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Shockingly, the author discovers that a discipline that people devote an entire professional career to learning a fairly small subset of is difficult to pick up in a few hours.

You've got to learn to crawl before you can run !

Hey, here's a tip: crawling sucks!

You've got to learn to crawl before you can run.

Why? Dinosaurs are cool.

Because nobody wants to eat sweet potato with every meal.

Potato, on the other hand...

http://www.qwantz.com/index.ph...

Obligatory Dinosaur Comics: Red grapefruit should be labelled!

1999 called

Did you talk to your grandpa?

Qwantz has it covered!. ..OK. it is unrelated. but my god that domain name in the strip makes me laugh.

All this is presuming that the mass field can be manipulated in a fashion similar to the EM band. A big assumption. Reduced inertia: A safety field for vehicles. It's not the fall that kills, it's the impact. If you impact with the mass of a snowflake, you're probably not going to plow as deep a hole. Localized lowered/raised gravity. Faster vehicles (of all types again) that use less energy to get to speed. Inertialess or lowered inertia drives. If you can diddle with the direction/polarity, you might have a space drive to explore the Solar System a lot faster and more cheaply. And probably a MUCH better payload to fuel ratio. Fly me to the Moon! And possibly a drive that uses electricity directly like an ion drive would be a lot more energetic. "Gravity Polarizers" a la Baron Harkonnen. Also a big aid in construction, both terrestrial and for something like the Beanstalk/Space Elevator to synchronous orbit. And drives for the same. Though I'm not sure I'd want to live in a building that was held up and together by the thing. Power failure could be...your downfall. Someone who knows physics better than I can probably suggest hundreds of places that being able to make the inertial constant a variable would be interesting and practical. And then there's Superman: http://www.qwantz.com/fanart/superman.pdf

Dinosaur Comics, xkcd, and SMBC are all blacked out as well.

Here are some blacked-out webcomics:

• Questionable Content
• Ctrl+Alt+Del
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• The Oatmeal (this one will be hard to take a screenshot of, as it's an animation)
• Dinosaur Comics
• Something Positive
• Nedroid

Incidentally, half of these I hadn't even heard of before today; I only know of them now because they chose to protest SOPA! Also, Penny Arcade isn't blacked out but has an anti-SOPA banner, and XKCD hasn't updated yet.

They can train their AI on the amazing Regret Index.

AI: "I wish I had never heard of herring sandwiches!"

They can train their AI on the amazing Regret Index.

http://www.qwantz.com/regret/

"Future perfect continuous passive, BITCHES."

We should concentrate on figuring out whether God likes poutine.

Fuck whether or not N=NP. Can users handle the power and responsibility of a recycle bin icon on their desktop? This, THIS is the most important open question in Computer Science. Naturally, this too is equivalent to the God Poutine question.

The fact of the matter is, it really wouldn't matter if you killed said cat anyway.

Does it have a vice-mayor?

Does it include a Vice Mayor?

More importantly, the standard kilogram has recently been stolen.

They're ALL cyborgs.

Ah yes, C is good for domain-specific solutions but it doesn't adequately address the issue of multiple inheritance out of the box. (reference)

But they're so creepy. They're creepy and even T-rex is afraid of them.

I want to hear you had to go to the hospital for an emergency maxilofacial reconstruction.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1579

Dino Comics
Saturday morning breakfast cereal
Akimbo Comics
Subnormality
In that order.

Hey, I've actually done a comic on this subject! I'm firmly in the "I'd rather you have a cool email address then a suck-up one" camp.

I'm not bitches.

Dentists are totally CYBERNETICISTS.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1530

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1531

If you believe your local religious nutball, it will be sooner than that. 2012 (for those confused in their religiosity, mixing Mayan and Christian myth)

There's a Dinosaur Comics for that!

(Today's comic actually, and very very relevant. :)

Don't take this as a personal criticism, because it's not... For those who want to properly use the phrase "Beg the Question" though, here's a fun explanation:

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=693

Worst WORST case, assume that mankind eventually goes extinct. If we push this high enough, it won't decay. It can serve as our headstone, complete with a record of what went wrong. The cephalopods will thank us.

"I thought cephalopods were underwater animals!" "They played us for suckers!"

Dinosaur Comics perhaps?

That is sad, yet also awesome:

It is totally sawesome!

These people. If you had a code plenty of people who figured they needed the "real meds" would use it wrongly. Of course in your case it's worse since the effective medications to suppress coughing are mainly opiates so if you don't have a long history with the doc they may worry you are trying to score some drugs.

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001339.html

It was handled by one sentence: 'It's surprising there was no dissension' -- it sure is!

This is a technique called Lampshade Hanging. Here is a recent Dinosaur Comics about it.

I really wanted to like the finale, but this ruined it. I could no longer identify with the characters.

Abandon all technology? Frak. That. Felgercarb.

Oblig. Dinosaur comic: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000239.html

Is Heaven overwhelmingly populated by racists?

The internet is serious business.

Also,
http://qwantz.com/archive/001377.html

He's just imitating T-Rex?

As an Irish person I'm glad that something is being done about bullying. I was bullied at school a lot and when not being beaten was subject to horrendous psychological bullying.

It's Irish Evil, I tell ya! http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000816.html

Q.E.D.

Sport? So you would compete at this? How's that work, exactly?

Is it for people who lose at sex?

Or to put it another way, failure is just success rounded down.

That begs the question, is the English language prescriptive or descriptive? I mean if the term "narrowband" is used more often to mean low bandwidth, doesn't that suggest that the definition of the term has evolved?

I don't know why, but I think this post would make an excellent dinosaur comic. (http://www.qwantz.com/)

Right! Mod me off-topic! But I had to say it! :P

I'm saving the pie for "pi approximation day" which is the 22. of july (22/7 = 3.1428571428).

Like this guy:
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000955.html