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• Commented on How'd They Do That?: Poison Ivy and Carbon Dioxide Studies
  "Could increasing and targeting the production of what we were so worried about having too much of in fact protect us from having a CO2 overload?" Except we're deforesting so fast that a bit of extra growth in other areas...
• Commented on Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death on Black Friday; Union Responds
  exactly how did the unions destroy the car industry? Did they force the car companies to design crap cars that no one wanted once gas prices started to rise? Were the car companies prevented from participating in contract negotiations, or...
• Commented on Sunspots don't cause global warming, people do
  Yes I should've qualified by "50 years" by saying recent and rapid increases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png shows it starting about 100-150 years ago and increasing significantly in the last 50 or so....
• Commented on Sunspots don't cause global warming, people do
  And of course the great global climate scientist conspiracy to get grants. Point to a global climate scientists that made $123 billion in profit. I think you'll find the group of people with real profit motive in the climate "conspiracy"...
• Commented on Sunspots don't cause global warming, people do
  Tempatures on earth have only been rising for about 50 years. In order for the sun to raise the tempature of the earth it must increase it's output. the Earth reacts quickly to the extra energy, it's not like energy...
• Commented on Amazing Randi's podcast
  I think a lot of the discussion here is one of the reasons the challenge is being shutdown. The discussion centers around Randi and not enough around fakers it's trying to reveal. Just to clear up some misconceptions: a) "their...
• Commented on Girl gets revolutionary note in package instead of iPod
  I figured it was Amazon's new marketing plan for the Kindle....
• Commented on Foxtrot takes a swipe at the DMCA
  "Kevinv, defective is defective. Doesn't matter if it's a law or a bug, it still won't do what it should." No the law is defective. If iTunes were to rip DVD's Apple would be sued and prohibited from distributing versions...
• Commented on Foxtrot takes a swipe at the DMCA
  Hmmm, tried viewing the comic on my cellphone awhile ago. It requires flash to view (or you get a really low-res version with a warning that the non-flash version won't be available for long.) Perhaps a form of copy-protection? Perhaps,...