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Comment Re:Charge for support (Score 0, Flamebait) 635

"Yeah, sure. It, along with the Republicans, is busy reinforcing the idea that the free market is here to take care of all your wants and desires. You have a problem? Call the free market, it's supposed to take care of you in every way possible.

This is the very predictable outcome of conservative policies that encourage people to trust companies for everything rather than look to themselves to take care of themselves."

FTFY. Yay off-topic idiotic knee jerk rhetoric! It can easily swing both ways.

Comment Re:True. (Score 4, Informative) 313

This is precisely why I own a Mac laptop. I'm a graduate student in CS, and with my Macbook as my primary work computer, I need a *nix compatible operating system but don't have time to dick around for 2 days getting an Xserver working with a new graphics card (though Ubuntu has made this a late easier than a few years ago). I have a cheapo desktop PC/server that I use for that.

Using Windows would be almost impossible for any serious computing when all high performance clusters I've come in contact with at various universities use Linux or Solaris and I need to test the code locally before launching a job. Desktop Linux, up until recently, was an unstable option.

(Note: I do now own a netbook with Ubuntu 10.04 UNR on it and it is a pleasure to use for writing in a coffee shop or somewhere I'm not guaranteed a power outlet).

Comment Re:He is not good at handling social conflicts. (Score 1) 177

He was referring to BP donating $500mil to his alternative energy research lab at UC Berkeley in 2007, two years before he got the job. He was understandably excited about what the new money was going to get his lab.

From your article:

"The institute to date has launched 68 programs in five research areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, enhanced hydrocarbon recovery and the socio-economic impacts of cellulosic biofuels development. More than 300 researchers are working to develop affordable and renewable sources of energy. And the program has produced a 320-acre energy farm that works as a "living laboratory" for developing promising biofuel feedstocks and studying greenhouse gas emissions. "

And the problem with that is...?

Comment Re:Can you spell W H I T E W A S H ? (Score 2, Informative) 701

I've done my own research and read the emails. The researchers there may be dicks, yes, but nothing nefarious was going on. Climateaudit and Wattsupwiththat are both tend to cherry pick data points that don't agree with the overall assessment, and then say "OMG THE WHOLE THING IS WRONG BECAUSE COLORADO'S WEATHER ISN'T GOING NUTS!"

Blogs are not the place for reputable criticism. I could just as easily point you to http://realclimate.org which are actually scientists at CRU, NOAA, and NASA to debunk all of your conspiracy theories. I would like (and have searched for, but maybe just not hard enough) published, peer reviewed evidence that climate science as we know it is actually incorrect. Not just Mann, et al (who do sound like they are douchebags), but the entire rest of the field.

Comment Re:Can you spell W H I T E W A S H ? (Score 1) 701

I'm just saying, you are making some huge claims here. I'd like to see the evidence for those claims from a reputable source. Where is the paper showing that the "Natural Null Hypothesis" (which means, I assume, that it is just nature?) has a better correlation? Is the math correct and appropriate? Is all of the research and data that came to that conclusion correct? Is correlation really the appropriate statistical test? (I doubt it is, there are far too many factors at play)

Please cite your sources for this vast conspiracy for scientists to "scare you into getting more funding". And while this is a highly political issue, it certainly doesn't seem to me that it is the scientists who are the ones making it such. The tinfoil hats and Al Gore (et al) are.

Comment Re:Can you spell W H I T E W A S H ? (Score 1) 701

"The alleged climate scientists involved in Climategate need to spend some quality time behind bars for they have perpetrated a number of obvious frauds and continue to do so, they used political methods to silence other scientists who had different results, they pass off poor statistical correlations as settled science (no such thing) when the Natural Null Hypothesis has better statistical correlation, even worse they have unnecessarily scared the global population with their doomsday soothsaying all driven by their own political agenda to secure additional funding (which they succeed at quite well for fear works to extract money from politicians who don't think critically especially those who live life basking in the internal brain drugged up endarkened ignorance of faith based beliefs)."

Citation please.

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