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  1. Re:Of course! on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The cultural decline you're describing is attributable to television, or more generally, to an advertising-supported business model for media.

    So, the US has been declining since the 1800's. Got it.

  2. Re:Finally! on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and let's also not forget the WALL. Building a WALL is highly innovative! And COAL. There will be tremendous, highly innovative COAL technology!

    What do you think they're going to build the wall out of?

  3. Re: Finally! on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Brooklyn.

  4. Re: Finally! on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I also wonder how that compares to the number of supposedly intelligent and educated people who complain about people's spelling, when it's a grammar issue.

    Ouch. I'll bet that'll hurt they're feeling.s

  5. Re: Finally! on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not quite a rickroll, but close.

  6. I thank you for the link as I curse you for the link. Now I have added yet another tab to the hundred that I have open, to look at when I quit wasting time on /..

  7. I've never heard of this "Nuna" before.

    Thank you for your participation. Here's a trophy.

  8. You don't believe religious leaders, but you attach "science" and all of the sudden you believe them? Theology has been methodically studied for two millenia longer than geology.

    What predictions has that knowledge allowed humans to make? What in religion is falsifiable? Repeatable?

  9. Re:Things to Consider. (er...The things "I" consid on In the Search for Alien Life, 'Everyone Is an Astrobiologist' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if he has a newsletter that I cna subscribe to.

  10. Re:Things to Consider. (er...The things "I" consid on In the Search for Alien Life, 'Everyone Is an Astrobiologist' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    You cheeky devil.

  11. Re:Things to Consider. (er...The things "I" consid on In the Search for Alien Life, 'Everyone Is an Astrobiologist' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    "As the ancients saw the Sun, so should we. As it IS god."

    Yea verily! Hail Sol Invictus!

  12. Re:Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    A few years ago we tried boot-strapping solar panels in the US. It turned out to be a bust because we couldn't compete with China on costs.

  13. Re:This is why China wins. on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole country is pulling on one rope. It's over the top, of course, but they use the advantages of teamwork, aka being social. With a 1984 vibe.
    Meanwhile, the US has a lizard culture, where it's everyone for himself, and business basically is about who stabs others in the back and takes their things the best. Also with a 1984 vibe, but on the side.

    I'm no fan of either, but teamwork literally made humanity great (among other things like hands, big brains, etc), and superior to anti-social lifeforms. This is still just as true as it always was.

    So they're Grays, and we're Reptilians? Fascinating.

  14. PCM2, I find that many of the replies to your comments all assume that you are "defending your friend". I don't get that impression from your comment, I find it to be an observation. You even titled it PSA and did the m'kay thing at the end. I'm not sure what causes miscommunications of this type.

  15. Read fail. He even ends it with "So don't drink and drive, m'kay?"

  16. Re:Built-in error bars on Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    Either events are preordained and one photon doesn't matter that much, or the world is mechanistic and one photon will change everything.

    Or it's both and you can't tell until you open the box.

  17. Civil Aviation Authority - Norway

    An administrative agency responsible for ensuring safe and efficient operation of civil aviation. Issues regulations, lays down standards for civil aviation activities in Norway, grants licences and operating permits to persons and companies intending to conduct aviation and related activities. Oversees compliance with regulations and conditions.

  18. Re:But the Models Say... on Global Warming Predictions May Now Be a Lot Less Uncertain (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Garbage in, garbage out.

  19. Re:Recycling? on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bury your used shorts! I heard a story saying that farmers are burying their shorts. After a while, they dig them back up again. If they are degraded, the soil is ripe for planting.

  20. Re:If you haven't heard this story... on America's Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back -- And Hypersonic (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have not had the absolute pleasure of hearing this story, please do take a listen.

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/news/a27340/sr-71-speed-check/

    It is five minutes and seven seconds of your life you will be happy you spent on YouTube.

    Outstanding, thank you for this!

    "The King of Speed lived,
    The Navy had been flamed,
    And a crew had been formed"

  21. Re:They're seeing what happens on Days After Hawaii's False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A good way I've found to Occam it is...

    1. Once is happenstance
    2. Twice is coincidence.
    3. Thrice? Now we have a pattern.

    It's similar to music.

    1. One note is a melody.
    2. Two notes are an interval.

    Neither of those are enough to signify the key of the music.

    3. Three notes sets the key.

    Now there's a pattern to work with.

  22. Re:cost on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, good history lesson.

  23. Re:Yet another example of rural leaching on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The US deficit would vaporize and turn into a massive surplus if we dropped the rural communities...

    ...which we would then use to buy food at outrageous prices from these same rural communities. So, in this scenario: Everybody wins? What do you think?

  24. Re:Guess they were not serious about climate chang on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that Russia is not actually in Europe.

    Except for the European part.

  25. Re:Why the quotes? on Interviewing the Interviewer (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    8/10, would read troll again.