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» 6/08/2018 3:11:58 PM We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories th.....
» 4/07/2018 1:04:57 PM I guess they forgot to mention it doesn't work on ugly people......
» 11/05/2018 12:57:46 PM This article tells me a lot about how you handle data Don. Kinda sad really......
» 3/05/2018 3:39:53 PM BINGO! Sciency thing...yadda yadda yadda...climate change! Nice one Don......
» 1/05/2018 10:28:29 AM Ho hum, If Don writes an article about science you can pretty sure it's about climate scie.....
» 20/02/2017 9:56:04 PM David Leyonhjelm, champion of the little poor battlers. Christ, what an effing joke......
» 7/02/2017 3:49:52 PM I am sure Cory's family will be looking forward to spending more time with him soon......
» 7/02/2017 3:30:09 PM OK, just read the JoNova story on it and you STILL couldn't get it right. "all data .....
» 7/02/2017 11:58:16 AM I do not know where you are getting your stories from Hasbeen, but that is patently untrue.....
» 7/02/2017 8:35:33 AM Actually AJ, it should be 4.0 or perhaps 5.0, because version 3 has been trumpeted a coupl.....
» 6/02/2017 11:26:46 PM Well some people have the memory of a goldfish, Climategate 3.0 was three years ago and wa.....
» 4/02/2017 12:33:34 AM On the upside, the Australian Government can now let these people rot in the detention cen.....
» 29/01/2017 11:46:30 PM I wish I drove a Health Car.....
» 22/01/2017 10:12:09 PM I'm know you're not up to speed with how these computer thingies work Hasbeen, but yes wha.....
» 22/01/2017 5:19:56 PM If you had been paying attention (I know it's hard for the old folk), you may have found o.....
» 17/01/2017 10:27:56 PM Well, he hasn't even been sworn in yet and already everyone's talking about golden showers.....
» 11/01/2017 10:52:48 AM It's not the death of the West Bill. It's the death of YOUR West. I am sure you think th.....
» 5/01/2017 4:33:07 PM I'll tell you a fact. No matter how interesting an article written by Don Aitken starts o.....
» 28/12/2016 9:32:47 PM Jesus, you coots go on with some crap......
» 28/12/2016 1:34:04 PM Do you ever read anything you post about? The reason she was asked to replay the money wa.....
» 17/12/2016 3:41:15 PM Is this thread about main stream media or African migrants? So hard to tell, make up your.....
» 16/12/2016 11:07:54 PM Oh come on Joe, give the rancid turdbucket a chance!.....
» 13/12/2016 9:37:41 AM So guys, how much are you proposing to pay mums to stay at home? Full wage? For about 4 ye.....
» 9/12/2016 10:57:22 PM grateful:"I fully understand the aversion of people in the West towards religion havi.....
» 8/12/2016 3:55:21 PM When you say 'with them', who is 'them' in that sentence? This has me curious now. What s.....
» 8/12/2016 2:45:17 PM "Easier said than done." Never a truer word written. Yes, it is the teachers j.....
» 8/12/2016 2:29:17 PM Yes, I'm sure derailing higher education in Australia will get us higher quality graduates.....
» 8/12/2016 11:59:37 AM How much money do you donate to the local university Cobber? Have you ever spoken to the D.....
» 8/12/2016 11:56:43 AM I seriously disagree with some of your ideas there Joe. Teachers are university graduates,.....
» 7/12/2016 10:15:33 AM OK, so you don't understand some of my comments, that's ok. But you are certainly conceite.....
» 6/12/2016 4:02:32 PM Some working-class secondary schools in Adelaide, you're told, have never had a Year 12 gr.....
» 6/12/2016 1:29:31 PM Oh, I love how you assume I'm a 'young snot' Joe. So no comma then? How disappointing. I .....
» 6/12/2016 10:26:48 AM I really must have struck a nerve. I reckon it must have been the codger comment. So Joe,.....
» 5/12/2016 8:50:54 PM If JB reckons it's descended into vulgar abuse, you know it's gotten pretty bad......
» 5/12/2016 8:36:05 PM Oh you want to guess what people do for living Hasbeen? I assure you if I was a teacher, I.....
» 5/12/2016 12:19:27 PM Bren gun instruction? Visiting Council Librarians? Your stories from the 1940s never fail.....
» 5/12/2016 10:54:55 AM Oh noes! A country that I'm completely ignorant of just beat us in a math test that I don'.....
» 4/12/2016 10:36:06 AM Skype is essentially a telephone call with video. In order to talk to someone, you already.....
» 3/12/2016 11:07:35 PM That answers my question perfectly, thanks Is Mise. It also tells me you have no clue as .....
» 2/12/2016 10:59:13 PM Oh, you made friends with them on Skype? How did you make friends on Skype? Answer the qu.....
» 2/12/2016 7:17:51 PM So, how did you meet these 'mates' of yours in Europe Is Mise? Tinder? Grindr?.....
» 2/12/2016 8:33:54 AM Now you're gettin' it! You can interpret the statistics any way you like, throwing out ran.....
» 2/12/2016 8:09:58 AM So Is mise, you're basically saying that many of our crime rates are still high, at least .....
» 23/11/2016 11:09:31 PM What, Trump doesn't like courts or have money? Consider me schooled then. Oh BTW (380,00.....
» 23/11/2016 9:12:41 PM If the Donald's math skills are as good as yours, JBowyer, then the world is screwed. Per.....
» 23/11/2016 3:46:13 PM I don't know where you get your statistics from JBowyer, but I suspect that the sun doesn'.....
» 16/11/2016 8:24:47 AM Wel, yeah SM. The conservatives 'won'. Der......
» 13/11/2016 5:52:45 PM And who were you in a past life ttbn? Did you have your previous account deleted? There w.....
» 12/11/2016 2:58:31 PM Fair enough AC. ttbn, I am longer responding to your vicious name-calling and abuse. I c.....
» 12/11/2016 10:52:32 AM Lolz, AC accuses me of posting uninformed crap. Pot. Kettle. I don't support civil viol.....
» 11/11/2016 11:39:56 PM OH MY GOD, there's Muslims in America? And at least half a dozen of them work for the gov.....
» 11/11/2016 11:34:15 PM I am sures they does shares exactly what you says, that's the 24 hour news cycle. News cha.....
» 11/11/2016 9:04:29 PM Oh the indignation of being subjected to an anonymous attack and someone mentioning Trump!.....
» 31/10/2016 1:16:02 PM Immortal cells already exist Alan B. They're called cancers......
» 31/10/2016 1:10:44 PM Oh, so this is a media conspiracy thing,ttbn? So we'll overlook the fact that this researc.....
» 31/10/2016 10:11:04 AM Yeah ttbn, in fact they don't want you to know so much that they openly commented on the p.....
» 28/10/2016 12:22:59 PM Actually mhaze, I don;t think Google Trends carries much weight at all. The Google Books n.....
» 27/10/2016 9:45:26 AM All this article proves is that what passes for standards in 'social science' research is .....
» 22/09/2016 4:09:44 PM Wow, how long did it take to write that piece of emotional garbage mhaze? Still no data I .....
» 22/09/2016 10:31:48 AM Of course I read the cut-and-paste paragraph that you appropriated from that opinion piece.....
» 22/09/2016 12:02:42 AM Yeah, that ruling you talk about was USA specific. Noone else followed suit. So unless tho.....
» 21/09/2016 7:29:21 PM Again, that didn't happen mhaze. A quote from an opinion piece AGAIN. Please stop. DDT w.....
» 21/09/2016 3:27:36 PM So, we've switched from climate change to DDT? Millions of deaths from DDT vilification?.....
» 9/09/2016 6:30:21 PM Oh, it's a 'review' (i.e. blog commentary) of a commentary in a 'social' science journal. .....
» 1/09/2016 7:12:38 PM Maybe you and all your mates who don't want the cane farms developed can but up a bunch fr.....
» 21/08/2016 11:46:17 PM Well I for one am glad that Jennifer has finally nailed her colours to the mast and finall.....
» 15/06/2016 1:48:09 PM And exactly what policy involving continental movement would this hypothetical Chief Scien.....
» 14/06/2016 10:35:49 AM Given his publishing history and political associations, I couldn't think of a worse candi.....
» 28/05/2016 10:35:46 AM The author likes the Retraction Watch website, as do I. However he fails to mention the 'P.....
» 20/05/2016 9:25:51 PM Oh, absolutely not. But only because between you and me, the guy who runs this site is a.....
» 20/04/2016 8:54:16 PM Yeah, and I'm sure it'll make it to Broadway if Drumpf gets in......
» 14/04/2016 9:34:49 AM Oh, good for you Nathan. Alternatively, you could just give them to me. I'll find a good .....
» 8/04/2016 9:49:17 PM Well mkarsikko, I have done the survey. It was kind of interesting what you are investiga.....
» 21/03/2016 10:31:25 AM Oh, the pause has ended? Who'd a thunk it?.....
» 21/03/2016 10:24:05 AM Such a silly premise and challenge. Atheists don't 'do' charity in the name of Atheism, or.....
» 1/03/2016 12:48:55 PM Is name calling bullying, phanto? If yes, then what is being called a liar and dramatiser.....
» 29/02/2016 10:45:52 PM Well it all depends on context, doesn't it phanto. I'm weally weally sowwy if the poor wi.....
» 29/02/2016 8:49:29 AM Yes, lets all tell the teenagers today to harden up, well not while they're watching porn .....
» 25/02/2016 8:40:22 AM Sorry Tony, I must have got confused when I was watching the Doctor blast Emoks with his s.....
» 21/02/2016 1:22:34 PM Well, I for one am impressed that it only took you 5 days to dig up that particular fossil.....
» 20/02/2016 9:47:38 PM Sorry mhaze, I thought ignorance was a prerequisite for pontificating on these pages. I wa.....
» 20/02/2016 2:59:37 PM I guess that's why laser devices above 1mW are already restricted. pew pew How's those h.....
» 20/02/2016 2:52:39 PM You may not have indulged in 'poofter bashing' Joe, but I knew a few people that did. Nice.....
» 20/02/2016 2:16:28 PM In regards to your drinking metaphor, Joe: All the education that many people want would .....
» 20/02/2016 1:29:27 PM Oh yah, you're sooo impartial Graham, I love you. If I have an opinion that I won't liste.....
» 19/02/2016 10:09:48 PM Don't forget the laser guns, pew pew! A ban on 9V batteries!.....
» 19/02/2016 9:45:05 PM Actually Suse, I really don't think you do......
» 19/02/2016 9:34:07 PM It says a lot to me that the National Civic Council has existed for more than 60 years and.....
» 16/02/2016 8:26:42 PM Which particular 'statement' would that be Leo? Surely not the current Climate Communique.....
» 15/02/2016 3:32:37 PM And it still took him 6 months to figure that out? Yeah you're right, he probably wouldn'.....
» 14/02/2016 8:42:51 PM Jeez the old fella gets a real froth up don't he?.....
» 12/02/2016 10:30:31 AM Nobody is ignoring our social problems OTB, but you (and others) do seem to be using them .....
» 12/02/2016 8:11:19 AM Well, if you want to compare apples with apples onthebeach, why don't you provide your own.....
» 11/02/2016 10:45:45 PM SO, the number of gun deaths by your methodology onthebeach would be..? Effectively zero?.....
» 11/02/2016 4:15:11 PM When you want to make stupid comparisons with numbers that are easily available onthebeach.....
» 11/02/2016 2:20:36 PM So, Is Mise, you would certainly disagree with American organisations like the NRA and som.....
» 11/02/2016 8:46:36 AM So are these all registered and legally owned firearms Is Mise? What's the breakdown on w.....
» 10/02/2016 10:41:31 AM Ah Chicago, I remember it fondly. When my wife and I were staying there with a friend onc.....
» 8/02/2016 8:47:43 AM I knew David had a particular blindness to his own arguments, but when he wrote " age.....
» 30/01/2016 9:52:46 AM Actually ttbn, I just have no interest, as do probably most posters here. You looked lone.....
» 29/01/2016 3:50:01 PM Yeah, I'm not surprised they didn't publish it either either Daffy. They would probably ha.....
» 29/01/2016 2:56:30 PM By all means, lets send our troops into combat with two sporting rifles each (well-machine.....
» 29/01/2016 11:19:16 AM OK then Hasbeen, Name YOUR top 5 environmental concerns that should have more money throw.....
» 29/01/2016 10:17:50 AM "There are so many environmental impacts that are unrelated to CO2. " Indeed th.....
» 21/01/2016 11:20:15 AM I think it is always a sad time when we lose a scientist that was prepared to speak his mi.....
» 17/01/2016 9:01:19 PM Steele, yeah I remember that particular storm in a teacup. The POEA that the anti-GM campa.....
» 15/01/2016 3:01:55 PM Actually Steele, while I do think that while superficially there is cause for concern abou.....
» 5/01/2016 10:01:32 AM So then ttbn, logically extending that argument, your rabbiting on about climate change is.....
» 3/01/2016 2:02:06 PM Actually it is pretty easy to tell who is the idiot. Is this the 'update' you are referri.....
» 18/12/2015 10:14:10 PM Yeah, the trite ad homs are just so sad aren't they? So glad you don't do that......
» 16/12/2015 4:07:54 PM You first......
» 16/12/2015 12:31:14 PM Actually Geoff, the Gates foundation has been doing a lot for research in diseases, such a.....
» 16/12/2015 11:00:15 AM The Gates Foundation and a bunch of others already do that Geoff. Public health, education.....
» 16/12/2015 9:28:59 AM 'Tax payer money', Christinamac? Actually, it appears that it is NOT about tax payer mone.....
» 15/12/2015 10:16:58 PM Tell it to mhaze, Jardine, (s)hes the one proposing criminalising womens choices in the na.....
» 15/12/2015 12:24:49 PM If it's up to society to decide, then that would be reflected in the laws that have passed.....
» 18/11/2015 2:39:49 PM Of course they should have a political party, then they can show everyone how politically .....
» 10/11/2015 4:18:00 PM And yet somehow I think science will survive......
» 2/11/2015 10:35:23 AM I preferred the humour. This conspiracy nut ranting is getting dull......
» 1/11/2015 10:55:47 PM LOL 'moderate' Nice parody but the "leftists colluding with big business" had m.....
» 1/11/2015 11:02:06 AM Science takes a lot of explaining. I am very concerned that 'nobody' ( I assume you mean .....
» 31/10/2015 11:57:35 PM That's a lot of words to say "I made it up", Don. So credulous, opinion as fact.....
» 31/10/2015 11:17:43 AM To quote your comment on knowing about the ozone 'hole' in teh 1930s: (from your website, .....
» 31/10/2015 9:28:01 AM Thats a hell of a reference you provided there Don! "Someone told me..." LOL .....
» 30/10/2015 6:48:50 PM Poo poo to you plantagenet. If you cant understand what I was saying, then I will use sho.....
» 30/10/2015 2:59:57 PM 'Consumption' on the graph is actually production (usage). Don makes a comment about 'conc.....
» 28/10/2015 9:40:38 AM Actually mhaze, what you've written is not what they wrote. You used the same words but re.....
» 26/10/2015 3:19:12 PM Hang on mhaze, just steady on with the paraphrasing of the IPCC report summary. You cant j.....
» 7/10/2015 11:38:52 PM We need someone who can eat that onion when the chips are down, don't we......
» 7/10/2015 6:50:22 PM Jeez, SM blow your own trumpet much? You are certainly NOT the only one on this site wit.....
» 3/10/2015 12:23:40 AM Ok, please back up your FACTS then, JBowyer. How much did the IPCC (I am assuming this is.....
» 2/10/2015 4:03:20 PM Hang on, now I’m confused here JBowyer, your post is amess of mumbled febrile conspiracy r.....
» 2/10/2015 11:15:41 AM Good lord JBowyer, a post from apolitical analyst from 1999? How authoritative! You really.....
» 2/10/2015 10:18:25 AM Now who's the name-caller? Are you from the "typical left'? So much for 'evidence-ba.....
» 1/10/2015 10:47:59 PM Ironically, I seem to be the only one providing any sort of evidence in this 'discussion' .....
» 1/10/2015 3:53:52 PM What happened was the Montreal Protocol, JBowyer, a comprehensive international treaty whi.....
» 1/10/2015 10:47:17 AM I didn't infer that you were lazy ttbn, I am out and out asserting it. This was evidence.....
» 1/10/2015 12:29:48 AM Eyes wide shut eh JBowyer. LALALALALALALA I won't believe anything you say, LALALALALALA!.....
» 30/09/2015 9:13:34 PM In for a penny in for a pound, eh ttbn? Well, since you insist on someone else doing your.....
» 30/09/2015 4:45:10 PM Gee, you're a bright one aint ya?.....
» 30/09/2015 2:34:36 PM ttbn, the change in the use the word 'climate change' instead of 'global warming' is well .....
» 30/09/2015 12:58:11 PM Actually my support for evidence-based climate science is based on your ignorance and dish.....
» 29/09/2015 11:45:58 PM Geez, you are an odd duck Leo......
» 29/09/2015 6:26:48 PM And who would the 'they' be in that last sentence Chris? What privately funded science do.....
» 29/09/2015 4:42:14 PM Just out of interest ChrisPer, in a choice between: 1) a publicly funded scientist that o.....
» 29/09/2015 12:17:14 PM Actually Graham, that's your narrative. There are actually no such assumptions about peer-.....
» 27/09/2015 7:12:28 PM Actually Leo, the VW car company is not a victim of what you cal the climate 'fraud'. It.....
» 17/09/2015 4:26:59 PM That may be so Chris, but considering Turnbull's stance on climate change it appears that .....
» 17/09/2015 3:09:30 PM What a steaming pile Chris, at least the bits about Abbott. He was and is IPAs man. That'.....
» 17/09/2015 11:08:43 AM As a member of Family First, your ultra-conservative opinions are irrelevant to mainstream.....
» 10/09/2015 1:09:24 PM When a flower blossoms from a cowpat, I guess the cowpat was in some way partially respons.....
» 9/09/2015 1:14:22 PM Sells, I am now curious. If the Bible is not a document of morality, then what is the bas.....
» 3/09/2015 3:40:23 PM The problem arises, pericles, when the message of the satire so closely resembles an actua.....
» 2/09/2015 10:09:57 AM While I do realise that this is satirical, it very closely resembles the legal and social .....
» 18/08/2015 9:23:58 AM Another mistake would be to call the Nazis 'secularists', they were not.They instituted a .....
» 17/08/2015 8:50:12 PM You are a policy wonk, as is your right. To formulate policy, those questions do have to .....
» 17/08/2015 6:39:55 PM Yeah Don, I read their work, and others. It's mostly crap and the only stuff that they wh.....
» 17/08/2015 4:02:45 PM Well, I for one listen to the scientists that publish in scientific journals. I am very s.....
» 11/08/2015 4:11:30 PM You mean 'police officers with guns' right Is mise? It's nice to be specific. I have no p.....
» 11/08/2015 3:17:41 PM I don't get your logic Is Mise. That firearms laws 'failed to prevent' a potential massac.....
» 11/08/2015 12:59:38 PM How many weapons did Mad Monis have? How many fully automatic or semi-automatic rifles? H.....
» 11/08/2015 10:52:56 AM But not 'civilians' with guns Is Mise......
» 5/08/2015 10:34:17 AM You know Graham, I'm pretty sure you aren't a fan of Pilger's, and you are short of editor.....
» 4/08/2015 11:22:31 AM Congratulations on your white penis Prompete. Really though, I can't take seriously anyon.....
» 30/07/2015 9:43:32 AM Ice bullets, centrifugal guns, coilguns? Mate, I'm done. You're too much......
» 28/07/2015 12:12:47 PM To make way for the New World Order of course otb, why else? Gun owners first, climate ch.....
» 27/07/2015 11:16:29 AM Ice slugs? lol Mate, why do you have to go and weaken your own arguments like that? It's.....
» 26/07/2015 10:52:18 PM Drugs and crime cartels/gangs. Which is why they have restrictive gun laws. Try and pick.....
» 26/07/2015 7:43:05 PM Thanks for outing yourself as a conspiracy nut OTB. I don't really have anything more to .....
» 26/07/2015 6:38:37 PM How I choose to spend my time is no concern of yours LEGO. If I want to not spend my time .....
» 25/07/2015 12:48:54 AM The BS gets piled higher and deeper, as of course I knew it would. Lets just ignore the f.....
» 23/07/2015 1:12:39 PM I don't have an anti-gun rationale, but I do have a preference for statistical sources oth.....
» 23/07/2015 12:07:58 PM Sorry Rhrosty, but the gun death rates are not similar between Australia and Switzerland. .....
» 20/07/2015 1:46:12 PM Paedophiles and murderers already have it Leo, if last nights 60 minutes is anything to go.....
» 15/07/2015 10:29:34 AM As I said, it isn't difficult to see who are the delusional ones around here. If you thin.....
» 14/07/2015 3:41:35 PM Did I read this correctly? Don Aitken writes that he joined the society in the 1960s or s.....
» 9/07/2015 3:54:44 PM Sorry, got to pull you up there Mark. The link you provided http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/c.....
» 29/05/2015 3:50:08 PM Hi plantagenet, I agree with you. However I was not referring to the boats but rather the.....
» 29/05/2015 1:24:03 PM You say that we are under no obligation to help. However their failure today will sow the.....
» 26/05/2015 1:42:52 PM Hey you kids get off my lawn! And you're not getting your frisbee back either!.....
» 20/05/2015 1:50:17 PM And yet behind our own Prime minister, ConservativeHippie. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ne.....
» 11/05/2015 12:09:46 PM But ConservativeHippie, you are allowed to apply for a Permanent visa, which would allow y.....
» 25/04/2015 10:22:38 PM No Don, people don't "have their own view of what 'genetic modification means". .....
» 23/04/2015 3:08:47 PM " It occurs whenever a human being grafts a branch from one fruit tree onto another, .....
» 22/04/2015 12:52:20 PM Indeed spindoc, I think they just got savaged by a piece of wet lettuce! Probably butterh.....
» 20/04/2015 3:57:37 PM I think this right up there with such conservative satire as "Julia Gillard on the me.....
» 16/03/2015 2:09:38 PM Being 'nailed' with 'the truth' is just a matter of opinion in this case Leo. Hey I'm not.....
» 16/03/2015 11:04:13 AM Leo, on many threads, there is often a point in which it is pointless to continue. This is.....
» 10/03/2015 8:32:52 PM Actually Don, I have heard stories from multiple climate scientists who got sometimes hund.....
» 10/03/2015 11:20:51 AM Oh the irony of it all. Have a good look at yourself Don, you argue against 'smear' and th.....
» 6/03/2015 10:12:10 AM JP, I know who Christopher Hitchens was. But who is Christopher Hitchkens?.....
» 6/03/2015 9:20:48 AM Who is Christopher Hitchkens?.....
» 26/02/2015 2:39:09 PM Is publicly stating that I think a particular faith is wrong maligning that faith? Should.....
» 24/02/2015 11:20:10 PM Did you just compare those questioning whether cyclone Marcia should have been called a Ca.....
» 17/02/2015 9:55:25 AM Obviously frustrated that the 'conversation' he desperately wants is not happening, JKJ is.....
» 14/02/2015 8:39:02 AM You will of course notice how many times the 'skeptics' comments mention 'famrers' or 'agr.....
» 11/02/2015 10:00:46 AM Actually JKJ, I think you have demonstrated my point quite well. Those 'questions' of yo.....
» 11/02/2015 9:28:50 AM Thanks JKJ for demonstrating your mindless irrelevance to most discussions on climate chan.....
» 6/02/2015 9:58:30 AM With just a couple of words changed, I easily imagine this piece written by someone like T.....
» 28/01/2015 10:31:03 AM Do you feel like loosing the hounds Suse?.....
» 16/12/2014 10:14:06 AM Exactly curmudgeon, we should not be listening on what the data is telling us, we should b.....
» 6/11/2014 10:28:14 AM Is nuclear the safest way to power Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Colombia, Egypt, Libya or wes.....
» 3/11/2014 10:17:22 AM http://inference-review.com/introduction "The editors of Inference would prefer to r.....
» 6/09/2014 12:35:14 AM Actually Big Nana, I am a scientist and I think that what you are saying is of course abso.....
» 5/09/2014 11:34:12 AM The placebo effect has been noted by western medicine for a long time. It is a real and am.....
» 22/08/2014 11:24:06 PM Actually Peter Lang, any scientist that has applied for funding would be quite familiar wi.....
» 21/08/2014 10:53:13 AM Incomuicardo, If you just dropped the 'scientists' word and replaced it with 'people', you.....
» 21/08/2014 10:42:45 AM I think the title is misleading then Don. What it should read is: "How do THEY make.....
» 20/08/2014 2:58:45 PM I don't really get the point of this article. Is Don trying to pretend to be our communal .....
» 2/07/2014 3:41:16 PM Grumpy codger alert!.....
» 24/06/2014 8:40:33 PM Is Mise, doing a search of stories around Vittorio, brings up some different accounts. You.....
» 24/06/2014 5:22:33 PM Oh, you want a scientific explanation of the case actually quoted? Well, since there may .....
» 24/06/2014 5:13:37 PM Billionaires with vested interests are not "the majority" nutter......
» 24/06/2014 4:08:37 PM I know you didn't mention mention a 'politically powerful minority' Don, they are my words.....
» 24/06/2014 4:02:14 PM Is mise, spontaneous healing or 'cure' of tuberculosis is has been noted for a long time. .....
» 24/06/2014 9:46:51 AM There's a logical fallacy at the end of Don's article. He seems to be saying that there's .....
» 23/06/2014 6:14:32 PM Really Leo? Abbott never used the term "died of shame"? What's this all about t.....
» 21/06/2014 12:01:55 AM It must be fun to live in your own mind. But then again, since it's your mind, it probabl.....
» 20/06/2014 1:06:58 PM So you obviously don't know either then Hasbeen. The 'university' you envision exists onl.....
» 20/06/2014 11:02:39 AM What exactly is a research "failure"? It must be easy to define, because we hav.....
» 22/05/2014 11:52:14 PM Producer, the 'winners' have already paid their tax, with the revenue generated from their.....
» 22/05/2014 7:54:57 PM Poker machine, casino and lotto revenue are already taxed by the government at the point o.....
» 18/05/2014 1:00:17 AM Carbon dioxide is "photoluminescent"? LOL I think what Mr Redux is trying to sa.....
» 24/04/2014 9:36:45 AM My bets are on "Guardians of the Galaxy" or possibly "Transformers: Age of .....
» 23/04/2014 7:24:11 PM Man, I must be behind the times in keeping up with the Marvel Universe, I totally Missed W.....
» 15/04/2014 4:21:26 PM Sorry spinners, didn't you mean 75% local content? Miss Fisher is produced in Australia. .....
» 2/04/2014 10:34:36 AM Did it have dinosaurs? If it didn't have dinosaurs, then it was BS. Everyone knows they we.....
» 1/04/2014 1:07:33 PM Actually that sounds pretty good to me SM. "Mate of the order of Australia" &qu.....
» 31/03/2014 9:45:17 AM If firmly monarchist John Howard thinks it is a mistake, you had better listen. Some accu.....
» 12/03/2014 10:24:10 AM Cohenite, you are getting self-contradictory here. You state: “A=a x b x c Where A is th.....
» 11/03/2014 7:55:12 PM BTW cohenite, thanks for the admission that you don't know who drew the graphs or what the.....
» 11/03/2014 7:51:50 PM Cohenite, all you had to say was that it was the bbaseline radiative forcing that has been.....
» 11/03/2014 4:12:30 PM Ok cohenite, so 235 W/m^2 is the 'effective temperature' or the forcing that is not due to.....
» 11/03/2014 12:59:10 PM Yeah, I went to http://www.c3headlines.com/2014/02/climate-science-consensus-60-years-hadc.....
» 11/03/2014 10:13:55 AM Sorry coehite, I looked at: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-.....
» 10/03/2014 7:34:12 PM Is this supposed to be a graph showing the forcing attributable to CO2? If so, why does i.....
» 10/03/2014 10:56:01 AM Steele, I think you are far too generous. If the 'zero' is entirely arbitrary, then you ca.....
» 8/03/2014 4:39:43 PM Whereas you guys started out that way, eh cohenite. I think you should leave the silly na.....
» 8/03/2014 12:23:28 PM I mentioned the lollipops because you're such a sucker Cox. Actually, you're all suckers .....
» 7/03/2014 7:55:38 PM I guess peer review in your world is considered 'trolling'. Oh yes cohenite, I can certai.....
» 7/03/2014 3:36:59 PM That appears to be correct Graham (that CO2 always has a positive contribution), so would .....
» 7/03/2014 2:20:20 PM Actually you are missing the point cohenite. I am not interested in teh 'decline' after th.....
» 7/03/2014 12:20:17 AM Perhaps then Graham, you could explain to us how emitted CO2 before 1922 can give an overa.....
» 6/03/2014 12:59:14 PM I am at a loss to understand how the CO2 emmitted before 1922 had a significant cooling ef.....
» 19/02/2014 10:28:47 AM There is no obesity epidemic Don, people were fat in the past and will be fat in the futur.....
» 6/01/2014 11:24:00 PM SPQR, regarding the ozone layer, you probably never hear of the ozone layer these days bec.....
» 13/12/2013 9:59:33 PM Actually Edmund Burke, I think that talking to Janet Daling would be a very good start. Th.....
» 11/12/2013 4:07:10 PM Edmund Burke, I did not ask for proof of the 'link' between oestrogen and breast cancer ri.....
» 10/12/2013 10:45:23 PM That's a nice narrative you have going there Edmund Burke, with the ultimate causative age.....
» 10/12/2013 2:59:52 PM It is indeed sad that the author and her many supporters cannot (or wilfully will not) und.....
» 11/07/2013 7:45:29 PM I agree completely Don. I also noticed that there was a lot more 'charity' type support f.....
» 28/06/2013 9:01:42 PM cohenite: http://vtdigger.org/2013/05/01/biologist-paul-ehrlich-gives-dire-prediction-for-.....
» 15/06/2013 9:32:48 PM OK geniuses, how much do we pay Malaysia? Under what programs is the money spent? That.....
» 17/05/2013 3:40:46 PM I would never have picked you for a fanfic kind of guy. Just goes to show, you never can t.....
» 17/05/2013 11:14:49 AM Amusing, I always thought you were good at fiction......
» 2/05/2013 11:29:26 PM The three 'diagrams' cohenite? Surely you don't mean the three graphs you presented, two .....
» 16/03/2013 1:47:03 PM So what did you mean when you wrote " the authors intend to keep their data and metho.....
» 16/03/2013 12:10:27 AM "I was right to withhold judgement until seeing the details, and my skeptical default.....
» 15/03/2013 11:38:34 PM But it's not a site for serious climate debate Poirot, it never was. It's a site for ridi.....
» 15/03/2013 8:09:12 PM "Pull up a comfy chair and get some popcorn...this is gunna be fun." Also, make.....
» 15/03/2013 3:31:03 PM There is a far simpler explanation Hasbeen, and that is you are just a truculent old coot......
» 15/03/2013 2:29:13 PM Ooooh, someone hasn't read the supplementary materials. Nice fail. Thanks for the irrelev.....
» 15/03/2013 12:29:42 AM Well, of course you are Jan. As to your little searches, you are looking at the wrong wea.....
» 14/03/2013 10:45:06 PM If you wish to not be treated like a mug Anthony, then please stop acting like one. The s.....
» 14/03/2013 8:05:06 PM I was unaware that conveyancing required a lot of evidence, but there you go. You learn so.....
» 14/03/2013 2:49:02 PM cohenite, why do you persist in insisting that our climate expertise is so fantastic that .....
» 13/03/2013 10:19:19 PM Oh look, a not flat line. Neither graph you present looks even vaguely like Watts' yellow .....
» 13/03/2013 9:59:05 PM You know what, I've had a change of heart. I think you guys are right. I reckon the univer.....
» 13/03/2013 4:43:31 PM cohenite, this thread is about the incompetence of the BOM? Oh. And here I was thinking i.....
» 13/03/2013 2:01:58 PM Freedom for those who can afford it, slavery for those who cannot. Nice work coots, keep .....
» 13/03/2013 1:53:30 PM Yeah, thanks for the running commentary, cohenite. Waffle waffle waffle. Using ad homs to .....
» 12/03/2013 3:48:17 PM To be fair Janama, I posted a blog site because it's all Anthony seems to read. The only p.....
» 12/03/2013 1:41:20 PM Mr Cox, have you bothered asking them? For your convenience: Further information National.....
» 12/03/2013 12:49:32 PM I love your references Mr Cox: Blog link Blog link Climate commission summary Blog link Bl.....
» 11/03/2013 2:05:31 PM Graham, apart from the fact that I don't really know what you are referring to when you sa.....
» 11/03/2013 1:28:22 PM Yep, hsit happens alright......
» 11/03/2013 10:40:56 AM "I don't actually believe that any of us here will solve the world's mysteries in 350.....
» 11/03/2013 9:47:03 AM Thanks Poirot, I think this thread has exposed what I long suspected, That many climate ch.....
» 8/03/2013 1:21:03 PM Well, mhaze, the dataset at http://www.bom.gov.au/web01/ncc/www/cli_chg/timeseries/global_.....
» 8/03/2013 10:31:31 AM At least the unabomber understood maths. Anyway, I'm also pretty much done. Anyone who ca.....
» 6/03/2013 11:37:06 AM mhaze, you say that there isn't any "real data" to show that ocean temps are war.....
» 5/03/2013 4:02:12 PM mhaze, There are many indicators when taken as a whole tell us that the warming hasn't sto.....
» 5/03/2013 3:55:46 PM mhaze, if you think that any one of those points you think have a degree of 'certainty', t.....
» 4/03/2013 2:00:31 PM Actually, yes mhaze I am serious, and I don't think you have any standing to be berating p.....
» 4/03/2013 12:04:20 PM Yeah, I think you need to understand the idea of scientific consensus, mhaze. The consens.....
» 4/03/2013 11:13:01 AM So RMW, you think that countries like China would invade another country for the purpose o.....
» 1/03/2013 11:47:16 AM The reduction in gender ratio will actually increase females mate options. I wonder what .....
» 27/02/2013 10:02:17 PM Although I recognose that your comments were tongue in cheek mhaze, I reckon if that were .....
» 27/02/2013 7:48:34 PM Yeah, it's such a shame we can't just chain 'em up and let 'em out to play on Saturdays......
» 26/02/2013 5:20:51 PM Now that o sung wu is here, perhaps its an episode of Law and Disorder? I reckon the dete.....
» 26/02/2013 3:00:11 PM New thread/script titles: A Few Good Strawmen Incident on a Small Blog Page or how about.....
» 25/02/2013 11:38:19 AM Is this the script of a new film, Twelve Angry Strawmen? Or perhaps Runaway Global Warmin.....
» 23/02/2013 10:42:10 AM Try this Ludwig, rotate it 90 degrees in your line of sight. Is it still a pipe? What if y.....
» 21/02/2013 2:48:13 PM The price of liberty is indeed eternal vigilance. And I am watching, you better believe t.....
» 20/02/2013 10:08:02 PM Come on cohenite, you're a lawyer, I'm sure you have......
» 20/02/2013 9:04:53 PM Can't see the forest for the trees, eh cohenite? That paper discusses forests several tim.....
» 19/02/2013 9:06:05 PM With all due respect Don, what you are saying is purely conjecture. They took that route, .....
» 19/02/2013 8:38:27 PM Don, I think you would do better to actually read their submission policies. http://www.p.....
» 19/02/2013 7:39:18 PM It doesn't matter cohenite. It's a modelling paper that has no data to support it. The a.....
» 19/02/2013 2:15:59 PM I don't think this example is an example of 'failure' of the peer review. The picture you .....
» 18/02/2013 7:48:09 PM And again, it all comes down to 'climate science' doesn't it cohenite. Nobody ever cares a.....
» 18/02/2013 6:04:29 PM Oh please, getting rid of anonymous review is the worst idea for 'cleaning up' the system......
» 18/02/2013 3:17:15 PM Yeah, I suppose publication in PNAS would would seem like ridicule for those of us that ha.....
» 18/02/2013 10:27:34 AM I think the researchers pique at being rejected by Science and Nature is a bit much for a .....
» 18/02/2013 9:56:26 AM I bet you think that homosexuals are quite cheerful all the time......
» 16/02/2013 10:55:20 AM When the balloon goes up, I'll be topping my mum. She's old and weak and would be easy to .....
» 16/02/2013 10:48:40 AM Oh spindoc, you also omit the text: "Pursuant to Article 21, paragraph 7 and Article.....
» 16/02/2013 8:36:44 AM spindoc, 1.0 I cab't believe you are still going on about this. The Kyoto agreement has be.....
» 13/02/2013 2:16:37 PM This author overvalues his own opinions. 'policy-based evidence-making'? you mean, as opp.....
» 12/02/2013 7:32:08 AM "Most recently Queenslanders were advised that 'when we do get rain it will never fil.....
» 8/02/2013 2:31:12 PM Ah, good old argumentum ad consequentiam. This is why the creationists have already lost,.....
» 8/02/2013 11:00:06 AM As Malcolm is still a sitting member of parliament, I would say that not all Liberal voter.....
» 8/02/2013 10:10:26 AM I glad you have reaffirmed your faith Geoffrey, it is one I sadly do not share. Best to s.....
» 6/02/2013 9:57:03 AM "And, in the end, what can you suggest we do to reverse this AGW component?" On.....
» 6/02/2013 9:49:54 AM Ok Geoffrey, lets act like we're in a climate science workshop and 'toss around' a few ide.....
» 5/02/2013 11:49:29 PM Geoffrey, many people wear false names on the internet, and if someone doesn't like you an.....
» 5/02/2013 3:57:52 PM A mayor was showing some guests around his village. He takes them to the top of the local .....
» 3/02/2013 7:13:13 PM You are correct Geoffrey, I do not like your answer. The graph from Petit et al (referenc.....
» 3/02/2013 4:49:10 PM Geoffrey, while I would appreciate a reference (a PROPER reference, not a website, you do .....
» 2/02/2013 1:47:30 PM Geoffrey Before you start chucking about accusations about not acknowledging some dodgied .....
» 31/01/2013 9:00:15 AM Geoffery, your "50%" question was to qanda, not to me matey. It's not my concern.....
» 30/01/2013 11:13:17 PM Ok Geoffrey, The graph that qanda linked to that is in the IPCC reports comes from: Clim.....
» 30/01/2013 6:29:07 PM Speaking of empirical evidence Geoffrey, I was wondering about the graph you discussed and.....
» 26/01/2013 1:10:55 PM Yeah, Geoffrey, about that graph you are so fond of. You say it is 'peer-reviewed science'.....
» 26/01/2013 1:05:58 PM Worldwatcher, if you truly have an interest in discussing scientific studies, then I invit.....
» 25/01/2013 2:22:22 PM I did not know that Bindi Irwin was a racist. You learn something new every day, thanks M.....
» 24/01/2013 9:11:00 PM I am sooo tempted to say something about simple natures... but I won't. Seriously, the L.....
» 24/01/2013 8:01:09 PM So worldwatcher, do you think they are sprinkling cobalt90 on our food?.....
» 24/01/2013 12:02:59 PM Yes, you failed alright. Failed to use the correct values. Failed to reach a valid conclu.....
» 23/01/2013 10:38:42 PM " and the notion that the AF = the atmospheric increase is a joke." Well, of co.....
» 23/01/2013 7:49:44 PM "Organic food is more expensive, but it would appear to be the only way at present to.....
» 23/01/2013 7:37:56 PM cohenite, it's the second last paragraph that shows your lack of understanding and even af.....
» 23/01/2013 10:59:44 AM Ok, so you recognised where you went wrong, well done. Corrected graph please. However, w.....
» 23/01/2013 10:18:49 AM And again you display your complete misunderstanding of the calculations and it seems even.....
» 22/01/2013 10:06:06 PM ...says the man who can't get a simple graphical calculation right. My graph says it must.....
» 21/01/2013 8:20:59 AM For what is likely to not be the last time, the 'adjustment' i for F-LUC is NOT 25%! FFS .....
» 20/01/2013 10:26:14 PM No, cohenite, I am not disagreeing with Knorr's finding of a constant AF, no matter how mu.....
» 20/01/2013 9:20:56 PM Actually, no cohenite, the point does not stand. F-LUC is not 25% of F, it is 1.5Gt/y an.....
» 20/01/2013 8:25:06 PM The one who is confused the most here cohenite, is you and you don't even know it. All th.....
» 17/01/2013 6:52:18 PM Because Ian Hills emissions data is far less than Knorr emissions data. You can see it. Ha.....
» 17/01/2013 4:30:43 PM I know that Knorr doesn't conclude that the AF is increasing, but that's not the point. .....
» 17/01/2013 2:55:09 PM Now you're just making stuff up cohenite. Knorr does not say, anywhere, that ACO2 emissio.....
» 17/01/2013 12:38:54 PM Actually, if you read Knorrs paper, the 40% AF(or so, Ithink Knorr estimated around 46%, b.....
» 16/01/2013 9:37:04 PM Knorr didn't find the 40% (actually 40%+/- 14% in the introduction), but anyway, yes that'.....
» 16/01/2013 7:44:08 PM You mean Bob's a real Electrical Engineer, don't you? Of course the word 'some' implies m.....
» 16/01/2013 12:50:55 PM Actually, you are right, Knorr does not calculate the AF to be 40%, that came form somewhe.....
» 16/01/2013 11:39:49 AM It is far from clear cohenite. The increase in total human CO2 emissions greatly exceeds .....
» 16/01/2013 10:55:01 AM I think this opinion piece highlights the confusion felt in the skeptics camp. The way AF.....
» 16/01/2013 9:03:40 AM Before commenting, I would like to you to please clear up for me what appears to be two di.....
» 1/01/2013 3:10:33 PM BINGO! There's the "I'm cleverer than you" knockout punch from cohenite, with a .....
» 1/01/2013 10:52:42 AM Oh and cohenite, no. You put in the breaks, and the ones you found are just the ones that .....
» 1/01/2013 10:49:44 AM Spindoc, you are so caught up in your own rhetoric, that you fail to understand why people.....
» 31/12/2012 10:23:07 PM OMG, you are so full of it! The entire series of data was from 1910. After you introduce .....
» 31/12/2012 2:03:08 PM Spindoc, yes I know it was originally 'orgy', but I thought in your case, it should be a b.....
» 30/12/2012 8:42:54 PM Which part? You ask, cohenite. I think it starts about halfway through the author list and.....
» 30/12/2012 1:15:08 PM cohenite: Science does not "establish a citadel", it has established a 'noise fi.....
» 29/12/2012 9:52:18 PM cohenite:"you're white noise. At least Agronomist had a go." And look how much .....
» 29/12/2012 1:58:47 PM cohenite:"You had your chance Bugs and you squibbed it." Oh noes! Weally and tw.....
» 29/12/2012 8:15:57 AM What sort of science? Does it really matter to you? "Drawing on your superior level.....
» 28/12/2012 11:25:00 PM 2nd rate? Compared to what? The little ad homs from you that brighten my day? I'm somewha.....
» 28/12/2012 9:14:12 PM What does this article contribute to the climate discussion? It seems very odd that a sel.....
» 24/12/2012 11:05:25 AM Yes, well I think that amply demonstrates your lack of scientific credentials and ethics. .....
» 24/12/2012 8:43:22 AM Well, obviously the editors and reviewers at the Journal of Geophysical Research disagree .....
» 24/12/2012 7:48:55 AM "Tell that to Foster et al, you nasty little man" Oh, ouch! You cut me deep wit.....
» 23/12/2012 8:49:05 PM "The conclusion is that if AGW is real and caused by increased CO2, natural variation.....
» 19/12/2012 12:19:42 PM Oh look, a squirrel......
» 18/12/2012 4:39:37 PM Houellebecq: "The Swiss all have guns and don't shoot people so much." You mean.....
» 18/12/2012 2:32:39 PM If you look at Shadow's posting history, you will find that their first post was on the 18.....
» 18/12/2012 1:45:06 PM Arming teachers is the solution now? Yes I guess arming students was a little OTT. So wha.....
» 18/12/2012 1:08:55 PM Well, we could stick a few conservatives in front of a fan........
» 18/12/2012 11:48:51 AM "Persecution has resulted in a passion among believers to spread the good news. ".....
» 18/12/2012 10:14:19 AM Of course the "NO U" argument works quite well also don't it Gary?.....
» 18/12/2012 10:05:12 AM I think the phrase 'burn Christians', as a perjorative for persecuting them is also a curi.....
» 18/12/2012 9:50:28 AM So the speech by Obama should have read: "We can't tolerate this anymore. These trage.....
» 18/12/2012 7:45:12 AM My, my, full of self-righteous indignation aren't we onthebeach? While most atheists I kn.....
» 17/12/2012 11:32:29 AM Given Don's relative silence on the subject, I take he still believes that Craig Idso is d.....
» 14/12/2012 11:40:12 AM Cohenite, no, not misquoting the 'point' of Nortons paper, as Idso doesn't actually quote .....
» 14/12/2012 10:00:43 AM Cohenite, could you please at least have the decency to put some water on that lettuce bef.....
» 13/12/2012 4:06:51 PM Ok, so I took on board suggestions that I should look at the review paper under discussion.....
» 13/12/2012 11:58:50 AM GrahamY:"You pick on a reference that is not in the paper under discussion, say that .....
» 13/12/2012 10:21:59 AM Let me for the record state that I have no interest in the Norton et al. 1999 paper, or wh.....
» 12/12/2012 3:15:32 PM And where is Norton et al. 1999 in that list Graham?.....
» 12/12/2012 1:45:05 PM So, I have just taken a little bit of a random sample on Idsos website, and already I have.....
» 11/12/2012 12:15:55 PM Ooh, the return of Robespierre and the takeover of climate science by the long forgotten C.....
» 9/12/2012 10:44:56 AM Noone ever wants to talk about insecticide resistance. :( I guess it's a 'specialist' sub.....
» 6/12/2012 10:42:33 PM Oh thank god.....
» 5/12/2012 9:44:14 AM Ouch! The old pot-kettle argument. Get's 'em every time. How do you do it?.....
» 4/12/2012 8:27:28 PM I'll type this slowly so that everyone can follow what I am saying: There was no global b.....
» 4/12/2012 9:10:35 AM Ok, I was right then. Blog and opinion sites it is. Think for your self man. Why don't yo.....
» 4/12/2012 7:41:57 AM What Silent Spring "issue", Prompete? If it's erudition you want in an argument.....
» 3/12/2012 10:23:20 PM JBowyer: "Re CFC's my understanding was that the manufacture was transferred from the.....
» 3/12/2012 7:52:40 PM Promepete:"Rachel Carson was a purveyor of 'junk science' and could be said to have r.....
» 29/11/2012 1:01:42 PM Curmudgeon:"thanks for the feedback" You're very welcome, god knows you need it.....
» 28/11/2012 11:05:25 PM Whinging about the loss of Christmas, or "PC", is fast becoming a tradition itse.....
» 28/11/2012 3:39:16 PM curmudgeon:"Basically the concentration of methane in the atmosphere leveled off abou.....
» 26/11/2012 12:08:56 PM The whole point of A Christmas Carol, written nearly 170 years ago, was that grumpy old co.....
» 22/11/2012 1:12:21 PM What exactly does "justice for the Palestinians" mean? What would it entail?.....
» 16/11/2012 11:28:29 AM "Instead of Hope 'n Change he has delivered Decay 'n Despair." Yes, and despite.....
» 2/11/2012 7:49:00 PM rechtub, if what you say is true, then what does that say about Tony Abbott? If the elect.....
» 2/11/2012 12:15:38 PM This article is confusing. The author does not established what it is we 'take' and what i.....
» 26/10/2012 1:36:07 PM jayb:"Studying in Australia isn't supposed to be used as some sort of defacto immigra.....
» 26/10/2012 9:10:32 AM Geoff: "Once you demonstrate a link, you must next show it is causal." No, you a.....
» 26/10/2012 7:16:38 AM Sorry Geoff, but I think you are comparing apples and oranges there. The Japanese study wo.....
» 25/10/2012 3:54:13 PM Cheryl: "Actually, people (men) who start telling women its OK to have kids and use t.....
» 25/10/2012 12:43:27 PM Noel, Wertelecki may have controlled for the diet by looking at it from a population persp.....
» 24/10/2012 1:32:28 PM Apart from Curmudgeons incredible dismissiveness of important research, he does actually r.....
» 23/10/2012 5:02:54 PM Banjo: "Knowing many liberal supporters would change if Turnbull was installed. ".....
» 21/10/2012 10:18:36 AM Jon J, in other words: not here......
» 20/10/2012 10:05:09 PM "Bugsy, I can't make it any clearer. Sorry if that frustrates you." I'm not fru.....
» 20/10/2012 3:20:37 PM At least I can tell the difference between a million and a billion. I notice that individ.....
» 20/10/2012 7:52:02 AM Luckily SPQR, Australia costs were also a fraction of the above, 1/1000th in fact. Not tha.....
» 19/10/2012 5:26:45 PM "Medically speaking, the foetus is well and truly alive and is therefore worthy of th.....
» 19/10/2012 1:12:01 PM "Even if the talk of rights for the unborn is a modern phenomenon (which I would disp.....
» 19/10/2012 11:20:03 AM An "Unborn child", i.e embryo or foetus, has no rights independently of the moth.....
» 19/10/2012 7:31:37 AM "Who on earth are you to make that call, David F?" Well, obviously a mature and.....
» 17/10/2012 1:52:15 PM I'm guessing it's because of the other graphs from that website you linked to Cheryl. You.....
» 16/10/2012 2:19:34 PM Cheryl:" It's grim alright but not because we're chockas - population is going the ot.....
» 3/10/2012 8:57:23 AM Even an anus has a valid and important function, but that doesn't stop it from being a hol.....
» 27/09/2012 9:53:00 AM Perhaps one of the things that make 'western' people anxious about Muslims, is not that th.....
» 20/09/2012 10:34:06 AM Actually cohenite, NIWA has explicitly told what they did with the raw data. They archived.....
» 19/09/2012 7:32:29 PM Hey Mr 'climate statistics expert', why don't you just download the raw unadjusted "a.....
» 19/09/2012 12:42:53 PM If by 'code', you mean a list of what adjustments were made and what data they were made, .....
» 17/09/2012 2:23:45 PM CSIRO? Don't you mean the Australian Bureau of Meteorology? Footnote 50: "NIWA does .....
» 17/09/2012 9:42:34 AM Forever gracious in defeat... I suspect this is Anthony's pre-emptive excuse as to why he.....
» 14/09/2012 9:09:26 AM Nice try sonofgloin, but that doesn't wash. Because if you say "The GROSS NATIONAL .....
» 13/09/2012 8:11:22 PM Ok, so how much do you reckon we should budget to blow them out of the water? On a per ca.....
» 13/09/2012 8:03:57 PM That's not fair Pericles. Using actual real verifiable facts on a poor right whinger like .....
» 13/09/2012 4:01:21 PM There's some pretty dodgy maths going on here. Conflation of figures and imprecise languag.....
» 12/09/2012 5:14:21 PM TRILLION DOLLARS? Please explain where you got that figure from? http://www.debtclock.co.....
» 4/09/2012 10:49:34 AM Wow that was deep. I can see you've had time to think about this. People rarely want thei.....
» 4/09/2012 8:01:51 AM Poirot, only half? What's the other half?.....
» 3/09/2012 11:46:58 PM If you can respond and not be invested in the topic, then why do you care about SM and his.....
» 3/09/2012 4:54:53 PM I see now how this works, if you start a thread that concerns penises, then you have too m.....
» 1/09/2012 8:42:31 PM I guess there's no evidence like anecdotal evidence, eh? Generalising is a lot of fun too.....
» 31/08/2012 10:49:21 PM Yabby, depicting an argument by representing only one side of the equation in a certain li.....
» 31/08/2012 6:43:06 PM cohenite:"No wonder California is the economic dregs of the US." Economic dregs.....
» 31/08/2012 3:39:07 PM yvonne: "We shoud do a scientific study on that. Does circumcision reduce pleasure fo.....
» 31/08/2012 8:01:39 AM Drug testing and treating welfare recipients like children that cannot make 'proper' decis.....
» 31/08/2012 12:39:20 AM Suseonline, if it was shown that the routine removal of tonsils and apendices prevented fu.....
» 30/08/2012 11:14:11 PM rechtub:"Gypsy, you are obviously a worthy recipient of welfare and as such should ha.....
» 30/08/2012 9:08:43 PM rechtub:"Perhaps in order to keep you all happy, we should change the definition of u.....
» 29/08/2012 4:47:45 PM Every measure that is taken to punish or deny benefits to 'freeloaders' (or 'druggies' or .....
» 29/08/2012 11:16:17 AM Well, we could either support them to live by themselves, in which case they will still ha.....
» 29/08/2012 7:17:18 AM Oh FFS. Oh yes, let's 'protect' 'our' money by forcing anyone who is addicted to drugs an.....
» 27/08/2012 11:40:23 AM Behold my mighty hoop! if you do not jump through it, you will LOSE! Why do you not jump.....
» 25/08/2012 7:42:31 AM That's the way Sells. Don;t like Christianity? You must have been abused by priest! Becaus.....
» 11/08/2012 12:21:38 PM "It also means that only a very small proportion of the sunlight striking the outer a.....
» 11/08/2012 11:24:22 AM "Smug and stupid is not a good combination." You got that right. Cohenite, I c.....
» 3/08/2012 8:20:04 AM I did not realise that you 'eliminated' CJ Morgan, I thought he just died of cancer or som.....
» 10/07/2012 4:05:58 PM I think you are being a bit obtuse Bob. Actually, only 6 of those chemicals you listed are.....
» 10/07/2012 3:38:18 PM Ooooooh, it's supposed to be funny. Ok then......
» 10/07/2012 10:35:15 AM Thank you for a wonderful article Steven, I was very entertained by it. I have heard of s.....
» 9/07/2012 8:09:13 PM I think many of you illustrate Leyonhjelm's point quite well. From those discussing their.....
» 6/07/2012 4:49:40 PM Actually, yes you can Geoff. 1) The only reference I can find that makes any sort of clai.....
» 6/07/2012 3:29:53 PM Sorry Geoff, but the facts don't fit your opinion. Or should I say, your opinion doesn't f.....
» 6/07/2012 1:01:53 PM This only really matters if you actually care about the credibility of Wikipedia. Oh, my .....
» 28/06/2012 12:56:34 PM This thread is amusing, bizarre and pointless all in one lovely little package. Just like .....
» 28/06/2012 10:59:29 AM And Obama wins the alien invasion vote: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/american.....
» 28/06/2012 10:21:43 AM It's like Prometheus vs Plan 9 from Outer Space!.....
» 28/06/2012 9:53:11 AM Oh noes! Filmmakers are sacrificing scientific accuracy for entertainment narrative? Who'.....
» 25/06/2012 8:45:25 PM SM: From the WHO report referenced in Geoff's earlier post: In Fukushima prefecture the .....
» 25/06/2012 3:33:22 PM SM: I bet the authors are glad they did not have you as a reviewer. They did a formal thre.....
» 25/06/2012 2:34:20 PM It's good that this author acknowledges that 'spirituality' and the placebo effect are lin.....
» 25/06/2012 2:19:06 PM SM: Perhaps I'll repeat my question, are they 'extrapolated'? And if so, how? Where did y.....
» 24/06/2012 8:50:05 AM SM, perhaps you could explain to those of us in the class who are apparently only skimming.....
» 23/06/2012 1:32:21 PM SM: "This large scale study at Oxford agrees with my assessment." In what way? .....
» 23/06/2012 11:05:38 AM Sorry Ben, but what you are talking about is in no way in conflict with the conclusions of.....
» 23/06/2012 7:45:10 AM Ben, assumptions are always meant to be confirmed or overturned, as they are made in the a.....
» 22/06/2012 3:44:52 PM Ben:" ...when a statistical conclusion that low doses of radiation are more dangerous.....
» 20/06/2012 4:56:16 PM "People on the other side of the fence should stop leaning on the fact that some deni.....
» 20/06/2012 9:50:17 AM So, We can't buy them yet. We can't build them yet. In fact, noone is actually building t.....
» 19/06/2012 10:03:20 PM Thanks Ben, but that does sound a little like a bait-and-switch. You mean we can't actual.....
» 19/06/2012 9:17:08 PM Ok, I'm convinced. So we're gonna need about 20 or so in the next 20 years, where can we .....
» 19/06/2012 8:41:37 PM I blame the Carbon Tax. They told us it would lower productivity, and see it's happened! .....
» 19/06/2012 8:34:01 PM Geoff, while you make some reasonable points, and technically you are correct about gamma .....
» 13/06/2012 2:02:13 PM anti-green:"I am not complaining about the application of LNTH to regulation. I am ve.....
» 13/06/2012 1:09:57 PM anti-green writes: "Since when are biological questions solved by a curve fit program.....
» 12/06/2012 9:16:56 PM Actually, I should have said his Honours THESIS, not degree, but you get what I'm saying......
» 12/06/2012 5:07:26 PM So Dan, do you reckon Tas Walker lied to his Honours degree supervisor, or you? His Honou.....
» 10/06/2012 8:42:07 PM It must be because we are the queen........
» 8/06/2012 3:50:42 PM When the principles of academic freedom conflict with the drive for academic standards, th.....
» 8/06/2012 3:48:51 PM "For example, we could agree that you don't force me to send my kids to your schools .....
» 8/06/2012 12:59:17 PM Oh, it's only the Student Representative Council, the Postgraduate Representative Associat.....
» 8/06/2012 10:03:41 AM Yes nohj, you'll probably find dinosaur and icthyosaur skeletons as well........
» 8/06/2012 9:53:43 AM SPQR, I'm guessing those student societies at Sydney Uni "whose core ideals include e.....
» 7/06/2012 4:34:04 PM "However I agree the University of Sydney has shown no sign of wanting to ban anti-ab.....
» 7/06/2012 2:41:37 PM Actually Sammie, I don't think I have missed the point at all. As I see it, this is NOT a .....
» 7/06/2012 10:41:26 AM I think one of the ironies of this article is that the author, who has obviously graduated.....
» 28/05/2012 10:45:41 AM spindoc, I obviously don't perceive the same things in the same way as you do. Ramping up.....
» 27/05/2012 4:40:15 PM Rhetoric much? The data is what it is, the IPCC doesn't 'produce' it. It is generated ind.....
» 27/05/2012 10:51:06 AM Alright spindoc, 1. No science No science? Ok, you may think that this gets around the 'y.....
» 19/05/2012 8:07:58 PM Yep, my mistake. Same shape. I stand corrected. Not that it matters. No comment about t.....
» 19/05/2012 12:20:08 PM Ok kids, I know they aren't quite the same since they got popular, went mainstream and cha.....
» 18/05/2012 4:56:03 PM It would have been better if the tables were actually the same shape. They are not, the an.....
» 11/05/2012 7:39:11 PM While we're at it, these listed below appear to be stated as facts. Got some data to back .....
» 11/05/2012 4:55:40 PM I reckon that blank stare you get is them thinking "oh crap it's one of them again. H.....
» 9/05/2012 10:59:51 AM This sounds like it was written for under 20 year olds. For those of a more mature bent, i.....
» 27/04/2012 9:53:55 AM It's possible the sceptism generated by the floods may be as long lasting. The long term e.....
» 20/04/2012 10:06:15 AM I have been following this exchange with some amusement, but now I think you guys are just.....
» 19/04/2012 12:24:56 PM Well, at least it will keep them out of our universities......
» 19/04/2012 11:51:11 AM Sorry Poirot, but I think you are mistaken. Science is poetic in the sense that you can r.....
» 18/04/2012 9:37:45 AM Quite frankly, I'm surprised he got out of there unscathed. I've heard those atheists are .....
» 17/04/2012 2:44:15 PM Anywhere where people come together with a common interest or wanting a sense of 'belongin.....
» 13/04/2012 12:53:12 AM Q:What did one creation scientist say to the other? A:Isn't it stupid how the evolutionis.....
» 24/03/2012 7:08:13 AM Shadow Minister, I think you are rewriting history. The Queensland conservative coalition .....
» 20/03/2012 7:47:46 PM Well gee Hasbeen, I'm sure everyone else is also glad that you're around to read authors m.....
» 20/03/2012 2:43:42 PM Actually Prompete (and others), the author does not mention 'global warming' or 'anthropog.....
» 18/03/2012 12:26:52 PM I'm not really sure what your point is with the Webb & Kench paper, Prompete. What are y.....
» 15/03/2012 5:17:02 PM cohenite, I was asking about geologic oil. Geo- being the prefix meaning 'Earth'. Titanic .....
» 15/03/2012 4:25:21 PM cohenite, are you saying that you subscribe to the abiotic origin theory of geologic oil?.....
» 7/03/2012 5:10:16 PM Just to be a pedant Jennifer, in engineering a barrage is not military term. It refers to .....
» 24/02/2012 1:12:08 PM I'm guessing Chris Ashton isn't an Anglican, or at least doesn't agree with the head of th.....
» 24/02/2012 7:52:49 AM Actually, no Herbert, I do not claim any superior knowledge about climate change. I would .....
» 24/02/2012 1:07:59 AM Herbert Stencil, I did not ask for a list of environmental issues other than global warmin.....
» 23/02/2012 11:16:41 AM Curmudgeon, I am very interested about these real dangers that we are becoming blind to. C.....
» 17/02/2012 10:54:42 AM Sorry Jennifer, but I think MTR has every right to be embarrassed about her religion if sh.....
» 7/02/2012 11:30:44 PM Yeah, I like Google reminders too. They initiate so many conversations across the webs. A.....
» 28/01/2012 11:00:40 AM I would rather he flag be burnt than wrapped around some drunk yobbo on Australia day or w.....
» 21/01/2012 11:20:50 AM Alas, we too must restrain our tomatoes with a palm tree, even if the rabbits don't prefer.....
» 20/01/2012 2:25:38 PM When a chicken wipes its cloaca with an onion, you know you're in trouble......
» 11/01/2012 5:04:20 PM If you have to mangle the correct and common usage of language to defend your point JP, I .....
» 11/01/2012 1:08:35 PM Are all 'why' questions an inquiry into 'purpose' in a religious world? Son: "Daddy,.....
» 11/01/2012 10:11:52 AM While it may not appear obvious, you answered your own question within the piece, within a.....
» 8/01/2012 9:09:37 PM I am sure the good professor has a much greater interest in climate science and statistics.....
» 8/01/2012 8:03:47 PM Thanks for the advice cohenite, I did as you suggested. Since they were rejected, are yo.....
» 8/01/2012 8:40:17 AM My apologies cohenite, I thought you were one of the authors of those papers. I may actu.....
» 7/01/2012 5:51:07 PM Yes, I am. I have some experience with the peer review system, and I can recognise that .....
» 7/01/2012 5:18:37 PM That's very funny cohenite, I was thinking just the same about you several days ago. Irony.....
» 7/01/2012 2:57:34 PM Thanks for that Raymond Tallis quote spindoc, it led me to his very interesting chapter in.....
» 5/01/2012 4:18:01 PM Thanks for that Agronomist, good stuff. I did note on that link however that in order fo.....
» 4/01/2012 11:30:15 PM I am intrigued by the title. As far as I can tell the only people who spread rumors of the.....
» 3/01/2012 5:01:15 PM I find it interesting that Jesus told a parable about something that does not exist (i.e. .....
» 3/01/2012 4:57:50 PM I would be interested to find out where these disease-free quality bananas are coming from.....
» 3/01/2012 12:24:54 PM Actually bananas are are fruit, the wild-type contains seeds. The plant they grow on is a.....
» 3/01/2012 12:12:08 AM Indeed csteele, I can see how it works. And not a God in sight, even in a fundamentalist c.....
» 2/01/2012 7:57:55 PM Actually after some reflection I have revised my position regarding my previous statements.....
» 31/12/2011 12:42:43 PM Oh, you poor religion believers. I never knew you were sooo persecuted. "It seems to.....
» 30/12/2011 9:25:07 AM There are many studies that show that anti-psychotic drugs also appear to be beneficial to.....
» 1/12/2011 4:50:56 PM ".. the actual peaks are just what you'd expect if there's been a major collapse. GDP.....
» 1/12/2011 3:27:25 PM Ok his forecasting is not totally on the money, that's true. But given this graph does no.....
» 1/12/2011 10:46:45 AM For some historical background of what Steve Keen is saying about debt you only have to lo.....
» 20/11/2011 10:22:48 PM You may believe that you have interpreted this paper correctly, but you have not. The conc.....
» 20/11/2011 7:50:13 PM Hume: Thanks for the link, but doesn't support your assertion. "-how can you justify.....
» 18/11/2011 1:22:24 PM Ok Peter Hume, I'm sorry. Insults per se aren't irrational, but if being used as a basis f.....
» 17/11/2011 8:22:52 PM I guess they don't teach you about gene duplication in bible school. Not surprising really.....
» 16/11/2011 9:12:23 PM Same crap, different day. You're making up stories again. Stick to the politics Hume, lea.....
» 16/11/2011 7:53:28 PM No, Hume. It was an example that you said happens all the time. In fact it seems as if a .....
» 16/11/2011 7:32:01 PM No links, no surprise......
» 16/11/2011 10:29:32 AM Geez you tie yourself up in knots trying to prove whatever you don't like is irrational Hu.....
» 15/11/2011 8:40:39 PM Actually Mr Hume, I think Steven defined what he meant by amateur pretty well in the post .....
» 15/11/2011 12:48:59 PM And thus your faith is exposed Hasbeen. I didn't they they were bunk, I said they had les.....
» 15/11/2011 12:27:20 PM I dunno about the 2m sea-level rise, but does anyone else find it a bit bizarre that David.....
» 15/11/2011 12:23:23 PM The corollary to that curmudgeon is of course that most of the alternative theories that '.....
» 15/11/2011 9:21:04 AM I'd say that was a fail Mr Hume. Easily summed up by saying that you are arguing about po.....
» 13/11/2011 8:27:26 PM Oh yeah, now it's somehow all the 'greenies' fault. Good one......
» 11/11/2011 12:55:18 PM What was that again about confirmation bias?.....
» 10/11/2011 10:36:03 PM Actually thinker 2, I very much doubt that the waxy layer you observed has anything to do .....
» 10/11/2011 9:04:15 PM I reckon even if they can extract the resources underneath the land(which you don't really.....
» 10/11/2011 8:59:17 PM Sorry, thinker 2 but I don't think that pesticides are the problem here. The type of col.....
» 10/11/2011 5:05:32 PM "I would question the choice of words..." This from a guy who tried to single-h.....
» 10/11/2011 9:53:51 AM Oh, you know what happens when you think for yourself Yuyutsu......
» 10/11/2011 9:51:43 AM India only has a 90% debt to GDP ratio? They have a long way to go catch up to us! http:.....
» 8/11/2011 5:28:47 PM crabsy:" If the quest is to come closer to God then the intellect can be a barrier.&q.....
» 6/11/2011 7:49:03 AM Er Yabby, yes? I don't know why you have to repeat what I say in a way that makes it appea.....
» 5/11/2011 12:49:45 PM Mollydukes:"He was saying that the single cell that grew into you, contained all the .....
» 5/11/2011 12:25:40 AM Mollydukes:"dogs are not programmed to crap on the carpet. It's quite easy to train a.....
» 4/11/2011 8:04:45 AM This is an old argument. We may not have complete free will as you say, but nothing about.....
» 2/11/2011 10:29:23 PM Graham. Yes, I was wondering if they had to be famous to matter to you. Now I know. &quo.....
» 2/11/2011 7:13:24 PM Oh, and here's one of the worst offenders of accusing the temperature record keepers of ou.....
» 2/11/2011 2:11:48 PM It's not a straw argument Graham. That's an easy accusation to make. By inference, you den.....
» 2/11/2011 9:26:07 AM Graham:"The bottom line is that Muller's work gives no reason to anyone to change the.....
» 1/11/2011 5:54:05 PM And when the boss is gay, what happens then Yuyutsu?.....
» 31/10/2011 7:29:23 PM Oh dear, skeptical scientist does excatly what the 'skeptics' wanted a skeptical scientist.....
» 25/10/2011 4:28:49 PM What happened to polite?.....
» 25/10/2011 11:47:51 AM No Formersnag, not 'abusive' language, but rather 'dismissive' language. I think that you.....
» 24/10/2011 7:03:14 PM Me 'ranting' about the evils of Christian dogma? Hardly. This post: 18 words your posts: .....
» 24/10/2011 3:55:35 PM Oh, it's not enough? Oh dear, what am I to do. Who do I vote for? How rude (and irrelev.....
» 24/10/2011 12:18:42 PM Really Formersnag? The ONLY 'rational' explanation...is a 'communazi international sociali.....
» 11/10/2011 11:55:51 AM I don't think it's all that remarkable that the agricultural industry organisations are qu.....
» 10/10/2011 11:08:27 PM Thanks Jennifer, you must have a lot of cars. I trust that you will be calling for a pane.....
» 10/10/2011 9:31:35 PM Graham, I am not criticising Jennifer's paper for not being good enough. I have read it, i.....
» 10/10/2011 8:29:44 PM It's amazing how criticism of one study on mangroves turns into a 'litany' of false claims.....
» 7/10/2011 9:25:15 AM You'll never go poor marketing to Christians......
» 6/10/2011 10:35:48 PM Yes TrashcanMan and Steven, The reason it makes me physically ill to even think about def.....
» 6/10/2011 9:33:40 PM With all due respect Steven, I believe that is a personal choice of yours. You know you ca.....
» 6/10/2011 7:55:29 PM Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. The best thing about Marxism is that I can ea.....
» 6/10/2011 11:21:27 AM Ok then Squeers. But your earlier question was interesting: "The question is whether.....
» 6/10/2011 11:02:06 AM pat, are you saying the president of the United States that ordered the research into nucl.....
» 6/10/2011 10:08:06 AM Squeers:"I don't deny that a great deal of evil as been done under the term "Mar.....
» 6/10/2011 9:57:59 AM progressive pat, of course! Hospitals, universities and schools aren't the product of sci.....
» 6/10/2011 9:41:44 AM Ok Squeers, Stalin was evil but not because of Marxism then. But I am not the only one to.....
» 5/10/2011 1:59:11 PM But yeah, I think they get in trouble and get told to sit in the naughty corner if they vo.....
» 5/10/2011 1:50:18 PM Actually steven, your point isn't exactly clear, it has to be inferred. If I took your qu.....
» 5/10/2011 1:09:02 PM Well, if they were going to vote for the EFSF, I would certainly want them to answer a few.....
» 5/10/2011 11:50:26 AM Oh, and while we're on the subject, Brian never mentioned GM crops, and in fact what he wa.....
» 5/10/2011 11:30:59 AM lillian:"It would seem to be rational to prefer renewables and agroecology." Ra.....
» 5/10/2011 11:23:15 AM What? The sea ice in the arctic is receding? Someone had better tell Anthony Watts. Accord.....
» 1/10/2011 9:49:10 AM Exactly, while science is more important than 'reality' TV competition show, it aint cool .....
» 24/09/2011 10:39:41 PM Googlomoronic autodidacticism is now ruling the world. Beware. Some people may well decry.....
» 24/09/2011 8:24:09 PM Then there's the one about two atoms walking out of the bar, one says "I think I lost.....
» 24/09/2011 7:36:51 PM I went to a seminar on someone conducting a project on photosynthesis, mostly on the genet.....
» 24/09/2011 7:32:42 PM Here's an oldie but a goodie for ya Pericles: A neutrino walks into a bar and the bar ten.....
» 22/09/2011 2:19:58 PM You must have been reading a different article Geoff. I thought it was a bit all over the .....
» 22/09/2011 11:37:28 AM You may want to change it on page 2 as well Graham......
» 22/09/2011 11:32:11 AM How many peasant farmers do you reckon are in Australia?.....
» 21/09/2011 2:39:49 PM Note to editor: 'photo-sanitary' should read 'phytosanitary'. Quarantine is a tricky issu.....
» 16/09/2011 1:26:22 PM Yeehaw, split that vote! Personally, I can't wait for a Katter parliament. I have been t.....
» 14/09/2011 4:21:20 PM Another content free whinge. By all means, please continue......
» 14/09/2011 2:25:04 PM WHHOOOOOOSSSHH fsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsfs sputter sputter *POP*.....
» 13/09/2011 7:54:05 PM That's why it's dull Graham. Although Tony Abbott professed to have a 'belly laugh' at it.....
» 13/09/2011 7:50:04 PM You make me laugh Formersnag. You're like a rocket missing a stabiliser fin......
» 13/09/2011 5:11:37 PM Geez man, if you're going to take on an ABC satirical entertainment program, you might wan.....
» 13/09/2011 3:16:42 PM "i have never ever seen any men on any of these debates "whinging", only ma.....
» 13/09/2011 10:14:18 AM Don't play dress-ups with lesbians, kids. Everyone will think you are being ridiculed, you.....
» 13/09/2011 8:00:29 AM White? check Working class? check Austrlaian? check Man? check I did not mention praisewo.....
» 12/09/2011 7:44:53 PM What is Hicks exactly? Is he not a white working-class Australian man? Is there no sense.....
» 12/09/2011 4:17:44 PM I would love to look after the interests of the never-to-be-sufficiently-derided white wor.....
» 9/09/2011 1:49:13 PM TRUTHNOW78:"I find this hard to believe because atheists always say they care about t.....
» 7/09/2011 12:52:38 PM Interesting use of the word "constructive"......
» 3/09/2011 3:41:38 PM sonofgloin:" if they refer to their cultural background they throw American in front .....
» 3/09/2011 10:48:38 AM sonfogloin:" there is a mandatory Americana historical, cultural, and social course y.....
» 30/08/2011 8:15:55 AM Hume:"Of course if there is really no such thing as economic science, then the theory.....
» 29/08/2011 3:42:35 PM I am really struggling in finding the actual point of this article unless it is interprete.....
» 29/08/2011 11:26:15 AM Why bother? Didn't they let you in? No mensus? No mensa!.....
» 29/08/2011 10:30:48 AM The only sort of justification of 'jihad' in the article appears to be 'constant assault o.....
» 29/08/2011 10:23:44 AM Mensus club? Who has the biggest? Ewww......
» 25/08/2011 10:25:25 AM Since it didn't also come out of my monitor, it must have been yours......
» 22/08/2011 2:55:47 PM Sorry Bruce, minor point of contention but in the Linnaean naming scheme the suffic -oidae.....
» 22/08/2011 2:47:06 PM vanna, Why would the industry need life support if the prices for their products are so h.....
» 22/08/2011 12:23:09 PM Mark, you are much better on economics. I agree with this perspective on protectionism. .....
» 16/08/2011 2:43:39 PM I thought David was doing quite well until he reused the misinformed example of DDT. Try .....
» 16/08/2011 8:29:29 AM Congratulations Warwick on writing yet another polemic that utilises whatever tragic headl.....
» 4/08/2011 8:50:15 PM Oooh look at you, all gussied up and pretending to be interested in science. It's sooo cu.....
» 4/08/2011 8:46:54 PM Muhahahahahaha Run coots run!.....
» 4/08/2011 10:25:59 AM Is this opinion or is this news? It's so hard to tell these days... When a media outlet r.....
» 3/08/2011 9:52:35 PM God is TIMECUBE.....
» 2/08/2011 8:12:46 PM It's probably because Paul Ehrlich has also had a long scientific career and is the author.....
» 2/08/2011 5:00:51 PM Yeah, ok I admit it, I guess I do have an 'addiction' (for want of a better word) to makin.....
» 2/08/2011 1:54:36 PM Yuyutsu:"God is not there to feed your addiction for having meaning and making sense......
» 2/08/2011 1:50:28 PM Somehow I don't think you have been paying attention Mark. You are a noisemaker. You have .....
» 2/08/2011 10:32:28 AM Yuyutsu:"The fact that people have weaknesses and are looking for meaning and explana.....
» 2/08/2011 9:46:11 AM Yututsu, Christianity, and indeed all the religions, were created from a human need for me.....
» 1/08/2011 10:08:43 PM Meh, what's to disagree with Mark? But there's a bit of 'so what?' element in all these cr.....
» 1/08/2011 4:21:56 PM Nice book review. It also highlights the fact that in order to sell non-fiction one has t.....
» 18/07/2011 3:23:46 PM "I fervently want to believe in global warming"-Loudmouth Why would anyone ferv.....
» 16/07/2011 5:22:07 PM cum hoc ergo propter hoc.....
» 15/07/2011 8:38:18 PM Don't worry Ian (and Maggie), with the advent of personal genome sequencing and genomic me.....
» 15/07/2011 8:15:58 PM Col Rouge: "the Liberals are the Majority party"? I your universe maybe, but no.....
» 15/07/2011 2:12:04 PM I think Alex told his readers exactly what he was going up to in his hackneyed Mark twain .....
» 15/07/2011 12:05:07 PM Not to mention winning an election, I mean who do these people think they are?.....
» 14/07/2011 10:48:09 PM ...and you sucking his tailpipe......
» 14/07/2011 10:46:35 PM SM, if you had a dime every time a labor supporter said that "His nasty attitude and .....
» 14/07/2011 10:41:59 PM Custard, I am as much an advocate for the progression of GM crops as anyone, but that sort.....
» 14/07/2011 9:43:08 PM These guys really want environmentalism (or even the 'Greens') to be a religion. That way .....
» 14/07/2011 5:07:17 PM Definition of EXASPERATE (www.merriam-webster.com) transitive verb a : to excite the ange.....
» 14/07/2011 3:48:39 PM If what stops the carbon tax? Abbott's debasement of political discourse? Bit of a slippe.....
» 14/07/2011 3:22:01 PM SM, she doesn't have to be all that credible, she just has to be more credible than Abbott.....
» 14/07/2011 2:59:23 PM Curmudgeon, I think I know why we are doing this. I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty su.....
» 13/07/2011 9:03:32 PM Yes of course rehctub, but then the point is to encourage a reduction in expenses by incre.....
» 13/07/2011 11:27:33 AM Where's the soap? Yes, doesn't it?.....
» 12/07/2011 1:47:44 PM Yeah, when they raised the flag and sang the national anthem and had religious instruction.....
» 12/07/2011 1:21:11 PM Puerile? You are such a Nazi-nazi......
» 12/07/2011 7:55:49 AM Sounds more plausible than being sentenced to age and die for eating an apple. What's the .....
» 11/07/2011 4:37:23 PM Facepalm for teh fail.....
» 27/06/2011 5:27:27 PM I would say that's a complete reinterpretion of the actual poll there Amicus. From the re.....
» 22/06/2011 5:08:00 PM For those of 'us' that love ear candles and think that they are good for anything, the fol.....
» 5/06/2011 8:55:41 AM SPQR, I think you may need to take irony supplements......
» 31/05/2011 12:02:33 PM Well I for one would think that our money would be better spent welcoming our alien overlo.....
» 30/05/2011 10:05:19 PM Australia's richest person doesn't want to pay more tax? Yes, I'm sure we can all relate .....
» 30/05/2011 9:39:45 PM Oh, no policy yet released? But you don't want it, that's for sure. You just want Cate'.....
» 30/05/2011 7:12:16 PM Speaking of being rich, famous and having "lucky genes", what's the difference b.....
» 28/05/2011 10:26:06 PM No Mark, there's no 'total misunderstandings' here. I know you were talking about solar &q.....
» 28/05/2011 1:09:31 PM "Fantasy"? Yep, you sure know which side your bread is buttered alright. You ask.....
» 28/05/2011 8:45:15 AM When you attack the scientific basis and refuse to acknowledge the validity of it because .....
» 27/05/2011 9:54:18 PM Rhetorically confused or perhaps confusingly rhetorical by the looks of it. Must be nice .....
» 27/05/2011 8:46:26 PM You're unbelievable. The answer to your rhetorical questions is yes. Solar irradiance does.....
» 27/05/2011 11:54:06 AM Curmudgeon, theories are accepted on the basis of evidence and overturned by alternative t.....
» 26/05/2011 9:49:03 AM Yes, but it only works for spherical christians in a vacuum......
» 23/05/2011 9:29:04 AM Since there is already a mandatory sentence of 25 years for this offence, this proposal is.....
» 20/05/2011 8:34:23 PM "Happened to see other stats while I was looking for the export figures and its clear.....
» 20/05/2011 2:42:01 PM Here's the original paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal......
» 19/05/2011 10:20:30 PM Oh I'm sorry, do you feel ridiculed? Oh dear......
» 19/05/2011 9:35:40 PM Oh, good for them. What a progressive organisation. I didn't realise they were so 'new ag.....
» 19/05/2011 8:34:45 PM It's a funny thing Otokonoko, there's heaps of people who live a Catholic life without bei.....
» 19/05/2011 7:12:41 PM When it comes to hatin' on black Christian men, I don't think that you could do much worse.....
» 19/05/2011 3:47:06 PM Better hated than ignored eh? Are we being trolled by the Christians now?.....
» 18/05/2011 10:02:09 PM If I seem complacent, I guess it must be because I feel so safe knowing that so many dogs .....
» 18/05/2011 9:16:26 PM After all, that's how the Christians did it, right?.....
» 18/05/2011 2:16:33 PM Nick, if you replace 'religious' with 'political' (just as an analogy) in your writing, th.....
» 17/05/2011 9:03:14 PM I guess there's no pleasing some people......
» 17/05/2011 2:43:35 PM It's been canned. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/muslims-use-multicultu.....
» 16/05/2011 9:22:42 PM Creationists, LOL.....
» 13/05/2011 9:16:54 PM Yeah, Pericles pretty much has the right of it, I think the article is pap as well, but no.....
» 13/05/2011 2:54:41 PM Ok Amicus, so you accept that the climate changes. You probably accept that the climate is.....
» 13/05/2011 11:50:15 AM It is true that it is not 'beyond doubt' that climate change has not been shown to increas.....
» 12/05/2011 8:19:34 AM Scientific 'models' are built upon real observations, Mr Atkins. But I do see a problem, .....
» 11/05/2011 4:45:54 PM Don Atkins:"(iii) You seem to assume that we know everything that is to be known abou.....
» 9/05/2011 12:40:00 PM Well, I for one did not know that coffee was considered as carcinogenic as benzene, but th.....
» 9/05/2011 11:38:15 AM Let me get this straight, you think that the UN is trying to bring in a new world religion.....
» 8/05/2011 4:20:24 PM "real evidence", Mr Atkins? As opposed to?.....
» 6/05/2011 8:27:59 PM Sorry, Mr Aitken......
» 6/05/2011 10:16:51 AM Don Aitken:"What Australia needs is a serious study of our own climate and the forces.....
» 19/04/2011 10:05:36 PM Honestly, I don't know why you're complaining about the responses you get when you ask the.....
» 19/04/2011 5:03:17 PM I am not arguing that a science of economics is impossible. Just as I am also not arguin.....
» 19/04/2011 1:36:47 PM I think you misunderstood me Peter Hume. I don't just think that an economic science is j.....
» 19/04/2011 8:24:14 AM Hey Hume, in the interests of moving this discussion forward, I don't really believe that .....
» 18/04/2011 8:34:03 PM "And those with below average penises fare significantly worse then other men psychol.....
» 18/04/2011 8:23:17 AM Hume, I think you have it backwards. If observations do not fit the 'theorem', then yes, .....
» 17/04/2011 10:47:27 AM Oh yeah, Hasbeen, they're ALL doing it didn't you know? That's why the funding is getting .....
» 17/04/2011 9:01:34 AM Here you go individual, http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/about/jobs/reference/en.....
» 17/04/2011 1:00:25 AM Oh and I noticed that you didn't talk about the constraints bit either, I'll take that as .....
» 17/04/2011 12:58:23 AM Pythagoras' theorem is mathematics. I have been told on many occasions that mathematics is.....
» 16/04/2011 11:02:56 PM "So you can force people into paying for what they don't want?" Yes, but you ca.....
» 16/04/2011 10:51:56 PM Hume, your definition of science is not even close to anyone else's defintion of science. .....
» 16/04/2011 12:21:29 PM I bet they find it difficult to find condoms that fit......
» 16/04/2011 12:10:02 PM Yes, Ludwig, Science can certainly be 'economic'. But, can Economics be 'scientific'? It.....
» 16/04/2011 9:22:06 AM LOL Ludwig, I see what you are doing there. Literally funny. But it's not exactly what Hu.....
» 16/04/2011 9:07:01 AM spindoc, perhaps the CSIRO's annual report is what you are looking for? http://www.csiro......
» 16/04/2011 8:35:45 AM Actually steven, there are international standards for condoms, not penises. Which is hard.....
» 10/04/2011 9:11:44 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 10/04/2011 9:08:53 PM I stand corrected. It's obviously not just conservatives......
» 10/04/2011 5:45:10 PM "I can't believe Bugsy's swipe at Banjo suggesting he did not watch the video. Of cou.....
» 9/04/2011 11:36:14 AM Did you watch the video to understand what Flannery is saying, or just read the headline? .....
» 8/04/2011 7:38:45 PM Yeah, I'm sure that's it Mark. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact tha.....
» 28/03/2011 9:47:47 AM So, if the average temperatures were a 'statistical tie' as the hottest, what happened to .....
» 28/03/2011 7:49:59 AM Oh, so it was the EQUAL hottest on record. That's a lot of words protesting the omission .....
» 27/03/2011 7:32:37 PM Just out of curiosity, donkeygod where do you get this information? "If you're going.....
» 13/03/2011 8:40:28 PM Which apparently makes it dead easy to write books that critical of forecasting. Although.....
» 13/03/2011 7:17:05 PM I'm guessing when you're prepared to actually listen to them......
» 12/03/2011 3:55:44 PM Again, they do not use the word 'disability'. They refer to 'reliable evidence of a menta.....
» 12/03/2011 11:02:21 AM Is Mise, have they said that quadraplegics cannot own a firearm? Just because you say tha.....
» 11/03/2011 10:37:44 PM I already did. If you can't aim it, you can't own it......
» 11/03/2011 8:59:16 PM I'm surprised you didn't correct her on getting the dates wrong......
» 11/03/2011 4:22:20 PM No it doesn't. But of course, correcting other peoples jokes does!.....
» 10/03/2011 6:48:46 PM Is Mise, paranoid schizophrenics are not criminals and so do not need to be in protective .....
» 10/03/2011 9:22:55 AM "Pauline Hanson was the first political scalp of the Politically Correct lobby that h.....
» 9/03/2011 9:58:04 PM Now I know why you seem so cranky all the time, Hasbeen. You must be discriminated agains.....
» 9/03/2011 10:08:50 AM What I don't get, is that this guy was a member of an oil companies' racing team, and yet .....
» 8/03/2011 12:45:45 PM BTW, I am fully aware of how idealistic my statements are. I just thought that there is mo.....
» 8/03/2011 12:02:29 PM Ok, agreed on the clinical trials for drugs/treatments, but diagnostics? Genes and their .....
» 8/03/2011 11:39:19 AM donut, I can understand how you think that patents reduce a biotech company's risk. Howeve.....
» 5/03/2011 10:38:15 AM The high cost of legals, development and marketing under the current system is used as the.....
» 5/03/2011 10:37:14 AM Sorry donut, I seem to be confusing you. I only referred to ‘patent winners’ once, but thi.....
» 4/03/2011 1:15:30 PM Ok, so everyone agrees on the intent of the amendments. It appears that most people agree .....
» 3/03/2011 9:32:30 PM Oh LOL, donut, scary and misinformed people on a blog site? Where have you been? However .....
» 2/03/2011 8:45:59 PM I do not agree Dr Lavelle. While you do mix in some good information and make some good p.....
» 28/02/2011 3:07:20 PM I see absolutely no reason why this sort of cross promotional advertising does damage to t.....
» 28/02/2011 2:13:13 PM skeptic, your logic is certainly flawed. Simple set theory: While the Government can be.....
» 19/02/2011 7:15:33 PM Steady on there Tim, that ain't mockin'!.....
» 19/02/2011 4:10:37 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 18/02/2011 10:49:17 PM I reckon Glenn Beck is paying them so that he can get better ratings......
» 18/02/2011 8:48:58 PM Oh dear Boazy/AGIR at it again, and you STILL can't get the goddamn title right! It is: O.....
» 18/02/2011 11:26:55 AM George, I think it is a mistake to think that atheists have a 'camp' that they can be said.....
» 17/02/2011 4:39:51 PM Well Pericles, I for one would never let a Christian fundamentalist with a tub of spakfill.....
» 17/02/2011 9:48:09 AM I'm actually with you there Hazza, I also think terminally ill patients should be able to .....
» 16/02/2011 10:50:51 AM Mark, the journal Science does not publish fringe theories. Hey, is Plimers book a best-.....
» 16/02/2011 10:36:05 AM Actually Saul, you haven't done your homework. Black Sigatoka is an airborne disease, carr.....
» 15/02/2011 4:41:28 PM Mark, Jared Diamond could not by any stretch of anyone's imagination but yours be describe.....
» 15/02/2011 3:40:27 PM Which of course, Yuyutsu, is exactly how a placebo works. The mistake is dismissing the p.....
» 15/02/2011 3:08:13 PM Yes, lets shelve the pointless discussion and watch some light entertainment: http://www......
» 14/02/2011 11:58:36 PM Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine. From my favourite .....
» 14/02/2011 10:46:10 PM Hey, was I arguing that with you Mark? I am sure there are a lot of burnable hydrocarbons.....
» 14/02/2011 8:08:14 PM JBowyer, seriously man, you should try and at least google the meaning of words you don't .....
» 13/02/2011 9:03:17 AM Well I do think He does have a bit of a God Complex......
» 8/02/2011 10:32:15 AM "Homo" means 'same', philo......
» 8/02/2011 8:40:45 AM And what 'accurate forecast' would that be exactly, malrob?.....
» 7/02/2011 2:43:08 PM Dan, I hear colon transplants work. Have you tried that?.....
» 7/02/2011 1:44:35 PM Whatever you say Mark, you're the climate expert......
» 7/02/2011 8:08:17 AM Belly, I don't have any links for the bacterial stuff, but here's one for amyloid diseases.....
» 6/02/2011 9:25:29 PM Actually Atman, that CSIRO link appears to have a section on what the effects might be: W.....
» 6/02/2011 9:04:13 PM Yes, a possibility of a link between gut bacteria and neurodegenerative diseases is certai.....
» 5/02/2011 12:17:06 AM Alright then Atman, I'll take that bet. How about AUS $1000? My car rego is due......
» 4/02/2011 11:01:54 PM People may laugh at this, but I found it exceptionally interesting. There is an emerging f.....
» 4/02/2011 10:17:14 AM How many swallows make a summer then?.....
» 3/02/2011 2:24:23 PM If Boazy reckons it's been done to death, you had better believe it! I would have thought.....
» 2/02/2011 4:46:01 PM If they don't respond, why exactly are they 'finished'? Just who exactly is Malcolm Rober.....
» 2/02/2011 11:12:12 AM At last, somone honest enough to admit that Christians are not as meek as they want everyo.....
» 2/02/2011 11:01:00 AM Yes, we know, long before... I would go further, but it it would violate forum rules and .....
» 1/02/2011 10:11:08 PM Not the 'elect', SPQR, but the 'educated'. Individuals have always been empowered to chal.....
» 31/01/2011 3:15:36 PM I for one enjoyed it very much, but no surprise there I'm sure. AGIR, Boazy etc. exemplif.....
» 30/01/2011 9:43:58 PM Actually, there's three kinds of folk. Those who can count and those who can't......
» 28/01/2011 4:31:47 PM Eight posts into a thread on 'innovation' of all things. I would have expected it to take .....
» 28/01/2011 3:08:55 PM Yabby, it's not 'my' claim, it's from the Australian Lot Feeder Association. http://www.f.....
» 28/01/2011 2:19:16 PM Yes Yabby I understand all this, believe me, I do. But feedlot fed animals are not 100% 'f.....
» 28/01/2011 8:33:56 AM I seriously doubt you are Glen Beck's dad. That's just made up......
» 27/01/2011 12:57:43 PM Well yes, it could be 1% or 50% or whatever, unless you actually looked it up of course. B.....
» 27/01/2011 12:44:23 PM Bernays source? Does that come with Glenn Beck's Eggs Benedict Arnold?.....
» 27/01/2011 10:51:34 AM Yes, that's what 'former forests' means, Mark......
» 25/01/2011 9:10:30 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 21/01/2011 11:17:36 AM "Now that is worth pondering" Actually, it isn't. It's just a narrative that is.....
» 20/01/2011 11:51:20 PM Actually spindoc, the questions are not direct and simple. That you think they are speaks .....
» 19/01/2011 10:05:27 PM Joe, I only put 'skeptic' in parentheses so as not to confuse the label the anti-AGW crow.....
» 19/01/2011 8:46:49 PM Scientific literature is a funny thing, it is always there and can be revisited in the lig.....
» 19/01/2011 8:45:24 PM I am not an AGW 'Advocate' (capital A) spindoc. I am explaining why I accept the prevailin.....
» 18/01/2011 11:32:29 PM Very sobering Dan. A sadder part is that this solicitor also does not know anything about.....
» 18/01/2011 5:42:27 PM Answers to what exactly? Anyone can accuse someone else of not having answers, when they t.....
» 18/01/2011 5:04:24 PM Hey, 'denier' 'skeptic' 'contrarian zombie', whatever, the point was that they are just la.....
» 18/01/2011 1:04:06 PM You can use "Potty potty poo poo" if you like, it is of no concern to me spindoc.....
» 18/01/2011 12:03:20 PM Questions are generally denoted by question marks spindoc, and the only ones I see that ha.....
» 18/01/2011 8:28:39 AM Indeed spindoc, apology accepted (although you made the mistake twice, the first was ignor.....
» 17/01/2011 5:37:30 PM Oh dear spindoc, I think you ought to invest in a mirror mate. Or at least take that neck .....
» 16/01/2011 7:56:13 PM Yes, many of the averages of localised populations of the human species change over time. .....
» 16/01/2011 7:48:41 PM Quite frankly I find the idea that if you accept the conclusions of research that climate .....
» 10/01/2011 4:46:21 PM Leo Lane: "...we need a community funded body to challenge scientific findings which .....
» 10/01/2011 12:26:03 PM Actual stevenlmeyer, the assumption here is that there is an overarching 'scientific proce.....
» 10/01/2011 9:28:48 AM This article is almost complete bunkum. Oh no, it's not the evidence that's wrong, it's th.....
» 10/01/2011 8:20:31 AM Actually Graham, your addition to the analogy fails. Diagnosis is not the same as predicti.....
» 5/01/2011 1:01:03 PM Absolutely Sells, the development of Western culture and progress is littered with the gra.....
» 1/01/2011 8:23:04 PM If this grumpy codger outrage has anything to do with this story: http://www.couriermail......
» 28/12/2010 7:49:08 AM No Crackup, it is not insane, nor comparable to having a Great White in the swimming pool......
» 20/12/2010 11:26:11 AM Don't worry Michelle, I have heard there's an army of Dickensian old codgers bunkered down.....
» 19/12/2010 1:08:45 PM I see you have stopped talking about paedophilia and started on other tracks, I'll take th.....
» 19/12/2010 8:55:56 AM "Everyday in the Middle East children are deemed to be consenting to marry adults and.....
» 18/12/2010 10:47:09 PM Proxy, no. Are children capable of fully understanding the consequences of their choices?.....
» 16/12/2010 12:27:05 PM Oh Lordy, is that a recognition that homosexuality may have a biological basis by, of all .....
» 14/12/2010 10:57:20 AM How does a heart become pure without Christ? Exercise......
» 11/12/2010 8:17:43 AM Nothing is wrong. Nothing was ever wrong. Nothing will ever be wrong. It is still here bec.....
» 11/11/2010 10:14:31 AM Indeed Riz, I agree with you. On the other side of the coin though, I have seen a disturb.....
» 9/11/2010 8:58:48 PM Yes, environmental groups should admit mistakes, and so should conservatives or anyone els.....
» 4/11/2010 10:05:40 PM Don't worry about it kiwichick, curmudgeon (Mark Lawson) is quite often apt to describe an.....
» 2/11/2010 4:01:11 PM See, this is what I'm talking about. Gives you the irrits doesn't it? *Disclaimer: I have.....
» 1/11/2010 11:55:42 AM I would vote Green for no other reason that it gives the old crusties the irrits......
» 27/10/2010 12:01:03 PM I really would like an answer, as I think it is an important point, ansd it is important t.....
» 26/10/2010 10:16:55 AM Nice to have you back on board Mark. Now I'd like to repeat my question: Who are these '.....
» 22/10/2010 10:55:37 PM Whereas Christianity merely advocates that homosexuals be shunned from society and made to.....
» 22/10/2010 8:31:07 PM "So if we combine ecology wth the study of the evoltion of organisms from the perspec.....
» 22/10/2010 8:03:48 AM Gilbert, just to highlight what I am talking about, ask yourself: What does 'ecology' mean.....
» 22/10/2010 7:20:01 AM Your theory? What theory? You keep asserting that evolutionary theory hasn't taken x or y .....
» 21/10/2010 4:59:30 PM "The assertion of the individual perspective, across a range of subjects (as you do) .....
» 21/10/2010 7:43:28 AM By using the word 'condition', are suggesting that homosexuality is a pathology?.....
» 20/10/2010 7:56:39 PM "Couldn't we just continue to make decisions as the dominant species for ourselves?. .....
» 19/10/2010 9:43:02 PM Thanks Graham (I think?), but I'm no less uncomfortable for it :P Gilbert, yes, physics .....
» 19/10/2010 8:29:46 PM Rudy, is IVF 'fetus killing'? If we say that individual human life begins at conception, .....
» 19/10/2010 8:09:21 PM Gilbert, for a start economics is not science, let alone ‘more than science’. Economics is.....
» 19/10/2010 7:26:46 PM But Rudy, by saying "Some people ARE born with a whole lot of predilections", wh.....
» 19/10/2010 4:47:19 PM Whether or not sexual orientation is affected in the womb remains to be seen. I was just u.....
» 19/10/2010 4:23:13 PM I don't mind The Big Bang Theory either runner, it's quite funny. Yes, I can see why you .....
» 19/10/2010 11:04:12 AM First page, so far so good. Second page is a bit of mess really. Conflation of a number o.....
» 18/10/2010 10:26:07 PM "In the case of the Gay debate we are asked to accept the proposition, that a gay gen.....
» 18/10/2010 2:10:06 PM Did the CYC at Phillip Island apply to VCAT for an exemption (and openly advertise its int.....
» 13/10/2010 5:38:23 PM No comment Mark? I'd have thought you would have a long list of quotable quotes from thes.....
» 12/10/2010 1:39:41 PM From the article: "As readers will recall at the Copenhagen conference in December, .....
» 11/10/2010 10:01:50 AM And some unimportant ones as well I see... You won't admit you love me And so how am I ev.....
» 10/10/2010 7:04:58 PM Nice to have you on board Formersnag. I don't think we are in any danger of reducing fossi.....
» 10/10/2010 5:14:29 PM I am not sure you have properly thought through whatever it is you believe Formersnag. Gl.....
» 9/10/2010 12:22:16 AM Oh come on Pericles, it's not often you meet someone of his calibre......
» 8/10/2010 10:44:45 PM Sorry jinny, I don’t agree. At least with your central thesis. Evolutionarily speaking, .....
» 8/10/2010 10:06:27 PM Ok, confirmation that CO2 emissions are increasing...check Confirmation that CO2 emissions.....
» 7/10/2010 4:52:18 PM They could have been written about the Post Office......
» 30/09/2010 7:39:41 PM It is wrong Gilbert, because it is an idealised anecdote of how you wish the system you cr.....
» 27/09/2010 11:05:54 PM I guess crabsy doesn't so much exult our intelligence pericles, rather he insults it. An.....
» 26/09/2010 9:18:34 AM thinker2, you are incorrect to conclude that the FTD 'cancer' is not likely to be a contag.....
» 22/09/2010 8:42:09 PM Ehrlich might be a joke to you Mark, but he has sold more books than certain other authors.....
» 22/09/2010 4:45:39 PM "Man also has acquired the means to reduce the rate of human reproduction effectively.....
» 22/09/2010 12:35:07 PM There ya go, what an optimistic approach thinkabit! Upshot: overpopulation cannot happen .....
» 22/09/2010 11:42:08 AM Did you ever stop and ask yourself seriously why we are still here, MichaelB? We are here.....
» 21/09/2010 12:32:54 PM I think you are confusing the abstract with the material. If one cannot discern between wh.....
» 21/09/2010 10:10:38 AM That's fine steven, I know you never advocated banning Muslim migrants, but that doesn't m.....
» 21/09/2010 9:27:09 AM Philo, you would be surprised at how many of them are the same 'youth'......
» 20/09/2010 9:16:16 PM The primacy of things that can occur in nature is taken as a given. It's very existence, i.....
» 20/09/2010 8:58:21 PM Why would they do that stevenlmeyer? Is somebody recommending that Catholic immigration b.....
» 20/09/2010 3:57:49 PM When I put the 'nothing' in quotation marks, I did of course mean that information can com.....
» 20/09/2010 1:53:53 PM What exactly do you mean by 'natural'? Do you mean "occuring in nature", "c.....
» 20/09/2010 12:37:04 PM Surprisingly enough stevenlmeyer I agree with you on this one. But consider this, is anyo.....
» 18/09/2010 9:55:08 AM Questions generally have question marks......
» 8/09/2010 7:56:27 PM [Deleted. Refers to a comment which has also been deleted.].....
» 3/09/2010 9:05:50 PM Isn't there some sort of disconnect here though John? (by the way, could you point me in t.....
» 3/09/2010 8:46:42 PM Why don't they make laws against it John? Oh, that's right, that would be stupid......
» 3/09/2010 7:56:12 PM So it's only fair to generalise if you think that your experience is the dominant one John.....
» 3/09/2010 7:30:32 PM Get over yourself mumsy, you're not the only person in this world to not know their father.....
» 3/09/2010 4:06:11 PM See what happens when you legalise strip clubs?.....
» 3/09/2010 3:17:34 PM Oh dear oh dear oh dear, we cannot expose our children to any sort of risk can we? We simp.....
» 3/09/2010 11:25:16 AM nairbe, 1. Anything can be justified if you use the 'best interests of children' argument......
» 1/09/2010 1:56:12 PM Is the book also full of obvious statements based on widely accepted propositions?.....
» 31/08/2010 9:01:40 PM Er, tell me again Boazy, why exactly do we need to 'determine race'?.....
» 31/08/2010 10:17:10 AM I don't think most of us will even bother trying to keep up Mark, as it seems you have alr.....
» 30/08/2010 6:09:06 PM JBowyer, are you a member of the DNA, teh National Association of Dyslexics?.....
» 30/08/2010 2:04:12 PM MindlessCruelty, you do realise that everything 'said' here is all written down and you ca.....
» 29/08/2010 9:04:02 PM Military personnel are judged by military law in courts martial and not by jury. That bein.....
» 29/08/2010 6:56:26 PM Of course, if we don't agree, we have to grow up. We don't agree, so we are neurotic. Wh.....
» 29/08/2010 12:26:48 PM @MindlessCruelty Indecision? No. Your comment seems to display a certain naiveté about th.....
» 28/08/2010 6:56:39 PM The problem with death penalties is where to draw the line over when to enforce and when n.....
» 28/08/2010 6:51:32 PM I did not know that the lack of alcohol in Muslim countries was entirely voluntary. That.....
» 28/08/2010 6:41:05 PM Dan, I think for half of that, you may have been addressing Rusty? I'm not sure, because y.....
» 28/08/2010 12:23:13 AM Of course we would be better off, but that's not saying much. We could also say we would b.....
» 28/08/2010 12:12:39 AM As someone I know, Jack Pettigrew, once said: "All I can do is help to sound the cla.....
» 26/08/2010 11:09:48 AM WOW, that is an exceptional insight. It's not often I learn something from the banality .....
» 25/08/2010 8:49:27 PM [Deleted for abuse]......
» 25/08/2010 5:10:01 PM Well spotted wellie. Australian Constitution - Section 34 - Qualifications of members .....
» 24/08/2010 5:42:13 PM Actually Dan, the surprise is mine, in that for all your apparent mastery of language, you.....
» 20/08/2010 8:43:08 AM I would not disagree with Sagan entirely Dan, but certainly disagree with your interpretat.....
» 18/08/2010 12:07:50 PM A real conscientious Christian would not use their religion as a political tool to tell ot.....
» 13/08/2010 10:34:56 PM I suspect the author actually means "historical" or "conventional" mar.....
» 11/08/2010 12:20:35 PM Squeers, I didn't realise that Conservatives listened to the dead. Stan is certainly an .....
» 6/08/2010 1:26:45 PM Also, it has come to my attention that many Christian religions seek to establish some sor.....
» 21/07/2010 2:35:44 PM How can something burn rapidly (i.e. explosively) and slowly (fires underground for severa.....
» 20/07/2010 10:12:45 AM This is moronic rhetoric at its best. Way to go invoking the "Founding Fathers".....
» 12/07/2010 11:57:30 AM If only it was just like Humpty Dumpty, Gordo. Unfortunately, it is only the Humptians t.....
» 11/07/2010 6:06:43 PM Do they teach geology in the Maths Department of Universities? Perhaps they teach "Fl.....
» 7/07/2010 1:07:46 PM Actually Dan, the great majority of fossils do not represent "air breathers" Mos.....
» 1/07/2010 1:20:12 PM Oh I never realised that Russians had such trouble building houses and using electricity. .....
» 1/07/2010 10:19:15 AM Oh, I came across this joke the other day: Q: How many conservative economists does it ta.....
» 1/07/2010 10:16:54 AM To use Hasbeens transport example, cars are useless without enabling technologies and infr.....
» 1/07/2010 1:41:40 AM "What I am trying to demonstrate is the inconsistency with which definitions are bein.....
» 1/07/2010 1:27:49 AM So Hasbeen, which private companies were involved in setting electricity generation and di.....
» 30/06/2010 8:34:44 PM Hasbeen, what a load of rot. Who funded the Space Program? taxpayers Who funded jet pro.....
» 30/06/2010 8:22:28 PM If an event is declared ‘miraculous’ it is because of its inexplicability Dan. Well, other.....
» 29/06/2010 11:54:26 AM Some wish for money, others wish for truth. There are plenty of other counterestablishmen.....
» 29/06/2010 11:19:15 AM Is it David vs Goliath? Or Cranks vs Reality? only time will tell...... Leastways, some.....
» 29/06/2010 7:46:48 AM Dan, singular events do not constitute miracles. Science explains things and miracles by d.....
» 27/06/2010 4:47:28 PM Dan, you seriously need logic lessons. I said that only Berlinski wrote that sentence. Ber.....
» 26/06/2010 12:55:25 PM And besides Severin, this topic was NOT "prompted by Pelican questioning the lack of .....
» 26/06/2010 12:45:24 PM Banjo "I don't recall ever being asked about overseas students." Oh boohoo. &qu.....
» 26/06/2010 11:54:20 AM Game of rounders indeed, Severin. You still have not specified what parts of the standard .....
» 26/06/2010 9:57:21 AM Severin, Believe it or not I understand the peanuts example is merely an example. What I .....
» 26/06/2010 1:00:03 AM Dan, The only person who seems to have written that 'biologist' quote within the Berlinski.....
» 26/06/2010 12:09:01 AM Some time in the last 15 years or so, Banjo. At the time, there was a paradigm that univer.....
» 25/06/2010 11:17:34 PM Hazza, it's impractical to label foods with a lack of known allergen components. Peanut g.....
» 25/06/2010 4:39:25 PM And perhaps, all apples should be sold with "does not contain peanuts" stickers .....
» 25/06/2010 3:46:35 PM What sort of labelling would be approriate for what exactly Hazza? Peanut genes are not u.....
» 25/06/2010 11:28:30 AM Severin, why is the current labeling standard not sufficient? Also, I have to correct you.....
» 24/06/2010 5:05:08 PM As I mentioned earlier Hazza, I am fine with the labeling requirements as they stand. They.....
» 23/06/2010 10:56:45 PM So, Hazza, you aren't actually arguing for any changes to current policy? Fine by me. I h.....
» 23/06/2010 6:56:45 PM In the interests of moving this love fest along a bit, what GM labeling would people be se.....
» 23/06/2010 8:33:17 AM Dan, while evolution can enable an atheist to become 'intellectually fulfilled' (to use Da.....
» 22/06/2010 3:56:49 PM Actually Dan, they don't contradict at all. Those two statements are compatible. Unless y.....
» 22/06/2010 1:36:29 PM You can calm down there Hazza, pelicans main point on state-investor dispute processes has.....
» 22/06/2010 7:22:54 AM Amazingly enough I agree pelican. It is not arrogant to simply say "no, I don't think.....
» 21/06/2010 9:47:38 PM Yeah, I just took proper read of your second link pelican. I would support the submission .....
» 21/06/2010 9:21:15 PM Yes, pelican, it is all about market access. It has nothing to do with anything else reall.....
» 21/06/2010 8:53:27 PM Pericles: "I was hoping you could point me towards a form of peer-reviewed, science-.....
» 21/06/2010 4:22:38 PM Severin, it all comes down to what sort of labeling requirement should there be? If you d.....
» 21/06/2010 11:24:14 AM On the surface, I would agree pelican, severin and foxy. Consumers should have a right to.....
» 16/06/2010 11:38:50 AM Spindoc, it would help if you actually read the documents these 'journalists' report on. I.....
» 15/06/2010 8:35:14 PM Meh, what's to discuss? It's all been done before. Hey, I can write a research paper and .....
» 15/06/2010 1:49:12 PM Yep, someone with half a brain certainly does......
» 15/06/2010 11:58:01 AM But of course Dan, you should be able to interpret them as to make them consistent with an.....
» 10/06/2010 11:56:59 PM Dan, I can only tell that you don't understand from what you write yourself. Good ideas .....
» 3/06/2010 8:36:21 PM Actually Dan, phylogenomics is being used to annotate and predict protein functions by the.....
» 3/06/2010 12:25:39 PM I for one am curious as to exactly how a belief in six-day creation gets you to the moon. .....
» 31/05/2010 12:24:14 PM Yeah, Dan I was bored. Ok, how about phylogenomics? http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/i.....
» 29/05/2010 11:13:36 PM Oh Dan, I don't think ID is dead 'as a movement'. I never thought it was dead in popular c.....
» 28/05/2010 9:55:20 AM It's like KFC, except this time it's Greek......
» 25/05/2010 8:58:43 PM Dan, that's it, argue the sidelines? I expected some argument on the direct attack at the .....
» 24/05/2010 9:27:20 PM If however, a 'heads' result was to slightly improve the chances of the next toss coming u.....
» 24/05/2010 9:19:28 PM Actually Dan, while some of those looking on don't believe that ID is dead, it is for the .....
» 19/05/2010 10:18:03 AM If Yin is paying $280 a week in rent, then her expectations are definitely too high. And .....
» 15/05/2010 11:44:57 PM Those two sets are not mutually exclusive david f........
» 14/05/2010 11:39:49 AM Andrew, now that you've posted this, you might want to buy a dog, and perhaps some curtain.....
» 10/05/2010 9:29:05 PM Oh spindoc, what convincing narrative, if only it were true. I think you will find that t.....
» 9/05/2010 8:02:12 PM No spindoc and rpg, it is you who are 'out of your depth' in scientific issues generally. .....
» 9/05/2010 5:45:57 PM Actually spindoc, only the gridded data is available from the CRU. The raw data can be gat.....
» 9/05/2010 5:03:05 PM So tell me then, rpg, what does it mean when several independent researchers process the s.....
» 9/05/2010 2:46:40 PM Actually spindoc, this 'debate' we are now havingis as much about the misinterpretation an.....
» 8/05/2010 12:31:38 PM Oh, the BBC transcipt, not the one 'under oath and legal advice before the UK Parliamentar.....
» 8/05/2010 12:22:38 PM This is a joke right? Where's the statements contradictory to warming? Where's the statem.....
» 7/05/2010 4:58:52 PM Perhaps you would be so kind as to provide a link to the transcript you have apparently re.....
» 7/05/2010 11:59:52 AM Ok spindoc, here's one bloggers partial transcript of the hearing: http://www.guardian.co.....
» 6/05/2010 8:33:00 PM This might seem a little confusing to you Raredog, but the data itself actually dictates w.....
» 4/05/2010 9:59:51 PM Oh and malrob, if you truly understand what is involved in periods of mass extinction/spec.....
» 4/05/2010 9:55:04 PM Mark, Lockwood doesn't "allege" that the effects of changing solar activity (mag.....
» 4/05/2010 1:59:45 PM Actually heres the abstract to "Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate fo.....
» 3/05/2010 7:25:14 PM I thought we were talking about Iran?.....
» 3/05/2010 7:05:19 PM Mark, I don't understand why "something is seriously wrong with the whole theory and .....
» 3/05/2010 4:51:28 PM Actually Graham, while qanda did say that the SRES should be updated, I don't think there .....
» 3/05/2010 12:18:57 PM Mark, what they also say, and what you are not saying, is that CO2 concentrations can driv.....
» 3/05/2010 12:02:37 PM Actually Graham, before we start wandering off on flights of fancy about how all the input.....
» 30/04/2010 11:38:32 PM Oh dear, oh dear, Mark is at it again. Reading abstracts and pretending to understand the .....
» 25/04/2010 8:31:01 PM And when I talk about science PhDs, I do mean the likes of Marohasy, who has a PhD in iden.....
» 25/04/2010 7:57:02 PM Loudmouth, "Yes, from memory Prof. Jones cited a figure of 0.07 degrees C, at the 95.....
» 25/04/2010 4:30:31 PM I'd start by learning the difference between "significant/ significance" as it i.....
» 23/04/2010 9:09:33 PM Only the Americans can lose 3 times more than their annual budget. The US defence budget i.....
» 16/04/2010 1:28:58 PM JP, I think you really need to understand the difference between a belief and a hypothesi.....
» 12/04/2010 8:49:06 PM Ah, I see. I guess if you're one of those working in unrelated disciplines such as philos.....
» 12/04/2010 5:55:45 PM Mark, that in a nutshell is the argument against the likes of Jennifer Marohasy, Bob Carte.....
» 26/03/2010 11:17:16 AM Actually, labia is the plural of labium......
» 22/03/2010 9:07:35 PM Graham, while most of what you say is blindingly obvious and trivial (ie socialists are no.....
» 20/03/2010 2:30:14 PM Well Graham, Stalin was also a non-Fascist, and I am fairly sure so are you. Pol Pot, Mao,.....
» 17/02/2010 2:17:41 PM Touché , pericles. I used to complain that I had no shoes, until I met a man from NSW......
» 17/02/2010 12:24:38 PM If Stalin was born in Australia, is this what he would sound like? I'm sure he would agree.....
» 25/01/2010 8:25:27 AM I think that you are being a bit precious here Graham. You may blame that headline on an e.....
» 24/01/2010 4:54:12 PM Graham, you mustn't be googling exactly what Q&A suggested, here's a tip:leave in the quot.....
» 21/01/2010 10:51:26 PM Q&A, you had better retract any accusation that Graham wants you to, the last person I saw.....
» 20/01/2010 1:00:51 PM Loudmouth, warm water rises and cold water sinks, why would that be? Yes, I do think you .....
» 15/01/2010 11:43:51 AM I don't know what Vostock temperature graphs you are looking at Graham, but the CO2 peaks .....
» 12/01/2010 2:44:08 PM Tp perform 75,000 abortions you would have to do 10 a day for more than 20 years, not stop.....
» 10/01/2010 10:40:51 PM Herman, don't you mean the the multivariate adjusted case-control odds ratios among women .....
» 10/01/2010 9:58:25 PM The problem with religion in general is the narrative. It's a problem with people and hist.....
» 16/12/2009 9:25:43 PM What do you mean 'surprisingly reluctant to give details'? What sort of details do you wan.....
» 16/12/2009 5:21:33 PM Dallas, Inigo Jones was only ever published specifically, rather than widely, i.e. specifi.....
» 15/12/2009 10:55:47 PM I like real science discussions. It would save a lot of time and bandwidth time though, if.....
» 15/12/2009 9:36:24 PM Graham, all the LNP needs to do, was all they needed to do in the last election and the 'c.....
» 15/12/2009 5:29:15 PM Actually Dallas, he didn't predict the current warming at all. Not even close. I happen t.....
» 14/12/2009 1:02:32 PM Perhaps not having a definite or definable culture is a preferable state of affairs. I o.....
» 13/12/2009 10:47:18 PM Actually examinator, these clowns don't and cannot decide the validity of scientific issue.....
» 13/12/2009 8:07:48 PM Did he indeed? How about backing that up with some sauce? Got a list of Jones' forecasts .....
» 13/12/2009 5:47:46 PM Yeah, I hate the bit where they ask you for your address and how much you earned, for some.....
» 13/12/2009 4:55:51 PM Dallas, Inigo Owen Jones is a dead meteorologist......
» 13/12/2009 4:51:59 PM Horus, that neither you nor I can estimate the CO2 exhalation rates of volcanoes, does not.....
» 13/12/2009 4:40:48 PM Graham, I don't have to put a knife into Plimer, he does a great job of that himself. The.....
» 12/12/2009 9:58:40 PM I think that is an exceptionally generous interpretation of the exchange there Graham, but.....
» 12/12/2009 10:07:50 AM Wow, Horus, CO2 a greenhouse gas, who'd a thunk it? As far as I know, corn isn't grown in.....
» 11/12/2009 9:59:54 AM Of course they're estimates Horus, but they are estimates made by multiple different agenc.....
» 11/12/2009 9:13:46 AM Come on Col, is it Socialism or Capitalism at work here?.....
» 10/12/2009 9:13:15 PM Horus, we don't rubbish people merely because their views are 'unorthodox'. Einsteins theo.....
» 10/12/2009 12:27:49 PM I am now confused Col, is it Socialism or "imaginative Capitalism" that's going .....
» 10/12/2009 11:06:01 AM Yes, I can see that's your attitude Leigh......
» 10/12/2009 11:01:46 AM This seems to me to be more about the NYT than about anything else. If a news item is not.....
» 10/12/2009 9:49:59 AM Ok steven, now you're the humorless one. Quoting half a joke isn't even half as funny. Why.....
» 9/12/2009 8:56:40 PM Why would you think that the Lucas Heights reactor never made sense steven? It wasn't buil.....
» 9/12/2009 7:28:49 PM You're only off by two orders of magnitude Leigh, Australia produces at least 1.3% of tota.....
» 8/11/2009 1:11:56 PM Seano, your argument and example would only hold true if the reaction times for both the c.....
» 7/11/2009 9:56:34 PM Teach science students incorrect use of computer equipment? Don’t be so dramatic Seano, yo.....
» 6/11/2009 10:39:56 PM It's called "proxy" Seano, and now I'm not surprised they told you to go away, I.....
» 6/11/2009 8:59:31 PM Well you sure showed me Seano, it looks like Edith Cowan Uni does not have an Office of th.....
» 5/11/2009 9:21:03 PM Yep, I 'd have to agree seano, that year was wasted. You did a first year subject that h.....
» 5/11/2009 7:34:41 PM Actually vanna, if you really meant that universities have little to no connection with YO.....
» 4/11/2009 9:56:32 AM Oh no, it's bad enough having the 'sex talk,' I can only imagine that we would now have to.....
» 3/11/2009 8:37:30 PM Bernie, if you are going to play link wars, it helps to read what you are linking to. That.....
» 3/11/2009 7:50:30 AM "It is known that in some hospitals and uni's that one can't ask for a black coffee, .....
» 2/11/2009 10:38:18 PM Sorry if my post came across as aggressive Bernie, my reaction to unadulterated BS tends t.....
» 2/11/2009 12:58:30 PM Methane is odourless, philo. And I'm not so sure that all the bege objections are due to .....
» 2/11/2009 11:56:21 AM That's BS Bernie, increasing insect resistance to DDT was responsible for its reduced use......
» 19/10/2009 10:23:16 PM I have also heard the 'evolutionary argument' in that if we allow gays to marry then they'.....
» 19/10/2009 9:41:12 PM Fractelle, Graham is of course right, I don't see him engaging ad hominems very often, if.....
» 17/10/2009 6:56:09 PM You forgot to mention having as many accounts as you want and being able to defame AGW pro.....
» 16/10/2009 2:08:08 PM I find that Sobottka is inadequate in that he fails to address the Solanaceaen-Equine juxt.....
» 15/10/2009 10:39:40 PM Yeah, I didn't really expect much of a response Graham. At least I got what I expected......
» 15/10/2009 7:14:07 PM Ah, I thought so......
» 15/10/2009 3:49:05 PM Oh dear Mark, I guess someone forgot to send the memo to the entomologists. An interesting.....
» 15/10/2009 12:18:00 PM You know, if tomatoes were horses, we'd all be having pumpkins for breakfast......
» 14/10/2009 9:29:11 PM I didn't miss any point you were making Mark, I understand everything you are saying. Call.....
» 14/10/2009 2:55:31 PM Mark, I think the filmmakers (and your) use of DDT as an example of environmental hysteria.....
» 13/10/2009 3:27:18 PM Question: Is it more defaming for a scientist to be accused of being associated with the t.....
» 13/10/2009 11:35:56 AM Wow, I haven't seen such obvious censorship in quite a while Graham. Are you afraid of li.....
» 7/10/2009 4:24:12 PM And the increasing salt concentration of the lakes as they evaporate and are replenished w.....
» 7/10/2009 3:32:55 PM Clownfish, they are still finding DDT in Antarctic penguins despite a fairly widespread ba.....
» 7/10/2009 1:39:14 PM Oh dear, it's like having your favourite meal thrown up on the table in front of you at a .....
» 7/10/2009 12:00:23 PM Don't forget about the marijuana OUG, you bred that as well. How's that going BTW? I see .....
» 7/10/2009 11:48:24 AM I'm betting it was the Hurry Curry, examinator......
» 6/10/2009 8:08:11 PM Yeah, I really didn't expect anything much more. Thanks for delivering. I guess even hig.....
» 6/10/2009 4:32:12 PM Through genetic variation, mutation and natural selection. Depending on the selection pres.....
» 6/10/2009 2:24:13 PM Wow, Fascism, Nazism, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Auschwitz, Blackshirts, brownshirts, Orwell, Ec.....
» 6/10/2009 2:10:21 PM What is it exactly you want out this 'discussion' StG? Did you want an actual answer to s.....
» 6/10/2009 12:44:54 PM Feel the breeze from my Divine Wind Morgan......
» 6/10/2009 11:50:04 AM Maybe we could teach Japanese history instead of scripture in public schools?.....
» 6/10/2009 11:00:09 AM StG, you obviously haven't been reading some of the conversations lately. Not everything .....
» 6/10/2009 10:15:28 AM Monogamous unions are not against evolution as a "philosophical concept". Evolut.....
» 5/10/2009 2:48:59 PM A 'genus' is a taxonomic classification that is determined by taxonomists. If you want t.....
» 5/10/2009 12:28:23 PM <<see how now many fatal genes..from the past are NOW..allowed expression/via 'survi.....
» 5/10/2009 11:12:23 AM Then your primary school taught very bad grammar. And they say the standards of education.....
» 5/10/2009 10:34:12 AM "you must face the alternative ... we must drastically reduce the human population!&q.....
» 5/10/2009 9:59:50 AM Steven, it may well be possible for terroists to design their own drones and "WPDs&qu.....
» 5/10/2009 9:49:09 AM Actually AJ, (and Grim maybe) I am a bit with examinator on this one, human evolution has.....
» 3/10/2009 8:24:19 AM Oh steven, I'm glad that even though you find me humourless, you still manage to LOL. I a.....
» 3/10/2009 12:21:25 AM You can always tell when Johan's been smokin' again......
» 2/10/2009 11:48:34 PM "you must face the alternative ... we must drastically reduce the human population!&q.....
» 2/10/2009 5:55:02 PM Hey if you want to talk about science fiction, that's fine. Really. But don't pretend it i.....
» 30/09/2009 1:41:47 PM As I understand it, Prof Reiters main point of contention is that simplistic disease epide.....
» 30/09/2009 12:41:19 PM Now I know you don't read the articles Mark, or perhaps filter them heavily through your c.....
» 30/09/2009 11:33:22 AM I am glad that you have mentioned epigenetics and regulation networks, because I was about.....
» 29/09/2009 5:28:57 PM Thanks for the history lesson Mark, I did not know you studied vector entomology as well. .....
» 29/09/2009 11:37:41 AM Oh right, warmer temperatures are good for plants but not for insects? Nice one Mark......
» 29/09/2009 9:34:08 AM Wow Graham where did you drag this little bit of information up? <<We live in CO2 c.....
» 29/09/2009 8:06:11 AM Actually steven, I think it's just you I think who is wasting their time on useless predic.....
» 28/09/2009 10:25:46 PM Steven, no pursuit of knowledge conducted in a scientific manner is a waste of time. Of .....
» 28/09/2009 1:11:25 PM Quite frankly Mark, it's very difficult to take you seriously when you selectively quote f.....
» 28/09/2009 12:55:42 PM There are more than just a few confounding factors rstuart. I could summarise yours and .....
» 28/09/2009 11:01:45 AM rstuart, it situation is much more complex than it appears. Every now and then there appea.....
» 27/09/2009 11:39:59 PM Assortative mating may occur and be quite widespread, however non-random mating really onl.....
» 27/09/2009 9:39:19 PM But Steven, your forays into the wonderful world of evolutionary genetics are terribly fla.....
» 27/09/2009 8:10:14 AM If you really believe that there should be more funding for climate research Graham, then .....
» 26/09/2009 5:25:22 PM If I read you right Graham, are both you and Mark arguing that there is evidence for green.....
» 26/09/2009 1:20:36 AM If atheism is doomed because they don't have as many children, then why are there so many .....
» 26/09/2009 12:22:18 AM Oh dear, not again. I really wish some journalists would give up trying to "do scienc.....
» 18/09/2009 10:48:00 AM Prepare for bitter disappointment........
» 14/09/2009 8:18:52 PM Oh yeah, I'm feelin' the love from here. Outta da way feminazis, the March of the Red So.....
» 10/09/2009 1:39:21 PM Snide, Martin? Hardly. What's it to you anyway? Perhaps all the dads out there are just s.....
» 10/09/2009 10:35:32 AM There goes another one. wierd......
» 7/09/2009 11:28:28 PM The era of genomic medicine is upon us. At the moment you can get your genome sequenced fo.....
» 7/09/2009 12:48:07 PM Clownfish, that's only the muslim and pagan dolphins. The Christian ones don't do that sor.....
» 7/09/2009 9:50:10 AM I agree with the general thrust of the article in that no matter how big a loser you are, .....
» 7/09/2009 12:11:04 AM Might I also suggest that anyone with a broken fullstop ie. "." on their keyboar.....
» 29/08/2009 10:45:03 PM Well done Denny, first class effort. His casket isn't even in the ground yet and you pull .....
» 27/08/2009 11:14:22 PM While I'm not sure that the atmosphere's volume is constant, I will give slasher the benef.....
» 4/08/2009 3:51:53 PM Although, in Jackie O's defence, she is a vegetarian......
» 4/08/2009 10:12:21 AM Yeah, thanks for saving us all from the horrible clutches of Kyle Sandilands. I'm glad yo.....
» 23/07/2009 9:23:47 PM Really Madeleine? You think that proving something unsafe and proving something safe are s.....
» 22/07/2009 10:10:13 AM Actually pelican, lack of peer review seems to be a motif of the anti-GM campaigns. More o.....
» 17/07/2009 11:57:08 PM I think we just found one of those NRL CEO high fliers Antiseptic was talking about......
» 17/07/2009 11:37:29 AM Greg, what exactly do you mean by "clean and green"? As a proponent of organic f.....
» 13/07/2009 11:00:40 AM Some intellectual sleight of hand here, when Kellie actually mentions the guideline value .....
» 8/07/2009 2:50:43 PM The most ironic thing about this article is the author describing what she finds ironic, w.....
» 7/07/2009 3:46:36 PM Max, I added the "....." to indicate the rest had been chopped, as I really don'.....
» 7/07/2009 2:26:10 PM Max, your statement "no intelligent person accepts statistics as anything more than .....
» 7/07/2009 12:54:30 PM You did read the explanatory footnotes at the bottom didn't you Anti? "(b) Data cell.....
» 7/07/2009 9:14:59 AM Max, I'm betting you are just embarrassed because you posted a google site history word se.....
» 25/06/2009 11:13:57 AM History hardly ever laughs. It ususally weeps......
» 24/06/2009 11:58:52 PM About some of these 'facts', Graham, I am trying to reconcile a few of these that seem to .....
» 24/06/2009 10:35:02 PM I agree with this article. But I would go further though, you could take out the word ‘cl.....
» 21/06/2009 6:27:05 PM I'd say that would be right Jayb. In your opinion, does your little exercise add or redu.....
» 21/06/2009 4:28:00 PM The solution to Global Warming Jayb? You mean this article?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/s.....
» 18/06/2009 2:20:19 PM What if it's not the brakes doing what Bazz? You can call the mechanic a liar and accuse .....
» 18/06/2009 10:35:43 AM The logic I see runs like this: Your mechanic comes to you and says, we just checked and .....
» 17/06/2009 1:13:22 PM If you are really serious about that Antonios, I would suggest that you contact the NTEU a.....
» 16/06/2009 6:34:52 PM I would have to heartily agree Pericles, and also give thanks to CJ for that report link. .....
» 16/06/2009 5:07:35 PM Ok agreed, let's not separate higher education and vocational training then. I realise tha.....
» 16/06/2009 3:56:18 PM The month on month data? Man, you must have been positively wetting yourself in 2000. By .....
» 16/06/2009 2:39:00 PM I think you've confused higher education with high school, Max......
» 16/06/2009 12:19:44 PM professor and Banjo, I think it a mistake to equate higher education to what is happening.....
» 15/06/2009 5:08:52 PM Actually spindoc, I think you had better reread that post by Q&A. The first quote you are.....
» 14/06/2009 10:51:44 PM With all due respect to Antony Flew, I don't think he knew much more about what has happen.....
» 14/06/2009 10:42:44 PM <<Somehow it does not seem right that we poach skilled workers from countries that n.....
» 14/06/2009 10:42:15 PM Banjo, <<Thanks for your info. >> You’re welcome << I doubt I would g.....
» 14/06/2009 10:06:25 PM I don't think it's me who has misread the graph Mark. Yes, I'll admit that when you start .....
» 14/06/2009 5:39:11 PM <<Why do not the foreign students get their education in their own countries?>>.....
» 14/06/2009 5:37:17 PM Reasonable questions Banjo. People should take the time to ask and understand. <<I.....
» 12/06/2009 11:31:15 PM TL;DR The copypasta might have had more impact if you hadn't mentioned Hitler. Dasvidani.....
» 12/06/2009 8:55:32 PM Oh, now I can see why American criminology in the 1980s is more relevant to climatology th.....
» 12/06/2009 2:52:05 PM Mark, in your rush to decry my ‘case’ as weak, it appears that you have failed to notice t.....
» 12/06/2009 1:35:15 PM Actually Trav, the more accurate analogy would be: you asked to ten people who had been lo.....
» 11/06/2009 8:46:08 PM I don’t wish to be adversarial here Mark, but the fact that you had to have a simple high-.....
» 11/06/2009 2:37:54 PM I agree that you seem to have not understood Ozandy's point Curmudgeon. The ice in the gl.....
» 11/06/2009 1:50:06 PM I must say Cheryl, you do make a very compelling argument for culling......
» 10/06/2009 8:41:47 PM "Incredibly patronizing", ha ha, good one Pericles......
» 6/06/2009 11:28:13 AM Yes, now I guess I am just being silly only contemplating the next few millennia......
» 5/06/2009 11:13:54 PM <<And yes, Bugsy, "equilibrium" is not a steady state, but fluctuates in l.....
» 5/06/2009 10:54:55 AM To be totally honest, Pericles, it doesn’t really appear to be the democratic, caring, wel.....
» 4/06/2009 9:35:36 PM Thank you Pericles, that means more to me than you know. Yes you did protest my answering.....
» 3/06/2009 9:35:12 PM Yes Pericles, I scoff. I agree that it is probably not possible to calculate an "opt.....
» 2/06/2009 3:19:34 PM Actually Pericles, you and I both know that you won't get a consistent answer from asking .....
» 1/06/2009 1:26:55 PM Sorry, I forgot to add the obligatory "to me"......
» 1/06/2009 1:26:16 PM I find much more meaning and useful information in scatology than I do in eschatology. Alt.....
» 1/06/2009 10:16:12 AM Come on Pericles, this is getting a bot rhetorical even or you. Future generations do not.....
» 28/05/2009 11:42:22 AM The shot was not at you examinator, and was intended to be as cheap as possible. If we we.....
» 28/05/2009 8:00:25 AM It's very clear in their constitution as to what constitutes the eligibility of a member, .....
» 28/05/2009 12:10:38 AM Yeah whatever, you Hasbeen, whatever......
» 28/05/2009 12:06:28 AM Did you read the article and their constitution EasyTimes? You know, the one they adopted .....
» 28/05/2009 12:04:19 AM You know, following your lead, I had a thought that maybe my next forum moniker should be .....
» 27/05/2009 11:07:32 PM Dude, you are talking about a sports club that aligns itself with a religion. In fact, rel.....
» 27/05/2009 10:54:51 PM Well since A NON FARMER has put his arguments to me so well and so articulately, I bow in .....
» 26/05/2009 10:11:06 PM We are human......
» 26/05/2009 10:07:48 PM Actually, I am interested in finding out why you are actually here ANF. Your current behav.....
» 25/05/2009 5:05:29 PM If it upsets you so much, why are you here?.....
» 25/05/2009 3:36:50 PM What, exactly, "isn't too difficult"?. That's a lot of words with no great sense.....
» 25/05/2009 1:52:14 PM I have read more widely Forrest, that's why I said it......
» 25/05/2009 1:49:08 PM It may be even more than 80 billion Trav: http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH.....
» 25/05/2009 7:34:01 AM Gee, you sure know how to spit a dummy......
» 18/05/2009 9:44:48 PM Back under your bridge, big guy......
» 17/05/2009 7:35:57 PM No answers yet again, I can't say I'm surprised. What sort of juvenile is so desperate to.....
» 16/05/2009 7:14:11 AM Actually, I would have thought the more likely link would have been between paedophilia an.....
» 15/05/2009 10:12:36 PM So, which is it? A pathology or a choice? You seem to be burning the candle at both ends .....
» 14/05/2009 10:56:17 PM "Particular factor" is a point you seemed to have missed. There could be many fa.....
» 14/05/2009 9:45:20 PM False dichotomy. There's more to biology and development than genes and 'choice'. Thalid.....
» 14/05/2009 9:22:05 AM The saddest thing I have heard about these things is the reaction of the NRL in 'education.....
» 13/05/2009 10:00:47 PM You know, you really should engage with the issues more KMB......
» 13/05/2009 7:19:09 PM Expectations are very often correlated with standards, KMB. Assisted breathing is still b.....
» 13/05/2009 5:42:32 PM Humans also tend to breathe, does a foetus breathe? Humans also tend to be defined as sepa.....
» 12/05/2009 4:44:57 PM See how easy it is for you to rationalise the evidence away? It's just statistics. ".....
» 12/05/2009 11:22:42 AM Hasbeen, medical science is not bull sh1t. In fact, I suspect you will be relying on it .....
» 12/05/2009 11:05:27 AM Nicotine by itself depresses the immune system leaving you more vulnerable to infections (.....
» 12/05/2009 11:04:15 AM Hey Max, I think it’s time to get down off your soapbox man. I really don't think you wo.....
» 3/05/2009 8:05:11 AM Yes, when people can't be bothered to respond to a thread anymore, you win. That's the way.....
» 2/05/2009 9:12:54 AM See, this is why we can't have nice things. You may want to take your own advice sometime.....
» 2/05/2009 6:54:53 AM Yeah that's right, you're the only ethical one around here. Everyone else is hiding behind.....
» 2/05/2009 6:18:51 AM Do you also give quotes with your advice Anti?.....
» 1/05/2009 1:39:21 PM The fact is we agree antiseptic, seeking a qualified opinion is paramount. But the thing i.....
» 1/05/2009 9:06:36 AM Not at all Antiseptic. If there is that much wrong with the property, then it is quite pos.....
» 1/05/2009 1:04:04 AM BTW, Trav, do you know the meaning of the word, moot?.....
» 1/05/2009 12:57:56 AM Oliver, I must admit, your penchant for relating exceptionally complex ideas in an idiosyn.....
» 30/04/2009 11:23:08 PM Yeah but its funnier if you let Microsoft make the suggestive jokes for you......
» 30/04/2009 11:19:51 PM No conundrum really, the best course of action is of course to advise the potential neighb.....
» 30/04/2009 11:08:43 PM Question answered.....
» 28/04/2009 10:25:59 AM At the risk of being drawn into a prolonged discussion.. KMB, C has not been "thoro.....
» 23/04/2009 4:44:47 PM Yeah, I'm learning nothing of use or interest here, I think we'll leave it at that relda. .....
» 23/04/2009 7:52:08 AM The short answer: Yes, but not entirely, as in the case of all human opinions captured in .....
» 22/04/2009 10:04:57 PM Look harder Horus. http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2702#60749.....
» 22/04/2009 8:49:22 PM relda:"Paradoxically, the more individualistic a people, the less varied its culture......
» 22/04/2009 1:58:27 PM I'm with pericles, I don't get it either relda. And don't tell me again it;s because I can.....
» 22/04/2009 8:07:41 AM The Gold Standard is done, it will not return. Seriously, as of 2001, the estimated amount.....
» 21/04/2009 5:14:26 PM Leigh, let me try to understand this. Able bodied men that should be working to support th.....
» 21/04/2009 2:54:53 PM relda, Do we get to have a definition of cultural 'variation'? Do we get to have any data.....
» 20/04/2009 4:57:53 PM To be fair, CJ, Leigh says he see things in shades of grey, when in fact the world is mult.....
» 15/04/2009 12:50:59 PM It's true Pericles, you don't have to have be religious to be an uptighty righty. Now, wh.....
» 13/04/2009 5:39:04 PM Calculating the odds is pure conjecture KMB, because you use very dodgy data to arrive at .....
» 11/04/2009 12:34:15 PM Come on Graham, you make it sound like I go around sneering at Christians, just because th.....
» 11/04/2009 10:24:14 AM But Graham, Christians cherry-pick the superseded testament to pick on homosexuals don't t.....
» 11/04/2009 9:21:38 AM I can't believe someone was stupid enough to think that you could prove anything by sticki.....
» 10/04/2009 12:51:35 AM Glorfindel, I don't think you understand Solzhenitsyn either. Isn't it nice to be able to.....
» 10/04/2009 12:17:47 AM Actually, just because I realised this was a book review, I wouldn't bother reading anythi.....
» 9/04/2009 10:14:32 PM Ok Graham, you described yourself as an atheist, whatever. The truth is you (alongside ev.....
» 6/04/2009 11:21:19 AM “The task of the church is to be the irrefutable demonstration and proof of the fact that .....
» 4/04/2009 4:57:28 PM It was probably just after you dropped out of high school Richie......
» 27/03/2009 2:44:25 PM Actually James, I don't think I will. I prefer to laugh at what a monumental waste of tim.....
» 27/03/2009 12:54:47 AM Awww, Hasbeen, isn't that nice? Enjoy your retirement old timer. I for one do not remote.....
» 26/03/2009 8:56:03 PM The elections were rigged? How did you do James? You didn't even get your deposit back did.....
» 25/03/2009 10:23:42 PM And here was I thinking that all the dinosaurs died millions of years ago. Your nom de pl.....
» 25/03/2009 3:43:04 PM O Shite indeed, Daviy......
» 24/03/2009 2:22:49 PM It could have been worse Pericles, they could have named her Gigli......
» 24/03/2009 1:33:53 PM You obviously weren't in Sydney just before the invasion DD. http://www.guardian.co.uk/wo.....
» 10/03/2009 10:53:40 PM Why would we not want chlorine or chloramine in our water, Dallas? If we deliberately put .....
» 10/03/2009 2:17:23 PM Hasbeen, one word for you: SALT Seawater is not as "clean" as you seem to think.....
» 2/03/2009 2:02:47 PM Controversy surrounds the reasons behind many historical events inlcuding 9/11 and the Lus.....
» 26/02/2009 11:43:50 PM I can't believe you w@nkers are still at it. Obsessed much?.....
» 26/02/2009 9:58:15 AM Gotcha. Can't win, don't try. -Bart Simpson.....
» 26/02/2009 9:06:24 AM I did not take anything personally Fractelle, I understand you were not calling me jaded, .....
» 25/02/2009 3:59:49 PM G'day socky, we missed ya......
» 25/02/2009 1:56:23 PM WOW, thems some controversial facts. No wonder Christians need to know them......
» 25/02/2009 7:41:36 AM Fractelle, I get the feeling that your comment about viruses was meant for more than mere .....
» 24/02/2009 10:36:31 PM "biblical facts"? Are you sure you're not a Christian?.....
» 24/02/2009 10:32:31 PM But that's just it Yabby, we only have a window of a little over 20 years to pass on our D.....
» 24/02/2009 9:59:46 AM But Col, that is precisely what ageing is: a disruption of the natural processes of renewa.....
» 24/02/2009 7:38:49 AM Ageing is a disease. It is a consequence of evolutionary trade-off of oxidative respiratio.....
» 24/02/2009 7:21:52 AM Maybe we shouldn't bother researching cures to disease at all. After all, they are natural.....
» 21/02/2009 9:27:20 AM While there doesn't seem too much support for this idea, I quite like it. I don't expect t.....
» 21/02/2009 8:59:54 AM There you go again, Dan. Either completely misunderstanding what is written or deliberatel.....
» 19/02/2009 8:29:24 PM "Natural history will always be debated and, unfortunately for certain empiricists, w.....
» 19/02/2009 3:40:45 PM Since when have you ever listened to Professors, runner?.....
» 18/02/2009 7:43:23 AM Runner, when you put up a reference, especially something like: "Life and Letters of .....
» 14/02/2009 1:24:55 AM Oh wow Oto, the Old Testament might be made up of parables? That totally blows my mind. Wh.....
» 13/02/2009 10:59:51 PM I thank you Daviy for providing an excellent example of what I was writing about. As an 'a.....
» 13/02/2009 11:12:54 AM One persons cynicism is another persons realism. The thing about cynicism is that as an a.....
» 12/02/2009 8:39:54 PM I think the author and most of his respondents have demonstrated a distinct lack of unders.....
» 3/02/2009 10:16:07 AM keith, you're an odd fellow that appears to keep like-minded company......
» 2/02/2009 9:25:46 PM It's funny that you mention bumblebees Col, because that old stupidity about them not bein.....
» 1/02/2009 9:47:18 PM But Otokonoko, the reality of the situation is that positing god as the basis things not u.....
» 1/02/2009 12:53:55 PM I am surprised that nobody has pointed out to Graham that stochastic models don't work on .....
» 31/01/2009 9:54:56 PM Christianity is a lie and you are not a lawyer, Boazy......
» 31/01/2009 12:56:29 PM Christianity is a lie.....
» 7/01/2009 11:21:47 AM Michael Crichton also wrote about alien viruses destroying an American town and geneticall.....
» 5/01/2009 12:48:12 PM Would you say that Dave's approval seeking was a) like the purring of an overfed cat or b.....
» 4/01/2009 9:29:46 PM Personally, I quite liked the slavery-instant coffee simile......
» 4/01/2009 7:35:29 PM Yes Bronwyn, I actually agree with those Indian farmers. GM crops should be much cheaper .....
» 1/01/2009 2:18:04 AM My resolution for 2009..... It's one I have started early.... I will not bother respondi.....
» 25/12/2008 12:16:19 AM I'll comment Polyboazy, even though I'm only 3rd on your list :( I feel sad for these peo.....
» 25/12/2008 12:00:06 AM Yes CJ, henceforth don't ever refer to them as Islamophobic, OK? There's some irrationali.....
» 24/12/2008 9:10:44 PM It may seem to you (and ‘your mob’) that I am some sort of Islamic apologist because I don.....
» 24/12/2008 9:08:49 PM Oh Boazy, you old curmudgeon. I know you made a dill of yourself, that was obvious for any.....
» 24/12/2008 8:19:30 PM ....and your sense of humour wan't what I expected it to be. So sorry, my mistake......
» 24/12/2008 11:35:53 AM Oh, how very troll Sir Colin......
» 24/12/2008 11:04:10 AM Yep, steven that's a biggy. I don't know how 'unexpected' it was, as scientists have been .....
» 24/12/2008 10:50:42 AM Yeah, what you are talking about there GZ is set theory as it pertains to legislation, not.....
» 24/12/2008 7:53:13 AM I gotta agree with this one Col and Sybil. Government meddling in the car industry is a r.....
» 24/12/2008 6:51:26 AM GZ, you're right, you shouldn't be pedantic. Torture as it pertains to human rights is re.....
» 23/12/2008 7:53:11 PM Seriously, you didn't read the article did you Polyboazy? If you did, then don't try the .....
» 23/12/2008 7:49:18 PM Change pastor with 'imam' and church for 'mosque' and then everyone can see what you are P.....
» 23/12/2008 4:09:02 PM If that's true philo, why does Polyboaz hate them so?.....
» 23/12/2008 2:54:08 PM Who can tell me which commentors did not even bother to read the article? (hint: last com.....
» 23/12/2008 10:24:27 AM No Boazy. Human Rights is far more than your right to criticise who you like. http://www.u.....
» 18/12/2008 12:02:14 PM Yes lillian, I looked at your website, that is one reason I find your whole line of argume.....
» 17/12/2008 4:16:01 PM lillian, I don't think that lack of funding in agricultural sciences has anything to do wi.....
» 16/12/2008 11:23:51 PM Why is natural selection a worry?.....
» 16/12/2008 8:38:49 PM Madeleine, I didn't think you were lillian, just that both of you were MADGE. lillian, I.....
» 16/12/2008 2:07:53 PM Does Theosophy count as religion? It certainly doesn't count as 'Darwinism'......
» 16/12/2008 11:39:48 AM I have usually given up commenting on these types of threads, but this intrigues me: lilli.....
» 15/12/2008 3:50:30 PM Ooooh, score a point for the Polymath! Pling! Deduct two for the lack of sense of irony.......
» 14/12/2008 12:53:09 AM Hey you kids, get off my lawn!.....
» 13/12/2008 7:56:19 PM Poly, I'm not sure who you mean by "us" but your accusation against 'secularists.....
» 12/12/2008 6:10:58 PM This has nothing to do with pornography Poly. This has to do with whipping poor gullible .....
» 12/12/2008 11:26:26 AM I am at a loss to understand what exactly you are arguing for now Gibo. Do you want more .....
» 12/12/2008 8:50:33 AM This crap has got to stop. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?.....
» 12/12/2008 7:40:45 AM They're called co-ops Poly. While I did find the thread somewhat interesting, this is 'imp.....
» 11/12/2008 8:41:20 PM The judge has obviously not heard of Rule #34 or spent much time on the internet. God hel.....
» 11/12/2008 3:09:42 PM To be fair Poly, yes it was a refreshing change to get off your Mozzie-bash mindset. But I.....
» 11/12/2008 12:29:15 PM Apparently building plans are being changed because of fear of paedophiles these days: htt.....
» 11/12/2008 7:48:34 AM "Important issues" Poly? Pull the other one, it doth have bells on. The premise.....
» 10/12/2008 3:01:01 PM Actually Col, I referring to Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, the Englishman. I think .....
» 10/12/2008 2:52:26 PM A Current Affair is often used as not much more than cheap advertising space tarted up as .....
» 10/12/2008 2:43:23 PM What's even more ridiculous is the ruling stating that "In my view, the magistrate .....
» 10/12/2008 8:25:12 AM Poly, your maths are off. 25% off a 300% markup is not 275%. If what they mean is that t.....
» 10/12/2008 8:09:58 AM Madness? This is SPARTAAAAAAAAA!.....
» 10/12/2008 12:19:09 AM If 'biological malfunction' (whatever that is) is not an excuse to pursue actively the des.....
» 10/12/2008 12:10:18 AM Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu François-Marie Arouet Oscar Wilde Carl Sagan Rob.....
» 7/12/2008 9:19:48 AM So Jayb, we are only going to confine ourselves to India? Even they don't make their cond.....
» 6/12/2008 7:26:54 PM For the record Col, I don't think you are 'heartless', quite the opposite in fact, which, .....
» 6/12/2008 1:07:02 PM Ok, let's try another tack. Answer yourself honestly: -Do you personally support the UN .....
» 6/12/2008 9:46:06 AM With all due respect Ludwig, you were the person that convinced me that a policy of sustai.....
» 6/12/2008 8:43:49 AM Ludwig, I'm surprised. You of all people I thought would have understood that you can hol.....
» 5/12/2008 7:22:57 PM The 'real world' Col? By all means, let's talk about the 'real world'. In the real world.....
» 5/12/2008 10:44:11 AM Has the world gone topsy-turvy? Polyboazycarp arguing for utilitarianism? No absolutes........
» 4/12/2008 8:52:15 PM So Col, you would override your immediate response by invoking your children, you also avo.....
» 4/12/2008 1:05:57 PM I take umbrage at the suggestion that because I don't advocate torture that I'm somehow &q.....
» 4/12/2008 10:28:49 AM How many "evil people" should be sacrificed to demonstrate the assumption?.....
» 4/12/2008 7:22:16 AM "Self righteous" Boaz? How ironic. You are using an "end justifies the mea.....
» 3/12/2008 4:11:38 PM "The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn int.....
» 3/12/2008 7:57:32 AM Steven, terrorist could easily use biological weapons. They already have. Remember the ant.....
» 29/11/2008 10:11:32 AM Who is Hugh Jackson?.....
» 28/11/2008 7:17:15 AM I agree with R0bert. To extend the metaphor, we are not getting off the bus because the de.....
» 27/11/2008 4:18:05 PM Actually, I think the seeking out of foreign passport holders fully supports the idea of a.....
» 27/11/2008 10:31:24 AM Why don't we wait for the news? Here's a question for you: what makes you think anyone on.....
» 26/11/2008 12:46:15 PM mjpb, I did say 'most'. There is a certain element of religion that relies almost complete.....
» 26/11/2008 12:00:22 PM A curious complaint from mjpb, but I think I see the root cause Ludwig. At the moment the.....
» 25/11/2008 9:18:39 PM Man, that thing must be BIG!.....
» 25/11/2008 8:21:44 PM And what's more, if God is the Universe, then it bestows a stochastic mercy upon all, beli.....
» 25/11/2008 11:25:20 AM I must confess, I did put Descartes before the hoarse. But Steven did try and exHume the .....
» 25/11/2008 10:04:15 AM Fiction is far easier to critique than reality. Nice book review......
» 25/11/2008 9:52:40 AM Religion is the product of an active imagination coupled with a distinct lack of originali.....
» 24/11/2008 10:54:12 PM katieO, the statement "if we can conceive of God, then he exists", is more suite.....
» 24/11/2008 8:18:38 PM Actually katieO, I think René Descartes would disagree with you. In fact, he already prov.....
» 24/11/2008 5:07:21 PM I'm still confused, when you say 'controlled', what does that mean exactly? So, are you s.....
» 24/11/2008 1:12:36 PM Yes davidf, as the Baron de Montesquieu once said, "If the triangles made a god, they.....
» 24/11/2008 1:07:40 PM There are some rather staggering numbers that are being bandied about, such as 90% of the .....
» 24/11/2008 12:09:48 PM I think this article epitomises the confusion and conflicting goals of feminism today. Bre.....
» 24/11/2008 11:19:48 AM To my mind, if God had all the properties attributed to it (omnipotence, ominscience, omni.....
» 24/11/2008 11:07:20 AM You can ramble on about wickedness and greed all you like, but one of that factors that I .....
» 24/11/2008 10:10:00 AM Completing the quote only reinforces the silliness Col (which is why I didn't bother). T.....
» 24/11/2008 8:33:02 AM I thought an Actuary was the one with the sense of humour, and the Auditor was the one wit.....
» 23/11/2008 10:17:33 AM Absolutely, I think I would have to agree with you Steven. Science as a career is risky an.....
» 23/11/2008 9:04:30 AM Who is more ignorant? Actually, I think it's the one who refuses to even bother trying to .....
» 22/11/2008 4:01:18 PM Col, I know the difference between an economist and an accountant. One has a personality. .....
» 22/11/2008 3:49:06 PM I subscribe to the "leaky pipeline" theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_.....
» 22/11/2008 3:27:32 PM Gee, food is being treated and traded like a common commodity? What sacrilege......
» 22/11/2008 12:15:19 AM It's a reasonable question and in the past I would certainly have have agreed with you. BU.....
» 21/11/2008 8:39:52 PM Ok OUG, a couple of points: Apart from the fact that your grasp of English seems to be at.....
» 21/11/2008 5:03:27 PM Well, hallelujah Poly, you just reinvented the wheel (evolutionarily speaking). The argume.....
» 21/11/2008 1:22:04 PM OUG, I can't help it if you can;t understand whatthey have written. From the Link: <&.....
» 21/11/2008 11:28:24 AM Speaking of probabilities, how did the ID crowd calculate them again? Take one long chain.....
» 21/11/2008 10:23:13 AM OUG: :science method has NEVER recorded nor evolved an evolution" Wrong again: http:.....
» 21/11/2008 10:18:10 AM It never existed belly. All the value was hypothetical, it's only when everyone needs to c.....
» 21/11/2008 10:14:34 AM Col, accountants are more scrupulous than scientists? Now that's funny. What were they sa.....
» 20/11/2008 1:31:01 PM So you were being serious Brian? Then there is only one solution: kill their God. It's .....
» 20/11/2008 11:32:27 AM This article is written so seriously, that one gets the impression that the author is bein.....
» 19/11/2008 10:09:10 PM Gee Poly, a bible quote. I don't think anyone saw that coming. And you've got it mixed up.....
» 19/11/2008 9:43:13 PM I'd have to say that if your point was invoking disaster like Hurricane Katrina and implyi.....
» 19/11/2008 3:26:01 PM What's with this "we" business old man? How good did you think you were? Storm .....
» 19/11/2008 2:14:21 PM Actually Poly, the topic is nonsense, mocking is pretty much all we have left. I must tru.....
» 19/11/2008 12:15:01 PM Well, you obviously had faith that it would take off Pericles. What values did you derive.....
» 19/11/2008 10:34:02 AM Poly, faith does not equal religion. If someone tells you something like "the news s.....
» 18/11/2008 9:09:02 PM What's even more amazing is that runner has written hundreds of posts over more than two a.....
» 18/11/2008 7:19:56 AM But Poly, what's your position on Ipods? Secular technology or religious relic?.....
» 17/11/2008 2:01:50 PM Actually StG, the Gattaca-esque testing is not something else altogether. It will be routi.....
» 17/11/2008 12:20:34 PM I see not just the paternity/relation testing that StG is talking about, but the whole gen.....
» 14/11/2008 12:33:21 AM Well, societies don't believe in Christ have lasted for thousands of years. Not many socie.....
» 13/11/2008 9:04:54 PM A 'polywaffle'?.....
» 13/11/2008 3:58:57 PM Here you go Cuphandle: http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/_srcfiles/A511%20Date-marking%20of.....
» 11/11/2008 4:46:16 PM Yes Steven, many people can engineer bioweapons these days. In fact a group of researchers.....
» 11/11/2008 11:03:04 AM Do you volunteer, TheRealists?.....
» 8/11/2008 10:33:50 PM This topic is as dead as Jesus......
» 8/11/2008 9:38:00 AM Who's being a revisionist now, eh Poly? Funny stuff......
» 8/11/2008 9:16:47 AM I don't think so katieO, the message from many of your bretheren goes far deeper than &quo.....
» 4/11/2008 10:26:56 AM Is it possible to be an atheist and yet not a communist? Actually philo, I think the mess.....
» 2/11/2008 1:09:28 PM And yet you're still allowed to vote. Amazing......
» 31/10/2008 1:11:07 PM It's amazing, for someone who claims to love freedom and yet demonstrably argues against i.....
» 31/10/2008 8:10:15 AM Ah, the sweet taste of freedom. Does it taste good to you too Polyboaz?.....
» 30/10/2008 10:59:34 PM Foxy, You read ED? OK, now I'm impressed......
» 30/10/2008 10:26:43 PM Kiddie porn peddlers do not post their wares on open websites. These censorship proposals .....
» 29/10/2008 3:11:27 PM So, basically the answer to the original question is: Yes, lots. But you won't believe a.....
» 24/10/2008 11:17:36 AM While it is either going generate lots of hits or none, you know it won't actually achieve.....
» 24/10/2008 10:03:46 AM You're not going to comment on Santa either are you?.....
» 24/10/2008 8:05:14 AM Come on, what about this Santa character? Is he worth believing in?.....
» 23/10/2008 9:09:24 PM So what about this Santa fella? I see his picture around every year, is he worth believing.....
» 23/10/2008 12:39:28 PM So you don't believe in fairies? What about this Santa Claus fellow then, is he worth beli.....
» 23/10/2008 8:06:26 AM Hey, you're the one who mentioned fairies. If they make people act nicely, then I thought .....
» 22/10/2008 7:51:42 PM I'm not going to hear more about these fairies am I?.....
» 21/10/2008 4:24:56 PM But I want to hear more about these fairies you mentioned. I'm ready to believe in fairies.....
» 21/10/2008 3:56:59 PM GWB obviously didn't gain much from Hurricane Katrina, so was quite unlikely to have wante.....
» 21/10/2008 10:15:18 AM Interesting ideas there Polycarp. I love the idea that a belief in fairies can manipulate .....
» 21/10/2008 10:08:18 AM Ooooh look at you, King of the Forums now. All bow to dagget. You can have this pissy thr.....
» 21/10/2008 8:28:41 AM I haven't posted in this stupid thread for 10 days. Yet it's clear that you want to provok.....
» 20/10/2008 8:07:59 PM This is interesting. R0Bert, that economist on 60 minutes was Steve Keen. The same Steve.....
» 20/10/2008 7:36:23 PM So the Crusades were non-Christian holy wars? Interesting concept, tell me more......
» 12/10/2008 8:55:15 PM There's more lamposts in the world than the one you're pissing on Boazy......
» 11/10/2008 8:58:56 PM Yes, James, insults are complements, black is white, up is down, and the American Governme.....
» 11/10/2008 4:27:20 PM Nobody likes being called a nutbag, especially when you are. Hey, being a "first res.....
» 10/10/2008 7:26:43 PM If ifs and ands were pots and pans, where'd be the work for tinkers hands? I'm afraid the.....
» 8/10/2008 9:13:39 AM The same goes for you too philo, stop bearing false witness. In the "eyes of the law.....
» 8/10/2008 8:28:28 AM Polycrap, There is a COMMANDMENT against bearing false witness. Henson has done nothing.....
» 2/10/2008 5:25:22 PM " I believe we need to consider things objectively not just go with a subjective firs.....
» 2/10/2008 4:16:09 PM Mmmmmm, delicious copypasta. You must eat it!.....
» 2/10/2008 1:19:09 PM Ludwig, I believe the correct description would be "fat"......
» 2/10/2008 11:19:28 AM Get off the grass Steven. Here's a little exercise for you: -go to Amazon.com -type in &.....
» 2/10/2008 9:33:58 AM Ya better watch out, Graham's got an itchy trigger finger lately......
» 30/09/2008 3:16:16 PM rechtub, I can see we are getting somewhere. The dollars in a vault are not theoretical d.....
» 30/09/2008 7:42:41 AM A lecture on bigotry Boazy? How interesting coming from you......
» 29/09/2008 1:41:32 PM Criminals and real terrorists need to hunted down and subjected to the full force of the l.....
» 29/09/2008 10:16:46 AM What a shame, we'll miss you......
» 28/09/2008 11:47:45 PM Oh, and if you must feed them, feed them raw meat only. But don't feed mince from the supe.....
» 28/09/2008 7:59:28 PM Coincidences happen. The thing is, while the people participating in any cover-up do not .....
» 28/09/2008 2:58:52 PM Scenario 2: Elements of the American government/corporate/military (mix and match as you .....
» 28/09/2008 2:47:36 PM I know I said I wouldn't waste any more time on it but Forrest, you normally sound quite r.....
» 28/09/2008 10:29:43 AM Col, you know as well as I do that Kennedy speech was about Communism, not Freemasonry. T.....
» 27/09/2008 5:54:09 PM WOW, that is one expensive supper......
» 27/09/2008 12:02:29 AM In theory, a cashless society is possible. But the reality of it would be far from desir.....
» 26/09/2008 8:48:25 PM I never "promised to leave this forum", you're just making things up. I do reca.....
» 26/09/2008 8:14:23 PM That's a lot of ifs and mays steven......
» 26/09/2008 4:02:45 PM I don't think anybody is in any doubt that your motives were pedestrian, daggett. That you.....
» 26/09/2008 2:24:06 PM So basically, the only thing that should not be taxed is donated income. I can live with t.....
» 26/09/2008 10:38:29 AM But I don't see the Pastafarians apologising to ol' Chuck, so I don't think it will affect.....
» 26/09/2008 10:36:10 AM Sancho, it helps if you imagine runner to be just like Kreacher from the Harry Potter film.....
» 26/09/2008 8:51:59 AM Steel Mann, I think you'll find they in many (most) cases they do NOT pay council rates. W.....
» 26/09/2008 8:28:48 AM Who or what is Marshall law?.....
» 26/09/2008 8:14:50 AM So you don't even think that they should pay rates? Not paying rates means taxpayers pay.....
» 25/09/2008 11:46:51 PM Avoided what question? The loaded one that's just chock full of assumptions? The one that'.....
» 25/09/2008 8:32:54 PM I think it was after my landlord put up the rent after I asked him to change the smoke ala.....
» 25/09/2008 3:27:20 PM If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. -Baron de Montesquieu Certa.....
» 25/09/2008 2:26:37 PM rechtub, one of the best things I can think about Australian society is that there is a ge.....
» 24/09/2008 11:00:03 PM Honestly, if the those people you know who no longer post to OLO because of CJM were of yo.....
» 24/09/2008 10:23:43 PM What amazes me is that you make any money at all, when even basic statistical skills seem .....
» 24/09/2008 5:08:28 PM MMMMM, delicious copypasta. I would hazard a guess that those jokes weren't from a dedica.....
» 24/09/2008 2:31:09 PM True Steel, but some people still just love watching black and white movies of Jewish clow.....
» 24/09/2008 1:54:54 PM This reminds me of a poster I used to have. It predates the internet, and so with all thin.....
» 24/09/2008 12:01:44 PM Indeed, when it comes to criminal cases, I am in agreement that these types of courts shou.....
» 24/09/2008 11:09:39 AM If ever one needed proof that humour is subjective, I guess that's it......
» 24/09/2008 12:52:44 AM Ok, just one link then. http://wtc.nist.gov/ Now I'll leave you inquiring minds to it th.....
» 23/09/2008 10:09:46 PM rechtub, the article is merely at the start of this thread, it is by no means at the ".....
» 23/09/2008 3:28:10 PM Just to please you cacofonix, I will no longer waste my energy on it. I already did that y.....
» 23/09/2008 3:01:10 PM The problem Forrest, is that when so much time and energy that has already been expended o.....
» 23/09/2008 11:32:33 AM But Forrest, when the tapes were shown and the enquiries were made and the court cases wer.....
» 23/09/2008 9:58:12 AM Belly, I generally agree with you. But what percentage of those 42% that rechtub is talkin.....
» 23/09/2008 7:53:36 AM Why don't we just shoot 'em? The topics that you have raised are unrelated and share only.....
» 22/09/2008 10:51:18 PM Only the premise contained in the first sentence was from the Weekend Australian, rechtub......
» 22/09/2008 4:59:46 PM Pericles, I think you'll find that the collective noun for academics is "a Faculty&q.....
» 22/09/2008 12:46:12 PM I wonder if they went for the same job?.....
» 22/09/2008 12:02:14 PM But chainsmoker, as I understand it they would still be taxpayers, just not income-tax pay.....
» 22/09/2008 8:10:37 AM What is this, Today Tonight?.....
» 21/09/2008 6:50:55 PM That's right Polly, it's all a 'sinister' conspiracy!.....
» 18/09/2008 9:06:53 PM No Sancho, but I hear they do a great cover of "The Power of Lard"......
» 18/09/2008 9:05:25 PM Myth #4: Wildlife feeding will result in less aggressive behaviour towards humans. While .....
» 18/09/2008 9:05:07 PM Myth #1: Magpies are pair-bonded and mate for life While some magpies do mate in pairs, m.....
» 18/09/2008 4:34:31 PM Are you sure it's a cat? It could be a family member......
» 18/09/2008 11:22:35 AM When you don't understand what happened yesterday, you are unlikely to understand what is .....
» 18/09/2008 10:03:10 AM Nothing. But it might say something about modern Western marketing......
» 15/09/2008 9:11:51 PM Or you could whack a mozzie with a rolled up newspaper. Again, please post on Youtube......
» 15/09/2008 8:33:22 PM Does this thread have a point? Other than to let us know how well rechtub is doing in the .....
» 15/09/2008 9:10:01 AM Maybe next time you could waggle your typing fingers at it. If you manage to get it on vid.....
» 14/09/2008 5:17:35 PM Oh yes, here it is: Crapathians 25-27 25Violence is the answer at times, it is the ultima.....
» 14/09/2008 4:52:45 PM The important point is fungo, while deniers are definitely in the minority, they are only .....
» 13/09/2008 4:47:56 PM The policies addressing AGW are essentially dealing with efficiencies in technology and re.....
» 13/09/2008 12:49:48 PM <<Violence IS... the answer at times.. ....it is the ultimate deterrent>> I t.....
» 13/09/2008 9:56:12 AM So much for turn the other cheek. What a loony......
» 13/09/2008 1:25:33 AM Well Crock, when they ask, what will you tell them? It's up to you man. Depending on what .....
» 12/09/2008 10:33:29 PM So does knowing you didn't, HRS......
» 12/09/2008 3:06:18 PM Polly kicked a doggie in the park? Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. To be fair, if th.....
» 11/09/2008 1:04:28 PM Then we're agreed. You can all believe what you like and we won't send any of your childre.....
» 11/09/2008 9:33:31 AM Are you sure you aren't talking about the Hicks Photon?.....
» 10/09/2008 10:41:02 PM Oh Crock, well done you, likening your opponents to Fascists. Like that hasn't been done o.....
» 9/09/2008 11:58:25 PM It's a common feature of many in your position, Crock: none of you know much about the sci.....
» 9/09/2008 9:42:29 PM I haven't defended Sams an any way, Froggie. He is far better at this particular branch of.....
» 9/09/2008 10:56:09 AM Yep, he DID have that thought. BANG! .....and it's all over the bed linen......
» 8/09/2008 11:19:34 PM And I bet he said it to you often......
» 8/09/2008 7:39:05 PM Amazing, quite a few posts and all of them attacking Sams. Probably not an astroturfer, ju.....
» 8/09/2008 11:04:48 AM Am I to assume that if the aforementioned thought is actually "brain exploding",.....
» 8/09/2008 11:02:09 AM Sells, you were never one of "them"......
» 6/09/2008 10:57:10 AM I'd be interested in seeing a PissBoazy, but I don't think I'd bother paying much to see i.....
» 5/09/2008 1:16:03 PM (cont'd) What we need is Lard, The answer Lard, The dancer Lard, The ointment Lard, The .....
» 5/09/2008 1:13:26 PM I still cannot believe that noone has suggested that you change your name to DJ Morgan yet.....
» 4/09/2008 3:55:13 PM No fool like an old fool, as my grandmother is wont to say......
» 2/09/2008 9:30:11 AM So you're getting old and rolling around in the money you made by living long enough to se.....
» 25/08/2008 9:19:39 PM Steven, I think that your description of the self-censorship decision made by a publishin.....
» 25/08/2008 7:32:20 PM Steven, I am far less worried about the little freedoms that we appear to be losing by 'a.....
» 25/08/2008 3:45:56 PM I often wondered about that Vegetius quote. What does someone who desires war prepare for.....
» 15/08/2008 8:47:28 PM BZZZZT, wrong answer try again. You've been listening to Franky Goes To Hollywood again h.....
» 11/08/2008 11:13:06 AM Atlanta, Pericles? Don't you mean Berlin?.....
» 8/08/2008 8:03:26 PM Actually Boazy, I think what at least you need to define is 'what is a race' and try disti.....
» 22/07/2008 8:16:33 PM Pericles, when Nicky says that "the press" is "onto it", what she mean.....
» 22/07/2008 3:29:12 PM Grey, If you think that sample size has a "standard error" on surveys, then I t.....
» 19/07/2008 8:50:06 AM It appears that all a bigot has to do is wait and someone will think they are prophetic. .....
» 18/07/2008 10:41:37 PM Oh, and just as a disambiguation on your definitions there Grey old fella: Many people st.....
» 18/07/2008 10:27:59 PM Grey, While the data quoted may be a myth, as it is difficult to corroborate without cont.....
» 15/07/2008 11:28:13 PM You have enemies here Polycarp? Gee that didn't take long. To not really answer your ques.....
» 14/07/2008 3:57:59 PM Now Grey, don't get too confused will you? Haven't learned the difference between US State.....
» 14/07/2008 2:26:36 PM It's not so surprising that you get so confused Grey, you can't even distinguish between t.....
» 11/07/2008 7:57:45 PM Grey, I very much I think that your failure to reproduce the quote from Blackburn in cont.....
» 10/07/2008 10:32:09 PM If anything, this sorry little episode has reminded me that freedom and the rule of law ca.....
» 10/07/2008 4:58:22 PM Recognising satire isn't your strong point is it toppa?.....
» 10/07/2008 4:27:28 PM Yeah LATO, but to stretch the analogy a bit further.... It does appear to me that what y.....
» 10/07/2008 4:14:06 PM Well at least Not-Boazy's in good company. I haven't seen Jack the Lad around lately. Pla.....
» 10/07/2008 12:41:19 PM Actually GP, I would say "Fair enough, how do you like your coffee Mr. Chairman?".....
» 30/06/2008 12:48:12 PM I think they had one of those at at Jonestown in the late '70s. As I recall, the crime rat.....
» 29/06/2008 5:09:09 PM Bring on the Jenkem!.....
» 26/06/2008 11:46:52 PM If we didn't have any alcohol or drugs, people would still probably spin in circles on the.....
» 25/06/2008 11:27:57 AM Actually micheal, GM has nothing to do with it. What we are seeing is the result of 2 fac.....
» 22/06/2008 9:43:46 AM BOOM! And there it is, the classic Boazy topic switch. Now arguing that a whole religion c.....
» 22/06/2008 2:35:46 AM I stand corrected Bronwyn. But I still disagree with that position. For the same reasons o.....
» 21/06/2008 6:38:12 PM It never ceases to not surprise me that you don't really know about what is lawful or not......
» 21/06/2008 12:35:07 PM Boazy, I find it amazing that you think that this is about discrimination towards Christia.....
» 20/06/2008 9:26:58 PM Oh yes, you're just a model of tolerance and equality Boazy. There is nothing in your pos.....
» 20/06/2008 3:37:23 PM Actually Bronwyn, it appears that is exactly what BD is also saying. I disagree with both .....
» 19/06/2008 10:50:10 PM Just one more CJ.... What I don't find surprising at all, is that Boazy doesn't understan.....
» 19/06/2008 10:38:39 PM Boazy, apparently, you can't tell the difference between a "show" and "film.....
» 19/06/2008 9:47:17 PM Oh dear, and so is goes on again..... Boazy, don't follow this link http://www.monash.ed.....
» 19/06/2008 2:59:18 PM I've got to hand it to you Spikey, you are exceptionally observant. One thing that really.....
» 19/06/2008 12:43:40 PM WOW, Hawaiians has rainbows? I did not know that. How long have native Hawaiians estimate.....
» 17/06/2008 10:14:06 PM Oh, I dunno CJ. I've heard that photographs steal a persons soul, so I guess it stands to .....
» 17/06/2008 3:20:40 PM There is a major point here, that you touched on Kowari, that not many may have picked up .....
» 17/06/2008 12:32:10 PM Low sulphur content regulations (50ppm) do apply in Australia and have for some time now. .....
» 16/06/2008 11:33:06 PM I see you've used it in a sentence, well done! Use the dictionary FIRST next time......
» 16/06/2008 10:10:45 PM Before you go saying things about the English language and what is or isn't a word, dickie.....
» 15/06/2008 8:05:21 PM And what of GM wheat? Plans for that were shelved years ago, and I see no company making m.....
» 15/06/2008 3:55:59 PM If it's going to happen, then I guess it's going to happen. If what you say is true, then .....
» 14/06/2008 5:17:11 PM They'll do their sums, just like everyone else. If it's being grown this year, maybe after.....
» 13/06/2008 9:37:23 PM I often form opinions from scientists of note. In this case, I would defer to the former .....
» 13/06/2008 12:22:34 AM The problem lies not only with the CSIRO, universities also have been taken over by the 'b.....
» 12/06/2008 2:24:16 PM And the dodginess continues.... http://www.ipni.net/ppiweb/bcrops.nsf/$webindex/70ABDB50A7.....
» 12/06/2008 10:58:46 AM I completely agree Julian. However, there is one more factor that you have failed to tak.....
» 10/06/2008 8:44:04 PM I stand behind what I said Non-GM Farmer. -Yield variability does not equal "questi.....
» 8/06/2008 7:19:04 PM Conspiracies do exist, but normally they are just called 'politics'. It takes a special m.....
» 6/06/2008 11:59:17 AM From the article: "The inventions of terminator technology that has decimated local a.....
» 6/06/2008 11:58:49 AM Sorry, wrong thread. Please ignore/remove my last comment thanks......
» 6/06/2008 11:54:27 AM From the article: "The inventions of terminator technology that has decimated local a.....
» 6/06/2008 8:38:48 AM Nitpick strategy 'next'? No. The conclusions that you and others have reached about what t.....
» 6/06/2008 12:05:31 AM After reading the executive summary of the IAASTD report (and fully agreeing with it I mus.....
» 5/06/2008 9:53:13 AM I'll have it know that I regularly beat my wife, at Scrabble AND Trivial Pursuit......
» 3/06/2008 11:49:57 PM Wow, you change your mind fast. And all it takes is an article in Scientific American? May.....
» 3/06/2008 10:40:13 PM The only difference of opinion I believe I have with how John performed baptism is in the .....
» 3/06/2008 5:22:49 PM Actually Boazy, I think this thread is a complete wank......
» 3/06/2008 3:53:15 PM Ok Boazy, since you specifically asked for it, I’ll give it a go. >1 The beginning of .....
» 2/06/2008 11:33:52 PM Can I look after the fish?.....
» 2/06/2008 10:52:00 PM Hey guys, I think I'm onto something big here! The invaders from the east, the alien spac.....
» 2/06/2008 12:41:32 PM Later on, of course he is talking about (as yet then) unknown processes, ie where does thi.....
» 2/06/2008 12:41:13 PM Well, I must say that if you were answering an exam question you would have failed that on.....
» 1/06/2008 9:26:38 PM Why is the word "secular" in the title of this thread? I don't see anyone puttin.....
» 30/05/2008 10:03:06 PM Evidence Bronwyn? All you need to do is use Google Scholar. Here's an excerpt of some of .....
» 30/05/2008 2:24:17 PM I think more testing needs to be done. There's a wealth of literature that shows that raw .....
» 26/05/2008 10:25:21 AM 'Agent Orange'? 'the obesity epidemic'? 'dioxins & PCBs'? The Vietnam War? My goodness, y.....
» 23/05/2008 10:10:55 PM So dickie, did they wipe them all out in 2002 or what?.....
» 20/05/2008 11:48:22 PM I have been variously described as self-righteous, petulant, shrill, ignorant, biased, a s.....
» 20/05/2008 1:38:53 PM Actually Atman, such an obvious omission is actually corrected for. The truth of the state.....
» 20/05/2008 10:53:58 AM As I said, this 'debate' against GM-foods is mostly ideologically driven. Isn't it amazin.....
» 18/05/2008 12:15:13 PM Pelican, Ah, the Pusztai report. Here's what his colleague had to say about that: http://.....
» 18/05/2008 11:30:51 AM pelican: >>There is no evidence that GM foods caused these increases but suggests mo.....
» 17/05/2008 12:08:53 PM pelican, The only reason to believe there is lack of research and science based evidence .....
» 17/05/2008 9:37:25 AM Cuphandle, may I suggest that you calm down a little, remove the blinkers and actually lea.....
» 16/05/2008 8:43:28 AM I don't really have much to add Oliver, except to be fair to anyone answering number 3). .....
» 16/05/2008 12:50:21 AM Yeah, whatever. English is now the language of business. Non-native speakers learn it beca.....
» 15/05/2008 5:57:13 PM So, now that I have been shown how ignorant I am, what language should I learn? Do I have .....
» 7/05/2008 11:14:52 AM How Emo......
» 6/05/2008 11:37:52 AM Gibo, I am well aware of China's strategic grain reserve. You may not be aware of the cost.....
» 6/05/2008 11:04:33 AM Steven, While your genetics links are very interesting indeed, I don’t see what you thin.....
» 6/05/2008 9:02:12 AM You're a loony too Boazy, if that helps. Growing rice and running chickens on a block of .....
» 5/05/2008 9:31:43 PM You are a serious loony, you do know that don't you Gibo? A national food silo system? As.....
» 5/05/2008 9:05:07 PM Oh, and Steven: we already have an "all of DNA" approach, it's called GENOMICS. .....
» 5/05/2008 9:02:36 PM Steven, That you can confidently proclaim that neither you nor I don't know the answer to.....
» 5/05/2008 12:05:40 PM Jeez Boazy, you really know how raise topical issues of the day! <sarcasm rating=9/10&g.....
» 5/05/2008 11:38:06 AM Steven, I don't know about how knowledgeable you are with genetics, but I find that those .....
» 5/05/2008 9:40:25 AM Actually Boazy, I do not need to read your basic summary of the Punic Wars to know what th.....
» 4/05/2008 10:59:34 PM What?.....
» 2/05/2008 1:56:07 PM In my earlier years, I quite liked Robert A. Heinlien and still do. But much later I reall.....
» 1/05/2008 9:38:51 PM This whole 'organic' 'natural' 'healthy' mindset has me stumped. It seems totally schizoid.....
» 1/05/2008 9:19:16 PM Seriously, please stop. I am sick of hearing about your addictions and other mental illne.....
» 30/04/2008 9:19:12 PM Are you German Foxy? 'Cause I'm not. It may as well be in Chinese to me......
» 30/04/2008 4:56:33 PM So, apart from a restatement of the problem there Foxy, was there another point other than.....
» 30/04/2008 10:12:09 AM Awww, peace and love in the world, wouldn't it be nice? Noble goals indeed. But on the to.....
» 29/04/2008 7:47:01 PM Please stop......
» 29/04/2008 1:56:31 PM Actually, I think that ANZAC Day is probably the least appropriate day to discuss all thes.....
» 29/04/2008 10:38:23 AM "Only the shedding of blood washes away sin."<Gibo> Satan, however appare.....
» 28/04/2008 12:25:46 PM The feminists don't have a special 'zone' either Usual Suspect, which I believe is what CJ.....
» 25/04/2008 7:50:23 PM Oh, and 'evolution' (the poster, not the theory), you'll be happy to know that I have now .....
» 25/04/2008 7:42:49 PM freediver, Popper made no distinction between evolution and natural selection, with good r.....
» 25/04/2008 5:48:39 PM Actually freediver, I have offered different definitions on what constitutes prediction an.....
» 24/04/2008 8:35:28 PM freediver, "As I understand it, Popper's view differs in that Kuhn focuses on the eme.....
» 24/04/2008 10:56:30 AM I think many people miss the point of ANZAC day and other days of remembrance. The marches.....
» 23/04/2008 7:09:55 PM So, Boazy, when Gibo talks about 'healing' is he talking about Paul, or about popular magi.....
» 23/04/2008 6:01:59 PM Good one PALE, only 2 weeks late. It came originally from Canada years ago, do you not ev.....
» 22/04/2008 9:58:26 PM freediver, where did you address the similarities between Poppers argument and your own? M.....
» 22/04/2008 7:23:59 PM No references freediver? Well, let me provide some for you. You mustn't have looked too ha.....
» 21/04/2008 4:41:22 PM Yes, that certainly seems odd. But then again, we have heard weirder things around here ha.....
» 21/04/2008 10:15:09 AM Yeah, Boazy, because that's how the Jews and early Christians dealt with it when faced wit.....
» 19/04/2008 10:37:38 AM I have no intention of 'reinventing the wheel' as it were. I have no need to redefine your.....
» 18/04/2008 3:22:51 PM Actually, freediver I find that your original definition of science doesn't really need to.....
» 18/04/2008 12:21:59 PM freediver, I would suggest that you read the entire article before commenting on it furthe.....
» 18/04/2008 10:30:28 AM (con'td) "There are two interesting reasons for the lack of predictions about the fu.....
» 18/04/2008 10:28:09 AM freediver, do you have access to a library? I have have a reference for you that explains.....
» 17/04/2008 2:56:49 PM freediver, Whether you have had the dinosaur experiment aimed at you many times, matters .....
» 16/04/2008 10:20:27 PM Yeah ET, spelling mistakes I can handle and usually let them pass by, but I just couldn't .....
» 16/04/2008 9:41:13 PM I hadn't finished yet. oh well. Other patterns that evolutionary theory predicts, such as.....
» 16/04/2008 8:06:29 PM Thank you oliver, for reminding me of the null hypothesis. I do enjoy reading some of your.....
» 16/04/2008 2:15:26 PM Now I am confused, because beneficial mutation and universal common ancestry and common an.....
» 16/04/2008 1:25:37 PM freediver, I think at this point you have to define what you mean by "evolution".....
» 16/04/2008 12:26:16 AM I don't think I have to put 'spin' on anything ET, your intent is quite clear by itself. Y.....
» 15/04/2008 8:50:36 PM Freediver, Science is a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and ex.....
» 15/04/2008 8:26:29 PM Ah, so what we are talking about is ISLAMIC 'refugees'. That explains a lot. I agree tha.....
» 15/04/2008 2:01:04 PM This pretty well covers what I think about the subject: http://atheism.about.com/library/F.....
» 15/04/2008 12:05:51 PM Ok, freediver, assuming that only empiricism can give a science credibility, then what abo.....
» 15/04/2008 11:16:37 AM Ever tried to pasteurise and homogenise lettuce? Or chicken? Or eggs? There are heaps of .....
» 15/04/2008 10:07:30 AM >>In fact each of the processes mentioned by Prof Bugsy, could equally be explained .....
» 14/04/2008 10:24:50 PM I can see you know a lot of refugees ET. Who is Mohammed the angry refugee? So you think .....
» 14/04/2008 8:36:23 PM I'm not too sure what you are asking for here Boaz, because there are a few different conc.....
» 14/04/2008 8:06:21 PM Raw cows milk is hardly the next best thing, eftfnc. Many babies died in the past from pol.....
» 14/04/2008 12:25:44 PM Actually eftfnc, I think you'll find that breastfeeding confers a level of immunity passed.....
» 14/04/2008 11:03:48 AM Regardless of what Dawkins says, there are several ways that "information in the geno.....
» 14/04/2008 12:01:40 AM Seriously? All that and not one word about how pasteurisation can prevent diseases like t.....
» 13/04/2008 8:33:29 PM Refugees are precisely that for a reason ET. Access to torture and trauma counselling is a.....
» 13/04/2008 8:04:35 PM individual, http://www.ncca.org.au/cws/rdp/education/table_the_rights_and_entitlements_of.....
» 13/04/2008 5:22:31 PM Jeez PALE, just how full of crap can one organisation be? You started the thread, word fo.....
» 13/04/2008 9:31:14 AM No fact-based evidence, only opinions, individual? You have to be the worst debater I have.....
» 12/04/2008 6:16:33 PM HAHAHA you're a cracker, individual- no doubt about that!.....
» 11/04/2008 10:49:06 AM Apparently only "left wing morons" watch the ABC. This piece of unadulterated ch.....
» 11/04/2008 10:09:54 AM HAHAHA Burned!.....
» 7/04/2008 12:56:02 PM Quite frankly, on this issue I don't see any difference between the Gibos and Boazys with .....
» 6/04/2008 7:55:40 PM Like priests and religious nuts Foxy? I totally agree......
» 6/04/2008 7:32:13 PM Sing it to the shaker, sister......
» 6/04/2008 7:07:56 PM We are NOT discussing paedophilia here. What you 'holier than thou' types don't seem to r.....
» 6/04/2008 3:27:27 PM Banning porn seems to work for Islamic countries like Iran: http://www.alertnet.org/thenew.....
» 6/04/2008 1:14:46 PM Theres a lot of talk about Law and Liberties these days. What we need and what we need to .....
» 6/04/2008 9:40:00 AM I think anyone actually interested in this topic should watch: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/g.....
» 4/04/2008 10:38:21 PM runner, I for one am very interested in the 'numerous research' for links between pornogra.....
» 4/04/2008 1:58:27 PM That is as it should be then Bright1. If you stuck a sign on your letterbox warning junk .....
» 3/04/2008 10:47:34 PM There have been a few threads about 'Sheikh Haron', they all pretty much end up with the s.....
» 2/04/2008 3:19:55 PM That's about the most honest thing you have ever said Jack......
» 1/04/2008 8:11:58 PM As for the revisions made by Dr. Piper: I accept them. I believe they were made in good fa.....
» 1/04/2008 7:56:13 PM Quite so, TRTL. Oh dear Jack, is that a crack in the "calm manner, while the defende.....
» 31/03/2008 10:15:47 PM Good luck with that......
» 31/03/2008 8:48:34 PM That's a tired game you want to play DD, noone cares about you or it......
» 31/03/2008 2:01:24 PM In case you hadn't noticed, your blog links that supposedly quote Dr. Piper, are erroneous.....
» 30/03/2008 9:11:09 PM That Piper's revision was in the interests of real history, matters not to you, you don't .....
» 30/03/2008 8:59:12 PM Oh Jack, it seems that you are getting very confused. For anyone following this, and for .....
» 28/03/2008 7:51:29 PM Ah Jack, I know that you are being deliberately obtuse, but what the heck, I did write the.....
» 28/03/2008 9:07:11 AM Ok, dear. Woooooshh. That is the sound of a point going over ones head. I was of course n.....
» 27/03/2008 9:47:22 PM I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that the late Kerry Packer knew the meaning of the word 'xeno.....
» 27/03/2008 9:07:00 PM You don't have to know the meaning of a word rechtub, no. But you should certainly refrain.....
» 27/03/2008 1:47:20 PM There are other independent sources that confirm the "ballpoint written pages" a.....
» 27/03/2008 3:42:53 AM I don't think that's a very fair challenge rehctub. Nobody can answer a nonsense question,.....
» 26/03/2008 7:36:34 PM Ok I've got mine Vanilla! http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=794&LID=2 Now show us.....
» 24/03/2008 8:37:47 PM I agree Danielle, to a point. I understand that many Muslim intellectuals have a number o.....
» 24/03/2008 9:31:32 AM With all this talk of UFOs and the end of days, I am considering joining the Scientologist.....
» 23/03/2008 1:01:33 PM Steven, seem to forget that most of those dictators purged most of their own "intelle.....
» 23/03/2008 12:20:57 PM "You wouldn't last ten minutes in certain situations." Like standing in front o.....
» 22/03/2008 7:16:01 PM Demons make photocopiers? That explains a lot. I bet they did "programmable" .....
» 22/03/2008 8:04:58 AM How can a man brought up in a Christian home be 'converted' to Christinity at 15?.....
» 21/03/2008 11:42:34 PM Wow, that guy was really smart Boazy! At what age did he decide to become a Christian?.....
» 21/03/2008 9:02:54 AM Well, if "Marriage is when two sets of genes of the same species come together to pro.....
» 21/03/2008 8:45:13 AM Amazing, philo. In one sentence you say that the perception of religion limiting science i.....
» 20/03/2008 7:19:37 PM Also, the average number of legs per person is less than 2. This may change after WWIII. .....
» 20/03/2008 2:59:39 PM But mjpb, you stopped short! NASA is not considered a fundamentalist organisation, nor a.....
» 19/03/2008 5:17:45 PM StG, I must say I am certainly not confused. It must be pointed out that anything said abo.....
» 19/03/2008 5:02:16 PM Shirley Temple, CJ? I thought he sounded like that kid out of American Gothic, which is f.....
» 17/03/2008 6:48:20 PM I reckon more little Christian kids should be calling radio stations just after they shot .....
» 16/03/2008 7:00:56 PM So, "[INSERT ENTITY OF CHOICE HERE] did it", is therefore more credible is it? .....
» 16/03/2008 6:04:24 PM Why don't you do some reading on the matter, eh? Plug 'evolution' into Google scholar and.....
» 14/03/2008 11:13:33 PM gz, So close yet so far. You're on the right track though. The ability to replicate is im.....
» 14/03/2008 7:38:33 PM CCR5-delta32, LCT promoter region, DISC1, DTNBP1 and NRG1 are all genes that have been sho.....
» 14/03/2008 2:19:49 PM Sumerian astronomers/astrologers not scientists- check. No argument here. Except of course.....
» 14/03/2008 2:04:37 PM I for one welcome the coming of our new superintelligent overlords. I'd like to remind the.....
» 13/03/2008 1:08:30 PM mjpb, a couple of points; 1) you still haven't clearly outlined where the previous contri.....
» 13/03/2008 11:05:32 AM Yes, I guess Jesus may well have thought that a grain of wheat would be dead. But it is in.....
» 12/03/2008 12:26:38 PM While I acknowledge that Galileo is often referred to as the father of modern science, tha.....
» 12/03/2008 8:09:42 AM gz, I am only using higher life forms as an example. Your broad "super set" thou.....
» 11/03/2008 10:43:34 PM I understand what you are trying to get at here, and maybe I will try to explain something.....
» 11/03/2008 8:00:01 PM mjpb, in case you hadn't noticed about the only thing you have written that comes close to.....
» 11/03/2008 8:02:32 AM "This thread Antonios was nothing more than a Socialist 'Whack-USA' exercise." .....
» 10/03/2008 9:02:52 PM I will probably run out of comment quota soon, but I will just say that any definition of .....
» 10/03/2008 7:34:36 PM gz, your defintion needs serious refinement, it is so vague that in fact that it is operat.....
» 10/03/2008 7:22:55 PM mjpb: 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc' is a logical fallacy. One that you really should look in.....
» 10/03/2008 10:41:15 AM mjpb, I can see that you believe that Christianity has shaped the development of science. .....
» 9/03/2008 1:44:39 PM A BIG PRICE....YOU WIN IT!.....
» 9/03/2008 1:38:36 PM Actually Jack, what my statement was referring to, was the fact that you are usually rabid.....
» 8/03/2008 11:49:42 AM And Jack is of course not anti-Moslem when it comes to being anti-Jew......
» 7/03/2008 10:55:25 PM Of course, I belatedly realised where this whole line of argument started with mjpb: &quo.....
» 7/03/2008 3:56:33 PM mjpb, of course your noodle analogy is sophistry, this is beacuse you have made a serious .....
» 7/03/2008 3:37:28 PM Being a dickheadophobe does not automatically make one an Islamophile......
» 2/03/2008 7:38:10 PM It happens every time...... Boazy derails his own threads. Do they teach you "bait a.....
» 1/03/2008 8:12:35 PM Did I read this right? BOAZY told the video shop chick that her question was sexist becaus.....
» 29/02/2008 9:38:19 PM Many universities use seek.com.au to advertise jobs, however for tutoring positions, these.....
» 28/02/2008 10:52:45 PM Domestos? Is that what they use at your old peoples home? I recommend calling Today Tonigh.....
» 27/02/2008 11:57:01 AM This is some kind of Turing test isn't it?.....
» 25/02/2008 11:52:13 AM What do you know of the American health care system Bronco? I have lived there and I must .....
» 23/02/2008 11:25:33 AM DD, the dictionary doesn't have the word gullible in it either. LOL.....
» 23/02/2008 11:08:53 AM If there was ever evidence of how some people just cannot 'get it', it was in that last po.....
» 22/02/2008 11:20:14 PM Interesting question Graham. I think at least two things would happen: You would have far.....
» 20/02/2008 11:03:20 PM Consciousness and sentience are not "transcendent" they are "emergent".....
» 20/02/2008 10:05:18 PM I must say though, that although Watson's remarks were misconstrued, they were misconstrue.....
» 20/02/2008 9:17:25 PM GI_Jane, Dr. James Watson does not, nor ever has to my knowledge, conducted any sort of sc.....
» 20/02/2008 7:49:42 PM Actually Horus, it would only be something resembling a mammoth, not an actual mammoth......
» 20/02/2008 5:17:42 PM Boazy, ok matter/energy, whatever, same point - no difference. You are now arguing nonsen.....
» 20/02/2008 8:44:35 AM Hypocrisy, thy name is Boaz. You accuse Steven of building a strawman (which he isn't) an.....
» 15/02/2008 7:14:09 PM I read. I comprehended. I laughed my arse off. I take heart in the fact that the views es.....
» 12/02/2008 12:12:28 PM You're absolutely right Sybil, we need a volunteer group that trains regularly, that can w.....
» 4/02/2008 4:16:06 PM You know what else is often seen in those coffee houses, CJ? .......Books! That's a dead .....
» 14/01/2008 8:48:38 PM Actually Danielle, I think you misrepresent my position on this subject. I make no argumen.....
» 14/01/2008 10:48:57 AM "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" -Theodosius Do.....
» 13/01/2008 11:53:19 AM Although wiz, what I was getting at is that even if the pressure was strong, abortion of f.....
» 13/01/2008 1:08:38 AM I knew that's what you were getting at Steven. However, some of the moral parts of this sc.....
» 10/01/2008 1:55:15 AM Dan, There are more than 8000 species of ants,380 species of salamanders and 305 species .....
» 8/01/2008 2:00:03 AM And PALE, I will only point out that you started that stupid side argument about animal ex.....
» 8/01/2008 1:52:41 AM Look, brain size in and of itself has nothing to do with the level of cognitive abilities .....
» 7/01/2008 1:39:43 PM Firstly PALE, I know you often say you have nothing to do with PETA, however you are posti.....
» 6/01/2008 7:02:12 PM Yes, I have a comment PALE. Where on those very emotional and I'm sure, very convincing w.....
» 20/12/2007 8:06:56 PM Damn Jack, and I had bets that you would write a stupid joke about houses again. And you h.....
» 20/12/2007 4:12:53 PM Jack's Guide to Internet Referencing: Wikipedia: BAD http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/th.....
» 18/12/2007 11:20:11 PM Actually, by the electorates own mandate, the "landslide" of 2004 was well deser.....
» 18/12/2007 10:12:41 PM oh, that's nothing Frank, the guy also writes fan fiction (under the nom de plume of Jack1.....
» 18/12/2007 8:45:46 PM Here's a turnip for the books! Jack citing Wikipedia? HO HO HO! Turning into a "dum.....
» 16/12/2007 10:15:25 PM That's exactly what I'm talking about rojo. I believe steven has an interesting point to b.....
» 16/12/2007 9:22:25 PM I think the point must be made steven, that the article and premise of this whole thing, e.....
» 10/12/2007 3:24:13 PM Of course there isn't a real issue Frank, this is a BOAZY thread. Good to see some uncommo.....
» 5/12/2007 3:48:00 PM If the "freedoms of western democracy" are fast dying philo, that is because eve.....
» 4/12/2007 10:51:26 PM Yeah, I'll take the bet, but you can stick odds on. I don;t think that the genetic differ.....
» 4/12/2007 8:32:58 PM There's a lot of smoke and mirrors about what is going on here steven. Your correlations m.....
» 4/12/2007 5:23:30 PM So how much practice do the Africans get?.....
» 4/12/2007 1:27:33 PM Leigh, the modern usage (unfortunately American) is that a billion is 1,000 million. 1,5.....
» 4/12/2007 11:35:19 AM Leigh, $71 per person per annum doesn't seem like that big a deal to me, with or without t.....
» 4/12/2007 10:00:44 AM I wouldn't worry about it too much Foxy. She can change her name at any time after they ar.....
» 3/12/2007 9:11:39 PM Actually it gets more complicated than cultural bias Frank, in fact there are certain supp.....
» 3/12/2007 7:29:16 PM Intelligence is a far cry from lactose intolerance steven. I must admit I have done a lot.....
» 2/12/2007 7:39:32 PM Aime, unfortunately I need to point out to you that in the presentation link that you offe.....
» 2/12/2007 6:20:24 PM Well done Cuphandle, nice bow out. When presented with facts, the argument melts away. Of.....
» 2/12/2007 12:47:34 PM It does not matter how many posters are for or against, Cuphandle. I am just out and out i.....
» 1/12/2007 10:52:10 PM Wobbles, in human health terms, GM is far LESS dangerous than crossing the road or eating .....
» 1/12/2007 6:35:57 PM Thanks Democritus, but emotion is everything in this argument. If one argues for GM foods,.....
» 1/12/2007 12:23:31 AM Do you read the links you post rache? To quote from the link you posted: >>CONCLUSI.....
» 30/11/2007 11:55:15 PM Yes, well done rache, I think there's a media watch article in this don't you? About how c.....
» 30/11/2007 5:17:34 PM Never mind rache, I found the article (or at least it looks like it): http://www.ap-foodt.....
» 30/11/2007 3:53:59 PM So where did you get those figures from rache? Got an author? or some kind of reference? P.....
» 29/11/2007 3:45:29 PM Maybe you misunderstood me wobbles, but I was asking for scientific literature, not media .....
» 29/11/2007 10:31:54 AM The biggest scam in all this is how the anti-GM organisations have somehow linked GM crops.....
» 27/11/2007 11:13:34 AM But they do stick out Jack......
» 25/11/2007 4:30:55 PM Actually Steven, you are speculating, I am working on actual data. Nutrition may have epig.....
» 25/11/2007 3:31:49 PM Steven, I think you are mixing up your concepts a bit here. "Parallel evolution".....
» 25/11/2007 2:15:26 PM So gracious in defeat......
» 25/11/2007 12:46:09 PM I must say Boazy, that your last "anal-ogy" was one of the grubbiest you've made.....
» 25/11/2007 12:36:39 PM I generally don't mind what you have to say Steven, because it's about science. But this h.....
» 23/11/2007 9:58:22 PM "No fool like an old fool", my grandmother is fond of saying. Honestly, if any p.....
» 23/11/2007 7:18:47 PM Actually freediver, I don't think you need to define human life at all. I'd prefer you to .....
» 23/11/2007 6:43:16 PM Come on freediver, this argument's pretty stupid even for you. "thou shalt not kill&q.....
» 14/11/2007 12:22:00 PM Steven, nice link, very interesting. However, population genetics is not the same as quant.....
» 9/11/2007 11:07:43 AM The similarities with clowns are astounding. Nobody likes clowns much anymore and it looks.....
» 7/11/2007 2:40:17 PM Again, I am at a complete loss to understand what you are trying to say (and do not attemp.....
» 7/11/2007 1:36:38 PM Well mjbp, In a population of football players, where only 20% of players bother to play.....
» 5/11/2007 11:46:24 PM Of course being the good Christian that this fellow is, he would offer his cure for public.....
» 5/11/2007 10:03:53 AM I would also like to see the data, Frank. I am also interested. Claims made on a recruitin.....
» 5/11/2007 9:54:38 AM But my drivers licence, credit card and various other documents all show that I have an Au.....
» 5/11/2007 8:43:36 AM Then look at your credit card......
» 4/11/2007 10:43:10 PM Look at your drivers licence......
» 3/11/2007 4:14:22 PM Settle down Boazy. The idea that religion is a form of social control is not anti-religion.....
» 1/11/2007 7:08:30 PM YOU FAIL......
» 1/11/2007 11:53:00 AM Try Wikipedia Jack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommie You really need to brush up on .....
» 31/10/2007 11:10:01 PM I told you that you needed a better dictionary. An immigrant that corrects me in the use o.....
» 30/10/2007 10:11:14 PM Was that a mental karate move Jack? You do like karate right? All the Pommie boneheads lik.....
» 30/10/2007 3:52:51 PM You should stay away from all that white stuff, it'll rot your brain and you'll lose all y.....
» 30/10/2007 1:32:59 PM I never thought it was sheer hatred that motivated you, Jack. Calling someone a cretin, is.....
» 28/10/2007 8:08:59 PM Hey, ET, take it easy on the caps lock big guy. I suppose we need to invent WMDs for Burma.....
» 28/10/2007 1:46:21 PM What organisation was that Jack? Australia New Nation or Stormfront perhaps? These types o.....
» 27/10/2007 12:20:08 AM Well, TRTL, Charlie Kaufman would be as famous as many actors. But I would tend to think t.....
» 27/10/2007 12:04:44 AM Oh, ET, but you would have us praising those you have committed us to, in G.W. Bush's word.....
» 26/10/2007 1:06:15 PM ET, you it a "trigger", the Romans called it a pretext. It is/was of course glar.....
» 25/10/2007 9:04:07 PM Congratulating failure is not a way of improving the world......
» 25/10/2007 7:13:09 PM Don't worry Graeme, of course ASIO is watching you. But who should really be watching you .....
» 25/10/2007 12:19:16 AM We've been through this before, any GMO crop that is being fed to dairy cattle does not al.....
» 24/10/2007 5:14:15 PM It's possible you are referring to the book: "Forty Months in Hell" by W. Pa.....
» 24/10/2007 2:50:44 PM I can rest easy now, knowing that Gibo's on the case. Go get 'em Gibo!.....
» 24/10/2007 2:39:25 PM I don't think that the US had any better grasp on the situation than you do ET. That is no.....
» 24/10/2007 1:47:46 PM I prefer hats......
» 24/10/2007 1:46:05 PM Ok, now I'm really confused by your argument EasyTimes. So, the US had to invade Iraq to s.....
» 24/10/2007 1:03:37 PM Ok, mjpb, show me your licence. I would love for you you to give me an example of "a.....
» 24/10/2007 12:20:58 AM Yeah, well I guess a quick look at a map and seeing that China, North Korea, Vietnam and C.....
» 24/10/2007 12:16:20 AM But Gibo, Stan Deyo fervently believes in Atlantis. Plato mentions Atlantis, and Plato pre.....
» 23/10/2007 6:43:18 PM Keep 'em coming Gibo, where's Atlantis again? Saudi Arabia isn't it? LOL.....
» 23/10/2007 2:10:23 PM Oh Gibo, you are such a funny bugger......
» 23/10/2007 12:28:31 PM MJPB, just because Boazy has indicated that he thinks he understands what was meant by tha.....
» 22/10/2007 10:40:56 AM mjpb, religions have one thing in common, their ubiquity. You make the mistake as many h.....
» 22/10/2007 10:14:47 AM mjpb, please do not associate your failure as a communicator on others "lack of backg.....
» 21/10/2007 9:18:11 AM Attempting to ban RU486 is not just "expressing a view". Constantly lobbying to .....
» 20/10/2007 9:44:30 PM Thanks Oliver, that was quite a bit clearer. It's not so hard is it?.....
» 20/10/2007 11:51:36 AM Oliver, they may or may not be incorrect or 'imprecise', that is notmy issue. my issue is .....
» 20/10/2007 11:20:07 AM It is pretty difficult to build a retort to gibberish Oliver. If you think that post of yo.....
» 19/10/2007 11:20:58 PM I see bullcrap, bluff and gibberish is not limited to religion. Good to see. kinda?.....
» 19/10/2007 4:16:14 PM TRTL, I must say you are spot on with "there are many negative environmental implicat.....
» 19/10/2007 11:16:53 AM What the hell was that last paragraph about mjpb? You were joking right? Only it's really .....
» 19/10/2007 10:17:30 AM Actually Pericles, I would more liken it to two stablehands arguing over the interpretatio.....
» 17/10/2007 3:51:31 PM Are you sure the accusation wasn't phallacious, dickie?.....
» 15/10/2007 11:20:26 AM I have to add a big thank you to Boazy here. Thanks mate, you have made me see the error o.....
» 12/10/2007 11:55:52 PM Settle down ET, jeez. I can almost see you frothing at the mouth as I read that tripe. As .....
» 12/10/2007 1:00:20 PM Boazy, maybe if you read up a bit about what pro bono means and when a lawyer may be entit.....
» 10/10/2007 1:49:08 PM Boazy, this one's for you: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!.....
» 9/10/2007 11:18:26 PM "you can't jump the middle bit and expect the end bit to make sense." Kind of l.....
» 8/10/2007 12:42:57 AM Yes, Andrew Bolt's blogs are certainly a challenge ET. The question is, if we sent them al.....
» 7/10/2007 2:41:36 PM Yes, it makes me very happy. Next time you try to say something stupid, just think twice a.....
» 6/10/2007 11:14:03 PM When he said that Easytimes, he wasn't actually referring to you, thank goodness. How abo.....
» 6/10/2007 11:00:55 PM Hey, even David Duke loves "Coach Bob". http://www.davidduke.com/index.php?s=wh.....
» 6/10/2007 2:10:23 PM Now we are getting somewhere Jack. I notice no new 'evidence' or even really a denial of t.....
» 5/10/2007 8:18:59 PM So, let me get this straight, the only professions you think are worthy of respect are tec.....
» 4/10/2007 8:16:49 PM Ah Jack, you old water bird, I bet its confusing in your own head. Forgive for my misinter.....
» 4/10/2007 5:53:13 PM If "the invader" does come, you'll be the first against the wall Gibo......
» 4/10/2007 2:32:16 PM "Explain your acronyms right now young man!" Ah, Jack, I hope you are not a bet.....
» 3/10/2007 7:38:42 PM Oh sure, things were much better back then Gibo, what with the Korean War and Second World.....
» 3/10/2007 4:37:33 PM Oh I get it, if you're not a sock or a white supremacist, you're just a coot. God help us.....
» 3/10/2007 10:09:27 AM Gibo, I think you're right. Technology will bring us nothing but tears. Stop watching now......
» 3/10/2007 9:06:51 AM That's so gay......
» 2/10/2007 11:44:10 AM Hey I'll publicly commit to defending my country from enemies from my own religion......
» 2/10/2007 10:14:21 AM Well, pickle my herring and call me Sven. Actually Jack, I do not yell "fascist".....
» 1/10/2007 9:09:24 PM Hey Boazy, I think its time to clean your keyboard, your comma key doesn't work and your f.....
» 1/10/2007 8:30:20 PM Well, I don't know who they sold the gold to, probably a number of buyers but a fairly goo.....
» 1/10/2007 6:38:58 PM This is just getting funnier. From pronouns to White Supremacy. Onya Jack, you old sock. .....
» 30/09/2007 3:23:05 AM I guess the question fro the modern age is: do sock puppets have a soul? I have a feeling.....
» 29/09/2007 7:21:06 PM Wow Jack, nice rant. I totally love this gem: " Today's teachers and lecturers are mo.....
» 29/09/2007 1:31:56 PM Lazy attitude? I prefer to think that I have confidence that we will not lose the ability .....
» 29/09/2007 11:38:57 AM Um, if anything the history of language has taught us anything it's that it takes on a lif.....
» 29/09/2007 11:29:48 AM Now I get it, Boazy. You posit a half-baked argument or historical story, deliberately get.....
» 29/09/2007 2:26:22 AM Yeah, well those predatory atheists and Jews will just jump out of the undergrowth at the .....
» 28/09/2007 8:36:02 PM Ah, yes now me see. Me retract my former statement. But why anybody would be concerned abo.....
» 28/09/2007 8:31:34 PM When discussing "internal evidence" Boazy, you are of course meaning "inter.....
» 28/09/2007 6:01:33 PM I don't see the problem here. When "Jim and I" or "you and I" is used,.....
» 26/09/2007 10:40:24 PM Philo, what if one comes to their ultimate conclusions about the reality of god when they .....
» 26/09/2007 4:07:17 PM Well, then you had better disconnect your internet and phone right away! Don't delay!.....
» 26/09/2007 2:16:56 PM You'd probably better disconnect your internet connection too, because the new world order.....
» 26/09/2007 10:48:14 AM The most ironic thing of course is that while you are denigrating technological achievemen.....
» 25/09/2007 10:34:47 AM Get off the grass Gibo, you obviously think that communications satellites, weather satell.....
» 24/09/2007 4:20:33 PM Thank you for the information Mr Administrator. I had certainly suspected as much, about a.....
» 24/09/2007 12:35:51 AM If you think that is the case PALE, then they certainly chose the wrong thread to post the.....
» 23/09/2007 11:37:11 PM PALE, that "Muslim poster" was a sock puppet, as are a number of other accounts .....
» 20/09/2007 7:32:08 PM I would certainly think that Norman Borlaug's legacy would vastly outweigh most others. Wh.....
» 20/09/2007 9:49:37 AM Did you hear about the dyslexic devil-worshipper who sold his soul to Santa?.....
» 18/09/2007 1:49:35 PM "Sacrificed chickens is a classic sign of an "open door" to evil spirit pow.....
» 15/09/2007 1:37:46 PM Have you seen how they actually elect their president? He has about as much chance as a fa.....
» 14/09/2007 11:25:45 AM This article is a bit of a crock really. While there are no actual falsehoods in it, the w.....
» 13/09/2007 11:04:10 PM I suspect many things are a riddle to you Boazy. The way real sustained ratings are achiev.....
» 11/09/2007 4:00:20 PM Well, the French do it Philo, but I suspect that frogs are not halal. I have seen that bo.....
» 11/09/2007 2:24:23 PM The sky is falling arrrrgghh! Oh come off it guys, schools not permitting the wearing of .....
» 4/09/2007 8:28:26 AM But that is the point Boazy, we see you and your kind as the biggest threat to our freedom.....
» 30/08/2007 10:09:45 PM Kind of like the origins of Krikkit eh philo? It makes one wonder how our pagan ancestors.....
» 29/08/2007 2:19:50 PM So Boazy, the bible says not be drunk on wine, but to filled with spirits? Probably cheape.....
» 25/08/2007 10:46:45 AM I find it very odd that you can acknowledge that elements of Christianity have inherited p.....
» 25/08/2007 9:44:30 AM Boazy, before you totally reject an idea because it doesn't fit what you want to think, as.....
» 23/08/2007 10:53:53 PM I might suggest that everyone take a good hard look at David Palmer's last post, because t.....
» 17/08/2007 11:33:17 PM George, I try not to ask car dealers anything as I have learned that they never tell you w.....
» 17/08/2007 11:10:14 PM Yeah, I watched that video Boazy. It is unfortunate that Dawkins is not fully educated in .....
» 17/08/2007 10:53:09 PM apis, you can calm down now and stop being such a rabid nitwit. Whatever Kinsey's faults I.....
» 17/08/2007 10:32:35 AM It's really funny how when some people talk about the "laws of nature", they act.....
» 16/08/2007 7:25:56 PM "Spiritual spam", I like the term and I think that you do very well at it Boazy......
» 16/08/2007 7:15:42 PM Obviously David Palmer has never heard of Alfred Kinsey. While his data may not have been .....
» 16/08/2007 10:49:13 AM I think that the "black" analogy is kind of holding up. When it comes to popular.....
» 16/08/2007 10:09:06 AM Watch and learn kids, this is where a strong belief in superstition leads you......
» 15/08/2007 10:04:06 AM If that was the actual point you were trying to make eftnc, then the article you linked to.....
» 15/08/2007 2:52:03 AM From your link eftnc: "'I just don't like the idea,' said Monika Stahl, 31,", A.....
» 14/08/2007 5:36:43 PM George, even on a car, black is not a colour. And I am not surprised that theology is more.....
» 14/08/2007 12:38:06 PM Man, George, you are hilarious! Comparing quantum physics with Christian belief, thats a g.....
» 13/08/2007 7:35:56 PM No. Maybe. Yes, of course. Yes. Yes.Yes. Maybe. No. Possibly......
» 13/08/2007 11:02:35 AM To be honest though Thomas, Australia actually performs very well considering the percenta.....
» 12/08/2007 11:49:41 PM No, Boazy- with you it's never a "useful" discussion......
» 12/08/2007 11:59:02 AM MaryG, while Professor Thompson's statement may be correct, the chances that someone of &q.....
» 11/08/2007 8:32:11 PM Actually, JSP there is no such thing as a "lesser" race. The proof is in genetic.....
» 11/08/2007 2:16:05 PM MaryG's theory that a man with "similar DNA profile" was in the surgery just hig.....
» 10/08/2007 2:52:52 PM Yeah, thanks for pointing to gods grace in every thread you have ever responded to BD, we .....
» 8/08/2007 2:45:18 PM But to follow up your statement that "Western societies are NOT strong on Patriarchal.....
» 8/08/2007 2:34:57 PM Actually, Boazy, your starting points are not very good really. I especially think that th.....
» 7/08/2007 8:31:11 PM Actually Boazy, I don't think I will elaborate. But seriously, families (and people) hav.....
» 7/08/2007 11:57:44 AM What about the donor's right to anonymity? This is what many donors want and studies have .....
» 7/08/2007 9:16:45 AM Isn't this attitude in direct conflict with the arguments presented by anti-abortion prote.....
» 6/08/2007 11:08:43 AM Certainly there are lessons in this bush goddess- lessons in regulatory approval strategie.....
» 4/08/2007 2:14:10 PM This should be after my first post: In other words, for it to count, they have to be nutr.....
» 4/08/2007 2:10:10 PM It has to pointed out that Seralini et al did not actually find anything themselves, they .....
» 4/08/2007 2:09:07 PM SAFE: You may have been criticised for your scientific reasoning in other threads, but I h.....
» 30/07/2007 1:14:05 AM Emotional? LOL I only mentioned Dumbski as am example. The calculations tell me that ther.....
» 29/07/2007 5:11:05 PM While there may be "two sides to every coin", those links of yours don't appear .....
» 29/07/2007 2:49:13 PM LOL eftfnc, do you even read the links you post? They are good links, for sure. For exam.....
» 29/07/2007 1:03:28 PM I only mentioned Dumbski as an example of how incorrect assumptions can lead to stupid ans.....
» 28/07/2007 7:34:22 PM I know what entropy is steven, I am talking about Penrose's calculations and the judgement.....
» 28/07/2007 12:58:36 PM The tragic flaw in this topic of discussion appears to be that in order to have any kind o.....
» 27/07/2007 8:18:46 PM Low entropy compared to what exactly? If Penrose could answer that question, then maybe we.....
» 25/07/2007 11:43:43 PM Dickie: 1) This has nothing to do with GM crop technology 2)This has nothing to do with G.....
» 24/07/2007 10:08:04 AM 1) nearly (less than) 80% is not "almost all", it would be described as "mo.....
» 18/07/2007 3:18:58 PM EFTFNC, I did already take a look for Ermakova's publications on the GM study and found, s.....
» 17/07/2007 5:10:23 PM The fact is that most of the claims in that "article" (actually a funding advert.....
» 13/07/2007 12:30:26 AM It looks like we have a toxicologist! Please tell me wise one, why you think a 3% and 4% d.....
» 11/07/2007 2:18:03 PM All those trials are certainly a very good idea. But the details generally get bogged down.....
» 10/07/2007 7:06:33 PM Try and keep up Safe, the European Union already reviewed that (Seralini) research . They .....
» 10/07/2007 10:20:06 AM Actually bush goddess, GM foods are probably more like vegetable oil, since they don't act.....
» 6/07/2007 11:27:30 AM From the latest ABARE report: "The main implication of the introduction of GM canola.....
» 5/07/2007 12:30:13 PM GM companies do not control markets. If the argument is really that strong against them, t.....
» 3/07/2007 4:29:37 PM Michael, are you implying that GURTs are a good idea? But seriously, Agronomist is right .....
» 3/07/2007 2:47:28 PM Sorry, Sylvia I just don't see your point. You seem to assume that complete replacement of.....
» 3/07/2007 1:53:33 PM Sylvia, you are right that you can't just up and build a geothermal (I include the "h.....
» 2/07/2007 4:42:21 PM It didn't take long for the Nazi comparisons to start did it? Newhouse, you really know .....
» 2/07/2007 1:24:10 PM Again, a rehash of odd statistics. I have looked site Ralph. If it's not an ad, what is it.....
» 2/07/2007 12:27:59 PM Michael, if you are indeed a geneticist, then you would understand why there is no actual .....
» 2/07/2007 12:15:05 PM I wonder what $92000 buys you? As already admitted, pretty much stuff all, except maybe a .....
» 2/07/2007 11:48:07 AM Actually, Ralph hardly any of it is covered on your website. It's an ad for your book, as .....
» 2/07/2007 11:22:29 AM What a wonderful technology, it shows great promise. But the argument that now we can ban .....
» 30/06/2007 11:46:25 AM Ralph, I do not question your motives, ethics or credibility. I am sure that you have spen.....
» 30/06/2007 9:20:38 AM Yeah, whatever Ralph. The hypocrisy is astounding. You don't seem to be too positive about.....
» 29/06/2007 2:43:13 PM Saying that nuclear power is "safer" because of attributable death rates in this.....
» 29/06/2007 2:34:13 PM While I am sure that "climate change" is probably the strongest argument in favo.....
» 28/06/2007 4:31:02 PM Unless of course that if due to the proliferation of nuclear reactors we had more nuclear .....
» 25/06/2007 11:45:46 PM APR, I find it increasingly difficult to accept your argument. The fact that many people m.....
» 25/06/2007 10:09:25 AM APR, if you removed the word "exclusively" and all that it implies in that sente.....
» 22/06/2007 11:24:38 AM Well then APR, how about if someone came into the religious schools and lectured for half .....
» 20/06/2007 3:08:57 PM Oh, I get what you are on about now Boazy, Ecclesiastes Chapter one: "17 Then I appl.....
» 16/06/2007 11:47:28 PM Oh dear Peter D, if you are going to lambast the use of hypotheticals, at least have decen.....
» 16/06/2007 3:59:41 PM Yes, Paul of Tarsus would probably fit that description......
» 15/06/2007 11:58:14 AM I bet you're fun at dinner parties......
» 15/06/2007 10:19:51 AM The issue with loss of habitat of bats that are heliothis predators is a new one for me bu.....
» 12/06/2007 11:46:22 AM Katherine, did you even read that article? In it is some very interesting stuff. To quote .....
» 12/06/2007 10:50:44 AM Don't you just love that word "contamination"? It conjures up all sorts of nasty.....
» 10/06/2007 3:21:44 PM That's a very good point Sparky, many GM crops come with their own tecnical challenges and.....
» 9/06/2007 1:28:43 AM Well Steven, if you are really interested, then I should point you in the direction of Bar.....
» 9/06/2007 1:20:29 AM And there you have it, Aqvarivs is a pirate. As soon as the wind changes, it's yarrr matey.....
» 9/06/2007 12:14:25 AM That you feel the need that I should apologise for 'misquoting' you, Peter D also says muc.....
» 8/06/2007 11:59:49 PM .....or even a 1st century king, eh steven? Jesus was a king, but not a Herod king, a Davi.....
» 8/06/2007 8:50:29 PM And again the debate swings back away from the science...... This is probably a perfect e.....
» 8/06/2007 12:03:24 AM Peter D, your last post spoke volumes on how much you value semantics over real ideas. And.....
» 7/06/2007 11:35:06 PM fluff, I am not in the business of endorsing corporations but I am pro-science and pro-bio.....
» 7/06/2007 12:40:51 PM Conspiracy theories are what happens when tragedies are used for political ends and the re.....
» 7/06/2007 11:17:13 AM With all due respect Peter D, that is a teleological argument. To describe things not in t.....
» 7/06/2007 10:10:43 AM At least we are getting somewhere. Well, if a strategy is "no risk", then I am c.....
» 7/06/2007 9:54:32 AM Quite frankly PALE your hypocrisy astounds me. You are not above low and personal comments.....
» 7/06/2007 12:24:43 AM Can I be included with him, PALE? Please? And you can tell your mate Boazy to do the same......
» 6/06/2007 10:40:53 PM One of the most galling aspects of this 'debate' is that while supposed enironmental organ.....
» 6/06/2007 10:00:44 PM Ok Danielle, I can but try to help and just hope to be clear. Most people think that gene.....
» 6/06/2007 4:04:37 PM Oh lol, this thread is classic, keep up the good work everyone. I reckon I'm gonna get me.....
» 5/06/2007 10:41:42 PM I stand by my comment Sowat, I think you are an exceptionally confused individual. I can s.....
» 5/06/2007 3:27:24 PM Fluff: "I'm neither scientist nor farmer but I do know of the reluctance aussie farme.....
» 5/06/2007 2:03:03 AM However if you search for hpv and cancer on Google Scholar, you get a range of scientific .....
» 4/06/2007 8:44:41 PM Well, rojo, as far as I know, the Terminator technology has a moratorium on it, however th.....
» 4/06/2007 12:52:05 PM TRTL, I am assuming that you are talking about the "Terminator" technology and I.....
» 3/06/2007 11:05:16 AM So, what you are saying Boaz, is that two paragraphs written about 2000 years ago, written.....
» 2/06/2007 11:16:23 PM I wonder if she went down as fast as the Titanic? Or if Beattie yelled out "woooooo, .....
» 1/06/2007 7:33:43 PM Daniel06, I really think it's time you tell us what your definition of "a human".....
» 1/06/2007 1:02:38 AM When practised by the maladroit it certainly is. But this is neither corporal nor punishm.....
» 31/05/2007 11:46:40 PM What amazes me alanpoi, is that your daughter was able to use algae to solve disciplinary .....
» 31/05/2007 7:50:04 PM Oh dear, Boaz, they ridiculed people who believed in God? Really? Gee, that must have hurt.....
» 31/05/2007 11:11:06 AM I suggest that you look at that episode again alanpoi, it was a cardboard mockup, the cool.....
» 31/05/2007 9:52:00 AM Arguing that chickenpox is better than smallpox is no reason to promote the spread of chic.....
» 31/05/2007 9:41:41 AM A "real" model alanpoi? A cardboard mock-up actually. He hasn't built one, noone.....
» 30/05/2007 11:43:08 AM Tuggeranong, Irfan? Who's he the god of then? On second thought, I probably don't want to .....
» 29/05/2007 3:08:36 PM Daniel, I suggest that you calm down a bit and read those passages in their proper context.....
» 28/05/2007 11:21:16 AM You will of course see that the UN uses the word "everyone". What most of the de.....
» 27/05/2007 1:25:33 AM Daniel, whatever you think you are, you are not an atheist. Agnostic maybe. Your "sc.....
» 27/05/2007 1:11:26 AM I think I saw this on Catalyst or some such show. As far as I know Whisson hasn't actually.....
» 26/05/2007 9:39:05 PM I do believe Boazy that the "founding fathers" as you put them made no mistake w.....
» 24/05/2007 1:51:00 PM They also have a lot of guns, hardly any crime, do not participate in wars, have a civil m.....
» 24/05/2007 1:12:42 PM And here was I thinking that it was because no matter who does it they we all get screwed......
» 21/05/2007 9:47:20 AM Sharkfin, you probably don't realise it, but you made my point. A group of races is not a .....
» 20/05/2007 6:19:47 PM Boaz, I know you weren't commenting necessarily on genes, but it's pretty absurd to try an.....
» 19/05/2007 9:16:15 PM Oh come on Boaz, you really don't think anyone actually wants to talk to you IRL do you? G.....
» 19/05/2007 1:31:51 AM Meh, cut 'em down, who gives a rats? Other plants will take their place. Blah blah, the cy.....
» 18/05/2007 11:19:12 AM This whole thread has gone a bit pear-shaped. I can't believe noone really commented on t.....
» 16/05/2007 10:51:14 AM Does Jesus juice come from Jesus apples? And Boazy: if you are the "fruit" of y.....
» 15/05/2007 5:10:41 PM I see you whacking something Boaz, but it ain't a snake. And I do not mock you for your b.....
» 15/05/2007 12:54:05 AM Thats funny, 'cos I've often felt that reading some of this crap is like getting an enema .....
» 14/05/2007 8:19:20 PM This is the internets Pericles and I will ridicule who I like, when I like. I will thank y.....
» 14/05/2007 3:50:44 PM I am exceptionally glad that there is no death penalty for mocking you. Cult leaders com.....
» 14/05/2007 12:13:55 PM Maybe you could go over to his place with a sign in your back pocket? That'll show him......
» 14/05/2007 12:28:41 AM Now you know how the Romans felt......
» 11/05/2007 11:28:17 PM How about "BOAZ_David... no sense of irony?" Such a lulzcow......
» 11/05/2007 10:57:39 AM Wow, BOAZ, I never had it explained to me like that before, you are so right. I need to jo.....
» 11/05/2007 12:26:29 AM I don't know what you were listening to, but if you read the speech: http://www.smh.com.a.....
» 10/05/2007 5:06:06 PM Oooh, internet law, I love internet law. Is George a bone fide internet lawyer? If it goes.....
» 10/05/2007 11:31:02 AM Oh sweet irony , thy name is BOAZ! Mate, you had better get your attributions right, as w.....
» 9/05/2007 3:27:08 PM If ever there was irony n the world, it must surely be that last posting......
» 1/05/2007 10:32:03 AM I think the point must be made very clear for you BOAZY: Universally (or near universally).....
» 30/04/2007 11:25:45 PM Another thought that I missed...when discussing "dengeneracy", it kind of implie.....
» 30/04/2007 10:48:24 PM "I contend, that such practices flourished in the absence of awareness of divine mora.....
» 30/04/2007 10:46:32 PM Jeez BOAZY, please feel free to read some books on cultural anthropology sometime. It may .....
» 26/04/2007 10:37:25 PM Funnily enough, I actually recently spoke with Paul Ehrlich when was out in Oz last year. .....
» 26/04/2007 6:53:19 PM Sure, CJ it's totally semantics. I have had this argument with freediver before about his .....
» 17/04/2007 2:01:45 PM Can you spell C-O-N-D-E-S-C-E-N-S-I-O-N boys and girls?.....
» 17/04/2007 12:02:59 PM Aqvarivs, just one question: How can you be pro-contraception, including the use of condo.....
» 14/04/2007 2:58:17 AM Keep selling those Green left and Resistance papers on the street corners and universities.....
» 10/04/2007 3:51:55 PM That seems about spot on TRTL. Abuse of a choice is not an incentive to remove the choice,.....
» 10/04/2007 11:14:06 AM A complaint that the media is helping Howard? Now thats funny. Medea is a capricious mis.....
» 8/04/2007 1:16:51 AM If you think thats what would happen, then why don't they let it happen? the fact is, you .....
» 8/04/2007 1:09:54 AM Don't be an idiot sharkfin. "...if the West falls"? What the hell is that? Who d.....
» 5/04/2007 6:43:53 PM Analogies are generally used as a clarification as to how an abstract idea works. I guess .....
» 5/04/2007 2:13:43 PM Donnie, The computer-man analogy is only problematic when it is used as you have. I can .....
» 4/04/2007 11:47:03 PM Marx was wrong, get over it already......
» 4/04/2007 11:39:28 PM It seems anyone can lecture at a 'theological college' these days, I wonder if he gets pai.....
» 4/04/2007 5:46:22 PM Donnie, If you cannot see how using an anaolgy to illustrate a principle, and should only.....
» 4/04/2007 1:43:47 PM Ok Donnie, let me explain. As an example lets look at a big flat rock and a wooden chair. .....
» 3/04/2007 4:22:34 PM Careful there Donnie, you might actually expose the fact that all analogies break down und.....
» 3/04/2007 11:07:58 AM All I can say Forrest is that you are good at dreaming up scenarios that have no real basi.....
» 2/04/2007 9:10:23 PM No fool like an old fool. Hey oldie, I don't suppose you are planning on learning about wa.....
» 1/04/2007 7:24:07 PM Philo, You are correct to think that I don't understand what a soul is. I also don't unde.....
» 1/04/2007 7:07:01 PM "Far from being a “dogma” Marxism draws upon all of the cultural achievements of mank.....
» 31/03/2007 6:15:38 PM We remove "freedoms" from people all the time for the safety of our society. Wha.....
» 31/03/2007 4:22:20 AM It seems to me that the "overblown rhetoric" that chris was complaining about is.....
» 30/03/2007 5:18:11 PM I actually find the second type the most irritating and offended when their "help&quo.....
» 29/03/2007 10:25:35 PM Hey, I feel for ya Chris, I really do. You're not a criminal. But I guess it's your choice.....
» 29/03/2007 3:01:13 PM Sure Philo, the information patterns that make you up and manifest themselves as you may b.....
» 28/03/2007 10:05:35 PM Actually Chris, those reasons are why the Americans will never get rid of their firearms p.....
» 28/03/2007 6:19:31 PM FFS Forrest, when I wrote "publicly available" I meant on TV or in newspapers an.....
» 28/03/2007 3:16:35 PM Where you go wrong here is that you are chasing ghosts Philo. I will borrow from Robert P.....
» 28/03/2007 2:41:19 PM At least this question is based on some form of reality. If you have been reading about xe.....
» 28/03/2007 1:08:41 PM By your own logic Philo, a soul is what we make of it and does not exist in an objective r.....
» 28/03/2007 12:55:35 PM Rob, you didn't answer the question, you just told us what you didn't want. The way you ph.....
» 28/03/2007 12:50:16 PM On the contrary, I think the rubbishing of astounding ignorance is eminently justified. Th.....
» 27/03/2007 9:32:09 PM wut?.....
» 27/03/2007 8:28:32 PM So, the Vatican requires that people protect each other? Wow, that IS a modern and relevan.....
» 27/03/2007 4:30:26 PM I think its about time that the actual plans were made obviously public and freely availab.....
» 27/03/2007 3:11:05 PM Sigh, yet another extremely ill-informed opinion on water recycling. For instance, do you .....
» 27/03/2007 10:13:44 AM A "more sophisticated and humane system" Rob? We are constantly striving for a &.....
» 26/03/2007 9:05:55 PM If you want to "stick to topic" Is Mise, what is the topic? That the Catholic Ch.....
» 26/03/2007 12:26:08 PM When Jesus said "Blessed are the peacemakers" I somehow doubt he was talking abo.....
» 26/03/2007 11:53:47 AM Thats what I love about scripture, with just a couple of assumptions one can interpret it .....
» 26/03/2007 12:04:41 AM Well done, now you're thinking. Lets give all the drug dealers and addicts guns eh? Oh wai.....
» 25/03/2007 11:18:23 PM Ironically, I was only directing my comments to your philosophy. You have now chosen to ma.....
» 25/03/2007 10:04:42 PM You may subscribe to idea that humans are a blank slate, entirely conscious beings that ar.....
» 25/03/2007 9:16:12 PM Is Mise: "One man's equation is as good as another's. It's well proven that where the.....
» 25/03/2007 5:25:33 PM Actually tao, your ideas on socialism ignore one fundamental thing about human nature. Tha.....
» 25/03/2007 4:11:23 PM Mate, you need to brush up on your logic skills. Your statement: "if <gun crime =.....
» 23/03/2007 10:39:57 PM And just an addendum... To be very clear on where I stand, I subscribe to a Machiavellian.....
» 23/03/2007 4:26:24 PM Now lets look at Washington, with a high crime rate, how is it similar or different to the.....
» 23/03/2007 4:21:45 PM Actually I don’t think that giving a battered wife the means to kill her husband is the be.....
» 22/03/2007 4:24:30 PM So you weren't really trying to actually make a point with that quote, you were just pleas.....
» 22/03/2007 4:12:45 PM Simple answer: Sure they were communist, but they certainly weren't Communists. Jews have.....
» 22/03/2007 3:33:12 PM "Oh, that was easy," says tao, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is .....
» 21/03/2007 5:52:32 PM Oh sure, it's ironic alright. It's even doubly so when you're attacking people who happen .....
» 21/03/2007 4:56:56 PM And just who is more likely to own or want to use a firearm? A "homicidal" ex-hu.....
» 21/03/2007 10:31:47 AM You never cease to amuse. You would of course believe what they say about the statistics a.....
» 20/03/2007 5:02:23 PM Sorry man, you are totally missing something here. The quickest way to breed corruption i.....
» 12/03/2007 11:57:34 AM "As for your idea that its ok for these people to run around almost nude with things .....
» 11/03/2007 11:53:35 PM So we're back to the moral imperative argument, you're on a real winner with that one.... .....
» 11/03/2007 9:29:19 PM Well, actually if you want to post a blog site of a pro-gun enthuiast, who has written a b.....
» 10/03/2007 3:49:59 PM Actually, the lie is "more guns = less crime". The District of Columbia enacted .....
» 10/03/2007 12:22:25 AM You should have stuck to the emotional arguments Is Mise. Are you seriously comparing a U......
» 8/03/2007 10:35:25 PM Here's an interesting page: http://www.kangaroo-industry.asn.au/media/ki_med_kit_gen.html.....
» 5/03/2007 4:11:31 PM Hey, I don't like teenagers either, they tend to hang around each other and speak their ow.....
» 3/03/2007 2:08:51 AM I must admit anyone who talks of genes or evolution in this manner understands neither. No.....
» 1/03/2007 3:28:54 PM Mate, I am disputing the figures, what you do with yourself is not the issue here, so if y.....
» 1/03/2007 1:49:03 PM Do I like like answering my own questions? Yes I do......
» 1/03/2007 10:25:52 AM Its good to talk about your feelings more, let it all out. But what we see is that all of .....
» 28/02/2007 10:16:26 PM Now we are getting somewhere.... So the historical figures on numbers of longarms owners(.....
» 28/02/2007 2:46:18 PM Continued..... It all just doesn't fit, and the stats don't fit an objective argument. Bu.....
» 28/02/2007 2:43:27 PM The trivialities and contradictions just keep coming. So, the need for a 50c sealable pla.....
» 28/02/2007 9:37:40 AM And so, in other words, there is nothing of substance to your claims. I cannot find any of.....
» 27/02/2007 9:06:25 PM Now I'm totally mystified, are we talking about the gun laws or gun buyback? Where can I .....
» 27/02/2007 2:35:41 PM Ok, lets have a go at the wicket then shall we? Politically it could be argued that the g.....
» 27/02/2007 12:34:02 AM Oh man, you get funnier every day Is Mise. I didn't know that wallabies have a natural rig.....
» 24/02/2007 2:54:22 PM I am prepared to concede that the gun buyback may have had a less than ideal outcome. But .....
» 24/02/2007 2:49:00 PM And has been stated before, there are other ways to defend oneself. The moral arguments fo.....
» 24/02/2007 1:33:59 PM A 10% increase after a 20% decrease is not a reason to change gun laws. Statistics are quo.....
» 24/02/2007 12:10:04 AM See what happens when you start talking about spirits........ Gibberish and BS starts spew.....
» 23/02/2007 10:07:35 PM Ok, I have just had a bit of a trawl through some of the crimne stats. If you want to have.....
» 23/02/2007 3:38:25 PM You are DEFINITELY not a Catholic...... And I guess the majority of Americans could not b.....
» 22/02/2007 10:47:22 PM I'm glad you two are on the case, just in case any business was gullible enough not to do .....
» 22/02/2007 4:46:26 PM When I said flame, I meant torch relay. A small but vital piece of trivia......
» 22/02/2007 4:44:08 PM Ah, the honourable history of the Olympics makes all sports related arguments valid. Oddly.....
» 22/02/2007 4:15:52 PM You are obviously not a Catholic then...........
» 22/02/2007 4:02:29 PM Josh, while I am not a competition shooter, I am considering becoming an international coc.....
» 22/02/2007 3:33:20 PM Did you realise that during WW2, the number of males in the civilian population aged betwe.....
» 22/02/2007 10:50:45 AM Watch out everybody, the gays are exaggerating again! Cover your eyes children!.....
» 20/02/2007 1:17:44 PM I guess Doomsday predictions are the property of the religious nuts. For 2000 years we hav.....
» 20/02/2007 12:32:45 PM Are these new threads fire resistant? Lets hope so, for their sake......
» 20/02/2007 10:26:10 AM Is Mise, its called "mace", or pepper spray, or even a taser. Currently, there a.....
» 12/02/2007 8:34:59 PM Wow Philo, breeding tomatoes in the 60's! I am very impressed, I guess you'd know all abou.....
» 11/02/2007 2:00:04 AM I agree with you, however some people actually believe the stuff IDers peddle and it is ne.....
» 11/02/2007 1:38:02 AM That Dembski article states the conditions (as do you) about ID being falsifiable. It is f.....
» 11/02/2007 1:36:42 AM The standard of debate in here is woeful. Oligarch, if you want to be taken at all serious.....
» 6/02/2007 3:27:16 PM Funnily enough, research has shown that gossip and idle chit-chat is actually important in.....
» 6/02/2007 3:16:33 PM You could have summed up most of those things with one word spendo: STATUS From which com.....
» 5/02/2007 11:26:53 PM Well, I said i'm not here to be your cheerleader and I meant it. There are many problems w.....
» 5/02/2007 7:09:18 PM For any child of yours, I'm sure it is. ;).....
» 5/02/2007 1:55:43 PM Hey Philo, check out this scientific paper: http://www.ehbonline.org/article/PIIS10905138.....
» 5/02/2007 1:21:05 PM "my impression is that it is you who feels as though there is an overall inability fo.....
» 3/02/2007 12:05:56 PM You do that ybgirp. Then, you can leave the rest of us alone. Feelings of impotence and i.....
» 3/02/2007 2:06:20 AM I put it to you eftfnc, that you are not really a part of "the masses", if by &q.....
» 3/02/2007 2:03:13 AM Actually saintfletcher the US doesn't have plenty of sugar, most of their sugar comes from.....
» 2/02/2007 11:54:49 PM Now we are getting somewhere. "If we can limit our population when the easy thing is.....
» 2/02/2007 10:28:54 PM Nice one Ludwig, see you over there. ;).....
» 2/02/2007 10:22:26 AM Ludwig, you can expand any resource problem into population/sustainability. But that just .....
» 1/02/2007 2:47:37 PM I guess if there are vitamins in nuts, there are probably more in nutbags! The whole VitC.....
» 1/02/2007 2:26:19 PM Read that link you posted again freediver, very carefully. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16.....
» 1/02/2007 1:17:16 PM Are you sure it was for a dating agency? It sounds like a Cleo article in the making to me.....
» 1/02/2007 11:48:37 AM Ludwig, really I do agree with you in principle on the ideal population/sustainability iss.....
» 31/01/2007 3:15:20 PM There's plenty of vitamins in nuts!.....
» 31/01/2007 10:00:52 AM Ludwig, of course water is a part of "sustainability", however is is just a PART.....
» 30/01/2007 2:30:56 PM I agree that “sustainability” is certainly great to have. However neither of you have real.....
» 30/01/2007 2:30:37 PM I agree that “sustainability” is certainly great to have. However neither of you have real.....
» 30/01/2007 10:36:43 AM Her you go, take a look at this: http://www.airwater.com.au/home.htm If you click on the.....
» 30/01/2007 10:23:39 AM I am really glad you two aren't running the country. You would send many thousands of fami.....
» 29/01/2007 11:21:06 PM So what you are talking about is population contol there Ludwig. Good luck with that. Mos.....
» 29/01/2007 3:17:16 PM Certainly it is quite probable that it does exactly what they claim. There are already com.....
» 29/01/2007 2:22:42 PM I did neglect to mention that wastewater recycling does not actually add a net increase in.....
» 29/01/2007 2:02:21 PM They both use very similar technologies, which is reverse osmosis or filtering the salts, .....
» 26/01/2007 5:33:47 PM At the risk of enticing you to write more, I will say that it would be a lot easier on all.....
» 26/01/2007 1:10:30 PM Sure, thats plenty wacky. :) It occurs to me that there are at least two schools of thoug.....
» 25/01/2007 7:44:24 PM I'm sorry "All-", it's just that you are such a wackjob, I can't help myself. It.....
» 24/01/2007 9:23:45 PM You should have noticed it by now West. Like ants to sugar, moths to flame or flies to @#*.....
» 16/01/2007 10:46:31 PM No, but I actually reckon that they may have mistaken the add for something that someone a.....
» 16/01/2007 6:20:24 PM I always worry about the Muslim guy I share my lunch hour with every day, but only because.....
» 15/01/2007 10:54:55 PM The term "Racism" is definitely overused. Genetics has shown us more than anythi.....
» 14/01/2007 3:36:03 PM If it was intended to be humorous, then it was indeed ironic......
» 14/01/2007 10:47:17 AM That "article" isn't a necessity at all, it's rubbish. It doesn't get to the poi.....
» 13/01/2007 12:04:06 AM I cannot believe the amount of tenacity displayed by one poster over a high-school definit.....
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