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Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 227

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 13, 2009 @01:22PM from the he-will-be-missed dept.

beeshman noted that Les Paul has died. Paul was quite the hardware hacker of his day, innovating with guitar hardware, and later multi track recording. The Gibson Les Paul is one of the single most iconic instruments associated with Rock 'n Roll, and was of course played by Pete Townshend. Someday I'm going to get me one.

Comment Re:In fact you should scrutinize it yourself (Score 0, Flamebait) 489

by horriblicious on Monday July 27, 2009 @02:56PM (#28841693) Attached to: Temperature Data Wants To Be Free

"The amount spent by Environmental groups on this issue dwarfs that spent by fossil fuel lobbyists." .... .......

Even a cursory search turns up tons of evidence refuting that... claim. That is just a completely false statement.

I don't disagree with you but what are you quoting? The amount spent by "government", specifically the US government, dwarfs spending by oil companies. Nothing said in this thread about spending by environmental groups except by you.

Comment Re:Follow the money; Stop enabling the conspirator (Score 0, Troll) 489

by horriblicious on Monday July 27, 2009 @02:29PM (#28841239) Attached to: Temperature Data Wants To Be Free

Yes, they get oil money. $230,000 in 2002. Vast amounts of oil money. Clearly $230,000.00 against AGW, as compared to $79,000,000,000.00 in favour will clearly sway all of us and win the day. Yes I am comparing a year of Exxon to almost 20 years of government funding. So divide $79B by 20 and the pro-AGW funding is still roughly 16,000 times greater for a single year. Congratulations for pointing out that Exxon is actually a small voice in the wilderness on this one.

Comment Re:In fact you should scrutinize it yourself (Score 0, Troll) 489

by horriblicious on Monday July 27, 2009 @01:18PM (#28839957) Attached to: Temperature Data Wants To Be Free

Bullshit. If you could come up with a proposal for research with a good chance of finding against global warming, then you could write your own check for all your dreams of avarice. There are millions spent on lobbying for big business in Washington. Something that could make the global warming issue go away would be worth a good chunk of those budgets to the fossil fuel and automobile industries amongst others.

Actually, this is working the other way right now. Companies are not in the business of "truth", they are in the business of making profits. They read public opinion polls, not science journals and blogs, and see which way the wind (and all that government money) is blowing. So they GREENWASH everything to get a piece of that market. There is no corporate pot of money available here against AGW. Business is completely co-opted in favour since if it's not green, it won't sell. There is a huge government pot of money for AGW though, and it is distorting the debate.

Comment Re:In fact you should scrutinize it yourself (Score 0, Troll) 489

by horriblicious on Monday July 27, 2009 @01:08PM (#28839779) Attached to: Temperature Data Wants To Be Free

The amount spent by Environmental groups on this issue dwarfs that spent by fossil fuel lobbyists.

If you need a citation, how about looking at: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf In general, $79 BILLION spent by the US government since 1989 to support AGW. Exxon has spent $23 Million. Money has distorted the debate (you don't want to be on the wrong side of billions of research dollars). The site and its owners may have it's own axes to grind (don't we all) but let's stop with the "oil-company" conspiracy theory. It's just another distraction tactic by those with something to hide. Publish your data and models please.

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