Comment Re:CNN story (Score 0, Offtopic) 638
Given that these days "educated" is pretty much a synonym for "indoctrinated", I'm not sure you'd get a consensus that having spent more time sitting in a classroom is necessarily a positive trait.
Comment Re:Welcome Back... (Score 1) 350
While I agree that both sides are not stellar examples of morality, only one of them brainwashes their children. In my opinion, this is sufficient to make it clear-cut.
Comment So... (Score -1, Flamebait) 752
Have you seen the terrible videos of looting and raping in Japan, like in New Orleans and Haiti?
Oh, wait...
Comment Re:Chapter 1 (Score 1, Funny) 146
Political incorrectness.
Comment Re:Pointless Article (Score -1, Troll) 828
By all means, have yourself a gay Christmas!
Comment Re:This is only temporary (Score 2, Informative) 471
It's close to paying back every dime it borrowed, and it's now almost certain that the taxpayers will ultimately pay very little for saving GM.
Who were you calling stupid, sonny?
Comment Re:Next question (Score 1) 471
Yep. My goal is to expand this post a bit, and then copy and paste into every misinformed anti-electric car post on
Submission + - Adventures in Very Recent Evolution (nytimes.com)
Third Position writes: Ten thousand years ago, people in southern China began to cultivate rice and quickly made an all-too-tempting discovery — the cereal could be fermented into alcoholic liquors. Carousing and drunkenness must have started to pose a serious threat to survival because a variant gene that protects against alcohol became almost universal among southern Chinese and spread throughout the rest of China in the wake of rice cultivation.
The variant gene rapidly degrades alcohol to a chemical that is not intoxicating but makes people flush, leaving many people of Asian descent a legacy of turning red in the face when they drink alcohol.
Many have assumed that humans ceased to evolve in the distant past, perhaps when people first learned to protect themselves against cold, famine and other harsh agents of natural selection. But in the last few years, biologists peering into the human genome sequences now available from around the world have found increasing evidence of natural selection at work in the last few thousand years, leading many to assume that human evolution is still in progress.
The variant gene rapidly degrades alcohol to a chemical that is not intoxicating but makes people flush, leaving many people of Asian descent a legacy of turning red in the face when they drink alcohol.
Many have assumed that humans ceased to evolve in the distant past, perhaps when people first learned to protect themselves against cold, famine and other harsh agents of natural selection. But in the last few years, biologists peering into the human genome sequences now available from around the world have found increasing evidence of natural selection at work in the last few thousand years, leading many to assume that human evolution is still in progress.
Submission + - Journalists plot to kill stories critical of Obama (dailycaller.com)
Third Position writes: Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."
Comment Re:I hope (Score 1) 87
Further, the Internet may be the kind of thing for which once it becomes a completely corporatized, monotized entity, there may not be any going back.
Right. Because we were so much better off when the internet was entirely a government supported, non-corporatized, non-monitized entity, where no Evil Commercial Interest darkened our doorstep. We all long for a return to the days of Usenet, telnet, ftp, archie and gopher.
NOT!!
Submission + - Israel attacks international humanitarian convoy (aljazeera.net) 23
chainLynx writes: Israeli forces attacked an international aid flotilla bringing much-needed supplies to the blockaded Palestinian territory of Gaza. Israeli commandos dropped from helicopters onto the ship and used live ammunition, killing at least 10 people and wounding others. The convoy has many noted participants, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
Comment Re:History repeats again ... (Score 1) 430
IBM has a strong record track of helping governments to track citizens, say, remember 1935-1945 era ?
Why was this guy moded down? It's true!
Why is anyone defending these evil bastards? Does supporting open source, for their own gain, really cover that many sins?
Comment Re:Predicting whether a kid will be a Republican. (Score 1) 430
Er, then why is that an overwhelming number of felons are Democrats?
Submission + - Russia doubles price for launching US astronauts (yahoo.com) 4
Third Position writes: NASA on Tuesday signed a contract to pay $55.8 million per astronaut for six Americans to fly into space on Russian Soyuz capsules in 2013 and 2014. NASA needs to get rides on Russian rockets to the International Space Station because it plans to retire the space shuttle fleet later this year. NASA now pays half as much, about $26.3 million per astronaut, when it uses Russian ships.
Comment Re:Dangerous move (Score 1) 182
They aren't working for "free", they're working for the experience. Very, very few people are actually dumb enough to work for no compensation at all. Not all compensation is necessarily monetary.
