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And why aren't you in the "climate denial" camp, THavoc? Is it because you really believe in man-made climate change yourself, or because you're afraid of all the name-calling, shaming and suppression of your ideas and free speech that would come your way from the man-made climate change camp...

Trump knows that climate change is a "hoax" and "bullshit", but he knows the zoning authority must believe it because they are politically correct. Put up or shut up. This is why he'd make a good president. He will beat people at their own games, by playing their own games. His politics...

It shouldn't be hard to catch somebody involved in this. ATMs record video; stores have security cameras; airport databases know who travels out of the country. And a hundred different people were involved. The big question is how did these cards get counterfeited, how were the accounts...

As I understand it, you can't appeal a case just because you don't like the ruling. There has to be some legal basis for it. For example, essential evidence that was wrongly suppressed, or that the ruling somehow violates existing laws. Not sure if they can launch an appeal based on...

I confess I haven't been following this case closely. But it seems that if Google used this code when they got it from Sun, without Sun's objection, and then Oracle bought Sun and subsequently complained of infringement, then a major issue is when did Google put the code in question into...

It's a bunch of fans being creative but they realize people will pay to see this movie because they want to see it. Which brings up a question: How exactly is this film going to make money? Or, money aside, since it is being funded by Kickstarter donations, how is it going to be...

"Any resemblance of this Axanar film to other events, characters and situations, either real or fictitious, is purely coincidental" .

"Sir, you need to just calm down." No shit. I wouldn't want that psycho living next to me.

Sure humans get in traffic accidents all the time. The 10 self-driving crashes a day in a metro area may not seem like much compared to all the other crashes, but it doesn't mean we should allow them on that basis. The time will never come when we must decide to have a total switchover from...

Ah yes, CMU. I used to work there too. They turn out a lot of good engineers I suppose, but so much of what they do is total HYPE. When I worked there, I learned that CMU actually paid a private company to comb through all published literature (not academic journals but every newspaper...

I'm glad these letters have been issued by the House Science Committee. The pseudo-scientific climate change lobbyists certainly DO stifle free speech as well as scientific research. They're a politically-correct mob gone rabid with intolerance, phony outrage and a doctrine of total control...

A good materials and methods section does not include raw data at all. And you want the journals to publish terabytes of raw data on genes? Or data that has been expensively, painstakingly gathered but not fully analyzed in other ways yet? Sure, let's just hand it over to you. And...

A homeowner shouldn't have to go out and pay $thousands for one of these because of his annoying neighbor. A shotgun will do nicely, thank you, as that guy in Kentucky found out. But it's easy to see how these take-down devices could be defeated via electronic countermeasures. I would think...

And plenty of people also thought the false statistical significance was real. The whole article caused confusion actually, and it wasn't even clear if the author knew the association was absurd. I see it was no longer prominently displayed soon afterwards.

Simple psychology studies have the easiest kind of data and analyses to share. They typically involve 30-100 students completing some questionnaire before and after an exposure to something like a video; an assessment of attitudes, or things like that. (In fact much of psychology is built on...

A fascinating, futuristic craft. I wonder how it performs maintenance-wise. Makes you wonder what kind of secret boats there are out there that we don't know about.

If these things jam GPS signals, what would happen if they were aimed at a manned aircraft trying to land automatically? Or taxiing around runways? I can imagine drone owners getting around these devices by having frequency shifters, scramblers or line-of-sight optical controls. It would...

Having your recent calls displayed on an app that's to be used while driving is not the safest thing Google could do.

Traffic laws, rules, proper signage and road markings on new roads are straightforward and seem like something a robot could handle. Actual roads and the people using them are not. The present fascination with self-driving cars is a science-fiction fad like the one in the 1950s about...

Pittsburgh is a notoriously corrupt city, along with the whole state of Pennsylvania. There are laws in "the 'burgh" that prevent you from claiming damages in a lawsuit from emotional distress, for example. Part of the cover-up of the child sexual abuse at Penn State was because of the...