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  1. Re:No thanks either way on Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist · · Score: 1

    Even if it does exist, who would want to go there after reading this: average temperature between minus 24 and minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 31 to minus 12 degrees Celsius). Gliese 581g completes an orbit every 37 days or so. frozen plus vertigo? no thanks.

    Really? Really? You are either joking, or 12 years old.

  2. I S R on Iran Acknowledges Espionage At Nuclear Facilities · · Score: 1

    espionage acknowledges you

  3. Machine Ethics - Scenario on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will it pick up hitchhikers?
    Will it courteously let people pull out who have been waiting?
    Will it flick-off people who drive 30 under?
    Will it flick-off people who drive 30 over?
    Will it flicker brights to warn of speed traps?
    Will it pull over for emergency vehicles?
    Will it draft large semis?
    Will it bring me hookers and blackjack?

    Also, who receives the citation in the event of a stop?

  4. Re:Rules of the Road on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Automated cars
    2. Bad human drivers

    if (rearCarDriver == human)
    {
    BrakeCheck();
    }

    3. Profit! Thanks state-laws-always-faulting-driver-in-rear!

  5. Rules of the Road on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guarantee they will use their turn signals better that wet-bodies.

  6. Re:flowers to a gun fight on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 1

    Courtney Love would like it.

  7. Re:flowers to a gun fight on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Conservatives murder hippie protesters

    It is this polarization between parties that results in nothing being accomplished in America. Blanket statements like that are A) False, unless you can confirm that everybody that landed a bullet was a conservative, B) Begging the questions, for them to be murderers renders them shooters, for them to be shooters renders them conservative, for them to be conservative renders them against hippie protesters, round and round we go.

    How about just saying that the Man fucked up. Screw party affiliation. If we are always blaming left or right, we will always get screwed up the middle by both. Stop viewing the world through the R-D filter and start viewing it as us (people) vs them (people we elect). Oh wait.

  8. Re:Computers replacing bureaucrats? on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So I'm not sure which is worse, humans or machines.

    I'll tell you. Humans that write long diatribes with machine fonts!

  9. Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut 1e+12 USD on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 1
    , but nod and continue what they are doing. FTS:

    can save

    Yep.

    If the cash-strapped U.S. government enacted

    Uh huh.

    it could save

    Probably.

    could also reduce

    Most likely.

    the report said.

    It sure did. It said nothing of substance is currently being done. I am being a cynical ass (nothing new under the sun), but I don't believe this report will change the bloat.

    At least they are considering hypotheticals!

  10. Re:Insightful Novel about EMP devastation to socie on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 1

    Great book. Stock up on .22LR my friend, for it will be yours when the high altitude EMPs arrive.

  11. !Surprising on Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From Medal of Honor Multiplayer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There have been worse things in video-games. Postal 2 anyone?

    If EA had statistical evidence that they would've lost revenue through lawsuits, civil cases, and bad word-of-mouth by releasing the game with "Taliban", then perhaps this was a smart business decision. But if they are simply "bowing" if you will, well, that is lame.

    I am not for the Taliban at all, I am just saying bowing to the complainers only reinforces their behavior.

  12. Comment Count on Exploits Propagated Via Social Media Increase · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As of posting I see 21 comments for this story, ~5 hours after its initial posting. Conclusion: Nobody cares and/or nobody empathizes with those affected by said malicious exploits propagated via social media.

    Hell, if anything, I call it digital natural selection. Taking out the weak and ignorant one Like at a time.

  13. Re:Why the hell was this posted? on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and this is news?

    for nerds dammit. NERDS. Respect our authoritah.

  14. Re:Bah! on Unseen Moon Landing Video Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    If it was real y is their gravity? Americans are fuckin sheep

  15. Re:Humans are so fragile...if only we were hardier on Earth-Like Planet That Could Sustain Life Found · · Score: 5, Informative

    genetically modify humans to live in a wider variety of environments

    That would never make it through the intergalactic genetic engineering subcommittee. Their chest-pumping and rhetoric would stop it before it hit the hull floor.

    (Posted from the year 2089, see you guys soon! The future is great, but the space-beer is a little watered down.) Yankees win in 66, America is nuked by Eskimos in 70, and 89 is to be the year of the Linux holodeck neural interface.

  16. Space DUI on Researchers Test Space Beer · · Score: 1

    I want to be the guy who gets a space DUI. Totally worth it. "But occifer I warrz just going to the neerest lagraaange points derp."

  17. Images on Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting story. Dumbass images. Besides the burned newspaper bag and perhaps one obscure image of the parabolic hotel in question, every other image is just scenery or people partying in a pool. The fact that there are so many of them on the ABC website touts the true journalistic intent (or perhaps marketing, scantily clad women abound).

  18. Ctrl+F Aggregation on Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans · · Score: 0

    This is my new internet filter. Load news / aggregation site , press "Ctrl+F" in chrome, type "apple" and count. If count > 10 on a single page, I never go there again. Oh cra

  19. Re:Submit DMCA reports on management of suddenlink on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    Contact them. Emails or live chat or phone. Let them know who pays there bills.

  20. Re:Ever notice... on MPAA Asks If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    I agree, it is mostly (if not all) pay to play. They both bat for the same team, that's for sure. And that's. But we could take a defeatist standpoint, wait for a revolution, or at least try in the current system. Options aren't so great. Its apparent in how both parties ostracize the third parties, many times those minorities are the only ones that could possibly make a difference.

  21. All the better on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 0, Troll

    All the better to track you my pretty.

  22. Re:Ever notice... on MPAA Asks If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Contact your representative. Ask them to clearly and concisely state their stance on ACTA. If it doesn't comply with your views. Vote. That. Fucker. Out. Tell your friends.

    Keep doing it. If enough people continually push the douschers out of office, perhaps they will get the message. Send them welcoming letters. Make them feel the recession (thats supposedly over). In reality, businesses swept off all the excess cream and just went with lower quality, cheaper wages, and cut benefits, and offshoring and now they're profiting again! Yay! No more recession!

    Or we can do nothing. Be apathetic, and let our rights continually be trampled on by these asshats. Can we bring some semblence of intellectual curiosity and creative initiative back to America, or piss it away?

    If you at least vote, you have some say in the complaining process. And if you have never voted, perhaps now is the time to start. I know I will.

  23. Re:Five years behind? on Mega Man Designer Explains Japan's Waning Video Game Influence · · Score: 1
  24. not just japan on Mega Man Designer Explains Japan's Waning Video Game Influence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    no diversity, no originality

    sounds like every other copypasta shooter, sports game, racing game we have from the mainstream devs/publishers here in the states. If you ask me, Japanese games have some of the most diversity and originality. America's latest Shoot 'em Up? They aren't that unique. Call of Duty maps being released as free downloads for PC, then being re-released as 'map packs' for money a couples years later. Mainstream here is mostly movie spin-offs, sequels, prequels, and rehashes. And Madden 19xx-20xx, but nothing new under the sun there either. Sims games? NCAA games? Comic-book games made after movies? Games made after movies made about games? Intellectual property my ass. More like unoriginal crap-ware extortion.

  25. Re:Please select your chosen response to this arti on Facing Oblivion, Island Nation Makes Big Sacrifice · · Score: 1

    11. Frosty Piss

    12. Invoke Random Meme

    13. First Post (but not really first)

    14. @Twitter style response. #Herp-#Derp