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Chemical Element 110 To Be Named
An anonymous reader writes "According to Nature Magazine, chemists will vote in Ottawa, Canada this week, and are expected to approve the chemical element 110's informal moniker, 'darmstadtium', and give it the chemical symbol Ds. The title honors the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (called GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made. It seems that 'disputes over claimed sightings of new elements have [previously] led to acrimonious and nationalistic battles over naming', but not in this case."
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Surely a pound of this stuff must perform better than some of my past tech stock investments...
Dear Open Source Community.
The time has come to wage jihad against the fuckers at Microsoft Corporation. I do not mean aggressive terrorist tactics such as those used by followers of that so-called "religion of peace, tolerance, and understanding", but PASSIVE attacks. The time has come for Microsoft to reap the seeds of the shit they have sown.
If you have a Windows-based PC, do NOT patch it for blaster. Let it get infected and take no action. Let the OSS "distributed network" result in a massive DDOS the likes of which those Redmond fuckers have never imagined in their wildest dreams. Maybe this will teach Microsoft to hire DECENT developers instead of the brainless fuckwads they employ now.
Let Microsoft perish in the fires of hell (or at least, disappear from the web for a few weeks).
Get it before its geslashdotten
Well, we already have a Nobelium and a Mendelevium. So how about Nobelievium? We could give it the chemical symbol Bs.
I'm expecting a large quantity of Bs to be discovered, once it has been identified!
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
This topic made me think of a conversation I once had with a pointy headed boss of mine, Shane DeGary.
This guy was dumb.
I mean really, really dumb.
I can't remember what the topic was, but I said to Shane something like this: 'All matter has 3 states, liquid, gas and solid. I think some people are arguing that there is also a fourth state, plasma, but I don't understand that one.'.
Basic stuff, right?
Not for Mr. DeGary.
He argued with me until he was blue in the face that day. He didn't believe or understand what I was saying.
At some point I thought I was getting through to him, he put his hand on something metal and he said 'how do you explain this?'
I said 'It's in it's solid state Shane. You know like when water is frozen.'.
I 'burnt' myself with that one. I remember thinking that I should have avoided use of the word 'freeze'. It only served to cause his feeble little mind to lock up.
Then he thought he had me, he brought up wood.
I don't remember how the conversation ended. But I find it hard to believe that I made any sort of attempt to explain to him that wood was not an element, but a complicated mixture of elements.
Oh and then there was the day that I tried to explain to Shane that 'cold' doesn't exist.
Think about it.
Heat is actually a long wave radiation. All cold is is the absence of the radiation.
(that is how I imagine it)
Or you could say that heat is the vibration of the molecules. So cold is just the molecules vibrating less.
For years I had an intense hatred for that guy.
I think I was bugged as much by his personality (lack of) as I was by the idea that someone that dense is my boss.
Russia where the element names you.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
Where THE HELL is THAT?
OTTAWA - that sounds like an dying animal...
You probably wanted to say Waschington or New He^Haven, Conn.
It would be an excellent idea to name the new element after the birthplace of our best president of all, Mr. George Walker Bush, GOD bless him.
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