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  1. Calling BS on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 1

    Of course the government is suppressing natural cures. If you have to get *approval* from the government, they're restricting access.

    Hello! Anyone home? Pot is a powerful medicine that is not just suppressed, it's *criminalized*.

    The depressing part of the poll is that at most only half of Americans know this, and that bozos can get away with calling it a "conspiracy theory".

  2. Re:How is this news... on NSA Can Retrieve, Replay All Phone Calls From a Country From the Past 30 Days · · Score: 1

    They delete stuff! Ha! Who do they think they're kidding?

  3. As long as a month.... on NSA Can Retrieve, Replay All Phone Calls From a Country From the Past 30 Days · · Score: 1

    hahahahaha

    Because of course they *delete* them all after a month.

    hahahahaha

  4. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because you know that a 5 year old understands teaching better than an adult.

  5. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    The public school is engaging in child abuse against your daughter. Get them to change, or get her out.

    What all children most need to learn in school is how to drive and control themselves. Caging a child in a schoolroom with a trivial workload where they are bored to tears wastes their formative years and cripples them, like binding their bodies for that time would.

  6. The Wrong Stuff on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 1

    If you're deterred from leading by someone calling you bossy, you're probably not suited to be the Boss.

  7. Re:Greenspan's right on Gates Warns of Software Replacing People; Greenspan Says H-1Bs Fix Inequity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can anyone make any sense of what he was saying?

    The solution to income inequality is to import more labor supply and further depress wages, but make those who *own* the businesses that hire them even richer? What? What is that guy smoking?

  8. and the Death Cultists pounce! on Transhumanist Children's Book Argues, "Death Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    Yet another thread full of Death Cultists singing the praises of Death over Life.

    Bite me.

  9. On number to rule them all on Goodbye, Google Voice · · Score: 1

    And insulate your other numbers from telemarketers and change of service. Filtering and transcription. Awesome.

  10. Re: Good on SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There · · Score: 1

    Some of the Eastside can get FIOS. Verizon sold off their properties to Frontier, who will milk them for years to come, but will never expand.

    Meanwhile, Gigabit Seattle folded up shop before ever connecting a single user.

    There's no real competition to Comcast in the Seattle area.

  11. Re:Stay Young on Genome Pioneer, X Prize Founder Tackle Aging · · Score: 1

    All the aging, only 25% the birthday presents. No thanks.

  12. Re:Just shifting the problem on Genome Pioneer, X Prize Founder Tackle Aging · · Score: 1

    All hail the Death Cultist!

  13. Re:Regulatory hurdles on Genomic Medicine, Finally · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are Native American lands bound by the FDA?

  14. Yay! Serious effort to stop aging! on Genome Pioneer, X Prize Founder Tackle Aging · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's about time. As for all the Death Cultists posting previously about the horrors of remaining alive, bite me.

  15. Re:Let me Reiterate on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    I can sew on buttons, and do. That's about it. I know a lot of grown ups who don't even own a needle. They get by just fine. People interact with computers a lot more than missing buttons.

  16. Programming is the best foreign language to learn on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Computers are everywhere. Being able to effectively talk to them is important, and powerful.

    This goes back to that oft reproduced cartoon, of an office cube with a sign on it "Go away, or I will replace you with a small shell script." Particularly as robotics takes off, basic programming skills become more and more powerful.

  17. State dept. making climate change conclusions? on Environmental Report Raises Pressure On Obama To Approve Keystone Pipeline · · Score: 1

    "after a State Department report played down the impact it would have on climate change"

    I want to see the Pipeline approved, but I don't see what the State Dept. is doing making conclusions about the climate. Are they supposed to have their own scientists studying the climate?

  18. Re:Read as... on K-12 CS Education Funding: Taxes, H-1B Fees, Donations? · · Score: 1

    Public Schools pay rent?

  19. Re:Steyn is Slime on Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed · · Score: 1

    The accuracy of Mann's claim is a fitting matter for scientific investigation, not legal investigation.

    Similarly, Steyn's analysis of it is a matter for commentary, not a lawsuit.

    Steyn should have every right to say that Mann is full of shit without being dragged into court over it. The same crowd that was all confused over what the meaning of the word "is" is now thinks that Steyn's rant on the "Nobel Prize WInner" (the *fraudulent* claim that Mann has made all over the place, including in his complaint against Steyn) can only be interpreted in one particular legalistic way. Scientists call interpretations of data in ways they disagree with "torturing the data" all the time. It means "I don't agree", it's not the specification of a grand jury indictment.

    This is always the Left's way - shut up the opposition through force. Disgusting that it's increasingly effective.

  20. Re:No on Is the West Building Its Own Iron Curtain? · · Score: -1, Troll

    How horrible it was for the US to fight Communism. Much better to let Stalinism devour the world.

  21. Re:And That, Ladies and Gentlemen ... on Adware Vendors Buying Chrome Extensions, Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    It was inevitable. Probably a lot of plugins on defunct projects that they wouldn't even have to pay for, just offer to take over.

  22. Re:America Cannot Compete on Accenture Faces Mid-March Healthcare.gov Deadline Or 'Disaster' · · Score: 1

    Lot's gets accomplished in the US.

    It's the US government that can't accomplish anything but ever grander clusterfucks.

  23. Re:Fuck religion. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    In an ethical society, citizens would be free to purchase the health care services they wanted, citizens would be free to sell it to them, and no one would be forced to provide services they didn't want to provide.

    The right to beg your rulers for permission is not freedom.

  24. Re: meta stable on Reducing Climate Change Uncertainty By Figuring Out Clouds · · Score: 1

    Ha ha. A psychiatrist coming to the defense of Science. That's cute. Maybe we can get some psychics to Save Science next.

    Yes, Climate Science has made so much progress in a few decades of prediction, that it got the last decade entirely wrong.

  25. For the many theists who think they're atheists. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Max Stirner - The Ego and His Own.