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  1. Re:Raped in an MMO? on Examining Virtual Crimes · · Score: 1

    What, teabagging doesn't occur?

  2. Re:Raped in an MMO? on Examining Virtual Crimes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Halo.

  3. Re:Does it matter that it exists or not? on Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Pour several billion dollars into a hundred different fusion projects done by independent groups of researchers.

  4. Re:How they are doing it? on Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I've got one that just does random actions. Statistically, it has to get solved at some point.

  5. Re:In the pirate world on Lego Creating Multiplayer Online Game · · Score: 1

    Woosh!

  6. Re:Why does race or gender matter? on Google, Apple Call Workers' Race & Gender Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    Well, there are *some* averages where it shows up.

    Typically in the form of things like lactose tolerance, alcohol tolerance, vitamin D absorption rates, that sort of thing. You know, shit that doesn't actually matter that much.

  7. Re:Save everything that can move away fast enough? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 0

    Ooops! Godwin's law. :b

  8. Re:Save everything that can move away fast enough? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That campaign has the effect of making them 400% more delicious to Dwarf Fortress players.

  9. Re:Pro-piracy on Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game · · Score: 1

    Actually, due to an error in their title card formatting Steamboat Willie was improperly copyrighted, and technically is now in the public domain.

  10. Re:I feel split in this matter on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    On hand hand this is malignant censorship, the forebode to a society with no free information. On the other hand, this is 4chan.....

    First they came for 4chan, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a 4chan member...

    Then they came for... well, they didn't come for anyone else. There wasn't really a good, next logical step in the continuum. The rest of the Internet was safe. Story over.

    Then they came for profit.

  11. Re:GATTACA on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    That's why I'm working on isolating the human spirit gene.

  12. Re:GATTACA on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    Too bad we have the ninth and tenth amendments, eh?

  13. Re:The "Fab Four"..... on "Calvin and Hobbes" Creator Bill Watterson Looks Back With No Regrets · · Score: 1

    The whole point of Garfield was to become a money-making franchise. That's how it was initially pitched, that's what he angled for, and in that respect he succeeded wildly.

  14. Re:Xcept for the fact that... on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 1

    I've compared the reactions of new users to each, and The GIMP comes out worse universally.

  15. Re:Ridiculous on The Neuroscience of Screwing Up · · Score: 1

    Edison didn't believe in Ohm's law, so it isn't surprising it took him that long to get his labmonkeys to make something useful.

  16. Better Option on Impressive Robot Hand From Shadow · · Score: 1

    I would much prefer it if we were using Vorlon technology for our synthetic hands.

  17. Re:Public address on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    How about wagnerr@umich.edu? /completelymissingthepoint

  18. Re:Controlled release? on Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought · · Score: 1

    We just need to get together you and six other guys.

    Should we embark with cats, or not?

  19. Re:consequences on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    I've heard that humans have one of the higher ratios of bone-to-flesh among the mammals.

  20. Re:Now I'll never finish my fortress! on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    (d)esignate -> Butcher

    There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.

  21. Re:who streams music? on MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem · · Score: 1

    By "massive CD collection" he means "Laserdisc collection".

  22. Re:Also, they don't care on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Well, once you start caring in a negative way you're going to actively start avoiding something.

    "could care less" implies apathy.

  23. Re:They believe it because it's true on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 5, Informative

    ^ Deary, I.J.; Irwing, P.; Der, G; Bates, T.C. (2005). "Brother-sister differences in the g factor in intelligence: Analysis of full, opposite-sex siblings from the NLSY1979". Intelligence 35:451-456.

    There you go, have a citation for male IQ results having a higher variance than female.

    What, you want an online ref? Here's one about math tests

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121691806472381521.html

    The neurological basis appears to be that males have more pruning during the final stages of brain formation. This can result in more efficient pathways, but has less redundancy.

  24. Re:List his peace initiatives... on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    So what? I was Time magazine's man of the year as well.

  25. Re:Flattering, I guess... on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but their calender COUNTS DOWN. And as everyone knows from Hollywood, everything that's explosive (besides helicopters), has a big countdown timer on it.