Slashdot Mirror


User: crimson+tsunami

crimson+tsunami's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
519
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 519

  1. Re:Gotta hand it to him... on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 2

    Well it's a good thing they finally closed the barn door, now that all the horses are running free.

  2. Re:As someone who... on Google To Close Its American Moto X Factory · · Score: 1

    It's not the cost of the fuel. unleaded is ~35% cheaper in the US and diesel ~25% cheaper compared to China.

  3. Re:Lie to the boss on Why Snowden Did Right · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but the boss of your government is money.

  4. Re:USA, the land of freedom on Why Lavabit Shut Down · · Score: 2

    You don't think that would have happened if your government was just a little more competent, and maybe noticed what Snowden was doing, or had managed to catch him when he did a runner?

  5. Re:Sorry on ANTVR - China's Answer To Oculus Rift Is Raising Funds · · Score: 1

    I'll see your made up number.... and raise you an NSA.

  6. Re:Vs the NSA on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 1

    Even more likely, it will be these people http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

  7. Re:Repeatable as Fuck on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    What happened? Show me on the dolly where the Koala touched you.

  8. Re:Driving analogy on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    Where did anyone say town2 was a goal and not just a random destination that 2 creatures happened to arrive at independently and looking superficially similar to each other?

  9. Re:determinism is for cowardly philosophers... on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    Easy, they don't waste any of it on thinking.

  10. Re:Seems somewhat predictable ... on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    There is a simple way to test it. Do the experiment, grow many generations of something, (bacteria would be helpful here) in 2 or more separate locations and check at the end if they are the same or not.
    I'm sure this has already been done, and I'm quite sure they would be different, and yes I'm too lazy to check.

  11. Re:Driving analogy on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were thinking more along the lines of the trip being the evolution, and the stops being the mutations. In the end both creatures (town2) are quite similar. But one has a closer knit family and a smaller brain,as he takes better care of its offspring but watches too many dvd's. And the other is smarter because of all the reading.

  12. Laws or not? on Al Franken Says FCC Proposed Rules Are "The Opposite of Net Neutrality" · · Score: 1

    So a law is a law when it comes to being able to vote.
    But when the law says he won the election you changed your mind? Now the law is wrong? which one is it?

  13. Re:Good on them. on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    When it's not your money, and you may still benefit from it in the end.

  14. Re:What American goods would China buy? on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, and hasn't for a few years now. https://www.mapi.net/china-has...

  15. Re:I have to ask why? on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    It was about coal. AC was trying to imply dirty Chinese coal would be used. I was saying at least coal is practical for trains, (via electricity as you so helpfully pointed out). Power cables in the sky for a plane, not so much.

  16. Re:I have to ask why? on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    When the oil is gone, a coal fired train is just a little more practical than a coal fired plane...

  17. Re:Passengers on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    But the hard part is untangling the 400 mile extension cord for the electricity when you get to the other end.

  18. Re:Anniversaries on The Guy Who Unknowingly 'Live-Blogged' the Bin Laden Raid · · Score: 1

    The 'war on terror' is just as rhetorical. It is not now and has never been limited to the perpetrators of 9/11 and their supporters. It is a catch all rhetorical device to do anything to anyone at anytime.

  19. Re:But, but, but⦠autism!!1!11! on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't matter if they did. The idiots wouldn't take them anyway.

  20. Re:Happened 30 Years Ago on ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars · · Score: 1

    Unless the native Martian bacteria out-competed the Viking bacteria which seems pretty likely. Considering the Martian bacteria would have evolved to handle the native Martian conditions much better than some stray earth bacteria would. (Assuming there was any native Martian bacteria of course)

  21. Re:Shocking... on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    Improved sanitation. When there is no fecal matter in your drinking water it really helps to not spread disease of all kinds.

    Nope, just Polio. All the other diseases are doing quite well.

  22. Re:Useful Idiot on Snowden Queries Putin On Live TV Regarding Russian Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    So on the one hand you claim congress has oversight of the NSA and knows everything they do and approves of it.
    But on the other hand, you claim congress would be an ally of Snowden and investigate his concerns without just locking him up and throwing away the key?

  23. Re:Whatabout we demand equal time of our views ins on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    Developing academic knowledge of the variance in protein content of a particular wheat variety doesn't actually feed people.

    Yea teaching a man to fish is pointless. Give him a fish today and tomorrow when he comes back for another fish, start babbling on about jesus while he waits for his fish.

  24. Re:"Creation" on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    Science has lots of unanswered questions, and scientists are questioning and discovering as much as they can to answer those questions, and come up with new questions. Its called progress.
    Religion has lots of unanswered questions, but if anyone asks the question it's always the same answer. God did it. Why? Cause he's mysterious and shit, stop asking so many questions.

  25. Re:Religion... on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Of course you cant reason your way into it. Religion is almost by definition unreasoning nonsense that you are told to just take on faith. Once a mind has developed the ability to reason properly it is completely immune to religion.