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  1. Re:Science isn't critical thinking... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    No you said there is evidence that there IS a creator, not that there is POSSIBLY a creator. Those are 2 completely different statements.

  2. Re:Science isn't critical thinking... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    That does not imply a creator. You are making giant leaps of logic, and assumptions to state your claim. It is something that you cannot prove because there is no evidence. If there were actually evidence people would be flocking to whatever religion it supported.

  3. Re:Science isn't critical thinking... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    He is correct, the earth is not a closed system, but the universe is.

  4. Re:Science isn't critical thinking... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    what is this evidence of a creator?

  5. Re:Stock Options on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 2

    Then tie it to 100:minimum wage.

  6. Re:Stock Options on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Any such income would be counted by the US IRS, and if they hid it would open themselves up to massive tax evasion problems. Any incomes over 90000k a year in other countries still has to be reported and taxes by the IRS. About the best they could do is buy the company things like jets/homes and let he CEO use them as a perk, but they already do that.

  7. Re:Rate Case nightmare on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    Peak usage is in the morning when you wake up, and in the afternoon when you get off work. After both those times it tapers off. In the winter for most states your power bill will be mostly normal., however during the summer peak times would be offset by the solar power, meaning there is really no change.

  8. Re:More bullshit on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1
    People who are in love with gas/coal should buy their energy with their own cash, not my tax dollars. Quite simple.

    When the price of gas/electricity skyrockets because of the lack of subsidies then we can see you cry.

  9. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    You act like 9% is not allot, considering it means they are profiting in the 10s of billions a year. That would fit most peoples definition of hand over fist. The number most profitable company in 2011 was exxon, almost double the nearest non oil competitor.

  10. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you go off % sure it is less, but if you go off the actually numbers, as in the total it is larger. Second the oil buisness does not need this tax break to survive, or to even have a competitive advantage, their profits show this.

  11. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    Well since we have not fully secured it, and republicans are out of office, I am not sure your point. Besides which it is more so the oil companies can make more money not so that you can save more.

  12. Re:AMD on Xbox One Released · · Score: 1

    So you cannot be educated and still consider it a word? I see a false dilemma.

  13. Re:Money again... on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 1

    And how does that change with the current patent system? Sure you can win billions or millions, if you can prove a problem, and if you can live long enough to see it to the end without your company going belly up, and you dont get triped up by another patent troll.

  14. Re:Money again... on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 1

    Except with the citizen united they have a legal way to bribe. I will pay you x million to your campaign and pay it as long as you vote my way. This will ensure that you can outspend all your opponents and always win, but vote against me and I will ensure you lose.

  15. Re:Money again... on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 1
    "Waah, I dont have a valid argument so I make a strawman."

    Making statements is fine, however paying off officials is not. even if it is legal payoffs like massive campaign contributions.

  16. Re:Money again... on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 1

    You keep using "censor" as though that is what he is asking for it is not. Censor means to completely suppress something, as in to black out parts of their conversation, when he is saying that one person should not have more weight than another just because they have money. Ms and IBM can spend all the money they want to change peoples minds, but 2 corps ,or even 12 corps should not be able to drown out all the other millions of corps.

  17. Re:what? on US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon · · Score: 1

    If the USPS was about efficient operation then it would not provide the benefits that it does today.. For example the "last mile" to some places would be cut in the example you mention so that someone could make a profit.

  18. Re:They built the best search engine, so punish th on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 1
    So wait, now you are circling, was it about the bundling, as I originally stated, aka building it into the OS or not? In addition it was more about blocking people out of the market.. Just bundling something does not lower competition, MS still bundles plenty of other applications that they are not sued over.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case

    The ballot was one of the ways to remedy the situation.

  19. Re:They built the best search engine, so punish th on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 1

    Intel was sued, not dell.. In this case google is dell, not intel.

  20. Re:They built the best search engine, so punish th on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 1

    There is not much difference. In the EU case it was because they were actively blocking competition, in this cause there is no active blocking of competition.

  21. Re:They built the best search engine, so punish th on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 1

    People who pay dell get a leg up, ie MS and intel, so that their items get put on dell machines, does that mean we should sue dell for anti-competitive behavior? If this was something limited to google you may have some issue, but other search engines do it as well, meaning it is not something anti-competitive.

  22. Re:They built the best search engine, so punish th on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 1

    Actually it was mainly because they tied IE directly into the OS making it a necessity. You still have a choice of search on whatever device you use, so not really the same thing.

  23. Re:London too on Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March · · Score: 1

    Just because you believe he is right doses not in any way shape or form make it less of a strawman, primarily because both believe in a stronger more powerful government, it is just what each side wants to control that differs.

  24. Re:London too on Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March · · Score: 1

    You are sick of people exercising their constitutional rights? You really are a conservative.

  25. Re:London too on Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March · · Score: 0

    And the new people in american conservatives will do the same. All our American conservatives does is take power away from the large group people to give it to a few people with less checks and balances to implement whatever they want, such as abortion control. All you have to do is look in the south to see the kinda of control the conservatives want, control over women's body, destruction of education institutions and implementation of forced religious learning.