Forgot your password?

Comment: Put it another way (Score 1) 219

by ThatsNotPudding (#46474899) Attached to: Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing?
Would we all enjoy an announcement that the Koch Brothers will offer to fully-fund public education on the state level, but only if the state agrees to teach only the political, economic and scientific theory that the brothers approve (with violations being an instant termination)?

Public Education should be just that, not a plaything of the 1%; not for ideological reasons nor for 30 pieces of silver to cover budget shortfalls.

Comment: Best answer (Score 1) 459

by ThatsNotPudding (#46462267) Attached to: The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery
The best answer I've seen as to what happened: this was a failed take-over of the plane (suicide attack, not high-jacking). It didn't work, so no one is going to claim responsibility (along with not tipping their hand at future attempts). And as it went into the sea at speed nearly perpendicular, not much of a debris field, just like the Airbus out of South America a few years ago.

Comment: Careful what you wish for (Score 1) 181

by ThatsNotPudding (#46429367) Attached to: Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint
This reminds me of a Calc lecturer I had that when hearing a request from the hall to slow down his board work, relayed a story that when he was in college, his Calc prof had broken his writing arm but soon taught himself to use his other hand instead.

Once he was healed, he then started using both hands to write on the chalk board during his lectures.

Comment: Keystone XL (Score 1) 247

by ThatsNotPudding (#46429309) Attached to: BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban
This is the exact reason for the Keystone XL pipeline terminating at Houston. It was never for supplying the US domestic market; it is solely for the export of crude (or meta-crude) on the more lucrative international market, resulting in not one penny lower gas prices for consumers.

This is why it's so hard to have respect for the extremist Right supporters: slavishly voting against their own interests in the childish fantasy that by letting billionaires become trillionaires, they themselves - by some inexplicable miracle - will become millionaires instead of the real downward spiral into poverty.
