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Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
16% is way more than enough to swing a parliamentary government. You can rest assured that they will get what they want, as long as they form a coalition government with whichever party is willing to hand them the best booty.
Peter Schiff: "We Are In Worse Shape Than 6 Months Ago"
Snoop Dogg GPS System
"Why Bank Of America Fired Me"
African American Vernacular English (AAVE), is a well documented dialect of English. AAVE does have the k consonant swap in ask, which is something that linguists study, such swaps have historical precedent in other English dialects. Why do we feel comfortable assuming that all the dialects used by white people are "valid", but that AAVE is just an "incorrect" attempt at Standard American English (SAE)?
I was terribly annoyed by this as well and I am sure your allegations of racism are completely unwarranted.
I was not as much making an accusation, as asking a question about the license our society gives us to comment only on the language variance of historically oppressed people. I'm not accusing BRM specifically, but I am asking a question about a societal norm that has racist implications.
"Why Bank Of America Fired Me"
It's called a dialect.
I don't suppose you go around trying to correct the pronunciation of people speaking in cochney or australian dialects. Why do you feel justified in doing so just because the population using the dialect is prominently black?
Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails
DGhandi, I suppose open source Application writers are Naive too.
Coders don't need time on supercolliders, or satellite high resolution IR cameras. People who do large scale science need access to resources which are limited to large institutions, these institutions, as a common practice, enforce strict IP regulation.
The fact that it is bad for science/society is a problem, but has NOTHING to do with any wrong doing by the CRU.
>> ^MilkmanDan: I just mean that the burden of proof needs to be on the AGW supporting people
That's birther logic.
Science is not about perfection, it's about the best available hypothesis. AGW opponents have not yet put forth models which work better than the models being used by supporters of AGW, therefor AGW is considered the consensus scientific opinion. None of these models are perfect, but we should still use the best ones, even if some folks don't like the implications.
How can you expect me to take these folks seriously, much less award them correctness by default, when Ball supports ,the trivially falsifiable, urban-concrete-island hypothesis for GW?
Swiss Voters Vote To Ban Minarets (Mosque Towers)
We have fallen too far into the belief that democracy = right, which is plainly false. Sometimes, even often, democracy is wrong, that's why we have constitutional democracies, to protect minorities, and limit the destructive force of mob rule. It clearly didn't work here.
Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails
But the thing about science is that you are supposed to give out information willy-nilly.
While I agree with that in theory, I challenge you to name one scientific institution which makes all its employees e-mails, code and raw data sets public.
The fact of the matter is that we live in an IP crazed world, and universities and research institutions hold on to intellectual property because their presidents/boards of directors/funders require them to.
Every idea is guarded, and yes, this does significant harm to the scientific process, but that has nothing to do with whether or not the CRU is committing scientific fraud.
THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS HERE IS IF CRU IS COMMITTING FRAUD, no amount of ad-hominem will make their findings fraudulent, only pre-existing suppressed scientific evidence can do that.
These folks need to stop their media blitz and go find the data that they are so sure exists, anything else is psudo-scientific nonsense, and is undeserving of attention.
Twilight: New Moon in 60 Seconds
Albinos Hunted For Fun And Profit In Tanzania
Use your head to increase the range of your car remote
Most people assume one step:
remote: hey open the doors
-- car unlocks doors
This would allow anybody with a digital recorder and a properly tuned radio transceiver to unlock your car, so instead we do this:
remote: hey car #29837485, I want the doors open
car: okay, just send me the password scrambled with this code: 3943847283
remote: the scrambled password is 2938277437
-- car unlocks doors
For this to work, the remote must be able to hear the car, that is your limiting factor. The car has a big antenna relative to the remote, it can easily hear the remote. If the remote does not get the scramble code ( called a nonce) then it can't send the right response, and the car will not get the right code, and will refuse to unlock the doors.
The human body is a pretty good antenna, especially for receiving purposes, and so we give the little remote the RF antenna it needs to hear the car, and complete the conversation.
Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails
Yes, lots of document, which should make it easy to find a SCIENTIFIC basis on which to object to the CRUs papers, if these documents show how/what was "fudged". I'm not a opponent of AGW, I know many people are, and will happily wade through the files. I will listen to them as soon as they present some SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE in there which contradicts the published findings of the CRU, until then, it amounts to little more than ad-hominem.
I think its simple. If you want to hid your activities when it comes to things important as this then you are suspect.
That is terribly naive, people who make their living studying and publishing information are not allowed to give out information willy-nilly. Perhaps this should not be the case, but every company, university, and research institution does this, to act like it's strange or inherently suspect is dishonest.
Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails
2) Ball is a strong opponent of AGW theory.
3) Their list of "objective" sources are all websites of AGW opponents.
These facts alone make this highly suspect.
I find the whole thing ridiculous. If I cherry picked through the last ten years of your business e-mails I could find a subset with make you look like a scoundrel.
If these e-mails are so damning, then it should be trivial to show, with science, based on the information the e-mails contain, what is wrong with the papers that the CRU has published. But nobody appears to be able to do this.
So far all I have heard is that they "colluded" to withdraw support from journals publishing things they think are shite, and that they kept some information confidential. These are not suspicious behaviors, these are standard practice, and they should be. Scientists need to police journals by not publishing in those with poor practices. Scientists need to protect their data, and the data of others, so that they don't get scooped on publication.
Much broad climate data is public information, reported in many ways, backed up on paper and harddrives all over the world. If CRU is just fudging the "master data" it should be trivial to show that their dataset does not match the dataset as originally measured. Not claiming or talking about evidence for this suggests strongly that they have no such evidence, and wish to influence science, not through scientific evidence, but through public opinion, and just like creationists, that tactic alone makes their position suspect.
Sarah Palin Book Signing - Meet The Fans
Are you honestly claiming someone who is a fan of Sara Palin is likely to have reasonable thought out beliefs to back up their support of her? Sure you CAN cherry pick interviews but are you really saying that's what's happening here?
I think a lot of people have difficulty comprehending a different world view. Generally the folks who support Palin and her ilk care much less than folks on the left about the sort of rational arguments, that the interviewer is prompting for. To folks in her camp, it's more about "character" and trusting people to act in line with your "values". Why should they conform to the lefts rules of how to make decisions?
WPs ref to Bullshit is apt, but I think WP underestimates how incoherent most people are when asked to actually explain their beliefs and preferences. This works across the political spectrum, but folks in the fundamentalist-neo-con camp don't have any cultural incentive to self reflection, and so it's harder to cherry pick the "coherent" ones, because that sort of coherence does not, in general, matter to them.
Man in Coma for 23 years CONSCIOUS the entire time! (TYT)
The video of this case which is on the net is not consistent with the thesis that this man is actually conscious.
I think TYT just got punk'd.
Sixty Symbols Explain The Large Hadron Collider
Michael Moore Helps the NYPD Distinguish Wallets from Guns
An Accidental killing is still Manslaughter. No matter what color you are wearing at the time.
Are you suggesting that intentionally discharging a firearm at somebodies torso can be reasonably claimed to be an "accidental" cause of death?
Future from the Past -- 1993 AT&T "You Will" Ads
book scans Google books
civilian gps various
fax from beach wifi + web pdf->fax services (but who would want to?)
Electronic Toll Collection fasttrack,EZ-pass etc
ticket kiosk various
vid-phone i-chat, etc (and the near extinction of public phones)
voice lock not common
med card taiwan, etc
vid-confence i-chat, etc
movie on demand Tivo,Comcast,Hulu, etc
interactive online class Many Universities, MIT Open Courseware, etc
Unless they mean "we can sell you the DSL connection you will need for all of this" then, they clearly failed to deliver.
Palin Screws Her Stupid Fans
cash for clunkers programbook signing?Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
Edit: Check out the utter destruction on Yelp!
My favorite is This one, not exactly non-fiction, but I was LMFAHS.
Edit: the photos are pretty sweet too.