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  1. Re:Politcs vs. Science on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Most people look the other way when a roid-raging bully crosses their path, especially when you have to do business with that bully. It doesn not mean they do not care. At least Canada had the guts to reply to bush's "your either with us, or against us." with a slightly peeved "whatever".

  2. Re:Hypermiling on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1
    You are going to lose speed due to friction while turning anyways. Breaking at the appropriate time allows you to control where and how fast the kinetic energy loss happens, and if it happens while pointing you along the most efficient path...

    Of course, I'm talking almost as if you were going to drift, and by breaking I mean decelerating. Sometimes the timing is easier if you use downshifting instead of a quick brake press. Driving up and down North America you appreciate any little thing that can help you not slow down.

  3. Re:Driving in India on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 2

    Most places they are fine but I've probably been flipped the bird more times in Canada (for no good reason mostly) than everywhere else I've driven combined.

    Canadians really aren't polite. We just trust the metal armour of our cars to protect us better than our army, our policemen, or ourselves can, rightfully so, and then all that repressed shit comes out.

  4. Re:Yawn. on Data Mining the Web Reveals What Makes Puzzles Hard For Humans · · Score: 1

    Medicine is such a dismal science, making overarching, over-generalising conclusions which help nobody but the mythical lowest common denominator, yet it's managed to interfere with almost every aspect of academic and commercial life with its simplistic measures.

    I would argue that nothing has done more to contribute toward the dumbing down of the West than its obsession with statistics over logic.

    FTFY.

    'cause really psych hasn't made any sweeping changes to anything, but 'medical science' has been fucking with our food and drug intake for the past century and created some of the worst changes in the global economy.

  5. Re:We are the geeks, we are not tools for non-geek on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 0
    You also aren't very interesting watching, about as marginal an audience as for StripSearch.

    At least not for the typical US audience. It's always fun to see how the same branded show will focus more on drama in the US while other countries focus more on information. You can actually watch cooking competitions from other countries where there's actual cooking being taught and shown!

  6. Re:Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 0
    downed- to put down

    They put down their tools.

  7. Re:Driving in India on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 2
    I learned to drive in Mexico. I find it one of the safest places to drive because you're basically always under the assumption that everybody will do whatever is in their best interests.

    The US was confusing because in some states it seems everybody follows the rules. It get's a little harder when you have the rule breakers mixed in with the rule followers.

    I found canada to be the worst place to drive. You have the rule-breakers, the almost rule-breakers who try to only drive 19km/h above the speed limit, the rule followers, the polite rule followers (where they follow the rules unless it would be rude to do so), and those who drive 20km/h or more below the limit.

  8. Re:Stop signs and lights everywhere. on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    Ah, so there is no hope for your country?

  9. Re:Green wave on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. The problem is, they race by, stop, and then are in your way as you cruise up to the green light, causing you to have to slow down/stop anyway.

    By far the hardest part of timing a light has always been trying to determine how many red-light-racers will get to the intersection before me and how long will it take them to get up to speed.

  10. Re:The problem on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1
    You've obviously never been to a country where traffic flows, mainly because people aren't rat racers. Unfortunately, I'm not sure those countries exist anymore in this timeline.

    I'm not sure if you actually know what zero-sum game is, but this is not one. The distance between two lights remains fixed. If you know your maths, this will automatically tell you it is not a zero-sum game.

  11. Re:Hypermiling on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    breaking right before the turn can save you gas. That is, if you do it like a race car driver and not 500m before like a granny.

  12. Re:Hypermiling on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1
    Those people with zero interest in others and the environment are usually the ones too stupid to tell that all their racing around never actually gets them anywhere earlier.

    I can burn half the amount of gas and go twice as slow as another car and we'll both arrive at the same time. Mainly because I can use my brain to choose the most effective strategy while the road-roid-raging-rat-racer has only one strategy, burn as much gas to go as fast as possible. Which really doesn't work very with things like stop signs and lights.

  13. Re:Its called paying attention on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1
    I used to get near 50mpg in mexico.

    Most people were not happy since they enjoy playing the game burn-as-much-gas-as-possible-to-reach-the-red-light.

  14. Re:Its called paying attention on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    no, the worst people are the ones who race to see who gets to the red light first.

  15. Re:Two solutions (Encrypt or leave) on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 1
    ah shit, my mistake, I left out the bipolar personality disorder.

    It's where the automatic reaction of a religious nutter/science fanboi,conservative/liberal,capitalist/commie is to automatically assume the other person belongs to the enemy camp and that their argument boils down to the stupidest, most improbable, idiotic choice, and then the whooping and hollering ensues as they descend upon their diy strawmen.

    There is a reason you saw no logic. We only recognise that which we know and you live in the land of good and evil.

  16. Re:Two solutions (Encrypt or leave) on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 1

    Sorry, logic doesn't apply to paranoid USians living in a police state.

  17. Re: Clearly vaccination is to blame! on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 0
    Check your thinking abilities before spouting nonsense. Try and realize normal people use things like analogies and metaphors to communicate complex ideas in a short time and we some times do this for things that have been scientifically proven!

    Anything 'processed' has byproducts.

  18. Re:Two solutions (Encrypt or leave) on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 0

    Whichever path chosen, there is always the possibility of mishap. If you refuse to choose, stick in the mud.

  19. Re:Irrelevent on Michael Abrash Joins Oculus, Calls Facebook 'Final Piece of the Puzzle' · · Score: 1

    10% fosters my hope for humanity.

  20. Re:Two solutions (Encrypt or leave) on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 1
    That's rich. Protect your data?

    This is about pirated material. If you aren't a pirate, there's absolutely nothing to worry about. rtfa before making something else up.

  21. Re:BBC article on autism on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    You need to take some courses in reading comprehension and logical thinking.

  22. Re:Bring on the armchair scientists on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1
    Easy partner, the locals are skittish about the truth.

    Why, you'll get modded down for that heresy!

  23. Re:Causation and correlation on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    Because it would be bad for Bill Gates billions.

  24. Re:economic incentives rule... on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    um, they get to keep their jobs peddling the pharms?

  25. Re:Could it be food? on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    It's very easy to lose gas, shit, inflammation and water retention because of preservatives in a week.