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Submission + - RIP Leonard Nimoy

Submitted by Esther Schindler on Friday February 27, 2015 @01:21PM

Esther Schindler writes: According to the NY Times, Leonard Nimoy died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.

He was, and always shall be, our friend.

Submission + - Leonard Nimoy Dies at Age 83 (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27, 2015 @01:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Nothing to add, but figured people should know

Comment Re:Slashdot (Score 1) 301

by pipingguy on Friday February 27, 2015 @01:10PM (#49147771) Attached to: Teamsters Seek To Unionize More Tech Shuttle Bus Drivers In Silicon Valley

Sorry, that was me. I modified the minimum text size in Chrome and I think I broke the CSS. I'll change it back, just let me know when things look better, K?

Comment Government-Funded AGW (Score 0) 394

by pipingguy on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:04PM (#49137513) Attached to: Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics

We already know where the dozens of billions of dollars to "support" AGW is coming from, don't we.

Comment Real Engineering (Score 1) 176

by pipingguy on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:18PM (#49119983) Attached to: H-1B Visas Proving Lucrative For Engineers, Dev Leads

In some places it is illegal to call yourself an engineer if you isn't really one (unlike software "engineers").

Comment Re:The ocean is not acidifying (Score 1) 421

by pipingguy on Monday February 23, 2015 @02:50PM (#49113597) Attached to: What If We Lost the Sky?

"I despair that alarmists can't understand even the most basic aspects of material science."

They sure are loud, certain of themselves and offensive though, aren't they. It's amazing, really.

Comment Re:Horribly misleading summary (Score 1) 681

by pipingguy on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:30PM (#49112937) Attached to: Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge

Someone mod parent up.

Comment Re:Horribly misleading summary (Score 1) 681

by pipingguy on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:26PM (#49112869) Attached to: Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge

What percentage of people who get paid to study/model the climate are paid by government in some way? 97, perhaps?

Comment William Briggs (Score 1) 448

by pipingguy on Sunday February 22, 2015 @09:25AM (#49104839) Attached to: How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests

From http://wmbriggs.com/post/15337...

"It was at this point real dread set in. It looked like the four of us were telling the truth. We were. And to the deluded who cherish the genetic fallacy this appeared that our result might be true, too. So the mentally feeble David Appell (sometime scourge of the comment box) put a FOIA request to the employer of Legates, but the poor soul was rebuffed because no state monies were involved in the writing of the paper. As we claimed. Then Greenpeace contacted the employer of Soon with the same intent, and Greenpeace discovered that Soon was in the same state as those who receive Greenpeace money. Which is to say, Soon in his career received money from sources other than our beneficent government. But he didn’t get anything for the paper the four of us wrote. How disappointed Greenpeace must have been to have discovered that."

Comment John Politician (Score 3, Funny) 93

by pipingguy on Saturday February 21, 2015 @06:03PM (#49102355) Attached to: Chicago's Red Light Cameras Now a Point of Contention for Mayoral Candidates

At first I wondered why mayoral candidates would be worried about cameras in Chicago's red light district.

Comment No It Isn't! (Score 0) 532

by pipingguy on Friday February 20, 2015 @04:19PM (#49096573) Attached to: Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression

And fuck off! Grrrr!

Comment Re:Clearly, we must regulate comments! (Score 1) 267

by pipingguy on Sunday February 15, 2015 @04:10PM (#49061431) Attached to: What Your Online Comments Say About You

Poe's Law!

Comment Consider Man's Footprint (Score 1) 119

by pipingguy on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @11:50AM (#49029335) Attached to: NASA Releases Details of Titan Submarine Concept

We'll need an environmental impact study to analyze the potential negatives effect of this man-made exploration device on native species.

Comment Re:The problem isn't science (Score 1) 958

by pipingguy on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:06AM (#48968351) Attached to: Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness

Sort of like the latest IPCC report's 'Summary for Policymakers' vs. the actual report's contents?

Comment Re:What is "Government Action"? (Score 1) 458

by pipingguy on Saturday January 31, 2015 @11:55AM (#48946693) Attached to: Most Americans Support Government Action On Climate Change

You have a hard time concentrating due to hearing too many apocalyptic claims about CAGW, so you might have a headache in a week. Your dilemma: do you cut your own head off now or just go for the trepanning?

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