I have to commend GISS on this analysis. I would be to their advantage to say:
Climate Change Caused Hurricane Sandy!!!
But they took the data, and analyzed it and came to a scientifically sound conclusion that it was not purely a Climate Change caused event.
This is exactly how things should be done.
Also, the next time people get all up in arms saying:
This huge cold weather snap is proof against Climate Change!!
GISS can study that too and prove that no, the cold snap in one particular large region has nothing to do with Climate Change either.
Honest science kind of tends to fall in the middle on a lot of different issues. Our currently wild political hyperbole from both sides is where all these all encompassing gross generalizing and completely wrong statements come from.
I'm not saying Linux isn't being sold professionally on a lot of levels, I'm just saying the potential to be sold to a much much much larger audience is still there.
I'm not worried that the UN would be hideously inefficient with overseeing the Internet, I'm worried that they would be hideously evil overseeing the internet.
Yeah, sure smart ass. I've seen "I'm Just a Bill" on schoolhouse rock.
But Obama drove the creation and lobbied congress heavily for the bill. If he'd have wanted a singular exchange, he could have gotten it. But he played along with give backs to the insurance industry so they wouldn't fight Obamacare.
However, the Republicans, in an example of arguing against a compromise that would help make a bad bill better would have argued like mad against a singular national health insurance exchange anyway.
Yep. It really amazes me that Obama set up the law so that he had to fight with states to set up health care exchanges.
All he had to do was have the law make health insurance markets work across state lines (easily justified by the commerce clause) and then he would have had to only set up ONE exchange for the whole country.
But, of course, the insurance companies would not have made as much money that way.
Every time I hear this argument I shudder to think how many people its going to get killed.
As the self driving car becomes more and more a reality, it will be statements like this that will encourage our lawmakers and legal system to explore every angle of liability which will delay our being able to actually have self driving cars.
All the while fallible humans will continue wracking up deaths on the highways because the software isn't perfectly 100% bug free.
Obama could solve this exorbitant cost issue in one fell swoop.
The Justice department should take the chargemaster of a large American hospital (preferably a not for profit one) and compare the billing charges to an uninsured person to the billing charges for an insured person. The Insurance companies get preferential treatment and rates and all patients do not get treated (billed) equally by the hospital.
This is racketeering and fraud, with all hospitals doing it, it is collusion. All hospital chargmaster documents are blatant lies that are not based on the actual costs of procedures, but are lists of how much they think they can extort from patients.
Call it what it is, extortion, and take these assholes to court.
But of course, the Justice department will not do that. Because its job in not to seek justice for the American people. At least that hasn't been its job for a long time.
I find myself imagining that about two years ago there must have been a big internal meeting at Microsoft, and Ballmer must have been up on stage yelling... "RECTANGLES RECTANGLES RECTANGLES!!!!".
Because building your house so that its more than 500 yards away from a Tornado or an Earthquake is impossible to do, but making sure to build your house more than 500 yards away from the Ocean or the Flood Plain is very easy to do.
I can't really come up with any good reason that I as a taxpayer should be forced to pay to rebuild a house that some millionaire put up on a barrier island on the coast.
He wasn't saying that. What he was essentially saying is that it would be nice if the power grid could be reconfigured such that if too many coal plants are shut down and there is a shortage of electrical power, it would be nice if Washington D.C. lost power first.
Oh and before anyone gets pedantic about it, yes, I know the power grid cannot be configured that way.
I support what he has done, and appreciate him informing American citizens to the constant surveillance that we at under.
But Venezuela? I want him to escape prosecution. I do not want him to enable a despotic government to appear to be free. Ironically Snowden will be "free" in Venezuela, but the Venezuelan people are not.
Yep. So many of these naysayers, when asked "what do we need to do" advocate drastic reductions in energy use, drastic draconian policies to make it happen, and always in the end come out with the root solutions of "we need a whole lot fewer people on this planet." Their final answer is eliminating BILLIONS of people.
Anyone who advocates that has lost all credibility with me. We can create cleaner power, and we will be cause we need to. Necessity is the mother of invention after all. Getting everyone in the world to go along with "less, less, less" isn't going to happen. We've solved complicated problems before, and we can do it here. I completely agree with the premise that anti-nuclear advocates need to go the heck away.
And no handwaving about how some new and untested reactor technology is going to make that impossible, or somehow today's dysfunctional international regulators can be fixed. All of that is just rehashing the No True Scotsmen line.
Oh yeah, right. Basically you're saying that since new reactor technology that doesn't cause nuclear weapons proliferation does not exist yet, we should not research new reactor technology.
The real irony here is that as a citizen, you should have more rights to request access to Obama's communication information than he has to request access to yours...
Perhaps since its a Friday, surgeons actively avoid scheduling easy, routine surgeries. The surgeries that would take place would then be more risky emergency surgeries. The percentage number of fatalities would be higher as a result.
Wow. So that the ticket. All the Imperial President needs is the appropriate doublespeak labels for his enemies in the press and they can be destroyed. No first amendment issues here, the Emperor says so.
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I have to commend GISS on this analysis. I would be to their advantage to say:
Climate Change Caused Hurricane Sandy!!!
But they took the data, and analyzed it and came to a scientifically sound conclusion that it was not purely a Climate Change caused event.
This is exactly how things should be done.
Also, the next time people get all up in arms saying:
This huge cold weather snap is proof against Climate Change!!
GISS can study that too and prove that no, the cold snap in one particular large region has nothing to do with Climate Change either.
Honest science kind of tends to fall in the middle on a lot of different issues. Our currently wild political hyperbole from both sides is where all these all encompassing gross generalizing and completely wrong statements come from.
Linux has enough sellers?
When was the "year of the Linux desktop" again?
I'm not saying Linux isn't being sold professionally on a lot of levels, I'm just saying the potential to be sold to a much much much larger audience is still there.
This is the second time I've seen this grammar complaint in the last week.
Is another your/you're meme brewing???
I'm not worried that the UN would be hideously inefficient with overseeing the Internet, I'm worried that they would be hideously evil overseeing the internet.
Just wait, you will.
That will be the size of the screen on the Galaxy XVI.
Yeah, sure smart ass. I've seen "I'm Just a Bill" on schoolhouse rock.
But Obama drove the creation and lobbied congress heavily for the bill. If he'd have wanted a singular exchange, he could have gotten it. But he played along with give backs to the insurance industry so they wouldn't fight Obamacare.
However, the Republicans, in an example of arguing against a compromise that would help make a bad bill better would have argued like mad against a singular national health insurance exchange anyway.
Yep. It really amazes me that Obama set up the law so that he had to fight with states to set up health care exchanges.
All he had to do was have the law make health insurance markets work across state lines (easily justified by the commerce clause) and then he would have had to only set up ONE exchange for the whole country.
But, of course, the insurance companies would not have made as much money that way.
Every time I hear this argument I shudder to think how many people its going to get killed.
As the self driving car becomes more and more a reality, it will be statements like this that will encourage our lawmakers and legal system to explore every angle of liability which will delay our being able to actually have self driving cars.
All the while fallible humans will continue wracking up deaths on the highways because the software isn't perfectly 100% bug free.
Obama could solve this exorbitant cost issue in one fell swoop.
The Justice department should take the chargemaster of a large American hospital (preferably a not for profit one) and compare the billing charges to an uninsured person to the billing charges for an insured person. The Insurance companies get preferential treatment and rates and all patients do not get treated (billed) equally by the hospital.
This is racketeering and fraud, with all hospitals doing it, it is collusion. All hospital chargmaster documents are blatant lies that are not based on the actual costs of procedures, but are lists of how much they think they can extort from patients.
Call it what it is, extortion, and take these assholes to court.
But of course, the Justice department will not do that. Because its job in not to seek justice for the American people. At least that hasn't been its job for a long time.
I find myself imagining that about two years ago there must have been a big internal meeting at Microsoft, and Ballmer must have been up on stage yelling ... "RECTANGLES RECTANGLES RECTANGLES!!!!".
Agreed. This is disgraceful. DC should be widely called out on this in the media.
Oh wait, the cats dead. Or is it?
Because building your house so that its more than 500 yards away from a Tornado or an Earthquake is impossible to do, but making sure to build your house more than 500 yards away from the Ocean or the Flood Plain is very easy to do.
I can't really come up with any good reason that I as a taxpayer should be forced to pay to rebuild a house that some millionaire put up on a barrier island on the coast.
He wasn't saying that. What he was essentially saying is that it would be nice if the power grid could be reconfigured such that if too many coal plants are shut down and there is a shortage of electrical power, it would be nice if Washington D.C. lost power first.
Oh and before anyone gets pedantic about it, yes, I know the power grid cannot be configured that way.
I support what he has done, and appreciate him informing American citizens to the constant surveillance that we at under.
But Venezuela? I want him to escape prosecution. I do not want him to enable a despotic government to appear to be free. Ironically Snowden will be "free" in Venezuela, but the Venezuelan people are not.
I was really hoping he'd end up in Iceland.
Yep. So many of these naysayers, when asked "what do we need to do" advocate drastic reductions in energy use, drastic draconian policies to make it happen, and always in the end come out with the root solutions of "we need a whole lot fewer people on this planet." Their final answer is eliminating BILLIONS of people.
Anyone who advocates that has lost all credibility with me. We can create cleaner power, and we will be cause we need to. Necessity is the mother of invention after all. Getting everyone in the world to go along with "less, less, less" isn't going to happen. We've solved complicated problems before, and we can do it here. I completely agree with the premise that anti-nuclear advocates need to go the heck away.
And no handwaving about how some new and untested reactor technology is going to make that impossible, or somehow today's dysfunctional international regulators can be fixed. All of that is just rehashing the No True Scotsmen line.
Oh yeah, right. Basically you're saying that since new reactor technology that doesn't cause nuclear weapons proliferation does not exist yet, we should not research new reactor technology.
The real irony here is that as a citizen, you should have more rights to request access to Obama's communication information than he has to request access to yours...
Ignorance of the law is not allowed as an excuse for law breaking. Perfect knowledge of the law is now well beyond impossible.
These are the perfect tools the police state needs.
Perhaps since its a Friday, surgeons actively avoid scheduling easy, routine surgeries. The surgeries that would take place would then be more risky emergency surgeries. The percentage number of fatalities would be higher as a result.
Yep. The reason the Wii U isn't selling is that there are only about 4 worthwhile games for it right now.
Nintendo needs to get some new titles out there.
Hell, they could just award the amount to him it the form of a scholarship.
Most kids turn are 18 before starting college.
Then it would be up to him to use the money or not by attending college.
But Paypal would come out of it looking much much more reasonable.
Wow. So that the ticket. All the Imperial President needs is the appropriate doublespeak labels for his enemies in the press and they can be destroyed. No first amendment issues here, the Emperor says so.
Don't send a letter to them.
I think its time to send a letter to my state's Public Utilities Commission with a copy to the state's Attorney General.
GOES-R's mission logo really need the StayPuft Marshmallow Man in it....