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Comment Re:Simpson's did it!!! (Score 1) 163

by d34thm0nk3y on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:12PM (#48887547) Attached to: Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing

So, if a person teleports in this way, an atheist should be the first to assert that nobody died and that nothing was lost.

If you don't believe in a soul to transfer and you watch a person get destroyed by an energy beam you may condclude that someone died.

Comment Re:Good news (Score 1) 422

by d34thm0nk3y on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:46PM (#48887331) Attached to: Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts

Lucas did an okay job with the prequels. Arguably, he did too good of a job: the players are all too human, and Jar-Jar is too fluid and well-executed for the movie. It clashes with expectations: people want textbook epic heroes and villains played the way modern, bland actors portray them, not complex human characters thrust into an epic fantasy.

Is this a demonstration of Poe's law?

Comment Re:Let's hope (Score 1) 253

by d34thm0nk3y on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:12PM (#48878109) Attached to: IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts

Since when does the IRS decide what the Federal Tax laws are?

Since Obama became president. See the affordable care act subsidies.

Oh my god you people need to take a civics class!

Hint: It's called the Affordable Care Act.

Figuring out how a bill becomes a law is left as an excersize for the reader. I hear there is a catchy song on Youtube that explains it.

Comment Re:Science by democracy doesn't work? (Score 1) 497

by d34thm0nk3y on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:06PM (#48878043) Attached to: Science By Democracy Doesn't Work

You are projecting your religion onto science. Not the other way around.

Comment Re:Just give the option to turn it off... (Score 1) 823

by d34thm0nk3y on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:45PM (#48877733) Attached to: Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret

People will just have to adapt to the fact that you can't trust your hearing to know if a car is coming or not anymore.

We might even have to teach people to look both ways before crossing the street!

Comment Re:address in question (Score 1) 693

by d34thm0nk3y on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:28PM (#48867851) Attached to: Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force"

Prepare yourself and prepare your home for imminent Swat arrival. Give away the dog (if you have one). Evict your roommate (if you have one). Keep all the doors to the outside wide open (so that they don't break them). Keep some fresh coffee in the pot and some fresh cookies on the table (so that the Swat team doesn't get low blood sugar and cranky by the time it reaches your bedroom). And sleep with handcuffs already on (so that they don't think you're trying to resist arrest).

Also, store your infants in the garage.

Comment Re:Domestic war (Score 1) 148

by d34thm0nk3y on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:20PM (#48867743) Attached to: Paris Terror Spurs Plan For Military Zones Around Nuclear Plants

Here is a hint: its not the side whose govt. ignorantly but willingly set up the 791 "no-go" zones where Islamic law is the secular law for the sake of keeping the peace, which it did not get by the way.

You mean the 791 complete fabrications by Fox News?

No-Go zones do not exist and Fox News has publicly apologized for making them up.

One of many references

Comment Re:Holy Carp! (Score 1) 136

by d34thm0nk3y on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @02:53PM (#48858349) Attached to: Drug Company CEO Blames Drug Industry For Increased Drug Resistance

So in other words, the river itself might have a few tenths or hundredths of a percent of a concentration below the therapeutic MIC (potentially of multiple different antibiotics, depending on what factories happen to be located on that river).

People believe the Ganges has healing properties. It would be pretty ironic if that became true due to antibiotic pollution.

Comment Let's not listen! (Score 1) 348

by d34thm0nk3y on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @02:40PM (#48858189) Attached to: Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day

The increasingly anti-science stance exhibited in threads like this is becoming tiresome.

Comment Re:This guy hasn't done his research. (Score 1) 648

by d34thm0nk3y on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @02:34PM (#48858119) Attached to: Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming

Exactly, what can C do that python can't?

Also, expose a buffer overflow vulnerability due to a missing curly brace.

Comment Re:call me skeptical (Score 1) 360

by d34thm0nk3y on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:56PM (#48833943) Attached to: NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record

contradict the fast that we have not had any rising in the past 20 years according to these same people? They call it the "warming hiatus"

I think you have to say 19 years for that cherry-picked date-range statement to be true.

Of course, even that isn't accurate anymore given the article. Maybe you should stop repeating it.

Comment Re:call me skeptical (Score 1) 360

by d34thm0nk3y on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:50PM (#48833879) Attached to: NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record

The title of the article you linked is "Recent slowdown in global warming."

Comment Re:Qualifications (Score 1) 479

by d34thm0nk3y on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:39PM (#48833729) Attached to: Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System

Rants like this forget that there is a SUPPLY problem

And as we all know, supply is completely divorced from demand.

Comment Re:Honest question. (Score 0) 479

by d34thm0nk3y on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:17PM (#48833505) Attached to: Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System

What do you see? ENDLESS articles about how terrible the industry is, how sexist nerds are, how you'll be threatened with rape if you so much as write an Android Pac Man clone...

And then they come onto a supposedly technical site like this one, read a thread about 'diversity', and have all of those preconceptions validated.

Comment Re:Tight Oil Recovery Operations will slow (Score 1) 441

by d34thm0nk3y on Friday January 16, 2015 @12:26PM (#48830557) Attached to: Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now

The many thousands of wells that are/were planned for completion will simply be postponed until the market responds more favorably, but don't kid yourself, they will become feasible again at some point.

That's probably a good thing though. The rate of expansion during the last few years was crazy and obviously not sustainable. I'm not opposed to fracking until we see some more evidence of harm. But, that reckless of an expansion probably isn't a good idea either.

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