Comment Re:Weather is NOT climate (Score 0) 567
But apparently you assholes don't care about what you are going to eat while your permafrost thaws.
Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change 567
cold fjord (826450) writes with this excerpt from ScienceNordic: Researchers the world over almost unanimously agree that our climate is changing ... But many farmers – at least Swedish ones – have experienced mild winters and shifting weather before and are hesitant about trusting the scientists. The researcher who discovered the degree of scepticism among farmers was surprised by her findings. Therese Asplund ... was initially looking into how agricultural magazines covered climate change. Asplund found after studying ten years of issues of the two agricultural sector periodicals ATL and Land Lantbruk that they present climate change as scientifically confirmed, a real problem. But her research took an unexpected direction when she started interviewing farmers in focus groups about climate issues. Asplund had prepared a long list of questions about how the farmers live with the threat of climate change and what they plan to do to cope with the subsequent climate challenges. The conversations took a different course: "They explained that they didn't quite believe in climate changes," she says. "Or at least that these are not triggered by human activities."
(Original paper here.)
Comment Re:And another on the ban pile (Score 1) 289
I know where you are coming from. I have an old Linksys PCMCIA wifi card that had 7 different hardware revisions & almost as many drivers.
Comment Cut them off. (Score 1) 248
I think it's time Google started cutting countries off when they pull stupid shit like this. Canada isn't even 40 million people.
Comment Bananaman! (Score 1) 396
Looks like it's time for a gritty Bananaman reboot!
Comment Re:yes please (Score 1) 253
Jody *Williams* has to be a fairly common name & as a bonus, it's unisex.
Comment Good Reason (Score 1) 398
The signatures on the letter reads like a who's who of ISP industry presidents and CEOs, including AT&T's Randall Stephenson, Cox Communications' Patrick Esser, NCTA president (and former FCC commissioner) Michael Powell, Verizon's Lowell McAdam, and Comcast's Brian Roberts.
Case closed, we all know they know what's best for us, right?
Comment Cook has it backwards. (Score 1) 711
Looks like the Reality Distortion Field has rubbed off on Mr. Cook. It's become a game with me to tease my fiance about the things my cheap-ass Nexus can do that her 64GB iPad can't.
Comment Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms (Score 1) 208
As someone who, over the past 20 years, has designed outside plant for literally every single major ISP in the country, his ideas are hilarious. It's like a plumber watching House M.D. & then telling a neurosurgeon that he could do it better. "They can just upgrade the poles!" "They can just bury everything they can't put on a pole!" "Who care about that gas line & power cable!"
Video Don't Be a Server Hugger! (Video) 409
Comment Re:Eliminate the FCC (Score 1) 182
Congress created the FCC in 1934 to "regulate interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable". If they had the political will, they could disband it just as easily. They could also revisit the FCCs charter periodically to make sure that it's keeping up with technological progress. Instead, they'd rather hold 50+ votes on repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Comment Re:The Democrats killed Net Neutrality !! (Score 2) 182
Had *all* the D's voted no, we'd be having a different conversation.
Comment Re:The Democrats killed Net Neutrality !! (Score 1) 182
Whatever, like you are privy to any of that. Making shit up just makes you look foolish.
Comment Re:The Democrats killed Net Neutrality !! (Score 4, Insightful) 182
Exactly what kind of mental acrobatics does it take to state that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority over a public communications system that was developed by DARPA & paid for via federal tax breaks & subsidies?
Cruz isn't fit to be a city sanitation worker.
Comment Re:The Democrats killed Net Neutrality !! (Score 3, Informative) 182
"Robert McDowell, a Republican commissioner of the FCC, called the net neutrality proposal a "threat to Internet freedom" in an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal. He argues that consumer protection, which net neutrality advocates say is lacking, is adequate, and government intervention into the Internet is misguided."
Freedom to gouge consumers is still a freedom I guess.
