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  1. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You can't be right wing and call constantly for increasing state power.

  2. Re:Florida on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no evidence this has anything to do with religion, and you know it. Your vile attempt to inject your pet cause into this important issue is disrespectful to the student and doesn't serve anyone except yourself.

  3. Re:Bose never got a Nobel on Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought the trendy economists were all deranged fruitbat rightwing extreme free-marketeers at the moment?

    Nope. Pretty much only hear more belligerent Keynesian neofascism from Krugman these days.

  4. Re:Short-sightedness of the market on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    The way you stated that implies that Republicans are the reason that banks are sitting on the capital, which is not the case. They've been sitting on the money before Obama, during the Democratic monopoly of 2009-2010, and since. We already have billions and billions of funding for R&D. What you're proposing is just straight communism. Most people are just going to waste "free" money. Where are you going to get it from? Tax the rich at 100%, right? Kind of counterproductive to take a whole bunch of money from productive people and give it to people who have demonstrated no initiative, right?

  5. Re:Remarkably stupid question. on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    Yes, if the bottle was suspended in the air and invisible, so that you could neither see nor feel how much was left in it.

    We don't even know how petroleum is created. The "dead dinosaur" theory is really just a guess that's been repeated to generations of schoolchildren as if it were fact. It could be that more of it is being "manufactured" under our feet right now.

    Now, that doesn't mean that I want us to continue using oil; it's clear that, no matter how much is left, it's getting harder to retrieve. My mission is to stop people from repeating pseudo-scientific nonsense and acting indignant when the public shows healthy skepticism.

  6. Re:wolf in sheep skin shoes on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 1

    Wait, excuse me-- I'm an idiot. I forgot Jack Lew replaced him. Well, it only took four years.

  7. Re:wolf in sheep skin shoes on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 1

    We STILL have a tax cheat as Secretary of the Treasury. If that wasn't the case, your joke would be a lot funnier.

  8. Re:Yep, typical on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 0

    If you're seeking an excuse for having voted for Obama, you won't get one from me.

  9. Re:hahaha. oh they're not joking on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1

    If you've plunked down $200 to hear Springsteen croak his way through more disingenuously composed "working man" screeds, you're already setting yourself up for disappointment.

  10. Re:Brilliant on New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    802.11b uses the same 2.4 GHz band that G and N does. Yes, N uses both 5 and 2.4 GHz. In fact, from my experience most of your neighbors are probably NOT "crapping on the 5GHz band" because the low-end routers, notebooks, and tablets don't support it.

  11. Re:True on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    That's kind of funny, because occasionally some European git comes along to criticize the USA for not getting involved in WWI until Germany tried to get Mexico to attack us. I guess you missed that part in your fine European schools.

  12. Re:True on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    That's the same garbage people say about the Great Depression: that it somehow would have been worse, and even longer than the EIGHT YEARS under FDR that it was. The 1930s were a lost decade, thanks to the "progressive" fiscal policies under Hoover and FDR. It's also the same garbage people say about the Great Recession in the USA: that it somehow would have been worse and longer (well, we're still counting!) if W had not bailed out the banks and Obama had not bailed out GM, invested in now-failed green energy companies, broke windows (cash for clunkers), and raised taxes. We don't really know, do we? But I kinda suspect this opinion is RATHER BIASED.

  13. Re:True on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    Ironic, because the thread just above this discusses (at 0 score, fortunately) how people like Ford were "conservative" Fascists. Apparently, due to the connection with Hitler's "final solution", people equate Fascism with anti-Semitism.

  14. Re:3 Million Sigantures?! on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    Don't worry-- big business is behind the 3 million signatures too. The big business that already developed a replacement pesticide, and will have a monopoly during the ban. They'll make sure the ban becomes permanent, regardless of the results.

  15. Re:You sure you want to go there? on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    It always seems like, as soon as I use up all my mod points I find disgusting posts from people like you.

  16. Single prong strategy? on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    So the EU is going to try one thing for two years and, if nothing happens, maybe take another two years to try something else? We're not going to try to suppress the fungus? Not going to try limiting the harvest of royal jelly and propolis? I bet you that in two years, regardless of the results, the ban will be made permanent because the corporations who had replacement pesticides ready will be rolling in dough-- and sending lots of it to the bureaucrats.

  17. Re:America-centric much? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    Single, huh?

  18. Re:doesn't even hold a full cart on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    Taking over 20 seconds to get to highway speed is dangerous. Most highway on-ramps are not long enough.

  19. Re:America-centric much? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    Are bike trailers and bicycles free? Do you have unlimited time in Eurotrash land, as well?

  20. Re:Only true for a small portion of the world on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    Please stop with the argument to ignorance. Bread doesn't have to be "heavily processed" to last a few days. It does matter which kind it is, though, and it can't be left sitting out on the counter.

  21. Re:Only true for a small portion of the world on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    Bread is what makes using supermarkets a bad idea: it is good for two days. I've seen bread in the US, you solve this problem by not having edible bread in the first place: that earthy sponge has never been good so it can't get worse :p

    Respectfully, you are a moron. I guess the "USian beer tastes like piss, LOL" crowd realized that was getting old and switched to bread. Your "experience" with an American "supermarket" is clearly limited to a 7-Eleven run by a harried Pakistani.

  22. Re:Only true for a small portion of the world on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    I hate to burst your elitist bubble, but we aren't looking for solutions for your edge case, here. The most common scenario involves families who need large orders for reasons of time efficiency. We are looking for a solution that respects people's time while also saving energy.

  23. Re:Going to Hell in a (brightly lit) Handbasket on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    Your percentage is way off. Way off. I know it's fun to have an elitist attitude, and feel like you're one of the enlightened few who will save the world, but the number of people who think Lucifer is a horned devil who loves foo-ball and looks rather like Fairuza Balk is small. For further study, see "misleading vividness".

  24. Re:Happy with XFS on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 2

    I've been using ReiserFS since 2006. It's killer.

  25. Re:70 mph on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    It's more efficient to go 60 rather than 70. Or 50 instead of 60. Or 40 rather than 50...

    70 is arbitrary.