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  1. Re: And then a hero comes along on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just make sure to do this last on your bucket list!

  2. No significant effect on behavior after 30 minutes a day over eight weeks for psychology healthy individuals? Amazing! I'm not going to send my autistic spectrum kids to play 10 hours a day for years in end! Excellent!

  3. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The right... outraged whenever some kid in Macedonia wants a new bike.

  4. Re: Not gonna happen on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Except the unsafe package gives access to traditional memory management without need for gC (in Go.)

  5. Washington would like to have a word with you!!!

  6. The most common form of HFCS is HFCS-55. It's 55% fructose rather than 50% for sucrose. So, a little bit worse for you, but not a lot. They're both awful.

  7. The difference is not in the religion but the adherent. So far as I'm aware, this individual doesn't even claim to sincerely believe in FSMism. Instead he wants to adopt a phony religion, not sincerely held, as a protest against the perceived faults of other religions.

    The key thing about religious beliefs, and about religious faith is that it's not arbitrary. I can't just change what I believe for no reason at all -- I can't just wake up one morning and say "oh, well, I guess I'll be Shinto today." This is why religion needs special protection. Through a bitter series of wars in Europe, we learned that it's best for everyone to let everyone follow their conscience, so that we don't start more wars by trying to restrict or enforce any sincerely held religious creed.

    If this guy were actually sincere in believing in the FSM, then I'd say that believe deserves protection (even though FSM-ism was clearly created as satire.) He's not sincere, and that's pretty damn obvious.

  8. Re: A lack of evidence is crucial for a religion. on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, transubstantiation is not the word.

  9. Re: Batteries just don't store enough energy... on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    Just not true. There is an active lithium mine in the US

  10. Re: 30 cents... on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    When I was diagnosed with sleep apnea I went into the 60s

  11. Re: It's the same in professional sports. on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    Clearly you've not had a child eho played football...

  12. Re: Everyone loves taxes on Microsoft Pushes For Public Education Funding While Avoiding State Taxes · · Score: 2

    Must not have gone to my high school.

  13. Re: Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 198 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Out of curiosity, do you have a source for any of this that has voted Democrat since Kennedy? It's a lot of horseshit. The Dixiecrats, who favored segregation, largely became Republicans in the 70's. That's why Reagans first campaign speech after the convention was in Mississippi on the topic of "states' rights." This is code. And the Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats because they supported integration! You're engaged in a long winded and grossly distorted fallacy of guilt by association.

  14. Re: Tax on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great argument for rebalancing to a national sales tax to me. Also,maybe tariffs aren't so bad.

  15. Re: What's next? on Ted Cruz To Oversee NASA and US Science Programs · · Score: 1

    They're more likely to live up to constitutional controls than some corporation that doesn't even pretend to honor any principal but maximum profit for its shareholders!

  16. Re: Sorta related... the teletype machine on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how easy it is to tap someone's phone? The cabinets aren't even locked! Internet isn't less secure, it's more.

  17. Re: The violence came from ... on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 1

    What are the truly despicable texts from the New Testament?

  18. Re: "Low food" doesn't work either on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    But you can cut with only 3% of the loss bring lean mass IF you do it low carb.

  19. Re: What about a low-food diet? on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Nope. Many studies have shown that it's possible to be overweight, active, and healthy. The key thing for health is activity... Granted, there is a correlation between overweight and inactive,but it's weak.

  20. Re: "Low food" doesn't work either on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    I'm a competitive weightlifter. And I coach others. (Not a body builder. It's not the same thing.) Most of my guys seem to do best with carb cycling -- ie only eating carbs in quantity on training days. (Oversimplified.) Higher carbs work okay for people like distance runners who will burn off the resulting triglycerides. Even then, they're lousy for getting in shape and people tend to gain weight unless they're training at least ten hours a week. Your argument is way oversimplified. In any case if you look at what science IS, one key point is that ten theories are worth less than one observation. I can tell you at when my guys need to cut for competition, they go zero carb and it works,and th can do it without losing muscle. The odd trainee who tris to do it high carb loses muscl and rarely succeeds.

  21. Re: What about a low-food diet? on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Your body converts protein to glucose just for those few cells of the nervous system that can't burn ketone bodies.

  22. Re: What about a low-food diet? on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Show me a common, chronic disease cause by not enough carbs and I might concede that we need some. Until then, I'll enjoy my 4.6 a1c as a type 1 diabetic.

  23. Parents, not women on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    As a single dad, I've got to say that's by primary caregiver has these problems. It's not sexism, necessarily, except in the sense that women are still the most common primary caregivers.

  24. Re: What they don't tell you on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Actually, there was a big movement towards "slow carbs" about 10-12 years ago, in a concept called the "glycemic index." However, most studies as well as clinical experience showed it wasn't an effective approach for most people.

  25. Re: so? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 2

    Except last i looked blacks are 12% of the population, which means the incidence is 4 times what we would expect all else bein equal.