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  1. Re:You think that government is apolitical? on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    CO2 and temperature are not the only two players in the game. There are a whole host of different factors which cause the Earth's temperature to change. Just saying what you did and expecting it to carry any weight and not be just a testimony to how woefully ignorant you are of this situation is incredible. You should read what "forcing" and "sensitivity" mean, and what forces exist, and how they and sensitivity can vary over time. Then read what you wrote. Then feel embarrassed. Very, very embarrassed.

  2. Re:Perfect when only driving with other robots on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    So you know everything the Google cars can do, and more importantly what they can't. Gotcha. You should go tell Google, as apparently all they had to do was to ask you, and they'd know what they should be doing. Or you're wrong. I wonder which is more plausible...

  3. Re: 2 or 4 seconds doesn't matter to my point on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Nah, I think your mistake proves entirely that some drivers (including yourself) are woefully ill-informed, yet assume they are the very paradigm of safe driving. You got the recommended spacing between cars off by 100%. Brilliant. You're a credit to the other side.

  4. Re:trains on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    You should look at the Karlsruhe system. Local and regional trains that use the same tram tracks through the town. Jump on the tram that goes 100m near your house, and get off in a city 50km away. Or 100km. Or change at the train station and travel to another country. Not all trains are as ridiculous as the US's.

  5. Re:Autopilots on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    How about Google get some of those guys in to teach the system. Then we have the best of both worlds - advanced driving techniques with the fastest reaction times available.

  6. Re: It was already a dangerous site to visit ... on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 1

    So PHP is bad for allowing it to run code?? wut?

  7. Re:cell phones got cheap plans - even $35 unlimite on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously equating the complexity and cost of the last mile with a cell tower?

  8. Re:Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Because without those customers who want a better service, those 1/1 people would be getting precisely 0/0.

  9. Re:Job Requirements on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 1

    So spiteful, pointless murder is perfectly OK to you. Good to know.

  10. Re:Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Just have the lines owned by the local authority, and then provide access to the ISPs. If an ISP sucks, people go somewhere else. If all the ISPs suck, then I have no idea.

  11. Re:I don't understant the hate on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 1

    You use JavaScript. It has libraries to download/decompress stuff, and can process things really well. Just because you don't know how to do it doesn't make it exotically strange and esoteric.

  12. Re:Oh, america on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    Well done! You made a post without crying about guns and (inadvertently) telling everyone how you're scared to live without them.

  13. Re:1000 new medals please on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    Oh noes! The poow widdle man can't buy his assault rifle for "self protection". Jeez. Grow up already. You're like a tragic stuck record bleating on about some point the adults just don't (quite rightly) care about.

  14. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    Democracies can be republics or not. The two are not contradictory. I have no idea why people have problems with such simple words.

  15. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 2

    This is no big issue. Simply make owning a firearm a criminal offence, using one in a crime a massive offence, and they won't be used anywhere near as much. Then have the police remove all the guns they come across, and the number of guns decreases massively. When a criminal doesn't feel the need to have a gun in order to commit a crime (as their opponents won't be armed), they no longer use them. Crime will still exist, but far fewer people will die. Of course this won't work in the face of the US's bizarre gun culture, so I guess the point's moot. Complaining about geography or population size has nothing to do with the problems.

  16. Re:Fighting the dumb fight. on Wikipedia Actively Battling PR Sockpuppets · · Score: 1

    Stop hating women, and the problem goes away. Easy.

  17. Re: Should not be a federal program on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    If we are playing that game, then the US also killed countless people when it destroyed the Indians. Or we could grow up and actually stick to the present day, with the present incarnations of institutions which might have shared a common name or two in history.

  18. Re:Should not be a federal program on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    So they're sovereign within the realms of the country of which they are part. Wonderful.

  19. Re:really? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Other countries spend less money on comparable healthcare. Many medical treatments were pioneered in other countries, and have since come to the US. Spouting this nonsense is only hurting you and your country. Why do you do it? Because it's easier than admitting your country has serious flaws? That makes more sense than an obviously-intelligent person being so woefully (and wilfully) ignorant.

  20. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    The government doesn't decide anything. You'd go to the hospital, and get treatment as soon as possible. Or you can spend $50 a month and get top-notch private treatment exactly as you want it (and for your family, too), when you want it. The private option is still there (and for less than you pay in the US), but most people don't need to take advantage of it as the public option is perfectly adequate. You are arguing against spectres which don't exist. It's sad.

  21. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    Daily Mail. Oh dear.

  22. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    The taxes are not "huge", as the overheads for care are far lower. No hundreds-of-thousands of paper pushers in the middle, just government-run hospitals doling out government-paid-for treatments and medicine. The outcomes are definitely comparable. I have no idea why you are arguing against it. You're the one wanting to pay big corporations for your health care, yet you rail against taking them out of the picture entirely? Your logic is, *ahem*, "broken".

  23. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    Well, technically speaking, the price difference to him between having the injury and not having the injury is 0. That's kind of the same as "not paying" in any meaningful sense.

  24. Re:Ask a lawyer on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 1

    Your book which is nearly 5,000 times more obscure than Danish law... yay for you.

  25. Re:No boobies though. on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    No, one must simply not conflate the religion of the perpetrators with the act, as if they are one and the same thing. You know - just be an adult about it. Again here you go showing that your not unsubstantial intellect has become perverted somewhere in your history, leaning you to tilt at perceived injustices, which serves only to highlight your failings as an honest intellectual, and your rather large axe which you seem to love to grind. Strange.