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  1. Re:what else is new on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    How about, because we are used to it on a daily basis, and don't think other people should tell us what we can use?

  2. Re:what else is new on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    American public education does not consider such basic skills relevant to their future workforce

    FTFY

  3. Re:It's amazing to me! on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    It's as if that you don't realize that it's the host's responsibility to make his guests comfortable. You wouldn't be shocked if they complained about noise or filth in the place, right?

  4. Re:Hands and feet on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    Um... wear a jacket? If your core is kept warm, the body won't neglect the extremities in favor of core temperature. If you really insist on not wearing a jacket, I guess you'll have to wear gloves and warm socks.

    Didn't your mother teach you how to dress?

  5. 75 in the bedroom? on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    I would probably sweat to death at 75. I keep the bedroom at 63. That's enough to get cozy under the blankets, but not freeze if you have to get up in the middle of the night. I find it implausible that a large number of people sleep at 75 degrees (except in summer), so dropping that to 66 and remaking at the results is rather academic.

  6. Re:Keep on the Borderlands... on The Making of a 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Module · · Score: 1

    By the mid 80s, TSR was including that module with the Basic set.

  7. Re:It is not new. on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They held up a flight for a person who was late? As someone who once missed a flight by about two minutes, boy, would that be nice.

  8. Re:Cheaper on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    Clearly, as there is more than one airline operating in the USA, the worst you could claim is that there is an oligopoly, not a monopoly.

  9. Re: tfa says carry-on, one-way on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would be great if the TSA was actually smart enough to flag items like that, and at least automatically pull those people aside for physical inspection of their carry-on. But they'd rather cavity-search babies and people in vegetative states.

  10. Re:For fuck's sake people... on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Progressives started calling themselves liberals in the early 20th century. FDR did this in his radio chats, while plugging his fascist social programs with absolutely no hint of irony.

  11. Re:For fuck's sake people... on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1, Informative

    You expect people to take you seriously by painting all conservatives as racists? You basically just used the standard race-baiter's rant applied to Tyson instead of Obama.

  12. Re:Morons that cannot do math.... on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    Taking cold showers might also reduce their reproductive drive, which seems to be a good thing.

  13. Re:Why do they care what he thinks? on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    His being atheist doesn't deny the objective truth that Yeshua existed, and his teachings and life story spawned a religion that did, indeed, change the world.

  14. Re:No group "owns" any day on the calendar. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 0

    There are no contradictions between any of the gospels, and the synoptic ones are essentially copies of one another with various details added or left out between them-- hence the name.

  15. Re: No group "owns" any day on the calendar. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    You think you have it bad? The sound of those ten lords a-leaping on the nine ladies dancing keeps me up every night. If those lascivious devils don't stay away from the maids-a-milking, I'm going to lose my mind.

  16. Re:Kind of Disappointed in You on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Tyson is like Carl Sagan in that, through his contempt for a large number of people who are initially open to what he has to say, he is in danger of losing that widespread audience.

  17. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to your logic, we should also despise Newton because he was a follower of Jesus. At the very least, we should also despise Newton if anyone who ever favored him committed a crime.

  18. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tyson gave in to his need to troll.

    Really, he just used his bully pulpit to troll people he dislikes. It made him look stupid, because while he's a physicist and not a historian, someone as educated as he is is expected to know about things like the old style calendar dates. He also shouldn't act like a real-life version of Sheldon Cooper, and be taken aback by common human responses. Pointing out his own earlier, even more shockingly naive comments like "which assault rifle would Jesus choose" just establishes his pattern of insolence.

    All of this is ironic considering Newton's theological background.

  19. Re:Pot, Kettle, irony on UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet · · Score: 1

    If the main text of a religion isn't a reliable guidebook to that religion, how can we determine if anything is?

  20. Re:Hope they win this case. on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    The NRA stands up for all citizens equally. If you have evidence to the contrary, the burden lies on you to bring it up.

    Here's my question: why doesn't the NAACP stand up for the right of black people to keep guns?

  21. Re:Best of 2009? May be, but we live in 2014. Righ on Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 · · Score: 1

    Not so great if you want it to actually ring when a call comes in. On the Bold, I found that I have to use the ringer that sounds like an office phone ringer. If I use any others, it plays the short sound once (and they are all only a second or two in length) and I tend to miss the call. Also, I want the Favorites group open every time. Isn't that reasonable? I mean, they're my favorites. But it always mysteriously moves to Frequent or All, so that I have to swipe to find what I want. Most of the tiny icons don't look like what they represent, or two or three look almost the same.

    It's crap, and I can't wait until my company replaces it with an iPhone.

  22. Re:Hope they win this case. on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    Wow... you took the worst parts of both the Democratic and Republican party platforms and made a turd sandwich of them.

  23. Re:Marijuana is still illegal everwhere in the US on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    What I'm really surprised about is that the price hasn't really gone down yet. The prices you see at those dispensaries are still higher than street prices in states where it's illegal, which is baffling.

    The statists would say this is because deregulation doesn't work, while I believe it's because banks and investors won't work with dispensaries for fear of being attacked by the federal government. Also, with the legal states being surrounded by the illegal states, you're limited to local sources. When the supply is limited, any demand tends to push prices up.

  24. Re:Enforcing pot laws is big business on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Blaming dispensaries for robbery is like blaming a woman's attire for her being raped. From the same article you linked:

    Because marijuana remains banned by Congress, banks and security firms deny services to most dispensaries. That leaves them cash-based and vulnerable, a magnet for criminals who like the idea of unguarded counting rooms and shelves lined with lucrative horticulture.

    THIS is the problem. It needs to be made totally legal, so we can end this dangerous nonsense.

  25. Re:It's by Norton... on RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft · · Score: 2

    You forgot to mention that a month before your trousers disappear, every 10 minutes they shout YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS ABOUT TO EXPIRE and you have to slap your leg to get them to shut up.