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  1. Re:Earthquakes are deep, oil wells are not. on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    Man surprised that experts in a field tend to be employed in the field. Interview at 10...

  2. Re:What logic! on Norway Scraps Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Several States in the US (Oregon, Washington) have mail-in voting as the ONLY option. Others make it default (California for example).

  3. Re:Scientific research never got anyone anything on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The budget is driven by non-defense spending - entitlements - which consume nearly every dollar in Federal Revenue that DC receives.

    When you say entitlement, it evokes a bunch of money-grubbing welfare queens who have more and more children to increase their federal benefit. The truth is that the largest portion of the budget (24%) is social security, which isn't a government handout - it is funded by working taxpayers who have paid into the system for their whole lives.

    Actually, social security isn't what you think it is. You have no right to anything in the fund, and your deposits are simply another tax to provide a wealth transfer. The funds paid in - especially today - simply do not cover outgoing expenses. What you pay in today covers about 80% of the money for other people - and it's a dropping percentage.

  4. Re:Electrostatic Inertial Confinement Fusion on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 1

    We should be pursuing the legacy of Robert Brusard

    No we shouldn't. We understand the physics of those devices very well. They will aren't an energy source period.

    You may understand the physics of the devices very well; the problem is none of us understand the English you're trying to speak, so we just tune you out...

  5. Re:Democrats getting a pass here? on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 1

    The fact is Republicans are anti-science unless that science is related to extraction of oil. You have failed misareabley to blame this on Democrats.

    Neil deGrasse Tyson disagrees with you. But hey, he's just using facts and numbers and science and stuff...

  6. Re:One question on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 1

    Funny, I didn't know that the Kochs were in charge of the Senate; I thought it was Harry Reid and the Democrats!

  7. Re:Scientific research never got anyone anything on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 5, Informative

    It actually is. "Defense bears 50 percent of sequestration’s reductions under the law, even though it is less than one-fifth of the budget. Entitlements, which make up nearly two-thirds of the budget, bear only 18 percent of the sequester." The budget is driven by non-defense spending - entitlements - which consume nearly every dollar in Federal Revenue that DC receives.

  8. Re:Haters gonna hate. on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    OK, so then did it include the costs of the other sources? Typically wind turbines average around 24% of rated capacity, so that means around four windmills needed to balance at a minimum. That should change the calculations a bit.

  9. Re:Haters gonna hate. on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So once a person factors in the battery and/or other large scale energy storage, does that change the calculus about the return?

  10. Re:any gas station in the ghetto on Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America? · · Score: 0

    You know, lots of fat pasty white people sitting on those little electric carts.

    As far as I know, golf is played worldwide, not just in the US...

  11. Re:What logic! on Norway Scraps Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Likewise with mail-in voting. It should be rare, and you should have to request it prior to every election. It should never be the default (or, as is the case in several States the only) option.

  12. But can we exhale, and release extra CO2?

  13. Re:Here's the Solution on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, in Ted's case, given he was probably flying in first class AND had enough alcohol on his breath he might have intoxicated the pilots merely by his presence. So it was a safe call for him...

  14. Re:Instead of gasoline tax, why not a disel tax? on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    The damage is done by the flexing of the road surface, that is proportional to the surface area the weight is distributed over.

    Yes. And damage goes as the 4th power of weight. That goes up a lot faster than the number of axles can scale...

  15. Re:Instead of gasoline tax, why not a disel tax? on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    Huh? Triple the weight, the factor of 11 becomes 33. Triple the weight, the fourth power becomes 81. Eighty one is a LOT bigger than 33 (almost 3 times as much).

  16. Re:Different Power Supply Voltage on Researchers Unveil Experimental 36-Core Chip · · Score: 1

    According to the comparison table, (Refer timeline 4:21 of this video) this chip uses 1.1V while other standard chips are using 1.0V. This difference may make it hard for the chip makers to use this technology.

    No, it's the only way to make it faster because it goes to eleven...

  17. Re:All wars ... on China Builds Artificial Islands In South China Sea · · Score: 1

    China has pretty much always been militarily superior to their immediate neighbors. At the same time, they have a LONG history of losing those those same neighbors.

  18. Re:Instead of gasoline tax, why not a disel tax? on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    A factor of 11 is small - compared to an exponent of the 4th power.

  19. I think if the House appoints a special prosecutor, the Senate still must follow through with conviction. And with the current political environment in the Senate, that's simply not going to happen.

  20. Oh they could - but with your future as a judge (moving up to a Federal bench) in the balance if you attack your Federal masters, it becomes easy to brush it aside as "no standing of plaintiff" and dismiss.

  21. Re:And? on Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops To Deceive Judges About Surveillance Tech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Federal Marshals ARE the DoJ. It's the DoJ itself asking local police to lie. Why would they hand out penalties to themselves? That's like asking Holder to arrest himself for being in contempt of Congress. Not gonna happen.

  22. Re:only winners are on The EPA Carbon Plan: Coal Loses, But Who Wins? · · Score: 1

    All their loans - in which they lost less money than the projected?

  23. Re:only winners are on The EPA Carbon Plan: Coal Loses, But Who Wins? · · Score: 1

    Taxpayers in the red - that means losses

    Since its creation it's lost $800 million

    Energy Department projects $2.9 billion in losses

    I can provide many more if you like - because the program hasn't made a dime. It's lost billions (and it was planned to lose even more billions, but the program's not done yet - there's still time to lose more. Dywolf's link showed nothing about a gain. It said losses were less than expected - but still losses. I can't find anything that says the program is making money - it's all losses. And if you want to dig further, read the White House's independent review of the program where it states we're on the hook for 30 years, we have inexperienced people managing it, poor oversight, no planning, no accountability, and no goals.

  24. Re:only winners are on The EPA Carbon Plan: Coal Loses, But Who Wins? · · Score: 1

    What facts? That the program has lost money, and it was planned to lose money? Is that the "ignorant bullshit" you think is worthy of retraction?

  25. Re:only winners are on The EPA Carbon Plan: Coal Loses, But Who Wins? · · Score: 1

    The fact the Government is planning to lose so much money in the first place by betting on players in the market is disturbing. Accepting it and justifying losses that weren't as big as planned as a good thing is downright insane.