| "Kids these days need to learn the value of a dollar!"

They have. Very well.

One dollar means squat. But if you have a billion, you matter.

| One of the reasons politicians took the Tea Party members seriously is because

their attitudes were useful to advance the desires of the exceptionally wealthy and powerful who sponsor politiicans

But you think it's really the haircut? If they just cleaned up a bit then substantial efforts to restrain the privileges of the powerful would materialize?

| Please someone who understands the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics better than I, tell me how I am wrong.

Centralized generators run more efficient thermodynamic cycles than internal combustion engines which need to emit a widely varying power output over short time periods.

Centralized generators often run on hydroelectric and natural gas, which produce less emissions than coal or petroleum, and a few are solar, nuclear and wind-powered which have no emissions.

The end-to-end comparisons have been done with quantitative accuracy and show advantages to electric vehicles in many situations. You are hardly the first person to think of this consideration.

| wonder what finally made the c-levels unafraid of linux?

time and nobody important being sued

The Argentinian government, being a master of sense and competency, pre-emptively taxes white-market transactions on the normal banking system. They have power to enforce this on the credit card acquirers & merchant processors, and do it especially with foreign currency transactions.

Presumably there is some way to get 'refunded' some of the taxes back if you can prove to some idiot's satisfaction that you earned the money in a 'legal way' whatever that may mean.

So, doing it with bitcoin is basically a payment processor operating illegally and not collecting withholded taxes. It doesn't have much to do with bitcoin and everything about evading regulation.

| Please tell us exactly which one of those has said mystical "ring" of deliberate lies, and why.

| 2) The data for anthropogenic warming is weak. TRUE

This one. It's a deliberate lie.

There has been a very large increase in greenhouse gases in the industrial period. It is from fossil fuel mining and burning. This has caused changes infrared emissivity in the atmosphere---this is a measured fact, that the atmosphere is shining more in infrared. It is physically impossible for the climate not to warm.

Extensive data, geological and biological, show this is what has happened.

All other plausible non-anthropogenic mechanisms have been investigated and do not explain the observed data. Every aspect has been investigated every which way for decades.

| 3) Those who disagree with it are ex-communicated from the scientific community. TRUE

At some point, which is about now, they don't have good arguments or data. When they try, their arguments are quickly refuted. It now appears that they are willfully incompetent and motivated by achieving a non-result instead of actual scientific inquiry.

Particle physicists who disagree with conservation of relativistic momentum are similarly "ex-communicated" as they have nothing productive to add.

Exactly! And just as predicted by those pesky laws of physics, the climate was, until modern period, slowly cooling from about 6000 BC to now as the Milankovitch cycle of orbital forcing proceeds on its predicted path. It takes a Milankovitch peak to get out of the Ice Age.

Until humans started releasing greenhouse gases in mass, and that is now causing much more rapid warming.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/holocene.html

| In the whole recorded history of the planet, CO2 *follows* the heat patterns

Except for the very important exception of now, when humans have dug up fossil fuels and burnt them in a mechanism never previously active in geological history. We have CO2 first, and now the heat's coming.

If something different is happening now, the results may be different.

The causal mechanism from CO2 to temperature is not derived from historical correlations but direct quantitative observation and physical experiments. The importance of the paleoclimate is that there may be natural feedforwards in which extra heat releases additional CO2 which would increase heat more still.

| Guess all the stories about the British, Canadian and German scientists contributing must be false, the USA did it single handedly?

a) British & Canadian scientists contributed significantly to the fission bomb project. They did not contribute significantly to the successful fusion bomb projects in the USA and USSR.

b) German scientists did not contribute significantly to the US nuclear weapons projects unless you count former Germans expelled or driven out because of Nazi ideology.

> could google have gotton so far without nsa's help? one wonders. and one will never actually know, either.

It's the other way around. NSA was interested in techniques and technology from google, especially high-performance large scale data processing. NSA was/is behind, and they knew it, and they knew the best didn't want to work with them any more when they could get a pre-IPO position at Google when Google had stunningly capable & ambitious people (2000-2005) on average.

There was a 1950's-1960's british vacuum cleaner brand, named you know whawt, advertised with the tag line, "nothing sucks like a Vax".

| I'm more worried about the invalid correlations that will result from this data, given that the users will be self-selected, upper-class individuals.

You mean, the ones who have good health care and spend on branded pharmaceuticals?

Sounds like a great business plan.

A high pixel density LCD screen and low-power CPU & graphics display takes at least as much technology to manufacture as precision gears.

As much margin as jewelry, and yet will be churned like a phone!

I am very pleased to be a shareholder.

| Seriously Jobs liked flat UI's

no

| and one button mice.

Yes

| While Jobs was off developing Next, Apple adopted 3d shading.

NeXT did it far earlier of course. NeXT used 4-intensity grayscale on its first machine (very tastefully) when most Mac was 1 bit black and white. The grayscale displays obviously didn't have any RGB phosphors, and were extremely clear for the time.

Take a look here and compare contemporaneous Apple/Amiga/Microsoft vs NeXT.

http://www.theoligarch.com/microsoft_vs_apple_history.htm

NeXT was 15 years ahead of competitors, both in UI and software architecture. Windows 95 was a low-end rip-off of NeXTSTEP UI, but at least they had the taste to rip off the best. Note the W95 close button. Note how Windows screwed up by putting minimize & maximize very close to the destructive close 'X' button. NeXT of course but the close button alone and the other menu on the other side.

| One he came back it's forced his developers to put a flat UI on the first iPhone.

iPhone wasn't flat until Steve was nearly dead. I have a very old iPod Touch that runs iOS 4.x. The UI is really good and nice looking, predictable, and fast and efficient. Better than my much faster iPad on 8.