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  1. Re:exaflop, zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraf on Cell-based "Roadrunner" Tops Elusive Petaflop Mark · · Score: 0

    Its the same reason NASA has spurred many developments and improvements in the rest of the civilian world. Does this mean that after a certain number of production types they will lose the blueprints and go back to the abacus?
  2. Re:Whats the difference? on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 0

    I think you just defined the Catholic Church by the way...

  3. Re:National governments on Government Efficiency and Network Theory · · Score: 0

    No wonder their food beat the crap out of our POTUS...

  4. catch22 on Spam King Pleads Guilty in Seattle · · Score: 0

    "Indeed, the most serious charge Soloway now faces deals not with spam but with nonelectronic mail fraud stemming from his failure to live up to promises he made regarding his e-mail-marketing software." Let me get this straight, they are charging him with spam fraud and with not properly supporting others that wanted to do the same? So, being a spammer is bad, but being spammer IT is good?

  5. Re:Idea!!! on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 0

    Or, to put it another way (for those who still think the US is doing well in Iraq): Think of terrorism like a vicious, unpredictable animal that wants to attack you. That's easy enough. But there's a twist: it gets stronger every time you shoot at it, bomb it or do anything violent towards it. Why are you still shooting at it? So let us blow up our own buildings until terrorism weakens into non-existence...
  6. Re:I'm using less technology these days on Using Technology to Enhance Humans · · Score: 0

    I do not know about you, but my neighbors need to be upgraded to more interesting models...

  7. Re:New Fantasy on SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks · · Score: 0

    If this guy uses sexually related non-words at the drop of a hat I find it hard to believe that he can claim some random word forgotten by him was not one.

  8. Re:Hmm, so... on Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? · · Score: 0

    You realize of course, that war is in it's modern form is an artificial concept. So, all you are actually saying is that those prone to accepting artificial concepts are more prone to accept yet another artificial concept, and thus not be further damaged by it. In other words, they are already insane and simply have learned to deal with it. So further insanity of the same type has less effect.

  9. Re:If it saves one child .... on UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs · · Score: 0

    Almost all restrictive legislation begins with that catch phrase, "Save the children!" Of course, what effect the stress and constant observation puts on the child later is not important.

  10. no brain? on Does Sprawl Make Us Fat? · · Score: 0

    Always suspect any comment that uses the phrase "no brainer". Hyperbole is most commonly used to support weak logic. In this case the possibility that being raised by overwieght parents might contribute to the odds was an obvious factor that was simply ignored.

  11. Re:I'll bet... on Nobel Prize Winners Live Longer · · Score: 0

    Even if they did not they have the math to prove that they did, indeed, outlive you.

  12. Re:Wrong Way on Expert Wants to Decertify Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 0

    Join the jihad or be throw to the infidel!!!

  13. Re:I don't see them replacing crusie missles on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 0

    Wind? For any wind effect the energy of the wind that strikes the target must be compared to the overall energy of the target. Do you really think that a few miles of hurricane affecting a 3-4 Kg target will offset momenteum on that scale? Maybe a few inches...

  14. Re:Probably sufficient for a first stage. on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 0

    Be great to send supplies to a space station though...

  15. Re:The Price of Industry & Economics on Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation · · Score: 0

    Another reason to be against the Kyoto Accord, it allows just developing industrial revolutions to pump what they want into the atmosphere while limiting the pollution of countries with good pollution controls, insanity.

  16. Re:Problem is... on FDA Decides Cloned Animals Safe to Eat · · Score: 0

    Even "prefect" cloning is not a perfect copy. Genetics after all is simply a blueprint and there is a certain amount of variance determined by the conditions under which the new organism is constructed. Room to grow, density of the supporting fluids, quality and quanity of food supplied, all affect the finished product.

  17. Re:No deer involved on Robotic Deer to Fight Illegal Hunting · · Score: 0

    I am just waiting for the conspiracy nuts to claim that the robotic deer mind control innocents individuals to shoot at them.

  18. Re:Student Dignity on Human Sense of Smell Underestimated · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually it was only $707, after conversion.

  19. Re:New Batteries? on Molecules Manipulated with Lasers · · Score: 0

    ...but batteries already have more life than me.

  20. Re:It is real, look out the window on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 0

    Can we use facts rather than band wagon hyperbole? The fact is nuclear power is a good idea even if the latest end of the world scare turns out to be BS.

  21. Lose? on What Would We Lose From a Regionalized Internet? · · Score: 0

    I have two major problems with this. #1 It is the first step towards censorship. #2 The net is a resource I think of as a way to expand my point of view. While the more culturally removed a source is the less I am likely to read it. By that same token, the more I will learn from it. Therefore, removing 10% of my content is removing 10% of my learning curve. The only other way I could do this is brain damage and I am also opposed to that.

  22. Re:The scorpion and the frog on DRM More Important Than Life or Security? · · Score: 0

    There are just as many bad analogies that can be made to support capitalism. But, the bottom line is that there is good reason that you posted anonomously. Anyone that cannot be bothered to post with reason is unlikely to take the time to register and risk actually having to defend half cooked idea's. The main problem with capitalism in this country is that it is not actually capitalism. It is capitalism fused with half-assed government regulation. Of course government regulation will always be half-assed because the politician is as competent at business as the businessman is competent at politics.

  23. Re:Australian Democrats? on Australian Labor Party Proposes ISP Level Filter · · Score: 1

    American liberals are not liberal either, you want to find American liberals you have to go to the Libertarian party. But then, what is liberal nowadays? It is not a concept handled well by the gradeschool dictionaries available on the net.

  24. Re:Grammar aside... on Rewriting Environmental Science · · Score: 1
    I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius
    I was unaware that Confucius was a kenetic learner.
  25. Re:oliticians, he says, are rewriting the science. on Rewriting Environmental Science · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Keep telling yourself that, and repeat to yourself, "All the trouble in the world is caused by evil republicans". Or anybody else with more money than you I suspect.