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  1. Vast amounts of money... on Congress' Gulf Oil Spill Response Given a 'D' By Commissioners · · Score: 1

    ...or not.

    "any fines that BP pays"

    I remain sceptical as to the paying part.

  2. Re:Very brief summary on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    The military does have the ability to spend $80 billion and fundamentally change our existence as we know it.

    Just not in a good way.

  3. The Big Disconnect on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    I still get a (tragic) laugh at this because the religious zealots opposing evolution don't even know which theory they're objecting to.

    Darwin's theory was the evolution of species by natural selection.

    We call it 'evolution' for short, but the actual theory part was the connecting of evolution, which was the concrete observation, with natural selection, which is a mathematical principle.

    Considering that 'God' isn't actually a paranormal being with human insecurities and a variety of mental health issues, but simply a metaphor for the forces of nature/the human community, you'd think they'd just decide call God a metaphor for mathematics as well and then we could all move on.

  4. Unfortunate name on Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site? · · Score: 1

    No matter how many times I see it, my first thought on seeing "DOS attack" is that a virus downloaded MS-DOS onto a computer.

    Which would almost be the worst thing to happen to a computer.

  5. Re:Why it will never happen. on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    In a sense, they are are saying that the world *will* respond to supply and demand.

    It's just not very pleasant when that translates into a contraction of the human population.

  6. Re:Where is it ? (my keys) on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, you moved, and the teens *still* managed to find you and get their hands on the remote?

  7. Re:Back to the Future on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    Doesn't 3x = x imply x = 0?

  8. Re:Bad news for religious types on Humans Are Nicer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    "God" is just a fancy metaphor for the forces of nature, so actually they've been talking about evolution by natural selection all along.

  9. Re:It's a tad old, but on Humans Are Nicer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    But gladiators were slaves, convicted criminals, or religious dissidents. In other words, by the standards of the time, they were not real people in the first place, just really authentic-looking theatre props.

  10. Re:Bottom line: never cooperate with the authoriti on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 1

    The English (including Wales) court system is where right to not say anything actually started.

  11. Re:America on Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? · · Score: 1

    All flowering plants are hermaphrodites. Self-pollenization is an unrelated issue.

  12. Re:From my understanding... on Mysterious Dark Matter Blob Confounds Experts · · Score: 1

    No, you're thinking of the scriptwriters of Star Trek Voyager.

  13. Re:"Consumer" Preview on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    "Customer" implies a voluntary relationship whereas "consumer" is anyone using the product or service, voluntarily or otherwise.

    But I'm sure it's not that....

  14. Cost effective on North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities · · Score: 1

    It's a long shot, but the price is cheap compared to wars.

  15. Re:This is currently an issue. on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    Mulroney collaborated with the separatists to sell out Canada, then double-crossed the separatists to sell us out to the Americans instead. Harper will never compete with that no matter how hard he tries.

  16. Re:Public Employees on NYC To Release Teacher Evaluation Data Over Union Protests · · Score: 1

    then they should work on changing the methods - not hiding the information.

    I can't understand why this point is constantly overlooked. Stakeholders - parents, politicians, taxpayers - need to know whether or not teachers and schools are effective at their jobs.

    Measuring that is not easy. Tough - life is full of things that are not easy. It still has to get done.

    This is where unions create public relations disasters for themselves. It never even occurs to them why they care about job performance or even why they might want to pretend to.

  17. One big lifestyle change on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's worth pointing out that with the high infant mortality before about 200 years ago, there were a lot more new-born babies around.

  18. Duh... on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 1

    Reducing size is one thing, degenerating down to nothing makes no sense. Sexual reproduction is still going strong after 500 or 600 million years.

    I reminded of the "prediction" that Pluto, will all the downward recalculations of its mass since its discovery, would end up with negative mass and negative volume by mid 21st century.

  19. Re:If this guy ever got in it would truly show ... on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    It's not a secret. The rest of the planet just isn't able to do anything about it.

  20. Re:So says the religious guy. on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    The Bible is metaphorical.

  21. The easy explanation on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    Some people are not at all confused about these issues. They're just lying.

  22. Don't assume malice.... on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    Harper lacks the imagination to be a wannabe tyrant. He's just copying what the US does. He hasn't exactly disguised the fact that imitating whatever the US does, no matter how stupid, is the only political belief he actually has.

  23. Re:To stop child pornographers and organized crime on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    That's not called voting. That's called treason.

  24. Re:The Hungarian Notation/System Notation Fail on Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide · · Score: 1

    Hungarian notation made sense in the context of its original purpose, which was consistent naming in code that mixed assember and C.

    Of course, it's a horrible brain-damaging handicap everywhere else.

  25. Re:"Picky" and "Unrealistic"? on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 1

    "what women say they want and watching what they actual go after"

    I've learned there's a communication gap here because unlike men, women tend to communicate in context-dependent terms. When they list what the 'want', they are specifically talking about secondary priorities. Their actual priorities aren't mentioned because they're considered given. For example, 'sensitive' doesn't mean a guy who is sensitive by nature, it means the guy who is slightly more sensitive than they guy they're already with or were with most recently (who of course is borderline anti-social). I heard "looks don't matter" which turned out to mean "any kind of look as long as it's in the top 1%".