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  1. Re:Politics/Science on Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    THey're not all equally valid from a Utiliarian point of view. I know it's a Christian saying, but it really is the basis of science. Judge them by what they've produced. From a purely utilitarian point of view believing in Jesus kicks any other belief system's butt. Of course, you're going to next argue for a relativistic utlitiarianism where you get to pick which utilities are better.

  2. Re:Why can't private firms research stem cells? on Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    You say you would rather spend the money now but then claim that no one else would. Invest that tenth of a cent into the company that finds your miracle cure and you'll be a billionaire. But you don't mean "your" tenth of a cent, you mean "my" billions of dollars. It was just a little pronounce obfuscation and misestimation. I understand now... you're a thief and a quack.

  3. Re:Politics out of science? what about religion? on Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The difference is that people like you have a strange religious superstition that rats and trees and amoebas are gods of some sort, but that human beings are demons. You've got a silly notion of right and wrong, and while denying the label of "sentience" to any human being that disagrees with your cult leaders who have you brainwashed, you blithey acknowledge not only the sentience but the moral superiority of a piece of dirt. While your own stupidity and lack of self-will makes a case that some dumb animals could have higher IQs than some humans, I don't presume to judge them. Who knows, tomorrow you may evolve into a greater level of sentience than that rat you ignorantly worship.

  4. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    ooh oooh! This is sooooo maintainable and enterprise! class StaticContainerAroundMyVariableImpl implements StaticContainerAroundAVariable { public static Enum YES_NO_ORMAYBE{"one", "two", 5}; private TertiaryTypeOfObject theNameOfMyVariable; private StaticContainerAroundMyVariableImpl singleton = null; public TertiaryTypeOfObject getTheNameOfMyVariable() { return theNameOfMyVariable; } public void setTheNameOfMyVarliable(FooTypeOfObject theNameOfMyVariable) { this.theNameOfMyVariable = theNameOfMyVariable } public TertiaryTypeOfObject TertiaryTypeOfObjectFactory() { if (this.singleton != null) { this.singleton = new StaticContainerAroundMyVariableImpl(); } return singleton; } public TertiaryTypeOfObject TertiaryTypeOfObjectFactory(boolean true_orFalse) { if (this.singleton != null) { singleton = new StaticContainerAroundMyVariableImpl(); singleton.setTheNameOfMyVariable(StaticContainerAroundMyVariableImpl.translateBooleanToEnum(true_orFalse)); } else { singleton.setTheNameOfMyVariable(5); return singleton; } protected String translateBooleanToEnum(boolean true_orFalse) { try{ switch(valueof(true_orFalse)) { case true: singleton.setTheNameOfMyVariable(YES_NO_ORMAYBE.one); break; case false: singleton.setTheNameOfMyVariable(YES_NO_ORMAYBE.two); break; } } catch (Exception e) { singleton.setTheNameOfMyVariable(YES_NO_ORMAYBE.5); } } } public class DoMaybe { public static void Main(String[] args) { TertiaryObject maybe = (TertiaryObject); StaticContainerAroundMyVariableImpl.TertiaryTypeOfObjectFactory("maybe"); } } Okay, I give up. yes_no_ormaybe = 3;

  5. Re:2010? Sigh... on World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California · · Score: 1

    There aren't many lizards or plants or even bacteria in a desert either. Compared to anywhere else, the desert is deserted, not just by humans, but by all other life.

  6. Re:I have a better idea. on World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California · · Score: 1

    McDonalds, H&R Block, Whole Foods, and Nintendo all have "negative external costs".

  7. Re:Nuke Plants More Dense on World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California · · Score: 1

    New Zealand refusing to use nuclear energy is a lot like Greenland forbidding Freon-based A/C units in buildings over 50 stories high made out of carbon fiber with artificial saphhire windows. They don't need it, and couldn't build it if they did. There was a fox who didn't like grapes...

  8. Re:Cambrian Explosion of alternative energy techni on Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water · · Score: 1

    Except the only difference is now you have millions of high school kids that understand steam engines, combustion, solar and wind power, nuclear reactions, electricity, thermodynamics, mechanics, and even photosynthesis. The laws of physics aren't a little understood mystery yet to be harnessed, they're common knowledge applied everyday to engineering problems.

  9. Re:What's so funny about an illegal war? on Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA · · Score: 1

    Well, South Ossetia de facto no longer sovereign since Saakashvili imposed Georgian sovereingty a few days ago. So the Russians invaded de facto (and de jure) Georgian territory. And weren't these people being genocided supposedly Russians -- are you claiming Russians have been genocided? You, sir, are a fucking idiot. And a twit.

  10. Re:Subversion is so 2007! on Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion? · · Score: 1

    This is the one post that convinced me to give distributed VCS a try. And we don't even have long builds! But being able to branch for integration tests is a great idea, which would be unworkable, unless, as you say, we use "merge" branches as well. Most of the time, changes that have passed tests in the trunk 'dev' build should be accepted, but any files touched by bugfixes from the previous integration build can be manually verified -- as long as everyone's honest. Likewise, only files touched last by 'accepted' features are let in without review. I'm going to try this out, and it probably get's back to the original question of which bug/feature tracking (really change management) tool best works with branching svn (or git).

  11. Re:Merging should be easy on Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion? · · Score: 1

    Spandex is not an improvement in clothing.

  12. Re:Truck driving school here I come! on IT Jobs To Drop In 2009 · · Score: 1

    I think that reflects the target audience of people who read the want ads in newspapers: people looking for jobs driving, or in health care. Try looking on the internet for a technology job. Supposedly a lot of techies spend a lot of their time online.

  13. Very innovative on Radiohead Open Sources Music Video · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    too bad their music sucks now, so no one cares.

  14. Re:interesting? on Who is Winning the Web Talent War · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's exactly the point. To those developers who consider 21 "the distant future", Google's junior-developer centric environment is appealing.

  15. Re:Water sublimating on Water Ice On Mars · · Score: 1

    Apparently the site was too warm for ice as well, as evidenced by the fact that it sublimated. So whether it was water or carbon dioxide is completely undeterminable, because it had to have been insulated enough to keep it frozen. If the average temperature is -70F and it needs to work its way up 102 degrees to sublimate, it's a reasonable assumption that at some point it could have been 39 degrees cooler than the average, and CO2 had frozen then, been insulated, and then unfroze when exposed. Which means a much less unlikely range of temperatures, because CO2 sublimates at cooler temperatures than H2O.

    One thing the article didn't mention is the temperature at the time the sublimation occurs. It could be possible that had they shared that information it would have proven that it could not be water far more conclusively than the hypothesis that it couldn't have been CO2. And let's face it, there is a lot of wishful thinking on the part of scientists to discover water on Mars.

  16. Re:This has to be good news on DOE Shines $14M on Solar Energy Research · · Score: 1

    Actually Westinghouse and Tesla were wrong and admitted it over 100 years ago. DC doesn't transport over long distances, period. That's why we use AC.

  17. Re:This has to be good news on DOE Shines $14M on Solar Energy Research · · Score: 1

    God damn doctors saving lives! We should just euthanize them all and send all pregnant black girls to planned parenthood and everyone else to reeducation camps, right?

  18. Re:Java and XML, bad tastes that are worse togethe on Tim Bray on the Birth of XML, 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    So Java EE has discovered hard coding? Isn't that wonderful! Because annotations are basically hard-coded variables for the code-generator (preprocessor) to run before compilation. I used to think they were cool too, until after about a week of XDoclet I saw Rod Johnson's preview of J2EE without EJB. And then he went on to invent (or at least popularize) XML programming. Now he's pushing pre-processor directives to generate XML to generate Java code to be compiled and then have bytecode injected to the compiled code. What's next? GOTO implemented as coantinuations stored in a OO-database (probably with a distrubuted associative array for caching)?

  19. Re:Java and XML, bad tastes that are worse togethe on Tim Bray on the Birth of XML, 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    You probably like python, too.

  20. Noticibly Absent on Newspaper Ad Network Shuns Google, Yahoo, MS · · Score: 1

    The three (two) potential purchasers of this service are shockingly absent? Shocking. You'd think if you wanted to make money selling something to someone you'd ask them if they wanted to be in on the ground floor. Yes, they want to sell it to Microsoft or Google.

  21. Re:Read something from someone more successful on Joel Spolsky On How To Bootstrap a Business · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Autodesk was a very early player in the PC market. They were going to create a form builder application, then a general graphical library, then stumbled onto CAD. AutoDesk was a perfect example of a flexible company that followed market demand instead of pigheadedly trying to sell their "product."

  22. Re:The company you want, vs the most profitable on Joel Spolsky On How To Bootstrap a Business · · Score: 1

    You're right, you should have told us more about who you are. Then we might be we willing to take some of what you say seriously. That's the difference between you and Joel. Whether he's done it right or not, he puts his name and his product on the line when he talks.

  23. Re:Confused on Joel Spolsky On How To Bootstrap a Business · · Score: 1

    It's really pointless to teach basic financial sense in school. They should really just teach everyone how to become NBA players, so that they'll have enough money to not have to worry about finances.

  24. That's easy on Joel Spolsky On How To Bootstrap a Business · · Score: 1

    That's easy to say if you had Microsoft stock options to cash in in the min 1990s

  25. Re:Semantic Spam on Semantic Web Getting Real · · Score: 1

    It's already not lasted for 7 or 8 years.