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  1. Global Warming campaigners driving big trucks on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have been to environmental protests where the event ends and everyone climbs into their SUVs and pickup trucks and drive home. It's hard to get someone to shut down a pipeline when you keep buying their product. We have Three Mile Island nuclear power plant closing down now because the cost to generate electricity with natural gas is so low. We should be protesting coal burning plants, not nuclear ones.

  2. Watch what you email, then leaks won't hurt on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If your email system is full of derogatory emails, then email leaks are going to hurt. If you are professional in your communications, then leaked data won't be as embarrassing. The emails that really hurt should never have been written in the first place.

  3. Re:He embarrassed the government on Silk Road Founder Loses Appeal and Will Serve Life (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    A fair trial by whose standard?

  4. Re:What I really want to know is.... on DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but they did find this big round thing buried nearby. It's covered in cartouches no one can read.

  5. Re:Strange on Conch Shells Inspire Next Generation Helmets, Body Armor (rdmag.com) · · Score: 1

    When you test something, you push it to the point of failure.

  6. 7. ???
    8. Profit!!!

  7. Backwards Space Shuttle on Boeing Will Make the Military's New Hypersonic Spaceplane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of the boosters putting the shuttle into space, the shuttle is now putting the booster into space. Quite an advancement.

  8. Defending the right to speak for people you hate on How Facebook Flouts Holocaust Denial Laws Except Where It Fears Being Sued (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Defending the right to free speech means defending that right even for people you despise and disagree with in every way. Because it is the only way to guarantee your right to speak to oppose them. Also remember, that your right to free speech can't be used to take away theirs. You can't go to some else's speech and scream at them to drown them out and call it your right to free speech.

  9. Can you splice Tobacco genes in too and create Tomacco?

  10. Re:Comic Sans on How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    You have my vote.

  11. Re:'Science Must Clean Up Its Act' on 'Science Must Clean Up Its Act' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Will it be peer reviewed? Or, are we doing that now on /.?

  12. Well what is it you want? on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We want.....a SHRUBBERY!!!!

  13. Re:Yes, she would fall under the UCMJ, but... on Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Article 133 is conduct unbecoming an Officer. Manning is a private, so that does not apply.

  14. Yes, she would fall under the UCMJ, but... on Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    As long as she is on active duty, she falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). If the charge is violating military rules or regulations, she would be processed under the UCMJ. But, even for normal active duty personnel, many crimes or charges are handled by normal civilian courts if they do not involve other military personnel or occur on military property. The military has the option to process them under the UCMJ, but often just let civilian courts handle the charges.

  15. Re:The Coming of Post-Industrial Society on The Tech Sector Is Leaving the Rest of the US Economy In Its Dust (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's too big to fit in this comment space. Please send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope and I will return you a copy.

  16. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society on The Tech Sector Is Leaving the Rest of the US Economy In Its Dust (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Daniel Bell. 1973. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. Basic Books, New York, NY.

  17. Watched the trailer for this topic on Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wasn't impress. I won't be reading the comments.

  18. Re:Al again on Big Banks Will Fall First To AI, China's Most Famous VC Predicts (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the Viet Cong were all named Charlie, not Al.

  19. Re:Who is this Al guy? on Big Banks Will Fall First To AI, China's Most Famous VC Predicts (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it Weird Al?

  20. Re:Who is this Al guy? on Big Banks Will Fall First To AI, China's Most Famous VC Predicts (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You can call me Al

  21. We can use the AI to maintain COBOL Code on Big Banks Will Fall First To AI, China's Most Famous VC Predicts (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Since all the current programmers that maintain the massive number of COBOL systems that banks currently use are retiring, it's the perfect time to replace them with AI programmers.

  22. Re:Goddamn imperial units in a science article on SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Satellite Atop Falcon 9 Rocket (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I only us Planck units.

  23. Re:In our area, Midwestern US, true on Google Owns the Classroom (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, stop relying on what someone else does for them. Get rid of that Internet connection and take floppies to all your friends with your vacation photos on them.

  24. Re:In our area, Midwestern US, true on Google Owns the Classroom (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So, it plays in Peoria?