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  1. Re:Obvious on Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Favors Cooperation's Collapse · · Score: 1

    "government spending creates activity" A pretty meaningless phrase. Good or bad, beneficial or not ?

  2. Re:The Selfish Gene on Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Favors Cooperation's Collapse · · Score: 1

    "Each prisoner is in solitary confinement" with an intermediary. Please point to some natural examples.

  3. Re:So it is not an accurate Documentary Film? on Physicist Kip Thorne On the Physics of "Interstellar" · · Score: 2

    No we don't, not it isn't and no it isn't. Where do you get your information?

  4. Re:Finland will save money on napkins on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 1

    A friend and I once had a weekend to kill, so we sat down and figured out the formulas to multiply and divide with RN. It was a friggin' bitch.

  5. Re:Well, girls are better at programming... on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 1

    So, you're blaming the john and not the pimp?

  6. Re:Well, girls are better at programming... on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 2

    Same amount of experience and I've found that there are a few good ones in both sexes and the rest are dreck. Ratios about the same.

  7. Re:KILL FEMINISTS on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 1

    Do ... not ... project.

  8. Re:KILL FEMINISTS on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 1

    No, it was a supposition because he didn't know them.

  9. Re: Which is why girls dominate game making... on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 0

    "Until there are more women in tech management there will be fewer women entering the field." Except, of course, studies show women much preferring male to female managers.

  10. Re:Which is why girls dominate game making... on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 2

    "The fact is," Followed by a bunch of opinions.

  11. Re:EUgle? on Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your "analogy" fails. "Because that sort of product tying has been deemed harmful." Because there's money involved. Google forces nothing of that nature. If you're displeased with their service, pop another browser. The EU is simply displaying the puny man syndrome.

  12. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    Example: the metropolis area of Kansas City is larger than the state of Delaware, over twice the size of Rhode Island and about half the size of Connecticut and New Jersey. So yes, it's a good idea.

  13. Re:It boils down to energy storage costs on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Ignoring all historic data that shows the the temps go up and down with great frequency as have the CO2 concentrations, being lower and much higher than now. Basically the feed-back loops ignore the dynamic nature of a living planet.

  14. Re:Well if two google engineers say so on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 2

    Ummm... Obama, Gore?

  15. Re:Were Hunter-gatherers doing better on How "Big Ideas" Are Actually Hurting International Development · · Score: 1

    And another one decribed that lifetyle as "nasty, brutish, and short".

    Again, you seem to equate hunting/gathering with lawless anarchy

    Um, no sir, he was not. That nasty, brutish and short was all at the hand of dear, kind Mother Nature herself. Animals fight back you know. Winter is brutish and unforgiving. Life is short because of those things and the fact that you had better not get injured or sick.

    And, FYI, being a hunter/gatherer takes a helluva lot more space than an agrarian or our society does. So, to even achieve your proposed Utopia, first we eliminate 6.7 billion humans. And don't for one second think you won't be in that number, simple odds are against you.

  16. Re:Six million Jews on How "Big Ideas" Are Actually Hurting International Development · · Score: 1

    And the Romani and gays? Each group targeted by the Nazis would be correct in viewing their persecution as a result of the rise of Nazi Germany but the war was not a religiously motivated war. It was about the thing behind even the religious wars - the acquisition of the territories an assets of others.

  17. Re:Why giving ? on How "Big Ideas" Are Actually Hurting International Development · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the old Humpty Dumpty tactic.

  18. Re:We will never have "real" AI on Upgrading the Turing Test: Lovelace 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Oh baloney. How about listing those rules. I don't ever recall seeing the handbook.

  19. Re:In Reverse on Extreme Shrimp May Hold Clues To Alien Life On Europa · · Score: 1

    For organic molecules, I'd say anything sufficient to inhibit their interactions or congeal them would be harsh.

  20. Re:Nope... Nailed It on It's Not Developers Slowing Things Down, It's the Process · · Score: 1

    But IT doesn't do that, so IT doesn't see that, so IT doesn't believe it exists, is part of a job or is important. IT is just as myopic as any other group of business people, they just think they have all the answers - just like every other group of business people.

  21. Re:Nope... Nailed It on It's Not Developers Slowing Things Down, It's the Process · · Score: 1

    My experience has been that managers care a *great* deal about users (read clients) calling in and complaining that their data is gone and threaten to sue.
    Then again, I mostly worked in banking where reducing risk was a prominent concern for all parties.

  22. Re:my share must remain in the ground on Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court · · Score: 1

    If you're growing all your own food, with the variety that entails, you are doing nothing but and it will take a lot more than a tractor. That's just a start. Oh, the tractor is actually out as the very first time it needs repair, you won't have the money. Why? You're tilling, weeding, harvesting and processing. Remember, it's call sustenance farming for a reason.

  23. Re:Sell everything on Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court · · Score: 1

    Your argument speaks against itself. We don't already use alternatives because oil is cheap enough and easily modified enough that **even though** we use oil for a fuel we **still** use it as a lubricant.

  24. Re:Sell everything on Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court · · Score: 1

    "There are plenty of companies and local businesses that can live without oil." YAAFM No, there aren't. Oil isn't just used for fuel, it's a lubricant. You want whaling as a full scale industry again? How about food? You want cow and horse shit as the main fertilizers again? You'd have it right at hand too. When cars were invented they were hailed as miracles because of all the friggin' horse shit in the streets of the major cities and the health hazards that caused. You haven't thought past the damned placards you read.

  25. Re:Standing on Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're hypocrites. If they don't like the policies the college has concerning investment, why are *they* investing in the college instead of finding another? They want to force the college to divest but they don't have the gonads to divest themselves.