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  1. Re:Hmmm.... on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    No, we're talking about pure altitude here. If we're talking about depth by mass outer space would begin under the earth's crust in the outer mantle somewhere.

  2. Re:Um... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    I reject your assertion that such massive tracking data is needed. it has done nothing except piss people off who get on a no-fly list for no good reason whatsoever. In short, our government and the TSA are completely and utterly incompetent and a waste of money.

  3. Re:Artificial Scarcity of Freedom. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1, Interesting

    oh? veterans have fought for our freedom recently? or have they been waging wars of choice against people who did not attack us for the last 60+ years?

  4. Re:Perhaps... on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    wrong, secondary radiation would increase. shielding is done with low atomic number elements for this reason. Sealed lead is nice to have inside the walls of your fallout shelter for blocking gammas, but in space it's protons and heavier lumps of baryons that ruin your day. the showers of all kinds of cool stuff they make when they hit a heavy nucleus are a wonder to behold (yeah, in the visualization software of reconstruction collision from detector output files)

  5. Re:Hmmm.... on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    look it up, certainly space flight yields higher cancer incidence rate. however, we're only talking of 18 miles up with this article, which is not space or even halfway to space.

  6. Re:As a man who currently shaves his head bald on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    those are just Old Hippies, they don't know what to do.

  7. Re:Just think of the uses! on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    have you considered Sasquatch cosplay? or dye the hair green and be an ent. Both have lower costume budget for the cosplayer.

  8. Re:Um... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the crap is between your ears. Rand and co. just say the airlines themselves have a vested interest in their planes being safe so let them handle security arrangements. makes sense to me, what with the TSA being mostly useless dullards

  9. Re:THE virus is a bit of an overstatement on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    so U.S. kids still might have to stop washing their pop tarts down with carbonated high fructose corn syrup?

  10. Re:scarred for life, eh? on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 0

    thank you for those words from a general of a country that can't rule its own territories, on what is happening over a thousand miles from him

    the proof is there, the USA isn't doing it right, it is slaughtering innocents including those who stand in the way of the CIA's narcotics-for-funding program

  11. Re:scarred for life, eh? on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    hey, that sounds like naked people watcher talk. you perv.

  12. Re:I have known about such a clock on Biological Clock Discovered That Measures Ages of Most Human Tissues · · Score: 1

    you are lucky, my white and gray hairs are leaving the mothership and descending to earth. well, it may be some pulled into my head and are growing out my nose and ears.

  13. Re:That's a good thing on Biological Clock Discovered That Measures Ages of Most Human Tissues · · Score: 1

    atoms may not be ageless, there are ongoing experiments looking for proton decay which means no atoms after about 10^40 years. Even barring that there are quantum events of various kinds to evaporate nucliei, the probabilities can be calculated and is about 10^200 years. So all matter, even twinkies, will eventually disappear by current theories.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe

  14. Re:Misprint... on Biological Clock Discovered That Measures Ages of Most Human Tissues · · Score: 1

    first you get the money. then you get the power. then you get the women.

  15. scarred for life, eh? on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 2

    killing innocents by drones and dumping ordinance, also scarring relatives, friends, neighbors, rescuers minds: good. posting video of beheading: bad posting video of breastfeeding, sex, or just being naked: bad

    ok, got it.

  16. Re:black powder??!! on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 1

    uh, the word I used was "sparker" not sparkler, used in a certain type of igniter tube that some big rockets and also some gas-fed turbine generators use

          -- former rocket hobbyist

  17. black powder??!! on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 1

    good grief man, that stuff is unstable, don't use it. There are plenty of ways to ignite LOX and alchohol without explosives. some of the "big boys" use hydrogen and oxygen gases with electrical sparker.

  18. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    my friends and relatives including my wife who went to other countries for major surgery and dental work would disagree with that 40% number

  19. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    last I checked the ACA would be enforced by that large greedy corporation's IRS, guns and all

  20. Re:And, who has the Obamacare ID validation contra on Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service · · Score: 1

    Big corporations have government in their pockets, so they get to tell government they can't do anything right and contracts must be made. The three branches of U.S. government are under the Corporate Branch. It's called corporate fascism.

  21. Re:Muslims on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    I know some fine Christian people who were all for causing hundred of thousands of deaths in Iraq, and a politician in a Jewish Theocracy was told by their President "God told me I should attack Iraq".

  22. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    not true, the $0, there is taxation for it. however, the costs in USA are two or three or more times (depending on who did study) those other first world countries.

  23. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    no, the ACA is designed to increase COSTS on most the working people who already have insurance, and put it into the positive feedback loop of insurancehealtchare provider

    we as patients do know how to evaluate the declining quality of the U.S. system, the ratings and statistic are public information. we are not in the top ten countries with the best healthcare, we pay two or three or more times what the care can be had in other places.

  24. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    Wrong thinking, you don't understand the business. Corporate profits are of no import to the discussion, you the consumer pay COSTS. Lining pockets can be done as COSTS. Let me tell you of former employer, 25% of U.S. claims went through their systems, they were contracted by major insurance companies and much of claims processed automatically, then outlier line items flagged for human review. That is about COSTS, my former employer and every fat cat executive and owner were COSTS.

  25. Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 4, Informative

    hahaha, so all extra money goes into R&D? Guess again, I'll start you with a hint, 30% is "administrative" costs