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  1. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    Genocide != mass murder.
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  2. Re: Anti-science? See, now you have proof! on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    Who said it did?

    The AC claims:

    many alternate theories that correlate much more closely with observations than the constantly changing models that demonstrably fudged numbers from the AGW heros like Mann and Hansen.

    then provides one "alternate theory" that is wrong.

    All I did was point out that. Maybe there are "alternate theories that correlate with observations" but the AC hasn't provided any.

  3. Re:For real? on Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the human eye out performs the film (or digital equivalent).

    In person you can make out everyone's features, but when you look at photos or video of the same event either all the white people are ghosts or all the black people are indistinguishable blobs.

  4. Re:And? on USS Zumwalt — a Guided Missile Destroyer Running On Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, obviously.

    Next question?

  5. Re:And? on USS Zumwalt — a Guided Missile Destroyer Running On Linux · · Score: 1

    DOD should stick to Debian - that way they'll never have licensing worries.

    (by the way - what's with "multiple Linux distros" - wouldn't it be easier to stick to one "Death Linux"?)

  6. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    Do you have to worry when your currency is collapsing because of out of control costs?

    No.

    Under what incredible circumstances could NHS spending cause a currency collapse?

    In any case one thing the NHS does in comparison with the American system is control costs pretty well.

  7. Re:When one door closes.. on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 1

    There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

    -- Nigel Powers.

  8. Re:And yet on their wikipedia page... on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 1

    It's wikipedia. If you want to add it go ahead and do it. Don't forget tp provide a citation.

  9. Re:So, does it run Linux? on Last Operating ICT 1301 Mainframe Computer Set To Run Again · · Score: 1

    Lawn? I used an ICL 1903T. The 2904 was the wrong colour.

  10. Re:So, does it run Linux? on Last Operating ICT 1301 Mainframe Computer Set To Run Again · · Score: 2

    No, It won't run George (1, 2, 3 or 4) as it isn't an 1900.

    (A Rasbery PI can run George 3 though).

    And Maximop is a CLI based system, not GUI.

  11. Re: Anti-science? See, now you have proof! on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    Wonderful. For some reason it's a "logical fallacy" to point out errors of fact.

    This:

    solar cycles are much closer to aligning with observed and historical facts than global alarmist theories

    just isn't true.

  12. Re:Fortran 90+ with OpenMP or Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    Geeze, why did i get "funny" for that? I was hoping for informative or insightful.

  13. Re:arrogance on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    Poe?

  14. Re:All scientific conclusions should be questioned on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    Yes, we know that H2O is a more powerful GHG than CO2. But CO2 is a GHG.

    We also know that much of the Earths surface is covered in liquid water. The water vapour in the atmosphere is in equilibrium with the oceans. There is no way of increasing the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere (except by raising the temperature).

    We know that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is rising.

    We know the average global temperature is rising.

    Start stropping your razor.

  15. Re: Anti-science? See, now you have proof! on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    For example, the solar cycles are much closer to aligning with observed and historical facts than global alarmist theories. However, there is no cash is "Its the sun, dummy" even though William of Ockham would say "Its the sun, dummy"

    So why not publish this wonderful discovery?

    Oh, because it's not true.

  16. Re:Fortran 90+ with OpenMP or Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 2

    Fortran 77 is for weenies. Real men program in FORTRAN 66.

  17. Re:Wow. on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    This new and improved list came from averaging estimates of publicly held debt by the various countries as reported by the CIA and IMF

    No it didn't - those are the straight CIA figures.

    The bizarre (unjustifiable?) Wikipedia averages give the US 80%, France 87% and the UK 86%.

  18. Re:As the saying goes... on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    Ok, I know 24E9 USD isn't a lot to some people, but it's not nothing.

  19. Re:postpone the inevitable on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    Nothing has been fixed, US still has a spending problem.

    No, it doesn't.

    It has a governance problem.

  20. Re:Now it gets worse. on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    the rich have the stock market to park their money on, what do the poor have?

    By definition the poor don't have to worry about where to park their money. They spend it.

    It's not like the will get a raise any time soon to offset the ballooning costs of living.

    Why not? If they don't get a raise they should just eat their bosses.

  21. Re:Americans doing the right thing on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    Frankly, the only sure-fire way to pay off this debt is via massive spending cuts

    No. The only sure-fire way to pay off the debt is to grow the economy.

    Massive spending cuts will shrink it, and cause the debt to grow.

  22. Re:Wow. on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    "The rest of the civilized world makes this shit work" - would that be the English, who are swimming in debt, or the Japanese, swimming in debt, or the French, swimming in debt, or the Greeks? Turks? Italians? As an exercise, please list ONE country in the world where "this shit works." Protip: not Argentina.

    Swimming in debt?

    Debt as a percentage of GDP:

    Greece: 155%
    Japan: 134%
    USA: 107%
    Italy: 103%
    France: 85%
    UK: 82%
    Argentinia: 42%

    So, yes, Greece and Japan are more heavily indebted that the US, but no, compared to the US, France and the UK are not swimming in debt.

    As an exercise, please list ONE country in the world where "this shit works." Protip: not Argentina.

    By "this shit" you mean what? Government? Health care?

  23. Re:Oh boy on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you can't let the walls heat up too much - or you have big problems with your superconducting magnets.

    Yes, heat is energy, but the efficiency of the conversion of that energy to something more useful depends on the temperature. Bigger temperature difference = more efficient conversion of heat to kinetic energy, and from there to electricity.

  24. Re:This on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    The comments she made indicate perfectly normal cognitive dissonance. I'm surprised none of the armchair psychologists on here have spotted that. They don't indicate any form of sociopathy, not that you can diagnose someone based on internet gossip anyway.

    The only sensible comment in this thread so far,

  25. Re:This on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to 'sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me'?

    It was always a lie, mostly spread by bullies. Human beings are what they are because words are so powerful.

    Standard bullying tactics is to use words until the victim snaps, then claim to be in the right because they didn't "initiate violence".