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  1. Re:True but... on Is Google Polluting the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I share your dream.

    What is especially annoying me at the moment, are the adds in the middle of news stories. Right in the middle of two paragraphs of text! And on the websites of newspapers that have a physical presence. They wouldn't do that on paper, they know it would annoy the reader. Why do they think it's ok on the web?!

  2. Re:No we don't. on Is Google Polluting the Internet? · · Score: 1

    c. Haven't you ever heard 'knowledge is an end to itself'?

  3. Re:Your definition of movie may vary... on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 1

    Actually I am an Australian, Denton hasn't really done much film. And anyway, the operative word there was 'company.'

  4. Re:Your definition of movie may vary... on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 0

    So a company with no history in the industry is annoyed because IMDB won't list their pre-production film. How is their problem different from any other production company without a history of releases behind them?

  5. Re:Your definition of movie may vary... on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, and if you read their rules in detail, you will see that acceptance at a film festival with any sort of selection criteria is also sufficient to get a listing in IMDB. So, I don't understand why the makers don't simply submit the film to a festival!?

  6. Re:Not a test on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you comparing apples with oranges?

  7. Re:the problem is not culpability nor blame on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    Ok, except that if increased CO2 in the atmosphere is causing warming, then the obvious solution is to reduce CO2. But if we take your approach and just say warming is bad, and we are seeing warming, people will ask, why is cutting CO2 going to work? Unfortunately for your philosophy our understanding of how to solve the problem is tied up in our understanding of what is causing the problem.

  8. Re:More Info & Dashboard on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    As someone who has written papers on both solar influences on Terrestrial weather and the technology for alternative (green) energy sources, I have to say that I believe global warming is occurring, we are causing it, and we aren't acting fast enough to avoid a catastrophe.

    If you don't trust the people proffering a solution in the US, then look elsewhere and see what groups in other parts of the world are saying.

  9. Re:This research is FALSE! on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it's the morons and the jebus freaks who are the majority of voters.

  10. Re: move along now on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 1

    Oh I see. The problem was that the GP you refer to was below my threshold, and it looked like you were replying to that post's parent.

  11. Re: move along now on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 1

    And in fact is is *STILL* the convention to use "I" for a single author in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. (http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1882/3883) I hope you've learned something today.

  12. Re: move along now on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 1

    That's a convention now, but it wasn't always the case, and there's no reason why it should be necessary. If you really don't think anything written in the first person is credible then you will have to take issue with thousands of articles in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. For instance: http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/133-142/821).

  13. Re:That's no moonlet. on Saturn's Moon Prometheus Spawning Moonlets · · Score: 1

    The IAU has spoken: we have to call it a dwarf moonlet because it hasn't cleared its orbit of debris.

  14. Re:hope on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    Please vote Green, but preference Labor ahead of the Coalition. Abbott is on record as saying he doesn't believe in climate change. I could give you many other reasons not to vote for the Liberals, but I suspect that will be enough for you.

  15. Re:Bloodless? on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    On the first of January 1901, Australia was formed by an agreement not a war... We are pretty good at doing bloodless.

  16. Re:"BUT SHe'S UNELLECTED!! BLAAAAHH!!11!!!!!!" on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention that at least 2/3 of people seem not to know how the instant run off system of voting works. We have a voting system that beautifully avoids sticking us with a this or that two party system. Yet we have a two party system because most people won't take the 5 minutes needed to learn how it works, and how you can NEVER waste your vote by voting for one on the other parties so long as you place your preferences down to those two majors.

  17. Re:I only wish our politicians were as gutsy on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    Which news network are you watching? Or which people are you tweeting with? Because mykos' version seems to be closer to what I'm hearing form people.

  18. Re:Strewth on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to point this out, but you have punctuated your response incorrectly. You see, the full stop should come inside the second set of quotation marks. Also, you should have added a comma at the end of the first quotation, but before the closing quotation mark.

  19. Re:I for one... on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    I think she actually said that she'd be the first red-head as PM in colour photographs or something.

  20. Re:"First Female PM" is not news. on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 0

    I agree with everything you said, but I do think it marks a milestone toward equality, and a milestone worth recognising.

    Ask the previous generation of women what it would have meant to them to have had a female leader of their country when they were growing up? I bet they'll tell you it would have made a difference to know that it was possible for them too - and not just in theory - it will have a psychological impact on young women (and men); which in turn will help make our future work-places less "hyper-masculine" and better environments for all.

    No, it's not a magic pill, but every little bit helps.

  21. Fantastic on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing could possibly go wrong!

  22. Data free online on Scientific R&D At Home? · · Score: 1

    I'm late on this, but there is some data that is free online, and other data that is available for a small fee. For instance some NASA satellites have public data archives or you can get ALL of Australia's rainfall data (over 100 years of it) for about $100. Research produces so much data that it cannot all be processed in the ways that scientists would like. I would suggest that you download data in an area you can get a handle on. Read up on the papers in that field (probably through a public library subscription) and then go and run some statistical analyses. Looking for correlations in weather patterns is always fun, astronomy is a bit more hard-core.

  23. Re:"Faith Science Basis?" on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Phlogiston fit the evidence at the time. It was disproved by experimental evidence. Thanks for playing.

  24. Re:It *is* ancient history. on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    The name Intelligent Design is roughly 22 years old. Really, it all depends what the Queensland School Board means when it says ID. It may just be that ID is a convenient catch all phrase in their minds for many god based religions.

  25. Re:To calculate human capital density properly, on Intelligence Density and the Creative Class · · Score: 1

    Forget the human density. What we really want to know is how much pressure we are putting on the Earth.

    And for that we need to know the surface area of the soles of our shoes (and the local gravity).