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  1. I appreciate someone that provides a link, even if it is wikipedia.
    However the link provided no support that that 'climatology' is not a new branch of research.
    The article starts with a history section that chooses to call some people 'climate researchers' because some of what they did included documenting temperatures, tides, etc.
    Further the article differentiates such studies from (mere) meteorology saying "those who practice climatology, study both the nature of climates – local, regional or global – and the natural or human-induced factors that cause climates to change."
    I haven't seen any documentation suggesting such studies are centuries old.

  2. RIAA Security, not real security. on Open Millions of Hotel Rooms With Arduino · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The hotels only bought a License to the security product.
    If that security is bypassed the hotels owe damages to the License holder, or Eric Holder, I forget which.

  3. Must be different in your state on If You Lived In Riga, You Wouldn't Bother To Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    In the few U.S. States I've been to the local government approves every single cable and telco fee independent of those the feds haven already tacked on. It is the local governments that force these monopolies all over the US.
    But don't let that stop you from blaming companies for your politicians evil deeds.

  4. Re:A right way and a wrong way on Witness In Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury Hearing Posts Transcript of Questioning · · Score: 1

    But the main Amendment that tipped the scales from the national government of the United States being a mere republic to being a true representative democracy was the often-overlooked Seventeenth Amendment, which took effect in 1913. Since 1913 the U.S. Senate has been elected directly by the voters, rather than being appointed by the state legislatures. That makes the national government democratic in form, as well as being a republic.

    From http://www.williampmeyers.org/republic.html

  5. 2nd Prize!! on Contest To Crack William Gibson Poem Agrippa · · Score: 1

    Second prize Is TWO copies of every published Gibson book.

  6. The Lioness starves last. on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    When a man and a Lioness starve, the Lioness starves last.

  7. 'All the Trouble in the World' by P. J. O'Rourke on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    You are Soooo right, (next to) nothing has changed.
    Published in 1995 this book is subtitled 'The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty'.
    Way back then he was lamenting that after years of "effort" and tons of money little advancement was being made.
    Famine exists in the most fertile areas of the planet, why?
    I read it just a couple of years ago and noted that it was a sadly accurate description of today's world.

  8. Or a vagina. on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    FTFY?

  9. Or vagina on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

  10. 'capitalist system'???? on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    You figure the 'capitalist system' causes hot babes to stand around looking pretty?
    So communist and socialist countries only have deformed women?
    Communist and socialist countries don't have booth babes?
    People don't have to work in communist and socialist countries?
    Wow dude, just wow.
    Guess I should go to one of those countries so I don't have to work and I'll bring a LOT of paper bags so I won't have to look at the girls. I'm wasting my time here having to work and seeing all these pretty girls.

  11. Three accountants go duck hunting. on Statisticians Investigate Political Bias On Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The first accountant shoots and misses a meter high.
    The second accountant shoots and misses a meter low.
    The third accountant says "Got it"!
    ------------------
    It looks like another paid for study that proves what they were asked to prove.
    They only had to determine which data points would produce the required end point.

  12. You doen't get it on Free News Unsustainable, Says Warren Buffett · · Score: 1

    Warren Buffet is in court over not paying his taxes.
    HE was on tv several times talking about taxing 'rich' people more, taxes he doesn't pay.
    Also, taxes that won't impact the way he makes money .
    Taxes are fun, you should study them and their application so you don't sound like a useful idiot.

  13. That wasn't J. Edgar Hoover on GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia — and Get Caught · · Score: 1

    It is a quote from Louis Armstrong, the first man on the moon.
    Just check wikipedia if you don't believe me.

    Or check http://xkcd.com/202/

  14. Re: Zoneminder on Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits · · Score: 1

    Pretty much spot on.
    Also not that the china turnkey systems run Linux but do not allow you to view them on Linux.
    However, why no audio support in Zoneminder?

  15. Are you implying that you have a degree in Engrish on Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    What exactly does your degree prove?

  16. You found the problem! on Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The recorded voice should have been yelling yelling "décrochage, décrochage, décrochage".
    It's so obvious now.

  17. Backwards Anger on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wanted to mod you up, I enjoyed your passion, but I so want you to look at your reasoing.
    I am not defending Apple, it is about time you all noticed that Apple is given a pass by the media for using the legal loopholes that other companise are villified for.
    --
    Where do you git off blamming Apple or any other corporation for the disgusting acts of congress and the senate?
    Those insane loopholes were mostly created years ago and are constantly polished by your elected officials to continually encourage donations to those self same public officials.
    --
    You want to blame the person responsible?
    Look in the mirror, then start voting like the future matters.

  18. 3 hours walking per second? on Asteroid the 'Size of a Minivan' Exploded Over California · · Score: 1

    I am not accustomed to the phrasing.
    Is it like furlongs per fortnight?

  19. Thee debate is over, we have consensus on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 1

    The correct answer is what we say the correct answer is; we used science.
    We would let you see the science but you would not understand it and it would only encourage dissension.
    Now go away, you have been schooled and are fully prepared for a life not understanding enough to question your superiors.

  20. Sounds complicated. on Scientific Cruise Meets Perfect Storm, Inspires Extreme Wave Research · · Score: 1

    Why not just hang your boat from a balloon?

  21. Those were 'Metric' hours on Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks · · Score: 2

    You could have bought the tapes from Canada, eh.

  22. Really? on Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That was the point?
    So, you get rid of the wealthy then everyone will be rich and there will be no crime?
    Do I get a pony too?

  23. People like you are why we can't have nice things. on How the Sinking of the Titanic Sparked a Century of Radio Improvements · · Score: 0

    It is so good to know that no communist, no socialist, no dictator has ever, ever, ever made a bad decision.

  24. Re:Under the street light on Search For Earth-Like Worlds Focuses On Sun's Siblings · · Score: 2

    It might be more like the way a drunk uses the light post.
    More for support than illumination.

  25. Was it an African or European bear? on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 2

    To begin with, I needed basic kinematic data on African and European bear species.