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Comment Re:I am a Republican voting Conservative. (Score 0, Troll) 347

See, this is why climate change is still such a contentious topic. You sound exactly like a religious fanatic. Anyone who does not agree with you is stupid (you said it four times in your two-sentence post). They are denialists. What you really mean is, they are heretics.

People like you living in an echo chamber might not hear this, but there are reasonable, non-Republican, not paid by Big Oil, non-stupid people out there who harbor some level of skepticism for various reasons. Not the least of which is the religious fervor with which Climate Change (nee Global Warming) believers attack their opponents.

For me personally, it was the history revision, deleting of hundreds of mentions of Medieval Warm period off of Wikipedia by climate crusaders. And the attempts to dismiss other historical records as garbage ramblings of primitive people. The Romans and the medieval monks and the Renaissance people were all stupid, right, because they didn't live in the enlightened age of computer models?

Comment Re: Looks like the prophet's gunmen (Score 1) 1097

So you have to think in absolutes? Either (education = intelligence) or (education != intelligence) ?

Statistics will bear this out, but simple common sense says more intelligent people will tend to be better educated. People with 80 IQ do not spend 8 years and a hundred thousand dollars trying to obtain a PhD. There is a correlation. Of course there will be degrees and exceptions.

Direct IQ tests are even better correlated with intelligence than education level. But even that is not an absolute.

Comment Re:"The xxxx in yyyy years" (Score -1, Flamebait) 55

The holocene, our current interglacial, is ~12000 years old. During that time the climate has both been a lot warmer (the Holocene optimum) as well as a lot colder (the Little Ice Age) than now.

Denialist propaganda funded by Big Oil. Scientists have proven that those events were mere anecdotes recited by primitive tribesmen and never actually happened. The overwhelming consensus is that due to manmade climate change, it's hotter right now than anywhere anytime in the history of the universe.

Comment Re:We can learn from this (Score 2) 163

I was born in East-Germany, where people did a pacific revolution to free themselves from a dictatorship.

Small vocabulary lesson: although in theory the word pacific and peaceful mean the same thing, in reality English speakers would not use the word pacific in that way. Because if you say pacific, people think you're talking about the big ocean. So you'd wanna say peaceful revolution or bloodless revolution. Hope this helped ;)

Comment Re:If you insist on keeping physical hardware (Score 1) 446

The poster is talking about a couple of GB, so surely an SD card encrypted if needed and kept in his wallet or car is all that is required.

This is better than any of the harebrained schemes proposed so far.

However if we're gonna go down the encryption route, why not just encrypt the file and upload it to multiple web hosts? SD cards in car and wallet are still subject to loss/theft/degradation, plus if the police ever get a hold of it you may become inconvenienced (because the authorities are convinced that encryption means you're a criminal with something to hide).

Comment Don't worry actors (Score 4, Insightful) 360

Lucas isn't writing the screenplay anymore. You're all safe.

"Anakin, make love to me like you did by the lake on planet Wumpumpsefukit!" (or whatever the hell the actual line from Episode 2 was)

With lines like that, no wonder a world-class actress like Natalie Portman ended up looking like a wooden talentless hack. But actually the only talentless hack here was Lucas.

Well ok that's a bit harsh. Lucas has talent but not when it comes to writing dialogue that doesn't completely suck ass.

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