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  1. Re:Savvy study author ... on Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors · · Score: 1

    The article determined the low crime rates tended to be associated to countries with a belief in hell or eternal torment, not so much a vindictive deity; well unless your elevating Satan/Lucifer to full deification. Actually there is no Hell in the Bible, in true Judeo/Christianity when you died your just dead, until the second coming. At the Second coming the "saved" will be taken to Paradise and the rest will just be dead. The whole hell thing came first from the the middle eastern religions and of course the Greek Hades.The closest thing to Hell in the Bible is where fallen angles are quartered.

  2. Re:Anti-american skills on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 1

    D,

  3. Re:Obviously on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 1

    Never played Myst, have you?

  4. Re:Yet... on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the Germany is going to replace any of it's industrial infra-structure in the future in fact SpiegelOnline has an article. The Downside of Germany's Nuclear Phaseout is strongly hinting that the increasing energy prices due to phasing out nuclear in favor of renewables will cause active industrial flight to cheaper energy regions.

  5. Re:Companies are known to strike back on Hacked Companies Fight Back With Controversial Steps · · Score: 2

    Oh come on and lighten up, it was WAY better than Battlefield Earth! "Starship Troopers" absolutely nailed the 1950's DOD and CD training film style so popular during the "Cold War" - "Red Menace " era.

  6. Re:About time on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Keynesian economics HAS NEVER WORKED FOR ANY COUNTRY IN ANY SITUATION/quote>
    The one time it was applied to the condition it was supposed to help, it worked, all the others where it was applied to the exact opposite conditions it was supposed to help, it made things worse.

  7. Re:Yet... on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 2

    Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, and all of the craziness out in California is great news for us in Michigan, we need the jobs.

  8. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    Why the hell did he think it was a good idea to try to get the dead mouse away from the cat in the first place?

    Probably to keep the cat from bringing it into the house, Cats like to bring trophies home. Even worse sometimes they bring home toys, mice 3/4 dead, when they get tired of swatting them around, they forget them, soon they become mice that are 3/4 alive.

  9. Re:Somewhat welcome news on Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs · · Score: 1

    Ask Ignaz Semmelweis how well he liked how science really works.

  10. Re:Somewhat welcome news on Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs · · Score: 0

    A Peer reviewed journal,

    Homeopathy is an international journal aimed at improving the understanding and clinical practice of homeopathy by publishing high quality articles on clinical and basic research, clinical audit and evidence-based practice of homeopathy. It also promotes debate and reviews homeopathic literature.Homeopathy

    after reading some of the climategate Emails, I'd say it's more like crony reviewed journals.

  11. Re:Somewhat welcome news on Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that applies mainly to sea-level predictions, which according to some models should be meters higher on the way to 60 meter increase, where reality is more like a couple millimeters.

  12. Re:Buggars! on Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight · · Score: 1

    A surprising number of US laws are extra-territorial, especially things like murder, rape, terrorism, piracy (as in maritime hooligans rather than music down-loaders) and oh yes just about anything in the espionage category. What is surprising to me is how little interest the USG is showing in this matter, but that may change if Bradley Manning is convicted. I wouldn't be surprised if during the Manning trial, that Assange was subpoenaed and deposed in that matter.

  13. Re:I.T. curse on Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't "cinch-ing". be pronounce "Kinc-hing", one of my favorite gasthause was Stiechen's pronounce "stink'ns".

  14. Re:People do what you incite them to do on Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile the management of the company keeps enjoying finish welfare, at the expenses of their compatriotes.

    Don't worry what they are not paying in corporate income taxes, will be paid in individual income taxes due to higher salaries and increased dividend payment. Because Individual tax rates are almost always higher than Corporate rates, Finland could easily see a net increase in tax revenues because of this maneuver.

  15. Re:Rich people are most dependent on government on Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland · · Score: 1

    I think your confusing Libertarianism with religious genocide and anarchy.

  16. Re:How is plankton a good carbon sink? on Huge Phytoplankton Bloom Found Under Arctic Ice · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those little gomers are 20 - 30% lipids, and those lipids are what gets turned into petroleum crude oil after it settles out and reduces under the seabed muck.

  17. Re:Why 2 sides on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    In these case we have to make two assumptions firstly the scientist making the original observations or collected were basically honest and secondly there were other independent researchers replicating the data or methods. When these assumptions are shown to be invalid then the credibility of the results is greatly reduced. That's one of the problems with climatology right know, all of the data is intertwined and the original raw data is lost or hidden so there is no Independent observations possible, the big names in the field have perverted the peer review into crony review, then you have characters like Gliek commuting wire fraud and forgery.

  18. Re:Two Military Spy Telescopes... on NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy · · Score: 1

    Dude, everybody did notice; just because it uses a remote manipulator instead of a Fleshy in a zip-lock, doesn't mean it's not a functional equivalent.

  19. Re:Two Military Spy Telescopes... on NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy · · Score: 1

    If NRO can pull a couple hubble class telescopes out of petty cash, why are we so certain there isn't a Shuttle or the functional equivalent stashed somewhere?

  20. Re:Napoleon said it better: on The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And that logistics has to work under chaotic conditions, which is why the military is so good at humanitarian disaster relief.

  21. Re:Typical, politically-biased title on NASA Tool Shows Where Forest Is Being Cut Down · · Score: 1

    Fires are a natural part of the forest lifecycle, and what is burned today will be green again tomorrow - these areas should not be counted in any measure of deforestation.

    Truer than you probably realize, in Michigan, the last of the Kirtland's Warbler reside though the spring and summer, They've come back from the ragged edge of extinction, and these birds primarily nest in Jack Pine scrub, because the Jack Pine, pine cone usually open during forest fires, their preferred nesting area is a nasty tangle of dead burnt trees and Jack Pine saplings. We annually start controlled burns to create new habitat for the Warblers.

  22. Re:Break the trust network on Backdoor Found In Hacked Version of Anti-Censorship Tool Simurgh · · Score: 1

    Too bad we don't know the address of the server receiving the keylogger data, I mean if their intention is to collect data, I'm sure I could send them a couple GB, with just a simple Perl script

  23. Re:Pollution not a valid argument for the left on Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Yes and I bet that a lot of those dinosaurs thought that once they clawed their way to the top of the food-chain, that their position was permanent too. Unfortunately the only thing permanent is change.

  24. Re:Pollution not a valid argument for the left on Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    CO2 levels have been far higher and lower,so what is it supposed to be? You do realize that all of those fossil fuels were once atmospheric CO2?

  25. Re:Passing the blame on Pollution From Asia Affects US Climate · · Score: 1

    "National limitations range from 8% reductions for the European Union and others, to 7% for the US, 6% for Japan, 0% for Russia,"
    The question remains have you reduced CO2 equivalent emission 8%? The answer is no