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  1. Re:No on Oil Man Proposes Increase In Oklahoma Oil-and-Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    The price hasn't plummeted because, while the supply is large, the cost of extraction is much higher, owing to its much higher difficulty. It's not as simple as drilling into a big cavern and sucking it out, you know.

  2. Re:Socialist on Oil Man Proposes Increase In Oklahoma Oil-and-Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Actually, they started calling him a hypocrite, not a socialist. He is a hypocrite because, while he insists he should pay more in tax, he actually does not. Nothing is stopping him making a gift to the treasury in the amount he thinks he ought to be paying, but they have yet to receive any payments.

  3. Re:Put this in perspective on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1

    "Every species that's alive today, including polar bears, managed to survive that massive 400-ft increase in sea level."

    Polar Bears did not have palatial mansions along the shoreline.

    And yes, you are right that there are not supposed to be any ice caps. But, you'll never convince alarmists of that. To them it's just propaganda.

  4. Ban them all you want on UN to Debate Use of Fully Autonomous Weapons, New Report Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bans will not only not prevent them being developed, probably even by a technologically advanced State that is a signatory to the treaty, but it will also not prevent them being used by rogue or puppet states who don't care about bans, or who use them at the behest of a signatory state that is just using them to do their dirty work.

  5. Re:Won't someone think of the parents? on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    It's called a "local email client." Get one, like Thunderbird or Outlook, and teach him how to use it. It will never change unless you change it.

  6. Re:So we had the name wrong all along? on Eavesdropping With a Smart TV · · Score: 1

    In fact, in Spanish, the word for a TV set is "televisor."

  7. Re:one simple way.. on Eavesdropping With a Smart TV · · Score: 1

    But, but, that would require government getting involved, and the libertarian narrative won't allow that. The free market will dictate that these safeguards exist if they are supposed to exist. Right?

  8. Yeah, but what was the P/L? on Tesla Logged $713 Million In Revenue In Q1 and Built 7,535 Cars · · Score: 1

    Revenue is important, and so are revenue trends, but where is the P/L?

    The link that says "earnings statement" is anything but an earnings statement.

  9. Re:Environmentalists eat your heart out. on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 0

    Shhhhh... your observation does not support this administration's agenda.

  10. Re:Perfect Solution Fallacy on ACLU and EFF Endorse Weaker USA Freedom Act Passed By Committee · · Score: 1

    No, that is not what I am saying at all.

  11. Re:Perfect Solution Fallacy on ACLU and EFF Endorse Weaker USA Freedom Act Passed By Committee · · Score: 1

    Indeed, nothing any terrorist could do could cause the United States to cease to exist. Mr. Trollheim here is only correct about that point, but is overblowing the threat by several orders of magnitude.

    In the face of an existential threat to the United States, her citizens have a proven track record of rising to the cause (WW1, WW2). Of course, there has been no existential threat to the United States since World War 2, except for maybe the Cold War, but that was an existential threat to all of humanity. So, who knows what Americans would do today? If what I see on TV is any indicator how what Americans think about America, it would not surprise me if American Citizens just laid down and allowed an oppressive regime to march right in and take over, for free stuff..

  12. Perfect Solution Fallacy on ACLU and EFF Endorse Weaker USA Freedom Act Passed By Committee · · Score: 2

    The perfect solution fallacy is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists and/or that a solution should be rejected because some part of the problem would still exist after it were implemented. This is an example of black and white thinking, in which a person fails to see the complex interplay between multiple component elements of a situation or problem, and as a result, reduces complex problems to a pair of binary extremes.

    It is common for arguments which commit this fallacy to omit any specifics about exactly how, or how badly, a proposed solution is claimed to fall short of acceptability, expressing the rejection in vague terms only. Alternatively, it may be combined with the fallacy of misleading vividness, when a specific example of a solution's failure is described in emotionally powerful detail but base rates are ignored (see availability heuristic).

    The fallacy is a type of false dilemma.

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

  13. Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are not acting in the best interest of those the endowments are there to serve. They are using the financial clout of the endowments to make a political statement, often to the detriment of the endowment's beneficiaries.

    Stupid.

  14. The Internet is Becoming a Network of... on Internet Transit Provider Claims ISPs Deliberately Allow Port Congestion · · Score: 1

    ... walled gardens.

    Verizon will have an Internet for its customers, that everyone outside will have to pay to access. Verizon is basically trying to create a model where the Internet at large must pay for access to its customers eyeballs.

    Other ISPs are following suit.

  15. Re:Radiation! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    "Never mind that the yearly exposure is an order of magnitude or two less"

    Is it one order of magnitude less or two? There's a huge difference.

  16. Does it block Piwik Analytics? on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because this is the tracker the EFF has on the download page for "Privacy Badger."

  17. Re:There needs to be clear jurisdictional bounds on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    There are many places where "airplane" space goes all the way to the ground. One inch off the ground puts you in FAA controlled airspace in these areas.

    Class B, C, and D airports all have controlled airspace to the surface within a few miles of the runway center, and some Class E (non-towered fields) also have Class E airspace "to the surface."

    I don't know where this occurred, but it's entirely possible that he was flying in controlled airspace.

  18. This is NOT a fine for "Flying a Drone" on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 2

    This is a fine for willfully putting someone in danger and destroying property. The pilot should be thanking his lucky stars that the FAA gets to process this in administrative law court rather than the State process it through criminal court.

  19. Stocks have no intrinsic value, you idiot. on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    Rand Paul is really proving just what an imbecile he is. Stocks are just pieces of paper that say you own 1/Nth of a company that may or may not be worth anything.

  20. BBT is a bore on What It's Like To Be the Scientific Consultant For The Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    I honestly thought the show was pretty funny for the first couple of seasons, but then it wore off. Why? Because it's just the same formulaic, stereotypical nonsense after 7 or 8 seasons.

    It's basically a very predictable slapstick comedy with a bunch of technical and scientific jargon sprinkled on it.

  21. Re:To generate the keywords takes knowledge on Grading Software Fooled By Nonsense Essay Generator · · Score: 2

    Did you happen to read TFA? In the TFA, it is said that the College Board does not take points off for factual errors. In fact, it says that it cares not for factual errors, because errors in fact seldom subtract from the quality of the essay being graded.

    WTF, right?

  22. Wait list? on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    "his underground Dallas restaurant, has a waitlist of 3,000"

    Food that you have to wait that long to eat is not worth eating.

  23. There will be no consequences on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    The FAA will not do anything to punish illegal drone flights by law enforce^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H domestic anti-terror officers.

  24. Re:Certain Disappointment on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    How cynical of you.

  25. Re:Certain Disappointment on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 2

    Cynicism is never pointless.