Yes, this inclusion into the Dash has gone a bit to far.

I upgraded a machine over the weekend to 12.10, and after a couple of installs of my various packages I like, I went to Unity Dash to search for "Eclipse" to see if I'd already installed the Java IDE or not.

Instead of simply saying "no", it instead gave me returns for all sorts of Twilight movies and books. Amazon probably has it on my wish list already.

I'll search Amazon when I want to search Amazon. When Dash is now the way to launch programs on my box instead of menus, I want it to launch programs.

    --Lance

In these examples, he's using it as a subgroup of pot smokers. That is, the image we have of the "loser stoner" who spends all his day baked. The hippie dope-smoker head-in-the-clouds stereotype disconnected from reality. It's hardly a screed against "marijuana users."

The full exchange in the first example is about the people making a mess of the Wisconsin capitol, where I think people did in fact have bongs IIRC:

GROTHMAN: No, of course not. But the people who are staying overnight are largely making a mess of our capitol. That's what you're addressing. Why are we keeping people out of the building? Because we do not want to have so many people there overnight defacing our beautiful capitol. If you would interview all the people who are creating a ruckus, the vast majority who are here today are not police officers or nurses. They're either college students or hangers on -- or unemployed people just looking for somewhere to hang on.

RUSH: Right. The Democrats and the media want you to think it's just a bunch of average, hardworking out of working, valiant teachers, firefighters and so forth, and it's a bunch of slobs. Maggot-infested, dope-smoking, damn it, hell, longhaired, the whole nine yards. You got longhaired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking FM rock 'n' roller types, exactly who they are. Bong pipes, you name it. Now, I'm gonna tell you something: What Governor Walker and other governors around the country are offering public sector unions is beyond generous. It's outlandish, it's irresponsible. Wisconsin bureaucrats ought to be kissing this governor's feet for what he's offering them during these economic times.

I'm going to need a bit more context and proof than that. I've seen many false quotes attributed to him (just like I've seen many false quotes attributed to Obama, GW Bush, Clinton, and other public figures). In particular, that quote without context is cut/pasted all around the pro-legal-marijuana sites but they don't have more than what's there. Nor can I find the segment in particular for that date on Limbaugh's site (though that may be just because it's from several years ago).

Is there audio anywhere so I can tell if he's joking? Or if it's part of a bit he's doing?

(Personally, I don't care if marijuana is legal, I just like to have my facts right.)

Can you please point to where Limbaugh said "pot and people who smoke it, [are] evil"?

Note how any time there is motion you only see a portion of the object. The arm movements and in-traffic video are clearly CGI, and the raise/lower video could be done by a crane from above since everything above the legs is cropped out.

And while we see the gatling barrels spinning, I don't see anything being fired out.

In other words, this is a sculpture, not a mech. I doubt it's anything other than an elaborate miniature plus a fake cockpit.

Precisely. Watts explicitly followed Muller's BEST model. He has pre-publication papers up for download and has submitted to peer review.

If you dismiss Watts, you have to dismiss BEST as well.

Furthermore, Muller answered Maddow by saying BEST has not addressed surface stations at all. So it's quite possible that both Muller and Watts are right.

Muller has never been a "skeptic" or proponent of AGW. He's a real scientist and properly excorated Mann for the fakeness of the hockey stick. Whereas the IPCC just quitely swept it under the rug.

Almost certainly because your post options are in 'Extrans'

Except that other countries have high levels of other violence. The UK has more violent crimes than than the US, and they've banned guns outright.

Gun bans don't prevent violence.

I had one from T-Mobile for quite a while. You could still talk for a high per-minute price. Since I rarely used it as a phone, it was a good deal. Since then I've added voice on the monthly plan so I don't know if they still offer the plans.

And of course, it's hard to measure the bias of pages that have been deleted.

Uh, Wal Mart is still selling generics at $4 per refill. Where are the raised prices?

Right, but since the gas got into the water before fracking, and gets into the water where no fracking is occurring, it's pretty odd to claim that the one causes the other. "Gasland" is another pseudo documentary which is about agenda, not documentation.

Now, if only there was scientific evidence that there was a problem with fracking, instead of all of this political pressure because all fossil fuels are evil.

I'm getting very disappointed with Slashdot this past few years, and they seem to be pandering to the sensationalist. I used to come here for some real news.

It's all over the wire about the jury deliberations, mistrial, infringements. I come to Slashdot thinking I'd get the real scoop. Nope, more of same sensational stuff.

So, Groklaw has the real story, and it turns out, it's not much of a story at all.

There's all sorts of sensational web sites out there. I used to come to Slashdot for the comments, which have always been rational. Now, I'm not sure why I stop by from time to time.