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Comment Re:Established science CANNOT BE QUESTIONED! (Score 2) 719

I suspect that since the vested interests are choosing the political attack route, they probably do know it is credible, they just don't care.

The problem is who are the vested interests? The AGW scientists attack anything skeptical of AGW, and prevent everything being published. What science do you consider credible when it cannot be published in the journals?

Comment Re: Established science CANNOT BE QUESTIONED! (Score 1) 719

I once heard a phrase that clearly sums up most of your argument.

If the waste is hot enough to hurt you, it is hot enough to produce power.

If we would stop the silly refusal to reprocess waste, and start reprocessing all the waste we have, we could stop mining Uranium for 1000s of years.

It is also much easier to deal with the waste when it takes up much less volume, and is only dangerous for a short time.

Comment Re:Ethics? (Score 1) 556

So cutting out the important part of the sentence to make your point is a valid arguing method now?

Criticizing someone who happens to be female for things that have nothing to do with her being a female could be misogyny, but is not guaranteed to be misogyny.

Comment Re:Ethics? (Score 1) 556

I don't disagree with what you say, just one piece.

It is the Autism Spectrum, of which Asperger's Syndrome is one condition. The current DSM no longer has any of the sub catagories of Autism, it is now all just called Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Yes, I have Asperger's Syndrome (as diagnosed many years ago), but I don't use it as a crutch or excuse.

Comment Re:I'm shocked. (Score 1) 191

Are you a troll? When is that link from? When did they add support? I have lost nothing, you still have not addressed anything about pre 2006, which I know is fact, and provided good backing with links to the information. You still persist in linking information from post 2006, once they stopped doing it.

And I will direct you to the relevant section of the article you link to:

Itunes 4.2 or later has built-in support

Which, if you read further down, only allows you to drag and drop files, it doesn't have true support for the players. In fact, the date they started supporting devices not made by Apple looks like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

June 28, 2005, with support of the Motorolla Rokr E1

Dragging files to an external hard drive (that happens to be a music player) is not support, that is not using the application.

So, as I have consistently said, the early devices would strip out the Real Audio files, which they were capable of playing. The early iTunes actively prevented usage of devices other than Apple products. Here is a story about them blocking access to the Palm Pre for a second time: http://www.wired.com/2009/10/p...

Also, the early iTunes bought music had DRM that prevented playing it on other devices, this was due to licensing requirements from the music publishers, and is addressed in the article above.

Comment Re:Media blackout (Score 1) 556

I think much of the pro side's issues are along the lines of this:

http://www.windowscentral.com/...

Ubisoft forced all the game journalists to not release their reviews of the game until 24 hours after the release of the game, and the game was horribly broken on launch. Holding back the reviews that say essentially "don't buy, horribly broken" is perversion of the review system for pure greed. This is one of the many examples that the people in GG are claiming, but as I know very little of the scandal, I don't know of any others.

There was also apparently harassment on both sides of the issue, from people claiming sexism in games (well yeah, games geared towards boys will likely have a damsel in distress of some kind), to people being harassed and called misogynistic because they happen to enjoy games.

There were also death/rape threats and a school shooting threat, which could be from GG people, but may have just been random trolls that have nothing to do with the conversation but love to stir the controversy.

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