Sentences with phrase «as smoking gun»

He revisited one 2010 exchange that Oracle has often referenced as a smoking gun, in which Google engineer Tim Lindholm told Android team leader Andy Rubin that the alternatives to Java «all suck» and noted, «We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java.»

The surprise to me with this lawsuit is that it doesn't feature sensational evidence like others did — the older Kivalina v Exxon case and the newer San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach v. Chevron cases — by citing the infamous «leaked memo set» headlined with «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» which are universally accepted among enviro - activists as smoking gun evidence of skeptic climate scientists being paid to push misinformation to the public at the behest of sinister corporate handlers.

Polar bear exaggerations — JEFFREY GLEASON: Avian Ecologist co-author of the pretty bad quality polar bear paper that the greens cite as the smoking gun.

Add to that, Gore's and Gelbspan's portrayal of the «reposition global warming» leaked memo phrase as smoking gun corruption evidence has a gigantic problem.

WFA's «Information Council for the Environment» that Gelbspan so widely touts as smoking gun evidence of a top - down industry directive «to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact «lasted just six months ** [See Author's 12/19/14 note below] in its entirety, with the actual PR tour being restricted to just three cities in May of 1991 and maybe a single 60 - second national radio ad on Rush Limbaugh's program at that time.

So, this paper probably shouldn't be seen as a smoking gun for global warming, nor should confirmation of the results in the paper be seen as a crucial test for global warming theory in general.

This feature is regarded as the smoking gun for proving their existence and is a crucial step towards their use as a building block for future quantum computers.

I don't like the way gravitational waves are being treated as a smoking gun.

Not Benedict, there is no proof in the two cases that CNN tried to present as a smoking gun against him.

The fact that airline bosses are now repeating the mantra of «capacity discipline» — in other words not trying to expand their services too fast just because they are profitable again — is being viewed by some as a smoking gun.

Not exact matches

Broward County Schools superintendent Robert Runcie told reporters on Thursday that Cruz did not set off the school's fire alarms as originally thought - instead, it was the powder and smoke from the guns that set them off.

If by some fluke I do find myself heaven - bound on May 21 in a puff of smoke while my ailing mother and father are left down here with no one to care for them as the Horsemen ride over the hill shootin'their 6 - guns, I'm gonna demand a return flight so I can stand guard in front of their house with my NFR - approved lariat, ready for some ropin».

As he brings his investigation around to those farther away from ground zero, it's less likely, not more likely, he's able to find a smoking gun.

I du n no, I think this is the final, definitive, smoking - gun article as to their fanbase.

No one has found a single smoking gun as the cause of childhood obesity, and our study is certainly no exception.»

The Labour party has begun its own investigation into the Abrahams donor scandal as the Electoral Commission and commentators look for the smoking gun.

«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.

More than 85 percent had the gene variant, about as «smoking gun» of a correlation as we've seen.»

I think many people think — and Scott can expand on this [as can John], [is that] what's been called a smoking gun, inflation of gravitational waves; it's a prediction of inflation that is ubiquitous, almost no matter what you can do.

Many scientists hailed the result as a «smoking gun» for inflation.

And if, García - Bellido says, any black hole in a LIGO merger proves to weigh less than our sun, this would be a «smoking gun» for primordial black holes, as such relatively minuscule black holes are thought impossible to form from stars.

It's being touted as more smoking gun evidence that UEA's Jones and colleagues working in climate science conspired to cover up data, engineer which papers made it through peer review, and, most damningly, avoid Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

The cause of lumbar disk disease, or LDD, has been thought to be some combination of environmental factors such as work conditions or exercise habits, but a smoking gun has never been found.

«Our team predicted exactly where to find the Majorana fermion and what to look for as its «smoking gun» experimental signature,» said Zhang, a theoretical physicist and one of the senior authors of the research paper.

Moreover, there is no direct evidence, no smoking gun, which points to anthropogenic sources as the reason behind global warming.

The idea, though still controversial, is gaining ground, although as Stuart says, «there isn't a smoking gun link yet — we're still working on that.»

A narrow band of them in the high - energy spectrum would be a «smoking gun» for the presence of dark matter, says Michelson, but he thinks it's more likely that the dark matter emission would be mixed in with gamma rays from other energy sources in the universe and that scientists such as GLAST pioneer Elliott Bloom will have to work very hard to untangle the GLAST data to find it.

So, when you talk about smoking gun, you know, in the interest of course, that we don't have four hours for a podcast, what, are there other things on here that you think leap out, as far as things that influence high cortisol, or things that you specifically ordered on this custom panel that you really wan na highlight?

► A boy shoots a cap gun with a loud bang at the back of a man's head during a dinner and the adults at the table scream; outside, one of the men at the dinner gathers the children around while firing off large fireworks and as sparks and smoke fill the screen he tells the kids there is no danger.

Rumours abound that Tom Cruise, angered by preview audiences who rated Emmanuelle Beart's performance in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible (1996) superior to his, cut out as many of Beart's scenes as possible: although De Palma denies this, there is a smoking gun, for the trailers contain shots of Cruise and Beart making love, something that never happens in the released film.

Created by Burr and Emmy winner Michael Price (The Simpsons), who will serve as showrunner, F Is For Family follows the Murphy family in the 1970s — a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside and bring a gun to the airport.

I Can Do Bad All by Myself (PG - 13 for violence, drug use, smoking and the sexual assault of a minor) Tyler Perry's back in drag as Madea for this modern morality play which has the gun - toting granny delivering the trio of orphaned, juvenile delinquents she catches burglarizing her home to their only living relative (Taraji P. Henson).

The classical piece by Rossini, made famous during the Lone Ranger's radio time, stills packs a youthful sense of excitement as gun smoke fills the air.

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

Smoke and shell casings fly as teachers and staff from Clifton Independent School District in Clifton, Texas, fire handguns at a range just outside of Clifton during training on what they need to know to get a license to carry a concealed gun.

Unfortunately, there's not one smoking gun here we can point to as a cause, and then identify one solution.

Avoid writing argumentative essay about such old topics as gay rights for adoption, glass ceiling, smoking in public places, gun control, violence on television, internet pornography, stem cell research, cloning, freedom of speech, death penalty, etc..

As noted above, Amazon's CreateSpace fails on the top two bullets, so this isn't a smoking - gun list.

During your adventures as Batman, you can use your grappling gun, smoke pellets, and an intriguing gadget that picks up traces of certain chemicals or DNA depending on how you program it.

While the game doesn't feature «87 bazillion guns» like Borderlands, its combat gets variation out of craftable traps and consumables such as smoke grenades, abilities and different types of arrows.

Typical gear such as darts, smoke bombs, and guns are at your disposal as well, but Syndicate's hand - to - hand combat is so satisfying that you likely won't find yourself using these unless you're up against enemies that are a higher level than you.

The explosion visuals and mechanics were absolutely gorgeous, as the smoke of a hand grenade or bullets leaving my gun contradicted the otherwise serene Madagascar ruins.

To a non-scientist such as my self, the Kirkby paper would appear to present the smoking gun to many climate puzzles, and of course I'm sure he'd like his CLOUD experiment to be the light that shines on many of the unanswered climate puzzles.

The recent paper in Science Express by Hansen et al (on which I am a co-author) has garnered quite a lot of press attention and has been described as the «smoking gun» for anthropogenic climate change.

Ray, the uncertainties in the tropical cyclone data preclude the cylones from being used as a «smoking gun» for gobal warming.

Later, as estrogen mimickers («surfactants gone bad») became the rage, they too were the cause, with various «smoking gun» studies appearing.

Since that PR campaign does not resemble any sort of sinister plot to manufacture doubt out of thin air, it is little wonder why neither Gore nor any other accuser who quotes from its leaked memos has ever had the courage to directly show those to the public as «smoking gun» proof of skeptic climate scientists» guilt.

On the naïve and scientifically silly assumption that the only way that plant - based carbon can get into the atmosphere is by people burning fuels, they exult that here indeed is the smoking gun: Decreases of C13 in the atmosphere mean that our sinful combustions are clearly identifiable as major contributors to the 100 ppm increase in CO2 since 1850.

As for the alleged irrefutable evidence that people caused the last century's CO2 increase, the «smoking gun» invoked by one of my critics, Dr. Michael Mann, and his fellow fearmongers at realclimate.com, the claim is based on the idea that the normal ratio of heavy to light carbon — that is, the carbon - 13 isotope to the lighter carbon - 12 isotope, is roughly 1 to 90 in the atmosphere, but in plants there's a 2 percent lower C13 / C12 ratio.

As a rule, climate scientists have never been mistaken for Shakespearean wordsmiths, and they soon found a few poorly - worded emails turned into smoking guns proving a vast conspiracy to embrace the hoax of manmade climate change.