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  1. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Except the demonstration doesn't work, if the editing was done to make a repeatable demonstration more visable that would be editing, editing to make a failed demonstration appear to work that is scientific fraud. Even more damning, is that they don't seem to know that a greenhouse doesn't work by trapping infrared light, else they wouldn't have designed their demonstration like it did.

  2. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    So if you trying to say that you have to be able to wire-wrap NAND gates into a computer CPU, or you should STFU, I suspect your UID is too low to say anything; a big part of my scepticism comes from knowing how computers actually work. GCMs grid the Earth into 3X3 which means there are 14,400 cells that the models have to interate over; the errors due to even converting from fixed point to floating point numerical representation will steadily spiral into chaos under those conditions. Please refer to "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow" by Edward Norton Lorenz

    Two states differing by imperceptible amounts may eventually evolve into two considerably different states ... If, then, there is any error whatever in observing the present state—and in any real system such errors seem inevitable—an acceptable prediction of an instantaneous state in the distant future may well be impossible....In view of the inevitable inaccuracy and incompleteness of weather observations, precise very-long-range forecasting would seem to be nonexistent.

  3. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Considering the way he and Al Gore were savaged for blatant scientific fraud over at WUTWT in Al Gore and Bill Nye FAIL at doing a simple CO2 experiment, his opinion doesn't carry much weigjht. If somebody is going to tell us we are scientifically illiterate, at least find somebody with more chops than Science Fair Baking Soda Vulcanoes.

  4. Re:disclosure on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1

    Of course the $70 Billion spent by the USG from2008-2012 on research to almost exclusively warmist scientists didn't effect the outcomes.

  5. Re:Aspergers, LOL on Autism: Are Social Skills Groups and Social Communication Therapy Worthwhile? · · Score: 1

    Some people are just so inhertently hostile toward toward autistic spectrumites, I've often wondered if it wasn't due to some psycological pathology, perhaps like xenophobia. Another possibility is that the displayed social rigidity is a symptom of autistic spectrum conditions, that it's more like the homophobic gay people.

  6. Re: Aspergers, LOL on Autism: Are Social Skills Groups and Social Communication Therapy Worthwhile? · · Score: 1

    It probably doesn't help that this child is enrolled at a private school, too. While those who earned their own wealth can sometimes be reasonable people, those who got it handed to them by their parents are almost always entitled little shits who see themselves as far more important than they really are. Get a bunch of them together in a clsssroom, and of course there will be snobbery and social disfunction. That's just what happens when there are too many roosters trying to rule a small roost.

    Don't worry, the second generation usually does OK, the third generation usually either loses it all, or is consumed with liberal guilt and gives it away.

  7. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    I have no issue with vaccines. I have an issue with government usurping the power to decide what medical treatment I will undergo.

    I would submit that few children in daycare have the faculties to make a competent informed consent or refusal of medical treatment. Furthermore the rights of people to refuse treatment is a separate issue from people's rights to be protected from public danger.

  8. "If the data being used against your arguments is so faulty, let it be put out there and publish your paper proving their conclusions wrong. "
    We'd all love the AGW-deniers to do exactly that. They don't. Instead they libel--as proven in a court of law.

    See there it is, the warmest say they don't libel, but they go full-monkey mode flinging the poo of the thinly veiled Holocaust Denier Ad Hominen, in the first sentence.

  9. hurricanes will become more frequent, really when?

  10. How quick they say "Citations please. " then the silence is deafening when you do.

  11. Re:Not 5 vaccines, 7-11 on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    So you only sip the kool-aid then?

  12. Re:What are Autism rates in Mississippi on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    Less, but this is most likely due to lower diagnosis tate of the existing autistic population, as vacinations have no effect on autism rates

  13. Re:Children are not property. on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I guess the only question is, how far do you take it when determining that somebody is harming their children. I definitely think that everybody except the tiny percentage of individuals who have a medical condition should be vaccinated against things like measles. But I'm not so sure about things like chicken pox or the flu vaccine.

    If your child is stricken with a disease that has high potential of death, significant injury, loss of function or disfigurement or the same to others, and that disease is preventable through vacination, and you failed to provide that vacination that would meet the standard of harming their children or endangering the public in my mind.

    As far as flu, people die from that, my Mother was hospitalized just last month for the flu, while my Dad was in the ICU after arresting while being treat for pneumonia that was as likely as not to have been triggered by having the flu. My Dad never came out of the hospital and was on a respirator for 6 weeks; Mom back in the Hospital because she never regained enough strength and is now refusing treatment so she'll pass away soon too.

    My attitude right now is to tell the antivaxers to STFU and get the Kids their shots, if your kid goes deaf because of a fever due to having measles, I'd throw your ass in prison.

  14. Re:Why the fuck is there a video on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 0

    Her sex-appeal is the only thing that made watching that interview bearable! If I were the interviewer, I'd leave that one off my CV.

  15. Re:Biofuel Refinery Process not so pretty on Lowering the Cost of Biofuel Production · · Score: 1

    Biodiesel is relatively easy to make, evey thing you would need to know can be found here. The stuff is actually a handy non-toxic cleaner-degreaser. I'm surprised that somebody just dumped the glycerin, it's valuable in it's own right, it makes a very desirable soap, and can be used in foods and cosmetic, or even as a fuel.

  16. Re:LPG FTW on Lowering the Cost of Biofuel Production · · Score: 1

    LPG is primarily Methane, so you can feed things like cow manure into a digester and compress the resulting mathane into a liquid. Many impoverished places use methane digesters such as the Gobar Gas digesters in Nepal.

  17. Re:The switch could make things worst on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    decades ago we had the domain poiuyt.com, I was always amazed at how many people would register at different websites as poiuyt@poiuyt.com and have a password of qwerty! We should have kept the domain just for the pre-paid porn.

  18. Re:The switch could make things worst on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, anytime Gmail sees Bank of America it sent straight to the spam bin! But seriously, my wife has never and will never conduct a credit card transaction over the phone or internet, yet her cards have been fraudulently used 3 times. She also has another woman who lives near by with the same first and last name and same middle initial, her driver's licience and Social Security numbers are only one digit different, we found that out while trying to clear a miss-applied tax lien on our property, I suspect we paid a few of her medical bills as well. The grocery store decline our check thinking one of her bounced checks was from us as well.

  19. Re: Not a laywer. on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, I don't know of any current standard for e-mail encryption that is widely supported. No idea on how to create a key - let alone how to securely and easily exchange keys with random recipients (like a client who calls me asking me to send them some information by e-mail).

    The beauty of Public Key Encryption is the public key tells the encryption software how to encrypt the measage in a way that only the owner of the public key can decrypt. To decrypt you need the private key which you should keep as a private personal secret. You can publish the public key anywhere, and exchange it any way you see fit. Slashdot either does or did at one time, an area where users can publish their public keys.

    Sounds to me like your getting PKE, Public Key Encryption, confused with Kerberos an encrypted authetication protocol.

  20. Re:As usual on Syrian Social Hack Co-Opts Fighter's Computers · · Score: 1

    You say that like you don't realise these extremist consider modern western culture to be the enemy.

  21. Re:Genesis on Syrian Social Hack Co-Opts Fighter's Computers · · Score: 1

    I always suspected the same thing.

  22. Re:Most americans don't understand on Most Americans Support Government Action On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    http://www.scientificamerican....

    Don't be dumb.

    Don't be a tool,

    ... last year "was not even close to be[ing] the warmest on record" according to data compiled by the two top satellite climate data sets: the Remote Sensing System (RSS) satellite data, which measure the lowest few miles of the earth's atmosphere, and data compiled by the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH).
    ast year "was third-warmest, but barely," said UAH climate scientists Roy Spencer and John Christy.

    The year 2014 "was warm, but not special. The 0.01 degree Celsius difference between 2014 and 2005, or the 0.02 difference with 2013 are not statistically different from zero," Christy said.

    Christy said that between 2002 and 2014, temperatures have warmed at a "statistically insignificant" rate of 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade.
    RSS and UAH satellite data show there has been no global warming for more than 18 years. This period, which began in October 1996 and lasted for all of 2014, is referred to as "the Great Pause. Satellite Data: 2014 'Not Even Close' to Warmest Year

    If you don't like satellite data,

    The HadCRUT4 dataset (compiled by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit) shows last year was 0.56C (±0.1C*) above the long-term (1961-1990) average.

    Nominally this ranks 2014 as the joint warmest year in the record, tied with 2010, but the uncertainty ranges mean it's not possible to definitively say which of several recent years was the warmest. 26 January 2015 - Provisional full-year global mean temperature figures show 2014 was one of the warmest years in a record dating back to 1850

    and as far as the 18 years without warming,

    [T]he rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012) [is] 0.05 [–0.05 to +0.15] C per decade)which is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012) [of] 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] C per decade.
    IPCC AR5 weakens the case for AGW

    even the IPCC AR5 agrees.

  23. Re:Translation on Most Americans Support Government Action On Climate Change · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Most americans don't understand on Most Americans Support Government Action On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    There hasn't been any warming for 18 years, so the magical free market solution is a done deal.

  25. Re:So what? on Most Americans Support Government Action On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Sea Salt might not be.