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  1. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    And we just had a big pause from 1998 to 2015

    Nope

  2. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's astounding to me how short sighted climate alarmists are. The only people who should be concerned about warming is land developers in Russia and Canada. There's a whole lot of Earth's surface which is about to become prime real estate for agriculture and growth.

    I'm astounded how generous you far sighted climate "laissez-faire"-ists are - because obviously you must be willing to pay for the means to let every single human on this planet (and of course outside of it) to "survive in the vacuum of space, underwater aboard submarines, as well as in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth". But please pay your dues before you turn Earth into a vacuum under-water inhospitable world.

  3. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years"

    Ok, and there were glaciers down to what like Ohio less than 10,000 years ago. Pretty sure humans had nothing to do with the warming of the last 9900 years, where is the evidence that we affected the last 100 years of warming? (Hint: CO2 levels are flat if you don't cherry pick the historical data).

    Hint, no they are not

    That, at least, is the story told by a new paper published in Nature on April 5 that reconstructs the end of the last ice age. Researchers examined sediment cores collected from deep beneath the sea and from lakes as well as the tiny bubbles of ancient air trapped inside ice cores taken from Antarctica, Greenland and elsewhere. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) The research suggests that—contrary to some prior findings—CO2 led the prior round of global warming rather than vice versa, just as it continues to do today thanks to rising emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

    "We find that global temperature lags a bit behind the CO2 [levels]," explains paleoclimatologist Jeremy Shakun, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fellow at Harvard and Columbia universities, who led the research charting ancient CO2 concentrations and global temperatures. "CO2 was the big driver of global warming at the end of the Ice Age."

    IOW (non-anthropogenic) CO2 played a major role in the end of the last Ice Age, but in the 10,00 years before your cherry picked 10,000 years-ago starting date for that end.

  4. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    So prove that the current warming is natural.

    Because the earth has been hotter than now prior to the industrial age.

    QED

    Try telling a judge that you can't possible have committed this crime because such crimes have been committed long before you were born.

  5. Re:Comparison on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    First, ALL OF THOSE HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF HILLARY

    Really? When? I mean they reported on potential investigations of Hillary! but then went to GREAT lengths it assure us it was a big nothingburger and simply evil GOP tactics.

    Errrm, considering even Donald "Lock her up!" Trump didn't do anything about her "terrible crimes", that's exactly what it must have been, don't you agree with the obvious?

  6. Re:Seattle - Boeing on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Old aircraft are often retrofitted to make use of newer technology, saving a lot of budget vs. creating an entirely new aircraft. I've seen testing periods that lasted weeks.

    So your claim is that Boeing either borrowed or stole the plane from the USAF to re-engineer the changes the USAF mad to it? Okay.

  7. Re:Seattle - Boeing on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Boeing, a Major US Aerospace contractor has a Big Factory and other research facilities in Seattle?

    Perhaps this training excersice over this particular city has something to do with something the guys in the Lab what to measure first hand? As in Reverse-Engineer-hand?

    Because the CASA CN-235-300 is a joint development of Spain (CASA) and Indonesia (IPTN)

    Just saying...

    Errhumh. So why would Boeing now want to test reverse engineer a plane that first flew over 30 years ago? Especially when the USAF bought that particular plane used from a private US air cargo carrier before the turn of the century?

  8. Re:Messages from your (fake) leaders: on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everything a liar says is a lie - but everything he says is intended to deceive you, even if it is technically the truth. And that's what RT's job is.

  9. Didn't anybody spot the real mystery? on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1
    The plane flew 3 times from Boeing Field to Renton Muni. on Juky 24th and 25th, without flying back in between.

    Anyway, according to this https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-air-forces-most-secretive-squadron-c6bacc520562

    Arguably the most secretive flying squadron in the whole U.S. Air Force owns a bunch of small Cessnas and medium-size transports that look pretty much exactly like civilian aircraft.

    But the 427th Special Operations Squadron’s mission is anything but mundane.

    ...

    The CN235, for one, “is believed to be used to insert [Special Forces] personnel at small airfields for covert counter-insurgency operations,” according to the Spyflight forum.

    So don't worry guys, they aren't spying on you, they just want to deploy Special Forces in your neighborhood.

  10. Sounds to me like this will have issues similar to the just discontinued iPod Nano. I just got one, and it has barely 6 apps, and nothing else can be installed on it. To transfer songs or data, one has to connect it to a PC or Mac via iTunes. This watch will probably have similar constraints,

    You are drawing a lot of conclusions about this rumored new watch from a product that has changed little in the 12 years since its introduction(*), and completely ignored the existing product it would be based on.

    IOW you are full of shit - so nothing new from you since you were introduced.

    (*) And why would you change a product that is so good that a moronic Apple hater just got one for himself

  11. "A project that was once expected to showcase advanced nuclear technology but has since been plagued by delays and cost overruns." - so it did showcase advanced nuclear technology as being plagued by delays and cost overruns.

  12. Re:I'm a paid Apple developer, and... on Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft provided security updates for XP without any other strings attached for well over a decade.

    The only reason they did for so long was because the successor for XP was almost a decade late and then didn't sell.

  13. Re: old news...iPhone ownership on Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    My mobile phone is a Moto G. It's a cheap piece of crap that I bought 3 years ago when Motorola was owned by Google and was expecting to get long-term support. Google sold Motorola shortly after. It got major updates for about a year and then security patches (often months after the vulnerability was publicly disclosed) for about another year. That sounds a lot worse than the Apple option, but there's a big difference: I can go over to LineageOS and get a version of Android that's based on the latest version.

    Lucky you don't have a Moto Maxx (only unofficial support for over 6 months now) or even a Moto M ("Boot it at your own risk as flashing Lineage OS for Motorola Moto M is not safe" . "we strongly recommend not to install Lineage OS for Motorola Moto M")

  14. Re:old news...iPhone ownership on Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    HAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAA!!! The vast majority of iPhone owners are going to see an OS update notification and conditioned as they are by Apple they will ssume that it is in their interest to upgrade, if not mandatory. .

    Yeah, one less problem Android users will never have!!! Hahahah. When is your next stand-up gig?

  15. Re:old news...iPhone ownership on Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    yeah what is wrong with people not replacing perfectly functional devices every couple of years for marginal improvements?

    If they are perfectly functional devices - why would they need the new OS to stay that way? Why not just keep them like they are - first-world problem solved.

    But that would get in the way of your little Anti-Apple rant.

  16. Re: Obviously, on Apple Sued By State Farm Over Alleged iPhone Fire (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The joke has lasting power by how ludicrous it was.

    Yeah, The joke was ludicrous . What he said made total sense. Just look at the forced way you had to hold the phone to get a tiny drop in reception, the people all had white knuckles from the strain of holding it "just right". And the best was when various people showed other phones had similar issues, the defence from manufacturers and Apple haters was that "nobody would hold a phone that way". Which was completely different!

  17. Re:Discontinued in Sep 2013. on Apple Sued By State Farm Over Alleged iPhone Fire (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Be fair - we were all over Samsung long before it was clear what the problem was.

    Could that have had anything to do with the fact that there were dozens of cases with brand new devices? No? Compared to one 2 year old phone that actually was bought after it was discontinued 3 years after introduction? One of a model that actually sold more in the first weekend than Note 7s were sold before it was discontinued? Yeah, be fair: Apple should recall the iPhone 4s too, because that's obviously an equivalent problem.

  18. Re:I feel a disturbance in the time vortex. on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For the female demographic, they wanted to travel with a sexy, powerful man who takes them on dangerous adventures. Look how many fangirls fawn over David Teninch and Matt Smith's portrayal of the Doctor.

    I don't think the female demographic was looking to be the Doctor.

    They'll be perfectly happy with fawning over the hansom male companion who will not have a sexual relation with the female Doctor.

  19. Re:I feel a disturbance in the time vortex. on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Young Turks, as in the young men responsible for the Armenian Genocide, is the inspiration for TYT, a very popular Social Justice Warrior channel on youtube.

    The irony is lost on them.

    Are you sure it wasn't the bunch of Republican US Senators from the 1920s called The Young Turks that are their inspiration? I mean, back then the Democrats all were in the KKK (or so we are constantly being told), and the Republicans were the progressives - and more so the Young Turks.

  20. Re:I feel a disturbance in the time vortex. on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in butthurt and were suddenly silenced.

    That would be nice - but they just can't keep their mouths shut, and keep on talking how stuff hurts their feeling and shit. Damn Pussy, those MRAs.

  21. Re:Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well they seem to be also repainting the police box color to pink, so what do you think will happen?

    Next thing it won't be larger on the inside than outside - no more claims of "but it's 12 inches inside".

  22. Obvious Name on Amazon May Unveil Its Own Messaging App (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    FireChat

    Prediction: it will go down in flames.

  23. Re:Lesson Learned on Luxury Phone-maker Vertu Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Lesson Learned: Gold plated commodity things are still just commodity things.

    Actual lesson learned: gold plated phones sell great until you switch over from Nokia to Android.

  24. Re:Of course, the utility is limited when... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You must just miss a few...I'm pretty sure jokes like 'I'm still grounded for trying to exterminate the jews last week' are verboten. Also the one where Cartman dressed as Hitler for Halloween, so they show him 3rd reich movies and he starts 'seig heiling' the screen.

    Bullshit. Here's the episode where the people at Cartman's rally wonder in German what that Arameic term "where mussen deyuden ausrodden" means (15 minutes in).

  25. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Corvette = primitive fibreglass shit

    And that's what is good about it, its barn-door simplicity. Big V8 at the front, manual transmission in the middle and power out the back. Very little to go wrong.

    Figures you did neither include steering nor brakes in that equation.