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  1. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Someone doesn't know how hard it can be to kill something with a gun.

  2. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Only because people don't have a clue how to use them. I 100% support gun laws that require someone to know how to use the guns that they buy.

  3. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    You can't prevent this from happening in the future. If not guns then bombs if not bombs then chemical weapons all of which can be made from common household items easily. You won't stop the outcome you'll just change the means.

  4. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it's the culture of our country not our gun laws that cause us to be gun crazy. I know plenty of previously law abiding citizens that would become criminal if guns were outlawed outright. Remember grasshopper correlation does not imply causation.

  5. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Laws don't stop you from doing anything they merely tell you what the punishment is for getting caught.

  6. Re:This changes nothing. . . on Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama · · Score: 1

    The study linked through your link specifically concludes that there is no measurable difference in IQ for those that started smoking after the age of 18.

  7. Re:Fahrenheit? on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 2

    Oddly enough Celsius is indeed better for this use. 1* Celsius is approximately the amount of difference in temperature it takes for the human body to say "hey the temperature changed"

  8. Re:IT is the new factory worker. on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    And how is that inherently different from writing custom software to monitor networks so easy to use any idiot could do it?

  9. Re:Where's Grover Norquist when you need him? on Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    It's still a duty placed on the transaction regardless of who keeps track of it.

  10. Re:IT is the new factory worker. on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    So you're still in IT it's just called something different...

  11. Re:tech is a fairly broad category on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting $200-$300/mo for utilities. And why should someone that put 4 years into bettering themselves not be paid at least the same if not better than someone that spent the same time in industry?

  12. Re:Where's Grover Norquist when you need him? on Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    Actually it isn't within states rights to do this without a constitutional amendment (doesn't mean they won't try though).

  13. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Except most people will ignore an otherwise useful comment due to poor etiquette largely because it's rare for people with poor etiquette to post anything useful.

  14. Re:Embarassing day for whites on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    All you've done here is show that we have a really easy way to say certain units in the imperial system... SI could use cubic meters or cm*km^2 you just resist change because you don't actually understand the units you're using.

  15. Re:Actually Measured on Geomapping Racism With Twitter · · Score: 1

    Well done! Your guess trumps everything you get 50 thousand "I believe that the majority opinion is always correct!" points! You win the Internet! Seriously though, racisms sucks. But your experience is, I'm sure, just as limited as the experience of the poster you were replying to. My experience is limited to small towns in northern California and a few different areas with white minorities. It is sort of funny but each group of "underprivileged" people has always found the other "races" to be at fault (It doesn't seem to matter which race they come from). I guess everybody needs to project their failure onto others while those who seem to meet with success through effort of their own seem to judge on that merit. Again completely anecdotal but anecdotal evidence is better than your guess.

  16. Re:Just happy to see a Republican supporting scien on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    ummm... We totally need more viable humans in the already grossly overpopulated world...

  17. Re:Oligonicella is YOUR real name? on Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty · · Score: 1

    Dude why are you posting this about yourself?

  18. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Not really a black box there are two enzymes used to break up the starches in the grain; one cleaves off the end into certain sized chunks the other cleaves the molecules in the middle. At this exact moment I don't remember which is which but controlling the reaction rates of those two chemicals/enzymes is a game of temperature control. Basically it's organic chemistry the biology doesn't come into play until the fermentation reactions up to that point you create a solution as close to the properties you want for the correct reactions to take place, use an enzymatic reaction to break down the starches into sugars, and do an extraction from the hops to get the bitterness. Kitchen chemistry at it's finest with a biology experiment at the end.

  19. Re:This is what Benjamin Frankin warned us about.. on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    You have the right to attempt to do absolutely anything you want to do and the duty to accept the consequences. Also don't think your government is going to "protect" you. The cops are not sitting outside your door 24/7 stopping people from hurting you that's your job our society cannot afford that sort of police force and if it could we wouldn't want it. We are left to protect ourselves and the government is there to punish the people we have to protect ourselves from. The more we pretend that the government is protecting us the less freedom we will have to actually live our lives.

  20. Re:What if they are right? on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Deja vu anyone? Every once in a while when this happens we must end up using the same memory over again.

  21. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Yes yes it is. Regulating businesses to selling safer products is a necessity (or at least rating them as to safety) as most consumers don't have the equipment to do the testing themselves. While most people know there are some safety benefits to wearing a helmet and should have the right to weigh those benefits against any perceived detriments.

  22. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Since when did society pay for your hospital bills? (at least in the US)

  23. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    And people wonder why kids are obese? It seems that kids not being obese is Child Abuse.

  24. Re:Water, or some other fluid? on Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface · · Score: 1

    The issue I see with this is not that it might not have enough force but the direction of the force seems like it would be in a radial direction from the center of the planet which would be unlikely to develop the rounded edges seen. It would also require flash sublimation which I don't have quite the background to have intuition about.

  25. Re:How does something so un-dense... on Milky Way Is Surrounded By Halo of Hot Gas · · Score: 1

    Temperature is in a way a measure of the energy in the system to be used to excite particles into higher energy states. In that way it incorporates several different forms of energy that are distributed "randomly" meaning they don't have a general direction of travel but none the less will provoke particles on the scale of atoms to move outside of their current stable equilibrium.