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  1. The science is settled... on Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever · · Score: 1

    ...its just the data is wrong.

  2. Re:"Could", on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 1

    I think you're just projecting your own denial of how the scientific process works, because you're a believer in apocalypse and to believers every sign of bad weather is a portent and every skeptic, a heretical blinded tool of Satan.

  3. Re:"Could", on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 1

    Over time, nothing is sustainable. The Sun's fusion process is not sustainable.

    You're going to have to qualify your bullshit argument by first defining what "sustainable" means and over what period it operates.

  4. Re:"Could", on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 1

    Its a basic physics that you should be able to demonstrate. Bear in mind that when Al Gore and Bill Nye tried to demonstrate it, they ended up faking the experiment in post-production.

  5. Re:MIT done right on MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin · · Score: 1

    The accusation is the evidence.

  6. Re:Just wondering... on MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin · · Score: 1

    It's already there.

  7. Re:Even more important questions exist! on MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What happened to being innocent until proven guilty?

    That was nullified when the accuser was a woman and the accused was white and heterosexual. Remember the entire justice system has been traduced by the idea that we should believe the victim without evidence as to who the victim is, and by the incredible idea that everyone except white males should be free from being offended by any means whatsoever. Things called 'microaggressions' are seriously discussed in classrooms when the prejudices of non-white, non-heterosexuals are challenged. .

  8. Re:Debian rejects game dueTo authors opinion on wo on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

  9. Re:Global warming is bunk anyway. on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    It's only "warming" in the sense of a global average

    Which also has not been warming either for the past decade or so. :-)

    For which, there are a lot of excuses but not much warming... all that time CO2 has continue to increase so obviously what temperature changes there are, is disconnected from CO2.

    Ah, such a simple way of looking at it. But the increase in energy retained on the Earth by enhanced greenhouse warming manifests itself in several ways. Not only can the troposphere warm up but the oceans and the land surface can warm up and ice can melt. When you look at the whole picture it's obvious that the Earth continues to warm.

    Since around 93% of the warming goes into the oceans normally is doesn't take much of a shift to make a difference in tropospheric warming which is what you've been seeing. There are some hints that that situation may be about to swing back to the situation we had in the 1980's and 1990's so all I can say is enjoy your "no warming for the past decade or so" while you can, it won't last.

    Ah I can help you there. The ARGOS floats show no signs of that heat being "hidden" in the oceans. So I'd have to say that 99.7% of your argument was bullshit with made-up statistics on top.

    Thanks for playing.

  10. Re:Already fixed on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 1

    A simple fix (why am I helping Walmart? Because fraud is fraud) is to present the evidence to a customer information point, where they will check whether the price given is actually offered by Amazon and give a voucher with a code of some kind which can be used at checkout.

    Result: Fraud stopped in its tracks.

  11. Impressive, but.... on Low Cost Ground Robot Chassis That Can Traverse Challenging Obstacles · · Score: 2

    ...what happens if you put the robot upside-down, or on its side? It looks to me like the robot is fine so long as it doesn't tip over. It's like a tank, but able to be flexible by not carrying a fixed payload.

    Nice hobby object, but I can't see the point.

  12. Re:Who cares about the lander? on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 1

    Twitter #Gamergate

  13. How about a Linux windowing system... on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...called Groupon

    Groupon Window System will take the best of windowing system technologies, mix it all up in a big bit bucket, and then start a flamewar followed by a schism. Just like all of the others.

  14. Re:Concern for high values? on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can consider yourself a vegan but you're not. You've become omnivorous.

    Veganism is a diet for rich western people who have shops stocked with food year round and first world medical facilities. For most of the world, veganism is a cruel joke, if not a slow suicide.

  15. In dishonor of Samzenpus on The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change · · Score: 1

    #cuethedeniers

  16. Re:A classic example of a false dichotomy on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    How can you question something without being accused of motivated reasoning or worse? How can you question that which is asserted as the beliefs of a credible consensus of scientists?

    You can't. Its a classic fallacy.

  17. Re:There is such a thing as fact on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1, Troll

    There are basically no credible scientists arguing if global warming is a thing. There are also no credible scientists arguing over whether it will negatively impact humanity. The argument is over what's causing it and the magnitude of the damage. Please note that the consensus is that the damage will be massive, it's just about _how_ massive....

    You've just demonstrated that you don't understand science or the history of science.

  18. Re:A classic example of a false dichotomy on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 0

    That's OK. Reading paragraphs is hard, especially when you're a moron.

  19. A classic example of a false dichotomy on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can always rely on social scientists (now there's an oxymoron) to demonstrate a false dichotomy and a few other logical fallacies.

    1. The earth is going to warm 3.2 degrees in just over a century. Do you
    a) raise taxes on everything now including fossil fuels forcing many people into life-strangling fuel poverty and condemning billions to staying in poverty or
    b) adapt to the changes, encourage as many people as possible to survive through prosperity or
    c) question the validity of the rise in future temperatures as an unquestionable fact. You CONSERVATIVE DENIER.

    2. Violent home break-ins are rising as the number of guns has reached saturation point. Do you
    a) get armed yourself, increasing the likelihood that you or your children may be injured by having arms and ammunition in the house or
    b) call for stricter gun controls, which limit legitimate gun ownership while doing nothing to prevent illegal gun possession or
    c) question the validity of the rise in home break-ins as an unquestioned fact. You LIBERAL COWARD

    3. You read a survey in a scientific journal and you possess a brain (rare on the Internet, go with me on this). Do you
    a) accept its conclusions because its science
    b) reject its conclusions because its flawed.
    c) question the validity of the experiment because you probably think the moon landings were faked. YOU ARE A CONSPIRACY NUT.

  20. In dishonor of Samzenpus on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 0

    #cuethedeniers

  21. Re:Ob on OpenSUSE 13.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Not only systemd, but a whole /bin directory of the purest evil. It also supports #Gamergate and goes down quicker than a $10 hooker.

    Apart from that, it's a Linux distro.

  22. Re:Correlation does not imply causation on New Study Shows Three Abrupt Pulses of CO2 During Last Deglaciation · · Score: 5, Informative

    It happens a lot in science. Have you actually read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"? Clearly not.

  23. In dishonor of Samzenpus on New Study Shows Three Abrupt Pulses of CO2 During Last Deglaciation · · Score: 0

    #cuethedeniers

  24. And so in dishonor of Samzenpus on 16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office · · Score: 0

    #cuethedeniers #poisoningthewell #climatedenialiscreationism #dontquestionclimatemodels #dontmentionthehiatus

  25. Re:Companies Fail To Admit Thier Mistakes on Ubuntu Turns 10 · · Score: 2

    Luxury. I had to use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.