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  1. Re:Before People Scream Conspiracy... on Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If a scientist wrote a theory that required that ten things must be true for his theory to be valid, and three of them are proven wrong, should we still consider his theory to be valid? How much of this report must be proven wrong before the results are allowed to be questioned? The large number of errors in this report shows a serious lack of quality in the authors research. It sounds more and more like a religious tract than a scientific paper. It's a case of "believe in me" instead of "trust but verify".

  2. Re:Before People Scream Conspiracy... on Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report · · Score: 1

    If a scientist made such errors in one of his "proofs", then his theory would probably have been falsified, and he would have to either go back and fix it, or drop it. Since this is a political theory and not a scientific one, errors don't seem to matter.

  3. Re:truth still getting it's boots on on Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok, for a report this size, that is being used to massively change the living conditions of many millions of people downwards, how many errors need to be found before the results become questionable? At what point will you stop and say, I think we need to look deeper into this before we subject all these people to miserable living conditions based on these questionable results? There are so many "small errors" in this report that, if you wrote it as a school assignment, you'd probably get a failing grade.

  4. Performance on Russian Cargo Ship Docks At ISS On Second Try · · Score: 1

    detected interference between a remote control system on the ISS and Progress's camera

    Can''t perform on camera, huh. Wont make a very good porn star with that attitude.

  5. Re:Seriously on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    there's probably also a state virus, hairstyle, eyeshadow color, etc... This is like government holidays, the politicians sign these things into law just to make some group or the other happy. Some school classes spend enormous amounts of time creating things like "international peanut butter and salami sandwich appreciation day" under their teachers tutelage. The politicians hope to gain voters, and the submitters get to proclaim to their friends "Look! I created the states funny walk!"

  6. it's flubber! on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 1

    Don't you feel old, when references to things like flubber bounce around in your head?

  7. Re:We All Wish on Climategate's Final Days · · Score: 1

    Those journals always offer the same level of acceptance to those damn lying denier assholes as they do for the honerable climate change consensus groups. There's no way those jerkwad denier piss ants could claim they are treated any differently from the wonderful global warming enthusiasts. Just look at the photos in the latest journal. Those despicable gay deniers are the red ones with the forked tails, horns, and hooves instead of feet. The charming climate change scientists are the ones with the radiant golden halos. See, both sides are always treated the same.

  8. Re:Big clue - Cultural translation 101 on No Samples On Japan's Hayabusa Asteroid Probe · · Score: 1

    In the US, we just blaim it on George Bush. As least for any government related function.

  9. Any direction? on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 1

    I don't see how this would work for inserting the batteries in any direction. It looks like it is limited to two directions only. It won't handle batteries that are put in perpendicular for example.

  10. Note to self on Solar-Powered Flight Grounded By Equipment Bug · · Score: 2, Funny

    Developers logbook...

    Note: Solar cells do not work at night. Maybe add lunar cells?

  11. Re:Semantics on NASA Sets Dates For Space Shuttle Finale · · Score: 1

    Apparently, the $3.1 billion is to be used for DemocRATic political campaigns, and the heavy lift is to be generated from the hot air thusly generated.

  12. Re:Duke Nukem Forever on Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste · · Score: 1

    Even with this, does ethanol still cost more in energy to produce than it provides? It currently provides a way to raise the price of corn by increasing demand, but that is really hurting many people who rely on cheap corn as a food source.

  13. Re:Who? on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Knuth doesn't stand out amongst his peers

    Famous people have someone to urinate for them? Man, I got to get out more.

  14. Re:What secrets do spies hope to obtain? on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 1

    They now know what percentage of our dentists recommand various brands of gum, for those patients who chew gum.

  15. Relayed information on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 1

    Officials said no secrets were compromised or revealed in the alleged plot, and the spy operation seems to have yielded little of value given some of the elaborate methods deployed.

    But, they could have relayed important statistics gleaned from the "Daily Kos"!

  16. Re:Echos of Cryptonomicon on Daily Kos Pollster Made Up Numbers · · Score: 1

    Unless this is a project to make polling companies look bad, so that Obama can take them over like he did with the banks and car companies, and now the oil and coal companies. Soon, him and his alien invasion forces will be taking over the MMO companies too!

    Don't look at me like that, I'm not just some random crackpot, I'm a specific crackpot.

  17. Re:Only One Thing I Dislike About Tesla Motors... on Tesla IPO Raises $226 Million · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He was also nuttier than a Snickers bar. He had several impressive inventions, but in his "normal" life, he did many strange things.

  18. Re:Good for them on Tesla IPO Raises $226 Million · · Score: 1

    You don't like "Tasty Smelly Little A*s"?

  19. WTF on Tesla IPO Raises $226 Million · · Score: 1

    I don't forsee this company selling large numbers of cars, with a price tag over $100,000. You might get several early buyers, with more money than brains, who want to buy "green" cars, but there will be few others willing to put up that much money for what amnounts to "green jewelry".

    For the price difference, you could buy a maxed out HumVee, several years worth of gas, and a roof covered with solar cells. You won't see any real "savings" by going green this way.

    Unless they can rapidly drop their prices to be competive with regular cars, then this isn't likely to go very far.

  20. Re:Just hilarious on Leaked MS Presentation Shows App Store Plans For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    pre-condemn

    I must have learned this stuff all wrong. How is it really supposed to go?

    pre-condemn
    condemn
    sex
    post-condemn

  21. Re:Oh, c'mon! on ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it's not a Malamanteau?

  22. Re:In a stunning announcement on New Fossil Sheds Light On Lucy's Family Tree · · Score: 2, Funny

    Couldn't be Adam and Eve. Dick Clark said he knew Adam and Eve, and these two look nothing like them. Abe Vigota agrees.

  23. Re:Cool idea, destined to turn out badly on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 1

    Whatever income the state derives from this plan, will be used up by expanding government. It doesn't matter how much money they take in, they will always find a way to spend that much plus a whole bunch more. Taxes aren't a zero sum game. Politions can always find some useless thing to spend your money on, like $15,000 for a picture of a plastic Jesus statue in a bottle of urine.

  24. Hot electrons on Quantum Dots Could Double Solar Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    So, If I want to make my existing solor cells more efficient, I just need to stick my existing panels into a crock-pot?

  25. Re:But by when? on Quantum Dots Could Double Solar Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Wow, thanks for the link. Just ordered 2 to power my house.