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  1. Re:Of course it is. on North Korea Accused of Testing an ICBM With Missile Launch Into Space (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Even under the Nazis, Werner was aiming for the moon.

  2. eminent domain for nice [public] things on Thirty Meter Telescope Likely Never Gets Built ... In Hawaii · · Score: 1

    We know who vigorously supports eminent domain for public projects...

  3. bitcoin subsidy seeking... on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any new capacity probably actually costs more than 5 cents per kWh for customers of under 5-10 yrs duration, depending on energy source.

  4. Re:This is my shocked face. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    idiot. Hope they catch you once they get their Soylent Greent plant running.

  5. GM can be the most profitable company again... on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    ...if it offer rockets, flame throwers and claymores as auto accessories.

    Texas has so many sh|thole cities and towns with extortionists issuing traffic tickets I'm sure they will be big sellers.

  6. Barry just STFU on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...we're tired of your crony kapitalism and faux Marxist positions.

  7. massive, aggravated assault & rape in your str on Sweden Makes Another Request To Ecuador For Permission To Question Assange (thelocal.se) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...and you're still bothering Assange.

    Tell us again how you are not a lap dog for the US gevernment.

  8. the cost of lockup... on UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...but the cost of lockup isn't borne by the coopyright nazis.

  9. corrosion, welding and dings on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 2

    ...might turn an advanced material vehicle into a Coors can on wheels. Some high strength steels are notoriously susceptible to corrosion, welding and/or post-impact problems.

    Unwelded, single piece objects with any necessary protective coatings, or in single use applications, are rapid to develop. We can be excited and apprehensive about these type of advances.

  10. Re: TFA... on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 0

    Push comes to shove, the Earth can be CO2 reduced or cooled several ways with current technology, through geoengineering. More pressing is the prospect of global cooling, if the sunspot linked theories continue to outperform the CAGW general circulation models. 2020-2050, and beyond could be a chilly, rough ride.

  11. Re: TFA... on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They are trying to legitimize a form of global fascism with another sky fairy tale.

    2020 and beyond. Do we get our money back if the temps fall 1 deg C?

  12. fascist-socialistic chaos on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The UK is becoming chaotic. Leave and ignore. When that sh|t shows up here, or elsewhere, hopefully people will laugh it off, or stomp them.

  13. ...complete fabrication by denialists
    You obviously weren't there in my grad school. The Ice Age question was a potential concern for an indefinite future of unknown timing. Again this uncertainty was a driver for initial funding on major climate science.

    ...was 50 years ago.
    You miss the point. There is an element of changing perspectives, and repeating fashions here.

    "I have a much harder science background"... in climate science? I studied physics and computer science. And I know enough to know what I'm not an expert in.
    Climate science is still early stage with lots of contradictions, politics and predictive failures. The models simply do not work from fundamentals. Your assertion of "denialists" as if it were a more mature, proven field with easily observed, successful predictions totally discredits itself with lack of recognition. The internal politics of climate grantees view of their own flaws have been shown to be so fetid and corrupt that adversarial, exploitative cult would be a better discription.

    And you slightly demonstrate my thesis of angry dissonant crowds :->

  14. There are a lot of big mouthed primates with small brains that wouldn't recognize academic fraud if it bit them on the face and both heads.

  15. It should be obvious that I mean the Islamists attack with the opportunity of one or more unpleasant crowds making protests.

  16. Re:zealots ^2 on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stephan, simple denigration of oppositional views and their holders is not going to be effective. The original justification of large scale climate studies ca 1970s-80s, had to do with the concern of Ice Age timing, indicators, mechanisms and prediction. In this vein, the climate researchers continue to fail badly.

    I have a much harder science background than you do. I am old enough, that in graduate school, that the principal criticism of CO2 was its likely lack of adequate effect to prevent an Ice Age in any near term if needed. There are numerous scientific violations CAGW promotors create and blow past to manufacture their scenarios and narratives. I see a lot of egregiously bad science and social-political engineering in the CAGW works. These non technical attacks run off like water.

    Simply put, I have my own hard earned opinion.

  17. zealots ^2 on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The French govt probably doesn't want events that provoke large crowds with angry people that might have zealots with conflicting views. Imagine: Angry CAGW zealots meet climate realists/"deniers" with normal angry puke and threats. Islamic terrorists decide the cover and distraction is perfect for a bigger score, sending more infidels to burn before police even realize the attack.

  18. backwards zealots on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    They've recently had enough of backwards zealots and terrorists like CAGW promoters theatening the public.

  19. remember Plato and Thales on Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    There are echoes of multiple catastrophes like "The Deluge" and Thera in legend. No telling what we will find when the archeology of the last 25,000 years is recovered from the flooded ice age shores in 300-400 ft of water. Thales awed warring Greeks to scamper away from battle in 585 BC with his showmanship about blotting out the sun, showing us he could predict total eclipse. Bits of math and astronomy might be precious surviving threads no telling how far back. Plato's claim of priests' families handing down secret history / legends across the millenia might not be total bs. Time immemorial indeed.

  20. ...drones are the new tech race. I won't be surprised to see hydrogen as fuel, structural factor and buoyant.

  21. gone and stay gone on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The kid and his dad are provocateurs who deliberately baited the school teachers. Dad's sounds like he's been wanting to leave for a long time, probably spent his time dreaming this s**t up. They get nothing and need their visas pulled as undesirable aliens.

  22. our doctor on Telemedicine: The State of Telepresence In Healthcare (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    ... knows us personally and isn't afraid to use Skype video or take our call. It has saved our bacon 1-2x and convenience +++ for lesser medical stuff. In the US that might be a problem.

  23. I... on How Close Are We To a Mars Mission? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    ..dunno, ask Elon. I think he knows better than NASA does.

  24. Re:Germany should take note on FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Use two bank accounts, one big, one small, say a few thousand $/Euro. No merchant gets the big account number, only recurring work, retirement transfers into the big account and deposits. 1-2 monthly transfers from big acct to small acct to keep it full.

  25. not to mention the ISIS type problems....