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Comment: Re:I know they say it's throwing your vote away... (Score 1) 350

by mog007 (#36187914) Attached to: Congress Makes Deal To Renew Patriot Act For 4 Years

Seems to be that your net effect is nil regardless. If your lesser of two evils party of choice lost an election by a single vote, then you have an influence. But that doesn't happen. So you have no effect. The odds of a third party candidate are exactly the same as the odds of you being the deciding vote in a fight between the donkeys and elephants, so wouldn't it feel better to actually pick the person you actually believe in, and not the person you think is "safe"?

Comment: Re:Does it matter? (Score 1) 916

by mog007 (#36066644) Attached to: Evolution Battle Brews In Texas

That happened to Biology during the early part of the 20th century, in the US. Because of the Scopes' trial, Biology books avoided anything to do with evolution. Since evolution is the cornerstone of Biology, there wasn't much the books could go into. As time went on, the publishers started to get less worried, and started putting more material in the books. Then, when the SCOTUS ruled Creation Science to be religion back in the 80s, the Biology textbooks really got going again.

If you take out the big bang, you would be doing the same thing to the Physics class as was done to the Biology class, back in the 40's and 50's.

Comment: Re:First in the pool (Score 1) 229

by mog007 (#36024934) Attached to: What Developers Want From the Wii's Successor

Nintendo is allowed to have a flop or two at this point. The rebounding they made with the Wii has given them enough money to throw away at new consoles, they could probably release two bombs back to back and just be back to pre-Wii days. Sega tried to be first to the game with the Dreamcast because of the shitty position they were left in with the Saturn. If Sega had amassed success with the Saturn, they probably would have been safe to release the Dreamcast as early as they did.

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