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  1. Re:This is silly on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    I hate getting mugged by buggy whip makers and children who used to work in textile factories.

  2. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1

    I could take an embryo from a toilet in the Bronx subway system straight to a research lab and they could test it and harvest it all they want. It is not illegal and it never has been. They just can't use tax revenue to fund the research.

  3. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 2

    Well, in the end, you are really just a cluster of cells like an embryo. Who are you to think you are so special. Consciousness is just a series of chemicals and electrical impulses moving through organized cells. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean anything at all.

  4. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1

    And yet there are tons of firearms statistics available to anyone who wishes to seek them out.

  5. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1

    They are incinerated as worthless biological waste. They are not bought and sold so some corporation can profit from them.

  6. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Since it's not your money, why do you care? Since it's not your wife or husband, why do you care? Since it's not your dog, why do you care? Since it's not your house, why do you care? Since it's not your city, why do you care? Since it's not your book, why do you care? Since it's not your life, why do you care?

  7. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'd prefer that embryos continue to be worthless. If people really want to donate ESC's, they can be obtained without destroying embryos, non-functioning brain stem or otherwise. But it's all irrelevant. ESC research was not illegal before, it's not illegal now, and we still don't have any treatments I'm aware of that require the use of ESC's. It's almost as if some people just really want it to be legal to destroy human embryos.

  8. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm aware that this didn't use stem cells, but I feel like the whole embryonic stem cell issue was just a blunt instrument used to hit a president that people disagreed with. Making paralyzed people walk again was one of the dishonest arguments proponents used, Christopher Reeve being one of them. I really feel that the pro-embryonic stem cell people were the ignorant asses.

  9. I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...for all the breakthrough treatments that use embryonic stem cells.

  10. Re: The Middle Class is the Bedrock of Society on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean, loan? Because after they default on the first one it's hard to get any more.

  11. Re: Agner Krarup Erlang - The telephone in 1909! on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    Culver's?

  12. Re:The Middle Class is the Bedrock of Society on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    If money only flows uphill, how do the people at the bottom get the money to send it up?

  13. Re:So confused on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Yes. Tell that to the soldiers described in the article that received the Purple Heart from injuries caused by those harmless old munitions that Saddam didn't have.,

  14. Re:Absolute BS on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    See? You're already getting there. Once again, that was one claim of many.

  15. Re:Absolute BS on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    That was part of the position of the Bush administration, but you are being deliberately dishonest by ignoring the entire position.

  16. Re:No WMD's...Really? on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 3, Informative

    Umm. Yes he did. See 9/12/02 speech at the UN, and 2003 state of the union.

  17. Re:So confused on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    There were many chemical weapons in Iraq that were never discovered or controlled by arms inspectors. That's what this story is saying no matter how hard the NYT is trying to obfuscate. These are not weapons that were sealed by the UN.

  18. Re:Just tell me on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 2

    What specifically was the action that breached the protocol?

  19. Re:Just tell me on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    I think you have it backwards. This is Ebola we're talking about.

  20. Re:Just tell me on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    What breach in protocol was that?

  21. Re:Just tell me on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 0

    Because shutting down flights from African countries would be racist, you bigot.

  22. Re:Everybody Panic! on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    So, you are saying that the protocol was changed because it was inadequate. Got it.

  23. That's a nice network... on Netflix Video Speed On FiOS Doubles After Netflix-Verizon Deal · · Score: 0
    ...you have there. It would be a shame if anything happened to its content.

    Netflix should have been bargaining from a position of strength. Verizon should be paying Netflix. Netflix has been known to make boneheaded decisions in the past. This is one of them.

  24. Re:Everybody Panic! on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, the protocol needs to be changed if it's inadequate.

  25. Re:The Nobel Prize Committee blew it on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    No, just a time machine. He wouldn't be in the ground when he was still alive.