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  1. Re:Why are people getting so worked up on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is very little uncooked data. At least if you define uncooked data as temperatures taken from sensors placed in accordance with NOAA guidelines. Somewhere around 80% of the temp sources in the US are currently placed outside those guidelines. The only source of truly uncooked data currently would be the raw satellite data, but NASA doesn't give that out until they massage it. This doesn't even mention the fact that the tree ring data is entirely unreliable pre or post 1960.

  2. Re:Lunacy!!! on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    Fuck the global stage as well.

  3. Re:Problem already solved on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    The barrel changes would be a PITA. OTOH, the new M-60 E4s require many less barrel changes, use much cheaper ammo, and you can get several for the price of one Ma Deuce.

  4. Re:Pro-tip: Shoot them dead. on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    Yes, seeing as even a RPG hit or two at or below the waterline won't sink your boat, whereas taking out 2 or 3 pirates pretty much fucks up their entire plan.

  5. Re:And what happens.. on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    I'm almost certain that they already do, at least if you're talking non-west coast ports.

  6. Re:Great... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Bzzt, wrong. The IPCC synthesis report is merely a conglomeration of assessment reports. Specifically, various reports that assess others' results. More specifically, many of those results came from CRU and company. Which means the assessment reports are invalid, which in turn means the Sythesis report is invalid. Simple application of GIGO.

  7. Re:Uh yeah, whatever... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that should be 'is by definition invalid.'

  8. Re:Uh yeah, whatever... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Well, let's see. Every single goddamned experiment that used the slightest bit of data or results from the CRU crew is not by definition invalid. The same goes for anything from GISS, since they use a lot of the same temp sources and that bastard Hansen has been talked about in much of the emails. This basically invalidates either directly or indirectly the vast, vast majority of climate science performed after the invention of the hockey stick graph, to say the least. All of it must be redone.

  9. Re:People like you are a large part of the problem on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Stopping CO2 emmisions won't make the air or water any cleaner.

  10. Re:Great... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    You mean the mountains of evidence that either cite CRU papers and models, or utilize GISS and Hadley-CRU data sets for which the majority of sensors are placed wrong?

  11. Re:Chernobyl again? on NRC Relicensing Old "Zombie" Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    Except among other flaws not inherent in a large engineering project, the banks depended on people to react the way they thought they would. A very stupid thing to do in finance outside of large generalizations.

  12. Re:Definitely questions for... on Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids · · Score: 1

    If that threatened is not physically, or imminently physical, than they can damn well wait until their parents are available.

  13. Re:Treason on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 1

    Ah, but he was ALREADY breaking the law. Completely different.

  14. Re:Ridiculous on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Cats can transmit Toxoplasmosis, which is an infection that has exhibited mind control over certain animals.

  15. Re:MOD parent down, uninformed on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    deathroot poison?

  16. Re:mod parent up on China Enforces Even Stricter Regulation On Games · · Score: 1

    The recent banking/housing and insurance messes were caused primarily by .gov regulation. The banking/housing mess was originally caused by pressure from the government to lend to poor people so they could own their own house, at which point the banks began to seriously search for a way to offset the crappy balance sheets this directive produced, took the idea that 'solved' their balance sheets, and extended it to all classes of homes. That, combined with the low interest rates from the fed, caused the massive bubble that popped. The insurance mess is caused by many factors, but one of the biggest is all the federal regulations that bar insurance companies from operating across state lines.

  17. Re:nuts on China Enforces Even Stricter Regulation On Games · · Score: 1

    And the current prosperity of China is in fact despite of it's government. See India for how China should be growing.

  18. Re:Have they played the mission? on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you see, if you did that, then the Russians wouldn't have gotten angry enough to send what would pretty much have to be their entire armed forces to SUUUPER SEEKRETLY invade the US.

  19. Re:CoD6: Vietnam on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm confused as to exactly how the Russians invade America. Without, y'know, getting their asses handed to them on the high seas.

  20. Re:Sad on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    The REVEREND Jesse Jackson feels outrage at, ohhhhh, anything done by non-blacks concerning blacks in any way shape or form of his choosing that he thinks will gain him power and/or money.

  21. Re:It's good to be owed money! on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    With the current president? Who can't even decide what to do in Afghanistan? Hah. The only reason we MIGHT do anything about Taiwan is because there's probably enough support for an actual declaration of war from the Senate.

  22. Re:It's good to be owed money! on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    Of course, at that point, we stop buying shit from China and their entire economy which even now is primarily structured around selling us shit, collapses like a house of cards.

  23. Re:The applause is sickening on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's French? Well, that certainly puts everything in perspective.

  24. Re:Get your lawyers ready /. on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you see in the '60s and '70s we began to make so many more things illegal. After all, the State had to have an excuse to exercise their power, and given the general recalcitrance of Americans, this meant making more and more things illegal with which to have a 'legitimate' excuse to control them.

  25. Re:Get your lawyers ready /. on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Go ask Massachusetts