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  1. Re:Well with the stupid rules in place on California Healthcare Provider Wants Illness-Predicting Algorithm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You seem to be arguing from the following premise:
            "costly treatments make people take more care of their health"

    Until you bring forth Extraoridnary Evidence (tm) for this Extraordinary Claim (tm), please forgive us for ignoring your random speculations, and for frowning upon your attempt at presenting those ramblings as fact.

    You might be surprised to learn that there are many other countries besides the US, employing many different models of health care funding. A first stab at checking your assumtions (don't knock it 'till you've tried it) would be to compare some industrialised countries in terms of public health, healtcare spending, and typical cost to patients.

    Seriously - would you or anyone you know actually think "I never really considered getting a serious helath problem, but it the treatment is free, why the hell not?", or is it just "those other people" you collectively accuse of this insanity?

  2. Wow, that gives me lots ideas! on Text Messages To Replace Stamps In Sweden · · Score: 2

    * Powertools will get your stone axe sharper, quicker! * Put your horse and carriage on a freight-train for greater speed! * Sending my telegrams would be so much quicker if I could just order them from my iPhone!

  3. That sentence... on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 1
    ...should be taken out and shot. Seriously:

    The NY Times reports that an inquiry by the Commerce Department's inspector general has found no evidence that NOAA scientists manipulated climate data (reg. may be required) to buttress evidence in support of global warming after climate change skeptics contended that e-mail messages between climate scientists that were stolen and circulated on the Internet in late 2009 showed that scientists were manipulating or withholding information to advance the theory that the earth is warming as a result of human activity.

    ?

  4. Re:Obligatory antimatter quote on Thunderstorms Proven To Create Antimatter · · Score: 1

    "Does it mean it doesn't matter?"

    It's stuff that antimatters.

  5. OMG! on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade, let alone create one.

  6. They are nothing but another form of therapy... on Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search? · · Score: 1

    ...for these patients is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma keep popping up in their own right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry in which they are attached to their respective owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books are nothing but another form of therapy.

  7. Re:Electric Cars will make it worse on Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Nah, just legally require electric vehicles to artificially emit as much noise as if they ran on internal combustion. Also, they threaten the livelyhood of the oil industry, so it makes sense to require them to consume gas as well.

  8. Does this mean... on The Strange Case of Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay Rates · · Score: 1

    ...that neutrino flux measuring gear might soon measure in the flower-pot-range rather than in cubic kilometers?

  9. Re:Me fail logic? That's purple! on The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg · · Score: 1

    Most people are really bad at dealing with ambiguities and shades of gray.

    Oh, so you're saying I'm stupid?

  10. Re:Okay then. on The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg · · Score: 1

    What if the bible lies to us? Surely God can do that if he wants to?

  11. Re:Sure you can wear it, but why would you want to on UK Designer Grows Clothes From Bacteria · · Score: 1

    (Unless you are in that sort of thing)

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  12. Re:memorizing alphabetized letter lists on Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should have memorized definitions in stead. Especially of the word "game".

  13. Re:Why they tell you to turn off your phone... on Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    the bit would unflip right away because of pedal position update

    I believe even the summary mentions that the new thing here is that not just data is stored in volatile memory anymore, but that a bit flip might actually reprogram the logic.

    No, the most likely problem is either a software routine with a bug, no error handler, or similar issue, or a mechanical,problem (less likely).

    This still holds, though.

  14. Re:Hoorah! on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Congrats US citizens! You're on your way to a non-broken health care system!

    -and by extension on your way to the developed world. Congrats indeed!

  15. Umami is so fat... on Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat · · Score: 1

    Oh, sod it, I'm stumped. You finish the joke.

  16. Re:vs Java? on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    Have you tried concurrency in Java? Granted, Go is not alone in offering good support for parallell execution. Erlang, scala, haskell etc. come to mind. But doing it java is pure pain.

  17. Re:Name on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    I like how you can refactor "Google Go" into "Goog Lego". No idea if it is intentional.

  18. Re:-1 Troll and Uninsightful on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    Get over it? Is that how you deal with systemic problems when they're identified over there? No wonder your system sucks.

  19. Re:wouldn't it be awesome on Meteorite Contains Complex Organic Molecules · · Score: 1

    If life is pretty much inevitable wherever the conditions are right, why resort to space-faring RNA to explain life here on earth?

  20. Re:organic sources on Meteorite Contains Complex Organic Molecules · · Score: 1
    AOL.

    The thing that always bothered me about pansperima and related theories is that, while exciting, they depend on the premise that there must be a certain concentration of places out in space that are better suited for generating life or its basic compunds than here on earth. I have a hard time imagining such a place, and have yet to see any of the proponents describe even the rudimentary properties of such a place would need to have.

    I find much more encouragement in recent theories (as described recently in Sientific American) concering deep-sea vents here on earth, and the combination they offer of vital and complex compounds, microscopic fluid-filled compartments, any life-suporting temperature you like within short reach, and acidity gradients that might power complex chemical cycles to produce and concentrate the building blocks for the most primitive of life-like systems.

    I have little doubt that lif has also arisen elsewhere in the universe. The question is whether it is more likely to have traveled here than arisen here. My impression is that as our understanding of the possibilities expands, the need for the space connection just keeps slimming, and there is no reason to assume that trend is going to abate anytime soon.

  21. Invisible threat on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Suppliers give priority to what their customers nag about, and they nag about the problems they see and feel every day. Only those who get attacked and discover it see the threat of unencrypted traffic.

  22. Re:Not a good source on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    you mean... "right of center" in america? you know it's called plain right in the rest of the world?

    The entire american political landscape is called "extreme right" in the rest of the free world.

  23. Hee hee on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    The tag-line says "science tv idle terminally morbid story"

  24. Re:Okay, lets get redefining then... on Prions Evolve Despite Having No DNA · · Score: 1

    Please read again.

  25. Re:Okay, lets get redefining then... on Prions Evolve Despite Having No DNA · · Score: 1

    As long as something occurs within nature and following its rules, it's natural.

    That is the meaning I intended.

    Evolution doesn't equip any being at all. It just works if the non-equipped are killed before breeding or if the equipped are better breeders.

    I was sort of counting on readers to be able to make that interpretation themselves.

    Scrapie or CJD are normally occurring and normally fatal.

    A lot of the known cases are assumed to result from feeding nervous tissue to herbivorous livestock. Without that it would be a rare condition occurring mostly in unlucky individuals subject to spontaneous "mutation" of the protein.