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  1. Re:Cash Cow Concerns on Congress To Investigate FCC · · Score: 1

    Capitalism requires some of the order that anarchy eschews. What guarantee do you have that your prospective buyer isn't simply going to steal your goods, rather than pay for them? If you answer "My gun!" you're wrong. There is always going to someone stronger, smarter, or faster than you. There is someone out there with less moral fiber than you. Faith in the goodness of man is misplaced.

  2. Re:Hydrogen on The Age of the Airship Returns? · · Score: 1

    Argh!! I wanted to moderate, but I had to reply to this. The other zeppelins created (I don't know where you get your info, but there were only around 10 created.) used helium. It was only after the start of WWII that the helium embargo forced the zeppelin company to use hydrogen in the Hindenburg. The danger was well known and was done under extreme duress. See the Wikipedia article.

  3. Re: it's programmed to be this way on Scientist Suggests We Explore 'Universe is a VR Simulation' Theory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe I am misreading your statements, but to be literal, there are religions that threaten science. Many of the ones in the U.S. are Christian denominations. Science is threatened, because the meme of the literal reading of the KJV Bible is spreading to more denominations. The Bible, by definition, is not scientifically accurate, therefore depending on your point of view, either science or religion is wrong.

  4. Re: it's programmed to be this way on Scientist Suggests We Explore 'Universe is a VR Simulation' Theory · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even the Vatican is starting to back Evolution

    This statement annoys me. I've seen it on various evolution websites, like it was news. The Vatican has backed evolution since the 1950's, but it seems that no one outside the religion got the memo. In the "Humani Generis," encyclical (a letter from the Pope to the rest of us) released in 1950, Pope Pius XII states "The Church does not forbid that...research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter." Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI (the current pope) have also made statements in support of evolution. The Vatican hasn't started to back evolution, it does and has for quite some time.

    All research taken from Wikipedia.

  5. Re:He seems conflicted on Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year' · · Score: 1

    I was born after the landing and have never seen the complete newscast. How sad is that?

  6. Re:Preview of news media coverage on Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before · · Score: 1

    What would be hilarious would be the asteroid taking the various Mars satellites out before impact...

  7. Re:Minor gripe on Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Exactly how did you get modded insightful?? There are always going to be two types of people in the world, sheeple and the megalomaniacs who take advantage of them. The military is there to prevent them from coming our way.

  8. Re:Unsurprisingly... on The Register Exposes More Wikipedia Abuse · · Score: 1

    Nice, now try proper nouns. How about "Japan?" Yep, Wikipedia is the 1st link. Let us use the totally random name "Michael?" Wow, it is the third link. How odd. And now for ironic effect "Haeleth?" Oh yes, the third link is your 'User Talk' page. I didn't even think that would work. You found a few words that didn't return a Wikipedia link. Big deal. You don't fool anyone.

  9. Re:Credit where credit is due... on Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches · · Score: 1

    Mattew 5 v22 is the first I found. (KJV)

  10. Re:Credit where credit is due... on Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches · · Score: 1
    I've always found the story of Adam and Eve to be vicious. I hope God isn't like that. The tree was the Tree of Knowledge, specifically the knowledge of good and evil, right? God tells the naturally curious first humans never to eat from the tree because it is wrong... except they don't know what wrong is. They haven't eaten from the tree. Also, God lets Satan wander freely in the Garden, to spoil whatever he wanted. It was like two bullies playing with a class of retards. That is not a very nice god.

    any suffering we go through can only be attributed to humans hurting themselves

    So famine, drought, and earthquakes are God's way of saying "Miss you?"

  11. Re:And in other news... on New Results From Venus Express · · Score: 1

    I'm at a loss. How does the lack of humans on Venus demonstrate that humanity cannot affect our planet's global warming? Does a wildfire sparked by a lightening strike as opposed to being sparked by a cigarette prove that humans don't start wildfires?

  12. Re:Nifty. on Asus Insider Claims Apple Tablet Is Real · · Score: 1

    Hasn't handwriting recognition come a long way recently? I'm one of the losers who types slower than he writes. A tablet would be a nice substitution for a laptop.

  13. Wow on FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database · · Score: 1

    There is probably a very low chance that the next administration is going to be Republican
    You really believe that don't you? When people are given a choice between reason and prejudice, they will always go with prejudice. There are no handsome white guys running for the Democrats, therefore they won't win. All those red states will go Republican again. Voting for a black man or worse, a woman "just doesn't feel right."

    (I am not racist or sexist, I am repeating what I have heard from others and what I believe many people's rationale will be for voting another Republican into office.)

  14. Re:Video Evidence on GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case · · Score: 1

    My favorite part in all this has yet to come. I've been seeing articles about police giving radar guns to people, so that they can tattle on you. How's your Newspeak?

  15. Re:Ironic curiosity on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    God is all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-present. In other words, He is infinite. No one can comprehend or 'know' infinite. Except Chuck Norris.

  16. Re:That's the Maunder Minimum on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 1

    I'm going to win a Nobel prize, but I need a volunteer...

  17. Re:Well this sounds good. on NASA Announces 120 Small Research Projects · · Score: 1

    see, the whole privitized space race is a problem. as another poster has pointed out, there is currently no money in it. that means that without the goverment to step in, the only people who will step up and take off are the rich/unhealthy-obsessed. is that what us space nuts want?

  18. Re:Acid on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 1

    And that is where the nuns in TFA took the discovery. To them, they have been told that there is a physical result of an intangible God. We have eyes to see, a nose to smell, and hands to feel. Therefore a structure in our head that allows us to experience God must indicate that there is a god to experience.

  19. Re:"Evolutionary tactics..." nonsense. on Working Around Patents with Evolutionary Design · · Score: 1

    Go back to sleep, troll. Intelligent design misleads the sheep no longer.

  20. Re:Car on Knight Rider To Ride Again · · Score: 1

    You know, I would watch that show! I mean, scythes attached to wheelchairs!!

  21. Re:your new design? on Company Demos Personal Aircraft, Future Jetpack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course, the actual pertinent question is "Would a person willing to strap that thing on their back going to be concerned about safety?" I am going to go out on a limb and say no. So why argue about how safe it is?

  22. Re:This should end well on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if everyone holds on to their previous installations, a 2 year strategy would become quickly (10-15 years) unprofitable. There would be a few more mass nightmares (aka ME) but they would dwindle and die without turning a true profit.

  23. Re:fact: God hates liberals on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is religion that will tell you that your hate hurts you. :) It seems clear that you have had a bad religious experience. That must have been awful, but there are therapists who can help. Hope it works out!

  24. Re:fact: God hates liberals on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    Fuck your hostility. Why do you get up in the morning? What possible purpose does your life have? How quickly will it take for you to be forgotten? These are questions that religion tries to answer, generally in a benevolent manner. Yes, there are extremist and perversions, but that occurs in all things. If there is a wrong way to go about something, a human will find it. So, please tone the hate down a little.

  25. Re:Protest the missions, not tech re: ... protest on DARPA Semifinalists Selected · · Score: 1

    Right, and as long as the media keeps sticking its nose in the military's business, there will be a human in the loop. The military is PC paranoid, if there is even a hint of 'military machine rampage: more at 11' that will be the end of the project. They will take precautions.