I still see the polls associated with him and mentioning him. He has also defended the "karma" censorship system in an interview not so long ago. And Slashdot being a leftist cesspool and "news for Antifa", that is self-evident. I don't know anybody with an ounce of self-respect who takes Slashdot seriously. If Cowboy is not associated with Slashdot any more, then he should sue the portal. That would also mean that the current leadership enjoys their cowardly anonymity. However, based on the aforementioned interview I am quite sure that Cowboy Neal is a totalitarian idiot who has developed the "karma" censorship system.

Very simple: Slashdot has turned into a classical leftist portal. The guy with the moniker "Cowboy Neal" is a totalitarian leftist imbecile who has turned the portal into a leftist cesspool. It's completely insignificant as far as the technology goes. Slashdot is now "news for Antifa".

The sooner we realize that there are serious problems with the e American political system, the better it will get. The institute of lobbying has completely corrupted our legislative and executive institutions. Also, affording artificial entities like corporations, charities and non-profits political rights is a very serious problem which has caused, among other things, the total corruption of our media.

Trump is just a symptom. I'll vote for him because I will be retiring in the short amount of time and I need my 401K to improve drastically. I don't see Biden being able to accomplish this, so I will vote for Trump. It is a sad state of the American politics that the best that is on offer are two not overly bright octogenarians with dubious moral qualities and rather strong authoritarian tendencies. American government is far too powerful and massive as it is and one candidate would like to strengthen it even more. The other pays only lip service to the free speech and the 2nd amendment but at least doesn't want to take my rifle away.

We still have to form our free market. We don't have it. We have government bureaucracy that runs schools, health care for millions of people (Medicare, Medicaid, VA), trains and media (CPAN, NPR). We have tons of anticompetitive laws like the infamous Jones act. Also, government should not be able to spend more than it collects through our taxes. US is not a capitalist economy, it's borderline socialism, USA is in need of a serious reform. Unfortunately, neither of the two old farts that we have on offer will do anything about it. Dems are going toward socialism, that is why they are extremely dangerous, much more so than Trump. Socialism has ruined Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Russia, China, all countries in the Eastern Europe and many other countries. I don't want the same scourge for the USA. When I immigrated into this great country, I pleaded allegiance to the American flag and the republic for which it stands, with liberty and justice for all. I grew up in a socialist country and I definitely wouldn't wish it onto my worst enemy, much less onto the country that I love.

Other than that, Cowboy Neal is a totalitarian idiot who practices censorship. Slashdot is a leftist cesspool.

Maybe if you glue yourself to a highway? I would try with the LIE (Long Island Expressway) around 8AM, Mon - Fri. New York City will not prosecute you since they only prosecute crimes that are not politically motivated. Furthermore, drivers are not moving anyway so they will not get violent with the woke idiots. Joking aside, most of the developing countries are not populated by idiots. They understand that they need cheap and plentiful energy to power their economic growth. At this point of the human technology, there is nothing that can replace fossil fuels. Just Stop Oil, The Last Generation, Extinction Rebellion and other cultists can ruin developed countries for their residents but cannot do anything to actually stop the fossil fuels. EVs are far inferior to the ICE vehicles. They have shorter range, issues with the quality of the batteries and lower carrying capacity, not to speak about the much higher price. Nobody should expect the politicians to go against their voter base and push for something that will dramatically destroy the quality of living. Of course COP28 will not do anything. Nobody expected it to. Neither Blinken nor Beiden are there, they've sent John Kerry in a private aircraft. Maybe, if Greta comes to the UN once again, with that funny "how dare you" speech.

As it was said in the previous post: I don't want to abandon Slashdot to woke mob. I will do that when I evaluate Slashdot to be insignificant. For now, it isn't. And don't you like my work with the Great Barrier Reef thread? I turned the climate alarmist thread in a complete disaster, by producing an article about the reef growth. You see, leftist are not the only ones prepared to fight for their ideas. Slashdot has definitely become a leftist cesspool, with the censorship practices that match its political orientation. I am here to spoil the leftist party. From the river to the sea, Israel will be free. Free of Hamas, that is.

So the reef can recovered* when previous heat waves subsided. What happens when the heat waves grows more intense and frequent? When they last longer? When the climate has changed and the heat wave effectively never ends?

Don't confuse a warning sign for an 'all is well'.

* Though it sounds like the coral composition changes towards faster growing species.

The question of what happens when heat waves increase in frequency and intensity needs to be answered by science. I hasn't been answered yet. We don't know exactly how resilient corals are and where the tipping points are. However, spreading panic and alarming the public, based on someones political opinion is unbecoming of a scientist. Person who does that has crossed into politics and is no longer a scientist. Any opinion expressed by such person should be judged by political criteria, not by scientific criteria. In other words, the push for abandoning the fossil fuels, which is technologically impossible, is a political idea, not a scientific one.

Unfortunately for them, their teachings have been proven wrong while they were still alive. The paradox of diamond and water has proven that value of a product is not a measure of the labor used to make the product. With that gone, the whole scaffolding of Marxism falls apart. There is no "exploitation by the owners of the means of production" because the "surplus value" exists only within the confines of the labor theory of value. If the value of a product is not a measure of the labor invested into production of the product, then there is no "surplus value" which "owners of the means of production" skim from the working class. It also means that the workers are not solely responsible for creating added value. That was all concluded by F. Bastiat and Eugene Boehm von Baewerk, while Marx was still alive. That was the reason why the neo-Marxists of the Frankfurt school have dispensed with the economic part of the Marxism and have generalized it into "struggle of groups with different amounts of power". That too is junk because neo-Marxists interpret the world as dynamic relationship between groups with varying amounts of power. There is no room for individualism here and most of the inventions of the industrial age were created by individuals: T.A. Edison, A.G. Bell, N. Tesla, B. Gates, L. Page, L. Ellison, G. Marconi, R. Oppenheimer and many others. Marx was simply a writer of bad fantasy. L. Ron Hubbard pulled the similar trick a century later.

As Marx and Engels explain? Where did you get this "definition"? Who cares about the bearded authors of bad fantasy prose and their "explanation"? Should we consider those two clowns relevant? Their sick fantasies have directly led to deaths of more than 100M human beings in the 20th century and to unimaginable poverty and cruelty.

Well, technically speaking, protests require political organization if they are to have a glimmer of hope to achieve anything. Protests need political principles. Each protest needs a set of demands. Logistics is not that simple. Of course, there is no such an opposing force in China - yet.

Congrats comrade! This is a good rephrasing of the famous "opium of the people" statement, originally made by marquis de Sade and popularized by that great fantasy writer of the XIX century, Karl Marx. Marx has never worked a day in his life and his theories were debunked while he was still alive, by F. Bastiat and Eugene Boehm von Baewerk. He was not the last fantasy writer to acquire a cult-like following, L. Ron Hubbard did the same thing a century after Marx. However, I believe that your commissar will be happy.

As for FL, we may have different definitions of "shithole". I am disinclined to call a vibrant and growing economy, with good safety situation in the streets and good education system, with the most complete school choice in the nation, a shithole. I would reserve that term for the states and cities where the crime is rampant, homeless people are openly using heroin in the streets. People are fleeing CA, NY and NJ and moving to FL, TX and TN. That would make CA, NJ and NY shitholes, not FL. I understand that FL doesn't appeal to your communist proclivities, but you're in a minority.

Interestingly enough, you seem to be ignoring and refusing to comment on dr. Curry's interview. You would like me to learn "facts" that correspond to your political persuasion. It's very simple, really. Since "climate science" is so hopelessly politicized, it's not to be trusted. You will have to debate the scientists that do not agree with you. Me being a software engineer and not a scientist means that I rely on scientists to know the science. However, those scientists, lured by the attractive grants, have turned into politicians. I trust them as much as I trust Fauci, which means not at all. So, those "scientists" will have to debate their detractors. Just like you, those "scientists" are running away from the debate and that diminishes their credibility. So, no cigar until you comment on dr. Curry's interview. Science is not a religion and your running away from a debate is shameful, really.

Unfortunately, there is nothing to learn. Climate "science" is so politicized that it's hardly believable now. Yes, the temperatures are rising but it's not at all certain that this is a crisis or that it poses a risk for the survival of humanity. And you skipped the interview with dr. Curry again. BTW, that is what happens when you mix science and politics. People stop believing science, and with good reason. You, with your deliberate skipping of the opposing voices are a good example of why this is happening. One would think that smart people like scientists would have learned something from the way dr. Fauci has disgraced himself, by mixing science and politics. Once you start doing that, you're no longer a scientist, you're a politician. And politicians are not to be believed. So, nothing to discuss until you comment on dr. Curry's interview.

Let's see:
Geoffrey Landis

So, the owner of the several patents for photovoltaic improvements to solar cells is promoting the climate alarmism. How convenient. I hope you're making money from your patents. Does the climate alarmism belong to poetry or science fiction, another two areas you are apparently well versed in? So, as a former NASA person, would you care to comment on the Judith Curry interview:
Stossel interview with dr. Curry
Funny thing how all of the climate alarmists avoid debating with Bjorn Lomborg, Richard Lindzen or Patrick Moore. It appears that those "reams and reams of data" are really not that convincing, unless you're a believer. And you seem to be a true believer. Now whether the fact that you own patents in the area of solar cells is just an accidental convenience or the cause of your faith, I cannot tell.

Nope, no experimental confirmation. Global warming alarmism is based on computer models and predictions. In other words, computer simulation says that untold horrors will occur. Now, we can accept some of those simulations or not. Political bias and personal interest in grant money would, in my view, invalidate all those models. The models have first to be proven correct, and provide accurate predictions. No such luck. Not even climate scientists like the aforementioned Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen, Bjorn Lomborg or Patrick Moore accept those models. The question is why should I believe Geofrey Landis and not Judith Curry? I know that Geofrey Landis has a political agenda and is leaning very much to the left. I know that dr Curry is a legitimate scientist with all possible credentials. And she tells me that there is no climate emergency. That, for one, completely dismantles the "consensus" myth, stating that 97% of scientists support the AGW theory. She is a scientist, just like Richard Lindzen and Bjorn Lomborg, and she says that there is no emergency. Climate alarmism is just a doomsday cult which is annoying but will fade into oblivion thanks to the Extinction Rebellion and the Last Generation idiots who are blocking the traffic and vandalizing priceless works of arts. I agree that our civilization is in danger, but the danger is the Neo-Marxist ideology, not some climate doom. Fortunately, people understand that fossil fuels are a necessity and that we do not have anything to replace them with. Once people see the purple haired imbeciles glued to the highway, they're far less inclined to buy into that madness.

Oh, I forgot: this article has a strong odour of social justice, which is definitely a left leaning philosophy, based on Marxism.