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  1. Re:Oh man, this is going to suck on Green Energy Now, And On The Tide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did you stop to think that the ocean life in those areas needs those waves and currents to survice and that this system might damage them?

  2. Re:Side effects on Green Energy Now, And On The Tide · · Score: 1

    Nautral gas doesn't smell till the add the smell to it.

    See New London, Texas.

  3. Re:What's next... on Verizon To Acquire MCI For $6.7 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yes, they will get to pay more for the same level of service. If you parents have trouble doing this then they are commies who hate free enterprise and should more to Cuba. :)

  4. Re:FUD on The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger? · · Score: 1

    The fact that SBC said the would do something is reason to believe they will really do the exact opposite of what they say...

  5. Re:Cause to worry on The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger? · · Score: 1

    Most F500 companies list goodwill on their balance sheet. It's an accounting fiction.

  6. Re:Great Case for a Museum on The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And said museums could also keep 90+ percent of their collections in the back rooms where most people will never see them...

  7. Re:Dean=Good Thing on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 1

    I have. The racist background of some of the female founders of the movement are also very interesting as they had very little use for black people and even less use for black babies...

  8. Re:At what point is a computer powerful enough? on Scientists Find Flaw in Quantum Dot Construction · · Score: 1

    This comming from someone who has the Dukes of Hazzard drinking game listed in their journal?

    Not that is funny!

  9. Re:These people ARE NOT crackpots. on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because I didn't feel that a person who would not spend 5 minutes to read a simple article would take the multiple hours necessary to read and understand the original research.

    It's just like dealing with kids, you don't give them more then you think they can handle.

  10. Re:Uh bullshit... on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 1

    It is impossible for Gore to have had a Major role in creating the Internet as it was around for over 10 years before he did anything. He did help it grow into its present form but that is a long way away from creating it.

    For example a school teacher teaches a child and helps that child grow, that doesn't mean that said teacher created that child. She only helped it grow. For a politician to lay claim to something that other did, even thought it happens all the time, is wrong and people should call them one it.

    Al Gore was a Teacher not a Parent.

  11. Re:why non americans think the US is crazy on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And what is wrong with cutting taxes and equal rights for gun owners?

  12. Re:Uh bullshit... on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 1

    Understand that the people who say the scream never happend are the same people who claim that when Gore said "I took the Initiative in CREATING THE INTERNET" he wasn't claiming to have CREATED THE INTERNET...

  13. Re:Former Republican Governor of Vermont... on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Both sides spend money like drunken sailors, it's just only the side not currently in power bitches about it.

  14. Re:Dean=Good Thing on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 1

    How is abortion subordination of women?

  15. Re:And Democrats Think...? on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "I think he'll lead the party in the wrong direction and will onlly make my party's life easier."

    Kind of like 2.5 Trillion (+Iraq +Prescription Drug costs I lied about) Bush is doing?

  16. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    But, as the text below shows, they appear to admit they could be wrong which is something that most /. posters will not do.

    "Is something happening? If we can refrain from equating "anomalies" with "psi", it does seem that something is going on. Whether it is flawed research or a real phenomenon is still out. But when we take into account that Radin and GCP are not all that eager to falsify their own theories (as well as quoting Sagan and Hyman out of context to support their own agenda when in fact neither do!), it is very hard for me to accept that a real phenomenon is happening.

    But, hey, I could be wrong! "

  17. Re:These people ARE NOT crackpots. on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Try reading the papers of the people running the damn research program. They do have several websites on it.

    You are passing judgement on their work only on the basis of a PopSCI level article written for a 9th grade audiance.

    Most, if not all, of your issues are addresed on the project sites.

  18. Re:These people ARE NOT crackpots. on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Please point out where the researches say that. You are using the words of a writer to prove the researchers are frauds. Isn't that the same behavior that you accuse those involved in this project of?

  19. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Why don't you visit the sites mentioned in the article or easly found in a google search before you say they are a fraud?

    You appear to be baseing your 'debunking' of this on a popsci level article, not the original research. Why are you being so lazy?

  20. These people ARE NOT crackpots. on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "And machines like the Edinburgh black box have thrown up a tantalising possibility: that scientists may have unwittingly discovered a way of predicting the future.

    Although many would consider the project's aims to be little more than fools' gold, it has still attracted a roster of 75 respected scientists from 41 different nations. Researchers from Princeton - where Einstein spent much of his career - work alongside scientists from universities in Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. The project is also the most rigorous and longest-running investigation ever into the potential powers of the paranormal.

    'Very often paranormal phenomena evaporate if you study them for long enough,' says physicist Dick Bierman of the University of Amsterdam. 'But this is not happening with the Global Consciousness Project. The effect is real. The only dispute is about what it means.' The project has its roots in the extraordinary work of Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University during the late 1970s. He was one of the first modern scientists to take paranormal phenomena seriously. Intrigued by such things as telepathy, telekinesis - the supposed psychic power to move objects without the use of physical force - and extrasensory perception, he was determined to study the phenomena using the most up-to-date technology available. "

    Just because something sounds crazy, doesn't mean it is. People from 100 years ago, if told about MRIs, CAT scans, GeoSyncSats, GPS, Sat Phones, Computers, the Internet, and Microwave ovens would say you are crazy and such things would never be possible.

    Perhaps the article should be read before people spend a whole 5 minutes trying to prove it to be a fraud.

  21. Re:I like the idea of unplanned housing on Machine-Grown Housing · · Score: 1

    In the future you may wish to point out that you are disagreeing with one portion of my post, not the entire thing.

    For the people who do not follow links he is only disagreeing with the X feet in Y feet portion of my comment and has as his only source one govermental employee. Not quite the level of proof a self-professed 'roadgeek' should use.

    I will research this this afternoon and if I am wrong I will post saying so.

  22. Re:I like the idea of unplanned housing on Machine-Grown Housing · · Score: 1, Informative

    That is because the early interstate highways did not have, as a primary design goal, the confort of civialians driving on them. They were meant to be used as troup and equiptment transports during a war with the USSR and secondary landing strips for military aircraft is why they had to have X feet of straight road every Y feet.

  23. Re:Amendment 3 of the U.S. Constitution on Precedent for Warrantless Net Monitoring Set · · Score: 1

    You do know that Bush is a Yankee, don't you?

    He was not born in Texas and no one knows where he got his accent from.

  24. Re:Amendment 3 of the U.S. Constitution on Precedent for Warrantless Net Monitoring Set · · Score: 1

    You do know that Kerry is a Senator how can introduce legislation to change things he doesn't like, don't you?

    IOW, all those things he said needed to be changed the he hasn't introduced bills to change he agrees with and he was just lying when he said they were bad.

  25. Re:Good riddance to bad rubbish. on HP CEO Carly Fiorina to Step Down · · Score: 1

    Why do you think Miss G5 was just fired? She was trying to do what you suggest.