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  1. Re:College movies of the future on Online Courses and the $100 Graduate Degree · · Score: 1

    No serorities, frat parties, or jocks. Just a guy sitting in front of his computer in his underwear filling out quizzes. The plot will center around the reliability of his Internet connection and the pesky neighbours who keep knocking at his door.

    Dude, you have totally got to log onto our frat's site and get pledged. You want to be a bro at I Tappa Key, man!

  2. Re:You get what you pay for on Online Courses and the $100 Graduate Degree · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Look at it this way; in the future an employer needs to select a new hire. 2 people apply, both with master's degress. One paid $40,000 a year for it, one paid $100 a year. Which is the smarter one?

    So one went to Harvard and the other watched some Youtube videos and maybe emailed in a couple of tests and a thesis of some sort to an advisor of such demand that they charged nothing for their services.

    In the grand scheme of things, yeah, the second one might be "smarter", but as a real employer I will have to go with the first person.

  3. Re:Obligatory question on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Ok, I see these creation vs. evolution stories all the time, and we always assume the creationists are wrong, but what if they aren't?

    Oh, the creationists are right. The problem is figuring out which ones.

  4. Re:Heat and movement on When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudoscience · · Score: 2

    Science is NOT about showing how something works first, then detecting it.

    Sometimes it is (that is, predicting it exists first). Look at the search for the Higgs, for example.

  5. Re:Quite Obvious, Even to Me on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Couldn't've been, Hitler is still in my textbooks.

    Duh. We have to go back and rescue him every time one of you noobs gets your time travel license.

  6. Re:I don't understand on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's between parents and their children, if the potential parents want to take thalidomide after it was shown to be dangerous to unborn children, then it's between the parents and children and government has no right to meddle with that either.

    This post is so stupid I am strongly tempted to reply as AC a long screed about how it fits into the GNAA agenda, but even the GNAA is appalled by your post.

  7. Re:I don't understand on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 2

    Thalidomide was a fucking medication. It was said to be safe. We're not talking about deregulation of health products.

    I replied to a post which included:" We have slid down the slippery slope to the point that agencies such as the BATF, DEA and FDA can ban substances by totally discretionary administrative action...."

    So yes, it was talking about deregulation of health products.

  8. Re:I don't understand on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 0

    So - you give up and admit the validity of my counterargument?

    You or your equivalent were advocating making the FDA toothless, not me.

  9. Re:Declare the compounds on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 1

    They are not being sold as drugs.

  10. Re:I don't understand on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 0, Troll

    10,000 thalidomide babied slap their tiny flippers together to salute your passion for unfettered free enterprise.

  11. Re:Kind of reminds me of on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The "PC" guys figured out that the best phone wasn't a complex phone but a small screen computer. Maybe they are also figuring that the best TV isn't a complex TV but a big screen computer.

  12. Re:One Word... on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    Miracle.

  13. Re:Dancing? on Canadian Copyright Board To Charge For Music At Weddings, Parades · · Score: 1

    Canadian Baptists do not have sex standing up. It might lead to dancing.

  14. Re:Survey? on IT Desktop Support To Be Wiped Out Thanks To Cloud Computing · · Score: 2

    How many times will you hear, "The cloud is down!"?

    Which reminds me - I really haven't heard the kind of marketing/meme support for this new cloud thing. I mean startup named Cumulonimbus or Translucidus or bending to the new task old metaphors like silver linings, etc.

  15. You are mistaken on New Cyberbullying Evidence Rules May Go Too Far · · Score: 1

    There is no dissent in Malaysia. Everyone there tells me so.

  16. Re:WWWBD? on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    So, in once sense you're right: taxes need to be paid to get the services that people think are necessary today.

    And who paid for the military which made sure that Fidel didn't extend the party to the Caymen Islands?

  17. Re:Cut to the chase on DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    How will this turn out? Let's see.

    End result: Many innocent people have their rights violated, some arrests are made. About a million dollars are spent on one case to bring it to the supreme court, ten years of some person's life is lost fighting it, and eventually the DEA is told to stop. During this time, drug smuggling is reduced by less than one part in a million. Millions of dollars spent on the system are wasted when the system is dismantled.

    Spending a million dollars is worth it if it prevents just one child's life from being destroyed by a marijuana joint.

  18. Re:Edison to Deforest ... ALMOST! on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    And L. Ron Hubbard was a hell of a war hero.

  19. Re:Irrefutable fact on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 2

    Godwin>Poe>Moore

  20. Re:Edison to Deforest ... ALMOST! on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 2

    Mr. Gates was very involved with most of Microsoft's technical direction and he contributed to much of the technology they developed, at least in the early days.

    Yeah, like when he stayed up all night writing QDOS and then MSDOS, the foundation of the Microsoft empire.

  21. Re:Irrefutable fact on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Archer>Barry

  22. Re:Irrefutable fact on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 3, Informative

    Audie Murphy (5'5', 110 pounds)>>>>>infinity>>>>Chuck Norris

  23. Re:The way they met is interesting on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 1

    ...and the Facebook fellators came out to play.

  24. The way they met is interesting on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Zuckerberg knew a guy who was engaged to her but didn't know much about wedding rings, so he asked Zuckerberg to look into which ring to buy. Zuckerberg agreed, then he vanished for a few days. The guy couldn't find his fiancee and Zuckerberg wasn't returning his calls. After a couple weeks, Zuckerberg shows up in the national news married to the guy's fiancee.

  25. Re:It is just more of Macs becoming iDevices on With Mountain Lion's iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall · · Score: 1

    Facebook, for example. Its users are not its customers. Its users are the product they are offering to its real customers.

    Dead on. The tragic flaw of the Facebook drama.