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  1. Re:Trust?? on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    You probably shouldn't trust that stuff, unfortunately. A lot of it isn't really science, because about 1/2 to 2/3rds of published journal articles can't be replicated.

  2. Science is indeed a thing to be trusted in. Because its results are repeatable. That's kind of the whole point.

    Whereas religion should not be trusted, precisely because you don't know if you'll get the same result.

  3. Re:Horribly biased article on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    I don't think you made your point if that was what you were aiming for.

  4. Re:Sneering = lose on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    That quote predates the Colbert show.
    And the amount of bad science involved in AGW is insignificant. People are corruptible, and anywhere there is money will attract some corruption. That there isn't more might actually be considered surprising, and a testament to science's ability to weed out corruption through replication.

  5. Re:Obvious on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 2

    It was a response to the threat the government posed to religions. A lot of the early founders of this country cared deeply about religious freedom, and wanted to do everything in their power to keep government's hands off the church.

  6. Re:Obvious on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It stopped being funny when everyone realized it was true. Because the other side decided to depart from reality.

  7. Re:Obvious on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which is why the fiscal conservatives should join the democratic party, and make an effort to get more fiscally conservative social liberals winning elections. It's the only path to sanity.

  8. Re:Obvious on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    But the fiscal conservatives have chosen to throw in their lot with the social conservatives rather than try to effect change within the liberal camp. Which is why they are equally deserving of disdain.

  9. Re:But isn't it still slightly helpful to the poor on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    That 10k pays for all kinds of stuff not typically considered energy (and which wouldn't be counted against other forms of energy generation).

  10. Re:But isn't it still slightly helpful to the poor on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    Most municipal water supplies sold out to private industry years ago.

  11. Re:But isn't it still slightly helpful to the poor on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 2

    PV panels not earning back their energy production costs is an urban legend. The actual earn-back period including production, transportation, and installation is only a couple of years.

  12. Re:Chinese Subsidies on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    The oil companies and corn farms had the good sense to get subsidies large enough to avoid bankruptcy. The Democrats are just playing out of their league.

  13. Re:oil on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't keep me in suspense, does it work out to more or less than the 150 years it will take us to exhaust all the proven, unproven, and unconventional reserves of oil in the world?

  14. Re:Employee black humour on UK's Largest Specialist Video Games Retailer Enters Administration · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I suspect you got hit reflexively for that. Maybe a kind mod will correct the issue. Your post is quite relevant. Interesting and/or funny.

  15. Re:Level editor? on 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is an editor. Nobody does these projects in game, it's literally impossible (not enough game ticks per second * time minecraft has been out to accomplish the builds).

  16. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Ok, I surrender. If you want to be willfully wrong, there's no stopping you. Multiple reliable sources dispute your terminology.

  17. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    I agree that it says only representatives may introduce a bill, but mentions several other sources which may draft them, including the public.

  18. can't tell if trolling ... on US Puts Tariff On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    or can't understand that the US wants to subsidize solar production in the US.
    It's not that we hate the Chinese, it's just that they keep trying to poison our children with lead, so we'd rather those jobs go to US citizens.

  19. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    That again is your definition, with which many reasonably qualified sources disagree, for example:
    http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.bysec/sourceofleg.html

  20. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    That's where I think you're incorrect. While it is indeed the job of legislators to both draft and pass laws, only the passing of laws is reserved to them exclusively. Anyone may draft a law, as an element of their free speech rights. I suppose based on your response that it might depend on precisely what a person means by 'draft'.

  21. Re:Software patents are bad on Facebook Buys 750 IBM Patents · · Score: 3, Informative

    IBM doesn't get all that many software patents. Theirs are mostly hardware innovations.

  22. Re:But are they...? on Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you agree?

  23. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't even suggest they will draft the laws themselves. So the summary went to far and used the word draft. You went from there to pass, which is further in the wrong direction.

  24. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Draft and pass are different words, and the difference is fairly critical to your point.
       

  25. Re:So employers do ask for Facebook passwords? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    It actually seems much harder to me to make the case that requiring you to commit a criminal act is a valid employment test than it is that the quality of your pee may be a valid employment test.