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  1. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 2

    If just one of the twins is guilty of the original crime, then all the other one can say is " I didn't do it." And they are both probably saying that. So what is the conspiracy? One of the twins isn't willing to lie (Oh yes, my brother did it, I saw him!)?

  2. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    But which twin do you ask to testify, if they are both saying: " I'm innocent, my brother did it."

  3. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    What do you mean lying for the other? If they both say they didn't do it, then one person can be responsible for both the crimes AND the lies. The other is just innocent (unless they both did the crimes and are thus also both lying).

  4. Re:Sadly on California Cancels $208 Million IT Overhaul Halfway Through · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why finish a project someone is paying you for? Do enough (cheaply) to get 50% of the payout, get fired, form a new company and get hired again.

  5. Re:What use does "religion" have? on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    Yeah, porn doesn't bring enough bad things to be comparable to religion.

  6. Re:Death camps not enough on Can You Potty Train a Cow? · · Score: 1

    Since there wouldn't be any market for their mean, my guess is that some of the cows might be turned loose to survive as best they can. So they'd exist in the wild for a few years.

  7. Re:All about the rewards on Can You Potty Train a Cow? · · Score: 1

    Most of Europe already knew that horses were delicious. The problem now (except that the British are having a fit about eating pets) is that the meat might be from horses that were used as work/sport animals. Those horses are often given drugs that can accumulate in the meat, making it unsuitable for human consumption.

  8. Re:All about the rewards on Can You Potty Train a Cow? · · Score: 1

    Do we want to breed smarter cows which already have enough weight to easily crush the people taking care of them?

  9. Re:Shake it like a bird? on Can You Potty Train a Cow? · · Score: 1

    Cows are evil geniuses when it comes to 'getting back' at humans for keeping them chained up. They'll kick their own shit across the entire barn with pinpoint accuracy as soon as there is something there that you really don't want to get dirty.

  10. Re:Death camps not enough on Can You Potty Train a Cow? · · Score: 1

    If enough people chose to become vegetarians then yes, fewer animals will die for food, but they will still be culled and disposed off. Or do you expect farmers to keep cows as pets?

    As for suffering, does being locked in a barn lead to more suffering then being allowed to roam freely while being chased by wolves and bears?

  11. Re:What do we lose? on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    But aren't there many other things that contribute just as little to society as porn? (Violent) sports for example. How does society benefit from seeing guys smash into each other or hit each other? Doesn't that desensitize us to violence? Or religion that desensitizes us to stupidity.
    Unless we're willing to ban anything that is not For The Common Good, then don't start banning things just because you don't like them.

  12. Re:Let's look at it the other way, on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    Yes. What is the difference between porn and religion (except that religion is more public). What if I want to raise my children in a society without religion. Would it be more fair to have me move away, or ban religion?

  13. Re:fuck you iceland. on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    So the answer is to make it illegal to get that money and survive?

    I'm sure they still prefer doing porn to starving. Or does the government propose to provide a certain minimum income to all out of work porn actors/actresses.

  14. Re:he used the seed as Roundup-Ready on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    Why should the farmers that DIDN'T sign the license be the ones that follow it. The farmers that did sign then sold the seeds they grew to third parties without requiring them to sing any kind of a license. So why doesn't Monsanto go after the sellers, or require them to get their buyers to sign the Monsanto license? Why should third parties be required to enforce the rules Monsanto made up?

  15. Re:What can we DO? on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    Have you tried using compost instead of Miracle Grow? My father uses it on his garden and gets more tomatoes then he can eat.

  16. Shield on The Battle of Hoth: Vader the Invader · · Score: 1

    The shield it's job quite well enough - the base wasn't glassed from orbit.

  17. Re:Democrat proposes more spending, what a surpriz on Obama Proposes 'Meaningful Progress' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Both parties are about equally bad at irresponsible spending (though on different things), but the Democrats at least say they want to also increase revenue. So I guess they're the better choice as long as there is no third alternative.

  18. Re:Odd on EU Data Protection Proposal Taken Word For Word From US Lobbyists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's why the MEPs don't accept the 'donations'. Instead they sell something to the lobbyist for 1000% of it's value.

  19. Re:why not amonia on Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production · · Score: 1

    Do you want amonia to replace current fuels? The smell alone would probably render cities uninhabitable, and there's the toxicity.

    Hydrogen on the other hand is about as clean a fuel as you can think off - all that you get from burning it is water.

  20. Re:Who cares if we are hungry... on Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production · · Score: 1

    Why exactly should those costs not be counted? Why calculate the cost as the potential cost of less intensive production, when production IS intense. Sure in the future it might make sense to produce fuel at a lower cost (and rate), but that does not mean we want to make it now just to say we're prepared.

    And why would biofuel be our only choice in the future? Wouldn't hydrogen made with power from nuclear power plants work just as well?

  21. Re:Agreed, dick move on E-Mail Hack Exposes Bush Family Pictures, Correspondence · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I feel people deserve to have their rights violated. Just like a serial rapist deserves to be raped in prison, a serial violator of people's privacy deserves to have his privacy violated. Sure it might not be legal, so the perpetrators deserve to get a slap on the wrist. But let's not kid ourselves, the 'victims' deserved it.

  22. Re:I hope this guy's good... on E-Mail Hack Exposes Bush Family Pictures, Correspondence · · Score: 1

    They both deserve to be tried for war crimes at the very least.

    Why do supporters of a political party always respond to criticism by saying the other guys are just as bad? Do they like the race to the bottom we're seeing in politics?

  23. Re:The core of the issue on Economists Argue Patent System Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    Just look at how well the government controls tax dodging by using offshore subsidiaries. What makes you think R&D costs would be any better.

    Non competes are great for stopping someone from personally stealing your idea. But there is no way to prove that they were the ones that 'suggested' the solution to party X which then promptly patents it. Knowledge has a way of spreading.

  24. Re:Texas would like to think of it as a hypothesis on Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory · · Score: 1

    Actually they'd fully support both in other people. The more people take themselves out of the gene pool the better for your genes.

  25. Re:The theory of gravity is under review :) on Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory · · Score: 1

    But what if our definition of gravity (attraction between bodies that have mass) is wrong?

    Let's say that it's discovered that mass can exist without having gravity or being affected by it. Suddenly what you thing of as gravity is not quite so boolean.