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  1. That's why geologists now call this epoch on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the 'Anthropocene', we have changed the surface of the earth so much.

  2. Re:just another reason to hate jesus freaks on Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar · · Score: 2

    Will you be mad if I mod your post 'depressing'?

  3. For God's sake will someone that read TFA tell us: on Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar · · Score: 1

    Are we all going to die?

  4. Next up for study: on Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan · · Score: 1

    why humans always insist that all animal behavior is instinctual and not thoughtful.

  5. Re:Obama knows how to play politics if anything. on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 1

    "This is Slashdot, which is full of Communists,"

    And yet you come here to read and post, can you explain that?

  6. Re:Meanwhile ... on America's Next Bomber: Unmanned, Unlimited Range, Aimed At China · · Score: 1

    Destroyed by the Muslim terrorists? My you have drunk deep of the kool aid. We are destroying ourselves, in part by the stupidity you so eloquently express.

  7. Important to remember: on U.S. In Danger of Losing Earth-Observing Satellite Capability · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The right hates science and it's conclusions, and the problem with these satellites is that they promote science and the conclusions scientists reach.

  8. Re:And now? on Silicene Discovered: Single-layer Silicon That Could Beat Graphene To Market · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for the censored version of the Oxygen-Boron layer: OBscene.

  9. In other words, on Who Needs CISPA? FBI Has a Non-Profit Workaround · · Score: 5, Insightful

    who needs laws in a country ruled by money?

  10. Now even the Pope hates the truth? on Opus Dei To Hunt Down Vatican Whistle-Blowers · · Score: 1

    It has seemed like society has been going down hill as more and more people are dishonest.

    Et tu, pope?

  11. It seems clear that on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    to work for TSA you have to be mentally disturbed.

  12. Re:stick it to the man on Australia's Largest Police Force Accused of Widespread Piracy · · Score: 1

    Here's a hint: you and I are not doing the sticking.

  13. Re:Gasoline-like energy density on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 1

    There is no proof by analogy.

    This is true because 'analogy' is not a mathematical tool, and proofs only exist in mathematics.

    Analogies are better: they can convey knowledge instead of proof.

  14. Is there any reason on Avian Flu Researcher Plans to Defy Dutch Ban On Publishing Paper · · Score: -1

    this person shouldn't just be shot outright?

  15. Re:Why is this moderated down? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    I explain how I try to keep in mind the limits of knowledge, and it gets me modded down to 1?

  16. Re:Why is this moderated down? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's really a matter of not making assumptions; of trying to keep in mind what one actually knows as distinct from what one assumes to be true.

  17. Re:And that, ladies and gentlemen on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Maybe you can explain who was coddled by whom?
    This may follow from their religion, but for the life of me I can't figure out what 'coddling' has occured to encourge this.

  18. Re:Why is this moderated down? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How about because the article mentions no religion?

  19. What makes this hard to believe: on Baboons Learn To Identify Words · · Score: 2

    The French were using english words?

  20. Re:....as soon as you read the headline on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    If this is "slashtard" then why exactly are you here reading and posting? Are you admitting to being a "tard"? Good job, I believe that in this you are correct.

  21. Re:What can I do? on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Refresh my memory: how many years did Dick Cheney do?

  22. Re:By the same logic on Spaceman-Turned-Politician Can Call Himself 'Astronaut' On Ballot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By the same logic I can call myself a toddler.

    If that was your profession, go for it.

  23. Re:So? on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll never understand so-called environmentalists who go out and have 5 or 6 kids. I can think of nothing quite so environmentally irresponsible...

    -S

    Just how many "environmentalists who go out and have 5 or 6 kids" are there? You sound like you made a study of this, what was the conclusion? That we are being over-run by the children of "environmentalists who go out and have 5 or 6 kids"?

  24. Re:I guess two reasons ... on Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes · · Score: 1

    Except that the heat, which a rattlesnake perceives, would not be in the fluff but in the body of the tail.

  25. Re:Cool, but... on Testing AI Methods With FlightGear · · Score: 2

    Surely they can think of a better reason to research this other than flying around looking for debris.

    We all know the 'better' reason: to look for people to kill. However, looking for people to kill would upset some people, so we call it 'looking for debris'.