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  1. Re:"Social justice warriors" are the ultimate trol on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Very typical SJW troll tactic. Exaggerate his position to the extreme and then *pretend* you knew that was what he meant. Smashing.

  2. Re:Why the cloak and dagger? on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Oh dear! on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    I'm presuming you recognize yourself in his description of the creative mind.

  4. Re:Systematic bias, but also something else on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    And the girl will cut a hole in a napkin, take a rubber band and put a dress on a transformer.

  5. Re:Systematic bias, but also something else on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    "it's just that outside influences, left on their own and without context, don't even hold out the possibility of women doing something outside of a traditional role."

    I would suggest that (me being the father of a daughter) you are simply biased in your perceptions. The media at all stages is simply filled with women doing every role there is.

  6. Re:What? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    "Feminism, among other things, wants men to calm down and not feel threatened by women" That is exactly as much projection as women feeling threatened by men. Before someone goes off into the physical thing, we're talking about presence on jobs here, not a fist fight.

  7. Re:What? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's what was said. Passive coercion is just that. Only a delicate little flower (stamen or pistil) would succumb.

  8. Re:What? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    You think women have brains and yet can't make up their own minds, being passively (whatever that actually means) coerced into not doing something they want? My, how condescending towards women, making you not a feminist either

  9. Re:Pusher beam, not reversible tractor beam on Australian Physicists Build Reversible Tractor Beam · · Score: 1

    The semantics are still screwed up as the laser does no pushing or pulling itself but simply heats up the little, tiny gold sphere. It's pretty tenuous to say that the machine generating the light being converted to surface temperature heating the air which bounces off the surface is providing traction.

  10. Re:Photo-realistic drawings? on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and that was close in 2001. Thirteen years probably has ameliorated much of that problem.

  11. Re:Photo-realistic drawings? on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 1

    Certainly not dealing with the subject at hand but Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and AuroraTrek both have moments where the rendering is almost indistinguishable from live footage. Especially in closeups. FF was not 'random' by any means but AT is produced by one individual.

  12. Re:This Yeti/Area-51/LochNess story just won't die on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    "if you construct one of the requirements to be "must urinate via a penis" it doesn't matter that you apply that standard to everyone who applies" - As that was never a requirement, regardless of your tenuous stretching of logic and 'fact', your entire argument fails.

  13. Re: All about perception on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 2

    "Besides, armies are not composed of average men" - utter bullshit. The Rangers perhaps aren't, but the general military is. It's still very important that your buddy be able to pick up your shot, unconscious body and carry it.

    "Differences between men and women *on average* are meaningless." Physically, this is untrue.

    "The average soldier can be easily replaced with exceptional women." Which more or less negates your point.

  14. Re:K. S. Kyosuk - Re:She would've flunked the test on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 4, Informative

    Snopes isn't so sure. "We haven't yet found a verified news report of a drug testee whose cheating was exposed when urinalysis revealed him to be pregnant. (Pregnancy tests aren't a standard part of the drug screening process.)"

  15. Re:Apple's take on Windows 8 on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 2

    If hyperbole is your argument, you have no argument.

  16. Re: I don't follow on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pro Litteris, the Swiss copyright society for literature does not agree. Helvetica doesn't even make the top twelve. Most returns on a search of "most legible typeface" that are by professionals boil down to 'whatever you're used to and like'.

  17. Re:Bleh on Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy · · Score: 1

    I hear that about games too, but in every game I play the F2P players are constantly bitching that things that cost (oh, those horrible microtransactions), "should" be free. It never ends and I don't think it would here either.

  18. Re: Heavier than air flight is impossible on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Wrong about mechanics, not about physics. It's the physics with cold fusion.

  19. Re: Heavier than air flight is impossible on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He said heavier than air flying machines were not possible. A difference. He knew good and well that birds flew. So he was not at all arguing that physics prevented flight, it was just his knowledge of mechanics that prevented him from imagining that a machine could.

  20. Re:Things once thought impossible... on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 2

    You used transparent without any modifiers whatsoever, yet the article talks about anything but. Transparent means we - as in you and I - can see through it *all the time*. Kinda like glass, you lknow?. In the experiment they use that word to mean "nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation". Emphasis mine. So, not even actually transparent.

    Going further, they used the FLASH laser (meaning a very expensive process) and produced "a spot with a diameter less than a twentieth of the width of a human hair" which retained your 'invisible' state "an extremely brief period - an estimated 40 femtoseconds". More of that there emphasis.

    If that's the type of logic you use and respect, it's no wonder at all you believe cold fusion has happened.

    The name still fits. Turbo.

  21. Re:Heavier than air flight is impossible on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    That doesn't even make sense. Try to use more words with a greater sense of meaning as to your point.

  22. Re:Why Cold Fusion (or something like it) Is Real on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 2

    So you're saying getting positive results in cold fusion is an art, not science?

  23. Re:Agile is the answer to everything on Mixing Agile With Waterfall For Code Quality · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure he understood the point of the article. By personal experience, he disagrees. If you're appealing to the authority of the article - pffft! - authorities on developmental and coding methodologies are a dime a dozen.

  24. Re:I don't get it... on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    Many books and movies are very mature and have greater plot and character development than most comics.

    Works both ways. And, cohesive isn't exactly a word I'd use for a set of tales that re-origin themselves every few years.

  25. Re:I am SHOCKED! on How English Beat German As the Language of Science · · Score: 2

    I wonder who helped them rebuild?