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  1. Re:What about as a lifestyle choice? on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    You seem to be confusing sexuality and sexual practice.

  2. Re:Low-end hosting on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    You should upgrade your hosting to something equally cheap which offers proper language support. Oh, it's tepples. Never mind. Pray on it or something.

  3. Re:Why? on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 0

    I wrote an awesome library which generates an AngularJS (JavaScript) module from some PHP classes at run-time. The script gets compiled (to inline some JS) using PHP. So in this instance there is some PHP which spits out PHP which spits out some JavaScript. Regardless of what one might assume, it works wonderfully.

  4. Re:Y2K on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    You never had to sift through some ages-old written-by-that-guy-who-left-5-years-ago assembler code in '99 I take it. Good for you. Not everyone was that lucky, so you might want to can the sass :)

  5. Re:On behalf of all network specialists, on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Then run IPv4 on your home network and have your router provide 4-to-6 and 6-to-4. Problem solved. I've had IPv6 from my ISP for well over a year and I've not found problems yet.

  6. Re:What money can't buy, the moral limits of marke on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Or if you live in a decent country where drug addicts get free treatment, including free drugs if required, meaning they don't even consider donating blood to be a good thing to do.

  7. Re:I used to donate blood... on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Or you could fix the joke that is the US health industry. Civilised countries don't have such issues, and donation is not a money-spinning endeavour for everyone involved.

  8. Re:That'd mean your mother is probably dead on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 1

    So when you scrape your arm and kill some cells, you consider yourself a murderer. Gotcha. Great logic there!

    Hint: cell != person.

  9. Re:How is this a good idea? on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 1

    You can get this functionality on rooted phones already.

  10. Re:No I'm not, but you? apk on Cybercriminals Ramp Up Activity Ahead of 2014 World Cup · · Score: 1

    You have symptoms of schizophrenia, dude. You might want to go see a doctor.

  11. Re:Probably the least concern. on Cybercriminals Ramp Up Activity Ahead of 2014 World Cup · · Score: 3, Informative

    When the average Brazilian is up-in-arms against a football event, you know something is horribly, horribly wrong.

  12. Re:Think for 2 seconds before knee jerk on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    You deny existence - and are willing to guarantee the suffering of future generations - because someone talked to you in a way you don't like? Aww poor baby! Poor wittle baby! In future someone should give you a lollypop before people start talking about AGW so your precious little ego isn't hurt! Awwwww poor little guy! I had no idea you were so sensitive! So cute! Awwwwwww!

  13. Re:Queue the deniers on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    People couldn't deny nuclear weapons existed, which doesn't hold true for this issue. Also, people didn't have to spend any more money in order to defeat that issue, as it was solved with diplomacy, and any costs attributed to it came from the military & diplomatic sides of government. That was a far easier problem to approach, tackle, and solve than AGW. Plus there were no Koch brothers pouring billions into the pro-nuclear-Armageddon side.

  14. Re:Queue the deniers on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    Of course it limits the pollution. You clearly have no idea how this thing works, yet you've convinced yourself you do enough so you can get worked up and start tilting at the windmills in your head.

    The government creates credits that allow X tonnes of pollution to be released. All the companies which abide by this scheme (which can be legislated to be all of them in a given area) can now only release X tonnes in total. That's a limit. This is how this works. Those who want to can buy credits from those who want to sell. Or maybe it won't work because Benghazi or something.

  15. Re:Queue the deniers on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    You are advocating tiny, insignificant, strawberry-scented "solutions" which achieve absolutely nothing without them being forced on people, and even then they are of dubious use. By your own logic you have to now shut up and never speak of them to anyone, lest you upset some people who don't seem to understand climate change or what it entails for the future of humanity, as you have turned this into a political debate.

    So, to sum up: You are the very thing you claim sucks about the AGW issue.

  16. Re:Queue the deniers on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    So you accept there's a problem. If you have read what the experts are saying, then you know that a strong reduction in CO2 is required to stop incredible damage being done to the global economy and the human species. What you seem to be claiming is that if a perfect solution can't be found, that we have to do nothing, and everyone has to be silent. Brilliant.

  17. Re:Queue the deniers on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    You clearly have read the IPCC reports if you are wading in on this discussion from the position you are. You are either lazy or being purposefully misleading in your position.

  18. Re:Geothermal heat isn't 'AGW-approved' on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    Someone with a brain who doesn't know that "average" and "maximum" are two different concepts... and you laud them for it? Wow.

  19. Re:Regardless on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not funny, it's science. Our world, where we live, is currently not like the Cretaceous. Should it become like the Cretaceous, humanity would suffer massively, as we and our industry are simply not prepared for living in such a climate. We also don't have the luxury of the relatively-slow lead-up to the Cretaceous climate, as if we keep pumping out CO2 our climate will change very quickly indeed.

    I guess it's easy to get confused if you use Nat Geo as your source for scientific learning.

  20. Re:Let me get this straight on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The science is in. The causes are known and quantified. At this point you are not being sceptical but cynical, and that's something entirely different.

  21. Re:Let me get this straight on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    So European government bodies are not trying to address the threat of the cooling trend on the earth. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing up your mind-puke.

  22. Re:climate change FFS? on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    Well, none of those things have any effect on the atmosphere, which is something many involved in this field posit is a great indicator of what has happened or is currently happening on or under the surface of a planet. I know you hate the idea of climate change, but simply railing on it and missing why it's different to the other things just belies your bias and doesn't reflect negatively on the article or the subject. Then calling it an insignificant problem just adds to your bizarre take on science and reality. Lumping inequality in there as some "insignificant problem" also shows you to be a complete asshole, but then we already knew that, and anyone is capable of verifying by simply reading your bizarre take on life called your comment history.

  23. Re:Can't find aliens? Take head out of sand! on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 2

    Shame none of that is actual evidence, just unsubstantiated claims and wishful interpretations of the mundane.

    So no - aliens have not been found, or if they have, no-one has produced any evidence to that effect.

  24. Re:Who doesn't see aliens now ? on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    If by "actual" you mean "alleged", you're closer to the truth.

  25. Re:troll or SUPERtroll? on Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs · · Score: 1

    'NWO' simply meant the standing of the world powers (the leader board, if you will) after the fall of the USSR. It was then co-opted by some lunatic conspiracy nuts who thought it sounded scary, and now is known as "the three letters by which you can know a paranoid lunatic". The NWO is not an organisation, or a goal, or a manifesto, or a cause, or anything - it's just a ranking of the post-USSR powers. Every time you use it people laugh at you, because they can see you don't really know what you're talking about.