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You can! Just move to the UK, North Korea, the EU, China, Canada, or a host of other wonderful places that are implementing your wet dream! Leave the messy free speech to those of us who wish to enjoy it and the consequences.

If a climate model can't explain/show the past history of observed data, then how can it be relied upon to predict the future? Release all the data used for these claims, as well as the model. Isn't saving the world more important than being secretive with this information? Or is it more important to keep the incoming funding and celebrity? I don't know why Slashdot logged me out ... :/

" got the hell out of the way of the smart and motivated people trying to solve the problem." That sounds vaguely tyrannical ... but it's with the best of intentions, right?

$300 million? Oh, that's right, the executive who pushed Intel this direction is leaving now. Here's her announcement to leave: https://archive.is/egdkd Here's her announcement for the Diversity Program. https://archive.is/YYbrY Here's where that $300 million came from: https://archive.is/EIqxl

Yeah - Just take a look at the three past suggested slates. ALL. WHITE. CIS-SCUM. HETERONORMATIVE. MALES. Oh wait, what's that? Multiple female authors on the suggestions? Multi-racial authors? Diverse political thoughts amongst the candidates? Yeah - I can totes see them being anti-diversity. I was in the Sad Puppies camp. Now I can't wait to see what new Byzantine rules and regulations the Old Guard comes up with to protect The Precious. I almost feel bad for the 2016 Hugos. Almost.

Wrong. Most artists have a system either through their label on their own called licensing. If someone wants to pay an artist to promote a product, or be used to present a lifestyle that is attractive to potential customers or voters. When these political campaigns purchase a license, most artists don't have a veto over it, and take to the court of public opinion to shame the politicians into not using their music. Fuck those artists. If they want to sell their product to a specific ideological crowd, they should say that up front. Those that are 'all about the music' and 'taking a message of $PEACE$LOVE$WHATEVER to the people', and then cry when someone with some media exposure uses their product in a legal contractual way should be given an Iron Maiden treatment. Fuck. Them.

Bump parent up mod up +1 Like it upboat whatever - If you are going to enforce a law, enforce the entire law, not just the parts that make you feel magnanimous and beneficent. Liberal socialists seem to think that THIS TIME THEY WILL GET IT RIGHT AND MAKE IT WORK.

When the good doctor and his associates release all this data that was used to create their model, he is guilty of cherry picking data points and data manipulation. All the secrecy and denial of data release makes his conclusions suspect, regardless of their accuracy.

The South Koreans need to learn that requiring individuals in society to proved identification to verify their identity is as racist as a Texan GOPer.

I'll do better than a link - how about a video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Homework assignment: compare Eich's opinion of 5 years ago, when he made donation to President Obama's from 5 years ago.

No sir. Not one bit. Nobody doing shady things other than those mean old nasty ignorant rethuggggggggglicans. http://thefederalist.com/2014/...

Did you know? Catholic teaching states condoms are immoral, as they prevent fertilization. The more you know!

Yeah, because all the money we have been pouring into school systems the past 30 years made such a difference until now. Our per capita spending per student is abysmal for our ROI. But we keep voting in the people on the school boards who hire the people who make and execute the budgets for the schools, so there is no one to blame but the person in the mirror. I love the cycles where a new administrator in a district will institute a construction program within their first two years so that people will know they are 'serious' about education. The declining average testing scores may not give community pride, but the [INSERT BUILDING OR OTHER EDIFICE NAME HERE] sure is magnificent/breathtaking/bold/needed/awesome. School property is massively underutilized. Too bad people wouldn't be willing to have school in shifts.