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Comment Re:Slashdot April fools is lame (Score 1) 86

by Disstress (#35690838) Attached to: LHC, CERN Has Found the Hugs Boson

It is funny to try to sneak one article in. That would be "cute" and everyone would go about their day. Most of us have slashdot in an rss just for news in tech - why waste a day of not posting anything? Besides the joke articles are lame.

If you read /. for tech news you are about a week or two behind the world.
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Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report 447

Posted by Soulskill from the would-you-sign-my-hockey-stick dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The AP reports that the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has taken the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal, 3,000-page UN report last year on climate change, and disclosed that it had discovered more small mistakes. However, the review by the agency also claims that none of the errors affected the fundamental conclusion by a UN panel of scientists: that global warming caused by humans already is happening and is threatening the lives and well-being of millions of people. The Dutch agency reported in 2005 that 55 percent of the Netherlands is below sea level, when only 26 percent is. The second previously reported error claimed the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, which the Dutch agency partly traced to a report on the likely shrinking of glaciers by the year 2350. The original report also said global warming will put 75 million to 250 million Africans at risk of severe water shortages in the next 10 years, but a recalculation showed that range should be 90 million to 220 million. The analysis said future IPCC reports should have a more robust review process, and should look more closely at where information comes from."

Comment Re:Needed crouwd thinning?? (Score -1, Troll) 456

by Disstress (#31682960) Attached to: Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug
This is the stupidest fucking response that I have ever read. Your logic is flawed in the way that people with extra chromosomes smile more than smart people. Let them die, if my mom fucks a crackhead with no personal responsibility then let her die too. Choose your partners, only idiots take the first available option. Survival of the fittest... it wasn't just a quest in a MMO you played.

Comment Google is NOT a monopoly (Score 3, Interesting) 64

by Disstress (#28290245) Attached to: DOJ Turns Up the Heat On Google's Book Deal
The idea of google as a monopoly is silly. You still have ask, bing, yahoo, and even altavista is still around. There is not one product that google provides that is monopolistic in nature. Being a leader in your field does not mean that you are a monopoly. Look back at Ma Bell's past, that was a monopoly, people had no choice. People have a choice not to use google and are by no means forced to do so out of lack of options or availability.

Comment Re:I understand... (Score 1) 739

by Disstress (#20169789) Attached to: American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross
Its not the fact that Red Cross uses the cross. They are not suing because of that. The majority of people responding sound like twelve year old girls, bitching because this hurts their feelings... They are suing because Red Cross is selling the use of their red cross, which is Johnson and Johnson's rightful red cross. They won't sue the military or Bob down the street, unless they are trying to make money off of their trademark. This isn't that difficult people.

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