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Comment Global Warming? (Score 0) 237

50 years ago is 1965. When did global warming start? Not then, not even after WW II which caused a huge mount of CO2 from human carbon units.

Tax'em more types never did explain why Mars polar caps melted some. But this Asteroid could have slowed down earth's rotation around the sun and the orbit around the sun dropped ever so slightly as it was trapped into orbit. But hey, tax us more could not tax heads or food, so tax the CO2 to make food for the overpopulated planet. ANY added mass requires a math cleanup of assumptions of orbits.

Food for thought, but in the end, we are only here for the ride on planet earth. Be a good place for aliens to watch us barbarian backwards humans from. I figure aliens would not want us polluting their culture as the would certainly be more evolved and rational than us as a species.

Comment Re:Criminal yes, Poor Security yes (Score 1) 107

Protectionism taxing American business just drives up costs and makes them less competitive.

Better find a better solution. As protectionism on a country level is like a snake eating its own tail. The more you protect, the more uncompetative the nation becomes. How many offices will buy furniture at say $20,000 for a basic metal desk and chair, then be able to compete?

Its why the existing protectionism taxes for rich and unions is not working. A Chinese or Indian can buy a nice car for only $10,000, pay less than half to maintain it, thus they can work for less. Cannot keep inflating the economics with debt, false hope, BS, higher costs of government.

But hey, some career government glass house mentality types have a lye for ya. False hope for a vote. And over $9 trillion of added debt to support with little benefiting the main stream middle class. Ya, government is working hard, but not business/job smart. Working hard doing the wrong things as the wrong things are not politically correct/corrupt enough.

Comment Re:obviously 266% duties imposed in march failed (Score 0) 107

Bingo. Its about over paid executives, employment costs, cost of living with $9 trillion more ObamaDebt, more ClintonDebt a coming. Obama care, local utility, steel, supply costs... combined with poor costly designs.

Clinton is clueless glass house career government does not have the solution, nether does Sanders. Trump is only half right, Chinese are more efficient, economical and include value as part of quality. They are lean, efficient and effective. Something America once had and lost. With debt inflating the economy, Americans can't compete. And its not the workers fault, its the corruption of government thinking debt is free. Its not, just how and who pays for it. $19 trillion of virtual worthless money drives up costs.

Trump is right in that Americans paying 70% for NATO, feeding a ever increasing government bloat, wasteful wars with a WW II mentality, sending money to nations like Pakistan, Ukraine to feed corruption and in Pakistan case, unlike Iran, they reall do have nkes. But few will ask corruption politicians about political posturing that makes no sense. Ruin countries like Syria, trying to overthrow ELECTED Assad, while funneling defense support to dictator Saudi. Wake up people, ISIS butchers are carrying Obama/Hillary purchased weapons!!!

And you pay in debt, taxes, dysfunctional government. And why I like Trump. Trump will shake it up. As Wall Street buys politicians and look the next step and see who the big depositors are...dare ya.

As a Canadian too, you do not tax much on Canadian beef heading to the USA. But up to 234% taxes and fees on American beef going north. What a crappy deal Clinton and lobby driven politics gave America. Pretty one sided right? Gets worse too, INS gives green cards to illegals easier than the lawyer legal method for Canadians, but that another story.

Political correctness is double talk for political corruption. This is a lot more complex than "blame the Chinese" mentality. Protectionism is really a tax on people trying to compete. If an office costs 5 times as much, makes your companies less competative. Someone let it happen. And to borrow from Einstein...

Insanity: Voting the same way for the same idiots a lying, expecting better results.

Comment Re:This is evil but not capitalist (Score 1) 907

Blaming capitalism is stupid. US govmint is so far in debt, below inflation returns it has to create thin air money (QE electronic counterfeit) to buy its own debt in the ruse of solvency. No legitimate lenders is lending Obama the trillion+ per year.

Capitalism is doing just what your bankrupt govmint wants, bad credit, cannot pay, no job, can't save, no problem, we have a loan for you in the modern debt fraud economy of corruption.

And dumb founded people wonder why the economy is lousy. Yet media, politicians and so called experts do not disclose the devaluation of US money to the rest of the world. Pull up a 10 year chart, compare the Chinese Yuan to USD, as USA, your being devalued for debt corruption, govmint fraud on currency, and losing value.

But mass denial of reality is nothign new.

Comment Bet most water is older than the sun (Score 1) 173

Stars create water when they blow up, super nova etc. Our sun does NOT create water (yet). Perhaps in 4 billion years when our sun exhausts hydrogen and helium...it might.

Our solar system is for the most part comprised of mater created 4.5 billion years ago or earlier. Perhaps a supernova some 6-10 billion years go left hydrogen, helium, all the periodic elements we see today. Rocks, asteroids, meteors, all remnants of whatever happened before 4.5 billion years ago as our solar system formed.

My guess, is *most* as in 90%+ water came from long ago, oort cloud gets disturbed by a passing star, next thing you know our planets get chunks of ice for a million years or so. And how earth got most of its water, from space mater as our planets formed, then later via meteors and comets.

Comment So much for freedom (Score 1) 349

So much for fighting for freedom of speech and American values..

Seems to me that perhaps the US military is protecting a country that is against human rights and against freedom of speech.

But I am sure this article is trolling. I say this as I can't believe a US warship doesn't already have encrypted Internet channels back to DC. Sounds like a hoax.

Easiest way is for getting a world phone with data capabilities and don't use the local fascist government repression of the peoples systems.

Apple

Submission + - Apple extortion of Samsung (financialpost.com)

canuck57 writes: Looks like Apple won a round with Samsung, guess Apple isn't happy that Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 outsells the Apple iPad. I am a Galaxy Tab 10.1 owner and for the most part satisfied one at that. But hey, consumers should be against this patent extortion. I have used an iPad and Android, fact is this is just Apple patent trolling.

Comment Eco fraud (Score 2, Informative) 1181

First, you have to prove it was mankind and is harmful. Let me toss some facts:

Recent melting glaciers in BC contain trees only 7600 years old. This means the ice isn't long time permanent. Be you creationist or evolutionist man survived and multiplied well 7600 years ago with a warmer climate. Most of the antarctic and arctic ice is recent ice as in less than 10,000 years old. Human species evolved when it was warmer.

Mars polar caps, Io ice melts, my SUT did it? Hm, prove it. There is a stellar component and tax-me-more eco freaks ignore the obvious. Ignore sunspots and stellar activities? Come now. Seelctive science is generally junk science.

Hey, I will not even argue warming exists!!! But is it bad to have say NWT turn into farm-able and livable land? Or ferns to grow again on the north slope of Alaska?

Let me ask, why does eco junk science always talk of gloom and doom for tax bucks? Yep, it is about the money for most eco freaks, it isn't about empirical unbiased opens science at all. Just political BSing the outlook for fear taxes today. 99% of what we are fed in the media is political jousting in the ruse of science, about money, taxes and power. Pretty hard to sort it out too.

People are getting sick of the BS and shutting down. Be it right or wrong.

Comment VitualBox (Score 1) 1

Just keep their hands off of VirtualBox.

On the personal level I stopped using VMWare 5 years ago. VMWare might be good in some business situations on monster boxen, but on a stand alone desktop or even small/mid server VMWare is overkill bloat when VitualBox does really good at this.

Comment GPS and Boobs (Score 1) 3

Always nice to know where the boobs are, but how few people realize how much information can be embedded into photographs and videos....GPS, host keys, IP addresses including upstream routers, your name and anything else it can get/has in it. Can be obfuscated or encrypted too so don't rely in "strings" to detect it.

It is deliberate too as many manufacturers embed this. Microsoft will on any video it touches. And a lot of times it isn't obvious, might be your host key where Microsoft can lookup your IP and registration, maybe right back to the store you bought it and credit card you used. Can be done with SIP phone calls too.

Even hackers miss it.

And why open source is only source I trust with critical stuff even though I don't do anything wrong.....while it too isn't perfect, it isn't as lame on personal security as many commercial devices and OSes.

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