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  1. Re:Just when we think the IRS can't be any more ev on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Stings when a nerve is hit, doesn't it?

    Actually, I have been recently listening to exactly none of the shows you cite. But I'm sure that if you work for the IRS, you're going to automatically assume I'm guilty.

  2. Just when we think the IRS can't be any more evil on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...It gets worse. They are now claiming "my dog ate my homework" for precisely, and only, every employee named in this investigation. It would be fitting to apply the IRS' own special rule here, which is that if you can't prove your innocence, you're guilty. Long sentences for each of the accused, unless those hard drives can be made to miraculously reappear.

  3. But...but...but on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 1

    I thought this whole creationism thing was strictly a Pig AmeriKKKan problem!

  4. Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    And if it's that offensive, then who in hell would want to infringe it?

  5. Re:Speculation... on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 2

    You could also try a car buying service, such as the free one that AAA offers. You specify what you want, and the service goes out and finds the car. And because it was bought through the conventional network, you can still get dealership service in your town after the purchase.

  6. Re:Great Author on HUGO Winning Author Daniel Keyes Has Died · · Score: 1

    A perfect short story became a padded novel. News at 11.

  7. Re:Why exactly... on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 1

    Which is made of the exact two things you need the most.

  8. Re:Bad idea on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doing anything useful in space requires long-term thinking. Wall Street doesn't do that, so keeping the operation private is not just the best way to go - it's the only way.

  9. Re:NOT. GODDA. HAPPEN. on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 1

    But he's going to do it anyway.

  10. Re:The actual appeal on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 1

    To me, the most important advantage of digital photography is the creative freedom that comes from not having to worry about expensive consumables.

  11. Re:I can't buy one on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    Are all the manufacturers still doing unnecessarily complex dual drive train hybrids, or do we have models with four independent wheel motors and an engine for charging only? This would be a better transition toward the pure electrics we will eventually have.

  12. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    As one who applauded when that boat in New Zealand got blown up, I think Greenpeace is in serious need of another visit from the DGSE or its equivalent in whatever country whose crops and energy systems they are currently trashing.

  13. Re:what about... on Google Fiber Is Officially Making Its Way To Portland · · Score: 1

    Portland, ME needs to become weirder to get publicity. Yeah, that's it!

  14. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    So why did the flat-earth lobby destroy test fields of golden rice (same modification as this new banana), which is open-source and has nothing to do with Monsanto?

  15. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    Millions of hectares of newly viable farmland in Russia and Canada, while Florida could disappear entirely.

  16. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1, Funny

    When GM pot is introduced in Washington or Colorado, hippie heads will explode.

  17. Re: Yawn on After Non-Profit Application Furor, IRS Says It's Lost 2 Years Of Lerner's Email · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He'll, I'd settle for the IRS following its own rule that are enforced so strictly on the rest of us, which is that the taxpayer is presumed guilty. If you, as the accused, cannot produce records proving your case, you lose and get reamed. So in this instance, since the IRS claimed to have 'lost' the records that would have proved its case, we will make the same assumption the IRS does.

  18. Re:Stem cell research on Japanese Stem Cell Debacle Could Bring Down Entire Center · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And if you don't agree with us on climate, we'll sue your ass off. That's science as she is done today, I suppose.

  19. Re:Old News on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Who needs a citation when I have those seasoned-citizen memories? I first started donating blood in high school (Norwalk, CA, early Sixties) because a relative had a string of surgeries and needed a lot of blood units. I did exactly the kind of blood banking that I describe to help make up her sanguinary deficit. My donations were at a Red Cross center. I resumed donating in Phoenix in the Eighties and Nineties, but the replacement system was no longer around.

  20. Re:Hardware sampling rates on The Computer Security Threat From Ultrasonic Networks · · Score: 1

    OR...issue whistles to everyone in your office, to be used at random intervals.

  21. Re:Old News on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is another example of the medical cartel screwing us over. In the old days those donation centers were called "blood banks" because they functioned like actual banks. You were personally credited with each pint of blood you donated. When you needed blood after an accident or surgery, you could use any accumulated credits. You could sign credits over to a family member who needed blood. or donate them to one of those public drives for a person in need. Blood banking incentivized donations without the moral hazard of paying donors in cash.

    No longer. You have to pay for any blood you or your loved ones use, no matter how much you may have donated. Personal blood credit is used only in giving out award pins for lifetime donation totals. And we now have an ongoing donation shortfall that we never had before.

  22. I have this virtual image in my mind right now... on Bloomberg Testing Productivity App For Oculus Rift · · Score: 2

    Of hedge fund managers battling it out with golden swords. The winner gets a Bag of Holding stuffed with Swiss francs.

  23. Re:Good on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 2

    Gee, I can't wait to see blockbusters on the big screen at 640 x 360. The pixels are going to about an inch in diameter.

  24. Re:oS, I suppose) or by time of day. on Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Even assuming there were no check for connecting to your own router, all you would be doing is paying Comcast out of your public WiFi pocket instead of your home service pocket. And wanna bet that that the public hotspot usage rate would be higher, to incentivize people to continue having their own routers connected to Comcast as a lower-cost option?

  25. Re:Next up: We need a centrifuge in orbit! on Moon Swirls May Inspire Revolution In the Science of Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    In the long run, I think we will re-engineer humans for space.