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  1. Re:Oh good an online petition on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: -1, Troll

    That would explain the urine, feces, various and numerous communicable diseases, shootings, rapes and of course, the drumming.

  2. Re:Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, they don't even do that in TFA, that I could see.

  3. Re:Congress, our representatives? on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The core of the problem is that government has gotten too big"

    Fixed.

    If the government were not in a position to grant special favors to companies because it is regulating everything in sight, then business would have no use buying off politicians.

  4. U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center on Bad Astronomer Phil Plait Responds · · Score: 1

    U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center reported finding neutron bursts when using heavy water electrolysis, though their claims were not accepted by the mainstream scientific community.

    So Phil is calling these guys out? Is the "mainstream scientific community" calling them out?

    I can't image that the NSNWSC would employ a bunch of dolts and I would expect that people would at least be intrigued instead of tuning up their noses and dismissing the findings out of hand.

  5. Re:Do more with less on Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just glancing at the headline I thought this might be an interesting article and discussion. But just the first sentence shows it for what it is, yet another "Sky is Falling if our funding is cut" article.

  6. Re:They need a "new kind of TV" to be profitable? on Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' · · Score: 1

    I just dropped a dime on a new 55" HD TV.

    My last TV (32" tube") from the early nineties is still going strong in another home.

    So they will have had at least two "new" TVs before I'm ready to buy again.

  7. Re:A new kind of TV...... on Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It isn't selling because 3-D TV for the home is stupid.

    It's pretty ridicules for the theater too.

  8. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    No, dumb ass, I'm American and you are an embarrassment.

  9. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    I give you, an Ugly America.

  10. Re:So on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Without a functioning economy, your entire life may not be that long.

  11. Re:Hypocapnia means 'not enough CO2' on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    House would be impressed.

  12. Re:Models are always right! on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    AC Fight!

  13. Re:Phew... on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    solar sails beaming microwaves to the ground.

    What?

    There may actually be a legitimate need for tin foil hats in that case.

    So let me see how this goes:

    "The public won't accept it" (Nuclear power) so we should stop all research and development and shit can the existing plants.

    But the public expresses doubt about AGW or at least the proposed solutions and, let me guess, they need education and persuasion; must be convinced for all our sakes.

    Why do people always look for pie in the sky solutions that won't be ready for ten years and would never be able to provide the generation capacity to meet base load requirements? Nuclear is here now, works and when managed correctly is perfectly safe. It also has great potential for technological advancement and even greater safety.

  14. Re:A first on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    If jogging in place for 13 years isn't "stability" I don't know what is

    Stagnating?

  15. Re:A first on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I'm on the fence about the tax, I am definitely with you on making high frequency trading as difficult and least profitable as possible.

    HFT is what crashes markets at a moment's notice. It can destroy companies in a matter of minutes. And it also an affront to the entire concept of a market where well informed buyers make well informed decisions about the value of a product.

  16. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    "The environmental impacts of shale development are challenging but manageable." The study addressed groundwater contamination, noting "There has been concern that these fractures can also penetrate shallow freshwater zones and contaminate them with fracturing uid, but there is no evidence that this is occurring"

  17. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    Do you drive this angrily also?

  18. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    Then you have an problem with any product recovered from a well...oil, gas, etc. Because that's how they all get to the surface.

  21. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    Read the whole thread...I did.

  22. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 2

    All wells are sleeved.

    Think about it, you spend all this money drilling a well thousands and thousands of feet to reach whatever you are after and you'd just let seep away into sand formations on the way up?

    Then there's the pesky thing about the hold collapsing on itself when you withdraw the drilling pipe.

    ALL wells use casing.

  23. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    I see your Youtube and raise you an actual study.

  24. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    Take a soda bottle and shake it up.

    Hold it upside down and take off the cap. Did the pressurized fluids rise?
    Hold it horizontally and take off the cap. Did the pressurized fluids rise?

    It depends on the container doesn't it?

    If there is a non-permeable cap above the gas reservoir, then no, the pressurized fluids won't rise. They will move horizontally, as intended. And guess what? The gas is down that deep because there is a non-permeable cap above the reservoir.

  25. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1