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  1. Cut out the middle man. on Australian Gov't Drops Plan To Snoop On Internet Use — For Now · · Score: 1

    Cut out the Middle man.

    When internet snooping / warrantless data searches were proposed in Canada the people just sent all their daily search histories. tweets and cc'd the Minister on all their emails. So much data was coming into the parliamentary mail servers they had to be shut down. The bill was pulled after first reading and sent to committee, which is not the usual procedure, where it is expected to die when this session of parliament ends.

  2. Re:Canada? on Telco Company Claims Freedom of Speech Includes Misleading Ads · · Score: 1

    Free speech in the US. Really try saying 'f*ck' on prime time television.

  3. AGW Converts on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ex-sceptic says climate change is down to humans

    "The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature are in and Richard Muller, the study's director (formerly an AGW skeptic) declares, 'Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.'

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?_r=4

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19047501

    CEO Exxon admits AGW is real and burning fossil fuels causes it.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/27/exxon-ceo-climate-energy-fears-overblown/

    The natural progression:

    • 1. There is no such thing as global warming!
    • 2. Global warming is theoretically possible, but it's not happening.
    • 3. Global warming is happening, but we are not the cause
    • 4. Global warming is happening and we are the cause but it's no big deal.
    • 5. Ok, we should probably do something about this global warming before it gets worse.
    • 6. We're really fraked now.

    We are now at step 4.

  4. Re:Obligitory on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 2
  5. Re:if NASA had an unlimited budget? on NASA's Bolden Speaks On Future Mars Mission, Chinese Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    Yes, the 'B' Ark.

  6. Re:Clone Bettie Page instead on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    No don't clone super models, clone women who actually look like women, Bettie Page is an excellent example, and not 10 year old boys.

  7. Cloning not required. Start with Chickens on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    When chicken embryos first start to develop they have teeth buds along their jaw lines and the beginnings of multi segmented tails. As they develop their DNA tells the developing embryo to absorb them. Much like human embryo's absorb our own embryonic gill slits. Now if you turn off the genes that control this absorption instruction you get chicken embryos that develop long multi segmented dinosaur tails and meat eating dinosaur teeth complete with the serrated inside edge.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1026340/Jurassic-Park-comes-true-How-scientists-bringing-dinosaurs-life-help-humble-chicken.html

    Note:The 'Daily Mail' isn't the gold standard for scientific reporting but here it does a good job of describing the research so the public can understand it (creationists excepted). Names of people and institutions where the work was done are given allowing Internet searches to the relevant papers and science reporting.

  8. Have a 'dry' day. on Space Scientists Looking To Crowd-Fund Planetary Exploration · · Score: 1
    • $100 billion. 2010 liqueur&bear sales in the United States.
    • $19.9 billion. 2010 liqueur&beer sales in Canada.

    So if every drinker in these two countries countries were to donate a single days spending on spirits to this program they would raise almost $330 million dollars.

  9. Re:I don't know what the big deal is... on Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing · · Score: 2

    In the original Google Moon you could zoom all the way in to Swiss Cheese.

  10. Re:Ms. Moneypenny, compose a letter to Bart Sibrel on Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing · · Score: 1

    That is why you don't let them wear a space helmet. So they can see it with their own eyes.

  11. Re:Top 5 Reasons Not to Outsource to US on Mexican Hotel Chain Outsources IT To US · · Score: 0

    6. Tech support consists of literally praying for a fix.

  12. Proffit ?? on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    Sell stocks in insurance companies and buy construction companies.

  13. Not to worry they actually have to pass a budget first. You know the Obama administration will probably go down in history as the first one to never pass a budget.

  14. Re:Goodbye jobs, Hello dividends on US Regaining Manufacturing Might With Robots and 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Who cares buy stock in the company and live off the dividends.

  15. Re:One Sided science on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    Yep the science of AGW is so shaky that the CEO of Exxon admits it is real.

  16. Re:Religion on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 0

    It is interesting to note that the order of creation starts at those things far away and stars etc. and ends with birds, fish, animals, man. Slowly getting closer to Man at the center.

  17. Religion on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Genesis being one of the best examples of 'motivated reasoning' that there is.

  18. Speaking of Lawyers on Patent Troll Claims Minecraft Infringement · · Score: 4, Funny

    Family gathering the other day and my mother in law reports with pride that my son's cousin is going into law. She then asks my son if he has ever considered going into law . Without even missing a beat he replies:

    "No, my parents raised me better that that."

  19. Re:how 'bout some gun control... on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    Shooting proficiency and threat validation are two separate things. If you want to carry you should be trained in both.

  20. Re:how 'bout some gun control... on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 0

    First he misses a standing target a couple of yards away. Then he chases the fleeing criminals running and firing at the same time. Then he fires thru an open door at the fleeing criminals.

    The man should be charged.

  21. Re:To those thinking gun control would help: on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    I have never heard of a gun manufacture recalling a firearm because it may be a danger to the public.

  22. Re:Yes, this is tragic, but... on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 2

    Today like every other day in the US about 45 people will die because of gun violence.

  23. Re:Manufactures on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 0

    4th Amendment tot he Constitution of United States:

    "The right to keep and bear arms (often referred as the right to bear arms or to have arms) is the enumerated right that people have a personal right to firearms for individual use, and a collective right to bear arms in a militia."

  24. Re:Maybe same old 'leave your guns at entrance' ru on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nope. We can't train ordinary people simple tactics and gun safety.

    Not seems you cannot.

    His last shots were through an open door into the street when the criminals were running away from him.

  25. Re:Maybe same old 'leave your guns at entrance' ru on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 0

    Yes but they are more mature and better educated than Americans.