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  1. Re:I don't think .... on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Bu "high school physics" I meant just knowing the formulas for gravity and motion.

  2. I don't think .... on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... that anyone who had a grasp of high school phsyics, and who understood the analogy - of 3D matter flattened to represent a 2D metaphor for our real 3D world, which lives in 4D spacetime - or who understood that gravity attracted mass towards mass and not towards the "down" direction perpendicular to the sheet - would think for a second that such a demonstration would create the same exact trajectory as actual interaction between 3D objects in 4D spacetime.

  3. Re:Come on on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    I thought it was considered an "antibacterial". I've learned something but can't edit my post (the point of which remains intact) else I would. Thanks.

  4. Come on on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The bigger problem is antibiotic use on farms, and the FDA's recent toothless rules ( http://theweek.com/article/index/254057/why-the-fdas-new-antibiotic-rules-fall-short ) rely on the farmers who use them to mediate the results of cruel conditions (overcrowding, etc) and the companies who sell them to voluntarily cut back on their use. Good luck with that.

    Meantime they hit hard on Purell users. Bah.

  5. Re: How is Norway going to know? on Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the US, To be taxed at the lower rate, it must be classified as "long-term" - I.e. the asset must be held for at least a year before it's sold. Other (short-term) gains are taxed at the same rate as income.

  6. Meddling pricks ... on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    Jeez, don't they have anything better to do? (actually their spending time on this is probably safer in the long run than whatever else they would be working towards)

    If it were such a nuisance to consumers, the airlines would offer "no-talking" flights or sections. Everything doesn't have to be legislated.

  7. Re:Why do libertarians complain so much? on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a dolt.

    You don't own the phone lines, either, or the Postal Service, right? But (landline) phone calls, and (snail-) mailed correspondence are long understood to have First and Fourth Amendment protections.

  8. Thanks, Jenny McCarthy on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... and other idiots

  9. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    So then ... no motorcycles (for example) should be sold unless they're easily handled by inexperienced riders? I remember picking up my (used) Yamaha ZX600 from the dealer twenty years ago and noticing that the new FZR1000 I'd been drooling over was gone. I asked about it and the sales guy pointed to the damaged fence across the street. "Some kid with his permit (in NJ then you got a permit in preparation for the motorcycle test), bought it against recommendation, and drove it out of the lot, couldn't turn, and smashed right into the fence".

  10. Re:How about we force the CEO's to justify their p on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    How is it the business of government to be directed by the public to use force to coerce a company and CEO to not engage in a mutually acceptable transaction that is - other than this particular arbitrary delineation - legal?

  11. Re:How about we force the CEO's to justify their p on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    A CEO has never been fired by a vote? If it includes proxies for shareholders, it counts.

  12. Re:How about we force the CEO's to justify their p on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    When the company's not "above average" it's pretty common for someone to organize the stockholders and vote them out. And doing a "good job" of what? If neither the people getting paid and the people paying them (stockholders) are complaining, who's harmed?

  13. Re:How about we force the CEO's to justify their p on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, we should make them answerable, and their wages approvable, by the people who own the company and who profit or lose by its success! Oh wait, they already do that.

  14. Re: unless... on FEC Will Not Allow Bitcoin Campaign Contributions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A corp doesn't have to choose - in close campaigns the big ones donate to both so they're owed regardless of the outcome

  15. Re:Yea what a great idea on BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company · · Score: 1

    He designed BSD?

  16. Re:Hmm on Big Box? Nissan Note the First-Ever Car You Can 'Buy' On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I got that - but for double entendre to work, both, umm, entendres have to make sense

  17. Re:Hmm on Big Box? Nissan Note the First-Ever Car You Can 'Buy' On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Well, the package *is* the box. Probably you meant the size of the contents, but that's not really suitably insertion-imagery-inducing.

  18. Nothing worse than a big box.

  19. Re:All? on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you implying that you're sure one isn't? If it's necessary to err either on the side of protecting anonymity or the side of sacrificing privacy unnecessarily, it should be the former.

  20. That's not a "home security system". on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    That's not a "consumer grade home security system". It's a motion sensor alarm. A cheap, pitiful motion sensor alarm. That a $7.80 alarm doesn't use a sophisticated or even up-to-date remote shouldn't be a surprise to anyone

  21. so ... on Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape · · Score: 1

    His preference for analog tape isn't based on his expert ear or anything having to do with his expertise at all, but with his assumption about the assumed obsolescence of digital file formats? A sysadmin is more knowledgeable on that topic.

    It will be much harder to find a tape player for an obsolete format/size of magnetic tape than it will be to write something to convert/decode a file made using a well-documented standard.

  22. Re: WSJ is not exactly a credible source on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Actually, while the WSJ's op-Ed staff is aligned right/libertarian, the news department is still pretty left. But it's much easier to just dismiss it without checking, isn't it?

  23. Re: That's cool and everything, but... on How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks · · Score: 1

    Anarchy is not a "libertarian paradise".

  24. Re:Other private Mexican mobile phone services on Mexican Village Creates Its Own Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    By "support" do you mean "pay for"? If so then all Americans "support" the NSA spying. Well, half of us anyway, but that's another discussion.

    If you meant "condone" then no, it's ridiculous to declare that "everyone in America" is in favor of those programs, even if you argue that we all voted for representatives who voted for them. First, no we didn't. Second, the more onerous details of the NSA programs weren't made available even to those representatives. Even the legislators who wrote the law on which the programs were based didn't intend parts of it to mean what NSA has interpreted them to mean.

  25. Re:Hardly Iconic on Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone · · Score: 1

    Huh?