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  1. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 4, Informative

    *cough*bullshit*cough* What the police have is a dead body, no witnesses to the start of the altercation(You cannot be penalized for a self defense claim when doing something legal), the only witness to see part of the altercation itself agrees completely with Zimmerman's story, wounds entirely consistent with his story unless you assume the arresting officers, paramedics, and lead investigator are all lying, and a self defense claim. Given that evidence, no prosecutor in their right mind is going to arrest because they don't have a snowflakes chance in hell of conviction.

    Hell, even the girlfriend's story has Martin confronting Zimmerman.

  2. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 1

    Probably not, but telling one drunk retard from the next can get pretty difficult.

  3. Re:Simple Answer: on Despite Drop In Piracy, French Music Industry Still In Decline · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Halestorm is fucking awesome yet extreme lack of angst in their personal lives.

  4. Re:Does This Tool Actually Work? on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    Actually, he was keeping Martin in sight.

  5. Re:Does This Tool Actually Work? on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    The GFs testimony has Martin initiating vocal confrontation and then the line going dead. She said she heard a push as if his earbuds came out, but that could easily have been him removing his earbuds and hanging up. The full 911 zimmerman transcript has him losing martin and talking about where to meet the police. He explicitly doesn't want to meet them back at his house.

  6. Re:Science or Pseudo-science? on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    More importantly, has it been tested using separate types of cheap microphones; one close, one far, with the close microphone having prodigious amounts of wind masking? Cause if the answer is no, it's completely useless.

  7. Re:You can't diagnose via blurry video and no MD. on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    DNA analysis and forensic hair analysis are two different things as the DNA can come from any DNA source.

  8. Re:In case you missed it on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Depending on the break they may or may not bleed. If they bleed, they may bleed a little or a lot.

    http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/broken-nose/DS00992/DSECTION=symptoms

    Signs and symptoms of a broken nose may appear immediately or may take up to three days to develop. Signs and symptoms may include:

            Pain or tenderness, especially when touching your nose
            Swelling of your nose and surrounding areas
            Bleeding from your nose
            Bruising around your nose or eyes
            Crooked or misshapen nose
            Difficulty breathing through your nose
            Discharge of mucus from your nose (rhinorrhea)
            Feeling that one or both of your nasal passages are blocked

    Now, I'm confused as to how bleeding may take up to three days to develop.

  9. Re:In case you missed it on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    Except the police did no such thing you silly idiot. The lead investigator wanted to bring charges, as they are wont to do even if there's a decent chance the person in question is innocent. The prosecutor looked at the evidence and said get me something more. Cause with the evidence that's been released, even before this brouhaha started the closest Zimmerman was getting to guilty was a hung jury. With the brouhaha, the probability that this will end in anything but a hung jury has grown vanishingly small.

  10. Re:It's more than just global warming gas on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    Yep, and as a scientist THAT is the correct statement to make. Cause he doesn't know. That being said, we now have 2 major plot points. ALL of Europe, and Greenland, can't forget Greenland. And now Antarctica, even if it's only that peninsula. Currently all the "consensus" models assume, with VERY little evidence by the way, that EVERYWHERE else was colder on average to offset Europe's gobsmackingly rude warm period. Sooo, what? Was everywhere else EVEN COLDER to offset Europe and this Antarctic peninsula? Is this evidence that global temperatures everywhere else were definitively on average higher as in Europe and in the antarctic peninsula? No. Is it evidence that the consensus explanation of the rest of the planet being colder to compensate for Europe now has a giant fucking hole in it? Yes. Two different things. So next, Mr. Zunli Lu finds as many of these ikaite samples as he can as far away from each other as he can on the antarctic continent. And if they all show higher than average temperatures, well then the Manbearpig hunters have some serious fucking explaining to do.

  11. Re:It's more than just global warming gas on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    The same way the global climate change consensus decided the MWP was confined to Europe?

    What's that? Antarctica is in Europe now?

    http://insidesu.syr.edu/2012/03/21/earth-and-planetary-science-letters/

    INTERESTING.

  12. Re:Rupert Murdoch has no scruples. on Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage · · Score: 2

    Actually, Fox is by and large targeted at stupid, impressionable conservatives in the US. Everything else on the US news market is by and large targeted at stupid, impressionable progressives.

  13. Re:Rupert Murdoch has no scruples. on Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Murdoch's only god is money. He runs Fox News cause it's a giant market no one else was exploiting.

  14. Re:Dammit, why'd you have to mention date ordering on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. It's the most useful system for filing since generally files are already separated by year and you read left to right. Thus going from bigger to smaller. Even if files are not separated by year there are more than enough files in any given year to have a large tab denoting overall year.

  15. Re:Math on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 1

    That might be true of air, but trust me when I say you can tell the difference in water.

  16. Re:The people will be the ones who suffer on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 1

    Yeah... the norks certainly weren't planning it since they demanded their light water reactors from Clinton prior to bush getting in office. Even though heavy water reactors would have been more subsidized from our end and more importantly are harder to produce nukes from. But no, their entire nuclear plan only came together after Bush made a speech.

  17. Re:Smart people can be dumb on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, every test done on the dogs that is remotely based on science has shown that flipping a coin is more likely to get a correct result. The vast majority of the time the dogs are taking cues from their handlers, just like Mr. Ed.

  18. Re:They Saved The World on Edward Teller: Father of the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    The French ARISTOS volunteered to help America. Not the assholes who created a machine designed to efficiently lop off heads. Bring the aristos back and we'll talk.

  19. Re:Wrong. So wrong. on Man Convicted For Helping Thousands Steal Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Countrywide went from an utterly bit player in the mortgage market in 94 prior to the CRA revisions to the largest holder of subprime mortgage loans by 2006. This was with direct collaboration from Fannie and Freddie. You think this happened through magic perhaps?

  20. Re:What is his thought process? on RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a "One-Time Thing" · · Score: 1

    Death panels, while hyperbole, was a turn of phrase quite indicative of what will be erected. The government will be forced to cut costs, and that is what happens. It denies treatment. The truly rich will of course still get theirs, and now you'll have added to that every political bloodsucker who might not be very rich or have access to the congressional health plan getting theirs as well. This is especially true as the magic sack of money will go poof in the next 15-50 years and even if you were to completely remove defense spending right now we're still running a large deficit, and it's only going to get worse. The really fucking hilarious part of this is the insurance market is primarily fucked up because of the employer insurance credit and lack of interstate insurance. This makes all moving jobs or losing your job much more precarious than it otherwise would be.

  21. Re:Dear Mr. Sherman on RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a "One-Time Thing" · · Score: 1

    His progenitors could be from one of those countries where a thumbs up means up your ass.

  22. Re:And there was much rejoicing on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 1

    Eh, the real problem with Cell is it takes comparatively more memory at any given time. But Sony though it would be good enough to match the 360 memory requirements. An additional 128 megs of memory for the processor side and the majority of programming complaints over the PS3 would go away.

  23. Re:Another reason on Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty a 'Disaster' For the Internet · · Score: 1

    Europe was pretty much one big flame war from 1618 to 1945. It wasn't until players outside of Europe were big enough to inflict enough incentive on them to stop, carrots in the case of America, the iron fist in the case of the USSR, that you stopped dicking around.

  24. Re:Important to note on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 3, Informative

    No you stupid fuckwit, it didn't. Operation Wide Receiver did, however that was known and sanctioned by the Mexican government and was a serious attempt to track the routes the guns used, with the majority of the weapons having GPS trackers in them, albeit ones that turned out to be ineffectual. Said operation used less than 500 guns and was STOPPED because it was completely ineffectual. The operations, multiple, started under Obama all had the express purpose of shifting as many guns as possible across the border to, and I quote, be recovered at crime scenes. It did NOT have the sanction of the Mexican government, technically making it an act of war, and coincided with the 90% of Mexican crime guns FUD pushed by the government and helped along by CBS NBC et al. The operation started after the Brady bunch was told Obama was working on gun control back in early 2009 and the only logical interpretation of what happened was that they were attempting to drum up support for another AWB. Either that or they're batshit fucking insane. Completely different fucking operations to anybody with two fucking neurons to rub together.

  25. Re:Advanced as They Were on Study Suggests Climate Change-Induced Drought Caused the Mayan Collapse · · Score: 1

    The yuan is pegged to the dollar, so no you wouldn't want that. If the Chinese were to unpeg it from the dollar's value, its value would spike, hastening the coming Chinese collapse, and then would crash.