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  1. Re:I just invested heavily in popcorn on Scientists Hold A Secret Meeting To Consider Creating A Synthetic Human Genome (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure they will. I bet it won't even take 10 years.

  2. Re: I just invested heavily in popcorn on Scientists Hold A Secret Meeting To Consider Creating A Synthetic Human Genome (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Great...does this mean I now get to quote from a more important book...like one of the Harry Potter volumes, or maybe "Letters From The Earth"?

  3. Re:I just invested heavily in popcorn on Scientists Hold A Secret Meeting To Consider Creating A Synthetic Human Genome (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. You get an A+ for sophistry. They most certainly argue that their efforts aren't based in religion...because then they'd have to watch out about mixing church and state, and maybe getting their freeloading asses taxed.

    Amazing how many of Right to Lifers are in favour of capital punishment, though.

    And unless you can come up with some concrete proof that god even exists, insisting he made anything at all is simply ridiculous.

  4. Re:I just invested heavily in popcorn on Scientists Hold A Secret Meeting To Consider Creating A Synthetic Human Genome (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well played, sir. Well played indeed!

    If I was allowed to give mod points on a thread I posted in, I'd give one to you...more if I could get away with it.

  5. ...continues to call itself "News", Facebook can do pretty much whatever it likes. Doubters might want to take a look at this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkOKVw2TcBs

  6. This has possibilities on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Best drug courier ever!

  7. Self-driving cars aren't the problem on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 0

    Congestion is caused by jackholes who believe a red light means it's OK to text until half way through the subsequent green, when the person behind finally runs out of patience and starts hammering on their horn.

    A close second to these morons are Third World immigrants who buy gigantic SUV's because they know they're such horrible drivers they're going to kill somebody sooner or later, and believe a bigger vehicle will ensure they won't be the ones to pay the price for their incompetence.

  8. Re:Did you know? on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1

    Without more than your unsupported assertion, why would any sensible person accept these charges as facts?

  9. Re:Have them buy insurance... on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you're too stupid to know that vaccines don't become fully effective the minute they're administered. And I guess you're also too stupid to know infants aren't vaccinated at birth, but can still fall prey to the illnesses vaccinations prevent...which can be introduced into their environment in a number of ways.

  10. Re:Have them buy insurance... on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    And let's not forget the old folks and people with compromised immune systems they might kill.

  11. It would be far better to just let them go unvaccinated...but keep the little disease vectors the fuck away from the children of real people. And charge the parents with murder if their spawn die of a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination.

  12. Re:Put your money where your mouth is on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So you'll believe an insurance company's spin on your situation before you'll believe a doctor?

    Way to go, Sherlock.

  13. I just invested heavily in popcorn on Scientists Hold A Secret Meeting To Consider Creating A Synthetic Human Genome (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The Right To Life types will go absolutely berserk over this. The whole religious underpinning of the movement...the one they never like to talk about...will have to decide whether a human created by man should enjoy the same protection as a human created by their god.

    And when there's no sperm and egg union to enshrine as the moment when life begins, where will they draw the line? At what point during the assembly process does the thing in the dish deserve to be called human? A chimp shares all but 4% of our DNA, after all.

    This should be fun!

  14. Re:Mitochondria? on Scientists Find Gut Microbe That Survives Without Mitochondria (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I saw a pron once where some girl rode a Golgi Apparatus until she suffered what appeared to be a grand mal seizure.

  15. Re:Facebook should be allowed to use "Trending"... on Internal Docs Show Human Intervention at Almost Every Stage Of Facebook's News Operation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Suck my cock, troll.

  16. Re:Facebook should be allowed to use "Trending"... on Internal Docs Show Human Intervention at Almost Every Stage Of Facebook's News Operation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And that, in turn, goes back to the middle of the last century, when broadcasting corporations were sold the right to use the public airwaves for only a tiny fraction of the true cost. All they had to do was agree to provide a minimal level of public interest programming. That was news. Ever since, they've steadily monetized the news programs themselves, and studiously avoided savage coverage of things that might upset their advertisers.

    I doubt there will ever be another Viet Nam, where broadcast news programs brought the war right into the living rooms of Nixon's "Silent Majority", and proved to them that the hippies, peaceniks and draft dodgers were actually telling the truth, while the government and its corporate owners weren't.

  17. Facebook should be allowed to use "Trending"... on Internal Docs Show Human Intervention at Almost Every Stage Of Facebook's News Operation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...as long as Fox uses the word "News".

  18. Re:So if it's all about weight... on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I meant that as a rhetorical question, but you gave me a really interesting answer to it.

  19. Re:So if it's all about weight... on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Excellent point.

  20. Re: So if it's all about weight... on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You're very welcome. And I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one here to mention them.

  21. So if it's all about weight... on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    According to this, we should obviously ban trucks from city streets. How many cars would it take to equal the weight of an 18-wheel rolling warehouse loaded with plates, cutlery and mini-fridges for Walmart?

  22. In some dark corner of Hell... on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...Osama is high-fiving Satan under a "Mission Accomplished" banner.

  23. Re:I'm not even going to try to resist... on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I wonder if usage patterns were different, too.

  24. I'm not even going to try to resist... on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    After enduring 30 years of ads where the guy is a whiny moron who gets all his problems fixed by the smart, beautiful woman who for some mysterious reason has decided to make him the father of her children, I have no difficulty with dispensing one on the other side:

    Perhaps the study would have shown the same slight increase for women, if they had enough grey matter to be affected.

    Yes, I've already taken cover. ;-)

  25. Editor drunk again? on The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2016 Inductess · · Score: 1

    I see from the headline that the World Video Game Hall of Fame now has an Inductess. I imagine next they'll be appointing a Seductee.