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  1. Re:What do you expect? on Heartland Institute Learning To Troll On Billboards · · Score: 1

    Keep the state out of science? that make sno sense. Have you been paying attention?

    The Heartland institute is trying to influence policy with lies.
    Actual scientists who specialize in this area of expertise as saying "These bad things are happening, here is the MOUNTAINS of proof, make policy to reflect that."

    " regulations, "
    of course. X causes people to die,. jump in temperature, and poisons are water. Of course you make regulations to limit that. What the hell else do you do? AS has been proven, the market won't fix it.

    " including trying to discredit the science in the first place."
    if it comes does to that, then they are wrong. When you argument is to make lies about the science You Are Wrong. its time to stop and change your position because You Are Wrong.

    If a comet was going to hit the earth in 10 years, would you lie about it because it will cost tax money to divert?

  2. It's like the on Heartland Institute Learning To Troll On Billboards · · Score: 1

    heartland institute was created to secretly teach us all about logical fallacies.

  3. I am shocked on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    simply shocked to learn the someone who pays for something over time pays m,ore then someone who pays it all up front.

  4. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 2

    Done, dumbass

    Define a question - Done
    Gather information and resources (observe) - Done
    Form an explanatory hypothesis - Done
    Test the hypothesis by performing an experiment and collecting data in a reproducible manner - Dones
    Analyze the data - Done
    Interpret the data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis - Done
    Publish results - Done
    Retest (frequently done by other scientists) - Done

    So either you can realize you are wrong, by your own claims, or you can keep sticking you head up your ass and either move your goalpost, or use the Scotsman fallacy about something you have no clue about. The Scientific Method.

    It is nice that you can pound you meat hooks against the keyboard to pound out a link to Wikipedia... Too bad you are too stupid to actually go to scientific source that can ACTUALLY answer you question, Done but actual experts in the field.

  5. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    ""All of the science" so far has been collecting data and making models that fit that data"
    false.

    ". Until you get a couple decades more data and find one of the model's predictions were right,"
    we have 70. plus sampling back over 650K years. We don't ne more decased of data.

    " find one of the model's predictions were right":
    prediction have been made and have come to fruition. This argument was a good one in the 70's. But it's been done.

    "no scientific method, no objective truth."
    good thing the scientific methods been applied then. Not that you really understand what the means.You have created a
    them' and then cherry picked data to fit you ill conceived provably false idea.

    But that doesn't matter, because global warming is real. The answer to smaller government is to act as soon as possible, not wait until we need to spend 100B a year to save our buts.

    Also, why does China agree? it's not in there best interest, and the are communist so the peoples opinion of the size of the government matter.

  6. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 0

    I have good news for you, you are wrong. I worked with many politicians.

    Bad news, you are an ignorant twit.

    even worse news, people like you seem to thing there made up opinions should carry the same values as actual facts.. This one is the real problem right now.

  7. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    You are talking about very, very few sensor. You are talking about cherry picked data. You are talking about sensors that still reflect temperature change from year to year. If asphalt is all around it, then the TEMPERATURE VARIATION will be the indicator.
    Even with all that, when they remove the data they got form the sensors the trend remained the same.

    You're 'point' has been shown to not actually be correct. Please stop talking about it.

    You Are Wrong. Factually, demonstrably, and mathematically WRONG.
    What else do you need?

  8. Re:War On Climate Change on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    no. He is demonstrably wrong..plus NEVER mod up an AC.

  9. Re:War On Climate on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    They don't have guns and private cops.

    If there is a need for people with guns, then they can get them, but it's not the same thing., IPoeple commit crimes, and you need a force to stop some crimes.
    They need to move fast and prevent evidences from disappearing.

  10. Re:I beg to differ on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    A health middle class has the most money overall, and there is more people. so a lower tax works because there is more money. When the middle class weakens, then you need to tax where the money is. i.e. the rich. remove the bush tax cuts. remove tax deductions. create a tobbins tax, loser corporate tax to 20%, only allow writ offs on In country RnD. Tax money moved out of the country at 50%

    Bam. Better schools, Health care and we can get positive.

    But know what we owe goes up, so lets lower the incomes. That makes much more sense.

    Look up the "Ayn Rand Six Step".

  11. Re:I beg to differ on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is extremely little waste in the US government. fell free to go to the library and look at the accounting numbers. It's public inforamtion. INformation I used to get paid to sift through, and write code to sift through.

    Talking about Taxes is stupid, and it distract from the real conversation. The republican have done a good job seperating taxes out of any value to the conversation.

    Don't talk about taxes. Talk about services. In Oregon, I lot of people value parks, and forests. SO they have services to maintain and protect them. That costs money. It comes from taxes.

    The misinformation and distraction campaign is why we now have people who want taxes cut, and services improved. The same people who get pissed off with police cuts back, the schools systems have layoffs are the same ones that refuse to vote for a tax or bond measure.

    We want to pay less, and you gibe us more. As if the money for services comes from a different bucket.

  12. Re:I beg to differ on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    "Does this mean that 100% taxation, like in old USSR, would be the ultimate civilization?"
    Of course not. It's almost lie you are setting up a strawman.

    " USSR confiscated all the labor of workers, and instead paid them subsistence money that had no relation to the contribution of each specific worker."
    Oh, you were. Shame on you. The soviet system was completely different.

    "The USA is doing its best to repeat this experiment by taxing every worker to death,"
    he says..among lowering taxes. Tax to death is ludicrous, and you should know it.

    " In the end nobody will be working."
    Under the former soviet union, that's true. Fortunately we are nothing like that. IS it jsut you are young and the USSR has some wierd place in your mibd abiut how they got their? are you just ignorant? Are you just trying to create a boogey man?
    Stop it.

  13. Re:Taxes suck. on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    False, Hospitals are not require to treat people. This is a liw spread by people who would rather watch children rot in the street then have health care proposed by a black democrat.

    Hospitals are requires to stabilize you. Then you are back on the street. Infection? too bad. Side of you face swollen and on the very edge of leaking puss into your brain? come back when it's actually an emergency.
    And if the number get much higher, then hospital physically won't be ably to treat you.

    The average age of the homeless is just about 45.
    What happens is, the go critical, then an ambulance is called, but they are declared dead at the hospital. what we don't do is leave the dead in the street to be picked up later. We will when everything gets privatized and it's not worth the expense of a private company to pick someone up they won't get paid for.

    But hey, lets think of extreme political ideology instead of actually doing things to help people.

  14. Re:Good for them on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    Because life is simple and complex things shouldn't be boiled down the your level of ignorance?

  15. Re:Google isn't the villain here on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    wrong... and irrelevant. Please try again.

  16. Re:Minor correction in from Google on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    If this was evil, then sure. Of course it's not, and Google is pretty damn good player. So good in fact people who are desperate to call it evil have to make up the thinnest excuses. If they didn't, they might have t think about their world view, and basing you 'opinion' and bases gut feelings requires less energy that, say, thinking.

  17. ANyone can do this on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    not just large corporations.

    Not that it has the same value.

    And yes, it should be stop. Monies leaving the country should have the crap taxed out of it.

  18. Re:cannot wait on Nanoparticles Heated By Radio Waves Switch On Genes In Mice · · Score: 0

    Or mod both of you down for not understanding wth you are talking about.

  19. Re:The RIAA is Scum on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 0

    "Or should I tell you what I really think about all of this?"
    only if you can actually get some facts right.

    But..no, you can't because that would disturb your preconceived bias you have had shoved down your throat, you unthinking twit.

  20. Re:No recourse on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 1

    Except we do have recourse. Not that the jack holes on /. would know thta.

  21. Re:Okay. on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 0

    That is false.

  22. Re:Hang on a second... on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 1

    personal responsibility? this is empowering person responsibility. I have the option to have it turned off for me. How is exercising that not taking perosonal responsibility?

    Shut it at the ISP,. and I don't have to worry so much about being tricked by an add, or plop up, or malware.

  23. Re:Hang on a second... on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just use email. I suspect special feature will emerge to allow you to email a time it's on, or have it turned on for a set amount of minutes.

    BTW, anyone reading this who has to hide porn from the So, should sit down and talk to there So about it, right now.
    Make a decision, either get comfortable watching it, or decide not to watch it.

  24. Re:Please no... on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: -1, Troll

    Early exposure to porn as serious detrimental effect latter in life. It's well documented.

    Of course, the parent should filter then content.

    OTOH, if I don't want someone watching porn , cutting it off at the ISP make sit harder for anyone to circumnavigate.

  25. Re:Wait a sec here... on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    and empty vodka bottles. Zing!

    anyways, it makes no sens to use a stealth attacks in a situation where you want to show everyone you are doing it.