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  1. Re:Global Warming Denial on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is minute. On the other hand, the concentration of the most powerful and dominant greenhouse gas on planet earth is quite large. we cannot model the effects on climate of that most powerful greenhouse gas, because it is too complex. Plenty of credible scientists have many problems with the current version of AGW, already the earth's climate is not following the myriad of models produced with the billions of dollars wasted on the effort.

  2. Re:equilateral triangle? on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 1

    and meant to conclude with, the object is orbiting the lagrange area and not at it

  3. Re:equilateral triangle? on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 1

    It's *almost* an equilateral triangle, if the earth's mass were totally negligible then it would be perfect e. triangle. Don't forget the earth-sun distance varies too, in elliptical orbit case you get lagrange area rather than point you get with circle.

  4. Re:There are additional moons to be found on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 1

    Sorry but there are none now, early in the formation of the earth-moon system there would have been debris, but after a billion years would be either ejected or become part of earth or moon.

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13836-did-earth-once-have-multiple-moons.html

    Funny that third stage of Apollo 12 was found orbiting as moon.

  5. Re:Pluto rules on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 2

    could you elaborate, was that the clarity, taste, aroma or bouquet?

  6. Re:I didn't understand this bit... on Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created · · Score: 1

    Thank you for explaining the physics of the coloring of magic unicorns and ponies

  7. fighting crime? on Fighting Crime With Facebook · · Score: 1

    From most news stories, I gathered Facebook, when involved with crime, was facilitating more the supply side

  8. Re:In related news on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    Linux and BSD developers have targeted and ported to osx and windows, there are reasons one might want to run a kde or gnome or other app there. I have such useful apps on my employer's metaframe server. My wife and children run certain linux apps on their macs. Just because you think it's pointless doesn't mean all others do.

  9. Re:I don't know... on OK Go Goes HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Bachmann is also know to sway, lisp and gesture like a Liberace overdosing on hormone replacement. He has such a high internal gayness quotient, it exceeds the planck limit of gayness per cubic planck length, his core is collapsing into a gay dirac delta function at the same time radiating a massive fount of gaydons, which can transform normal baryonic matter into its gaydronic counterpart in the Queer Model.

  10. Re:Pluto rules on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 1

    I learned that trick way before I was a teenager. under the dresser behind shield of shoes was a good place too.

  11. Re:Main concept missing from summary on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 1

    But three of the Lagrange points are only stable in a plane perpendicular to the orbits of the two bodies making the point, they are not points of stable equilibrium for any displacement

  12. Re:In related news on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    you can put the familiar LInux UIs on Mac OSX, including gnome and kde.

    I have 25 year experience in systems programming and admin on BSD, of course Mac OSX is a BSD. that you think it isn't means you don't know what a BSD is.

  13. Re:Holding back? on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    NetBSD is very much alive, latest version 5.1 released in November 2010. The code from NetBSD is used by FreeBSD and OpenBSD (and vice verse, they're an incestuous bunch) for porting of various device drivers and for architecture support

  14. Re:Pluto rules on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nope, putting small objects into a Lagrange point of stability is one way a planet clears its orbit.

  15. Re:Isn't this a ticking time bomb? on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the Lagrange points are stable garbage dumps for planets to put "small" things of 9% of its mass or less, the stuff stays there. It's one of the ways a planet clears its orbit.

  16. Main concept missing from summary on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 2

    The asteroid orbits one of the two Lagrangian points of stability of the Earth-Sun system

  17. Re:Um... Pardon Me, But... on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    BSD in in some of your or your employer's printers or routers or wifi or fax machine/copier or other appliances...as others pont out, mac osx and ios are BSD. many of the IPC, socket, and networking structures in your Linux (and in the commercial Unix even though they are sys V) are from BSD. The influence and use of BSD is massive. Even Microsoft still uses BSD code.

  18. Re:BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    if by servers you count print servers, routers, and other appliances, the percentage of BSD goes way above 1%.

  19. Re:The worst thing about OSS ... on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    that is nonsense, the proprietary software makers are the much bigger offenders. Ask the chair-winger at Microsoft about projects he doesn't like.

  20. Re:I couldn't agree with Obama more.... on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    Obama makes all kinds of noises, then does the opposite. He has broken each and every promise he ever made, and is a worse cheney/bush walking around on two legs than the original cheney and bush, for each and every issue that affects our lives. why you think his blathering and blabbering have any merit or meaning is beyond me. He has only continued our reckless spending and borrowing.

  21. Re:Once the avalanche has started... on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    I reject your notion that raising the debt ceiling is necessary. Spending can be cut, the federal government can be lobotomized and dismembered. All the while continuing to pay for social security, which brings in more than it pays at the moment. For medicare just add robust public option to health care law, that will collapse the big insurance, big pharmy, big healthcare chain cartels

  22. Re:So only your opinion counts? on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    To be fair, it also means they want cooperation in future cuts and budget balance.

  23. Re:Rewrite the Constitution or face default! on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    You rant like an obsessed lunatic with wild assertions that have no basis in fact. There aren't enough Tea Party members in Congress to have a sufficient majority or even voice to do anything by themselves. Most in The Business Plot are dead, the current Tea Party supporters are too young. Most Tea Party supporters are not nor never were in the John Birch Society, and certainly not the American Liberty League.

  24. Re:DOS is crap, but DosBox is awesome. on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    1.0 was from both IBM and Microsoft, they signed the Joint Development Agreement in 1985, the code name was CP/DOS.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os/2#Development_history

  25. Re:DOS is crap, but DosBox is awesome. on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    the first OS/2 was command line only, with very DOS-like commands.