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  1. Re:Circle Of Life on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    300-400 million years to form supposedly. The Oregon Rainforest Coal Deposits tell a different story- they're only a few feet down, possibly two or three millenia old, and are constantly replenished by the living forest sitting on top of them.

  2. Re:Modeling the future on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Fossil fuel usage won't go unchanged. It also won't be used as fuel 40 years from now, but rather as building materials.

  3. Re:of course it will burn.... IF on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Carbon is a heavy element, and breaks down out of the atmosphere eventually, in any form. If you're really worried about it though, i'd suggest planting fruit trees to end world hunger and lock up some carbon, and buying more plastic building materials to lock up even more carbon out of the atmosphere.

  4. Make it into plastic on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    If we started using plastic as the primary product instead of fuel, and as a building material, we'd render the fossil fuels safe for the atmosphere by locking the carbon up into a stable structure that lasts for 50,000 years.

  5. Re:WHAT BASIS DO YOU HAVE FOR YOUR CLAIM on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an online record of every vaccination my child has received. But other than that, you're right.

  6. Re:Free market transactions on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 1

    In which case then, you also do not favor regulations on individuals.

  7. Re: Antivaxing in particular on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    More good than bad doesn't console the parent who buries a child who went into anaphyactic shock after a vaccination.

    There is a serious reason to not trust marketing materials disguised as double blind studies.

  8. Re:Free market transactions on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 1

    And thus, would it still be a free market?

  9. Marketing is not science.

  10. Re:Move along on Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    As if you can't see license plates with the maginification power of today's average smartphone.

  11. Also "If we find anything against our principles" means nothing if one of their core principles is, like most highly educated ivy leaguers, spreading liberal talking points and supressing conservative ones.

  12. Re: Antivaxing in particular on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no need for a massive conspiracy to hide harmful data. All you have to do is pay the people at Google enough money to downgrade your critics in the rankings.

  13. Re: Antivaxing in particular on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why anti-vaxers are often the same people who have urban farms and vertical window boxes hanging out their apartments.

  14. Re: Antivaxing in particular on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A 1:10000 rare event, when vaccinating 300,000,000 people, no longer seems quite so rare.

  15. What is going on is that the anti-vaxers have realized that the pharmeceutical companies no longer follow the scientific method, and have been monkeying with the data to make their product seem more harmless than it is.

  16. Re:Free market transactions on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It specifically affects (not to trigger a godwin- but) the sale of white polar teddy bears with small black mustaches, for instance.

    Ok, so regulation of *CORPORATIONS* is what you are against, rather than regulations against people. Still, my example isn't a regulation against a company. Corporations would still be free to pay people whatever. My regulation is specifically against PEOPLE- sole proprietors who are using their own social security number as their TIN when paying payroll for their personal household staff. Thus making it a law that specifically covers personal action.

    What is wrong with that, in your point of view?

  17. Re:Free market transactions on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 1

    " Laws prohibiting hate speech do not affect the market for teddy bears."

    Affects the market for at least three types of historical teddy bears I'm aware of. There were many hate-based toys prior to 1940.

    I can think how grass height can affect drug prices, and you probably can too if you think about it a while.

    As to what I'm asking with the second question- is given your theory that a law affecting *personal action* is not a law regulating the market, what would say a law against earning more than 200x your lowest paid employee be? Isn't that a law against personal action?

  18. Re:In other news, water gets things wet... on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Name a single one of the three you mentioned that would support a Throne and Altar party. I contend that not even the talk radio right wing nut jobs are liberals, prefering their liberal "free market" to price controls from the King who was chosen by the Church.

  19. Re:Free market transactions on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 1

    So the market isn't made up of people? And we can get away with any regulation that is on people rather than on the market?

  20. Re:Free market transactions on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 1

    still having a government that prohibits assault or threats to commit assault
     
    Would that not, by definition, be a regulation?

  21. Re:Free market transactions on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a truly free market (regulation free that is) not include threats of violence?

  22. One Jack to Rule Them All on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    And in the darkness bind them

  23. Re:This guy is high on Chinese pollution on Apple Is Outdated, Says Chinese Conglomerate LeEco CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A hidden object game operating system does make more sense on a portable touchscreen....

  24. Re: Maybe. on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel? They're about to do it again.

  25. Re:I haven't on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    This is what I'm running into. I've always sucked at networking (of the human variety, I can still read raw TCP/IP packets and deal with networking at that level). But for some reason, at 45, I'm suddenly running into a lot of Buzzword Bingo in interviews, as well as apparently with the new frameworks, lots of javascript kiddie teams out there who think that middleware and back ends are for losers. Sadly, most of my recent experience has been in databases and middleware, and I haven't learned the new frameworks yet, which is limiting my ability to find a job this time around.