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Comment Re:Yeah, maybe not now (Score 1) 588

It seems there's a portion of the population that will compulsively latch onto hear-say and pseudoscience nonsense and conspiracy theories, no matter what we do. Maybe we should just accept that. Just deal with it and make the best of things.

I've got this totally scientific evidence that autism is caused by the ink in lottery tickets. The ink doesn't affect adults, but the chemicals stick to your fingers. Then when you touch your kids the chemicals get absorbed through their skin and disrupt their developing brains. My kid was perfectly healthy one morning, and at a routine checkup that afternoon my child was diagnosed with autism! And the only thing that happened in between was that I bought lottery tickets and hugged by child! You can't imagine how devastating that is to a parent, unless of course you're a parent who bought a lottery ticket and immediately had their child diagnosed with autism.

Have the so-called "scientists" tested the lottery ticket ink? HELL NO! The government rakes in millions of dollars on lottery tickets! Scientists all want grant money (our money taken in taxes!) to do their research. And is the government going to give them money if the government doesn't like the results of that research! OF COURSE the scientists are going to be biased and tow the government line.

I am not anti-lottery-tickets.
I just want to reduce the ink and reduce the toxins. Lottery tickets are fine when the government proves that that new ink ensures no children will get autism.
If you ask a parent of an autistic child if they want their kid to have autism, or whether they'd choose to pass up on a lousy lottery ticket, well duh they'll pass up on the lousy lottery ticket.

What parent would ever knowingly risk giving their child autism? It's unthinkable! It's just not worth the risk.

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Comment Re:George Carlin nailed it (Score 1) 588

Now will somebody please explain to me why people shouldn't listen to this particular celebrity but we should all listen to and shout hosannas to the rogue's gallery of celebrities James Cameron got to spout off in his global warming movie.

Because the percentage of scientists who say anti-vax is nonsense is within a rounding error of 100%,
and because the percentage of scientists who say global warming is real and serious is within a rounding error of 100%.

(Not that I know jack squat about James Cameron's movie, but the question was why one celebrity voice would be credible while another would not be. A celebrity who doesn't speak French, but who accurately recites a French dictionary, is backed by the full credibility of that dictionary.)

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Comment Re:Found one! (Score 1) 588

The tone was intended to be playfully humorous. I called you a "dick" for the sole purpose of invoking the "right and a dick" thing in a self-referential manner. "Whistling innocently" was my best effort to hang a guilty-of-mischief hat on it.

C'est la vie, c'est la internet.

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Comment Re:I told you so (Score 1) 343

I would prefer we built giant 'shields' be tween us and the sun so that we can move them if need be.
I don't want to spray anything into the atmosphere.

Really, if we could figure out how plants work so efficiently on a the molecular level to get CO2 and convert it to sugar, O, and H we could solve this issue..

But, yeah 4 Gen nuclear plants need to be built, and ran by the government, not private industry.
  Remove the profit and bonus motivation, and people won't try to find ways to skirt, or delay on maintenance so they get a bigger bonus.
Charge cost plus 1 cent a KWh.

I would built the first ones near coal plants.
I would also take a 20x20 mile square of real estate in Arizona or New Mexico, and create a multi technology solar power plant and power a nearby city. Use it as RnD so private companies can replicate it.

Comment Re:Maybe if Clinton... (Score 0) 343

Yes, a politician coming forward and explaining we are having a climate problem is alarmist.
All people like you did is make it a nearly untenable topic for politicians becasue ass wipe like you come out and tlak about non sequitors and use it to rub you partisan dick all over the place.

If anything, his alarm was loud enough.

Comment Re:the 70's called (Score 1) 343

No one called for that, and when ever someone brings up global cooling, it's guaranteed they don't know what global climate change is.
Hint: There is more particulate matter in the air; which reflects some sunlight. There is also CO2(and other) green house gasses that traps the energy.
The energy trapped is greater the the energy lost from sun lighting reflection

Also, we are in an ice age.

Comment Re:wrong, and here is why (Score 1) 723

Someone is upset that fact show him to be wrong.
What northers state had slavery after 1812?(CW was in 1865)

"The war wasn't the grand moral gesture ignorant shitheads like you love to wank over. "
The only thing I wank over is facts. The fact is, the South went to war becasue they wanted to enslave human beings.
They ALSO wanted to force other state to do what they said, AND tried to get federal legislation to make it so northern states couldn't have there own laws about what makes a person free.

You were clearly brainwashed as a child. I suppose you cal slaves 'servants' and 'guest' as well.

  ignorant shitheads
ignorant? I just listed a bunch of facts about the war. Facts that show clearly it was about slavery. So, no, you are ignorant.

I can be a shit head, but usually only to people like you that deserve exactly zero respect.

" The Northern majority didn't remotely care enough about slavery to fight a war."
so the fact that every document from both sides says otherwise doesn't matter?

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