Nor does it imply all terrorists are Middle Eastern, or even that all "Middle Eastern" people look like whatever you think Middle Eastern people look like.
Honestly, Israel uses profiling and interrogation on all their passengers and it's very effective. They hire intelligent people who don't give a fuck about you getting on that plane if you look suspicious.
Yup. And it's by targeting people who look like Arabs that they stopped Nezar Hindawi from blowing up the El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv in 1986.
Oh, except that the bomb was in the baggage of a pregnant Irish woman. So "profiling" wouldn't have been much use there.
Behavioral science is half of a police officer's job. Problem is (besides pork barrel mismanagement) is that minimum wage TSA don't have the training, experience, or often the intelligence to use it effectively.
You mean TSA employees are to dumb to tell when someone is black?
Whether a site is shit or not depends on the information that is posted, not the person who is running the site. (And, to a lesser extent the comments on the site).
Watts sometimes posts reasonable stuff (like when he trashed the "Sky dragon" lunatics), but too much of it is just junk (and most of the comments are worse).
What gets posted on Skeptical Science includes links to the actual papers backing it up. It is of much higher quality.
Skeptical science itself says:
Skeptical Science is maintained by John Cook, the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He studied physics at the University of Queensland, Australia. After graduating, he majored in solar physics in his post-grad honours year. He is not a climate scientist. Consequently, the science presented on Skeptical Science is not his own but taken directly from the peer reviewed scientific literature. To those seeking to refute the science presented, one needs to address the peer reviewed papers where the science comes from (links to the full papers are provided whenever possible).
Watts Up With That says:
About Anthony:
I’m a former AMS certified (Seal 676 retired) television meteorologist who spent 25 years on the air and who also operates a weather technology and content business, as well as continues daily forecasting on radio, just for fun.
Weather measurement and weather presentation technology is my specialty. I also provide weather stations and custom weather monitoring solutions via www.weathershop.com (if you like my work, please consider buying a weather gadget there, StormPredator for example) and www.tempelert.com, and turn key weather channels with advertising at www.viziframe.com
The weather graphics you see in the lower right corner of the blog are produced by my company, IntelliWeather. As you can see most of my work is in weather technology such as weather stations, weather data processing systems, and weather graphics creation and display. While I’m not a degreed climate scientist, I’ll point out that neither is Al Gore, and his specialty is presentation also. And that’s part of what this blog is about: presentation of weather and climate data in a form the public can understand and discuss.
No, no problems with my eyes. Thanks for showing me how to set the link to an arbitrary date. Mine now shows EXACTLY zero warming from 1998 to today, just as was claimed originally and was reclaimed a second time by you.
Hahahahah!
You complain that people are messing with the scaling to pretend that there is warming, then you mess with the scaling (by plotting 1994-now but showing the trend from 1998-now).
Your original claim was "no warming for about 20 years". Why are you plotting the trend since 1998?
I read the study on the Martian polar ice caps. I also read that all the planets in the inner solar system are heating up at the same rate. When you mention stuff like this, the Global Warming guys flip and jump down your throat that you can't use data from other planets to predict what's happening on Earth.
The "global warming guys" often get a bit cranky when the same fucking zombie arguments come up again and again.
1. I suport nuclear power (I live in France, for fucks sake -- 80% of my electricity is nukes). 2 No, nuclear is not "carbon neutral", GHG's are released in mining and transporting the fuel and in building and decomissioning the reactors. It is, however about the lowest carbon energy source we have.
At some point the Earth will reach the warmiest point of this warming period and then, history tells us, the Earth will cool down to the point where much of North America is under an ice sheet miles thick.
If they don't want to sign the dll's, then at least they should be able to provide the MD5 checksums for them so folks can check if their machine has been compromised.
The NSA is an intelligence gathering agency and not an entity that produces software for sale or use outside of their own organization. Therefore the concept of it ever adding 'features' to software is nonsensical. That meme really only is applicable to companies that produce and sell products to consumers and screw up their own products.
So you never heard about the NSA involvement in IPSEC or various other crypto standards, that in retrospect seem to be unnecessarily vunerable?
1. You lie 2. There is no funding to prove anything. That's not how science works. 3. There is funding to cast doubt on current theories of climate science -- just ask Willy Soon.
No, the left just know how to read, so they know that the first objective of NASA is " The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space."
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Nor does it imply all terrorists are Middle Eastern, or even that all "Middle Eastern" people look like whatever you think Middle Eastern people look like.
slashmydots is an idiot.
To imply Arab guys mumbling "allah-ackbar" with one way tickets might need extra screening is clearly just racism.
No, it's clearly just stupid.
Honestly, Israel uses profiling and interrogation on all their passengers and it's very effective. They hire intelligent people who don't give a fuck about you getting on that plane if you look suspicious.
Yup. And it's by targeting people who look like Arabs that they stopped Nezar Hindawi from blowing up the El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv in 1986.
Oh, except that the bomb was in the baggage of a pregnant Irish woman. So "profiling" wouldn't have been much use there.
Behavioral science is half of a police officer's job. Problem is (besides pork barrel mismanagement) is that minimum wage TSA don't have the training, experience, or often the intelligence to use it effectively.
You mean TSA employees are to dumb to tell when someone is black?
Because that's how the police do it.
It's free as in the sense of a "free lunch".
I.E. it's not free.
Whether a site is shit or not depends on the information that is posted, not the person who is running the site. (And, to a lesser extent the comments on the site).
Watts sometimes posts reasonable stuff (like when he trashed the "Sky dragon" lunatics), but too much of it is just junk (and most of the comments are worse).
What gets posted on Skeptical Science includes links to the actual papers backing it up. It is of much higher quality.
Skeptical science itself says:
Skeptical Science is maintained by John Cook, the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He studied physics at the University of Queensland, Australia. After graduating, he majored in solar physics in his post-grad honours year. He is not a climate scientist. Consequently, the science presented on Skeptical Science is not his own but taken directly from the peer reviewed scientific literature. To those seeking to refute the science presented, one needs to address the peer reviewed papers where the science comes from (links to the full papers are provided whenever possible).
Watts Up With That says:
About Anthony:
I’m a former AMS certified (Seal 676 retired) television meteorologist who spent 25 years on the air and who also operates a weather technology and content business, as well as continues daily forecasting on radio, just for fun.
Weather measurement and weather presentation technology is my specialty. I also provide weather stations and custom weather monitoring solutions via www.weathershop.com (if you like my work, please consider buying a weather gadget there, StormPredator for example) and www.tempelert.com, and turn key weather channels with advertising at www.viziframe.com
The weather graphics you see in the lower right corner of the blog are produced by my company, IntelliWeather. As you can see most of my work is in weather technology such as weather stations, weather data processing systems, and weather graphics creation and display. While I’m not a degreed climate scientist, I’ll point out that neither is Al Gore, and his specialty is presentation also. And that’s part of what this blog is about: presentation of weather and climate data in a form the public can understand and discuss.
No, no problems with my eyes. Thanks for showing me how to set the link to an arbitrary date. Mine now shows EXACTLY zero warming from 1998 to today, just as was claimed originally and was reclaimed a second time by you.
Hahahahah!
You complain that people are messing with the scaling to pretend that there is warming, then you mess with the scaling (by plotting 1994-now but showing the trend from 1998-now).
Your original claim was "no warming for about 20 years". Why are you plotting the trend since 1998?
I read the study on the Martian polar ice caps. I also read that all the planets in the inner solar system are heating up at the same rate. When you mention stuff like this, the Global Warming guys flip and jump down your throat that you can't use data from other planets to predict what's happening on Earth.
The "global warming guys" often get a bit cranky when the same fucking zombie arguments come up again and again.
1. I suport nuclear power (I live in France, for fucks sake -- 80% of my electricity is nukes).
2 No, nuclear is not "carbon neutral", GHG's are released in mining and transporting the fuel and in building and decomissioning the reactors. It is, however about the lowest carbon energy source we have.
At some point the Earth will reach the warmiest point of this warming period and then, history tells us, the Earth will cool down to the point where much of North America is under an ice sheet miles thick.
At some point was about 3000 years ago.
So I checked out your link. I ran the HADCRUT unadjusted numbers and had it replot. All of them show no warming for about 20 years,
Sorry? http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1994/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1994/trend
Do you have a problem with your eyes?
The Periods from 1910-1940 and 1970-2000 are nearly identical! Why is that?
Not really --
1910-1940 Trend: 0.135 +/-0.051 C/decade (2sigma)
1970-2000 Trend: 0.164 +/-0.057 C/decade (2sigma)
(17% more warming between 1970-2000)
And of course, the major difference -- the post 1970 warming didn't stop in 2000:
1970-2014: Trend: 0.163 ±+/-0.031 C/decade (2sigma)
Booker convieniently ignores the fact that the largest adjustment of historical readings reduces the warming trend.
The 20 year cooling trend
Ding! Liar detected.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1994/plot/rss/from:1994/trend
Skeptical Science is run by a Cartoonist.
And that is relevant, how?
Since when is 10:30 CET 'early afternoon'?
Currently about 50% of our emissions.
Of course some of that 'sink' is stuff we might like to avoid -- ocean acidification.
Your daughter is dating someone with a markedly bigger brain than yours?
And, presumably, the business of the ofspring that you create with that genome.
If you screw it up be prepared to be sued.
If you've ever wondered why the gas pump asks for your zip code when you use a credit card, this is why.
I thought it was just trying to piss me off. (I don't have a zip code, you insensitive clod).
If they don't want to sign the dll's, then at least they should be able to provide the MD5 checksums for them so folks can check if their machine has been compromised.
MD5's? Do you work for the NSA or something?
http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/md5-hash-broken-via-collision-attack-of-less-than-1-10775.html
The NSA is an intelligence gathering agency and not an entity that produces software for sale or use outside of their own organization. Therefore the concept of it ever adding 'features' to software is nonsensical. That meme really only is applicable to companies that produce and sell products to consumers and screw up their own products.
So you never heard about the NSA involvement in IPSEC or various other crypto standards, that in retrospect seem to be unnecessarily vunerable?
Yes, I fucked up my post. I meant to claim, ironicaly:
Which clearly explains why countries without the death penalty have [higher] murder rates than countries with the death penatly.
Sorry.
1. You lie
2. There is no funding to prove anything. That's not how science works.
3. There is funding to cast doubt on current theories of climate science -- just ask Willy Soon.
No, the left just know how to read, so they know that the first objective of NASA is " The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space."
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html#POLICY