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  1. Re:How is this not a good idea? on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Almost all of those green energy investments actually are working out. More than 95% of them are.

    That success rate of investment is higher than almost anything. Most new businesses fail. Most new business ipo are a crapshoot.

    When you stop focusing on the very low minority of failure (which we also know was induced by China) it was a huge success.

    We should pull all oil subsidies and invest in green tech. Those awesome new batteries from UCLA would be perfect.

  2. Re:Didn't read any other advice. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    My advice is to habituate and develop innate control.

    I wrote this in a reply to you because, just as your post is a real solution that is possible for motivated people, I expect it would be modded troll, too. Most people are now in the blame mindset and fail to see the reality that is truly possible, nyet only few are motivated and strong enough to achieve... The irony is that to achieve, most people simply need to believe it is possible and then plan accordingly.

  3. Re:Quelle surprise! on Groups Accuse EU Parliament of "Caving In" To Pressure From Business and US · · Score: 1

    I wish I could flag you as someone that will strongly defend bad ideas.

    A flag that would prevent me from seeing this crap.

    Country bumpkin is not a valid dialect.

  4. Re:Public schooling is a bad idea. on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Do you know why the words 'more' and 'less' are used in language? Quit acting stupid to make your false claims seen true.

  5. Re:Public schooling is a bad idea. on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Don't play stupid. Both the energy industry and banking have done major damage as a result of deregulation in favor of market comp, which is why people suffer and then reinstate the regs.

  6. But... on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    ...most art is not profitable, but that's why its art. Commercialized art is not nearly as interesting.

    Most artists support their life with something other than art. Check out my band.... I'm a stem cell scientist and my emcees are schoolteachers. If we made commercial hip hop, to sell a lot, we would not be able to write honest lyrics. We prefer integrity over populism.

  7. Re:The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    You have to approve it or it isn't added to your account.

  8. Re:The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    For facebook to share that, you had to share that. And they told you they would. Is there something you're missing here other than wanting free cake and to eat it however you like?

    This sounds more like a personal issue than anything you could blame others for.

  9. Re:The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    When I registered for a phone number back in the 90s, you had to pay like $2 to be in the phone book. I paid, of course, because that was how people would find me.

  10. Re:The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    www.donotcall.gov It actually works. Enjoy.

  11. Re:The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Forgot to mention.

    You're not as important as you think you are. Chances are good that your phone number is useless to people that don't already have it.

  12. The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 2

    ... screwed us over more than they helped genuine people find us... Oh wait. Nope. They were optional, like facebook, and mostly the people that called were worth answering for.

    Don't use that on face book, or toss out the tin hat.

  13. Re:A business professor presumes neurology experti on Why Do Entrepreneurs Innovate Better Than Managers? · · Score: 1

    You probably didn't read the article... You should be an informed skeptic, not an ignorant skeptic. Being skeptical and ignorant is silly.

  14. Without just compensation???/ on AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't · · Score: 2

    How can they say "without just compensation" with a straight face?

    How on earth is SAVING YOU FROM COMPLETE FAILURE and producing a situation where YOU PROFITED AND EVEN NOW STILL EXIST, was not just compensation?

    How about the US Government sues them for fraud and destabilizing the economy and the downstream effects of all that? Are these wall street jackasses so 'entitled' that they need to be saved and then don't credit the savior? The national guard should go to AIG and shoot these treasonous pieces of trash.

  15. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    They're all in Portland. Also, most of them deserve it and would not contribute to society in any meaningful way regardless of whether they're on the streets or in their parents' homes.

    Truth. Golden truth.

    Portland ---- where the failure to try makes good company.

  16. Re:wow... horrible parents on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    I figure you're a troll because you cannot prove that I said what you are saying I said when I quoted you. If I had more time, I'd point out how the rest of your first reply to me is ridiculous as well.

    How are you supposed to know what I mean if all those other things other people said preceded what I said? Simple. Read what is written. You cannot see between the lines over the internet, so you shouldn't attempt to. Communication is a big deal, and the lack thereof is one of the major causes of issues in the world. It is helpful for yourself and everyone else if you take what is said as it is said and leave your presumptions/assumptions/inferences out of it, or kindly ask before drawing your own conclusions based on those (likely false) assumptions.

  17. Re:wow... horrible parents on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    Ah. So not responding to a discipline problem by calling the police is a major failure in parenting.

    You must be a troll.... How can you have such poor comprehension and make so many assumptions?

    Read my quote of what you said. I did not say that in any way. Go away, troll. Nothing you've said here makes sense and draws lots of false assumptions.

  18. Re:wow... horrible parents on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here here!

    YOU. DON'T. DRUG. PEOPLE.

    These tards talking like it was a prank either don't have kids, or shouldn't.

    Responsible parents make sure that their kids learn basic decency, like never ever drugging people. This is not a "good scotsman" fallacy, it is blunt reality. Letting this slip would be a major failure at parenting.

  19. Re:Better price than gamestop? on Connecticut Group Wants Your Violent Videogames — To Destroy Them · · Score: 2

    I'd be willing to give up some of my old titles that I no longer play if they'd give me more value than gamestop...

    I would gladly give up a slew of DVDs that have violence in the films.

    The one thing I can't do is get rid of the violence through the news that I've been slammed with my whole life. I can't 'undo' that one with a trade-in...

    I wonder if they even care about movies, or if maybe they've watched enough movies that they think it is only video game violence that matters... I dunno. It seems stupid to think violent video games would be any more of a problem than violent media in general. I have a Twista album on vinyl.. Maybe they'll take that, too?

  20. Re:I think the article means to say... on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    How is having spent way less, and still spending less going to 'catch up'? I"m not sure if you've ever done any math or watched a race before, but if you enter a race going slow and you're going faster now, but still slower than the leader, you're not catching up.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

    Yes... not necessarily. But realistically, functionally, and sensibly, YES. STFU AC slashtard.

  21. I think the article means to say... on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    ... that foreign countries should be prepared for the US Military to have a mutant future.

    Its not like the rest of the world considers their militaries so ridiculously important to invest in constant cutting edge future tech innovation all the time in all aspects of war. The US may do this, but the rest of the world will still be pretty happy with their 1990s tanks and 2000s satellite technology.

    queue the slashdotter with one article pointing at one small research project in one country claiming 'not *necessarily*'.... in 3----2----1..... OH DAMN! Not absolutely 100% necessarily black and white! Holy crap! I was 0.000000001% wrong and you were 0.000000001% cool for pointing that out! (Sorry.. I'm preempting all this because I'm habituated to these 'not necessarily' slashtards).

  22. Re:Interesting theory on How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To clarify.... Not everyone needs internet just like not everyone needs roads... What? Not everyone needs roads? Correct. Some people don't go anywhere, or go places on foot and on bikes, which could be mountain bikes, and using dirt footpaths. They don't need roads...

    But they DO need roads.... they want a pizza delivered. They want the ambulance to show up when their kid biffs hard on his bike. They want their neighbors to be able to get to work 40 miles away and come home in time for the neighborhood bbq.

    Sure.. you don't need internet to have fun, or maybe for your own personal choices. But you need internet for the businesses around you to keep their prices lower with digital age technology. You need your government to have communications tech so they can protect you from the various nutjobs around the world that are angry for debatable reasons. I could go on with a million examples of how you passively take benefit from the internet --- so much so that your current state of life, even without you personally using it, NEEDS the internet.

  23. Re:New glasses on Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I wish I could throw a turd at your comment.

  24. Re:That high? on Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The $140B estimate is for the entire US, according to TFA. That's about $450/person.

    LETS DO THIS AND GET DONE WITH ALL THE CURRENT CRAP!

    Infrastructure has been a great investment. Right now we spend all our infrastructure money on the DoD in one form or another and we could cut it in half and still be awesome.

    LETS DO THIS! Someone with time please organize a petition!

  25. Re:Nothing to worry about on UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain · · Score: 4, Informative

    They reject the casette when the selecting factor is removed. Fyi.