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  1. Their machines are WAY too expensive on MakerBot Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Employees · · Score: 2

    Companies like XYZprinting are eating Makerbot's lunch with machines that have just as good resolution, but cost a quarter of what Makerbot charges. You can no longer afford to charge premium, exorbitant prices for consumer-grade 3D printers.

  2. Re:Just staggering... on Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Bad link in that last comment. Here's the USS America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... _CV66)

  3. Just staggering... on Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The amount of money we waste scuttling U.S. Naval vessels is shocking. We sink multi-billion dollar aircraft carriers as part of "live fire testing." Here's the USS America (CV-66) sunk off the East Coast after only 40 years of service. Why? The Navy chose to install diesel engines on it even after nuclear powered CVs had been launched. So, they decided the cost to replace the USS America's power plant with a nuclear reactor was just too expensive. Should be recycle thousands of tons of steel? Nah. There goes another $4.5 billion in taxpayer money.

  4. So in 300 years... on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 4, Funny

    After curing the cancer in 25 years, and tthen 275 years later when we figure out how to reanimate frozen brain cells, this kid's going to be like, "What do you mean I'm an orphan?"

  5. They're saying Tsunami on Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    They're meaning Godzilla.

  6. It'll be like playing FarmVille on Facebook Introduces Payment System · · Score: 1

    Except, you'll be playing with your real bank account data and funds. I can't wait to share this with my friends on Facebook!!!

  7. The definition of liberty on Sugar Industry Shaped NIH Agenda On Dental Research · · Score: 1

    Well, I need more than chocolate, and for that matter I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom. And choice when it comes to our sugar, and that Joey Naylor, that is the definition of liberty.

    That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

  8. "THIS" is what we're concerned with? on Should a Service Robot Bring an Alcoholic a Drink? · · Score: 1

    Should a robot serve alcohol. Yeah, that's right at the top of society's ethical priority list, just a notch below if Robots should look like people.

  9. How do they feel about all the other CNC machines? on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Because that's all it is... and there are plenty of cheaper ones out there.

  10. Re:Fuck. on The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill · · Score: 1

    Yeah, cause somebody cares about you "threatening" to move to Canada.

  11. Re:Yes. It serves a crucial purpose. on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ya, know... your argument -- and ones similar to it used throughout history -- only make me sigh and shake my head now. If you cannot see the difference between an organization or government that is using violence and fear to force their beliefs on others, and the world's attempt to stop that, then I feel sorry for you. Your moral compass has become demagnetized.

  12. Yes. It serves a crucial purpose. on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Showing these murders serves as a gut punch to the free world. It enables us to have a visceral reaction to this brutality, forcing us to acknowledge and deal with the fact that there are people in this world who are willing to use any means to achieve their end attempt to force their beliefs on others through fear and control them through the same. Unfortunately, I don't think enough it makes the evening news or online news feeds. Like the press coverage of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, somehow the modern press has developed its own misguided ethos over what the American public should or shouldn't see. Should there be a sufficient warning so that children or those who don't want to see it can choose not to? Yes. But, that's all that's needed. Fair warning.

    Ultimately, it's not the press's responsibility to censor violent video. It's their responsibility to show it. It's their responsibility to objectively report the news.

    There are those who will argue that Fox was doing ISIS's PR work for them. That's bunk. Has not showing the carnage that Boko Haram has inflicted on the people of Nigeria stopped them for doing it? In fact, when terrorists killed a handful of people in Paris, it was plastered all over the news for weeks. We all saw the wounded police officer shot in the head. Yet, long before that, tens of thousands of people were murdered, entire towns leveled and atrocities beyond even that were committed by Boko Haram -- yet that has received and still receives a tiny portion of the news coverage that the Paris attacks had. That's the greatest disservice of all by the press.

  13. Re:Not that easy to see on Rare Astronomical Event Will See Triple Moon Shadows On Jupiter · · Score: 1

    Dude, you're talking about eyepieces that cost $340+ each. I'm an amateur and I'm not shelling out hundreds of dollars for just an eyepiece.

  14. Not that easy to see on Rare Astronomical Event Will See Triple Moon Shadows On Jupiter · · Score: 3, Informative

    For three years, I've been using a reflector telescope with 4.5" diameter mirror lens. It's not a cheap telescope, but as far as viewing planets, it's a bit like looking at a grain of rice. You get the general shape (with Saturn you can see rings clearly), but you don't get any great detail. So when I see sentences like "Stargazers are in for a treat..." I can't help but think this only applies to people who've either spent thousands on astrological equipment -- or perhaps just people who like looking at NASA's image pages.

  15. Russia recently upgraded on The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain · · Score: 2
    Our desktop systems now have TWO DISK DRIVES!!!

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    Take that capitalist scum!

  16. Yet this doesn't explain on Ability To Consume Alcohol May Have Shaped Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Why the Irish still can't cook to save their lives.

  17. So much for a free market on Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 5, Informative

    These outdated statues were originally designed to protect little dealerships from the threat of big auto opening their own dealerships if one of their indirect dealers refused to carry their lemons. So dealers under pressure from Detroit were forced to sell the crappy next to the good cars.

    Today, prohibiting direct sales protects only the dealerships and harms the consumer. There’s no reason to prohibit a consumer from buying directly from the manufacturer.

  18. So now he has no nose? on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1, Funny

    How does he smell?

    Terrible.

    (Forgive me. The first image that came to mind when I read this story was the movie "Sleeper", when they were trying to clone the assassinated leader using his nose.)

  19. Perhaps I'm naive... on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 2

    It seems to me the best way (every time) to alleviate fear is by spreading truth. The CDC should set itself the task of disseminating as much information about Ebola and how it's spread as possible.

  20. I'm thinking on Michigan Builds Driverless Town For Testing Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    This is the same autonomous driving city that was reported on by all the news outlets this past spring. Is there something new here?

  21. I just want to say one word to you on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1, Funny
    Just one word. 3D food printing.

    OK. Three words.

  22. That's not what she's saying on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    She's not saying the things are not "very very dense" rather just that they never collapse further than the state that gravity can overcome the speed of light. I believe she's saying a black hole's mass would be "evenly" (or not) spread out over the volume encompassed by the event horizon, rather than in a singularity.

  23. Re:I'll just let my sig do the talking on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    What speech. I can't find that anywhere. Link please.

  24. Re:I'll just let my sig do the talking on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    So the quote is "The U.S. will always be at war now, until the government is bankrupt." -- Dwight Eisenhower. I've never once seen that. When did he use that in a speech?

  25. Then it happens less in science than in general on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 5, Informative

    The study the level of sexual assault of trainees in academic fieldwork environments... was 26% of women and 6% of men reported experiencing sexual assault. According to a study by the CDC, 51.9 percent of surveyed women and 66.4 percent of surveyed men said they were physically assaulted as a child by an adult caretaker and/or as an adult by any type of attacker. More than half (54 percent) of the female rape victims identified by the survey were younger than age 18 when they experienced their first attempted or completed rape. Violence against women is primarily intimate partner violence: 64.0 percent of the women who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date. In comparison, only 16.2 percent of the men who reported being raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 were victimized by such a perpetrator. Study: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles...