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  1. Re:202,586 on Mars One: Final 100 Candidates Selected · · Score: 1

    ** The common saying among NASA astronaut candidates was "suck up to go up" if that helps explain things.

    As opposed to all those other fields where they say "treat everyone like a dick to go up"?

  2. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    You might have noticed though that this bold libertarian freedom you have in mind is less free than the freedom you are currently enjoying and seems to involve even more jail for stupidity rather than crime.

  3. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Now we get to the root of libertarianism
    "you're free to do whatever you want!"
    "Great, I'm not going to get vaccinated"
    "That was really stupid why did you do that, go to jail"
    FREEDOM!

  4. Re:Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    I largely agree with your comment but I'm not too sure about the lack of lines. Why don't you show us how far past light speed you can go.

  5. Re:Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    Whales aren't fish, that's why he survived! Take that science.

  6. At least they're not so paranoid they think they need to be wandering around armed for battle.

  7. Re:Vinyl sucks on Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents · · Score: 1

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    This is just about the wrongest thing I have heard today. All video containers have a header that defines the audio rate, it is almost impossible to make the mistake you are discussing here.

  8. Re:Vinyl sucks on Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents · · Score: 1

    The RIAA curve is added at the cutting stage by the preamps on the lathes and isn't relevant to the studio master which in the days you were discussing would have generally been done to 1/4" tape prior to the digital days. So it shouldn't affect any subsequent remasters which would be done from the 1/4" master tape or remixed especially for CD. The problem was just shoddy engineering and despite the "Loudness wars" argument a lot of early CD remasters were mixed too quiet because they thought they had so much dynamic range, unfortunately trying to use all that range leaves the amplifiers sounding sterile on most systems that don't have a lot of power.

  9. Re:except the investors, who paid everybody up fro on The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly · · Score: 1

    Why are movies so expensive to make? The cost seems almost unbelievable and almost never bears any relation to the quality of the film (above a certain threshold) what does that tell you?

  10. Re:Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Great, please explain why your plan of reduced taxes leads to more jobs, please show examples (real ones, not allegories).

  11. Re:Government Intervention on Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you know what government mandated monopolies are, understandable as you are American. The monopolies exist because the companies are colluding to not compete, please explain how that makes it "government mandated"? Anyone stupid enough to mark this insightful can feel free to chime in as well.

  12. If people act like the corporations did people would be standing in the middle of crowded streets shooting people in the head while shouting "Lol, standing my ground".

  13. What if a law was passed that said any company presided over by a man named Tim didn't have to pay any taxes provided he did a sexy dance for you?

  14. Re:Valve's time on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, Civ players are masochists but even they draw the line somewhere.

  15. Re: Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    America has always had a national debt. Might want to check your memory and preconceptions.

  16. Re: Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Money is Debt, you clearly have no idea how money works

  17. Re:Armchair engineering at its finest on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 1

    You're on the wrong site, everyone on here knows better than everyone else who ever lived. I wonder if these "professional" mechanical engineers have considered using teams of highly trained monkeys, probably not because of all their book learning preconceptions.

  18. Re:They already have on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see now, that colossal ball of thermonuclear fire doesn't count as an unusually large amount of energy.

  19. Re:They already have on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    I don't know, does it take an unusually large amount of energy to warm something the size of a planet by that much?

  20. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    I just took a dump on your lunch plate, is that a technical problem for you to solve or would you rather skip lunch?

  21. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    It would be cheaper at least.

  22. Re:Kdenlive, SlowMoVideo, Pencil on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    I used Synfig to make some animations and would really recommend it, takes a bit of time to get used to but it's actually pretty great when you get used to it.

  23. Re:Not to mention Audio Editing on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    Audacity should be competing with Sound Forge and Wavelab, but it hasn't changed in the last 10 years or more and it shows.

  24. Re:Tight Oil Recovery Operations will slow on Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now · · Score: 1

    I'm sure according to your logic whale oil will soon be feasible again too.

  25. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    The pope's response seems to be "don't be surprised if you get shot every so often"