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  1. Re:Won't Someone Think of the Teachers? on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Less Honesty Please... on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 3, Informative
  3. Re:Competition on Cheap Games a Risk To the Industry, Says Nintendo President · · Score: 1

    Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
    - Publilius Syrus

  4. Re:Soylent Green on Spinach Could Be Used For Hydrogen Fuel · · Score: 1

    How on earth will this research increase the price of a veggie?

  5. Re:Stop wasting food on Spinach Could Be Used For Hydrogen Fuel · · Score: 1

    Not sure how this research is wasting food.

    Here's the actual press release, and far better written than the article.

    http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr20110203-00

  6. Re:I thought we were over this? on Spinach Could Be Used For Hydrogen Fuel · · Score: 1

    At this point, anything that has hydrogen in it or can turn into hydrogen somehow can be used as fuel these days but for what purpose was this research made for?

    To answer your question, FTFA:

    âoeWeâ(TM)re building on the photosynthesis research to explore the development of self-assembly in biohybrid systems,â Oâ(TM)Neill said. âoeThe neutron studies give us direct evidence that this is occurring.â

  7. Re:Now a /. article is the standard for journalism on Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images · · Score: 1

    I've heard that the bird is the word.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184

  8. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 2

    Hunger isn't caused by over population. It's caused by not eating.

  9. Re:Has anyone ever seen a decent study on this? on Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Says Japanese Government Study · · Score: 1

    Now now there's no need to insult. There's room enough on the thread for you to prove that your opinion is the absolute standard, without resorting to such inelegant attacks.

    Why exactly do you despise the bebop dubs?

  10. Re:Has anyone ever seen a decent study on this? on Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Says Japanese Government Study · · Score: 1

    While I generally prefer subs, there have been a few dubs that I think were worth it. The Bebop and Baccano dubs are excellent.

  11. Re:Please take responsibility for your life. on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I'm not a Californian, but it sounds like it's slightly more tricky to use GPS to get to a specific destination within the park than it is to get from one half of 178 to the other half of it.

    I think the point the rangers were making is that there are a lot of old closed, impeded or disused roads that most GPS databases include in their maps when attempting to navigate from place to place within the park.

    And yes, it is the fault of people who don't take into account that GPS systems like normal maps can have aged data. You don't blame a map for getting lost, but to claim that a GPS is 100% accurate all the time is exactly the type of thing this article is warning people against.

  12. Re:Please take responsibility for your life. on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    Except in Death Valley where both the Dashboard Units are failing and commonsense is failing because of unwavering faith in the infallibility of Dashboard GPS units.

  13. Carl Sagan on Astrology on Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science · · Score: 1

    Figured this posting deserved a little Sagan... from Cosmos episode 3: The Harmony of the Worlds

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iunr4B4wfDA

  14. Re:Necessary? on Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science · · Score: 1

    Your "best"!? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

  15. Re:That's fine and all but.... on Competition Aims To Make Cybergeeks Cool · · Score: 2

    I got several full ride scholarships while I was in high school. And I'm pretty sure winning them didn't make me any cooler with any clique in high school but my own.

    I also don't think the wealth is why people idolize sports and entertainment stars today, not that it isn't a factor, but there is money in plenty of professions where people aren't idolized. I think it's more the attention and in many cases respect, but they get attention and respect because people idolize them, which is leading me around kinda recursively.

    The question I have is how did the entire industry go from being disrespected to being respected. That process could probably be the subject of an entire book that I wish I could read. I think it was partially due to the news looking for something to talk about, partially due to people escaping bad times by living vicariously through stories and games so they can taste a bit of victory and joy in their otherwise drab lives. There are probably plenty of other factors too that I'm not thinking of.

    But whatever the change was, it wasn't from the changes of the attitudes of the kids but the attitudes of the adults that brought it about.

  16. That's fine and all but.... on Competition Aims To Make Cybergeeks Cool · · Score: 1

    making a high school aged competition won't make security "cool" any more than spelling bee's make good spelling cool, or academic quiz teams made academics cool.

    Just because you got some high schoolers involved in a competition doesn't mean something is now "cool", and no, letters from congressmen or navy scholarships don't make things cool either.

    This just shows a lack of understanding as to why people idolize sports/entertainment stars.

  17. Re:It's NOT SPACE on Low Budget Air Space Photography · · Score: 2

    350 lb. payload? *giggles* You realize they meant 350 English pounds, as in the cost of the project, not the weight of it?

  18. Re:Hence infinite? on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  19. Re:"Bio-engineered 'cultured' meat" on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 1

    Actually insects are a major source of protein for a large portion of the world. Over 80% of the world eats insects intentionally and 100% eat them unintentionally.

    http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Traditional%20insect%20bioprospecting.pdf

  20. Re:"Bio-engineered 'cultured' meat" on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 1

    They'll call it "SPAM II: The search for more meat"

  21. Re:Damn academics on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 1
  22. Re:AGAIN, Sony? on New PS3 Firmware Contains Backdoor · · Score: 1

    I miss cartridges.

  23. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    OkCupid is fun even if you just sign up to wander around their quiz section.

  24. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    Wow...treating dating like a corporate job hunt, form letter with demographic research and all. That's super-creepy man.

  25. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    Hot cougar sunday school teacher action!