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  1. Re:I'm skeptical on Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban · · Score: 1

    that is because you are straight like everyone else. You never spent time being afraid of people, wondering if they know your "secret." Getting over that fear is a very big thing for us.

  2. The jennifer morgue on Cold-War Era Naval Vessels Up For Grabs · · Score: 2, Informative

    What is really weird is that I'm reading the Jennifer Morgue right now. The book starts with the operations.

  3. Re:glacial pace on Europa Selected As Target of Next Flagship Mission · · Score: 1

    So why aren't we doing five or six of these missions at a time? I'm guessing that it is probably money, but it really is the one-at-a-time approach that is killing NASA.

  4. Re:Phelps poll on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    It is kind of a bullet-proof statement. If watching someone makes you happy, your life is better, right? even if that someone is beating children.

  5. Re:stop the xenophobia on Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown · · Score: 1

    you are absolutely right, America is based on a strong immigrant inflow. That is fine. H1-B vistas are temporary, which means, once we suck the life out of the poor suckers, we send them back. That isn't a way to strengthen our country or theirs.

  6. Re:FACTS, not "truth". on Britannica Goes After Wikipedia and Google · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, that sounds very easy.

  7. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    Except there is still a "footprint" where there should be a building or, at the very least, a nice park.

  8. Re:"Orgone Generators" on Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras · · Score: 1

    I want one!!

  9. Re:Prosecute the parents on 6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive · · Score: 1

    Yes, his moral code isn't the one true moral code, but a pacifism moral code is stupid. The capability for violence is necessary. Without that ability, the unscrupulous will take what they want from you. Now you and I can be happy with nothing, but what happens when you have a family? Can you really stand by while someone hurts the people you love?

  10. Re:In My Opinion, Cisco Should Be Worried on Google Router Rumors · · Score: 1

    netgear routers are not the way to go either, unless you replace the firmware. the new crop of netgears change their IP address automatically, without asking permission. It is marketed as a feature.

  11. Re:So, basically on A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 1

    The ability to retire to Callisto (the moon)!

  12. Re:Not just cost, but optics on Why LEDs Don't Beat CFLs Even Though They Should · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A glass of cloudy water would do what you ask, quite easily.

  13. Why? on Broadband Access Without the Pork? · · Score: 1

    I want to know why it has become such a popular thing to cut the land line. For safety's sake, everyone should have one wired telephone in the house. If there is a general power outage, how can you call for help?

  14. Re:Told you so on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 1

    Most of your momentum would press you in an east/west direction when you started to ascend the mountain. You would have to be going much faster than 300mph by the time you reached the base of the mountain.

  15. Re:Swell plan on Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS · · Score: 1

    can't you jam?

  16. Re:Get it in both forms on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Your analogy is flawed. You wouldn't extinguish their flame, by lighting your tamper. However, it requires resources to keep the flame lit. The flame consumes the tamper. By taking from their flame, aren't you saying that the fire is worth preserving? Wouldn't their flame last longer if you gave them a piece of your tamper?

  17. Re:Texans... on SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster · · Score: 1

    No, we understand that the threat of another 9/11 isn't a good reason to avoid skyscrapers. How do you get out of your bunker every day?

  18. Re:If this were a man, on Misdemeanor Plea Ends Norwich Pornography Case · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a Good Samaritan law in the U.S.?

  19. Re:I don't on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1

    Again, you fail to understand. I am not arguing whether or not you have a soul. I don't care. I am trying to express to you that there are always going to be people who think that they know better than you. They are going use unprovable arguments and the only solution is to not engage. Having a soul is an example of such an argument. People who believe that you have a soul assert that everyone has a soul, so being soulless is outside the human experience. It would be describing blue to a person blind from birth, except that there is no one to describe it. If you can tell that you do not have a soul, how is it different from having a soul? Do you see beauty more or less? How do you measure beauty? Is it a gradient or more akin to a color wheel? How do you determine where other people fall on the scale?

  20. Re:I don't on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1

    Like I said, it is a pointless argument. If you are sick, who is more qualified to diagnose the illness? You or the doctor? In the priest's eyes who is more qualified to say that you have a soul? You or the priest? Plus your response makes no sense, because now I can say "You can't prove that you don't have a soul and I believe you do, so you must have a soul." Essentially "Do too!" to your "Do not!" We are arguing about an intangible. Pointless.

  21. Re:I don't on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1

    You having a soul or not having a soul isn't a provable assertion. It is a war of beliefs, not a war of reason. The argument can only be "Do not!" and "Do too!" Don't engage, you'll be happier.

  22. Re:God on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    I thought that whole "the universe is designed for us" was debunked as mysticism. The magnitude of the coincidence that produced us is irrelevant to science. It is awe-inspiring, but irrelevant.

  23. Re:Value over Lifespan not ROI on On the Economics of the Kindle · · Score: 1

    What are you using now?

  24. Re:But Australia has no borders on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    I don't understand your response. You seem to be blaming an outside agency for NO's failure to repair and improve their flood management system. Who would that be?

  25. Re:Distrust by the masses.. on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1
    In a cube of gray

    I dream of deeds without peer,

    bright fluorescent lights.