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  1. Re:fusing relitivity to orders of magnitude on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sure that for the cost of the Iraq wars, the US could have converted all their energy to renewable sources or developed practical fusion power, thus never having to go to war over oil again.

  2. Re:Disappointing - Potential payoff is enormous... on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 2

    long term

    Well there's your problem. Spending on a long-term project is like throwing money into a black hole to politicians. It's bad enough if it won't pay off before the next election, but this very well might not pay off until after some of those old farts are dead! That's as worthless as a thing can possibly be to the short-sighted.

  3. Re:What a crazy situation on Encryption Keys For Kim Dotcom's Data Can't Be Given To FBI, Court Rules · · Score: 2

    This doesn't feel remotely like a healthy democracy.

    Well you answered your own question...

  4. Re:Funny he is in the aluminum business now. on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 1

    You remember correctly:

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  5. Re:Chilling Effects clone for search removals? on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 2

    They already do this in fact, using the very same Chilling Effects links.

  6. Re:Streisand effect on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 1

    They already do this, but before they couldn't request that Google remove the results directly. Instead they'd hire firms to make a bunch of empty-shell blogs with useless puff pieces related to the person in question as SEO spam to bury the undesirable link.

  7. Re:I saw this recently on Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets · · Score: 1

    I was just gonna say, she better not touch the big weird desk-computer in the basement!

    "What is this place, a rave? What am I supposed to do with this frisbee?"

  8. Re:Smart new trend in solar energy on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    I think you're right. This is an anti-hobo bench block with a nice green coat of paint to hide its true, mean-spirited purpose. From an engineering standpoint it makes much more sense that way.

  9. BNP Paribas exec? on Winners of First Seized Silk Road Bitcoin Auction Remain Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Maybe he/she wants to use them to anonymously get some of that sweet Sudanese blood money, after their bank was smacked with a fine for violating sanctions. The demand for money laundering will be even greater now.

  10. What is this, Fox News? on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    Since when is celebrity climate denialist blogger and outed Heartland Institute shill Anthony Watts an authority on anything but taking a big steaming dump on science?

  11. Re:Jailed American: Alan Phillip Gross on Eric Schmidt and Entourage Pay a Call On Cuba · · Score: 1

    Nope and no help for jailed Americans in NK, or the locals in their death camps for that matter. What they really need is more Internet freedoms.

  12. Smart new trend in solar energy on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    Putting solar panels into things that are usually shaded by other things.

    Why not make a roof for the bench out of solar panels instead?

  13. Re:and yet on Julian Assange Plans Modeling Debut At London Fashion Show · · Score: 0

    Maybe not Gitmo. Maybe the brig on a Navy ship somewhere or a prison on the mainland US. Maybe he would have got a regular plane ride instead of a trip on the Torture Taxi. But I'm quite certain he would have been put in US custody and extradited. An embassy in London has been surrounded by cops 24/7 for years in case he ever steps foot outside. The demand to bring him in for questioning hasn't been dropped even though the condom he was allegedly wearing had none of his DNA on it.

    Do you really, honestly believe he's just wanted for questioning about a rape? I'm on the other side of a reality distortion field from you, but who's inside it?

  14. Re:Administrators on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    So what is civilization? Something we can have without law enforcement and a justice system? I would've thought infrastructure too, we usually at least consider things like roads (at least as a legal construct) to be included.

    The ungoverned parts of Somalia don't have license fees. Again everyone is armed. Again, not polite. Really the only places that are polite and heavily armed are some rural areas of the US, among the cushiest places in the known universe. And there are more places which are polite and almost completely unarmed. In any case, is a theoretical "civilization" that was made to exist literally out of the barrels of the guns on everyone's hips, not just as false as a hooker's love?

  15. Re:Why? on NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon · · Score: 1

    We need to make the mountain of evidence bigger and bigger for you denialists.

  16. Re:wait a minute on NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon · · Score: 1

    We already know those things, but they're politically unfeasible right now. Getting more information may change that.

  17. Re:Escape Plan on Julian Assange Plans Modeling Debut At London Fashion Show · · Score: 1

    Seriously, have him swap places with an androgynous model. The cops would have to risk a lot to arrest a rich celebrity on suspicion that she's Julian in disguise.

  18. Re:and yet on Julian Assange Plans Modeling Debut At London Fashion Show · · Score: 2, Informative

    If by "home" you mean "Gitmo" and by "more stuff" you mean bodily fluids you generally try to keep inside...

  19. Company Stores on California Legalizes Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    How long until companies are paying in their own special dollars that can only be used at their company stores (again)?

  20. Re:Superbowl on Protesters Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA's Utah Data Center · · Score: 1

    They could say goodbye to their blimp after that though, if they even get through the security around the event. Could be worth trying with a big RC blimp that only costs 4 digits though.

  21. "NSA! "We've got NSA here!" on Protesters Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA's Utah Data Center · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "See? Nobody cares."

  22. Re:Only in Kenya. on Norway Scraps Online Voting · · Score: 0

    Why mod down? Kenya is where the giraffes are. And the zebra.

  23. Re:Alcohol is an excuse, not a cause. on CDC: 1 In 10 Adult Deaths In US Caused By Excessive Drinking · · Score: 1

    People die in accidents because the car comes to a sudden stop. The car comes to a sudden stop due to an impact. An impact happens because of a misjudgement by the driver. And that driver's misjudgement could happen a lot more easily because of...alcohol!

    If it doesn't make sense to you, you're probably too drunk. I know I'm nowhere near drunk enough for your argument to make sense to me!

  24. Re:Nice to Know What We're Worth on CDC: 1 In 10 Adult Deaths In US Caused By Excessive Drinking · · Score: 1

    I don't find your number unbelievable, but it's very different from those I've seen before. Interesting post.

  25. Re:Nice to Know What We're Worth on CDC: 1 In 10 Adult Deaths In US Caused By Excessive Drinking · · Score: 1

    9%? Do you have a source for that?