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  1. Re:This is news? on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is solipsistic in here, but it I'm pretty sure it's just me.

  2. Re:Comic Book Science on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    Why is the parent modded -1? Until the Multiverse theory is actually experimentally verifiable, then it remains a "fill-in-the-gaps" theory just like ID is, and is worthy of the same criticism.

  3. Re:Again on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    I could swear...

    Could you? And to what? God? The Multiverse?

  4. Good one... on Fewer Shuffles Suffice · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We're all enthusiastic," Diaconis says, "because you can describe it to your mom, the math is hard, and the results are interesting."

    RTFA just for it to turn out to be a Your-Mom joke. Thanks guys. You really got me.

  5. Only 16 accidents? on Oklahoma Ambulances Debut Sirens That You Can Feel · · Score: 1
    from TFA:

    So far this year, EMSA vehicles have been involved in 16 intersection accidents, typically caused by an unyielding driver. Fifteen of those times, the ambulances were on a call, said EMSA spokeswoman Tina Wells.

    16 in a year is nothing. If the Howler is as loud as they say, watch this number go up as motorists cover their ears or have heart attacks while driving.

  6. Expanded to the general case... on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    Government regulations create a terribly restrictive atmosphere for people who do __________ as a (hobby/profession).

  7. Re:Horrors!! Being positive causes positive covera on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    I agree with Bill Maher. Not every story has two sides.

    The story has more than two sides. Where were the third party candidates ever mentioned in media coverage?

    would get as much positive press as a smooth campaign by two qualified candidates running on a platform of

    • equitable economic policy,
    • ethical government that leaves people free to make their own religious choices
    • the return of the USA to the community of nations

    The candidate you describe sounds like Bob Barr to me, and also like Ron Paul while he was still running, but where did the media coverage go for their side of the story? The American Presidential race has been and will continue to be a popularity tug-of-war between the lesser of two evils until the debate is actually opened up to more than two barely distinguishable viewpoints.

  8. Re:Tell us something we don't know on Doctorow On Copyright Reform & Culture · · Score: 1

    Which would be illegal, considering the bottom of the locusmag homepage clearly says: (c) 1997-2008 by Locus Publications. All rights reserved.

  9. Re:Italy, eh? on Four Google Officials Facing Charges In Italy For Errant Video · · Score: 1

    In the sense of Machiavelli's "The Prince", perhaps; in the sense of Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy", not so much. The dude gets a pretty bad wrap over the former, which is largely contradicted by the latter.

  10. Re:Windfall profits on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Yes, I believe you're right. Following that though, if the rebate provides the relief it is supposed to, the increased demand should trigger a rise in prices as per the allowance of the market, shouldn't it?

  11. Re:Windfall profits on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Is there a reason why oil companies won't raise prices in order to transfer some or all of the cost of the Windfall Profits Tax to consumers?

  12. Re:That's why I'm in I.T. on Pentagon Wants Screenplays From Scientists · · Score: 1

    I know I got involved in C.S. over this one. And I am... well... just a little bit disappointed thus far.

  13. Re:toRRRents? on The Commercial Future of Torrrents · · Score: 1

    Torrrents: They're Grrreat!

  14. Re:Apple Innovates Again on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's only one key short of being a Hawaiian-language compatible keyboard!

  15. Re:Finally on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 2, Funny

    I couldn't count how many Windows users I've had this conversation with:

    "Ok, right-click on that."
    "Do what?"
    "Right-click... you know click with the OTHER button - the one on the RIGHT"
    "Huh??"

    Of course... even that's a more enjoyable experience than habitually right-clicking with a Mac mouse, only to realize that my efforts are in vain and that I have to hunt down that pesky pretzel key and tie my hand in some sort of apple-command-shift knot just for one mouse click :-P

  16. ooh - I know! on Planet X Larger Than Pluto? · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about Vista? That has such a nice ring to it :-)