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  1. meteoroid not asteroid on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    That is too small to think of as an asteroid. Myself I'd make the switch at maybe 100 meters.

  2. This is a natural right, not censorship. Family on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    Is prior to the civil government both historically and ontologically. Mothers and fathers have always had that right of in 'loco parentis', because they *are* the parentis.' Civil government does not grant that right, nor does it have the authority to take it away.

  3. I didn't sign up for this! on Google Profiling Social Network Users · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But I suppose if Obama is elected his blackshirts will know who to go after to disappear.

  4. Not so appealing on Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West · · Score: 1

    Most if not all ranchers would prefer to get out and about and not live indoors. That is one of the attractions of the lifestyle. Sure, knowing where your cattle -are- would be a good thing, but you are going to want to check on them, and the water tanks, and salt blocks, and their health in person.

  5. What will we re-name the mountain range? on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    And do ya think da Greeks will go along wit dis, eh?

  6. We known this for a long time on Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? · · Score: 4, Informative

    At least as far as gas and dust are concerned. The Standard Model explanation is that a 'nearby' star (the pulsar Geminga) went supernova a good long time ago, and blasted a large bubble (300 ly across) of relatively gas and dust free space, called 'the Local Bubble', and our solar system is well within this bubble. The relationship between that and what is being discussed I do not know, for details haven't been provided even on such things as scale. Do a search on 'Local Bubble' and you will find a great deal of information about this.

  7. I thought it was "God Save the Queen" on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    I guess not, well, they oughta change it to "Northwest Passage" anyway. . .

  8. How do we know? They released false launch chatter on Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk · · Score: 0

    from before the launch. We have no idea if they sent up live humans, let alone if the live humans come back. No doubt NORAD and the Naval Observatory can tell if they launched something, and get some pretty good pictures of it, but not evidence of crew or a successful landing.

  9. stupid judge but site def. actionable on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 1

    As it was bearing false witness accusing the principle of career-destroying crimes - which would have been the legitimate legal basis for action, not the idiotic muddle that is reported here. Stupid judges appear to be commonplace, as California shows.

  10. Unfortunately, Google is not content-neutral on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    It is both affected by bribes (payments for higher rankings) and by its political and religious agenda, which causes it to block sites that are inconstant with its agenda. As such, it is not a truly free search engine, and its proposed datahavens would likewise fail to live up to the freedom of Snowcrash.

  11. A public utility sues the public? Dumb! on Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber · · Score: 1

    They can be replaced. The municipality simply has to reject that telco. This is absurd. Public utilities are granted their monopoly in exchange to serving the public, with quality service and without exploiting the monopoly for profiteering. Suing the city because they are 'competing' with the utility is surely grounds for not renewing that utilities' contract.

  12. They keep records?!?!?!! on DOJ Needs Warrant To Track Your Cell's GPS History · · Score: 1

    Whatever for? That sounds like Police State tactics. Datamine to find your acquaintances so that they can be arrested, too.

  13. attention shifts increase production from ADDers on Why Email Has Become Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Tis true. One size does not fit all.

  14. Not even close on Biologist (Almost) Creates Artificial Life · · Score: 1

    A living cell is profoundly more complicated than the lipid shell this individual designed. And then he takes already formed nucleic acids, that already have code invented and written upon them, and in the end, has has made the equivalent of a plastic box that he stuck pieces of a floppy disk in. Talk about hype!

  15. and a book is made of paper and ink on Are 68 Molecules Enough To Understand Diseases? · · Score: 1

    which tells you nothing of the content or the meaning.

  16. It's the Drakh Plague! on Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier · · Score: 1

    Mutating in species jumps!

  17. beer on The Open Source Humanoid Robot and Its Many Uses · · Score: 1

    Now there's a useful robot. Hope it isn't AI and up and joins the WCTU! ;-)

  18. The fleet will prevent the ice age? Restart the su on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cause the sun is still in the 'off' position, putting us into a little ice age. One of those 'inconvenient facts' that the 'carbon trading' profiteers don't want you to know about. And if you don't get outside much, you probably aren't aware of the cooling.

  19. I bet it is a standard bell-curve distribution on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    1) And what about all that dark fiber?
    2) Turn on the bandwidth people pay for.
    3) File class action lawsuits against the cable utilities for marketing bandwidth that they are unable to deliver.
    4) Engage in competition, providing the bandwidth advertised for real, and see them lose customers.

  20. Re:unconscionable contracts are unenforceable on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    The key thing here is that it was advertised as unlimited for 10 dollars. That is false advertisement, as such, the bill was indeed unconscionable and possibly illegal. Certainly immoral. Immoral people posting to the contrawise notwithstanding. They should tremble lest what they need is to experience the same thing which they mock.

  21. This has been the minority view for many years on Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered · · Score: 1

    The first in the New World appear to be the same peoples as the Australian and Tasmanian aborigines, not too much after they reached those lands, and they had to have had ocean-going technology to get there. The second group where Europeans, the Clovis culture, following the seal and walrus along the edge of the ice from Europe. The third were the Jomon culture peoples following the coasts from Japan and Korea,the fourth and fifth emigrations were from northern Siberia, then you have the Norse 1,000 years ago. This does not count the possible, genetically and culturally-insignificant contacts via ships blown off course, and Irish monks seeking the "white martyrdom."

  22. Indeed, an ABC newcrew tried this on Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites · · Score: 1

    at the DNC Convention, and was arrested for being on a public sidewalk.

  23. They already have on Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites · · Score: 1

    with BO's attack on talk radio and any television station that might air negative information about him, and the threat not only to the airwaves, but also to web content by Democrats in Congress, to apply the "fairness act" to the web (as if there were a limited number of channels on the web).

  24. XCor engine better tuned. Pink exhaust for Armadil on Rocket Racing League Flights With Armadillo Engine · · Score: 1

    A LOX-Alcohol flame should be blue, as in the X-cor video. Pink is a sign of a cool and imperfect combustion. further the X-cor engine shows the standing-wave bunsen-like effect of optimal tuning, and the ability to start and restart. Both companies are intending a gradual development into an orbiter. Let's wish them well.

  25. The only reason we don't use the 'spent' rods on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 1

    Is that Jimmy Carter issued a decree that we not use them. Otherwise we can refine them and use them again, and again.