Nothing. In fact if the previous poster had been paying attention that already happened in 2008.

No government devised by man will ever bring equal prosperity to all of its citizens. The most they can do is bring equal misery. We've seen quite a few that managed that.

Yet your guy has a list of names of people he want to kill with drones, often times in countries we are not at war with. Sometimes they're American citizens.

I agree that Bush did bad things and ratcheted back our freedoms. But Obama just got in there and EXPANDED the ratcheting back of more of our freedoms. Except you just cheer him on because he's your guy.

You have a blind hatred of Bush and a blind love of Obama. Your blind to the continual increase of the governments power over us because you've been duped into thinking this is a sporting event with two opposing teams.

Blind assholes like you and like those on the other "side" are costing us our liberty.

Fuck you.

No, what it proves is that climate forcing due to CO2 is likely non-linear in impact. It also may indicate negative feedback loops responding to the changes. Also, since we're not measuring a closed system there are a huge number of possible things causing the current climate response.

This shit is really really really complicated. About the only thing I'm certain of is that all our models for climate so far are not good enough.

Imagine a metal cymbal shaped as a sphere with no holes in it floating free in the air. Now hit that cymbal with a mallet that is longer than the diameter than the cymbal. But hit the cymbal on the inside of the sphere. Oh and the interior of the sphere is a vacuum.

There you go, there are a few impossible geometries (and other things) in that scenario.

Bullshit. One car can't leave a train and then proceed to a different location from the other cars, while the rest of the cars keep moving along.

This is an enormous difference.

Everyone who continually spouts on about mass transit always takes the first step of discounting how much flexibility and independence matter in transit.

With this type of breakthrough we can get the benefits of the train (energy savings earned from the streamlining of the group of cars' movement), plus still retain flexibility (cars can leave the "train" dynamically).

Landsat pixels are 30m. It is a moderate resolution satellite, not a high res one.

Its a tradeoff, you get better time coverage and a larger viewing area with larger pixels, you get worse coverage and a smaller image with smaller pixels but better detail.

Also other factors affect coverage, which in the best case is once every 16 days. So a few cloudy days or gaps in the data and the pixels won't change very fast.

Yeah, youtube has nothing that anyone wants to watch. They ought to just shut it down already, its just a wasteland with no viable content at all.....

I would be willing to be that if the BB gun happened at a school, the zero tolerance policies would have pushed the prosecution of that to 11 as well.

In cases like this the school systems actively encourage overreaction by other authorities to back up their assertions about why these policies are right and necessary.

Your last line is spot on.

Zero tolerance policies are for zero brained educators.

Yes! Then you can look even more nerdy using them.

I think you spelled the word corporations wrong. It is not spelled a-r-t-i-s-t-s.

This report does effectively see what is going on. Its the continuing effort to destroy high wage jobs in the US because corporate interests do not want to pay high wages.

Manufacturing jobs have faced this over the past few decades. Middle management has faced this. Now the skilled technical worker is the target for wage lowering.

However, our Captains of Industry have lost the wisdom that Henry Ford had about making sure their employees can afford the things they make.

There is really a neo-feudalism being formulated right now with the CEOs and corporate officers and boards taking a huge chunk of the company money, and with the money changers on the other side skimming off the top as well. They fail to see that enriching and advancing the middle class is the best way to actually make more money in the future. Their current method is going to empty the tank for the engine of the economy and set us on a continuous downward spiral.

The key thing to fix this problem will be to have businesses move away from "Increase Shareholder Value" and back to "give the customer what they want."

This is what is so dangerous about the Hedge fund managers' desires to increase Apple dividend payments. Apple has a clear focus on giving the customer good products. Turning them into a shareholder value type of company will only lead to disaster.

Wow its almost like these old recordings have been given Super Copyright powers after falling in a vat of government legislation...

That good. Because the record companies aren't the problem the songwriters are. Oh, wait....

This decision is severely damaging.

I don't think it will be long now before suits are filed against most of the digital locker services to try to "catch" them with pre 1972 content.

And if they manage to shut down the file lockers, they will ramp up the courage to go after YouTube. And with it already proven that it is nearly completely impossible for YouTube to perfectly filter everything automatically, they will lose.

I have decided, and told my children to look at any music they are purchasing and make sure it is not copyrighted by UMG.

I am fine with buying digital music online, but I am not fine with giving any money to a company who supports policies that could destroy the internet.

Companies that try to pursue actions and decisions that cripple the internet are IMHO enemies of mankind.