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  1. Re:Dec 27, 1978 -13.6 C +7.5 F on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    Now look at more than those 40 years and notice the trend. I noticed a dip in outgoing emails during 1AM-5AM last night (because I was asleep and not sending them), but I would not point to that small period of time to indicate "it's bullshit that Clint's sending more emails out than he did 10 years ago". I am, in fact, sending out a shitload of emails. About 600 a month.

  2. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, that's not the problem. Ideas aren't worth much. Jack London sold plots for $5. It's not the ideas, it's the implementations.

  3. Re:Well, on TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. Revolution is an extension of evolution.

  4. Re:Dec 27, 1978 -13.6 C +7.5 F on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1
    Sorry, textbooks are not written by scientists doing research. In fact, all of america's textbooks are written in conservative Texas -- there's been many articles about the inaccuracies they put into things. Simply put, when one wants to learn about a topic, one goes to a proper scientific text, not a schoolbook. Nor do your anecdotal memories of what you think were in a textbook when you were a child stand scrutiny, as confirmation bias causes people to purposely forget things that challenge their worldview, and only remember things that support it. I don't trust my belief on the world based on your anecdotal memory.

    try this and this and most especially this one which talks about the specific numbers of articles.

    Science always has conflicting results, it is the consensus that is more important, and it's quite obvious to me what it was then, and what it is now. The same damn thing.

  5. Re:Dec 27, 1978 -13.6 C +7.5 F on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 0

    Your second sentence - I am unable to parse it.

  6. Re:Dec 27, 1978 -13.6 C +7.5 F on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually in the 1970s there was not a big discussion about global cooling. It was something a couple journalists sensationally mentioned in a couple articles. Not scientists. Look it up on snopes.

  7. Re:Simple To Take Down IF Desired on More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network · · Score: 1

    Seeing as it's easier, cheaper, and uses less energy & resources to buy a transceiver and set it on a mountaintop than to fly a sigint plane and follow-up helicopter: Congratulations. You've found a way to futily waste taxpayer money. It certainly is going to cost more to rid that stuff than to deploy it. I've got an idea: Maybe they should declare a war on drugs!

  8. Re:1% of all nuke plants have melted down now. on Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident · · Score: 1

    One must also consider the variable of how many people are affected per failure to model the situation more accurately.

  9. Re:1% of all nuke plants have melted down now. on Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident · · Score: 1

    is that really a strawman?

  10. Re:Crazy vs. Evil on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 1
    Great strawman fallacy there with your 2nd sentence: Pretend I said I need a label to tell me that I am buying corn, then attack that, because you don't have an actual logical retort to the fact that customers have a right to know what they are buying.

    Freedom isn't about everybody doing things the way YOU agree, it is about letting people make their OWN decisions. Even ones you don't find popular (like joining the KKK, for example).

  11. Re:Crazy vs. Evil on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    uh.. the purpose of honestly and transparency and having a right to know what you are buying. It's not your decision to make for somebody else.

  12. Re:Define "Survive" in this context on Exoplanets Spotted Orbiting Dead Star · · Score: 1

    So will my grave still exist on whats left on a scorched rock -- or not? You seem to want to have it both ways. Seems like you switched specifically to disagree with me. I used this to illustrate to "having it both ways" to my wife, who uses this tactic all too often ;)

  13. Re:Define "Survive" in this context on Exoplanets Spotted Orbiting Dead Star · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you are an interstellar archaeologist, it definitely is better!

  14. Re:Why do scientists make these statements? on Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes · · Score: 1

    You find it hard to believe on what specific scientific basis?

  15. Re:Legalize it. on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 2
    You're an asshole worthy enough for me to un-mod all the comments I modded here just to post some links proving what a fucking asshole you are.

    sold by her mother? Oh wait, it's just FUD, she was really a child whore.

    But you know what? One link in, I find you too vile to care what you think enough to look for another link. Open google and open your fucking eyes, jackass. Really.

  16. are you suuuuure? on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 2
    You sure about that?

    Lasers are pretty dangerous. Look at what happens with lasers not even designed to blind people: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2403814/Russian-concert-laser-show-blinds-30.html. Now you're going to trust something stronger in the hands of police and government? I got a bridge to sell you...

  17. Re:Yeah, and I want to clone Brittany Murphy on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 2

    it's hard to clone corpses

  18. Re:We're in a sad state when... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 1

    I repeat (pasting the very comment you replied to -- did you read it?) -- "Up front? Hmm, well. Okay then. You convinced me."

  19. Re:We're in a sad state when... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 1

    A lot of people don't make decisions like you, i.e. logical. "I'm gonna die and a hospital is my #1 chance to not die". I remember when I finally went to an ER first time in my life at age 35 at behest of everyone else BUT me. All I could think of was the wasted $100 co pay, and it WAS a waste! I should have ignored them all. (Blood clot? Nope. Just effects of wearing a night boot.)

  20. Re:We're in a sad state when... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 1

    In this case -- They didn't actually ask for insurance until after the services were rendered.

  21. Re:We're in a sad state when... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 1

    And the urgent care center that I go to doesn't even ask for a copay until weeks after you've gone. So you'd get a minimum level of care (actually quicker and better than the hospital in my experience), but obviously you couldn't get something like surgery. So you see, not having insurance doesn't make a difference in the situation. (Unless an urgent care center isn't nearby, or there are ones that operate differently than the ones I've gone to.)

  22. Re:World's simplest? on Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    I'm putting the brakes on apple's jailing! lol

  23. Re:We're in a sad state when... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 1

    Look who's response is out-of-touch fuckwit: You just admitted that it's cheaper. So why would someone without insurance go to the more expensive hospital? They're going to go to one or the other regardless of price if it's truly necessary (i.e. will go into debt). So far your argument actually reinforces my "fuckwit" point by saying urgent care is a cheaper choice, which was exactly my point: Why not go to urgent care instead of a hospital? Your response is they can't afford either. Last I checked, people who can't afford treatment still seek it out. I used to review medical records of the uninsured. You stay at a hospital after a fistfight? $100,000. So again: Why was my suggestion that an urgent care clinic is a better choice than a hospital an "out-of-touch fuckwit response"? I mean, did you think that I don't know there are people who don't have insurance, or that I don't know they can't afford either? Or does it just make you feel better to pretend that anyone who submits an argument that goes over your head is out of touch and not in the know, so that you can strawman-attack a persona completely of your own invention?

  24. Re:World's simplest? on Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak · · Score: 1
    No. You did not read my comment. It's not just magically that easy. There are several different jailbrakes, and certain ones are only valid for certain versions of the phone. A cursory google gets you to a lot of help sites that redirect you to bullshit like megaupload to download a rar, where you fill a captcha and wait 30 seconds only to find out your time was wasted.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=jailbrake+iphone+++++++

    Hell -- even the first result there talks about how you may have to use one type of jailbrake while looking for the one you actually want. And look at all that link spam. Many different "solutions" making themselves available. Kind of like antivirus programs :)

  25. Re:We're in a sad state when... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 0

    Up front? Hmm, well. Okay then. You convinced me.