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  1. The first public alpha, you mean. on A Screenshot Review of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    Is it even usable yet?

  2. In related news today. . on Norway's Yes-To-OOXML Is Formally Protested · · Score: 5, Funny

    The International Standards Organization has rebranded itself as MS.ISO, and is making itself available for vote tabulation in the Russian Federation, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Broward County.

  3. affection!=sexual interest on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1

    If that isn't understood, very bad things can happen.

  4. Re:2048 on What Will Life Be Like In 2008? · · Score: 1

    Worldwide crop failures due to the Maunder Minimum that began in 1998 are beginning to ease as the global "throw another log on the fire" campaign begins to take effect. Some predict that Vancouver will become a port city again, at least in the late summer months. Predictions of the future are banned, of course, as being socially irresponsible. Anyone reminding anyone else of the past or predicting the future is quickly sent to 'socialization'. Chilean and Argentine guerrillas fight on against the forces of the Geneva-based Caliphate, in Tierra del Fuego. The 2048 Olympics are being held in Sydney, China, Tokyo, China having lost the bid. It is an unsocial untruth to claim that there ever was an America, or that Christianity was ever anything but a sub-Saharan African cult. The Chinese/Caliphate cold war sees multi-million man armies staring at each other across the Urals.

  5. Pity, Formosa needs deterrance against Red Guards on Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan · · Score: 1

    Look at Tibet. Formosa/Taiwan/Republic of China needs a deterrent against the imperialist aggression of the hegemonist Red Guards terrorist organization that oppresses the mainland, Tibet, Uighur and Manchuria.

  6. But carbon is ee-vul!! We must reduce our graphene on Graphene May be the New Silicon · · Score: 1

    footprints.

  7. Re:War not peace? on Mars Rovers Facing Budget Cuts [Updated] · · Score: 1

    It was NASA that made this decision. It wasn't part of the budget, they -chose- to take the money away first from MSL, and now from the MER project to divert to other programs. Contrary to the instructions of the executive branch.

  8. It's the Democrats, stupid. on Mars Rovers Facing Budget Cuts [Updated] · · Score: 1

    The Democrats passed the budget that Bush signed. The Democrats made it it illegal to work on a manned Mars mission, it is Barak Hussein Obama who doesn't want us to have -any- crewed space program. NASA management wants to keep their jobs past the end of next January, so they are trying to cater to the anti-Mars Democrats by doing this. MSL has already had -instruments- cut. It is Bush who set the program to go to Mars in a big way, including with crewed missions. Get your facts straight. I'm angered by this action at NASA, too! It is unconscionable. It is politics and brown-nosing, not good science-based decisions.

  9. Ansibles on Hyper-Entangled Photons — 'Superdense' Coding Gets Denser · · Score: 1

    We now just have to do it with tangible particles then put half on MSL and half in JPL, measure the states, and alter the states, for elimination of information transmission times, drive the rover at real-time speed.

  10. The several States could withhold the federal tax on California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt · · Score: 1

    levies. Recall their senators. Something. This is another element of tyranny. Another plank in the platform that we do not any longer possess a legitimate federal government.

  11. Federal saftey regs to be met? on New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced · · Score: 1

    They are a chief cause in the reduction of mileage in high-mileage vehicles over the last 20 years. Make the x prize meet the federal safety and emissions guidelines, which are the chief hindrances to fuel economy. And make the range a much more reasonable 500 miles between refuelings. No one wants to have to fill the tank every three hours.

  12. um, no. Methane is found in atmospheres of -stars- on Molecular Basis for Life Found on Extrasolar Planet · · Score: 1

    It isn't necessarily biologically produced. But any chemical involving carbon and hydrogen is called 'organic' even if it is inorganic in origin.

  13. Ron Paul illegally left out in a number of areas on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    With locals telling voters that he'd pulled out of the campaign, when he hadn't. What were they so afraid of?

  14. But what about policy? on Talk to This Year's Quirkiest Senatorial Candidate · · Score: 1

    That is all well and fine, but Oregon has trampled upon the unalienable rights of its citizens for years now. Will this guy change any of that?

  15. no free speech w/out an armed citizenry on State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online · · Score: 1

    And once the citizenry has been disarmed by its servants in the government, anonymity is the only way that free speech is possible. Take that away, and you no longer have free speech. Which ideas shall we label "hate" today? Those ideas we disagree with, of course.

  16. And Mrs. Clinton's files? Not the ones she stole on White House Email Follies · · Score: 1

    from the FBI to blackmail politicians, but her own files that all other candidates disclose?

  17. Re:The 2 ways to obtain Pu-238 on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    And in so doing, give us energy independence for a whole lot less than the War on Method, and make using ethanol or hydrogen as energy storage, efficient.

  18. Panopticon was an ideal prison on Chicago Links School Cameras To Police · · Score: 1

    An armed society is a polite society. A watched society is an enslaved society.

  19. Bad idea, misunderstands scientists on Mega-Cash Prizes and Revolutionary Science · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Scientists are motivated by discovery. Fund their -projects- and they will happily work away. I don't believe it will be possible to keep such suggested prizes free from political correctness and Survivor-style political corruption. Who is a first-rater? Who is a second-rater? Edison was a failure. So was Einstein. Especially at the young ages described. One simply never knows who might discover something. DARPA and X-prizes are -far- more effective uses of the money, and models for applying the money.

  20. Exactly right! on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    MDs need to know this stuff, many do not. Journalists don't even begin to have a clue. Who funded the study? Qui buono? Where are the replicating studies? Was the methodology valid?

  21. Re:Depression is not all serotonin, and on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    Different people have different metabolisms. Depression is not only caused by insufficient active serortonin, it is also caused by insufficient dopamine and insufficient norepinephrine and occasionally other neurotransmitters. Too many medical doctors have erroneous views from outdated medical school classes in their past. 1) people are genetically different, have different metabolisms and this affects the processing of various medications, including SSRIs, dopamine medications and norepinephrine medications. 2) this also means that people respond differently to different SSRIs. An endocrinologist friend of mine told me that SSRIs will affect a whole host of neurotransmitter and other biological systems, differently from each other. It just isn't that simple, and the body is not a simple black box.

  22. Pseudo-science just like earlier article complains on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    One study. Not reproduced. That isn't science. It is more likely to be due to talk-therapists wanting to keep their jobs, since so many other studies show that they do work, powerfully, and that talk-therapy -lengthens- recovery time by about 50%. . .

  23. Epicycles on CERN Scientists Looking for the Force · · Score: 1

    Stochastic electrodynamics, also known as Planck's second theory, is gaining ground, and even Einstein duplicated everything in classical dynamics. The Higgs isn't a 'god particle' it is a fudge factor particle, just like dark matter and dark energy. Epicycles upon epicycles.

  24. Re:How would this work for snow on Nanotechnology-Powered Wiper-Less Windshield · · Score: 1

    Exactly! What about a layer of ice an inch think, with 12 inches of snow on top of it? This integrated RainX is nice, but it is not a replacement for windshield wipers.

  25. Simple: repeal the 17th Amendment on Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement · · Score: 1

    And possibly convert the lower house into a parliament-style chamber.