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  1. Re: The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    "When the same argument can be used to equally explain all potential outcomes, you have zero knowledge."

  2. Re:Please See: on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Which experiment? You mean the single one done and repeated a few times in the 1800's that don't really apply to Earth's atmosphere?

    CO2 is a greenhouse gas on Mars, or compared to a vacuum, or an atmosphere full of monoatomic and diatomic gasses, but it retains LESS heat than the average molecule of gas in Earth's atmosphere. You can see this for yourself if you bothered to look them up, as I did a few years ago.

  3. Re:Please See: on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Water vapor is short lived, but we have shifted the equilibria. Ignoring that and focusing on the CO2 red herring will both lose you the support of industry and anyone who actually bothers to re-examine the core axiom of AGW, which is, in fact, blatantly, and I think purposefully wrong.

    Saying that water vapor isn't a problem because of its short lifespan is like saying MRSA infections are no big deal because the bacteria just die in a few hours anyways.

  4. Re:Time for new terminology on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    You are literally the world's worst educator.

  5. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    >Therefore they should be allowed to do literally anything they want, up to and including public vivisections of dissidents.

    Your opinions are bad and you should feel bad.

  6. Re:Calorific value? on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Read up on ketosis. You lose a LOT more than you should because you change your body's system of metabolism to one that focuses on burning ketones, which can't be recycled back into fat. I lose a pound a day, no exercise, and eating until satisfied.

  7. Re:It's easier than that on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 2

    No, it isn't. Restricting calories leaves you hungry, which is utterly ruinous. Low carb, high fat decreases your appetite naturally. After being on low carb for a few months, I am completely satisfied by a small salad and a small steak, where I used to be and eat like a big tubby fat-ass.

  8. Re:The important question on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    No, it's fat, same as heavy cream. This is what makes Atkins awesome.

  9. Re:The diet is unimportant... on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    I can back this up. I've had the exact same experience. Induction/ketosis is probably the greatest single body hack ever invented. I lose a pound a day so long as I stay on it, though I have fallen off multiple times and it takes me a few days to get back on.

  10. Heat pumps on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    "Shows the heat absent from the surface plunging int the North and South Altantic Ocean."

    That is NOT HOW HEAT TRANSFER WORKS. /Morbo

    Where's your heat pump? Or what's the insulator that kept this cold water completely isolated from the surface for the last two hundred years? If you can't explain either of these two potential scenarios that could lead to what you say being true, you are making shut up to defend your moribund theory. I don't care which side you are on, that kind of behavior KILLS THE SCIENCE. Stop that shit.

  11. Re:Singularity on Method Rapidly Reconstructs Animal's Development Cell By Cell · · Score: 1

    Well damn.

    Uploading can also work by doing it gradually, replacing neurons one at a time with artificial ones, or fast links to an emulator. This could actually be done after being placed in a Matrix-like device that replaces signals going into and out of the brain. This has the upshot of not creating copies, meaning that there isn't a "you" that dies in the process.

  12. Singularity on Method Rapidly Reconstructs Animal's Development Cell By Cell · · Score: 1

    Could this give us a method for mind uploading? If we are able to track every cell in the human brain, especially over time, we should be able to emulate it wholesale with one or two more layers of software (electrical and chemical signaling).

    Very exciting times we are living in.

  13. A currency that isn't fungible.. on New Digital Currency Bases Value On Reputation · · Score: 1

    ...isn't a currency.

    Sorry.

  14. Re:Ridiculous! on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    None of those other things was Thor either, if they even existed.

    Mvdwege is now a transexual african-eurasian from Pluto, which is a moon of Neptune for some reason! If you don't agree you are a bigot!

  15. Re:Ridiculous! on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    It's like saying CmdrTaco will now be a woman. Thor is the name of a person, not a super-hero alter ego like Dread Pirate Roberts or something.

    If it's a woman who takes up the Mjolnir, then fine, but it's not Thor. I don't care it its another blond haired blue eyed ponce from Sweden, it's not fucking Thor. Its Sven. Or Svetlana. Whatever. Let them be their own person with their own personality, not a canon fucking rule 64 gag.

  16. sin(x) on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 0

    Wow, so now AGW people are comparing the warming "trend" to sin(x)? A function that trends literally exactly even over time?

    And here I thought they were just ignorant of physics. Guess they can't into math either.

  17. Re:Good? on Mayors of Atlanta & New Orleans: Uber Will Knock-Out Taxi Industry · · Score: 2

    They're just blaming Uber for what they themselves have done to the taxi industry. It should cost NOTHING to start a cab company, aside from the price of your cab and fuel. But government intervened on the side of big cab companies to force them to pay huge amounts for permits to decrease the competition.

    If Snapple had lobbied to force other drink companies to pay a million dollars for each distribution truck, you can bet that whatever drink companies were left would be charging outrageous amounts, and would probably try to ban people from drinking tap water. Such an arrangement would certainly be taken down by a series of lemonade stands.

    Uber has just pointed out the inefficiency and waste that has been created by government interference in the transportation industry.

  18. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 0

    So where's the warming? Both poles have more ice than usual.

    If you want to claim its the oceans, then you are going to have to explain where your heat pump is, or why the oceans just now started warming instead of a hundred years ago. Yes I have had this conversation before.

    We do have AGW, but it is caused by humanity shifting the water vapor equilibrium (through irrigation, paving, combustion, and cooling towers). It is a tight equilibrium, so there is very little chance of runaway global warming. Ocean acidification, however, is an extreme problem that is far more likely to do grievous harm to humanity. But no-one wants to actually think for themselves and do the calculations themselves. They just want to fit in.

  19. Re:I'd love some free Google classes on Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities · · Score: 1

    There are poor white people too, you know. More and more of them lately.

    But I suppose that is a racist thing to point out.

  20. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 2

    So if they force disclosure of a password and the data that was "known" to be on there isn't there, do you get to sue for violation of your fifth amendment rights?

  21. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    This is sort of like saying "tell us where you buried the bodies or we'll jail you permanently for contempt". Actually no, it's EXACTLY like saying that. The key sure as fuck IS incriminating evidence, just the same as the location of a dead body.

  22. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 2

    Right, I'm sure they didn't just have a visit from the NSA (Not Secure Anymore) who wanted a backdoor in their software, and they refused to give them one, shutting down instead.

  23. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity isn't security, anon.

  24. Typical on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    Governments squash innovation. News at 11.

  25. Re:Auctioning money? on US Marshals Accidentally Reveal Potential Bidders For Gov't-Seized Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    I see you don't know the difference between money and currency.

    You will know the difference one day. It will hit you in an instant, but it will be too late.