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  1. Re:My theory: Gun control won't happen... on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That won't be possible. Because they will be killed by someone concealed carrying before it can become "mass".

    Anti-gun folks always, ALWAYS, forget that given the chance many second amendment advocates would carry guns for their (and their fellow citizens) protection around with them all the time.... And it DOES make a huge difference in being able to defend against an attack.

  2. Progdot news for progressive. Fake News that matters....

  3. Re:But as long on Russian Cyber Hacks On US Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why? Because Hillary couldn't handle losing to Trump.

    Its one of the largest temper tantrums in history, from a woman who should any longer be respected by anyone at all....

  4. My God, this is getting more tedious than the McCarthy hearings.

    I'm still waiting for someone who has the guts to ask the Democrats "Have you no shame!!"

    Unfortunately the answer to that question in this case is yes, the Democrats have no shame...

  5. Re: Woopie on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Amen brother, totally correct. Laws do not create better technology...

  6. Yeah on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Ok, so shit Democrats do on their own can't be overridden, and nothing Republicans do can be acknowledged.

    Nice double standard we have here.

    Divided we fall, but fuck that it's more important for progressives that their ideas be followed....

  7. How the heck did the copy/paste text include valid credentials to even access the production database?!?

  8. Re:Even if there was hacking.... on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah go on acting like Hillary was pure as the wind driven snow. Bitch was openly selling influence to all comers. Violated the shit out of federal records laws AND classification laws.

    But yeah, Trumps a liar and we should have just picked HER because she always tells the truth...?!?!

  9. Where are they going to find the billions of dollars to pay to foreign governments, and will their constituents be ok with that?

    After all, I'm not worrying about the agreements mandates on limiting emissions, since the US didn't join the Kyoto protocols, yet is still meeting the standards due to the switch from coal to natural gas for a large amount of power generation, in addition to adding wind and solar generation too.

    Soooo, the only thing these Mayors really have to do is come up with case to hand to tin pot dictators in the third world so they can feel better about themselves....

  10. So everybody, literally everybody, has X more dollars in their pocket.

    Yep, there is no way that wouldn't cause just enough inflation to make all that "extra" money meaningless.....

  11. Re:It's all in a slogan on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ding, ding, fucking ding. We have a winner.

    I didn't LIKE voting for Trump, but there was no fucking way in hell I was going to vote for Hillary....

  12. Well.... on Elon Musk Joins CEOs Calling For US To Stay in Paris Climate Deal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you don't want international agreements of the United States to be predicated on the whims of Presidents, then you should make the international agreements treaties....

  13. Wrong. The climate sensitivity of CO2 is just as the gp post stated. The 4-6, and btw it's continually being down graded, it's now 2.5-4 sensitivity number is based on an Assumed positive feedback effect that has not yet been identified.

    The gp post is completely correct on the impact of CO2 specifically.

  14. Ten reasons Facebook is gonna suck more!!! on Facebook Signs BuzzFeed, Vox, Others For Original Video Shows (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Number 7 will amaze you!!!

  15. Re: Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to "Trump" your fucking bullshit.

    When the gross negligence of a Democrat causes the death of a young girl who he made NO attempt to save, then he gets to serve in the Senate for Fourty fucking years and when he dies gets lauded as a noble statesman.

    Cry me a river about Republican scandals for which they ALWAYS lose their positions.

  16. Re:How Virtuous on 'Science Must Clean Up Its Act' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on. The oil pipeline in North Dakota is running through territory with population densities in the 10's' of people per mile or less. There is a considerable difference in running a pipeline there vs. rich neighborhoods in suburbs or big cities where you would have to work very carefully not to run into other infrastructure.

    Besides, all of your examples are engineering and execution of science principles and not real research anyway.

    Water treatment science is well established. The water in Flint is a function of having horrid political leadership and execution for decades, and really should have no part in a science debate.

  17. Re:Goalpost shift to absurdity on Switzerland Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power In Favor of Renewables (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The barriers to entry for new reactors are absurd to the point of ridiculousness. The regulations are insane.

    That's why new reactor designs, which are really necessary never seem to go anywhere.

    However, the proposal to shut down plants at the end of their planned service life, ignores the fact that that is only the planned life of the reactor. Many plants, both nuclear and otherwise have a "planned" life that is much shorter than could actually be achieved. Same is true for renewables like wind, which could have service lives well beyond the plan.

    My basic point is that its silly to take any zero emissions power generation capability offline while there still exists ANY generation capacity coming from non-zero emissions sources.

    The impression I get from global warming alarmists is that this is a crisis. Well, if that is so than ANY zero emissions power source should be good enough.

    i.e. the risk of nuclear disaster is infinitesimally small in the face of the disaster that global warming alarmists claim is coming. Ergo, its stupid to get rid of any zero emissions power sources while the planet is on the line.

    Honest risk assessment against the stated potential outcomes (if the global warming alarmists are taken at face value) says we must do this.

  18. If climate change were as dire as claimed on Switzerland Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power In Favor of Renewables (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The there would never be a valid excuse for turning off a working nuclear plant.

    The incredibly small risk of running the plant would be nothing in the face of the dire risk being claimed for climate change.

    Climate change alarmists call out the precautionary principle all the time. What if, what if, what if. To be true to the precautionary principle, the only course of action that should be supported is keeping zero emission plants running.

  19. Flying cars on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Code writing AIs are the flying cars of the IT industry. They're always just around the corner and they never show up...

  20. Free speech on British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown (politico.eu) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Free speech dies when social justice is "enforced".

    One persons hate speech is their political enemies voice. How convienient!!

  21. Re: La Niña is about to bite us in the arse on EPA Website Removes Climate Science Site From Public View After Two Decades (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Here ya go....

    https://www.aei.org/publicatio...

    They were fabulously totally and completely wrong.

    This was easy to find, the fact that you didn't know about this shows how you have blinders on about how alarmists and doomsayers work....

  22. Re:Biased on The Woman Who Saved Manhattan From a Freeway Running Through It (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nothing Robert Moses thought of was a good idea.

    I understand the people screaming about BIAS for this article.

    Its a concrete description of how bad an idea these socialist building projects and housing concepts were... and still are.

    Hindsight is 20/20 and hindsight says Robert Moses di an insane amount of damage to cities he had influence over...

  23. You say "if your computer". Then you proceed to define how a hardcore least privilege makes a computer not yours anymore. It belongs to whatever entity is tying your hands with respect to running it...

  24. Its not totally working.

    They got 85% in April but only 40% in March.

    That energy storage thing your talking about has to get solved.

    Only then can a stable load of renewable energy power a country without the need for very large backup capacity.

    Totally agree though that it is THE problem to solve.

    And then it will be working every month.

  25. You don't own your own computer.... on Microsoft Patents Flagging Technology For 'Repeat Offenders' Of Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if it's operating system spies on you and reports you to the authorities...