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  1. Re:Romney too. on Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' Urges Letters To Obama To Restore NASA Budget Cuts · · Score: 1

    Funny I dont recall only the rich getting tax cuts in the last ten years. In fact I recall more cuts being across the board or focused on low and middle incomes, and more hikes being focused on the "above 250000/1000000/pickyournumber" crowds.

  2. Re:Romney too. on Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' Urges Letters To Obama To Restore NASA Budget Cuts · · Score: 1

    Original Article Souce: Associated Press...the fact your paper is local is beside the fact.

  3. Re:nethack on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Game For Young Kids? · · Score: 1

    Love the classics, though for me I since I prefer shooters, I vote Doom and Quake.

  4. Re:Commemorative flight, not re-enactment on Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier · · Score: 2

    There never been any proof that any of those planes actually achieved Mach 1+. None. The single biggest source of all speculation is the fact the USAF kept Yeager's flight secret for over a year, and only said something after the Brits finally did it successfully.

  5. Re:Disputed claims on Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but as the shockwave develops, it screws with the pressures sensed by the instruments causing erroneous readings, depending on where the Pitot tube and static inlets are installed.

  6. Re:Re-enacts? on Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier · · Score: 3, Informative

    The X-1 was fully controlled by the pilot. Yeager, and more importantly his friend Jack Ridley, and the X-1 were the source of the all-moving tailplane that became essential to maintianing control of aircraft through the transonic and supersonic realms of flight. Prior to that invention the shockwave would overpower the controls leading to loss of control and crash.

  7. Re:Re-enacts? on Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uninformed troll. He was not a passenger. He flew second seat, which is customary when you are in a two-seater that isn't your plane.

    Still has full flight controls and he was flying the aircraft. Yeager has flown the F15 for many years. He is more than qualified in the type. He is one hte most naturally gifted pilots ever to exist. The aircraft hasnt been made that he cant fly (this includes the Space Shuttle and the Mercury capsule, both of which he qualified for on the simulators). The only reason the plane commander was even there is because of Yeagar's advanced years and recent health problems, even though he had been flying F15s solo even up until a couple years ago.

    One of the perks of being a retired General who still maintains his flight quals, and also partly cause hey, its Yeager, a man who in his 70s could still outfly men 40 years younger than he.

  8. Re:Sure He Did on Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier · · Score: 1

    If you think that's something, consider the B52s that are still flying.

  9. Re:This is what Benjamin Frankin warned us about.. on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    you totally missed the point

  10. Re:Do you know what real animals eat? on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    so cook your food

  11. Re:Do you know what real animals eat? on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    shrimp != fish

  12. Re:Chinese regulators are like Honey Badger on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    1) Pork only needs 145 degrees.
    2) I love your broad, generic unspecific "dangerous pig pathogens" phrasing
    3) No, you pretty much apply the manure directly to the dirt no composting required. Spike treatments during growth too as needed for plants that in locally variable soil. Horse works best I find.

  13. Re:One More Baby Step to Global Sharia Law on Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body · · Score: 1

    Second, there is only one country in the world that has, throughout its history, used its military power and political influence consistently to try to export its ideas of morality and law to the world, and it ain't no abode of Muslin desperation, it is the U-S-of-A.

    Spain
    France
    England
    Portugal
    Italy
    Roman Empire
    Byzantine Empire
    Persia
    Ottoman Empire
    China
    Russia
    I know I missed a few...hundred... others. Pretty much nukes your 2nd and 3rd points.

  14. Re:How is this news? on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    From wiki:
    "Mike Rowe attended Overlea High School, where he excelled in both theater and singing under the tutelage of choir director Freddie King, whom Rowe credits for first interesting him in performing.[5] An early stutterer, Rowe was able to overcome the handicap while in school.[6] After graduation from high school, he attended Essex Community College,[5] and briefly sang with the Chorus of the Chesapeake, which at the time was directed by King. He later graduated from Towson University[7] with a degree in Communication Studies.[8]

    Rowe sang professionally with the Baltimore Opera.[9][10] He says about this job: I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls. I was a saloon singer, so I went down to the Baltimore Opera and learned an aria and auditioned. I figured I'd do one show and quit. But the girls were everywhere and the truth is, the music was really decent.[11]"

    Looks like Rowe both studied and worked hard. And remember he created the show, he loves the, show. He is a self-made man.
    So lets not be putting him down.

  15. Re:Do you know what real animals eat? on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    my dog hates bananas. she LOVES kitty krunchies from the litter box though.

  16. Re:Whole Foods on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    Cod eat shit too. All fish do.

    And you're being ripped off at 15/lb. Little secret...whole foods uses mostly the same suppliers as Kroger and Publix and all the other stores, especially for emat and fish. They just charge you more for the name "Whole Foods".

  17. Re:Fish shit on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    False. Bone is not intentionally ground up into ground meat. That is a lie.

    And it is most certainly not part of a trade off. Some bone and gristle will always make it in. It is not intentional. There are rules about how much is allowable (which in turn causes people cutting up the carcass with a saw to be careful so they dont take a loss on several wasted cows). Becauses which people would complain, the grocer would contract to a different supplier, etc. And the bones screw up the meat grinder too.

    -source: worked as meat cutter

    And as for the rat thing, you ever actually read the rules? Typically its something like "1 particle or hair per 100grams". When you work it out, its basically 1ppm or less. Besides which the plants that make/package the food are required to sterilize. So the sky isnt falling. Your post is only more FUD.

  18. Re:Don't eat shit from China on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    made up and disproven statistic.

  19. Re:Chinese regulators are like Honey Badger on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea: cook your fish.
    The only fish legally allowed to be sold for consumption raw is required to be labeled as "sushi-grade", and to get that certification involves very stringent requirements. so if you eat raw or undercooked fish that gets you sick, its your own fault. Cook your damn fish and you wont get sick.

    News flash: the best fertilizer in the world is manure. Bird gauno, bat guano, and horse manure. Stuff works GREAT in gardens. Better than miracle-gro, natural, and not nearly as potentially harmful to the environment if overused. Just like with the fish, the feces is strictly a feed source, energy, carbs, protien etc. You arent actually eating the manure in either case. If you are, you're doing something wrong.

    This is a sensationalist article written by people who have no concept where their food comes from, being overreacted to by people who also have no idea where their food comes from but are quick to jump on the "alll corps suck bandwagon". I've ridden on that bandwagon, but it doesnt apply here.

    Learn where your damn food comes from city slickers.

  20. Re:Do you know what real animals eat? on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 2

    Which is exactly the point. Besides which, fish eat crap naturally too. It's not like they are holding open their mouths and dumping it in. Almost all sea life lives by eating crap at least in part.

    Also, people forget you arent eating the animals intestinal tract. You're eating the flesh, the muscle. It may be "feces" when it goes in, but to the fishes body it's just an energy source, and gets treated as such. Nutrients are extracted and they go to buildings/rebuilding muscle cells etc.

  21. Re:There is only one speed: c on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    I thought the bending wasnt so much because they have a mass to be deflected by gravitational forces, but rather the warping of space-time itself (the "gravity well") causes what is a linear path from the perspective of the photon itself to be a bent path to us observing on the outside.

  22. Re:It all sounds vaguely familar... on US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified · · Score: 1

    its not the shockwaves. many rotors and propellers exceed the speed of sound, and do so successfully.

    no, the problem is called "retreating blade stall", and has to do with the forward speed matching the speed of the blade swinging to the rear, causing loss of lift across (essentially) half the rotor disc.

  23. Re:Genetic diversity... on Geneticists And Economists Clash Over "Genoeconomics" Paper · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, you miss the point. I'll illustrate.

    Verifiable fact: there are more black people in jail than whites in the US.

    Said such a thing one, time, instantly branded racist. But you will note that the statement makes no claims about who commits more crimes, about whether more black people actually get charged or found guilty vs non-blacks where were not charged or found innocent, whether the number is a raw total, or a ratio of population at large.... ...it just states the current state of jail population. no conclusions, no innuendo. just a simple number. (well, quantity comparison anyway)

    And if you say it, the first thing people say is "racist".

  24. Re:Might be incentive to buy Black Market on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 1

    They're still idiots, right up there with the anti-vaccine people.

  25. Re:Should be unlimited on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 1

    So naive.

    Corporate sponsored and/or co-writeen bills and issues of controversy in the past couple years:
    -The Arizona Immigration Law
    -Obamacare (out to get the insurance compnaies? hah. they helped write the damn thing)
    -Keystone XL pipeline
    -SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, etc
    -current case before the Supreme Court
    -Town in N Carolina that tried to build its own fiber network and was sued/shut down by the local cable company, with result that no, they could not build better internet than the local cable co. Competition? That's un-american!

    There's many others. And sometimes, they actually get it right, from a liberty/freedom pointof view. A lot of times they dont.
    But the point is, they (mostly) DONT CARE EITHER WAY. They only care about bottom line, and if it requires the repeal of the entire Constitution to do it, they will work on that too.