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  1. Re:Can I get a research grant? on Ancient Campfires Led To the Rise of Storytelling · · Score: 1

    The next logical step is to research the story-telling of people drinking heavily at a bar.

  2. Correlation is not.... on Ancient Campfires Led To the Rise of Storytelling · · Score: 1

    With a fire, people are brought together as a community. There is not enough light to go hunting or engage in any other practical activity, but there is enough light to communicate with gestures and facial expressions as well as verbally. So people will engage in conversation, assuming they're not engaged in some other nocturnal activity, but for all we know they were doing that in the dark before they had fire.

  3. Re:In lost the will to live ... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    That was the novelty of Christianity 2000 years ago-

    It was already centuries old by the time Christianity started.

  4. Re:Methodologies are like religion on 'Reactive' Development Turns 2.0 · · Score: 1

    You'd expect being "PRO"-creative would be a goal too.

  5. Conflicting priorities on Secret Service Critics Pounce After White House Breach · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the Secret Service was made part of the Department of Homeland Security.

    The Secret Service has a legitimate security function. The Department of Homeland Security is about manufacturing fear and maintaining insecurity for political purposes.

    So no wonder the Secret Service is confused about its objectives.

  6. Re:Not surprising on Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout · · Score: 1

    this website is some kind of horrible, complex, unknown beast that simply could not be tamed, a website so complex that few applications could approach it in terms of functional requirements.

    It depends on what the purpose of the website was. If the purpose was to create employment for contractors, and make the health insurance programme look bad, then the requirements would need to be more complex.

  7. Re:*waves hand* on Star Wars Producers Want a 'DroneShield' To Prevent Leaks On Set · · Score: 2

    Actually, these are the drones the producers are looking for. But the stormtroopers are incapable of hitting anything.

  8. Next: England on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    The underlying problem is that devolution in the United Kingdom was asymmetric. England does not have an assembly. Actually this means that the English as second-class citizens in the UK, but irrational resentments can be built out of any inequality, even one in your favour.

    All they would have to do is decide to make every English MP a member of a "Convention of England" or some such, and give them £1 a year to underline that it's a separate job.

    Anything done to make Scotland more unequal - in either direction - will only make things worse.

  9. Re:Free Willy! on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    And even fewer of the super-powers people want to have.

  10. Re:Study Questions on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 1

    Said the wrong way and/or in the wrong context, yes.

  11. Re:What's the background? on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    ...and then they beg him to come back for vastly more money.

  12. Re:Ignoring war on New Study Projects World Population of 11B by 2100 · · Score: 1

    Not really. Wars have had surprisingly little impact on overall world population growth.

  13. The terrorists learned on Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing the NSA did learn something from the experience.

  14. Re:The sad part is... on Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists · · Score: 1

    A war crime happened.

    There is a right for someone to know about it - preferably someone with the willingness to act.

  15. Re:Cut The Cable on NSA Director Says Agency Is Still Trying To Figure Out Cyber Operations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, no, if it comes from somewhere with oil in need of liberating, then it's an act of war.

  16. Misuse of 'My' on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    I expect Microsoft to continue to use 'My' when the correct word is 'Your'. The way people talk to two-year-olds.

    Says a lot about how Microsoft views their customers.

  17. Re:more buerocracy on The Case For a Federal Robotics Commission · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it's about the robotics industry controlling a piece of government, not the other way around.

  18. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 2

    In some places the government builds the liquor stores.

  19. correction on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Oops, should be:

    In other words, religious people feel threatened by science, so they will adopt the fantasy that science is, or should be, more like just another religion, thereby putting science and their religion on an equal footing.

  20. Re:illogical captain on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    In other words, religious people feel threatened by religion, so they will adopt the fantasy that science is, or should be, more like just another religion, thereby putting science and their religion on an equal footing.

  21. Re:Why bother? on NSA Metadata Collection Gets 90-Day Extension · · Score: 1

    By changing the law, even only cosmetically, we now need *new* proof of the law being broken.

    Without the proof, there's no actual uncertainty that the law is being broken, but a lack of evidence is one more obstacle to action.

  22. Re:atheism is bankrupt on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Atheists have moral systems because all humans have moral systems. Atheism is not that moral system - atheism is the absence of belief in the supernatural.

  23. Re:Who told you about the god or gods? on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Are you disbelieving the idea, or the people who told you the idea?

    The idea.

  24. to eliminate patent examiner fraud. The method, of course, is patented.

  25. Re:Perhaps Atheism is misunderstood. on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    No, atheism actually is the disbelief in god or gods.