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  1. Re: Considering how few boys graduate at ALL on School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees · · Score: 2

    garbage humans -> waste collectors

  2. Re:Deckard on Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    Nah, he was... "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?" ... and the orgami figure of a unicorn at his feet

  3. Re:I am going to take this a step further on Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not make them asexual then? Gay relationships can have self-destructive crazy, too.

    Gay tendency could be a side effect of other gene that is beneficial (or a combination thereof and/or along with a nurture component). For example, you wouldn't argue that blind spots are a survival trait, would you? And yet eyes without them would be considerably better.

  4. Re:I am going to take this a step further on Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You could say that about every genetic trait modern humans have. What about short sightedness, then? How about an allergy to peanuts? Are these survival traits, too?

  5. Re: Camps mixed up on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 0

    It's because the poor people that do vote, senior citizens mostly, don't like living next to drug addicts that engage in petty theft, sell drugs and sometimes do much worse deeds, and live off the government dole. For whatever sins the republicans are known for, the thought is they will help prevent theiving meth heads from living next door to them.

  6. Re:More feminist FUD on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    I am just surprised, really. I'd like to know how you came to that conclusion. Although, I could see how female gamers might like it because of the limited interaction between players prevents a lot of the griefing in other games.

  7. Re:More feminist FUD on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Dark Souls is also really popular with women.

    Citation needed.

  8. Re:"Photorealistic" on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 1

    how many games actually want to capture real-world data?

    It would work for more than real world data. You could take any CGI scene from any movie done today, turn it into voxels and use it in their engine.

  9. Re:Can someone clarify the state of BitCoin? on Paypal Jumps Into Bitcoin With Both Feet · · Score: 1

    2. Isn't BTC anonymous hence why bother reporting?

    You better have documented some source for the money on your tax return after $100,000 USD suddenly lands in your bank account, or the government will throw you in jail.

  10. Re: I never realized how bad it was on Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone · · Score: 1

    I live in Taiwan too. I'm on the Taiwan mobile prepaid plan which is 2gb for 300 nt (around 10 us dollars). Can i ask how much you're paying?

  11. Re: Stereo on Is Dolby Atmos a Flop For Home Theater Like 3DTV Was? · · Score: 1

    Interesting, but I thought a lot of the way we determine the direction of sound is through triangulation, in combination with the delay it takes from sound to hit one ear and then the other. That's why when you try hard to listen for where something is coming from, you often instinctively tilt your head slightly. (and the time for sound to travel from one ear to the other is also why when you hear things underwater, you have trouble telling where they come from because sound travels faster in water than in air)

  12. This isn't the same thing. What's being measured here is the reaction time, which isn't the same as measuring how fast an animal's appendages move.

  13. Re:The frustrations of AI. on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    If hardware isn't the problem, then it must be an algorithmic one. So, why can't an algorithm be discovered that is a breakthrough?

  14. Re:Intelligence on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Victim of shitty moderators

  15. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    What do waves and tides have to do with it? Why don't we start talking about deadly world pools and sea monsters?

  16. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    No, it's just you that don't get plural forms (or have a sense of humor, apparently)

  17. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The Oxford Dictionary would disagree with you (too)

  18. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I didn't see BasilBrush mentioning the Oxford Dictionary in any of his posts, so I think it is you that are failing to comprehend (*snicker*) a comment thread.

  19. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It seems you have some trouble with nuances English, so let me enlighten you. Weather is a non-countable noun, like paper or water. So many instances of weather is still weather, and so, climate being many instances of weather, means that, in fact, climate is weather.

  20. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    So you're calling out Oxford Dictionaries... Huh... *shrugs*

  21. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    You can look up weather by different time periods. By the hour, the day, so why not the week, the month, the year, or even the century? As per the definition, there is no time period where weather ceases to be weather. Therefore climate is just weather over a longer period then we normally use, but that doesn't mean it is no longer weather.

    Which is why climate is weather but weather isn't (always) climate.

  22. Re:Weather is NOT climate on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    climate
    noun: climate; plural noun: climates

            the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.

    So, climate *is* weather.

  23. Re: They're infringing my Second-Amendment drone r on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 1

    Free Speech Zones? That's a new one

  24. Re:Great! We can take it out of the ground on Continuous System For Converting Waste Plastics Into Crude Oil · · Score: 1

    I didn't say oil is getting cheaper. I said it is cheaper, e.g., oil is cheaper with this technology than without it.

  25. Re:Great! We can take it out of the ground on Continuous System For Converting Waste Plastics Into Crude Oil · · Score: 1

    Your math is off. The cheaper oil is the more we rely on it as an energy source as opposed to less dirty alternatives.