People think I am some kind of Neo-Nazi, because all of my shirts are red and my "coat" is one of those german army shirts. Oh, and I wear steel toe-capped boots instead of shoes.

I like it, it makes people afraid of me, which means I don't have to deal with them unless it is actually important, or I like them for some reason. It also means I haven't been arrested or cautioned for a while, because people cross the street to avoid me so I don't have to listen to them say stupid things like "Are you gay? You have long hair and only girls have long hair so you must be gay." or "So how about them damn [woof!]?"which make me angry. Not because I have a problem with my sexuality (Bi ftw) but because assumptive, prejudiced dicks make me want to commit genocide.

Anyway, the topic!

It's not something I've ever really come accross, although I will admit that the UK does have a discrimination problem, but in my experience the only time I ever personally knew of a black guy being discriminated against was when  one got told off, by a white woman, for asking for a black coffee.
But then again I don't live in a polarised or self segregating society.

> TheYell wrote:
> Not only Martian polar caps shrinking, but there's a new Red Spot on Jupiter, too.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming_2.html<

_This is the title of your article:
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says

_This is the content:
"The conventional theory is that climate changes on Mars can be explained primarily by small alterations in the planet's orbit and tilt, not by changes in the sun.
"Wobbles in the orbit of Mars are the main cause of its climate change in the current era," Oxford's Wilson explained. (Related: "Don't Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says" [September 13, 2006].)
All planets experience a few wobbles as they make their journey around the sun. Earth's wobbles are known as Milankovitch cycles and occur on time scales of between 20,000 and 100,000 years.
These fluctuations change the tilt of Earth's axis and its distance from the sun and are thought to be responsible for the waxing and waning of ice ages on Earth.
Mars and Earth wobble in different ways, and most scientists think it is pure coincidence that both planets are between ice ages right now.
"Mars has no [large] moon, which makes its wobbles much larger, and hence the swings in climate are greater too," Wilson said."

_And before you accuse me of being selective, yes I did read the CO2 part. I am dismissing that because, as any good nerd will tell you, Mars is so totally different to Earth that any attempt to draw parralels between the two just smack of desperation.
Mars' atmosphere is almost totally CO2, it's nowhere near the habitable zone, it's gravity is so weak that it's atmosphere is leaking away into space, and it's holiday area has a lofty average temp of -50, it's a quarter of our size... long story short: occams razor.

But if you wish you can continue believing that the axial "wobbles" should be ignored in favour of "The cooling sun is making us hotter" then feel free, just don't expect anyone to respond kindly when you post such blatantly unthought out drivel.
Seriously, did you even read that article?

"http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080523.html"

_Funny how nobody gave two tugs about the spot formation on Jupiter untill they needed a reason to not take responsibility for their actions. I wonder if these people genuinely believe that these "storms" (the average wind speed is 200-300 mph, storm is a relative term here I think) have only just started forming? Probably, that would be most convenient, or at least more convenient than "Storm forms on stormy planet. Again".
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Peace.

16:06:79

_Why the hell am I here? What was I thinking? What kind of moron goes to University without knowing what they want to do? I only went because Danni was going... that and I didn't want to get pulled into mummy's world. Funny, right now I like the idea of spending the next eighty years playing Bridge, wearing the latest Wouter dresses and gossiping about who is doinking their aerobics instructor.
Sad, social climbing, back stabbing, two faced, hypocritical vampires... they all hate each other you know.
_Forgot what I was saying now... oh yes, I was panicking because I'm floating in an ocean on some unknown world with bits of liner continually dinking and clanging against the sides. There is bumping too, soft bumping and brushing sounds caused by all of the-
_Don't want to think about it.

_Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh crap! You remember how the engines were half dead? Well the engine bay thing is full of water, so now the lifeboat is sort of slanting, with the screen pointing skywards. Don't worry, I'm not actually sinking, I'm not going to drown, but: Guess which end of the lifeboat the hatch lives? That's right, at the back, under water. Now guess what is programmed to stay locked unless I can breathe what is outside.
Genius.

_I have just realised the liner should have stopped over at Steingard two days ago, so they should be looking for it now. I wonder what's taking them so long? I mean, we're in their system, right? And Liners, even bits of Liners, are hard to miss, right? And lifeboats are designed to be found, they have beacons and radios and lights and stuff, don't they?

_It's night now and I can't sleep, I'm still on Liner time. You'd think they'd put something to do in here, something other than the radio I mean, something like... a game machine! Nothing complicated like HighQ, or violent like Blitz, but something everyone likes, like Tetris! Everyone likes Tetris. I once met a guy at College called Rijs, I think he was Quantam, and I swear he made it to level seventy one.
He was hot.
Ooh, I just thought of something to do!

"So it failed to let people respond,..."
After misquoting these same people, don't forget.

"...and it ignored what OfCom considers "settled" science."
Which lead to an unbalanced programme, which unfortunately is irrelevant because the programme in question, as I have discovered with some digging, has no connections to news people of any kind and so does not have to be balanced.

"The standard set out here, is that if your British government and scientific authorities decided holding in a fart led to cancer, nobody could air a program challenging that view without announcing that holding in farts causes cancer and giving every authority mentioned a segment on the program to sound off on it."

Which is why nobody in the UK pays any attention to the Government or their "Scientists", who spend most of the time working backwards from the answer that the Government wants. Scientists and academics that are not tied to the Government, however, still work in the traditional manner, starting at the question and arriving at an answer. And then they get very vocal when the their reality does not match the Government's truth.
Don't worry Yell, nobody over the age of 25 is a media slave, and nobody under 25 bothers to vote. Why would they, Big Brother is on the TV.

"Do global-warming programs have the same "balance"?"
Depends who made them and what type of TV company they are. News and documentaries have to be balanced, but if it was made by a company that normally does entertainment then... well look up there ^

"That might be how to run a broadcast monopoly but it isn't science."
It's Channel Four, the birthplace of Big Brother, what else did you expect?
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"For another thing, we're seeing atmospheric disturbances throughout the Solar System, and that can't be due to human industrialization."

Could you use your Modly powers to discern how much time has passed since Flint lost this exact same argument, please?

"I would appreciate it if people who know London or have lived there could suggest some half decent areas to me."

Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Brighton, Portsmouth

Seriously, commute:
I used to take the train from Nottingham to Kings Cross every day, I spent half as much much as all of my work friends because I wasn't paying London prices and I made twice as much money as all of my real firends because I was earning London money.
The only problem was that, including travel time, my workday was 12 hours long.
If I had been clever I'd have moved to Birmingham, then I could use Virgin Trains and cut my work day to 10 hours. But I wasn't, so I didn't.

(^_^)/

Colourful, catchy and playful.
Bonus points for using a rama, because I like rama words
7/10
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Nobody did Yell!

Xen humour appeals to my perceived intellectual superiority: 8/10

15:06:79

_I'm in a lifeboat.
_Yesterday there was another clearout of the public areas, but this time in the form of a lifeboat drill. So anyway, I was stood there talking to the nice officer on duty when suddenly the liner shuddered and he got this funny look on his face, and then I was thrown into the lifeboat. I'm not sure if it was the shaking of the ship or the officer that did it. Then I heard a roaring sound, and the door closed and the lifeboat launched, knocking me out against the hatch.
_When I came to the liner was in chunks all around me, and there's this glittering stuff everywhere. I think that is the light reflecting off of scraps of metal.
There's bodies too. I can't look out of the screen.

_I've just eaten some lifeboat food. I think I'll finally be able to lose those few kilos, because I'm sure not eating this crap again. I've had cramps ever since I ate it. I don't think I'll enjoy using the toilet on this thing.

_I'm being pulled towards a planet, along with what's left of the liner, and the engines are half dead. And I don't know how to fly. Or land.
Autopilot?

12:06:79

_We're about halfway to Steingard. Danni's met someone on the same courses as she is and I haven't seen her since. I'm so bored! There's not much to really do on the liner, so I've been watching the public channels on the console in my quarters.
It got interesting last night; about half two in the morning I'm falling asleep watching the news and then suddenly I'm awoken by the sound of a banshee achieving orgasm. I think someone in quarters near me ordered some porn on a private channel and the wires got crossed.
It was entertaining for an hour or so.
_I might go and see how long I can make a walk around the Observation Deck last.

I love how even in the future things still malfunction

[edit] will there be any mention of droids? :\

> DPS wrote:
> "The Canadians that work at borders and Airports are the biggest idiots in the world."
Where the heck did that come from?  Also clearly you've never been to Newfoundland, nice people but THI-ICK.<

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a reference to the Canada/America border being about as well guarded as Jamie-Lynn Spears' virginity? Can't you simply walk accross unchallenged in some places?

(It was five years ago, sorry if this is wrong now)

African American... There is your problem; Intitutionalised, sanitised, innofensive political correctness and positive discrimination.
The keyword there is discrimination.

If you met Trevor McDonald on a New York street would you call him Black or African American, would you be a racist bigot or a presumptive gimp?

You see, we don't have these problems in the UK, possibly because Political Correctness was introduced to the UK during a time of Anti-Americanism, Anti-Privatisation, and Anti-Anything else that could have been socially relevant as was popular in the 1990's, and so it was roundly rejected for being the stupid idea that it obviously was after a few councils embraced Political Correctness only to find themselves being sued because the people on all of the roadsigns were Black.

Discrimination is discrimination, which inevitably leads to more discrimination, and problems, problems like "Now that we have a 'Black Channel' the White Supremacists are demanding a white channel and we can't come up with a good enough excuse tha won't get the 'Black Channel' taken off the air."