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  1. Re:Nah, it's just pure stubbornness on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I usually don't reply to ACs but I think it's useful in this case.

    The difference between the things you cite and evolution is that the scientific models we have for atoms, chemical reactions, and whatnot have led to concrete technological advance (light heavier than air flight) that can be demonstrated. Evolution will do the same eventually. (And already is to some extent with evolutionary computation, but it's hard to show, and "easy" to "refute" with the micro vs macro evolution canard.)

  2. Nah, it's just pure stubbornness on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I grew up in Texas and have lived here all of my life. The resistance to evolution can be summed up in one sentence:

    "You can't tell me what to fuckin' believe!"

    If some long haired city boy told them their face was on fire the'd refuse to believe it, basically.

  3. Performance issues? on A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    This feature may be causing performance issues. Since upgrading to iOS 7 wifi connectivity has been crap. When I turn off wifi and just use LTE it's great. I just tested wifi without the cellular data connection active...and it's great! Both turned on at the same time? Timeouts and heavy lag for anything that needs an internet connection.

  4. Tap it in! on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    There are bands who would have trouble playing a police siren in tune, who download a cracked copy of Cubase ... and tap in every note.

    Guess what? That's still music. I say this as a musician who can carry a tune. Don't be such a fucking snob.

  5. Re:Diamond Beats Everything on High-end CPU Coolers Reviewed and Compared · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Except the discussion is about Fukushima...

  7. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Yep.

  8. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    You were at Fukushima?

  9. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with Fukushima?

  10. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 2

    All you've presented are your words. Please back up your extra ordinary claims with reliable sources.

  11. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    You're the one making the claims. Back them up, please.

  12. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    The end of the world is neigh? Which seal of the apocalypse is Fukushima?

  13. Ballmer on Inspired By the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle · · Score: 1

    'Nuff said.

  14. Re:Yes, and? on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1

    It's so crazy it just might work.

  15. Re:Yes, and? on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1

    Which is why we need a world government.

    No more "foreigners."

  16. Big fucking deal on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 1

    I've been posting under my real name since 1989, before the world wide web even existed. I don't see what the big deal is.

  17. Re:The only thing Defcon attendees can agree on... on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 1

    Fnord.

  18. The only thing Defcon attendees can agree on... on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 0

    DONGS!

  19. Re:Stealing? on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    Is there an intellectual property claim over those features?

  20. Stealing? on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 2

    So if another framework or language has a certain feature Java isn't allowed to have them?

    Really?

  21. Re:29 years old on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 2

    What would you do if a 120-year old told you that you were a kid?

    He'd be right and I'd listen to him.

  22. Re:Doesn't anyone remember FDR? on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm Afraid of People who Unnecessarily Capitalize.

  23. Re:NIMBY on The Aging of Our Nuclear Power Plants Is Not So Graceful · · Score: 1

    Yet somehow a test reactor ran for years.

  24. Re:NIMBY on The Aging of Our Nuclear Power Plants Is Not So Graceful · · Score: 1

    Having leftover molten salt in a pipe wouldn't bea problem, even of it solidified. It would solidify if criticality was lost. If criticality was not lost then ot would remain molten and drain.

    Passive safety. Make sense?

  25. Re:NIMBY on The Aging of Our Nuclear Power Plants Is Not So Graceful · · Score: 1

    No, actually, with a molten salt reactor you would not have had a nasty accident. Know how the folks at ORNL shut down the molten salt reactor experiment each weekend? They pulled the plug and let the molten salt drain out. That happens to be the exact same thing that happens if the reactor gets too hot. That's what happens when passive safety is designed in. It's just...safe.