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  1. Chalk, meet cheese. on Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness · · Score: 1

    Airwaves are nasty.
    So is Russian vodka.

    On a more serious note than your post probably deserves, can you really equate a radar designed to be powerful enough to send waves out for tens, even hundreds of miles and then return off the target which isn't optimised to do that - probably the opposite - with something designed to send them a few hundred feet at most. Likely a different frequency too.
  2. Re:Little village meeting... on Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness · · Score: 1

    Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

  3. Re:Someone should have told this guy on Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness · · Score: 1
    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/14/11838 33843064.html?from=top5

    The tank was allegedly stolen from A-One Lift Truck Services, where it was available for hire and was popular with students who used it for school formals.
    Geez. Is that one tough neighborhood!
  4. Re:Bad science or bad science reporting? on Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness · · Score: 2, Interesting

    People's perception is important because it may be (and the study suggests) that it is people's perception that causes illness.
    But if it's perception that it causes an illness that causes the illness, then the problem isn't the mast's, it's perception. So that's what should be changed. I'm not sure it's easy to do. Shouting "YOU"RE IMAGINING IT, YOU LOONS!" probably won't work.

    It all sounds like a kind of circular argument to me.
  5. Re:Intent of the law on Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what the law was intended to do, but rather what the law can be twisted to imply.
    When a politician says a law wasn't intended to mean or imply $something, and it can reasonably be interpreted such that it does mean that, then either the person who drafted it is a moron or the politicians' a liar.
  6. Re:Countermeasures: on Truck-Mounted Laser Guns · · Score: 1

    Try making a "right angle mirror" that will a) stay clean after being shot out of a gun and b) still be right-angled after going through the deformation process.
    Launch them from a trebucket. Trebuckets rock!
  7. Re:But but but on NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    By buying a system from someone else, you offload the risk of a patent ambush if you accidentally use somebody else's vague idea that they thought up after a few beers. Did I say vague idea? - I obviously meant hard work, skill and inventiveness.

  8. Re:Damn straight! on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    My understanding was that men are by average slightly more intelligent than women - it's only a few IQ points - but that the variability is much more. Hence there are more male geniuses, but also more male imbeciles.

    I don't know if the studies exclude people with actual congenital disorders. These would tend to affect males more, since they only have one copy of certain genes. I'm thinking the same mechanism as hemophilia (sp?) that was passed through females like Queen Victoria but affected only males. Something to do with X and Y?

  9. That's no mainframe on The Mainframe Still Lives! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mainframe? Don't you mean a high capacity, legacy compatible application server?

  10. Re:obligatory? on Best Advanced Linux Kernel Training? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back when it was all diallup, the interweb was a series of straws.

  11. Re:Exactly how it should be handled.... on South Korea Now Officially Taxing Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    On what grounds do you assume I don't know the difference? GP said US tax law, he didn't specify what kinfd of tax, and then contradicted himself.

  12. Re:IQ != Intelligence on Firstborn Get the Brains · · Score: 1

    In fact, coordination and reaction times are forms of intelligence in themselves.
    That Steve Hawking, he's such a dimwit!
  13. Re:Cost on Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    the only reason I'm on the wage I am on and not something higher is because if I didn't cut the wanted rate, I wouldn't have gotten the work
    Then the solution's simple - find someone who's getting more than you want, and undercut him. That's the problem with this country today, no entrepreneurialship.
  14. Re:Chicago, IL Location on Some 7-11s Become Kwik-E-Marts · · Score: 1

    Seemed like a witty observation on human nature to me.

    Like somebody[*] said, nobody went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

    [*] I was going to look up who it was but ... oooh shiny!

  15. Re:Exactly how it should be handled.... on South Korea Now Officially Taxing Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    Actually, US tax law does not cover the situation. [snip] if the seller makes income on the sale, they do have to report and pay income tax.
    Unless income tax runs some kind of honor system these days, it sounds like the law does cover it.
  16. Re:I can make you feel the presence of God on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    So ... there's some truth behind tinfoil hats after all?

  17. Re:STOP MODDING UP MEANINGLESS SHIBBOLETHS, PEOPLE on Fighting Online Game Cheating in Hardware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We seem, after all, to have prevented the problem of people physically reaching out across the internet and strangling people...
    We've prevented it the same way we've prevented trespass by teleportation and time-travel assisted stock fraud. The method revolves around not building the technology to enable it.

    Incredibly poor logic and a crappy analogy.
  18. Re:Here's the facts on Canadian health care on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure that has so much more to do with their DNA than with, say, the fact that the Europeans came in and screwed them over for five centuries?
    They must have had some weaknesses - otherwise instead of getting screwed over, they'd have kicked the invaders out.
  19. Re:Here's the facts on Canadian health care on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when you elect a socialist government who somehow think that letting Italian criminals, Lebanese islamists and other assorted nair-do-well's in ahead of civilised English speaking people is somehow equal to giving the finger to the Queen of the Pommy's.

  20. Re:Not Evil on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, the main reason our health care costs are skyrocketing is because of our unhealthy lifestyles. America is the most obese nation in the world. We are obese because people follow unhealthy dietary and exercise habits.
    Sounds like you're advocating prevention - where's the profit in that?
  21. Re:Mod Parent Up! on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rush Limbaugh & Michael Moore are the same person. If you want proof here it is, I've never seen them together - have you?

  22. Re:Wait, I'm confused... on Visualizing "Answer People" In Online Discussions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For some reason, people seem to feel inhibited about sending emails to 100 recipients, but less so about posting to a newsgroup.
    My experience with corporate email is quite the opposite. You get idiots who include half the organisation on everything they send when in fact, there's one person who needs to know and three who are vaguely interested.
  23. Re:ch-ch-ch-turn and face the strange choices on iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Really, the unlimited plan is limited
    Is any comment needed?
  24. Re:It's about time on New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs · · Score: 1

    Ever wondered why it's not called the "bit's of colored paper" rule? Because gold has intrinsic value.

  25. Re:I've been saying for years on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    Gold has intrinsic value. Paper does not. Hence, paper money is a form of tax.