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  1. Re:One solution on Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I started out hoping for some success and popularity of the service, slowly the sound of crickets got louder and louder as G+ was abandoned like a ghost ship adrift on a smelly ocean. It seems to be functional for the operation of features of my android phone, but nothing useful really, for socializing.

  2. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've seen that one. The big one locally is "Citizens for prosperity" telling people that wind/solar will drive up the cost of electricity if we allow them to be built. What it really means is; Kochs will raise the cost of electricity to benefit themselves and stockholders as their profits drop from coal/nuke production and they have to purchase from outside sources as mandated by many states. They seem to have fooled Oklahoma, but Kansans caught on to their grift and outed their undercover "Citizens" scam.

  3. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    Well, I only blame the Kochs , because they are behind legislation to soak money off green power to enhance their Coal/Nuclear fueled wallets at expense to the consumer, thus having cake and eating it too. Their "Citizens for Prosperity" ads, run barely anonymously amounted to pure fucking lies aimed at conning the public.

    So don't put solar panels where the sun doesn't shine, you'll sit more comfortably....

    Two turbines? Sounds more like someones hobby than a wind farm......

  4. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    I was lucky enough to get some stock in a company operating locally. Mostly just a token, but it IS going up.
    There ARE plenty of places the sun doesn't shine, sure, but, that doesn't seem to be the midwest where a lot of these farms are going up.
    Wind turbines look cool, mighty and graceful and don't seem to fuck up the endless horizon of the midwest. I don't want to see them in the mountains and likely won't. I don't want to see them at the Grand Canyon and likely won't. I think you worry too much about things others tell you to worry about. Perhaps there is a windy strip mine somewhere that could benefit from a few rotors around the perimeter.

  5. Re:One solution on Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm? · · Score: 1

    Why, I'd love to have you outside my circles!
    Get on wit'cha bad self.

  6. Re:One solution on Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lol ,G+ is like a party, where you decorate,chill the beer and send out invitations and nobody comes . It is an ANTI-social network. Where does this fit the scheme of things?

  7. Re:One solution on Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But, think of the implications for upcoming elections! How will the Repubmocrats keep 100% power against independents, tea party and other radical despots competing against the chosen ones? Control! The people obviously need controlled, they don't know what is good for them and the Repubmocrats always will.
    Since there is a market, Facebook, who covers most demographics, can help by raising tensions toward sinister interlopers in our one party political system.
    Look for upcoming "hour of hate" shows profiling Tea Party advocate Emanuel Goldstein, NRA talking heads, Farmers, Anti-war hippies and anyone without the Hillary Clinton seal of approval on their forehead or hand.....

  8. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Remember those politicians are fueled by those of the Koch bros. ilk.
    I couldn't help but notice that the wind map used by Watts Up was from some random day and not representative of prevailing winds AT ALL!
    Perhaps someone there had a bit of cranial rectumitis when Googling for a wind map for their "research"( first clue, midwest winds prevail from the southwest 90% of the time and the map has north winds displayed, FAIL! I can show you an area in eastern Colorado where the wind nearly NEVER stops) I would suggest their research is not much more than jealous bunk. Anyway, to couple wind with solar power is a common solution to the fear that Watts Up is trying to instill in the reader.DUH! If it isn't windy, the sun shines most days in most places, so if one isn't producing, the other will in enough quantity that your batteries need not be drained. Further, the wind industry is producing jobs and boosting economy in rural areas that need it. Fuck the Kochs and their worry about their and their investors wallets. Plenty of other investments out there.

  9. Re:Resell them? on Want To Resell Your Ebooks? You'd Better Act Fast · · Score: 1

    Without my glasses, I thought the headline was "Want to resell your body?", no kiddin. It did make me think though, about perceived ownership and rights. What do we really own and what are we licensed to "borrow/operate"?

                From a standpoint of laws designed to protect you from yourself and even recent forced healthcare ; the government has an interest in YOU as a commodity that adds to the Gross National Output thereby increasing the amount of $credit$ available to it with your service as collateral. Kinda like seeing the map of the universe with the little --->"you are here"---- marked....
    I think in the end, we just do what we can, while we can, with what we have until it is regulated for monetary interests by someone who claims rights unopposed.

    I've heard tales that thin paged King James Bibles roll a mighty spleef, Jah LOVE!

  10. Re:banjo is for poor people on Secret of the Banjo's Unique Sound Discovered By Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist · · Score: 1

    Contrast that with high end new archtop guitars selling between $30-60k and vintage ones where the sky is the limit.
    Truthfully, you can get most instruments in a variety of price ranges, dependent on your needs or vanity.
    The short lifecycle of a $200 instrument usually ends up in a spare parts drawer. Most instruments over $10k don''t see much more action than the studio or a display case. A good all round workhorse guitar for most uses SHOULD weigh in around $3-5k, the higher end of "off the rack".
    A good banjo should bring enough at pawn to bail its owner out of jail as a general rule.

  11. Re:So hang on, on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 0

    Dumbass , an 82 is a knucklehead. Shovels are closer to being a 47. A transplant makes about as much sense as putting a model T engine in a Mustang. Not to mention its the dumbest bullshit story I ever heard without a lot of beer around.
    Wannabes always out themselves at the peak of bullshit.

  12. Re:So hang on, on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    No, no, Im in total agreement that Id rather see you pushing up daisies than riding a Harley.

  13. Re:So hang on, on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Inversely , some genius will buy it too.

  14. Re:Nice looking bike... on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Author needs to understand combustion = engine / electric = motor. Therefore motor is at the bottom of the bike, not engine.
    Putting cards in the spokes should make up for the lack of loud chugging( actually a safety feature).

  15. Re:controlling words on Smartphones To Monitor Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    Good psychologists offer therapy for that.

  16. Re:controlling words on Smartphones To Monitor Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    Oh , a little left brain hiccup from time to time never hurt anyone. But it does convince one that the television is watching them, the government is make-believe and the closet has an entrance to hell. Oddly you end up making a lot of left turns doing anything, but the medication is to die for.

  17. Re:controlling words on Smartphones To Monitor Schizophrenics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am doubtful of the smartphones role in this. One must be able to carry the phone without believing it is SPYING on you for the men who want to control you.
    I can see smartphones being discarded or traded and the best laid plans of ex-spurts falling to poo.

  18. Re:Massive conspiracy on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    If I were a Judge connected with this, I would imprison those in charge in general population until such a time as the emails are recovered.
    I suspect they will magically appear, hows that for IT troubleshooting?

  19. Re:um... on Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss · · Score: 1

    Not to worry about Charlie Farr, Ive been banging his wife for two years now and he hasnt detected it. I guess he was too busy reading Facebook.

  20. Re:Can a company patent it? on Century-Old Drug Reverses Signs of Autism In Mice · · Score: 1

    That explains why I see so many so called cures on television , that cause side effects that will in turn send you running to the doctor for more pills. Its a subscription scam, not a prescription cure. Buy your way onto the market by bribing the FDA, thats how we handle medicine here. NOW Omamacare makes complete sense.
    Whata buncha dipshits.

  21. Re:It's the chemicals.. on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its natural because the students are using the darkroom to smoke pot and screw. Film? Yeah, whatever...

  22. Re:Doesn't this already happen? on Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From Its Global Index · · Score: 1

    I dunno what the problem is, most Canadians Ive met are entirely forgettable.
    So far I can only recall Rush, The Trailer Park Boys and the R.C.M.P. without actually having met them.
    When this round is through , we need to pass a law that requires ALL Canadians to wear name tags on their shirts for our convenience.
    France is alright as is; I never even give them a thought or plan to.
    Back in my days of journalism, I recall having to handle the letters section of the magazine and at one point, throwing up my hands and just writing: What are Canada and why do we keep getting letter from it??

  23. Re:Hydraulic fracturing on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 0

    Before you spend a bunch of money on it, just remember, piss runs deep. What grade of water, do you expect to find there?

  24. Re:on behalf of america on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    250 lb. is the new buff!
    Someone shoulda thought of this sooner.

  25. Re:Oh...they have access to better imagery... on US Government OKs Sale of Sharper Satellite Images · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, sharing is just one campaign contribution away, as is anything corporations want to do....
    Jeez, optimists.... no follow through.

    One merely has to ask oneself, how close do I really want to see? There is entirely every chance the image could show me pumping the wife in the back yard.
    Youre never too old to screw like a teenager, youre never too young to accidentally see what older folks look like naked, lol!