scientific fields than climate science. P-Hacking is a frequent and constant challenge in much less politicized fields, including medicine and physics.

There's a great video out there by Tom Heller who calls out many of my own frustrations. I personally am a big believer in the scientific method and the scientific community in general. But it would be ignorant to claim that climate science was completely apolitical and there was no fraud or misrepresentation whatsoever.

against climate change. I think we can all agree he makes good points.

It took some more searching, but here's an InSight EDL video from JPL

to weakening racism. The "Southern Strategy" is pretty well documented and it works, but it's not working with the young'uns as much. It's possible that workers might get past it.

The ruling class always hedges their bets. Have a look at this youtube channel. One of the complaints from him you'll keep seeing is how the "Alt-Right" has basically turned into a 24/7 anti-SJW network while turning away from the more generalized skepticism that drew a lot of folks into it.

The Clinton Democrats (I refuse to call them "The Left", they're not, they're right wing on economics, which is always what matters) use identity politics to distract from economic problems they can't address because their wealthy donors won't let them. The actual Right (organized under the banner of the GOP) are all about identity politics, mostly around the identity of being a White Male. Again, both groups are doing the same thing: divide and conquer.

The actual American Left, e.g. the "Berniecrats" are the only group trying to get away from identity politics and back to substantive policy. Pay attention to how they vote and what they say and this becomes clear. You will hear them talk about "diversity" but not for it's own sake; but rather for the practical consideration of preventing marginalized groups from being oppressed. Again, they're about policy, not wishy washy social mumble jumble Woo. For example, they support LGBTQ rights not because they want you to gay marry a turtle, but because they want LGBTQ folks to be able to participate equally in society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - Dr Elvin Atombender

We made heat shields that did a much harder job in the 60's, bringing Astronauts home; this is something harder?

If you understand the process of EDL on Mars then yes. It's much harder to land spacecraft on Mars than on Earth. It would be better if Mars did not have an atmosphere. The problem is that Mars has just enough atmosphere to where you have to deal with it during EDL. This means you need a good heat shield that problem is basically solved like you said. Because the atmosphere on Mars is so thin it's difficult to slow down the spacecraft unlike on Earth. This requires some atmospheric gymnastic for the spacecraft to perform during EDL in order to slow the aircraft down in the atmosphere of Mars down to ~1000Mph in which case a supersonic parachute is deployed. As you can imagine deploying a parachute that has to be extremely light yet handle 8000+ pounds of load at 1000Mph is no small task. However given that Mars atmosphere is so thin the parachute alone will only slow the load down to 200 Mph. What do you do then?? Well retro rockets have to kick in and slow the craft down to landing speed but it's not that simple, you have can't land the load with retro rockets because the massive amount of dust will be all over the newly delivered load. So you need to use retro rockets in a sky-crane configuration attached to the sky-crane that will lower the load down to the surface from the sky-crane then detach the sky-crane and fly it away so the landing site is not disturbed. And you have to do this with a very delicate science laboratory on wheels and get it there on one piece with out any shock damage what-so-ever.

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NASA likes to try to force requirements on others that they don't apply to themselves. Commercial crew MUST have less than a failure rate of less than 1/270 (loss of Mission -- not necessarily loss of crew) but Shuttle could fly with an estimated chance of failure and crew loss almost 10 times worse.

That's a little unfair. The reason that commercial crew has such strict requirements is because of the shitstorm that hit NASA from every direction after the shuttle failures.

Early NASA was allowed to fail sometimes-- when John Glenn launched, nobody could guarantee that the Atlas booster would even work; it certainly had enough failures. But somewhere in the process, the public got the idea that NASA should never every fail.

CCS needs to have multiple test flights but SLS 1b will be deemed to be safe to put astronauts in on it's first flight (just like the Shuttle).

Nope. First SLS mission is EM-1, an un-astronauted test mission.

When Space-X was planning on sending a Dragon to Mars using Falcon Heavy, there were many cries from experts at Nasa that Space-X would be contaminating Mars with terrestrial microbes (leaving aside the fact that Space-X is planning on sending humans to Mars within 15 years if all goes well at which point it'll be a moot point). I'd be interested in just what precautions NASA has taken to make sure that the crushed cork CANNOT have any microbes that could contaminate Mars. Or is this yet another case where Nasa won't apply it's rules to themselves...

NASA has a very rigorous planetary protection protocol, which, yes, the Insight Lander (including the heat shield) is subject to. The heat shield is easy, actually: it can be heat sterilized. Planetary protection is much harder for the actual electronics, but, yes, it is required, and there is a separate office-- independent of the mission office-- that monitors that it is done.

Lockheed Martin has produced an animation of the entry descent and landing. Go ahead and watch it, once, then forget about it. It unfortunately is not nearly as informative as, say, the 7 Minutes of Terror video from Curiosity, or the whimsical bounce landing from Spirit and Opportunity.

Lockheed Martin has produced an animation of the entry descent and landing. Go ahead and watch it, once, then forget about it. It unfortunately is not nearly as informative as, say, the 7 Minutes of Terror video from Curiosity, or the whimsical bounce landing from Spirit and Opportunity.

Lockheed Martin has produced an animation of the entry descent and landing. Go ahead and watch it, once, then forget about it. It unfortunately is not nearly as informative as, say, the 7 Minutes of Terror video from Curiosity, or the whimsical bounce landing from Spirit and Opportunity.

Try Firefox, tab management and scrolling has been a "feature" for quite a long time now;

and Firefox Quantum (v57+) is generally faster than Chrome if not the same, and uses less memory on Windows.

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I never mentioned Hillary you fucking idiot.

Hillary is the only reason this is a story and anyone is having a conversation here - shit for brains. Hillary is all three legs of a three legged stool.

But since you did, what she did is far worse than what Hillary did, because she didn't know it was wrong and didn't run on a campaign based in large part on saying how wrong it was.

A single month of a private account in a non-classified position is "far worse" than years of a private server dealing with highly classified information? Way to make an ass clown out of yourself, bucko. And of cooooooourse Hillary knew what she was doing was wrong AF. Not only was she was given extra training as a top official on the need for security, she blasted the Bush Administration for its use of private email accounts a mere two years before starting her own private server. So watch this and get a vasectomy before you contaminate the gene pool.

It is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> What's fun about Fortnite? Would I like it?

Depends -- there are TWO modes of the game:

* PvP: Fortnite - Battle Royale (BR)
* PvE: Fornite - Save the World (STW)

Both are basically grind-shooters. You kill things over and over ad nauseam to get loot.

Most people are playing BR with only a few playing STW. Save the World is fun with friends and in early access at the moment -- will eventually go Free-to-Play soonish.

Noclip has an excellent documentary on PUBG on how BR came about.

Epic saw the cash cow that BR was and jumped on the bandwagon.

The airplane was launched, and completely incapable of maintaining velocity under ION power. I have done better with folded paper. This is, at best, a hoax.

All EVERYTHING SHOULD BE LOCAL!

We'll have no trouble here!

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

Ok. I just watched some kind of video that the webpage this game is about sent me to. It looked like some weird anime/furry/brony crossover. The only thing missing was some lube and weirdly shaped dildos.

And 8.something million people play this?

Did the freaks take over the circus while I wasn't looking?

I have more pressing concerns. I care about single payer healthcare (here's somebody who just died because American doesn't do that). I care about ending the 8 bloody wars we're in, reigning in the CIA and ending our drug war.

Privacy violation is a symptom of the disease of oligarchy. There are better places to attack our oligharch's abuses than Facebook.

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But she certainly had the power and authority to deem things unclassified and Ivanka does not.

So Petraus should be given his job back at the CIA? You're sidestepping both 1) and 2). This whole declassification tangent - which would be news to Hillary and her circle as she's never claimed to have declassified those emails - is a red herring anyway. Just as much her emails were inherently classified, using an unsecured unauthorized server was inherently mishandling classified information. Her network administrator didn't even have a security clearance FFS.

You're being a partisan hack making an assclown out of yourself

I'm a socialist that would see every living president, CIA or State Department official in the Hague for war crimes, so good luck trying to fuck that chicken. It's called having a functioning bullshit detector, and objecting to bullshit no matter who the target is or who's dishing it out. Try it some time.

Ivanka's violation of the law by saying that it is somehow better than Hillary's violation of the law

But of course it is. Undeniably and indisputably so. By equating one month of private email use in a non-classified position to years of a private email server and highly classified information, you're only insulting your own intelligence here. This is as absurd as complaining that petty vandalism is being treated as a less serious issue than a prolific serial killer.

They are not comparable, as I've mentioned because one's use was explicitly a crime and the other's was not, in and of itself, a crime. Therefore the only person trying to make any sort of comparison between the two is you.

Willfully obtuse much? Equating the two is the entire purpose of this "story". And you keep comparing the two while you're protesting that the two aren't comparable. Let's cut to the chase here and use the same scenario but with a couple of name and date substitutions. Say it was Republicans freaking out at the news that Michelle Obama used a private email account for. one. god. damned. month. for White House affairs in 2009 before getting a government email address. You and every other person wearing holes in Ivanka's fainting couch would be laughing them out of the room.

For.
One.
God.
Damned.
Month.

If this was all a big scheme for Ivanka to do government business on a private email account to avoid prying eyes, it was as piss poor a plan as Putin being crafty enough to get a WWE character elected president but yet so stupid that he couldn't anticipate any blowback.

How many planes in the last 100 years have been propelled with no propeller or jet engine? Did you fail to read the summary?

Are you literally retarded?
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Weird Al's White and Nerdy:

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Subtle troll. Nice. However, a lying troll you are.

The Democrats passed a law requiring banks make loans to risky applicants under the name of political correctness.

I assume you're referring the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. But that played almost no part in the problem. Many subprime lenders were not subject to the CRA. Research indicates only 6% of high-cost loans - a proxy for subprime loans - had any connection to the law.

Enter the Obama regime. They decide to give the banks trillions of dollars to cover these bad loans that the Democrats made them give in the first place.

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was done by Republican George W. Bush. Here's his televised address announcing the bailout.

Small banks have been steadily declining in numbers since 2000. However, total assets and deposits have grown over that same period.

Yes, regulations passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, notably Dodd-Frank, weigh heavier on small banks. The attempt to standardize or homogenize service offerings runs counter to the small bank model of personalized service and relationship banking. One size fits all regulation is not working and needs changed.

Firsthand knowledge of customers provides useful information for making sound lending decisions. Credit unions report that delinquent loans peaked in 2009 at 1.82 percent of credit unionsâ(TM) loan portfolios and were down to 1.15 percent at the end of 2012. Community banksâ(TM) loans tend to default at lower rates than loans made by bigger institutions. The rate of loans in default for the first quarter of 2013 on loans secured by residential properties was 3.47 percent for banks with less than $1 billion and 10.42 percent for banks with more than $1 billion in assets. Community banks that are closest to their borrowers may fare best. [Citation: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/Peirce_BurdensOnSmallBanks_testimony_112613.pdf]

how to badger left wing candidates for sound bites they can later use against them and read the same script of right wing talking points

Yeah, I know, off topic. But maybe not. If we can replace the few honest news anchors left with robots that parrot the party line then it'll be establishment propaganda 24/7. Heck, they'll have to make it 25/8 just to fit all that nonsense in. And it's not like they can't change it, since they'll make the rules.

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

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (2 min 35 sec)

Lenny's script is genius and the voice of the actor reading it is perfect. And I crack up every time I get to the ducks.

I set up Lenny on Asterisk and used it for outgoing calls to "Microsoft Support" virus scammers. The script is not quite as good, but there is still the the occasional good conversation.

Gap.

That's what "gap" stands for: Great Looking Pants.

>> Corporations should exist to serve the public through the goods and services they can provide, making a profit in the process. If they exist solely to make a profit, or generate value for their shareholders, then they really serve no purpose. This reminds me of Geroge Carlin's "Stuff" skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... One could just as easily argue that for the majority of cases making "goods and services" serve no purpose either. "Serve the public" means a lot of different things to different people.

George Carlin was a genius. I certainly agree that our society's needs are overfilled in the aggregate.

Many Tesla critics pointed to these cars stored at airport or industrial park lots as baking in the California sun with attendant degradation. But we now know that proud owners of Tesla cars were spared having to inhale to toxic fumes of the New Car Smell.

I wonder what the Tesla critics have to say about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

Dangerously close to howaboutism on my part, but I think letting unsold vehicles to rot is a crime.

Maybe Fort et al, could sell the Chinese these brand new vehicles? Seems they should have outgassed by now.

End of story.

Well, kinda. The real story is of voter apathy and their own personal corruption. Until that is addressed and confronted, the circle will remain unbroken. It's not complicated

Welcome to Ford. Marketing slogan: The future is built.

Apparently "the future" means that Ford will leave your car idling in the sun while they sell off data about where you live and work to the highest bidder.

On the upside: one good recession and Ford will go bankrupt. They're barely hanging on as it is. Which is why they're getting so desperate with extra revenue streams, like that "selling your personal data" idea. That said, I'm sure the Ford brand will still live on; it has plenty of fans. Whoever buys them will probably just keep the lines running largely as they were before, after ditching Ford's accrued debt.

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DOWN!!!!

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This is why you unionize. So workers get a larger share of the profits.

It's not that simple. Watch Milton Friedman discussing unions, it is very insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What's 5G? It's made from hyperventilium on the planet marketingbull.

And 6 cameras sounds good until someone does 7 minute abs.

Reminds me of this:

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

>> Corporations should exist to serve the public through the goods and services they can provide, making a profit in the process. If they exist solely to make a profit, or generate value for their shareholders, then they really serve no purpose.

This reminds me of Geroge Carlin's "Stuff" skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

One could just as easily argue that for the majority of cases making "goods and services" serve no purpose either. "Serve the public" means a lot of different things to different people.

Classic!

However, that does not make it illegal

OF COURSE it was illegal. Anyone else would be serving decades in prison for mishandling classified evidence (using her unsecured server extensively & exclusively, without authorization) and obstruction of justice (destroying evidence while under FBI investigation). Even if there wasn't prison time for violating record keeping and FOIA laws which predate Obama's order on emails, despite what Democratic chicken-fuckers would have you believe.

I do Linux / OpenSource since I finished school in 1998-ish. Developed ROCK Linux, later forked it into the #t2sde build systems from source Linux, developed GSMP (sound editor), ExactImage, and contribute fixes all over the place, form the Linux kernel, GCC, even Chrome you name it. Guess how many people / companies paid me for something. Even getting into Embedded Systems with our #t2sde Linux was super hard and next to impossible – for a small company like I funded. So we ended up doing some closed source end-user Apps, including https://exactscan.com/ and https://ocrkit.com/ . To get back to do more open source again (because Apple's ecosystem and hardware get's too much on my nerves) I now started a YouTube channel, to hopefully fun cool & daily open source hacking: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

Rage against the opposing party for using private email accounts only to do the same thing herself two years later.

Yes she did.

When. Is it as easy to find on Youtube as Hillary blasting the Bush Administration for using private email?

Why does it matter where the server was, exactly?

Why so willfully ignorant/obtuse? Other government officials have used private email. Hillary is the only one to set up her own server and use it extensively and exclusively.

Send thousands of classified emails from said account.

We don't know she didn't yet.

As I just pointed out to MoJo, one of the more craven lies told by Democrats on Hillary's server is that the emails weren't marked as classified so it was no big deal. Which is total BS, as much of that information was inherently classified. If you're the SoS and you get or send an email about a country's nuclear weapons program, that message doesn't have to be stamped "classified" to be treated as such.

Destroy thousands of pieces of evidence while under FBI investigation.

We don't know she didn't yet.

The fuck are you talking about. She deleted tens of thousands of emails while under FBI investigation, an indisputable fact. Why don't you try that and see how many decades the DOJ threatens you with for destruction of evidence.

Hey I have a novel idea: let's make one set of laws and they apply to everyone of both parties. Lock them both up.

Again: Hillary is the only one to set up her own server and use it extensively and exclusively. When she's served a sentence proportional to Krisian Saucier's (at which point she'll be dead from old age), call us.

You mean this real, actual device that the studio borrowed for the movie?

What's next, walking fish ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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My dear friend, there is help.

No, really.

I suggest you go through CGP Grey's Humans Need Not Apply. We will need free healthcare and free handouts because people will become not just unemployed, but unemployable.

Isn't this exactly one of the projects Ex Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman has been working on for quite a while, does not that count as prior art. Potentially wilful infringement considering there are videos of them posted on a Google Website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Keep Obama president, he gave us a phone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...