Since earth is a closed system (check your college biology textbook for a full explanation), it is not possible to "destroy" or "harm" nature. It is possible to convert it into other things, but that is a different question. If you check your physics book, you'll also find that the AGW "theory" violates the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics.

First: Yes, I agree that people like Ira ARE a threat to logical discourse (a/k/a 'debate', 'conversation', etc). Yes, I know people like Ira. The kindest way I can describe them (and him) is to say they're volitionally delusional. Ira's 'wanting' to be a 'unicorn' does not, in and of itself, MAKE him a 'unicorn'. If he carries this to its logical conclusion and begins to BELIEVE he's a unicorn, he crosses the line from 'play' to 'threat', because that crossing indicates loss of contact with objective reality. The truly scary part of that scenario is NOT that he becomes a threat to others directly, because 'unicorns' are 'peaceful', right? The threat he poses is at the ballot box when he VOTES. He'll vote for OTHER 'unicorns'. He thus becomes an INDIRECT threat by exercising HIS 'reality' through an 'elected representative' to bring about 'justice' or some other fictional 'benefit' for ALL 'unicorns'. Can anyone say 'Entitlement Society' or 'I Wants MINEZ!' ... ? The world has enough 'Ira's - and 'college educated' doesn't carry the weight it once did - he's living proof.

As I said before, it may not be that we are stupid, but more that we have been under-educated.

Since humans aren't responsible for climate change, the question is moot. But, feel free to humor yourself.

ITS ALL BS THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING ILLEGAL . just a nother bunch of guys playing soldier ..

Dude...THEY ( the Liberals ) care.

They care about EVERYTHING that makes Republicans look bad.

What they DON'T care about is the fact that nearly every violent act or riot that happened during a protest was a result of LIBERALS.

Name ONE Conservative protest that resulted in a riot??

They can't.

That's why, when I see them wringing their hands about the " violence " against them because of the Health Care bill..all I can do is laugh at the sheer hypocrisy of their words.

killing snow spots with pop guns?
that just cannot be!

that is exactly my point,, you can SEE a white boy with a black girl,, you cant SEE a homosexual male with a homosexual girl,,you just see a boy and a girl, so the discrimination is VASTLY different.

One is about what people can see from birth that cant be hid or undone,, the other is about what people observe someone DOING, which is a choice.

I know my opinion wont be popular but the ONE relationship that we always will NEED is that of the male female union which creates life. A dance that sticks to that basic guideline is not so horrendous in my opinion. whether it be a black and white male and female or an arab and italian male and female, should have no bearing.

As far as this particular case, I am really not passionate about it one way or the other. Im not particularly offended by a traditional male female dance, but Im not gonna kill myself if other pairings are included either.

This is not political news, this is your personal semi version of a recent news story with extreme exaggeration.

Shouldn't even be posted here.

(Please remember, this is a comic.)

All types of pattern recognition systems suffer from two types of errors, there is the type 1 error, the false positive, and there is the type 2 error, the false negative.

HADD is a type 1 error, of seeing something that isn’t there. There is a trade-off between these two types of errors, you can have zero type 1 errors if you reject every instance, but then your type 2 error rate is maximized. You can have a zero type 2 error rate if you accept every instance but then the false positive rate is maximized.

There is a deal of pattern recognition in all forms of communication. The bit count of the data stream is insufficient to convey the information content of language without enormous data compression and decompression at the other end. That decompression is pattern recognition. When the compression and decompression are done seamlessly and with little loss in data, there is good communication with no misunderstanding. When the data compression and decompression do not happen seamlessly, then there is data loss, and the message can be garbled or misunderstood.

Usually the data compression and decompression happens seamlessly and is transparent to the users, they are not aware that it is happening. They become aware when it does not happen seamlessly, when the error rate goes up, there is miscommunication, and then there are default responses.

I think one of the default responses to a high error rate in communication, and particularly in non-verbal communication is the triggering of xenophobia. It may not always be that simple, but that may be an important component.

http://daedalus2u.blogspot.com/2010/03/physiology-behind-xenophobia.html