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  1. Re:The Right Wing Response on California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers · · Score: 1

    And you know he's right wing how? Lotta lefties don't mind "tagging" people they don't agree with.

  2. Re:Yes... on California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers · · Score: 1

    Well, there's a little straw in there. Your kids are not going to starve, other forms of support are available. And, it could easily be argued that you are grandfathered in and their requirement would constitute violating their contract with you. State dependent.

    I just don't see these companies surviving this.

  3. Re:Stupid Book on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    Rand, like other authors, had good and bad. Her good works were earlier, before she became wealthier and self-absorbed. Try Anthem. I feel it's the pinnacle of her writing. That's not saying much, as it's her third or fourth or so.

  4. Re:What do you expect from a bunch of communists? on GPL Hindering Two-Way Code Sharing? · · Score: 1

    Both of your analogies fail because society != socialism.

    Humans are not hardwired like bees, so that one is simply wrong. We don't have genetic workers, queens and drones or hard programmed responses.

    Chimps are a society, but they are very far from being socialists. There is no community ownership. Fights erupt over trivial portions of resources all the time and the big guy wins. Hardly socialism.

    Human personality structure is very close to chimp and, as such, there is a lot of squabbling about minutia as well as major issues and resources.

    Enjoying life is the same as profit. You only get to do that after you've acquired the basics -- are fed and comfortable.

  5. Re:Shit World 2007 on 54% of CEOs Dissatisfied With Innovation · · Score: 1

    No. They eat to live with defecation necessary to clear the tract. The other reasons are a layer after the first is satisfied. Go truly hungry for a while and see if you care if the food tastes good or is presented properly.

    You also have the sequence incorrect. Need is the driver of creativity which produces invention. Apes trade things for food (sex) with no invention involved. So no, at the most rudimentary level the CEO came before creativity.

  6. Re:Shit World 2007 on 54% of CEOs Dissatisfied With Innovation · · Score: 1

    That roof and food are your bottom line, chum. At the end of the day, you too count beans.

  7. Re:Lots of BS in the martial arts world on Shaolin Monks May Sue Over Tale of Defeat by Ninja · · Score: 1

    After finishing my first cup of coffee, I'll change my last post to say you're wrong on all counts. I have some fifty books, written by Japanese, Korean, Chinese and others on martial arts. Most have katas in them and use photo/text to describe things quite nicely. Was going to say succinctly, but you need to read the English to appreciate how wrong that would be.

    You cannot learn them at home alone, though. Many things -- like sticky hand practice -- require a partner.

  8. Re:Lots of BS in the martial arts world on Shaolin Monks May Sue Over Tale of Defeat by Ninja · · Score: 1

    Not really. I developed an offshoot of choreographic notation when I ran my stunt group. You don't use drawings. Text works fine.

  9. Re:Round up ready weeds and other horrors. on One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's · · Score: 1

    Provide a cite, please. I follow this and don't recall reading that. Again, cite please.

  10. Re:Be that as it may... on LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links · · Score: 1

    Because we , for the most part, aren't LJ users (I am). If the LJ users want to decry, fine, but a bunch of uninvolved people standing on the sidelines screaming about the practices of a particular company that provides a service for friggin' free (unless you want a subscription) are just interlopers.

    After all, who will learn from their example if no one makes an example of them?

    Good lynch mob mentality. Why not leave it to their actual user base to "make an example of them"?

  11. Re:Recommend on Transitioning From Developer To Management? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because being a manager does not mean you can create new positions.

  12. Re:why should broadband be a special case? on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 1

    The telephone is a line of communication in emergencies.

    Telecommunications is open to anyone with a telephone. You must provide an argument of a similar caliber as to the necessity for mandating higher speeds. So far, all I hear is "I want it faster!" Not a good argument of necessity.

  13. Re:why should broadband be a special case? on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 1

    And they did not wish to modify their business on his behalf. Your point is what?

  14. Re:You keep using these words on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Having watched their gun episode, that's not what they said. Cite, if you will.

  15. Re:Can't it be both? on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    Paranoia? Sure. Especially since some cabs already do what you fear. You're in public, using public transport. You have a right not to be photographed? Why? The cab driver has a right to exercise their paranoia of the rider who might mug them, you know.

    everything else

    Would be a better argument if you listed the elses.

  16. Re:ahem on Gamma Ray Anomaly Could Test String Theory · · Score: 1

    what do bloggers know about string theory? Seriously? PUHLEEZE And can we stop talking about what the bloggers are saying? My word.

    I don't know, but maybe a blog by a friggin' physicist would do, don't you think? If not, why not?

    Life on the lattice

  17. Re:Space.com article offering counter-point on Study: Martian Soil Has Signs of Life · · Score: 1

    From link:

    "If we assume these gases were produced during the breakdown of organic material together with hydrogen peroxide solution, we can calculate the masses needed to produce the volume of gas measured," Houtkooper explained.

    Assuming organics is a helluvan assumption.

    For Pace and many other scientists, the definitive experiment performed by the Viking landers was the gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) test, which was capable of identifying substances by their chemical makeup. That test failed to turn up evidence of organic compounds.

    Especially in the face of that.

  18. Re:Oh My God!!! on Pirate Banned From Using Linux · · Score: 1

    He's not being compelled to buy a damned thing. He doesn't have to access the internet, so he doesn't have to buy Windows.

  19. Re:but..... on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    Then you've never known any addicts. To relate; if a wino can get two bottles of legal at half the price of one "powerful" bottle, that's what he'll do. They want the quantity of the drug, not a smaller package. About the only ones that break this mold are pot smokers who enjoy a small toke for a good buzz.

  20. Re:Evolution is not fact on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, no. There are various theories and hypothesises as to how evolution works. All of which may be true, by the way. But evolution, unto itself, is a fact. It has been observed.

    And, no, YEC have no theories in the scientific sense, only in the parlor talk sense. That was the GP(Ps?) point.

    Your point about abiogenisis shows that you do not even understand what evolution is. It is the variance of life, not the origins.

    The earth orbits around the sun. That is not open for debate and yet has plenty of science involved. Don't be an idiot.

  21. Re:The bigger issue on James Hansen on the Warmest Year Brouhaha · · Score: 1

    There have been coral die offs throughout Earth's history.

  22. Re:Simulated inorganic life .... on Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The human mind congeals around age 30,...

    Uh, no. You are speaking gibberish. My guess is you're under 30.

  23. Re:Mixed on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    What if this new major program prevented (via scheduling, resource, and location conflicts) the students ability to be engaged in multiple interests?

    That type of conflict exists whether you major (I was a science major in HS) or not. Being a science major did not prevent me from being in speech or taking art classes. I doubt it will now. Those become electives for a sci major.

  24. Re:simply on YouTube Begins Defense, Seeks Depositions · · Score: 1

    Right. The owner of the right of distribution should just, you know, throw that right away because asshats will break the law and distribute it anyway. Same lame rehas of "I want it free!".

  25. Who cares? on British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication · · Score: 1

    I further care about those people who freak out over e-mail. A decade ago they were freaking out over phone messages and checking them every 15. COD. So what?