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  1. Re:Cap and Trade solves everything! on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    Not exactly, they just had to restructure the socialist state to balance the budgets. Your sentence makes about as much sense as claiming, IBM was on its way to self destruction 20 years ago because of their capitalist ideology, and since then has ben moving steadily to socialism. No, the scandinavian ideology is still socialist, and for now it works. There might be other challenges in the future the scandinavian states have to adopt to, but this doesn't change the socialist ideas, only the way the state and the welfare programs are structured to express those ideas.

  2. Re: Yes, there tends to be little physical force.. on Pirate Party MEP Helps Draft New Credit Card Company Controls · · Score: 1

    If the amount of force you have to apply financially increases to replace someone in power, then democracy decreases.

  3. Re:RTFA on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 1

    I am normally only wearing a badge if I am at certain customer sites. For the most part, I am walking around unidentified. And if the schools my children attend would start such an ID badge crap, I would make a fuss about it too.

  4. Re:Strange bedfellows... on That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1

    Not a friend, just a temporary ally.

  5. Re:Regulation is problematic on Pirate Party MEP Helps Draft New Credit Card Company Controls · · Score: 1

    That's why we have mechanisms in place designed to hand over the power in the government as painlessly as possible on a regular basis. It's called democracy. A good measure of democracy is the inverse of the amount of force needed to replace the persons in power. Democracy is stronger, if the force needed is less.

  6. Re:Not a digital computer on The World's Oldest Original Digital Computer Springs Back Into Action At TNMOC · · Score: 5, Informative

    "digital" comes from "digit" (number), which in turn comes from the latin "digitus" (finger). It has nothing to do with binary, other than binary being digital too. Any number based computer is digital. There are analog computers which use continuous currents or voltages to calculate. Those are not digital.

  7. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1

    No. Because every christian is non-forgiving about something, may it be too much salt in the soup or bodily harm against children. Just being tolerant against verbal abuse is no special threat. When I was 17, my primary tactics against being bullied was to trump other peoples words thrown at me by correcting and enforcing them, it was basicly turning the other verbal cheek. It worked wonders, as the verbal abuse stopped after a few days. But it didn't make me a real christian. It just made me a smug teenager.

  8. Re:Cause? on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 1

    Everyone who starts talking about why the other side makes an argument forgets to actually evaluate said argument. Someone with a vested interest about A being true can still be correct about A being true. Otherwise going to a car repair shop would be pointless as it has a vested interest in your car to be actually broken. You still have to listen to his actual argument to evaluate the truth.

  9. Re:Chick-fil-a in San Jose is packed on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1

    No, it's just a convenient place to eat. It has nothing to do with your morals, or as Bertold Brecht put it: First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics. (The Threepenny Opera).

  10. Re:But it does get counterproductively silly on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1

    "After" is the german word for the asshole. And it's the formal one, used for instance in the biological description of animals (e.g. protostomia being the branch of the multicellular animals, whose mouth stays where it is an a new rectum breaks through - in this case in german, you would use the word "After" for the rectum).

  11. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1

    It does. Because most christians are not so forgiving. So either there are no true christians out there (which makes the whole discussion moot anyway), or we have to accept as christian most of the people who claim to be christians.

  12. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 2

    Ah, the no true scotsman argument.

  13. According to the textbook... on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    ... the textbook was written by a meat eater.

  14. Re:Suck it! on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    The question is how the monopoly is used. Microsoft's 90% market share was not bad as such, but using it to strongarm other companies out of the market (Stacker? Netscape?) was.

  15. Re:where can i get on Volcano May Have Killed Off New Bioluminescent Cockroach · · Score: 1

    At the Pacific Ring of Fire. Sadly, they don't do home deliveries, you have to pick up them yourself.

  16. Re:Fireflies? on Volcano May Have Killed Off New Bioluminescent Cockroach · · Score: 2

    They are land animals. They breed on land, they develop on land, only in their last phase of life (the imago state), they fly. And still then they land occasionally.

  17. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's not the government. It will not be the goverment and it was never the government. Your problem is the false dichotomy which doesn't recognize anything else than "private" and "government". The local sewage plant is legally owned by a governmental entity, so it's governmental. The BBC is not owned by any governmental entity. It just belongs to itself.

  18. Re:Gross or Net kWh? on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Not so bingo at all. Near Dresden, they are currently dismantling the Niederwartha pumped storage hydro power station, because it is not operable economically. Obviously the cheap off-peak wind power to operate the pumps is not cheap enough to offset the cost of the hydro power station even if it is able to generate power exactly when the prices are high. It seems that the offpeak/peak power price relation is not high enough to compensate for the cost of operating a pump storage plant.

  19. Not the gas heaters I know.

  20. Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    "Beginning" means that currently, there are no nuclear plants powering the grid. All nuclear plants are currently idle running and are just kept up to reconnect if the need arises. "Beginning" means that currently, no nuclear plant has started to get dismantled.

  21. Re:Where's the vague? on Canada's Supreme Court Tosses Viagra Patent For Vagueness · · Score: 1

    It's in the What part of "What makes old farts' dicks harder". Pfizer failed to state precisely which of the millions of possible compounds is actually working.

  22. Re:define, "illusion" on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    It isn't. With such large numbers like the U.S. electorate, 50.4% to 48.x% is a solid result and the margin of error is somewhere around 0.1% - far away from any ambiguity. Single events might change the outcome within certain groups of people, but with such a large electorate, most of them cancel out each other, and the overall outcome is pretty well determined already, or better: the likelihood of it to stray far away from the predictions is very small.

  23. Re:Tweedledee won ! on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    He might even have won if he didn't start to heap blame onto people likely to vote for Barack Obama. Hoping for hispanics to "deport themselves" or chastitizing people getting foodstamps and other social transfers did not increase Mitt Romney's chances for success, because those people also have rights and are constituents.

  24. Re:Romney Kills Baby Seals on Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest · · Score: 2

    Attila the Hun predates Genghis Khan by about 750 years. Attila was defeated in the Battle at the Catalaunian Plains in 451 AD and died in 453 AD, while Genghis Khan was born (named Temujin) somewhen around 1162 AD and died in 1227.

  25. Re:Phonetically similar in another language? on Apple Loses Trademark Claim Against iFone in Mexico · · Score: 1

    This is plainly wrong. 'ph' just describes the greek letter Phi, which is pronounced f. So wherever you see a 'ph' in a single syllable, it's pronounced 'f', and you can be sure the word has greek roots. In fact, iFone and iPhone come from the same greek word 'phone' (sound, voice), and the actual word they are derived from, telephone, just means 'far voice' or 'far talk'. Some languages started just earlier with replacing 'ph's by 'f', turning graphics (graphein = draw) to grafics, photographs (photos = light, photograph = light drawing) to fotografs and phantasy (phantasia = ghost, appearance) to fantasy. iFone and iPhone are thus meaning the same thing, are pronounced the same way and have the same root. The only thing Apple got right in this lawsuit is that both trademarks are easily confused.