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Comment Re:STEM is for suckers.. at least now. (Score 0) 454

Lie.
100% of the people who have limited your right to privacy and free speech were domestic, and stopped by LAWYERS!
Neither the Nazis, nor the Japanese, nor the Soviets were ever a threat to American freedoms, but the HUAC, the Nixon purges, the Reagan Total Information Awareness, the Bush 41 New World Order and the Bush 43 Snowden NSA most CERTAINLY were.
Lawyers save your rights, not soldiers.
Just ask the Journalists killed in the Collateral Murder Video!!!

Comment The problem is that the idea "Cheaper than coal" (Score 1) 652

Cheaper than coal is a false assumption error
Coal is subsidized in transit, insurance, pollution caused healthcare and climate change costs.
All these differed costs are borne in TAXES.
Oil receives all the usual tax breaks, about $40 billion / year in the U.S. alone, plus healthcare costs plus the costs of a deepwater Navy and Marine force whose only job at present is keeping the M.E. Oil Business friendly.
Like every problem in nuclear, the issue is "how much does it REALLY cost?".
Subsidies like the federal liability limit, reprocessing costs, shipping and long term (>9000 years) storage costs keep nuclear on the low end of costs by hiding those costs in tax payer money
Coal, of course, leads the pack in carbon dioxide caused climate change. Until ALL those costs are figured in, coal looks cheap, nuclear looks reasonable
And, of course, they aren't and cannot be made so.
So boys, return to your sliderules, show us full cost accounting for ALL long term costs and then get back to us with real numbers.

Comment Re:Well of course (Score 1) 338

The great depression was caused by a stock market and real estate bubble which triggered a massive recession, not by tariffs. Actually with higher tariffs probably it wouldn't have spread abroad so much. And the crisis itself, which started in the most efficient markets possible (the stock exchanges) also proves that adam smith's theories are purely delirious....

OMFUG! An economic LITERATE amongst the Randian clueless clones.
When did the web start growing up?
I mean, idiots are still calling for lower taxes, like 34 years of 78% lower taxes on the top 10% somehow created a lasting peace time boom (not).

Comment And so it begins (Score 0) 338

As racism and homophobia, xenophobia and religious bigotry spread across America thanks to Faux News, the empire crumbles, unable to attract top talent.
Reagan made us a debtor nation, Bush destroyed our claim to moral superiority, our 1% stripmined the mortgage business, clearing 2 trillion in net profits from OUR work
and now, the best and brightest are staying in Europe to study high energy physics, in China to study materials science and civil engineering and in Germany to study manufacturing process
Get ready for poverty, as the wages of low tax, no public investment and provocative faux news become destitution of the American people.
"The Republic, gentlemen, if you can keep it!"

Comment Re:Sounds reasonable (Score 1) 243

At which point his legal rights under U.S. law would have engaged, he would be free to stand silent, the Government has not even claimed it has knowledge of Assange suborning espionage and that, children, means NO COURT WOULD HOLD HIM.
BUT, let Assange disappear into one of those special rendition camps and everyone who ever dared tell the truth about Collateral Murder will be in a dungeon somewhere within a month.
This is a terror tactic used since the Patriot Act was signed, and that is the purpose.
FUD
Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt

The tools of the American Terrorist empire.

Comment Re:Not as simple as teaching how to ... (Score 1) 328

The fact that the system can never be trusted on any individual tells us that the 'false negative' value assigned is pure speculation and entirely without scientific merit.
Thus your hypotheical will always hire the psychopathic liar over the honest PTSD suffering beaten wife who would not dare steal a cent.
You know, like Robert Hansen.

Comment Re: Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007

By all means, show us the facts, and that means repeatable observation available to all.
Wait, you cannot as a religious person do this
So I repeat, only the secular can engage in debate using reason.
I give you the idiot William Lane Craig whose so-called Argument is merely the logical fallacy Petitio Principii (I don't know therefore... or "begging the question" where did first cause come from).

Comment Re:Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007

Wrong. The university has both authority and declared purpose which, among other things, permits them to eject ANY nonenrolled student (think homeless wanderers) at will for violating the declared purpose of the University set down in the Charter.
NOT like a park at all.
Do try again!

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