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  1. Re:Free? on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    Yeah, community organisers never turn out to have good jobs.

  2. Re:Even more useless than politicians on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    Space does not solely consist of our our galaxy. In fact it's not even possible for us to reach 97% of the other galaxies even if we had a light speed drive.

  3. Re:Even more useless than politicians on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    As is often the case when talking about space you have made the typical mistake of underestimating just how mind bogglingly big it is.

  4. Re:Even more useless than politicians on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    No-one should try and study anything until after we discover it! Of course it might mean it's harder to discover things.

  5. If it's the same as my 2001 Volvo look at the front indicator replacement procedure.

  6. Volvo V70 indicator bulb the same, not an easy procedure in sub zero winter temperatures I can assure you. However I am under 40 and British and managed it.

  7. Re:doubtful progress on Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... Oh look! I think you might be wrong.

  8. Re:How about a straight answer? on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    The correct solution to the whose who's problem is never "whos".

  9. Re:Federal Funding is not contingent on speed limi on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    Motorways aren't E roads, they are M roads. Scotland and Ireland don't have any E numbered roads.

  10. Re: 'Decommissioning' is a made-up scenario on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    Weird, all the rig workers I know are 3 weeks on 3 weeks off and make more than enough so they have no need to move office furniture in their down time.

  11. Re: Federal Funding is not contingent on speed lim on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    They should have tried using your mom, like everyone else who wants to experiment with a large beast. (Sorry)

  12. Re:'Decommissioning' is a made-up scenario on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    What? Your logic here is totally faulty.
    A: Are you arguing for State control of all nuclear facilities, I'd guess by your general attitude that would be a massive no-no ideologically.
    B: Using something you literally have no idea how to repair/replace dispose of adequately is the clear example of a disposable culture, wind turbines are made of pretty easily recyclable components.

    America no longer makes things because some idiot thought it was a better idea to have a virtual slave working in China than have Hank next door make a decent living.

  13. Re:'Decommissioning' is a made-up scenario on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    I bow to the knowledge of a tax dodging box carrier.

  14. Re:Decommissioned nuclear sites. on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... You may want to check up on these things before you post.

  15. Re:'Decommissioning' is a made-up scenario on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    Water and sewage plants are usually public utilities so the owner is less likely to flee without paying the clean up costs (or sell it to a third party who tragically go bust shortly after leaving no liability for the previous owner), plus the pollution they generate is significantly less toxic.

  16. Re:'Decommissioning' is a made-up scenario on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    Ok, how do you start upgrading? Oh yeah, you decommission the old one! So your whole argument makes very little sense...

  17. Re:Geeky formats? on Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC · · Score: 1

    Lots of films have sections that require subtitles and it's much more convenient to have them bundled with the file, yes, even films that idiots like you watch latest Planet of the Apes, Inglorious Basterds, they are needed for those bits where folks talk funny.

  18. Re:Nuclear is Clean on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    I think that's a pretty blatant misunderstanding of the workings of these things, the longer you leave things the less is known about them and the more shocked the new generation of engineers is at the practices of their elders, "what do you mean you just threw it all in a big hole??"...

  19. Re:It will never work on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    As a Scotsman I should advise you no to assume "notoriously inhospitable" towards you doesn't mean to everyone. If you reference was more to the weather it's probably worth pointing it that our winters here are milder than those in most of North America, it's about the same temperature here today as it is in Houston, so warmer than most of the rest of America. Electricity costs are higher than in America, but funnily enough building new infrastructure is quite expensive - I believe it's called investment. If it's choice between paying slightly more and risking the stability of the planet then I'm probably willing to pay a bit more.

  20. Re:Too late on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 2

    You should join a group of other enthusiastic optimists and group together to put your pension funds into it, it'll easily be done in time for you to retire and live like a king.

  21. Re:AND, notT OR on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1

    The biggest hand waving always comes with decommissioning, there are very few examples of a nuclear site being successfully fully cleaned (and even if someone said it was would you buy a house built on the land?) .

  22. Re:Questions for Malcolm Gladwell! on Interviews: Ask Malcolm Gladwell a Question · · Score: 1

    Hardly, if you do something full time for nearly 3 years you should be expert at it, you may not be the best in the world, but that obviously is a different proposition, for that you need skilled instruction from someone who is already among the best in the world and likely some sort of "hand up", ie you have very fast reflexes or are unusually strong or have particularly deft hands. Do it right now and surprise yourself, start doing something you are awful at but want to be good at and see how long it takes you to improve.

  23. Re:Aw man on Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous After All · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we don't need any research you already know everything! We should just all come to you with our questions. Explain to me again the thing about the earth being a perfect black body or something.

  24. Re:Heh... on The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" · · Score: 1

    Typical stupidity, is Research the same as propaganda?

  25. Re:Yahoo! is cool again? on Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    The curly exclamation mark at the end of the statement is called a "question mark" and is used to indicate the previous statement is of an interrogative nature, the particular example you are referring to uses the "question mark" in such a way as to imply suspicion as to the validity of the preceding sentence.