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  1. Re:Is there anything wrong with that? on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    except today the dollar is a global currency. removing the cent means the price will increase for every person along the supply chain, as well is impact price of items in other countries.

  2. Re:Because it was never "worthless"! on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    won't work.

    When the law is in the process of being drafted, all prices will change to .03, .04, .08, and .09

    Just round up and deal with it. ... of course when you take into account the entire chain, and not just the last consumer purchase, the end price will get rerounded up every time the merchandise goes through someone hands, so in the end the real price increase will be a quarter or more.

  3. Re:Is there anything wrong with that? on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    they are not worthless. For 100 of them you can get a dollar burger.

  4. Re:And So Begins on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    I consider it an ascent, not a descent.

  5. Re:Just like in Norway too on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Those aren't global currencies.

  6. Re:Just like in Norway too on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    All they would do is get rid of denominations that inflation has caused to cost more to produce than they are worth."

    common misconception.
    The cost to produce is a one time cost of 1.5 cents.

    A penny is worth a penny for EVERY TRANSACTION it is in. It is worth nothing between transactions.

    Rounding is different then adjustments for inflation.

  7. Re:Just like in Switzerland on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Why can't I choose to under pay?

    Bottom line: if you post a price, and people can't pay it because of your policy, you are committing fraud.

  8. Re:I'll own up to it...I throw them away on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Because they don't want to be paid for the extra 12 seconds of counting it will take?

  9. Re:I'll own up to it...I throw them away on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    1 ten thousandth of a dollar? You do know the pennies are 1 one hundredth of a dollar, don't you?

  10. Re:I don't want to say "I told you so," but .... on Scientist Who Oversaw OPERA's Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Study Resigns · · Score: 1

    " we are supposed to do many levels vetting "
    Which they did.

    " before we go public like this with a result"
    they didn't go public. They went to the scientific community, and THAT got into the news.

    "you sit down a few years and think about it before going public with it"
    they ran 15000 tests.

    The did not 'go public' in the go directly to the media sense. They where reaching out to the scientific community, and the media got wind.
    Once the media got wind, the media started asking question. I heard the interviews, and they where always very clear that they thought the result shouldn't be correct, but couldn't find an issue. Obviously the media asked questions like What does this mean if true. In those interviews that I heard, they said it would change everything we know, but it isn't likely.

    What where they supposed to do? not ask the other experts in the field to look into their tests?

    This isn't a repeat of Pods and Fleshmann.

  11. Lets see:
    They got unexpected result.
    They tested many time and continued to get the same result
    They went public and said this is are results, but would would like other people to verify them, cause the result seem unlikely.
    People looked into the test, found some issue, but they wouldn't account for the 60 ns
    then some more test where run, the result where as expected(not FTL)

    Sounds lie proper science to me. Why was he forced to step down? Are we now saying that only scientist whose experiments are successful can do experiments?

  12. Re:This stuff is in your GMO food on Studies Link Pesticides To Bee Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 2

    Stop making shit up.
      People who make shit like that up should be banned from the internet for a month.

  13. It's a perfectly valid on CBS Uses Copyright To Scuttle Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II Episode · · Score: 4, Insightful

    concern. CBS owns the copyright. This isn't about a clip, or anything remotely considered fair use.

    Unless CBS has plans for the script, this certainly wasn't the smartest way to resolve it fro their company. That's a different matter.

  14. Re:Scapegoat on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    ha, you were replying to yourself. Never mind I made a mistake.. wait this is /.

    You made me make a mistake when you posted a reply to your own post.
    Certainly not my fault for not reading who posted the comments. nope, no siree.

  15. Re:Scapegoat on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 0

    And my wife has told me I have the biggest cock she has ever seen.

    So?

  16. Re:Scapegoat on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    AH, well anecdote. So yes, lets based how we go forward on that, cause science is so mainstream.

  17. Re:Not so fast on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    YOU have no clue how the government works, do you?

  18. Re:The Administration's Sweating Profusely on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    How did this become Obama's fault? Bush got us stuck in that quagmire. It would be irresponsible to 'just leave'.
    The power vacuum would be horrendous. We will leave, and afghan locals are more and more taking control of patrols and routine security measures.

  19. Re:Scapegoat on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 2

    Since they don't know if he was given the drug, aren't you being a little premature?

    Also, 'side effects' happen with all drugs. You need to weigh the data about the side effects against the effects of not taking the drug.

  20. Re:Robert Bales is a fall boy on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 3, Insightful

    hahaha. You don't really know the area or the people, do you?

    I don't trust any eye witness reports.
    a) Anti American groups will suddenly have eye witness report of things that didn't happen,. or exaggerate claims
    b) You CAN have psychotic episodes with no memory. Sometime they can go on for very lng periods of time.

    Army cover up?

    I don't know, and neither do you.

  21. Re:Robert Bales is a fall boy on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    The military didn't rule a way I think they should with my limited exposure to any of the evidence, clearly they cant be trusted.

    You're thinking can't be trusted.

  22. Re:Nasty stuff on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    After drinking milk, I was rear ended at a stop sigh; clearly I need to stop drinking milk.

  23. Re:There was a radio story about this ... on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    No. it's story about a guy who lost his marbles, but ALSO happened to be on Mefloquine.

    Not to be confused with Melfoquine; which will turn you blue~

  24. Incorrect on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    The article is wrong. This study was ordered prior to the incident and is part of their regular reviews of all medical treatments.

  25. Re:This is actually kind of frightening... on Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses · · Score: 1

    You mean your public information is public? shocking.

    "Could just be me being paranoid, but this sounds like something out of a science fiction book."
    Warp Drive teleporters, FTL, light sabers and robots are all in Science fiction. Why do you think things in science fiction are bad?