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  1. Re:every year we have winter summer cased by sun on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    No, you misread and misunderstand. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas on Earth, it's levels and degree of effect are too complicated to model.

  2. Re:Way to state the obvious on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    yes.

    you just quoted a source that uses "may" and a whopping three hundredths of a degree. do you have any idea what the margin of error is on the 0.03 estimated for a thousand years ago? get a clue, pal

  3. Re:Huh on Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander · · Score: 3, Interesting

    do you have any source for your claim that "multitudes" "starve and die", or did you make that nonsense up? Here's a fact for you, hunger rate in U.S. much higher than China

  4. Re:Way to state the obvious on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    actually, even 1000 years ago in the "medieval warm period", the average global temperature may well have been as warm or warmer than the recent 15 years, the errors in estimation of magnitude are quite large.

  5. Re:PRAISE?!? on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    It is very rational because such things happen quite often in the USA. And over a million times a year, the presence of a gun prevents a violent crime.

    The murders with guns, on the other hand, are mostly committed by a couple subcultures in inner cities.

  6. Re:PRAISE?!? on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    "assault rifle" must have selective fire option. Rifle that resembles an "assualt rifle", but only has semiauto fire, is not an assault rifle (Hitler coined the term, by the way)

    Thousands of people hunt with the "military looking" rifles that resemble assuault rifles, enthusiasts find advantages to that shape over traditional rifle shape. Don't know why you would opine it's "less practical", you don't like them and wish it were true?

  7. Re:rant from a gun nut on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    naw, I'm very much in the "gun crowd" and most my friends would agree .30-30 and similar are undersized for the deer or humans .308 or 30-06 or similar Russian rounds are pefect size and power for sure-killing man / deer sized animal

  8. Re:An Eternity of Torment, I ope on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    "guns don't really have a non-violent application"

    tens of thousands of bulleye shooters would disagree

  9. Re:You'd do the same on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    you forget a dude named General George Patton?

  10. Re:consequences... on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 1

    making a computer crudely approximate what humans do to each other all the time with their brains?

    it won't change anything.

  11. Re:goths? on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 1

    the Romans thought the goths were funny, at first.

  12. Re:I AM E !! on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 1

    Emo would try suicide, and fail, and whine about it

  13. Re:No shit on Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe · · Score: 1

    funny, they require email address AND CELL NUMBER to register!

  14. Re:Way to state the obvious on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You'll note this study does not cover any serious fraction of the Earth's history, a couple thousand years is a sneeze.

  15. Re:Way to state the obvious on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    false, the Sun and insolation drives climate and climate change, greenhouse gas effects are secondary. First thing one learns in any serious geophysics course.

  16. Re:... Really? on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 0

    because the Earth's average temperature was never warmer than it is now? Also, the Sun is in fact expanding and imparting more energy to earth over time, and the trend will only continue and increase while it does, Look it up.

  17. Re:Joe Biden's quote of the day on Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe · · Score: 1

    for a lot of geeks that wouldn't hold true, we don't use our phone calls to communicate with friends

    now email, chat, forums, other social networking, on the other hand...

  18. Re:No shit on Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe · · Score: 1

    cell numbers are in phone books? not in my neighborhood

  19. Re:This is god. on Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    further clarification please, are we to be raped by male or female horse? Getting backed into would be bad, but getting our backside into'd very painful.

  20. Re:Not enough, on Alan Turing Pardoned · · Score: 1

    you're confused. "guilt" under the law has nothing to do with right or wrong or morality.

    plenty of good things are illegal. plenty of very evil things are perfectly legal.

    nothing will change the fact that "sodomy" at the time was illegal. and that definition of "sodomy" at the time even included good fun acts that heterosexual slashdotters enjoy (or wish they could enjoy) all the time.

    don't dignify the law and government with your mistaken notion that it somehow creates or enforces morality.

  21. Re:Sending dollars on Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    in various countries, bitcoins have been siezed by governments. bitcoins have been regulated by governments. bitcoins have been banned by governments. bitcoins have been taxed by governments.

  22. please don't make a mobile version on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    just don't make a mobile version. please. you're not smart enough.

    I hate going to websites on my phone and being kicked into some crippled view that doesn't have what I want. so just, don't.

    I can navigate the sites I know very well on my phone's browser. no "help" needed.

  23. Re:There is no difference.. on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    so you started to wise up to half the errors you made since your first posted.....

    Having done kernel and system programming on several operating systems since the 1970s, I'm sure I know a wee bit more about the subject than most here

  24. Re:The last patch Tuesday from Microsoft should be on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    XP will still run applications and be used

  25. Re:Go for it, please on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 1

    we can ascertain your tribe by getting a response to a few questions (cause it's fun to "pigeon-hole" and label people) , but you have to answer these questions about yourself and your two closet friends who are not Significant Others:

    1. Age
    2. Biological Gender and then Gender you Self-Identify
    3. Number of and Sexual Orientation of Your Sexual Partners in Last Five Years.
    4. Children? and are some of them living with you?
    5. Four Favorite Activities or Hobbies
    6. Occupation and Income
    7. Two Personal Heros
    8. Two Favorite Kind of Music
    9. Favorite system of government
    10. Favorite economic system
    11. Personal Religion?
    12. What three causes have you donated in last year?
    13. Community service or activity that benefits strangers?