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  1. Re:News For Nerds? on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 1

    https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=op...

    Well that does throw something into this doesn't it?

  2. Re:Let's talk about the Sun... And Mars too on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1

    Strange. I've read plenty of the "premier peer reviewed papers" and many state that the sun has a minor to no perceivable impact on global temperatures. They then dance around on effect vs affects, and get into a whole pile of other crap. There are a few that do, they're rare and far between.

    You know despite the claims that "this summer was a record on heat" if you look at the anomaly mapping, it was actually colder this summer.

  3. Re:My two cents on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Environmental righteousness makes rich people feel good about themselves. But it hurts the world's poor.

    Don't forget it also kills people. Remember when various parts of africa were starving and they were going to get GMO corn, but they went off the deep end and called it "poison." Yeah, how many people did that kill again?

  4. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 0

    DST or the people who constantly whine about it.

    Tell it to doctors and nurses at your hospital, oh boy do they whine over it and for good cause. In my neck of the woods we usually see a 10-20% increase in the number of heart attack patients during the first week. DST doesn't *do* anything except make people sick, and sometimes if they're unlucky kill them. There was a study posted a few years back on it.

  5. Re:People don't complain when they are happy on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Back in the late 90's and early 00's the city I was living in did something similar. All the businesses staggered their arrival and departure times. So you'd have some getting in at 5am, leaving at 1pm, 6/2, 7/3, etc. In that town, it was mainly a mix of medium and heavy industrial and a few warehouses that were national parts distribution. It worked very well for them. Some places had 500+ employees, lot of highway traffic as well.

  6. Re:Can we ban the MPAA instead? on MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters · · Score: 1

    I banned the MPAA in 2000, I haven't gone to see any of their shit since then. My life is the better for it. *gently strokes PC* it's solved allllll my entertainment issues.

  7. Re:So, they will become coal-free? on Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Canada is pretty much the same way, and we've got a smaller population then you do. What happened was the government offered large financial incentives for other industries to open up. This has pretty much worked, so we're more diversified then a industry economy or even a raw resource country.

  8. Re:Fear Mongering, does it ever go out of style? on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    See awareness worked...

    Really? Seems to me that it didn't do squat. These were the same people saying that Canada clearcuts all their forests and all that jazz. Funny that we pretty much pioneered modern forestry here, in fact it's so bad in terms of not ensuring that large swaths of forests are removed that we are now battling a variety of diseases and insects which normally died during forest fires.

  9. Re:Fear Mongering, does it ever go out of style? on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm old enough to remember them saying that the worlds rainforests would be gone by 2010. That the water would be so polluted by 2000 that we wouldn't have anything to drink. That north america would be a desert by 2012, and southern canada would be semi-tropical by 2015. Fear mongering is the way money grubbers make money.

    Oh, and those predictions? They came out while I was in grade school...in the 1980's, still got the pamphlets and handouts somewhere for them.

  10. Re:Good to see it on Largest Sunspot In a Quarter Century Spews Flares · · Score: 1

    Even in the maunder minimum the growing was fine, harsher but fine. But considering during that minimum there was large solar flare events, it doesn't mean that we're not entering into one anyway.

  11. Re:So people figure out yet... on Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The more restrictive the quarantine rule is, the less likely someone will report symptoms.

    So you're saying that people are so egotistical and self-centered that they don't care about anyone but themselves. Strange how not even 50 years ago we had mandatory quarantines and they worked. Sounds like to me we have a more serious problem then just "people not wanting to report symptoms" they're just hell bent on damning everyone else.

  12. Re:Boys are naturally curious... on Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment · · Score: 1

    Yeah...except I can find no shortage of peer reviewed studies proving that physiological differences, as well as psychological differences naturally make women less inclined in going into a STEM field. The same reason why there's no shortage of studies showing that even women who have a high math aptitude will go towards fields which are more verbally centered compared to men. Google and all that really do make it easy.

  13. So people figure out yet... on Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients · · Score: -1

    That mandatory quarantine and travel bans are a good idea yet? Sometimes I wonder if these guys are taking the game pandemic as a manual, and are just willing to wait until "things get really bad." At least Madagascar will be safe.

  14. Re:Server Techniques on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used to build cabinets for farm use, while I didn't go the immersion route I went with "the box" solution. Basically it meant that air intakes had double bends, sometimes triple bends with a drain hole at the bottom. Doors used a foam sealer, and exhaust was placed wall side. Farms are dirty places, if you're not dealing with feed dust, you're dealing with hay dust, or chemicals for plants, sprayers or livestock. There's always something that would ruin a machine quick.

  15. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Criminals do the same things all over African and even Eastern Europe. I don't see us invading them. Screw Iraq, we have no business fighting in the middle east unless they attack us.

    Except we go after their financial networks, launch targeted attacks against them and so on. So yes, we do indeed go after them. It's much harder when their networks are using liquid assets traded through the black market now isn't it.

  16. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Can you name the "other extremists" that have been busy either successfully or unsuccessfully launching terrorist attacks in the last 10 years? Here in Canada this will be the 5th one by muslims. Though we've had two attacks in two days, one in Quebec and likely the one in Ottawa as well.

    We jump back a bit, we've got the muslim nut who wanted to derail a via train, and was planning to do a chemical attack. A couple of others, the 18 muslims who wanted to attack parliament hill as well. Previous to that, we've had environmentalists who tried to blow up sour gas lines, sikhs blowing up an airliner and home-grown separatists who did some shit in quebec.

  17. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Gee, it might have something to do with all those islamists engaging in genocide, rape, slavery, and mass murder. Maybe...but who knows, after all, when you can go to Iraq and buy a women from them for $10...I mean there might be no problems right?

  18. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Most likely they'll replace it with the C8 this was just recently done with the federal prison guards in Canada who moved from .303's it was mainly done to ensure that there was a uniform ammo supply across the military and other federal agencies.

  19. Re:Intriguing on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that Eric Holder so canny he made the previous administration bury a story.

    And we all know the poor suffering Mexican drug cartels were unarmed before Obama took office.

    Here's the difference: The previous administration tracked the guns, the current administration let them walk. "Letting them walk" means that once they handed them over, they dusted off their hands and said "well that's done." This isn't rocket surgery.

  20. Re:Intriguing on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Short answer: Someone with an agenda decided to do it. The same reason why Holder is now looking at a contempt charge. And why he spent two years stonewalling on the current administrations gun-walking, where weapons were deliberately by choice not tracked and put in the hands of cartel members which led to the deaths of not only children, but americans.

  21. Re:Trolls gonna troll, buuuuuutttt on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    Welcome to #gamergate.

    Also, they've just figured out that large swaths of the threats against her came from a journalist in Brazil. But remember the movement is full of all white men according to people like her.

  22. Re:Not only in Finland. on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 1

    Talk to the courts, they're the ones who allowed it.

  23. Re:Not only in Finland. on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 1

    Where was this at? I've bought two cars in cash one in '96 for ~$21k and one 3 years ago for $56k. Every dealership that I know of here in Canada has a cash sale policy on vehicles(which usually includes a sale discount as well). My grandparents only bought vehicles in cash and did so right until he died, they lived in Canada and the US and had no problems with this. When they retired, and went from a house to a mobile home(they were snowbirds), they bought their place in Canada with $35k cash, and $48k cash in the US(florida) without any problems either.

  24. Re:Feed 250 hungry people, or 20 Americans on Can the Sun Realistically Power Datacenters? · · Score: 1

    There's an array near where I live here in Ontario, the arrays are packed so closely together that cows and other livestock would have a serious problem navigating them to graze. In many cases, high quality farmland is being turned into the "next big scam." Much like "windmills will solve your needs" from the 1920's.

  25. Re:Robots? on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Uh-huh. And in Pakistan and other African countries they outlawed marrying girls under the age of 10. Of course it still happens, as we all know "making something illegal" doesn't stop it from happening.