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  1. Re:tor on Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs · · Score: -1, Troll

    Um, let's see, most of the Cuba part of Sicko could be considered untruth, as for F9/11 much of the first and final thirds were misconstrued, edited, or photoshopped, and the majority of Bowling for Columbine was complete bullshit.

  2. Re:Good, another movie I don't need to watch on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 1

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo .... *Deep Breath* .... ooooooooooooo ... *huff huff* ... ooo o!

  3. Re:Not likely on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Hey dumbass, show me the criminal code that bans the president from firing any US Attorney he wants. Oh, that's right. YOU CAN'T. Was it an asshole move on Bush's part? Of course(along with a string of other largely domestic incidents that Bush seems determined to shoot himself in the foot over), however it was perfectly legal for him to do so. So get the fuck off of your ass and go home.Oh, and as for this:

    But the next president will almost certainly be a dem given that the dem choices for president is looking to be either Clinton or Obama, your supposed victory is very, very far from a sure thing.
  4. Re:To put it into 'software piracy' terms... on Latest Music Piracy Study Overstates Effect of P2P · · Score: 1

    Oh please, the smaller the movie/book/song is in popularity, the greater the probability that p2p downloads will net them more revenue than they would have gained without p2p's existence. This is ESPECIALLY true for sci-fi/fantasy works as they tend to bring people that want to reimburse the creator in some way.

  5. Re:good luck AMD on AMD Multi-Core G3MX DRAM Interface Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Actually, you have to add approximately 8.2 billion per day to that number, as least if the government didn't use cash accounting which is wildly inaccurate for calculating debt of such a large organization. And most of that is from SocSec and Medicare.

  6. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" on Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms · · Score: 1

    Krav Maga has little to do with absolute strength and more with beating the ever-living shit out of your opponent(s) in order to eliminate the threat or give you time to get away. Whichever you feel more comfortable with.

  7. Re:Fscking Congress (YES this is a rant) on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 1

    Of course, there's still the fact that even if the US attorney firings were PURELY political, they were still COMPLETELY LEGAL. See, the president has the authority to fire anyone within the executive branch that he wants. In fact, he could theoretically at any time dismantle any of the solely executive agencies, like sayy, the BATFE, EPA, etc.., etc...

  8. Re:How do they keep a straight face on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 1

    Of course, in this case the spill was relatively minor in a non-public area, was cleaned up, and nothing major occurred. Even had the worst case scenario occurred, none of the public would have been harmed.

  9. Re:Congress Isn't for Everyone on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 1



    Countless? Really? Sooo, Repubs have managed to create more than a googolplex of torture camps?
    ....
    Noooo, you're not demonizing republicans at ALL. You're like the idiots in the Brady Campaign. Shown direct evidence that you're wrong and/or lying, you blatantly ignore it and keep bleating the same old shit.

  10. Re:So what? on NYT Confirms Movie Studios Paid to Support HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Well, that and the 12 gauge in my bedroom. But continue.

  11. Re:Does anyone even care at this point? on Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray for HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    How about " I could care less, but I'm not sure how.", or is that too complex for you?

  12. Re:The End of this Format War? on Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray for HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    Except it's at the end of its possible tech curve and will necessarily be obsolete much quicker than blue-ray, which should last until the holographic tech becomes viable for mass consumption.

  13. Re:Having a lack of belief versus its application on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Y'know, you're just too much of a perfect target not to pass up.

    How, exactly, can you not be have a regressive, narrow minded view of scientific research and inquiry if you don't believe in evolution? The point you seem to be missing twinkletoes, is that the ONLY proper way to approach science is with a regressive, narrow-minded view. At least in the sense that all science can ever truly do is DISPROVE something. Period, end of fucking discussion. And yet, time and time again, I see people assuming that because something has, in the common view, made it to THEORY, or is commonly accepted as being such, it becomes a gold-plated idol. Bunch of fucking over-inflated wankers. Macro-evolution HAS NOT been proven. and unless you have a fucking time machine, you need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up about the matter. Is it the most likely explanation? Yes. However, until there's evidence of the process itself, which we do not actually have, properly it is not scientific theory.


    As a side note, interestingly enough none of the anthropogenic global warming schtick has even made it into the books as simple Theory yet, and we already have people treating it as the gold-plated truth.
  14. Re:Evolution is not fact on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    Arguably the theory of evolution as regards macro evolution is NOT fact. Given currently available evidence it hasn't truly progressed beyond partially tested hypothesis. Micro-evolution, a.k.a. Natural Selection IS fact however. Fucking religiously inclined in all but appellation twits.

  15. Re:What's the point? on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    Given that both SocSec and Medicare are inherently monetarily insoluble(as in, they require an exponential increase, albeit a low one, in the number of people paying in vs. taking out), your question is largely irrelevant. Hell, given that Bush was slapped down when he even attempted to partially address the easy(Relative to the Medicare mess) problem of SocSec, I fail to see what fucking right you have to bitch.

  16. Re:Anti-Evolution on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    Hell, I disagree with certain specifics of evolution, and I also know that unless a record is kept for 10's of thousands of years that those specifics will never be answered. A better question would have been, "Do you think the theory of evolution is entirely false?" as such a question would have much better defined ones position on the subject.(Note, I don't actually endorse any of the candidates mentioned above.)

  17. Re:Adverse changes? on Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean · · Score: 1

    Soooo, the answer is to dump enough salt into the ocean to counter-act the desalinization? Good to know.

  18. Re:That is pretty normal on Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean · · Score: 1

    The IPCC is a group of frauds. Not particularly clever frauds at that. I mean, c'mon, they cherry pick data, and when it suits them, attempt to destroy evidence. All of their studies are based on their end goal, which any proper scientist can tell you is an extremely amateur way of doing business. Until they throw out any temperature readings taken within the area of influence of metropolitan areas all of their models are complete bunk.

  19. Re:I call bullshit! on Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean · · Score: 1

    Really? Only explainable by human activity hmmm? Nothing else explains it? Why is it then, your warming trend disappears between 1940 and 1970? Magic perhaps? Given that the rate of CO2 generation did nothing but increase, along with continually decreasing amounts of foliage, one would think the trend would have stayed the same. Instead it didn't. Why is that?

  20. Re:I call bullshit! on Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What about the "I'm an idiot who bought a car with a nickel metal-hydride battery which when refined produces shitloads of sulfer dioxide. But that's okay since carbon isn't present which makes everything fucking hunky-dory." crowd?

  21. Re:People who get their physics from movies... on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're far more likely to believe that wildly complex conspiracy theories are valid and can't get it through their heads that steel greatly weakens as it heats, along with the fact that the twin towers were designed to collapse in on themselves in the event that they ever did collapse in order to minimize collateral damage. They will be impressed by a couple of fellow nuts who make a youtube video "outlining" the supposed "conspiracy".

  22. Re:Acme School of Physics on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1

    Actually, assuming that the weapon was poorly maintained that could have happened if the weapon in question had 3 round burst. Of course, it would be highly UNLIKELY, but it's perfectly plausible.

  23. Re:Idiots on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1

    Actually, given that quantum entanglement exists it's not completely violating the laws of physics. Read um... The Quantum Connection by Travis S Taylor. It gives a good example of what could be done communications wise assuming the properties of quantum entanglement could be directed.

  24. Re:Groan on A Non-Toxic, Paper Battery / Supercapacitor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Motive motive motive. Talks only work when your opponent is willing to allow them to work. Same thing with non-violence. If Ghandi had been passively resisting the soviets he would just have been shot and left in an unmarked grave. Last time I checked, unlike the IRA, the muslims don't tend to phone ahead. That right there is a MAJOR difference in the nature of one's opponent. Not to mention that the IRA to my knowledge never or almost never targeted children and women for mass murder simply because they worked with/crowded around british troops. Now, if you can give me multiple examples of the IRA doing so in a short period of time, sayyy five years, I'll retract my statement. Until then, shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.

  25. Re:I like it so far on The Shock That Almost Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Actually, all the denials I could find didn't come out and definitively say it wasn't coming out soon. Instead they were all along the lines of "We are fully concentrating on the Xbox 360 and PC versions". If you can find a straight absolute denial I would be interested.