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  1. Three minutes... on Doomsday Clock Moved Two Minutes Forward, To 23:57 · · Score: 1

    to miiiiiiid-niiiiiight!

  2. Re:Poor Alan Kay on Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2015 Dahl-Nygaard Prize · · Score: 1

    it does a reasonable job of "good enough" on all three fronts, and that is what has made it so enduringly popular over the last few decades.

    Well put. Real science and engineering often necessitates a compromise of multiple incongruent requirements. For a tool, such as a programming language, the proof is in the pudding, as programmers will usually default to the best tool for the job. I am not a programmer. Is there an alternative language that does a better job meeting the three criteria indicated?

  3. Re:KILL two birds with one stone on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    Drink more water and, in turn, go to bathroom more often.

    Coincidentally, bihydrathalon racing will be an Olympic sport in 2016.

  4. When can we get H-1B replacements on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 5, Insightful

    for senators? They may be cheap enough for ordinary people to bribe.

  5. I hate cars. on Tesla To Produce 'a Few Million' Electric Cars a Year By 2025 · · Score: 1

    And long for city with only pedestrian and bicycle paths and clean mass transit. Cargo and shipping is handled by an automated cart network hidden from public view.

    I can dream :(

  6. $115 billion on China's Engineering Mega-Projects Dwarf the Great Wall · · Score: 1

    Think of the possibilities. That could fill 230 potholes in California!

  7. Anonymous: Cowards on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    What a surprise.

  8. Re:Sugar and calories on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand what makes one calorie unhealthy and what makes another calorie healthy.

    Neither does the 35% of the population that are obese.

  9. Re:Sugar and calories on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    "But you still get all the sugar and calories with virtually no nutrition!"

    That makes a calorie unhealthy.

  10. Re:Sugar and calories on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    But you still get all the healthy sugar and calories!

    What makes a calorie unhealthy?

    A surfeit of them.

  11. Sugar and calories on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    "In other words, making chocolate destroys the very ingredient that is supposed to make it healthy."

    But you still get all the healthy sugar and calories!

  12. Extreme climate event: Hell freezes over on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Never thought I would see the day when the head of the the Catholic church represents a beacon of scientific rationalism dragging the rest of the first world into the modern era.

  13. Re:Pay no attention... on CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' · · Score: 1

    In the second part of the CIA report, they confirm all that torture recently attributed to the CIA actually was done by extra terrestrials.

  14. Dear Mississippi on Google Sues Mississippi Attorney General For Conspiring With Movie Industry · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How does it feel to know your tax dollars and elected representatives are being used to do the bidding of private motion picture conglomerates at the expense of regular citizens using the internet?

  15. Darn on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 1

    Now we'll never know how the series ends.

  16. How did we get this far on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 1

    into the thread with no mention of Hans Brix?

  17. Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles on Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles · · Score: 1

    You can still get the older version of Yahoo Stumbles here:

    http://www.oldversion.com/

  18. Re:This is not the problem on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    He meant a bridge over a landfill.

  19. ITV already has a theme park for The Prisoner on Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display · · Score: 1
  20. Ford thought he was reading a screenplay... on Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever" · · Score: 4, Funny

    but it was really just a test designed to provoke an emotional response.

  21. Re:What could possibly go wrong. on "Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    You think the obesity epidemic is a fucking character flaw?

    Societal flaw. You prove my point by calling it an epidemic. Our biology hasn't changed, our eating habits have.

    I stopped eating processed foods and lost 20% of my weight in six months and am now at normal BMI. This wasn't an extreme or fad diet. I simply stopped eating junk and drinking calories, and started eating what evolution has prepared our bodies to eat for the last million years. My body did the rest.

    On the other hand if you insist on subjecting your body to something that evolution has not prepared it for, than yes, that is a character flaw.

  22. What could possibly go wrong. on "Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    May be appropriate for clinically obese (abnormally low metabolism.) For everyone else who just wants to scarf junk food with no consequences, you are asking for trouble.

  23. Your tax dollars at work on Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Law enforcement and judicial officials working round the clock to ensure the world is safe for multinational corporations.

  24. No longer safe. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 2

    Note: Due to lasers, it is no longer safe to lye on the rails in front of oncoming trains.

  25. Re:Signed on Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter · · Score: 1

    Because some of us can only watch videos in reverse, you insensitive clod!