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  1. Re:Brings back memories on Breaking Bad's Scientific Consultant On Making Meth and More · · Score: 1

    Damn, I recall being in middle school in the 70s and any kid with the attention span of a cat could make stove top peanut butter.

    But, then, this is the state where the super-smack that killed the junkies in the 80s and the missle silo LSD lab that served the U.S. acid in the 80s & 90s, happened.

    Kinda funny to hear about the silly rituals official people go through ,when graduate students with a budget and lab equipment go wild, then every other Billy Bob in the county, steals copper to buy enough ephedrine and various flammable Hazmat to keep his family in meth for the week.

    Its a bitch when you jump through hoops and they hula-hoop.

  2. Re:VAC on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    A breakdown of the situation in a meta-view shows us that cheaters suffer from feelings of insignificance, they feel socially outcast due to some aspect of life they fall short of. This eventually leads to full blown erectile dysfunction. Symbolically, they cannot get it up for the game and participate as the skilled do, so cheats are substituted as a kind of VIAGRA in order to mimic virility. This is sad in the case of female cheats who could avoid the problem entirely by stopping their diet of cookies and chips, getting off their fat asses and doing some excercise instead of substituting video games for interaction with males.
    The problem of cheats is purely psychological.

  3. Re:Efficiency? on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    In their hurry to generate too much excitement and raise investors they neglected to convert the statement: Toyota's test units are only 10 kW (13 horsepower), a pair of them can still produce enough electricity for a Yaris- or Corolla-sized vehicle to cruise on the highway at 75 mph." into a more saleable; Toyota's test units are only 100 kW (130 horsepower), a pair of them can still produce enough electricity for a Yaris- or Corolla-sized vehicle to cruise on the highway at 750 mph."
    Conservatism has no place in advertising...

  4. Re:What this means? on 13th Century Multiverse Theory Unearthed · · Score: 1

    Lost in my consideration of Fromunda cheese,(the baddest cheese) my mind wandered to Mandelbrots functions to find the mathematics representing iterations of is,probably, and possibly; relative to a meta-view of any multiple realities finite thought might presume. There I found the usual assortment of grandfathered theories; existential to their reckoning, alongside those not heard and those to come. Mandelbrots math anticipates further iterations that you could fill in the blank for, with anything, if you really feel you must reverse engineer to proofs. But why bother? If you can extrapolate the math, you can spider the network for all theories and find their place in an artificial multiverse that exists and does not exist dependent on how dark the cheese smells. Probably wind up as a GNU program to graphically dive into iterations of existence on upcoming iterations of Android.

  5. Re:BTW! on Hulu Blocks VPN Users · · Score: 2

    "Hulu hasn't even implemented SSL on its site."

              SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Damn, keep your mouth shut!
    Man, I can"t take you anywhere!

  6. Re:Memes on Algorithm Distinguishes Memes From Ordinary Information · · Score: 1

    Bunny memes replicate once a month...

  7. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 1

    Damn, my tax dollars are screaming those lazy bastards need to be required to do something besides get fatter and more flatulent!
    I need more damn permissions, screw them!

  8. Re:Premature much on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    If history is any indicator, there will be a patch out for that...

  9. Re:Premature much on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Im a bit curious about this fear of DRM nonsense. Wouldnt copy/paste layers into a new CAD file or changing the design minimally forego the nonsense?

  10. Re:Premature much on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Not to worry, 3D printing will remain a geeks domain. Dont overestimate J.Q. Publics inability to comprehend instructions over a page long.
    Probably for the best that not EVERY home will have a printer putting more plastic garbage in the dumps after a short lifecycle.
    At best this will probably boost other mfg. methods like CAM, casting , woodworking, fiberglassing etc. once the natural evolution of makerdom catches fire.
    Printing plastic is fine for hard to obtain parts, but will never replace other methods and other materials.
    Ill hold my breath and wait for a printer that handles 7075 aluminum as more necessary for my applications. ...plastic, jeez...

  11. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To be clear, once the FTC would approve this, it would knock over the first domino to this in ANY state. Last time I looked, the Fed is Constitutionally required to regulate trade between the states. This isnt going to be a matter of states rights and wont be their decision.

  12. Re:Silver lining on Panel Says U.S. Not Ready For Inevitable Arctic Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    How about the inevitability that volcanic activity will happen near or in an oil field?
    How about the inevitablility that fracking will make scientists lie for money?
    How about the inevitability that one day global warming will cause our highways to leech petrol products into the water supply as the roads turn to goo?
    How about the inevitability that penguins will rule the world when we have destroyed ourselves by our trust in science?
    How about a beer? Its noon somewhere and Ive run out of milk for cereal.

  13. Re: "Please work for us!" on Skilled Manual Labor Critical To US STEM Dominance · · Score: 1

    Around the world, money may vary.
    Here welders are in such demand $16-20 hr., fresh out of Vo-Tech is the norm.

  14. Re:"Please work for us!" on Skilled Manual Labor Critical To US STEM Dominance · · Score: 1

    If you believe a $16-20 an hour welder makes $150,000 a year straight out of Vo-Tech, you are never going to make $16-20 an hour.
    Lets clear this mess up for the newsclown who wrote it and put that a little closer to UNDER WATER WELDER makes closer to a million a year in hazard pay for offshore oil and cargo ships.

  15. Re:Bad... on Parents' Privacy Concerns Kill 'Personalized Learning' Initiative · · Score: 1

    Sit down son, Ill dismiss thoughts from fools based on my experience and observation. This includes dipshits like you spouting lefty regurgitation without a thought as to what you are saying. I notice you were too squeamish to do this with your account. Why should I take you seriously at all? Are you afraid you might get modded down for your silly tantrum? You may even feel silly to find that I am not right wing. I just live in a REAL world where children are undereducated by spoiled fuckheads more concerned about their own quality of life than doing their job, in a country that puts more into education and gets less out of it than anywhere in the world. We are on the bottom and it is dipshits like you that keep us there.

    Shortage or not, it may be time to separate the teachers from the slackers. Unions may work for teachers, but the power of the union works against the children for whom the schools are about. Unions add unnecessary costs to goods and services and contribute significantly to inflation. Most of us work jobs in which we are hired and work AT WILL. Do you know what that means? It means we have to do our jobs and be satisfactory workers or we lose our job. Consequently, we do a good job and care. Not so with Union babies, there is always the promise of litigation adding to already overrun costs, quality goes down, in this case it affects childrens education. Tenure is too stupid to discuss.

    If you do not like working a teaching job with no more security than the majority of the population, perhaps you should have realized that teaching probably is not the easy cop out job you thought it was. You cant foist the problem off on curriculum as being too hard for students, we have the mushiest curriculum in the world thanks to the Teachers associations, who actually have a say.

            Adopting the older methods of teaching ensures children will get a superior education to the ones you an I had. If you cannot grasp that, there is no reason to create a cartoon scenario to cover your ignorance as in your post. Our grandparents and even parents had FAR more knowledge pumped into their skulls than the current situation is even prepared to do. They also had discipline and virtually no violence. Troublemakers were even expelled from public school and LEFT BEHIND, which is alright, because the world always needs cheap manual labor and no drag on the students who WILL learn and cooperate with educational programs. Slow students were held back to try again to learn required material, this wasnt a social issue, it was an educational issue. We didnt sacrifice the students who WANTED an education to lighten the load for some future gangbanger and improve statistics for newsmedia and other liars. We used to educate.

    Perhaps you should review your feeble spew and quit imagining you know anything about the world. You only seem to know what youre told to say by your peers.

  16. Re:Not what the masses want. on Google's Project Ara Could Bring PC-Like Hardware Ecosystem To Phones · · Score: 1

    Historically speaking, you will find your premise off base.
    It relys on a childlike belief, like Santa Claus or the Easter bunny, that actual support exists beyond the pimply teen behind the counter.
    This fallacy is furthered by the presence of purported service phone numbers given you in order to dupe you into not wasting aforementioned teens time.
    Here behind the number you will find an intricate time wasting system meant to direct you to eventually purchasing a new (or more) phone, manned by only a computer loaded with elevator music and ads, and an autistic janitor pretending he can help. Actually returning your phone will add all your personal info to a database run by a Romany dwarf and will also be used to entertain anyone working at the warehouse. This will only get you a new phone, that happens to be someone elses old phone, cleaned up and repackaged so you can act as a return tester, thus saving the phone company time and money.
    Once again, thanks for playing , see you next time......

  17. Re:re; You Should? on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 2

    FIRST, we need to eliminate the premise put forward by Newsclowns (AP) , as obvious filler, that Americans do not accept scientific fact.
    In every link in the story I clicked , the premise is fueled by an apparent inability to distinguish between fact and theory. Further, the Newsclowns story was manipulated by a concrete inability to distinguish the meanings of words like; think, feel, believe and know, all separate entities with distinct meanings of their own.
    While this is fine for making money, selling time wasting nonsensical filler to daily publications, its taxonomy needs relegated to association with tabloid print, like The Enquirer, The Globe and Weekly World News, all available at your grocers checkout....

    The real fun begins by reading below, to see how many science motivated people give it serious consideration or possibly even argue FOR this article on grounds that it is true, relevant, noteworthy or anything except pure garbage filler. THEN we can extrapolate the state of belief present in the science community. After all, who could give a damn what a misinformed public thinks?

  18. Re:Bad... on Parents' Privacy Concerns Kill 'Personalized Learning' Initiative · · Score: 1, Troll

    Spoken like a clueless teen, right down to the diction.In your case , you are probably right.
    The rest of the world recalls what works and what doesnt. The newer ways, tailored to fit the convenience of teachers, board , the few liberal parents and now a data collection scam dressed as a Gates Charity, do not work, did not work and will not work. Bringing the focus back to the student, adopting the ways of schools from the 1930s to the 1950s and only updating newer facts for texts is going to be THE SOLUTION. Dont forget, eliminate unions and tenure, relax the need for teaching degrees and allow degrees from other fields to teach, then we will get somewhere besides the worst schools in the world.

  19. Re:Forced them on Scammers Lower Comcast Bills, Get Jail Time · · Score: 2

    Ahhh, takes me back to the days when we would just climb the pole and hook ourselves up. It would take 6 months or so till we got a postcard saying that we had cable and we should pay for it or they would unhook it. Then it would take another 6 months for them to unhook it. Mind you , this was LONG before the days of internet. Showtime could be had if someone stole an inline dongle, hooked right up between the coax and t.v. We didnt even necessarily need a cable box if the t.v. had individual tuning for each channel. Just tune in your favorite channels and there it was. Cable boxes had an on/off switch and a rotary knob to select channels.
    Makes me recall that FOX used to have at least one nude scene a night on t.v. ....damn Im old....

  20. Re:Something wrong at the foundation - on Oklahoma Moves To Discourage Solar and Wind Power · · Score: 1

    OH its probably just the damn Koch bros., again. Probably aired their Citizens for Prosperity ads like they just did in Kansas to sooth the savage Billy Bobs. Kansas didnt buy it.
    So they bought some Okie politicians. Big surprise, they didnt buy enough Kansas stooges. Wouldnt surprise me a bit to find Kochs are heavily invested in energy outside their home state.
    Just waiting for some slobbering fanboy to come along and say what good Libertarians the Kochs are and how they go to church on Sunday, and send the paperboy a gift on Christmas, and help old ladies across the street, etc....
    Theyre rich businessmen, they doll up their public image every time they get shit on their face, which is often. By often, I mean every timeI see them on the news, less the charitable events. I wanted to like them, I used to like them, but far too much crap has happened on their behalf and far too little good emanates from them.
    This latest Citizens for Prosperity garbage to kill the Wind/Solar initiative in Kansas was the last damn straw. Gosh, they made it sound as if it were bad for THEM to lose the money I keep paying for electricity and I wasnt a good American if I harvested my own. Well, if thats a Libertarian, well just fuck them hard.

  21. Re:obamacare says "no way" on $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand · · Score: 1

    The Kochs vote libertarian, maybe, probably not. They DO put up a front anyway.
    Did you get a load of their Citizens for Prosperity extreme right ads protecting their investment in energy? Guess not.
    Sayyyyy, didnt I bang your mom?

  22. Re:Learning Golf While Young on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 1

    Dont laugh, I could sell Disney on this...

  23. Re:obamacare says "no way" on $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand · · Score: 1

    95% corporate, 3% R&D, 2% all other

  24. Re:obamacare says "no way" on $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All in all, we should put money into 3D printing and regulate the medical industry like the criminals they are.
    BUT, be prepared for the Koch bros. to try to stifle that like they did when the govt. presented solar/wind initiatives. Kochs got money in medicine too, surprise ,surprise.

  25. Re:Learning Golf While Young on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have given much consideration to golf over the years. My experiences include; nearly having my windshield taken out driving down a city street and evolving my own golf game, played from my car, in which I wait till I see someone putting or driving and honk my car horn just in time to fuck up their shot.I went to a driving range once and put my back out of alignment on a bucket of balls. NO LOVE!

              It has occurred to me that the sissy ass game of golf neednt waste so much real estate on a dying form. Merely create a hybrid sport to bring the masses in and make the greenskeeper earn his damn money. I propose ACTION GOLF: No clubs, instead, you are equipped with a potato gun and a can of hairspray. Helmets will be worn, FORE! will be shouted into a bullhorn, previous to any shot. Any discrepancies in score or disagreements will result in a round of fire based on the paintball sport. This is now a game for Vikings, not old men! Putters will be reminded that the hole already exists and creating your own through gunfire doesnt count.
    PLAY GOLF!