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  1. Re:If you make this a proof of God... on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 1

    "He doesn't exist inside their universe", other than being able to create and inject another cell or two if desired.

  2. Re:Webster's on Photo Web Site Offers a Wall of Shame For Image Thieves · · Score: 1

    Considering the plethora of "Original source unknown" descriptions

    Plethora? Eight out of fifty-two is a plethora? We have different meanings for that word, I guess. When only one seventh of the photos on that page have not (yet) been identified as not being shot by the people claiming the work as theirs, I'm not that concerned that there's anyone other than Brett and Jizelle doing anything bogus. Wedding photogs are notoriously persnickety about retaining control of their photos, even from the bride and groom much less from other wedding photogs.

  3. Re:Yes... on Photo Web Site Offers a Wall of Shame For Image Thieves · · Score: 1, Funny

    Funner fact, Wikipedia has the history of HTML. "Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990."

  4. Re:lol on Photo Web Site Offers a Wall of Shame For Image Thieves · · Score: 1

    I love it. Two posts down from this at the mo' shows exactly what you're saying.

  5. Webster's on Photo Web Site Offers a Wall of Shame For Image Thieves · · Score: 4, Insightful

    vigilante ... noun -s often attributive
    Etymology: Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante, adjective, watchful, vigilant, from Latin vigilant-,

    So, yes. But what's your point? The site shows original pictures and then their rip-offs. This is bad how?

  6. Re:get rid of salary pay / make it have a high lev on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    I worked contract for decades. You are not exempt as a contractor, you contract for specific hours and declare specific charges for overtime. They may ask, but they can't make. It's a contract; you can always walk, you can always sue and they know it. If you worked free overtime, it was nobody's fault but yours.

  7. Re:I had deaf friends. on How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture · · Score: 2

    More along the lines of it's good enough for *your* child too.

  8. I had deaf friends. on How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And yes, they were adamantly supportive of the view that "for many Deaf people, every implanted child is a person stolen from their culture." But, keeping in mind that "More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents", they are effectively laying claim to other people's children.

  9. Re:If this were the US.... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    Actually there are a few important differences. According to Christianity, Jesus was more than just human, he worked those wonders personally. Second, he didn't ascribe the healing properties to materials, but to the supernatural. Third, he didn't charge.

  10. Re:Not going to work... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can confirm this yourself by simply asking a believer how it works. You'll get a long oration about how water "remembers" what was in it. I've done it and it's great for laughs. Especially when you start using that word hated by all homeopaths, "How?"

  11. Re:diminished placebo effect on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic or something other than seriously ignorant. Aspirin.

  12. Re:diminished placebo effect on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 2

    The placebo effect is what happens when a subject thinks what they're taking is real medicine (or curative of some nature) when it's inert instead. If you tell people it's an inert substance, then there is not placebo effect by definition. There is a vast quantity of research into this and yes, it makes a difference.

  13. Re:If this were the US.... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    This is not a political topic, whether you want it to be or not. See? I can play that too. It's an opinion, not a fact.

  14. Re:my game policy on Study: Video Gamer Aggression Result of Game Experience, Not Violent Content · · Score: 1

    Nawh. Just slam your mouse down a couple of time and shout "Goddammit!" and continue. Big deal. It's not like an occasional burst of anger at either yourself or a game will make you into a murderer. Those that believe it does are the ones that lack the self-control. Stress can be dealt with by either sitting back and Ooohmmmming or beating up your mouse. Either way, it's gone.

  15. Built in cheats will also make you mad. on Study: Video Gamer Aggression Result of Game Experience, Not Violent Content · · Score: 1

    They're also inexcusable. Hell, it's already a computer and in a PvE situation, it has the hands down advantage on reflex and targeting.

  16. Re:Minesweeper on Study: Video Gamer Aggression Result of Game Experience, Not Violent Content · · Score: 1

    Completely disagree. I love minesweeper and play it in two modes. First one is pop a couple and then use time and logic to try to continue. Second is pop a few and then do a snap decision type thing and speed through. It's really pretty easy to play as there is a logical formula to determine where the possible mines are.

  17. Re:Aha! on Rover Curiosity Discovers Australia-Shaped Rock On Mars · · Score: 1

    Actual atheist response: It's a fucking rock and doesn't prove any damned thing about Australia.

  18. Re:Some are more equal than others... on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    How about labeling people you admittedly don't actually know as homophobes instead of assuming they were speaking their true thoughts. You cannot read minds, despite your claim to be able to do so.

  19. Re:Bu the wasn't fired on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    A helluva lot uninstalled the browser and indicated it was his forced ouster that impelled them to do so. So force the rest of the board too, right?

  20. Re:Waybackmachine on Dr. Mahendra Rao on Stem-Cell Research Funding Institute Is Shuttered · · Score: 1

    You could be trolling or you could be a religious fanatic. Hard to tell. But no, your statement is wrong.

  21. Re:Correcting Lies on Stem-Cell Research Funding Institute Is Shuttered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Facts are not talking points. Blanket accusations like in the GP are.

  22. Re:Except much of the time they're right... on Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? · · Score: 1

    This is axiomatic bullshit as there are many people who have become rich that weren't before.

  23. Re:software on Fifty Years Ago IBM 'Bet the Company' On the 360 Series Mainframe · · Score: 1

    (like COBOL, the programming language invented specifically so the business types had the wrong impression they could understand it).

    Oh bullshit. Do you realize that there's levels to COBOL beyond one, right? That it's business oriented was not to sell to bosses, but to streamline development for business applications. Get your head out.

  24. Re:software on Fifty Years Ago IBM 'Bet the Company' On the 360 Series Mainframe · · Score: 1

    Spent most of my career working in banking. No, it's not dull, yes (like every other career) it's stressful, no it's not pointless. Banking also makes use of much more than mainframes; Tandem, networks and PC's for instance. Perhaps one of the reasons is the attitude you can see displayed here frequently, older tech is "bad" and to be disparaged for the newest thing on rails.

  25. Re:Ah, antimatter on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Neither are they, dumbass.