RAM prices stayed high long after production costs dropped. It took government action - overseas, I recall- to punish the collusion and price-fixing and force the prices to drop. There ain't no such thing as a free market.

Disney not two weeks ago fired their IT department and replaced them with H1B workers. They just didn't want to pay American salaries to American workers. The arguments is over.

Road Warrior was peak Mad Max, it's eminently rewatchable. Thunderdome II, not so much.

I looked briefly at the massive "MRA" "activists" behind this. One mental patient with a wonky web page.

Makes me wonder who's behind the massive publicity behind this non-story.

Meanwhile I have a friend who's paying child support in *two* states for a kid he has sole custody of his only child and putting her through college despite the fact his toxic ex beat the kid. Bue she went to school with the prosecutor, who knows the judge in a small town in Georgia. Backwoods southern justice strikes again.

Family law is still the 900 pound gorilla in the room.

For rape and other sexual offenses, research did specifically find religion as a strong "before" factor.
I think there was a specific "before" finding for murder as well, but my recollection on that isn't 100%.

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Unlike those bronze age oral histories and iron age letters! /sarcasm

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I'll see your http://www.tempdatareview.org/ link and raise you a http://www.davidicke.com/forum... link.

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My first hit for "Global warming"+"times faster" yields this link: As the Earth moved out of ice ages over the past million years, the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the past century alone, the temperature has climbed 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.

All the opinions you mentioned are, at best, poorly informed.

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The NSA ain't god, and this is *me* saying this. The NSA is an API for the governments's paranoid would-be supergovernment. They just do what they're told, being Slashdotty geeks, and then they go home. Hacking the evoting machines would be... problematic even for their kind of organization.

Much easier if billionaires just buy the voting machine companies and tell a few trusted IT people to install backdoors on the main accumulation points. Auditing is useless if the original votes are uncountable because of anonymity requirements. We trust the accumulated totals. And if you think the Koch bros. and others like them aren't capable of that, then you ain't paying attention.

Canada DID had (last I heard) a nationwide paper voting system. You draw an "X" with a pencil next to your candidate. They counted each card on a table with both parties looking on (It works if one side is not constantly contesting the reading to slow it down intentionally so their boy can win by running down the clock). They finish the count nationwide in three hours. Works, and you can recount in less than a day, if you have to (if one side isn't trying to delay, delay, delay).

I understand the Harper Government is rapidly shoving e-voting down Canada's throat.

Guess why. Go on, guess. Why replace a system that works and can't be cheated with a series of black boxes that can't be trusted? Why would you possibly want to do that. Golly. I can't. Why would they do that... it's like they *want* a system that can be hacked to win, esp. since their side owns the companies, one way or another. Nah, that can't be right. That would be dishonest, and plays to the public's idea that computers are always awesome and better than people.

If a company has a person who has access to the accumulated counts, then that person can change the vote, downstream, upstream, or final destination. The individual computers don't matter; there are no ways, given the constraints, the verify who voted for what - yes, there are established, effective ways of controlling the data, but if you can't audit the entire chain, it doesn't matter. The code, the counts, the data are owned by private companies, and they have established that all of that are their protected trade secrets. Past lawsuits show us that they refuse court orders and countersue, and that they destroy the data, such as it is. Puttering around with geeky analysis of the browsers and malware isn't addressing the problem which is: they who control the machines control the elections. Worrying about the "hackers" on the outside is specious. It's the hackers on the inside.

"The evidence is overwhelming: Earth’s polar regions are losing ice at a stunning rate. There’s so much ice being lost from Antarctica, for example, that scientists can detect local changes in gravity."

This is not actually true. NASA points out Antarctic is at an all time high. Snowpack accumulates in the middle and cleaves off from the edges,it's doing what it's supposed to.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/go...

NSIDC data shows increase, not decreae in sea ice:
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...

NASA sat imagery (URL in image) shows Arctic sea ice unchanged after 30 years:
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
(t did half melt, but for 5 years has been growing back)

"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data. "
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...

I like Slate but I don't know if theyre being deliberately misleading here or are just unaware.

We're told polygraphs aren't accurate

But it's illegal to train somebody how to beat one.

Hmm....

Disagree.

Both sides are guilty of extremism here.

Vaccines do work. The theory is sound. But the implementation leaves a little to be desired.

It is possible to find kids that get the shots) and then develop an allergic reaction and die. In the past few months Tasha Greige and Rachel French died because of this. Look it up.

The problem is greatly exacerbated by giving tylenol for a fever. Reactions can be severe. We no longer give kids aspirin for a fever because of the neurological damage associated with Reye's Syndrome and there is mounting evidence we should be withholding Tylenol under the same conditions.

I'm pro vax and got my kids jabbed, but recognize the immunization program is a little oversold. Anti vax sentiment gets wrapped up with nuttiness like "it's intentional depopulation". Yeah not so much. It's hard to find objective discourse criticizing it without the sme website offering up that nonsense.

Here's what one guy who has expertise pointed out:

My name is Tetyana Obukhanych. I hold a PhD in Immunology. I am writing this letter in the hope that it will correct several common misperceptions about vaccines in order to help you formulate a fair and balanced understanding that is supported by accepted vaccine theory and new scientific findings.

IPV (inactivated poliovirus vaccine) cannot prevent transmission of poliovirus (see appendix for the scientific study, Item #1). Wild poliovirus has been non-existent in the USA for at least two decades. Even if wild poliovirus were to be re-imported by travel, vaccinating for polio with IPV cannot affect the safety of public spaces. Please note that wild poliovirus eradication is attributed to the use of a different vaccine, OPV or oral poliovirus vaccine. Despite being capable of preventing wild poliovirus transmission, use of OPV was phased out long ago in the USA and replaced with IPV due to safety concerns.
Tetanus is not a contagious disease, but rather acquired from deep-puncture wounds contaminated with C. tetani spores. Vaccinating for tetanus (via the DTaP combination vaccine) cannot alter the safety of public spaces; it is intended to render personal protection only.
While intended to prevent the disease-causing effects of the diphtheria toxin, the diphtheria toxoid vaccine (also contained in the DTaP vaccine) is not designed to prevent colonization and transmission of C. diphtheriae. Vaccinating for diphtheria cannot alter the safety of public spaces; it is likewise intended for personal protection only.
The acellular pertussis (aP) vaccine (the final element of the DTaP combined vaccine), now in use in the USA, replaced the whole cell pertussis vaccine in the late 1990s, which was followed by an unprecedented resurgence of whooping cough. An experiment with deliberate pertussis infection in primates revealed that the aP vaccine is not capable of preventing colonization and transmission of B. pertussis (see appendix for the scientific study, Item #2). The FDA has issued a warning regarding this crucial finding.[1]

(See more: https://alethonews.wordpress.c...)

A real MD (who is also an attorney) points out ascorbate mitigates the side effects:
http://www.peakenergy.com/arti...

"Klenner's paper (Klenner FR. The treatment of poliomyelitis and other virus diseases with vitamin C. J. South. Med. and Surg., 111:210-214, 1949.) on curing 60 cases of polio in the epidemic of 1948 should have changed the way infectious diseases were treated but it did not." - Robert Cathcart

The people telling you there's no problem are The third-leading cause of death in the United States.
Starfield B (July 2000). "Is US health really the best in the world?". JAMA 284 (4): 483–5. doi:10.1001/jama.284.4.483. PMID 10904513.

This was edited out of Wikipedia and not because it's wrong.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

"There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false."

This is Ioannidis famous 2005 paper that shows nearly all published research findings are false.

http://journals.plos.org/plosm...

See also:
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8...
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_g...
https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_...
http://aeon.co/magazine/philos...

So. no vaccines are not perfect and there are issues. But no it's not intentional depopulation control and fluoride it still safe and there are no chemtrails or ufos.

The inability of the summary to say "the first totally warm blooded fish"

Title is misleading. The fact it has to be qualified in the second sentence is proof.