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  1. How were they able to tell on Egyptian Forces Capture 3 Divers Trying To Cut Undersea Internet Cable · · Score: 4, Funny

    they were Egyptian simply by the way they looked?

  2. Re:Ask Michael Oppenheimer. on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1, Informative

    Global warming scientists are not "the scientific community" and their reality is not fact it is speculation based on computer models. That is why not a single member of the global warming community will ever defend their possition. They can't because it isn't real. Claims like the ice is melting in the arctic and soon ships will be able cross the arctic ocean are bogus the North West passage was first navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906. Bet the co2 levels were really high back then. I was taught that co2 was plant food in school. When did that change? Why are the global warming scientists the only alledged scientists that don't want to expain their supposed facts and get angry when asked "how did you come to this conclusion"? Global warming scientists owe me a explanation because they are getting my tax dollars and they have the gall to say we don't owe you an explanation but trust us and give us more money.
    Here are some of their lies.
    March 20, 2000, from The Independent, According to Dr David Viner of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, snowfall in Britain would become “a very rare and exciting event” and “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
    June 30, 1989, Associated Press U.N. OFFICIAL PREDICTS DISASTER, SAYS GREENHOUSE EFFECT COULD WIPE SOME NATIONS OFF MAP–entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco-refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect.
    1990 Michael Oppenheimer, The Environmental Defense Fund, “(By) 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots”(By 1996) The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computersThe Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.”
    1988 or 1989, Dr. James Hansen (In an interview with author Rob Reiss. Reiss asked how the greenhouse effect was likely to affect the neighborhood below Hansen’s office in NYC in the next 20 years). Hansen, looking out the window, answered: ”The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.There will be more police cars.[since] you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”
    1969 Lubos Moti, Czech physicist ”It is now pretty clearly agreed that CO2 content [in the atmosphere] will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter.
    January 2000 Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund commenting (in a NY Times interview) on the mild winters in New York City. ”But it does not take a scientist to size up the effects of snowless winters on the children too young to remember the record-setting blizzards of 1996. For them, the pleasures of sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling, and the delight of a snow day off from school is unknown.”
    If any other real scientist was as full of shit as a global warming scientist well we wouldn't call them scientists but frauds.

  3. Ask Michael Oppenheimer. on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1

    Oft-quoted Princeton scientist and climate-change advocate Michael Oppenheimer speaks of a 65% margin of error in their temperature predictions.
    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/30/botched-environmental-forecasts/
    If you are ignorant of something, that is not our responsibility to correct. Your use of the word "our" implies that you are part of a group. I believe based on your statement that is the Global Warming group. So your group makes a claim of Global Warming. So yes it is your responsibly defend your claims and explain your methodology used to come to your conclusions. I never made a claim I have nothing to expain, you made a claim so you do.

  4. Re:Not in the next 500 years or so on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1

    And the Dutch were sticking their fingers in dykes way back in the day of Hans Brinkler.

  5. Insurance Company Profits Soar on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Global warming on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1

    It is called the North West passage it was first navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906. Google it.

  7. Re:Global warming on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 0

    What exactly are the margins of error. I can predict the world will get 50 deg hotter in 2 years and then say there is a 50 deg margin of error. And I would still be right.

  8. Re:But will his Mortgage holder take bitcoin? on Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    No arguement there. Except the natives in my area are from Ontario they displaced and killed the original natives in the 1700's when they migrated looking for furs a hundred before my ancestors arrived. My ancestors were farmers they bought land from the gov, cleared the trees and planted crops.
    What I do have a problem with is immigrants (residents not citizens) coming here and undercutting on jobs I bid on just to get the job. The immigrants in my area average 6 kids plus (one familly in my community has 14 kids) at $300 a month in child tax benefits that is a lot of money. Also their children are allowed to drop out of school at 14 opposed to 16 for everyone else (they have their own gov funded school and gov teachers who are suppervised at all times one-on-one by members of their community). They also pull their kids out of school to work we are talking 10 -12 year olds working in construction. Alberta does not allow anyone under the age of 16 to work in construction or during school hours. I can't compete against free child labour when I have to hire at a starting wage of $20 for labour and $25 - $30 for tradesmen.

  9. Re:But will his Mortgage holder take bitcoin? on Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Where should I move my ancestors came from Europe in the late 1800's. Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Mongolia. Now my children have English, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Mongolia, Germain, and a bit of Cree (native). I wonder what mine or my childrens country of origin is and what country of origin me and my children should move back to?

  10. Re:But will his Mortgage holder take bitcoin? on Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    20 houses listed on kijiji in my town never mind the ones being sold by realators. There are ten houses on my street five were for sale last year. 2 took down the signs, 2 took a little over 2 years to sell at a loss to the owners, one is still for sale.
    Here is a town of 5700 by edmonton
    http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/f-vegreville-real-estate-houses-for-sale-W0QQCatIdZ35QQKeywordZvegrevilleQQisSearchFormZtrue
    http://www.calgarysrealestate.ca/vegreville.php
    https://www.google.ca/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=real+estate+vegreville+alberta&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&redir_esc=&ei=uWpPUZjXOc3PigLfm4G4Aw#hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=CrY&channel=fs&q=vegreville+real+estate+listings&revid=1903828307&sa=X&ei=umpPUfCqAqqDjALCmYD4Bw&ved=0CKgBENUCKAA&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.cGE&fp=fc703c3c98ada1dc&biw=1393&bih=672
    Sorry $6.79 for 4 litres of milk, $4.65 for 1 litre chocolate milk. Bananas are $1.96 -$2.20/kg at the local store. All the small town goceries are run by koreans or chinese and although they use KG at the till everything is labled in LB on the shelf. Most rural people in Alberta use english measure for daily activities (ie. miles, pounds,feet,inches, bushels etc) so does residential construction we buy 2x4's, 4x8 sheets of plywood, floor tiles are in inches, pipes (electrical and plumbing are sold by inches/diameter and foot/lengths) even the Home depot in Edmonton sells construction materials in english measure.
    My neighbor has 8 kids other neighbour has 10 kids both are from Mexico. Parents ,sometimes grandparents and even 4-6 kids is a lot of people in a house. Temporary foreign workers usually live 2/4 per basement suite due to high rent cost. Low unemployment is because many low income people work 2-3 part time jobs because none of the bussnesses that hire min/wage employes hire full time to avoid paying pensions and benefits. It cost me $1,500 to get 2 teeth pulled on my 4 year old since my benefits don't kick in till May and I'm fortunate to make a decent income. Not everyone lives in Edmonton or Calgary buddy.

  11. Re:Well... on Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    1 Canadian Dollar equals 0.98 US Dollar

  12. Re:But will his Mortgage holder take bitcoin? on Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins · · Score: 4, Interesting

    22 year olds don't pay off their mortgages. His dad was an NHL player and the house came from his mothers family. He didn't work for it. There are lots of young punks in Alberta that inherited houses and land when the grandparents died and no one wants to move back to the farm or small town so they sell it. And since the housing boom in 2005 land prices went up rediculiously in small towns thanks to immigration and temporary foreign residents. Most people in Alberta are up to their eyeballs in debt it is expensive to live and wages have dropped steadily or the last 5 years because so many foreign resident live here. They cram 10 - 15 people in a house and under cut the local contractors and work for less wages than locals so they can squirrel away a few dollars to send home, the place with the high exchange rate they came from. A job that paid $35/hr 5 years ago pays $20-$25 now. Where I live milk is $7 a gallon, bannanas are almost $1/lb, a single cucumber is $2. I live in a town with 420 houses. 50 are currently for sale. Half the local bussnesses have shut down. Everyone wants to move but you can't sell your house.

  13. Lost me @ CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 on CS Faculty and Students To Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook · · Score: 1

    Good thing a link was provided. Actually it was the only link I clicked.

  14. 2 years on Google Fiber Expands To Olathe, Kansas · · Score: 2

    to set up Gigabit internet service in 52 communities?
    That's a real lofty goal.
    And how much will this cost taxpayers in the for of subsidies for the large telecoms?

  15. Re:Not putting in DRM isn't going to eliminate DRM on Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A standardised DRM means everyone will use it.
    If everyone uses a different standard it slows the spread of DRM and makes it more difficult for those who wish to use it.

  16. A banner on Internet Defense League To Be Deployed Against CISPA · · Score: 1

    will not stop Congress.

  17. Re:30 hours per week? on How a Programmer Gets By On $16K/Yr: He Moves to Malaysia · · Score: 1

    Everyone is not uneducated because they are stupid or lazy some of us come from less than ideal circumstances. I started working when I was 15 and droped out of school at 16 so I could work full time. It's nice to be able to eat and have a car. The work I do is far from menial. And while I'm sure you would preffer a caste system where the privledged have everything including someone to wipe their ass, most well off and educated types would not be as such based on their own merit. And the priviledged always decline usually due to laziness and a sense of entitlement. And because of my hard work my children will be at an advantage financially and better educated than the lazy offsping of those who think they are entitled based on what was given rather than earned. I very much doubt that you are either smart, funny or rich. Generally the more you have the more you work unless you are given everything.

  18. Re:More corporate welfare on US To Deploy Ballistic Missile Interceptors In Response To North Korean Threats · · Score: 1

    Fire engines work all of the time (unless there is a mechanical failure which is imediatlly repairedand there is always a backup) not 50%. Your house catching on fire is much more likely than bad Korea droping a bomb on your house. Seems like a way to dump some crappy missile interceptors on the US that only work half the time and can not be sold to anyone else. Or would you buy a car from GM that only starts half the time?

  19. Re:Volume too low on Nvidia Walked Away From PS4 Hardware Negotiations · · Score: 0

    It wasn't just sales that were dissappointing. The console was dissappointing. It sits in a box almost never used. I loved the PS2, the PS3 was the last straw.

  20. Re:Are you seriously serious? on Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a cool toy not an advertisement. Try doing something cool youself instead of just being an ass.

  21. Re:Foolishness on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 1

    Bullshit we had three doctors look at an ultra sound and get it wrong. They said the baby would die if a c-section was not done. Turns out that I was having a smoke and I heard some nurses talking about how the doc was going on vacation on friday and was trying to get all his deliveries done before he left. The baby would have been premature two months. We immediatly demanded the medical records and went to emergency in another hospital. The doctor was lying because he wanted to do a c-section and there was no issue. The doctor and hospital we were at first actually phoned us threatening us and lelling us we better not tell anyone what happened.

  22. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 1

    Last time the Dodge dealer worked on my truck they never changed the parts they billed for. So yes I do need to know every little point that was inspected. Most garages provide inspection reports. Also insurance requires safety inspections on older vehicles. Bad analogy.

  23. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 1

    In Canada oxycodone sells for up to $30 a pill. And the gov refuses to tak oxy off the market. There is an alternative the does the same thing (oxyneo?) but it can't be smoked or crushed. But our heath minister just gave aproval to sell generic oxycodone.

  24. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 1

    Do you know what LLC means? Doctors are not personally responsible for anything their company is responsible for what they do.

  25. Re:Nope on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: -1, Troll

    Doesn't the US use the strike first excuse to continually start wars with smaller countries by claiming WMD's, terrorists etc when they want to steal someone elses resources. Or have a dictator pupet they want to place in power. Everyone is just to scared to say anything because they will be next on the US list of places to bomb. Lets not forget to US is the only dictatorship in the world to use nuclear bombs against civilians. And none of the US war criminals are ever prosecuted no matter how many international laws and treaties they have broken. Why? Because they have bombs and no hesitation when it comes to killing civillians and using terrorist tactics.