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  1. Re:This reminds me of something... on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    Mate, if the bleeding hearts really cared about Paco we'd be invading that sham of a county (MX) right now and adding 50 or so more states to the union. Funny how no one cares about the brown people when their government is murdering them.

  2. Re:This reminds me of something... on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    Within weeks of the medical MJ offices opening up (which are documented by LAPD to basically provide drugs with any sham of a prescription) those offices started getting raided by the gangs in L.A.; mainly because they are primarily a cash business. Since you're so happy with the crime rate I suppose you'll be the first to volunteer to replace Bryan Terry's position.

  3. Re:They didn't cave, they where happy to help on MPAA's Dodd Secretly Lobbied For a Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    Yes, you got us. Dodd and his previous sexual assaulting buddy Ted Kennedy were secretly conservatives. Now you may go on with your life.

  4. Re:Is it necessary the vien come from a dead human on Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Sorry no mod points today. +1 This fact of the process does provide hope that donor organs may be a thing of the past. I saw a documentary where whole lungs and hearts were created with this process. It would be interesting if things like liver replacements could be achieved via bone marrow harvesting.

  5. Re:What stem cell could be like without christians on Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I agree. First off we should track down fucksticks like yourself so willing to offer someone else up for the slaughter because we sure as shit do not need you.

  6. Re:disgusting and deplorable on Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old · · Score: 2

    Sorry, I'll never consider you human.

  7. Re:Larry Niven quote on Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is the hidden value criminals possess that Mike Farrell keeps blabbing about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFPWxhvQRY0

  8. Re:My God on UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data · · Score: 0

    Because Congresses of the world all normally write their own legislation. :)

  9. Re:Construction or landscaping on Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker? · · Score: 1

    I've some Irish and I want to take over the Orange soda and KFC, please.

  10. Re:Obama is really serious about global warming... on NRC Chairman Resigns · · Score: 1

    Obviously he believes in two things: AGW is real, and resource use in the US is out of line with the rest of the world and must be reined in.

    I could believe this up until the point where the administration refuses to invest in wind and solar solutions that cannot viably provide the energy needed for the most basic needs of the American populace. Not only invest in it but continually fail due to their inability to comprehend market competition and/or solution oriented systems for most of America. Even Obama's supposed home town of Chicago could never rely on wind or solar to solve any significant percentage of its energy needs due to the low return dependent on climate for those technologies.

    If someone in the current administration believed that AGW was real they would be champions for liquid flouride thorium reactor (LFTR) technologies. Small footprint systems, can burn nuclear waste, cannot meltdown, cannot make weapons-grade elements. I believe that these could be produced for far less than comparable densities of other carbon-free energy technologies. Yet we continue to ignore technology in favor of a politically controlled "public" energy utilities packed with fairly obvious positions of payoff that look to the future by using whatever energy creation method makes them the most money.

  11. Re:What's wrong with Yucca Mountain? on NRC Chairman Resigns · · Score: 1

    It's unfortunate that you believe burying this waste will be sound policy. A better strategy would be using the waste as fuel within a liquid flouride thorium reactor (LFTR). We should have LFTR all over the nation as it is the safest generator of electricity and could solve major problems developed by the poor choices generated by past administrations for nuclear designs.

  12. Re:Heading to a new Dark Age on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    Well then hone those survival skills and stop bitching about it. :)

  13. Re:It's the taxes, stupid on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    I know LA has a huge underused school inventory. I cannot find the LA reference for inclusive district remarks but here's one reflective of Chicago.

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/9693449-418/new-look-at-chicago-school-buildings-finds-half-underused.html
    Updated: January 30, 2012 10:37AM
    Half of all Chicago public schools are underused, based on a new building utilization formula unveiled Wednesday.

  14. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    Sure, an education is a benefit to society. I just don't believe an education is the intent of most of the California schools in my area. When my daughter was in high school they tried to cancel Band and Music Theory for Hip-Hop Dance classes. It took a parent revolt and many many political threats to change the school board's opinion. There were a few more incidents over the four years but let's talk about something even more unreal.

    There's a teacher that tricked kids to eat his sperm over decades in LA and the school board in question found it cheaper to simply give him a retirement than fight to remove him as a teacher for cause.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0201-teacher-20120201,0,5063298.story

    http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/12/local/la-me-cap-pensions-20120213

    All this because of his great union benefits and his contribution to society as a teacher, all of which apparent are more important than 23 felony accounts the State has charged and will convict upon.

  15. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    North Dakota state
    683,932 - Jul 2011

    San Diego County
    3,105,989 - Jul 2010

    California State
    December 21st 2011 - 37,433,255

    Maybe this adds to the issue:
    http://dailytrojan.com/2010/06/01/ca-schools-drop-ball-with-esl-students/
    The study found that almost 60 percent of ESL students in California high schools have not achieved written proficiency in the language, even after six years of a U.S. education.

    Or this:
    http://www.numberof.net/number-of-esl-students-in-us/
    How many ESL students are there in the US?
    About 3.8 million.
    In the 2003-2004 school year, there were 3.8 million students studying English as a second language (ESL) in the U.S. This is according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics. This number represents 11% of all students for the year. Among all U.S. states, California had the most number of ESL students with 1.6 million.

  16. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you do not live in California. What Republican controlled California?

    If you're talking about Arnold his choice, like Bush, basically disproves any conservative leanings and he broke almost every campaign promise while sucking the union teat. Oh, Arnold also raised taxes on every business in California on multiple fronts. Wikipedia (for laughs), "The last state governor registered in the CRP, Arnold Schwarzenegger was also a film actor with ties to Hollywood and moderate, liberal and even Democratic Party members, such as his wife Maria Shriver whose uncle was Robert F. Kennedy, brother of US president John F. Kennedy, and her distant cousin was the recalled state governor Grey Davis in the 2003 gubernatorial recall election". I particularly like, "In its April 2010 report, Progressive ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Schwarzenegger one of 11 "worst governors" in the United States because of various ethics issues throughout Schwarzenegger's term as governor".

    He pardoned a murderers time for blatant political favors, "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used his power to cut nine years off the 16-year manslaughter sentence for Esteban Nuñez, the son of the governor's friend, former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez". http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/14/opinion/la-ed-pardon-20110514

    I've lived half a century and have never seen Republicans gain any majority in the California Assembly. You know, the State Congress. A Governor, especially one that failed completely at every legislative or voter initiative, provides even more evidence that Republicans have never controlled California.

  17. Comparisons to the holodeck on Researchers Create Life-sized 3D Hologram For Videoconferencing · · Score: 1

    "Similar to the Star Trek holodeck". Apparently the Design Engineering Staff has never researched the design of a holodeck. The technologies could not be more different if one tried.

  18. Re:Er, Your Statement and His Don't Quite Mix on 'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You clearly didn't work in the cooling business. To them, they sky WAS falling, and it was falling on them. Until they found a replacement (which was more expensive and less efficient, but legal). Dismantling is a very harsh word.

    And I'm sure if the cooling business had its way, we'd still be arguing about CFCs and have a massive, inexplicable hole.

    Actually, the cooling industry for many enterprise systems was very happy they got to retool entire cooling systems as it made them tons of money.

  19. Re:It's even dumber than that. on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Oh, I thought you were stating this is the positive originally. That's a great reference. Thanks!

    Setting up a pioneer effort in the solar system would be as beneficial (if not more) than every expansion system in humanity's past. If a segment of the population could move high energy physics experiments to space then I believe the benefits and needs produced from that research would be the largest push our species has ever experienced; capable of lasting thousands of years with current technology.

    Satellites alone justify every penny spent on NASA and the space program. I'd volunteer readily for building a real space station or a one-way colonization to Mars, Titan, etc.

  20. Re:It's even dumber than that. on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Citation please.

  21. Re:Who Would Have Thought? on Japan To Be Without Nuclear Power After May 5 · · Score: 1

    ugh, already posted! *****

  22. Re:Who Would Have Thought? on Japan To Be Without Nuclear Power After May 5 · · Score: 1

    ...and that the "accident" was due to piss poor management so fucking greedy that they couldn't perform or mandate proper checks on a reactor that was already far beyond its EOL. Sheesh, might as well blame Bush.

  23. Re:insert picture of exasperated 50's guy on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Taking stuff apart is the trademark of future engineers. How else would you understand how to put it back together?

  24. Re:Multi-trillion dollar oil industry vs... on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    No, the solution is small liquid fluoride thorium reactors staged around all cities.

    Burns nearly 100% of it's fuel. Fuel is more common and cost-effective than any other energy source. Technology (the updated kind, not the Jane Fonda or Japanese kind) for the reactors rated safer than any other energy creation method. Unlike wind power, does not kill 10,000 golden eagles a year and over 500,000 other birds per year world-wide. Uses thorium, more common than tin, mercury, silver, or uranium.

    A cubic foot of the Earth's crust yields four sugar cube-sized chunks of thorium. We throw thorium away are chaff now, all of which could be pulled from the slag piles where we already extracted it from coal

    Replacing the excuses we use for energy centers should be our highest goal. We use too much land, create too much pollution, and allow too many government and union monopolies to maintain the status quo. Instead of creating better engineering we continue to think cap and trade will solve anything.

  25. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you wish society to destroy humans based upon your fantasy. In general, I think society is better where your fantasy is denied and millions of people are not destroyed.