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  1. Re: Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    Really? I guess that's why emissions are down between 20-50% in the last 20 years, and we have more trees now then there were before the "mini ice age" back in the 1400's.

    Damn that reality all to hell.

  2. Re:350ppm on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yep they did. Don't forget that CO2 levels have been in the 1500's and higher and life continued on.

  3. Re:Thats great.. on Injured Man Is First Person Saved By a Police Drone In Canada · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate to break it to you, but we have so much wilderness here in Canada that once you get a dozen two miles outside of a main highway, or out past any major city especially outside of southern BC or the Windsor to Southern Quebec corridor, you can go for days without seeing anyone, or even a sign of civilization. Realistically, we have enough problems even here in Southern Ontario, you know part of the most densely packed part of the country finding people when we get smacked with a blizzard and have to go out an rescue them. Usually on snow mobiles, with volunteers. It's even worse in the rest of the country, where poor roads with very poor driving conditions lead people to get stranded.

    This is a very good use of technology, especially here in Canada. Where helicopters are cost prohibitive and the nearest airport can be 600-800km away from the search area.

  4. Re:Psychology VS Psychiatry on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    How do you know you've been getting the best treatment from this neurologist you respect? How do you know you wouldn't have got better results elsewhere.

    8 neurologists later...

  5. Re:Psychology VS Psychiatry on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    I was going to post something very similar, but you shouldn't be surprised at the ignorance. My neurologist(who's been treating me for chronic headache, cluster headaches, and chronic migraines for a decade), is also a licensed psychiatrist has nothing but scorn for those "who couldn't cut the coursework." I wouldn't say we're in the dark ages in regards to it. But we're not to the enlightenment period yet either, we understand a hell of a lot more about the brain including how to treat issues then 20 years ago. She's pretty famous for her rants against psychiatrists who believe that "patients should be left to their own devices, instead of being treated as needed to keep them from harming themselves or others."

  6. Re:If your group is on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    Here let me add something else: Dear partisan hack mods, there is no "-1 I disagree" do the world a favor and grow the hell up, and when you realize that your "winning team" is just a bunch of anarchists and terrorists who have actually committed terrorist acts.

  7. Re:If your group is on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1
  8. Re:If your group is on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean that totally made-up thing where an FBI plant

    If you mean they were actually planning it, and one of them turned informant well then yes. Perhaps you should be getting your information from someplace else instead of infowars.

  9. Re: If your group is on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the tea party has people who wanted to take over a courthouse in Tennessee(or was it Georgia?) shoot immigrants in Arizona, and other fun activity.

    You mean the usual protests held at a courthouse? Oh right, never mind that it was allowed by the local officers of the court or anything. And shooting "illegal" immigrants trespassing on private property, when the property owners are getting shot at, because the federal government isn't enforcing the law as it is. Not only that but they're actively refusing to arrest or detain people entering illegally into Texas, Arizona and California.

    Blind ignorance is always fun isn't it? Let me know how that works out for you.

  10. Re:Very un-PC on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    So wait, they targeted a political organization

    Hey, they did the same thing to the NAACP, it was okay then. It's okay now right? No bias at all...useful to note that it was the democrats on the ground at the time doing the same thing to groups they disagree with.

  11. Re:If your group is on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Clearly you're following a different Tea Party then I do.

    Apparently you're following the OWS then. After all, they've actually tried to blow up bridges(Ohio) and have committed arson(Oklahoma) in the name of "overthrowing the government."

  12. Re:Very un-PC on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    You realize that it's only "questioned" because the whitehouse uses MMFA as a talking point source right? Yeah, no political bias or partisanship there.

  13. Re:How about information on Benghazi, then? on Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order · · Score: 1

    Well then, when you decide to look at the news you'll see that the benghazi talking points underwent 12 revisions including scrubbing all terrorist references. And that democrats have been leaning heavily on the press to try and get them to discredit the whistleblowers.

    Yeah, all coming down to "it's a scandal, and a bad enough one that they're in CYA mode."

  14. Re:How about information on Benghazi, then? on Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order · · Score: 1

    Well that's a really "well done poll" considering it was online only. I mean there's no chance of skewing on that, none at all.

  15. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 1

    Well between the anons and the rest, those are good list. I'll toss them down and see if there is anything worth looking at then.

  16. Re:How about information on Benghazi, then? on Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order · · Score: 1

    In every other nation on earth Obama is considered center-right or moderate.

    Really? I've lived in Canada for the majority of my live having been born here. And Obama is further to the left then the NDP.

  17. Re:How about information on Benghazi, then? on Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order · · Score: 1

    So you watch something that reinforces your partisanship? Good job on that one.

  18. Re:How about information on Benghazi, then? on Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order · · Score: 1

    Because Faux News is such a reliable non-biased source.

    Well let's look at the news breakdown shall we, and you can shove your ignorance down while we're at it. Out of all the major networks can you tell us the only one that's covered the story. Vs what was covered in other cases? Well let's see, NBC, CBS and ABC pretty much had wall-to-wall coverage on Jodi Arias and that trial. Very news worthy, unlike the massive intelligence failure, the fact that the whitehouse actively covered up and changed talking points and tried to blame a youtube video. Or the fact that they actually *took* the call, but refused to do anything and forced the exfil teams to stand down.

    Yep, now you tell me, which is the more important story.

  19. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 1

    Uh what quality TV shows? All I see is reality TV, and more reality TV, and yet even more reality TV.

  20. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 1

    Pretty much sounds like me. I raided in one of the top guilds on Illidan back in Classic. Played casual in TBC. I started raiding a bit in Icecrown in WOTLK and then never played since. So i've never experienced or seen Cata or MOP.

    Yeah sounds familiar. I was in a top 25 guild back in the vanilla days, and kept playing through to Illidan in TBC and Sunwell. I enjoyed unique class things, like mage tanking on Illidan and Gruul's lair. Played heavily and switched guilds to a more casual guild in Wrath, still did well guild was in the top 100 for quite awhile. Cata was...okay, MOP is better, I've occasionally played but not nearly as much as I used to. But being realistic the game is 10 years old and it does get repetitive.

    What really has turned me off is it isn't as challenging as it used to be. I enjoyed the 40 man raids and hard content, hell I really enjoyed doing 40 man raids with 20 people, and trying to clear things. The one shining moment from vanilla was our 2min rags kill.

  21. Re:How about information on Benghazi, then? on Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Benghazi, is as much a scandal as whitewater was. The difference between the two is no one died in regards to whitewater. And of course, if you're getting you news from nbc, cbs or abc along with cnn the information presented comes down to "some reporting or none at all."

  22. Re: Win modem on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 1

    Superfetch in Vista was a mess, thankfully they patched the hell out of it and it's mostly workable on that though it did take a service pack in the end. On Win7 and 8, it's about as good as you can get in terms of a pre-cacheing software for the OS.

  23. Re:Win modem on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, it's right along the lines of a software raid controller that only works in Windows. Awesome...

  24. Re:Land of the free on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 1

    Well the obvious solution is good marketing + transparency that the end user never sees. Similar to SSL handoffs, or well maybe you don't remember the first iteration of web browsers that didn't have that, but could have it if you "chanted in a full moon, in a bucket of octopus, while screaming at the top of your lungs: Yti-sec-mee-GI!" Oh and it was broken, so very broken until it became a defacto standard.

  25. Re:bollocks on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    To many in the USA, everyone else is socialist. ...

    Considering the US is a republic, technically that viewpoint is correct. That's not propaganda, a true republic is just shy of anarchy. With enough civil oversight(aka limited government) to ensure that everything works.