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  1. Great for the Boundary Waters on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    And other camping trips. Cool! Maybe could power a telescope's clock drive. Lots of cool uses.

  2. Natural result of their government's beliefs on China Bans Horror Movies · · Score: 1

    Mainland China is under the yoke of an officially Atheist dictatorship. Horror movies have two qualities that atheists are opposed to: 1) Objective right and wrong above and beyond the will of the State. 2) the supernatural.

  3. How -can- they fight back? on Canadians Wary of 'Enhanced Drivers Licenses' · · Score: 1
    The Englishry-in-arms (Magna Carta, Bill of Rights of 1688) has already been disarmed.

    Every step, every association is watched on cctv.

    There is no England, only Orwell's Oceana.

    "What say the reeds of Runneymede?"

  4. Looking inside your suitcase w/out a warrant on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is also unconstitutional. But these days we are encouraged to snigger, and call 'nuts' the one candidate out of the pack who says that the federal government should be made to obey the Constitution.

  5. Adults learn best by total immersion, too on Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining · · Score: 1

    But that doesn't make it conscious data-mining.

  6. Finally a spin-off on Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner · · Score: 1

    after 50 years. Good to see military work coming to the private sector. I supect we are looking at the SR-71's engine-type. Of course, a sub-orbital hop in something like the NASA-destroyed Delta Clipper would be more efficient in numerous ways, and have a flight-time of perhaps 90 minutes, max.

  7. I remember when it was a local show in the Cities on Joel Hodgson Answers · · Score: 1

    Just a nice fun Saturday morning show. Brilliant, Genius, but just local.

  8. There hasn't been an England for some time on Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since the Blair government. The wholesale overturn of the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights of 1688 with the thought-crime laws and the disarmament of the Englishry-in-Arms, and the establishment of the Panopticon - the once-imaginary ideal prison - over all of England with the cctv Surveillance State has created Orwell's Oceana, where once there was an England.

  9. The correct form is "Welsh" on First Evidence Of Under-Ice Volcanoes In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    And they are indeed mammals. What this has to do with Antarctica, I'm not sure. Oh, did you mean 'whales'? If so then your pronunciation and spelling, rather than your grammar, is off. ;-)

  10. Not the first at all! on First Evidence Of Under-Ice Volcanoes In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    This has been known for a long time - that significant underice vulcanism in Antarctica was causing the ice streams. BTW, the much large East Antarctic ice cap is thickening and growing significantly.

  11. Re:doesn't matter on New Hampshire Primaries Follow-Up Analysis · · Score: 1

    Whenever we try to decertify dead people and require that people vote only once, the Democrats cry bloody blue murder. Wisconsin students were boasting of voting four and five times the last federal election. St. Louis polls were held open illegally long so that west county suburbanites could drive in and vote a second or third time, over-turning the vote in the rest of the State. This is -typical- "Democrat" behavior. Dipping fingers in ink would be a start. That wouldn't prevent counters pushing out chads with their fingers, or going in through electronic backdoors to change voting results as in Venezuela, where many districts had the same numerical results, no matter the population, but it is a start.

  12. When government is too powerful. . . on The Video Game Industry Goes Political · · Score: 1

    Then everything becomes political. This is just another sign of the fallout of tyranny.

  13. Re:Why do you always have this vote counting issue on New Hampshire Primaries Follow-Up Analysis · · Score: 1

    First of all, our separate States are States. You know, like England and France? Secondly, one of the party's has perfected pushing chads out of ballots to alter the results. Unfortunately Hugo Chavez' electronic voting machines have back doors. I'm afraid that we need to institute purple fingers as in Iraq and a much clearer, less fraud-prone, vote counting system.

  14. Fat chance, Democrats have banned manned Mars on NASA Wants Fast Moonbuggies and Solid Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Even research - the true anti-science party. And Barak Hussein Obama wants to ban Moon missions as well.

  15. Hack on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    In a text-only form, on a mainframe terminal at Iowa State during an Astronomy seminar.

  16. Re:Distributed legal processing & response on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 1

    Judge to plaintiff: "I see that your clients are still in possession of the pig they say was stolen?" "Case dismissed"

  17. Re:It's Not Cost Prohibitive... on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    Yep, that is another big duh that city slickers don't understand. They cry about ethanol too, not realizing corn prices are set on the Chicago Board of Trade, not supply and demand, and that the prices have to do with NAFTA removing protectionist rules, not ethanol production, which is still minute.

  18. Sows farrow quite a few piglets. on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Always have. Nothing new here. Twins, triplets, heptuplets, nothing new. Part of nature. Every once in a while a sheep or a cow will have twins, too. City people. They think food comes from grocery stores, and then get all upset when they read something that the reporter didn't understand.

  19. Boon for the disabled, and astronauts on Coming Soon — Cyborg Farmers · · Score: 1

    The greatest life-changing benefit I can see for these are for the disabled - quadriplegics, paraplegics, stroke victims, those weakened by various conditions. They don't need super-strength, but being able to get around town without a walker or wheel-chair would be massively life-enhancing for millions. For astronauts on Fred, or future Mars explorers, these devices would help tremendously in extending their capabilities for assembly, and for exploration. Then of course, there are construction workers.

  20. Re:The Earth is 6000 years old on Huge Hydrogen Cloud Will Hit Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Quite easily. It is called Einsteinian relativity plus the inflationary model of the Big Bang.

  21. They have no lawful authority to do this on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Just plain true. See 10th Amendment.

  22. The law says: on US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection · · Score: 1

    Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Any civil servant or magistrate acting outside of the lawful purview of his office, is acting as a private citizen.

  23. Re:"The West", you say? on Western-Style Voting 'A Loser' · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Founding Fathers strongly feared and loathed Athenian Democracy "mob rule" because it always led to absolute dictatorship. They based our system upon three historical precedents: the tribes of Israel, the Anglo-Saxon folk moots and witanegemot, and the Venetian Republic.

  24. America on Western-Style Voting 'A Loser' · · Score: 1

    For those outside of these united States, (and many within), let me explain what we have here: We have a federal republic of 50 States, each of which is technically more independent than Britain or France in the EU (though the central government has been working against this since the 1913 amendments) In order for us to have one country, instead of several, there was a compromise between the large (populous) States and the small States. The large States insisted on one head-of-family, one vote, the small States insisted on one State, one vote; each thus favoring themselves over the other. The compromise was that the House of Representatives would be populated based upon population, by majority vote in each district in each State, and the Senate would be populated based upon State, with the Senators chosen (and replaceable) by the several State legislatures. The 17th amendment in 1913 violated the Large State-Small State compromise in part, by changing the Senate to plurality vote. The Democrats, led by She Who Must Not Be Named and the Nobel Fleece Prize laureate Al Gore, wish to totally destroy the compromise, giving all electoral power to California and New York. Were they to succeed, the compromise that made this country possible would be over, and the rest of the several States would be justified in leaving. Could our system be better? Probably. The Founding Fathers insisted on no parties what so ever, but we have in effect a two-party system, each being an insane sort of parliament of factions. If the lower house of representatives were turned into a national parliament, and the Senate returned to the control of the several States, and the federal government once more limited in power by the Constitution, we might have something a lot fairer and more workable - and a lot less likely to be able to attempt empire.

  25. Re:Two party system? on Western-Style Voting 'A Loser' · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the lovely Russian-style democracy used by the Walloon police in beeting and arresting Flemish members of parliament.