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  1. The BS is that 'Current federal spending trends are not sustainable' I see nothing but deflation right now. Cutting spending does not lead to the end of deflation.

  2. BS on Senator Makes NASA Complete $350 Million Testing Tower That It Will Never Use · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    'Current federal spending trends are not sustainable, and if NASA can make a relatively painless contribution to deficit reduction by shutting down an unwanted program, why not let it happen?' says Pete Sepp, executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union. 'It's not rocket science, at least fiscally.'" It's B.S. We have a fiat currency and the only limit to spending is inflation.

  3. Re:I'm using FVWM... on Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? · · Score: 2

    What i'd like is a terminal with an integrated visual file browser.

  4. Re:what's "interesting"? on It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information · · Score: 1

    lolz

  5. Re:what's "interesting"? on It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And that is what old age does. You forget what you've said, and you say it again. Longer search time requires one to maintain the goal of the search in mind, longer. This could potentially explain the wandering phenomenon in old age, where the mind wanders and doesnt' stay on task. The search requires more investment, more time, more concentration. Any Interruption to that search will require a different search to recover the goal/search you were originally maintaining. But this search for your old goal takes a while too and, oh a pretty flower.

  6. Re:"fertility skin pigment"? on 20% of Neanderthal Genome Survives In Humans · · Score: 1

    I wonder what other groups of primates we share DNA with that we know nothing about?

  7. Re:As someone who works in tech support... on 20% of Neanderthal Genome Survives In Humans · · Score: 2

    trolling now, are we? With all we know about the limitations of that measure of cognition? Please.

  8. Re:"fertility skin pigment"? on 20% of Neanderthal Genome Survives In Humans · · Score: 2
    Thank you.

    Also, 20% is a lot, so we might as well call it human DNA. We own it now, its shapes us.

    ...and whatever homosapiens mingled lines with the Neanderthals cannot really claim to be *more human* than we are now...they were something else. If we call them homo-sapiens, then we are not homo sapiens, but the hybrid.

  9. Re:Wow on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 1

    hOW WILL THIS EFFECT PRICES.

  10. Re:any research on Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study · · Score: 2

    What is your evidence that viruses never live symbiotically with humans?

  11. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Thank you. The guy was more than a dick, but we are supposed to be a humane society.

  12. Re:my dad on Telescope Designer and Astronomer John Dobson, 1915-2014 · · Score: 1

    hmmm. Interesting. Thanks.

  13. Re:While my Meade Lightbridge gently weeps... on Telescope Designer and Astronomer John Dobson, 1915-2014 · · Score: 1

    thats so cool

  14. Re:my dad on Telescope Designer and Astronomer John Dobson, 1915-2014 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    About the same here. I also always remember that he converted a washer machine into a mirror grinder to get the mirror into the rough dimensions. Then the endless days of fine grinding and testing. I recently asked him about the washer machine approach and he grinned and said, "that was wild, but I'd do it differently next time."

    He got ambitious several years ago, and found 5 ft diameter piece of mirror making glass being sold by a college on Ebay for cheap. That is a big effing mirror. Once he had it in his house, the enormity of the task of doing anything with it became obvious. ha!

  15. my dad on Telescope Designer and Astronomer John Dobson, 1915-2014 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    built a Dobson telescope when I was a kid. Many memorable nights in the back yard with that Dobson.. RIP

  16. Re:YMBNH on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 1

    The first six comments I saw for the article

  17. Re:We all know what this means..... on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Taxes don't pay for Federal expenditures. That is a fallacy that is all too common.

  18. knee jerk on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 1

    First 6 posts are knee jerk reactions.

  19. Re:in other words... on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gates criticized Obama for be willing to change his mind about the Afghanistan war policy. Gates admired Bush's no-more-thinking passion about war.. Does Gates sound a like a reasoned person? NO.

  20. Re:Cancer isn't one disease on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 1

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Mebendazole+cancer Looks like it is being actively researched.

  21. Re:I am *expanding*! on Development To Begin Soon On New Star Control Game · · Score: 1

    I looked into MoO2, but wanted a Play By Web option for multiplayer. Dosbox tunneling just seemed like a pain. I've had fond memories of playing SEIII and IV. I haven't played the tactical much however, as I played multiplayer mostly, so just went with strategic resolution.

  22. Re:Have any modern resurrections been very good? on Development To Begin Soon On New Star Control Game · · Score: 1

    Space Empires IV is better than these IMHO

  23. Re:I am *expanding*! on Development To Begin Soon On New Star Control Game · · Score: 1
    Indeed. My Two favorite games:

    1. Star Control 2 (loved 1 as well). 2. Space Empires IV (a completely awesome turn based 4x space strategy game)

  24. Re:Time travel is not possible without on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    What is this was the real sticking point in time travel? :)

  25. Re:I for one on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    Yes. The solution to our problem is robots that are consumers. :)