That was the point of the first statement you were arguing against, the student loan thing in the US is what he wants to "fix". Believe it or not there are countries where you don't need take out a massive loan to get a degree. Here in Oz the government pays 75%, you pay the rest as a small weekly surcharge on your income tax, but only after it reaches a certain level. If you don't gain financially from the degree when you go back into the work force, it costs nothing. Of course if everyone had a degree then they would be worthless, so rather than limit student numbers with the cost of entry, the universities in Oz limit numbers on ability alone.

Nobody said it was "all-right" or "safe", the OP said it was "safer" and AFAIK common-sense plus all the evidence from the various Pacific nuke tests supports that claim. Survival is about risk minimization, no activity is totally safe, there is no efficient way to safely dispose of nuclear waste, especially when it has already escaped into the environment, better to help wash it into the ocean than try to keep it on the beach.

l(usb2, usb3, lightening, fibre optic, etc?)

I propose a fibre optic verion of Lightning: I am going to call it "Frightening"!

If you older than the average collage kid it's very likely you have a drawer/box full of different chargers collected over the decades. You have absolutely NFI what device any of them attach to or why you bother keeping them. In fact I'm sure that if you gathered them all up on a global scale it would cause a drop in the price of copper.

I think it's a GoodThing(TM) and most likely inevitable in the long run, after all most countries have standards for conceptually similar things such as wall sockets. Why should the common task of recharging a $50 device need a special $75 plug. Vacuum cleaners don't come with a proprietary plug that needs an adapter to plug into the wall, In fact now I think about it, my drawer full of orphaned mutant chargers all have the same mains plug attached to the other end, it's the same type as the plug on the vacuum cleaner, for all practical purposes it's the only type of mains plug you will find useable in Australia.

Difficult to get rid of the abstract part since a name is by definition an abstract identifier. Not sure what a non-abstract name would look like. Wacky just a qualitative opinion but it is true that some names are more easily remembered than others, which names are more easily remembered varies depending on the persons life experience, all people remember lyrical names and phrases much more easily than tongue twisters and phone numbers. However once mastered, a tongue twister is hard to forget.

Yahoo - In pre-internet Australia the word "yahoo" was slang for a hyperactive idiot. The lead role in the movie Young Einstein was played by an Aussie comedy actor who stage name is "Yahoo Serious" (a contradiction in terms).

Whatsapp - is a play on "What's up?".

Tumblr - I will give you that one, it's missing an 'e'.

nerds give the things [snip] unuseful names - That's because many nerds understand a name doesn't tell you anything about the widget you're looking at.

At 2x the cost for 4x the deductible, yes. So it's still a ripoff.

Jacob Rothschild owns 49% of Freescale Semiconductor. By Chinese law, the Chinese Communist Party owns the other 51%.

On any device intended for a child, use parental control software to block google play.

Pretty easy.

I want a diesel electric school bus.

She's a stupid douche because the fewer people who take the vaccine the more likely people are to catch this disease, increasing the number of people who die from it, making it far more deadly than bee stings. You're not very good with this whole "science" thing, are you?

I think (from recent posts) he's still in the process of converting it to some newer tech than Ruby on Rails. Not *quite* ready for prime time.

I picked tomatoes and various other commercial vegetable crops in the early 80's (Australia), even back then they had mechanical harvesters. Hand picked tomatoes were the "cream of the crop", you pick them for about 2-4 weeks when the crop starts ripening, they are early to market and good quality so the farmer gets top dollar. However once the contract date* comes up for the entire crop to be harvested they were
mechanically harvested and ended up in cans and/or sauce bottles. Same with peas, a 1980's era pea harvester could pick the peas, pod them, wash, snap freeze, and bag them. Again "shop peas" were picked by hand and sold with their pods intact before the crop was at the optimum point for mechanical harvesting.

* - Large commercial vegetable crops are often sold on contract before they are even planted. The thing about tomatoes (other than copper coloured hands from the chemicals on them), is that a heavy summer downpour will cause a ripe tomato to swell to the point it's skin bursts. When such a scenario occurs all the mechanical harvesters are in full demand since everyone wants their tomato crop picked before it turns into tomato sauce and simply drips onto the ground. The farmer doesn't wait days/weeks for a harvester turns up. While it is raining he will be recruiting as many pickers as he can at a higher dollar rate per bin. From my experience the extra dollars did not make up for the futility of trying to fill a half ton wooden vegetable bin with tomato jelly.

As to TFA, unless they set up the whole plot as a hydroponic farm there's no way it's going to significantly reduce the food bill for ~1500 people. However I think that's the wrong way to look at the project, TFA compares the farm to a public park, pool or golf course in conventional towns, it's nice if such amenities can pay for their own upkeep but profit (in dollar terms) is not the goal. If nothing else the people in the community who use it will gain a much greater appreciation of where their food comes from and just how much planning, hard work and patience is involved in growing something edible and eating it before some other critter does.

I see you bought a nice bunch of cherries from Anthony Watts.
Sadly the only thing it proves is your (and Judith Curry's) lack of education on the subject of statistics. Note I am actually being generous here by assuming that Curry doesn't understand her mistakes.

Weather forcasts are NOT based on trends found in any data set, they are based on the laws of physics and chemistry, they use the same "finite element analysis" techniques found in numerical wind tunnels and other engineering models that are used to build everything from bridges to aircraft. Archival data is used to test the "skill" of the model by making "hindcasts" and comparing them to the instrumental record.

Climate is basically the long term statistics of weather - meaning a hundered year trend in temprature is a climate statistic, not a weather trend. Climate models and weather models are more or less the same thing using different spacial and temporal parameters, climate statistics such as temprature trends are a completely seperate line of evidence to climate modelling.