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Quote from: Jackstar on July 27, 2015, 06:07:06 AM

Do you both agree on who killed Kennedy?

Jello Biafra

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on March 31, 2015, 10:59:04 PM
  Interspecies Erotica.

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My own contributions to the written word

Steampunk short stories - contributed three stories in two small press volumes
Cthulhu short stories  - one in a charity compilation
Steampunk Erotica - my only paying gig so far 

Just found this link and mad me laugh... sadly no Shepherd Book but you can't have everything. Still I'd like to see a few back-issues of "Conspiracy Review" or "Suppressed Truth Roundup"...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv6w_ys5sJo#

Quote from: Paper*Boy on March 22, 2015, 12:37:28 AM
I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.”

The critical issue is not what the temperature is, or may be, or will be. The critical issue is how fast it is moving.

Rapid change is the real danger. Human habits and infrastructure are suited to particular weather patterns and sea levels, as are ecosystems and animal behaviours. The rate at which global temperature is rising today is likely unique in the history of our species.

This kind of sudden change is rare even in geological history, though perhaps not unprecedented. So the planet may have been through similar things before â€" that sounds reassuring, right?

Not so much. Once you look at the impact similar changes had on biodiversity at the time, the existence of historical precedent becomes anything but reassuring. Rapid climate change is the prime suspect in most mass extinction events, including the Great Dying some 250 million years ago, in which 90% of all life went extinct. Source

Quote from: Paper*Boy on March 22, 2015, 12:37:28 AM
My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to unlivable temperatures.

In hindcast tests models have successfully reproduced temperatures since 1900 globally, by land, in the air and the ocean Source

Quote from: Paper*Boy on March 22, 2015, 12:37:28 AM
In fact, the Earth has been warming very gradually for 300 years, since the Little Ice Age ended, long before heavy use of fossil fuels. Prior to the Little Ice Age, during the Medieval Warm Period, Vikings colonized Greenland and Newfoundland, when it was warmer there than today. And during Roman times, it was warmer, long before fossil fuels revolutionized civilization...[/i]

...(S)since that early century warming, temperatures have risen well-beyond those achieved during the Medieval Warm Period across most of the globe.  The National Academy of Sciences Report on Climate Reconstructions in 2006 found it plausible that current temperatures are hotter than during the Medieval Warm Period.  Further evidence obtained since 2006 suggests that even in the Northern Hemisphere where the Medieval Warm Period was the most visible, temperatures are now beyond those experienced during Medieval times.  This was also confirmed by a major paper from 78 scientists representing 60 scientific institutions around the world in 2013. Source

Quote from: bateman on March 11, 2015, 07:33:36 PM
It was not a female producer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2990616/A-row-steak-luvvie-BBC-boss-wants-Clarkson-Gear-host-said-got-row-producer-finding-hotel-offer-cold-platter-dinner.html

Damn the internet lied to me again.... still violence against anyone in the workplace is unacceptable.

I doubt Clarkson cares what anyone says or thinks of him as he's made millions off this reboot of the old Top Gear Show (the original ran from 1977-1998), and seems practically teflon coated when it comes to scandal.

Quote from: Mind Flayer Monk on March 11, 2015, 06:47:21 PM
He wouldn't pull that shit in America. Someone would hit him back. I'm guessing he threw a punch at the smallest guy on the set.

He raised his fist/threw an air punch at a female producer...

...I wonder how the 500,000 people who signed the online petition would feel  if it was their wife, sister or mother in that situation.

In any other job it would be tantamount to instant dismissal.

When I'm not drinking vodka then this is the good stuff...

Quote from: albrecht on March 02, 2015, 11:38:32 AM
I love the guy, especially when he spoke about Von Rompuy (""has the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk" and "would you buy a used car from this man etc"  )and his other speeches at the EU parliament against the dastardly EU.

The main points I picked up in a UK review of his speech was that it was a to a half-empty auditorium, but also that his anti-war stance views fell on stony ground. Especially in light of Sarah Palins Red white and blue comment.

Off topic but related to the CPAC

What do folk in the USA make of Nigel Farage and UKIP (if they've heard of him at all)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMUmfeklWXc#ws

Quote from: onan on March 01, 2015, 12:21:38 PM
Perhaps he could ask for advice from OJ.

But only theoretically... 

"Every summer, more sea ice melts, leaving polar bears with less territory for hunting. New genetic analysis reveals that recent generations of polar bears are migrating north to the Canadian archipelagos, a region where sea ice more reliably survives the warm summer months...."

The rest of the article on io9/Space

and the study on which the article is based -

Implications of the Circumpolar Genetic Structure of Polar Bears for Their Conservation in a Rapidly Warming Arctic

Putin is also importing ideas from conceptual art to undermine the public perception of the world


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyop0d30UqQ#ws

Quote from: Georgie For President 2216 on February 24, 2015, 02:42:25 PM
I think you're right.  She does look transgender.

Seems like its Jasmine Lennard, Simon Cowells ex. But that could mean anything...

The anti-semitic 9/11 episode was the line in the sand for me as far as C2M is concerned, but the Sandy Hook Wolfgang Halbig stuff is a close second

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on February 19, 2015, 03:23:36 PM
    Watched Heat the other night for the first time in a long time. Liked the movie a lot when I first saw it on HBO in Feb, 1997. The acting is top notch, but the Michael Mann contrivances irk me now. The movie is at least 40 minutes too long, the personal lives of Pacino and De Niro are maudlin and overwrought. The antagonists/protagonists having a big "night on the town" gathering with friends and family seems straight out of a trash can of rejected scripts for Thirtysomething.

Try the made for TV version of the same script and it's only 93 minutes long :-)

It gets a lot of hate from fans of Heat... but I much prefer the pacing, and for an 80s made-for-TV movie it's pretty good.
Plus it has Xander Berkeley


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsPDzSbgts

Congratulations

http://hmpg.net/

Wild Palms - Oliver Stones Virtual/alternate reality conspiracy mini series from 1993


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJMPCGo42cE#

Truth in Advertising - Negativland

Quote from: Quick Karl on January 19, 2015, 03:38:30 PM
How is it even possible for an Alex Jones to exist, much less anyone actually listen to him, or take a single word he defecates, seriously...

Never thought I'd say this about a post by Quick Karl but I agree with every word.

NASA | 2014 Warmest Year On Record
According to NASA "2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880," and in in a similar, and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in a similar but independent analysis of the raw data, also released Friday, NOAA scientists also found 2014 to be the warmest on record.

Climate Anomalies and Events in 2014

Sources - NOAA, NASA.

Quote from: Zetaspeak on January 13, 2015, 02:08:39 PM
.....To prove to show how much marching at a parade is meaningless, let's look at some of the "political heroes" of free speech that marched in this rally. https://storify.com/tometty/staunch-defenders-of-free-press-attend-solidarity

There was a march in sympathy in England but it's worth remembering...

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Quote from: albrecht on January 12, 2015, 04:55:50 PM
If the dolphins DID have thumbs they would be smarter than humans, "of course"! So sayeth Norry. What is so amazing is that the article was so poorly written. And it was "Discovery" that, according to reports, is trying to go back to a more scientific and real nature, and less mermaid and prehistoric shark scam movies and shows.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2015/01/08/discovery-anaconda-sharks/

That poor Discovery Science guy, he only wanted to be eaten by snake... seems like political correctness gone mad.

"The 39 orichalcum ingots unearthed off the coast of Sicily were analyzed and determined to be a roughly 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc alloy containing trace amounts of iron, lead, and nickel."

Source - http://www.snopes.com/info/news/orichalcum.asp

A VHS of Doctor Who and Daleks the black white TV version
+ 900 mg of Acetaminophen/Paracetamol
+ 10mg of Codeine
+ 5mg Doxylamine Succinate

All 175 minutes passed in lovely haze...

Quote from: cweb on December 24, 2014, 10:50:32 AM
Maybe they're just really awesome beanies? Like they protect you from leftover Fukushima radiation and purify your water and stuff...

Also protects you from bad electricity

Quote from: Marc.Knight on December 18, 2014, 08:50:52 AM
Al Sharpton has lost so much weight it's causing a dip in Earth's gravity.

Time for a Roy Innis re-match?  :


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x72mbv_roy-innis-vs-al-sharpton_news

In all fairness his weight loss has been counterbalanced by the rest of the western world 

Don Easterbrook is a retired geologist with only one Peer reviewed climate paper


And has a poor record with the facts
http://www.skepticalscience.com/don-easterbrook-heartland-distortion-of-reality.html
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/10/hotwhopper-fodder-denier-don.html

His stance on Climate change:-

"We are entering a solar cycle of much reduced sunspots, very similar to that which accompanied the change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which virtually all scientists agree was caused by solar variation. Thus, we seem to be headed for cooler temperatures as a result of reduced solar irradiance."

His stance on LCimate Change is broadly refuted here:-
The Sun and Climate are actually heading in Opposite directions
Do Solar Cycles cause Global warming?

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"A comprehensive review of the state of the Arctic reveals some troubling information about rising temperature rates, which are more than double those of anywhere else on Earth, as well as some strange new habitat changes for polar bears..."[/font][/size]

Arctic Report Card 2014


Source http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/
Article - http://io9.com/arctic-temperatures-are-rising-twice-as-fast-as-anywher-1672337909

Quote from: (Redacted) on December 14, 2014, 03:41:58 PM

Thoughts?

Die Trying  - Lee Child (unabridged)
- not bad with some survivalist types as the bad guys could've been tighter written - a bit of padding but not too bad
Tripwire - Lee Child (unabridged)
- fascinating premise and a really nasty bad guy, too much padding and one or two things left unresolved,(but still time to describe a metal clipboard in a hospital!!?)
Dissolution  - CJ Sansom (full cast audio play)
- compact 10 part drama (15mins each) with the classic BBC feel to it and more than a few similarities to "Name of the Rose"