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  1. Re:How much contamination on Scientists Drill Into 3,500 Feet of Ice To Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeh, but this is in the Antarctic not space. As long as we can bring back Kurt Russell for the second sequel, we'll be ok.

  2. Re:Pioneer 10 has “left the Solar System&rdq on A Journey Into the Solar System's Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds To Explore (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The NY Times article wasn't clickbait, it was simply stating the fact that Pioneer had passed the known planets. Given than in 1983 Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune was, the statement is correct.

  3. I'm going to guess that whoever wrote the article knows the oft forgotten fact that because of Pluto's orbit eccentricity, it moves closer to the sun than Neptune for a portion of that orbit.... or is at least pointing out that planetary scientists at that time knew that. The date given, June 1983, is within that last window (from Feb. 7th, 1979 to Feb 11th,1999, Pluto was the eighth planet and Neptune was the ninth).

  4. .... a conservative anti-government, anti-education, anti-intellectual rag is pushing the conservative motto of: "keep them stupid," and this is somehow news? It's always amazing to see conservatives undermine their own children's future by doing everything they can to make them completely unable to compete in the world.

  5. Re:Trump would gladly sign legislation on US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown (huffingtonpost.com.au) · · Score: 2, Informative

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    You are a lying sack of shit.

  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Go back to sucking Trumps dick... it seems the only thing you're good at.

  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    You are a worthless lying sack of shit.

  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    It's amazing that you're an even more worthless piece of shit than Trump is. I honestly didn't think there were that many around, given that it's so low of a bar.

  9. Re: Trump would gladly sign legislation on US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown (huffingtonpost.com.au) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Unfortunately lying little cunts like you have to make up strawmen arguments, then post articles that, while you think they prove you right, don't actually do that. you're as much of a lying useless cunt as melted is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Conservatives are nothing more than nationalist fascists now days. Tell me, why is it you cunt fascists are all such lying sacks of shit? Did it start with your parents not teaching you about integrity?

  10. Re:Trump would gladly sign legislation on US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown (huffingtonpost.com.au) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's fucking idiots like you that have caused out massive national debt. Fucking little cowardly piece of shit liar. Trump wanted a shutdown so he could show the fucking idiots of his base that he's "fighting" for them, and cunts like you suck it down like a $5 whore on her knees.

  11. Not really sure.... on Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie (stephenfollows.com) · · Score: 1

    When i think of Christmas movies, the first thing i think of is coked up hookers swan diving off the penthouse balcony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:Die Hard is a great Christmas movie on Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie (stephenfollows.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a Bundyful Life is far better; a true holiday classic.

  13. an alien Starbucks.

  14. Re:Sorry, could you repeat that please?! on Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely it's just the shit in your ears.

    Don't let the mere fact that some of Saturn's rings have already coalesced into moons/moonlets, and never mind that a SINGLE SOLITARY end to ALL MATTER in ALL RINGS is the stupidest idea yet... planetary accretion discs and what is essentially a rubble disc around a planet are two very different things, being acted on different events, and in different environments. This isn't a one-or-the-other scenario. If you weren't trying so hard to disprove ALL physics for your own, childish, bullshit, brain dead reasons, you might sit back and take a science thread off once in a while from your anti-reality, anti-physics crusade.

    The biggest problem here is... you assume you're intelligent; you're not.

  15. Re:And 30% of Americans blame this on ... on Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a fun game. Go out on the street and ask 30 random people what planet has rings. My guess will be less than 5 say Saturn. However, for your fun game, the majority of 30 random people will still put out stupider than shit answers to most questions that people should learn the answer too in 9th grade.

    https://variety.com/2013/tv/ne...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. Re:so, contrary to theory... on Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Congratulations...you've jumped to an conclusion not supported by the article. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you simply are not as smart as you think you are, Chris. On the brighter side, at least your not as stupid as the the dipshit above making straw man arguments about climate change (well, maybe it's more of a toss-up still), when in fact he's only confirming that a lot of people in the US are stupid.

  17. Re:Doubtful Accuracy on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Doubtful Accuracy on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Because intelligent people understand that there are issues best dealt with on the federal level, and those things should be paid for.... unlike the fucking idiots who actively try to destroy the federal government while burying future generations in massive debt. Democrats are tax and spend to better future generations.... republicans are leech off the future and spend to better themselves right now.

  19. Sycophants like you are the traitors. https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

  20. Re:Promises promises on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes... because progressives have been in control of the house, the senate, and the presidency for the last two years. Apparently Reality is something regressives will never live in.

  21. Re:Doubtful Accuracy on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Blue states subsidize almost all red states every year. Red states are the ultimate entitlement whores. Lets pass a law that says no state can get back more than $1.05 benefit per $1 input, nor less than $.95. We'd see virtually every red state collapse because they're leeches.

  22. Re:Doubtful Accuracy on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's so funny that idiots don't understand that high tax (blue states) have high taxes at the state level because low tax (red states) leach so much money off of those blue states at the federal level, so they have to make up for paying for the red states whoring. And when i say "funny," i really mean "how fucking stupid can they be."

  23. Re:But it's not their ads on CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    http://kspress.com/sites/defau...

    There's some reading about the basics (from Kansas of all places). First one that came up on the search, so there it is. Places that carries ads (such as a newspaper or like Facebook) have the right to refuse anything they deem might be offensive. That's not too hard to understand, and if you are getting old, you should already know that. That doesn't mean the medium (whether it's a newspaper or Facebook) has an obligation to check the veracity of every ad that comes across their desk (passed those things that are regulated by statute).

    Advertisers can obviously game the system, and often they pay a penalty for that (whether legally or in negative reactions). I do think they should pay a greater penalty, but what that system would look like, i don't know.

    Too much of this is conflating who's doing what, and who should be responsible for the content. If you hold the medium itself responsible,and not the bad actors creating the advertisements.... it would be the end of all mediums because no one would take the risk of running any ads whatsoever. It's also conflating product with revenue. If Facebook is an ad company because it uses ad's to generate revenue, then every single company in the entire world that's ever placed an ad is also an ad company, which is a patently stupid statement to try to make. Facebook is a social media company who makes revenue by selling ad space... they are not an ad company (personally i don't see them as a tech company either, but more of a regulated forum for people to converse).

  24. But it'snot their ads on CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not the ones lying or misleading, it's the people who actually make the ads or who make the claims that are lying; Facebook itself is just the medium. It's like a newspaper is in the business of collecting and disseminating news, but it's paid for only partially (a small part) by subscriptions... the majority of it's revenue comes from ads. If the newspaper prints an ad that is deceptive or misleading, it's not the one lying... whoever created the ad is.

    Facebook's model is not that dissimilar to that of a newspaper, although they don't charge a subscription cost. Suggesting that a newspaper, or Facebook, should be (or even are) held accountable for third parties who place ads on them (or communicate through them) is pretty much nonsense;newspapers have guidelines on adds they can't place (such as discriminatory housing or job offer ads), but they are not required to verify the validity of third party ads (in general).

    Now you can argue that you'd like them to be, but we've already seen how that works out with them 86'ing lying conspiracy theory asshats like Alex Jones, and then they get (a very loud) feedback loop by those lied to who still want to believe the lies, and then push even more lies like the whole "bias against conservatives." The real answer would be directing the remedy (whatever that is) towards those who actually produce the misleading or false ads in the first place.