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  1. Re:Generate your own 'fake' logs on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1
    I'll give them a hardcopy in base zero. Though they are going to have to pay me a $1 per page records copying fee.

    And of course to keep the information safe for their perusal the information has been encrypted. The password is the unabridged complete works of Shakespeare translated in Sumerian using a numeric system defined by the refraction of the light from Polaris through this lens in the year 4027 April 1st placed on the ocean floor at the north pole atop the shroud of Turin.

    Good hunting gentlemen!

  2. No it's not. on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 1

    pack (plural packs)

    1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.

    This is just a hose with a jet attachment.

  3. Re:Single Purpose Bills on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The main problem is supposedly they already have this, they just interpret it so loosely that free lollipops for preschoolers can be in a Satellite Launch bill because that satellite launch will use fuel that some preschoolers may grow up to refine some day in future launches. It's even worse with this "stimulus" bill. Because according to Obama's speech the otherday stimulus just means spending lots of money on stuff. So whatever they feel like they can cram on this bill so long as they can bribe 3 republicans to vote for it.

  4. Re:Global Warming not Global Weather. on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1
    Personally I think global warming would be a good thing and may even slightly flatten out the distribution curve. If the polar icecaps have melted the current and atmosphere are going to calm down consicerably as it won't have the extreme temperature difference of sub-zero ice at one end bathwater warm water in the middle.

    Most of the land at the equator is a desert already but much of the northern landmass is still locked in semi-permanent winter. Melting the perma frost on that vast landmass would be much more useful to us than making sure it doesn't get a few degrees warming in the tropics.

  5. Re:I'm tired of you ethical moralists on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 3, Informative

    That God explicitly blessed the occasional wiping out of various peoples, basically designating them as subhuman. This also violates the commandment "thou shalt not kill" which is stupidly contradictory. Any child can see the conflict here, which is why they are punished when they discover these flaws, in order to brainwash them into believing your nonsense.

    The Translation of "Lo Tirtzach" into "thou shall not kill" is a loose translation. Some translations use "Thou shall not commit murder" but this translation is more narrowly defined than what tirtzach encompasses. Kill and murder are entirely different words. Something more accurate would be "Do nothing which causes innocent blood to be shed." Tirtzach applies to murders as well as neglect and reckless endangerment. It does not encompass self defense, someone else's defense, killing national enemies, and killing people guilty of capital offenses.

  6. Re:Animal Genetic Material into Human Eggs on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    It sounds like your,re arguing against yourself there. If the only advantage humans have over most animals is brains and thumbs then why burden a subrace with our weaknesses when adding thumbs and a better brain to something more animal would be easier? Physically speaking there's much more involved in trying to make someone stronger or faster than there is for making something stronger or having thumbs. To make someone stronger or faster you have to modify the muscles, the bone density and configuration, the heart and vascular system, as well. No matter how much muscle you pile on someone and how fast you make the twitch responses they aren't going to be able to beat a cheetah because our frame is just not built for speed. Animals on the other hand already have a brain and the physical advantage. Making the brain larger and adding a thumb aren't nearly as involved. It's much easier to take a rally car, add a minifridge and allow the seat to recline than it is to make a motorhome perform on par with a rally car.

  7. Re:And then.. on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    Or else you get T-boned when you come to a stop in the middle of an intersection because the cars ahead of you are waiting for the next light.

  8. Re:Slow To The Story on Internet Sites Biased Towards Supporting Suicide · · Score: 1

    And yet you are still here to discuss it. You should probably read the report a second time; maybe wash down the facts with a nice bottle of anti-freeze?

  9. Re:Hybrids on UK Moves To Allow Human Hybrid Experiments · · Score: 1

    In the U.S. stem cell research and cloning are perfectly legal. The ban is on federal funding because it is morally questionable.

  10. ...back to the moon? on Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't China have to get to the moon on seven different occasions if they want to beat the US back?

  11. Re:It's official. The terrorists have won. on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't even what the cops did. It's perfectly fine for the cops to take control of a suspicous device. The real issue is that she is being prosecuted for creating a "hoax device" long after they determined there was no threat and no intended threat.

  12. Re:How "scaled up" is this? on Photonic Laser Thruster Promises Earth to Mars in a Week · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must have forgotten that nuclear power, by definition, harms the environment.
    That's just how it works.
    There's no environment to harm in space so nuclear power can't possibly work out there.

  13. Re:Women want light on Making War On Light Pollution · · Score: 1

    A chastity belt is more effective and less intrusive into others lives. Outside you can actually see better by starlight than if their are lights everywhere because the contrast makes anything not illuminated appear to be completely black and conceals anything hiding there.

    Natural night-vision > Flashlights

  14. Light Terrorists... on Making War On Light Pollution · · Score: 1

    ...are right behind Global Thermonuclear War and Higher Taxes on my list of reasons why we'll never get flying cars.

  15. Re:I'd belive the stats on Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men · · Score: 4, Informative

    That recent study was done on college students in Austin, Texas mostly majoring in psychology. I think if you were going to judge how verbose all men are you wouldn't pick future psychologists as a representative sample. http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/200707 06/men-dont-talk-less-than-women

  16. Re:Creationists Declare Evolution Disproved on Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the bigger target is "scientific consensus."

  17. Re:Movies have always come in the mail on The Mindset of the Class of 2029 · · Score: 1

    You have to realize this list is assuming that all technological and cultural advancement stops now and nothing significant happens in the world in the next 18 years. This would be like seeing a list in 1990 that mentions how you have to realize that kids in 2007 aren't going to get all of the Dan Quayle jokes that we're going to be shouting to them over their Discman as they Rollerblade past you.

  18. Re:Increasing the amount of graduates.. on Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also, when you flood the market with candidates what do you think happens to the starting salary?

  19. Re:It actually *IS* a pseudo-science on TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers" · · Score: 1

    Exactly, what I was thinking. "The editorialist calls that a pseudo-science, but in fact it's a well-understood skill that can be taught and learned." You know what else can be taught and learned? Palmreading and Phrenology. In fact, both of those are more scientific since you can take actual measurements and have verifiable records.

  20. depends on what the definition if is is. on 10-Day Patch Guarantee Not Mozilla's Policy · · Score: 1

    It's truly sad to see Mozilla start to take this route. Even making a joke about it would have been good. "Our eco director meant ten Plutonian days. Unfortunately, he was not aware that pluto is no longer a planet and as such should not be used for a timescale in contests."

  21. Re:I hope they found out how.. on DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    what do you think they've been researching these last 25 years?

  22. Re:Coat it in Teflon! on New Carbon-based Paper Stronger Than Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    Tedlar would be better.

  23. Re:A boon to mediocraty on Rewritable Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    I admit it, when it comes to spelling I'm a hard-core mediocrat.

  24. A boon to mediocraty on Rewritable Song Lyrics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey there indie rockers!
    Can't wait to sell out, but you don't have the talent to get a record company interested in mutilating your songs?
    Well you're in luck!!

  25. Re:Didn't even try Office 07! on Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy" · · Score: 0, Troll

    By "via the control panel" did you really mean "via megahaxin' the registry and using voodoo magics"?