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  1. Re:you what? on Game of Thrones: Bush's Head Gets a Makeover · · Score: 1

    ...then there was the stimulus package, a mostly stupid squandering of money but considering the economy was in free fall it probably had to be done in some form... um if you ignore Keynesian economics it would be "mostly stupid" but from two historic events it seems to be at least mostly true vs. the Laffer curve which has been shown repeatedly to be totally wrong.

    Per Wikipedia, "The costs of the War on Terror are often contested, as academics and critics of the component wars (including the Iraq War) have unearthed many hidden costs not represented in official estimates. The most recent major report on these costs come from Brown University in the form of the Costs of War project,[1] which said the total for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is at least $3.2-4 trillion"

    Per the Washington Post the total cost of the tax cuts is about 1,360,704,419,439 or 1.36 trillion.

    Per the Washington Post as well the cost of the stimulus was about 1.-1.7 trillion,

  2. Re:I'm done with spendy, top of the line cards on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 1
  3. Re:I'm done with spendy, top of the line cards on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 1

    I used a heat gun just on the GPU chip. The oven trick is a little scarier to me. Also you might even be able to find a lab to do it for real. I had an iPhone that the solder for the battery was damaged and they were able to repair it.

  4. Re:I'm done with spendy, top of the line cards on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 2

    You might try heating them in the oven to reflux the solder. It worked from my D820 laptop motherboard.

  5. Re:Had this gameplay as a kid on Leaked Document Hints At Augmented Reality Glasses For Future Xbox · · Score: 1

    Booya

  6. Re:why do you think he's building ICBMs? on Elon Musk Shows off the Dragon Capsule, Back From Space (Video) · · Score: 1

    What, what, what? Maybe by name alone but Branson looks like a Bond villain, lives like a Bond villain (private freaking island and a space port), is well um, British. Plus all this over the top shit is just a ruse clearly he is real name is Dr. Virgin, a respectable villain name for sure. Elon Musk looks like the guy from accounting. He's only a villian to Detroit and anyone who has sunk more than 5 billion into launch vehicles that SeaLaunch made obsolete and SpaceX made laughable. Also the fact that he went totally broke pursuing two impossible dreams simultaneously shows that he is not nearly evil enough to be a Bond villain, he could have extorted a few billion out of someone during that time.

    So who would Branson's Jaws be? I vote Rebecca Brooks head transplanted onto a big red robot and instead of a cat a shriveled clone of Rupert Murdoch that maintains her subservience to him.
    Musk I would go with Neil Degrasse Tyson with taser gloves and a penchant for whispering something like "The speed of light will dictate, YOUR DEATH!"

  7. Re:The relevance of the SS2 comment escapes me on Elon Musk Shows off the Dragon Capsule, Back From Space (Video) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the Popular Mechanics article about building a Scale Composites White Knight larger than the Spruce Goose to carry a SapceX rocket to 50K for launch?

  8. Re:Choice B it is on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Why?

  9. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    He does not conflate exponential and and standard growth. He spends most of his time bemoaning that people are math illiterate and have no idea what growth means. All growth results in doubling. The time of doubling changes with rate based on a simple equation. What they fuck are you talking about here?

  10. Re:Yeah on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    I bet you're underwater on your mortgage and that's why you accept checks from Exxon to shill.

  11. Re:Choice B it is on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    He said Europe not PIGS. I am sure you know the rich industrious north subsidizes the dixiecrats right?

  12. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bullshit. Food and water are it. Who cares about uranium when you are starving to death? The reality is that all our food is currently produced by using fossil fuels which Hubbard's curve indicates are either past their peak or approaching it rapidly. His math for the US was spot on and the best predictor of future performance is past performance. Watch "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" by Al Bartlett. Your estimates do not account for growth. Also watch or listen to David Suzuki's talk about growth and resources; anything that grows will double, anything that grows will exhaust its resources, even if we could quantumly duplicate earth twice one more doubling and the second earth is exhausted, the second doubling and all four are exhausted. You have no fucking idea what you are talking about and are not the least bit insightful. The argument that past scientists were wrong about the date is in fact a straw man argument and not deserving of any consideration. Math is the master here and she is an unforgiving mistress.

  13. Re:I believe... on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.

    Reality is totally subjective, take 30mg/Kg. of I.V. DMT for proof.

  14. Re:The reason Christianity has this problem. on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    But if G-d is omnipresent (past, present and future as well as space) and all powerful that why didn't the created world have built in tolerances for later chaotic/complex actions. If the watchmaker knew that the fall would occur it would be easy for an all powerful being to build in an engineering solution to these problems.

    P.s. Best rule in the bible is that if someone comes to ass rape an Angel that is being sheltered in your house offer you daughter to be raped instead.

  15. Re:The reason Christianity has this problem. on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Citation?

    Can we change "Anonymous Coward" to "Illiterate Coward"?

  16. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    By new religion. If it would take most of the mass of the universe being devoted to storage to quantum teleport a human around I think the universe is the computer that allows god to me omni-present. Boom! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it non f34norians!

  17. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    No he is saying the Tao that can be named is not the real and eternal Tao. If you can name the infinite it is by definition no longer infinite.
    Taoism is a relgion founded on binary, trigrams, cellular automata, fractals, paradox, super position, and nothingness. From nothing came the one, from the one came the two, from the two came the three, from the three came the thousand myriad things. From nothing came -god- from -god- came the binary nature of the universe, valence/nucleus, space/matter, light/dark & ying/yang etc. The three are binary trigrams that function as mathematical seeds for rules based systems, and from rules and initial conditions everything can be created. *see "A New Kind of Science" by Wolfram; not new by any means but pretty cool.

  18. Re:Some have a more nuanced view on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Bullshit you are still giving it a lot more credit than its due. The Bible is one culture's bronze age take on what G-d might have done that has been re-purposed, re-translated, and politicized for 2000 years. The Bible also says "We know in part and we prophesy in part but when that which is perfect is come that which is in part shall be done away." So at least on contributor knew that it was a load of navel gazing to begin with and you shouldn't be a zealot and think that every word is a perfectly crafted memetic virus that forms a divine understanding when planted in every mind on the planet. The people who ran the main religion based on the book wouldn't even let the sheeple get a good look at it for over a thousand years. The Bible is just a a set of stories written by people to explain the shit that confused them and to help them tell other people what to do.

  19. Re:in other words, 46% of americans are dumb on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Math illiterate... 50% of people are dumb, or at the least dumber than average by definition, though as for that dumb means unable to speak so in fact 50% of American's are stupider than average. The real bitch is if we rounded up all the below average and put them in wood chippers 50% of the remaining people would still be stupider than average.

  20. Re:$299.00 on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    The majority of the parts are on one chip, discuss.

  21. Re:$299.00 on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Yeah because if your OS can't run on 2012 CPU you really know how to optimize. Fucking shill. Like 24 fucking doublings ain't enough.

  22. $299.00 on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Lenvo B575 with a AMD APU. Does everything I want, cheap enough to throw it out the window if it doesn't.

  23. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    I'd brutally edit out the shit of which there will be a lot and put the rest in a snapfish like book. I did this for my wife for our newborn and it was a hit. I only did it because I had a best buy coupon that was about to expire and I wanted to get laid as soon as possible. An over abundance of pictures just devalues them and a book add an even greater weight.

    Seriously get rid of the bad pictures they have less than no value as they make it harder to deal with the good ones.

  24. Question on Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory · · Score: 1

    How does it compete with IBM's racetrack memory for speed and durability?

  25. Just fucking buy them out on Sony Put Video Service on Hold Due to Comcast Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Comcast has 22.8 million subscribers. They have a market cap of 87 billion. So that is $3815 dollars per household, Spread over 2 years that is $158.00 probably exactly what you are paying right now. Just fucking buy the assholes out. Fire all the executives and turn it into a coop.