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  1. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but dumbed down and inaccurate.
    I don't understand all the fuss and what you are out to prove. The situation was definitely about politics, personal issues and an abuse of power which all had fuckall to do with religion or science.

  2. Re:Full Employment Act for Comedians on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you actually know what autocrat means

    Yes. He's as you wrote. It's no accident he's acting like Putin is a role model.

    has no more powers as President

    I think you are in for a shock as he pushes and exceeds those limits via bluff and bluster. Saying no to President Trump just because it's the rules is likely to result in threats or more.

  3. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just as short a piece that is a bit more accurate:
    http://io9.gizmodo.com/5839933...

  4. Re:You could be hopeful on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is more capable and has more integrity than they give him credit for

    He's got a track record, so no, he's done very poorly by both measures for his entire life. A noisy amoral trust fund baby that treats everything like a game is unlikely to hatch like a butterfly and achieve your fantasy of being capable.

    If you aren't anti-American

    You really went there? It used to be that opposing autocrats who wished for the power of Kings was very much American instead of anti-American.

  5. Re:Full Employment Act for Comedians on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And Trump's ego is far too enormous to let him be seen as bowing down to anyone.

    Putin has already been playing Trump by laying the compliments on incredibly thick. He'll have Trump doing exactly what he wants.

  6. Re:Full Employment Act for Comedians on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Trump is ... an embarrassment, at best, but the overheated histrionics of the Left wore very very thin a long time ago.

    I suggest that this time next year you ponder those words and consider whether they really were overheated histrionics. I hope you end up being right but I think you really are just incredibly naive and think that Trump actually had Republican values instead of the sort of values George Washington fought against. He's a fucking autocrat right out of 18th century Europe.

  7. Re:Now it begins on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They could be good in a stopped clock being right kind of way, but they will be good policies for Trump and not necessarily for America.
    I think you are in for a long series of shocks that will shake you out of your naive optimism - it's not just gays that are going to get a raw deal.

  8. Re:Now it begins on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of us are not Democrats and still don't like the idea of a King.

  9. Re:Now it begins on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    and by all accounts Ivanka and her husband in particular

    It was a bit of a worry seeing her in a photo of a meeting between Trump and the Japanese delegation.
    Even more of a worry is that since then Japan has legalized casinos (for the first time) and ratified the TPP.
    Expect a Trump casino in Japan and expect a Trump backflip on the TPP.

  10. Re:Now it begins on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They have plenty of other ways to fuck us over.

  11. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    His election was quite simply a repudiation of all this ridiculous PC, safe-space, diaper-pin-wearing, everything-offends-me culture.

    Good point. Now you can learn what real hardship looks like. Better learn how to grow vegetables like your great-grandparents did kids.

  12. Re:Kind of consistent, isn't it? on Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing I can think of is arguably a better interface for touch screen users

    I've got an MS Win7 tablet I use to run some camera software. It's far more simple and easier to use as a touch screen than MS Win10. The clutter and shifting shit means MS Win10 does not even win that category IMHO.

  13. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not your fault, but that dumbed down to the max link is fucking insulting BTW.

  14. Good point about Kuwait etc.
    However, does that change the situation where an improvement in the USA would be an improvement in a very large percentage of the total? I do not think it does and I think we are already seeing improvements as US cities move to better lighting and other forms of energy consumption reduction.

  15. Re:"legitimate" dispute vs consequence of being wr on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    As I thought - you have nothing - take your propagandist bullshit to a fucking political site.

  16. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not far behind you so no, that's no excuse. There has been so much bullshit thrown up over the subject over the years to "jazz up" the story, and like the carrots instead of radar thing it has stuck.

  17. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes really.
    Also intensely personal since the Pontiff and Galileo were rivals as students.
    It's worth considering the vote of the Cardinals as well, many were on Galileo's side, just not a majority of them.


    Make authority look stupid (Simplicio in Galileo's text being an obvious and insulting parody of the Pontiff) and they see it as a threat to their power and lock you up - that is the lesson to be taken from that situation. Books by Copernicus had been circulating among the clergy for decades before the dispute.

    I suggest you read a bit more about it since it was a very interesting situation and because it seems every psuedo-science scam artist takes the name of Galileo in vain when their scam is questioned.

  18. Re:"legitimate" dispute vs consequence of being wr on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In reality or in your lumped together strawman?
    Citation needed. Context is also important.


    Considering how you declare century+ old climate science is "new" your word is not going to be enough.

  19. Re:"legitimate" dispute vs consequence of being wr on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you've called people in politics "scientists". You are using the disgusting little high school debate trick of pretending a huge number of unconnected groups is a single person - shame on you!

  20. Re:"legitimate" dispute vs consequence of being wr on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    That's a question for economists you goose and a distraction from the physics.

  21. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, yes - the mainstream is bigger than the idiot fringe, just get over it.

  22. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That was politics.
    Calling someone with a lot of political power an utterly brainless goose can tend to provoke conflict.

  23. Re:"legitimate" dispute vs consequence of being wr on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So climate scientists are economists now

    That's what the deniers say. They keep on wheeling out economists to deny the arguments of actual scientists.

    Climate science is still in it's infancy

    It has been more than a century since the El-Nino/La-Nina cycle was identified by climate scientists. When Scott went on an expedition to Antarctica just over a century ago he took some climate scientists with him.

    You have been conned by very expensive PR so it's not your fault, but it is somewhat pathetic.

  24. Since there is no such thing as a One World Government

    I see the new medication works!
    Now that you are getting more lucid please consider that the USA still pollutes more per person than any other nation on the planet, thus some effort to reduce that WILL have an impact on the global situation.

  25. No. Their plan currently appears to be to build something from every available electricity generation method and to see how it goes. Nukes, wind, everything.