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  1. Re:A scene from the movie "Little Nicky" on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 1

    Redemption is yours. Love that movie.

  2. Re:A scene from the movie "Little Nicky" on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I'd rather have all my privacy compromised and be sent to Gitmo than watch "Little Nicky".

  3. What people are missing here... on Innocent Adults Are Easy To Convince They Committed a Serious Crime · · Score: 2

    ... is that the cops don't care who really did it. Assholes as usual.

  4. Re:Stop trying to win this politically on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    If Global Warming is a science issue then stop trying to make political arguments.

    It's not.

    You are LOSING the political battle. Stop fighting. Everything since Al Gore started organizing this movement has been one political miscalculation after another.

    Why would you expect otherwise? This is the same guy that lost to GWB after serving a Bill Clinton's Vice President for eight years. That election was in the bag. And he blew it by thinking that attacking guns in the middle of a presidential election was a good idea.

    Outside the U.S. , nobody knows who Al Gore is. Actually, nobody inside the U.S. knows either.

    Every single serious presidential contender until Obama made sure they had a picture of themselves holding a shotgun or something in their national ads. Think about that.

    Bush Didn't. Thank God. Cheney did a few years after, though.

    Seriously. If you don't want this to a political campaign then stop treating it like a political campaign. Swiftboating? Are you fucking high? You're going to bring up that shit that John Kerry was whining about? Stop listening to failed politicians to structure your political arguments.

    John Kerry didn't say much about it, neithe did McCain, who was the one who really got rucked.

    If you want sound political advice, talk to someone that wins. Talk to Bill Clinton. I'm sure he'd be happy to give you some advice. He'd probably tell you to stop being such royal pricks and try to build some bridges. Which is probably why you like Al Gore... he probably says "fuck the opposition we are right!"... which is possibly the dumbest political advice possible.

    WTF?

    If you want to talk about science, then show me a tested climate model that has been subjected to an empirical test of its validity. It isn't that hard guys. We have a lot of very accurate historical data. Feed in past climate data and see if your climate model can predict the past or the present accurately. The first model that can do that which isn't just a collection of plug variables is something worth taking seriously.

    Models are nice. Reality is nicer.

    Until you have that model... you have no theory. There is no global warming theory without a tested model. You have rather a global warming hypothesis. To get a theory you need a validated model. You do not have that at this moment so far as I know. Which means... you have jack.

    See 200 years of climate data plus another 1000 or so from recovered ice.

    Which is a problem because you're losing the political argument. If on top of losing the political argument you're also unable to provide a validated climate model... then what we have here is a platform sustained almost entirely by hubris and graft.

    Polictical arguments won't save the planet from bullshit

    Please contradict me... show me your validated model.

    Have a nice day!

  5. Re:So, he is admitting that the attacks are true on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. He vilified the idiot political leaders that got the US involved in the cluster fuck known as Viet Nam, based on lies and bullshit. He never vilified the people he served with.

  6. Re: Bitcoin != Coins on Fraud, Not Hackers, Took Most of Mt. Gox's Missing Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    So if somebody steals your cash the government reimburses you?

  7. Re:Dry Counties? on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but an out of state resident can only buy 1/4 ounce in a dispensary per month in Colorado. Not nearly enough to do any real trafficking. It's just the usual bs by people who have watched Reefer Madness one too many times.

  8. Re:pirate bay un|blocked on Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight · · Score: 1

    As of now, none of these work for me. Even over VPN.

  9. Re:The real reason? on Music Publishers Sue Cox Communications Over Piracy · · Score: 1

    What hump?

  10. Re:Here's an idea on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 2

    Other people's skulls. In 1904-1909 (before there were helmets) there was an average of 18 deaths a year in college football. The sport was tiny then.

  11. Re:Here's an idea on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 1

    I love to talk to Brits about how soccer sucks. It's quite comical, actually. If it's 1 on 1 the chances of me getting the shit kicked out of me is ZERO.

  12. Re:Here's an idea on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 1

    So instead of concussions, we'll just have deaths. Good idea.

  13. Re:When did jocks become such pussies? on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 2

    I like Australian football and I respect the game but things are a bit different here. The few Australians that play in the U.S. are either place kickers or punters. Both would get knocked around like rag dolls if they decided to try to tackle anybody here. It's a completely different game.

  14. Re:Obsession on Australia Elaborates On a New Drift Model To Find MH370 · · Score: 1

    There's nothing that they can find that will tell what happened. If the aircraft flew 7 hours after it lost contact with ground than the cockpit voice recorders are useless as they would only have the last two hours of the flight. The flight data recorders would only show the plane going down where it was found. We all abhor a mystery but finding the plane will not remedy the situation.

  15. Why worry? on Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit · · Score: 2

    Counterfeiting is illegal.

  16. Re:These idiots are going to ruin it for everyone on Drone Sightings Near Other Aircraft Up Dramatically · · Score: 1

    So the next question is can the pilots tell us what kind of drone they are seeing? Quadricopters are obviously much different than a model F-4. These sightings need a bit more information.

  17. Re:Terrible on Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out · · Score: 1

    It's kind of like Idaho.

  18. Christ, Iran already has the fissionable material and the fucking centrifuges and still hasn't produced a weapon. We're really worried about somebody buying shit on eBay and making it in their basement?

  19. Repubs on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Clearly this person registered as a Repub (which is a public record) and they want you to spread the word. The Repubs need recruits in NJ. I live in Virginia where you don't have to declare a party. They try to figure out who their friends are by sending out letters purporting to be a "survey". They have a bar coded serial number on them. It has questions that are the usual drivel such as "Do you believe in socialized medicine?" I just cut out the barcode and send back the post paid envelope with "FUCK YOU" written with a sharpie.

  20. Re:Maybe something like a permafrost melting? on New Study Shows Three Abrupt Pulses of CO2 During Last Deglaciation · · Score: 1

    Nor something like 50% plus of the U.S. population.

  21. Re:It's not pandering -- it's rejection. on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    Proud to be an Amurikan.

  22. Re:Economics plays a role here on Researchers Scrambling To Build Ebola-Fighting Robots · · Score: 1

    That's super. My original post was google "funding for Ebola vs. funding for DOD". The entire HHS budget is about $4.8 billion vs. $486 billion for DoD. Just setting forth our priorities.

  23. Re:Economics plays a role here on Researchers Scrambling To Build Ebola-Fighting Robots · · Score: 1

    Your link was to the waste by the NIH. CDC is in charge of outbreaks like Ebola. NIH is responsible for researching whatever Congress grants if funding to do. Ebola was not in the budget.

  24. Re:Economics plays a role here on Researchers Scrambling To Build Ebola-Fighting Robots · · Score: 1

    The NIH is not the CDC. By the way, the DoD will spend $495.6 Billion (with a B) next year. $39 million will not even pay for a fix for the cluster fuck that is the F-35.

  25. Re:Economics plays a role here on Researchers Scrambling To Build Ebola-Fighting Robots · · Score: 1

    Google "funding for Ebola vs. funding for DOD".