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Comment Re:Good grief... (Score 1) 681

Except the demonstration doesn't work, if the editing was done to make a repeatable demonstration more visable that would be editing, editing to make a failed demonstration appear to work that is scientific fraud. Even more damning, is that they don't seem to know that a greenhouse doesn't work by trapping infrared light, else they wouldn't have designed their demonstration like it did.

Comment Re:Good grief... (Score 1) 681

So if you trying to say that you have to be able to wire-wrap NAND gates into a computer CPU, or you should STFU, I suspect your UID is too low to say anything; a big part of my scepticism comes from knowing how computers actually work. GCMs grid the Earth into 3X3 which means there are 14,400 cells that the models have to interate over; the errors due to even converting from fixed point to floating point numerical representation will steadily spiral into chaos under those conditions. Please refer to "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow" by Edward Norton Lorenz

Two states differing by imperceptible amounts may eventually evolve into two considerably different states ... If, then, there is any error whatever in observing the present state—and in any real system such errors seem inevitable—an acceptable prediction of an instantaneous state in the distant future may well be impossible....In view of the inevitable inaccuracy and incompleteness of weather observations, precise very-long-range forecasting would seem to be nonexistent.

Comment Re:Good grief... (Score 4, Informative) 681

Considering the way he and Al Gore were savaged for blatant scientific fraud over at WUTWT in Al Gore and Bill Nye FAIL at doing a simple CO2 experiment, his opinion doesn't carry much weigjht. If somebody is going to tell us we are scientifically illiterate, at least find somebody with more chops than Science Fair Baking Soda Vulcanoes.

Comment Re:Aspergers, LOL (Score 1) 289

Some people are just so inhertently hostile toward toward autistic spectrumites, I've often wondered if it wasn't due to some psycological pathology, perhaps like xenophobia. Another possibility is that the displayed social rigidity is a symptom of autistic spectrum conditions, that it's more like the homophobic gay people.

Comment Re: Aspergers, LOL (Score 1) 289

It probably doesn't help that this child is enrolled at a private school, too. While those who earned their own wealth can sometimes be reasonable people, those who got it handed to them by their parents are almost always entitled little shits who see themselves as far more important than they really are. Get a bunch of them together in a clsssroom, and of course there will be snobbery and social disfunction. That's just what happens when there are too many roosters trying to rule a small roost.

Don't worry, the second generation usually does OK, the third generation usually either loses it all, or is consumed with liberal guilt and gives it away.

Comment Re:More liberal than libertarian (Score 1) 580

I have no issue with vaccines. I have an issue with government usurping the power to decide what medical treatment I will undergo.

I would submit that few children in daycare have the faculties to make a competent informed consent or refusal of medical treatment. Furthermore the rights of people to refuse treatment is a separate issue from people's rights to be protected from public danger.

Comment Re: WTF (Score 1) 297

"If the data being used against your arguments is so faulty, let it be put out there and publish your paper proving their conclusions wrong. "
We'd all love the AGW-deniers to do exactly that. They don't. Instead they libel--as proven in a court of law.

See there it is, the warmest say they don't libel, but they go full-monkey mode flinging the poo of the thinly veiled Holocaust Denier Ad Hominen, in the first sentence.

Comment Re:Children are not property. (Score 3, Insightful) 297

I guess the only question is, how far do you take it when determining that somebody is harming their children. I definitely think that everybody except the tiny percentage of individuals who have a medical condition should be vaccinated against things like measles. But I'm not so sure about things like chicken pox or the flu vaccine.

If your child is stricken with a disease that has high potential of death, significant injury, loss of function or disfigurement or the same to others, and that disease is preventable through vacination, and you failed to provide that vacination that would meet the standard of harming their children or endangering the public in my mind.

As far as flu, people die from that, my Mother was hospitalized just last month for the flu, while my Dad was in the ICU after arresting while being treat for pneumonia that was as likely as not to have been triggered by having the flu. My Dad never came out of the hospital and was on a respirator for 6 weeks; Mom back in the Hospital because she never regained enough strength and is now refusing treatment so she'll pass away soon too.

My attitude right now is to tell the antivaxers to STFU and get the Kids their shots, if your kid goes deaf because of a fever due to having measles, I'd throw your ass in prison.

Comment Re:Biofuel Refinery Process not so pretty (Score 1) 56

Biodiesel is relatively easy to make, evey thing you would need to know can be found here. The stuff is actually a handy non-toxic cleaner-degreaser. I'm surprised that somebody just dumped the glycerin, it's valuable in it's own right, it makes a very desirable soap, and can be used in foods and cosmetic, or even as a fuel.

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