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  1. Re:and the saddest thing on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1
    I'll repeat this.

    next year's accident statistics are likely to be proportional to the number of cars/traffic/congestion no matter what.

    But if you appear to be a paper tiger, the next attack will be an order of magnitude bigger.

  2. Re:and the saddest thing on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    Sure, but next year's accident statistics are likely to be proportional to the number of cars/traffic/congestion no matter what.

    But if you appear to be a paper tiger, the next attack will be an order of magnitude bigger.

  3. Re:The terrorists won, beyond their wildest dreams on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 0

    Nah, the terrorists didn't win, they got smashed in large numbers, by a completely disproportionate but necessary response.

  4. Re:and the saddest thing on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm, no. Car accident statistics dont get worse if you ignore them.

    On the other hand ignoring something as big 9/11 would have emboldened OBL and invite him to make the next one even bigger...

    It would have made us look like paper tigers. The appearance of weakness is the sort of thing that tempts our enemies to start wars.

  5. Re:US electricity is still way to cheap: on Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade · · Score: 1

    We don't subsidize gas or the highway system, but europe taxes excessively. Infact gas and road taxes subsidize a lot of other things in the US.

  6. Re:clever humans can introduce "black swans" on Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans · · Score: 1

    Nope. Dedicated amateurs often do better than the professionals. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/when-it-comes-to-forecasting-apples-earnings-amateurs-are-bett/

    The professionals also tend to have blind spots ...

  7. Re:Time to Usable on Windows 8 To Feature 'Fast Startup Mode' · · Score: 1

    You're right, it does work for XP.

  8. Re:Wrong on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 2

    Those savings are insured too. You do realize that just about any bank anywhere can give you a loan? Also, banks are sitting tight on their hoards of cash in fear at the moment, so it's not like getting loans is easy anyway.

    There have been bank panics before. That's what insurance is for. People who bought uninsured instruments knew they were taking a risk. When institutions fail, government should let them. After all, you don't want to privatize gains and socialize losses, do you.

  9. Re:Wrong on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Americans are insured by the FDIC (upto $500K), and there's lots of small banks and credit unions which could take up the slack.

  10. Re:China on Solar Company Folds After $0.5B In Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Bad analogy, where is the solar boom? They've had many years of subsidies now.

  11. Re:Stop on Solar Company Folds After $0.5B In Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Yay, even more tax dollars in subsidies!

  12. Re:A little late on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    Skeptic: "We don't know if the house is at 71F or 700F" (There really is a factor of 10 between competing AGW theories) Alarmist: "All I know is its too hot. Hoses. Now."

  13. Re:AGW on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    Or possibly build houses from the trees which will "sequester" all that carbon for a few decades at the least.

  14. Re:Anger at version number games. on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Only until IE10 is announced.

  15. Towers and Recession on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1

    Building the world's tallest tower is usually followed by a recession. Oh, oh.

  16. Re:Here's why you want to release ALL your data... on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's not how science works. Each step of the analysis, each link of the chain needs to be checked and verified. One of the steps being wrong is quite sufficient to break the conclusion. One step that needs to be verified is the one that takes raw data and converts it into normalized data.

  17. Re:Wait, these are not MY corporations on A Congressman and an Astronaut Propose a New Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    Instead, you would continue to pay exorbitant sums of money to government programs that progress at a glacial pace?

  18. Re:Fix the system first on Internet-Based Political Party Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    This is a bad idea. See for example Australia where the Greens won 5 seats out of 25, Labor and Liberals won 10 seats each. Now Greens have a lot of power because they can break a government simply by witholding support. How is that a better representation?

  19. The bottom on Man Builds Turbine Powered Batmobile · · Score: 1

    The bottom must be hell on bumps.

  20. Re:thanks for the post on James Webb Space Telescope Closer To the Axe · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, NASA is basically the only game in town for Aeronautics, if they blacklist you, you're out of luck.

  21. Re:Scrubbers: A 1970s Tech Still Absent in China on China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change · · Score: 1

    1. I was thinking more of cultivated forests.

    2. However, rainforests do grow back.

  22. Re:Complex Model on China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Neither the fluid flow people nor the high-temp metal people are asking for CO2 limits.

  23. Re:Scrubbers: A 1970s Tech Still Absent in China on China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change · · Score: 1

    "by converting the wood to something more stable" Building houses with all that wood will work quite well.

  24. Do they want discussion ? on EG8 Publishes Report In Noninteractive, Nonquotable Format · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is deliberate. Do they really want easy access and discussion on it ? After all, discussion would mean potential criticism and we can't have that, can we.

  25. Re:no on Brain Cancer Worries? Look Up Your Phone's SAR · · Score: 1

    You know I was about to write a rebuttal to the article when I noticed that the FCC had already done the job for me. Too bad nobody actually bothered to read the FCC link because it wasn't in the /. summary.