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  1. Service Member deaths even with being in combat for 14 years are amazingly low 3,486 in Afganistan over 14 years, 4,809 in Iraq over 8 years, 58,148 in Vietnam over 13 years.

  2. On a per capita basis we're forth behind Norway! Gun Violence in the US is way down and trending down. Switzerland has required gun ownership and gun violence is almost unheard of there.

  3. Trump has been pretty much manufactured by the media, He's a narcissistic blow-hard, and trolling MSM the same way GNAA trolls /. I'm an old fart,and I've seen this shit before, just google Nixon v. McGovern, the whole thing is like a flashback, Black Panther's and all. I just hope we can get a responsible adult to run in the next election, I had my hopes pinned on Carson, damn sure can't vote for either Trump or Clinton. None of the above is the best vote so far this election.

  4. Re:Not the first time on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    That is the trend, the current accelerated trend.

  5. Re:Sea-level threat? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    "Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year. "Is sea level rising? 60 feet would take 500 years at the present rate.

  6. Re:Cue the World's Smallest Violin on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    Supposedly AGW is caused by an extra 1.5W/m^2, at TOA insolation is ~1366 W/m2, how hard can it be? a few really big power-sats and job done.

  7. Re:Not the first time on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    The trend in regards to sea-level rise is more like 0.12 inches per year; If their feet are getting wet it's not because of sea-level rise.

  8. Re:To higher ground? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    Tipping the one with only one tit is really exciting.

  9. Re:To higher ground? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    Sea-level rise is between 1 - 2.5 mm /year since 1900, how much responsibility is ours to divy. up?

    The world's 48 poorest countries will need to find around $US1 trillion ($A1.39 trillion) dollars between 2020 and 2030 to achieve their plans to tackle climate change - and those plans should be a priority for international funding, researchers say. Developing world needs $1t for climate change.

    Sure we'll just get out a checkbook and send our share to the world's most corrupt governments, and they'll in turn hire Halliburton to come in build some shit for a 50% kickback.

  10. Re:To higher ground? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    I think the point of the article is that climate change has already started to have serious affects on some people and over time it will affect more..

    Please explain how this:

    Records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year since 1900.
    This rate may be increasing. Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year. Is sea level rising?

    could possibly have any physical effect on anybody? Seriously 1/10s of an inch per year, one and a quarter inch over the last century! This is a case of Haters are going to Hate, so everybody climb on the climate change gray-train!

  11. Re:To higher ground? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    Why should the millions of US citizens be justified in causing more damage to the environment than the billions of people from the other countries? If you don't care who suffers just so you can lead the lifestyle you want, why not commit to your ideals fully? Put on a pirate hat and just invade other countries to plunder their resources!

    Kiribati's have dumped raw sewage into the seas, over-fished their reefs and over-pumped their aquifers as a matter of lifestyle, now "Mother Nature" is bitch slapping them for the environmental damage they have caused. The seas have been rising for at least a century at a rather steady rate of 1-3mm per year, there is no way you can blame any problem Kirbati may be facing on millions of US citzens.

  12. Re:To higher ground? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    >Why does a Kiribati life matter more than an American's trophy fishing?

    The Kiribati's problem stem massively more from their protective corals reefs being in a depressed stated, and the most likely candidates for that is Islanders dumping raw sewage into the sea and over fishing the Reefs.

  13. Re: How to Extort Money from Rich Nations on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 2

    That's actually true - but still a bold-faced lie by omission:

    "Et tu, Brute?"

    Records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year since 1900.

    This rate may be increasing. Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year. Is sea level rising?

    A sealevel rise of 1 to 3 millimetres per year isn't going to inundate anything for millennia.

  14. Re:To higher ground? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Island are Atolls, they are made of coral sand, so the harsh reality is the coral reef is the levies. When the coral reefs are healthy, the Parrotfish grind up the coral into coral sand which is then washed up on the atoll. This with wind and wave erosion results in an auto-regulation, the atoll stays a few meters above sea level as the sea level raises and lowers. When the Atolls population increases pollution and over fishing pushes the reefs into an unhealthy state and the replenishment of eroded sand decreases and the atoll shrinks. Humans as dig water wells and as fresh water is used the ground subsides.

  15. Re: Probably too strong on Graphene Shows Promise For Super Strong Dental Fillings (elsevier.com) · · Score: 1

    If the expansion is greater than the elasticity the margins will separate from the enamel and there will be microleakage, which allows bacterial acids to cause secondary decay. No matter how strong the material is, it will fail if there is secondary decay, the whole thing will just pop off. Don't forget, no matter how good the physical properties are, Dentists aren't going to use it if it's difficult to place and polish and Patients aren't going to accept it if it looks like shit.

  16. Re:Self-fulfilling prophecy? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That was the point of my snarky reply, he was saying php is an poor language because it's echo function can spit out character strings that can be executed as code by a web browser. So I requested a code example in C, a language generally considered Good, knowing that the task would be exceedingly difficult. I've written a rather complex application in PHP that I use for work, but there is no way I would ever place it on an internet facing computer because I know I don't have the skills to secure it in that environment. If PHP was changed so echo and print required a special flag to allow the output htmlspecialchars() it would break everything, imagine trying to tell Zuckerburg he's going to have to rewrite Facebook!

  17. Re:Self-fulfilling prophecy? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The secure way is this:


    Hi <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?>.

    A good language should be designed in such a way that the simple way is the safe way, and make you be more explicit if you want something else.

    Could you give that example in C, C is normally considered a good language.

  18. Re:I don't think... on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Bingo, see there's the perfect example of dogmatic thinking.

    1. I've thrown out a fact that a specific data set has shown a indeterminate trend for a period of time, this lack of a trend tends tends to weaken support for an unmentioned hypothesis.
    2. Because your a probably victim of dogmatic thinking in regards to this unmentioned hypothesis, You assumed I was attacking your unmentioned hypothesis, and you responded by:
      1. Using a strawman arguement, What NASA's GISTEMP and NOAA's Temperature Data Product for ground stations has to do with RSS analysis of Satellite data of lower troposphere temperatures is unclear to me.
      2. Using a strawman arguement and ad hominem, Your the only one who indirectly mentioned Monckton of Brenchley, and whether he is a bug eyed, privileged twit or not has no bearing on wheter something he said is correct or not

    And in the end RSS data has shown that there has been no statistically significant Global Warming for 18 years, 9 months.

  19. Re:I don't think... on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    First, most atheists I know are quite undogmatic. They just don't have a religion, and they don't miss it. They've grown up without every being challenged about their (non-)religiousness.

    Here let's test that;

    RSS data has shown that there has been no statistically significant Global Warming for 18 years, 9 months.

    now watch the dogma fly!

  20. The law is based on the same idea as old-fashioned mining claims: Whoever discovers and get their first gets to claim it as their own. It doesn't claim anything in space for the US - it says that under US law objects in space may be claimed as private property.

    No I didn't see anything like that,

    The Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act gives any American who successfully extracts natural resources from outer space the property rights over the haul.

    even one of the critical articles doesn't imply any kind of claim, it's go out there collect some booty and haul ass home; wash, rinse repeat.

  21. Must be all of the added revenues from the free windows 10 upgrade!

  22. My installs at work (10 machines) went smooth once we got the administrator issues sorted out, the only thing that fubared was some digital camera software that was "windowsXP" compatible, but even claiming "windowsXP" compatibility was overly optimistic. The upgrade did wipe-out our antivirus, but our AV knew that would happen and automatically re-installed a compatible version with one button click on reboot.

  23. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The middle east has always been an oil economy, before petroleum it was olive oil. Take out the ability for the Caliph to buy the loyalty of his subject with cheep oil money and the whole region will destabilize (stability is relative). I don't think opening up more drilling leases will help, because the world-wide demand will just absorb any increase in supply.

  24. Re:Climate has never not been changing. on This October Was the Hottest Ever Measured (scienceblogs.com) · · Score: 1

    As I said, "It looks like your definition of much warmer [woodfortrees.org] and mine must differ, " because all I see is some "It might be getting warmer but it hard to tell for sure" and it certainly not Apocalyptic thermogheddon warmer.

  25. Re:Tried it, couldn't use it on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    Why is have separate toolboxes and dialogues confusing? Ever use multiple monitors?