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  1. Re:Economy is a Subset of Ecology on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    The price goes up due to supply side costs, reducing demand. It decreases the profit motive of fishing.

    If it costs me $10 to fish and I sell it for $20 I make $10 profit.
    If it costs me $20 to fish and I sell it for $25 I only make $5 profit.
    It doesn't make the fish more profitable, just more expensive.

  2. Re:Stallman hurts free software on Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts Free Software · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see it proved that Santa Clause doesn't exist.
    I'd love to see it proved that the cake is a lie.

  3. Re:Stallman hurts free software on Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts Free Software · · Score: 1

    No, RMS and DRM are opposites. RMS wants to make sure the code is always available. DRM wants to make sure the code is never available. How the developers use those two idioms has nothing to do with what they are, and neither care one bit for the developers they are purely for the work in question.

    If you are a developer and you want your code to always be available you follow RMS.
    If you are a developer and you want your code to only be in your hands you use DRM.

  4. Re:Why wait 5 years? on Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts Free Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    dumbass, that's not in the Constitution. It's in the Deceleration of Independence.

  5. Re:Economy is a Subset of Ecology on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about free market is that it balances these things out. As fish supplies drop and catches come back smaller then the price goes up and fewer people buy fish.

  6. Re:That's nothing on Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases · · Score: 1

    I have been working on this my self. How did you overcome the 50% false negative problem?

  7. Re:Dirigible. on The Rocky Road To Wind Power · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After being in the met life blimp, I have to say, the size required to lift a cabin 2 people and a bit of camera equipment is crazy. I'd hate to see the size of one made to lift a load of 10s of tons.

  8. President Obama was right... on The Rocky Road To Wind Power · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Green energy does create jobs.

  9. Re:The SQL language is also an issue on Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Some people are able to grasp new concepts and others cant???

    I'll get off your lawn now.

  10. Re:Orwellian on 7-Story Wooden Condo Survives 7.5 Magnitude Quake · · Score: 1

    That's just standard in many buildings due to superstitions. They don't count the 13th floor.

  11. Re:The engineers are investigating... on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 1

    They've narrowed it down to two possibilities.

    But they're all pretty sure its Number two.

  12. Re:oops on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 1

    I've always had a dream to drop a deuce on the ISS and clog the toilet.

    It's good to have goals.

  13. Re:Stay away from the Kindle! on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Error $DEITY undefined.

    I'm atheist you insensitive clod.

  14. Re:Truth and Lies ... acceptance and denial on Progress In Brain-Based Lie Detection · · Score: 1

    Exactly, If asked "have you ever cheated on your wife?" most people would think full intercourse, others may think that a slightly more than friendly relationship was cheating some may even believe to them selves that an imaginary fantasy was cheating. So when asked the question and you justify in your mind that they were meaning full intercourse, but you believe that the fantasy you had was cheating then when you say 'No' you will be detected as lying.

  15. Re:Bell curve??? on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 2, Informative

    you know if they can get the statistics exactly right, then they could just charge people for how much they are going to cost. You WILL have 3 accidents costing $15k, $8k, and a $345 fender bender. Add all that up +profit and charge that. It would be the only way to be fair.

  16. Re:Bell curve??? on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 1

    I'm confused by your post, are you saying that 2000+ miles on I40 cross country trip is more likely to produce an accident that 2000+ miles in traffic lights, parking lots and cross streets?

  17. Re:Bell curve??? on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Insurance companies study these things...

    Then the government regulates what they can do with those studies.

  18. Re:Bell curve??? on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 1

    But insurance is suppose to be an assumption of shared risk. Why should one person have to pay more just because he has to driver father? Everyone should have to pay the same exact amount for car insurance. It could be handled by the government just like the soon to be healthcare. In fact with the healthcare infrastructure already going into place it could be rolled into this as well. Why stop there we could have one tax bill that covers every possible insurance that we could all want to have. This way we can make the greedy rich people pay for our stuff if it is lost, stolen, broken or worn out.

  19. Re:Where's the downside? on Novel Algae Fuel-Farming Method Gets Big Backing · · Score: 1

    We have several variations of it. We normally call it solar power though.

  20. Re:Ok for a tech demonstration on Novel Algae Fuel-Farming Method Gets Big Backing · · Score: 1

    whoops, forget all that, calculated it wrong. .05 Barrels a day per person and ~$600 a year. More reasonable.

  21. Re:Ok for a tech demonstration on Novel Algae Fuel-Farming Method Gets Big Backing · · Score: 1

    21M barrels a day? That's ~14 Barrels for each man/woman/child in the country. At $33 a barrel that's $168,000 a year per person, or about 4 times the national average household income.

  22. Re:Commercialization! on What If the Apollo Program Had Continued? · · Score: 1

    The current war on capitalism isn't going to let that happen any time soon.

  23. Not an error on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is how Obama is paying for health care.

  24. Re:The building blocks of a conspiracy theory... on Six Men Endure 105-Day Mars Flight Simulator · · Score: 2

    We discovered it wasn't actually made of cheese. That's why we haven't been back since.

  25. Re:However.... on UK, Not North Korea, Is Source of DDoS Attacks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    liberals are always screwing things up.