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  1. Re:we need a litmus test on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Psychology, Politics, Economics to name a few - and most importantly which school/academy/university/nation should be the highest authority on any given subject.

    Dark matter, dark energy - not enough data for a true disagreement to exist.
    Psychology, Politics, Economics - not sciences.

  2. Re:we need a litmus test on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In case two people are disagreeable on a topic where currently there is no scientific consensus....

    Name that topic.

  3. PR genius on How To Steal a Space Shuttle · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is obviously viral marketing for Ocean's Fourteen.

  4. Read this in Brando mode on MPAA Boss Admits SOPA and PIPA Are Dead, Not Coming Back · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Don Corleone: So, Dodd will move against you first. He'll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely trust, guaranteeing your safety, and at that meeting your Internet will be assassinated.

  5. Re:Is there one? on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like asking what the best fast food restaurant is.

    It used to be Wendy's, but they've done something to the bacon, and hiked up the prices. They've gone downhill quite a bit since Dave Thomas died.

    Dave Thomas dies. Their bacon changes taste. Oh, God, no!

  6. Re:A fail safe on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Being euphamistic also leads to ambiguity. You could be talking about storing a tokamak below the building, which is, after all a thermonuclear device, just not a bomb. In the event of an emergency, it will draw a lot of power and spit out a few neutrons. I'm not sure how this will be much use.

    Could be either:
    1. Warhead: activation reduces neighborhood to plasma. Problem solved.
    2. Fusion experiment: activation sucks up all electrical power, capital and labor for miles around. Problem erased or at least rendered comparatively unimportant.

  7. A fail safe on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    A thermonuclear device planted below the building - in case things go bad.

  8. Re:Obligated to point out another security concern on Obama Blocks Chinese Wind Farms In Oregon Over National Security · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You paid it in and you (and your generation) elected politicians who squandered it. Your generation delivered the current economic problems to my generation and now you expect US to clean up YOUR mess. YOUR generation destroyed the SS and Medicare system. YOU should have been more responsible.

    I just wanted to point out that there are no such things as "generations". That term is used by media as a filler because they don't have the time or inclination to be more subtle in their analyses. It isn't like humans give birth every 20 years en masse. The distribution of birth dates in the population follows a nice epidemiological curve.

  9. Re:In other words... on Romney-Ryan Release Space Policy Paper · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you mean, but a good Christian would indeed render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and also realize that the things we do to the least of our brothers, we do to Christ.

    Because that's the actual philosophy attributed to Jesus, and I don't really understand the problem with it.

    The problem is that this Jesus fellow advocates against every plank in the Republican Party platform.

  10. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    These are not the only citations in the literature, just the first three that came up. The issue of antibiotic fate and persistence in the animal is pretty well known, so I am guessing that they dosed the animals in amounts which would reflect some steady state expected from normal feeding.

  12. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 4, Informative
  13. Re:Message to the intolerant on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 1

    Who grades the evaluation?

  14. Re:Message to the intolerant on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil" -Thomas Mann

    That's grand. Now whose definition of evil do we use?

  15. The three stages of dealing with shite on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 0

    1. You liberal commie scientists are making this shite up to get your billions in grant money.
    2. Okay, it's happening, but it's die to natural cycles and shite. Nothing we did.
    3. Okay, we caused all this shite, but it'll cost us too much to deal with now.
    4. The ocean is two feet deep on South Beach, but the government moved my mansion and all my shite to higher ground onto property confiscated from someone not smart enough to run a huge PAC.

  16. Re:Simple question... on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Coincidental reddit thread on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 1

    It still seems to me to be arbitrary decisions.

    Rule 1: The submission linked to a Village Voice editorial which itself linked to the original story which itself linked to court records. The allegations in the story may or may not be true, but I have read many other submissions with less verifiable support.

    Rule V: The claim was that Wikipedia deleted a page. Wikipedia did indeed delete the page. Why it deleted the page was the subject of the discussion.

  18. Re:Competition on Meet iRobot Founder Rodney Brooks's New Industrial Bot, Baxter · · Score: 1

    Fuck you, I have two children in public school one of which is disabled and I damn well tell you I would be more prudent with MY money and their care than the state workers are. You stupid shits think you are so smart spending other peoples money.

    Any other questions fuck face?

    Only about the current dosage of your meds, but HIPAA prevents that discussion.

  19. Coincidental reddit thread on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 0

    The other day there was a reddit thread on the front page about a billionaire allegedly buying off Wikipedia to erase mention of his alleged incest. Oddly enough, the thread itself then also disappeared from reddit due to some questionable mod decisions.

    http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/102qtm/til_that_wikipedia_deleted_a_page_about_a/

  20. Re:Competition on Meet iRobot Founder Rodney Brooks's New Industrial Bot, Baxter · · Score: 1

    We are throwing more and more money at the schools to the point of bankruptcy.

    You obviously have no children in public school

  21. Re:Happy Thursday from the Golden Girls! on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 0
  22. Re:this is beyond ridiculous on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 1

    I respectfully disagree. "Nazi" has become a generic term, like "aspirin" or "hell"

    The hitler you say!

  23. Re:this is beyond ridiculous on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 4, Funny

    Capitalization nazi, not punctuation nazi. And apparently also a semantics nazi.

    Nazi should be capitalized.

  24. Re:Well... on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 1, Informative

    You do get that, right? A phrase used dozens of times as the title of books, movies, and TV episodes. If it was an original phrase that had never been used before, then his case might have some merit, but it's not, and he's just trolling.

    I am no lawyer, but the difference here is the difference between a copyright, which you automatically get upon creation, and a trademark, which you have to apply for and pay the USPTO for.

  25. I already designed mine on QR Codes For Memorials · · Score: 1

    Here Lies Paiute
    [citation needed]