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  1. Re:WUWT on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    By enjoying the comforts of the modern world.

  2. Re:WUWT on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    And the fines paid were about 0.00015 of the fines paid by fossil-fuel based plants that killed about 1/12 the number of birds.

  3. Re:no, it's not true on Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules · · Score: 1

    Feinstein is generally missing a whole bunch of details...

  4. Re:Swedish farmers are wise on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    And, in the end, they got it right so why are you arguing with them in the first place?

  5. Re:Who you gonna believe? on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I was going to point out that the researchers have only seen it change once in their lifetime as well and then I remembered how smart and infallible they are and realized that that means they are gods and gods are immortal.

  6. Re:Models? on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Because the models are attempting to prove the cause. If the stated cause (people) is wrong, then there is nothing we can do to stop it except cripple our ability to respond to any other crises that come around.

  7. Re:funny on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    "If so, how many changes are due to the agent and how many are natural?" That is a completely pointless question given the previous statement which was basically that God and Nature are simply different names for the same thing.

  8. Re:Listen to the trolls on Bye Bye Aereo, For Now · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I was only trying to point out that his analogy was not really very close to the actual case at hand.

  9. Re:Common core changes history on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    Well, if a state adds to it, then it is not the fault of the CCSS now is it? And sneaking outside agendas in under the guise of something else would also not be the fault of the CCSS.

  10. Re:Listen to the trolls on Bye Bye Aereo, For Now · · Score: 1

    Only if DirectTV has an issue with it or maybe if your neighbor is an asshole and charges you for it and is also doing this for every other household in the country.

  11. Re: I hope not. on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    MiKM posted the truth. It looks like you and your wife work for a very lousy district if they are forcing you to use such crappy texts and methods. I feel sorry the kids coming out of the system you are a part of. Maybe your union could start fighting for better curriculum instead of more time off.

  12. Re:badass teacher association on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    So just a subset of the NEA, AFT and the various state affiliates?

  13. Re:Common core changes history on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    If only more people would point this out. Also mention that the CommonCore Standards are openly published at corestandards.org. Personally, I think about half the idiots posting crap about them are liberals trying to make conservatives look like idiots.

  14. Re:Common core changes history on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    Or there are a bunch of liberal shills trying to pass themselves off as conservatives, who knows.

  15. Re:Common core changes history on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    Which ComonCore standards are you reading. There is nothing at corestandards.org about History or Social Studies, etc. Only Math and Reading.

    You do realize that the Common Core State Standards is basically a group formed and funded by the National Governors Association and does not print a single textbook, right?

    Any textbooks are the sole responsibility of the publisher of said textbook.

  16. Re:Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    That, you losfromia, are even more racist than those you call racist. The Mexican government enforces far stricter border control than the US yet you consider the US racist for doing so. Almost every other country in the world enforces stricter border control than the US yet you only consider the US racist for doing so. That is one of my points that you made for me.

  17. Re:Oh Joy! on Making an Autonomous Car On a Budget · · Score: 1

    And not programmed by humans or by computers that were programmed by humans, etc.

  18. Re:better idea on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    And you missed the point entirely. You can buy semi-auto versions of the M-16 that are referred to as AR-15s and then illegally (if you don't have the extra permits) convert them to work full-auto. The cartels are running around with actual select-fire M-16s. Those were not purchased at any gun store in the US and smuggled across the border. You do allude to this in your second paragraph.

    Fast n Furious was a smoke screen designed to "prove" the falsehood of regular US gun store purchases being how the cartels get weapons as a truth in order to justify shutting down legal US sales.

  19. Re: better idea on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    I was mainly trying to point out that the Berlin wall was built to keep people in East Berlin not out of it.

    But you do make an interesting point about how the Mexican government has much better border enforcement than the US. Why is it that we are racist for doing those same things on the north side of that border? That is the real question and I'm not saying you are playing the race card, just that it gets played.

  20. Re:Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was an issue. Maybe not as big because the welfare net was not as developed.

  21. Re:Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    Pretty easy if you ask permission first and if you are bringing enough money to not be adding to their social problems.

    Try walking across the border without permission and with no money and then see what happens.

  22. Re:Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    According to the brief summary the courts or attorneys or agency left for me, a college girl (US citizen) had one or more encounters with a college guy (US citizen) and the better part of a year later, I was born a US citizen. Pretty much the same way many Mexicans got there as well as the same way most Canadians got there and most Australians got there. They all have very strict, stricter than the US, immigration controls yet they aren't considered racist for it.

    Do you honestly think that Canada would just sit back and enjoy all the new immigrants if the US policy were to keep all the illegals crossing the southern border moving through to the northern border the way Mexico is doing?

  23. Re:Because I'm lazy on Why Software Builds Fail · · Score: 1

    And that is a Good (TM) thing. I was not trying to comment on the state of OSS just trying to point out that just because others are doing it does not make it a good thing to do. Sometimes parents are correct.

  24. Re:Government regulation of political speech on Interviews: Ask Lawrence Lessig About His Mayday PAC · · Score: 1

    Once you buy a product from 3M, the money you gave 3M is no longer your money, it is their money so they are free to do with it as they please. Look at it from the reverse angle... you happen to work for 3M and they give you some money for that. Does this mean that you should contribute their money to political they may disagree with?

    Or go one step further with your scenario... 3M employs me and passes your money along to me. Should I contribute your money to a political cause you disagree with?

    Do you now see how it ceases to be your money once you give it to someone else?

  25. Re:Should the US government censor political blogs on Interviews: Ask Lawrence Lessig About His Mayday PAC · · Score: 1

    Well, since PBS is basically government owned, I guess PBS could take over all the other debates or maybe all the other candidates could make it worthwhile for the for-profit networks to air their debates. If the solution to every problem is going to be don't get involved and let the government solve it, then nothing really matters anyway.