Did you miss the part where (per said driver's assertion) Sidecar paid a better post-deduction base rate even without the temporary promotion?

Also, it's not exactly like there are substantial costs associated with switching which service a driver chooses to work from. If rational economic decisions were being followed, one would expect a driver to want to double their money while it was possible to do so, and then switch back to a different service if that paid better the rest of the time.

Except that drivers aren't making more money with Uber or Lyft.

Saturday night I took a Sidecar home, and our driver was talking about how Sidecar is currently offering better base rates (after accounting for deductions -- Uber shows drivers the price a customer is paying before their cut is taken out), and currently offering double payouts from their marketing budget as a limited-time promotion to attract more drivers.

The premise that Uber or Lyft pays better is, presently, false.

Then take it up with the several articled snd scientific research they cite. And no, it is not just one article, it is several that say the same things.

And i do not believe any of these articles address three years of tornados. They are linking global warming to them which is opposite of yhr premise originally replied to.

Physics laws don't change over night, nor do they in 200 years.

You are correct, this is ROFL.. Physics laws do not change but our abilities to harness and utilize them for our own benefit does. Sometimes this can be overnight, sometimes it takes 200 years.

So what if in 50 years, we find a way to take the Co2 from the atmosphere, separate the carbon and manufacture fibers from it that replace steel in automobiles and bridges and other uses we now spend a lot of carbon energy on. What if in 100 years, we become more efficient and are able to do this with methane too?

This is the problem with the global warming crowd. Instead of finding solutions, they want to claim oppression of people via taxes the will severely strain their ability to enjoy lifestyles as they already know it and disrupt business while forcing their own agenda onto everyone is the only way. The fact is, there are several ways global warming can be addressed and these ways will be added to in the future as out knowledge increases. If the governments of the world were actually worried about global warming, they would be creating research teams devoted to finding solutions like efficient, reliable, and cost effective energy sources as well as ways to make use of emissions in a productive way and then make this knowledge available to the world so that it can be implemented. But instead, it's about restricting growth in first world nations while forcing investments into third world nations, it's about power and control of the populous.

1: I am a scientist, and while I admit I don't know everything ( who does ? ) about climate change I have seen enough data to be concerned, not panicked mind you, but concerned; especially so since anything on a global scale has so many variables as to be be possible to accurately model.

I think the problem is that concern is too often turned into political advantage by panicking people. Some of the original scientists came along with political motivations like James Hansen and his support for Jubilee2000 which dispersed with the creation of the Kyoto accords (too long of a connection to make in this short post to why that is suspect).

2: While those people you linked may be ranked high in their fields, the pages you linked to don't cite papers published in a reputable journal for peer review... probably because they are not reproducible as science demands.

Actually, they do cite sources. It's those underlined strings of words that look like those annoying popover ads but are actually links. For instance, the mother jones article says the change was from a paper published here http://www.pnas.org/content/11...

The New scientists article actually cites at the bottom of the page. It links to an article called climate dynamics The increasing efficiency of tornado days in the United States.

3: your third link is just braindead political bashing.

Did you think you were pointing out something I didn't already know? Or were you answering my challenge to which link was a conservative site? Anyways, I think you completely missed the point even though I spelled it out. It doesn't surprise me seeing how you missed the citations in the articles too. But the point was that political entities have been claiming Climate change does make predictions about tornadoes. So this idea that it is unheard of for claims if climate change or global warming and tornadoes being linked is fabricated. That was the only point, that the claims have been made.

That conclusion fell into question late last year, though, with a paper by Diffenbaugh and two colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using a suite of the most state-of-the-art climate models, the researchers found, once again, that wind shear decreases under global warming. However, they also found that that didn't really matter, because the number of days with both high CAPE and high shear nonetheless increased. "We find that in fact, at the monthly or seasonal scale, that decrease [in shear] does occur over the US," Diffenbaugh says, "but it's concentrated in these days with very low CAPE." That means that the net number of days with high CAPE and high shear was still projected to increase in the future.

It goes on to explain how this cape and shear will increase tornadoes.

You really should learn to read the entire article and perhaps the links within the article further than just finding what you want it to say when someone points out that it says something other than what you want it to say. The mother jones article does indeed say

Diffenbaugh and his colleagues looked at this parameter too, and they found an "increase in the fraction of severe thunderstorm environments that have high CAPE and high low-level shear," as Diffenbaugh puts it. As the authors wrote, this result is suggestive "of a possible increase in the number of days supportive of tornadic storms."

The paper by Diffenbaugh and his colleagues represents "the first significant evidence that we might expect to see a change in tornadoes," says NOAA's Brooks.

More generally, the upshot of this research is that tornadoes must change as a result of climate change, because the environments in which they form are changing.

And you can follow the same link, that was selectively copied from it. Please, in the future, absorb all the information presented, think about it for a while, then think again before spouting something silly about it.

HE didn't miss it. Didn't you know that when you are hiding from reality, things like Nationalist and International can make almost otherwise identical organizations politically opposite as in left verses right. So by focusing on the geographical structure of national verses international, the person can completely ignore the political ideology of nationalism and socialism and conflate the similarities of other words in order to provoke any misunderstand that fits their desired worldview that they can imagine.

And yes, Nazi Germany was very progressive. They had free university education, instituted minimum wages and lead the science front. In fact they advance Eugenics to the point of the Aryan race being the true race and made a foundation for the final solution to the inferior races. But we won't let facts bother some people. They are happy with their misaligned worldviews and history will repeat itself. It's like the constant calls for more funding for failed institution. If only more money was thrown that way and they could try the same things again, it might work this time. Get used to it.

hmm.. A simple google search shows that nobody is a lot of organizations that appear to be somewhat scientific in their approach and presentation.

Also, the new scientis or articles on their site seem to attempt to make predictions about tornadoes

http://www.newscientist.com/ar...

Mother Jones does another story connecting it too.
http://www.motherjones.com/env...

Of course one article is dated march of 2014 and the other august of the same year. But of course politicians have been making claims about the links for a while now. Here is an article presented in october of 2014 which examines political discourse about the global warming tornado threat somewhat.

http://www.americanthinker.com...

Now note, one of those sites is a conservative site. Can you guess which one that might be? Well, it doesn't matter because the information is not inaccurate and came about before this was even on the radar. In fact, it was attempting to impeach the credibility of the political hack appointed to oversee the ebola fiasco and manage political fall out from reported cases reaching American shores.

So lets not ignore the fact that connections have been made.

Having someone - anyone - in a class that screws up the bell curve makes others feel bad.

I think the bell curve is likely the entire problem. There simply should not be one. If kids are failing the subjects, they shouldn't be getting C and B grades because the smart people got removed to be in their own class. If the smart people excel, by all means have the ability to push them further and if that means another class, fine. But if the not so smart people are failing, the options should not be adjust the grading scale, but to supplement the education in ways that make them satisfactory students.

People learn in different ways. Perhaps the answers might be in sending teachers more gifted to smarter kids to those smart classes and concentrate more efforts on the no so smart kids with teachers and course material better prepared for their abilities. I was that way in school, I could read something and pretty much tell you where in the book the information was covered a week after. But after a lecture, I could tell you what color the teacher's socks were but nothing about the topic covered. I remember one teacher that I nicknamed king crab because he always had chalk dust on his pants near his privates if there was a lecture and I knew it was going to be a bad day. Other students need told instead of reading and some might need a varying mix of it and other things like hands on practice too.

This isn't really a new anti-foaming measure, it's making them more effective. That was the point, the magnetic field made the particles tinier so they could disperse and bond more per unit.

But you appear to be wrong about hops only to do with flavor, aroma, and preservation as at least one beer maker and several scientists seem to think it has to do with combating too much foam also.

It still works out in the wash.

Japan and Germany has benefited greatly over the years from the US wasting energy. The obvious is the lack of military needed by them because the US wasted energy, the investment the US has directly put into them by bases and such. But there are other ways they benefited like economic stability (trading with the US) and tourism dollars. Welcome to the new world order I guess. It's the same as the old world order except someone not as innocent as you thought.

You would have to talk with an attorney but you should be able to expunge that. "Breaking and Entering" is a fifth degree felony in Ohio and as long as there are no violence elements attached, should be allowable.

Of course what should be is often not the same as what is in practice. You need a reason to expunge and ability to find a job/make an honest living is just as good as any as far as I know. I do know a guy who used that excuse specifically to get a felony "cultivation of marijuana" over a bulk amount conviction expunged and now even has his gun rights restored. Of course Ohio has relaxed it's laws a bit and the same charge with the same amounts, if it were to happen today would be a misdemeanor so that may have had something to do with it too.

Don't try to do that with a browser reading /. though. Doesn't seem to work right (something to do with wonky CSS, I suspect)

Not only that, the phone can run any app that displays any image. Remember those joke downloads that pretended to delete all your shit on the computer by faking the dos window and motions?

So what happens when your credit card was used by you because i checked your ID and the photo matched. Oh,, i'm sorry officer, that warrant is for my cousin, not me- even though we look exactly alike, i'm someone else.. i can see all sorts of problems with this.