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  1. MOD PARENT UP on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously. They're called experts for a reason.

  2. Re:Extraordinary claims... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would say the position of:

    "we can pour as much greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere as we want and it will affect nothing"

    is the extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. It flies in the face of reason. It's like saying "When you add 1+1, it equals 2, expect when one of the 1s is anthropogenic, then 1+1=1."

  3. Re:Uh yeah, whatever... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Now, after we find out that much of the experimental and observational basis for Global Warmology is actually a scam

    Citation please.

  4. 7 letters on Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lincoln and Kennedy both had 7 letters in their last names. Both were assassinated.

    Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

  5. Re:Who the fuck still watches TV? on Google's Reach Hits Your Tivo · · Score: 1

    I feel obligated to DO something.

    I get enough of that at work, thanks.

  6. Re:I am shocked! on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    The reason that the people in Gitmo didn't get POW status is because they refuse to follow the accepted laws of war.

    What war? Oh, you mean the despotic US invading and occupying a sovereign country, then fighting the resulting insurgency.

    It's not a war; we move the goalposts every day. It'll never be over.

  7. Re:god, that name! on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    Except you didn't use this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86

    Now who's lazy?

  8. Re:Well, something *has* changed on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 1

    Are some people more equal than others?

    Yes. If you're mustache-twirlingly evil, you're going to get hit with a lot more criticism than if you're just some normal Joe, regardless of race. And it would be well-earned.

    Just because you're black and being compared to a monkey doesn't mean it's BECAUSE you're black. Bush Lite was compared to a monkey because he's a moron. Maybe Mugabe is being compared to a monkey for the same reason.

    Name a reason for comparing Mrs. Obama to a monkey, other than her skin color.

  9. MOD PARENT DOWN on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 2, Funny

    :)

  10. Re:The New Dark Ages... on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    I think these people *are* a lot better off than some dirt-farming peasant from barbarian times. Which goes to show you how absolutely horrible barbarian times must have been. Everything is magic, etc.

  11. Re:Not stupid, just scared on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    Intelligent people don't get "the fear". You have to be stupid to buy into the fear in the first place.

  12. Re:we'll see on Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors · · Score: 1

    Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

  13. Re:Score card is meaningless on Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors · · Score: 5, Informative

    For all the anguish and hysteria over Bush and his so called allegiance to big business, at least Bush wasn't just handing money to Wall Street.

    Ahem.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008

    On October 1, 2008, the Senate debated and voted on an amendment to H.R. 1424, which substituted a newly revised version of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the language of H.R. 1424. The Senate accepted the amendment and passed the entire amended bill, voting 74-25. Additional unrelated provisions added an estimated $150 billion to the cost of the package and increased the size of the bill to 451 pages. The amended version of H.R. 1424 was sent to the House for consideration, and on October 3, the House voted 263-171 to enact the bill into law. President Bush signed the bill into law within hours of its congressional enactment, creating a $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program to purchase failing bank assets.

  14. Re:CoD6: Vietnam on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It's simply called "Modern Warfare 2".

  15. Re:Also: on TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped · · Score: 1

    Almost any Democrat candidate would also be difficult to beat given the previous 8 years.

    I thought the same thing in 2004 (after 4 years of awfulness), but my fellow Americans proved me wrong.

  16. Re:Donated? Really? on The Mass Production of Living Tissue · · Score: 1

    No one pressured me to circumcise my son, my wife and I made the choice long before we went to the hospital. And it was done with a local, so almost pain-free.

    I also wasn't given the option to donate it, which I would have done if I had known about this.

  17. Re:Saucer section on Fujitsu's Latest Mobile Phone Splits In Two · · Score: 1

    To the Battle Bridge!

  18. USS Silversides (SS-236) on Two Sunken Japanese Submarines Found Off Hawaii · · Score: 3, Insightful

    USS Silversides (SS-236) Active in WWII from April of 1941 to July 1945, and saw quite a bit of action.

    Can be seen at the Great Lakes Naval Memorial & Museum.

    In Muskegon, MI. They have several "overnight" programs for Cub Scouts and Indian Guides and such so you can spend the night sleeping in the bunks, as well as eat in the galley, watch Das Boot, etc. Very very very cool for kids and adults both.

  19. Re:In the TOS? It's in the freakin quick-start gui on Microsoft Disconnects Modded Xbox Users · · Score: 0, Redundant

    4. Install XMBC and use it as a Home Theater PC.

  20. Re:Pay me or else? on How Vulnerable Is Our Power Grid? · · Score: 1

    I would insert battery somewhere between kidnapping and murder.

  21. Re:That's fine on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 1

    Ummm. No it doesn't. It actually means *more* bloat, albeit insignificant, because they have to explicitly check to see which CPU you are using.

    We have no evidence it's an explicit check. It could be something they developed for official Macs happened to break Atom support.

  22. Shareware on both platforms on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 1

    The amount of useful shareware/freeware available for Mac OS X (that actually works and isn't crippled w/out a license) absolutely dwarfs what's available for Windows.

    And I care way more about getting apps that do the job I need them to do than with the "purity" of OSS.

  23. Re:Don't hang onto visitor stats on Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records · · Score: 1

    Negative, that's a quote from the actual "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves" movie.

    I believe it's Alan Rickman that utters the line to his worse-than-useless brother.

    PS - Yes, I am aware knowing this movie even reasonably well makes me lame.

  24. Re:When did Glen Beck start being conservative? on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    Exactly. This guy is Ann Coulter 2.0.

  25. Re:Random Strawman: not the same as topical eye-po on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    But you know he's getting on their nerves when they refer to his time slot (rather than him, you know, he's "he that shall not be named") as being not actual news. Which is funny, since it's not positioned as such in the first place, any more than are, say, Keith Olbermann or Diane Rehm.

    The problem is that Beck's audience isn't smart enough to make that distinction.