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Quote: SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. <snip> The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change...

BlacknGold wrote: "Little Hoosier was no slight. It's just a term I use for people, including myself, who live in Indiana. Are you going to have a stroke or something? Fuck off.

KeiraNY wrote: All I know is that something smells rotten in Denmark & that from the PR standpoint, the longer he stays silent (and/or refuses to talk to police), the worse this is looking for him!!! What could he possibly say that would help with the public perception?

I was involved in a minor accident on Friday morning and I'm okay. I am working with the Florida PD (highway patrol or whoever) in order to put this incident behind me and move forward with the upcoming charity tournament this coming week. My family and I ask that you respect our privacy while we work to sort out this minor incident. There! It's not that hard, is it??? Something, ANYTHING is better than nothing. Silence is...

Consolidation has happened for years. It's like breathing. Contraction... expansion... contraction. Look at mighty AT&T. Broken up into multiple Baby Bells who, like mercury, congealed again. Have the anti-monopoly laws changes that much that you're so concerned? As for choice, look at coffee here in Seattle. If you don't want to support Starbucks, you might think to buy a cup at SBC. But alas!! Starbucks owns SBC!!

sambista wrote: entities are gobbling up other entities and becoming the sole source as other, weaken alternatives fail. i see a future where there are only three banks left standing, then maybe just one. same with "network tv," and whatever entity feeds tv to households. newspapers are failing, and it's not hard to imagine that there will be one big, honkin hub of news. And someone was blaming Democrats? We should be blaming...

Of course, the raw data remains available from the original sources. Also, more than 95% of the data in the hands of the University of East Anglia already has been made publicly available, and it's working on gathering the rest: Data dump Not to mention that other researchers have used other datasets to reach the same conclusions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all This article is about the growth in the food stamp program. What struck me after reading it is that a whole bunch of closed minded people are now in the same boat as those "lazy people" they used to bitch about. Could something good come out of all this mess? Quote: “It’s embarrassing,” said Mr. Dawson, 29, a taciturn man with a wispy...

Voeple's piece on Christine/Mike. A tender and thoughtful read: http://voepel.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-gender-question-part-4/

beknighted wrote: sambista, that's interesting stuff. Thanks. I've been very interested in what's happening with the whole newspaper industry, particularly as a reader of both the Times and the Washington Post. The Post has deteriorated badly the last five or six years and continues doing dumb stuff like letting people from its web site go when that's the part of the company that's growing. The Times has cut back...