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  1. Free upgrade for one year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From what i've read on other sites...free for a year means...that they will offer the upgrade free for just one year...If you want to update to Win 10 later...you'll have to pay...I've seen nothing to indicate that means Windows is going subscription.

  2. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    It also takes plenty of energy to refine crude oil into gasoline...it is not pumped out of the ground fully formed.

  3. Lives are risked for things much less important on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If manned space exploration is too dangerous...What about all the spectator sports and events that risk human life for no reward other than the thrill?...and maybe a lot of money. NASCAR racing is incredibly dangerous...Skydiving is dangerous...What about "the running of the bulls?"...People get killed playing baseball!...And none of the people taking these risks is getting us any closer to the moon or any other celestial destination... Men and women climb mountains and dive deep into the seas looking for adventure...Why then is manned space exploration too dangerous? It is expensive and dangerous going somewhere faraway in a new way first...No matter whether it's on the Earth or in the sky...The explorers who "found" the new world knew this...How now can it be so hard for us to accept?

  4. If you look at old pics of Jupiter... on Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you look and compare some old pics of Jupiter and the current one showing the recent "impact"...You will notice there has been a darkened spot there before...

  5. Only the pretty people shall sing on The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune · · Score: 1

    It makes it easy to market pretty people as singers if they can be "tuned"...We need never accept anyone less than beautiful as a singer ever again...After all music is a visual medium...Or at least that's what it seems to have become.