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  1. Re:Model S vs Hummer on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 5, Informative

    Numbers!
    Tesls S: 4647
    Base 4x2 F150:4685
    base 4x4 F150 5000
    The 5th Gen Camero weight about 3700
      BWM 5 series 3700.
    The ford focus 2960 pounds

    Just for some idea of how much cars weigh.

  2. Re:Still A Toy on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 1

    There is no longer term advantage to an apartment.

  3. Re:Some work to do on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    False.
      Traditionally the sic appears after the quote in parentheses (round brackets): "(sic)", especially when the error is obvious
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

  4. Re:Suicide marker? on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    " Happy people don't kill themselves."
    wrong.
    You should research the topic.

  5. Re:Sounds like more eugenics propaganda on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    " Should you be "diagnosed" and forced to take medication for not changing your opinion when someone yells at you? "
    no one said anything about yelling, they said confronted.

    Thinking, learn it.

  6. Re:Sounds like more eugenics propaganda on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    YOu are the fool because you clearly don''t understand why the book is controversial.
    It's a GUIDELINE, that is all. The primary controversy is the insurance companies have broken these guideline into hard line that become difficult to bill for.

    Don't be that idiot who stands that saying 'X doesn't work' becasue of some other controversy within the field.

    " If you are not questioning an industry where children are diagnosed as mentally ill and put on medication because they want to play"
    No one does that.

    " That said, an industry that attempts to medicate normal people for doing normal things and diagnose them as "ill" doing as much service to humanity as the witch doctor pulling evil spirits out of people."
    citation?

  7. Re:Have we disprove free will yet? on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    NO, he would still be more smart. Just not as knowledgeable and probably lack critical thinking skills.

    That said, spending you life enjoying something isn't dumb.

    "..less personal responsibility people seem to have."
    over 90% of things you 'think about' or 'decide on' where determine in your brain before you started thinking about it.

  8. Re:STAY OFF MY LAWN on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    Always.

  9. Re:STAY OFF MY LAWN on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    It isn't worth treating the cancer of a 70 y.o. so that they may live to 80 or more? Sorry, but I'm not in favor of putting grannie on an ice flow. And in all fairness to the Hudson's Bay Inuit, they only did that in times of severe crisis, when the survival of the entire group was at risk. That hardly describes our current society.

    Hey now! we have a sever food shortage. If it's 3 am I have to drive 2 blocks to get some pre-made food. I mean, NO one delivers at that time. Barbaric.

  10. Re:STAY OFF MY LAWN on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    What if you choice was the product of a temporary chemical change?

    You don't make as many decisions as you think you do. None of us do.

    What if you suicide impacts other people?

  11. Re:I disagree on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    Suicide isn't illegal. Attempted suicide is.

    You can't arrest a dead person

    The government absolutely should. I used to believe like you, but then I started reading up on suicide. Turns out, most of them are decided on out of the blue.
    I would argue you were mentally unstable.

    Of course, it gets sticier beyond that. DO you have the right to leave young children behind? but a large burden on other people? litter the streets?

  12. Re:I disagree on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    Nice projecting you got going on there pal.
    I mean, really:
    "Women tend to use methods that permit escape or discovery before death."
    Women don't need to be rescued by you, stop it.

    The choose less violent ways. And it's not because they want to secretly be 'rescued'.

  13. Re:I disagree on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    no.
    Most people who commit suicide do it fairly suddenly.
    Also, the higher the bar, the fewer suicide. And the bar doesn't need to be moved that high.

    This could be a great breakthrough. If you can tell ahead of time you are the statistically likely to decide to kill your self one day, you can take preventative measure.

    Is the chemical a temporarily generate chemical? Does it change?

    Read up on people who where saved from suicide, or survived the attempt. A shocking number of them decide out of the blue.

    IT's easy for people to put post hoc reasoning on suicide, and try to make up stories that seem to use to be the only way it would happen(projecting) but in fact its really complicated and not obvious at all.

  14. Re:I disagree on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 2

    The Magnetic Therapies used as actual treatments are extremely powerful, and specifically target devices.
    However, the data is still weak, and Neuropsychopharmacology did a great break down on the FDA post hoc reasoning.

    The shit you where on your wrist or in your shoe have no effect.

  15. Re:They genuinely want to hear from us ... on Uncle Sam Finally Wants To Hear From Us On Digital Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    And that's why I hate the term 'The Government'.
    NSA and USPTO are completely different thing, run by different people.

    IT's the same argument that says an entire group of people should be killed/stopped because a few did something we don't like.,

    the amount of 'abuse' by the NSA compared to the amount of clearly legal searches they do is tiny. They do 100s of millions of 'searchs', and 22,000 were either questionable or out and out wrong.

    That's actual a good ratio.

    The varies agency within the US Government have always want to here for the citizens. The VAST majority of the US government is open.

  16. Re:Don't do it! on Uncle Sam Finally Wants To Hear From Us On Digital Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    "Because the same plant is such an excellent alternative to dead wood, presumably."
    because the lumber tycoon could grow and corner papr making with Marijuana?

    Please.

    That's the same logical nonsense as 'Phram doesn't wna ti to be legal' or 'Tovbaccoa doesn't want it to be legal'.

    Those industries and entrenched companies would make a lot of money.

    Well tobacco would, there is no Good evidence of medicinal success vie smoking marijuana.
    Medicinal being healing properties; which is different then something that alleviates symptoms or reaction to actual medicine.
    And yes, I read the latest studies... they are all pretty weak. Which is expect becasue it's so difficult to do experiments with class 1.

  17. Re:Don't do it! on Uncle Sam Finally Wants To Hear From Us On Digital Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    Many people in the US don't want pot to be legal.
    Don't think you are a majority.

    This, in no way, reflects a view on the subject. If you think it does, you are projecting.

  18. Re:Everyone a donor on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Fortunately that example doesn't really happen.
    You're dying an you are match for said girl, AND the reason you are dying will leave the organ savable? AND you are going to die over a period long enough to get tested, but not so long you are going to save, AND the donor is prepped? AND the Dr. knows you're opt in? AND there is a transportation process set up for your organ? AND you're family won't sue?

  19. Re:I'll go ahead and say it on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    IT means:
    Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human, and generally this premeditated state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). A person who commits murder is called a murderer

    not unjustified.

    two really different things.

    "99% of the world agrees killing someone for no reason is wrong."
    Not in practice. It's trivial to get any believer to agree to that murder is OK.

  20. Re:Um, why? on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    There are many stories about Bigfoot as well.

    And you need to try to understand the studies you link to.

    The Stanford experiment was a 6 day experiment with very few people that the person doing the experiment participate in. It is, in no way, a valid study.
    The horror is that he didn't go to prison.

    The milgarm experiment link is incorrect:
    ". He found that the percentage of participants who are prepared to inflict fatal voltages remains remarkably constant, 61–66 percent, regardless of time or place.[9][10]"
    False. In fact time place and person would go all the way down to 0% giving a 'lethal' shock.

    It really depended on the prod and how it was delivered, by whom ad what condition. So if you where told you where in an experiment, and the person telling you was a scientist, in another room talking over a microphone you had high numbers of people who would give a lethal shock. But if you had the scientist in the room with the person, that percentage dropped dramatically. If the person was in the room and NOT wear a white lab coat and present as a non scientist, the number fell to 0.
    It's an interesting study, but it doesn't show what people think it does.
    I recommend this:
    http://www.radiolab.org/2012/jan/09/

    In that episode they do a good breakdown of the experiment.

  21. Re:The death penalty is a little different there on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    That's a great reason to stop killing but if the are doing it anyways, i seems wasteful.

    "They have their blood tested after arrest, and then are executed when a customer requires an organ."
    haha. You need to stop listening to the crazy train.

  22. Re:I hear they're outsourcing it... on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    "People who take lives and have forfeited theirs "
    so all the soldier should die?

    "(if you agree with the idea of capital punishment in the first place"
    I don't anymore. With what we know about the brain no one should. That said, if we are going to have it then it need to meet an even higher bar.

    " "cruel and unusual.""
    How can you be "cruel and unusual." to a dead person?

  23. Re:Only relevant line on Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again) · · Score: 1

    How history changes...
    No, IE sucked, netscape also sucked, IE became dominate by giving away their software and forcing PC builder to put it and NOT allow them to put any other browser on the desktop. Before that Netscape was dominate, and cost 40 bucks at Frys.

    There was some small court case or something, you might want to look it up.

  24. Re:Not Quite on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was built by people who would have lost their shirts if the British stayed in control and turned over the vast majority of the central US to the french, as was their plan.
    They then used fear of Catholics, who where growing in Canada, and lied about taxes by making a big show even tough Taxed tea was cheaper and higher quality then black market tea.
    And it was liberty and equality for educate white men.

  25. Re:Not Quite on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 1

    Where in the sentence does he say he is sorry?
    It's not even close to an apology. I've heard politicians come closer to apologizing.