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  1. He's self-deporting from the swamp. on James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    He's self-deporting from the swamp.

  2. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 0

    There is no evidence of artificial sweeteners stimulating appetite or cause weight gain. There is conjecture and there are correlations that can be used to sell the conjecture, but that is different from evidence of causation.

  3. Re:I hate and despise - but they should still be s on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Honoring them is different from honoring their cause. The Viet Nam memorial for example doesn't honor the cause of ending communism.

  4. Re:I hate and despise - but they should still be s on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 3, Informative

    It doesn't mean slavery or hatred or bigotry or treason. The national flag of the Confederate States does means secession and slavery, but that's not the flag we're talking about. (That flag is currently the state flag of Georgia, the only difference being the state seal added inside the circle of stars, so you should take up those issues with the state of Georgia.) The flag we're talking about was created to boost morale of the soldiers, and was only for use in battle. It was created first for the Northern Virginia Infantry and was adopted by other state infantries as it gained popularity. It was not a political flag. To the soldiers and their families it symbolized bravery and valor in battle and it honored the dead. After the war it was adopted by the United Confederate Veterans, and it was referred to as "the soldiers' flag."

    Its meaning has evolved in complex ways after the war, but if we're talking about its early history its meaning always had to do with the honoring the dead and the brave, and not so much with the political causes for which those people were sacrificed.

  5. Re:Why not fantasize about finding a winning ticke on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 1

    Indexed corporate bond fund.

  6. Re:Wait, what? on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    That's funny, since there is less gender diversity in elementary education than there is in tech.

    To quantify, the male/female ratio is 75/25 in tech and 24/76 in elementary education.

  7. That's funny, since there is less gender diversity in elementary education than there is in tech.

  8. ET Christianity on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    "Weintraub also identified two religions – Mormonism and Seventh-day Adventism – whose theology embraces extraterrestrials."

    Swedenborgianism is a another brand of Christianity that embraces extraterrestrials. Swedenborg wrote about conversations he had with the spirits of extraterrestrials where they told him about their worlds and cultures.

  9. Re:ET would disprove God on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that the aliens do not also fall under the category of "man", which would seem contrary to the evidence in the scenario.

  10. Re: Sexual Harassment Is Common In ... Everything on Sexual Harassment Is Common In Scientific Fieldwork · · Score: 1

    No one is saying it's a good word. It's a bad word. It's just that statements such as "it doesn't mean anything" or "it's not a word" are more wrong than using a bad word.

  11. Re: Sexual Harassment Is Common In ... Everything on Sexual Harassment Is Common In Scientific Fieldwork · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think it actually means the same thing as "regardless".

  12. Re:Deniers are too stupid to read -- prove me wron on Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Sorry bad numbers.... I meant to say 330 to 400 -- the change from the 80's to now which have coincided with the most recent warming trend.

  13. Re:Deniers are too stupid to read -- prove me wron on Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Do you happen to have a the reference for those CO2 forcing numbers? Every time I've tried to follow footnotes from an IPCC report, it sends me on a chain of references that just ends up back at an earlier IPCC report.

  14. Re:Deniers are too stupid to read -- prove me wron on Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I've read all the IPCC reports. I've read dozens of climate papers published in the climatology journals. I've downloaded all the ice core data to do my own numerical experiments. What I am doing is pointing out some bad oversimplified reasoning.

  15. Re:Deniers are too stupid to read -- prove me wron on Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The question isn't whether "CO2 causes warming" but whether a change from 290 to 330 ppm in the troposphere can be the cause of a measurable change in the heat content of troposphere. Since it's all so trivial, I'm curious whether your undergraduate text explains why increased CO2 concentration in the stratosphere causes the stratosphere to loose heat.

  16. Re:"Down with fat-shaming!" on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Fast food doesn't make you fat.

    Too much food makes you fat.

    signed, someone who recently lost 55 pounds of fat and put on 8 pounds of muscle on a calorie-controlled diet of mcdonalds and burger king.

  17. Re:Buggy whips? on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Solar power will not get cheap in the next decade or two or three or four. And while coal power will eventually go away, that time is hundreds and hundreds of years away.

  18. Re:Quantum fluctuations != nothing on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 1

    Lawrence Krauss is an example of someone who would rather redefine "nothing" to mean "something" just so he can say "the universe came from nothing" to see how many people it annoys.

  19. Re:Quantum fluctuations != nothing on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 1

    Precisely. The use of the word "nothing" is pure pseudoscience, uttered by who are more interested in scoring points against religion than saying anything of scientific relevance.

  20. Re:We've gone beyond bad science on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 1

    Are all droughts caused by global warming, or were there droughts before global warming? Or maybe global warming just makes all droughts worse? It couldn't possibly make a drought better, right. It probably makes all floods worse too. It probably just makes everything worse. Makes total sense.

  21. Re:Matt Strassler perspective on Big Bang's Smoking Gun Found · · Score: 1

    And that while this is a tremendous experiment, it's not any kind of "smoking gun", and we really need to wait for replication to get properly excited.

    It's not that it's not a smoking gun. It is a smoking gun. It's that scientists like to have several smoking guns.

  22. Re:Indirect measurement of gravitational waves on Big Bang's Smoking Gun Found · · Score: 1

    This is certainly the first detection of gravity waves. True, the gravity waves themselves aren't operating directly on the instrument. But as one of the researchers pointed out, there are two ways you could detect waves in the ocean, you could put a buoy in the water and detect it moving up and down, or you could take a picture of the waves from a distance, and this is like the latter.

  23. Re:Interesting... on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 1

    Exchanges folding up have nothing to do with whether or not bitcoin is a good investment. Bitcoin's value is the same as it was in mid-December. Exchanges folding up, rather, means that it's unwise to trust your bitcoins to be held by exchanges.

  24. Re:Lessee, where's my dictionary? on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    So you think there's some meta-authority over the government that tells it what spending is "mandatory"? No, there is not. The government decides what is mandatory. The government can change what is mandatory, the same as they change any other law.

  25. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 0

    You have it completely backwards. Most degrees are worthless to employers. Employable skills are not what is taught in college. If you want a good paying job, you should go to welding school. If you want a pile of debt and to live in you're parents' basement indefinitely, get a philosophy degree.