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  1. Re:Languages not for everyone on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

  2. Re:forgot something... on A Requiem For Saab · · Score: 1

    Yes, I love my Winton. If only there were some way to start it without turning that tiresome crank.

  3. Re:Let's just be clear on what they mean here on A Requiem For Saab · · Score: 1

    Having spent an obscene amount of time in a Vanagon, I can tell you that if you ever have to push a vehicle a few miles you had better hope it is not a Vanagon.

  4. Re:Languages not for everyone on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Poorly worded theological argument reference. The ontological argument for god basically says that because existence is better than nonexistence a perfect god would have to exist. The argument requires perfect and not just good to even begin to make sense.

  5. Re:No on Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation · · Score: 1

    Capitalism is not enshrined in the constitution, but regulating the commerce is. There is a better caser for socialism in the US constitution than there is for many of the things the government does.

  6. Re:Meh... on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 1

    CLE is switching to free wifi right now

  7. Re:Actually on Iranian Crackdown Goes Global · · Score: 1

    A pretext is easy enough to find if a small group in power is sufficiently dedicated.

  8. Re:automated tool for locating cells? on Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times · · Score: 2, Informative

    This represents only one major carrier. If the rates at the others are anywhere close to this then we move a good deal closer to wide scale surveillance, even if you count anyone who has had a run in with the law as a valid target.

  9. Re:Odd on Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem · · Score: 1

    The libraries that are best stocked with materials that would actually be useful for rebuilding tend to be in major population centers. Even well stocked libraries in smaller areas would take some work to find for many survivors. Even if you assume that most survivors have access to a vast storehouse of schematics detailed instructions for many early industrial designs there is the issue of experience. I don't know about you, but I really don't have the ability to look at a hot piece of metal and tell if I overheated it and lost some strength in a way that would cause my steam boiler to blow. I admit that the remaining info would help the process, but I doubt we would spring back very quickly to 1900s levels. I agree that flat out nuclear war is not at this time a likely scenario for population reduction.

  10. Re:Not likely true on Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem · · Score: 1

    Libraries that are largely in places that would be bombed in a nuclear war and that are filled with flammable paper.

  11. Re:Most insightful department ever on Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    I'm now proud of both my house rep and at least one senator. Ohio politics are looking up. Once Voinovich is gone I might be able to be proud of my federal representation.

  12. Re:Freedom of speech on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    or work your way up the list generalmanager@stltoday.com

  13. Re:"Freedom of Speech" on the Internet on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    Resigned is often code word for fired in these situations. The alternative is usually fired and basically blacklisted in the area. I actually think they were right to fire him for misuse of work computers, but to act like it is the same situation as would exist if this were a private employer is a bit disingenuous.

  14. Re:"Freedom of Speech" on the Internet on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    If he was a public school teacher that means his firing is being done by an agent of the government and should be looked at in that context.

  15. Re:HTTP Proxy? VPN Tunnel? on Robbery Suspect Cleared By Facebook Alibi · · Score: 1

    They are willing to take it at face value because he also had human witnesses who said he was home. That shifted the balance of the evidence from he said she said to he and some circumstantial evidence said she said. For a robbery checking it would be enough to make it hard to procede to trial.

  16. Re:I think I can I think I can on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have both the best health care on the planet and awful health care. If you can afford to go to the Cleveland Clinic for heart troubles Johns Hopkins for cancer and so on you will receive unparalleled care. If you have to rely on what you can afford at Metro hospital in Cleveland or Bon Secours in Baltimore then you are out of luck. God forbid you actually live out in a rural area.

  17. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    So they make between two and six percent profits on a thing many consider to be a human right and do it in a manner that distorts the market and keeps some people from life saving care. Yes people have a reason to be angry. Health care should not be a profit driven system, that gives someone a monetary incentive to keep you from care.

  18. Re:An answer in search for a problem? on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 1

    I'm more worried that it would alter the taste of orange or lemon zest for recipes.

  19. Re:She's without hope, so we must be? on Nothing To Fear But Fearlessness Itself? · · Score: 1

    Yeah we could return to the glory days of pinkerton strike breakers.

  20. Re:atlas yawned on Nothing To Fear But Fearlessness Itself? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit Kucinich for example none of the above. There are plenty of other examples.

  21. Re:Connections on Lawmakers Caught Again By File-Sharing Software · · Score: 1

    There are a lot more people at the bottom than at the top.

  22. Re:Fear of Science and Technology? on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    Lake Erie still has a sizable dead zone and fucking burned (the part near the mouth of the Cuyahoga). It didn't just burn once either. Water really shouldn't burn. That is not pseudo science. If we had continued on the path we were on the lake would only have gotten worse.

  23. Re:sounds reasonable, but on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    By that standard Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit should all be bought up. Lead poisoning comes in many shapes. It must be nice to live somewhere small enough that the EPA gives a damn.

  24. Re:Anecdote... on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 1

    ...and did very well for themselves.

  25. Re:isn't that why we have judges on Data Entry Errors Resulted In Improper Sentences · · Score: 1

    I f you are looking to plead out a public defender is grand they know exactly how little time they can get you. If you have a complex trial ahead of you they probably aren't the best choice.