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  1. Re:What they really need on Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Barack Obama is an enemy of the United States, as evidenced by his support of Islam. There is very little that he did that the U.S. would be better off retaining.

  2. Re:What they really need on Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A government takeover of 1/6 of the economy is pure leftist.

  3. Re:What they really need on Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Trump won on a vision of an America advancing by removing the fetters of government.

    Contrast that with Obama, who won on the premise that he would effect vengeance on those who were prejudiced.

  4. Re:Convert to Islam on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Inside Allah, your brain will be digested.

  5. Please learn English.

  6. Re:Only public policy matters on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ...if there was actually another realistic option beside subsidized fossil fuels

    Too many words. Try this:

    ...if there was actually another realistic option beside fossil fuels

    Because there is not now a realistic alternative to widespread use of fossil fuels. This is based on the reality disclosed by chemistry, physics, etc.. Implicit in the claim that fossil fuel providers should be penalized for providing fossil fuels is the belief that there is some magical way to live in an advanced civilization without any pollution whatsoever. This is only one of many lunacies of the political left.

  7. Re: Political tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Reasonable people balance benefits against disadvantages. If you're dying of thirst, you shouldn't sue the person offering you a cup of water because he didn't remove every speck of dust from the cup.

  8. Re: Political tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely no NYC resident relies on Exxon products for their livelihoods.

    That's what they think, until the lights go out and the water stops coming out of the faucet. Or perhaps NYC runs on coal.

  9. Re:Black-Out Blinds on Super-Black Is the New Black (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Some fabrics do contain nanotechnology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanofabrics

  10. Re:Solar cells anyone on Super-Black Is the New Black (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    High quality camera lenses have been using nano-coatings for several years. Each manufacturer has its own secret process. It's reasonable to assume that the concept "anti-reflection coating for solar cells" is both too general and too-long established to be properly patented. A specific patent would only cover one nano-coating process, and other processes would be possible.

  11. Re:Laws that Protect Pharma on America's Doctors Are Performing Expensive Procedures That Don't Work (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Lawsuits, often frivolous, were causing vaccine manufacturers to leave the business. The law was part of an attempt to ensure that there was at least one U.S. vaccine manufacturer that stayed in business.

  12. Re:Follow the money on America's Doctors Are Performing Expensive Procedures That Don't Work (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    "Stents don't work" is vastly overstating the claim of the studies. The studies appear to conclude that stents aren't the best, or aren't necessary, treatment for stable angina.

    That's very different from treating an active heart attack, where a stent can be (my opinion) the best treatment, preventing death in a one hour operation. Trying to use drugs in this case involves achieving an ongoing delicate balance of blood pressure control medicines and other circulatory medicines that have dangerous side effects.

    No placebo will eliminate the pain or the damage of an actual heart attack.

  13. Re:Don't have to go Amish to be happy on Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    there's nothing you can learn at MIT that isn't freely available on the web.

    That's almost true. There's an advantage to be gained from being among brighter students and teachers, and to have access to slightly better equipment.

  14. Re:10 ways to think like an, "Old Person" on Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Have fun with your social disease.

  15. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Mother Theresa was worse than Jack Kevorkian. She wanted to keep terribly suffering people alive so that they could suffer longer.

  16. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a summary with evidence pointing in both directions.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/

    There are undoubtedly estrogenic chemicals in soy, but they cause problems only at high intake levels and the sorts of problems they cause aren't always in the direction implied by their nature as estrogens.

  17. Re:Said... on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    1955 called. It wants its politics back.

  18. Re:Obama poops more than any other former POTUS on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The United States is not now and has never been a democracy. One of the foremost principles of the United States is rule of law, which automatically excludes democracy.

    Speaking of rule of law, if Obama violated a law the punishment for which is imprisonment, he should be indicted, tried, convicted and sent to prison. It is far more important to show that the powerful cannot escape responsibility for their misdeeds than to protect a popular person from justice.

    "The road of purges and reprisals" is a hallmark of lawless societies. When a popular politician is prosecuted, it's important than the charges and the evidence are clear to the public, so that the accusation of purges can be refuted.

    Because they are powerful, high level politicians must be held tightly to the law, otherwise we have things like ... the Obama administration.

  19. Re:Yes, but that's not the issue. on The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds · · Score: 1, Informative

    Assuming the various tales are true, then NO, the Jews did not kill Jesus. He was executed under Roman law by Roman authorities, and the religion of Rome was a polytheism based on Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Neptune, Pluto, et.al., and also involved the Romulus-Remus myth.

  20. It's summer at the South pole. Go for it, and take your friends.

  21. Re:vegetarianism is species racism on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Taking an idea to its logical extreme to demonstrate its absurdity is a valid technique.

  22. Re:No. on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    More plant matter -- like sugar. like holly berries. like cactus needles.

  23. Re:Yes on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Even your grammar is incorrect. Meat is a physical object. Murder is an action. They cannot be equated.

  24. Re:Speaking of dumb... on Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Actually, life does not begin at conception, not even human life. Life began roughly 2 billion years ago, human life maybe 200,000, and has existed as a continuum ever since. The cell that leads to a new individual is formed at conception, and a new individual comes into existence at birth.

    Whether it is right to impose legal restrictions on terminating a pregnancy is a valid question, but the discussion is not helped by defective definitions.

  25. Re:Dumb question on Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    ...abortion. There's still nothing in the Constitution that remotely protects that right...

    It's right there in the PREAMBLE.

    secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity

    Specifically, the liberty not to be forced to bear a child.
    Whether the mechanisms properly exist for the federal government to side one way or the other other on abortion is a different issue, and I have my doubts.