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  1. Re:Correlation is not causation, FFS. on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I'm saying you missed the forest for the trees. You may be right about the number being inflated, but it doesn't change the overall trend.

  2. Re:Correlation is not causation, FFS. on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 2

    it's pretty obvious you're throwing around statistics that you can't have read anything about.

    then you go and throw out statistics that you clearly haven't read into. Although, you're right, most papers take no position, but the ones that endorse it versus the ones that don't is a ratio of 30:1, which should write a clear enough message.

  3. Re:Snowden beware on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA · · Score: 1

    So you're saying you agree with striking syria?

  4. Re:Cool on Inside the 2013 US Intelligence "Black Budget" · · Score: 4, Informative

    World War 3 is what is being staged here. Russia has already sent a fleet to the area. Both Russia and China have warned the US not to strike Syria.

    That was not said at all. They cautioned about leaping to conclusions about the nature of the attack and should let the weapons inspectors finish their investigation. They said, literally, "Military strikes could have catastrophic consequences for the entire region." No one said anything about war, except Iran, who no one cares about. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23845800

  5. Re:Vanity on The Big Hangup At Burning Man Is Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I went for a week once and bought nothing the entire time I was there. Whats cute is that I can tell you're talking through your ass

  6. Re:Vanity on The Big Hangup At Burning Man Is Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    There is no money at burning man, so ideally you get it for free. Usually you have to do something for it though.

  7. Re:Time to move data centers on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 1

    But it was the government's data, Snowden stole it and gave it to the guardian. It was not the guardian's to begin with.

  8. Re:Boil your water on How the UN Might Have Inadvertently Started a Cholera Epidemic In Haiti · · Score: 2

    Believe it or nor, digging a gigantic hole in the ground is really hard and expensive in a poor country, not to mention lining it with rich man's plastic. You act like the people in these countries aren't poor and can just hop down to the corner store to rent a backhoe or even a shovel. Cause we only charge for shit in america, right?

  9. Re:United Nations jeopardizes its ... moral author on How the UN Might Have Inadvertently Started a Cholera Epidemic In Haiti · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could quote that thing. Cause I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_law and it says nothing even remotely like that.

  10. Re:nowadays on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    one will break your legs to repay a debt. One will just make you a little poorer.

  11. Re:Should have used host files on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    just fyi, its beetlejuice in the comic, but the star is name betelgeuse

  12. Re:Is it really a robot? on Sarah Thee Campagna Makes Robot Sculptures (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually they're not even dolls, since they're bolted to plates. They're sculptures that look like robots. One might even go as far as saying they're not even that - since these sculptures fulfill no purpose or explain nothing insofar as they are aesthetic. Their back stories are not relevant or discernible from their form. They're just pretty, if that.

  13. Re:Ruin the US wheat crop, get a prize! on Monsanto Executive Wins World Food Prize · · Score: 1

    conversely, why do you post as an AC, but chide others on post histories?

  14. Re:NSA spied more than China ? on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    No, they issued it for Verizon. You seem to think you own your own metadata. You don't. Verizon does. It is Verizon's information. All they needed was one warrant.

  15. Re:NSA spied more than China ? on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    I believe they were. The metadata here is what they wanted, metadata that is generated automatically. Therefore the data isn't yours or mine, its Verizon's. All they needed was a court order saying that that metadata was necessary for the ongoing investigation into acts of terrorism, and bam, you have probable cause. Its not a fishing expedition, because they are asking for a specific item from Verizon. The only part that worries me about this is how they'be gamed the system to get authorization to do it. But I believe their actions are legal.

  16. Re:NSA spied more than China ? on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    They had a warrant to search and seize. That's what made it legal.

  17. Re:Dumb, Dumber and now what? on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    another reason movie theaters lose to piracy.

  18. Re:Dumb, Dumber and now what? on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    how is talking on a cell phone any different from talking to the guy next to you while the movie is running? You can always leave if you don't like it. No one is forcing you to stay with us plebs.

  19. Re:Tech solution for a social problem on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    tbh I don't give a fuck about people texting in movies anymore.

  20. Re:Tech solution for a social problem on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    There's no way you can make a car that will stop someone from tapping on their ipad, or putting on their makeup.

    faraday cage built into the frame of the car. Simple.

  21. Re:define "serious" on UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    how is that any different from whats happening right now? At least this way the studios get the benefit of first release WITH ads. Offer the show as a download for a dollar. Its the age of microtransactions, they need to get with the times.

  22. Re:define "serious" on UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know why they don't just release the shows themselves over a tracker and have the ads spliced into the shows. Just like normal TV. They can put some superseeders behind it on 100mbits and everyone gets what they want. Its the fact that they're still clinging to traditional media that's killing them. Its like they don't even realize there is a cheaper, better way.

  23. Re:News For Nerds on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 1

    Because nerds like politics too?

  24. Re:Postapocoliptic Nightmare on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1
    that is not what roundup ready does. Roundup ready crops don't tolerate higher dosages, they don't process the glyphosate at all. In effect, they eat it but they don't use it, so they just discard it as waste. This allows for lower dosages of herbicide.

    I read wikipedia for an hour to make sure I got that right.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPSP_synthase#Herbicides

  25. Re:WHOOOOOSH on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    its a good thing you didn't patent your phrase cause its cross pollinating forums now.