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Commented on Hope is fading
Crashgrab wins the thread with "Maybe if the Republicans would come off the right-wing cliff of oblivion or the Green Party would actually start fielding candidates from the bottom-up (instead of trying to win the presidency before they even have...
Commented on Police officer tasers a 10-year-girl who resisted being taken to a youth center
I have no argument with that "broader point", thanks for the clarification. I am apparently the only "spare the rod and spoil the child" type person (using your term) around here who is willing to admit it, and defend my...
Commented on Hacked climate scientists' emails in context
Having dealt with scientists for much of my professional career, and built quite a bit of email infrastructure, I'd be surprised if an email leak of this magnitude did not expose a great deal of arrogance, mean-spiritedness, and questionable presentation...
Commented on Police officer tasers a 10-year-girl who resisted being taken to a youth center
Hmmm, I think you are engaging in stereotyping, Mr. Spocko. I do not believe most people fit into such easy categorizations....
Commented on Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries
_kevitivity quoth: For the record, it should be noted that waterboarding, which isn't torture, was only used on two very high value prisoners (Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohammed). Interesting claims. Where do you get your information? My sources disagree;...
Commented on Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries
If you only suspect that a great many people truly enjoy the suffering of other living things, you are a true innocent, my friend. Live long and prosper....
Commented on Replacing a switch on an electric shaver
Use a Thorens Riviera, no need for this sort of thing. And much smoother action than a sputnik! Of course if it ever breaks, you'll have one hell of a time fixing it... and it weighs about a pound... but...
Commented on Energy Literacy part One: Energy is invisible
Energy is invisible because it does not physically exist. Gasoline exists, and electricity (sort of) exists, and heat (sort of) exists, and you can conveniently do theoretical work involving an arbitrarily designated common characteristic of these by postulating a synthetic...
Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
Jonathan_v, anonymous@#32, FactWino, Clif Marsiglio, thank you for the links and suggestions!...
Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
Crap. Now that the medical industrial complex has its slimy tentacles inveigled into this thing, you can't buy it any more. http://medicalacoustics.com/Home/LungFlute/Therapeutic Eventually, it will be available by prescription only....
Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
I need one of these for a little girl with CF. I'd rather build it but I'm in for $40!...
Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
Haroun, I must respectfully disagree. I was once a blackleg electrican, and although I have certainly seen some poorly secured screw-type connections I have also seen these cheesy thin rivets fail due to corrosion or bad set. In my own...
Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
Well, yes, Peter, that's part of my point. If it's just failed now and it was built prior to WWII, you should restore rather than replace it, because it has proven itself in the only way that matters... survival of...
Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
As to the rivets, they aren't a bad idea. Light sockets have a tendency to get hot when the light is on, and cool when the light goes off. Enough cycles of hot/cold along with insufficiently torque to the threads...
Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
You're welcome, Mark! I'd help you out with plumbing and wiring if you lived over here on the right coast....
Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
OK, I'm in for one of those too!...
Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
Sure, as long as it was Ma Ferguson!...
Commented on A call to leak photos documenting torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
Anyone leaking the photos in the USA will be prosecuted for child pornography....
Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
I'm going to go buy a Che shirt. Unless I can find one showing Frank Lloyd Wright giving Ayn Rand a jolly good caning....
Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
The decline of civilization would have been better symbolized by your using the new socket, despite it being inferior. As the proud owner of a 180+ year old house (that was once a factory) I spend a fair amount of...
Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
There's a basic dysfunction that is evidenced in many of these comments: In the Real World [tm] not every child heard the instructions given in class. In the Real World [tm] sometimes they were being distracted by other children, or...
Commented on Antony Gormley - let's all go barefoot
Hobbit (author of netcat) has been barefoot for decades now. Pete refused to let him enter the Badtz Maru's engine room, though....
Commented on TSA doesn't understand what "random" means
The searches aren't done competently anyway, despite all the expensive technology and all the fear mongering, so it hardly matters whether they are random or not. I think the whole and entire point is a ritual humiliation of the citizen,...
Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
Having read most of Brown's work, I am convinced that he is playing a game. When he makes historical, etymological, religious, or architectural details pivotal to his books he emphatically gets them wrong. He puts stairs in buildings where there...
Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
Cory, I second Apoxia's recommendation; hie thee down to the local flea market or farmers market and buy a dirt cheap chinese MP3 player. Put nice lanyarded Sennheiser aural interfaces on them (ear buds if you like; I prefer earphones)....
Commented on Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay
Sadly, Americans only like foreign elections when their own favorites are elected. Best of luck to you, Guido....
Commented on Homophobia in Venezuela
You've said that several times. Why? Is there money missing?...
Commented on Three-armed baby costume
I find your comment about crack babies to be insulting and insensitive. And no, I am not kidding, and I am not mocking your political correctness. Your stigmatizing of children of crack-using parents is hurtful and wrong. Stop it please....
Commented on Homophobia in Venezuela
Chavez is a populist demagogue, like Ahmadinejad, Huckabee or Limbaugh. He will be a socialist if the people will vote for a socialist, and a dictator if the people will vote for a dictator. Perhaps he has no true colors....
Commented on Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology
I love eggcorns....

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lhughes commented on Hope is fading
He's a fraud. If you 30 or younger be afraid. You've either signed up for (or you are a victim) of a generation of low wages, unemployment, underemployment, spiraling health care costs, social security costs, property taxes (in blue states) and a crushing federal deficit. If you're not worried then you're probably a looter and on the public dole. Otherwise, do something to change this....
JorgeBurgos commented on Hacked climate scientists' emails in context
Whilst these emails do prove that the crew at CRU are not squeaky-clean PR experts, and that they have made some mistakes in dealing with their critics, they do nothing to disprove any of the science that has been conducted. If there is evidence of fraud, then the affair would be taken in front of a court of law for a fair trial. Because there is no evidence of fraud this will not happen. I would be surprised if anyone at all is even reprimanded by the university, let alone taken to court....
deckard68 commented on Hope is fading
"To end the wars." I believed, like many others, that when Obama-the-candidate said he was for the war in Afghanistan and against the war in Iraq, that he was just saying that about Afghanistan only to win some Republican votes. I thought he was saying it with a wink, and that once in office, he'd say that he was actually for ending both the wars. So he did not fool me, but I fooled myself. My only remaining hope is that the only reason he's continuing to fund the war in Afghanistan is because he's afraid that if he stops...
zyodei commented on Hope is fading
With regards to "self-reliance" - again, I truly do believe that, on an individual level, this is what made America great. Not assuming that others will do stuff for us; and conversely, seeing that if someone is down there is no one but us to lend a helping hand. That's my definition of self-reliance, and on an individual level it has been one of the most powerful goods in the American character. Now, I certainly see where you're coming from - it's hard to crow about American self-reliance when we collectively rely on slave labor in China to make everything...
Volker commented on Hacked climate scientists' emails in context
jrhd | #31 > why are we hellbent on implementing a cap and trade policy? There is no way to stop the warming, we added already too much greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The goal is to limit the temperature increase, for example the Copenhagen conference seems to aim at a 2 C increase limit. This means that we can only emit a certain amount of CO2 in the future. Basically, its the free-marked approach to distributing limited resources. ------------------------------------------- ab3a | #83 > will never be a science until we can test these theories in a controlled manner. Technically...

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