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  1. Re:Subsidies in the form of tax write-offs on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 1

    It's an example of a corporation that is focused on taking, not giving.

    That would be called "giving less", not "taking".

  2. Re:Pointless study on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 2

    0) People who think the government should subsidize *THEIR* industry.

  3. Re:You might want to check that data again... on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 2

    Memetic engineering.

  4. Re:Last time we saw crazy market valuations, on Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    If the voting majority in a first-world democracy actually wanted reform, they would get it in the next election. Protesters in the streets are necessarily always fringe lunatics. The Revolution will be televised -- on election night. You only get bloody revolutions in countries that don't have democracy.

  5. Re:Overblown on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In principle, there could be parts of the plan that require secrecy in order to work. Otherwise, if the market knew a particular move was coming, it would react to it before it happened which could defeat the purpose of various possible moves.

  6. Wholesale prices on Australian ISP Offers Pro-bono Legal Advice To Accused Pirates · · Score: 2

    the lost revenue by the studio, which currently stands at $10AU ($7.90US) based on iTunes pricing.

    The studio should only be entitled to recover the wholesale price, which is presumably somewhere around half of the retail price.

  7. Re:Old on In 1984, Jobs and Wozniak Talk About Apple's Earliest Days · · Score: 1

    You're off by a decade... 31 years.

    He must be using one of those newfangled Pentium processors.

  8. Re:Either of the poles woulc cause this effect on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    You can walk on ice. Trust me; I've done it.

  9. Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you really believe that a minimum wage can increase the welfare of poor people, why not raise it to $500/hour? Then we can all be rich!

  10. Re:The two things that have led me to oppose the D on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    How many executed prisoners reoffend?

  11. Re:USA in good company... on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    Most methods of execution should only cost a few dollars.

  12. Re:Half the size of Rhode Island? on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I calculate that half of Rhode Island is equal to 4162 Libraries of Congress, by floor space.

  13. Re:Per minute... on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: 0

    There are 365.2425 calendar days/year. There are 365.2422 solar days/year.

  14. Re:Good thing climate change isn't real! on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real question is how many millions of people should we kill with energy poverty?

  15. Re:Great power on Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition · · Score: 0

    The article says "error rate of just 4.58 percent ... Google's system scored a 95.2% and Microsoft's, a 95.06%". That means Google's and Microsoft's error rates are absolutely terrible and they really should just toss a coin!

  16. Re:West? on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    More importantly, why are these guys ignoring West Antarctica or Antarctica as a whole? Does the activity in these regions not fit their narrative?

  17. Re:Great. Let's sit here and wait for the next wav on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    There's a whole spectrum of opinion: Denier -> Skeptic -> Neutral -> Agreer -> Zealot. There is too much conflation of "Denier" (one who denies blindly and emphatically) and "Skeptic" (one who is scientifically knowledgeable not convinced by the available evidence) and too much input from "Zealots" (those who agree blindly and emphatically).

  18. Re:A Baseball Pitcher throws a fastball on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    To complete your analogy, dodging the ball isn't free. Doing so will give you a heart attack. Now, what do you do?

  19. Re:Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Do you have some kind of link to offer for the thorough explanation of the temperature adjustments?

  20. Re: The question is on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    "I understand how the engines work now. It came to me in a dream. The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it." -- Cubert Farnsworth, Futurama 2:10

  21. Re:This reveals a need for blind review on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    Or, the reviewer could just note that 30% of the research papers cited were written by two people and conclude that these are the new paper's authors.

  22. Re:Pope Attacked By Climate Change HEATHENS on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Presumably, you mean "Climate-Change Heathens".

  23. Re:Most people don't understand the debate. on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    danbob999 will reply that the dog ate his homework... or not.

  24. Re:Does it matter if you are a sceptic or not? on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    If climate change is catastrophically serious, we need to reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere and immediately switch from coal to nuclear

    Even if we did that, it would still take several decades for it to have an impact. And we won't do that. If climate change is catastrophically serious, then geo-engineering would be the only effective solution. On the plus side, it is only 1/1000th as expensive as CO2-emission elimination.

  25. Re:Does it matter if you are a sceptic or not? on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Its also been warming sharply since the end of the Little Ice Age 200 years ago.