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  1. Re:But.. on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If capitalism and totalitarianism were the only options you might have a point.

  2. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen is explosive over a much wider range of stoichiometric ratios, so a hydrogen leak is more likely to cause an explosion than a natural gas leak.

  3. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    Unless the hydrogen leaks into your garage, or into the cab of the car, or into your car's trunk. In those cases it could be very dangerous.

  4. Re:Irresponsible on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    The longer the half-life the less radioactive something is. So isotopes with half-lives in the hundreds of millions of years aren't very dangerous.

  5. Re: That's not news on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    You can't use a pencil and paper to look something up on Wikipedia, and having an iPad doesn't prevent someone from using paper.

  6. I hate these kind of arguments on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    If the President truly fears that international students will use skills learned at U.S. colleges and universities to the detriment of the United States if they return home ... then wouldn't another option be not providing them with the skills in the first place?

    It is if you think less education and less freedom in the world is a good thing.

  7. Just tax all vehicles on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They should just have a smaller mileage tax that applies to all vehicles (not just efficient ones) to avoid creating an incentive to have less efficient cars.

  8. I don't think this is going to work... on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 2

    I don't go to Facebook to see advertisements. So obviously I'm not going to switch to a different service to see his ads.

  9. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    According to the article car manufacturers are not allowed to have their own dealerships in the states where Tesla is being sued.

  10. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    It's the same with Apple products. Apple is allowed to have their own retail stores. That's why you can't by apple products anywhere else.

    Of coarse in the real world you can buy them in most electronics stores.

  11. Re:iPhone 4s? on Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone · · Score: 1

    That should say 28 million in 13 months for the SII. I need to proofread my posts better.

  12. Re:iPhone 4s? on Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to that article 28 million is the total sales for the SII over 23 months. The other numbers are the Q3 2012 sales, which covers just three months.

  13. Re:Resolution independent layout on Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays · · Score: 1

    Unless there's something I missed, that article says windows 8 doesn't support resolution independent layout. It says windows 8 does layout in pixels, but scales every thing up for certain devices (they can have scale factors of either 100%, 140% or 180%).

  14. Resolution independent layout on Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays · · Score: 1

    I can't believe modern devices still don't support resolution independent layout, especially on tablets. All they would have to do is design displays to send their ppi as well as their resolution to the computer, then change the operating system to make that data available programs.

  15. Do you have a source to back up this claim, or are you just making stuff up? If he had guns on him the transcripts from the trial probably would have mentioned it.

  16. You must have read a different wikipedia article. on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    The one I read said that outcome based education was about determining what students should learn, then testing whether or not they actually have learned it. Obviously outcomes could be chosen that support progressive indoctrination, the same way they could be chosen to support conservative indoctrination. There's no fundamental reason Outcome-based Education would support a progressive agenda. Maybe they think it's progressive because it's new. If that's the case its pretty short sited to say something is bad because it is new.

    Despite what the Texas GOP says Higher Order Thinking Skills and OBE aren't the same. One is a set of skills people can learn, the other is a method of teaching.

  17. You should probably also read it. on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 5, Informative

    These numbers are for illegal immigrants with a criminal record. Not illegal immigrants in general. It says nothing about the rate of arrests for the general population.

  18. Re:Facts can't be copyrighted. on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 2

    What you're basically saying is "If the general population knew what the government was doing they would disapprove. So the government need to keep its actions secret." I couldn't disagree more. In order for a democratic government to work properly it needs to ba accountable to the people. That can't happen if the people don't know what the government is up to.

    If people don't have realistic accounts of what happens in war they will believe the Hollywood version where the good guys never kill innocent people.

  19. Re:Facts can't be copyrighted. on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most of what was leaked never should have been a secret. The governments been keeping its activities secret so it doesn't have to be accountable to its citizens.

    Bradley Manning may be a traitor to the government, but not to the American people.

  20. Facts can't be copyrighted. on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is disturbing that the US government is going to such lengths to keep its own citizens in the dark. Something has gone very wrong in Washington.

  21. Re:Coming Soon on What's Not To Like About New iPad? · · Score: 1

    It's screen is 1% larger than an iPad's screen by area. I think it for practical purposes it would be more accurate to say that its screen it the same size.

  22. Re:Maybe V2 will be better on Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy · · Score: 1

    I think he was asking "why do you want an SD slot?". What are you planning on doing with it?

  23. Re:Why are you blaming the lawyers? on Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google Chase 'Got Milk?' Patents · · Score: 2

    Who voted in favor of the legislation? The politicians.

    Who voted the politicians into power? You and me.

  24. Re:Why are you blaming the lawyers? on Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google Chase 'Got Milk?' Patents · · Score: 1

    That really depends on what dialect of English you speak. I speak the one that is commonly used by most Americans. You apparently speak one that is normally only used by English teachers while grading papers.

  25. Re:Why are you blaming the lawyers? on Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google Chase 'Got Milk?' Patents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's the problem with asking "who can we blame?". When something bad happens usually there are many people who contributed to it happening. So people usually blame the person they dislike the most. In this example you dislike unscrupulous corporate executives more than you dislike unscrupulous lawyers, so you blame the executives. The person you responded to blamed the lawyers. They're both responsible.

    A more useful question would be "how can we prevent this in the future?". There is no shortage of unscrupulous lawyers and corporate executives. As long as the patent system exists in it's current form someone will abuse it. The only way to prevent abuses like this is to change the patent laws.