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  1. Re:What?!? on World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100 · · Score: 1

    The link in this article references the UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences in what appears to be a peer reviewed paper.

    Your link references some dude's op-ed.

    I know which source I would tend to believe more...

  2. Re:First defense of oppressors, on Professors Say Massive Open Online Courses Threaten Academic Freedom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Both" sides use their cherry-picked facts to justify government action to back them not realizing every government action is actually a loss for both sides.

    And you use your cherry-picked facts to justify your ideology despite that it is trivially easy to point to a positive action by a government.

  3. Re:Genius judge on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 1

    That sentence quoting SCOTUS says nothing about "non-profit."

    Non-profit is literally in bold in that sentence!

  4. Re:Can't have it all. on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 2

    Or you're a tea party supporter trying to start a nonprofit.

    Or a political advocacy group illegally trying to file as a non-profit.

  5. Re:Bad science on Death of Trees Correlated With Human Cardiovascular & Respiratory Disease · · Score: 1

    Take a good look guys. This guy just committed a basic mistake in method. He made a leap unsupported by the facts. The presence and quantity of trees may be correlated with healthier people, but that in no way means there's a connection.

    Maybe you should try checking for a claim of causation before trotting out the lame correlation != causation cliche. The title of this fine summary is: "Death of Trees Correlated With Human Cardiovascular & Respiratory Disease"

  6. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Any time an argument starts with "You $ETHNICORCULTURALGROUP" anything written subsequently loses all merit immediately.

    You blind people can't see very well.

    QED.

  7. Re:More regulation = less choices on Amazon Delivering Groceries? It's Coming, Thanks To Sales-Tax Politics · · Score: 1

    In your first sentence you say the new code is easy to implement. Then you say that is a bad thing because the US tax code is difficult to implement.

  8. Re:Giorgio Tsoukalos asks... on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 1

    If you said "billions and billions of random events occurred to create anti-entropic self-organizing entities" people would say "well, Occam's Razor says no." And yet here we are.

    Unless you have a simpler explanation, Occams Razor says Yes.

  9. Good on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 0

    Do we really need the administration wasting time on this?

  10. Reverse? on WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't taking someone's domain "by force" just be domain name hijacking?

  11. Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fuck that. I shouldn't have to pay the medical expenses for smokers, alcoholics or drug users.

    If you have insurance you pay the medical expenses for smokers, alcoholics or drug users.

  12. Re:Neverending is not infinite. on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So true. Only an economist could say with a straigth face that asymptotically approaching zero equals infinity.

  13. Re:Higher taxes on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: 1

    It worked for CFCs...

  14. Re:methane has shorter lifetime on Japan Extracts Natural Gas From Frozen Methane Hydrate · · Score: 1

    Methane is less stable than CO2. Its lifetime in normal atmoshperic sunlight is about two decades. CO2 stays for thousands of years.

    True to a point, the global warming potential of methane for 100 years is 25 and for 500 years is 7.6. So even after 500 years the methane is still 7.6 times as bad.

  15. Re:Seems like a good step on Japan Extracts Natural Gas From Frozen Methane Hydrate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the ocean warms too much, the hydrates will just bubble out and poof, LOTS more methane in the atmosphere that didn't provide us anything useful...

    Additionally, methane is 25 times more potent as a grennhouse gas. So converting that to energy and CO2 gives you energy and a net reduction in the greenhouse effect.

  16. Maybe on The One Sided Cyber War · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it is one-sided because they found ours but we can't find theirs?

  17. Re:good on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    Some of the most widely respected invertebrate zoologists I know are also creationists.

    From Wikipedia:
    Zoology /zoÊSËÉ'lÉ(TM)dÊ'i/, occasionally spelled zoÃlogy, is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

    Hmm.....

  18. Re:CFCs aren't naturally occurring? on Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Papers Please on Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    In addition, they will also have access to your: personality profile, criminal records, court records, land records, birth certificate, marriage certificate, political contributions, address, phone number, date of birth, and embarrassing photos of you drunk in college.

    Slashdot is full of such reactionaries! It is obvious that political contributions, so long as you meet the minimum donation, will remain anonymous.

  20. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    In other words: estimates of temperature in medieval/Roman times based on tree ring data may well be too low.

    And as we all know...nothing bad ever happened to the Romans.

  21. Re:Damn unfortunate on Rutgers Student Ravi Convicted of Bias Intimidation and Spying · · Score: 1

    1. Is harming someone a crime?
    2. Is credibly threatening a person with harm a crime?
    3. Is credibly threatening several people with harm a crime?

    Which is worse, doing one or doing all three? Which should be punished more severely, committing one or three crimes?

  22. Re:Isn't that anti-science? on Is Climate Change the New Evolution? · · Score: 1

    So you advocate teaching something outside of the scientifically "significant modern consensus" in elementary school science classes then?

  23. Re:Sign the petition on No SOPA Vote Until 2012 · · Score: 1

    Whoever uses "whomever" as a subject needs some serious English lessons.

    Him didn't pay attention whilst in English class.

    FTFY

  24. Re:The Death Star on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    That's point. While America fight a war on terrorists, the rest of the world are doing criminal investigations on organized crime and terrorist groups. While American fight obesity, the rest of the world seeks solutions to a healthier lifestyle to reduce obesity. While American fight a war on drugs, the rest of the world arrest criminals and put them to trial.

    This concept of "fighting wars" on everything is very American (not that wars are not fought somewhere else by other groups, don't get me wrong). This concept is also very hyped by the American medias.


    And yet... Vietnam was a "police action." Go figure...

  25. Re:Many people saw the economic collapse on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 2

    Bush's budget issued in 2001 warned that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were overleveraged, and said that they needed tighter controls, oversight, and a host of reforms...

    I would love to see a source for that.

    I do personally recall Bush campaigning in 2004 based on the increase in home ownership. Here are some direct quotes: link
    (think what you will of the linked source, it was the first I found in google with actual quotes)