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  1. Re:And so... on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 0

    oh man, you got that right.

  2. Re:Illegal, Not Undocumented. on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 0

    poor people don't have the resources for "legal" Once across they are quickly exploited as cheap labor. I heard of a man in Hermiston Oregon, hispanic no less, that hired undocumented workers for a 2 week harvest job. They were to be paid upon completion He called immigration and had them picked up 2 days before payday. If you don't see anything wrong with that there is no hope for you..

  3. Re:Personally on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 0

    oh, and all I have is a high school diploma and they all had college degrees. Too sad for words.

  4. Re:Personally on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 0

    too bad you can't get an education in the US. My boss had me write all the test reports, test procedures and test proposals in my building- because he had to. My co-workers wrote very poorly thanks to their shite education. My education was old school in rural Montana. That's gone too. Isn't progress wonderful?

  5. Re:The Problem on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 0

    It has happened before.

  6. Re:interesting question on Black Death Predated 'Small World' Effect, Say Network Theorists · · Score: 0

    How fast do you think this silk moved across Europe?

    20 miles a day by organized transport

  7. Re:Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 0

    I say that sending your child to public school is akin to child abuse.

    very very true. George Carlin summed it up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0 very succinctly. Public school is for indoctrination, not education.

  8. Re:CARL SAGAN ROLLING IN GRAVE !! on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 0

    Didn't you mean there are more stars in the universe than there are atoms in our galaxy?

  9. Re:Corporations on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 0

    How much electricity would it take to electrolyze 1 meter of water? The hydrogen would be swept away by the solar wind and an atmosphere of 30% oxygen would be lovely.

  10. Re: I suspect he's wrong. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 0

    the technology needs some maturation and the best way to do that would be to move into space. Eros has been sampled and it is said to contain more gold than mankind has discovered so far on Earth. Perhaps termiting Eros and turning it into housing would be good because the materials excavated could pay for it. A city in space would be a good start.

  11. Re:Free speech on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 0

    that's why DDT is great. It almost eradicated bed bugs. It should be made available to exterminators. It got banned because farmers sprayed with it- it was everywhere. should have been saved for lice, bed bugs, etc.

  12. Re:so who to blame , wallst or govt or fiat money? on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 0

    Maybe it was all the nuke testing done on the planet, seriously, 500+ nukes in the air and orbit and underground, cant be healthy can it.

    Ah, there's that phrase I love: can't be healthy/good for you. It seems every time I hear or see that phrase, it's someone who doesn't really quite know what they are talking about and just has a hypothesis from their gut. They want to say it's bad for you, but have absolutely no evidence of that, so they just say it can't be good.

    just what would constitute evidence for you? infant mortality? cancer rate? a signed confession?

  13. Re:What problem on Bill Gates Seeking Patent To Make Shakespeare Less Boring · · Score: 0

    You know stupid the average guy is? Well, half of the people are even more stupid.

  14. Re:Out of Body? on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 0

    I believe quite the opposite. The evidence is overwhelming.

  15. Re:Out of Body? on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 0

    A vivid hallucinatory reconstruction of events based on memory fragments, audible perception and accounts later recounted by other observers. Not much different than an advanced sensation of deja vu. It may even be stimulated by this period of mental hyperactivity.

    A nice theory but the compiled testimony reveals you aren't even close.

  16. E. Coli on Echeria Coli Co-Opted To Make Gasoline · · Score: 1

    They are the last bug you shouild play with since they have a common relationship with man. A bug making petrol in you gut would be very very bad.

  17. million years? on 8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives · · Score: 1

    I cant keep meat in my freezer for more than 6 months

  18. Re:Interesting, but not new on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    Skelton has demonstrated a super cap which has been used to start diesel trucks in Alaska. Lead acid is poor at low temps. Super cap is lower impedance and doesnt suffer from chemical losses as is electrostatic. Charge time is vastly superior to lead acid. lead acid only occupies 60% of the volume per watthour but supercap has advantage in weight dept. Been around for a couple of years but oddly few know of it.

  19. Re:cost of fuel on Kids Build Soybean Fueled Sports Car · · Score: 1

    The cost of the chemicals to turn veggy oil into fuel is about 35 cents per gallon of fuel. A thorough discussion of the process and sources is on the biofuels list accessible through the journeytoforever.org website - all the info and analysis is there and is FREE.

  20. Re:I beg to differ on Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads · · Score: 1

    I don't know about leukemia but a mouse study using mammary tumor in mice was 97% successful attaining a cure using cesium chloride. Never has gotten past university studies. As for the attachment isn't that how pregnancy starts?

  21. Re:Is this a good thing? on India Hits Back in 'Bio-Piracy' Battle · · Score: 1

    That is why cesium chloride is not used to treat cancer - it can't be patented. The gvt should pay the 800 million for the trials. University tests had a 97% cure rate for cancer in the mouse trials. Medicine in the US is mostly about money.

  22. They are getting better on Online Scammers Go Spear-Phishing · · Score: 1

    I just got an email from "EBay" (yeh, sure) that said they would add $20 to my account for taking a short survey. After the survey they ask for your credit card "so they can make the deposit". If it were real they would deposit to your PayPal registered at Ebay. I also got a letter from Canada telling me I had won $95,000 and enclosed was a check on an Illinois bank for a Minnesota company that ostensibly was for the tax I need to pay to release the 95. I think they call this a 419 scam if I remember rightly. Check bounces and you are out the $1900 you paid the "taxes" with. Very psychological but I know if it seems to be too good to be true ... well it for sure is. I called the sheriff but they told me attempted fraud is not a crime - I actually have to be defrauded before they get involved. If that isn't the stupidest thing I ever heard I don't know what is. A genuine WTF.

  23. Re:No, another example of cut and paste... on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    Absolutely right. Another English major trying to write a science story. BTW the cheapest water heater I ever saw was a bright idea from Magnavox. The resistor was the water itself except in areas of high mineralization the conductivity was too good and the product acquired the nickname of "Magna blow" as it would blow fuses instead of working as planned. It was, of course, recalled.

  24. Re:Lap Top vs Table Top on Get Ready For The 20-inch Laptop · · Score: 1

    A portable desk top is ideal for me. A screen large enough to display complete pages of a book is wonderful. Scrolling sucks. Just tap your mouse and the page turns. Fantastic! There are a lot more people using notebooks as portable readers every day and the large display will accelerate it. A bit more room for the components doesn't hurt either. Very dense is often a thermal problem.

  25. Re:it does work on Archimedes Death Ray in San Francisco · · Score: 1

    It does not have to be within a few feet. Look at the spacing of mirror and target in the tower of power for chrissake!