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  1. Re:Deception on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Those are both circular arguments, and the second one isn't even T.

  2. SOX on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 1

    Put it on the pile of the other failed "reforms" of the last generation.

  3. Re:Required reading, Modesitt's Forever Hero trilo on Meet The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Video) · · Score: 1

    More amusing than the video, at least.

  4. Re:Gut heave on Meet The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Video) · · Score: 2

    As we would say in the days of C: ++

  5. If you want to do something immoral on Meet The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Video) · · Score: 1

    hire an ethicist. The field exists to hack standing ideologies and find a means to formally comply with restrictions while circumventing the purpose of them.

  6. Re:Why... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Yes life was so much better when 7 year olds worked in factories and people could own people, when bridges collapsed from poor construction, and there were wide spread pandemics because of lack of public health. People just didn't know how good the had it when the powders they bought from druggists could contain rat poison, and mine owners could just shoot workers. Ah, the good old days of unregulated plutocracy.

  7. Re:Why... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Al Qaeda recruits strongly among the more educated members of the society upset with their lack of opportunities in their culture.

  8. Re:Double edge-sword on They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? · · Score: 1

    Yes at the Dilbert school of management they teach that there are no diminishing returns to hours, and that all employees arrive at most :30 before the manager.

  9. Working Smarter is rewarded on They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? · · Score: 1

    by being told to work harder as well.

  10. Re:Why... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Corporations are part of capitalism, and have been integral to it for 150 years.

  11. Re:'mockracy on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 2

    The US is a representative plutocracy.

  12. Re:Religion is compatable with science and has a p on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Because Christians are very bad at policing their own.

  13. Re:Obligitory XKCD on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    There is always a government, it always has power. Libertarianism is the belief that money selects better that elections. We have the plutocracy you want, if you don't like it, perhaps you should re-examine your theory.

  14. Re:What about our evolution creates these people? on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Religious belief is center in a particular lobe of the brain, and as such, evolved for fitness. Rationality is not always a selective advantage, nor is intelligence.

  15. Re:And this... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1
    Corporations and wealthy elites fund religion at a furious pace. There is always a government, the reason many of us are sick to death of the randroids et al, is that they are in a tight alliance with the religious right to first destroy democracy, and then fight over the spoils.

    Or did you miss who the GOP VP nominee is? Clearly Libertarianism is more comfortable in the party of Darwin Denial, than any place else.

  16. Re:Depressing on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    That's categorically untrue.

  17. Re:Even more reason on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1
    It would make it much harder to pack and crack creating safe districts.

    Has the additional benefit of making it more likely to have the winner of the popular vote win the Presidency.

  18. Re:Even more reason on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1
    At which point they will have even less reason to compromise, and more reason to say things just like the rep in the video.

    If you don't pay for government, it will belong to those who do.

  19. Re:Even more reason on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1
    Multiple parties break down into two wings in general, and the coalitions become permanent.

    The problem is the citizenry, it is easier to change people's minds, and then change the government, than the other way around.

  20. Re:Well... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Just because life will go on doesn't mean your life will go on.

  21. Re:This IS Slashdot... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Congress is reproducible, we have elections every 2 years and they keep getting more unpopular.

  22. Re:Why... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 2

    Al Qaeda reads their holy text in the original language.

  23. Re:Why... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 3
    Don't worry you've been voting to have it given to the rich, so soon the government won't be able to do anything to stop them.

    Americans wanted a corrupt plutocracy, they voted for it, and now they are going to get it.

  24. Re:electrion year on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Democracy is the hope that the coalition of the sane out numbers the coalition of the insane, and will not allow their right to vote be taken from them.

  25. Re:how do these people get into these positions? on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Specifically they tenderize it with campaign ads so they can slurp it out with a straw.