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  1. Re:Too damn Early on How NASA and SpaceX Get Along Together · · Score: 0

    h4rr4r you suck at rocket science.
    Launch conditions dictate the time. Where they suppose to wait until dark and when the wind picks up for the first joint venture launch because it would be better for you schedule? are you really that stupid?

  2. Re:The pathetic US space program on How NASA and SpaceX Get Along Together · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You would have a point if all NASA does is launch delivery ships.

  3. Re:It's stupid to compare to Facebook's profit on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 1

    meme has a specific definition, so why would you have a problem with it?

    Fortunatly, you are an insignificant spec, so the English language doesn't really care about your input.

  4. Re:When they on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 1

    Science: There is no foreseeing the future. Quantum tick my ass.

  5. Re:For Future Reference on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 2

    Since people don't remember when they where wrong, you probably have been wrong.

  6. I've been curious about their on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 1

    opening.
    1) They have all the users there going to get. So not a whole lot of user growth potential
    2) Total add earning about 3 billion
    3) The seemed to undermine the emotional buying frenzy by starting at 38.

  7. Re:This just isn't right... in any way on Cops' Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Now Better Than GPS · · Score: 0

    eww. wow, you must be some kind of super genius, having 'warned' us of the no existent ant problem.

    Twit.

    Nice out of context quote, btw.

  8. Re:Privacy or surveillance... on Cops' Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Now Better Than GPS · · Score: 1

    Everyone want surveillance. The questions are how much and when.

  9. Re:What's the advantage over diesel? on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    diesel has nasty byproducts, worse then gasoline.

    "I'm asking. Someone here knows, I bet."
    For starters, everyone who read the article.

  10. except on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 2

    Hybrid will use this as well.

    It's good thing, hope it pans out.

  11. Re:Translation on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    No.

    When a country sells a product below their cost specifically to corner a market, it's bad.
    Oh, and it's working:
    http://asianbusinessdaily.com/2011/11/solar-wars-china-to-investigate-us-of-dumping-cheap-solar-panels/

  12. Re:This will help nothing on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Oh look, another person linking to Smoot-Hawley wikipedia page. The fact that you think that applies to this tells anyone who has studies this that you are a know nothing loud mouth.

  13. Re:Yes, it will raise prices on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    you would only have a point on an even playing field, it is not an even playing field.

    China government is forcing the prices down artificially. This isn't competition. It's paying to control a market for long term advantages.

    Competing in a manner where there are fewer and fewer jobs in the US is a spiral down, not up.

    But hey, if another country stealing are RnD, then putting out a product below cost, flooding the market and destroying are industry is 'competing', then you are an idiot.

  14. Re:Yes, it will raise prices on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 2

    No, these tariffs are economical. Getting something from overseas because it's cheaper doesn't actually help the American consumer. Unfortuantly the American consumer is short sighted and selfish. So when they have their cheap solar cells, but no jobs the can't figure out why.

    China is a bad player.

  15. Re:Yes, it will raise prices on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    The Devil would have enough sense to understand the things he talks about before making himself look stupid.

    The fact that you want to stop Corn Subsidies tells me you really have a headline only knowledge of these topics.

  16. Re:Yes, it will raise prices on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Control of the market. You are thinking way too short term. Think in decades.

  17. Re:Yes, it will raise prices on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    The Chinese government subsidizes all solar cells in order to gain market dominance. They are doing this in other ways as well.

    The Chinese know energy is where the money is long term. And the China government thinks long term.
    This is the same reason they are putting roads into African Countries that have copper mines. This way the look good to the government, make contacts, and be in place to get the copper. Something that will be worth more then gold in 100 years, btw.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/china-cuts-subsidies-for-pilot-solar-projects-on-declining-costs.html

    And of course labor there is very cheap and often subsidized.

    My brother is in the Solar Industry, and they make cutting edge cells and China undermining the US market is killing RnD.

  18. Re:Hollywood taught me this! on Paralyzed Woman Uses Mind-Controlled Robot Arm · · Score: 0

    OK, you want to do other things, but then you give an attitude that no one else will make the time.

    Why not start a company and do that. Use that to make your money to pay your loans.

  19. Re:Hollywood taught me this! on Paralyzed Woman Uses Mind-Controlled Robot Arm · · Score: 2

    Why don't you do that?

  20. First off on Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    any boss that thinks it' monkey work is an idiot,
    Secondly. You are going to get mediocre to bad code, and you don't have the man power to fix it.

    To quote the most likable character from the The Amityville Horror:
    GET OUT!

  21. Re:The Victory of Fear on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1

    However, it does seem like, at this point, the horizontal fracking is attributing to a significant increase in the amount of earthquake a region has.

  22. Re:About time.. on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 2

    His point is that there is no evidences that any of t is getting into the water table. DO you even know what chemicals are in there?

    And Vermont seems to miss the point that the new questions are about horizontal fracking, nit vertical fracking.

  23. Re:Why is it news on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the right wing has slid into crazy land.

  24. haha on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 3, Insightful

    he could be a force to be reckoned with in Washington, DC."

    No, no he wont.

  25. Re:I have to ask on Senators To Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' To Respond To Facebook's Saverin · · Score: 1

    he didn't event social media.