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  1. Re:Real time science indeed on 'Most Earth-Like' Exoplanet Gets Major Demotion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just... No. What you are describing is nothing related to science.

    What you are talking about may apply to science journalism. That is basically what happens when a liberal arts major gets told that he drew the short straw and has to write a science article instead of sympathizing with starving Rawandan kids or discussing the latest celebrity gossip.

  2. Re:Really .. on 'Most Earth-Like' Exoplanet Gets Major Demotion · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds more like an epic success for science to me.

  3. Re:Not just with video games, but in general on Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex? · · Score: 1

    I don't need to pick and choose bible verses to find contradictions to anything, its a self contradictory work.

    I am talking about what happened in the first few centuries of Christianity, some of it before the gospel was written.

    Like it or not, Christianity began as an apocalyptic death cult and to some degree continues to be one even now. The protestants are not immune to this.

    I am not an outsider speaking from a perspective of ignorance. I was once a christian, a deacons son. Then I read the entire bible; every book, every verse, every word. Then I was able to recognize the dissonance in what I had been taught. I was taught hate and violence masqueraded as love and justice. The whole thing was a hypocrisy and farce. I have witnessed and experience first hand the vile darkness of "good christians". I have seen the dull side of an axe against my brothers head, I have felt a preachers fingers around my throat, I have seen my family broken and bleeding. I have seen worse than that. And I was raised to be the same. All in the name of your god.

    I reject that, I reject it all. I am a good and moral person, not because I was raised as a christian, it is in spite of it. I stand defiant and proud against you and blaspheme. I don't care if you are not like that, I don't care if you think yourself a good person. Open your eyes to what is happening now (the KKK, Uganda, fundamentalists, etc), read your entire damned bible (genesis to revelations), study the history of your church. Wake up.

  4. Re:wtf? on Former MI6 Chief Credits WikiLeaks With Helping Spark Revolutions · · Score: 1

    The wikileaks cables DID contain information exposing the extent of the corruption of the top Tunisian officials. Shortly before protest of the corruption of top Tunisian officials began. So I will go ahead and say that wikileaks most likely did make at least a minor contribution to the revolution in Tunisia. And that in turn was the first domino to fall, and now most of North Africa and the middle east is attempting to throw off the shackles of their tyrants.

  5. Re:Not just with video games, but in general on Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex? · · Score: 1

    It is bad because the only pleasure you are supposed to have in life is the adoration of jesus. All other pleasure is decadent sin. The early church wanted to end sex and the human species as a whole, a complete human genocide. Eventually they figured out that they didn't have the numbers to convert or kill the entire human race at the time, so they gave in and permitted it only within the confines of an approved marriage and only for the purpose of procreating more christians.

  6. Re:"Unconsciously stress?" on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 1

    Giggity.

  7. Re:1050 MPH? Thats not very fast for a bullet. on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    Naw, at that speed you don't have time to feel it.

    I know I am a jokester, but that was entirely unintentional.

    You got me.

  8. Re:1050 MPH? Thats not very fast for a bullet. on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 0

    Depends on who you ask.

    I know people who will tell you that a pistol is what you use just long enough to make your way to the nearest rifle.

    I know others that would say that anything that doesn't require a crew to operate isn't a gun.

  9. Re:1050 MPH? Thats not very fast for a bullet. on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    A hot 9mm Parabellum can get close to that speed.

    Magnum pistol rounds often get higher.

    Every military rifle ammunition that pops into my head gets at least 2000 feet per second.

  10. Re:This not a car. on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    If they use a formula 1 engine as a fuel pump, they can probably turn that engine off, to turn the rocket off.

  11. 1050 MPH? Thats not very fast for a bullet. on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 3, Informative

    1050 MPH? Thats not very fast for a bullet.

    Well, maybe it is fairly good for a pistol.

    But it is about half the speed of a 5.56mm NATO round from an M-16.

  12. Re:I hope this actually puts some pressure .... on Facebook May Bust Up the SMS Profit Cartel · · Score: 1

    Most of them charge not to receive the text message, but to view it instead.

  13. Re:Kids are radically different. on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 1

    I didn't start reading until the first grade. Had teachers tell me I was retarded and that I would never catch up with the rest of the kids. At the time, my options for reading were baby books about jack walking up a hill with his dog, and she was a bitch.

    By 3rd grade I was reading at a college level and was given a rule that I had to check out at least 1 fiction book from the library each time I went because my mother was worried that I was reading to many text books.

  14. Re:"Unconsciously stress?" on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 1

    Most kids are not raised in double blind batches of 50.

    There are some experiments that are impractical.

    Some because of their scope.

    Some because you are potentially fucking up the lives of real human beings.

  15. Re:"Unconsciously stress?" on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 2

    Note: Most of those tutorials are for custom models with aftermarket parts. Factory models usually provide a lot fewer options. And even then, the order of operations may not be productive.

  16. Re:Only if you're a criminal! on Software Matches Police Sketches To Mugshots · · Score: 1

    How are you going to justify spending $200k on the wraparound transparent display if you don't flash random images on it?

  17. Re:James Bond? on Software Matches Police Sketches To Mugshots · · Score: 1

    What they have been doing is putting specifics into the mugshot database such as estimated height, weight, race, skin tone, hair styles and searching against metadata stored with the mugshots to produce a short list of mugshots to review.

  18. Re:yeah, I don't care about the school on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    Except the spanish major from Rutgers is probably going to need a higher salary to keep him from going to the career his education is in.

  19. This isn't really a terrible idea on Software Matches Police Sketches To Mugshots · · Score: 1

    It has the potential of rapidly producing results without any particular infringement on civil liberties.

    I would not expect it to be perfect and should probably be followed up by a manual search.

  20. Re:another parallel... on Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...is the authoritarian tendency of both platforms.

    I don't know: it might be a good thing. I understand that Silvio Berlusconi used a jailbaited iPad for his work and see what's going there.

    fixed that for you.

  21. I would use a versioning repository myself on Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution · · Score: 1

    Subversion or something similar. Why edit it on a iPad when it can be edited with history and versioning on almost any device? Give the drafting participants commit access. Allow branches for proposals. The general public gets read access for open discussion.

    Hell, do it for all laws. That way when the law is approved, you can just merge the proposal to the main branch and set a mile stone.

    You could even use blame to find out who added riders. Oh. That is why this will never, ever happen.

  22. Re:to echo a commenter on TFA.... on Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon · · Score: 1

    What happens is closer to electrostatic levitation, very little weathering occurs because the dust particles have low velocities.

  23. Re:to echo a commenter on TFA.... on Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Radiation.

    Radiators work ok in a vacuum, they are just less efficient because they only radiate heat instead of being able to take advantage of conduction.

  24. Re:This is gonna be very rant like on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough. This is actually what wal-mart has been doing for the last few years. It does not work out well for the workers.

    Full time employees are dropped down to part time status and end up paying more for their benefits because labor laws are worse for part timers. Wal-mart owns their insurance company, so not only do they save on wages, the profit more from the increased share that employees have to put forward.

    Since people are underemployed, they are pressured to get the most possible done in the least time, because those workers get 4 or 5 days a week instead of 2 or 3. This lets them achieve the same amount of labor with fewer people until those hard workers burn out and are injured or realize how badly they are being used.

    That does not hurt wal-mart because they always have a pool of younger, cheaper, less experienced, less broken workers to pull from, either from their desperate underemployed "associates" or from the pool of low or unskilled labor that used to work at the towns other stores before wal-mart ran them out of town.

  25. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Most pro lifers are anti science nuts and most anti science nuts are pro lifers. Its not that people are throwing two completely distinct groups together. Point to either one position and I would give 10 to 1 odds that the person holds both views.