Comment: Re:One time experience? (Score 1) 441
"We?" How old *are* you?!
"No one has ever known we were among you. Until now..."
Comment: Re:One time experience? (Score 1) 441
We're talking about Jews, here—there's a difference: One takes things out of your house but the other takes you out of your house.
while were at it
While I find your ideas intriguing, please don't write a newsletter. No one will subscribe to it.
Comment: Re:wow, you have no idea about GLBT issues (Score 5, Informative) 671
India's views on homosexuality are amongst the most hostile on the planet
India's views on inter-racial marriage, hell even marriage within the same race (as it is socially defined) but outside of your own caste is the most hostile on the planet. For that matter, India's views on just about every social issue are extremely hostile. They make the US look like a bastion of liberal tolerance.
Comment: Re:New classification needed (Score 2) 671
We need a new legal category, Asshole. Beyond Guilty or Not Guilty the Asshole standard would be added after guilt or innocence so we could find someone was Not Guilty but still an Asshole.
But then, all of Congress would be in prison. Somehow, I don't think they'll pass something like that.
Comment: At least he doesn't (Score 2) 1237
Comment: Re:Phony studies? How would he know? (Score 1) 1237
With all of these politicians, I'm never sure if they actually are so ignorant to reject science out of hand, or if they are so self-serving that they simply lie about what they actually believe in order to win votes from people who really are ignorant. I tend to think it's the latter, and that that is more despicable.
When it comes to politicians and lawyers (of course, there is considerable overlap), you can always count on the more despicable option.
Comment: Re:This is not surprising at all... (Score 1) 1237
If a creationist says that the Oort Cloud is unscientific, people mock them. But the reality is, it doesn't follow a single tenet of the scientific method. It exists purely because without it, the presence of comets in the solar system would prove that the solar system is too young. So a theoretical "comet-holding" cloud is invented out of thin air because long ages require it, not because of any sort of observation or because the facts led anyone there.
Funny, I thought the Oort Cloud hypothesis had something to do with the existence of long-period comets, their period being easily calculable according to orbital mechanics (but then you probably don't believe in that, either). What's next? Denial of detected background radiation since it is evidence of the Big Bang?
Comment: Re:Yep (Score 1) 195
It's also laughable how they believe there's even a remote possibility that they could swap spectrum with the DoD.
Indeed. The one agency that really could nuke them from orbit, just to be sure ^_^
Comment: Re:Oh come on. (Score 1) 195
And I think it's worth me stating this outright, lest someone claim I am a shill for LS - I think their plan was stupid, their product flawed and their approach totally wrong, and I think that all of those things were obvious from day one.
Which is also why I think the FCC shares some responsibility here.
So, you are saying that the FCC should be a stonewalling, Catch-22ing, dinosaur? Personally, I find it refreshingly modern that they actually let LS try. If LS fucked it up, they have only themselves to blame.