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  1. Re:In other news... on Energy Dept. Wants Big Wind Energy Technology In All 50 US States · · Score: 1

    Power being back-loaded onto the electric grid causes issues when it is widespread. Those issues cost money. Either in earlier replacement costs or for specialized equipment able to handle the changes

  2. Re:*sigh* on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    You'd also have to break it down by how much control the CCA had over the industry and how they exercised that control and then by art style. Also you'd want to look into current CEO's and see if there's any trend there. Merely ascribing it to time or some feminist hook seems to be immensely shortsighted. Of course, she is in high school, so that might be why the science portion of her science project was so shitty.

  3. Re:Sooooo...... on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Unless there's an ammo factory there, how does Bullet Town have the dies to make bullets? They certainly don't reload since they weren't being the least bit careful about their casings.

  4. Re:Sooooo...... on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    That's because it's a pretty damn good film. Not really a Mad Max movie though unless you dump the prior continuity. And wait for the director's cut. There looked to be a pretty large amount of exposition cut so as to keep the tempo as redlined as possible.

    As for the claims of the MRA's the beliefs of the harem members were rather jarring compared to the rest of the cast, but in large part that was the point since it was pretty clearly shown that they were bullshit by the existence of the older women in the film. The fact that there were zero men and that the only reason they trusted Hardy was because Furiosa vouched for him is a pretty clear indication that they killed all the prior men they came in contact with. Not all of them would have been harmful. Not exactly the act of a peaceful group of people. The girls though did nothing but dream of a distant utopia and center their worldview on how all the faults were the cause of men. Barring of course the redhead who was certainly the most grounded harem member, though how she would have even learned what manifest destiny was I'm not quite certain. Then again if the old biddy in the harem was the one teaching them I can see how she would have centered the 'evils' of the prior age on such a concept.

    The tripartite Merchants of Death were rather cliché and silly. Religion, guns and capitalism? Bullet Town and Gas Town within spitting distance of one another and the Citadel? Not to mention the fact that apparently Bullet Town had the machinery from 12 different gun manufacturers including Heckler and Koch which I'm pretty sure does not have a manufactory in Australia at all.

  5. Re:Great power on Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition · · Score: 1

    Unless they ran multiple initial image sets as well as multiple 'test' sets, there's absolutely no way to know whether their win was statistically insignificant.

  6. Re:Tornado risk on Construction At SpaceX's New Spaceport About To Begin · · Score: 1

    Too close to water for the tornado to form reliably. So either the tornado/waterspout would have to form a mile or so out either way and then head to the launch site. Not very likely.
    http://www.homefacts.com/torna...

  7. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 2

    If we assume that murder rate should be roughly equal to death by cop as a metric, black males are getting killed by cops at rates 15-20% lower than they should be.

  8. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Except the amount of money that goes into public schooling above a surprisingly low minimum has virtually no effect on lower bound performance. There is quite a bit of effect on AP classes of course. DC public schools are among the best funded in the nation per capita and the worst performing.

  9. Re:Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Wow you're a complete fucking moron. Accurate is an adjective. It describes a noun. E&Hs PREDICTION was accurate in that it was precisely correct. Namely, the boson's mass was greater than 18MeV. That the actual MEASUREMENT was fundamentally inaccurate in it's range does not change the accuracy of the PREDICTION.

  10. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 0

    Yeah, Nuclear Winter is a figment of the nuclear scare's imagination. It assumes that the earth is a featureless ball of rock, all targets are groundbursts, that every target would cause a firestorm the size of Dresden, and that any and all soot would magically stay in the atmosphere far higher and far longer than any such effects have been observed. At worst, a full scale nuclear war MIGHT cause temperatures to mildly drop for 1-2 years.

  11. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Sphere shaped means the approximation of a sphere in shape. Which it is. Not a perfect sphere, thus why it is an oblate spheroid. But, in the rules of the English language, an oblate spheroid is still sphere-shaped.

  12. Re:One small problem on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    Given that black murder rates are near 50% of the American total and yet they account for barely 25% of death by cop incidents, it would seem rather obvious that that there are more whites/latinos killed unjustifiably by cop than black people.

  13. Re:Bad title on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No independent testing? This is one of three devices built by three separate groups that exhibit similar behavior. I do believe that is the definition of independent testing. Now, as to whether it every becomes useful, who knows.

  14. Re:Seriously ? What a non story on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 0

    Except it may very well be a warp drive if that is how it generates its thrust. Just because it is neither a FTL warp drive or a bubble drive does not mean it isn't a warp drive.

  15. Re:Scientifically driven politics on House Panel Holds Hearing On "Politically Driven Science" - Without Scientists · · Score: 1

    Not during the Grand Jury hearing he doesn't. Which given the lack of any power that hearing has, is what the criminal equivalent would be.

  16. Re:Furthe proof that men and women think different on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    You do realize that money was not first on my list. I would guess that the majority of engineers are not primarily interested in the money the career will bring them. Rather, it's the 'build shit' mentality that calls most engineers. But the type of guys to get an engineering degree, especially the ones who join one of the P.E. societies, do not do so because of the societal good they can accomplish.

  17. Re:Furthe proof that men and women think different on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    Never said they wouldn't then USE their engineering skills for societal good. Just that they didn't go into the field for that purpose. There is a rather fundamental difference. Not to mention, and this is kind of important, EWB does not require any sort of engineering degree. As well, that percentage was the school club, not the percentage of ASCE members in EWB. Thus, using it as any sort of metric is rather... shortsighted.

  18. Furthe proof that men and women think differently on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 0

    You won't find a male engineer that became an engineer to feel better about himself and the 'societal good' he can do, that's for sure. Instead it'll be because it either interests him from a 'I get to build neat shit' aspect, or because of monetary consideration. Any 'societal good' he can do with the engineering will be a tertiary consideration at best.

  19. Re:George W. still president on Stephen Hawking Has a Message For One Direction Fans · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sooo, you want a universe where Washington got access to the Fountain of Youth and people keep voting him into the presidency against his will?

  20. Re:What could have been on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: -1, Troll

    *headdesk* Really? I did NOT know that. Not at alllllll. I certainly wasn't both expressing my opinion on the actual event and at the same time taking a jab at the ubiquity of cat pictures on the internet. Which of course subsequently gets labeled troll by idiots to dense to figure out my position. Or by people who want the people who killed her to get away with it. Hard to say.

  21. What could have been on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I was going to offer my condolences. I was going to say how this was a great loss. I was going to say that the barbarians responsible should be hunted down like the dogs they are. But then I saw the cat pictures.

  22. Re:You no longer own a car on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    It is however, both much easier to fuck up doing and much more expensive per fuckup.

  23. Re: just hang them on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    Because between 5 and 10% of convicted felons are actually innocent of the crime they were convicted of. Given the current state of laws in the US, saying they are wholly innocent of any lawbreaking is insane. In any case, that means that between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 of people killed by the state should not have been, which is wholly unacceptable.

  24. Re:Hmmmmm on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Which goes to show that Paul the elder is a fucking dunderhead. The chance of peace breaking out in 1908 Europe, oh sorry, the Middle East is about as likely as the Kardashians suddenly deciding not to act like media whores or ISIS to convert wholesale to Asatru.

  25. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Of course, the difference is that Nixon primarily did what he did out of paranoia that he would lose the election, which hilariously turned out to be baseless. Clinton does it to cover a multitude of other crimes.