This would be the same NSF that the GOP is trying to sabotage and politicize?

No. And they don't claim to. What they do claim is that it's happening, it's man made. A very nice pivot argument there, though, very nice.

OTHER studies have shown that we're basically fucked if it's even half as bad as it seems like it's going to be. But we're still at the early "it actually exists" part of the discussion with the morons in the world -- case exhibit A being, well, you.

Holy SHIT there are a lot of ACs, all of which have the same talking points and same writing style. I'd love to see ACs get a "hash" of their IP address or something so we can detect AC sockpuppetry.

Anyway. ClimateDepot is a global warming denier website ran by Marc Morano, a GOP operative working for Republican Sen. James Inhofe, and is funded by... wait for it... wait for it...

ExxonMobil, to the shock of absolutely noone.

In short, ClimateDepot is Astroturfing BULLSHIT designed to give GOP and Oil Industry Shills a place to link to to try and continue climate change denialism. It's not a valid source and by linking to it you show you're less than worthless -- you are actively harming the discussion by participating. Negative value.

Now the cool thing about this argument is: You can apply this to say, Flat Earth Creationism and you'll have the exact same thing.

"Our science says the planet is a sphere and orbits the sun, not a flat disc that is orbited by the Sun like the Church claims."

"YEAH, BUT 3% OF SCIENTISTS ARE BEING PAID BY THE VATICAN AND THUS YOUR THEORY IS INVALID."

"... You're an idiot. The vast majority of scientists agree that the Earth is round, approaching 100% when you cut out people who have obvious biases -- like scientists being funded by the church."

"So whatever the majority of scientists say is canon, and if you go against it, you're being heretical. If you're being heretical, then you float, which means you're made of wood, and therefore, are a witch. BURN the witch!!"

You're wrong.

We call it climate change now due to fucking idiots going "Global Warm'n?! It's COLD OUT, HAR HAR HAR."

Personally I'm expecting after 3-4 more Superstorms like Sandy that MAYBE the morons in my country will finally get a clue, but by then Keystone XL will be forced through and we'll be quite well and truly fucked. But hey, at least a few people will get rich in the process, right?

And a "portion" of the Brony fandom is goes about on four legs in "pony fursuits" at brony cons. Most don't, and think those that do are weird.

And a portion of Anime fans cross dress in $3000 costumes of little girls (and have sex in them, too!). Most don't, and think those that do are weird.

And don't get me start about Doctor Who fans, what with all that slash fic about the Doctor making sweet love to... himself. And the Tardis. And himself again. At the same time! Most don't, and think those that do are weird.

Every sufficiently large enough group of people has it's perverts. Furry / Brony is no different than fans of Japanese Cartoons, szPopularScifiSeries, or Random Popular Book of the week. (For example, 50 Shades of Grey proves that all Twilight fans are secretly into BDSM!)

What IS different is that a particular website designed to harass people a few years back decided to pick and choose the most vile crap they could out of the Furry Fandom, presented it as representative of the whole, and a very large group of very ignorant and unimaginative bandwagon hoppers took the meme and ran with it. For a decade.

Ironically, the same mindset that causes the "LOL FURFAGS, 9 FOOT LONG COX AND HIPPO BALLZ LOLOL" crap is also the proverbial cancer that is killing /b/, so... karma's a bitch, eh?

Yes, it's a form of Furry Fandom. Basically "Furries" as modern people know it were the same thing as bronies, except instead of being fans of My LIttle Pony they were fans of Robin Hood, Albedo, or Omaha the Cat Dancer.

These modern furries are just coming from the My LIttle Pony reboot, which apparently is a very good show (never bothered). They try to distance themselves from the "old" furry fandom, but there is an incredible amount of overlap in the two communities, both in members, culture, and themes.

One thing "Bronies" do have going for them is there are a lot (a LOOOT) of Internet savvy Bronies, most of which are connected with the kind of places where memes get started (Reddit, SomethingAwful, etc). This means that Bronies have, so far, avoided the same "Furries = Perverts" forced meme that SomethingAwful pushed out.

And Netflix is buying what ISPs are selling. And more importantly, Netflix's customers are buying their connections.

I hear this every so often since I used to work at an ISP. Basically the ISPs are longing for the days where they could sell a grandma a 10 meg connection for $100 a month and watch her use 100kb of bandwidth a day when she checks her email and looks up recipies.

Granted, we do have a problem with network saturation, where ISPs sell product they do not own, but that's their own fault, not Netflix nor their customers.

Adobe certainly hopes so!

Apparently I'm the only one who remembers Windows ME. And 95. I imagine some of the long hairs could even quote some of the early Windows 3.X era releases at this point as well.

Seriously, at this point Windows releases are like Final Fantasy games -- skip every other one and you'll be fine.

Oh NO, people are expected to work at a job that they are being paid outrageous sums for. The horror.

Welcome to the real world, Google devs. The DotCom era has been over for quite some time.

Not every country has semi and literal for-profit secondary education systems backed up by a predatory student loan system.

I think that particular app, which I forget the name of, is very popular nowadays in Intro Physics classes. It's outrageously annoying. Hilariously, all the answers and solutions guide are available via a quick google search, something my classmates were quick to tell the rest of us.

The scary thing is, the people who make these books, who re-release the book every 6 months so you can't buy them used, are trying to push for the same kind of automation... of lectures. You'll have a "teacher," but they won't be an expert in the field. They'll have some basic IT training to ensure you can get to the website. The website will have a variety of web videos and automated homework assignments, and you will be graded based on how many videos you watch and how many automated assignments you complete.

And with the push to for profit schools... yeah. Expect McEducation to show up sooner rather than later.

Wrong.

The modern TSA is a way to legally funnel government funds to contractors in the United States.

In addition, it gives the airlines and government a shield in case anything DOES happen. "Well, we at least TRIED to stop it."

The combination of the two means that it will never stop, and it will never get better.

Wow, I've never actually SEEN someone use the Broken Window fallacy without being sarcastic. Good show, ol' bean!