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  1. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    How do community colleges that cost a fraction enter your equation???

  2. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    Which is still less than 1/5 of your costs. And?

  3. Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tell me again why college in the US costs sooooo much? It's not like you are getting a super special top notch education that is not comparable to top Canadian universities for example.

  4. Re:Obsession on NASA Scientists Find Evidence of Water In Martian Meteorite · · Score: 1

    The probes/rovers/landers have/had electron microscopes?

  5. Re: And in other news... on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Nice try with google translate. First of all, you wouldn't put an accent on the last "e" of the first word.

  6. Re:Who cares? on Visual Studio 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    How so? I'm using 2012 at work and feels just as good as any version so far. Debugging unit tests couldn't be easier, resharper helps a ton, etc. What bloat are you talking about that is preventing you from actually working?

  7. Re:McFly, is that you? US DID well until hubris on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 1
    "The American dream was to work hard in school, then work hard at your job so you can buy your own home."

    Couldn't/can't you do that in many countries as well?

  8. Re:Sounds familiar... on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you are referring to Obama and the democrats as being on the left side of the political spectrum then you are grossly mistaken. The democrats are more like center-right...it's just that you don't see it like that in your duality "democracy". Being non-American and an outside observer, this is very evident.

  9. Re:iPhone 5 was difficult to manufacture on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 1

    More users should do what you just did, and catch yourself and apologize. Well done.

  10. Re:iPhone 5 was difficult to manufacture on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 1

    "And it comes with the premium-level features like fingerprint identification and the like." And which other "premium-level" features are you talking about?

  11. Re:I'm usually against military action. on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Are you sure its the gov that used the chemical weapons and not the rebels that are backed by AQ?

  12. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    The context here is getting bigger/stronger, not memory performance. The way to grow muscles is to recruit and wipe out as many fibers as possible when someone trains. If you take something that allows us to recruit fewer fibers (like creatine, which reduces the lactate acid threshold. It does this by increasing the muscles contractile strength and this in turn allows the body to use fewer fibers to do the same amount of work) then it doesn't take a degree to realize that this is not good news for muscle growth... If you want to bloat up and store water with creatine, go right ahead.

  13. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    I wasn't just talking about creatine, suppliments, whey, etc. What will happen when you stop taking creatine? You won't be as strong or are you going to take it for the rest of your life?

  14. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    Concentrate on lifting harder/better/improving your technique instead of taking a shortcut through creatine to improve your lifts. Taking supplements and such for lifting is a non-sustainable effort that your body won't tolerate in the long run. Once you do stop taking supplements and creatine your body will adjust and become much weaker...good luck dealing with that once that happens.

  15. Re:I'd be wary. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 0

    By removing the arm?

  16. Re:Practicality? on Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells · · Score: 1

    A human is considered a human when their brains form in my opinion at the end of the first trimester I believe. In the case of rape, the "illegal" act of abortion is the consequence of the "illegal" act of being raped...therefore the woman should have a choice of what to do to her body. Remember, in the early stages, we just have a collection of cells dividing, akin to a tumor...

  17. Re:The more they study it ... on Oldest Lunar Calendar Found In Scotland · · Score: 1

    And? Two out of 6 billion.

  18. Re:Practicality? on Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells · · Score: 0

    I don't know what you are smoking but "Pro-Choice" is perfectly descriptive. It denotes concisely the choice a woman should have with her body and this is coming from someone who was almost aborted, I was given up for adoption instead at birth. "Anti-Choice" sounds like the government trying to control what a woman can and can't do with her own body. I won't even go into "Anti-Life", something only coined in societies where everything is seen black or white, right or left, democrat or republican...sound familiar? The question is also deeper, if you are "Pro-Choice", when do you establish the cut-off date, before the brain forms? I just want the women to have the right to decide to abort in cases where rape is involved for example, nobody in their right mind should be forced to keep and raise a baby conceived from a rape (imagine a father raping her daughter).

  19. Re:The more they study it ... on Oldest Lunar Calendar Found In Scotland · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who is claiming everything started with the Egyptians?

  20. Re:Faster isn't better on Video Gamers See the World Differently · · Score: 1

    This is me. I have an easier time reading the plays and movements of players in real life thanks to my video game days growing up. I don't really game anymore but I do spend almost as much time in the gym and playing sports now than I did playing games. My brain is still just as quick and now I'm in great shape and cut.

  21. Re:Good luck with that on Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract To Build Alternative To Panama Canal · · Score: 0

    What a failure your statue of liberty was...french made.

  22. Re:you had me at... on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    Well that is not how one does agile in a team environment. The scrum master changes all the time, all he does is ensure the scrum meetings are smooth and concise.

  23. Re:VIC-20 on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1
  24. VIC-20 on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    I had a commodore VIC-20 and learned from the manual. Whatever I coded in basic was saved to CASSETTE tape hehe. Ahhh the memories.

  25. Re:There's a reason nobody talks about it on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    Yes, even my old game company was doing some game engines using it.