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Comment: Re:No reproduction (Score 4, Insightful) 316

The only reason someone would accuse 9th grade students of scientific fraud is that they are themselves prone to committing fraud.

You don't like the result because you are a computer geek. Any proof that computing gear has negative biological effects challenges your fundamental beliefs. Since this angers you, you respond with hostility and engage in a personal attack.

The reason you bring up fraud is that it's what you would do if you wanted to force a result. People who don't consider that kind of cheat wouldn't jump to that conclusion.

It is certain that these children have a better understanding of the scientific method then you do. They thought of an experiment, tried it and reported the results. Perhaps the outcome was a fluke, perhaps not. If other scientists try to refine their results then the effect will either be proven or refuted. It's called the scientific method.

All you have shown is that you are a truly horrible human being. Your first impulse is to call someone a liar when they say something you don't like. Besides being better scientists, those children are certainly more decent then you are.

Comment: Re:Untrue (Score 3, Interesting) 63

by Required Snark (#43738283) Attached to: Inside One of the World's Largest Data Brokers
Yes, she's lying her teeth out.

Recently I needed a car tow on the weekend. It took me about two and a half hours to get home. When I arrived I immediately went to send out email and I was getting targeted adds for used Mercedes cars and auto loans. They don't need to bother implanting a tracking chip. It would be redundant.

Comment: First assasination? (Score 0) 544

When will the first assassination occur with this weapon? That is the real reason it exists in the first place. As target shooters have already said, it's meaningless for sport shooting because it removes the skill component. For hunting it's like using explosives to catch fish, no fun if for anglers who enjoy the sport.

The target audience (pun intended) is extreme gun geeks, psychopathic hunters and assassins. So who will be the first human victim?

Comment: Re:And a use for kudzu, too! (Score 1) 212

by Required Snark (#43736185) Attached to: Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste
LA Times: Here's why medical pot isn't going away

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/08/local/la-me-holland-pot-councilman-20130308

Bill Rosendahl lifts his walker over the threshold and carries it into the grow room before anyone in his entourage — press secretary, pot shop owner, pot consultant and bud tender — can rush over to help.

Even after 13 hits of radiation and seven rounds of combination chemo, Rosendahl moves steadily, straight as a poplar, past 2-foot-high cannabis plants labeled Hindu Skunk and Humboldt O.G. And, he says, Herbalcure, the Westside pot dispensary we're touring, is responsible for his vigor.

This is what decades of battles over marijuana use have come to in L.A.: A city councilman taking a journalist around to show where he scores his dope.

Fuck you, asshole. My mother died of cancer, and it was literally torture. This was before medical pot was available, so the only pain meds she could get left her incapacitated. It was either suffer agony without the meds, or take them and not be able to function. Either way, she was reduced to a pathetic state of uselessness before she was gone. If I knew back then about how pot can ease cancer pain I would have risked jail to get some to make her final days less horrible.

You are a soulless worm without a shred of human compassion. You are pig ignorant and proud of the fact. Your arrogance matches you stupidity.

You mock those who suffer. Given how many good people die in needless pain, it is obscene that a moral degenerate like you so easily denigrates their tribulations. I wish you and your family nothing but ill.

Comment: Wolfe has a phenominal imagination (Score 1) 33

by Required Snark (#43731039) Attached to: Gene Wolfe To Be Honored At Nebula Awards
Wolfe, besides his outstanding writing talent, has an equally brilliant imaginative streak. If you get a copy of Endangered Species it contains four stories in the Thag sequence.

The hook in these stories is that people can leave the universe and live Not In Nature, or NIN. (This has nothing to do with Nine Inch Nails.) It's an alternative to dieing. Going outside of nature means you can travel in history, but that includes fiction and myth as well as time travel. The only time I ever encountered a similar idea is in an Alfred Bester short story, which is the kind of grand company that Wolfe deserves. Do your self a favor and read his works. If you do you will come back to them more then once. They're that good.

Comment: First person killed wiht a printed gun? (Score 2, Insightful) 713

This is a repost. I first put this up when the previous article about printed guns went up, and I was modded down to minus one million, which was no big surprise. Gun nuts live in a fantasy universe where they are John Wayne, and the bad guys wear black hats and are always destroyed by the guy in the white hat (i.e the gun owner). If you even hint that there are negative consequences from guns, they scream like you are trying to remove their dicks. So I post this again, and I expect the same mod down and moronic replies.

Sill, I would like one pro gun person to admit that a printed gun will kill somebody, and not just some drug dealing child molesting scum, but a real live human being who didn't deserve to die. Like a kid who thinks that it's a toy. So man up for once, and admit that guns kill people. Just face the truth once, and stop complaining that I'm a "stupid liberul", or that you have a constitutional right to own a gun. That's not relevant. Dead people are relevant. So if you have a shred of integrity, stop dodging the question. Who will be the first person to be murdered by a printed gun? And all the other examples that follow:

When will the first murder occur with a printed gun?

When will the first accidental shooting occur with a printed gun?

When will the first child be killed with a printed gun?

When will the first suicide occur with a printed gun?

When will the first robbery occur with a printed gun?

When will the first car jacking occur with a printed gun?

When will the first plane hijack attempt occur with a printed gun?

These are the real world events that no-one in the pro-gun world is willing to acknowledge. It's not a case of if these will happen, but when.

Comment: First murder with a printed gun? (Score 0) 712

by Required Snark (#43626971) Attached to: Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun
When will the first murder occur with a printed gun?

When will the first accidental shooting occur with a printed gun?

When will the first child be killed with a printed gun?

When will the first suicide occur with a printed gun?

When will the first robbery occur with a printed gun?

When will the first car jacking occur with a printed gun?

When will the first plane hijack attempt occur with a printed gun?

These are the real world events that no-one in the pro-gun world is willing to acknowledge. It's not a case of if these will happen, but when.

Guns don't make the person carrying one any safer. Remember Christopher Dorner, the rogue cop in LA? He killed two police officers and wounded three others. These were armed trained professionals and they were knew ahead of time that they were the targets. They weren't stupid, they followed protocol, and they all got shot.

Even if you have a gun, if someone gets the drop on you then you are at their mercy. If you think otherwise you're stupid. Rambo, Chuck Norris, John Wayne, James Bond, etc. are people in movies. That's not the real world. Your chances of pulling out your gun and saving the day are something like your chance of being hit by lighting. Saying that you need guns to be safe is a mark of mental instability. As long as you are within shooting range of a gun you are less safe then you would be otherwise. It's simple physics.

I think the first person to be wounded by a printed gun will be in an accidental shooting. This will happen relatively often, because a lot of untrained people will decide to do this with new cheap 3D printers. I also expect there will be a disproportionate number of shootings involving children, because printed guns will seem like toy guns to them, or they will make a mistake. But hey, as long as you have your little penis substitute to make you feel all manly and tough, why should you care?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/kentucky-accidential-shooting

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/3-year-old-accidentally-shoots-dad-death-family-watches-tv-article-1.1116267

Comment: Re:I learned C when I was a kid. (Score 1) 185

by Required Snark (#43507795) Attached to: Localized (Visual) Programming Language For Kids?
That's why that obscure operation system, Eunuchs, I think it was called, never caught on. It was implemented that that See language, and no one ever really wrote good software in it because the pointer syntax was so bad. Just another one of those dead ends along the road to that most perfect of OSes, Microsoft Windoze VIII.

Comment: Re:Fool question (Start taking your meds) (Score 3, Insightful) 22

by Required Snark (#43507005) Attached to: Weather Delays Antares Launch From VA Spaceport
Yep, the US government is completely against the private launch industry http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50094995/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/spacex-lands-first-us-military-launch-contracts/

Startup rocket company Space Exploration Technologies, which flies NASA cargo to the International Space Station, has landed its first launch contracts for the U.S. military, the company said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force will pay $97 million for a Falcon 9 rocket to launch in 2014 the Deep Space Climate Observatory, a solar telescope that will be operated by NASA. It will also pay $165 million for a Falcon Heavy rocket for the military's Space Test Program-2 satellite, which is expected to fly in 2015.

If you get back on your medication the voices won't bother you so much. All those people who are out to get you will not seem so threatening, and the hidden messages ont TV that only you can understand will not be broadcast any more.

Comment: How Republicans Think (Score 3, Informative) 222

Rodgers is far from the only Republican who thinks that citizens should shut up and do as they are told.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/17/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

"I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet."

-- North Carolina State Senator Tommy Tucker (R), quoted by the Raleigh News and Observer, to Goldsboro News-Argus publisher Hal Tanner who was opposing legislation to change public notice requirements for local government.

Comment: This is irrelevent to politics (Score 1) 542

Change blindness, called choice blindness here, is a psychological phenomena that can occur in almost any context. Putting it in the political realm and claiming that it shows something meaningful is stupid. You could do the same thing with food on a plate, and it would not prove anything about taste.

In the Luis Buñuel film That Obscure Object of Desire two actress play the same role. They don't look very much alike, and there is no logic behind which actress appears in which scene. Many people see the film, and if no one points this out they don't notice anything is strange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Obscure_Object_of_Desire

The phenomena is interesting in and of itself, but this is clearly not research, but a stunt to get publicity.

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