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Comment Re: teamâ½ Â s (Score 1) 211

Off topic so I'll delete my karma bonus for this post but... Your sig interested me so I researched it. And while I don't claim to side with Ms. Rand, she didn't actively seek Medicare/Social Security--in fact, she fought against getting it but, after several arguments, gave in and simply gave her power of attorney to a loved one who signed her up. The relative assumed it was "ok" because "she paid into it..."

Comment Doesn't Mean A Thing in Anime (Score 1) 373

Doesn't mean a thing in modern anime--aside from those classic 80s series like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or the original Gundam. The weight of death in anime is such that most people outright deny when their favorite character is dead--and 9 times out of 10 are right. From wishing them back to life to beating up death, meeting them in a parallel world or just plain figuring out they faked their own death...

Comment NO. (Score 1) 480

basic human rights must be those that are necessary for the healthy production, growth and continued life of a human being in reasonably respectable conditions. Maybe after an overwhelming majority of all people on this planet have these rights we can consider expanding it to "access to a world-wide communication network". Until then there's an overwhelming majority of peoples in all countries and societies that simply don't *need* the internet.

Comment Scouts (Score 1) 314

While I can't stand the organization for its politics, policies, origins, higher-up administrators and more recent scandals, I will admit that going out and camping once a month with zero electronics helped give me the patience I need to proudly say amongst a group of internet addicted college-student peers: "Nah, I'll check [my e-mail] later."

Comment Can we please stop this shit? (Score 1) 116

I'm so tired of this crap. The Greek's stole from the Egyptians. The Romans from the Greeks. Great artists always imitate and copy from their predecessors so they can learn--Science and Technology should be no different. Progress is going to crawl to a greedy halt if we keep up this patent bullcrap. Ultimately society becomes a better place when people do things for the greater good. Thank god Penicillin wasn't patented. Putting a patent on a strand of DNA is ridiculous. I just wish I was old enough to have thought of patenting the patent process.

Comment Its called Cooking (Score 2) 570

If more people cooked their own food they'd have not only a better appreciation of it and be more likely to eat everything they made (and eat healthier), but would save money and stop the wasteful practices of many prefab food companies. I know a lot of these companies sell their excess food to one another (or use it in other products), but I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the "30% waste" is on the developer's end, not the consumers.

Comment Re:fabulous... (Score 4, Interesting) 86

A device that can help us find lost people, victims in disaster areas and potentially dangerous criminals seems doesn't sound like anything but trying to solve new problems.
But I'll be the first to admit that the article scared the ever living crap out of me. If I was some kind of rogue agent sent to blahblahdystopianrebelsblahblahblah I'm sure I'd be really scared too.

Comment Sand? (Score 1) 691

I am not a physicist. But I've read somewhere that sand can work better than water since it would seal in the radiation when it turns to glass...again this is probably just science fiction being spread through the tubes and anyone who reads this should know I only got the idea from another news site...but is there any legitimacy to this claim?

(Also: Water, on a coastal plant, is considerably easier to get and transport than sand).

Comment Actually (Score 1) 465

Actually, most of the world pre-WWII thought Hitler was one of the best and more brilliant leaders of the 20th century. Especially following the Olympic games. He was even praised as being multicultural and liberal during the Olympics (which, in case you didn't know, was the Reich's first true and widest international showcasing). Mind you he temporarily took down all the anti-Semitic signs, forced the citizens to treat the international guests like pampered kings and queens and hid any evidence of his anti-[insert one of several groups here] throughout the entirety of the games. But the Third Reich was thought of as a peaceful, wonderful and even Utopian society by the masses at the time. Heck--the Nuhrenburg Rally canceled immediately prior to the "justified" invasion of Poland was going to be themed around "Peace" that year. Of course, later we found out the invasion was entirely unjustified and the Polish attacks on the Reich were fabricated...etc...etc...

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