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  1. Re:The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    and the believers every time this year (hottest summer on record, see global warming!!?!!!) Both sides who focus on this as a major issue go about it the wrong way

  2. Re:The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1, Insightful

    you can eat your tofu if you like. the day you tell me I cant have a hamburger is the day we have a problem

  3. Re:Doubleplusgood Newspeak on The Executive Order That Redefines Data Collection · · Score: 1

    you spelled lawyers wrong, wait n/m you were right

  4. Re: Another jackboot stomp on the way to facism on The Executive Order That Redefines Data Collection · · Score: 1

    to america

  5. Re:we are DOOOMED!!! on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    woooosh

    Having said that I agree with you. I am running a win 8 machine with a stardock start button replacement and it is pretty damn good.

  6. we are DOOOMED!!! on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 4, Funny

    based on previous rollouts, we are doomed. xp - good, vista - garbage. 7 good- 8 garbage. if we are skipping 9 (which historically would be the good release) and go to 10 will be a disaster! Someone needs to tell MS that users skip a generation of windows, not them!

  7. Re:So? on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    you unloaded some metal in your own yard and a cop wrote you up??? where do you live so i can avoid that place

  8. Re:Best outcome on Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1

    for most companies its not viable as a - most cars dont currently run on biodiesel B - the cost of biodiesel, at least in my area is more than the cost of regular diesel and C - the infrastructure is not there for people willing to invest in it. As I said, I would LOVE to run on bio, or a tesla truthfully, they are beautiful, but realistically, ill be driving an ICE for many years and we should never go out of our way to artificially raise costs on fuel, which only hurts the poor.

  9. Re:Android version req - long time coming on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    well the reason for stripping these "apps" from the OS and putting them into the play framework is because of the OEM issue of taking forever to upgrade the phones. Lets be honest here, apps make the phones these days, and if the app cant be updated because verizon or whoever wont push out andoid (insert new version here) to your 2 year old, yet fully functioning phone, it eventually becomes worthless.

    By taking the apps out of it, it allows them more control on the functionality of the phone, even if the framework does not get any help from the carriers

  10. my google+ acct is pretty much only used for games. I have found that the majority of the android games I play make use of google + for logins, They dont force you to use them but i find it convenient to use it as i recall when my first droid crapped out all the save data was tied to the phone. im happy letting google think my sole function in life is to play plants vs zombies.

  11. true, the choice is there, in my use case, first thing i do on a new phone is flash CM, and load gapps suite. I only use a handful of the apps ,but i dont ever come close to filling my storage so its just easier to load the suite. granted i know not everyone is that way but the sad truth is for many tasks, googles offerings are better than 3rd party apps. Navigation works beautiful, havent found a good replacement for that one yet.

  12. Re:It's sad on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 5, Insightful

    most people who use CM still sideload google apps, I know I do

  13. Re:Best outcome on Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1

    no one said anything about delaying the spread of fuels. Its about using the resources we have until they compete, rather than artificially increasing the costs to encourage people to buy them now.

    I know all about biodiesel, Ive made my own in the past. its not viable no matter how much I wanted it to be and I wasted a ton of money trying to make it so. I still love the concept, but it still isnt a replacement

  14. Re:Best outcome on Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1

    it is a bad thing. and if you dont think its a bad thing, im sure there are plenty of places you can live where you dont need a car. For the rest of us, stay there.

  15. Re:Best outcome on Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 2, Insightful

    because it could lower oil prices.

    This is exactly what we need right now in the short term until alt fuels get cheaper. Its going to be decades before all the gas cars are off the roads, poor people cant afford new cars so they buy used, there isnt much of a used electric market out there right now. It has the added benefit of not being in the middle east like you said. To me this is a win-win-win, except for that pesky russian thing that we need to resolve.

  16. Re:dumb question on Sierra Nevada Corp. Files Legal Challenge Against NASA Commercial Contracts · · Score: 1

    postcard? I expect a telegraph!

  17. Re:Another Factor? on Sierra Nevada Corp. Files Legal Challenge Against NASA Commercial Contracts · · Score: 0

    The Columbia accident, as well as countless near-misses that could have resulted in a Columbia style accident, was due to debris detaching from the external tank and striking the orbiter. If the vehicle is on top of the stack, nothing that breaks off of the rocket can physically come into contact with the vehicle.

    I always wondered after the fact if the first runs with the painted tank had the foam issue or if the paint kept it contained. I know we stopped painting it for cost and weight concerns, but sometimes, it makes more sense to spend the money. Again I dont know if it would have helped but its a question ive always wondered and never seen really discussed by people in the know

  18. Re:Correction: on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 1

    while you may be factually correct, Everyone understood my position, which is also factually correct.

  19. Re: is anyone really surprised here on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 1

    that sounds like the very definition of incompetence.

  20. Re:is anyone really surprised here on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 1

    seems like you are screwed either way. vote GOP and its your fault for the banks, vote D, and its your fault we are broke. (but the environment is clean!...sorta...just dont look over there...or there...or....) The only real answer is to STOP voting for either party

  21. Re:is anyone really surprised here on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 1

    only problem there is it would make the person in charge more likley to abuse different parties to get a bigger bonus, we cant be sure if hes going after XYZ because they really messed up, or if its because they have a bigger bank acct than ABC

  22. Re:is anyone really surprised here on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 1

    even better would be a non compete. If you work in government banks, you cannot leave the government for a private bank for 10 years, or something along those lines

  23. Re: is anyone really surprised here on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 0

    its not to try and put blame "on the poor" its to put blame on the people who mandated that banks give money to "the poor" that they knew they would never pay back, thus taking advantage of the poor

    to use a style loved by the left, why do you hate poor people? why do you want to allow poor people to be taken advantage of based on the rules you put in place??

  24. Re:90 pounds of pressure is not enough on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 1

    its all good fun to make fun of americans waistlines, however the UK is catching up http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/02... - note this is a year old article

  25. Re:Unscientific. on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 1

    i guess its shorthand for pounds per square inch of pressure. This is quite normal at least in america