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  1. Re:Screw your gun rights on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice assertion, give a cite.

  2. Let's let people judge for themselves if you're bullshitting.

  3. Re:Cities below sea level [Re:At My Door] on As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh bullshit. Swamps are created by having level land that drains slowly. Missouri has swamps ffs.

  4. Re:It used to be terrible on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't mentioned but I'll presume this is about Writer.

    While I have problems with some of the bugs still in Writer, it has had page breaks for years. Insert->Manual Break->Page Break. Couldn't be more plain.

    As an aside, I installed Libre Writer last night and checked. It still has the same bugs OpenOffice Writer has, so I uninstalled it. No need to 'upgrade' since Writer is the only part I use.

  5. The Stainless Steel Rat deals with murder mysteries in an advanced society. Still SciFi.

  6. The Force is not a futuristic technology, it's magic. Hence, it's fantasy. It's also the fundamental concept of the series. Hence, *they're* fantasy - with some advance science tech thrown in.

  7. It's not ridiculously high. The man and his business's reputation cannot be restored to its former state and other than suffering a monetary slam, the dealer can do nothing to help with that.

  8. Re:This is actually true. on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Explain how it is nonsense.

  9. Re:Untestable? on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Those giant leaps may require philosophy ...

    Otherwise known as faith.

  10. Re:Untestable? on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    I was pointing out his source wasn't reliable and he cherry picked his quote.

  11. Re:Trust the philosopher, my foot! on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Experimentation and curiosity go very far back into prehistory.

  12. Re:Jeering From the Sidelines on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Apparently you didn't note that last part.

  13. Re:i remember the other science advice about lifes on Study: Happiness Won't Extend Your Life After All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You simply *must* find the correct marinade. It varies by the region and type of range they matured in.

  14. Re:Untestable? on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    "The holographic principle springs from the theory of black holes..." -- Same summary, three sentences later.

  15. Re:Jeering From the Sidelines on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 2

    Bull. Metallurgy was practiced a very, very long time ago. Hit and miss, see what works. Try the last guy's formulas for making various bronzes. Note that last one.

    Same goes for the bow before that. It most certainly wasn't philosophers that thought up composite bows or recurves.

    And napping flint before that.

    You're confusing when things were written down with their origins. They just called it survival back then.

  16. Re:Trust the philosopher on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed, I would be incredibly surprised.

    If you can't show me how to test your hypo, it's parlor talk (philosophy).

  17. Re:earth life evolved lots of defenses on Simulation Pinpoints the Most Likely Spots For Life In the Milky Way (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It is also thought life evolved in fresh water. It is also thought that life evolved amidst the clays. It is also thought.....

    All thoughts about this are conjecture.

  18. Re:Wealthy nations? Where on Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which you failed to even try to explain.

  19. Re:Did your media cover up inconvenient bits? on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The relevance is not whether ancient religious texts contain violent and xenophobic edicts, all cultures derived from barbaric times. The relevance is whether current religious people follow those edicts - not some minuscule portion, a significant percentage. This indicates whether a culture has started maturing or not.

    To save others the time, the universal reaction to that little experiment was shock and rejection of the barbaric edicts, not nodding and acceptance, whether they were fooled as to the source or not. You forgot that part.

  20. Re: single-climate planets on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    Every planet we know of is significantly larger than a state. Let's cut our world population down by one hundredth. That's still 72.3M. You honestly believe that number would have basically one industry? Credulity is stretched.

  21. Re: Wrong? on Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ignoring of course, the person not paying their bill broke contract first. Don't want to be known as a douche, don't act like a douche. No pity from me for deadbeats.

  22. Re:Like testing for 'god' on Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Explain the difference.

  23. Re:absence of evidence on Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    "Occam's razor is not science." Neither is absence of evidence.

  24. Re:Spot on on Is AI Development Moving In the Wrong Direction? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't even be sure that you are sentient, aware, and able to understand; ...

    Only if you're a solipsist. Otherwise a simple discussion can reveal it.

  25. Re:The Brains of Men and Women ARE Different on The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    And is enveloped by the thinking part of a woman. Easy to play that game.