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  1. Re:twisted pair, twisted logic on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 1

    The problem is not getting over the 2000 election. It is in overcoming the results of it.

  2. Re:Awesome Jedi Mind Trick on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    Alright Sir, Please. Step away from your confirmation bias.

  3. Re:Mindless dupes of a well financed astroturf out on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Do you have actual evidence for this claim (other than your vivid imagination)?

  4. Put me as an ally of the 15% on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    This quote sums up the reason science will always conflict with religion. "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." -Author unknown

  5. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    But you're new guy Obama is the most mindblowingly fiscally irresponsible President this country has ever seen.

    Looks like a black or white statement you've made there. Too bad its just plain wrong.

    Cutting taxes on the rich while financing two wars off the books means that award goes to his predecessor. The current president is just trying to clean up the mess.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_deficit#Recent_additions_to_the_public_debt_of_the_United_States

    FY2009 $1785.6 billion 12.5% GDP
    FY2010 $1471.0 billion (est.)10.0% GDP

    We are now in FY2011, FY2009 budget began Oct 1 2008, A few weeks before the "most mindblowingly fiscally irresponsible President this country has ever seen" was elected.

  6. Re:Another reason not to gamble online on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Funny on Cosmic Rays and Global Warming · · Score: 1

    when it is "written in a scientific journal" it is taken to be true.

    Actually, "when it is written in a scientific journal", makes it publicly available to anyone interested in either verifying or refuting "what is written".
  8. We're sorry Freedom doesn't live here anymore on President Bush Blocks NSA Wireless Tapping Probe · · Score: 1

    Well, then ...

    If you have nothing to hide...

    "knock knock...."
    "Hello, we're from the NSA. Since you have nothing to hide, we know you won't mind if we set up video cameras in every room in your house, your car(s), Your parent's house, your siblings houses. Oh, and while we're at it, we'll install some software on all your computers. And we need to put this little device in all of your phones."

    "Roll up your sleeve please, we have a little RFID chip we need to insert"

    "Just relax. This will be painless... Thank you for your patience..."

  9. Re:"accidentally found"? on Pharaoh's Gem Brighter Than a Thousand Suns · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can you say "cartel"?

  10. Re:Never, never, and never on Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    It is pretty obvious that an embryo is not YET human life. To state otherwise is ignorance.

    I doubt most people capable of rational thought would call blanket euthanasia of the infirm and disabled "rational". Would euthanizing Stephen Hawking some time in the last 40 years be considered a rational act by any human capable of rational thought?

  11. Why is this true? on Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Style is always much more important than substance to those who have little of the latter.

  12. Re:Always the geek. Running the numbers... on FEC Rules Bloggers Are Journalists · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the the above were actually true, Al Gore would be approaching the mid-point of his 2nd term.

  13. Re:whaet is nethack? on /dev/null NetHack Tournament 2005 Starts Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    The programmers have though of a almost everything.

    That's TDTTOE, sonny.

    * TDTTOE == "The Dev Team Thinks of Everything"(tm).

  14. Re:.xxx domains on Behind the Fight to Control the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why wouldn't these people be in favour of an .xxx domain? Hell, wouldn't it make it easier to block sites at work or home


    Because they want porn to disappear entirely. "Porn is sinful". Making "sinful" things easier to avoid is not as important making those "sinful" things illegal.
  15. Re:How much did it cost? on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    Which country is deliberately pushing more people toward the poverty level?

  16. Re:How few remain on Stanford's Stanley wins DARPA Grand Challenge · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_DARPA_Grand_Chal lenge has information on some of the failures.

  17. Re:Free download will be available.. on Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete · · Score: 1

    Or 01 Oct 2005 for those of us supporting less ambiguous date formats. ;-)

  18. Re:Remembering James Doohan on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1
    (RE your sig: I, Me, Mine was a Harrisong)


    Hmmm. didn't realize he was the writer. Thanks
  19. Exactly 36 years ..... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    since Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon.

  20. Re:Remembering James Doohan on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    You can find a listing of all his credited TV/Movie roles here -- http://imdb.com/name/nm0001150/

  21. Cyndis Lst on How Would You Archive Mounds of Genealogy Data? · · Score: 1

    http://cyndislist.com/ is absolutely the best place to start looking for anything related to genealogy.

  22. Re:Casual and hardcore cannot be mixed... on MMOGs Only For the Hardcore? · · Score: 1

    Try "A Tale in the Desert" at http://www.atitd.com/

  23. Re:So how many babies HAS he eaten this week? on Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    And what do you offer in evidence of this statement?

    Replace "liberals" with "conservatives" and you'll be more likely to find all sorts of supporting evidence.

    Delay is a thief and a thug. Not because liberals write about it. But because of his own actions.

    Changing the house ethics committee rules and removing non-compliant Republican members after he is slapped on the wrist by them should be evidence enough.

    Add the Texas congressional district gerrymandering garbage and you have to wonder how this guy sleeps at night.

  24. Re:Survey says, on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    OH GOOD GRIEF!!

    So what if science has no explanation for a beginning from nothing. There is not enough informaton available to make any determination on that. Who knows if there ever will be.

    Do you offer any testable evidence regarding your conclusion of a creator of the universe? No . You offer fantasy and superstition. Neither being valid in any science i'm aware of.

    Because there is not enough data, We should then accept some fantasy or other about the origin as good enough an explanation.

    No good explanation for the Cambrian explosion." What?? You think this happened over a long weekend?

    Try Googling "Cambrian Explosion" and do some reading once in a while.

    "I don't know the answer. Therefore God did it" ain't gonna work.

  25. Re:The headline is wrong on Extinct Wildflower Found In California · · Score: 1

    s/b Ex-Extinct then.