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  1. Re:HATE AMERICA WEEK on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 2

    This has very little to do with America. It has lot to do with the Homeland which is a new thing.

  2. Re:Of course it was possible on What If Babbage Had Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that have been noticed since we now have records from places like China, Japan, India, Persia... Nothing to see here. Just another crackpot.

  3. Re:No they can't on LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV · · Score: 1

    In philosophy all things are cherry cheese cake. That's why we use a use an actually useful subset of philosophy called logic.

    Anything that's red is cherry cheese cake and is delicious. Any thing that's Delicious can be eaten. Things that can be eaten that are not edible are eaten by looking at them and appreciating there deliciousness and feeding the soul.

  4. Re:No they can't on LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV · · Score: 1

    You can't prove a negative is not a rule of logic. Go back to school.

    Can you prove 2+2 is not equal to 58.
    No you can't prove a negative.

    Assume 2+2= 58
    2= 1+1

    1+1+1+1= count them =4
    4=58
    initial assumption is false
    2+2 is in fact not equal to 58 negative proved. This is a counter example to the statement "You can't prove a negative"
    "You can't prove a negative" is false

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    Yes you can make general statements that are true.
    "All general statements are false" is not a rule of logic. Go back to school.

    "2+2 is always equal to 4". Is a general statement.
    2=1+1
    1+1+1+1=count them =4
    4=4 true
    The particular general statement "2+2 is always equal to 4" is true. "2+2 is always equal to 4" is a counter example to "All general statements are false".
    "All general statements are false" is, in fact, its self false.

  5. Re:Probably not on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    With any intelligent socially interacting species, I suspect, such evolutionarily advantageous features are sure to be an exaggerated part of the species anatomy. It's the non-rare boob theory of exobiology.

  6. Re:Something I think is probably unique to Earth. on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    Don't despair, you mentioned several nutrient sharing methods that animals on earth have. An enlarged gland that secretes nutrient solution has many advantages and may be common in the universe. They may have variation in location, number and type, but I'm sure there are analogues on alien species. That is, if we ever could observe them.

  7. Re:Seriously... on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    Rose wood is contraband. As such any illicit grow operations must be shut down and the contraband destroyed.

  8. Re:simulating zero gravity on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    But there is gravity inside the air plane.

  9. Re:Why the idle? on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Exactly! There is nothing wrong with what they are doing. The air plane is not for going in to space. It's how they will sharpen their skills. Then they will move on. This clean slate method can work. I don't know how long it will take and at some point they will need to procure a lot of fuel and materials but the project is in its planning stage. Good luck to them.

  10. Re:Thus spoke Ben on Facebook Exec: Online Anonymity Must Go Away · · Score: 1

    True, but Poor Richard would.

  11. Re:J/MW? on Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US · · Score: 1

    Isn't more jobs per megawatt-hour a fail for solar.

  12. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 1

    Ok, go build me 2809 square miles worth of heliostat reflectors smarty pants. The problem with solar power in not it's abundence. It's how diffuse it is. People are small and can only do somuch work to get this energy. After a while it makes sense just to dig coal not that there aren't better alternatives.

  13. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 1

    You also must consider how many lifetimes worth of effort are wasted per twh. Some renewable systems consume many man hours and just don't produce the energy compared to other systems. How many lifetimes are spent building and maintaining a million windmills compared to a nice compact plant with a powerful and efficient steam turbine.

  14. Re:This was from some B movie? any have a name? on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    The Trojan Horse was in Troy.

  15. Terrorism is Amazingly effective! on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    Look they don't actually have to do anything. Just say it and win the war. The enemy just jumps off a cliff while pissing his pants. This is what the the TSA is all about. We just piss and jump.

  16. Re:I'm so (NOT!) surprised.. on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    Dentist stand behind a lead shield and the patient wears a lead apron that covers the gonads.

  17. Re:DUH! DOSAGE MATTERS! on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    A certain percentage bounce back. The rest pass through and are absorbed or lost in other directions from the detectors.

  18. Re:DUH! DOSAGE MATTERS! on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    The X-rays stop in a thin layer of skin. That's funny.

  19. Re:This isnt right on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    I worry more about the danger of putting my groin into these things. Will my children have leukaemia and other hereditary genetic damage. Where the hell is the damn nuclear regulatory commission on this? Because this is their mandate.

  20. West vs East difference on Anonymous Steals 10,000 Iranian Government Emails · · Score: 2

    Having would be kings squabbling to be in charge of your life -> western
    Having an uncontested king undoubtedly in charge of your life -> eastern

  21. WTF who is the customer here? on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 2

    The is no reason for this dangerous feature to be included in a device that I purchase. That could get someone killed. Take some pics of some criminal activity and post it online, then the pic rats you out like a cheep stool pigeon. Then youâ(TM)re pushing up daisies.

  22. Re:Funny on Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just use puppets for robots? Puppets don't need supercomputers for rendering. And only use aliens that look just like humans with some kind if junk on their forehead.

  23. Re:Good - arrest me on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Selective enforcement needs to be a crime in its self. It happen all the time. This is incompatable with rule of law.

  24. Re:HA! on NATO Report Threatens To 'Persecute' Anonymous · · Score: 1

    If you get rid of Anonymous are they really gone?

  25. 15 mega watts of energy storage on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1

    Seriously why use stupid units in these stories. The system provides 15 mega watts for 15 minuits. Thats 3.75 Mw-h. according to the wikipedia an average person uses 11,400 W (average not peak).
    So this can power 40 people for 8 hours.
    Now you'll have to excuse me I have a meeting in 2.8 hogsheads. After that I have to goto the store and buy a meter of milk. And my furnace is a 15000BTU model and it's used them all up.