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Comment Re:Hell, no (Score 1) 648

Not only had this better not see one red penny of taxpayer money

Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but it sounds like they are just allowing them to pay less tax. Its not like they are giving them the actual dollar notes from your tax.

If people want to build these things and run them with private money, even for a profit, I don't care. But the second you start taking my money to proselytize your religion, I get VERY agitated.

Yes, agitated, irrational and completely out of control of your dictionary. Try this:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proselytize

How many of the dozen or so open minded atheists do you think are going to willingly walk through the gates? Are you planning to go and get proselytized? Like the theme or not, this is going to influence believers not unbelievers.

Comment Re:He actually reads those mails? (Score 1) 179

I know for a fact that neither Senator Conroy nor anyone in his office ever read any of my emails.

I know this because they replied to each one (eventually) with some form letter that addressed none of the issues I'd raised and was often very wide of the mark. In fact that's pretty standard for everything I sent the Rudd/Gillard government.

Non-garbage In -> Garbage Out.

Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 385

> I actually hate the computers themselves. Computers are fragile, unintuitive things — a hodge-podge of brittle hardware and opaque, restrictive software

Maybe he's just not that good with computers? If computing were easy, I'd go looking for something different to do. On the other hand, I do love it when there's a device / OS / application that just works well and is easy enough for someone like my mum to just "get it".

Andr00oo

Comment Re:Advanced mind maping software? (Score 2, Interesting) 113

You might be right, but my concept of mind maps (and I shamelessly copied the wording from Wikipedia) is that a mind map "is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept". You might be thinking of a Concept Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_mapping

Comment Re:Advanced mind maping software? (Score 1) 113

Mindmap? Its a nice idea, but Mindmaps are really a hierarchy and datacentres aren't really. Lets say you started with your Datacentre in the middle and you had a bunch of branches for the racks and a bunch of branches for the switches. The servers in the racks need to connect to the switches as well. The model doesn't fit that well. Andr00oo

Comment Countless? (Score 1) 429

> countless conclusions in the scientific literature are erroneous

Number of Publications: Finite
Number of Conclusions: Finite
Time taken to count erroneous conclusions: Finite

Countless Conclusions? I don't think so!

A large but unspecified number of conclusions in the scientific literature are erroneous: Not so compelling

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