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  1. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 0

    False.
    Most of the laws came from Reagan(mostly just lip service) and GWB.

  2. Re: It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    " Record Antarctic ice is proof of warming"
    Please learn the difference between a thin surface on top, and overall mass.

  3. Re: It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 5, Informative

    What record accumulation? You missed the important bit:
    "two dimensional area,"
    It's still loosing MASS.
    Please fucking learn.

  4. Re:It's not your phone on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    Just like every other physical hardware with software on it.

    Remember, you don't own OS software, you have been given permission, from the OWNERS, to modify and/or distribute it.

  5. Everyone who is outraged by this on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    should be banned from the internet for a month.

  6. Re:Complain over nothing? on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    "- Apple pushed something on us that we did not ask for, just so that U2 could reach multi-platinum status with the latest album almost instantly."
    Apple gave you a gift.

    " Apple forced the music taste of their CEO on everyone with an iTunes account. "
    A gift the CEO enjoys and wanted to share with you.

    "- A lot of people have monthly data quotas, "
    Why would they have automatic updates on, if there data plan was so limited?
    Or maybe you didn't know that and are just spouting ignorant crap?

    "- the iTunes algorithms make recommendations based on our purchases."
    and clearly, you don't understand how that works.

    Bunch of rude ignorant internet anger over nothing. You must just be a joy at parties.

  7. Re:Rate it one star on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    The GALL, giving you free music.

  8. Oh no! hipster outrage on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 0

    Apple gives a gift to people.
    People spend more time outraged then simply deleting it.

    Imagine it's the US* festival, and as people are leaving, Apple is handing out free cassettes from a band.
    Now imagine standing there and screaming at Apple for giving you music, spittle flying out of your mouth, say 'HOW DARE YOU GIVE ME FREE MUSIC, YOU MONSTERS ERRRGH!!!"

    Or would you just say no thanks and continue on?

    *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Festival

  9. Re:This is insane... on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    People who know more then you.

  10. Re:More evidence for the existance of the Tech Bub on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    No, we are not.
    Calm down.

  11. Re:Traditional crimes on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it isn't.
    Freedom of speech does not mean you have no repercussion for lying about people. It never has/

  12. Wrong on Universal Big Bang Lithium Deficit Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Man tries to apply logic of maths to languages! Watch at 11 when we point and laugh.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10...

  13. This is how science works on Journal Published Flawed Stem Cell Papers Despite Serious Misgivings About Work · · Score: 2

    Notice: it was science that led to finding out they were wrong and the retraction.
    People make mistakes, that why the normal scientific process is to check it.

    Publishing is the first step of the peer review process.

    The suicide is sad.

  14. Re:Science at its best on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Stop confusing media reports, scientist, and Doctors.

    The problem is reporting on science is horrid. So 'hey this study contradicts these other studies' becomes the head line, people start assuming it rendered the previous studies moot.

    YOU're look show a sever lack of understand of how science works.
    Are you saying when a guy claims to find a thing all medical treatments should just jump on board?

    "dozens more are easy to find"
    doubtful. More likely dozens of things that fit you bias because they take time to confirm and create actual treatments for.

  15. It's a small study on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    There was an increase in hypertension
    there are many other study's that show there is a link.
    Too much salt has other effects beside blood pressure, so to tie this to the CDC report seem disingenuous.

  16. Re:What was Microsoft thinking? on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    Nope, not really.

  17. Re:Brand that shit! on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    MS has the worse marketing people. Well, in charge. I would wager the actual staff is pretty good, and very frustrated.
    I could make better commercials for MS products.
    Seriously.
    That doesn't mean I'm great, it means if I can do it, then sure as shit there are better executive then what they got.

  18. Re:If I was in the NFL I'd be pissed on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    110%? Inability to learn new tools? Inability to realize the the tool you use were once new to you and helped you?
    How did you get here from the CNN forums?

  19. That would all be relevant if they were announcers fro . some.. software competition*.

    Their job is to know football.

    *I would cut both my balls off with a spoon in exchange for living in a world where a billion+ people got excited about software competitions.
    Or and engineering, science.

  20. Re:Bill Belichick on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    If the teams find having an iPad :) impeding decision making, they will have enough pressure to go back.

  21. Re:Scotch tape on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    I've never heard anyone refer to a tablet as an iPad in a generic way.

    Doesn't mean it's becoming a generic term, but I don't think it's anything like Kleenex or Xerox.

    Interestingly, I have heard copying referred to Xeroxing in a long time.

  22. Re:$400 million on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    Incorrect.
    the NFL collect about a billion in licensing of product and the use of the three letters in this order 'NFL'.

    That doesn't even get into all the special tax breaks the teams, owners, and players get.

  23. Re:Or, Apple could be fearful of comoditization on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    350 Is the middle of the road.

  24. A large segment of NFL fans will mindlessly buy what the NFL uses because they believe it makes them part of the NFL by proxy.
    It's a good investment for MS.

  25. Re:football can cause brain damage on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: -1, Troll

    thinking something is right for you, doesn't mean it is.

    I don't care about what tablet you use.