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Comment Re:Freedom of Speech (Score 1) 606

A public university does not have to support all forms of speech. When you go to that school you typically sign a document stating you will limit your behavious to a set appropriate of being in that institution, a code of conduct, and that is legally enforceable. You could say that like the military you sign away some of your rights when you go the school for the duration of time you are in the school.

Comment Re:Climate? (Score 1) 279

When was the coldest February on record? Oh, you mean coldest for a small group of cities, not any particular state, region, country or the planet....However you have to also realize it was the hottest February on record for about the same number of cities on the west coast. So again, it is weather, not climate, you illiterate.

Comment Re:Droughts = Cold (Score 2) 279

Actually, that is not even remotely correct. Deserts, and droughts, in cali are caused by cold ocean currents that drive rain elsewhere and the rainshadow effect. It is an odd double wammy with 2 the 3 deserts causing effect.

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

It has nothing to do with global cooling, however warming does make it worse because warmer air can hold more mositure and thus takes longer to saturate to the point of rainfall.

The otehr cause of the deserts being the land is too far inland for the moisture to consistently make it there.

Comment Re:Lift the gag order first... (Score 4, Informative) 550

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/f...

But last week, three FCC Commissioners voted to saddle the internet with a new set of constraints so complex, vague and problematic that it took over 300 pages of explanation to justify eight pages of rules. While we haven’t seen the full text yet, we do know a lot about what’s inside.

Also it is apparently the GOP FCC members holding this up:

http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

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