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Comment Re:You are an idiot (Score 1) 562

Kennedy was more conservative then reagan, poppa bush, or W. Back then they could balance budgets. Now, we have uneducated masses voting in neo-cons who speak of balancing budgets, stopping illegals,and getting to the moon, but do the exact opposite. Sadly, these followers ignore results and simply listen to rhetoric. Neo-cons have fucked up education in America. Hell, reagan and W grew gov more than all other president EXCEPT for lincoln and FDR who were dealing with real issues.

Wow, this gets a "+5, Insightful"?

"Neo-cons" were Democrats that defected when Clinton didn't stringently support Israel. By what twisted logic do you propose for how they fucked up education?

Kennedy was a centric Democrat from the days before that party shifted to the left. His support of the moon mission was a political statement after a series of political mistakes.

Maybe the lack in education is dire. You might want to learn about "transference".

Comment Japanese quake helped (Score 2) 333

An early estimate of the 8.9 magnitude quake's effect on the planet shows it sped up rotation by about 1 microsecond.

So all we need is enough huge earthquakes to change the day by an hour -- ergo, no more need for daylight saving time! Okay, there might be a few undesirable side-effects...

Games

Submission + - Duke Nukem Forever Trailer, Release Date May 2011 (dukenukem.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A new announcement from Gearbox Software promotes a new trailer for Duke Nukem Forever as well as a newly published release date for the game on PC, X360 and PS3. The release is slated for May 3rd 2011 in North America and May 6th for everywhere else. Additional information and the trailer is available at http://www.dukenukem.com/#?trailer

Submission + - The End of Scarce Oil and Atmospheric CO2 Problems (theglobeandmail.com) 1

Saysys writes: n September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”

oule says it now has “a library” of fossil-fuel organisms at work in its Massachusetts labs, each engineered to produce a different fuel. It has “proven the process,” has produced ethanol (for example) at a rate equivalent to 10,000 U.S. gallons an acre a year. It anticipates that this yield could hit 25,000 gallons an acre a year when scaled for commercial production, equivalent to roughly 800 barrels of crude an acre a year.

Comment Prairie Web Companion? (Score 1) 175

I would have preferred a sentiment indicator instead of a simple filter. If only good reviews are searchable, does that mean every one listed as a search result will "above average". Seems like this will lead to more confusion and mistaken belief that Google curates the web instead of just presenting it, warts and all.

I wonder if this will affect movie reviews. Hey! Why can't I find "Ishtar" anymore?

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