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  1. Re:uhh on Is the Earth in a Vortex of Space-Time? · · Score: 1

    > The problem with ID is that they are not looking for supporting evidence

    You didn't even read "Darwin's Black Box", did you? Loon.

  2. Re:great... on Geneticists Claim Aging Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't I let my hair grow long, smoke pot, or like trees? Would it be better to treat others like an asshole trying to take out the sexual frustrations of impotence by bombing some ay-rabs?

    The point I'm trying to exemplify is that bigotry and name-calling doesn't add to your credibility.

  3. Re:great... on Geneticists Claim Aging Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Half of Africa is malnourished because we don't let people move to where the jobs are, and we don't send food to where the people are. This has nothing to do with aging.

    China's one child policy is a big mistake. China needs more urbanites, not less, in order to build the infrastructure to convert to industrial agriculture. But growth is high enough anyhow, so that
    the damage of the policy is not visible.

    You can reliably predict that as longevity increases, birth rates will decline. Simply applying the existing correlation between life-expectancy and birth rate observed internationally today would allow you to see this, let alone considering the underlying factors behind that correlation.

  4. Re:Do not go gently into that goodnight.... on Geneticists Claim Aging Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Hey, if God wanted us to invent immortality, he would have given us scientific method.

  5. Re:Fearless cancels out Immortal on Geneticists Claim Aging Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    > 55 MPH

    If I were going to live to 500, I would not mind spending a little more time listening to audiobooks on the highway. Hell, I might even stop using amphetamines.

  6. Re:Potentially valid on JPEG Patent Challenged · · Score: 1

    Indeed the sole justification for the issuance of patents is made explicit in the constitution: To promote the useful arts. If this patent is an impediment to the progress of the useful arts, and being used against the public interest, then it is without justification, and should be voided.

  7. Re:DONATE!! on JPEG Patent Challenged · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The constitutional justification for the issuance of patents is to promote the useful arts, which is a specific form of promotion of the public interest. If a patent is deleterious to the public interest and does not promote the useful arts, it is without justification, and should be voided.

  8. Re:More conspiracy theories on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the BBC is making it up too,
    when they quote US ambassador in London Robert Holmes Tuttle that US forces "do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons".

  9. Re:Art Bell on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    Iraq wasn't poor before we pit it against Iran in the 1980-88 war. That was the problem, in fact: It was too prosperous and influential. Once the IIW ended, we had to find another way to destroy it, so we had Kuwait start drilling Iraqi oil, and *voila*! Then starvation and bombing for 12 years, until it was so hopelessly beaten that invasion was a cakewalk. Now, systematic dismemberment, and the creation of ethnic civil war. 25 year of this stuff, and millions dead. But it has all been extremely lucrative for Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld's companies, and Israel's major regional competitor is gone, so I guess it's all worth it.

  10. Re:Wow big suprise US spending billions on defense on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    Personally, I favor shutting down the U.S. It does a lot more harm than good. I wouldn't mind dying very much if I knew that the rest of the U.S. was also being terminated simultaneously. We has met the enemy and he is U.S. Who would have ever thought that the Ayatollahs were right? The U.S. really is the Great Satan of the world. It took GWB to prove it without room for evasion or excuse.

  11. Re:More conspiracy theories on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    That's simply a lie. The DoD claimed, prior to the recent flap, that WP was used solely for purposes of illumination, during the Fallujah massacre. They changed their story after the RAI footage made it graphically plain that significant numbers of people had been melted alive and U.S. military eyewitnesses graphically described the use of WP munitions to incinerate inhabited ground targets.

  12. Re:They that can give up essential on State Department Developing Cyber Toolkit · · Score: 1

    IEDs in the streets of Kennebunkport, waiting for an SMS to activate a proximity fuse, seems the most likely end of King George 3.

  13. Re:The Spelling of NIAGARA on New Server Chip Niagara · · Score: 1

    It seems someone is being niggardly with their letters "A".

  14. Re:nasty stuff on New Server Chip Niagara · · Score: 1

    Another religious maniac.

  15. Re: appropriate for all types of workloads on New Server Chip Niagara · · Score: 1

    > aren't sleeping fast enough

    That is exactly the problem. Modern desktops need several threads in L1 icache in order
    to be responsive. Is it bad design? Yes, but I can't help the politics of that. What
    I can do is get lots of cores.

    Believe me, once you've grown acustomed to KDE 3.4 or Windows XP on SMP, leaving aside the
    sweet, sweet juiciness that is multicore SMP, you'll not go quietly into that dark night of
    mono-threading.

    Don't read too much into Linux load average numbers. Understanding their implications
    relevant to performance, once you get past the crude first-order approximation, is a
    delicate and subtle business.

  16. Re:Quite intresting about china and our workplaces on Verso Trials Skype Blocking in China · · Score: 1

    Verso is the bad guy here, not China. China is just doing what centralized power structures always do: Eat people.

  17. Re:Spreading Democracy on Verso Trials Skype Blocking in China · · Score: 1

    > some sort of morals

    I'm not sure that's a good idea. Total amorality might be better than a facade of moral
    sophistry used to defend and justify crimes against humanity, massacres, torture, rapine
    and pillage, treason, war crimes, and wholesale corruption.

  18. Re:it is unfortunate. on Verso Trials Skype Blocking in China · · Score: 1

    If you do it with an explosive belt, you'll be heard better.

    Personally, I'd rather survive. Snipers live longer.

  19. Re:evolution has already spoken on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Well put. Moreover, coexistence is not competition. If the human and the bacterium do not have conflicting survival interests, they do not compete.

  20. Re:Or, to phrase it more... powerfully... on Verso Trials Skype Blocking in China · · Score: 1

    Because China, after the United States, is the most evil and repressive system of control and oppression on the face of the earth, killing people by the thousands in acts of perversion, injustice and corruption. Does that answer your question?

  21. Re:Supporting opression for a buck on Verso Trials Skype Blocking in China · · Score: 1

    *Ignore*? Holy fuck, Shell Oil hired mercenaries in helicopters to shoot down villagers on the ground after they protested against uncompensated seizure of land in Nigeria. Death is not good enough for these fuckers. Hell won't take them.

  22. Re:I still fail to see something. on The Reality of Patent Expirations for the NES · · Score: 1

    Having read the article, I'd have to say it's crap, and you can clone the NES to your hearts content. Just don't use the copyrighted bits, which are all about crippling the system -- not a selling point, I can assure you.

  23. Re:Some people already do this! on Army Develops New Chewing Gum · · Score: 1

    I do like the idea of putting a milligram of LSD in every 100th stick.

  24. evolution has already spoken on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The fitness race has already picked a winner, IMHO: Solaris kernel with Debian user-space
    and a mixed KDE/Gnome desktop. It's just a question of how long it will take for the market
    to find this global optimum, via stochastic walk.

  25. Re:Theory needs work on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    > Indeed they have no concept of a million years. You forget, you're talking to folks that
    > believe the universe was created at 4:30 in the afternoon of October 26th, 4004 BC.

    A straw man is such a wonderful thing to defeat.