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  1. Re:Cm'on man! on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is ambiguous for a reason. If you never define it, everything someone else lists can be claimed wrong. Much like 'climate change'.

  2. Re:Without the sun there is no climate change at a on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: -1

    As in variations in solar activity aren't a major driver in climate change, not the Sun itself.

    Is this the best reasoning you can come up with? It doesn't even make logical sense.

  3. Electric soma... on Researchers Use Electroconvulsive Therapy To Disrupt Recall of Nasty Events · · Score: 0

    Not a good idea. You need the bad memories. It's called learning, even if they're terrible experiences. And, unless you want treatments forever, one must realize that's it's quite probable that they will simply seep back into your conscious memory over time. Imagine what it would be like ten years later to suddenly realize what you'd gone through - and elected to forget - and hadn't.

  4. Re:But IP also includes trademarks on 90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" · · Score: 1

    But IP also includes trademarks, which in theory are relevant to virtually every business...

    In theory, perhaps. In reality, no. Most small businesses do not need trademark at all.

  5. Re:There is no such thing as Intellectual Property on 90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, your opinion on this matter is only an opinion.

  6. Summary left out "to them". on 90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" · · Score: 1

    Those things weren't important *to them* in their business, not that they thought those things weren't important. Big difference.

  7. Re:Drinking from the firehose. on Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data · · Score: 1

    There's nothing in the world preventing you from donating time and hardware to help them do so.

    That's the point. There's really too much raw data that's not really needed, just produced.

  8. Re:Science Fact on What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills · · Score: 1

    but globally, each 9 women will get you a baby a month.

    "...but on average, you will get a about baby a month." That's all you can really say.

  9. Re:What Sci-fi movies? on What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills · · Score: 1

    The Last Mimzy was anything but SF. It was, after all, based on the assumptions your emotions encoded into your DNA during your life.

  10. Re:As stated by Arther C Clark. on What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills · · Score: 1

    To those unfamiliar with it and more primitive. **NOT** the owners.

  11. Re:And how is on UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age · · Score: 1

    Actually no. It would stem from the fact that the US is the largest charitable contributor on the planet. This is both governmental and private.

  12. Re:Libertarianism on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    No, that's an extremist view of their views. Less government doesn't mean none. Same as a non-Libertarian view doesn't mean wishing for a totalitarian state. Each side has their bell curve and since it's polls, none of the bell curves are actually known and the internet trolls on both sides distort things quite a bit.

  13. Re:Not really, bitcoin is regulated more. on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    In a sense bitcoin is regulated by it's design in a way only a computer system can be.

    To start a sentence with "In a sense" is to admit defeat beforehand.

  14. Re:Even a libertarians opion matters on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    The carbon footprint of regular banks is much bigger, they have massive buildings, IT systems to process transactions, etc...

    Sounds good. Wrong though. Banks have large systems because their transaction count dwarfs BitCoin's. They rely on one very expensive computer setup because it's **designed** for the job, unlike some gameboi's home PvP system. Think Tandem, high throughput specifically for transactional processing. All in all, they do much more for less if you understand the entire picture.

    Their massive buildings are for the human side of the issue and are dwarfed by the number of homes the distributed system resides in.

  15. Re:Use of possessives on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    From grammar nazi to grammar samuri in one sentence.

  16. Re:Limited money supply is a problem? on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    If I hadn't commented already and you weren't AC, I'd rank this about the best post on /. ever. Well writ, sir or ma'am.

  17. Re:Limited money supply is a problem? on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    With finite currencies like the gold standard

    Asteroid mining is being addressed as we write. Odds are great that we'll have no dearth of minerals in the foreseeable future.

  18. Re:Limited money supply is a problem? on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin was involved with various activities that governments had to look into, thereby exposing them. Any fluctuations that Bitcoin experiences due to politics is due to Bitcoin's inherent political nature, ie: Bitcoin user's choice.

  19. Re:Limited money supply is a problem? on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    You're seriously telling us that you're incapable of drilling a tiny hole and fashioning a small length of wire into an earring loop? My guess is that projecting that deficiency onto the original poster is probably in error, not to mention that it was meant in humor to begin with.

  20. Re:Dune on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    "generally written by people who have a better understanding of nature than your average artist"

    Oh, please. They're just people like everyone else. They just write, and you don't get everyone else's ruminations.

    If your statements represents real truth, then you need to listen to what I say as I have fourteen books out now. But I'll guarantee a lot of folks here have disagreed with me adamantly.

  21. Re:In other words ... on Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog · · Score: 1

    Leakage. Think a little.

  22. Re:Seriously? on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    They currently run around 1-2 grand and weigh 1-4 tons. That and the accompanying modifications to the house, the slab and so forth you need to install, plus maintenance. Probably not so good for rural.

  23. Re:Perhaps not on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    back then the democrats were the conservatives

    Yes they were, and Lincoln was a Republican. Democrats wanted things to stay the way they were, with slavery, not without.

    Keep in mind they were also the ones against integration in the south later.

    No need to rewrite at all.

  24. Re:Obummer's exit plan on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 1

    Fuck you, fuck you twice. I no of no one who thinks that's a realistic possibility. Do no project your demented idea of what others are like upon them.

  25. Re:You'll never understand until you experience it on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're being a dick. I understood exactly what he meant.