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  1. Re:Informed by whom? on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 1

    1. How do you know your view is "FAR more informed than the average person"?

    We know how to pronounce nuclear. QED.

  2. Re:Spectrum on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    They only sold one color: Infrared

  3. Re:in an unrelated news event on Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates · · Score: 2

    its called a biscotti! does anyone remember these?"

    Have Mike throw them out. They've all gone hard.

  4. Re:Cam-tastic on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 1
  5. Re:only trying to help? on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    Let me see...I can get out in this snow, go several extra blocks, pick up someone I don't know and drive them somewhere. I could get 2.8x. Or I could stay in next to this fire, drink this rum & coke, and call in 'sick' today. Screw it. Sorry, Uber--not available.

    Considering the blizzard, this is a good thing.

  6. Re:Simpson's did it!!! on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    So, if a person teleports in this way, an atheist should be the first to assert that nobody died and that nothing was lost.

    If you don't believe in a soul to transfer and you watch a person get destroyed by an energy beam you may condclude that someone died.

  7. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    Lucas did an okay job with the prequels. Arguably, he did too good of a job: the players are all too human, and Jar-Jar is too fluid and well-executed for the movie. It clashes with expectations: people want textbook epic heroes and villains played the way modern, bland actors portray them, not complex human characters thrust into an epic fantasy.

    Is this a demonstration of Poe's law?

  8. Re:Let's hope on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 1

    Since when does the IRS decide what the Federal Tax laws are?

    Since Obama became president. See the affordable care act subsidies.


    Oh my god you people need to take a civics class!

    Hint: It's called the Affordable Care Act.

    Figuring out how a bill becomes a law is left as an excersize for the reader. I hear there is a catchy song on Youtube that explains it.

  9. Re:Science by democracy doesn't work? on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    You are projecting your religion onto science. Not the other way around.

  10. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    People will just have to adapt to the fact that you can't trust your hearing to know if a car is coming or not anymore.

    We might even have to teach people to look both ways before crossing the street!

  11. Re:address in question on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    Prepare yourself and prepare your home for imminent Swat arrival. Give away the dog (if you have one). Evict your roommate (if you have one). Keep all the doors to the outside wide open (so that they don't break them). Keep some fresh coffee in the pot and some fresh cookies on the table (so that the Swat team doesn't get low blood sugar and cranky by the time it reaches your bedroom). And sleep with handcuffs already on (so that they don't think you're trying to resist arrest).

    Also, store your infants in the garage.

  12. Re:Domestic war on Paris Terror Spurs Plan For Military Zones Around Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    Here is a hint: its not the side whose govt. ignorantly but willingly set up the 791 "no-go" zones where Islamic law is the secular law for the sake of keeping the peace, which it did not get by the way.

    You mean the 791 complete fabrications by Fox News?

    No-Go zones do not exist and Fox News has publicly apologized for making them up.

    One of many references

  13. Re:Holy Carp! on Drug Company CEO Blames Drug Industry For Increased Drug Resistance · · Score: 1

    So in other words, the river itself might have a few tenths or hundredths of a percent of a concentration below the therapeutic MIC (potentially of multiple different antibiotics, depending on what factories happen to be located on that river).

    People believe the Ganges has healing properties. It would be pretty ironic if that became true due to antibiotic pollution.

  14. Let's not listen! on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    The increasingly anti-science stance exhibited in threads like this is becoming tiresome.

  15. Re:This guy hasn't done his research. on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    Exactly, what can C do that python can't?

    Also, expose a buffer overflow vulnerability due to a missing curly brace.

  16. Re:call me skeptical on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 1

    contradict the fast that we have not had any rising in the past 20 years according to these same people? They call it the "warming hiatus"

    I think you have to say 19 years for that cherry-picked date-range statement to be true.

    Of course, even that isn't accurate anymore given the article. Maybe you should stop repeating it.

  17. Re:call me skeptical on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 1

    The title of the article you linked is "Recent slowdown in global warming."

  18. Re:Qualifications on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 1

    Rants like this forget that there is a SUPPLY problem

    And as we all know, supply is completely divorced from demand.

  19. Re:Honest question. on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 0

    What do you see? ENDLESS articles about how terrible the industry is, how sexist nerds are, how you'll be threatened with rape if you so much as write an Android Pac Man clone...

    And then they come onto a supposedly technical site like this one, read a thread about 'diversity', and have all of those preconceptions validated.

  20. Re:Tight Oil Recovery Operations will slow on Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now · · Score: 1

    The many thousands of wells that are/were planned for completion will simply be postponed until the market responds more favorably, but don't kid yourself, they will become feasible again at some point.

    That's probably a good thing though. The rate of expansion during the last few years was crazy and obviously not sustainable. I'm not opposed to fracking until we see some more evidence of harm. But, that reckless of an expansion probably isn't a good idea either.

  21. Re:Coddling = Fail on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    the simple test should be: is the child fed, clothed, sheltered, and schooled?

    If you find them wandering the streets then it might not be completely crazy to wonder if those criteria have been met. You might even investigate a little to determine the truth.

  22. Re:Sad to hear on Radio Shack Reported To Be Ready for Bankruptcy Filing · · Score: 1

    I know the fashionable thing to do is to bash Radioshack, but there really isn't a brick and mortar that still sells components for tinkerers.

    If you are near a Fry's they still have a decent selection. Now I'm in CO and can drive to Sparkfun if necessary.

    I've built up a pretty good kit now and am better at planning ahead with some experience so I find that I need emergency supplies much less. I have never actually driven to the Sparkfun location.

  23. Re:fittingly ignorant on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 2

    I can't beleive I'm defending the Cristians here but the Pope quoting imaginary words from God and you quoting imaginary words from the Pope are about the same thing in my book.

    Pro-Tip: The Pope did not say he would punch anyone.

  24. Re:About time on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 1

    Besides, as we've seen in those cities which have implemented broadband service through utilities (government regulated) or by themselves, the service is better and the price is lower. How is that a bad thing?

    Because it proves that government can be effective sometimes.

  25. Re:Tell me it ain't so, Elon! on Tesla To Produce 'a Few Million' Electric Cars a Year By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Of course through the effects of corporate self-interest, consumers got cheaper gas than they could from your father's rip-off gas station...

    Only until his father's gas station is out of business. Then Standard Oil ......ack....I mean Texaco jacks the prices up and nobody gets cheap gas.