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  1. Re:Cue the millenials... on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My father was in the 10th Mountain Division in Northern Italy fighting the Nazi's 1945 earning a Silver Star and Purple Heart. His company, being battled tested, was told next stop is the south Pacific... Then the Bomb was dropped and the course of history changed. Nevertheless I am not angry about Obama visiting Hiroshima. It is about time politicians paid attention to the past and understand the terrible power we wield and the horrendous consequence of war. Now maybe a Japanese leader will visit Nanking or a Turkish leader will visit an Armenian site. Bout time I say.

  2. Re:We need a secular definition of when life begin on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking religiously, the Scriptures tell us that God formed the physical body of Adam, then put in him the breath of life (often interpreted as spirit). Upon receiving the breath of life, Adam became a "living soul."

    Doesn't it bother you to know that Adam is myth? Humans are primates and come from common ancestors of other living primates. Or do you throw all the way and cling to a myth? Just curious.

  3. Re:perhaps more of a political choice on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Those "embryos" are babies.

    So even if you don't believe the Bible ...

    There is nothing from the Bible the pertains to abortion or "embryos".

  4. Re:Also, fire. on Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha while the pro-Snowden hippies attack in reaction.

  5. Re:'monster' ? on NASA Gives Solar Ionic Propulsion A Monster Boost (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Monster is about the size of one Library of Congress

    Worked one time for Rocketdyne on the SSME... started one month before the Challenger. Not good timing. Rocketdyne spent the next few months under suspicion as the cause for the accident. I help prepare a report to Richard Feynman during the investigation. I use to walk the executive corridors at lunch and marveled at some of the pictures on the walls of cool past research engines like Nerva a Nuclear powered engine and of course the massive Saturn 5 engines.

  6. Re:Meanwhile (a tip for you) on Keurig Spends 10 Years Developing A Recyclable Coffee Cup (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    Paper filters does filter out the fines and results IMHO a better cup of coffee..

    Also the paper filters adsorbs a libid that prevents a slight cholesterol bump from drinking coffee.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

    "We propose that paper filters of the type used for drip-filtered coffee retain the lipid present in boiled coffee and in that way remove the hypercholesterolemic factor"

  7. Re:Reuseable K-Cup insert on Keurig Spends 10 Years Developing A Recyclable Coffee Cup (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly... don't understand why keurig either. I have $300 espresso machine that has been used in our office for over 10 years... still produces a great shot sometimes even a God shot. Also have a Areo can't beat that for $30.

  8. Re:We should ban this armor on New Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Bullets To Dust On Impact (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty clear fifth-amendment "taking" of private property for public use without just compensation

    Reduced from 130 head to 100 head... not that much

    But what the hell are talking about "private property"? This land Bundy was grazing on - Gold Butte area -- is Public Property and has been since the Mexican-American war.

  9. Re:The sky is falling! The sky is falling! on We Had All Better Hope These Scientists Are Wrong About the Planet's Future (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Said no one ever...

    Grammar 101 -> Don't place words in quotes unless they are quotes otherwise you just may be a crackpot.

  10. Re:Lying about him makes it worse - he really is b on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Or don't forget his bogus claim of 911 celebrations... and when demonstrated false couldn't find it within himself to acknowledge his error.

  11. Re:It could be worse.... on US Says North Korean Submarine Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    3rd environmentalism.

    Environmentalism? Murderous philosophy? Say what?

    And I noticed that religion doesn't even rate in your mind as a rational to murder your neighbor.

  12. Re:I'm actually OK with this on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes... It looks very much she was trying to hide information. When you work for the government every document you generate is part of the historical record and when you do it on your own private server that chain of control is lost.

    Hillary may have stupidly handed the election to Trump all because she wanted to hid information from the American people.

  13. The FBI doesn't grant immunity... that is not their position or within their realm of authority. The Department of Justice grants immunity.

  14. Yeah that is problem... Patraeus did much worse and he only got a hand slap because of his position. From what I hear the FBI was pissed at the Patraeus ruling because after a huge investigation, painstaking police work and commitment of resources the judge just slapped his hand - and this sets a precedence.

  15. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can choose an eternity with God, or an eternity apart from Him, which is the lake of fire. It is your choice, not something He did to you.

    Have you ever considered how this sounds remarkably like a chain-letter? This theology is just an viral chain letter scam.

    Notice that chain letters do better within a population when it asks little of the potential "client". This form of Christianity hit it big when it removed the onerous "works" requirement and replaced it with beliefism only.

  16. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

      Love never fails.

    Which conflicts with the God of Abrahamic religions. This God we are told does keep records of wrongs and is going to lovingly punish you for those wrongs. Oh and that God is certainly easily angered just read the OT.

  17. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Love of God is accepting his Son christ Jesus as your savior. Love from God, is the forgiveness of your sins.

    That sounds more like a transaction... Believe this alleged story line (that is incoherent and unverifiable) and you get to preserve you ego forever. You call that a love?

  18. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you're still not getting it...

    Yes, according to theology, God is unknowable

    And then the theologians will then claim all sorts of attributes about God usually based on some human writing in an old book... which conflicts directory with your claim that God is unknowable. If God is unknowable then quit heaping attributes upon the idea of God.

  19. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    One possible reason I can see for some powerful being creating the universe is if he wanted to create intelligent beings without specifically designing them himself. He would then pick out the ones who were irrationally loyal to their creator and use them as servants, and then discard the rest. I see this as highly improbable, but possible.

    Or maybe the creator wanted to see which ones would NOT be irrationally loyal to whatever is the current culturally dominate idea of God and keep those around while discarding the rest. Throughout history humans have worshiped various notions of God but the atheists are the only ones that are a consistent whole. Make more sense eh? .

    The usual argument for the current dominate idea of God is Pascal's wager. The problem is that the people foisting this irrational argument (Pascal's wager) is that they never fully consider the reward/punish matrix and make another box for reward for being an atheists.

  20. Re:Not this old info again on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree with this somewhat... Manning and Snowden demonstrated the danger of wide ranging cooperative data access. As someone already noted the fact the Snowden was able to gather so much information as a low level NSA contractor... the data was probably already in the hands of our adversaries by some other mole who sold it for cash and never told anyone or got caught.

  21. Re:I don't have a problem with... on Edward Snowden Calls For Google To Side With Apple On Encryption Debate (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    Stupid argument. This is like arguing that since people have committed attacks with counter terrorism measures in place we should forego all counter terrorism measures

  22. Reproductive control on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    I would suspect that if an UBI was implemented mandatory state enforced birth control would soon follow. While you may pursuing volunteering and music some might take all that extra time to create more mouths to feed to house, etc. If we get to the point that humans and labor are not essential then population control would quickly find itself on the agenda.

  23. Whatever happened to the do not call list? on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why hasn't the Do Not Call list worked? Seems there was too many loop holes and ways around the law I guess.

  24. Re:We might as well break the new management in. on Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Disinformation....

    Looks pretty lush actually.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:More than five centuries on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Pics or it didn't happen.