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  1. Re:Church doctrine's uneasy relationship with scie on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Considering that priests defined what modern science is I'd say you're incredibly wrong.

  2. Re: Enlightenment on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Also, that certain scientist was persecuted by his academic peers who helped push for the Church to punish him.

  3. Re:Oh God on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    No worries, I think the debate got supplanted with one about climate change.

  4. Re:There's an even greater flaw here. on New Attack Bypasses Mac OS X Gatekeeper · · Score: 2

    I think it's starting to be proven that an axiom like that about Unix systems is not entirely accurate.

  5. Re:This happens a lot on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 1

    I'd love to read the "pig-chimp hybrid" paper you're referring to. When Darwin's evolution was out, there had been for a while arguments that humans actually came from pigs. So I almost don't believe this wasn't an april fool's joke.

  6. Re:I liked the cartoon that read: on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    And do we remember the hello kitty bubble gun incident with the 5 year old girl?

  7. Re: Old News? on Nintendo Nixes YouTube Videos of Super Mario Speedruns · · Score: 1

    Splatoon. That's about it.

  8. Re: Police? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 1

    Your house does come crashing down because of it though.

  9. Re:science is inherently political. on Law Professor: Genetic Engineering Is (Probably) Protected By the First Amendment · · Score: 1

    Burrrrr, wrong. The perception and interpretation of historical events affects events in the present. From the near history of yesterday to the far history of hundred if not thousands of years. You don't think the reinterpreting of history by the Nazis affected how the Germans acted? Or how the interpretation of Jews about Israel affects how they treat the issue today?

    It's so nice that you can call people drunk and stupid when you're hiding behind your AC.

  10. Re:Evidence of the Great Filter? on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Depends on your definition of technology. Human ancestors had tool usage up to 3.3 million years ago. The lower Paleolithic age ended about the time that our modern equivalents showed up. The upper Paleolithic was about 50-10k years ago and towards the end of that we saw agriculture start to rise.

  11. Re:Evidence of the Great Filter? on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    The predecessor to Homo Sapiens evolved about 400-250 thousand years ago. Some of our close, breeding able brothers and sisters were older yes, but homo sapiens were thought to have evolved around 200 thousand years ago.

  12. Re:Evidence of the Great Filter? on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    That's a bad example. Globalization was occurring. China had figured out gunpowder hundreds of years before Europe. And when Europe came to the Americas, the natives had no clue about such technology.

  13. Re:people are forgetful . political?! on Law Professor: Genetic Engineering Is (Probably) Protected By the First Amendment · · Score: 1

    People seem to forget that Marbury v. Madison is what established Judicial Review. Not the Constitution explicitly. I don't necessarily disagree with the concept of Judicial Review myself. But I do sometimes disagree with how it's been implemented as time goes on.

  14. Re:Great to know that nobody can stand in the way. on Law Professor: Genetic Engineering Is (Probably) Protected By the First Amendment · · Score: 1

    I'm not gonna click that last link, I'm just gonna assume NSFW.

  15. Re:science is inherently political. on Law Professor: Genetic Engineering Is (Probably) Protected By the First Amendment · · Score: 1

    It's sort of like asserting that there is a true, objective "history," as if "history" can somehow be separated out from "human interpretation of history."

    That is wrong for different reasons. History is affected by the perceptions and interpretations of humans about said history.

  16. Re:Equality on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They further looked at testosterone levels in the kids and followed them through early childhood. The children, girls included, who higher levels of testosterone were slower learning communication skills and had more interest in mechanical things.

  17. Re:Poor exploited women on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 1

    *points* haha, you don't understand sarcasm in non-oral and non-facial forms of communications!

    I hope you feel better now! :P

  18. Re:Do as I say not as I do on British Government Instituted 3-Month Deletion Policy, Apparently To Evade FOIA · · Score: 1

    3 month, 6 month retention policies for enterprise email servers is pretty routine.

  19. Re:maybe robots can fly the drones on USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators · · Score: 2

    Part of the stress seems to be the long hours too; and it sounds like the cause is too much demand, not enough supply (of pilots).

  20. Re:They still sell those? on Opening Fixed-Code Garage Doors With a Toy In 10 Seconds · · Score: 1

    The one on my parents' garage is going on 20 years now. Don't know the brand off the top of my head sorry.

  21. Re:so what you're saying is on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 0

    We won't wreck the earth because of CO2. There used to be a lot more of it in the atmosphere.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  22. Re:Please clarify... on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    Oxygen alone does not make an insect (let alone anything) bigger. That dragonfly got that big probably because there were no natural predators for it. There's a cricket in the mountains of South America that can get pretty big for those exact reasons.

  23. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Not the point, it's a much more relevant reference point.

  24. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit is a reproducible scale as well. Your point there is irrelevant. Your bottom line is nothing.

  25. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    You don't call the Kelvin a Kelvicelsius there's no power by 10 conversion going on here. It's not "metric."