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  1. Re:Seems there's more ice than usual in the antarc on Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your post is unbelievable.

    The GP poster posted a subject of:

    Seems there's more ice than usual in the antarctic

    And then they posted a LINK to a graph that proved their subject.

    THIS IS ALL THEY POSTED!! No follow on sentences about global warming. No links to any other sites about global warming or to sites denying global warming for that matter.

    The post stated only facts, and made no arguments. Facts that seem to be backed up by the research vessel being stuck in the ice.

    YOU brought global warming into the discussion, YOU called the GP poster a denier (note: I am speaking only to evidence in the GP post, if mc6809e is a raging denier elsewhere I don't know it).

    This isn't really cherry picking of data, it is only presentation of data.

    If there is an increase in antarctic summer ice at the same time there is a decrease in arctic summer ice, we should study what is happening.

    There really wasn't a global warming argument being made in the GP. You just saw one there. Check your glasses.

  2. Re: Purview of NSA? on Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target? · · Score: 2

    This case could be a huge PR win for the NSA. If they could arrest 10-20 people involved in this using all their data, I think the country would be appreciative. At least they could make their case that their data collection is worth something.

    Of course the NSA has done nothing about this because helping protect the citIzens isn't really their job, it's just their bogus excuse for their actions.

  3. Re: And nothing has changed... on Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No! We need real change away from both what Bush did AND what Obama is doing.

    Every time people make the "but Bush" argument they're giving Obama more power to abuse the system.

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

  4. Re:lets work on getting folks THERE first on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    Next step?

    7 Nuke the site from orbit,its the only way to be sure.

  5. Re:Error on CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days · · Score: 2

    Maybe this technology is related to Facebook.

    Imagine, Facebook's users are generating unique, pithy, substantive and deep posts to put on Facebook, but this crypto locker stuff is just converting those awesome posts into worthless drivel about piddly silly details about the Facebook breakfast or exercise routine.

  6. Re:Engerlbart's Greatness on Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart · · Score: 2

    Ironically Telefunken felt the computer mouse was to trivial an invention to bother with patenting it.

    It is mind boggling that the inventor of the ball mouse , a hugely successful device, would think it trivial and not patent it when nowadays someone just adds "on the internet" to common practices (not even real tangible things!!) and thinks they deserve huge patent royalties.

    Its amazing how far innovation has fallen.

  7. Re: As President he deserves respect ... on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fuck that. In my book respect has to be earned, even for the President.

    And the man currently in the job never earned my respect. The man previously in the job earned my respect, but then he lost it. The one before him didn't have my respect initially, but ironically looking at his whole record and past his indiscretions he's earned some respect for what he did with the job.

    But these latest two Presidents; in the end, neither is worthy of my respect.

  8. Re: My Healthcare.net on Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, by version 3 the site will be awesome!!

  9. Re: Looks Like You're Trying to Sign Up for Obamac on Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    My God. Your first post was bad enough. This is epic astroturfing.

    Ezekiel is that you??

  10. Re:Lie-fest from the NSA on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love how a warrant awarded in secret with contents that are secret to collect data that will be kept secret is supposed to ok this type of behavior.

  11. Re:Lie-fest from the NSA on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    If the NSA is tracking everything then, yes, I can have a beef that they don't stop attacks that might originate in the US.

    Otherwise why the hell do they need to track EVERYTHING.

  12. Re:Lie-fest from the NSA on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    And the president - the elected official chosen to lead the country - is so hamstrung by the NSA that he cannot stop the interceptions and order an immediate investigation.

    Maybe he's too hamstrung or maybe he likes what the NSA is doing. Obama has in no way been clear enough for us to determine which one of those is true.

  13. Re: red v blue on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    I just love hearing liberals complain: you ignorant fucks should vote for us because you're stupid.

    I'm sure that'll convince them. Perhaps they don't support you libs because you hate and ridicule them. It's your prerogative, you can do that if you want. But if you think ridiculing people will make them want to vote your way, then who is the stupid one?

  14. Re: Popcorn! on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    How dare you make popcorn, that's so insensitive!!

  15. Re: Agreed with Akinyede on Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race · · Score: 2

    That's not what the broken window fallacy is about.

    Its not about generalized government spending. It about breaking things that are fine to spur on stimulus by spending money to fix the things that were broken.

  16. Re: Agreed with Akinyede on Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is not the broken window fallicy. They don't have any windows to break.

    It's not like they had functioning rockets and threw them out so they could fix them.

  17. Re: I'm an atheist. on New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great sentiment, well stated.

    God bless you.

  18. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because its sooo much easier to 3D print a gun than it would be to buy a real gun (that'll fire more than one shot before breaking) on the street.

    Stupid useless laws are useless, we should cheer useless laws not being passed.

  19. Re: Publically Approved?/ on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 1

    Add to this the fact that that NSA has resisted, at every turn, telling Congress the truth about what they do.

    You can't provide oversight to a group that does not tell you what they do or how they do it.

  20. Re: Cancer cured! on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the long run what will make the drug companies more money. Drugs that treat the patient for a few months and then they die, or a working treatment that the patient has to receive over their entire (longer now) life?

    A cure for cancer would be a gold mine for a pharmaceutical company.

  21. Re: Totally worthless anyways: I won't buy on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 1

    Totally agree that "fair share" is a very effective political tool and almost impossible to define.

  22. Re: Totally worthless anyways: I won't buy on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 1

    I think one of the big issues that will be coming forward due to Obamacare is that the definition if rich is going to change. Obama has always said the rich are going to "pay their fair share" for healthcare so the poor can be covered.

    It's just that a lot of people who don't think they're rich at all are finding out that Obama thinks they are and he is making them pay.

  23. Re: Officials say? on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 1

    Then what Obama said wasn't true. Period.

    It was Obama that made the rhetorical emphasis that his statement would be true no matter what (err I mean, period).

    That's what the expression - period - means when expressed at the end of a spoken sentence.

    Or perhaps that word does not mean what Obama thinks it means.

  24. Re: While... on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: -1, Troll

    It used to be that once upon a time we had Presidents who took responsibility for what they and their entire administration did, "The buck stops here".

    So yeah in the end it is the Presidenrs fault.

    But this Presidents motto is more. "I see nothing, I know nothing."

  25. Re:Democracy? on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because our choices are obviously between

    No Regulation or Massive Regulation

    There's absolutely positively no way to exist between these extremes. Of course the person saying they want less regulation is really speaking in code because what they really really want it no regulation.

    That their is too much regulation in health care is a fact, that there should be no regulation in health care is not.