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  1. Re:free-marketers reject state run economy? on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    Premise: Most of those supporting the first premise have previously made other arguments that claim some other problem means that we must institute that same policy agenda.

    You mean, "I can find some people who demanded policy changes" hence all who claim your first premise only do so because they want to change policy?

  2. Re:WE ALL GONNA DIE!!! on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 1

    All of us, sooner or later.
    A couple billion prematurely, mostly children and elderly.
    Remember world population is going to be significantly lower than today by the end of the century. There are two main ways to achieve that: war and famine.

  3. Re:Its Happening on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 0

    Except that the climate has already started to push up global food prices, especially through repeated droughts and floods.
    And most domesticated grains (all except rice IIRC) show about a 10% yield decline per degree C of warming.

  4. Re:YAAA Reach those data caps FAAASTER!!!! on AT&T Promises To Expand LTE To More US Markets · · Score: 1

    No, I just got throttled last month after 5GB.

  5. Re:Note to Romney: "Jesus" not acceptable answer on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    No, the Angel Moroni.

  6. Re:Revolution, yeah on Windows Has a Future In RAM: AgigaTech Samples DDR3+Flash DIMM · · Score: 1

    Yes! Finally the encryption keys for my disk will be saved when I turn off my laptop!
    Finally I won't have to enter the passphrase every time I turn in on!
    Oh, wait...

  7. Re:Nothing new under the sun ... on Windows Has a Future In RAM: AgigaTech Samples DDR3+Flash DIMM · · Score: 1

    And if you trashed the boot loader you had to toggle it back in by hand :)
    Good times.

  8. Re:Less interesting than the writer thinks. on Windows Has a Future In RAM: AgigaTech Samples DDR3+Flash DIMM · · Score: 1

    Meh. That's been done with conventional RAM, flash and ultracapacitors for years, for example in Fujitsu's DX80. Even PCI RAID controllers do that now, for example LSI's CacheVault option for the newer MegaRAIDs.

  9. Neutrinos? on Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If neutrinos are the suspects, wouldn't it be easy to measure the decay rates of one of those nuclei in a strong neutrino flux, close to a large nuclear reactor or in a neutrino beam from an accelerator?

  10. Re:It's too bad on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Our company has its priorities straight and knows who to trust. We developers know more than the IT folks so they'd better not mess with us or our productivity.

  11. Re:It's too bad on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Well you asked them. There's your problem.
    My IT folks sometimes call me to "turn on" the Windows laptop because they need to update something. "OK, just a second..." Click Virtualbox, the VM I created with VMware Converter, start... "OK it's coming up."

  12. MGM and FGM have the same purpose on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    namely, decreasing sexual satisfaction in women. It's well known that the foreskin plays a significant role in vaginal stimulation.

  13. About time on Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots · · Score: 1

    that they caught up to the US but they still need to pay hordes of astroturfers to equalize the playing field.
    Hey Putin, how about Gazprom runs its own political propaganda organization? You could call it a "Think tank."

  14. Re:Already there... on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 5, Informative

    Freedom, security, stability. Choose two.

    I have all three with Debian stable or CentOS.

  15. Re:This is what you get... on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    Female genital mutilation has been an accepted practice in many countries for thousands of years, including in Europe. It is prevalent mostly in Muslimic populations. There are three prominent areas where it is persecuted: Western Europe, North America and Oceania. It is clearly religious persecution, in particular of Muslims because those are mostly Christian countries.
    Being free of religion seems to bother you. If you had an ounce of sense you would be terrified of theists, especially the fundamental right wing variety, gaining power, given their track record in the Middle East and the US in the last few decades.

  16. Re:This is what you get... on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    They're prosecuting him for cutting into a little boy's dick. It's called genital mutilation. When was "God told me so" an excuse the last time?

  17. Re:Translation on IT Industry Presidential Poll: 'Not Sure' Beats Both Obama and Romney · · Score: 1

    "Obama didn't cut it so I might vote for Romney, let's see if his policies will fail as hard as Bush's or even harder. We haven't had a serious bubble bursting in years."

  18. Re:This is what you get... on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    No, religious people and groups are mostly ignored in sane countries.
    I like how a Rabbi has been indicted on bodily harm for circumcision in Germany. That's the way you do it.

  19. Re:Iran had a secular democracy on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    +10,000.

  20. Re:Science teams are better when ... on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    I prefer female bosses. They're less pushy and open to argument.

  21. Re:Dark ages on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 2

    Are you saying that science contradicts the Bible?
    No, that can't be true, it would piss off not just hardline Muslims but all the evangelical Christians!
    God did it, period. Hence the abortion debate, the evolution "debate", the climate change "debate" etc...

  22. Re:This is what you get... on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 2

    You may want to notice that public and political discourse is way saner in secular countries than in (partially) theocracies like Iran and the US.

  23. Re:Don't try to be apple on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 1

    Dear Microsoft, please continue on the path you're on. The sooner you go down the drain the better for everybody.

  24. Re:Wow... on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 1

    Try to avoid corporations and deal with non-profits and the like. You don't get screwed over if there's no profit motive.

  25. Re:Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature? on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hope so, but it's ready today and has been so for at least two or three years.