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  1. new Ire terrorists on That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros · · Score: 1

    A new kind of info terrorist on the web.

  2. Re:Feynman coming home to roost, linked on Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These turkeys have persistently missed predictions over the last 20 years.

    No, not just the Cargo Cult speech, which actually fits many CAGW claimants to a T, but this speech: http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2012/05/17/richard-feynman-explains-the-pdsa-cycle/

    Richard Feynman: “If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong, in that simple statement is the key to science, it doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t make a difference how smart you are (who made the guess), or what his name is, if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong.”

    If something is testable and flunks, it is wrong. If something is not testable, it's pseudoscience. Take your pick, my view is that these CAGW turkeys take double helpings with both.

  3. Re:Feynman coming home to roost on Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change · · Score: 2

    Dude what you don't get is that insurance companies like to overcharge on premiums and to not pay claims. Perhaps in an ideal world what you say is true, but this isn't your ideal world/model. More regulations create lots of opportunities. Climate change predicted fatter tail means excuses for higher premiums. Climate change = force majeure on old policies, like not pay as much, or cancellation?

    Excessive hurricane insurance claims where I grew up had more to do with poor building codes, muckheads developing houses out to the tide lines, and inflation tripling the replacement costs.

  4. hurricanes that blow on Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change · · Score: 2

    Try October 1780 for a month to remember.

  5. Feynman coming home to roost on Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The CAGW graphs from models have repeatedly failed to predict current temperature trends, and others, like global methane in the atomosphere. Data has been repeatedly unused, misused and misreported in CAGW pal reviewed "literature". CAGW is a scam and pseudoscience. Go listen to Feynman about missed predictions. Get over it.

  6. sequel to Gibbon on Australia Plans To Drill 2,000-Year-Old Ice Core In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Now we'll know why the barbarian hordes really wanted a Roman holiday.

  7. The charade... on UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations · · Score: 1

    is that "rich" countries are pretending that they are rich. Most appear to be insolvent and much of their educated populations are headed for extinction for failure to reproduce.

  8. already given... on UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations · · Score: 2

    Actually most people alive today would never have existed without the fossil fueled economies. Some might argue that this is bad for the species since so many are marginally independent at best, a la Heinlein. Consumers only...

  9. don't forget Algore on UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations · · Score: 1

    ...whose old man [father] was into dirty coal, too.

  10. opportunist & state sponsored financial terror on Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing · · Score: 1

    Motivated reasoning and gubermint sponsored "scientists" that insist flawed code = physical experiments and up = down. McIntyre has repeatedly shown how venal and biased this group is. Piltdown Man has 21st century decendents who are alive and aggressively fraudulent, looking to replicate Nazi equivalent ideologies. That CAGW financial and power scam, the Clinton-Gore $100 billion per year grab exceeds the peak Exxon-Shell oil profits at the mere cost of bending a group of opportunistic modelers and desperate academic failures. CAGW has become simply "seize the means" and oppress the population Statism for the 21st century.

  11. progress for whom? on Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip · · Score: 1

    Did anyone check that white powder in the ballast?

  12. Re:not surprised on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    British Petroleum managment always gets off with no time served. Bodies and billions destroyed all over the US.

  13. adapting on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    DVDs' primary advantages are from how obnoxious advertising becomes online for online movies and how content control interferes with maintaining and replaying copies around a house. DVD prices need to be lower to move faster in volume, closer to current rental prices where people buy armloads at a time. Home archives without DVD may become a problem because of "IP" controls.

  14. 1984 is old hat... on Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests · · Score: 0

    Armed with a small LED or lasers to paint targets for small missiles, it could allow principals, police and govt agency personnel to eliminate offenders in whatever act.

  15. Smote mote on Volcano May Have Killed Off New Bioluminescent Cockroach · · Score: 1

    ...in god's eye. What happens when you don't expand your habitat range fast enough.

  16. breathtaking discrimination... on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    and hypocrisy (more equal???). Orwell's administrator characters would be proud.

  17. Customers to Toshiba: Drop dead. on Toshiba Pursues Copyright Claim Against Laptop Manual Site · · Score: 1

    Dear Toshiba,

    I am the owner and previous purchaser of 4 Toshiba laptops which have had their issues, with various hardware and software quirks. That you attack an amatuer/admirer/repair site that provides free archival service for Toshiba products amazes me. Although I am sure marketing and legal can provides rationale and a myraid excuses for this, hear me.

    If this travesty is not reversed, my family will not buy a Toshiba product ever again, and I will mock your corporation in conversation. We have long memories.

    POd,
    xxxxxx xxxxxxx

  18. Re:Normal End of Life cycle on Sony DVR Useless After Rovi Stops TV Guide OnScreen · · Score: 1

    Sony TVs lasted 10-20 yrs. So, yeah, 7 years sounds 3-13 years short.

  19. Re:dangerous Nazis on NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security · · Score: 0

    Actually there is plenty of progress on a number of fundamentals including unmodeled energy terms, such as caused by sunspots modulated by solar magnetic fields influenced by planetary dynamics, and the need to correct feedbacks of water and clouds. Likewise, McIntyre has shown the soft, unsupported underbelly of politicized dreck coming from Penn State, the UK boyzos, and a number of prostituted fakers.

  20. history lessons on Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site · · Score: 1

    "...begging for mercy from the Union before Sherman or any other general set foot on their soil?"
    ???? Uh, small as they might be, the last land battles of the "War of Northern Aggression" were fought in Texas.

    Previously, Galveston had been recaptured from Union forces in Jan 1, 1863 and remained confederate until June 18-19, 1865, "Juneteenth".

    Then the final Union attempt to take Texas in September 1863, a Union invasion fleet with 5000 Federal troops was repulsed at the Battle of Sabine Pass.

    PS. Before you even start, I live way north of New York...

  21. Fermi's p on Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 4, Funny

    seven times more massive than Earth...
    so much for their early space program

  22. dramatic design hype on Building the Ultimate Safe House · · Score: 2

    You don't need a nuclear bunker design to weather even a 180 mph hurricane. Less dramatic design techniques have been around a while.

  23. Blooming hot air on Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal · · Score: 1

    Compare hurricanes for Oct 2012 with the October 1780 atlantic hurricanes and then tell us that. Bloomberg is hot air, stupid.

  24. creepy not... on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 1

    ...suicidal

  25. Public vs private on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course many would like to think that "public" surveillence camera are safer with pre-screened employees. Given the abuse, injure, rob, thieve record of TSA, the kill-sorry-wrong-house adventures of various city and federal agencies, and various asset forfeiture abuses these past 25 years, is no strong reason to believe this more than the tooth fairy.