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  1. Re:Beginning of a movie on Transforming Robot Gets Stuck In Fukushima Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 2

    "We'll send some trained lizards into the radiated environment to free the robot. It's a fool-proof plan."

  2. Re:Uh Oh... on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    Looks like my days on the internet are numbered.

    No, a technological arms race will probably result in "better" trolls. If the algorithms are known, then counter software can be built.

    You are safe.

  3. Mob-like "hit" claims on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Such claims often appear to be a "mind trick" variation of the 6 Degrees to Kevin Bacon game.

    See also "Small-world experiment": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

  4. Re:Benghazzzzzzzzi on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    The Clintons have a strong reputation of not being proven guilty.

    Perhaps because most of the accusations against them are trumped up for political reasons. We have three possibilities here:

    1. GOP have been lousy investigators for decades
    2. The Clintons are highly clever at hiding sinister deeds
    3. The charges are largely fake or exaggerated, done for political reasons

    3 appears the most likely explanation. Now, I will agree that the Clintons are "political animals" and thus have a manipulative side, but I find that trait in every politician who's been around long enough to leave an imprint.

    Our political system filters for those kinds of people, as it is. If we want non-slimy politicians we'd have to overhaul our political system, and I'm not entirely sure how to do that without side-effects.

    Most successful people do have some degree of "jerk" to them, which may be necessary to work with other jerks. Perhaps other politicians would walk all over a Mr. Rogers or Mother Teresa-like candidate. Politics is an ugly game.

  5. Re:Sigh on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are actually flat. The Spanish get more exercise than we do.

  6. Gov't response: on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    "Due to your antics, you will all be fired and replaced with a hologram."

  7. Just don't store it in Benghazi.

  8. Re:Not surprising on European Space Agency Invited To Contribute a Lander To NASA's Europa Clipper · · Score: 1

    Thanks for correcting that.

  9. Re:Benghazzzzzzzzi on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    1996? Nothing was found then either.

  10. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    destroying it while under subpoena

    I believe it was destroyed BEFORE the subpoena, but the timing is still being reviewed. Let's not over-speculate. Let the legal process play out.

  11. Re:Not surprising on European Space Agency Invited To Contribute a Lander To NASA's Europa Clipper · · Score: 1

    Call me a cynic, but I would think this is less of reaching out a hand than trying to find ways to offset the costs.

    Both seem good reasons to me. Why complain?

    Note we did similar with the Galileo Saturn probe carrying the Huygens Titan lander.

  12. Benghazzzzzzzzi on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing came of all the Benghazi investigations, and most of the others. Innocent until proven guilty. And the laws about email at the time were vague. Yes, what she did is a bad practice, but many other politicians made the same error in judgement.

  13. Re:Hmmmmm on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    If Saddam was still in power, ISIS wouldn't have been a threat to them. We weakened Iraq.

  14. Experience Matters on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    If you one hasn't done anything significant, they don't have any decisions or records to criticize. Humans make mistakes, and those with experience will have a history of mistakes just by being human.

    You can do 999 things right and 1 wrong, and the news & opponents obsess on that one wrong one, just as you don't hear about all the planes that land safely.

    Warren hasn't been through the grinder of real experience and hounding critics. The Middle East is a tough, chaotic place to work with, and experience there shouldn't be dismissed.

  15. Re:Hmmmmm on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    I truly doubt I'll want the Republican candidate, but I don't particularly want Hilliary for President either. That doesn't leave much other choice.

    A party that promises to stop meddling in the Middle East*, and otherwise has a centrist domestic agenda would have a pretty good chance. Neither of the two big parties is offering much.

    Ron Paul got many excited about non-meddling, but his domestic agenda put many off.

    Meddling has got us nothing, and appears to make problems worse because we get the blame for any chaos we are associated with, even if our intentions were good. Sure, the M.E. will probably go (gone?) to hell in a hand-basket, but let's not ride in that basket anymore.

    * Keep most our military bases, but otherwise don't use them unless it's an emergency.

  16. Re:Dark Energy on Supernovae May Not Be Standard Candles; Is Dark Energy All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    The same priest says we are never getting flying cars.

  17. Re:"Warm blob" on Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought · · Score: 2, Funny

    You insensitive clod.

    Clod is Blob's brother, you insensitive human!

  18. sci fi comes true on Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Must example set of him on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    Gay cats? What's the Interwebs coming to?

  20. No Uranus jokes? I'm shocked! Dice must have done something I betcha!

  21. Coding versus general IT on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 1

    I'll make my usual rant about over-emphasizing "coding". There are a lot of areas of "computers" that should be covered. For one, how to communicate the relationships between "parts" of anything is an important business skill whether you code or not. For example, what are the trade-offs with using hierarchies versus sets, unique single identifiers versus non-unique versus compound identifiers, etc. Even if you don't code on the job, you'll be facing part numbers, employee numbers, etc.

  22. Re:Taller men get more girls the world over on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Theorem2a: Wealth is distributed unusually evenly amongst Dutch men, so height becomes the main selector.

    So socialism is making men taller? The thought of "giant commies" will scare the poody out of Republicans, and they'll double-down to prevent it.

    "They'll take your guns, swallowing them in one bite, climb the Empire State building carrying your wife, grab CEO job-creator Learjets from the sky, and.......tax them like filthy monsters!"

  23. Re:still ? on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    because many here in the US appear to be undergoing de-evolution.

  24. Re:Another explanation on Collision With Earth's "Little Sister" Created the Moon · · Score: 1

    Collisions can happen because objects share similar orbits. Thus, the collider(s) don't have to have odd orbits. Plus, the current orbits are probably shaped by tidal forces with neighboring planets and don't necessarily reflect original orbit.

  25. Another explanation on Collision With Earth's "Little Sister" Created the Moon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What about this explanation: a planetoid smashed into early Earth and split Earth into two. The two halves eventually smashed back together, but created the moon in the process. One "half" may have mixed more with the collider than the other due to the angle of impact, creating the slightly different isotopes in the parts of it that became the moon.