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  1. Re:Claims should be easily verified on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 2

    No CO2 has gone down to as low as 150ppm, 120ppm is considered a point of no return where sufficient amounts of plants die to trigger a mass extinction.

  2. Re:Going against consensus is scientific ... on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Since AGW has only been theoretical possible since the 1950's, how do explain that it hasn't warmed for longer than it has warmed?

  3. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    We've defined chemical weapons as WMD period, one badly degraded shell dribbling HD out the side is just as much a WMD as a bunker full of VX ready to shoot. We found far more than a few leaky shells. Do you think that if a cop askes you if you have any weapons and you answer no, that he's going to excuse your for not telling him about the 22 cal single shot deringer in your pocket?

  4. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    My ballot always seems to not only have Democrats and Republicans but Socialist Worker's Party (communists), Libertarians and Green Party; so that's 5 by my count. There might even be a few I missed.

  5. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 2

    You do realise that not only did they actually find WMD like nitrogen mustard and sarin, but they covered it up so the public wouldn't freak out; Bush was less worried about public reaction to not finding WMD, than he was about the reaction to the causalties involved with finding the chemical agents. Seriously blaming "Gulf War Syndrome" on burning oil wells made as much sense as blaming every unexplained aerial phenomina on "swamp gas".

  6. Re:New name? on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 1

    That would confuse everybody that used to send Email via UUCP!

  7. Re:seems about the same on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Pre-med is more about learning rote memorization, med school is more about doing the memorization, in the internships and residencies MD learn actual medicine.

  8. Re:B is the new F? on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    Your Link shown me a B rating, me thinks there's some subterfuge going on at/with Qualys. I think it more likely that Clinton or her cronies called in some favors to make the rating look less damaging, than random people on the internet lying about the rating.

  9. Re:Makes sense on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    Actually Rush Limbaugh was saying the other day that the Email thing was being blown way out of proportion, by both the Republicans and Democrats.

  10. Re:The Clintons on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    I consider Bill Clinton a successful president by virtue of spending more time getting his pool cue chalked by Lewinsky, than he did screwing up shit that actually mattered.

  11. Re:The Clintons on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 2

    You do realize she'd set this server up in 2009 and left in Feb 2013? So she continued to use her own server her last five months, rather than do a disruptive move to the State server, when she already knew she was leaving in a few months.

    So how disruptive would it have been to just set up the MX record to point to a professionally managed government owned mail server?

  12. Re:The Clintons on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    If you need something to be specifically illegal to prevent you from doing things that are stupid, a danger to the National Security and contray to the President's publicaly stated policy of "Being the most transperant administation", you certainly don't deserve to be President.

  13. Re:this is just dumb on State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida · · Score: 1

    and I am not one who buys into the doom and gloom scenarios that the global warming crowd would like us to, but restricting people from learning about it does nothing.
      even if I am wrong, i would much rather an open debate over this.

    Nothing is preventing anybody from learning about or debating about AGW, They just pressuring State employees to stop using terminology that is so politically charged as to be meaningless.

  14. Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m on Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster · · Score: 2

    You do realize the height of a tsunami is dependant on the wavelength of the wave and the depth of the seafloor, that means the same wave can produce drastically different wave heights at different locations.

  15. Re:this is just nonsense. on Go R, Young Man · · Score: 1

    Programing is simply give formal instructions to perform a desired goal, then of course validating that the following instructions achieves the result. If the average person could actually give and follow simple, clear and consise directions, the world would be a far better place; or at least microwaves and VCR wouldn't flash 00:00 all of the time.

  16. Re:...or a publicity stunt on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 1

    It struck me, that judging by how sloppy the tape job was, how poorly it was hidden and how non-state of the art the device was, it was more of a political statement than an serious investigation.

  17. Re:...or a publicity stunt on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 1

    Radio Shack ain't no more, one of the first temples of Geekdom has been relegated to mythdom.

  18. I'm usually the first to rag on those low-speed bird choppers, but his application is one where wind turbines actually make sense; A BOB, Big Old Battery, a NaS backup battery might even be appropriate.

  19. Re:Hmmm .... on Physicists Gear Up To Catch a Gravitational Wave · · Score: 1

    I just can't wrap my head around how LIGO works, the gravity waves ripple spacetime, so there is no frame of reference that I can see. Seems to me that the length of the arms would only change from an outside frame of reference.

  20. 1. With meth or Cocaine you'd have a bunch of amped up religious fanatics going all berseker crazy on you.
    2. With heroin or alcohol you'd have a bunch of religious fanatics with no inhibitions going crazy on you.
    3. With Meth and heroin amped up religious fanatics with no inhibitions going berseker crazy on you and would be too high to realise they are suposed to fall down when you kill them.
    4. it would probably be considered chemical warefare or something equally repugnant.

  21. Well lets see if you consider people who want to seduce your daughters into sex-slavery and commit genocide on your sons as merely a problematic ideology; I supose you have a point.

  22. Re:ok, so it's not unstoppable on We Stopped At Two Nuclear Bombs; We Can Stop At Two Degrees. · · Score: 1

    The History channel will be happy to learn that they can start planning a few years of Mud Road Truckers, after the permafrost melts.

    BARROW, ALASKA, USA Weather report as of 12 minutes ago (22:53 UTC):
            The wind was blowing at a speed of 8.2 meters per second (18.4 miles per hour) from North/Northwest in Barrow, Alaska. The temperature was -12 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit).
    February 28, 2015 weather report for
    NOME, ALASKA, USA Weather report as of 15 minutes ago (22:53 UTC):
            The wind was blowing at a speed of 8.2 meters per second (18.4 miles per hour) from West/Southwest in Nome, Alaska. The temperature was -14 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit)
    FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, USA Weather report as of 11 minutes ago (22:58 UTC):
            The wind was blowing at a speed of 1.5 meters per second (3.5 miles per hour) from West/Northwest in Fairbanks, Alaska. The temperature was -5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit).
    YELLOWKNIFE, CANADA Weather report as of 11 minutes ago (23:00 UTC):
            The wind was blowing at a speed of 3.6 meters per second (8.1 miles per hour) from North/Northwest in Yellowknife, Canada. The temperature was -13 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit).

    They may have another season or two left.

  23. Re:Please tell me this is satire on Use Astrology To Save Britain's Health System, Says MP · · Score: 1

    Modern astrologers consider the Sun and the Moon to be astrological planets and the belief that planetary positions influence behavior and events is what astrology is all about.

  24. Re:Please tell me this is satire on Use Astrology To Save Britain's Health System, Says MP · · Score: 1

    I assumed that what Tredinnick meant was NHS was so bad that anything would be an improvement. If he's talking about making diagnosis based on a person's horoscope, that would be pretty loonie; if he's talking about head nurses not letting staff take extra time off durring full moons in OB, ER or mental health then that would make sense.

  25. Re:BS aside, is the K-XL a good thing or not? on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter the Canadians have most of the pipelines they need to ship the crude east, then they can load the crude on an Canadian Atlantic port instead of an American Gulf port. Building off a spur to Lamton county would bring feedstock to chemical valley refineries, further helping the Canadian economy. My understanding is the US get a 10% discount on the oil, which would go away with a more global competition for Alberta crude.