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  1. Re:Every church does on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    Dan Brown? Is that you?

  2. Re:Question on World's First Battery Fueled By Air · · Score: 1

    Planes are not sealed, just pressurized. Using this on a sub or a space station might be a problem (I would imagine not but at least theoretically it could), but a plane would be fine.

  3. Re:who are these people? on 13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online · · Score: 1

    It doesn't bother me much, so I volunteered.

  4. Re:And your "DNA Score" is next. on 13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online · · Score: 1

    What will happen is the death of private healthcare, and not a moment too soon.

  5. Re:More centralization! on Senate Sources Say CTO Confirmation a Done Deal · · Score: 1

    Please give us more face biting like Sweden. (though I will note I am an NYC resident and have fairly high taxation already, b US standards).

  6. Re:creationism/evolution on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: 1

    This is because Atheism is an unthinking ideology, which is as bad as a religion.

  7. Re:This is why... on FTC Targets Massive Car Warranty Robocall Scheme · · Score: 1

    Too bad I only get these calls on my cell phone...

  8. Re:Money Grab on NY Bill Proposes Fat Tax On Games, DVDs, Junk Food · · Score: 1
    And you think fat is bad why? Oh, a commercial told you? It never ceases to amaze me how unquestioningly we accept results from nutritional-study-of-the-month (last night it was 'find out how a new study says milk causes cancer), but yet virtually all other science is derided.

    Yes animal fat is bad for you, and it is completely natural that we now eat vegetable to animal fats in a ratio of 20:1, as opposed to more like 1:1 for all of human history till a century ago. It has nothing to do with the invention of Crisco and margarine and other vegetable shortening in that time period.

  9. Re:Money Grab on NY Bill Proposes Fat Tax On Games, DVDs, Junk Food · · Score: 1

    You think McDonald's/Wendy's/whatever are cheap? They do not buy it because it is cheaper than eating healthy. Maybe because there is a lack of fresh food available where they live (NYC has farmer's markets for this reason), or because nobody taught them how to cook, or because they are lazy, or because they don't have time, but I guarantee you that eating healthier is waaaaay cheaper than McD's.

  10. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    My wife is from Moscow and thought he was hilarious.

  11. Re:Because mathematics runs on proof, not faith. on Open Source Textbooks For California · · Score: 1

    You joke, and yet there is a grain of truth. It's not so much about proof-based math vs faith-based math as it is about Proof-based math pedagogy. The math itself is not in question, but they way we present and teach the math can be a heated topic. We have the observed truth that students come out of math classes knowing less math then we would like them to, and there are various hypotheses about how to change that. Simply saying 'The teachers suck, we need better teachers.' does not cut it.

  12. Re:very cheap + little material =unsafe on Tata Building $7,800 Apartments in Mumbai · · Score: 1

    Do you have any basis for this peculiar bit of anti-americanism? As far as I know the International Building Code is used for pretty much all large scale construction around the world.

  13. Re:This is America on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course, the teabaggers were in fact bigots and fanatics...

  14. Re:I remember that game on First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC · · Score: 1

    Henry is just utterly unsuited for a relationship with any normal human, regardless of sexual orientation. He is awesome, but he is an anal, obsessive, opinionated workaholic with a very jaundiced view of life in general (and he more or less says this during his shows).

  15. Re:Rampant Sexism on The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, but I think the fact that they were old women in galoshes helps that (at least all the sentos and onsens I went to). Even so, living in Japan made me realize that oddly I have no nudity shyness at all. I guess I never noticed before because it's not like you get a lot of chance to test that out in the US.

  16. Re:What the hell?! on Apple Rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone App · · Score: 1

    They are only a 'novelty band' if their novelty is being awesome!

  17. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 1

    I suppose pointing out that historically the IRA were socialists and more or less anti-clerical would be unwelcome here?

  18. Re:Where Will the Money Go? Pollution Concerns? on Bolivia Is the Saudi Arabia of Lithium · · Score: 1

    Remember kids: It's not Democracy unless the side you agree with wins.

  19. Re:Accessibility.... on A Touch Screen With Morphing Buttons · · Score: 1

    100 percent insightful.

  20. Re:Ugh... on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    Why are you moderated Funny? My Kingdom for a mod point. This is Insightful.

  21. Re:Shift in dynamics on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    We should start a power company (deregulated of course) to sell electricity generated by the spinning of William F. Buckley's corpse.

  22. Re:There has not been a Republican filibuster on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    What has changed it that now Specter won't be ousted in a primary challenge from the right, which was what was going to happen.With his stance on labor I think he will have challenge concerns on the left in the Dem primary, but it is not the near certain loss he was going to sustain if he had stayed with the GOP. Whoever is the Dem candidate is going to crush the likely GOP candidate Toomey now, and Specter would like to be that guy. Personally I hope he gets his rear bounced out of power and we get a real Democrat in his place come election day.

  23. Re:And.... on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As someone pointed out in another post yesterday, the USPS handles more items in a day then UPS and FedEx do in a year combined, for cheaper and in general without direct gov't money.

  24. Re:Well - Joe Dumbass will object on Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development · · Score: 1

    But, but...scientists have beards, and look kind of like hippies....and we hate hippies...right? /sarcasm

  25. Re:No more small businesses? Don't think so. on Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development · · Score: 1

    Want mod points! This is exactly the case. The people who would benefit most from universal healthcare would be small businesses, but the people I know who own small businesses are all brainwashed dittoheads.