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Reply to Our Future Under the Federal JackBoot in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="50" id="3440717"]Now BO's IRS is going to require businesses to certify in writing, under penalty of perjury, that if they reduced their work force from some number greater than 99 to 99 or less that they did not do so because of Obamacare (to get into the waivered group). [/quote] Eerily like Gilliard's edict that Oz companies could not blame price increases on the carbon tax. If allowed to stand, we have lost a basic right enshrined in the Con

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Reply to Net Neutrality Revisited in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="26" id="3440523"]We need federal involvement at this time for the sake of the markets and avoiding corruption.[/quote] No, we need local involvement to break up the monopolies that they created. Cable is a local monopoly and it should not be. Get rid of that, and you do not need any federal involvement (which always turns out badly regardless of the intent).

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Reply to Our Future Under the Federal JackBoot in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="45" id="3439832"]a few million other suckers pick up the tab?[/quote] Except those "few million" are getting fewer and fewer. The slugs will not change. But Obama will make more slugs. Until we are Zimbabwe.

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Reply to I'M BACK!!!!! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Good to see you back. Daiwa is probably the most active here now. I check in occasionally (once a week or so). But most of the others have slipped by the wayside. I do not remember when the last time I heard from Charles, KFC or Nitro. Leauki is now in Switzerland after bouncing around a while. He pops in on occasion as well. Island Dog being a moderator is of course always around. And BFD seems to have disappeared. He was posting regularly up to ab

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Reply to Net Neutrality Revisited in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="22" id="3439332"]Especially since municipalities are being targeted for bans on building their own broadband to prevent this sort of thing[/quote] Hmmm...It did not work in Bristol Virginia. So many slip through. Makes you wonder how the rich are so stupid, yet are rich.

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Reply to Our Future Under the Federal JackBoot in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

It already is creating the underclass. While democrats rail against income inequality, it has grown faster and larger under Obama than under any Republican administration. When you have an elite with all the money, and everyone else that is "free" from work (as Obama is doing), those with the money are going to have a lot more than those who are earning nothing.

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Reply to Net Neutrality Revisited in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="13" id="3435235"]They get overturned often? [/quote] Actually, my information is a bit dated. The 6th has recently over taken them by one method of counting. http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/a_sixth_sense_6th_circuit_has_surpassed_the_9th_as_the_most_reversed_appeal/ Still, a reversal of 100 out of 128 is not something to crow about.

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Reply to Net Neutrality Revisited in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="11" id="3434714"]9th circus? Freudian slip? Did you short a circuit? [/quote] You have never heard it referred to as the 9th circus? The most over turned appellate court in the country?

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Reply to Net Neutrality Revisited in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Yes indeed, companies can screw you all they want! But then they will not have many repeat customers. I do not see it as being that much impact. But I am surprised the 9th circus went along with it.

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="1600" id="3427780"] They're free to ban whoever they want, but a ban on anyone who disagrees?[/quote] And now the LA Times - http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/10/18/la-times-bans-letters-from-climate-skeptics/ One wonders why they fear debate.

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="1544" id="3426096"]The weird thing is, that this warming stuff can be totally simulated in a laboratory environment and such an experiment would end all discussion.[/quote] So far it cannot. The experiment that Bill Nye did was a failure so they fixed the results.

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Turchany" reply="1528" id="3425877"] just think about the ozone hole, [/quote] You mean the ones the scientist now say is completely natural and is due to the simple physical interaction of the suns magnetic field with the Earth's magnetic field? Why are you introducing non sequiturs?

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="1504" id="3425708"]I still don't get what it is that convinces denialists why global warming is a non-issue.[/quote] I don't get why otherwise intelligent people think it is intelligent to use senseless insults instead of debating the issue. Denialist is not descriptive nor is it scientific. It is pure hysterics. But that is just me

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Turchany" reply="1503" id="3425699"]GREENHOUSE gases have greenhouse effect (they are called GH gases for a reason), even at global scale. It is not my problem if you don't believe this.[/quote] And I see no one arguing with that. But that is a non sequitur. The debate is HOW MUCH of an effect. CO2 has risen by 20% over the past 17 years, yet temperatures have not risen at all. So again, the question is how much does CO2 affect the temperature.<

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Turchany" reply="1499" id="3425618"]I wonder what denialists will say about this.. To me it seems they don't believe in scientists.[/quote] It seems that you do not know science. Denialist is not a scientific or even a descriptive term. It is a pejorative term used by those lacking a scientific background to end a debate because they do not know how to debate the issue. The root of the pejorative comes from the Holocaust deniers.

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="1492" id="3424727"]But... he had a good point about the baseline and he used year-averages, which make for a more robust comparison of data sets.[/quote] No, sadly it does not make a more robust comparison. It only masks the problems. That is why you should avoid that site like the plague

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Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="1470" id="3424337"]http://tamino.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/comparing-temperature-data-sets/[/quote] GeomanNL - I would think twice about using Grant Foster as a source. Here is but one misdeed: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/01/mcintyre-charges-grant-foster-aka-tamino-with-plagiarism-in-a-dot-earth-discussion/

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