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  1. Re: No chance on Why Japan Is Facing Pressure To Return To Military Research (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    We asked leading candidates what they would do. Hilary Clinton- We, would, um, do something. Yes, we definitely wou-hack, hack, cough, cough fix my email account, sorry you are getting spammed by it. Bernie Sanders- The Glorious People's Socialist Republic has every right to invade the evil capitalistic rich Japanese, with their unfairly good healthcare. Donald Trump- Chinese are small, everyone waggle their ears, chant "nah-nah" at China and make rude gestures to the west. Ted Cruz- Nukes! Nukes! And then carpet bombing! And then, carpet bombing with NUKES!!! Kasich- Well, I think , umm, we should all be friends, err, but we should kick uh, China (yes, that's the name, slip of the tongue) out of the , well, sea. Or um, something like that. Rubio- What Ted said, just dialed down a bit. Maybe fission, not fusion bombs. And no cobalt warheads.

  2. I don't know, I think a whole lot of superPACs, candidates, and special interests would be very sad. Or happy if you found a different one.

  3. Critical mass on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I wonder when the fossil/nuclear/hydro vs wind/solar ratio will tip us over into regular Brownouts. Wind and solar are not the future, unless you want to have to turn on your less efficient plants every night. Nah, the real future is in nuclear, hydro, and limited fossil fuels (mostly natural gas). Solar will go away after the Federal subsidies end, and wind is more expensive than either alternative anyway.

  4. Nah, it's cheaper to just smelt them down into zinc ingots. It's legal (only illegal to melt down pennies and nickels, if I recall) and having a lot of zinc ingots has an easier explanation. (Ex: So, I was going to buy gold bars for when the Apocalypse happens, but I figure that nobody needs gold, per se, but quite a few people need zinc. At least, that's what the guy I bought them off of said. I met him in a bar.)

  5. Re: The caped crusader on Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case (newsoxy.com) · · Score: 1

    DC Comics #521 THE PIRATE BAY CONQUERS GOTHAM! Will our own Caped Crusader be able to defeat the villainous plans of The Pirate Bay? Purchase to find out!!!! batman_comics_521.torrent DOWNLOAD

  6. So.... on France's Oldest Nuclear Plant To Close This Year (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Better titles "France's power becomes less reliable, more expensive", " France now so ruled by the rest of Europe it can't even stand up to Switzerland", and "French president to lose next election, nuclear power plants to be brought back online".

  7. More like least reliable on Oregon Set To Become First Coal-Free State (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, when it's calm and at night, the streetlights all go out, thus making it an attractive destination for astronomers with big resistors and backup generators.

  8. Re: nice to see the USA catching up on Oregon Set To Become First Coal-Free State (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You aren't counting thorium, the stuff on the Colorado plateau we don't know about because it's a national park/reservation, and what's in space.

  9. Nuclear on Oregon Set To Become First Coal-Free State (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Oregon, but my state (MD) is going to beat you to it if I have anything to say about it. We can do it in ten years for just $15 billion by just building another nuclear power plant.

  10. Re: Even better reason on New Legislation Would Ban US Government From Purchasing Apple Products (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So maybe a safe conlcusion would be this: 1. Government nerds use Linux. 2. Government beaurucrats and management use Windows. 3. Elected and appointed officials all use Apple.

  11. Apple admit it. The government owns the phone in the first place, and the people whose privacy is being violated are dead and evil. Let the government win this one because Apple has no chance of winning it. Pick a different case.

  12. Re: Okay, so it makes some Americans feel bad... on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    I agree- some word problems were absurd and anyone with actual logic would have qaushed them. Example: Q. Ally has a rowboat that costs 10 dollars plus n dollars a month. If Ally paid 200 dollars and Bob rented the boat for 12 months, how much did Charlie pay a month for his rowboat? A. Sorry but your question is illogical, and I can't say how much Charlie pays because of inadequate information. Grade. 0, did not comprehend question. This, gentlemen, is how math educators teach in America today.

  13. Algebra is good on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    First of all: Relavant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1050/ Second: The reason math is so crucial is not because many of us use abstract math in daily life but that it is such a good determinator of other skills. If you are bad at math you are probably bad at CS and engineering as well. It is in fact a basic skill, and a crucial part of a good education for any person in what they call STEM. And where if matters, college, you don't have to take math if you don't want to. Getting rid of Algebra II is good though, Trig/Elementary Caculus should be the high school standard. Taking Algebra II recently gained me nothing anyway.

  14. Re: Kind of missing the bigger picture on Mindfulness Meditators Are Less Affected By Virtual Reality (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 1

    Or alternatively reading The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, with the added advantage of sadness immunity.

  15. Re: Watts per gram? on MIT Develops Ultra Thin, Light Weight, Efficient Solar Cells (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops, I think I accidently copied your comment. Was thinking the exact same thing, apparently. Sorry.

  16. Re: How damage resistant is it? on MIT Develops Ultra Thin, Light Weight, Efficient Solar Cells (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Watts per square inch is more important. If I have a ultrathin solar panel and it gets that many grams/watt it probably takes a huge surface area to get that power.

  17. Re: In North Korea Moon Landing was in 2012 on South Korea Plans Moon Landing By 2020 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    In capitalist America moon shine on leader. In communist Russia, leader shine on moon!!!

  18. Nitrous on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    I'm more worried about how much NO/NO2 they are putting out than CO2. Carbon dioxide is mostly harmless, but nitrous is dangerous.

  19. This could make one great energy drink if you have a bottling plant- 5 eon energy! Warmer and more energetic than normal water! Hey- it worked in the 1910s-20s, so why not the 2010s-20s?

  20. 80% higher than a tiny amount is still tiny. And radiation is a lot safer than you would think.

  21. Nah, my plan is to replace the batteries with nuclear ones (or for that matter a full pile.) A few million MPG sounds good to me.

  22. Re: Equivalent to 500000 cars over what time perio on Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Although considering the cost of natural gas the loss is in the tens/hundreds of thousands instead of millions it is still a loss.

  23. Re: Equivalent to 500000 cars over what time perio on Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a skeptic. Of everybody in the climate change debate. As soon as either side's models come to pass, wake me up and I'll gladly listen.

  24. Re: No. That is not the strategy on Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma · · Score: 1

    It is less that the Republican has slim chances of winning than WHICH Republican. If Hilary wins the Democratic Primaries than almost all Republicans poll ahead of her. (Except trump.) But if he throws his support behind any one candidate and that one doesn't win, then he got almost nothing out of the election.

  25. Re: Confused?? on Windows 10 Now Showing Full Screen Ads On Lock Screen (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated. We will add your license keys to our own, and your PC will adapt to service us. Windows 10, lead project manager