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  1. citation needed.

    the actual source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... which is from 2001, written by a statistician not an economist.

  2. Re:Did Diamond Lil fart in the nunnery? on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 2

    it's warmer during the daytime than it is at night.

    You're welcome.

  3. Re:Did a paid shill write this summary? on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 1

    baseless assumption followed by a logical fallacy, congratulations you win the internets.

  4. uh, what?

    What has my sig to do with economics?

    The shitbag in the article committed a crime. He should be punished.

  5. Re:Did Diamond Lil fart in the nunnery? on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 0

    the claims of temperature increasing to "highest levels on record" are not accurate. They only count records from 1976. Before that, their graphs show a flat line. Climate records from the unredacted data show an entirely different picture. We're on the rising edge of a cycle of temperature swings. The rising side of a long, 800 year cycle on top of a shorter and shallower 220-year cycle, which does not reflect the mainstream view that temperature records describe a fucking hockey stick. Ergo the two main cycles are ignored and the difference just happens to support the delusion that since 1976 temperatures have risen a degree whereas before this time, human influence on climate was negligible. Someone clearly forgot about the little hiccup called the Industrial Revolution and that annoying white blob called the Sun which itself exhibits wild temperature variations of upwards of +/-1500C at the photosphere?

  6. Re:Insult to injury... on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 1, Redundant

    there's a "yo mama" in there somewhere.

    "Yo mama so dumb, she failed a pregnancy test!"

  7. Re:Hahah on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He did the crime (actually several), he must do the time.

    If he wants to play big boy games then he must accept big boy penalties. Fuck your PC "Oh but he's a kid with his whole life ahead of him!" bullshit, he's chosen his path, let him reap the consequences.

  8. Re:Did a paid shill write this summary? on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 1

    Funnily enough, Darwin followed the scientific process when he went to the Galapagos and attempted to DISPROVE his own theory. What he found there REINFORCED IT. THAT is how science of discovery is done!

  9. Re:Popular support on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 2

    five words: The Six Million Dollar Man. Made to try to boost NASA's image of a room full of fearless heroes after the cancellation of Apollo three missions early due to lack of public attention.

    Maybe NASA needs more fictional heroes like Steve Austin. I expect hardly anybody remembers these names any more, I remember every one of them, because I cried for a week when Challenger exploded; by the time Columbia went up in 2003 I was no longer 10 years old and I had come to accept that spaceflight was a dangerous job with risks:

    Challenger STS-51-L: Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Michael J. Smith, Francis "Dick" Scobee, Ronald McNair.

    Columbia STS-107: Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, Laurel B. Clark, Ilan Ramon

    Take your Rambos and John Connors and stick them up your arse. We need heroes like these.

  10. Re:Atmosphere study is in NASA's fucking 1958 char on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 0

    next you'll be claiming that this planet can only support a human population of between fifty and ninety million.

    OK, you and your family into the shower first. Wilkommen am viertel Reich.

  11. Re:Decadal cadence on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 0

    it's an obscenely pretentious way of saying ten year plan.

  12. Google the acronym on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 0

    National
    Aeronautics and
    Space
    Administration.

    Seriously, who the fuck edited this?

  13. oh jeez. on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    Hindenberg was full of flammable hydrogen. Helium is not flammable. No crewed or uncrewed airship in service today uses hydrogen for buoyancy - FAA regulations prohibit it.

    884283: a 747-400 cruises at just shy of Mach 1 (actually 0.855, or 920km/h/570mph) at 35,000 feet (10700m). LTOL (Laden Takeoff/Landing) speed is 250kt. That's shy of 290mph. 80kt=92mph. Not legal anywhere really apart from the German Autobahn and certified race tracks (most places in the US are limited to 55mph and the UK has a (laughable) limit if 70. I say laughable because it's less a limit, more a goal - most roads you'll be lucky if you hit 40).

  14. Re:State-funded Businesses on BBC Returns To Making Computers For Schools · · Score: 1

    I won't argue with you not because you are wrong (which you are and I have succinctly explained why you are wrong), I won't argue with you because you're an idiot.

  15. Re:State-funded Businesses on BBC Returns To Making Computers For Schools · · Score: 1

    what the fuck are you on about? ITV and the Sky channels are ALL commercial channels funded SOLELY BY ADVERTISING. THEY RECEIVE NOT ONE SOLITARY PENNY FROM THE BBC LICENCE FEE.

  16. Re:speech recognition on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 1

    ...said by someone who has clearly never used a Nuance product.

    (dictated using DNS 10)

  17. Re:State-funded Businesses on BBC Returns To Making Computers For Schools · · Score: 1

    because all the content on iplayer is fee funded, as is all the content on youview and on the red button. The infrastructure is maintained by BBC Worldwide.

  18. Re:speech recognition on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 1

    try as I might, I can't browse using just voice commands on a vanilla W7 Home install.

    Any tips?

  19. Re:Is this anything to do with the Garner case? on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    oh and it wasn't two cops, it was no less than seven.

  20. Re:Is this anything to do with the Garner case? on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    this was a few days ago, reported on RT: she and a friend were encountered by a police officer who began by harassing her friend, she asked what was going on, the police officer recognised her and called in "backup".

  21. Re:Not discontinued? on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 1

    their marble mouse is still a huge seller, I have several. Will never go back to a wheel mouse.

  22. Re:Some suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 1

    This. Also, there is software for the Kinect to allow UI control via gestures with the device.

  23. speech recognition on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 1

    is hte first and most ovbious answer that springs to mind. Not to plug or anything, but Nuance leads the pack with Dragon Naturally Speaking. Version 10 is the best so far (yep, even better than v13), it has a very easy interface and it learns rapidly. http://www.nuance.com/dragon/i...

  24. Re:Surprise level: 0 on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    nice try, but that's a special page under the category reserved for style guides &c.

  25. Re:Ok, let me get this straight: on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    timestamps will verify.