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  1. concluding with a question on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 2

    Why can't a conclusion be phrased as a statement instead of as a rhetorical question?

  2. Re:Its a shame. on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 1

    "they could invest their money in a means of production and then sell that product"

    If that product were sold at voluntary market rates, and its means of production were not grossly subsidized, all the more power to them. (Neither would be true around here in the great white up.)

  3. Re:I donâ(TM)t suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    Well put, thanks lgw.

  4. Re:I donâ(TM)t suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    "But the reality of a police state include mass graves ..."

    We're witnessing baby steps...

  5. Re:It's NOT going to happen on Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They aren't customers if they're forced to buy.

  6. Re:I donâ(TM)t suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If one can expect a SWAT raid for exercising one's freedoms, the exact details of the oppression are insignificant.

  7. Re:Moron on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1
  8. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    "they are making unsterilized withdrawals of money from the system"

    As the governments are still running deficits, this type of withdrawal could be called a net deposit.

  9. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    .... because there has never been a road not made by government, or cheating prevented by someone other than it.

  10. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 2

    "unsterilized" new money is purely inflationary, and thus takes money/value from the citizenry at large.

  11. Re:Reactor 4 has *unspent* fuel rods on Fukushima Nuclear Worker Accidentally Toggles Off Cooling Pumps · · Score: 1

    Perchance such a valve could be plumbed to a facility more radiation-tolerant than the general atmosphere.

  12. Re:Reactor 4 has *unspent* fuel rods on Fukushima Nuclear Worker Accidentally Toggles Off Cooling Pumps · · Score: 1

    Not that I know anything, but there exist valves and such to relieve excess pressure from enclosed spaces. Just the fact that a reactorful of fuel is sitting almost in the open - and has been there for two years - boggles this little mind here. No wonder they're reinforcing the concrete structure -now-, but what were the original GE engineers thinking?

  13. Reactor 4 has *unspent* fuel rods on Fukushima Nuclear Worker Accidentally Toggles Off Cooling Pumps · · Score: 1

    Remember, those were removed from reactor 4 for maintenance, sometime before the tsunami. That's a full reactor worth of live & hot fuel rods, in an open pool. Pretty crazy.

  14. Re:That's incredibly creepy on Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    OTOH, a terribly degrading thing doesn't have to be called rape.

  15. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    "As nearly being killed by a txt'ing driver myself," ... by someone stopped at a red light?

  16. Marketing was not the problem on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    "If so, the marketing must be better than the Volt's. Otherwise, it won't matter how good the car is."

    That's like asking the president to give a New Glorious Speech to fix a deep problem. No, the problem has not been marketing - it has been mainly the cost (both to the purchaser and the subsidizing taxpayer), and to some extent performance (size, garages on fire).

  17. Re:proving parent right... on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    ... and the same goes for firearms. Go to a gun show, ask about altering firearms to make them fully auto. If anyone answers, arrest them: old BATF trick apparently.

  18. Re:Right... on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    OK. When it comes to what some people complain about; or discuss whether Zimmerman could have had a "stand your ground hearing" before the trial, they're referring to other sections. The ambiguity/error is politically useful sometimes.

  19. Re:Right... on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    "included the specific language of the law"

    Regarding stand-your-ground? No, just that term was mentioned in passing, with no explanation as to how it fails to relate to the case.

    See also:
    http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/floridas-self-defense-immunity-law-how-it-really-works/

  20. Re:Right... on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    "... except with the judge who used SYG language ..."

    It wasn't her place to raise that issue at all; it's a possible defense pre-trial motion. It's almost as though she wanted to get some noise into the record.

  21. Re:Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Well put, AC.

  22. Re:Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 3, Funny

    Plus the bonus for both-cooperating is purely hypothetical.

  23. Re:Need Light For Security on Why We Need to Keep Our Night Skies Dark (Video) · · Score: 2

    Even light that is laser-focused toward the ground tends to bounce back up from the gray concrete. Take a night flight at your nearby general aviation airport and look down. You'll see few lights directly, and large swaths of glowy orange.

  24. Re:Two peas in a pod on Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    " there are scientists considering "

    A reference to an expert scientist would have been helpful.

  25. Re:Gamification must die on How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World · · Score: 1

    "That they've both given TED Talks doesn't impress me"

    Likewise, since before Onion's parodies were so close to the real thing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEzMNp2d6Bk&list=PL4NL9i-Fu15hhYGB-d0hmSWD1fcIvLvn1