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  1. It's worse than you think. Chris Reeve is an Electric Universe fanatic and has ideas that can be traced straight back to Velikovsky. Chris recently has been promulgating his own theory that sand in the Saharan Desert comes from Mars, his biggest piece of evidence being that some sand is red.

  2. Yes, I'm sure the updates will be obtained via Ham Radio. Fucking idiot.

  3. Re: veterans? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    Why are you a liar?

  4. Payment received... on Coinbase Buys Earn.com For Reported $100 Million, Adds Key Executive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    in digital currency or in real money?

  5. Your summary is a type of logical fallacy known as ad hominem.

  6. Re:LEDs I think. on After Rising For 100 Years, Electricity Demand is Flat (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I had an LED "burn" out after a couple of months of use, and I suspect the ones that go quickly have manufacturing defects. Generally they should die a lot more slowly, until one day you notice the light is visibly dimmer than when it was new., and so dim that you decide to replace it.

  7. Other bad side effects? on Studies Are Increasingly Clear: Uber, Lyft Congest Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Could these services be encouraging people to go to the bars downtown and get wasted? Hey, if I can manage to crawl from the pub to my Uber ride, I can make it home.

  8. Re:OSNAP is an excellent name... on Ocean-wide Sensor Array Provides New Look at Global Ocean Current (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    OP was being sarcastic and obviously had read through your comment. -1 point to BlueStrat for lack of reading comprehension.

  9. Re:OSNAP is an excellent name... on Ocean-wide Sensor Array Provides New Look at Global Ocean Current (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    No, we didn't miss that article, we just didn't misinterpret it as you have. Nowhere did it state that the magma plume is short-lived. In fact, the NASA press release states "the heat source isn’t a new or increasing threat to the West Antarctic ice sheet." And constant references to the Yellowstone hotspot should have clued you in to the fact that this is likely a long-term phenomenon (Yellowstone has been at its current location for 2.1 million years and is at least 16 million years old).

  10. Re:THIS is what Class War looks like on Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Show me the community college with the massive library and a subscription to all the top journals.

  11. Re:Bad News, BItcoin Logo - Good News, Something E on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be a sore loser.

  12. With all that money coming home to roost due to tax "reform," won't the burgeoning money supply lead to rapid inflation? Or is there something I'm overlooking?

  13. Re:Recycling, anyone? on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

  14. The party swap mostly took place in the '70s, shit-for-brains.

  15. No shit, Sherlock. The Civil Rights Act of 1964. The OP, however, distinctly referred to "the 70s," not 1964. The racist Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats AFTER the Civil Rights Act, not before. Apparently the only method you have of pretending there wasn't a great shift of racists to the Republican party was by IGNORING THE LAST 5 DECADES OF HISTORY.

    Take a closer look at the wiki article you linked to. You'll see that both Democrats and Republicans voted heavily in favor of it, the Republicans just a bit more so. The real division is not in party, but in location. Southern (as in from one of the 12 secessionist states during the Civil War) Democrats and Republicans almost uniformly voted against it, whereas Northerners (from all other states) voted overwhelmingly for it. Also note that the South had far more Democrats than Republicans at that point, a situation largely reversed by the Reagan era. If you think that racism evaporated from the South as a wave of Republicans took control of it, you're stupider than I thought.

  16. Re:Profit is the only reason to do ANYTHING. on Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Voluntary trade means that both sides have profited—otherwise, there would have been no deal.

    Utter bullshit. You might be able to safely trade two loaves of bread for an axe in the local market because you can test the axe, but how can the poor guy that received the loaves know they aren't contaminated with Salmonella or something worse? Free-marketeers frequently assume that both parties have complete and perfect knowledge of the goods or services being exchanged, something which is practically impossible in this highly technical age. When you purchased and installed that app, did you read the 100-page EULA that came with it? Did the parents of 8 dead children "profit" by purchasing IKEA dressers with a propensity to tip?

  17. Re:Direct Extraction of money from local economies on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I know, right? Why would anyone insist that a company act ethically?

  18. Actually there are 2 PI radians in a circle. Perhaps you shouldn't comment on the mental acuity of others when you yourself were off by a factor of pi? It's so easy to remember that a right angle is ~1.5707963267948966192313216916398 radians.

  19. A lack of imagination? on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or is it that it's very expensive and extremely dangerous?

  20. Usually you can't tell when a bubble will pop... on Nasdaq Plans To Offer Bitcoin Futures In Early 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    ...but this is the exception. The instant that people can bet money that bitcoin will decline, they will. And when a massive number of people short bitcoin, people that are long bitcoin will panic and sell. Look for the bubble to pop in the first half of 2018!

  21. You have cancer? We were about to hire you, but we don't want you contaminating our health insurance pool.

  22. Re:Americans? Really? on Latest TVs Are Ready for Their Close-Ups (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, now let's clamp those heads to those chairs so none of those eyeballs move.

  23. The sunspots are near the solar equator and thus belong to the old cycle, not a new one.

  24. Re:7M km is "close"? on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the actual Earth-Mars distance varies so far from the average distance that the average is a useless number? Just thinking out loud here.

  25. Citation needed.