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  1. Re:No, the question is: what happened on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 1

    The real question is: if Mars once had Earth-like conditions, is there a risk Earth will end up with Mars-like conditions in the foreseeable future?

    No. In hundreds of millions of years, yes, it could happen. Now? No, it could not without violating the known laws of physics.

  2. Re:Good and bad on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 1

    Then it will have plenty of fossils...and we won't have to worry about contaminating the planet.

  3. Re:Why is the list of permit holders anybody ... on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Kill someone with a gun and the law has to prove you committed a crime, seriously, how gun nut crazy is that.

    The same would be try if you killed someone any other way. Killing someone is not a crime as long as your doing it in self defense or your authorized to do it by the government (soldiers).

  4. Re:You must be joking! on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    Ask a bunch of logically minded people what they think about the supernatural and you get the their honest opinion. Or do you mean "religion" as in the organizations that control religious people? As far as that goes, they deserve whatever disrespect they get.

  5. The future is now! on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    The headline reads like something from a new fiction genre... cyber-inquisition-noir.

  6. Re:Why is the list of permit holders anybody ... on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Then I think you have the wrong idea about who gun owners are. Gun owners are everywhere. Pot smokers are everywhere. Gay people are everywhere. oh my! I don't even own guns because I live in a bad neighborhood...my neighborhood is actually quite nice. I was given two guns as gifts by my gun nut uncle. And I have one I bought just because I thought I should have one. I don't even know how I'd go about getting rid of them if I wanted to. My roommate has one too. We're both somewhat liberal people. If you saw me you'd think certainly think so too. Yet...we have guns....and neither of us think too much of it.

  7. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Swords are inherently lethal too. What do you need those for? Let's make everyone register their swords and make it a public record. If all you LARP nuts just killed yourselves....

  8. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1, Troll

    Or murder, or abduct kids.

  9. Re:Computers in Guns? on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    Buy a fucking alarm for your house

    You do realize that an alarm going off is not instant safety. Also, there's no guarantee it will be tripped by someone getting into your house. They might just walk in the front door during the day when the alarm is off.

  10. Re:Why not just keep them locked up? on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 2

    Prisons are run by corporations now. Overcrowded prisons are good for economy therefore good for America!

  11. Re:Ya, prevent them from gaming! on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 1

    I agree with a previous post.. just disable their fucking messaging access.

    I don't. First, the sex offender registry has more than pedophiles on it. Second, these are people who have served their time already. Third, even if they are a pedophile, that does not mean they're actively out searching for their next victim. If we're going to assume that they're all serial child molesters waiting in the shadows for their chance to strike again, then we should probably keep them in jail.

  12. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    And one that was missed...don't put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to shoot.

  13. Re:Technolopgy is not the problem. on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    bad mod undo

  14. Re:Gingrich & Huckabee Weigh In on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 3

    In the Aurora Colorado movie theater attack, there were lots of injuries. Same with most gun related massacres. Using a gun does not necessarily mean you're going to kill everything you shoot at.

  15. Re:Gingrich & Huckabee Weigh In on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    If he had had a gun, there would have been 19 dead or more. The GUN is the problem.

    So much for your deathless knife attack argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010%E2%80%932011)

  16. Re:Comments on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 1

    //don't need this line anymore.

  17. Re:Comments on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't find this useful?

    //if Foos is empty don't do anything
    if (Foos != null)
    //let's go through the collection and increment the counter
    foreach (Foo foo in Foos)
    //increment the count
    foo.count++;

  18. Re:10 years does not fit the crime on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, you see, Scarlett Johansson's ass is copyrighted. So the MPAA is probably setting the sentence.

  19. Re:Lunar Warming on Twin Probes Crash Into the Moon · · Score: 1

    Floyd is full of shit. Seems quite bright in the infrared spectrum.

  20. Re:Really? on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies · · Score: 3, Informative

    Smart people know things that dumb people don't?

  21. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Do we know he was trying to kill those kids? How big was the knife? Was he just making slashing motions at their bodies instead of stabbing them? And hell, a machete would have been a lot more effective. I really don't think he was trying very hard. I'm pretty sure if I wanted to kill a room full of kids with only a bladed weapon, I could easily get a few kills. Very easily.

  22. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In order to kill somebody with a knife, you need to really, really want to

    I think the guy who did this latest shooting really really wanted to kill people.

  23. Re:the goal... on Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks · · Score: 1

    Hackers sell services like this...it could be just one guy with enough cash to pay for a DDOS attack.

  24. Re:Really? on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    Even the apostle Paul, who wrote 2/3 of the New Testament, complained at the end of his life that he was constantly sinning. Messing up is part of being human.

    Isn't that also a part of being totally evil?

  25. Re:Will not buy on Blizzard Has a Version of Diablo 3 Running On Consoles · · Score: 1

    I am familiar with the windows update process. Are you familiar with hyperbole? I'm trying to explain how ridiculous it would be if all of your Windows apps worked like Diablo 3.