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  1. Re:Cheaper than a huge flying vacuum on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    Worse than that, it drains the aquifers. In 50 years, when the Ogallala is empty we will have a problem that can not be dealt with by using fossil fuel based fertilizer.

  2. Re:The big difference on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    No one is saying we need to stop driving cars. Its a straw man argument. Just like arguing that gay marriage will lead to people marrying goats. No one is saying we need to gut the economy and return to living in caves, except the people using that as an argument against taking any action to preserve the environment humanity depends on for survival.

    The cost of climate change exists without regard to who pays the price. Currently, the cost is ignored. This corrupts the capitalist economic system. Capitalism only works fairly when all all costs are realized and all parties are informed. The people spewing misinformation against global warming to their pawns stand the most to gain from that inequity. There is a global conspiracy in global warming, but it is on the side of the industrialists who can't look past the next quarters profits.

  3. Re:The punchline on Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan · · Score: 2

    Oh? Clinton balanced the god damn budget.

    Obama created a mandate that people carry insurance, this subsidies the insurance companies and allows them to raise prices. If he had implemented a single payer public option that covered all Americans, then Obama could be said to have done something good for health care. But even that isn't as powerful as Clinton's balanced budget. The bad news is that neither achievement will have survived the next person to take office.

  4. It isn't that the system is fragile on North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land · · Score: 1

    It is that they wanted to be absolutely certain that the plane didn't fly over North Korean airspace accidentally. This was most likely a calculated move on the part of NK to try to get the US/SK to violating its territory, so that it can leverage that for political gain.

  5. Re:any signal can be found and killed on North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land · · Score: 1

    We ARE at war with North Korea. They repeatedly violate the cease fire and the next time they do, it would be well within reason to return fire.

  6. Re:Those are actually frightening Odds on Defunct Satellite To Fall From the Sky · · Score: 1

    No, it does not mean 1 in 3 chance someone is going to be hit, even by the wildest stretch of the imagination.

    1 in 21 trillion is 4.7619047619047619047619047619048e-14

    If we assume a world population of about 7 billion, and we fudge the math as 4.7619047619047619047619047619048e-14 * 7 billion, we get 1 in 3000 chance someone gets hit. I can only assume that you assumed a 7 trillion population and used this same incorrect math.

    It is going to be a lot less than that in reality, but I can't be arsed to do the math at the moment.

  7. simple solution. on Ask Slashdot: Passively Cooled Hardware For Game Emulation? · · Score: 1

    Put the machine with loud fans in the next room or a closet and use wireless controls plus an extra long hdmi cable.

  8. Re:I see two things happening on Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    We are working for the owner class of course, so they can grow richer, and we can grow poorer. The leaches at the top of society are siphoning of the boom of wealth that we have created through our labor. During this recession, profits are higher than ever and the wealthy grow richer while the middle class are financially gutted.

  9. Re:Sandy Bridge-E on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    IIRC, all of AMD machines are full multi core, Intel has patents on the partial application.

  10. Re:Virtual Entertainment? on Bill Gates Patents 'Virtual Entertainment' · · Score: 1

    The most (only) entertaining wrestling I have ever seen deserves to be on the sci fi channel.

    http://kaiju.com/home.htm

  11. Re:Fake Landing on NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites · · Score: 2

    does it have to be "or"? Could very well be "and".

  12. Re:I'm convinced! on E Ink Demos New Displays, Gadgets At IFA 2011 · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't embossed lettering on stone take a lot of time to carve the raised letters?

    Why not simply press the end of a reed into a tablet of damp clay to create the lettering? Then it can also be reused or baked to permanence.

  13. Re:so? on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    How fascist of you.

  14. Re:The TLAs and Corporate Lackeys on Warrantless Wiretapping Cases At the 9th Circuit · · Score: 1

    And Garfield.

  15. Re:Private Sector Loophole on Warrantless Wiretapping Cases At the 9th Circuit · · Score: 1

    The closure of the loophole is that the government can not ask the private person/company to collect that information. Doing so creates a chain of authority and requires a warrant. That is why this is called illegal warrantless wiretapping. The loophole doesn't exist, but they are getting away with it anyway.

  16. Re:The TLAs and Corporate Lackeys on Warrantless Wiretapping Cases At the 9th Circuit · · Score: 1

    America has never really lived up to its ideals, but we have worked hard to make progress in that direction against enemies both foreign and domestic. We are currently loosing that battle against the corporatists, classists and authoritarians. Why do the American patriots have to abandon our country to those who have corrupted it and blasphemed against liberty and justice? Why not fight back, and put our nation back on the path towards a better America?

  17. Re:Low prices or pollution in China. on Apple's Chinese Suppliers Accused of Causing Significant Environmental Damage · · Score: 1

    It is also hard to ignore the costs of doing so. The costs are the death and suffering of people and environmental destruction that will eventually have to be cleaned up by the state. Environmental regulation is an ounce of prevention put on the corporate dime in exchange for avoiding a pound of cure on the public's dime. In the long run, it is a really good deal and cheaper than the alternative for everyone involved, including the corporations.

  18. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Their families can get immunized for all the standard stuff, one of the benefits of military service is the family medical plan.

    But like I said, its a minor technicality.

  19. Re:Dinosaurs on Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background · · Score: 1

    That isn't really fair. It takes a reasonable amount of intelligence to lie manipulate people.

  20. Re:Oh gee on Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background · · Score: 1

    Or he could put the glue in his eye and shed real tears.

  21. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Minor technicality, but the Military pays for vaccines out of taxes for certain bio weapons agents for soldiers and their families can be vaccinated through the military hospital system.

  22. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Almost everyone dies from lack of oxygen to the brain.

  23. Re:Not impressed on Cornell's Creative Machines Lab Lets Chatbots Interact · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you talked to humans recently? They tend to jump subjects and not make sense all the time, they tend to contradict themselves a lot.

  24. Re:Great more crap I don't want. on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    Except that menus actually are neatly labeled, and properly organized in a hierarchical fashion to a much greater degree than ribbon.

  25. Re:Paging Darth Vader on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    Except that the menu most likely tells you what the keyboard shortcut is, but the ribbon you have to wade through the MSDN library in order to figure out what the hell button you need to press.