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  1. great idea on Tim Bray Finds An Affinity Between Patents And OSS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great idea. Here's your patent but you also have to give it away free as open source right away so that you have a much harder time making your investments back.

    Ya, that will really spur innovation. I'll work for free so that you can take it despite the patent

  2. Re:What really amazes me about this issue... on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    Hey fool,

    I passingly mentioned hydrogen, pointing out how Bush is manipulating you into thinking he supports it when he sent 5 times more funding to subsidise the oil industry in the very same spending bill that funds hydrogen research.

    And,

    Hydrogen is an excellent source of fuel for far more than just 'batteries' .. (you do realize dont you that a fuel cell is not a battery?)

    The problem is generating the hydrogen without consuming all kinds of greenhouse gas producing fuels (hmmm could it be that bush likes hydrogen because it will take oil to make it?). Oh and theres that little problem of not being able to easily confine and transport hydrogen safely.

    Your reasoning basically states that in 20 years the world will be cooked anyways, so why the hell should anyone do anything.

    Ya, thats logical. Throw the world away so your kids have nothing because the world will end anyways. ... oh wait thats another Bush way of thinking as he is a strong believer in the Book of Revelations.

    The point is that Kyoto was a START.

    If you can't bring yourself to start to solve the problem, then do us all a favour and cook yourself now.

  3. Re:The Guardian on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    troll!

    hahaha

    truth hurts, better pound the guy down with a troll rating!

    hahahahahaha

    damn im glad im not you.

  4. Re:More on sinks on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    Yes the climate does change.

    Yes many changes are beyond our control and will be bad or good.

    So why should we knowingly force a change that we know is bad, that will force global warming, that may make all those uncontrollable things worse when we have the power to do otherwise?

    There's no way in hell you are any kind of informed scientist. At best, you watch Discovery now and then. At worst, your paycheck comes from the oil industry and you are paid to ignore global warming.

    Too bad your kids will have to pay for your ignorance.

  5. Re:More Evidence on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As long as the dumbass americans keep an oil man in power as president, nothing will happen.

    nothing will happen to jeopardize Bush's oil profits.

  6. Re:Warming also tied to orbit changes.... on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    yes,

    one factor we can't control.

    the other we can control.

    why do you advocate saying to hell with controlling CO2 simply because there are other factors we can't control?

    why gaurantee a problem in place of maybe having a problem?

  7. Re:Global Warming May Be Natural Climate Change on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are totally right.

    except for one little point.

    That warm period in the middle ages ...

    It's actually better known as:

    THE LITTLE ICE AGE!

    dumbass.

    For 300 years in the middle ages, the temperature of Europe was far below normal.

    In fact, the last decade has seen the highest average temperatures of the past several thousand years! It's all there in the tree ring studies, and in the Isotope studies of ice.

    Go back to school, stop believing merely what you want to believe and look at the evidence put forth by thousands of scientists over the last few decades.

    CO2 holds in heat. This is extremely easy to prove.

    CO2 levels have increased by more than 50% since the industrial revolution.

    Why don't you see a problem? ... simply because you can't see beyond your own short lifespan.

  8. Re:The Guardian on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1, Troll

    It should be pointed out the the USA ...

    ALL THE WORLD IS ANTI-BUSH

    It's only you american dumbasses that haven't opened your eyes to see what he's doing to your formerly great nation.

  9. Re:What really amazes me about this issue... on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 0

    Wow, the ignorance is amazing!

    Kyoto may not have been a solution, but it was a start. The USA DID NOT stay out because Kyoto was lacking in effectiveness, they stayed out purely to take advantage of not being restricted by it while other countries actually tried to do something positive. ... as an economic advantage to the USA while the rest of the world took a hit to try to improve things.

    Bush is an oil man. Bush has intentionally done everything in his power as president to ensure he keeps making lots of oil profits. He would never support ANY proposal that harms his oil profits. The actions he has taken have succeeded fully ... Thanks to BUSH destabilizing the oil markets with false fears, and restricting world oil supplies by invading Iraq, the price of oil has MORE THAN DOUBLED in the last 4 years!!!!

    Bush has fought to stop an attempt to mandate an increase in mileage of new cars federally. This 3mpg target would have saved 3 times more oil for the US than has historically been imported from Iraq, .... this is also 6 times more oil than could possibly be pumped by raping and pillaging that World Heritage Park in Alaska.

    Bush SUED california to force them to stop trying to increase car fuel efficiency.

    Bush lept at the chance to use 911 as a tool to keep you constantly scared, to destabilize the world oil markets over constant 'fears' over oil supply. .. and you fell for it, hook line and sinker.

    Bush has kept Iraqi oil off the markets. .. the real reason for invading Iraq, not to take the oil, but to restrict it. (WMD's? what WMD's? ... Iraq didn't even have any of the chemical weapons left that YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT GAVE THEM to use against Iran!)

    Bush didn't just give a few billion dollars to Hydrogen research a year or so ago, in the very same spending bill, he gave 17 Billion to subsidise US oil companies!

    Bush's administration has removed all references to the possibility of global warming from all federal websites, and forced 'unbiased' government scientists to come up with new results when their work showed evidence for global warming.

    Bush has placed oil industry people in every 'unbiased' scientific commitee that has investigated the topic of global warming.

    Wake up you damn fools!

    He has done it all for his own profit, while you sit there saying please please screw me some more!

  10. Re:Sigh on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    hehehe hilarious.

    you just cant stand that the truth hurts you so much.

  11. Re:Kyoto to the rescue on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The media is claiming that Dubya won the first debate.

    If the US population actually thinks this is true, then just give it all up, roll over and die.

    Bush's ass was kicked severly in the debate, over and over. He sat there fidgeting, stumbling, stuttering, blinking like a psycho, trying to respond to Kerry, while Kerry calmly, confidently, and succintly rattled off how Bush has hurt the USA and the world.

    Bush lied over and over, as if we all wouldnt see it, denying Kerry's proven statements. Yet the media wants bush in power and so reported differnetly.

    You dumbasses will probably let the oilman play for another 4 years, killing your sons and daughters in Iraq so that he can profit from the high oil prices.

  12. Re:Pros and Cons on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    Actually, global warming may in fact induce a new ice age by shutting down the gulf stream ocean current.

    Can't happen? ... do some reading on the 'little ice age' that lasted 300+ years in the middle ages.

    Do you think it makes sense for us to help trigger this process?

  13. Re:CLIMATE CHANGE! Not "Global Warming" on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    Call it whatever the hell you want.

    It is still happening.

    Increased storm activity and severity is just one symptom. ... and one that many fools on this board have chosen to ignore as being proof even as they board up their houses 3 or 4 times a season against hurricanes, where in the past it was only once every few years.

  14. Re:The Cause of Global Warming on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ignorance is bliss isnt it?

    Actually thousands of scientists have come out and stated our CO2 emissions ARE a significant factor. You've chosen to ignore them.

    I guess you are ignoring that we've nearly doubled atmostpheric CO2 since our industrial revolution. (I bet you didnt even know that)

    I guess you are ignoring the huge greenhouse effect of methane, which we spew into the air in tremendous amounts through Oil/gas production and through the raising of Billions of cattle each year. (I bet you thought that burnt oil just disappeared, that it didn't make CO2)

    I guess you have chosen to ignore the large percentage of the planet where we have eliminated trees and other plants, removing a huge carbon sink. (did you even know that plants absorb CO2 as part of their metabolism?)

    dumbass.

  15. Re:"Oh joy." - Karma in action? on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    In fact, we should drive our landrovers harder, maybe one of those storms will take out Jeb Bush before he can take a run at ruining the USA more as president.

  16. Re:I thought on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    shhhh you don't want to give Bush any ideas, there are enough dictatorships out there.

  17. Re:one problem ... on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you mean, there is no evidence that Dubya will admit to.

    In fact there is much much evidence, that perhaps you have chosen not to see.

    Funny how Dubya can invade Iraq, killing 10's of thousands of innocent civilians, and over a 1000 americans on NO ACCURATE EVIDENCE of there ever being ANY WMD's in Iraq ... which has since been clearly proven.

    yet at the same time, he can totally ignore the decades of research that show the world is getting warmer (whether or not its by our own hand).

    hmmm coincedentally, Dubya is an Oil man .. someone who gets great benefit through the selling of greenhouse gas producing Oil, hmmm and Dubya is someone who would benefit greatly from high oil prices produced by pinching world oil reserves through destabilizing oil markets with the false fear of terrorism, and by taking the Iraq supply off the market.

    damn I dont know why you Bushies can't see the damage Bush has done for his own personal greed. Instead you blindly follow him, ignorantly thinking he's saving you.

  18. You want Taxes huh? on Keeping Microsoft Happy · · Score: 1

    Before you complain too much about Microsoft setting up shop in various states to get a better tax deal, think about this ...

    When MS was fighting hard against the government a few years ago, when it looked like they might be forced to split up into several smaller companies, they had a plan to avoid it.

    Microsoft had quietly purchased a huge piece of land in the suburbs of Vancouver BC. They were silently in talks with the Government of BC to set the ground work for the move if it became necessary.

    They were prepared to say to hell with your damn country entirely, taking 10's of thousands of jobs to Canada, and thereby taking away many billions of tax dollars from your governments.

    Surprise surprise, your government decided not to split them up, to keep the jobs and tax money.

    So stop your complaining about how they legally use your own system to avoid a mere 0.3billion in taxes through Nevada.

    You could have lost far far more.

    If you want to complain about wasting tax money, look at the $200 BILLION wasted on Iraq, where there never were WMD's, where the true cause of 911 never set foot.

  19. Re:Why are Linux users so bitter? on Dear Microsoft Windows ... · · Score: 1

    Linux users are naturally bitter due to years of struggling with their OS, trying to make it do one damn useful thing without having to track down some obscure software that has to be compiled and installed at just the right time during the installation of some other application.

    I'm not talking about writting grandma a letter, I mean useful work.

    Try installing PostGIS with full GEOS and PROJ4 support. Come back to me a week later and claim you had fun doing it. ... and NO, you can not setup PostGIS with GEOS and PROJ4 support for use with MapServer using RPMs!

    After you are done trying to make that work, tell me all your glorious stories of the other Linux users on all those great open source 'help' forums who treated you like crap, gave you instructions that left out critical and obscure steps, and pretty much refused to help because they themselves had to struggle with it and feel that you too must experience the pain.

    It almost makes the alternative of the $50k price of Oracle with ArcSDE worth it.

  20. dumbass on Computer Viruses Cripple Colorado DMV · · Score: 1

    ya, lets consider changing to a totally different OS, that may not be able to run any of the software used by the DMV day to day, that may not be able to access any of the DMV's huge databases just because there's a virus outage.

    dumbass.

    how bout we just revoke all licenses and let the drivers run wild for 6 months instead, the results will be the same.

  21. Re:Oh no! Another Euro-Nazi sleezoid! on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    The american constitution .. oh ya, thats that scrap of paper you wipe your ass with every time the Patriot Act is invoked to illegally search 'terror suspects' without a warrent (breaks the 4th amendment), and when you hold foreigners on your soil indefinately without charge and without representation (Your constitution guarentees the same basic rights for any person on your soil). Of course these rules are also ignored by you keeping the 'armed combatants' in Cuba, pretending that your constitution doesn't apply there when they are still totally in your care.

    And its the same piece of tissue that was ignored blatantly during the last election when bush protestors were forced to gather away from bush's rally's, breaking the first amendment.

    And its the paper that gets shot full of holes everytime some american jackass incorrectly states that he has the right to bare arms, when that clause was written to allow the individual states to form armed militias, not to guarentee the individual the right to carry an UZI (as is possible as of today).... I assume that was in case Canada decided to come down and burn down your white house a SECOND time.

  22. Re:Oh no! Another Euro-Nazi sleezoid! on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Ya you have it dead on.

    Every single person in Canada is French.

    Damn I wish you Americans would learn some geography and history. ... Here's the history part, the Iran-Contra scandal, remember that? THE WEAPONS WENT COVERTLY FROM YOU TO IRAQ TO USE AGAINST IRAN!!!

    Bush himself has publicly stated that NO WMD's have been found, he has publicly stated that there was never evidence for a link between Hussein and 911.

    Bush needs high oil to fill his pockets, not to get re-elected. Have you also forgotten he and his saudi friends are all OIL tycoons.

    He needs you to keep being scared over imaginary threats to get re-elected.

    Follow this link to read about the other dictators / terrorists / enemies that your government created, armed, financed, supported, and has since decided must be destroyed ...

    http://www.geocities.com/famousdog/USSUPPORT.HTM

  23. Re:Oh no! Another Euro-Nazi sleezoid! on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    So, you went to war, killed at least 11,000 innocent Iraqi civilians (so far), who had nothing to do with supporting Hussein, and sent 1000+ of your own citizens to their deaths on the ASSUMPTION that because some paperwork hadn't been filed, there must be WMD's.

    You americans ignore UN regulations constantly, how many years was it where you wouldn't even pay your UN dues? The Dubya administration has broken more international treaties and trade agreements than any other presidency! Yet you expect other countries to follow the rules absolutely? Get over yourselves! You aren't so special! .... Lets see, its been about a year and a half later since the ASSSUMPTION was made, and the invasion happened, 150,000+ of your people, including something like 9,000 trained specifically for looking for WMD's have failed to find ANYTHING except for some scraps that had already been put out of commision in the first gulf war and its aftermath 10 years before.

    And shall I remind you that the WMD technology was put in Hussein's hands covertly by YOUR DAMN COUNTRY! to use against the Iranians, because Hussein was your glorious friend at the time!

    And shall I remind you that when Hussein was killing his own people, it was in an attempt to overthrow Hussein as encouraged by Bush Senior ... who promised support, but then looked the other way!

    I suppose you think it would be just fine to kill people on american soil who were violently trying to overthrow your own government, despite the OBVIOUS contradiction of it being wrong for Hussein to have done so.

    Damn!

  24. Re:Intel is not faster than AMD on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    wooot, here's a link

    http://www.mersenneforum.org/archive/index.php/t -1 947.html

    YOU were SOO WRONG! hahahahaha

    Check the benchmark number in the second post on that thread, for the '1536K FFT' test of 95.939ms (0.095 seconds per iteration) for an Athlon 64 3200 with SSE2, that has been OVERCLOCKED by 15%!

    That '1536 FFT' notation puts the benchmark in the same category as the numbers I'm testing on my Athlon XP and P4 that I mentioned in my first post.

    Yet the OLD 2ghx P4 is still faster by more than 10%!

    For Prime95, A 2ghz stock P4 kicks ass over a shiny new Athlon 64 overclocked running at 2362mhz!!!!!

    Damn! Maybe I'm not an amd fanboy anymore!

    Check out the next post in that thread link, that describes your other error, that the A64 FPU has the same throughput per clock cycle as the P4 ... but with a far slower clockspeed.

    Heck, the non-overclocked test is nearly as slow as my Athlon XP!

  25. Re:Intel is not faster than AMD on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    wooot, here's a link

    http://www.mersenneforum.org/archive/index.php/t -1 947.html

    YOU were SOO WRONG! hahahahaha

    Check the benchmark number in the second post on that thread, for the '1536K FFT' test of 95.939ms (0.095 seconds per iteration) for an Athlon 64 3200, that has been OVERCLOCKED by 15%!

    That '1536 FFT' notation puts the benchmark in the same category as the numbers I'm testing on my Athlon XP and P4 that I mentioned in my first post.

    Yet the OLD 2ghx P4 is still faster by more than 10%!

    For Prime95, A 2ghz stock P4 kicks ass over a shiny new Athlon 64 overclocked running at 2362mhz!!!!!

    Damn! Maybe I'm not an amd fanboy anymore!