Oh, a lot of money did buy that seat. We are on the verge of nuclear war with Russia because of the corruption in the part of the world. Remember, 10% for the big guy? You have to be a m*r*n or a 50cent soldier. Stop the politics and stick to Tech please.

..it's not height that keeps these guys single. It's their lack of game. Add 3 inches to all of them, and the insecurity that drove them to this surgery still remains. Women can sniff weakness on a male a mile away. That lack of confidence stands front and center and 99% of women have evolved to avoid it.

Spend the money on a personal trainer. Spend the money on health food. Take up a sport or hobby and join a group that engages in that activity. There will be women involved...maybe. If you are sitting at a desk all day, you are probably not a good example of a human specimen.

If all else fails, learn to ride a motorcycle. You can be short, ugly and smell and there are a number of women who are going to be happy to climb on the back of that bike.

So the most plausible explanation is someone ate a bat, instead of originating from a lab that studies Covid Bat Virus with a recent job posting asking someone if someone had HIV experience. It's not a bioweapon, but my guess is they wanted to see if they could get a cold virus to trigger an HIV response in an effort to produce an HIV vaccine.

Who ever marked this down, you missed the point. This isn't flame-bait. It's commentary on the idea that programmers are replaceable widgets. That individuals displaced from jobs can just be trained to code, like a dog learning a trick.

RedK, Iâ(TM)m right there with you. As long as the elite take private jets to talk about how the rest of us should give up flying , serious credibility issues arise. Sea level rise is quoted in millimeters and yet the scare level simulators use meters. Worst case, 15 inches is the predicted rise by 2100. Itâ(TM)s all a game to grab wealth. Nothing is being done to actually address carbon.

My newest notebook is a Microsoft Surface 2. The cost of a MacBook Pro, and diminished size just doesnâ(TM)t provide the value it used to. Obsoleting my 17 inch, perfectly usable MacBook Pro was the final straw.

As a long time purchaser of all things Apple and Mac, starting with my SE20, Powerbooks, G4s..and last, a 17" MacBook Pro, ala 2011, it's come to an end. Even though the updates had stopped for a perfectly serviceable MacBook, I used it daily. Then one night, I spilled wine in the keyboard. It would cost a bunch to just bring it back to life. I could buy a used one, but in the end, the new OSes were not being produced for this i7 machine. Ridiculous. I looked at the 15 inch, but my old eyes just can't handle the display anymore. Increasing pixel density is something I don't care about. I just wanted a larger screen that I could read.

I looked at Windows notebooks and it's pretty much....yawn! No matter how much you paid for a premium machine, it's still "junk". And then, I went to a Microsoft store and saw the Surfacebook 2. I bought one. It's a bit of an adjustment, but I'm getting the hang of it. Nice machine Microsoft!!!!

Cook asks their customers to upgrade but you have to give me something to upgrade too. A silly touch pad means nothing to me. My iPhone 6plus kept getting slower and slower. Funny, it was pretty fast when I got it, but over time, it started lagging in the UI. Apple says they haven't done anything, but I'm not buying it. I did have to update it to an XR as my wife's and my phone appeared to die around the same time. The XR has nothing compelling over the XR other than voice mails getting transcribed. Of course, Apple probably stores all of that information and knows when my pharmacy is calling me to let me know my hemorrhoid medicine is ready.

I used to write MacOS software. I'm done with that. I'm limiting myself to Windows and Linux going forward. I'm pretty much an early adopter. I bought Apple at $13 and attended the 2001 dev conference. I sold my stock when Jobs died. Cook isn't a visionary like Jobs. It's a stagnant company with no more innovation left. It, ironically, appears that Microsoft is staging a comeback and will eat Apple's lunch.

How about when the government grabs your genetic results to plan and prioritize health care? They can say that certain DNA is a better bet than substandard DNA. It's always about, "Think of the children!" until it isn't.

I'd rather buy from an automated restaurant. No one is peeing on my rice crispy treats. I'm not getting e coli because someone didn't wash their hands after wiping their ass. No one is going to spit in my food and because the process is consistent, I'll get a better meal. If workers seeing a living wage because they chose a stepping stone job as a career, I really don't care. The last time I went to a Carl's Jr, it took a half hour to get my meal. The people behind the counter were not even worth the minimum wage.

BTW, when I was getting my engineering degree, I worked in food service. I know what we did to peoples' food when they were less than polite. And, there are some people who f*ck with your food just for the sport of it.

I can attest that the Volt's maintenance costs are limited to tires and, oil changes every year and a half. I have 60k miles on mine after 3 years of driving. The batteries are as strong as the day I bought it. Ridiculously great commuter car. Road trip car? Not so much. I rent a gas car when I go on road trips.

The 2016 Volt offers a direct drive engine so the long drive may be fine now.

I was a founding joiner of Sprint. Worked for Qualcomm, got a good deal on a Qualcomm candy bar. Anyway, I had unlimited data and a pretty good price on Sprint for about 10 years. Then they let me know they are moving me to a 3 gig plan and I get to pay a bit more for it. I said no thanks and moved to AT&T. That was 10 years ago. Sprint has spent time and money trying to woo people like me back. I think of the 1000's of $ that Sprint did not make off of me in an attempt to gouge every last cent out of me. When AT&T come and tell me that I no longer have unlimited data, I'll find something else. But AT&T not attempting to renegotiate my plans has resulted in a family of 5's iPhones, and iPhone upgrades and a $200 a month plus plan. Hum, $2400 a year * 10 years is $24,000. So Sprint, that is what your brilliant plan to gouge me cost you.

Same with cable. Went to satelite. Now I am planning to drop off satellite and use my unlimited AT&T LTE connection feed my house.

There are 5 major sources of global temperature data which are most often referred to. Three of them are estimates of surface temperature, from NASA GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies), HadCRU (Hadley Centre/Climate Research Unit in the U.K.), and NCDC (National Climate Data Center). The other two are estimates of lower-troposphere temperature, from RSS (Remote Sensing Systems) and UAH (Univ. of Alabama at Huntsville). All are anomaly data, i.e., the difference between temperature at a given time and that during a baseline period. They tend not to be on the same baseline; for GISS the baseline is 1951 to 1980, for HadCRU it’s 1961 to 1990, for NCDC it’s the 20th century, and for satellite data the baseline is 1979 to 1999. Since they use different baselines, they’re on a different scale, i.e., each has its own zero point for temperature. To compare them, we need to use the same zero point for all.

I didn't realize that Celsius is a flexible scale. Turns out that zero for temperature, changes based on the location on earth and who is producing the data. There are baselines and anomalies that must be manipulated, indexed and massaged before it can be released for general consumption. Note that all the data sets are comprised of estimates of surface and air data. A synonym for estimate is "guess". Berkeley has datasets but only release the ones that they have manipulated. Why can the public not have access to the raw data? Probably for the same reason that Hillary hides her email.

If you want people to accept AGW, make the data available, straight from the sensors and thermometers. Until then, it looks like a scam to extract more money from the masses. Fuel in CA is $1 a gallon more than the rest of the country, thanks to cap and trade. Cap and trade is merely a scheme to remove more money from the working man's wallet and put it in the coffers for big business and government. When traffic lights are synchronized, and the US gets serious about public transportation, then I will believe that we have a carbon problem and that the government is actively doing something to reduce it.

FYI, I drive electric cars and have solar panels. It makes good economic sense. It also helps insulate me from the idiots who keep raising the costs of living.

Except that the climate models predict a wetter California. California is a desert. The geologic...and visual record supports this.

Climate change should be making it rain here.

When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption. And the government, but then I'm being redundant.

A bunch of people marked this down as Troll. Not certain how this post qualifies, other than it goes against the grain of Slashdot's predominant stance that global warming is real. The main idea of the post is true. Carbon credits is a construct created for taking money from the middle class. Rich people spend a much smaller portion of their income on energy so the carbon taxes have minimal impact. They will just absorb the higher costs of energy and go on with their lives. Middle class workers will bear the brunt of the taxes. In California, gas is $1 more then in other states and moving higher. All it does is reduce the discretionary income of that single mom working two jobs to feed her children.

Whether climate change is real or not, the politicians are using both sides to strike fear and uncertainty into the masses. Instead of coming up with solutions to the problem,, they are finding ways to increase tax revenue. The carbon will continue to pour into our atmosphere and all that will have been accomplished is that Al Gore will now have more jets to pollute our world. The seas are still going to rise, the weather extremes will get worse and people are going to die off.