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  1. Re:Just plain sad on Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement · · Score: 1

    Those stats are from a single the year 2000 when zero astonots died.

    No they're not. As of April 2008, two Shuttles have been destroyed in 123 missions, both with the loss of the entire crew (14 astronauts total).(Space_Shuttle_program

  2. Re:Just plain sad on Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement · · Score: 1

    The US has had less than one fatal accident per decade since the space program started; the Apollo fire and the two shuttle disasters.

    I'd say their safety record is pretty good. I'd rather be an astronaut than a lumberjack.

    2 out of 120 space shuttle missions ended with a bang. If the lumberjacks had the same "good" safety record as the space shuttle, there would be ~1666 deaths out of 100,000 lumberjacks.

  3. Re:Received from eBay yesterday, revised terms! on Ebay Fined $61M By French Court For Sales of Fake Goods · · Score: 1
    Interesting, I got a different one...

    Received: Jun-30-08 Changes to the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy I'm writing to let you know that the eBay User Agreement and eBay Privacy Policy have been updated, effective immediately for new users and on August 13, 2008, for current users. Don't do buisness with the French.

  4. Re:Barack Obama on Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move · · Score: 1

    Change we can believe in means we can believe he'll change his mind.

  5. Re:Barack Obama on Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move · · Score: 1

    The only gov't system without taxation is anarchism


    Where did he say he wanted to get rid of taxation? He just said he didn't want the IRS or any other organization forcebly taking money out of our paychecks.


    There ARE government systems that do that, such as Texas. Not only that, there are a few plans out there for the nation level as well, such as the Fair Tax.

  6. Re:Logical conclusion on Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient · · Score: 1

    Under water? Think of the amount of time/energy/electricity required to build it and you've already screwed the amount of energy you'd save on cooling costs for years. I'd hate to see the look on the client's face when I try to convince him that his data center is going under water. Our current client wouldn't even allow us to build it at an elevation below the 500 year flood plane.

  7. Re:In a word, yes. on Is the Internet Bad For Professional Writers · · Score: 1

    Internet should be plural as there is more than one tube.

  8. I've been waiting all my life for this on NASA Building Massively Heat-Resistant Chips · · Score: 1

    I finally have something to go with my heat-resistant habanero pepper salsa.

  9. Maybe this was one asteroid at one point in time.. on Strange Asteroids Baffle Scientists · · Score: 1

    If these two asteroids were once the same asteroid, does that mean they are now half-assteroids?