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• Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
  I'll take the nuke plant, please. It's safe, it's clean, it produces FAR more energy than other green power sources would, the cooling towers make an awesome horizon, it'll drive off any paranoid, fearmongering neighbors, and if the USA gets...
• Commented on NASA: water on the moon
  Just a note: "significant" has a very specific scientific meaning that doesn't always overlap with its lay usage. Finding "a significant amount" simply means "we have numbers to prove we aren't imagining this." It doesn't sound as dramatic, but for...
• Commented on Richard Metzger on Ayn Rand
  I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Ayn Rand's philosophy, despite having read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Neither of those have a thing to do with her philosophy, or any philosophy. Fairy tales generally don't. And these are, indeed, fairy...
• Commented on Solar sails to take flight
  the target of the third is about 900,000 miles away, in a popular "hang out" zone for traditional satellites collecting scientific data. Just say "Lagrange point" and be done with it. This isn't a mainstream news site, you don't have...
• Commented on Age of the Informavore
  So lolcats DOES have a flavor!...
• Commented on Science fiction as a predictor of the present
  I would like to partly disagree with Cory's post, speaking from the vantage point of the consumer. I don't read science fiction for the fiction. I don't read it for the characters, or the plot, or the reflections it has...
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  That being said, I don't see why people aren't free to fill in the gaps with whatever the hell they want to. Because the next step is to imply the bullshit is as true as what comes before and after...
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  What's the point of an anti-vaccine lobby? It's not profitable. Like hell it ain't. If you can scare people away from proven and testable alternatives, there's no end to the hokum you can sell them. Vaccines are expensive as hell...
• Commented on NASA to irradiate monkeys
  But we do have our priorities and when it comes down to it, the advancement of human technology is far inferior to the lives of other animals on the planet I have my own priorities, thank you, and I'm very...
• Commented on Japanese hidden camera show: Panic Face King
  Ah! Now I see. I've been assuming people would take the logical next step and transfer their offense to the cultural elements which give rise to this sort of entertainment. For the same reason that busting any number of drug...
• Commented on Japanese hidden camera show: Panic Face King
  First of all I'm not criticizing, merely hoping to point out where the real test of values lies. How much moral offense is multiculturalism worth? The fashionable use of the term is to disguise the cherrypicking of cultural aesthetics while...
• Commented on Japanese hidden camera show: Panic Face King
  I enjoy threads like these, where people get their first taste of real multiculturalism. Did you think Japan was all kawaii desu ne and sexual harassment? Every nation has its less-desirables, the figurative uncle that you have to invite over...
• Commented on Invasion of the giant blobs of "sea mucus"
  Blogpolitik, comrade. It's considered poor form not to link to the post of the blog you found the story on, even if that blog is linking to another blog linking to the actual story. For unpopular but virally durable stories,...
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  And has joined the path of SCIENCE!...
• Commented on San Francisco police officer arresting skateboarder: "I'll break your arm like a fckng twig."
  #111 I am arguing for saying "yes sir". Where has civility gone? Awfully one-sided view of "civility" you got there. We don't see the beginning of the conversation, but I'll wager the cop never said so much as "please." Seems...
• Commented on San Francisco police officer arresting skateboarder: "I'll break your arm like a fckng twig."
  the potential of the situation led to the need for a definitive end. Only valid in situations that show some indication of escalating, which this certainly didn't. It was a skater kid, what the hell would you expect, Shakespeare? He...
• Commented on San Francisco police officer arresting skateboarder: "I'll break your arm like a fckng twig."
  In all this talk about what happened, it's important not to miss what didn't happen: the skater didn't get tased seven times, beaten within an inch of his life, and hauled in for resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. In...
• Commented on Wingnut extreme: Glenn Beck says "Story of Stuff" is Commie propaganda
  So an appeal to morality is refuted by an appeal to common belief? I am outraged, good sir....
• Commented on G20 police uses arrested student as trophy in group photo
  As someone in the last thread said, these are good people doing a hard job. You can't really begrudge them a pleasant photo op here and there. I'm wondering what the best long-term solution is for preventing this kind of...
• Commented on G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
  #74 He concedes that the device is powerful enough to cause permanent auditory damage, but that it is only meant to be used for a few seconds at a time. In the same way tasers are only meant to be...
• Commented on More on the LRAD sound cannon at Pittsburgh G20 protests
  #35 Danlalan: perhaps recognizing that they are just people doing a tough job Firemen are just people doing a tough job. Construction workers are just people doing a tough job. Cops are, on the whole, schoolyard bullies who never grew...
• Commented on French burlesque film: The Dancing Pig
  The end bit at 2:07 where they show off the puppetry is absolutely horrifying....
• Commented on Al Franken reads the Fourth Amendment to DoJ official at PATRIOT Act hearings
  #21 has it right, I believe. Requiring a name makes it very clear that the subject of the warrant must be an individual. Requiring "a description" alone can be twisted to mean pretty much any group of people that the...
• Commented on Lamp that runs on human blood
  I wonder how toxic the chemicals involved are. I wonder how toxic the production of those chemicals is. Not at all. Just because something uses the word "chemical" doesn't mean it destroys the environment and kicks puppies. The most dangerous...
• Commented on Results of Creative Commons' "noncommercial use" study
  Oh damn, there's one point I forgot to address. But in my experience, users are a lot more willing to contact, and the whole process is a lot more like 'hey can I use this here?' 'yeah, of course' rather...
• Commented on Results of Creative Commons' "noncommercial use" study
  #4: I hate the idea of telling someone 'yeah you can use my work, but now you have no say in how you license your own work.' It sort of tears apart the idea of derivatives holding up on their...
• Commented on Results of Creative Commons' "noncommercial use" study
  NC and it's cohort ND are terrible license addons. They're... the best word I can think of is poisonous. They sound like such good ideas: "Hey, with this NC thing no one can steal my shit and make money off...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  I think the most surprising thing, in these comments and those of the previous Mason thread, is the complete absence of Simpson's references. Personally, I think the signs point directly to moderator conspiracy. Not much else could explain it....
• Commented on Space Shuttle scheduled to land near LA this evening, big sonic boom expected
  Listen in yourselves: http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/played...
• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  It really pleases me when I don't have to play devil's advocate for you people. I'll happily let someone else be the voice of dis-impassioned optimism for a change and instead join in with the hooting and the throwing shit....