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  1. Everyone is wrong. Einstein was wrong thousands of times, you just don't hear about them now, as only the right stuff got attention. Don't focus on doing, focus on trying and learning from it. Just because an "adult" (or other authority figure) says something is true, doesn't mean it is. Challenge. Think for yourself. Your first test: Am I right?

  2. Re:Best money Tom Steyer ever spent on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    You're talking oil.

    I'm talking petroleum. That you only hear "oil" indicates your mind is closed and made up. No discussion can be had, so I won't bother.

  3. Re:Best money Tom Steyer ever spent on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    Bobbied said the are all angels because he went to a few meetings. I posted an opposing viewpoint, with the same source. Yet you complain about me, and not him. You are an illogical hypocrite.

  4. Re: Yes. It will. on 18 Months On, Grand Theft Auto V's Mount Chiliad Mystery Remains Unsolved · · Score: 1

    What, you are a female panda?

  5. Re:Parts of the former Soviet Union on Giant Asian Gerbils May Have Caused the Black Death · · Score: 1

    Ah, so "Asia". Perhaps "Central Asian countries" to exclude India and China?

  6. Re:Best money Tom Steyer ever spent on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've not seen or heard any evidence of racism at any of the Tea Party rallies I've attended either from the speakers or attendees, but I'm a middle aged white guy and I obviously don't go to every Tea Party meeting.

    I have, and I'm a middle aged white guy. But then the ones I went to were back when it was "new" (prior to all the mainstreaming of it).

    The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party at it's core is about government spending and taxes and limiting both to the minimum possible by scaling back government's involvement in our everyday lives, not expanding it.

    Yet everything I saw in the meetings I went to were about expanding the government. More prisons, more drug laws, more laws against gays. It was the Bigot party for those who didn't like the Republican Party because it was too inclusive. I've seen news reports that conservative Republicans have said to stop fighting gay marriage because the people have spoken. The anti-democracy teabaggers (yes, they still used that name, not realizing the connotations, back when I went to a few meetings) want to push their beliefs on everyone, regardless of popular support. Teabaggers want a dictatorship, so they can tell everyone how to live.

    At least based on the meetings I went to.

  7. Re:Best money Tom Steyer ever spent on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    They don't magically keep it hot over 3000+ km/s including during -30 *C Alberta winters.

    Look up how similar works in Alaska. Heated all the way during -40 *C Alaska winters.

  8. I think we have different definitions of OD. I use it to indicate a potentially lethal dose. It's more about the LD50 than the non-lethal effects.

  9. Re:yes. on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    I have. The opposite seems true as well. Complete abstention is documented in medical research to do the same thing.

    Moderation is the best course. But it doesn't grab headlines and research dollars.

  10. Re:I refute on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    My first kid's first food was peanut butter. We lived 3 minutes from the hospital at the time, and yes, I had the keys on me at the time. But we weren't concerned enough to not do it. It's still his favorite food. And one of the best first-foods for a kid. Smooth, and tasty.

  11. Re:yes. on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    No, it is. We set ourselves apart by trying to control everything, and having everything filtered, and processed. That increases allergies. Directly by people trying to set themselves apart from biology.

  12. Re:Yes. It will. on 18 Months On, Grand Theft Auto V's Mount Chiliad Mystery Remains Unsolved · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not like anyone remembers the guy who hit level 90 factionless in WoW, though googling "level 90 panda no faction" will return results. Whoever found it first, would be famous to themselves, and that's all that matters.

  13. You forget about the one thing the drug war does that nothing else does. Strips the black man from his vote. Putting black people (estimated to use drugs at the same rate as whites) in prison more (estimated at 10x the rate of whites), does more to strip rights from the underclass than anything else ever could. If it weren't for the permanent loss of rights for criminals, I don't think there'd be any resolve for a drug war. But when the drug war gives a way to strip primarily black people from their vote, then it has a great reason to exist. For those who don't like black people.

  14. . I don't think it surprises even the most ardent opponent of weed that people very, very rarely die from THC overdose.

    Has there ever been one? I've read where you'd die of asphyxia before THC OD if you smoke it, and you'd die of gastric rupture or such if you ate MJ brownies or something. And I don't know of anyone who distilled THC to an injectable drug to force an OD.

    Every THC OD I've ever seen has been a OD on something else with THC present.

    That is NOT the reason they oppose it.

    No, racism and ignorance are the big reasons they are against it.

    This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
    --Harry J. Anslinger

  15. Yes, one is real.

  16. Re:FFS on Researchers: Alcohol Health Risks Underestimated, Marijuana Relatively Safe · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's why "pure" heroine and professional administration eliminate OD. A hardened user that makes up his usual dose, and it's "borrowed" by a new user is how so many new users OD. That and the users that are used to one cheap line from one dealer, who switch to a more pure one, and OD from that. OD is caused by the illegality of it. Alcohol OD is caused by it being a poison. A touch of arsenic isn't deadly, nor is a touch of rat poison. But you don't want to use them regularly to unconsciousness, as so many do with alcohol.

  17. Re:Manufacturers Restrict their Products on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    Well, neither am I, with a 6 pound piece of metal with propellers spinning at 3000+ RPM right above my head, controlled by someone who doesn't have the single clue of how to crab for a cross-wind landing.

    So crabbing is irrelevant. RPM and weight are irrelevant.

    The only point you made was that you don't know how to make a point.

  18. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    To a 3rd party observer, how can you tell? If the bully held a cell phone, he'd be blameless too?

  19. Re: Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Humans are not animals, unless you have chosen to fall for the lie of evolution.

    We aren't animals, but animal testing works. How?

    If you have fallen for that then by extension you believe that we have no morals to abide by (animals kill out of instinct so that means we can too).

    No, I don't. Your logic doesn't work. Because you understand electricity, you must be a thundercloud. That's 100x more logical than your statement, but provably wrong.

    So the question is, would you mind that?

    What I would like to be reality doesn't change reality. So whether I'd mind is irrelevant.

    Being mere animals also means we are no longer responsible for our actions because everything is an instinct rather than being based on a moral code of conduct. I advise you to rethink your statement. It has far reaching consequences.

    It has no such consequences. Having instincts doesn't mean one has only instincts.

  20. Re:Manufacturers Restrict their Products on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    So you used it as an unrelated example of their ability to to control the device, rather than complaining about the actual problem, people who can't control their devices.

  21. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 2

    Nothing pisses off a 3-wide group of assholes more than walking towards them, not dashing to the side, then stopping as you get close, so that they have to consciously split to get past. If you keep walking into them, they think you are the asshole. If you stop and make them think about themselves, then they get it.

  22. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Two people refuse to yield, and collide, and you are blaming him why?

  23. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    He said "Every day I walk through one of the busiest train stations in the world."

    I doubt he's in the USA, so no longer being able to carry a firearm is likely not a deal breaker.

  24. Re: Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 2

    Humans are animals. All animals have instincts. I've walked through some rougher neighborhoods than most people will ever encounter in their lives.

    You know what startled people? I said "hi". A white guy walking through the bad part of the projects, most adults went inside and locked the doors. No good in their lives has ever come from a white person. But they kept an eye out as I passed, making sure that I passed. The neighborhood kids ran up and made all sorts of odd and racist comments. I just said "hi" with a smile and kept walking. A number of them followed me to my friend's house. The crime is high because "everyone" knows that the police doesn't go there. The people were nice, but the predators, none out at the time, know that they have no accountability in such neighborhoods.

  25. Re: Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Bumping into someone on the sidewalk isn't "assault". For all you know, it was caught on video and the judge thinks you are the one who didn't yield, and committed assault, followed by murder.