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  1. Re:Be Gentle With Him on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    He must be white; nobody ever calls anybody else out for their racism, and insists that they should "expect negative consequences", and compares them to nazis.

  2. A LinkedIn study ? on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    I'd scrutinize very closely anything LinkedIn is pushing.

  3. Re:Bad bill. on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's how some "Progressives" are; they're just as horrible as the extremists on the far right.
    "A provision to extend the controversial USA Patriot Act to 2017 was also appended by the House of Representatives."
    No wonder people are disgusted with Congress, what a bunch of incompetent fools.

  4. about 50 independent processes are on fMRI Data Reveals How Many Parallel Processes Run In the Brain · · Score: 1

    at work in human brains...



    So the human brain runs Windows 8 ?

  5. Dingbat INTENTIONALLY incites on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    violent reactions to herself, then uses that to get all the attention her mental illness compels her to seek out.

    "Media" promotes her mentally ill agenda because it gets clicks.

    Nothing new here at all.

  6. The author is entirely ignoring on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    the technological advances made in this entirely voluntary endeavor.
    People like him have always been around.
    Fortunately their stagnation is offset by people who are motivated to actually do something that means something.

  7. Re:Oh yeah, that guy on Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems · · Score: 1

    We do "kill our problems" without any due process. We use drones and other people to do our dirty work for us.

  8. Re:Government Dictionary on Facebook To DEA: Stop Using Phony Profiles To Nab Criminals · · Score: 1

    People need to understand that the police can and do, as a matter of course, lie. They're liars. To do their job, they lie, and you have no recourse if you talk to them and respond to a lie with anything that can even remotely be used against you. You can't even be sure you are talking to an officer, they can lie about that too.

    Which has the effect of making people have increasing contempt and distrust for law enforcement - because you SHOULD have contempt and distrust for them.

    Oh and your little definition of "entrapment" is bullshit, BTW.

  9. Somethings defiantly wrong on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    People on cell phones run lights all the time...

  10. I haven't read anything here that convinces me on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    either way.

    Given how little posters here seem to be aware of the history of technological development and science in general though, I'm leaning towards the E-Cat being legitimate.

    It certainly wouldn't be the first time a major technological breakthrough in the material sciences left academics and technicians who are wanna be researchers and experimenters befuddled and expressing frustration at their own relative lack of success and impotence.

  11. Re:He tried patenting it... on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    No, you're wrong.

    A recent example I recall would be the Japanese company that had a special capacitor electrolyte formula, which they kept as a trade secret. A competitor stole it, not aware that their internal documentation included intentional errors in that documentation.

    When a competitor stole the documentation and produced millions of caps based on it, that had a high failure rate, we ended up with motherboards loaded with bad caps for years.

    Patent protection doesn't make people rich beyond imagination - that's an idiotic assertion that only a fool would make. Patent protection works well for organization that have a fortune to spend on armies of lawyers. The lone inventor and most corporations have trade secrets to protect their investments in their research.

    To claim trade secrets are akin to fraud is to be entirely unaware of reality.

  12. Well, there you have it... on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 0

    A mystery that "science" is thus far incapable of grasping, and reluctant to properly investigate. It's been YEARS now and this has been outright dismissed by "science".

    "Establishment gonna fall down and go boom."

    Dr Ruth Leavitt - The Andromeda Strain (1971)

  13. It's the same way HIV has been handled. on Experts Decry Randomized Ebola Treatment Trials As Unethical, Impractical · · Score: 1

    Where have these "experts" been the last 25 years ?

  14. Re:Sociopath Ruins Lives, Film at 11 on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    He's a piece of shit.

  15. Auernheimer belongs in prison. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Along with everybody that also too part in criminal activities with him.

    It's really just that simple.

  16. The kind of assholes that can pass an FBI exam on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    ...are exactly the kind of people that should never, under any circumstances, have any authority over the public whatsoever.

  17. "The sea level is still rising" on NASA Study: Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, our coastal cities are in ruins.

  18. This is why we're hated around the world. on US Says It Can Hack Foreign Servers Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    Not because we're "free".

  19. The premise is false on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    "It's highly unlikely that the world can safely produce almost five times as much electricity by 2035 as it does nowâ"which is what it would take to provide everyone with a circa-2010 American standard of living, according to a calculation by University of Colorado environmental studies professor Roger Pielke Jr. "

  20. The problem is the US grid... on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    We need a national grid that does load shifting across time zones, so that peak usage is just a matter of shifting power where it's not needed, to where it is.

  21. Re:Because that makes sense on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Then i makes sense to wait !

    Mmm, tandoori chicken !

  22. I'm all for this, but... on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Is the moon even large enough to put Russia on ?

  23. Re:Terrific counter to Monsanto's herbicide messag on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Short-term, sure, so long as you have cheap petro-chemical derivatives and a massive distribution system for it to dump into the soil chemical fertilizers.

    But what happens when you destroy the microbial diversity of the soil, and what happens when you manage to loose the topsoil over time ? And what happens as the petrochemical derivatives become increasingly prohibitively inevitably expensive ?

    You're seriously going to compare industrial-scale agriculture with automation and technologies with our ancestors using manual labor and animals ?

    That's a classic fallacy for sure.

  24. Re:False Flag against 4chan???? on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    To be fair, that's how you'd get the most jail-time !

  25. Re:How is that supposed to work? on The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job · · Score: 1

    I think most people noted that you Misquoted entirely out of context.

    No wonder you're AC !