Comment Re:Abridged version: (Score 1) 238
There's like, a lot of numbers.. ya'know? that means stuff can happen. If stuff might happen, then stuff can happen because
That's exactly what I got out of the summary. Blathering.
Comment Vic-20 Tank vs UFO (Score 2) 224
I bought a VIc-20 in 1982 to use in my woodworking business. I learned BASIC on it by trying to key in the Tank vs UFO game that was printed in the manual. I don't know if it was all of my typos or errors in the printed listing (both likely), but through debugging that ASCII character game, I got started in the direction that took me to working in IT.
Comment Re:If you're just beaming it down to earth anyways (Score 1) 230
a new idea
Sorry, you lost me there.
Comment Re:Are you kidding (Score 1) 818
I once picked up this book in a bookstore. I read a few pages into the first chapter, where he claims that Republicans believe in beating newborn babies with "sticks, belts and wooden paddles". I stopped reading at that point, figuring that such a partisan shill can't possibly have anything useful to say.
I don't know where and how you were raised, but the references to paddling kids sure resonate with my southern US upbringing. "Spare the rod, spoil the child."
Comment Re:Trolling the Internet (Score 1) 72
"Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net that is used for trawling is called a trawl."
From Wikipedia.
Comment Re:Um no (Score 1) 224
If a King rules a Kingdom, and an Emperor rules an Empire, who rules our Country?
Big money??
Comment Re:Actually, he is wrong. (Score 1) 481
Spreading knowledge of how malaria spreads and how to stop it will stop FAR more cases than a proprietary malaria treatment.
boil water. and explain why, and how (to short a time is almost as bad as not doing it at all). Drain swamps, kill the mosquito.
Knowledge is power...
Correct... internet (knowledge) = long term solution. Treatment = short term. Both have value.
Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 203
I have been preaching this same message for years. I was hoping some of the "stimulus" money the US has spent in the last 4-5 years would be targeted at building network infrastructure.
May I ask where you've experienced this in the past?
Comment Re:I'm on the verge of not caring (Score 1) 107
For the most part you can just live your life. If you are just going about daily business you have little to fear. The problem arises if and when you want to make a significant change to the status quo. Say you want to join the Occupy movement, or advocate against hydraulic fracking, or agitate for criminal proceedings against Wall Street felons. These new law enforcement abilities will be used against you to preserve that status quo that so many powerful people benefit so much from.
Please mod post this up. Explains it all.
Comment Re:Please, correct me... (Score 1) 234
As far as most Americans are concerned Assange is a batshit crazy anti-American loony.
Speak for yourself.
Comment Re:Edison and the most disgusting FUD campaign. (Score 1) 386
Edison will always get my disdain for running the most disgusting smear/FUD campaign that I am aware of.
This animal cruelty binge is really all one needs to know to judge the character of the man.
Comment Re:LOL ... (Score 1) 310
I posted that image on Google+.
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."
