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  1. I'm 50 and they died when I was kid on The Death of the American Drive-in · · Score: 1

    saw some family movies with parents when I was about six, and certainly not since I was ten. Never had urge to find or drive to one as teen or young adult, nor did any of my friends, though some might have lingered in Chicago area.

  2. for certain animals on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 3, Informative

    this has never been tried on a human being and won't be until at least 2015

    many cures for cancer have worked very well in animals over the past three decades

  3. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if we have a global nuclear war, does that mean science won?

  4. Re:In the real world... on How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World · · Score: 4, Informative

    well, had you read the article, you'd have learne of the enormous amount of man-hours relief organizations have to spend going through photos, offloading that work frees them up to better spend time. most of us can't just jump on a plane and go help.

    Besides which, for those of us not gamers, a donation the size of restaurant bill for two buys surprising amount of supplies.

    So yes, we sedentary creatures sitting on our butts in front of a screen can help people thousands of miles away. Go ahead and laugh at us.

  5. Re:Great! on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 1

    you did not do well in physics at school, did you? We're talking about L2 which is 3.9x times the distance to the moon, and tidal forces decrease as a third power of distance. even a *second moon* at L2 would only increase tidal force by 1.6%

  6. Re:Before anyone drags climate change into it.. on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: 0

    you commit the fallacy of asserting the consequent

  7. Re:handy on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    and then the soviets could use it too without restriction. it's boneheaded, of equal benefit to enemy as friend

  8. Re:What should I use to see into my neighbors bedr on Amateur Astronomer Bruce Berger Talks About Telescopes, Part II (Video) · · Score: 1

    social engineering, get into her bedroom

  9. Re:handy on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    this ring of copper was useful only to the militaries of either the USSR or USA at the type, civilian comm couldn't utilize it.

  10. handy on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the Soviet union also could have used this primitive system of global satellite coverage, somehow that fact got lost on our own boneheaded leaders

  11. Re:Get out on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    pr weapon with no import, like Obama's mouth?

  12. Re:Simple and zero energy cost on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    a few years from now hilarity ensues while the residents squatting in mold, mildew and filth bemoan the fact they were suckered to cut holes in the roof assuming they could obtain sealer and more bottle indefinitely. wait for it!

  13. Re:Edison = Jobs on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 0

    bullshit, he was the designer instructed machinists and engineers what to do. that's like saying the illegals working an assembly line invented the scientific instruments the factory makes

  14. CEO badmouths competitor & tries to demoralize on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 5, Funny

    later, a bear eats fish and takes a dump in the woods. Story at 10

  15. Re:Inaccurate summary on 20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event · · Score: 1

    those were for the USA for 2012....for small numbers we can post all the digits, the big ones so many died it might be give or take a few hundred.

    but I was wrong about the tall things, it's mother earth always sucking at us with her gravity hoping we accelerate for a long enough time to break our bodies

  16. Re:Inaccurate summary on 20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event · · Score: 1

    you are silly, in 2012 there were 851 accidental deaths from firearms in the USA. Meanwhile, 26,000 people fell to their deaths (tall things ARE out to get you), 33,000 people died of poisoning (the little skull label is out to get you, or the rotten food if he doesn't), 33,000 in vehicle accidents (chrisine has spawn, and they're all after you), 7800 in fire (the match head will light you up).......guns are down the list...

  17. Re:I love the obvious technologies on Elon Musk's 'Hyperloop': More Details Revealed · · Score: 0

    there is nothing simple about such a system when you are attempting to safely transport humans; you are obviously not an engineer

  18. Re:Biofuel is a stupid solution. on Looking Beyond Corn and Sugarcane For Cost-Effective Biofuels · · Score: 1

    We haven't "used up" or "burned through" anything, we sadly have centuries of supply of fossil fuels.

    There is no need for artificial photosynthesis, can use real photosynthesis. Real plants that can grow very densely on scrub land such as switchgrass.

    Yes, big corporations will do this, that's how most technology is done. Big corporations provide your vehicles, your computers, your food, etc.

  19. Re:It's a good thing. on US To Standardize Car App/communication Device Components · · Score: 1

    and if the government wants to remove you from the equation permanently with a traffic accident?

  20. Re:Classic dragnetting problem on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a long as recording is done, government can operate on the model of "get dirt on everyone now, use when needed"

  21. Re:why on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My Mac at work makes a fine X terminal, of what X conventions are you speaking? my mac has in .xinitrc. some crazy people even install X11 based desktops on their mac osx.

    customizing? I have computer to do work, not fart around with desktop appearance beyond color or font.

    my three monitors are working well, get video hardware/drivers that are well supported by mac osx and there are no issue.

  22. Re: And we must Stop Using US Services on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 1

    read my first post, in that case, if the government "proves" illegal content exists, then you will be punished as the assumption will be you are withholding evidence.

  23. Re:take a look at meeeee on NASA To Send Poems To Mars · · Score: 1

    please list all the other sentient species with technology.

    what, you have none? we are indeed special.

  24. Re: And we must Stop Using US Services on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 2

    you need to read of the USA cases more closely. If the government convinces the court that there is already proof of existence of incriminating data in your files, you can be compelled to provide keys. It is only in the case where it is *unknown* whether or not there is incriminating data that you have 5th amendment protection.

    very fine line to understand, and one the government can exploit.

  25. Re:Something will have to give on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    False, there is no shortage of energy for desalination anywhere there is people.

    1,000 ppm (0.1%) will not have any problematic effects, even renowned climatologists have said two or three times present level is not much an issue.

    there is end to potassium mining, known reserves are good for centuries.

    phosphorous is interesting matter, could say global reserve of concentrated ore will run out in a century unless serious recycling of solid waste done. But alternative view is that as it really does comprise 1/1000 of the earth's rock, supply in is vast but dilute, we'd have to produce by other means