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Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million
That's not true, the observations are wrong. And anyway it's not important. And even if was, we're not responsible. Peddling these myths is exactly what I'd expect from leftist, reality-based terrorists
That sound you hear? Jon Postel has been spinning so much he broke a bearing. Again.
Who would have thought we can break many laws every day and no one dies
On average, around a hundred people die in automobile collisions every day in the US. Since the energy involved is proportional to the square of the velocity, the consquences of a collision increase dramatically as the speed goes up. It's hard to say what fraction of those hundred deaths are directly attributable to speeding, but it is inconceivable that it would be zero.
Spam exists because SMTP is so good at delivering messages, and because it does so cheaply
I would add to those two, and for the same reason, something equally important : you don't need anybody's permission to use it
Who's to say what they're going to do with that [contact] information besides launch a bullshit lawsuit?
Not "who", but "what" : Canada's PIPEDA law explicitly prohibits Personal Information collected for one purpose from being used for a different purpose (without consent).
share both copyrighted works (such as music and movies) and free-for-all material (open-source Linux distributions and the like).
It seems the author missed the opportunity to learn even the basics of copyright from this exhibit : all creative works automatically acquire a copyright. The Linux system has copyrights.
Here's the exact quote from a [US] senate resolution...
So? Whoever wrote that was blithely repeating a myth. The Israeli minister of intelligence, Dan Meridor, conceded that Ahmedinejad never actually said that Israel “must be wiped off the map.”
They're a cash grab for scanner makers, who are politically connected to the TSA.
eg Michael Chertoff, former Homeland Security secretary who shilled hard on the "need" to install full-body scanners, then later acknowledged that his consulting agency had a client that manufactured the machines. That is the kind of corruption one would expect in a third world tinpot dictatorship.
1. The republican party lies about having free market ideals.
They are pro-business, not necessrily pro-market. Subsidies, tax loopholes, monopolies, cartels and all kinds of other corporate welfare are just fine and dandy when its their own that have their snouts in the trough..
...to the extent that betting markets are an accurate predictor of political outcomes
But that is the fundamental flaw : betting markets are not an accurate predictor of any kind of outcome. The prices in a betting market are set and moved by the bookmaker according to the bets placed; the odds move according to what the bookie stands to win or lose based on the current bets. Sure, the bookie makes an educated guess when setting the intial price, but after that, the price is entirely driven by bets received.
Imagine that there were such betting at the last election. If Rove dropped hundreds of millions to back Romney, what do you think that would do the betting price? The odds would be "predicting" a Romney landslide, but it would be no more a predictor of reality than all those blowhard pundits.
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We could give that neighbouring country chemical and biological weapons
citation needed
How about the Senate report on U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual-Use Exports to Iraq, amongst whose findings is "The United States provided the Government of Iraq with "dual use" licensed materials which assisted in the development of Iraqi chemical, biological, and missile- system programs, including:(6) chemical warfare agent precursors; chemical warfare agent production facility plans and technical drawings (provided as pesticide production facility plans); chemical warhead filling equipment; biological warfare related materials; missile fabrication equipment; and, missile-system guidance equipment"
Is that fact straight enough for you?/P
just like how Iran launched chemical weapons into Iraq in the 90s and killed thousands
False. Iraq, and only Iraq, used chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. (And non incidentally, the chemical weapons were supplied by the west, and targetted using western intelligence).
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