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  1. Re:Historical Data Readings on Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels · · Score: 1
    So, because the results don't conform with your political viewpoint (the Limbaugh assertion that there is no global warming, ceratinly not anything to be of concern about), it's wrong! Period!

    Nice scientific analysis. You should publish that somewhere, I bet National Review will be happy to publish your paper.

  2. Re:Historical Data Readings on Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels · · Score: 1
    I believe that knowledge of the world can be learned by observation experimentation and deduction, but I guess that makes me a claimant to being omnipotent and infallable.

    No, it makes you a Liberal.

  3. Re:Enough is enough /.! We are better than this! on Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels · · Score: 1
    air has been getting cleaner for decades

    "Getting cleaner" isn't the same as "clean enough". It needs to "get" a whole lot cleaner, something most right-wingnuts refuse to understand.

  4. Re:Maybe Some Humans Are More Temporary Than Other on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1
    Our lineage is at least 3.3 million years old http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/ 2006/920/1

    Finally, someone is thinking about the children.

  5. Re:Arctic melting on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1

    without enough flames the tubes may cool!
    OMFG! And then that would make the tubes constrict which would make the lottery balls plug the holes, and we won't get our Internets for weeks! http://youtube.com/watch?v=SIn_J_jxf-o&search=net% 20neutrality

  6. Re:Well! I stand corrected. on New Tolkien Story To be Published · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our asshat overlords.

  7. Re:We should be tracking our government. on FBI Data Mining Students' Financial Aid Records · · Score: 1
    So you do not like the program that is supposed to protect you from terrorists. Would rather have Clinton and Saddam back in power? Why do you hate America so much?

    Straight from the Nazi playbook (we are getting alot of this these days):

    "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

    "There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

    "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm

  8. Re:What about windows? on Can Faraday Cages Tame Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Annh, wrong. Read Gauss's Law.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss's_law

    Do I get points for being a nerd?

  9. A Jetson's Ripoff on Robot Balances on a Single Spherical Wheel · · Score: 1

    Then there is Rosie http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/rosie/ . Does this mean he can't patent the idea due to prior art?

  10. Re:Online Gambling (gaming) ban; good or bad? on Illinois to Pay for Unconstitutional Gaming Law · · Score: 1

    They should know that the system is in place to rip them off, but they keep going back. Kind of like the Stock Market.

  11. Re:Living with the danger you know on Jack Thompson's Violent Game Bill Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    often freaked out totally by the disasters that hit other areas
    Such as snow.

  12. Re:Some bold statements from this article on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Umm, what about all the ice mass residing on Greenland, Norther Canada, Russia, Antactica that isn't above sea level due to Archimedes principle?

  13. Does Stock Market Gambling also count???? on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    Wonder if they are going to be raiding people who use E*Trade to gamble the stock market online? They really should be consistent here. Stock Market gambling is just as dangerous as playing cards online. For the children, of course.

  14. Re:Using Perl Should Be A Crime on UK Law May Criminalize IT Pros · · Score: 1

    "Of course, using the above criteria, they'll be hunting the author of APL with dogs."

    LISP

  15. Re:Deserve? on RIAA Sues XM Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    You know what the real crime is?

    It's a crime the way these snakes have robbed the Public Domain from us AS PROVIDED TO US THROUGH THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES (14 year + 14 years extension) through their perpetual copyright extensions.

    That's the real crime.

    And it's destroying our culture.

  16. Reagan Did It on Challenger Tragedy - In Depth, and Deeply Felt · · Score: 1

    I was at JPL that that time, for Post Doc work. 1986.

    Voyager 2 at Uranus that weekend. That was cool. I got to experience all the pics live as they came in. Then, a few days later, Challeneger Launch! Heck, I was analyzing ATMOS data from an earlier Challenger lauch as part of my PhD work.

    I remember watching the internal monitors in the cafeteria the day before the launch (which was set at around 8:30 AM PST the next day if I remember correctly).

    I remember the engineers discussing the probabilitly of O-Ring failures in that tempertaure range (freezing). Numbers like 98% failure probability. It was concluded that the shuttle could not launch because of concern about SPECIFICALLY O-Ring failure and the FACT that it would explode if operated under those conditions.

    The engineers KNOW the specs, and know what can happen.

    OK, fine. I came in later and saw a bunch of depressed people.

    Why did they launch it? Everyone KNEW it would explode!?!!!

    You know what it was?

    Reagan forced them to launch it. Superbowl weekend passed (Bears beat Patriots bad!). Remember, it was the Teacher In Space Mission. We
    were going to show the Soviets who was boss! Reagan was to uplink to the Teacher In
    Space for his State of the Union Address.

    Yeah, what a Tragedy. An Avoidable tragedy. Just goes to show what happens when idiots
    pull the strings, not those who know.

    It makes me sick to my stomach everytime I have to think about it.

  17. Re:Evolution is Theory After All on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    Something, which I may add, evolved to be part of what the peacock is today, since it HELPs the survival of the species against predators.

  18. Re:Evolution is Theory After All on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    Now you may not find it very scary, but then again, you probably don't run around naked eating raw meat either. Not to mention that he, as a human, has the EVOLVED intelligence to know better. A woudl be predator isn't as intelligent as a human, and is intimidated by it, which is part of the peacock's survival skills.

  19. Re:We have no constitutional right to vote on Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked · · Score: 1

    Yes it does.

    It's called the 9th Amendement.

    Amendment IX

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

  20. Re:100 million users and climbing on How Chinese Evade Government's Web Controls · · Score: 1

    ... and our Forefathers are rolling in their graves.

  21. Bandwidth? on InPhase Announces 300GB Holographic Discs · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a '77 Chevy Stationwagon loaded to the brim with holographic discs barreling down the freeway at 70 MPH.

  22. Re:Others have this as well on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    As long as you keep your mouth shut and don't make any waves.

  23. Re:DUH - HELLO ??? on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    Then why the big push for a National ID system then? Hmm?

    The truth is, the National ID system goes many steps further, by centralizing all of this information, so that the government can have access to all this information in a split second, something which used to take time, effort, legal warrants, etc to collect and organize. Having all of your personal information spread out all over the place is actually a good thing, because it helps prevent abuse. Centralized databases of subjects' lives only invites abuse, in fact, it encourages it.

    Baaah.

  24. Re:Not a big deal on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    By then it will be too late, they will already have the infrastructure and precedence to do it.

  25. Re:The scary consequences of tagging citizens on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    The problem is that a government that employs this kind of means to keep track of people do not think of its citizens as people, rather, they think of them as inventory, part of their property, to be tagged and treated as they will.

    It's been done before and will be dont again and again and again until people finally learn.

    -Jeho