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  1. Re:How about zero? on Obama Budget Asks For 1% Boost In Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But cutting a far smaller research budget will? Where's the logic in that?

    And who says that a balanced budget is the right thing to do? Economists will tell you that a balance budget when you are trying to grow the economy is a bad idea. People just think blanketly that you always have to balance your budget but it just doesn't work that way on the scale and scope of a government our size.

    Now that's not to say that things aren't out of whack. You just need to prioritize things.

  2. Re:How about zero? on Obama Budget Asks For 1% Boost In Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Better to cut defense spending and fix the tax laws than to cut research spending. The last thing this country needs is to fall further and further behind the rest of the world.

  3. Re:Legal Action on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    Was it targeted at attacking Rick Santorum? Yes. But is it saying that he is a foamy whatever the hell it is? No. I mean that doesn't even make logical sense.

  4. Re:Santorum Has Other Issues on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    "lifestyle choice"? It's no more of a "lifestyle choice" than being black or a woman.

  5. Re:Depressing on Hungary's Needy Given Money to Burn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it would be more depressing to know they are burning the money somewhere else and I am still cold. I mean the currency at that point has no real value and putting it back into circulation would cause insane inflation. This is really the best possible outcome.

  6. Re:Yeah...thanks, I guess on Hungary's Needy Given Money to Burn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Providing wood or coal would be an extra cost to the government. If they already have the paper and are already destroying it why not compress it into a useful brick for burning. I'd imagine it wouldn't burn that fast if compressed enough.

  7. Re:Santorum Has Other Issues on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    No that means a majority of voters who turned out that day and voted on the proposition were against gay marriage. That is only one of his views and it doesn't necessarily represent the entire population of the state.

    It should also be pointed out that majority should never be a factor when it comes to civil rights. Do you think a majority would have voted against slavery or for women voting? No to mention that the majority of the country believes in some really crazy stuff.

  8. Re:Savage is anti-bullying? on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about saying specifically President Obama or Barack Obama or just the word obama? If it is just the word then go for it. Although there are hate speech laws in some areas that you might run afoul of.

  9. Re:Santorum Has Other Issues on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    I think Ron Paul appeals to an even smaller base than Santorum. From what I can tell his main base are college students in Iowa or something like that. It's amazing that he has hung on this long.

  10. Re:Legal Action on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    The Obama issue was an offensive caricature of the First Lady. It was a completely different issue. It isn't the name "Rick Santorum" that has this definition. It is just the word santorum.

  11. Re:Cyberbullying on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 2

    You can call it whatever you want. It doesn't change his right to do it and Google's right to leave it up there.

  12. Re:Legal Action on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 2

    Slander has to be about somebody. He just takes the word santorum and gives it a quite disgusting definition. He doesn't call Rick Santorum anything.

  13. Re:Legal Action on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 2

    Especially since it is the first hit on Bing, too. Has nothing to do with Google really except that they are the leading search engine right now.

    And there is nothing a lawyer can do to the site. What is he going to sue about? There is no applicable law protecting Santorum but there is the Constitution protecting the site.

  14. Santorum Has Other Issues on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Santorum's biggest issue is not Google but his political policies. He appeals to a very small population of rural conservative religious voters. He has zero appeal to moderate republicans which means he could never get elected. I mean the fact that a washout like Mitt Romney is leading just lets you know how awful the Republican candidates are.

  15. Re:because we learned nothing from Fukushima on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes much better to keep drilling in the gulf - that's never been a problem...

  16. Re:The Obvious Answer on Three Unexpected Data Points Describe Elementary School Quality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't about making friends. It's actually the opposite - making enemies and dealing with having to work with them on projects. Unless, of course, homeschooling parents force their kids to do project with kids they don't like. That would be pretty open minded of them.

    Also, most likely they will socialize with kids from similar backgrounds and belief systems. They won't have the experience of meeting and accepting people who are different from them.

  17. Re:The Obvious Answer on Three Unexpected Data Points Describe Elementary School Quality · · Score: -1, Redundant

    100% homeschooled children will never gain the life-skills they need. The one thing schools do teach children is that you aren't always going to like the people you are stuck working with and that a thick skin is essential to succeeding in the world.

  18. Re:The Obvious Answer on Three Unexpected Data Points Describe Elementary School Quality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if you are being funny I think enhancing in-school education with some homeschooling is the best option. Parents sitting down with their children and going over their homework with them can make up for almost any crappy school. Assuming, of course, that the parents aren't less-knowledgeable about a subject than their children.

  19. Re:Yay! on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 1

    Searching the internet and searching files are two different worlds and I assure you that Microsoft and Apple both know how to search through files. If anything, Apple has far more control over everything some people use. I can't think of one company that has so completely come to dominate some people's lives.

  20. Re:Yay! on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously? You don't think Microsoft (creator of Bing) and Apple (creator if iWorldDomination) can search through and make money off your information. Oh how naive.

  21. Re:Yay! on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Google, Apple, Microsoft - they all are doing the same thing. Why get paranoid over one more than the others?

  22. Re:Torture Tools on Virtual Reality Helmet Designed For Deep Space Surgery · · Score: 0

    That really is my point. Somebody with all the knowledge but without the years of experience behind it is really useless. That's why it takes so long to become a surgeon in the first place.

  23. Re:Wait,what??? on Virtual Reality Helmet Designed For Deep Space Surgery · · Score: 1, Troll

    Spend enough time in zero/low gravity and your bones become more brittle.

  24. Re:Torture Tools on Virtual Reality Helmet Designed For Deep Space Surgery · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think it is pretty hard to be "also a surgeon". Might make more sense to have a surgeon who is also something else. I'd rather have a surgeon who dabbles in engineering or geology than an engineer who dabbles in surgery.

  25. Re:Horribly presumptuous tags. on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 0

    The guy who started this is Muslim. First clue would have been that his name is Mufti.