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  1. Re:YES, THIS IS WHAT WE NEED on US Gov't To Issue Secure Online IDs · · Score: 1

    But those are exactly the arguments why voter id is racist. Just ask the Justice Department.

  2. Re:YES, THIS IS WHAT WE NEED on US Gov't To Issue Secure Online IDs · · Score: 1

    ID may be required for everything except voting - for that it's racist.

  3. Tar, Feathers, etc on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 2

    Some assembly required.

  4. Just don't read chat logs... on Playing StarCraft Could Boost Your Cognitive Flexibility · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...or that will undo all the cognitive gains you get from playing.

  5. Re:Sex on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 1

    "Bodily fluids obtained during sex" =/= "sex".

  6. Re:I don't get it. on Version 2.0 of 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds · · Score: 1

    I'd say that drug law enforcement has long since crossed the line into Orwellian. And it's leaking into other areas of law enforcement as well.

  7. Parasites on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 2

    It's never as simple as "Just grow some bugs and chow down". Most species of insects are hosts to assorted parasites.
    For instance, the common grasshopper (yummy when fried) can carry tapeworms.

    While we have lots of experience dealing with parasites of domestic mammals, not so much for bugs that live on other bugs.

  8. Piling on requirements on NASA's Garver Proposes Carving Piece Off Big Asteroid For Near-Earth Mining · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a stealthy way of killing off the project, by piling on requirements until it's obviously too expensive or risky.

  9. Re:It's a trap on NASA's Garver Proposes Carving Piece Off Big Asteroid For Near-Earth Mining · · Score: 1

    It would cost the same delta-v to rendezvous with an asteroid as it would to reach the same orbit without the rendezvous.

  10. Re:What about long term? on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 1

    Huge future assets aren't worth much if you're going broke now.

    Conservation is important but there really aren't those kinds of big savings to be had. People don't want to drive golf carts to work and they don't want to live in the city. And I can't blame them. And 70F? Try 77 and it's still expensive.

    And yes, boondoggles. Even in Germany. Read the "Government Policy" section of that wiki article. They are paying huge subsidies for renewable energy.

  11. Re:Jenny McCarthy on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Don't just tell us, call the advertisers of The View and tell them.

  12. Mmm, yeah, real dangerous on 3D Printers Shown To Emit Potentially Harmful Nanosized Particles · · Score: 1

    Right up there with frying food or scented candles. We'll get back to you on that, sure.

  13. Re:What about long term? on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 0

    What are the long-term costs of not exploiting domestic energy supplies? More funding for our dear friends the Saudis? Escalating death-spiral of energy prices while renewables turn out to be expensive boondoggles? Our Dear Leader did promise that energy prices would necessarily skyrocket, and that's one promise he seems determined to fulfill.

  14. Re:Sounds iffy on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 1

    Fracking wells themselves are too deep for that to matter very much, also the pressure of fracking is momentary, much more like blasting in a mine. The problem you describe is more likely to be caused by a brine-injection well, which is done at shallower depths and is intended for long-term storage of the injected brine at pressure. I know, we've had several small earthquakes here in NE Ohio resulting from improperly operated brine injection wells.

  15. Re:Sounds iffy on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nothing changed. That area has had methane in the ground water since long before fracking ever happened.

  16. Unlike Monopoly on PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bank Error In Your Favor means you Go Directly To Jail if you try to spend the money.

  17. Re:So happy on Google Raises Campaign Funds For Climate Change Denier · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried not believing in gravity, but it only made me lightheaded.

  18. Re:This Is Considered News?? on Why Protesters In Cairo Use Laser Pointers · · Score: 1

    You'd likely find an "Emergency Powers" clause which allow the President (or whatever he's called) to rule by decree. It only takes one clause like that to make a complete mockery of the rest of the constitution.

  19. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    Sorry but that fantasy of yours is not supported by either evidence or testimony. Stick to the facts as known.

  20. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    Your ability to conjure up fantasies has nothing to do with the witnesses and the evidence in the trial.

  21. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 3

    When "confront his pursuer" means "knock him down and beat his head against the sidewalk" then I think there's possibly a minor flaw in your argument.

  22. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is just utterly ridiculous. Getting out of the car makes no difference to the right to self defense.
    Even "confrontation" makes no difference. The only thing that would negate the self-defense plea is if Zimmerman actually physically attacked Martin and then progressed from fighting to shooting.
    And there is absolutely no evidence nor testimony that he did so.

    It would be ever so refreshing if people made the slightest effort to understand the law before they started blathering about it.
    I know, too much to ask.

  23. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed, we have testimony that Martin was almost home when he decided to go back and attack Zimmerman.

  24. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    "Except Martin's DNA was not on the holster or the gun."
    That was covered in the trial. Even under ideal conditions DNA doesn't stick 100% of the time, and it was raining.

  25. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Stand your ground" has nothing to do with this case. It's a pure case of self-defense.

    "Within three generations we could weed virtually all aggressive genes out of the gene pool."
    And within four generations the few aggressive ones left would rule the rest with an iron fist.