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Reply to Three Views on the Ground Zero Mosque in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

I was undecided on this issue at first as well, I understand that this is a deliberate act of provocation and no matter what happens it's a win for Muslim extremist. If we stop it they say "see they think all Muslims are cut from the same terrorist cloth" and if we allow it they'll see it as a submission. So since they battle for hearts and minds is with the moderates I'd rather not alienate them by giving the perception that we blame you too. So while I don't support i

Reply to Level of Ignorance on the Left is Astonishing in Politics JoeUser Forums

I think I'll channel my opinion on this through Cenk and Ana. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vWCSvljWxU&playnext_from=TL&videos=TBhkEZDehZ8

Reply to Michigan rocks in Blogging Stardock Forums

During the pre-digital era we grew accustomed to giving, allot of weight to photographic evidence and that mindset is still somewhat with us. It is amazing how much resources are devoted to debunking faked photos and other pranks and that is probably the reason why so many people do it. Digitaly altered photos are like crop circles without the hard work. Perpetrators get to sit back and snicker at all the effort going to finding out if it’s real or not. Do you remember thi

Reply to Michigan rocks in Blogging Stardock Forums

A good masking program like Corel knock out is all you need. You can even automatically match the layer lighting and add shadows where needed. If it’s not a fake it’s most likely a pet and not a wild deer but the days where you could tell are gone.

Reply to Intelligence is overrated in Business Experiences JoeUser Forums

I read a study somewhere that said anything higher than an IQ of 116 has no bearing on successfulness however I think you have the order of importance backwards. Discipline and passion can be traits possessed by the intelligent or the simple minded however without judgment, which is solely a product of intelligence, they’re blind. It could be said that Forest Gump was a disciplined runner with a passion for ping pong but it would be just luck that

Reply to Climate is cooling according to Jones in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]stub - That's one of my favorite vids.[/quote] Mine as well, it helps me understand how others can come to hold such flawed positions and by extension that I could be completely wrong about something and simply not recognize it without a critical analysis how I came to that position. Here’s one by his brother that helps in that respect as well. <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.co

Reply to Climate is cooling according to Jones in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Nice, if you read the report the range is correct between historical data and the projections from the modeling they used. If you wish to nit pick that is fine. No matter how you look at it the wild predictions leveled by the pro man made global warming still comes out to less than on degree rise in temp while the people that are looking at the science predict a 2 degree drop in temp. That was in 2008 it is now 2010 which one seems to be more accurate? Oh wait we are now told that the

Reply to Climate is cooling according to Jones in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]I love the fact that you use Wiki as your go to site. while I foolishly read all the actual reports. below are excerpts from my posts that date back to 2008. The IPCC stuff are quots from the report cut and pasted to my articles, I have not edited or left out anything from the actual reports. Keep in mind that the IPCC put out four reports. I am in error, using only my memory I wrote .006 when in reality it is 0.05 if you want the full story look up my articles on global warming over t

Reply to Global Warming Piling Up in The Environment Stardock Forums

Interesting article, It doesn’t counter anything I wrote but interesting nonetheless. I think the author just has a problem with the word “holding”, how about heat allows air to “suspend” water vapor. I’m sorry but it’s not just a little bit of fun, every cold snap is erroneously held up as proof GW isn’t happening and too many people think weather and climate are the same. Like I said there are good reasons

Reply to Climate is cooling according to Jones in Politics JoeUser Forums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWDFzWt-Ag

Reply to Geert Wilders in International Stardock Forums

I was going to ask you what you thought about this and never got around to it. PatCondell pretty well sums up mine and apparently your feelings about this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZUZ9CPZII

Reply to Global Warming Piling Up in The Environment Stardock Forums

There are many good arguments against GW, this isn’t one of them. Weather and climate are very different things, even a rudimentary knowledge of either subject should make this clear. Al Gore, the opportunist that he is, is actually right about the assertions that he made in his book. A rise in temperatures could cause an increase in intensities of both rain and snow storms. Heat is what causes water to evaporate, heat is what allows air to hold

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics Stardock Forums

Rethinking Nuclear Power. http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4092 Smart grids and plug in hybrids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSdnycHfLnQ I think we could reverse that chart inside of 20 years without even touching wind and solar, and save this country mo

Reply to Abstinence Program Shows Success in Blogging Stardock Forums

[quote]Fair enough. 12-year olds should be tought not to have sex. And 16-year olds should be tought how to have sex safely. Everything else, i.e. teaching 16-year olds that sex before marriage is bad is up to the parents and the parents alone.[/quote] The study mentioned that in the abstinence only class contraceptives were not vilified or lied about so I have to assume if they were asked the students were told the truth, I wouldn’t want to see that question ignored.

Reply to Abstinence Program Shows Success in Blogging Stardock Forums

This study is severely flawed. 23% of the students were already sexually active so they’re almost guaranteed to have sex again in the next 2 years, of course the parents are going to put them in the sex ed class, the virgin ship has sailed they just want to keep them from a pregnancy or STD. For the rest like Leauki said there 12 they’re mostly going into the abstinence class and since the primary outcome was assed by self-report what do you think t

Reply to Enough already! in Politics JoeUser Forums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHODjoSb2ao

Reply to AGW – Hypothesis, Theory and Fact in The Environment JoeUser Forums

[quote]Again the straw man. FACT: There are some Peer Reviewed Papers that do not support AGW. You made the "leap of faith" to think meant it must be a fact. Again with the false strawman.[/quote] You wrote, “AH! Opinion” in response to a video making a logical argument against the contentions that AGW decent was being suppressed. Then you write “OR” as in the alternative to opinion, “how about some FACTS”. FACTS as in plural then link to

Reply to AGW – Hypothesis, Theory and Fact in The Environment JoeUser Forums

[quote]Well, Apparently he did, as did I since he was the one that told me. indeed, he is not the only one. I suggest you go read the comments here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seven-answers-to-climate-contrarian-nonsense[/quote ] Many people are very passionate about this doesn’t make it a religion, allot of don’t like being in the test tu

Reply to AGW – Hypothesis, Theory and Fact in The Environment JoeUser Forums

[quote]point 1: Apparently he did and he is one of the faithful[/quote] Again who cares that some joe is over stating his belief to be a fact, climatologist are not that certain. [quote]point 2: Consensus means something in Poliltics, but is useless and even counter productive in Science.[/quote] Ya I don’t know what you’re talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus </

Reply to AGW – Hypothesis, Theory and Fact in The Environment JoeUser Forums

[quote]A proponent of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) told me the other day that “97% of Climate Scientists know AGW is a FACT!” (his words exactly). I called him a liar. And I never touched Google (or Bing). What has gotten lost in the latest development of AGW, the East Anglia emails and source code, and indeed it has been lost for many years, is that AGW (call it Global Warming or call it Global Climate Change – but it is neither) is not a fact. It is not even a theory

Reply to Long-term ice core samples for global warming data in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]There's no commentary here. It's just what the Greenland ice core shows.[/quote] It’s not just a graph it has notations therefore it is commentary. So here’s two videos that comment on the notations. 1998 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwnrpwctIh4 MWP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKfz8NjEzU

Reply to Climate Change Scam? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

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Reply to Climate Change Scam? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

What’s ironic is anyone whom understands science would be more upset and skeptical of their conclusions if these emails showed the exact opposite attitudes towards the data and the methods used to gather that data than if than if they came off as absolutely confident of theirs and others methods. This is how science works ladies and gents, individuals are imperfect and have agenda’s. The pier review process, a healthy internal skepticism of others work

Reply to We’re increasingly living in two Americas: The producers and the takers in Politics JoeUser Forums

We went from 16.5% to 40% in 25 years because the majority of full time employees make between 30,000 and 40,000 and 25 years ago this group was paying taxes. Twenty five years later this group has far less taxable income, a family making 40,000 with 2 kids pays no taxes and in fact gets a refund. The main cause of this is the increasing cost of living, deductions and tax credits, not a declining work ethic. I've been a contractor in Florida for

Reply to The Singularity is near? I guess we’ll see… in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The timing of the “singularity” obviously depends on how fast humans merge with computers. Naturally evolving a smarter human takes millions of years. The SI-FI aliens with big heads to hold their big brains wouldn’t happen in reality because the inevitable merging with the synthetic would relieve any evolutionary pressure to make their brains larger. Once we start down a path that can double base human intelligence for participants every two years the