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  1. Re:The obvious solution on When Scientists Give Up · · Score: 1

    What is the "less expensive" way to store & protect your anthrax, or other dangerous pathogen that you'd like to muck with?

    You should have picked a better example. Remember just a while ago where a very well funded organization (CDC) with everything you mentioned misplaced some damned smallpox in a friggin' cardboard box?

  2. Re:Easy solution on When Scientists Give Up · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Believe it or not, most scientists have a tremendous amount of integrity and follow the rigor required by the scientific method.

    This is an opinion of yours, regardless of your stating it as fact. There are numerous examples of scientists faking data, fudging data, faking entire studies and seeking confirmation for their bias. They are human with each and every human foible others have. You are also incorrect in that there are a large number of scientists working for oil and other venues you personally don't care for. Your disregard for them only shows your bias - again, opinion, not fact.
     
     

    no one has had funding cut off due to results

    Yet again, utter bull. There are numerous examples of funding drying up if the agenda is not met.

  3. Re:Science creates understanding of a real world. on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    Basics of Quantum Electrodynamics - If you require supporting knowledge, books on those topics are also available.

  4. Re: So a company on Microsoft Takes Down Slideshow-Building Tool After Getty Images Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Produces nothing"? YAAFM. Providing a highly sought after service is not producing nothing.

  5. Re:Today's business class is the 70s' economy clas on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    Where in the Midwest are you? At KC you can fly Air Canada, Air Tran, Alaska, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, Spirit Airlines, United and US Airways. Just checked at the site - and they go other places than Florida or Mexico. AIr Canada goes to Boston from Terminal B, for instance. There's a handy little drop down selection screen.

  6. Re:cram lots of people in a confined space on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because you consume more space and fuel.

  7. Re:cram lots of people in a confined space on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 2

    Having a trigger to fire your weapon conveys permission to use said button.

    Utter bullshit analogy. As is all games-based reasoning.

  8. Re:1% and the GOP will use this to jail anyone who on Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans? · · Score: 1

    Or the Democrats will sic the IRS on you and demand the information.

  9. Re:This is no different. on Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans? · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that said *pacemaker* is storing location information without any method to nondestructively access it? If so, I call bullshit. If not, the cops need only use the same interface to extract the information without killing you.

  10. Re:"Stuff that matters" on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 1

    Excellent sir, although you still haven't beaten Jonathan Coe.

  11. Re:Stop complaining and debating and do something on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    And there we have the Scotsman camouflage. Many of those original and "true" feminists do exactly the same thing as your "masked" ones.

  12. Re:One bad apple spoils the barrel on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    Most the gamers I know are not teenage boys, but grown men and women. I do believe you're pulling that "you know, the ones that actually buy big game titles" out of thin air.

  13. Re:One bad apple spoils the barrel on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    "Written word can be force, too." You mean like people who exaggerate things in their blogs to slander you?

  14. Re: Is Coding Computer Science? Of Course! on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Have to agree. I read about the first two lines then thought "Screw it" and jumped to your comment.

  15. Re:Is Coding Computer Science? Of Course! on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 2

    ... so it takes a lot of hardware to make an optimizing programmer worthwhile.

    If and only if that programmer does the optimization after coding and has not learned to code in an optimized fashion to begin with.

  16. Re:All hostages to the last mile providers on Amazon's Plan To Storm the Cable Industry's Castle · · Score: 1

    Oh please. DSL handles movies just fine. I watch them on Amazon, Hulu and wherever I want and have no real problems. I also download gigs of game updates rapidly. There's no high-tech nothing about it.

  17. Re:Hate!? on Researchers Say Neanderthals Created Cave Art · · Score: 1

    Or not being able to get members elected to high council in the Klan.

  18. Re:Temptation on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    When you have to cite Uganda for an example of Christian atrocity, you know you're reaching for an example.

  19. Re:Simple. Easy. on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 1

    That selection process however is far more limited that what you can find on Amazon. It's nice to enjoy nostalgia but that doesn't mean everyone else does or should.

  20. Re:Difference between publisher and vanity press on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 1

    Sell that to one of the lesser known authors that the trad publisher does little or no promotion for yet retains the copyright for that particular contract.

  21. Re:Chemistry is religion now? on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    Utter nonsense. Chemistry is not about transmuting base metals to gold, discovering a universal cure or the means of indefinitely prolonging life. Alchemy was not a precursor to chemistry, it grew from it and existed alongside it.

  22. Re:And this is how we get to the more concrete har on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    I have seen the code of degreed Computer Scientists. I do not hold the same hope and esteem you seem to.

  23. Re:And this is how we get to the more concrete har on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the bulk of Aristotle's and Plato's students were of high school age. They would disagree with you. Perhaps it's your teaching methodology?

  24. Re:If you don't want science... on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    No one ate shit soup. That anyone uses that phrase undermines any argument they make. He was wrong to use the Stone Age rhetoric, but answer this; are you saying the religious people of the time weren't the ones pulling humanity out of the Dark Ages?

  25. Re:If you don't want science... on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    Name a couple. I don't believe you understand what the church considered blasphemy to be. As for "a lot of them pretended", you cannot read minds. Especially those in the past.