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  1. Re:Wow. on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    "I ain't never went to college."-- John Knolls

    Isaac Asimov wrote at an eighth grade level. Kentucky is smart to do this, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities need health care, too. The simpler and easier to use they make it, the better.

  2. Re:There is no Magic Energy Fairy on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't cry if the coal companies went out of business, coal is nasty stuff. CO2 is the least of its problems.

  3. Re:Political party loyalty is foolish ... on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Yep, the Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Constitution party were on enough ballots to win. The are about fifty more parties who mathematically have no chance, but those 3 could win if the corporate media let them.

  4. Re:Wat on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 1

    There are all kinds here, cops (any time you see a cop referred as an "LEO" you know it's a cop because that's Low Earth Orbit to us), firefighters, pilots, and it seems that lately there are an awful lot of greengrocers. Hell Will Wheaton has a slashdot account and posts sometimes, he's an actor.

  5. Re:Thank you to the submitter on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 1

    I've been using EAC on the XP box. I want to nuke Windows on that machine and put kubuntu on it.

  6. Re:Corrective lenses adaptation? on Improved Image Quality For HMDs Like Oculus Rift · · Score: 1

    There's a little lens flare in the CrystaLens, too, but not enough to matter. Oh, and you spelled "lasik" right.

  7. Re:Your hypocricy is astonishing. on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile - Chicago has the highest death toll by handguns in the WORLD. Imagine that. You won't address those statistics, will you?

    Ah, but They do. They blame the NRA for the violence in Chicago, believe it or not (link is to a political cartoon).

  8. Re:Would have walked away? on Dream Chaser Damaged In Landing Accident At Edwards AFB · · Score: 2

    do they ground military aircraft like they do commercial ones?

    Yes, when I was in the USAF they often grounded whole fleets. The C5As were out of service for a few months after a piece of equipment used to service the tail fell over and killed a guy. Unlike civilian planes, when military planes get grounded it seldom makes the news.

  9. Re:Political party loyalty is foolish ... on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Where are the moderators?? You are SO offtopic. STFU and GTFO.

    And mod me down, too.

  10. Re:Political party loyalty is foolish ... on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Both main parties are almost entirely corrupt; people shouldn't vote for either.

    Either? In the last election there were 5 parties on enough ballots to win. You have friends and relatives who smoke pot, why are you voting for people who want them in jail?

  11. Re:Really? on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    If AGW really is the ONE TRUE WAY then I'm sure one more study won't change that.
    You aren't worried are you?

    No, I doubt I'll be alive 50 years from now, it won't bother me. But "me" is the least of my worries.

  12. Re:Really? on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    They should be taken out and shot.

    Rational much?

  13. Re:Past all the heiressy on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    I think you've misunderstood the GP. And, uh, I think the GP did, too.

  14. Re:Governor Appointed on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with that, you selfish prick.

  15. Re:Governor Appointed on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    [citation needed]

    </shooting fish in a barrel>

  16. Re:Governor Appointed on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1, Interesting

    52% of Republicans believe in creationism in a recent Gallup poll, as opposed to 34% of Democrats (still shocking). Having a majority membership of a major political party has given religious ideologues political influence they haven't enjoyed since the 1920s.

    Any numbers about "creationism" are meaningless because nobody agrees what "creationism" is. 2/3rds of the world's population believe in a creator, so what? Are they all "creationists"?

    Your atheistic troll is offtopic and offensive. However, I do forgive you for it.

  17. Re:Governor Appointed on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Think about that for a second, Sheldon.

  18. Re:Governor Appointed on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

    I see that as a good thing. Some research is incredibly expensive, and I'd like to see everything studied.

  19. Re:So what should the family do? on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 2

    Having said that, getting a macroscopic mass to 1/3 the speed of light is currently impossible. Well, at least when considered from the frame of reference in which it originally was at rest.

    Where are the mods? +5 insightful. Note: currently impossible. Look at how primitive things were just half a century ago.

  20. Re:So what should the family do? on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 1

    Specism, not racism.

  21. Re:So what should the family do? on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    True, but in any scenario at all this is about what would happen to his corpse.

  22. Re:How do you see the entagled pair at the EH? on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 1

    This doesn't have anything to do with telescopic observation, this has to do with math.

  23. Re:Except that black hole "firewalls" don't exist on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 0

    Oh,for mod points...

  24. Re:Firewall? on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 1

    I think if you're falling into a black hole you're not going to be worrying about that.

  25. Re:Spaghetti on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 1

    You beat me to it, the tidal effects would tear you apart. You can shield radiation, you can't shield gravity.