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  1. Re:Please, spare us the GPL advocacy for once on The Gamer's Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    So why is John Carmack still working on new engines, and releasing them for free at the end-of-life?

  2. Re:Good choice on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    I'll ask McCain's cardiologist for it.

  3. Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    And do you want another Scalia or Alito on the Supreme Court, willing to condone torture and wiretapping?

  4. Re:More Quotes from the Future on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    You need to read more Dickens.

  5. Re:Is that a threat? on Hit Man Email Scammer Back With a Vengeance · · Score: 0
    • And if you subscribe to the Theive's Guild insurance we give you 10% off!
    • Assassins receive professional courtesy.
    • And due to a few unfortunate incidents we are no longer targeting Clowns.
    • Just a friendly reminder from your local Kidnapper's Guild, 54 Sator Square.
  6. Re:How To Test It on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually the more radioactive something is the faster it decays. Uranium in waste is not the problem, the minor actinides are.

  7. Re:Fine structure constant on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They mention that in the paper. They suggest modifying the electron-proton mass ratio as well as the electromagnetic interaction strength. So we might find out what's going on on October 10.

  8. Re:Carbon Dating on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually a cesium clock uses the hyperfine structure which is not known to be affected these effects.

  9. Re:Not sure about this... on NewsTrust Founder Fabrice Florin Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0, Troll

    The news media has a strong pro-gravity bias. I have not ever seen an article that gives the intelligent falling community an equal footing.

  10. Re:get some language experts on ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Once you have first-class functions and closures you have a prototype-based object system.

  11. Re:No: Free will + statistics on Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will? · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is at least one law of cleodynamics that we know: Increases in population in agrarian societies lead to revolution.

  12. Re:Balanced? on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    Considering that minor parties can't even get 5% of the vote excluding them from coverage is probably justifiable. But what is irksome is the extent to which the basic facts of an issue are not presented to the public. Take environmental issues for example. 1/2 of all amphibian species are endangered, but no reporter will say this even when reporting on an environmental issue.

  13. Re:No. Artificially limiting discourse... on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    Balance is not essential. Would balance be essential in an article covering the Holocaust? Should the reporter put a quote from a denier in his paper just because there are two sides? Some issues are opinionated, and balance is essential, while others facts weigh in and there we have right and wrong.

  14. Re:Embargo? on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't go up against a Sicilian when mod points are on the line.

  15. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    On 14 July 1789 an entire people threw off the shackles of tyranny. Two Englishmen observed this great revolution: Burke, the conservative, condemned the rebels for the enthusiasm with which they desired to create a new order of things, while Paine saluted them for having come to defense of the rights of man. When the armies of Napoleon retreated leaving the laws of Europe transformed in their wake we can say who was right and who was wrong. To defend an unjust institution on the basis of its age is lunacy; to promote a new one because of its newness is madness also. But that does not mean that we must not strive for a just and good world, even if doing so is to risk failure.

  16. Re:Alternatives on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 1

    Or Mesa could implement DirectX?

  17. Nope. on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And it's not happening. To beat latex at typesetting requires a lot of of work, and with latex basically perfect from a bug perspective any sort of realistic replacement is going to start with it as a base.

  18. Re:Free Competition in Currency Act of 2007 on E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering · · Score: 1

    You can denominate a contract in whatever currency you want.

  19. Re:So how long is the emperor of China's nose? on "Wisdom of Crowds" Works For Individuals Too · · Score: 1

    You lucky American. My grandparents grew up in occupied Netherlands. Rotterdam got flattened by German bombers. My family had to go into hiding. My grandparents are short, stunted by the starvation of the Hongerwinter. The kinds of atrocities that they faced no human should ever have to endure again. The US was the exponent of this radical view. And now just because people fight against your soldiers you say that they can be burned alive in the most horrible of manners. War crimes are war crimes, no matter who commits them. And think about the scumbag: the one who wages a war of aggression, or those who oppose him?

  20. Re:What about that volcano under all that water? on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 1

    What some shit in your food? It's basically plant food.

  21. Re:Natural? on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 1

    One half of amphibians, a huge number of all charismatic megafauna, a shitload of birds, and let's not forget all the fish are going extinct because of human activities. The Gulf of Mexico is becoming a sewer. The collapse of biodiversity is real, and it is going to suck big time as our oceans get screwed up.

  22. Re:You know who I feel sorry for? on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah we do. We know all about K. And what K tells us is that more CO2 means lower pH in the oceans, means the coral starts to dissolve and the fish start to die. It's basic chemistry.

  23. Re:Could someone explain what these do. on Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards · · Score: 1

    You could use Hamiltonian mechanics with an energy that is infinite at the walls.

  24. So how long is the emperor of China's nose? on "Wisdom of Crowds" Works For Individuals Too · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wisdom of crowds only works when the crowd has some information about the situation. Look at polls about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction for more details.

  25. Re:I was hit with one of these on Non-Compete Pacts Called Bad For Tech Innovation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IANAL, but always get it in writing. Always. Especially if moving across the country.