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  1. Re:Sincerity? on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 1

    Okay, WHAT?

    Do you have any idea what kind of a country Finland is? I mean, we're more advanced than the US!

    New technologies, complex electronics... hmm. Ever heard of, say, Nokia, the company firing thousands of very highly educated people?

  2. Re:Big duh. on Space Is (Not) the Place, Says Professor · · Score: 1

    They are Educated Stupid and they have no inkling to just how EVIL they think.

  3. Re:Do the math, indeed! on Space Is (Not) the Place, Says Professor · · Score: 2

    Hint hint: What is oil made out of?

    Answer: Various hydrocarbons. Now, what are trees and grass made out of?

    The "ooh" moment should strike about now. And to top it off, all you need for processing plants into effective fuel is... wait for it... energy. Which you can get from solar plants. We're far from being restricted to oil, it just happens to be cheap at the present time.

  4. Re:More Like Patients Dodging Federal Regulation on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    Defining it by first neurological activity would be sufficient for the current purposes.

    Defining it by self-awareness - or development of memory - would be more along the lines, but eventually I don't see the advantage. Neurological activity is hard to dispute.

  5. Re:More Like Patients Dodging Federal Regulation on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    But we should let any dangerous incompetent quack take people's money and then apply "treatments" that are nothing but bullshit! It's the American way!

    ... wait, wealthy Americans turning to Europe for medical treatment...?

  6. Re:More Like Patients Dodging Federal Regulation on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 2

    Take your baby out of the womb now and see if it's a living person or not.

    A baby isn't a person until it develops enough of a nervous system to be sentient. Same reason why someone brain dead has no rights.

  7. Re:Publicity whore for a "scientist" on Could Assortative Mating Explain Autism? · · Score: 1

    For proof, you could check out any other news article with him in it.

  8. Re:I'd say on Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Glow in the dark flowers? They wouldn't. Radioactivity wouldn't leak from the containers; and even in the case you intentionally made the containers leak, it'd still not make the flowers glow. That would require exponentially more radioactivity - nevermind the fact that that much radioactivity would not only kill anyone in that house, but likely everyone on a very large radius.

    It'd just be an ugly, huge steel container. Reprocessed waste still lasts for 1000 years, so assuming their homes aren't in groundwater or earthquake-prone areas, it'd be a perfectly safe option, for them and others alike. Unreprocessed waste is less dangerous but also lasts longer... and it's a perfectly viable fuel.

  9. Re:Ugh on Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm gonna answer your questions in order.

    First, it's not weaponizable. Problem solved.

    Greenpeace isn't the most reliable organization. Problem solved.

    Guaranteeing security for the next five-ten years is trivial. That part of the problem solved. Heck, the transports can handle being abandoned.

    They should have full insurance up to Chernobyl style accidents? Nevermind the fact that a Chernobyl style accident is physically impossible with any US reactor? You're just giving them impossible requirements.

  10. Re:China? on Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    So send it out to Canada instead. Or France. Or Japan.

  11. Re:It damn well better... on Building a Gary Gygax Memorial · · Score: 1

    I think it'll just be a giant pile of books. Like every other nerd's personal memorial to him.

  12. Re:i wonder.... on Three Arrested For Sony/Egypt Hacks · · Score: 1

    Are you saying we'll get another set of Nobel Awards if we run horrible articles on the author of LOIC? </completelymissingthepoint>

  13. Re:What's the problem with being monitored? on School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  14. Re:First of all... on Sony Sued For PlayStation Network Data Breach · · Score: 2

    Sony as an example of quality?

    Are you trolling us?

    Sony hardware is just as good quality-wise as the rest; only their prices are quite a bit above.

  15. Re:Pass on Razer Hydra Brings Motion Control To PC Gamers · · Score: 2

    PC isn't supposed to be anything, especially nothing defined by consoles.

    Computers are versatile and are hundreds of things depending on the user, the software and the hardware. They are not the "anti-console", and console-like gaming fits the PC just as well as indie games, boring shooters and office tools.

    Don't define yourself by what you're not. And more importantly, don't use that to define others.

  16. Re:Banana? on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the "something" that just doesn't work is Slashdot fact-checking.

  17. Re:That was stupid of him on Gamer Banned From Dragon Age II Over Forum Post · · Score: 1

    It's also the *other company's* forum.

    That is, EA's forum.

  18. Re:No one's saying it isn't on Tech-Unfriendly Cafes Say No Kindles Allowed · · Score: 1

    Undoing bad mod.

  19. Re:Rest in piece, hacker friendly mobile future on Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance · · Score: 1

    United States isn't the world.

  20. Re:This is called... on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    s/steal/take down/

  21. Re:This is called... on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    The Tetris Company doing something shady. Isn't there a surprise.

    Oh wait, that's practically all they do. Steal other people's stuff and sue people.

  22. Re:They once were on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    So anybody at all can be an engineer if they just decide so?

    Yeah. Not really sure how to respond to that.

  23. Re:The meaning of random on Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Record Rate In 2010 · · Score: 1

    "All we can do is debate the issue until the disaster is upon us."

    Wouldn't this count as hindsight by now?

  24. Re:Not a Surprise on Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share · · Score: 1

    I do prefer my half-cost Android phone over an iPhone. ... I'd have bought an iPhone at the same price point, but I am already worried about it breaking. No way I'm gonna pay for an iPhone without insurance.

  25. Re:I wonder... on PS3 Root Key Found · · Score: 1

    This would be a fair point, if Sony didn't disable Other OS for homebrewer and non-homebrewer alike.