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  1. Re:There's a sizable on Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split · · Score: 1

    Those issues cut across regions as well as in between them. You're living in a fantasy land if you think changing the local power dynamic is going to resolve. Those concerns often don't bother to stop at national borders, either.

    Your definition of "ages" is different than mine. You also may have missed the point where Europe united and encroached upon the former Warsaw Pact countries and even into the former U.S.S.R even though Russia remains the largest country in the world. I like your "Invasion" straw-man though. That's slick work.

    If they're smart, they might unite defensively and economically. Maybe they'll call themselves the "United States of America" or something like that. I don't think countries that split up on ideological grounds are going to unite very easily without considerable turmoil.

  2. Re:There's a sizable on Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split · · Score: 1

    The geo-political reasons why splitting up the country are even stronger now than in 1860. We'll be a bunch of squabbling, tiny nations, internal trade will be hampered, more wars will break out, and we'll be at the mercy of big, foreign powers. That last is something we Americans haven't experienced from the pointy end of the stick.

    In otherwords, it is now and has always been a dumb idea proposed by hotheads who don't bother to think.

  3. Re:OMFG on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    Bitcoins have almost no purchasing power.

  4. Re:Those who think that moon landing was a fake .. on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's a bad policy.

  5. Re:On Other Dimensions on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    Is that really the motivation? Strong gravity? How the heck do neutron stars fit into such a scheme?!

  6. Re:Does this Mean that String Theory... on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    Calculus isn't science.

  7. Re:We called them on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    Me no write good. I meant that in the age of Doom I never knew anyone who did what OP did and paid to make a pirate copy legit. I am contending the notion that people are mostly honest about paying up for pirated stuff. Everyone I knew pirated everything and paid nothing.

  8. Re:"legends John Carmack and John Romero"? on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly, Bob Dylan can a little. See Nashville Skyline.

  9. Re:My first multiplayer game on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    "A buddy of mine and I played Doom forever, heck we still do on occasion."

    This checks out.

  10. Re:We called them on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 0

    I never new anyone that paid for a pirated game.

  11. Re:Memories on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 2

    Holy crap, when you start a level and hear a cyber demon, that was terrifying.

  12. Re:1st 1st-person shooter on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    I think calling it auto-aim is a bit of a misunderstanding of whats going on. My experience with doom suggests that the shot hits the first creature that's vertically inline with the gun. It's drawn at some z coordinate, but there's no z axis in actual game play, it's just graphical sugar.

  13. Re:"legends John Carmack and John Romero"? on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    Art couldn't compose or write much, but Paul can't sing.

  14. One small post for man on How China Will Get To the Moon Before a Google Lunar XPrize Winner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One giant leap for mankind.

  15. Re:Something has to give, buddy on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 1

    It's eagles or arabs. I'll choose eagles.

  16. Re:Oh noooos! on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    I think women are considered to be better combat pilots than men these days. I suspect that men will always be more attracted to flying at supersonic speeds and blasting other planes out of the sky.

    I know several extremely talented women programmers. I don't know *any* that program for fun.

  17. Re:understandable on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    If your mind is tilted one way or another on GW because some jackhole said something to some other jackhole on a web board, then, my good sir, you have problems.

  18. Re:Bipartisanship on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, actually that's a serious problem. You may think the ACA is a bad step, but to to think it's "very harmful to the country" to the point where sabotaging it seems a better option than trying to help it is nuts. You've already slipped away from logic at that point.

  19. Re:Phases of Evolution on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 1

    It's even stranger. They ordered him to do it.

  20. Re:Mostly... on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 1

    To be fair, not many companies give employees much reason to be loyal these days.

  21. Re:And the anti-science spin continues on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    money

  22. Re:Error, Error. on Building an 'Invisibility Cloak' With Electromagnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    But they never established that Enterprise was studying gaseous anomalies, only Excelsior

  23. Re:Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a physiological response and not one dictated by physics. There's no law of physics that the body has to store excess mass just because it has energy tied up in it, nor that it has to dump mass just because it transitions it to a lower energy state.

  24. Re:Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    It's pure PHYSICS that if you need a certain number of calories, and if you do not consume enough, you will lose weight.

    No it isn't. Calories aren't mass.

  25. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    Also the early turning point where the pre-cogs make a shocking prediction.