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  1. Re:at some point... on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He said pray at the alter of, like a a deity, it doesn't actually exist, and no lifestyle you live will be "free market" enough for the ardent moralizers. It's a broken mentality. There never were "true free markets".

  2. Re:Couldn't have happened to nicer people... on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    It's this thin veneer of ironic hate, that really fails to cover for being fundamentally bad people. "I'm posting on the internet, in a way that will permanently demonstrate my incompatibility with civilized society."

  3. Re:Couldn't have happened to nicer people... on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    Beloved franchise=first released in 2009 to moderate critical reception.

    I didn't buy dragon age 2 because I could smell the awful a mile away. That doesn't justify threatening the goddamn life of writer, in conjunction with your kind of misogynistic bullshit, over the fact that she wrote some things you don't like.

  4. Re:Web app? What's that? on Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen? · · Score: 2

    Steam, is, in fact, mostly just a web browser. It has a few other things it can do, like start games, and install things. The vast vast vast vast majority of the interface and design is just a web browser, hitting a web-app the steam devs created.

  5. Re:Couldn't have happened to nicer people... on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the abuse is frequently targeted at hapless employees. You can hate bobby kotik all day for the business abuses he engages in, but when people threaten the lives of poorly paid writers for daring to have a philosophy about writing, it's not a good thing.

  6. Re:Who else should comment on your games? on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 2

    Actually, on Free-to-play pay-to-win games, they seem like the most useless demographic.

  7. Re:Exciting Times on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    To say that every part of society has gone though a dramatic shift over the last 2 centuries is an extraordinary understatement.

  8. Re:Exciting Times on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, one of the dark sides is that our agrochemical food causes many of these cancers in the first place.

    He said lacking any justification at all for his statement.

    People die of cancer everywhere, and everywhen, it's not unique to "our" food. It's not magically caused by "chemicals". There are carcinogens present in modern society, but the primary causes of cancer aren't your damn food.

  9. Re:Yay! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, and the headline even contradicts the poorly written news article(which is already far too removed from the research to be safe). It specifically was engineered to treat one kind of cancer, they think it will effects on a similar cancer, and have a little hope for "many others". That's a far-cry from "curing all cancers".

  10. Re:Ministry of truth on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was the ministry of love. Ministry of truth is more like the NSA.

  11. Re:Gravity pulls toward the Earth on The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, pretty quickly after takeoff, a rocket's inclination is changed to 25ish degrees. If you just go straight up, you're just going to fall back to earth and never achieve orbit.

  12. Re:Climate change is human-caused, full stop on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, there's not unreasonable evidence that early human slash-and-burn farming caused a reduction in important negative feedbacks (vis-a-vis forests) and the carbon cycle. But that has basically negligible effect compared to the rates of change (and rates of change of rates of change) seen since 1800.

  13. Re:Ice ages are caused by planetary wobbles on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: 1, Informative

    How about thousands of well documented papers, all carefully reviewed, many retested with other instruments, based on fundamentally valid physics, with no meaningful contrary assessments?

  14. Re:Interesting to see a detectable shift. on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: 1

    "Solidly provable" isn't a definable term. If you want hard evidence, set hard criteria. Should you do so, I think people might be able to comply.

  15. Re:Ice ages are caused by planetary wobbles on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: 1

    The fundamental hypocrisy here is one that is necessary to the scientific method. You must simultaneously be willing to accept that some components of a branch of study are flawed enough to warrant whatever hypothesis, experiment, or observation you are doing, while still believing in the fundamental soundness of the scientific method, and the general accuracy of most results, which form the basis of your own study.

    This is a case where they're just being intentionally obtuse, and have nothing interesting to say. Not a "not even wrong" moment, and more of a just plain wrong.

  16. We can actually tell when this happens, you know. We can examine the soil layers around the earth, and a consistent layer across the whole planet in the same strata identifies a time when substantial dust was settling. I'm pretty sure that's not the case here, but haven't actually looked at what experts say.

  17. Re:So basically... on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it's pretty much just "no". The phrase "global warming" conventionally describes the unprecedentedly rapid rise in temperatures since the industrial revolution. That is entirely "our fault" because of aforementioned unprecedented rate, and that data is quite incontestable without dramatic misrepresentation of what is being compared.

  18. Re:Ice ages are caused by planetary wobbles on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: -1

    Isn't it inconvenient when people who have nothing insightful to say speak up?

    Now that we're addressing what the post was. Yes, yes it is.

    Posting a sarcastic poorly informed opinion entirely lacking context, fact, or meaningful insight is not the same as "thinking differently." It's petulant, immature, and helps no one, least of all people who might agree with them for legitimate reasons.

  19. Re:I'm going to bet on Playing StarCraft Could Boost Your Cognitive Flexibility · · Score: 1

    Healthy skepticism, sure, insane "I absolutely refuse to believe this because it goes against my preconceived notions" is moronic. Video games and cognitive abilities have been related in the past. This, to my knowledge, is the first study that uses controls for different genres, but far from the first addressing the concept.

  20. Re:Makes sense on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 1

    I was anthropomorphizing anyways. Views themselves don't do anything. They're passive objects.

  21. Re:Makes sense on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 2

    No, but nothing is incompatible with religious views as religious views have a long history of eventually ceding the point on everything that was previously believed to be of divine origin.

  22. Re:Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experien on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 5, Funny

    SQUEAK.

  23. Re:Excellent on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Since the rise of the advertising gods, the "content" of the internet has primarily fallen into the hyper-uninformative type like top-ten lists with "fair use" google image searched images slapped next to each. That's not to say there isn't content that I value, but the squeeze for advertising dollars seems to me to have made content worse and not better.

  24. Re:I'm going to bet on Playing StarCraft Could Boost Your Cognitive Flexibility · · Score: 1

    Unlikely results with good controls and p>>0.05. So congrats on that argument from personal incredulity.

  25. Re:The premise is still borked on Could Humanity Really Build 'Elysium'? · · Score: 1

    With their fantastic still-present control over their country.