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  1. Re:How do you prove that they are wrong. on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    Well said. No wonder I don't feel like I fit in with either side.

  2. Re:Education on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    Actually I've never seen a church take a stance on vaccinations, but what I have seen is a political party that believe everything the government does it bad, and since the government thinks they should be vaccinated, that must also be bad.

  3. Re: Superficial stuff on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're hiring for a social media Jon

    Is this some kind of a play on words to indicate doing this makes you a whore looking for "jons"? If so, nice job. If it was just a typo, forget I said anything.

  4. Re:no Facebook on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    Maybe it can be replaced with vapor(ware)

  5. Re:So sad and pathetic on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    Oh, man! I don't know why this isn't modded +5 funny yet, but if I had a point you'd get it!

  6. Re:Yeah, but women want it all on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 2

    And if you demanded any of this, women would be the first to attack you or mock you for it.

    Really? Cuz he just did, and you were literally the first to attack or mock him for it. I assume you're not a woman, but I think that's a reasonable assumption given the context.

  7. Re:You must be looking in the wrong place on The Ephemerality and Reality of the Jetpack · · Score: 2

    GP didn't say they aren't possible, he said they aren't practical.

  8. Re:Wooden chopping boards. on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    They ate our leftovers for most of their history with man.

    FTFY, or at least I hope so.

  9. Re:Cramming 20 commands into one line ... on Wolfram Language Demo Impresses · · Score: 1

    it's a tour de force.

    Great, so now it's filled with rampant abuse of human growth hormones?

  10. Re:A picture is worth a thousand words... on Wolfram Language Demo Impresses · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that 1000 words can succinctly be described by a single picture by simply including those words in the picture.

  11. Re:I'm confused on How An Astronaut Nearly Drowned During a Space Walk · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure what unit of measurement is bigger than a barrel.

    I believe you're looking for a "Library of congress" which is generally agreed to be larger than a barrel.

  12. Re:How DARE you propose NOT to allow this? on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    Hah no, but that's a damned good example!

  13. Re:Why was he pulled over? on Using Handheld Phone GPS While Driving Is Legal In California · · Score: 1

    If he was using a handheld electronic device while driving, then he was driving recklessly.

    Exactly! This is why we should ban all electric razors from use whilst driving! Oh, you were talking about cell phones only? Why? What's the difference?

  14. Re:Still should be hands free on Using Handheld Phone GPS While Driving Is Legal In California · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's an argument to be made that putting it nearer the center of the windshield helps you keep your eyes on the road, whereas putting it off in a corner makes you take your eyes off the road to look at it. Yes, it may block part of your vision beyond the windshield in that spot, but like I said, there's an argument to be made. If there weren't at least two sides to it, it wouldn't be much of an argument now would it?

  15. Re:How DARE you propose NOT to allow this? on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    That and no one makes movies about mad scientists making air conditioners that go crazy and kill everybody.

    Actually I'm pretty sure I saw a really bad movie with a premise very similar to that when I was much younger...

  16. Re:hacker vs hacker on Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Honky vs. Cracker?

  17. Re:How DARE you propose NOT to allow this? on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    I can grab somebody else's children off the street any time I want.

    I think I get what you were going for here, but you came off as a seriously creepy AC by phrasing it this way....

  18. Re:How DARE you propose NOT to allow this? on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    Air conditioning is unnatural, but people don't have a problem with that. In the medical domain, organ transplants are unnatural but people don't generally have problems with that, either. Why do you care so much about this particular procedure and not about all the other "unnatural" things that exist in the everyday life of a human? Why is it okay to transplant an organ, but not a piece of DNA? Doesn't the organ contain DNA?

  19. Re:hacker vs hacker on Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if the submitter meant hacker vs. cracker, given the link they used there.

  20. Re: And in other news... on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    shut the fuck up asshole. we all know english people won't make any efforts to learn french even if the live in france directly. I would be very surprised if a fucken english asshole like you would learn Chinese while living in china. you think you have the right to live in a foreign language in a french country, great. you are the ass hole.

    Pardon your french?

  21. Re:Freebreeze to the rescue on Pine Forest Vapor Particles Can Limit Climate Change · · Score: 1

    AC is right, but not to the degree that is implied. Jan 2014 was the 4th warmest global temp on record, and warmest since 2007. https://www.google.com/search?...

  22. Unneccesary on WV Senator Calls For Ban On All Unregulated Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    I don't see why the government should worry about these cryptocurrencies. As long as they don't back the currency, then the whole market for that currency is "enter at your own risk" and people who decide to use it are (or should be) doing so fully aware of that fact. Regarding it being anonymous, isn't USD cash also anonymous? What's the difference? In fact, probably bitcoin is less anonymous than cash.

    I don't personally like bitcoin and I have no desire nor reason to try to use it, but there's no good reason it should be illegal.

  23. Re:$60 for 100s of hours? on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    Doesn't sound like so bad a deal when you put it that way...

  24. Re:Boost price vs expansion price on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 2

    I guess one has to assume that your Battle.net ID can only associate with one serial number of the expansion.

    Bingo. You can't apply the same expansion to your account twice.

  25. Re:Levelling not the point? on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    the game only really starts once you're levelled [sic] up: before that you're grinding away at the boring tasks because you're incapable of surviving the end-game stuff

    This is partially true. At first, the game is about leveling up. Once you've finished leveling up the game is about getting the best gear for your toon. After you get the best gear, the game is about grinding something out for your buddies or leveling & gearing alts until the next expansion is released. Once the next expansion is released, usually with an increased level cap, you start the whole process over again.

    If you sit back and think about how these games work, there's a really obvious ploy to keep sucking money out of people -- but thinking about it also takes the fun out of it, so if you enjoy these games I recommend you keep not thinking about it.

    Besides, even if it is a ploy to suck money out of people, what EA has done with the Battlefield series is far more egregious, so I don't blame companies like Blizzard for looking for new revenue streams.