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  1. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    Ignorance may not be genetically inherited, but there can be selection for it.
    The less educated someone is, the more likely they are to have many children; who will most likely also be ignorant.

  2. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 2

    For publishing.
    Once it was out in the open, it was destroyed.

  3. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    A) It was published; which is the first step in peer review
    B) Once published it enter the second step of peer review, where is was utterly destroyed.

    So, no. Not like global warming paper sat all.
    Those where published and then verified by 1000's of experts.
    Idiot.

  4. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    no. Darwin will knock at their kids door, and other peoples doors.

  5. Re:Not getting funded. on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No.
    Helicopter are not flying cars. They are a vertical airlift vehicle. Can you drive one around on the free way? take off where ever you want? go to a 30th floor McDonalds drive through?

    This is what people dream of when the want a flying car:
    http://justacarguy.blogspot.co...

  6. Re:Getting started on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    blahblahblah, whinewhnewhine.
    Because there isn't a way to deal with those issues at all.. nope. lets just give up because gstoddart doesn't like it.

  7. Re:herpa derp on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It"s about risks. It was a fair comparison.

    Unlike your comparison, which is not.Near as I can tell, skylys ahs done nothing. Obama on the other hand has done a lot. Here is a short list of his accomplishments:
    Legislative Prowess.
    Despite the characterizations of some, Obama’s success rate in winning congressional votes on issues was an unprecedented 96.7% for his first year in office. Though he is often cited as superior to Obama, President Lyndon Johnson’s success rate in 1965 was only 93%. http://n.pr/i3d7cY

    Fiscal Responsibility.
    Within days after taking office, Obama signed an Executive Order ordering an audit of government contracts, and combating waste and abuse. http://1.usa.gov/dUvbu5

    Created the post of Chief Performance Officer, whose job it is to make operations more efficient to save the federal government money. http://n.pr/hcgBn1

    On his first full day, he froze White House salaries. http://on.msnbc.com/ewJUIx

    He appointed the first Federal Chief Information Officer to oversee federal IT spending. http://www.cio.gov/

    He committed to phasing out unnecessary and outdated weapons systems, and also signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop waste, fraud and abuse in the defense procurement and contracting system. http://bit.ly/hOw1t1 http://bit.ly/fz8GAd

    Through an executive order, he created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. http://bit.ly/hwKhKa

    Improving the Economy, Preventing Depression.
    Obama pushed through and signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as “the stimulus package,” despite the fact that not one Republican voted for that bill. In addition, he launched recovery.gov, so that taxpayers could track spending from the Act. http://1.usa.gov/ibiFSs http://1.usa.gov/e3BJMk

    In his first year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created and sustained 2.1 million jobs and stimulated the economy 3.5%. http://reut.rs/i46CEE

    Obama completed the massive TARP financial and banking rescue plan, and recovered virtually all of its costs. http://1.usa.gov/eA5jVS http://bit.ly/eCNrD6

    He created the Making Home Affordable home refinancing plan. http://1.usa.gov/goy6zl

    Obama oversaw the creation of more jobs in 2010 alone than Bush did in eight years. http://bit.ly/hrrnjY

    He oversaw a bailout of General Motors that saved at least 1.4 million jobs, and put pressure on the company to change its practices, resulting in GM returning to its place as the top car company in the world. http://lat.ms/zIJuQx

    Obama also doubled funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership which is designed to improve manufacturing efficiency. http://bit.ly/eYD4nf

    He signed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act giving the federal government more tools to investigate and prosecute fraud in every corner of the financial system. It also created a bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to investigate the financial fraud that led to the economic meltdown. http://abcn.ws/g18Fe7

    Obama signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act, which was designed to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive credit card practices. http://1.usa.gov/gIaNcS

    He increased infrastructure spending after years

  8. Re:herpa derp on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    but the first controlled flight was built upon decades of trial; and error, and by 1000's of people.

  9. Re:Betteridge's Law sez "Nope." on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    A) VC money
    B) A lot of engineering talents, not just computers.

  10. indiegogo on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    your one stop scammer shop.
    You can also find magical medical 'devices' and perpetual motion machines.

  11. Re:How the fuck do you pronounce Skylys? on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 2

    "sky lies" would be my guess....

  12. Let's clear some things up on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    When people want a flying car, they want this:
    http://justacarguy.blogspot.co...

    No props, no fans, not load noise.

  13. Re:So it's the "tech industry", so what? on Bachelor's Degree: An Unnecessary Path To a Tech Job · · Score: 1

    "Director of Information Security,"
    whats that have to do with tech? That person will make decision based on what the people who work for them recommend compared to a cost/risk analysis.

  14. Re:Their examples on Bachelor's Degree: An Unnecessary Path To a Tech Job · · Score: 1

    If you are thinking about critical thinking skill,s then a masters would be required. Critical thinking gets WORSE at the bachelor level.

  15. herp derp on Bachelor's Degree: An Unnecessary Path To a Tech Job · · Score: 1

    "Tech job" is a meaningless statement.
    Sure, you don't need a degree to run cable, OTOH, doing cutting edge robotics for DARPA it would probably be required, at a minimum.

  16. Re:Not so fast, cowboy ... on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    "Now, we started this nation over a 3% tax on tea."
    HAHAHAHAHA...... not really.

    Your ignorance aside, when did he say no new taxes on the middle class?
    Do you mean:
    "I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."

  17. Re:Not so fast, cowboy ... on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    And forcing my to pay taxes that go toy buy things they kill human no less of an intrusion on my basic liberties

  18. wrong, and here is why on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    You are about to be schooled becasue I am really tired of the meme the south has been trying to shove down everyone's throat.
    Here are some excerpts from the Declaration of Causes of Secession. Its all about slavery.
    The real question is, can you accept new factual data and change you view? That is something only a thinking person can accomplish, so I have my doubts.

    Georgia:
    " For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery."

    Mississippi: Note the sue of the term 'products'
    "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin"

    South Carolina:
    "But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation."

    texas

    She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.
    http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-w...

    Those aren't even the most disturbing parts of the declarations of secession
    Consider yourself schooled and I look forward to your apology and forming an actual fact based opinion.
    Or digging you heals in and rebutting the the brilliant rebuttal of 'Nu-uh'

  19. Re:Not so fast, cowboy ... on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    Nope. They have done many thing that aren't with the status quo.

    "Fugitive Slave Act " was constitutional. A state can not prevent another state for getting a fugitive.

    That's why congress changes the constitution.

  20. Re:Fuck Obamacare on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    Call me when I can CHOOSE not to support the military.

  21. Re:Fuck Obamacare on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    your example show you don't understand how insurance works

  22. Re:Fuck Obamacare on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    "does nothing to lower health costs "
    false. Maybe you should read them?

  23. Re:HSA plus catastrophic on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    You could just get good insurance.
    My children cost me 10 dollars for the entire process
    My insurance rate at the time was 1300 a month.
    Paid for the birth, care. MY wife also had an issue post birth, that also cost me to dollars.

    The total bill for those services? 75,000 dollars... for the insurance company.

  24. Re:Fuck Obamacare on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you one anecdote sure throws out all the data showing how much it helps.

    "all of this to avoid basic lifestyle changes that would have been considered an obvious approach in the past."
    lifestyle change that Dr. also advocate, and have been doing so for 100 years.

    " That idea that "seems healthy" is not, is a big problem in modern medicine and something that supports the attitude of the other guy."
    No, it isn't.

  25. Re:Fuck Obamacare on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    Family of four.
    50 dollar deductible
    Full coverage
    1000 a month.
    300 dollars cheaper for me then it was a decade ago.

    Now, if you live in a state where the politician are actively fighting ACA, then you may be screwed.