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  1. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    I think there is a such thing as liberal media.

    I also think you would be better informed to take a look at the New York Times, Acorn, and the Obama Campaign staff to find out what REAL suppression of news stories is... and just how biased 'good media' can be.

  2. Re:No,he is very clever :) on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    I actually think you have a point.

    But, I don't think it applies to how Jihadists think - thy get brownie points just for killing 'infidels' and the more they kill the more brownie points they get.

    Also, the reason for the brownie points is to have a guaranteed entrance into heaven by doing 'God' the favor of killing infidels; verses investing the patience, time, and effort to convert them.

    So, the more they kill the better their chances - unless it's themselves. The jihadists' teachers, who don't practice what they preach, have changed the meaning of 'martyr' to include the active of killing oneself while also killing others. Which, obviously, it's not: it's suicide, as in the case of suicide bombings, that might or might not kill others.

  3. Re:People make the same mistake all over on Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Then, unless they are going to keep 'shop talk' in the shop, they need to use clearer idiomatic expressions for those who don't run in their circle(s).

  4. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    They will actually have the liberals ON the shows; it's not just secondhand reporting like the 5 o'clock evening news.

  5. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    *ahem*

    The misspellings are yours.

  6. Re:And next up on Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You used a subtle, but clear distinction, that affirms the GP:

    many doctors will recommend the latter option

    ...but they cannot require it... nor do our laws.

    I will say that the article's use of "evidence-based medicine" is heartbreaking - implying evidence isn't currently used... which I don't believe.

  7. Re:Yeah, April Fools... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Works for me!

  8. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, learning how to think like a liberal.

  9. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your list is but an understatement of the depth of their leanings... at least Fox gives a conservative view - whereas the others do NOT.

    What is amazing is that the real haters of Fox don't acknowledge the bias of the others. It's completely laughable.

  10. Re:!embryonic on Successful Stem Cell Replacement of Windpipe · · Score: 1

    Just as an aside: researchers are going to the government for financing because NO ONE wants to invest in what has already proven to be an abysmal failure.

  11. Re:How to stop internet crime on McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, aren't open source projects an example of the success of leaderless democracy?

    No.

    Are there examples of open source projects that do not have a 'leader': I don't know, are there?.

    But the most successful are the ones with a leader - it tends to foster focus and, thus, unity.

  12. Re:Define soul. on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That would require a better definition of the 'soul':

    • Mind
    • Will
    • Emotions

    Whereas you MAY have used the 'Emotions' part of that definition, the other two are obvious... despite their not being able to be 'seen'; as if they were "spiritual" in nature.

    Whether the soul is eternal or not delves into where you put your faith/trust/confidence in. Where ever that is: it had best be correct.

  13. Re:Yes. on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    I would LOVE to be a customer in a coffee shop that gets told that I can't be served because they have to clean up the mess from another customer before the remake that mess for me.

    AWESOME!

  14. Re:huh? on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    The concept is simple: use the boss's tools get the boss's pay - especially when you have to wait for that tool to to prepare itself to do the work the boss wants done.

    Concerning the logging off - unless the boss requires that you wait until the 'tool' is turned off before you can be dismissed, then you shouldn't be paid for it: go home!

  15. Re:Anti-Trust Shits on all of us. on Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle · · Score: 1

    Intel should get burned for actively deceiving customers.

  16. There's nothing new under the sun on Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old · · Score: 1, Flamebait
  17. Re:Just using VIM on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    How about that; it's still shorter than Emacs.

  18. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Math is the foundation of computer science.

    That is: you are correct.

    (Which would also explain the requisite study of boolean logic for Computer Science Engineering classes.)

  19. Re:Just using VIM on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    awesome

  20. Re:Ah... that explains it on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Comcast would have the integrity/guts to point the end user to a site like http://www.internetpulse.net/ to explain the problem (assuming that is the problem).

  21. Re:The reason why this is important on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article or the /. summary?

    I ask because the article makes it clear that they 'think' it is naphthalene but that it's not enough to state that it is conclusive.

    If 'thinking' is enough to be conclusive then what they think is no better than institutionalized, dead religion.

  22. Re:The reason why this is important on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 1

    As soon as you mentioned 'the Oxygen Catastrophe' I chalked up the rest of your post as a work of fiction.

    Sorry that's so harsh but I'm not spending my time on it.

  23. Re:The reason why this is important on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 1

    It's not a dismissal of 'the soup' it's a redirection to a very important requirement to life as we know it.

    But, I'm very skeptical of someone telling me that they KNOW a complex molecule (or, I would hope, a lot there of) exits 4,200 trillion miles away because the light that took 700 years to get to us is pristine and unaffected by any thing between us and there produces a particular result we were looking for.

    And I say that they are 'looking' for a particular result because they don't even claim to have proof: only that it 'could' be what they THINK it is.

    This is worse than the Catholic Church.

  24. Re:The reason why this is important on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A PhD in Biology once posed this to me:

    Suppose you can get all the ingredients for live together in one 'soup' but how do you 'accidently' get a lipid membrane to surround it?

    Thus, it won't matter whether the primordial soup ever existed until it can be shown that said soup could become surrounded by a hydrophobic membrane on its own.

  25. Re:The limits of forensics on City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    The contracting DNA labs: "Every thing coming up roses! (opens first 'specimen') What kind of cruel joke is this?!!"