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  1. Re:Free Solution on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ok.

    Now where can I sign up to buy my piece of government land to display my monument on? If you sell a piece to one religious group you can't deny selling pieces to other groups.

  2. Methodolgical Naturalism on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that equal billing for Methodolgical Naturalists should be enabled as well. Since so many theists etc. argue that science is also a faith, then we should be allowed a monument.

    Perhaps to Thales of Io.

  3. UI? on Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating · · Score: 4, Funny

    So is this going to have a touch interface?

  4. Re:Pork, pork, pork, pork on Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances · · Score: 1

    Syracuse. And it's called the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OKLgLZHFk

  5. Re:So the FBI exploited Yehoo email? on Insight On FBI Hacking Ops · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they just got a warrant from a judge.

    In fact if you were to read TFA it says:

    "A federal magistrate in Denver approved sending surveillance software to Moâ(TM)s computer last year."

    We need a new kind of razor for this....

    Never attribute to extra-legal snooping by government agencies that which can be done with a simple legal warrant.

  6. Re:Duh on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    The rate of complications from exposure to the chicken pox virus is about 100 times higher than that with the vaccine.

  7. Re:One of the few times on Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority · · Score: 1

    Considering the recent quality and quantity of legislation from the legislature this seems our best hope.

  8. Re:I can confirm that on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    That's pretty good. My father's was pretty short at 42 pages. The really cool thing is that he did the the whole PhD program in one year. It was an Ivy league school too. They didn't bother making him do a master's.

  9. Re:I can confirm that on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    And in industry they do no research at all any more.

  10. Re:stop the sensationalist crap on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Over the last decade, measles vaccinations averted 10 million deaths â" one fifth of all deaths prevented by modern medicine worldwide.

  11. Re:Duh on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Vaccine failures are nothing new, and are not increasing. For example there was a vaccine failure for measles in the late 1980s-early 1990s that led to 55000 cases of measles and 123 deaths.

    http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/189/Supplement_1/S1.long

    The fact is biochemistry is hard. Not everything always works the way you want. But the overall effect of these programs is so overwhelming positive we actually have nincompoops saying that these diseases were never a problem in the first place.

    Well, there is a cognitive bias called recency. Clearly that's what's happening here.

  12. Re:Thanks, Jenny McCarthy on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Dr Shakil Afridi was completely corrupt long before the CIA found him.

    The combination of this dirt bag plus a very ill-advised strategy by the CIA was a match made in hell.

    http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-112572-Twists-in-the-Afridi-case

    The entire thing is pit.

  13. Re:Duh on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 2

    Anecdotal data is not evidence.

  14. Re:One of the few times on Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually they didn't go far enough. There are provisions in this bill to protect business process patents because of lobbying by IBM, Microsoft et al.

    Hopefully the Senate will fix this up.

    As Obama has said he supports this bill and it has broad bipartisan support it's likely to pass the Senate easily.

  15. Re:The public is free to participate in Internet t on China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    LOL. One US Navy carrier group > entire Chinese navy.

  16. Re:Worlds biggest shipyards on World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time · · Score: 1

    It's the neocon way to ignore reality and embrace ideology.

    Next up: Dinosaurs did coinhabit the earth with early man.

  17. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    You could drive a boat.

  18. Netflix Partners on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 1

    Netflix is already turning this around by offering some ISPs higher quality streams for establishing partnerships.

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425696,00.asp

    "U.S. ISPs that have signed on for Open Connect include Cablevision, Frontier, Clearwire, and Google Fiber. British Telecom, TDC, GVT, Telus, Bell Canada, Virgin, Telmex, and more have also signed up overseas. Those who sign up have the option to stream Netflix content in Super HD or 3D." Other ISPs like Verizon Communications and Time Warner Cable, have declined to sign up for Open Connect.

    They are also working to get integration with set-top boxes.

  19. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    I've always found it odd that Hawaii has interstate highways.

  20. Re:Ah yes... on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 2
  21. Re:No popcorn yet on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    Well, sworn testimony can be in the form of an affidavit, right?

    âoeYou have to have a sworn record before I can do something dramatic.â

    Thus signaling he's feels that given evidence he will do something dramatic.

    This case strikes a very personal note for me. My wife is a foreign born naturalized US citizen who studied for her doctorate at an American University. I wish Ms. Kamal luck in getting this resolved in her favor. She's had some issues too, mostly due to the remnants of a US sponsored dictatorship in her home country.

  22. Re:Deluded ... on Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring · · Score: 1

    Not always required though. Some states and provinces issue 'enhanced' drivers licenses that can be used to cross the US-Canada border by land by Canadian and US citizens.

    Even back when I started travelling to Canada in the 1980's I used a passport as it was 'recommended' and I had one for other foreign travel.

  23. Re:What about HDMI on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    The standard display port is a bit better than HDMI because it has a latching mechanism. HDMI (Spawn of Satan) is friction fit.

  24. Re:Stop it. on Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring · · Score: 1

    The last article you provided a link to is a giant non-sequitur. It alleges that a regulation to limit political activity of social welfare groups is a gag order against political dissent.

    THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS ON THE FACE OF IT. Current law already limits such activity by tax exempt organizations, and such activity can be both in support of and critical of the administration.

  25. Re:Government is too powerful on Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Such links are drawn using logic like.. Hillary Clinton believes in educating children. Also Fascists believe in educating children. Therefore...