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  1. Re:hardly different in Europe on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    An approximately 10% gap in favour of Europe, and yet you act as if there is equivalency.

    Good work proving the thesis that there is an inverse correlation between scientific literacy and position on the conservative axis of political beliefs.

  2. Re:Best way to force an upgrade on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 1

    Surely you are joking? Look at the history of dBASE.

    Those who don't know history, kids these days, something about my lawn <exit stage left, muttering>

  3. Re:In (future) related news... on Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center · · Score: 2

    Because as an Ubuntu user he learned to always sudo, but never why.

  4. That was a most satisfying demonstration that your pedantry outstrips your knowledge of the English language./pL

  5. Re:Different restaurant, same owner on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    I also forgot to mention I'm in favour of sending everyone without a sense of hyperbole to death camps.

  6. Re:Officials say? on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 1

    It has been proven to work in all civilised countries on this planet. The US is the one that pays twice as much per capita for health care costs while not covering the entire population in one pool and having the highest number of health care cost related bankruptcies.

    Seriously dude, get your 'facts' from somewhere else than the right-wing echo chamber, will you? This just makes you look stupid.

  7. Re:Different restaurant, same owner on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    These days, I'm more and more leaning towards the idea that the only valid idea is to smash those Google glasses. Preferably while the owner is still wearing them.

  8. Re:will it help against impluse eating? on Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health · · Score: 1

    our brains are hardwired to seek high calorie foods

    "It's not my fault I'm an obese pig. It has nothing to do with all the food and snacks I stuff into my fat gizzard, it's the way my brain is wired, honest!"

  9. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Informative

    X is obsolete

    X is mature. That's not the same thing, young grasshopper

    As for modern hardware? It works just fine as long as it has supported drivers, and Wayland & co have exactly the same prerequisite.

  10. Re:England on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    Plastic has one advantage over paper: it's easier to make airtight.

    For my own use, when making deserts, I bought a large box of disposable clamshell bowls. They close airtight and keep things like chocolate mousse fresh for several days. And the kicker? They're made from PLA, so they biodegrade.

  11. Re:Looks like they are porting Clang features... on GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wait, what, Clang now supports other languages than C-derivatives, like Ada and Fortran?

  12. Re:It followed a few of the plot lines, but ... on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    If that constitutes fiction in your universe, no wonder you want to remain an anonymous Heinlein fanboi.

    If only Citizens get to vote, what effective rights do non-Citizens have? That's right, none, they only have whatever they have at the sufferance of the Citizens.

  13. Re:The saddest thing on SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook · · Score: 1

    Apparently your free-market solution to education was deficient, I'd ask for my money back.

    Do note that very specific word in my little 'rant': "only". Since you ignored that, you're either setting up a straw man, or your stupid.

    Stupid or dishonest, a fine summary of the modern conservative.

  14. The saddest thing on SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook · · Score: 1

    What saddens me is not that they refused because they want to stay in control of their own company and product, but because they're holding out for a higher offer.

    Apparently that's the only reason you'd need to run a company: get noticed for a buyout.

  15. Re:You what? on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    It's stunning how often modern conservatives try to hide their moral bankruptcy behind a tu quoque fallacy.

  16. Re:It tried to follow the plot on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Right. Trust a libertard to call a book 'libertarian' where a main plot point is that rights come from service to the State.

  17. Re:It tried to follow the plot on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am quite surprised at so many self-declared intelligent people who seem to be unable to distinguish between "Starship Troopers depicts a fascist society" and "Robert Heinlein was a fascist".

  18. Re:It followed a few of the plot lines, but ... on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think he got it quite well. The basic premise is that the only citizens who deserve any rights are those who serve the State, preferably the military, but serve the State nonetheless.

    There is a name for a political system like that, and we know it doesn't come without downsides like massive bloodshed.

  19. Re:have you not seen what government schools creat on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    Neither government nor private companies have a monopoly on stupid.

    Burn the heretic!

  20. Re:UCS are environmentalists on US Should Cancel Plutonium Plant, Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Not toeing the Military-Industrial Complex' party line seems pretty bloody independent to me

  21. Re:Democratization on Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act · · Score: 1

    So that's a single instance. With retractions. Hardly numerous. And caught by further peer review.

    Seems like the process is working just fine, and Science is acting responsibly by retracting the papers.

    And as for your snark, it is usually the duty of the one stating an assertion to support it, so fuck off.

  22. Re:Democratization on Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act · · Score: 1

    Science has published numerous scientific frauds over the years.

    That's the second time you have asserted that. How about, given the subject under discussion, you provide some hard numbers?

  23. Re:Ah on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 1

    No. I am on record as saying that the problem with nuclear industry is the management, not the technology, for ages, including since the start of the Fukushima mess.

  24. Re:Ah on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 1

    The fact that you cannot read any further to notice that I was pointing out all the other TEPCO blunders suggests to me that your mother probably got a little bit too much radiation.

    To make it comprehensible to you: you're an idiot.

  25. Re:Ah on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 1

    It was 430 liters of wastewater in obviously incompetent hands. Given the rest of the blundering at Fukushima, that's scary.