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  1. Re: Goods and services must be produced on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel like you have written something good if it were condensed and clarified. Remove some words, it's a bit muddy.

  2. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You shouldn't be rewarded for being part of the system. That's retarded. You should be rewarded for *contributing* to the system. (And yes I am aware that there are a great many rich people who are a net drain on the system. If we can figure out how to get them separated from their weather I highly favor it)

  3. Re: And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    If I'm going to do it right, I'm going to do a solid statistical analysis, something this current story does not do. The only question is whether you can recognize that, or whether you are in the grips of a horrid confirmation bias. So far your comments make it seem like the latter.

  4. Re: And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 0

    Now you're making things up, or you're parroting propaganda you heard somewhere. The fact that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will warm things up is accepted by 99.99 percent of scientists, maybe more. What you just said is not. At best it's a hypothesis, although your exposition of it is ignorant.

  5. Re: So it's true but still propaganda???? on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    The best kind of propaganda is true. "Bill Clinton was seen with a young female." Totally true, undeniable, but your imagination must fill in what happened to her.

  6. Re: Meanwhile, in America on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    See for example: http://www.capitalpress.com/Ca... Note especially the part where some farmers got 5 percent of normal. Farmers always take the first hit because they can handle it more easily than others although the few with senior water rights do get it easier than the rest.

  7. Re: Well no shit. on Zuckerberg 'Sold More Stock Than Usual', Faces Lawsuit From Angry Investors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mark Zuckerburg (who thinks his users are idiots for trusting him) doesn't sell stock. He tells his accountants and lawyers to sell it, who come up with, and document, all the appropriate justifications to make the sale legal under the letter of the law. This lawsuit is not likely to go anywhere.

  8. Re: Meanwhile, in America on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    The campaigns to reduce personal use (especially lawn watering) are because the state has more effective means to limit industrial use. For example, in the most recent drought, water to farmers was cut by over 50 percent, and in some places farmers got as little as 12 percent of their normal water allotment. They don't need a campaign, they just cut the water supply.

  9. Re: And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Long term data seems to show an increase, it is true, and logically we would expect some kind of increase after adding so much CO2 to the atmosphere, but this particular story is pure propaganda, and no attempt is made to calculate the likelihood of these temperatures being a result of AGW. No attempt is made to compare them with the thousands of cold temperature records made earlier this year. The purpose of this story is to hit people on an emotional level.

  10. Re:Yeah, it's summertime on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1
    Here's the kind of thing we're looking at though:

    "Over 1,100 daily record low temperatures have been broken this week alone -- over 1,800 in the last 30 days, along with over 1,100 snow records. The last week of records broken, tied, or approached is shown in this animation"

    "Weather is not climate," indeed.

  11. Re:127 degrees? on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people learned how to do math in elementary school.

  12. Re: Forget wall street, it benefits fascists on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would love to see federal income tax reduced by 90% and if there are some things that still need to be done, let the local governments do it.

    Look at this graph of federal government spending, and say what exactly are you going to cut? Even if you cut military spending to bare bones, you wouldn't succeed in closing the annual deficit. If you cut social security, you will be voted out of office. If you cut Medicare, you will be voted out of office. So what exactly are you planning on doing?

  13. Re:And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You are wrong, there are new lows, here's from earlier this year:

    Over 1,100 daily record low temperatures have been broken this week alone -- over 1,800 in the last 30 days, along with over 1,100 snow records.

    Are you going to adjust your worldview now, or just pretend that didn't happen?

  14. Re:Yeah, it's summertime on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 2

    You're wrong, cold in winter isn't "just weather," it's a sign the climate is warming.

  15. Re:Yeah, it's summertime on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    There is this sort of thing:

    "Here are a few maps that illustrate this. Over 1,100 daily record low temperatures have been broken this week alone -- over 1,800 in the last 30 days, along with over 1,100 snow records. The last week of records broken, tied, or approached is shown in this animation from CoolWx.com"

  16. Re:So, it's finally HERE.... on 'Blood Moon', the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Underway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Icelandic thorn still doesn't work.

  17. Re: Or is it the other way around? on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re: No such thing as a market cap on Facebook Stock Suffers Largest One-Day Drop In History, Shedding $119 Billion · · Score: 1

    Next time just say, "Oh, I was wrong, market cap is not entirely fiction."

  19. Re: Or is it the other way around? on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well you could try a search for "Texas Train Robbery." For more modern examples you could try "Texas Robbery" which will give you stuff like this.

  20. Re: Or is it the other way around? on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Texas has a long history of gunfights and robbery, mate.

  21. Re:Or is it the other way around? on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't speak for all of America, but Crime on BART is real and rising. Gangs of people come to a platform, rob everyone, beat the few who resist, then run away before police arrive. Sometimes they board trains, too. It's not a very good situation.

  22. He has a "red telephone" directly into Facebook and Twitter. I'll bet Facebook and Twitter are ecstatic about the opportunity to have conversations with Trump whenever he wants.

  23. Re: ...and give us this day our daily IoT exploit. on Bugs In Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think Samsung smartphone are secure? Apparently they're still not confident in keeping them from exploding.

  24. Re: Part of the "war on freedom" series ... on New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    I tried that. I bought a Somali birth certificate and everything. Less than 50 pounds sterling. It was great until I had my arm chopped off by a soldier for violating Sharia law. The effect has really hampered my playing of the middle eastern bagpipes. So much for cultural assimilation. At least the Somali shaman doctor was cheap. Stopped the stub from bleeding but I've developed green moss growing on my earlobe as a side effect. Anyway overall I give the experience four stars, would recommend.

  25. Re: No vulnerabilities in Cisco products? on Bugs In Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    All he had to do to exploit the Cisco product was type the default password. Cisco always falls for that one.