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  1. Re:NOT the same old entrenched politics on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    The Internet will be at the center of the next election, and if Hillary wins by having less elected delegates but more superdelegates(the most likely Hillary-win scenario) the Internet will be really mad.

  2. Re:NOT the same old entrenched politics on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Waterboarding is most definitely torture.

    And in general, we do surgery under anasthetic nowadays.

  3. Re:NOT the same old entrenched politics on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Waterboarding is convincing a person that he's about to drown. How the hell is that not torture?

  4. Re:Real summary. on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Existing schools will distribute more scholarships to fill their ranks. Students will work harder to earn scholarships if they need them. Student loans will become more accessible. Ah, yes, scholarships, cause of maximum stress for high school seniors everywhere. Fuck you. I already have to write a 10-page application for every single college I apply to, and now you want me to write even more to pay for it?
  5. Re:Real summary. on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    He's not talking about communism. He's talking about actually using the fucking tax money.

  6. Re:Hm... on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 1

    When is the last time you hadn't thrown your vote away? Ron Paul even if its write-in! Well, my first vote will be this year. And only a 4channer could think Ron Paul is anything but a total nutcase after reading about his newsletters--almost every single one had some sort of racism, anti-Semitism, etc. in it.
  7. Re:Hm... on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually I think most of those machines run on propane or methane. The real price of oil is plastics.

  8. Re:Hm... i work at ADM on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (so does go to college to get a good job really mean anything? :D ) Not to me, since I'd go to college even if it made it harder to get a good job.
  9. Re:Scientists cannot explain != mysterious on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    Do you use GPS? Or, for that matter, a clock? The atomic clock is now so accurate that it matters how far off the Earth's surface it is because of Einsteinian physics. And your clock is probably syncing to one of those.

  10. Re:Groundbreaking changes don't come from the outs on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    Well, Einstein was an outsider to a point, but he was one who actually went to college and had a degree in physics.

  11. Re:So look at it, take it apart, spend a few minut on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    And, of course, you snipped out the bits about the Nobel Prize winners.

  12. Re:So look at it, take it apart, spend a few minut on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    So how hard were these laws faught before it was the common standard taught to us? Well, there was vigorous debate on whether energy should be mv^2 or m|v|, but most of the opposition to Joule's theories were the conversion part. They thought that mechanical energy and heat energy were two different things and they were seperately conserved. So far, every attempt to break the law of conservation of energy has failed and in fact that's how we found the neutrino.

    These laws do not address where forces like magnets and gravity come into play and if they could ever be tapped or not Actually, you almost got into something with Gravity but with gravity energy cannot be created, only destroyed. Magnets, on the other hand, have perfect Lorenz covariance and therefore perfect conservation of energy(at least, as far as we can measure, that is, any violations would have to be on such a small scale that no machine could use them)
  13. Re:Hm... on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Doommongers"(do you even know what that means? It means somebody who has a sexual relation to doom, like a whoremonger does with whores.) like the AAAS and NAS(which consist of the most important scientists in the United States, and these two organizations would not say things like what they've said unless we were as close to certainty that can exist in science--we are more sure of it than gravity, but less sure than evolution), and just recently all the companies that have polluted and caused this problem, like GM, BP, Exxon, etc. The only people right now still denying it are Michael Crichton and you.

  14. Re:Hm... on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 0

    Sadly for you, there is no evidence that anything but government action will do anything against the destabilization of the global climate.

  15. Re:Good old days... on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Hey, another Overcompensating fan!

  16. Re: Lyndon LaRouche on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Was Ron Paul honest when he wrote the racist, anti-Semitic, conspiracy nut newsletters without putting their "actual" authors(assuming it isn't actually Ron Paul writing them, although Ron Paul certainly wanted Ron Paul's name in big letters at the top, and nobody else's name to be tracked as the author--probably because Ron Paul wanted support from the militias AKA his constituencies) or was he honest when he denied them.

    As for Kucinich, he said that if he doesn't appear on the ballot you should vote for Obama.

  17. Re:why? on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Do you realize that the militia libertarianism is pretty much based entirely on fear?

  18. Re:NAH, NAH, NAH, NAH, I can't hear you. on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Man, same here. May 5 is when North Carolina votes. Then again, since I'm a Democrat, I might get to have a say in this election.

  19. Re:Question from an outsider on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    The stuff in his newsletters written under his name that he did not attribute to any other human being and which he endorsed in a paper signed by himself mentioning black helicopters and a "Federal-Homosexual AIDS coverup" conspiracy.

  20. Re:Thank goodness on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Today's cars are bigger, faster, quieter and more fuel efficient (on average). You forgot one: safer. I was in a car crash last month and because of an air bag only suffered a minor contusion. Also, comparing 2007 dollars to 1977 dollars is flat-out stupid. You compare 2007 dollars to 2002 dollars or 1997 dollars.
  21. Re:Thank goodness on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    It collapsed because of Afghanistan. It failed because of corruption and caring more about ideology than logic(i.e. Stalin's reversal of NEP). This is why term limits are important, and they need to be imposed on Congress.

  22. Re:Thank goodness on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1, Funny

    When John Nash won the prize, it was exactly like the Special Olympics.

  23. Re:Real summary. on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    You have a keyboard and a web browser. Go to Obama's website and click the tab labeled "Issues".

  24. Re:NOT the same old entrenched politics on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Even if she wins, the 2010 and 2012 elections will be completely different, much like how it changed so much after 1960 and Kennedy's defeat of Nixon.

  25. Re:Real summary. on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    You're making assumptions that aren't in the parent. Actually the parent's making assumptions that can't be made from the data.