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  1. No need to bring up Hitler. on FDA Approves First Brain Stem Cell Transplant · · Score: 1

    The word you are looking for is eugenics. I had trouble thinking of the word, so I did a search on relevant terms. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=social+%22nat ural+selection%22+sterilization In the United States, 24 states passed sterilization laws and Congress passed a law restricting immigration from certain areas deemed to be unfit.

  2. You seem to have confused the past with the presen on Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet · · Score: 1

    1. America is the most aggressive nation right now.

    2. What America does after the aggression (i.e. independent nation building) is irrelevant.

    3. Independent nations are neither here nor there. The capacity of a people to be and remain free however is.

    4. Just cutting a long enslaved people loose from their captors is not enough to make them free. A mindset change is required.

    5. Agression upon an immoral opponent is still aggression.

  3. You misread him on Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV · · Score: 1

    He didn't say "no difference", he said no appreciable difference.

    While WordWeb defines appreciable to mean "Enough to be estimated or measured", in common usage it has a meaning closer to its base word appreciate, that is, value.

    What I would mean if I were to say what he said is that I don't find any value in the differences between them. Neither one of them have expressed an effective management strategy, and for me that is key.

  4. Somebody should put Jack Thompson out of his miser on Jack Thompson Calls The Feds On PA · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hear that he'd be better off with a millstone around his neck and cast into the sea than his current fate.

  5. Misuse of such tools on Free or Open Source ITIL Tools? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ITIL, Six-Sigma, and PMBOK are all tools. Unfortunately they are also words that can be used on the uninformed into thinking something else is of value by virtue of its association with one of the above.

    Basically the pushers and consultants were committing an association fallacy.

  6. You must have missed the original joke on Company Claims Patent Over XML · · Score: 1

    The original joke went:
    There are 3 types of people: those who can count and those who cannot. The joke being that the person cannot count. Thus, the equivalent binary joke is 11.

  7. Re:My karma can stand it on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

    And you'd better believe that people all over Latin America call themselves Americans.

    Why? It doesn't seem as if the consequences are particularly dour.

    If you've seen one Latin American, you've seen them all!
    And have you seen every Latin American?
    Well...I've seen one!

  8. I looked it up. on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

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

    Apparently America is nowhere to be found in the official name of the country known as Canada, the official name of which is apparently simply "Canada" and not Dominion of Canada.
    The reason that people of the United States of America are called Americans is because it is in the official name of the country and not because it is in the Americas.

    Easy mistake to make, I know.

    Also, as far as I know, the United States of America is the only country with America in its name.

  9. Innocent artists? on Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl · · Score: 1

    Don't you know that no one is innocent?

    From Pat Bennatar's Invincible:

    We can't afford to be innocent.

  10. "vent hole" why? on A Micro-A/C for a Server Closet? · · Score: 1

    There needs to be a hole for the A/C to go in, but the heat goes out through the A/C.

  11. Caught this in meta-moderation... on CNN Interviews Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    and meta-moderation isn't bound by the same rules as moderation. I'm modding down the insightful rating as unfair. It wouldn't rate an insightful rating even if it was particularly useful, but it isn't even that, and here's why:
    When I complete the thought it goes like this:
    I could care less, but it would be hard, real hard, and you aren't making it any easier.

  12. Re:Light Bulb on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    and it also depends on the lights being wired to the switches in the same position as the lights.

  13. Two other options. on Bacteria-killing Pencil · · Score: 1

    1. Insurance. If the device fails to pass, then the insurance pays for it.

    2. A group of companies get together to foot the bill.

    Note that these two minght not be incentive enough, but there are other tools besides patents and government funding with which to provide the incentive to bring a product forward.

  14. E-mail with a religous person on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    >What would you have thought when Jesus spit in the dirt and grabbed it and smeared it in someones eyes?

    All I have to do is look to:
    unguent:Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unguent
    salve
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve
    which leads me to
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Phrygian+powder

    add to that:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultice
    and what he did is not so unusual.

    He proffered a statement that he expected me to reject because I approched things scientifically because he was unaware of the relevant science which wasn't that obscure.

  15. School in dream. on The Future of Videogame Aesthetics · · Score: 1

    In my dreams I've been in a few facilities that I have that High School idea about. None of them are much like the High Schools I actually went to.

    Generally I approach this with the mindset that these are places to learn that are presenting themselves in a manner I can process as that sort of place.

  16. Re:Here's the answer on Arrays vs Pointers in C? · · Score: 1

    I know a counter-example reference
    HHG2G: Some scientist proved that black was white and subsequently got ran over at the next zebra crossing.

    A Google search that a "zebra crossing" is british for a pedestrian crosswalk.

  17. Re:your problem on Muzak Encoding at Home? · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought too. War on required Muzak/Music playing!

  18. Re:How about a list? on 20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television · · Score: 1

    I prefer the terms Elephants and Donkeys.

  19. The article is inaccurate anyways. on Preview of New MSN Hotmail · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have a free account. The size is 250MB and can access Hotmail via Outlook Express using http mail protocol.

  20. It isn't so much Microsoft as the method... on U.S. Cybersecurity Not So Secure? · · Score: 1

    A combination of no bid contracts and everybody else is doing it. Bids aren't just a pricetag, but a method of implementing goals. Without getting solution proposals how do you know you've gotten the best solution?

  21. Re:Fundementals on What Makes an OSS Class Work? · · Score: 1

    I know how to use CVS to get the firefox trunk, but that's a completely different thing than setting up the repository, Also, when to fork, the relationship of forks to milestones, what happens when you allow anyone access to the versioning system, what levels of access there should be, who gets to commit and when shoud commits be turned off completely for a branch are details I'm not sure reading the CVS documentation will cover in 15 minutes.

  22. Guatemala on Wallace and Gromit Studio Loses History · · Score: 1

    Plus the mudslides in Guatemala, which I haven't seen news of in the U.S., but then maybe my timing was off. It is listed over to the scrollbox to the side on http://foxnews.com/

  23. Nah, Tesla's thing was recharge at a distance. on Splashpower Boasts Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    This is just recharge on contact.

    Actually with Tesla's method there is never a discharge, though I'm probably using the word "discharge" slightly different from current usage.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+wireless

  24. It would be not as bad for me... on Optimizing Development For Fun · · Score: 1

    if it wasn't for my Mom's attitude towards us doing it.

    If you take the attitude that it's okay to stop without holding everything to a nebulous standard of clean, it becomes easier.

  25. Despite Slashdot panning it... on 300 Years to Index the World's Information · · Score: 1

    They do have patents:
    http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page2.html
    Throw the numbers there into:
    http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
    The EU site is below:
    http://www.european-patent-office.org/
    Which lead me to here:
    http://www.espacenet.com/getstarted/index.en.htm
    Which is where I stop before submitting this message to slashdot.