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  1. Who bears the financial risk? on Interview With Spreadsheet Creator · · Score: 1

    Those who put up the money. They generally get the rewards. If you are able to get financial backing and are smart and things break your way, you should get rewards to. But if I do amazing things for my company, we already have an arrangement. They get my labor for a salary.

    That's a long way around the barn to say: reward comes with risk.

  2. It will run so hot... on Final PS3 Launch List Shows 13 Games For America · · Score: 1

    that you can put your extremeties next to the power source. That will prevent frostbite.

  3. No Need to Poison the Well on RIAA President Decries Fair Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Like a true spinner"

    Let the guy make his points and disagree where you feel appropriate. But there is no need to preface it with a comment. You could say that about anyone trying to make an argument.

  4. The Republicans still rigged this election cycle on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 1

    ...they just wanted a different outcome to keep them off-guard on all the other election cycles.

  5. Those of us who supported outsourcing... on IT Worker Shortages Everywhere · · Score: 4, Interesting

    or at least the freedom to outsource were confident that, ultimately, outsourcing would be a net benefit for everyone. For India and for America.

    This seems to be confirmation of that.

  6. Ethics is easier... on Microsoft Considers Pulling Out of China · · Score: 1

    with $40 billion in the bank.

    I'm not knocking Microsoft here. I'm just saying it's easier.

  7. Run for it Marty! on PS3 8x More Power Hungry Than PS2 · · Score: 1

    Tom, how could I have been so stupid?

  8. Paper Jams? on Voting Machines Banned by Dutch Minister · · Score: 1

    People not being able to vote due to paper jams. More moving parts will be problematic.

  9. Re:Astonishing on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    He had no connection to 9/11 but he had connections to terrorists and to al Qaeda.

    Here is an older article that covers some of this: http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200 406170840.asp

  10. Re:Astonishing on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    Opposition was stopped by sanctions but my Saddam's brutality. Sanctions were largely ineffective and allowed Saddam to create the Oil for Food corruption. He bribed politicians all over the world.

    People complained about ineffective sanctions. Then they complained about removing him by force. In other words, no real solutions were offered to the group of people who actually wanted to do something.

  11. Re:it's about the lawyers on ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    If they lose and lose badly in court, people wouldn't be able to complain about all the lost liberties due to the Patriot Act. Now, people can still say we are losing unnamed liberties without having to establish that belief with legal reasoning.

  12. So They Lost and Declared Victory on ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    because they got modest tweaks.

    Seems like they realized the courts weren't sympathetic to their legal arguments.

  13. Ask Dan Rather... on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    how conservatives believe the Internet can be used?

    Conservatives aren't motivated to rig Google. Guilty as charged. That's not the same as using the Internet.

  14. Re: 10 reasons the US is hated on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with self-sacrifice. But there is nothing inherently wrong with making money for yourself, your family, and others either.

  15. Those who are think those other soruces are free on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    from bias are the most enslaved to bias.

  16. But the difference being... on Viking Mars Mission Might Have Missed Life · · Score: 1

    Looking for life or organic compounds coming from Earth to Mars via meteorites. That is a reasonable scenario worth looking into.

  17. Nice Pic of North Korea at Night on The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea · · Score: 1

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4677663.st m

    This is a closer up pic that was in the news a few weeks ago.

  18. I think your post is racist on EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Europeans are no different than say the Japanese. The Europeans had the opportunity to fight and dominate. If other countries were in the same position, they would have done the same things. The Nazis were a particular ideology though. Communism did a number in China. It's nothing inherent in Europe.

  19. She Had Anti-Jihad Videos on YouTube on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming a bunch of pro-jihad people banded together and complained enough to get her anti-jihad videos removed from YouTube.

  20. Lobbyist is only a bad word on Open Source Foes In Bed With Abramoff · · Score: 1

    Until they are lobbying for something you agree about. The right to petition the government is a very essential right. Lobbyists, for good and ill, are a part of that right.

  21. This guy is no troll on Google in Talks to Buy YouTube · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is a concern with the YouTube system. If the reports turn out to be true, a bunch of pro-jihadists get together and complain about anti-jihad videos on YouTube.

    Being concerned about anti-jihad videos being banned at YouTube is no troll.

  22. Real + Bestbuy on Best Buy, Real and SanDisk To Launch Music Service · · Score: 1

    Watching all our actions and then asking us to mail in a rebate. What's not to love?

  23. Re:Scientific Method is grounded in theism on Group Fights Politicizing Science and Engineering · · Score: 1

    "Please tell me how you think theism is falsifiable - please tell me of any measurement I can make to show that your belief that the universe is governed by laws set by an omnipotent god is in any way false. Please tell me how you think theism which lacks this basic feature of any scietific statement could in some way be the ground of the scientific method."

    The scientific method is not a scientific falsifiable theory. It is how you falsify or confirm scientific theories.

    In a similar way, theism can be shown to be true because it must be assumed in order to make sense out of reality and our experience. If God is the ground of all being, this makes sense. The denial of theism destroys the ground of rationality, morality, etc.

    Non-theists have to borrow from theism while denying the necessary basis for it.

    Obviously, I'm just giving you a broad overview of the argument.

  24. Re:Scientific Method is grounded in theism on Group Fights Politicizing Science and Engineering · · Score: 1

    Probabilities still rest on the future being like the past.

  25. Re:Scientific Method is grounded in theism on Group Fights Politicizing Science and Engineering · · Score: 1

    Years of observing doesn't guarantee they will stay the same.

    I start with the assumption that the laws of physics are grounded on a God who orders and sustains the universe as He has promised to do.

    Physical laws which are rooted on nothing mean they could change, stay the same, go back and forth...who knows?

    Miracles doesn't mean the whole paradigm shifts. The possibility of a miracle doesn't necessitate a whole new set of physics each time a miracle theoretically happens.