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  1. Re:Skeptical != Scientific on The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost No Ice In Past 10 Years, Study Shows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it really wrong? So, one shouldn't question government? Or those that write laws. Or those that are trying to force their own views on people. Or be questioning of persons(or groups) ideological goals that could retrograde civilization? In order to follow data, you have to have data you can trust. If the person or people can't trust the data, they're going to be skeptical.

    In turn, the more that people see the blackballing going on by the environmental movement, the more skeptical they become of it as well. This is further proofed by the coercion table, the more you want someone to do something by making them 'feel good' rather than 'forcing' the more likely they'll adopt it. Though as you can see the more heavy handed it's become over the years, the more people are lashing back, and support for any belief, of it has fallen sharply. And people believe it to be a form of taxable coercion.

  2. Re:Maintaining a balanced position on The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost No Ice In Past 10 Years, Study Shows · · Score: 1

    I could never figure how that was passed for truth. Damnedable polar bears range everywhere to find whatever they want. Back oh I think it was twoish years ago when I was snowmobiling through Pickle Lake(5ish hours north of Thunder Bay), there were warnings posted of unconfirmed polar bear sightings and travelers should use caution in the wilds. Now those of us who've been in the wilds of ontario well, we're used to black bears, wild cats(cougar/lynx, etc), and all other of other stuff. Normally you don't have to worry about polar bears until you get closer to hudsons bay.

    But if they find something tasty to snack on like a heard of caribou, wild goat, or anything else, they'll follow them and snack on them all winter long. Even if it takes them away from where they normally are.

  3. Re:You know what's going to happen... on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    You should know better, it won't just be the nimby's. It'll be the environmentalists. You know who I'm talking about. The ones who are screaming that we're doom the earth,but refuse to build nuclear power plants anyway...

  4. Re:New World Order will not include the USA on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 0

    Well truecrypt will work. But I think something tied to a .es domain will be safer.

  5. Re:So I opt out? Consider Tmo on EPIC Sues FTC Over Google's Planned Privacy Changes · · Score: 1

    You can? The last thing I read in their privacy policy stated you can't opt out of any data sharing between any of the platforms at all.

  6. Re:Prior Usage. on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 1

    RS/RS2 could do it, I can think of a few older softterm examples. Pcboard, roboboard definatly had it, wildcat, renegade(released in '93 maybe), proboard. If you're talking 'in term' though lynx could do it. It was released in 1989, and was compatible with roboboardfx when it was released and could render the images directly as they were loaded.

  7. Re:RIAA/MPAA - idea. on File Sharing In the Post MegaUpload Era · · Score: 1

    See this is an idea that accepts and embraces technology. These are guys who think that home computers are colecovision's, or worse fill up an entire room. Ever work for someone like that? It's hell.

  8. Re:So, it's true... on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know, funny. But...

    Give it 30 years. You'll find that the Japanese are following the trend of Americans. It's really the diet, hell if you've been to Okinawa in the last 10 years you can see it. Little chubby ass kids(and teens) running around all over the place. As they've turned their backs on the more traditional japanese staples.

  9. Re:WTF submitter?! on U.S. Navy Receives First Industry Built Railgun Prototype · · Score: 2

    There are so many things I can learn with passion, and killing people is not one of them. Is that sad ?

    Military and gun culture equate killing people. Well... If I have a gun, I don't need it to kill people or even need to use it to kill people. I can use it as a hobby, for enjoyment, for survival and providing for myself. As for military culture. Janes in itself, is probably one of the best resources on military tech and culture, current and past. Myself I study historical battles and the technology of the day. Both are central to understanding the know-how and the why-how of why things happen in the field of even the near past.

    I really guess that people on /. are out of touch with reality, yourself included. I'm not sure if I should feel pity over the fact that you believe that both of those things equal killing, or that you were modded up for it.

  10. Re:WTF submitter?! on U.S. Navy Receives First Industry Built Railgun Prototype · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sadly most people these days don't know what Janes is. Probably because most people don't follow either the military or gun culture on /. sad but true. Anyway, I keep wondering whether or not railgun tech will be what brings the battleship back into use. I can see scaled down versions of this on cruisers. But if you want to hammer something down from way off shore and cheaply, I don't think anything else beside a large chunk of floating iron will do.

  11. Unfair huh? on RIAA Chief Whines That SOPA Opponents Were "Unfair" · · Score: 1

    No good sir. If anything, they were far too kind to you. If your opponents were being unfair, they would have made it so when you opened your mouth, only the truth came out instead of bullshit.

  12. Re:First world problem on HDD Price Update: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices, 3 Months Later · · Score: 1

    So what was the technical aspect of this story? Nothing? Right. It was already covered elsewhere, whether it be political, non-political, or every news-site under the sun, and every other technical site under the sun. Take your sanctimonious ass elsewhere if that's so much of a problem.

    But if you want to argue 'human rights' and 'fair wages' might I remind you that back in 'early days' of North America, Europe shipped all of their industry here. Including all of their child based mills, and basically slavery to do their dirty work. I'm sure you know what happened already, well maybe you don't. Industry exploded and there hasn't been a time of industrial, personal, or monetary growth seen since.

    Along with it there was no shortage of horror stories, like little timmy's and janes getting sliced in half, or the brutal 20 hour days in the foundries for children. Or well regular workers either. But hey, look at where we are now.

  13. Re:As a Javascript developer... on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    I hear self-immolation works well too. And it does wonders at the end of the day when the boss comes up and wonders why your productivity is so low.

  14. Re:We didn't really know how things worked before on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 1

    I haven't read any. In fact, I can read it straight out of the IPCC reports and see who's getting what funding from where and how, and by what groups just by looking at them. Maybe you should try the same.

  15. Re:We didn't really know how things worked before on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 1

    That's odd, all proposing a competing theory seem to be swimming in money.

    Might want to look just a little bit harder. The proponent theories happen to be the ones that are getting the slush fund money from various environmental groups.

  16. Re:We didn't really know how things worked before on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 2

    Can you name a me a single AGW "denialist" that you deem to be qualified enough to have their theories and research taken seriously?

    More than likely no. Why? Too much money tied up in it now. And if you're proposing a competing theory, you're likely to be blackballed right out of the sciences for speaking heresy against doctrine.

  17. Re:Science is settled on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 1

    I see you're quickly being modded into oblivion. Questioning the orthodoxy, and going against doctrine has a tendency of doing that.

  18. Re:How? on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 2

    OK. How?

    Contact the cargo line of your choice. Then ask them to put you in contact with their passenger service. Simple as that. Nearly all of them do it still, though I do believe that some of the satellites of Maersk no longer do. You can also just use google. People actually act as travel agents doing all the hard work for you.

  19. Re:The guy filing the suit is a muslim on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    One could argue the counter-point that muslims don't seem do much to dissuade their imams from calling for the death of non-belivers, and all that on a regular basis. Especially for the mass murder of christians, jews.

  20. Re:The guy filing the suit is a muslim on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    Europe does indeed have a long history. But I generally don't like to dump a long period of history of things like that on a group of current people unless they willingly call it upon themselves.

  21. Re:The guy filing the suit is a muslim on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    Am I wrong? The current trend of terrorist attacks and in-general barbarism in most 'rising tide' islamic countries would seem to disagree with everything you've written. I'd argue that extremism is on the march, and going backwards towards the time where "atrocities" are accepted. Now you argue in the US, though I'm old enough to remember that. Those bombings were far and few between. In the last 10 years we've had roughly 18,000 terrorist attacks by muslims.

    That says either there's something fundamentally broken, or extremism is a fundamental core. Or that because islam has never had a reformation, it's simply being true to itself. I'll let you argue which point you want to argue.

  22. Re:The guy filing the suit is a muslim on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 0

    And of cause in much of Europe it is still illegal to publicly criticize the Jewish faith.

    Might have something to do with the fact that much of europe stood by a couple of generations ago, and murder ~9 million jews while refusing to give any of them refuge. And in other parts of europe, they gleefully profited from it.

    Nah. What am I thinking. Obviously the blood of millions and idly standing by doing nothing doesn't mean anything.

  23. Re:The guy filing the suit is a muslim on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 2

    But is he wrong? In europe we have people being tried for blasphemy against islam. In malaysia we have people being murdered for blasphemy against islam. In the middle east well, that's pretty common, so we'll let that slide or should we? In parts of africa where islam is coming to the front the same thing is happening. So, is he really wrong?

    Or is he pointing out that burying your heads in the sand and being politically correct is signing your own death sentence in terms of free speech. Well actually it might just be signing your own death. I mean, just think of those cartoons...

  24. Re:I always wanted to go to Australia on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, you could go by cargo ship. It's about the same price as flying, sometimes less, takes longer. Meals are almost always included, some require you to bring your own food or pay on ship. But it's a hell of a lot of fun, most of the time the crew is pretty decent having someone new on board and don't mind showing people around, or even having someone else to do things with. You can get private, shared cabins or crew bunks.

    You'll still have to do port of entry calls and all that, but it will save you from having to go through the airport and the scanners. I did a trip from Halifax to Panama and back for round trip $400 back in '03ish on two different Maersk cargo ships. I stayed a week in Panama and returned. If you want to experience something unique, try it.

  25. So... on Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does this mean that social media will now be the blame for all the evils of society? Finally replacing D&D, and "violent video games."