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  1. One thing holds true, the planet can only support so much life before the life destroys the planet. That is just basic science. While we may not be there, it isn't unconceivable that we could be approaching that. Exponential growth of a species leads to such sudden crashes into proverbial Brick Walls.

    Climate is just an easy way to relay the dangers to people who are self-absorbed (most of society). YOU WON"T BE ABLE TO BREATHE or FIND FOOD.. "Oh, I see now, that would be bad, right?" .. "I dunno, I'll look it up online to see how this impacts my social life!"

    So your admitting as far as your concerned, Apocalyptic Global Warming Scaremongering is just a guise to get the sheeple to go into lemming-mote and rush over the clift into the abyse as a sacrifice to Gaia?

  2. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    It means a lot that the Earth is warming and that human activity is the cause.

    Yes it is and the most significant human activity causing the past warming is urbanization around formerly rural ground weather stations stations, Even with Urbanization April, 2015: was http://www.drroyspencer.com/20...">+0.07 deg. C warmer, so warming is pretty much in the past tense, even with a weak El Nino.

    Should have previewed the link.

  3. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    It means a lot that the Earth is warming and that human activity is the cause.

    Yes it is and the most significant human activity causing the past warming is urbanization around formerly rural ground weather stations stations, Even with Urbanization April, 2015: was http://www.drroyspencer.com/20...">+0.07 deg. C warmer, so warming is pretty much in the past tense, even with a weak El Nino.

  4. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Lewandowsky's paper has been retracted by the publisher and has left the University he published from.

  5. Re:Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Simply show me one prediction from the GCMs that's more that 15 years, half a climatic era, that has remotely came true. You can't do it because there are no models that will work without massive parametrization; it would take them a century to actually computer the model for a 10 year time frame. Even the IPCC AR5 shows present temperatures outside the 95% confidence band for even the most conservative model runs.

  6. Re:"The Polar Bears will be fine" on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    Freeman Dyson also doesn't understand gravity (no one does). But that doesn't mean some vague claims can't be made about the two -- "heavy objects hurt when they fall on your foot" isn't a rigorous scientific statement, but it is true, as is his (vague) quote above.

    Well to be perfectly honest the heavy object isn't heavy while it's in freefall and it doesn't actually fall on your foot, it merely gets close enough for the repulsion of negative charges of the electrons in the object and negative charges of the electrons in your foot is enough to cancel out the kinectic energy difference between the object and your foot; still hurts though.

  7. Re:Meh on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    400Kyr that's nothing

  8. Re:So when will this actually happen? on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    Sure that's not from ground subsistence from the ever increasing populations pumping fresh water out of the ground?

  9. Re:So when will this actually happen? on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how decreasing productivity and make poor people even more energy impoverished will benefit them. Do you have any idea of how many women are kidnapped into slavery, raped and/or murdered while foraging for firewood to cook food to feed their family each year?

  10. Re:So when will this actually happen? on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    The funny thing about the Ozone hole is the hole was discovered by satellites, the first satellites to measure for it so we really don't know if the hole was "caused" by something, was a hole that was always there or if it was an always there but we made bigger.

  11. Re:Meh on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    Humans occupy the Earth's surface from past the Arctic circle to the Sahara desert, humans can handle a couple degrees difference in climate; the reason Enviro-whackoes hate Humans so much is because we're the apex predator that can survive anywhere.

  12. Re:FTYF, Submitter on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    EOBs almost always have "This is not a Bill" plastered on it in big bold letters, EOBs are Explanation of Benefits, they come from the company that is paying a portion of your financial responsibility on your behalf.

  13. Re:Take the responsibility onto yourself on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    Check multiple doses too, Celexa 10mg, cost $90.00/30, Celexa 20 mg cost $4.00/30, Celexa 10mg is used more often for premature ejaculation, Celexa 20mg is used more often for depresion, I cut the 20s in half.

  14. Re:Take the responsibility onto yourself on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    Nope not even close; an Amazon tribe deep in the jungle had been discovered and the first outside contact brought back stool samples for research which contained antibiotic resistant bacteria.

  15. Re:Software Industry Decides? on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    She trying to say she doesn't understand that after the Lawyers have dictated what can be released under HIPPA, what she has to say means jack about what's on the bill.

  16. Re:Vaginosis/Vaginitis Plus on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    See, the greedy lab should have thrown in HIV and HepC on the house.

  17. Re: "the software industry" lol wut on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    If you have ever seen any medical billing software you know that the people "writing the software" are basically just using FileMaker or MS access and slapping something together as quickly as possible.

    It is a specialized type of application and they pay the least possible for it. The software I have seen is always at least 10 years out of date (even the "new" versions) and extremely buggy.

    I'm quite sure that FileMaker and MS access does the maths much better than our dental practice management software, different reports give different sums for the same data, you would think that total production grouped by insurance plan (and yes cash patients are handled as an insurance plan) would be the same as total production grouped by service class as total production grouped by CDT code, but they are all different.

  18. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's an indication that the reimbursement rates for your insurance are so poor that nobody is willing to work for them. If the insurance company is able to provide the Dr. with patients that pay their portion, actually show up for their appointments and on time, follow orders and don't make a hobby out of being an asshole; the Dr. might accept a lower reimbursement..

  19. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    Well since they're corporations all the way up and down, that means fines, per occurrence.

  20. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    That is not how socialized medicine works. You can't just go to the doctor whenever you feel like it. Single payer healthcare reduces costs, and people with SPH are generally happier with their care, but there are tradeoffs. Long waiting lists for many ailments, and reduced patient choice, are among those tradeoffs.

    So they're like the VA where you might get seen before you die or you might not.

  21. Re:FTYF, Submitter on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    EOBs, or Explaination Of Benefits, comes from Your insurance company, not the Provider. If you can't comprehend what is on the EOB, then You should call Your insurance company, and have the people You are sending the most money to explain it better. Remember the Providers of your care hate Your insurance even more than you do, and if something is worded obtusely it's usually so the bastards at Your insurance company will pay what they are obligated to pay for on Your behalf. You can also go to Fair Health Consumer and punch in the codes what it was for and what the 50th percentile expected costs in your area are; most providers bill in the 80th percentile in order to get paid around the 50th. You can always pay cash and have Your insurance reimburse you.

  22. Re: FTYF, Submitter on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh bullshit, bleeding trumps everything except "can't breath" , especially if it's an eye.

  23. Re:Idiots keeping us safe, it seems on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps part of the reason they as so god damn fucking angry is BECAUSE of the dropped bombs?

    I just wonder, how many years of bombs being dropped on your families would it take for you to consider a driveby on the people doing it?

    But no, its the RELIGION thats the problem.. cannot be anything else.

    No, they just can't seem to play nice with anybody, but it's not just the religion, they were assholes even before they became Muslims. Not all of them of course but enough of them. The worst part is they are like commies, they can't except that the reason for their problem isn't that they have converted the whole world, so they're hell-bent on destroying what they envy.

  24. Re:Please bugger off? on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Slashdot used to be a place to get away from this kind of 'discussion'. Where something with an inflammatory title like 'Draw The Pedophile' gets marked as insightful...

    There are muslim nerds too...

    Dude the only post to have ever gotten deleted on slashdot was in a religious thread. You want to see inflamation post there hasn't been any warming for 18 years and put in a link to WUWT or the Ocean ate the heat and a link to SS!

  25. Re:tip of the iceberg on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    There was a movie made of the life the Prophet, it was blamed for inciting the revolution in Egypt. From what I could see from the trailers it was every bit as bad as the movie "The Profit" a docu-drama about L Ron Hubbard, who founded the religion "Scientology" and probably one of the few religions whose adherents are as easily offended as the Muslims.