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  1. Re:Betteridge's law of headlines on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    I would guess 'no'.

    Seeing as my boss is a woman...

  2. Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    If someone is addicted to oil, it doesn't matter what word you use, same as if they're addicted to cocaine or gambling. They're deliberately ignoring the science, not disagreeing with it.

  3. Re:Overreach on The SEC Is About To Make Crowdfunding More Expensive · · Score: 1

    The SEC's function is to *enable* "Big Finance... screwing us all over yet again" and eliminate any potential competition or actual market forces affecting them.

    Hasn't anyone been paying attention?

  4. Terrorists versus Congress on Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress · · Score: 1

    How could someone be both a terrorist and a member of Congress? One of them has nothing but contempt and hatred for the values of the US and wants to sabotage the nation's prosperity and standing in the world while using fear to manipulate its citizens for their own political ends and actively works to undermine fundamental constitutional principles. The other engages in terrorism.

  5. Re:Bad call on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 1

    The theory of evolution... just redefines what god (if you believe in him) did and didn't do.

    Let's just define God as a metaphor *for* evolution -- everyone wins!

  6. Fun medical fact on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    In a small number of cases, The Pill is prescribed for reasons that have nothing to do with contraception.

    If a licensed doctor prescribes a medication, no-one other than another doctor should be questioning it. Not the pharmacist, who is only authorized to advise about drug interactions, not an insurer, and certainly not the employer.

  7. Re:Funny thing... on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    That would be the 'elsewhere' part of "fossil record and elsewhere".

  8. Re:I believe it on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    If God is a metaphor for one or more of:

    your community
    human nature
    the universe
    the laws of physics
    the workings of random chance,

    then you've seen God lots of times.

  9. Re:The conclusion may be wrong. on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    One theory is that every religion essentially starts that way.

  10. Re:I believe it on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    God and Santa are both metaphors.

    They're both real. Sort of.

  11. Funny thing... on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    Evolution is the observation - that's the part we know is true because we actually observe it in the fossil record and elsewhere.

    Natural selection was the part that was theory.

  12. Re:not yet on Ask Slashdot: Effective, Reasonably Priced Conferencing Speech-to-Text? · · Score: 1

    Humans instinctively develop a language faculty at a very young age - it's easy to underestimate what a difficult problem it is for computers and difficult to appreciate how good even young children are at it. 99% accuracy sounds good, but a person who could read at that accuracy would be called illiterate.

  13. Re:Ah on Safeway Suspends Worker For Sci-Fi Parody of His Firing · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I *will* take this post seriously. He disparaged their trade name but the video did not rise to the level of parody (which is a *really* low bar to meet) or offer any entertainment value.

    The whole concept was mocking the hardship that those laid off will suffer and that is not winning him any points either.

  14. Re:Art? on The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon · · Score: 1

    He wasn't

    Art *is* fair game to criticism. He made an objective statement of fact that followed from his opinion.

  15. Re: A couple things about TFA on Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. · · Score: 1

    But the non-Muslim reason is primary and not something you can wave away

    The reason you can't wave it away is because it's an outright lie.

    If you want to know their actual motivations, simply listen when they explain them.

  16. it was tough getting our kids outside.

    If you didn't realize some aspects of parenting were tough, then your child is not the one who needs to get out more.

  17. Re:As an organiser of events. on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    No-one has a medical need to wear a recording device. Being inconsiderate does not count as a medical need.

  18. Re:Right On on Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished · · Score: 1

    [George Washington]'s a criminal.

    Correct.

  19. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the definition of 'well-nourished' be someone already not deficient in anything in a multi-vitamin?

  20. Re:red v blue on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    Normally, people embrace beliefs that favour their own self-interest. People who are rich believe in capitalism, people who are poor believe in socialism, and people with nothing believe in communism.

    For all their talk, the US, especially the less educated, subconsciously believe in the Great Chain of Being, the mediaeval notion that people have a divinely ordained place in a social hierarchy. Since God choose the rich to be rich, and the poor to be poor, it is God's will that the rich steal from the poor, and the poor are expected to be grateful when it happens to them.

  21. Re:It started with a good idea on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with believing that - ignorance can be fixed with education.

    But 99% of the people who say that know perfectly well that it's untrue.

  22. Re: The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    Men are not happy. They are forced to settle because with rare exceptions women have more bargaining power than men.

  23. It started with a good idea on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 2

    Once upon a time, there was a distinction made between:

    "The Holocaust was a good idea"

    which is abhorrent but is opinion protected under free speech, and:

    "The Holocaust is a hoax"

    which is a fraudulent statement of fact which is almost never said out of genuine ignorance, but with a malicious and anti-social - i.e. criminal - intent.

    Society has a duty to respond to the latter. The only catch is that there is almost never proof of hateful intent sufficient for a court of law.

    Sadly, anti-hate laws degenerated into yet another way for weak-willed politicians to create unequal rights for a particular identifiable minority.

  24. Re:Bingo. on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    Hilarious despite being accurate.

  25. Re:Then Fire Him on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Close. The freedoms they hate Americans for are the freedoms Americans think are theirs and no-one else's.