Your heuristic works as long as

1) you don't care about their data, analysis or arguments
2) you don't care who chose their labels - "antimissle critics"

Sounds like you're adapting to cable news quite well.

Good times.

"But sometimes, there's a man – and I'm talking about the Dude here – sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude. In Los Angeles."

"But sometimes, man - you can go anywhere - even in some cases, men, men of his time and place. He is the right fit. Order. In Los Angeles."

Well, of the 54 prominent skeptics on the record, only eight of them have any relevant scientific qualification: Tim Ball, Robert C Balling, Bill Gray, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, Garth Paltridge, Roy Spencer and Wolfgang Thune. So I guess they could fit in one New York Yankees box seat.

"cyclists (who pay nothing) have more rights on the road than drivers who's taxes and fees actually pay for the roads"

As others have pointed out, you don't know what you're talking about. "92% of the funds for local roads come from property, income, and sales taxes". Your gas taxes pay for highways, but even they are subsidized by general tax funds.

You forgot some steps:

A330:

1. Computer in control every flight for months
2. Pilots' skills and awareness degrade.
3. Sensors fail
4. Computer: "sorry dudes, you're on your own"
5. Rusty, out-of-the-loop pilots thrown into control
6. Pilots: "Fuck, I'd better troubleshoot the computers"

Here's the same for a B767:

1. Pilots in control, maintaining their skills, developing aircraft and weather awareness
2. Sensors fail
3. Seasoned pilots: "Fuck, it's a good thing I can fly this thing in my sleep"

Next post on Ask Slashdot: Evading a Child Locating System! "My dad is tracking me with a subcutaneous GPS chip. How can I block it?"

Amen. The chart is dead, long live the chart is a great article outlining the slow transformation of charts from cognitive support to billing artifact.

Yea, the poster must have gotten confused - they actually overclocked it to 6500+

It's already been built: you just designed the home version of Regen Energy's system.

Bingo. You nailed it. Electronic medical records are visible to all sorts of people who aren't working to help patients get better. Medical staff realize the potential for lawsuits, etc. and are responding by using unofficial paper medical records to record the real juicy information that helps them do their jobs.

Now this isn't necessarily bad, your penicillin allergy won't be 'off-the-record' on a post-it note, but the parallel 'shadow medical records' are a real phenomenon that EMR designers will have to contend with. A more complicated hospital visit will likely leave two sets of records, a dry sanitized version for the accountants and lawyers, and the one that really documents all the ugly, embarrassing, CONFIDENTIAL stuff that went into making you better.

Hospital diagnosis is a messy, hugely complex problem, and the communication and documentation reflects this. Trying to tidy medical records can destroy what makes them useful.