DanG

No. Ice floats because its crystalline structure is less dense than water in the liquid phase. It's not like ice will float in water that's at 4C, but not float in warmer water. Maybe this attachment will help. - Dan G

Which gay companies want to be able to refuse straight customers? - Dan G

No point. I was just imagining the quality of show we could put together with some of our more, shall we say, interesting posters from SC. - Dan G

I did some calculations for a previous thread using FBI crime statistics. I don't have the numbers at hand, but the numbers showed that toolbox is wrong. Of course, you can easily manipulate the numbers to say what you want, but if you normalize the populations so you're just looking at murder rates, not total murders, whitey doesn't look so great.If you are a black murder victim, the chance that your killer was white is higher than the change of a white murder victim's killer being black. In other words, if it's your day to get killed, you're more likely to be killed by the "opposite" race if you happen to be black. - Dan G

Actually, yes, to some extent. Look up the concept of "prior restraint". If all videotaping at ag businesses is made illegal, then how do you know if the person doing the videotaping is planning on being harrassing? The 2nd Amendment corollary is to outlaw all guns because some people use them for illegal purposes. It's wrong. No, your hypocrisy is claiming to support all the rights in the BoR equally, but then supporting restrictions on the 1st. It's not about you, it's about your position on the subject. I haven't attacked you at all, just your position. - Dan G

Heck, some of the most ignorant get their own radio and TV shows. - Dan G

Um, we're here to discuss and debate. If your best response to my pointing out your hypocrisy is, "nuff said," then you clearly don't have a well thought out position. The laws aren't good. The OPs title is accurate, and "ag gag" laws are a clear violation of 1st Amendment rights. Nuff said. - Dan G

No, he just went with "password1" so he won't forget it - Dan G

So you're against new laws regarding the 2nd Amendment because they just duplicate existing laws, but you're for new laws regarding the 1st Amendment because you don't like the subject matter. Didn't you once say that all of the rights in the Bill of Rights are equally important? - Dan G

Trespassing is already illegal. Why do you need a specific law regarding ag businesses? - Dan G

But you can't deny it exists. The people taping it are trying to expose the cruelty and poor food safety standards that exist. Do you really think they're risking jail time on farms that are acting ethically and within the law? Creating propaganda is protected under the 1st Amendment. - Dan G

What's the false premise? Legislatures are trying to make (and some have already made) videotaping at ag businesses illegal. - Dan G

Madeleine Albright was a minority? - Dan G

How do you know anything about what it's like to be black? - Dan G

As opposed to posting an ad for a TV or a motorcycle? - Dan G

Lame. - Dan G

Then why "hope it's true?" - Dan G

I'm not really versed in Bill's position. As I understand it, the paper is based on the "pause" in global surface temperature readings, which is not the same as a "pause" in global heat. It makes sense to me that one reason we aren't seeing the predicted temperature rise is that the heat is currently being stored where we don't have thermometers. Sure, it is also possible that we are actually seeing a pause in global heating. That is one hypothesis. In order to test that hypothesis, you have to propose either a physical mechanism, or conduct empirical studies to measure temperatures more widely. You can't just be a brenthutch and say, "I told you so." I've read a lot of your postings over the years. I agree with your general position that climate science has become politicized, and is widely misreported in the media for various reasons. I've notice recently, and maybe I'm wrong, that you're starting to conflate the science and politics yourself. In other words, you're starting to misrepresent the science just like the media and activists are. - Dan G

I'd be more worried about Jay-Z. - Dan G

Well? It's tomorrow. - Dan G

I pretty much agree with you. It's the people like brenthutch and, increasingly, lawrocket who I disagree with. To them, any suggestion that man can influence the environment is ridiculous. I honestly don't understand the intense resistance to any science that doesn't fit with their financial and political positions. - Dan G

That's awesome. Let me translate, "I've no evidence that Obama slept with Beyonce, but he probably did, because I dislike Obama. As backing evidence for my dislike, let me point out that he slept with Beyonce." - Dan G

Here's the abstract of the actual paper: Not quite as definitive as you're trying to characterize it. - Dan G

I'm pretty sure you have. At least with regards to Mann and the IPCC. No, you certainly haven't. - Dan G

I can wrap my head around that possibility. Can you wrap your head around the possibility that the vast majority of professional scientists aren't lying? - Dan G