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  1. Re:Water vapor [Re:there is no climate change ?] on New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It is, of course, well understood that water vapor is a greenhouse gas-- this accounted for in all the models. The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere depends on the temperature. This is a feedback cycle. One of several feedback cycles.

    Well it seems the the humidity:

    Relative humidity has substantially declined in recent decades, defying global warming computer models predicting higher amounts of atmospheric water vapor that will exacerbate global warming. The decline in relative humidity indicates global warming will be much more moderate than claimed by global warming activists. Declining Humidity Is Defying Global Warming Models

    The IPCC's CAGW hypothesis necessitates that troposphere humidity increases as levels of atmospheric CO2 increase. Simply stated (this is not rocket science):

              *First CO2 levels increase, thus
                  *Atmospheric warming increases, thus
                  *Earth's surface warms, thus
                  *Earth surface water evaporates, thus
                  *Atmosphere humidity increases, thus
                  *Atmosphere water vapor increases (i.e. greenhouse gas), thus
                  *Atmosphere warms further, thus
                  *Earth's surface warms even more, thus
                  *More Earth's water evaporates into atmosphere, thus
                  *A positive feedback loop established, and continues

    For the above climate "tipping point" to initiate, the atmosphere humidity has to absolutely increase, which the above chart of empirical evidence reveals it has not.

    In fact, as seen, the atmospheric (relative) humidity is decreasing over time while CO2 levels increase - the exact opposite of all climate model and "consensus" expert predictions. http://clivebest.com/blog/wp-c... Atmosphere Humidity: NOAA Scientists Determine Reality Is Opposite Of Climate Models' Prediction

    just isn't cooperating with the GCM's; of course we all know when reality diverges from the model predictions, reality will be adjusted as necessary.

  2. Re:A mini ice age? Really? on New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The main problem the shrill Apocalyptic Global Warming Alarmists have is there are so many shrill alarmists pimping so many causes du jour, that their propaganda is getting lost in the cacophony. Add to that the current satellite data shows no statistically significant warming for 18 out of the 65 years that anthropogenic warming was even possible, it's no wonder that the "consensus" has fallen from 97% to the 50's range, and the popular opinion puts climate change near last.

  3. Re:Did they make more than $750K profit by blockin on FCC Fines Smart City $750K For Blocking Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    In some places you even have to reimburse the government for your room and board while in jail; I wonder how many c-levels have that in their compensation packages?

  4. Re:Fine vs profit? on FCC Fines Smart City $750K For Blocking Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    It's likely easier to jail a Corporate Officer for contempt of Court in disregarding a consent agreement, than it would have been to jail them on the original matter; not to mention that the action that violated the agreement would be a second count and liable for an other $0.74M fine, wash, rinse, repeat.

  5. Re:it is hideous on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    Worked well for the Statzi for quite a while.

  6. Re: Get Self-Employed on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    meanwhile they get angry at entitlements like: healthcare, education, housing, clothing, food.

    Nobody is angry at entitlements but many are getting angry at people who recieve publicaly paid benefits who come to feel they are entitled to those benefits without earning them. If you want healthcare, education, housing, clothing, food, the military will give you 3 hots and a cot, tuition assistance, GI bill, health, dental and a strong work ethic.

  7. Re:Get Self-Employed on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    Everything is a risk to benefit ratio, the less risk adverse will be able to take advantage of new opportunities more easily, the less risk adverse will be less likely to rush into situations with obscure pitfalls. Some people live to head into new, challenging situations in far off towns and new jobs, others never make it out of their mother's basements.

  8. Re:get the book on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    At the very least, the corporation should be sued for not delivering on the contract, and forced to return as much of the money as possible.
    Why doesn't it happen?

    Why, because it's silly not to have some defense contractors stocks in your pension fund, that's why.

  9. Re:I dern't believe it! on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    The real tank killer in the US arsenal is the A10 Warthog and similar technologies like this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    A10's are being sacrificed on the altar of the F35.

  10. Re:Can the enemy actually shoot down the F35? on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    That will never work, you're just advocating exchanging a fragile stealth technology for an even more fragile satellite link. The Air Force has gotten their heads stuck on fighting war that will likely never happen, and are sacrificing weapons systems that are best-in-the-world class for the wars we are fighting now to help fund their pie-in-the-sky delusion. In a war with near-peers our satellites will be vulnerable, either to out-right attack or to jamming, and our manned fighters will be out gunned by more manuvrable dog-fighters.

  11. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    There is one crucial feature that isn't covered perfectly: absolute compatibility with MS Office. For a large number of office workers, Office is a collaboration tool.

    Panty-waistes, Real Men use EMACS, Subversion and LaTeX.

  12. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    I nominate you to teach M$ Word users how to give their documents a title in properties so every freaking pdf you see on the internet isn't titled "Microsoft Word Document".

  13. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 0

    Not often someone uses a microsoft product as an example of "prettier" software.

  14. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    I can't live without Excel's inability to avoid divide by 0 errors!; in calc a simple conditional detects a number is a zero and allows you to simply not divide by it; unlike Excel where you can test that a cell either has a number, but not that the number isn't zero.

  15. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    No they change your hormonal response so you turn more of the calories you do eat into stored fat, you can even eat less and still gain weight by drinking diet soda pop.

  16. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    No it's not simple math, the human body is only 10% human and the 90% have evolved over aeons to be able to send chemical messages to the host to enhance the environment to suit them not us. Some of the biota in us do much better when we are obese, and our intestines are inflamed and swollen so we can't absorb nutrients as well, leaving them unabsorbed for the flora to digest instead of us. I hope you never get a fecal transplant from an obese person, then you'll find out what the little beasties can do to your waist line without regard to caloric intake.

  17. Re:Counter DMCA notice on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Google just pointed to Patrick Jean's film "Pixels" and they are both up on Youtube and Vimeo where it is currently listed as a "Staff Pick". I intend to blow-up my social-media and refer to Sandler/Happy Madison as cyberbullying Patrick Jean through their bulldog proxy Entura International and Columbia Pictures. These Holliwierd type are extremely narcissistic, and Sandler is real quick to play up Family Values in his films, hitting him up as a cyber-bully will hurt his ego.

  18. Re:Opportunity on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 2

    Send DMCA take-downs to the movie theaters showing the digital form of the movie, the distribution company and the Internet provider that host the movie for the theaters to down-load. Then file suit, $250,000.00 per showing, never sue or sign a contract with a movie company based on profit, they never make a "profit".

  19. Re:Dr. Doom AGAIN on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    Both the Human torch and Ben Grim developed into their own magazines, but as I remember even the FF magazines were the Ben and Johnny show.

  20. Re:Unpractical on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 1

    It only has to be 140dB at the drone, several speakers at much lower volumes could easily achieve this through constructive interference. Both the uplink and downlink on these things is usually 2.4 GHz, your microwave oven is on 2.4 GHz, so if it came down to a pissing contest, the oven has the bigger bladder.

  21. Re:Not all gyros are mechanical on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure anybody knows but it's highly plausable that an optical gyro resonating at an audio frequency would be just as disabling.

  22. Re:Oh boy, here we go... on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 1

    electric cars with panels + nuclear powered grid/charging stations.

    To get a car charged in a reasonable amount of time, you'd need a solar panel about the size of the Walmart's parking lot on each one!
    A tesla battery is 56 kWH, the daily average irradiance for the Earth is approximately 250 W/m2//hr = 6 kWh/m2. a solar cell is 15% and that's generous so

    (56kW/hr / 250kW/m^2/hr) /0.15 = 1,493.33... m^2

  23. Re:Oh boy, here we go... on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 2

    I think you are the one that misunderstand how a carbon tax would work; the heavy CO2-emitters would not only pass along the tax, but increase it by their profit margin, so a dollar increase in taxes would likely result in an price increase of $1.20 at each stage of the supply chain. Only naive Liberals think businesses pay taxes, rather than pass them along.

  24. Re:Could not agree more on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 1

    The type of reactors at Fukushima have been decommissioned in most countries with businessmen who haven't deluded themselves into thinking that they are some kind of re-incarnated Samurai.

  25. Re:Scaremongering. on Tiny Black Holes Could Trigger Collapse of Universe—Except That They Don't · · Score: 1

    It's all bogus anyway, a blackhole conserves mass, charge and momentum, so
    1, how would you be able to tell a blackhole created out of a proton from a proton as our definition of a proton is basically a thingy with a certain resting mass and charge!
    2, the lorenz tranformations, depending on how you look at the thingy it could be a blackhole if its coming at you on axis, a proton if its off axis and if it's on a parallel path a blackhole that changes into a proton then back into a blackhole;
    So does that mean that the Universe goes puff only if your travelling in the right direction?