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• On the post: DailyDirt: Should Touch Typing Replace Cursive?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2014 @ 05:59am

  Re: Writing as a study

  What the hell are you talking about? My son was "communicating" at a far younger age than me because of computers and phones. We are far more "literate" than we were a few decades ago. Who cares if the spelling is a bit off.

• On the post: Father Sues School After It Brings In Cops To Question His Son About Drawing Of A Person Being Hanged

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 08:34am

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  This is a great story. It is a perfect example of the encroachment of the nanny state. In what world is harassing and traumatizing an autistic kid "helping" the situation. Now, apparently talking back to your kid is "abuse". Unless a parent is torturing their kids, it is ALWAYS better just to leave the kid in the parents care.
  
  This kid will remember this horrific situation for the rest of his life. These social workers and busybodies are evil people.

• On the post: Father Sues School After It Brings In Cops To Question His Son About Drawing Of A Person Being Hanged

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 08:29am

  Re: Re:

  Or, vote libertarian.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Alternative Energy

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2014 @ 06:18am

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  The only thing I like about this project is it is NOT funded by government. It is very likely to fail, but I'd rather it fail with private money, not my tax money.

• On the post: If Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Really Believes Netflix Gets Bandwidth For Free, Will He Pay Netflix's Bandwidth Bill?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 30 May, 2014 @ 11:36am

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  Robber Barons ... brought to you by government created monopolies.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Who Needs A Neural Interface?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 06:33am

  Melatonin

  Jet lag was already solved, by the hormone melatonin.

• On the post: Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 27 May, 2014 @ 12:44pm

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  There is a difference between accuracy and precision. Most watches are precise but may not be accurate. A broken watch is neither.
  
  Being right twice a day doesn't matter if you don't know when it is right.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Diet Myths

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 24 May, 2014 @ 06:48am

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  Exercise has little or nothing to do with weight loss. In fact, it has been negatively correlated to weight loss, mainly due to an increased appetite that accompanies exercise.
  
  The main problem is sugar, especially fructose, the sugar from fruit. Sucrose (table sugar) is 50/50 glucose and fructose. Glucose can be used by the muscles directly; that is why insulin regulates its level in your blood. Fructose must be converted in your liver, however, the bad news is some of it goes directly to fat without even becoming usable by your body (this percent increases when the liver is overwhelmed). Diets with high fructose (fruit juice, soda) lead to obesity because you are basically drinking fat. Plus, it strains your liver to be digesting fructose.
  
  The reason fruit is fine is it contains fibre which regulates the release of fructose in your bloodstream, which helps it not overwhelm your liver.

• On the post: Should Revealing Fracking's Chemicals Be A Crime?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 03:31pm

  Re:

  There right here. Go search the internet. Most companies list their ingredients:
  http://www.halliburton.com/public/projects/pubsdata/Hydraulic_Fracturing/fluids_disclosure.html

• On the post: Should Revealing Fracking's Chemicals Be A Crime?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 03:29pm

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  Deregulation did spur people to take Liar loans. Deregulation didn't require SELLERS of derivatives to get ratings, rather than BUYERS. Deregulation didn't bail out all those large companies, who should have been allowed to crash and burn. Those 1% who took all the risks? Yeah, the US government bailed them out. Focus your anger on the people who really caused this.
  
  Regulations protect businesses from competitors, not you from businesses.

• On the post: Should Revealing Fracking's Chemicals Be A Crime?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 03:26pm

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  John, I dare you to start a company and not incorporate. It is not responsibility people are trying to avoid, but liability. Liability so when someone burns their lips at the small corner coffee shop, you don't lose your house and your kids college tuition.

• On the post: Should Revealing Fracking's Chemicals Be A Crime?

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 09:29am

  Disclosure

  Many companies already disclose ingredients. All hazardous products must have an MSDS, so fracking fluid already had safety instructions. Just search "fracking fluid msds".
  
  Here's one of the "benefits" of fracking no one talks about. The US greenhouse gas emissions are at their 1994 level. This is because natural gas replaces coal in power generation.
  
  You'd think all the greens would be jumping for joy, given the US got a rough ride for not ratifying Kyoto. But no, just silence. It actually makes me relieved, because now maybe these greens will pull their head out of the sand and realize that prevention is impossible, and mitigation is the only solution.

• On the post: Georgia To Protect Execution Pharmacists From Transparency So They Can Execute Disabled Man

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 21 May, 2014 @ 07:14am

  Re: Death Penalty

  I have a morality problem with executions. The man pulling the switch is a murderer, and is going to hell. It is as simple as that. And appeals to authority ("I was just doing my job") don't work, because that would allow any member of a repressive regime to disgustingly claim the same.
  
  Killing someone, not in self defence, is wrong.

• On the post: Texas Grand Jury's Use Of A 'Shooting Simulator' Questioned After Police Cleared In Every Shooting Incident Over The Last Decade

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 15 May, 2014 @ 06:28am

  Alternate explanation?

  Or ... it could be that most cops are good cops and don't like to kill people indiscriminately. But that doesn't seem to fit Tim's narrative of "all cops are evil."
  
  It is funny, for paranoid people, evidence that contradicts their beliefs is used as PROOF for them.

• On the post: Xbox One Caves Again: Console Will Now Be Offered Sans Kinect

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 14 May, 2014 @ 11:40am

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  MS has never been good at naming revisions. The only sane people are Android, who use that archaic "alphabetical" convention.

• On the post: Xbox One Caves Again: Console Will Now Be Offered Sans Kinect

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 14 May, 2014 @ 11:38am

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  As someone who has a 75" TV, I believe it matters. That is a 50% increase in pixel density.
  
  But even if it doesn't matter now, it will matter in a few years, when big TV's are cheaper.

• On the post: History Repeating: Google Glass Getting Same Treatment As Walkman And Cameras Once Did

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 02 May, 2014 @ 06:49am

  Re: Re: Re: Invalid comparison

  Pretend to talk on the phone while videotaping. Just turn your head 90 degrees from what you want to film. Simple.

• On the post: History Repeating: Google Glass Getting Same Treatment As Walkman And Cameras Once Did

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 02 May, 2014 @ 06:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Invalid comparison

  That is a pretty depressing attitude. That the government, THAT YOU ELECTED, is impossible to control, so lets just throw our hands up and bitch about Google.

• On the post: Driver Finds Himself Surrounded By Cops With Guns Out After Automatic License Plate Reader Misreads His Plate

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 06:30am

  Re: non-violent "crime" met with lethal force?

  Zip, the story you link to had the kid driving a huge truck out of control near a college campus. Did you want a few students dead before it is appropriate to use guns?

• On the post: Driver Finds Himself Surrounded By Cops With Guns Out After Automatic License Plate Reader Misreads His Plate

  

  ChrisB ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 06:26am

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  This is just idiotic. Situations with stolen cars can quickly escalate into life or death. You ask, "What is the threat?" How about 1 ton of steel? There are many reports of cops being seriously hurt and people killed when criminals try to run in a stolen car.
  
  As long as the driver doesn't do something insane, like get out the car and run towards the cops, everything will turn out fine.

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