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  1. Re:Wait on China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention · · Score: 1

    We are mining our own. The problem is that it takes 10ish years to get rare earth processing facilities into place. In the mean time, it's a monopoly market, and China is operating as such.

  2. Re:Wait on China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They sell low cost consumer goods by manipulating exchange rates.
    They don't see low cost raw materials by manipulating supply.

    Both sides function as pro-Chinese manufacturing, anti-US manufacturing.

  3. Re:How Wikileaks will take itself out. . . on WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails · · Score: 1

    Yep, because a military strike into a first world country would do so much for Assad's position.

  4. Re:Johnny Come Lately on Ford Predicts Self-Driving, Traffic-Reducing Cars By 2017 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    No they haven't.
    A regular car's design cycle is 3ish years from inception to production, and a new line/style takes 4-5. If automated cars were 5 years off in the past, they'd already have started designs. You could make an argument for 10 or whatever, but that's not really a prediction I've seen much. You're basically just a liar.

  5. Core XML Services on Blackhole Exploit Kit Gets an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Does that mean Windows Firefox users are ostensibly safe? I don't know what library firefox uses for xml parsing.

  6. Still a long way on Candy Coating Inspires Lab-Grown Blood Vessels · · Score: 1

    This still is a long way from complex superstructures like kidneys and lungs, but it's a promising development.

  7. Re:Voting with wallet on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 2

    Well, as long as you buy from the remaining duopoly of router manufacturers.

  8. Shapeways on Cubify 3D Printers Aren't Just for Squares (Video) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know this will sound like shilling, but all I can give is my personal assurances that I have no connection to the site.

    Shapeways.com is cool. I realized long ago that I won't personally 3d print very many items, and there are still economies of scale to 3d printing, even if a lot less than manufacturing. So shapeways has multiple varieties of 3d printer, and numerous materials of varying pricing, and open source models other users have printed you can use or modify and use. As a user, you only see the software(blender) and the finished product when it's shipped to you. Actually OWNING a 3d printer doesn't appeal to me much, but there are a couple things I'm working on to (eventually, some day) print.

  9. Re:State Revenue on Delaware To Permit In-state Online Gambling · · Score: 2

    You're ignoring that pharmacological companies operate on high-margin stuff. As in, if you can grow it in your back yard, they can't have a 1000% markup on products sold.

  10. Re:Good things about PHP on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 0

    I meant that syntax has improved in quality since C to the extent that C itself is a bare minimum of language quality.

  11. Re:Good things about PHP on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 0

    1. No it isn't
    2. Not really
    3. C is increasingly a bad structure for languages, as improvements come in

  12. Re:Athmosphere or air? on Stellar Blast Boils Away Some of a Planet's Atmosphere · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think it's all just hot air.

  13. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Yes, I can see that your petty desires are exactly the same as minimizing pain and suffering caused by illness and injury. Sure.

  14. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    If it wasn't for their loathing of things like UI-multitasking, I'd be ok with it.

  15. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 2

    Oh, then you missed one of the best things about windows 7. You can press the windows key, type a bit of the name of the program or document you want, press enter, and it's ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD at finding the right thing. I pin my favorite things, firefox, windows explorer, visual studio, command shell, and can very easily get the rest when I want it.

  16. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's what I was saying, why does your tone sound like you are disagreeing with me?

  17. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Because I've seen how the insides of an insurance company works. The one that essentially has a monopoly in my state for reasons that aren't quite clear.

  18. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if you're just trying to dogpile with my comment or provoke an argument with me. I think the word "Socialism" is so poorly defined, I never really use it, except in discussions of how others have used it.

  19. Re:the only parts in context on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    That's the part I meant, but I guess it's kind of got a simpler interpretation too. Hmm.

  20. Re:Tax?? I Call Bullshit on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The penalty comes in the form of a tax, which can be deducted in full if you have insurance. Two options, one of which is a tax. It's functionally not any different from the fact that the government deducts mortgage payments from your income tax. You can buy a house, giving into the evil housing industry, or you can not, and pay a higher tax rate.

    Ta-da.

  21. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 4, Informative

    The majority of the country, however, wanted every single major provision of the legislation. The hate is more of a result of a concerted PR campaign. Many Americans, like myself, wanted something better, more efficient, and more forward-thinking in scope, but that was "double socialism" or some such.

  22. Re:Public option on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, fundamentally, you'd have to blame American fear of socialism. In a more "what really could go wrong" sense, politicians(and to be fair, economists too) were scared of what would happen if they unmade an entire industry in a matter of a few years.

  23. Re:Excellent decision on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm already taxed for not having a mortgage, not producing "clean" coal, not having children, and numerous other things that we as a culture have decided should be incentivized. The former two items in your list would be a clear violation of the first amendment, which this case did not rest on, whereas the third would be constitutional(but also kind of silly).

  24. The restriction was reasonable on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Threatening to deny states funding unequally is almost certainly a violation of article 1, section 9, and I wish the supreme court would go further with prohibiting that kind of language.

  25. Religious misinterpret phenomenon on Has a Biochem Undergrad Solved a Cosmic Radiation Mystery? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Centuries later, scientists figure out what actually happened using careful observation. Number of times this has happened: too many to count.