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  1. Re:Death is necessary for evolution to take place on Transhumanist Children's Book Argues, "Death Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    If another similar specie keeps evolving, it'll eventually outcompete it and beat it to death.

    Many, many species have remained essentially unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. If you can survive environmental changes, which presumably you can if you can abolish death, it's better to not evolve.

  2. Re:It could have been just an elaborate heist on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    If it were cargo theft, the passengers would be either released or ransomed. It could be attempted cargo theft that went fatally wrong, though.

  3. Re:Nuke bomb theory on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    If a middle eastern terrorist had a nuclear weapon, it'd be used on Israel... or maybe Damascus or Riyadh or Tehran.

  4. Re:does it add up? on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 2

    But why bother using up fuel saving the plane for later use when you can just fly into your target immediately? It's not that easy to land, refuel and take off in a plane that size unnoticed.

  5. Re:Stupid on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 1

    If ads started being served from the same domains as the content, web pages would suddenly be much faster. Mission accomplished.

  6. Re:I was in the Peabody coal IPO on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    If you start buying up the least efficient coal plants, coal plants will start competing with each other to be the least efficient in order to win the big payday.

  7. Re:Why a war? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    The very recent history of ethnic cleansing in the balkans made a better case for Kosovo. Though I do think Russia has a reasonable case which should be discussed without all the silly extremist rhetoric, it's much weaker than the Kosovo case.

  8. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    Russia is both wealthier and less corrupt than Ukraine today, though. Ukraine is no paradise, it's a mess.

  9. Re:Fuck Google. on Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? · · Score: 1

    That's not getting desperate, that's having so much money you can't think of anything more useful to do with it.

  10. Re:Sadly, Elon Musk is proof that on SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There · · Score: 1

    Mars is always sunny and, in any location we might colonize early, there's never any precipitation. Antarctica, not so much.

    Antarctica gets far less precipitation than Arizona.

  11. Re:A little background on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 1

    In 6 years they got that government thrown out and Yanukovych installed as President, a highly pro-Russian president.

    Where "overthrown" means democratically elected in a fair election.

    You also missed the point that Russia only intervened after the elected president was removed unconstitutionally.

  12. Re:Disturbing, heartwrenching and yet exhilarating on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    It makes me mad, I want fresh young atoms.

  13. Re:Wouldnt want it on PETA Abandons $1 Million Prize For Artificial Chicken · · Score: 1

    People naturally like a variety of tastes in their diet? Anyway, as an omnivore I actually like veggie burgers a lot -- I'll often eat them instead of meat burgers, though I'll eat both.

  14. Re: Why didn't they leave it in place? on PETA Abandons $1 Million Prize For Artificial Chicken · · Score: 1

    Feel free to show me where PETA as an organization has suggested similar penalties for eating animals as for willful cannibalism -- life in prison presumably. Saying that they want animals treated as people is an oversimplification which makes for an easy strawman.

  15. Re:Culture Dogma on Physicists Test Symmetry Principle With an Antimatter Beam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your example defeats you nicely. Most scientists of the early 20th century (including Einstein and Eddington) had a strong belief in a basically static universe that was infinite in time, because that was the elegant solution with philosophical appeal. It took the indisputable evidence of the red shift to convince them that there was in fact a big bang which was the beginning of the current order, against their natural inclinations.

  16. Re:Consequences... on Oil From the Exxon Valdez Spill Still Lingers On Alaska Beaches · · Score: 1

    No company folds because of reduced profit. Taking half the profit means they're getting rich at a slower pace, it cannot put the company in trouble. Child support wouldn't be bankrupting anyone if it were a percentage of profits after deducting all living expenses, either.

  17. Re:hunters and conservation on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    Sometimes hunting is necessary to stewardship, controlling populations. Not that that's why hunters enjoy it.

  18. Re:God on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    If the story said that Moses put everyone on his back and flew through the air, there'd be no point in rationalizing it. But when the story does have a possible easy explanation like tides, it's worthwhile to consider it because it gives us a possible glimpse into history. No doubt much of the bible is pure fabrication, but it's interesting to see what might not be.

  19. It'd work a lot better if they kept the facebook chat desktop clients going until the whatsapp desktop client is ready, so they could market the latter as an upgrade for users of the former. What they're doing is just shooting themselves in the foot to no purpose.

  20. Re:Sensationalist Headline much? on Horseshoe Crabs Are Bled Alive To Create an Unparalleled Biomedical Technology · · Score: 1

    We need to run an education campaign to convince horseshoe crabs to sign consent forms.

  21. Re:The machine stops on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    Ah thanks, I remember better now.

  22. Re:The machine stops on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    From what I recall, the humans simply don't care about going out because they're living in little rooms hooked up to the internet teleconferencing with whoever they want to and ordering their food online. It's more of a caution against internet addiction, written in 1909.

  23. Re:The Tesla is not a Green Car on Consumer Reports Says Tesla Model S Is Best Overall Vehicle · · Score: 1

    A Tesla durability should easily exceed a regular car except for the battery pack and motor, Aluminium doesn't corrode like steel (over decades). Tesla already states that except for the battery, the model S should last 15 years, essentially requiring replacing the motor by then.

    That sounds quite awful. My car is 15 years old and hasn't required any major work. Is the 15 year life limit assuming 20K miles per year (so 300K miles, which sounds a lot better), or does it apply regardless of mileage?

  24. Re:Yes, if you rely on boilerplate code it generat on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I use kate. The syntax highlighting lets me see at a glance when I've made a mistake, there's some useful tools, but it's still lightweight enough to stay out of the way. When I've used IDEs it feels like they're getting in the way throwing unnecessary distracting stuff at me and second guessing everything I type.

  25. Re:Too small on Japanese Firm Proposes Microwave-Linked Solar Plant On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Let's go one better and cover the sun with solar panels.