At least they didn't invest (aka: give a private company) billions to provide them with a completely useless computer system over the course of a decade that was totally outdated before the first dollar was spent, and wasn't compatible with anything.
In the past 35,000 to 50,000 years that our ancestors have had some form of religious or shamanistic practices, there has never, ever, not even once, ever, been a single piece of evidence for a god, gods, goddesses, or maker.... ever. If creationism were to be given a second of consideration out of a decade of time, that would already be more than it's fair share.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence; in this case, the claim of "creationism" at least need a single piece of actual evidence.... and the delusions of mentally ill people does not count.
The problem with writing is that sarcasm and humor sometimes don't work well, and come out looking like someone making a sarcastic, humorous comment is actually making a statement which they believe. If your comment is an attempt to use sarcasm and humor, i apologize ahead of time.
If, on the other hand, you're actually putting forth what you honestly believe.. then you are a fucking idiot. Worse than that, you're a fucking idiot who's either incredibly stupid and refuses to actually learn what's in the Bible, or you're a lying idiot trying to minimize all the sociopathic bullshit that God not only condoned, but commanded people do.... all written in the Bible.
Yet the ThinkProgress site only mentions he is a "political scientist" as it to cast him as ignorant of the subject matter.
Pielke earned a B.A. in mathematics (1990), a M.A. in public policy (1992), and a Ph.D. in political science, all from the University of Colorado Boulder.
I cannot ever recall groups of people who are not experts in a field so fervently trying to discredit the experts in that field, and to disprove the science in that field, all while using anything but the generally accepted methods of that field.
Point, set, match. You don't go to a car mechanic if you're having a heart attack. Pielke isn't a actual scientist, he's a political scientist who doesn't understand real science enough to make use of it, but he has a big enough mouth and the tenacity of diarrhea of that same orifice to gather a following of other incredibly intentionally ignorant dipshits who's world view his basic stupidity confirms.
If we're losing more money to natural disasters because we have more money in general, we be losing more money to ALL natural disaster types across the board, not just seeing a spike from weather related ones.
This Pielke numbnut is basically like a radical religious homeschooled idiot trying to debunk The Theory of Natural Selection using the Bible; only already true believers without a functioning ability to use logic will agree with his clearly incorrect screed.
Yes, like Laetrile. That wonder drug saved so many lives and cured cancer and made hair grow back and... wait... what? Cyanide kills people? No shit. Well, at least it made some con artists a bunch of money while it was killing people because they took it instead of medicine that might actually have helped.
Plover said it perfectly in a post above:
Q: You know what they call a "natural cure" that has been tested and found to work?
A: Medicine.
More on point, all this study says is that, once again, we have a bunch of stupid fucking ignorant people in the US who don't even have a passing acquaintance with reality.
I'm immediately reminded of the "news" articles about about the "religious archeologist" who found a sliver of iron from a site in Israel, and pronounced they had found a nail from the crucifixion. What a complete pile of bullshit you get anymore when some social science dumbass tries to figure out anything.
'The science, however, is clear: phone metadata is highly sensitive.'
.... and it was just as sensitive back in the 1970's when the courts said police could use it without a warrant (Smith v Maryland). Does no one remember the past anymore?
I'd argue that you don't have a basic understanding of tyranny. I'd also argue that you need to spend a few bucks on a dictionary and look up words before you use them. I'd also argue you need to go back to a 10th grade US History and Government class, and actually pay attention this time around.
Conservatives like to often bring up that we are a republican, not a democracy. Part of the reason is they never met a poly sci class they could pass, but the other reason i'm sure is they somehow want to equate the name of their party, "republican," as somehow innately better because it's named after what our founders called our form of government. They also like to point out that our founders, in various writings, explicitly talk about the negatives of "democracy," and did not want one in this country. This is where the lack of being able to understand the basics of government seem to drag them into intentional ignorance.
The only form of "democracy" around when our founding fathers set up the Constitution was what we now call "direct democracy." It's basically what Switzerland has, where everyone gets to vote on whether people, or smaller groups of people, have the same rights as everyone else.... which was a bad thing from our founding fathers viewpoint; they called this the "tyranny of the majority," because after a vote of all the people, there were no safeguards for any minorities rights. This "tyranny of the majority," it should be noted, is exactly what conservatives try to invoke when the ask to put same-sex marriage up for a vote so the voters can decide. THAT is tyranny.
Because of the way the world of politics and government has evolved, there are multiple types of democracy now. One of those types is a "representative democracy," which is what we have. It is the same thing as a "constitutional republic." We vote for representatives, who then are stewards of the country until they're out of office. They in turn vote for the various laws, rules, and regulations to govern our country. BECAUSE they pass a law you don't like, doesn't mean jack shit. If it passes constitutional muster (which the ACA HAS), it is not "tyranny of the majority," it is simply a law YOU don't agree with.
Now... my advice to you is, buy that dictionary, and go on back to high school and learn something.
Perhaps you're too young to remember what he's alluding to.
In the "old" days (way back in the 60's and early 70's), your phone bill came with an extra charge that was MANDATORY called "phone rental." You were required to pay for renting the actual phone that sat in your house. You were barred from using any phone that was not provided by the phone company. There were lawsuits, and it was eventually ruled that a common carrier could not tether their service to rental of equipment that only they were allowed to provide.
In more recent times, the shift from government protecting consumers to government being bought by corporations has led to the whole locked cell phones and ISP's charging rental for modems they require you to rent from them.
Austerity driven stupidity intentionally trying to destabilize this country. It's too bad we can't be strict constitutionalists and call up the militia to put down the insurrection or the far right fanatics, anti-science, anti-education, anti-Christian right. It really is simple: stupidity doesn't lead to innovation.
....if you ignore the fucking idiot teabaggers in the House; and, quite frankly, you'd have to be an idiot teabagger to do that. Why do conservatives lie all the time?
I remember my days in ochem, being partnered with a guy i went through high school with. Easily the smartest kid in the class, it was, unfortunately, all book learning. He was the most dangerous person to be around in the lab, so much so that for certain experiments he was banished to the secondary lab where no one else worked... and because almost no one could stand to be around his ego (except for me some of the time), i ended up being placed in the hinterlab just to make sure he didn't cause the world to end (or at least, his world to end).
Undergrad labs are filled with people of widely disparate skill levels, knowledge, and understanding, and as (chem students) progress, some of the things they learn are downright dangerous. I still remember an experiment that if the glassware hadn't been dried thoroughly, if there was any water present, the unwanted byproduct would be phosgene gas. Nothing like that to perk your attention up a little when it comes to safety.
It's great that there are labs coming around to enforcing safety more, but there should be little surprise that it was needed.
You're right, but then who's going to protect all those prudish conservative women from the pathetically perverse conservative men? Apparently you think "liberal" and "progressive" are synonyms for "protecting women from men acting like pieces of shit," and...wait... you're right, they are... cause conservatives don't seem to give a damn about women other than having them around as second class, barely citizen, breeding chattel with no rights of their own.
I was going to mod you, but there isn't one for "dumb fucking cunt."
....charged with two counts of attempting to secretly photograph a person in a state of partial nudity.
....state law "does not apply to photographing (or videotaping or electronically surveilling) persons who are fully clothed and, in particular, does not reach the type of upskirting that the defendant is charged with attempting to accomplish on the MBTA."
While your argument is that it should be cut and dry illegal; the reality is: this specific law does not make it illegal. It has nothing to do with the judge, and everything to do with the way the law is written. The judge doesn't need to be removed, the law needs to be better written considering current technology.
Another psychological pseudo experiment that draws incredibly stupid conclusions from a meaningless, waste of time, poorly thought out, mess. Read the description of what they did.
The only bill republicans have introduced on greenhouse gasses is one that is trying to strip the EPA of being able to regulate it for new power plants. It was introduced by, you guessed it (well, maybe not you, because so far you've only shown yourself to be dumber than fuck) a congressman from a coal state.
So, you're full of shit. And if somehow, for some reason, you're so incredibly stupid to think that people haven't seen republicans have gone off the deep end denying climate science... hell, ALL science... in the past few decades, well, you need to pull your head out of your ass.
....showed that 12 people who agreed to take the banned hallucinogenic drug during therapy sessions felt 'significant reductions in anxiety' about their lives ending.
....but far more anxiety about all those damn flying monkeys in pink tutu's slaughtering the polka-a-dot elephants with potato guns. And who knew poodle skirts were out of style? Definitely not the elephants!
sterile neutrinos that weigh about 1/100 as much as an electron.
So what you're saying is, once you sterilize a neutrino, it only weighs 1/100 as much as when it still had balls. Those aren't just big brass ones, those are big brass ones armored in the stuff they armor Ogre's with.
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At least they didn't invest (aka: give a private company) billions to provide them with a completely useless computer system over the course of a decade that was totally outdated before the first dollar was spent, and wasn't compatible with anything.
In the past 35,000 to 50,000 years that our ancestors have had some form of religious or shamanistic practices, there has never, ever, not even once, ever, been a single piece of evidence for a god, gods, goddesses, or maker.... ever. If creationism were to be given a second of consideration out of a decade of time, that would already be more than it's fair share.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence; in this case, the claim of "creationism" at least need a single piece of actual evidence.... and the delusions of mentally ill people does not count.
The problem with writing is that sarcasm and humor sometimes don't work well, and come out looking like someone making a sarcastic, humorous comment is actually making a statement which they believe. If your comment is an attempt to use sarcasm and humor, i apologize ahead of time.
If, on the other hand, you're actually putting forth what you honestly believe.. then you are a fucking idiot. Worse than that, you're a fucking idiot who's either incredibly stupid and refuses to actually learn what's in the Bible, or you're a lying idiot trying to minimize all the sociopathic bullshit that God not only condoned, but commanded people do.... all written in the Bible.
Yet the ThinkProgress site only mentions he is a "political scientist" as it to cast him as ignorant of the subject matter.
Pielke earned a B.A. in mathematics (1990), a M.A. in public policy (1992), and a Ph.D. in political science, all from the University of Colorado Boulder.
I cannot ever recall groups of people who are not experts in a field so fervently trying to discredit the experts in that field, and to disprove the science in that field, all while using anything but the generally accepted methods of that field.
Point, set, match. You don't go to a car mechanic if you're having a heart attack. Pielke isn't a actual scientist, he's a political scientist who doesn't understand real science enough to make use of it, but he has a big enough mouth and the tenacity of diarrhea of that same orifice to gather a following of other incredibly intentionally ignorant dipshits who's world view his basic stupidity confirms.
If we're losing more money to natural disasters because we have more money in general, we be losing more money to ALL natural disaster types across the board, not just seeing a spike from weather related ones.
This Pielke numbnut is basically like a radical religious homeschooled idiot trying to debunk The Theory of Natural Selection using the Bible; only already true believers without a functioning ability to use logic will agree with his clearly incorrect screed.
Plover said it perfectly in a post above:
Q: You know what they call a "natural cure" that has been tested and found to work?
A: Medicine.
More on point, all this study says is that, once again, we have a bunch of stupid fucking ignorant people in the US who don't even have a passing acquaintance with reality.
I'm immediately reminded of the "news" articles about about the "religious archeologist" who found a sliver of iron from a site in Israel, and pronounced they had found a nail from the crucifixion. What a complete pile of bullshit you get anymore when some social science dumbass tries to figure out anything.
'The science, however, is clear: phone metadata is highly sensitive.'
I'd argue that you don't have a basic understanding of tyranny. I'd also argue that you need to spend a few bucks on a dictionary and look up words before you use them. I'd also argue you need to go back to a 10th grade US History and Government class, and actually pay attention this time around.
Conservatives like to often bring up that we are a republican, not a democracy. Part of the reason is they never met a poly sci class they could pass, but the other reason i'm sure is they somehow want to equate the name of their party, "republican," as somehow innately better because it's named after what our founders called our form of government. They also like to point out that our founders, in various writings, explicitly talk about the negatives of "democracy," and did not want one in this country. This is where the lack of being able to understand the basics of government seem to drag them into intentional ignorance.
The only form of "democracy" around when our founding fathers set up the Constitution was what we now call "direct democracy." It's basically what Switzerland has, where everyone gets to vote on whether people, or smaller groups of people, have the same rights as everyone else.... which was a bad thing from our founding fathers viewpoint; they called this the "tyranny of the majority," because after a vote of all the people, there were no safeguards for any minorities rights. This "tyranny of the majority," it should be noted, is exactly what conservatives try to invoke when the ask to put same-sex marriage up for a vote so the voters can decide. THAT is tyranny.
Because of the way the world of politics and government has evolved, there are multiple types of democracy now. One of those types is a "representative democracy," which is what we have. It is the same thing as a "constitutional republic." We vote for representatives, who then are stewards of the country until they're out of office. They in turn vote for the various laws, rules, and regulations to govern our country. BECAUSE they pass a law you don't like, doesn't mean jack shit. If it passes constitutional muster (which the ACA HAS), it is not "tyranny of the majority," it is simply a law YOU don't agree with.
Now... my advice to you is, buy that dictionary, and go on back to high school and learn something.
Perhaps you're too young to remember what he's alluding to.
In the "old" days (way back in the 60's and early 70's), your phone bill came with an extra charge that was MANDATORY called "phone rental." You were required to pay for renting the actual phone that sat in your house. You were barred from using any phone that was not provided by the phone company. There were lawsuits, and it was eventually ruled that a common carrier could not tether their service to rental of equipment that only they were allowed to provide.
In more recent times, the shift from government protecting consumers to government being bought by corporations has led to the whole locked cell phones and ISP's charging rental for modems they require you to rent from them.
+1
To the person who modded this "overrated" - it begs the response "That's what she said!"
That's because men keep telling women that 4 inches is actually 8 inches.
Austerity driven stupidity intentionally trying to destabilize this country. It's too bad we can't be strict constitutionalists and call up the militia to put down the insurrection or the far right fanatics, anti-science, anti-education, anti-Christian right. It really is simple: stupidity doesn't lead to innovation.
....if you ignore the fucking idiot teabaggers in the House; and, quite frankly, you'd have to be an idiot teabagger to do that. Why do conservatives lie all the time?
Bet he had a burning desire to be learn proper safety practices after that. David Gerrold said it best: "Common sense isn't."
I remember my days in ochem, being partnered with a guy i went through high school with. Easily the smartest kid in the class, it was, unfortunately, all book learning. He was the most dangerous person to be around in the lab, so much so that for certain experiments he was banished to the secondary lab where no one else worked... and because almost no one could stand to be around his ego (except for me some of the time), i ended up being placed in the hinterlab just to make sure he didn't cause the world to end (or at least, his world to end).
Undergrad labs are filled with people of widely disparate skill levels, knowledge, and understanding, and as (chem students) progress, some of the things they learn are downright dangerous. I still remember an experiment that if the glassware hadn't been dried thoroughly, if there was any water present, the unwanted byproduct would be phosgene gas. Nothing like that to perk your attention up a little when it comes to safety.
It's great that there are labs coming around to enforcing safety more, but there should be little surprise that it was needed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
You're right, but then who's going to protect all those prudish conservative women from the pathetically perverse conservative men? Apparently you think "liberal" and "progressive" are synonyms for "protecting women from men acting like pieces of shit," and ...wait... you're right, they are... cause conservatives don't seem to give a damn about women other than having them around as second class, barely citizen, breeding chattel with no rights of their own.
I was going to mod you, but there isn't one for "dumb fucking cunt."
....charged with two counts of attempting to secretly photograph a person in a state of partial nudity.
....state law "does not apply to photographing (or videotaping or electronically surveilling) persons who are fully clothed and, in particular, does not reach the type of upskirting that the defendant is charged with attempting to accomplish on the MBTA."
While your argument is that it should be cut and dry illegal; the reality is: this specific law does not make it illegal. It has nothing to do with the judge, and everything to do with the way the law is written. The judge doesn't need to be removed, the law needs to be better written considering current technology.
Another psychological pseudo experiment that draws incredibly stupid conclusions from a meaningless, waste of time, poorly thought out, mess. Read the description of what they did.
The only bill republicans have introduced on greenhouse gasses is one that is trying to strip the EPA of being able to regulate it for new power plants. It was introduced by, you guessed it (well, maybe not you, because so far you've only shown yourself to be dumber than fuck) a congressman from a coal state.
As for the whole "peer reviewed" thing: http://www.desmogblog.com/2014...
So, you're full of shit. And if somehow, for some reason, you're so incredibly stupid to think that people haven't seen republicans have gone off the deep end denying climate science... hell, ALL science... in the past few decades, well, you need to pull your head out of your ass.
As long as it doesn't convert us to fucking idiots, or republicans, it should be fine.
....showed that 12 people who agreed to take the banned hallucinogenic drug during therapy sessions felt 'significant reductions in anxiety' about their lives ending.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/whi...
sterile neutrinos that weigh about 1/100 as much as an electron.
So what you're saying is, once you sterilize a neutrino, it only weighs 1/100 as much as when it still had balls. Those aren't just big brass ones, those are big brass ones armored in the stuff they armor Ogre's with.