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  1. Glad to help. on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    The effects on true believers whose religion has been shown to be false are so sad. You should have picked one of the traditional religions, which admit they are based on faith.

    Anyway, all you have asked for has already been done and made available online many days ago.

    http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/11/20/climate-cuttings-33.html

    I understand the NYT has been silent about the contents of these stolen and leaked emails, presumably because these emails did not endanger national security.

    To cheer you up I leave you with this happy video.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk

  2. Oh those double standards. on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everyone knows you can only do tasteless jokes about a black woman or man when they are a conservative.

    Remember Condoleezza Rice?

    http://images.google.com/images?gbv=1&sa=1&q=condoleezza+rice+monkey&btnG=Search+images

    Remember Michael Steele?

    http://images.google.com/images?gbv=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=1&q=michael+steele+blackface&btnG=Search+images

  3. Re:The hack on New Research Forecasts Global 6C Increase By End of Century · · Score: 4, Informative

    # Michael Mann discusses how to destroy a journal that has published sceptic papers.(1047388489)

    # Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709). Analysis of impact here. Wow!

    # Phil Jones describes the death of sceptic, John Daly, as "cheering news".(1075403821)

    # Phil Jones encourages colleagues to delete information subject to FoI request.(1212063122)

    from here:

    http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/11/20/climate-cuttings-33.html

  4. Re:Zero Emissions are worse?? on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Not so fast.. on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    While we Americans were sitting on our rears eating bon-bons

    Self loathing and ignorant. How sweet.

    Stalin just loved killing. Soviet or National Socialist, Stalin was happy to have either dead. Praising the Soviet body count without looking where it came from suggests you value quantity over quality, and you don't even care where the quantity comes from or why.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_military_unit

  6. Wrong on the statistics, wrong on the facts on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 2, Informative

    What utter bullshit. A moments Google search for total crimes per capita would have shown you that from worst to best, the rank is:

    1 Dominica
    2 New Zealand
    3 Finland
    4 Denmark
    5 Chile
    6 United Kingdom
    7 Montserrat
    8 United States

    http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-total-crimes-per-capita

    Furthermore, people don't steal because they are poor. They steal because they are sociopaths. Bernie Madoff was not short of cash for a box of donuts and a six-pack. He was not poor or downtrodden or starving.

    There are plenty of poor people who never steal, and plenty of rich people that do.

    Reproducing the numerical values in the table counts as "junk characters". A tech website that counts numbers as junk. Go figure.

  7. Re:Your payperz, plezz on Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early · · Score: 1

    Back when you were young, the USSR requiered citizens to get permission to MOVE to a different place. All housing and employment was controlled by the State. Citizens who cause trouble (like printing samizdat) ended up working in uranium mines in Siberia or were killed in phsychiatric hospitals. Protests were met by machine gun fire. Citizens were not allowed to leave the country.

    I know it's fashionable to get your panties in a damp twist over any security measure in the USA, but you trivialize the real, stone cold horror of life under Soviet communism. You and your parents are obviously pampered westerners, or you would never think to make the comparison.

  8. Re:Not only that on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 1

    That engine does not have valve seats, because it has cast iron heads. So the issue will be that the cast iron in valve seat area will erode. Also, electronic ignition became standard on that car in 1972, so your 1971 example might have it. Nice try otherwise, though. And of course vacuum based cruise control was available long before 1972.

  9. Re:Thou shalt not kill? except.... on Churches Use Halo To Spread the Word, Raise Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    Dissing Christians in 2007. How.. Brave. Bravo.. golf clap. Claiming you will be modded down for dissing Christians: ROFLMAO. Hating Christians and Republicans is a sure way to a +5 around here.

    Try dissing some muslims. Try selling the equivalent of the Baby Jesus Butt Plug, but call it Anal Allah. Put a bobble head Allah doll on your dashboard. Have a public screening of the film Submission. You wont, of course, because you KNOW muslims will try to kill you for doing these things. Much safer to taunt Christians from the safety of your mom's basement. ./begin plagarize

    For your education, the Crusades were a series of military campaigns during the time of Medieval England against the Muslims of the Middle East. In 1076, the Muslims had captured Jerusalem - the most holy of holy places for Christians. Jesus had been born in nearby Bethlehem and Jesus had spent most of his life in Jerusalem. He was crucified on Calvary Hill, also in Jerusalem. There was no more important place on Earth than Jerusalem for a true Christian which is why Christians called Jerusalem the "City of God".

    However, Jerusalem was also extremely important for the Muslims as Muhammad, the founder of the Muslim faith, had been there and there was great joy in the Muslim world when Jerusalem was captured. A beautiful dome - called the Dome of the Rock - was built on the rock where Muhammad was said to have sat and prayed and it was so holy that no Muslim was allowed to tread on the rock or touch it when visiting the Dome.

    Therefore the Christian fought to get Jerusalem back while the Muslims fought to keep Jerusalem. These wars were to last nearly 200 years ./end plagarize

    Not a Christian, but tired of the people who bash them based on behaviour from the year 1076

  10. Re:Quit sensationalizing everything on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Indeed. As this video shows, Islam is a religion that just wants to get along.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/ad8SX9xtFJg

    The signs saying "WE ARE ALL HIZBULLAH" and the pictures of that well known man (a saint, really,) of peace, tolerance, and understanding, the revered Ruhollah Khomeini, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini simply exude tranquility and harmony. Anyone who says otherwise is unjustly demonizing Islam.

    This post may contain sarcasm. Do not eat.

  11. Re:Don't assume they'll be just be used for good on David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, the malaria problem was under control many years ago.
    It was called DDT.

    Then some rich white people decided that bird egg shells were
    more important than brown people half a world away.

    Bu-Bye DDT. Bu-Bye brown people.

    It's the usual story of the Eco-Warriors :
    We had to destroy the indigenous people in order to save them. We had to deny them access to modern jobs (like mining) and modern products (like cars) in order to preserve their primitive purity. We value brown people in their Noble Savage state, and we will spare no sacrafice to keep them there.

  12. Re:TV reporters are idiots. on Boeing Dreamliner Safety Concerns Are Specious · · Score: 3, Informative

    He said: "Carbon fiber is also a lot more flexible than aluminum and it's lighter."
    You said: "Flexibility is defined by Young's Modulus, "E". Carbon fiber has a much higher ratio of Young's Modulus to weight, and a higher outright value of Young's Modulus, than aluminum."
    Not quite. Young's Modulus is the stiffness of a material. Flexibility is a non-technical term, but it implies amount of strain a material can withstand before beginning to yield. And for an aircraft, the strength to weight ratio should be the most important. For the non-MEs: strain, stress, yield all have very, very specific meanings in mechanical or materials engineering. Also, aluminium has no lower fatigue limit: It will eventually develop cracks no matter how low the cyclic stresses are. And since airplanes constantly vibrate in operation...

  13. Re:Think of the children... on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Say what now? on Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Errors on Wikipedia Corrects Encyclopedia Britannica · · Score: 1

    Amen, Brother.
    Circumcised men who claim the foreskin is irrelevant remind me of the cyclops who claims stereo vision is overrated. Fortunately the practice was viewed with horror in eastern europe back when I was born.

  16. Re:The sound you hear is... on Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel? · · Score: 1

    Well I started on RH5. And it was not easy. But RH has gotten better with every release, and my main system has been RH since RH 6. I do keep a windows box around for some tasks, but that box is not allowed to go online. Fedora 7 has been really, really easy.
    The automatic updater has worked 100%. The add/remove software has given me anything I want. No more fussing with dependecies, that is all automatic now. If you have a system with Nvidia graphics you should have no problem with getting accelerated graphics working.
    Read this to guide you step by step.
    http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.ht ml

    Good luck, and welcome to the Light Side.

  17. Re:There's an idea! on Sony Sues Rootkit Maker · · Score: 1

    You may think that's a joke, but the same thing has happened to gun makers.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=state+sues+gu n+makers&btnG=Google+Search

    1) Scumbag criminals misuse an inanimate object
    2) Cities and states sue maker of inanimate object
    3) Profit!

  18. Re:Debt free is the way to be. on Credit Industry Opposes Anti-ID Theft Method · · Score: 1

    Oh good grief. You got a low interest rate because you paid more for the car up front. You also have to carry more insurance on the car because it is owned by the finance company, not you. The car dealer is much better at getting money out of you than you think.

  19. Re:The whole thing is absurd on CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal · · Score: 1

    So to summarise you post, You like to screw with people for fun and are annoyed that
    now this law will get you in trouble? My heart bleeds for you.

    Your mom called, and she said it was time for you to come upstairs out of the basement for dinner. She said to put on pants the correct way forward AND zip the zipper this time.

    XXX
    Deacon

  20. Re:A campaign on CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal · · Score: 1

    http://www.privacycorps.com/products/?id=20

    Get one of these
    Your problems and high blood pressure will be over
    No more bozos on your phone
    Cheapest $100 I ever spent
    Now every phone call I get is one I want.
    Regards,
    Deacon

  21. Re:Missed calls on A Whitelist for Phone Calls? · · Score: 1

    This device will let you do that:

    http://www.privacycorps.com/products/?id=20

    Your phone will not ring unless the calling number meets the rules you set

  22. Re: Why buy a NEW car at all? on Smart Car Coming To the US In Jan. 2008 · · Score: 1

    If you have to get a loan for a freaking car, YOU CANNOT AFFORD IT! You are going into debt for something that will be worth less than your loan value. If you want debt, buy real estate. A car? Feh! All those "bonuses"? You paid more for them than they are worth to the car dealer! You think the car company gave you those for free???? Warranty? You paid more for that than it is worth. The car company knows what the cost of the warranty to them is, and they charge you MORE than that amount. Gah.

  23. Re:Rather get one of the scion models or even a ya on Smart Car Coming To the US In Jan. 2008 · · Score: 1, Informative
    A Mercedes? And you think that's a plus? Most of us laugh at the twits who think the mercedes gives them "status". The rest of us have pity for them based on the very low reliability record of mercedes in general as shown in every years Consumer Reports car issue. People in the know have been fleeing mercedes to go to Lexus for years.

    Please. If this was built by Toyota, it would be worthy of consideration. Considering the diaster of mercedes reliabiliy along with the outrageous cost of spare parts, the end-user-repair-hostile attitude of the mercedes organization (like volvo- another p0s nowdays-) What's a set of factory repair manuals for a merc cost nowdays- $3K? 5K? Can you even get them?? My toyota ones cost me about 100. Repair parts are widely available and toyota dealers compete on parts costs.

    Like the new mini, this car is for clueless yuppies with slack jaws and "Ohh - Shiny" on their lips.

  24. Re:We need more cameras on British Civil Liberties Film Released · · Score: 0

    These problems can be fixed with a combination of new law and technology.
    The new law is "stand your ground"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law
    and the right to use force to protect property.

    the technology can be found here:
    http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/

    May I suggest this for the home:
    http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/admin/product_de tails.php?itemID=14220
    and one of these for when you are out and about
    http://www.parahawg.com/pistols.html

    Brits have been heading in the wrong direction socially on this issue for 50 years. As the problems have gotten worse, the various govt. administrations have increased the rate of progress in the wrong direction.
    As you point out, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away..
    People need to be allowed practice their natural civil right of self defense, and they need to be given the technology to do so. With the right technology, a 70 year old granny is equal to 12 thugs.

  25. Re:It's a good thing, then... on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1

    "It's amusing to me that the summary tosses around words like "wrongly brand", when MySpace hasn't "branded" - which implies a public, overt identification - anyone as anything."

    What is more amusing is that you have not bothered to read TFA, which says:

    "But what if MySpace falsely labeled you as sex offender, had your profile and your page taken down, had your name and information included in the database of sex offenders, and which was distributed to several Attorney Generals? I hope what happened to Jessica Davis will never happen to you."

    That's the problem with Witch Hunts: You end up burning the wrong people.