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  1. Re:Jesus, we're fucked. on Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA · · Score: 1

    The fundamentals were there. The problem was that she had difficulty applying it to a car, and more specifically, the brakes. Some basic ideas like the relationship between weight and inertia had to explained in detail and not just referenced. In the end I never felt satisfied that she really understood everything because she refused to discuss it anymore.

  2. Re:Jesus, we're fucked. on Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA · · Score: 1

    I was on a long trip, going through the Rockies with a very loaded sedan, towing a trailer. It was her turn to drive and for some time I had been repeatedly admonishing her to increase her following distance, slow down, etc., because of the excess weight. As she continued to ignore me my explanations grew longer and more detailed, until finally she interrupted me with "What's inertia?"

  3. Re:Just for fun on Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When Monsanto and their "buy seeds from me till the end of time or we'll end you" business model are both long gone we can talk about GMO. Till then I am 100% against GMO ( because GMO == Monsanto ).

  4. Re:No it is a combo of 2 factors on Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA · · Score: 1

    Precisely. The study asked a question that results in an expected answer 80% of the time. So why would such a study be conducted in the first place?

    http://canola.okstate.edu/gmof...
    ^^ Big ole page-o-propaganda

  5. Re:From the outside... on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    The whole issue must boil down to a soundbyte and that ends it.
    Monsanto eclipses everything you said, is so evil that any attempt to dilute the topic, or divert attention away from how evil they are, is evil. No threat to our food supply is a bigger threat than Monsanto.

  6. Re:From the outside... on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Currently, accepting GMO means becoming a vassal of Monsanto Corporation. Why would any sane populace _choose_ to be dependent on an ethically challenged mega-corp for their food supply? This isn't about fear, *no one* in a decision making position is *afraid* of GMO. They're just smart enough to keep it the fuck out of their country.
    Next time you decide to throw in a bonus (inseparable from Monsanto) GMO plug while posting, please refrain from the standard "fear" debate Monsanto shills always use --and kindly explain why any farmer would choose to depend on Monsanto for his livelihood *forever*. In the U.S. there is no "choice", they'll get you eventually.
    Thing is, YOU are well aware of all of this, and yet here you are advocating for GMO. You're a bad person.

  7. Re:Countless Comments on Prior Articles & Now on FBI: North Korean Hackers "Got Sloppy", Leaked IP Addresses · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Everybody else pretty much agrees North Korea did it... "

    Wait, what? I was under the impression that -no one- thinks North Korea did it. I certainly don't, and that's in part because my government is so -focused- on getting us to believe they did.

    And in part because the president is a democrat (pwned by Hollywood).
    And in part because of what was hacked, what was released.

    (another) data breach is embarrassing. An attack by NK garners sympathy. Also, without this hack The Interview would have made about a dollar.

    No idea why 'North Korea did it' can possible be modded "Informative".

  8. Re:Balloons on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Gravity slows down the expansion, and, it slows down the passage of time. Time and space are not merely relative they are one and the same. The expansion of space and the passage of time -are the same thing- .

    Perhaps at some point space-time expands so fast that it actually rips and a huge expanse of the universe is flooded with quantum energy made matter. Uniformly, throughout the expanse. This matter then slows down the expansion -temporarily though, as matter collects together due to gravity and creates new "pockets" where the speed of expansion can pick up again.

  9. Re:Pullin' a Gates? on How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again · · Score: 1

    Instead of paraphrasing why not just quote him directly? It's not a long article and no one will think 'strawman'.

    "Big caches are efficient. Parallel stupid small cores without caches are horrible unless you have a very specific load that is hugely regular (ie graphics)." ...
    "the crazies talking about scaling to hundreds of cores are just that - crazy."

    In that context, he's right. If you're doing hundreds of dumb cores you should be using gpu already.

  10. Re:Initiators vs promoters on 65% of Cancers Caused by Bad Luck, Not Genetics or Environment · · Score: 1

    I think you're talking about angiogenisis. http://www.ted.com/talks/willi...

  11. Re:it can be air filled on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 2

    What useful things can be harvested from the atmosphere? Are there chemicals that could be used to make plastics? Could a small habitat expand into a floating city?

  12. Re:Arrow of Time on 2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past · · Score: 1

    I might not understand what you're saying.

    The farther away galaxies are from each other, the faster they are moving from each other, and, the faster they are accelerating. Wouldn't this and other phenomenon be independent of my perception? I mean gravity doesn't only affect my physical being and the construction of it in my mind. It objectively affects the passage of time throughout the universe. Doesn't it?

  13. Re:Arrow of Time on 2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Time cannot go backwards because time, as an independent phenomenon doesn't exist. The passage of time, and what enables "change" is the expansion of the universe. It expands slower or faster near or away from the influence of gravity as time passes faster or slower near or away from the influence of gravity. Time and space aren't simply "relative". The are the same thing. Entropy is strongly correlated but not actually coupled.

    IANAP, and I haven't actually convinced anyone that the way I see it is true. But I think the universe described by Renate Loll is probably the closest to my own mental picture. Or, at least, the idea that there are not really three spacial dimensions but one made my own mental map easier to "run" in my mind.

  14. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    nice shift loser

  15. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    wtf. YOU are the one shifting and deflecting. ONLY YOU. And that's the fucking point. There is nofuckingway you didn't read that post, or have been exposed to same or similar evidence IN FUCKING GENERAL.

    Your ENTIRE series of postings has been under the PRETENSE of being ignorant of all such information. You are a LIAR.

  16. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Right above my original reply to your post, in reply to the same post I replied to. FFS are you going to deny reading it? Pretend you've never seen references to same or similar EVER?

    Yeah, well done.

  17. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    links to said evidence was posted BEFORE my reply

  18. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Flat out fucking lie.

    I never said anything even remotely close to "hard evidence that proves that girls are hardwired to develop interests or traits in the absence of social feedback." YOUR BULLSHIT WORDS that you tried to attribute to me.

    "Should be easy for you to provide a single counter-example then." YOU NEVER PROVIDED ONE GODDAMN EXAMPLE TO COUNTER LIAR.

    Your original post stated there is no evidence...but you know there is, links to said evidence was posted BEFORE my reply AND I believe you already fucking knew there was evidence. You are dishonest.

  19. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Liar. A counter example would imply that you provided an example to begin with -you didn't. You simply made an assertion.

    And you are shifting your point AGAIN, and no I did NOT argue that point. God you're a fucking liar.

  20. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    I didn't argue that point, and don't you go changing your argument after the fact. And no, I'm not going to do your research for you, unless your ignorant or a liar you know damn well where the studies are.

    YOU prove YOUR point, as YOURS is the extraordinary claim.

  21. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    "The truth of the matter is that there is no significant difference, physiologically, between men and women, as far as the brain is concerned; and thus no difference psychologically."

    No matter how many times this is repeated it STILL won't be true. Biology is at work here (too) and male and female brains generally do differentiate *in utero* , and again *at puberty*. It's just the truth. That it doesn't fit your ideology is just something you're going to ( eventually ) come to grips with. That truth says nothing whatsoever about the ability of a specific female or a specific male to perform a specific task, but the fear that common people might use this truth to justify institutional bias is the root of all "science" that might support your claim. And that's just fucked up. The truth matters, and as a culture we should strive to be mature enough to deal with it.

  22. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    "Definitely true anatomically, but there is no evidence that is true behaviourally."

    There is a metric ton of evidence, you just *choose* to ignore. Not just you, lots of educated people choose to ignore the evidence. In documentary after documentary ( that I've watched ) the ideologue social "scientist" dismisses one study after another as irrelevant...or my personal favorite, responding to pointed questions with something like "It's *striking* that you think this question is important." --seriously was there a meeting or something? Because that's the response to hard questions again and again and again.

  23. Re:Why tax profits, why not income? on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    If the job market says my labor is worth $50.00/hr then why isn't it valued at that rate when I exchange it? I "own" something with an objectively verifiable market price of $50.00 , and, it did not become worth that much for "free". It cost decades of growing and learning, devoting my attention to things I do not enjoy and cannot be considered leisure.

    The premise is that if the job market values my labor at X , then it is true that the expense of creating that value is also X --regardless of my ability to itemize that expense.

  24. Re:Why tax profits, why not income? on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    Not even close to the right perspective.

    My labor is valued at $50.00 per hour. If I exchange one hour of labor for $50.00 then my profit is 0, and I should be taxed a percentage of 0.

  25. Re:Great on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And you have no inherent natural right to electricity, plumbing, roads, safety from murder/rape/robbery, etc. Society gives that to you in EXCHANGE for your taxes.

    Next, try to separate Society from Government to continue your argument. Then I'll just call you you a Liar, because you do actually understand the manipulation you (will) be making.

    Or, you have another, more fair, method that results in every member of Society contributing to the whole, let's hear it. But if you think you should be allowed to live here and profit from our infrastructure and then not pay for it you can get the fuck out you communist free loader.