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  1. Re:Ready the Lawyers on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 3

    Revenues from that are pending, meanwhile the bills had to be paid and she didnt want to get money on Hollywood Blvd.
    Dont you PLAN your cash flow?

  2. Re:Who else misread the title as 'exotic hardons' on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, masse accounts of literary Freudian Slip
    Much ado about the thought of erections....
    Verrrrry interesting.........

  3. Re:Ready the Lawyers on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, yeah, funny how money is usually behind being duped in cases like these.
    Mulgrew: I hadnt worked in ages, bill were piling up, thankfully I was duped and made the mortgage payment. I can aways SAY I was duped later.
    Scientists: Well, we needed some money and they said they had Kate Mulgrew. Who has to think about that? She was on Star Trek! Dupe me up, Scotty!

  4. Re:Outrage fatigue on Snowden: NSA Spied On Human Rights Workers · · Score: 0

    Nonsense, Im far from ordinary and I can say that if you rely on the historical hijinx of these organizations pitiful excuses for activism, which include, vandalism, arson, assault, theft and more, watching them is manditory. This is for our protection and theirs. For instance, picture a scenario where activists throw red paint on my leathers outside a theatre. Just some kids, with smart mouths and self righteous attitudes. The first one down with a broken jaw is the one with the paint can, then his boyfriend pays for trying to protect him, then any other interested parties lay bleeding as I wipe the paint from my clothes onto theirs. All without the benefit of calling an ambulance, because I just dont give a shit if they live or die.

  5. Re:Correlation != Causation on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    What have we learned from this, class?
    Do not hide yourself away from society or you can die from something as embarrassing as a common cold.
    Cover your sneezes and coughs, wash your hands frequently.
    Isolate fragile subjects for study so you do not compromise them.
    If the unthinkable should happen, quickly preserve them, pin and label genus, species etc. in latin.

  6. Re:I'm playing the world's smallest violin on Elite Violinists Can't Distinguish Between a Stradivarius and a Modern Violin · · Score: 1

    I only say so because of the years it has taken them to find their peak.
    The logic is; the spruce to the inside of the recurve is initially left thicker than average and the brunt of the tuning of the plates is left in the recurve.
    Over time and use this begins a process of loosening and retightening as juices harden and grain loosens creating new nodal points and peaks in response.
    But first the consideration was on volume from a sturdy instrument, making thin recurves carried the load while the thicker part of plate helped in longitudinal reinforcement while decreasing the need for the tone rib to be quite as large. Not necessarily practical violins, but created for performers, who needed loud in a nice sounding instrument. They were considered nice enough in their contemporary setting to motivate the proper care that can be the attribution for their longevity.
    In the hands of a novice, not likely to address the instrument with aggressive passion, would have initially produced a weak sounding performance. The ability for the centerplate to take this abuse is a hallmark of this kind of plate carving. Therefore, when new, it played like a 2x4. I did not say it sounded or tasted like a 2x4. It played like one that took hundreds of years to break in.

  7. Re:I'm playing the world's smallest violin on Elite Violinists Can't Distinguish Between a Stradivarius and a Modern Violin · · Score: 2

    You can play, The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down for the masse of rubes who just dont get what the story should say.
    Antonio Stradivarius and his shop built wonderful instruments that probably played like 2x4s when new. Time and playing loosened these up at a juncture in time where the lig and sap of the wood coalesced into the perfect density for what is considered premium tonal response. It just happened to be in our lifetime and some of those before us. Come back in 100 years and many of these will have turned into a squawk box like every other violin on the planet and worse. People have to have their fantasies about things like this. Glad I could stomp it down to a more realistic perspective...
    In summary;
    He made good violins then, they sound great now, accidentally, they will not later. Invest at your own risk.

  8. Re:Constitutional Court on U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule On Constitutionality of Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Well, thats the rumour/excuse anyway...

  9. Re:nope! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    Your naiivety show in your lack of knowledge of a real world outside the theoretical universe a text or television feature.

  10. Re:nope! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    Normal, would mean a car engineered to do what it is supposed to do, without the excuse of crippling it with all the post 70s garbage that got attached.
    The goal in the natural evolution of the internal combustion engine as applied to society is not more power at expense of environment as the knee-jerk reactionists would have you believe. The goal has been and always was for efficiency with power. Mans goal for power came first to meet necessity. The next necessity IS efficiency which in turn would have been environmentally sound. The knee-jerk crowd whined en-masse for the sake of the environment without caution for their own needs. In turn, we were rewarded with performance sucking gizmos and slap dash solutions that set evolution back, thus endangering the environment further and infecting autos with scads of crap that grow, removing the abilities of an owner to service his own car and forcing manufacturers to buy cheaper raw materials, use cheaper methods to keep cost competitiveness down, thus exacerbating the problem further. Now, rather than sleek efficient affordable flying hot rods we were going to have by now, we have the BULLSHIT those with your pathetic attitudes deserve.
    Electric is too little , too late.

  11. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember a science based political party from the post Perot era, but I think they scared the Christian demographic.

    (snort) that was not meant to be humor, but I see the irony of my statement, post typing...

  12. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    Then there is the other end of the problem to address; we elect the morons. It would be easy to point out that candidates at the federal level are specialists in money and nothing else, thus eliminating both wings of the Repubmocrat party. Problematically, other parties tend to be focused elsewhere as well, or are promoting some dipshit extreme action that no one can get with.
    We are going to end up with an idiot, no matter what we do.

  13. Re:nope! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    Ever known any acquisition dept. people in the industrial sector?
    I thought not. Cheap is the name of the game. Buy the biggest bulk for the least amount of money. Yes, cheap cameras can work fine...for a small while.
    The side of your car, for years, is not where a cheap camera will live for long and that is where they are going to put them. Why stop with the camera?
    Lets pick on the display as well. We could start a line in Vegas on the life of the backlight.
    Perhaps you are one of the suckered who actually believes there is an auto company out there who is eager to please their customer base with the finest of everything available. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
    In this case, less is more. Mirrors do not require expensive repairs by qualified technicians, give realtime information guaranteed,and dont add significantly to the initial cost of the car. Just because we can, is not a good reason that we should.

  14. Re:nope! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    Without spending over 100k, what cars arent shit? Nothing made in the U.S. Nothing made in the EU. Nothing made in Asia.
    Perhaps you know about some car from an alien race...

  15. Re:nope! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    Then , of course, when you think about it, outside, on a point on the car that receives much vibration from the road as well as turbulence, consumer electronics.
    Not just consumer electronics, CHEAP consumer electronics,vibrating down the road. I estimate replacement will come around the time you make the last car payment.
    Cars quit being cars by 1973, the evolutionary trend is toward crap.

  16. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 0

    It would be a cause of ethical unrest for those facilitating the mission and their role as enablers.
    This however could be overcome if only we would change the word Astronaut to Politician, Prisoner, Tax Collector, Reporter or anyone else in a position of variance to mankind.
    Simply, quit sending Astronauts on dangerous missions and save them for the more domestic work. Send undesirables forth into the void. It is indisputably logical to do so for a plethora of reasons that do not EVEN need discussed.
    Present it to the board and LETS PUT HILLARY ON MARS FOR GOOD!

  17. Re:Medicalizing Normality on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    Youe missing the point (sorry no apostrophe on this machine)
    Science may/may not account for the fact that human beings are fallible dependent on the postive/negative effect it would have on the outcome of the ambition du jour. Since we know even entire schools of thought could fall like limbs, it isnt impossible and is probable on an effective level that in order to save face, family and franchise, arbitrary decisions can be made that would affect future outcomes of the discipline to a warped degree. As an analogy I could offer the mechanics( not the philosophy) of the Catholic Church as an example of the depth to which skewed information can be accepted as part of a closed system, accepted and skewed further over a large period of time and turn out antithetic to its origins. All the while accepted. We could use Politics as an analogy....
    Science will not be above question when we all know everything about everything. Until then it remains a wilderness not far removed from a time when the Church ruled the earth was flat, we used leeches as cures for common maladies,we took the family to watch the mushroom clouds north of Vegas through welding helmets, we thought genetic manipulation was going to help us, and so forth.
    I dont seek to bury science, only to humble it and bring it back out its pornographic daydream. Were still stone age and havent figured out the things that matter, like relieving ourselves of government, feeding ourselves a diet that will promote health, and how to provide for all without taking from anyone.

    And, I am an asshole, but that was never part of this.

  18. Re:Scientists warned of global warming for decades on Geologists Warned of Washington State Mudslides For Decades · · Score: 1

    We could work with Joerg Sprave on an accelerator. https://www.youtube.com/user/J...
    I think German engineering is called for. Kochs just chapped my ass with their so called Citizens for Prosperity campaign against Kansas Wind/Solar power initiative.
    But, then when I pay my utilities, Kochs get richer. Kochs were outed, the initiative didnt change. So....Im guessing Joreg is up to a new challenge...

  19. Re:Blatant conflict of interest on Judge Overrules Samsung Objection To Jury Instructional Video · · Score: 1

    Hes smiling from his position as an iPhone....

  20. Re:Medicalizing Normality on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    Well, lessee, 1 in 600,000 is pretty damn random, so you get no Mentalist award for that . The point is there is no credible scientific evidence because science is not credible, instead it is mutable, malleable and suffers from the same failings as individuals making up the whole. It doesnt take a conspiracy for fuck ups to occur in a majority, let alone a minority. Believe me, Ive heard every bullshit breakthrough to every conspiracy out there for the last 26 years as the numbers climb to epidemic proportions as fuckheads like you type halfbaked crap to half read posts in your half assed attempt to seem smart? sympathetic? knowledgable? Oh, I see youe a wanna be activist.
    What made you think I would come with a head bowed excuse? Excuses are for people like you.
    I dont blame anyone for this sort of behavior. It is par on this course. It is expected.
    I also didnt give any answers, I only pointed out probabilities with the same snide zealousness and cynical vigor that Id bitchslap you across the room with, boy.
    Im bitter and pissy, so eat shit.

  21. Re:Medicalizing Normality on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My son was born autistic, when the rate was 1 in 600,000 , 26 years ago.
    But , of course, it couldnt be anything environmental. Science says the world is a safe place.
    It couldnt be anything wrong with vaccinations. Someone important said it wasnt and of course Medicine knows what it is doing and has all the answers.
    It couldnt be industrial chemicals in the food supply, we have government agencies to watch over us. It couldnt possibly have anything to do with science, politics or policy, those people are infinitely wise and caring and will rescue us with the right answers at the right times.
    Autism is obviously a punishment by God for rejecting Fred Phelps and making fun of liberals.
    It must be magic faeries.
    Yeah, thats the ticket...

  22. Re:Scientists warned of global warming for decades on Geologists Warned of Washington State Mudslides For Decades · · Score: 1

    Wul , what if Yellowstone is pushing? WHut if fracking elswhere is causing a chain reaction that causes politicians to make geologists say stupid things in order to protect investment? In this day of pseudenlighenment science we have observed that facts remain true and untrue until acted on by a news program and then it becomes one or the other and will remain so until the market produces other needs for the industrial sector. This has been proven by firing politicians from an accelerator into a set of slits. Ideas and clothing appear to pass through one slit and feces passes through the other. The results are weighed for matter, anti-matter and it-doesnt-matter. The janitor comes in and mops up the poo.

  23. Re:Other quakes today on 5.1 Earthquake Hits California · · Score: 1

    I think given a few thousand years, those quakes would rock Okiedokey anyway.
    But, lookey here! We got quakes going on everywhere suddenly, as if one action causes a reaction.
    The scientific curiosity displayed as we progress is not unlike the curiosity of a chimp playing with a hand grenade.

  24. Re:Ooh, me, me! on Yahoo May Build Its Own YouTube · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yahoob! Roll a doob, squeeze her boobs, gonna veg on the intertube!
    Hey, lookout , here comes the lube, Microsoft hosting pr0n on a Bling Redtube!
    Out of the grave, here comes it sista, hosting world access TV is Alta Vista.
    Ibeen had to watch more ads, faster dates who masturbate on Iphone webcam.
    They got you hooked, you always look, youve forgotten how to read a book.
    To sit and dream and often wonder, to shit and smell and fart like thunder,
    in your hand a mangled book, those days are gone, dont be mistook.
    For now your droid does all the work and wipes your butt, while you jerk.

  25. Re:"Chinese hackers" on State-Sponsored Hacking Attacks Targeting Top News Organizations · · Score: 1

    Isnt the whole concept sort of akin to breaking into someones house to steal the contents of their toilet?