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Comment Re:Conservative meltdown in 5..4..3..2..1.. (Score 0) 572

"and fight against (christian and islamic) fundamentalism." What war has been started by Christian fundamentalists in the past 50 years? Every war religion based war that am aware of was started by Islamic peoples. Please enlighten me how a fight against Christianity helps the world? As a second point, do you live in America? If so, how do you resolve the inherent conflict of your desire to fight against religion and the Constitutional right to be free to practice that religion without government interference?

Comment Re:I for one have new hope... (Score 0) 186

Logical fallacy here. Our government is NOT founded on the concept of separation of church and state, it was founded on the concept of religious freedom. i.e. the freedom of people to worship whatever god they chose, how they chose, without government interference. The reason for the 1st Amendment was not to keep religion out of government but to keep the government out of religion. Church services were held every Sunday in the House of Representatives until after the Civil War. Jefferson, who was responsible for the phrase "wall of separation" attended services most Sundays in the House chambers. "Throughout his administration Jefferson permitted church services in executive branch buildings. The Gospel was also preached in the Supreme Court chambers." http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06-2.html I really wish schools actually taught history now days. How is it that you young people have so much trouble understanding this? I strongly recommend that you go to the library and pick up a copy of the Federalist Papers. Read them and learn what the founders were discussing and what the reasoning was for the actual wording that they settled on.

Comment Re:Once again, the Koch Bros manning the funnel (Score 0) 615

So where does George Soros show up in your world view? He has given more than $50,000,000 since 2003 for progressive policies in America. The Koch brothers have given $100,000,000 over 30YEARS. So in recent times, I would put Soros as a much more active supporter of a political party than the Koch brothers.

Comment Re:Seriously, we're going to worry about... (Score 0) 615

Make no mistake, the tech research solutions proposed 25 years ago would now be paying off, making billionaires of the successful implementers and giving the rest of us the energy we crave.

The same could be said for energy production in America. Had the Enviro-wackos not filed endless lawsuits, appeals and delaying tactics, then the U.S. could have sufficient modern nuclear reactors, gassified goal and oil production to be completely energy independent. The technology has been available for quite some time, but the permitting process and the legal battles creating years or decades of delays create an environment where the costs to pursue energy projects can never be recovered.

Comment Re:This is terrorism (Score 1) 615

Wow! Just Wow! I would suggest removing the tinfoil hat ans seeking help form a qualified mental health professional. You are openly advocating the arrest, trial and killing of millions of people because they don't believe the same thing you do? You are comparing the failure to agree with you to the Nazis and the murder of millions of Jews, gypsies and infirm? You really need to seek help. It would also be appropriate for anyone who knows who this guy is to contact law enforcement as what he is advocating is the mass murder of millions of people who have a difference of opinion with him. This is not a stable individual.

Comment Re:An Ignorant Population Is More Easily Controlle (Score 0) 615

It is difficult to describe the AGW alarmists work as science so pseudoscience would be appropriate. Point to one model the AGW people rely on that can predict the historically recorded past, let alone the future. You can't because none of the models work. And for scientific theory to have been proven, then the theory must have criteria with which the data can change to disprove the theory. So far, nobody has come out with a way to disprove the theory, no matter what you do to manipulate the data. Face it, you have a theory that doesn't track proven facts, can't predict the past and has no criteria that can be changed to disprove the theory. Epic Fail for your science.

Comment Re:An opportunity for IT.... (Score 1) 615

I would call for responsible IT professionals working in Universities, research institutes and government agencies to look for similar incriminating data that indicate illegal collusion, fraud or evidence of a confirm-able political agenda behind the "science" of Global Warming and to release them "for the good of mankind". Just because someone has a secularist agenda does not mean they have YOUR best interests at heart.

Comment Re:Relevant portion of one of the documents (Score 1, Insightful) 615

In that case, we should be looking at the process used to award government grants to people who propose studies with the goal of proving man-made global warming while denying funds to those who are trying to disprove man-made global warming. After all, the vast majority of funding for pro-global warming studies comes from government grants where even one grant exceeds the total spent by private groups to oppose this viewpoint.
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The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally 703

jamie writes "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor' event. The would-be rally has been dubbed 'Restoring Truthiness' and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own Colbert Nation.'"
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Concrete That Purifies the Air 88

fergus07 writes "Although much of the focus of pollution from automobiles centers on carbon emissions, there are other airborne nasties spewing from the tailpipes of fossil fuel-powered vehicles. These include nitrogen oxides (NOx). In the form of nitrogen dioxide it reacts with chemicals produced by sunlight to form nitric acid – a major constituent of acid rain – and also reacts with sunlight, leading to the formation of ozone and smog. Everyone is exposed to small amounts of nitrogen oxides in ambient air, but exposure to higher amounts, in areas of heavy traffic for example, can damage respiratory airways. Testing has shown that surfacing roads with air purifying concrete could make a big contribution to local air purity by reducing the concentration of nitrogen oxides by 25 to 45 percent."
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When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense 289

vlangber writes "Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post back in 2000 called 'Things You Should Never Do, Part I,' where he wrote the following: '[T]he single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.' Here is a story about a software company that decided to rewrite their application from scratch, and their experiences from that process."

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475

Actually, it can. There is such a thing as backlash. The pressure to change the meaning of a word that has so much history for the religious has created an environment where people who were neutral in the past have become polarized against gay marriage. When the MA courts forced gay marriage upon the people there, they created a groundswell of resistance that has lead to 40 states enacting bans on gay marriage. Many prominent gays have stated that pushing too fast for gay marriage has set the movement back at least 20 years. I believe this to be true.

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