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  1. Re:Wow, all the way back to 1979... on Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    30 years is the minimum to be considered a Climatic event, there are quasi-periodic cycles of about 22 years, 30 years, 60 years and 120 years.

  2. Re:20 Degrees C?! Lol on Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sunrise at Point Barrow Alaska will be January 22, 2017, I don't think albedo is a big factor right now. My suspicion is this is bad, real bad and we are going to really want some of that heat that's bleeding out through the Arctic over the next few decades.

  3. Re:20 Degrees C?! Lol on Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh that's cute, now go sit at he little Kids table and let the Grown-ups talk at the big table. How about this, it's 240K instead of the expected 220K, you that are metricly impaired may convert to the Rankin temperature scale if desired.

  4. Re:Yeah... climate design on Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Carbon Tariffs on imported Chinese Goods, how Trumpian of you; He'll love it. it'll be great, fantastic!

  5. Re:The Priesthood has spoken on Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    IDK every year seem to be a "New Record High" even if only by 0.001K!
    The Arctic as defined by north of 80N is extremely above expected temperatures, average running about 260K today, still considerably below freezing at 273.35K. Also there is a lot of variation this year.

  6. Re:Interesting side effect: No pardon for Hillary on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is true

    Santos also had access to a highly secure room called an SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) that diplomatic security agents set up at Whitehaven, according to FBI notes from an interview with Abedin.
    From within the SCIF, Santos — who had no clearance — “collected documents from the secure facsimile machine for Clinton,” the FBI notes revealed.

    and it was illegal

    (d) Classified information shall be made available to a recipient only when the authorized holder of the classified information has determined that:

    (1) The prospective recipient has a valid security clearance at least commensurate with the level of classification of the information; and

    (2) The prospective recipient requires access to the information in order to perform or assist in a lawful and authorized governmental function.
    46 CFR 503.59 - Safeguarding classified information.

  7. Re:NSA has something on all the pols on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way the NSA would have anything on anybody is if they ever sent an email, an SMS text or made a phone call or something like that. I don't worry about it, I'm to boring to be worthy of their interest.

  8. Re:Commute Chelsea Manning's sentence on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not going to happen, Manning releasing the State Dept cables is what made Assange so Anti-Hillary. The result is the whole Email server scandal that even caught Obama in several Lies. He's more likely to as part of any commutation, get a pair of breast implants, then be introduced to general population!

  9. Re:Interesting side effect: No pardon for Hillary on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    She had her Maid (who had no security clearance or need to know) physically print emails containing classified information for her to read at home; that's good for 20 years.

  10. Re:Freedom from future investigation. on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A pardon would mean no more continued investigations into national security breaches. Even if she is innocent, they could still investigate and try her going forward.

    If for example, it could be proven in court that Hillary used the Foundation in a money laundering scheme to cover alleged pay-for-play corruption while SoS, then those asset would be liable for forfeiture even if Hillary was pardoned for the actual crimes.

  11. Re:Don't worry, Trump will. on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just not true. They are drowning in money. The flow has not dwindled one bit.

    You mean "The Clinton Foundation's" proceeds of a criminal enterprise?
    That might not be as much as you would imagine , and several of Hillary's deep-pocketed sponsors aren't used to spend big bucks without results.

  12. Re:And Obama once again is a blatant liar on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He said he can't, he didn't say why he couldn't, apparently there is a line that even Obama will not allow himself to cross.

  13. I always thought the point was to have roof-top solar cells on the home or car-port to offset the electricity used to charge the Electric vehicle. Additionally used batteries that were a bit too soggy to used in a vehicle would still have plenty of capacity and charge-rate to serve as a store for excess power for a household to use in the evening and potentially for load-leveling the Grid.

  14. Re:Selling my Android, getting an iPhone on Second Chinese Firm In a Week Found Hiding a Backdoor In Android Firmware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Deep in the bowel of Fort Meade, some Deputy Director of the NSA is saying "God Damn those fucking Chinese, who told them to put an extra backdoor into those cheap-assed burner phone? We paid for exclusivity!"

  15. Re:They didn't succeed though on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Trump is far from tone-deaf to political correctness, he played the PC crowd like a fiddle. Clinton hadn't given a press conference in 9 months and Trump was in the news everyday, a 3:AM tweet and America wakes up to Trump plastered on every TV screen in the country.

  16. Re:They didn't succeed though on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary lost because Trump said "what have you got to lose?", a lot of blacks thought "What do we have to lose?", it wasn't enough to get blacks to vote for Trump in many cases, but it was enough to get them to sit out the election.

  17. Re:Blah blah blah on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes Everybody is BooHooing the Russians interfering with the US election by having the audacity of telling the American Electorate the truth.

  18. Re: Might've been OK if Hillary was POTUS on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm impressed by the logic and clarity of your argument.

  19. Re:"Planet?!" on Pluto's 'Icy Heart' May Have Tilted the Dwarf Planet Over (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a binary whatchamacallit you insensitive clod!

  20. Re:Global warming on Pluto's 'Icy Heart' May Have Tilted the Dwarf Planet Over (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is more evidence that Pluto is getting colder. That the Earth is warming while other planets are getting colder is yet more proof that we are responsible for global warming. I'm sure the deniers will be out in force to accuse me of being a shill, but global warming is an undeniable fact.

    Actually Pluto is getting Warmer like most of the solar system. Now when this gets ugly, I want everybody to notice that not only did I not start this, I didn't say anything about terrestrial anthropogenic warming either.

  21. Re:Who again? on Pluto's 'Icy Heart' May Have Tilted the Dwarf Planet Over (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Hillary: "Devil, You Said I would win the election!"
    Devil: "Hillary, you said you had a soul to sell"

  22. Re:Not to worry, they have new aircraft on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They will have operational F-35s in about.... ummm.... maybe 10 years

    And the F35B variant (which can actually land on a British Aircraft Carrier) a half century after that.

  23. Re:Still better than Russia on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You're right, Swedish women love being gang-raped on the streets.

  24. Re: Might've been OK if Hillary was POTUS on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Qataris want to build a pipeline through Syria to Turkey, it would compete with Russian Natural Gas sales to Europe, al Assad, long time Russian ally opposed the crossing.
    So we started arming the Muslim Brotherhood (Huma Abedin is up to her eyeballs in the Muslim Brotherhood) to overthrow al Assad. If anything it would have been worse if Hillary had been elected as Clinton and Putin are engaged in a proxy war in Syria, Clinton's shrill accusations of Trump-Putin collusion in the Election and stealing her Emails.

  25. You would want some vehicles to take sub-optimal trajectories, for example a nuclear detonation lofts considerable material into the mushroom cloud and re-entry vehicle travelling at 10 - 15,000 MPH would surely be destroyed travelling through one on attack where the slower retaliatory launch doesn't have that limitation. Additionally you would have to detonate a 50KT warhead within 100m of a Minuteman III silo to achieve a 50% kill probability, the radiation from one detonation will pre-initiate other warheads too near shrinking it's yield or even causing it to malfunction completely. Both strong rationals for sub-optimum trajectories. Anti-balistic Missile defenses make sub-optimal trajectories a necessity.