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  1. Re:That's not a bomb, it's a clock! on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    Sure...if he were darker than a very mild peach.
    ex. Black kid in park with bb gun, clearly marked. Shot dead.
    Black man buying a b.b. gun. Shot dead.
    White man on Capitol parkland with REAL assault rifle, asked for I.D..
    I will say, this is an education.
    Now he knows that his life is not valued at all, that white people WILL place his life in danger for nothing but their own ignorance.
    Sounds like a fine way to create a Jihadi!

  2. The basis of business is... on A More Down-To-Earth Way To Bring the Internet To the Rest of the World · · Score: 1

    H..Who benefits by wired connections?
    the two monopolists, of course
    Why have nonsense claims about point-point wiring "superiority" save to protect the monopolies?
    But this is Capitalism, never forget that.
    And the whole POINT of Capitalism is establishing and protecting monopolists
    otherwise the dynastic inheritance based wealth class might find their gains shrinking.

  3. Re:Taxing the rich on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Speculation is indeed charged at cap gains rate.
    What do you think Carry Forward is all about?

  4. Re:Taxing the rich on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 0

    A 10K deduction would be 20% of 50,000 per year of INVESTMENT income, thus, only the top 10% would benefit fully, and the majority not at all.
    Nope, wrong direction again. Reward WORK, investments like education. Terminate all gains from speculation. This is the path to full employment, and it will never happen while the financial services sector commands 70% of the gains of the stock markets.

  5. Re:Theory on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Sorry, this isn't a Faux 'news' Rassmussen poll

  6. Re:Some comments on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 2

    O.K., show me what DOD has done IN BATTLE in the last 20 years that was not about, as Dick Cheney said in his Open Letter to Bill Clinton in 1999 "....protect the soldiers we will place in the area...and a significant portion of the world's oil". i.e. kill Saddam to make the price of oil more compatable with maximum income for the owners of oil stocks such as Dick Cheney
    Lots of luck

  7. Re:So much patting on the back on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    No Human Beings are aborted coward

  8. Re:Some comments on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    We're already giving hundreds of billions to MAKE human caused global climate warming.
    It's called the Department of Defense, and it's single task is conquering oil rich nations and protecting the price of oil

  9. Re:Theory... on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    When they do not agree, let them step into Peer Review in the appropriate fora and prove their case...or let them be forever silent!

  10. Re:Theory... on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Catch up with the rest of civilization??? How? By forcing people to agree with 'Science'?

    Yes.
    Or more precisely, your group of uneducated worshippers have declared science is incorrect, yet refuse to publish your critiques in peer reviewed formal academic journals, where science is debated among those capable of understanding the arguments
    Thus, having refused to place your objections on the record, and allow them to be subject to peer review by the competent, you have surrendered the field to those who know and thus, it is time to end the charade
    You have nothing, and no place left to sell your propaganda.

  11. O.K, this is it, the apochalpyse is finally here on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It must be time to die

  12. Re:Theory on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    ... Next thing you know they'll recognize that many people outside the repressed grumpy old white guy demographic hold conservative fiscal views and stop pushing them away.

    No, they won't, because majorities of all the rest of the culture (71% in the recent round of polling by NBC/Gallup) support LIBERAL positions on taxation of the rich and proper distribution of the gains of labor

  13. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    Lie. he coordinated the crime of Conspiracy

  14. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    DID YOU READ?
    RETROACTIVELY CLASSIFIED!
    means she committed no crime at all.
    Another desperate attempt to stop the inevitable.
    As for State failing to let the Pentagon classify EVERYTHING, I think we understand the divergent needs to support the different missions.

  15. Re:By Neruos on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 1

    Spread solar, or die.

  16. Just Republicans playing tricks again on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 1

    Hansen made the Koch brother's King Coal game impossible.
    Republicans were bought and sold by them and demand an end to Global Warming Research, lest it harm the .0001% by the name of Koch.
    A little education would prevent these kinds of 'rebranding' of the actual news
    Salon with the skinny on defunding NASA climate science

  17. All this means is OPPORTUNITY for Chinese spies on The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    whose government will now mandate a successful encryption that even THEY can't break....except they can.
    Push the clients out of U.S. markets for phones and services
    THAT will help!

  18. Re:They do what they're paid to do... on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    There is no outrage, save by the professional agitators for more unregulated monopolies
    How is that de-regulated trucking industry doing? High turnover, low pay, multiple occupational diseases? you don't say.
    "The only thing worse than a regulated monopoly is an UNregulated monopoly" Ralph Nader.

  19. Re:SpaceX and India? on DARPA's ALASA Could Pave Way For Cheaper, Faster Satellite Launches · · Score: 1

    As the several efforts at Trucking, Air Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial services deregulation shows
    What you get from privatization is higher costs for all but the most profitable segment of the business, monopolism and eventual fraud, deceit and theft.
    When there is no hound, the fox will have chicken dinner every night

  20. Re:let me put it this way on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    And the net Delta V from earth will still be no greater, either nuclear thermal or chemical fuel. See? just that simple

  21. Re:that's for a ballistic projectile on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    As for that claim, I refer you to a Grade School web site...so you will stop embarrassing yourself.
    exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rktpow.html
    And THAT is for an ideal rocket, which can never happen
    Don't forget the weight of the shielding, cooling system and waste heat radiator

  22. Re:In the never ending struggle between hope on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    I compare exhaust velocity (temperature or equivalent) with final velocity, see Tsiolkovski equation
    http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rktpow.html
    for a GRADE SCHOOL EDUCATION you clearly need.
    See that "exhaust velocity" figure? Exhaust velocity IS (linearly related to)temperature!

  23. Re:"without mechanical contact" on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Not without an electric generator, a cooling tower, a huge thermoelectric array and about 250,000 excess lbs...which will competely nullify any advantage over chemical rockets. And let's not forget that 62% wasted heat!

  24. In the never ending struggle between hope on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    and reality, hope wins the money run every time
    There will never be a nuclear thermal engine with an exhaust velocity higher than the melting point of the nozzle materials used (circa 3800 F) and thus, not one single iota of longer range flight for a given rocket size.
    What's available for non-electrical accelerators is thermal velocity exhaust which most of us know means a maximum final Delta V from source of circa 58,000 ft/sec and that won't even get us to Jupiter in a lifetime (baring gravitational slingshots, an entirely different issue)
    And electrical conversion of thermal energies are losers, with a minimum of 50% of the energy lost as radiant heat (Thanks Carnow).
    So, nothing good here. Unless you can fission and confine the daughter products without mechanical contact (think gas fission at plasma temperatures) you will not go any faster than a chemical rocket would move you over a trans-martian orbit.

  25. Re:Edjumacashun in the U.S.S.A on The NSA Is Viewed Favorably By Most Young People · · Score: 1

    Bluntly, the more statist the nation becomes, the more intelligence the nation displays. China before Mao? Stateless and ignorant. Now? Running the world
    The Soviet Union? Before Lenin and Trotsky, feudal, ignorant and helpless. During Stalin, absolute victory over the Hitlerian war-state.
    In the end, only the organized nation-state can move out of the stone age.