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  1. Good to see that Capitalism is loosening China on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: 1

    According to our lap dog media, Capitalism would mean greater freedom for China, not the bad old Stalinism....oh but wait...

  2. But leave a back door on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    So we can listen in...

  3. Re:Bullshit! on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    And since everyone on Wall Street is using insider info (yes) and the NSA has the good on them, then this a a credible threat...

  4. This from the most hated woman in IT on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am sure that the woman who would not let her employees work at home, but has a nursery built next to her office, would he happy to let the NSA listening in on your conversations, but hers.

  5. What is a "Cleanup"? on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    Doesn't "Cleanup" just mean paying some mafia truckers to move the waste to another place such as, usually, a landfill?

  6. And this year's extreme lack of extreme weatther?? on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    How does that figure? And don't say instability... I could believe Extreme Reporting on weather rather than extreme weather....global warning is real, but it connection to last year's storms seem tenuous....

  7. Re:Okay, but... on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    And one for Ronald Goldman.

  8. Mannned missions are obsolete on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    Manned missions are just stunts that used to tickle the public's fancy, but they accomplish very little scientifically. The real science is in robotic missions like the MSL/Curiosity and MER/Opportunity. The public finally realizes this... Robotic missions are orders of magnitude cheaper. Safer too.

  9. Re:Stop stealing money from Planetary missions! on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 2

    Wrong: NASA is run by flyboys; it is all ex-astronaughts or ex-pilots in management. They have a LONG tradition of stealing money from JPL and planetary missions. That is why Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray started the planetary society--to stop the poaching. The knuckleheads that run NASA cannot seem to understand that piloted missions are obsolete. All the science and good publicity happens through robotic missions. No one cares about the flipping space station and little science is done there except to explore the human-spaceflight themes. Compare that to the publicity / science that the MSL/Curiosity garnered in spite of NASA HQ trying to claim credit. The anniversary celebration of MSL/Curiousity that NASA did was a disgrace. No one from JPL was featured.

  10. Manned mission are just stunts anyway on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    All the science is done on unmanned missions (via JPL), not the manned pork such as SLS. Let SLS die and re-fund the robotic missions.

  11. Stop stealing money from Planetary missions! on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    The SLS is the Rocket to Nowhere created for Houston pork payouts. That is fine, but those flyboys have got to stop stealing funds from the highly-successful planetary missions.

  12. Re:Cool on Inside the 2013 US Intelligence "Black Budget" · · Score: 1

    Absolutely! Great snarky comment. There are still Obama apologists out there I see!

  13. Why? What fun is an autonomous car? on Nissan's Crash-Free R&D: 7 Cute Robots Mimicking Bees and Fish · · Score: 0

    They are seriously over estimating the demand for such vehicles...

  14. This does not count the bird deaths on A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry · · Score: 1

    I am serious; such towers are major killers of rare migratory birds such as warblers.

  15. The execution vans will keep running on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1
  16. Red Herring? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    There is probably nothing in those files if they were ever decrypted....I Love Lucy re-runs or some such garbage or maybe just random bits to bedevil the NSA's decoders.

  17. Re:What is it with momentum wheels, anyway? on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 1

    The Kelper crew knew that there was a problem with wheels from this company, but got assurances from them and flew with them. Oooooooppppps. We need to send the bill to Ithaco Space Systems for a new mission

  18. Re:What is it with momentum wheels, anyway? on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 2

    Talk to Ithaco Space Systems. They built the control wheels according to this article in Nature. They supplied the failed control wheels for Kepler and Dawn and other missions....and they were not cheap. http://www.nature.com/news/the-wheels-come-off-kepler-1.13032

  19. Re:Thanks, Republicans on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 1

    Not true at all; it is the Obama admin that has tried to destroy planetary sci in favor of the Houston pork projects like the Rocket to Nowhere (SLS).

  20. Ithaco Space Systems built the reactions wheels? on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 2

    It seems that Ithaco Space Systems built the control wheels according to this article in Nature. They supplied the failed control wheels for Kepler and Dawn and other missions....and they were not cheap. Great job there... http://www.nature.com/news/the-wheels-come-off-kepler-1.13032

  21. Let's stick our head in the sand... on Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    and pretend that there is no nuclear waste to worry about, in which case closing Yucca Mountain makes perfect sense

  22. Mining water? on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 2

    I did not know it was such a precious commodity...seems legit.

  23. Re:Then Why Is It? on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 1

    You don't believe the meta-data LIE do you? They store EVERYTHING. They did not build the huge data center in Utah with our tax dollars to store metadata....

  24. Ah, but they are not filtering for terrorists on NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance · · Score: 2

    The surveillance is not for terrorists; terrorists learned long ago not to use electronic comms. Even as far back as 9/11, the bad guys did not use cell phones or email. No, the surveillance is not for terrorist, it is for us. They are searching for other issues such as threats to Wall Street, or copy write infringements, etc., i.e. threats to their money and power. That is where you should flood the airwaves...

  25. Douglas Adams would understand on Meet a Group of Aspiring Mars Colonists · · Score: 2

    Send the middle managers, telephone sanitisers and hairdressers