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Comment Re:Terrorists (Score 1) 270

Hey look a frothing-at-the-mouth idiot. I didn't vote for Obama and I've called him out dozens and dozens and dozens on times, but thanks for the amusement. I get no end of laughs when I say anything about Dubya and his defense squad blows their stacks. Then if I call out Obama, even in the very same story at some other point, I get the same thing from the Obama defenders who then bash me and decry "But Bush!!". I don't buy into your partisan bullshit, little troll.

Comment Re:Installable devkits (Score 1) 69

The big draw of the OUYA console was its binary compatibility with Android, letting it use well-known tools such as Eclipse and Xamarin. Yet OUYA fizzled for some reason.

"For some reason"? Were you one of those blind fanbois? It's many issues were pointed out all over the place. Penny Arcade pointed out that it was just mostly hype and then all the Ouya fanbois across the Internet got butthurt. Acting as if the failure of Ouya was some freak accident that no one expected, is revisionist history.

Comment Re:I completely agree (Score 1) 210

Calling someone a "quack like this guy", without any reason to do so, is embarrassing to those of us trying to be objective and scientific. However it is surprisingly common among academics.

He's given plenty of reasons for being called a quack. Mythical proof that he won't share in public, invents academic conspiracies, won't post it to places like arXiv for made-up and patently false reasons, and then falls back to wanting to keep it to himself so that he can work on it alone and because someone is going to steal credit for it. Those are all tell-tale signs of quackery.

I have seen outright hostility. I have seen expressed interest that leads to non-communication without reasons. I have had the "crackpot" label leveled against me. And I have seen, above all else, a total lack of expressed interest or any effort at analysis, by academics.

I'm sure you have, but that's because there are tons of charlatans out there hawking phony proofs. You actually have to work to prove yourself just like all the other scientists/mathematicians/etc in front of you.

These are the behaviors of a group who feel their gravy train is threatened. And yes it is.

Yep, the fallback of the quack. Despite the fact that there are numerous examples of scientists and mathematicians who have come along with ideas that threaten and change established theory and persevered to prove themselves. On the other hand, the quacks and charlatans just hide behind their persecution complex.

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