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  1. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, you need to haul back your slobbering, drooling politicians and CNN. I have a file of fraudulent rhetoric that is shameful and manipulative.

    The capstone was a CNN article that screamed in the headline, " Global warming will be like the tsunami!", this being right after the Indian ocean one, with all the horriffic videon. About 2/3 the way down, they pointed out they meant up to a 30-foot sea rise ovet 100-300 years, not a sudden catastrophe.

    By the way, we can **less** imagine the science in 100 years than people in 1914 could today's, much less the people of 1714. We are foolish and quality of life will be best served by continuing economic development apace. How stupid our ancestors would habe been in 1900 to put brakes on development and present us a clean air world in 2014 with, maybe, 1970-level tech.
    Thanks for nothing. cNet effect: many more megadeath, not less, and lower quality of life, not better.

  2. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 1

    It's long been suggested a fraction ot the trillions spent on the war on terror, spent on medical research, would save far more lives. Even allowing for the occasional nuke.

    That will no more make it past politics than the FDA's slowing effect, resulting in deaths needlessly, no doubt also vastly outweighing deaths from rushed drugs, as it is a cumulative, compounding effect, whereas rushed drug deaths are just linear constant.

    You are all chimpanzees, full of sound and fury. Even the nominally bright ones.

  3. Re:Level the playing field on How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School System? · · Score: 2

    Here's your damned science, pal: Family emphasis on scholastics massively outweighs dollars per pupil, teacher quality, classroom size, or fancy new fads from ancient phonics thru tablets-4-all in student success.

    Both sides here are arguing fraudulently by assuming this will, or will not, have a big impact. Or cancelling it and bringing the money back into regular public schools.

  4. Unless Pyhon has changed recently. on Regex Golf, xkcd, and Peter Norvig · · Score: 1

    Python code? I would expect Perl or similar if parsing was your emphasis, or Lisp or some AI language if AI was your emphasis, but not a standard block-structured language.

  5. Re:Here we go again... on Google Confirms Shut Down of Schemer · · Score: 0

    They are a troll. It is proper to complain when a service you, apparently, foolishly accepted at face value from a giant company, is shut down leaving you hanging.

    Your thesis is to derogate people for getting upset at something they have every right to get upset over. Is this a junior high cafeteria?

  6. Re:They foraged for 2-3 hours per day on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    57 million people died during WWII, yet the Earth finished it with 20 million more people than it started with.

  7. Re:Summary (and article's first paragraph) mislead on Lasers Unearth Lost 'Agropolis' of New England · · Score: 5, Funny

    Attention Rest Of World, we in the US consider stuff from the 1800s not only old, but akin to ancient ruins.

    Vizitez u our museums with art from the Olde Masters like Norman Rockwell and Robert Crumb.

  8. Re:It kind of makes me sad... on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 2

    Kind of butt-ironic then they often aped capitalist rewards by giving housing upgrades and other goodies to scientists who made a mark on the world stage, much like Olympic athletes.

    They are dancing people, singing for their supper for dictators who have artificially restricted the market for maximum control...of political opponents.

  9. Re:Its about the bus stops ... on Google Co-Opts Whale-Watching Boat To Ferry Employees · · Score: 1

    And so people protest? Ahahahahahahah, sorry, Jeebus take the wheel.

    Google should charge to delay and time city-owned busses so as to even things out and prevent bunching.

  10. Re:Citation Needed on Google Co-Opts Whale-Watching Boat To Ferry Employees · · Score: 1

    I'm sure rent control, impacting the investment to build more apartments, and environmental studies, raising general building costs, and probably plenty of NIMBY snottiness with building approval boards has nothing to do with it.

  11. Re:Why not just fill the mine? on How Do You Move a City? · · Score: 1

    It provides many jobs -- it's silly to throw all costs onto the profit sliver when general taxes comes off all of the mine's economic power, of whom everyone, especially the workers, are benefitting.

    But it doesn't make for good class warfare rhetoric.

  12. We did it! on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you were successful. If it isn't broke, hundreds of thousands of installations don't want to fix it.

  13. Heheheh, gross on CES 2014: Now You Can Make 360 Degree Videos With a Single Camera (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well, Geonaut, 360-degree camera, may be the first consumer electronic not driven by porn -- who he hell wants to see a bunch of fat film crew on the other side of the room with bulges in their pants?

  14. Poorly-designed VR on People Become More Utilitarian When They Face Moral Dilemmas In Virtual Reality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Become more utilitarian", i.e. they choose to save more lives, which is already at 88% in a non-VR, simple textual scenario like the trolly switch issue.

    This is odd, because in most scenarios of VR, people seem to want to throw a switch to deliberately divert a trolly from one person to kill 5 instead, as long as they have a chat line where they can type "lolf49z!"

  15. Re:And thus ends Yelp. on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Yelp was always full of shit, as were online download things like download.com reviews.

    Even ignoring rampant review fraud, positive and negative, people are far more likely to bitch over problems than praise, letting a few percent of unhappy establish "terrible service" as the review norm.

    In this case, the judge was satisfied with evidence the reviews were fake (a different point to argue), and protection does not apply as in any other case offline.

  16. Re:can it explain... on Algorithm Aims To Predict Fiction Bestsellers · · Score: 1

    Well, porn can't follow that formula because it *must* save its "all is lost moment" for the final seconds.

  17. Re:Stagnation on Algorithm Aims To Predict Fiction Bestsellers · · Score: 1

    Protip for your algorithm:

    Human beings often identify other human beings by their association with yet other human beings.

    You mean tip for nerds.

  18. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    The value is not stable, currently, with respect to exchange with real-world currency. But if things are bought directly with it...

  19. Re:never gonna happen on New Oculus Rift Prototype Features Head Tracking, Reduced Motion Blur, HD AMOLED · · Score: 1

    If nausea is, at lelalst partly, due to not actually accelerating up and down as you move around, it may ne insurmountable.

  20. Re:Who died and made Obama god? on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    One would think the US would have had micromanagement of war, with the real intent of controlling PR, beaten out of it in Vietnam. Oh, let's not bomb Hanoi or supply trails in Laos. Let's have extra US soldiers die instead.

    But one would also think the US would have similarly learned you need hundreds of thousands of troops to do this, with 40,000+ for decades afterwards.

    Oh, look. Cities in Iraq are falling. Any guesses how long until Saigon, I mean Ho Chi Min City, I mean Baghdad falls?

  21. Re:Fancy that... on The $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb · · Score: 1

    > Don't worry, big pharma will lobby for and get regulations against anything so convenient and affordable.

    When a similar article first got posted about this a few months back, I sarcastically suggested he be thrown in jail for not getting permission for human experiments. I got downmodded, no doubt by people who love the combination of having an FDA and deliberately looking the other way in warm-and-fuzzy cases like this.

    I guess it's how you phrase it.

  22. Re:The researchers suspect that... on World's Oldest Decimal Multiplication Table Discovered · · Score: 1

    Way back then, government was just the local warlord who had slaughtered everyone around into submission, and then demanded a cut, which he called "taxes". This continues in many countries to this day.

    Inventing memes that make you feel all warm and fuzzy towards that warlord, as he teaches you you should be grateful to this, was an invention thousands of years in the future.

  23. Re:Instagram didn't replace Kodak on The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class · · Score: 1

    You need to put it in the larger context of how much can the average person buy. These new "lower-er-er" class people can now afford many, many, many times more pictures than they could as higher-pay Kodak employees.

    Same goes for moving manufacturing overseas, to say nothing of massively increasing the quality of life in those other nations.

    Leave the world of hot air politics and look at actual, real measures of quality and length of life.

  24. Re:Also, on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 2

    "I'm not voting for war -- just give Hitler what he wants and cross our fingers!"

  25. Re:Clever? on AT&T Introduces "Sponsored Data" Allowing Services to Bypass 4G Data Caps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is anti-net neutrality under a different name. The throttle mechanism is supra-data cap charges instead of literal throttling.