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  1. At what price? on U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal · · Score: 1

    What did we give China for this worthless agreement? Preferential trade and tariff concession I have to assume.

  2. Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So this is what you get when you threaten the Hollywood Moguls that control the government....welcome to 1984

  3. JJ Abrams; No Thanks! on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    Since JJ is in charge, it will be one big car chase. No thanks. Buster Keaton and WC Fields originated the car chase, but it should have ended there, but it lives on, but now the car chases are in space

  4. Never shop there anymore anyway on Home Depot Says Hackers Grabbed 53 Million Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    I have personally had problems with Home Depot's quality I shop at the local hardware stores instead

  5. Or fire the employee, right? on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 1

    >it then offers possible actions (more money, new job) Most companies would just preemptively fire the employee. Out of spite...? Something like that...

  6. Re:Too Bad Ada wasn't included on The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality · · Score: 1

    Ada was a great language but the college douchebags hated it because it was designed by the DoD. There excuse was that it was too complicated to write a compiler for. So the college pukes kept using C and kept overwriting their stacks and heaps and reveling in the "flexibility" and freedom of their language. Then along came C+ which was truly impossible to compile and these idiots jumped right on that road to perdition.

  7. C++: the biggest joke ever played on developers on The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It has snob appeal for the uber geeks but the language sucks in so many ways. It killed Netscape 6.0 and that should have been the last of the language but it still lives, alas...

  8. Re:Very sad on "Car Talk" Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At Age 77 · · Score: 1

    In the old day, the residents were know as "Baked Beans" while British naval officers were known as "Roast Beefs".

  9. Shouldn't Branson fly on the next flight? on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    To instill confidence in the program...

  10. Puff piece before the elections on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It must be nice to have the State-run Media on you side

  11. Re:We will not know the extent of the outbreak.... on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 1

    Hey, I only use the MOST reliable sources such as the National Enquirer (Ha): http://www.nationalenquirer.co...

  12. Re:Caution: Political BS machine at work on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 1

    But the hype has been generated by the State-run Media, i.e. CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN. Sure the other side (Drudge, Fox) is all hysterical, but it was the State-run Media that has caused the most panic and they did not need to say much, just that some simple facts and the public got very nervous. The fact that the Administration seems has issued a non-nonsensical justification for not shutting the borders from West Africans does not help or that they appointed an invisible political hack to be the Ebola Czar and the CDC does not seem to have its act together has fueled the fire.

  13. Re:Caution: Political BS machine at work on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 1

    Or it gets worse. It is entirely possible that the Administration is hiding cases of Ebola until after the election.

  14. Re:Politically correct travel restrictions claptra on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 2

    How about the passport? No matter how they try to get here, they still have to present that Liberian password at the border....sorry buddy... Sure the really, really determined could get in, but 99% would be stopped. If this was any other place except Africa then they politically correct crap would not be taking place. If, say, Ebola was rampant in Tonga, travel restriction would have be implemented long ago. The Administration is playing with out health for political reasons.....

  15. We will not know the extent of the outbreak.... on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 1, Insightful

    until after the election. The Administration is trying to keep a lid on it, but watch out after the election

  16. Re:Politically correct travel restrictions claptra on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 2

    Idiotic, politically-correct statement from them. How would preventing Africans from coming to the US make the outbreak worse?

  17. How dare he threaten NASA pork? on MIT Professor Advocates Ending Asteroid Redirect Mission To Fund Asteroid Survey · · Score: 3

    The Asteroid re-direct mission is a pork mission to push money for more pointless manned missions. Binzel is 100% correct; the money would be much better spent on robotic missions, but, alas, NASA is run by pilots and beholden to the manned mission lobby.

  18. Politically correct travel restrictions claptrap on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Travel restrictions are epidemiology 101, but politics gets in the way...

  19. Astroturfing for the FBI? on Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? · · Score: -1

    Good luck with that reifman...

  20. Scientists obsessed with exotic explainations on Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Why are scientists obsessed with finding the most exotic explanation of Dark Matter without first exhausting the more prosaic explanations? It is Occam's Razor upside down. I think that the reason is there there is a Nobel Prize and fame if Dark Matter turns out to be a particle, but there is no glory if it turns out to be something more ordinary such as neutral hydrogen, dust, etc. Even a modification of Newtonian laws at a distance to explain Dark Matter is not exotic enough.....so we have to endure Crackpot Cosmology Theory (CCT) of the week from here to eternity...

  21. If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    It is part of the Obamcare package..[M. Savage] So did it really cost $500,000 to treat Patient 0?

  22. So why do we get married again? on Technology Heats Up the Adultery Arms Race · · Score: 1

    And the term "Good" lawyer is an oxymoron.

  23. But flights from West Africa are OK? on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why?

  24. Pork, pork, pork All this could be done for 10th or 100th the cost with a robotic mission. This is all about directing pork to congressional districts, but science.

  25. Too bad. It was the most terse language ever created.