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  1. Re:Don't take yours in. on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    Delta has done some nice hydrodynamic R&D. The "Water-Amplifying" models like 75152 feel as good as heads flowing >25% more.

  2. Re:Don't take yours in. on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you cannot break traction by pressing on the accelerator, you don't have enough horsepower. If you can beak traction by pressing on the accelerator, you don't have enough traction.

  3. Re:Oh no no no! on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 1

    It's just the combination of GMO with incredibly powerful, greedy-without-bounds, out of control corporations what [sic] is possibly going to eliminate us from this planet

    So it's only corporations that can do evil with GMOs? A privately held company couldn't? An individual? A government?

    Grow up.

  4. Re:Oh no no no! on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 1

    There needs to be a word to cover the concept "not made by man", and the chosen word is "natural". If you include man-made things in the "natural" concept, the word distinguishes nothing and has no communicative value.

    We are men, and it is reasonable that a significant portion of our vocabulary refers to men and their activities, and distinguishes them from all other possibilities.

  5. Re:Killer GMO butterflies causing hurricanes on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 1

    Social Security is more like mandatory gambling or mandatory insurance. Your payout is determined by, but not limited by, the amount you put in. As long as you live (assuming SS doesn't collapse) you keep getting money. A savings account, on the other hand, only provides money until there's no money left.

  6. Hopeless on NASA Delays Orion's First Manned Flight Until 2023 · · Score: 1

    If we don't wipe out Islam, civilization won't last long enough to escape this solar system.

  7. The real blame on Chemical Evidence Shows the Nazis Weren't At All Close To Having the Bomb · · Score: 1

    How can we blame this on George Bush?

  8. Universal Criminality on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    Knowingly receiving stolen goods is a crime. Under universal basic income, everybody will be a criminal.

  9. Re:Who is John Galt? on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    Fix the potholes yourself and take care of your own spawn. Don't rely on someone else to do it for you and don't accept the burden that the undeserving attempt to place on you.

  10. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    "More" isn't the only thing people want, people also want better. If you're fired from your job as a widget machinist, apply to your boss to filigree his kitchen cabinets, or carve dolphins into his handrails. The rich like fine things, and they like unique things, and as long as the rich exist they'll want the services of artisans and artists.

    There is no practical limit to the desire for a better life, and thus there's no practical limit to the jobs available to those willing to provide others with a finer life.

  11. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    As the cost of labor trends to zero, the cost of goods trends to the cost of raw materials.

    Assuming your market-ignorant method of pricing were true, your argument becomes circular. The cost of raw materials depends upon the labor required to mine or harvest and the labor required to purify the raw materials.

    Price depends on supply and demand, and applies to both labor and materials.

  12. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    Poverty is structural

    And the structure that maintains poverty consists of unions, government giveaways, minimum wages, restrictions on business, restrictions on trade, restrictions on property ownership and property rights generally, ignorant workplace "safety rules", et infinite cetera.

  13. Re:What happens when video is lost? on The Air Traffic Control Tower of the Future Doesn't Include Humans · · Score: 1

    How well does the "sufficient fuel" requirement work when an airport closes after you've spent a half hour circling, waiting for an open landing time slot?

  14. Re:That'll learn 'im on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Police are trained to recognize suspicious activity. Hiding your face is suspicious. Hoodies hide your face.

  15. Re:Unavoidable on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    "Walking While Black" refers to the fraudulent claims made for the thug Trevon Martin, and subsequently for other blacks acting suspiciously. Overstating the case is dishonest.

  16. Re:Unavoidable on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    He didn't have enough of a brain to realize he might frighten somebody.

  17. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Failing to act on all available evidence is foolish and dangerous.

  18. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Force your political protest into my house and I'll put a bullet through you, legally and gladly.

  19. Re:What is there to disassemble? on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    People have lost a hand with the relatively weak explosive in a firecracker no bigger than a thumb. Add some scrap metal, say "look close at this", and a half dozen children lose their eyes.

    Do you want to be the teacher who doesn't exercise great caution when a strange device comes into your classroom in the hands of a child named after a murderer and child molester?

  20. Re:Educators are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Texas borders Mexico, where murderers, rapists, and smugglers enter illegally by the hundreds each day. I suppose Texans have no reason to worry about them either?

  21. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    I'll bet you'd give no second thought to someone dropping a knapsack by the roadside at the Boston Marathon, either.

  22. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    If I lived in Texas I'd be much more worried about my kid's teacher packing heat.

    Then you are ignorant of the relevant literature. You should be worried about my kid's teacher not packing heat

  23. Re:[citation needed] on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Terrorists are recruited mostly among the very poor, and they can't afford to get to the US, nor gain the expertise and materials to make bombs. Most of their efforts are made in their home countries, Israel, India, Indonesia, and increasingly Europe. This is jihad; don't be a sucker all your life.

  24. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    How much effort does it take to pull apart an electrolytic capacitor and fill the shell with fulminate of mercury and BB-sized flechettes? Disguising a bomb as anything electronic is trivial once you know how to make a bomb.

    Anybody named Ahmed Mohamed should automatically be suspected. Using names associated with enemies of America is rightly regarded as failure to accept American culture.

  25. Re:Genetics on More Time Outside Tied To Less Nearsightedness In Children · · Score: 1

    I've read the claim that high levels of male hormones encourages myopia. It's a conjecture worth investigating. Hormones surge at puberty.