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  1. Re:This seems... on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 1

    Being that it's impossible to prove a negative, no.

  2. Re:This seems... on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um, no. Completely excise defense spending, but leave the taxes from it in, and we are still running a deficit, especially with all the new spending instituted by Obama.

  3. Re:You left one out: on Floyd Landis Sentenced For Hacking Test Lab · · Score: 1

    It violates the flag code to make clothing out of a flag, NOT to display a PICTURE or other representation of the flag on a piece of clothing. Do try to get it right if you're going to be anal about the flag code. It makes life so much less vexing.

  4. Re:Raspberry Pi on Doctorow: the Coming War On General-Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    Horseshit, that's humanity for you. Most humans would like most decisions made for them, preferably while they are unaware that it's happening. Blaming that particular trait on an economic system is fucking stupid.

  5. Re:Maybe the movies just aren't very good on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 2

    Because it's in swedish and makes me think of dead moose. Seriously though, that set of movies is completely different after playing Magicka.

  6. Re:R&D on What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly, the man's an idiot, especially this gem "The United States' high-technology, high-price, and high-maintenance weaponry is of relatively little value in such conflicts." What he fails to understand is that it is our high tech overwhelming advantage that forces them to use methods such as IEDs, since we ream their asses in any conventional confrontation.

  7. Re:The rot and waste aren't new! on What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? · · Score: 4, Funny

    But, But, the corporations.

  8. Re:As a vegtarian: on FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal · · Score: 1

    Sure, but we'll have to kill off the majority of the populations of China, India, and Africa.

  9. Re:Greed on FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal · · Score: 1

    Of course, there's the fact that the meat portion of the diet has jack all to do with the obesity condition of the population, but lets not let facts get in the way of a good rant.

  10. Re:Wow on FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, the phrase "corporate sponsored corruption" has 2 too many words.

  11. Re:This quote states it best... on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    That's because you didn't use the car analogy. Namely, IE is the car, their internal to the computer directories are the driveway and their postal box, their internal to the network directories are the closest town and stores along normal roads, and anything with www uses the highway to get where it needs to. A vast simplification which can be wrong if you use an internal DNS, but otherwise quite correct.

  12. Re:Walled Garden on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 1

    This is a really really stupid decision when you consider that the number of american households reporting gun ownership rose from 41-47% from last year to this year.

  13. Re:Industrial Espionage. on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 1

    And yes, I know a modern JATO rocket would immediately launch a car into the air, but the early gens were much weaker.

  14. Re:Industrial Espionage. on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 1

    Only a redneck would strap a JATO to a car. Hell, Oak Lawn is nothing but rednecks and nuclear physics. Rednecks are perfectly innovative. "Hey Guys, Watch This!" is practically religious scripture among them.

  15. Re:Toyota's brake did not override the accelerator on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but even if true that doesn't cut the mustard. These are not souped up muscle cars with bog-standard braking systems, and even if true that the accelerator stuck the brakes would have been more than able to have slowed and stopped the car. All of the "malfunctions" reported continuous hard acceleration.

  16. Re:What about Google driverless car? on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    *blinks* You're not well versed in the effect of turbulence on localized airspeed or altitude are you? The sensors will report airspeeds that are only possible in a dive, combined with the loss of altitude even though the angle of attack is level or steady could easily cause software to attempt to pull out of the "dive". That assumes that the plane is allowed to override human input, which is a seriously fucking asinine design if true.

  17. Re:Easy to do on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which happens primarily because it's illegal and not taxed, and thus monitored, like every other profession.

  18. Re:More detail on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    They celebrate Saturnalia? news to me.

  19. Re:Pot, kettle, black on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    Hey, we still make some pretty decent zip ties.

  20. Re:Government responsible says, 'Look, commies'. on Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? · · Score: 2

    I was unaware that the Ebil Dubya was calling for the genocide of all Muslims in Iraq. Thank you for the enlightenment

  21. Re:Uh oh. on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    Also, when the cops are obviously corrupt and reading scripted lines in order to properly follow even Law one must resort to jury nullification.

  22. Re:Uh oh. on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    Anathema to the concept of pure Law perhaps, but integral to the concept of Justice, which is by definition something more than just Law.

  23. Re:There is a real problem with testing on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I doubt there were many calc questions on a state standardized test. Hell, IIRC there's less than 20 on the SAT, at least when I took it.

  24. Re:Hard to believe on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Even if you do each part in order it's not exactly difficult. 100*75 is 7500. Half of that is 3750. 3750-225(which is 75*3) is 3525. 25 goes into 100 4 times, so multiply 35 times 4 plus 1 to get your final answer. More roundabout, but even people who don't deconstruct the problem entirely should have little problem doing it.

  25. Re:Issa Bad on Draft Alternative To SOPA Released · · Score: 1

    Because Fox News is really going to do a hit piece on Issa. You'd be much more correct naming the Grey Bitch, aka the NY Times because lo and behold, they DID publish a hit piece on Issa

    http://conservativenewsreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/darrell-issa-hit-piece-most-inaccurate.html