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  1. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and they way the people of the state have stood up to stop this really proves you point!

    Stop making excuses.

  2. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "...but it's Senate Democrats who voted down the budget for two weeks"
    becasue pubs were adding stuff that shouldn't be part of it.

    If the rolls were reversed and the Dems added a rider that outlawed guns, would you blame the pubs for not agreeing to the budget?

  3. Re:Wouldn't have hurt Diet Mtn Dew on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 0

    Except that's not accurate. They released a report and the report sys that, I could find an instance of either the names of the alleged senators, not any effort to make 1st amendment a privilege.

  4. Re:Pardon my ignorance but... on USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just that you are stupid or simple minded. I have no issue with the someone or implementing it.
    OTOH, it could be that I'm a super genius. Yeah, that's it., I'll go home and tell my wife that and see how long until she stops laughing.

  5. So how have 1,000 Model S cars been sold? on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    The Internet? Going to another state?
    Really it's an expensive car. You could fly to Ca. order it and have it delivered.

    Just a guess.

  6. Re:scarred for life, eh? on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    "otherwise people they believe they don't like for their ideas."
    no. People they believe are making plans to attack the US.

    Not 'don't like their ideas'

    "It's not that those people ever had a chance to defend themselves"
    um, no they all ahve that chance, they just don't take it. Anyone on the list could go to the courts get a trial.
    They could turn themselves into local authorities, and so on.
    The target aren't random people.

    "These drone-killings are murder, plain and simple."
    But if it was man controlled Apache helicopter, and fighter jets that would be OK? Even though they have a higher error rate?
    You're beef is with policy of target acquisition and action, not 'drones'.

  7. Re:scarred for life, eh? on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    "Collateral damage" "
    which is far less with drones than manned flights.

    Each generation of war since WWI has been more accurate, and less innocent bystanders killed.

    War should always be the last resort, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it intelligently.

  8. Re:scarred for life, eh? on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    Sigh.
    The amount of innocent deaths using drone s is less them manned lights.
    No it's not perfect, but you are putting drones against an unrealistic goal. That being go from a decent system to a perfect system.
    There won't be a perfect system.

  9. Re:I don't believe people are injured by content on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    You would be wrong.

    For example if a popul;ar person commits suicide, you will see a spike in suicide.

  10. Re:I think people forget... on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    Have you been on the internet? at all?
    Here's a clue: Rick Roll.

    Firs toff, these type of things end up with a spike in suicide and murder.
    Your assumption the 13 is a magic age where nothing will effect anyone is stupid.

    "In days long past, humans would go to public executions and would take their children."
    Oh, well if they did it in olden times it must be ok herp derp.

    "When the children see the horrors of the world, most of them don't want that for themselves or the ones that they love, so they may quickly choose not to follow that path."
    maybe YOU should read up on public execution. Children would report other people doing things just to see them get executed.
    Finding people and killing them is the norm to people raised in the culture.

    NO one raise there child in a bubble. I raise my children, I don't raise the other 1000 at my kids school.

  11. Another irresponsible on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    decision by Facebook.
    Go team F.

  12. Re:700,000,000 euros for a study? on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that isn't a lot fr a study that large.
    Yes, complex shit that needs a detail monitoring over a long time is expensive.

  13. Re:The ONLY cause? on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Correct.

    You might want to read up on diabetes a little more, cause you aren't saying what you think you are saying.

  14. Re:Getcher cure right here! on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    "There were no mass epidemics from snake oil."
    yes, there was and still is.

    You know what? I"m not going to get into it. Yu are clearly ignorant of the FDA and it's history, you have no clarity way from you narrative to actually look at facts.

    Ignorant SOB

  15. Re:been waitin' on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    That's what she said.

  16. Re: And i might see it in my lifetime. on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    What you are saying the insurance companies will ensure it's released.
    Or are you saying the CEO is going to pass up an a bonus worth millions so a company that he won't even be at in 5 years can keep making the same profits and hope another company doesn't release it?

    And Type 2 can progress to the same needs as type 1.

  17. Re:And i might see it in my lifetime. on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I don't normally reply to AC, but this myth is persuasive enough that I am going to make an exception.
    0) Health care is a very competitive business.
    1) The company that gets a vaccine for diabetes will make more money in the long run then their competitors.
    2) If I have the vaccine my competitors will loose value
    3) The stock bump will make C level position and the board some very large bonuses.
    4) If a company doesn't release it, another will discover it and release it.
    5) It's pretty open science, if a company sits on it some other country will start making it anyways.

    So you completely ignores self interest and competition.
    Now there is the other power player, Insurance companies.
    They will be far better off supporting a vaccine.

    "What was the last billion dollar industry that let itself go obsolete?"You don't become billion dollar industry unless you provide something, and are diversified.
    There are technologies that have gone obsolete, and the companies just refocus. see: IBM

  18. Re:THE virus is a bit of an overstatement on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    I hear you. Fat people and anti science people who don't want to change their life style are always finding excuses and cherry picking. I get sick of it as well.

    Keep it up.

  19. Re:Not much info on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    The cute that you can cut and paste, next time try to actually understand.
    It's not a study, it's an extrapolation from a regression analysis.

    Sheesh

  20. Re:Yea, Been Pullin' my hair out over this... on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    The world cars less everyday. 30 yeas ago? yeah, outcast. Today? pffft. Once action movie stars starting appearing bald(Bruce Willis) people cared less.
    Anyone can find a vapid waitress.

  21. Re:Idiocracy on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    It's seems pretty meaningless now. In the 50's, being bald would pretty much make you an outcast.

  22. Alternative on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    Stop judging people based on hair.

  23. Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 2

    Slashdot for legal advice on an extremely complex topic?

    Yes, the country of origin would be responsible. You will need their permission and follow regulations.

  24. Re:So let me get this straight . . . on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    "Philosophers, theologians, "
    so all the people who want to prove humans are someone special couldn't find a definition to fit there belief system so the gave up rather than change their belief system.

  25. Re:A test of free will on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    Are you a simpleton? or are you an ass that refuse to understand the topic before spouting nonsense?