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  1. Re: This is largely a myth on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    Charming.

    Always know I am doing something right when it gets ACs all worked up.

    BTW Merkel's popularity is on the upswing again, your welcome.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

  2. What stopped me is empathy, even in my enemies I recognize a shared humanity.

    Seriously dude, if you feel that way there's something seriously wrong with you. Although the condition is not too uncommon.

    I am dead serious, get yourself tested.

    And please don't take this comment as a reason to add me to your enemy list.

    The condition is nothing to be ashamed of, in a sense it could be said it makes you more free in your choices than other people. But if you fall onto that spectrum you should know about it.

  3. Re:This is largely a myth on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension. This was specifically with regards to the environment.

    For a conservative leader Merkel displays a surprising understanding of the dangers that global warming poses.

    And long term this is a much more pressing problem than the refugee crisis.

    If you think you have a refugee crisis now, just wait and see what happens in another fifty years, when global warming does its number on the climate in Asia and Africa.

    You've seen nothing yet.

  4. Re:So this is Russia answer to the ,, on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Dunno. I am not particularly frightened. The Russians aren't irrational actors. They won't go nuclear unless you force their hand.

  5. Re:So this is Russia answer to the ,, on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Time to claim my foreign language exception. English is not my native tongue.

  6. Seriously? You just don't go around killing people because it may endanger you prospects in a hypothetical afterlife?

    Charming.

  7. Re:This is largely a myth on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    The bad things will be the environment, which Clinton seems to have little interest in at a critical juncture ...

    That is true, but the she is an astute foreign policy person, and will have very good relationships with Angela Merkel, who very much understands what's at stake.

  8. Re:I want to like Donald. on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    How ironic. To this day I can't get myself to dislike the Donald. It's Trump the politician that I cannot stand, because his campaigns runs on resentments and stoking hate.

  9. Re: Just what the world needs on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not the thoughts (to the extend that there are any) but the hate.

  10. Now I feel like we dodged a bullet ... on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    ... when one of his funds passed on my venture. Really wouldn't know how to deal with this guy. What a disappointment. Used to admire him.

  11. So this is Russia answer to the ,, on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... anti-missle systems.

  12. Re:Can i still write in Bernie? on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Afghanistan was hardly a functioning state under the Taliban rule.

    The Bush administration tried very hard to tie Bin Ladin to Iraq. They just couldn't make it stick so they ran with the WMD lie.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Duh on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You must hold Bernie in very low regard if you think he can be pressured that easily.

    He has been an independent for most of his life and he could easily go back to being one. He is also at the end of his political career, he really doesn't have to give a damn.

    But fortunately he gives a damn, and then some, for his country.

  14. Re:Can i still write in Bernie? on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Richard Clarke made pretty clear that while the Clinton administration had been focused on the threat that Bin Laden posed, the newly incoming administration had a very different mindset, and did not take these non-state actors serious.

    This was also reflected in their response, they were convinced that a state must have lend Bin Laden a hand, and Iraq "felt" right.

    Gore would have in all likelihood continued with Clarke in the counter-terror driver seat, and this could have very well meant that 9/11 would have never happened.

  15. Re:Good news! on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't, had to quit.

  16. That's what you get ... on PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ... when you hire Team Rocket to code your app.

  17. Re:Good news! on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Been there. Actually tried to get fired from my six figure salary job as I am working on a start-up. But just being unpolitical was not enough to get fired :-(

    Have enough assets to feed my family for two years, but being on the outside feels still very strange (just recently quit). I had been with the same company for almost 17 years, and pretty much my entire adult professional life.

  18. Re:Does this imply that on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Does this imply that on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Proves you get only in math.

    In physics you falsify.

    GR and the standard model so far have survived every possible falsification attempt that physicists could think off.

    To an ever frustrating degree, as this means there is no experimental hint to guide theorists, who have been ever further wandering off into Lala land.

  20. Re:History repeats itself on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for correctly pointing out, that the AC's idea about keeping a Euclidian spacetime metric with an imaginary time coordinate is just one way (and a very old fashioned one) to go about it. Using an explicit Minkowski metric is much more common.

    At any rate, it is absurd to assume that the authors of this manifest don't know 101 SR.

  21. Re:My thoughts... on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    True, String theory is good math. But it fails to make connection to physical reality.

  22. Nice case in point on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    How far has physics fallen, when theorist divas get insulted by the fact that their multiverse ideas are not backed up by the data?

    http://backreaction.blogspot.c...

    (Pls read till the end when Sabine, an accomplished theorist herself, mentions the Streisand effect).

  23. ... and they can always renegotiate to apply to the EU as Little Britain, to rejoin with Scotland which seems to be dead set on staying in. That is, if the EU survives all the other outbreaks of xenophobia.

    Fun times.

  24. Re:Pizza and Hamburgers on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Seriously?

    Maybe you should inform yourself about the level of transfer payments that are already standard practices in high living standard first world countries like Germany, and all its neighbors to the North. A basic income would simply make the administration much simpler without adding a single Euro cent to the existing welfare budget.

    That you would think this requires additional money printing is baffling. (BWT no other nation is more opposed to cheapening its currency then Germany).

  25. Re:Socialism on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You rather have people starving in the street? Giving blowjobs so they can buy some clean water to drink?

    Welcome to 3rd world America. You want it, you can keep it.