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  1. Will it provide enough power on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    .. to catapult the hydroponically grown wheat back to the Earth?

  2. Re:You're Joking Right? on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    "Nuclear" is not the right word.
    We need to come up with some term that doesn't remind us of mean old atomic bombs (one of those could ruin your whole day, you know).

    Maybe we should call it something like "peace and progress energy."

  3. The answer to all those questions is the same: on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    Go ask Google.

  4. Hmmmm... on Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing · · Score: 1

    Using IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_qfe.090206-1239:
    I just tried it and I got hijacked to a Google page sponsored by Dell.

    My computer is a Dell.

  5. Re:Show of hands not self-enforcing on Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols · · Score: 1

    Seems to me the traditional paper secret ballot is a good way to get a "show of hands" that anyone can verify without anyone knowing which hand belongs to whom.

  6. Where to get diamond dust on DIY CPU Thermal Grease, Using Diamond Dust · · Score: 1

    Check here.

  7. Re:To be used in court cases how? on Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality · · Score: 1

    Yes, you're better off using the Twinkie Defense.

  8. Re:First post on Linux, Twitter, and Red Hat "Win" Big At Pwnie Awards · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG! PWNIES!

  9. Re:If it's legal? on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    > let's be clear here, motrin is an ibuprofen-based analgesic,

    Oh, an ANALgesic! That's why teacher thought strip searching was justified...

  10. Re:Monetize them instead of jamming them. on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    Anybody can buy and use a pre-paid TracFone.
    Though I don't suppose any teenager would be caught dead with one of those...

  11. Re:Modern life is absurd. on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    > those methods of child management no longer work.

    Really, it's the parent management that doesn't work any more.

  12. Re:Summer of 79 by Bill Gates on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 1

    That's not a poem.

    It only looks like it because was typing it on his VIC-20.

  13. Ah, the late 70's on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Imsai 8080 that my dad built from a kit. The TV Typewriter terminal. The Pickles & Trout video interface. Loading an ill-gotten copy of 4k BASIC by pulling punched tape through a reader, later loading Extended BASIC via a Kansas City standard cassette tape interface. Building wire harnesses in the garage for Synetic Designs' FDS-1 dual 8-inch floppy disk drive system (and getting paid $20 per!). Hunt the Wumpus, Hammurabi, even Star Trek!

    Those were the days.
    Now get offa my lawn, you damn kids!

  14. I call BS! on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My personal experience is that the more beautiful a woman is, the less she likes to, um... procreate.

  15. Pics, or it didn't happen! on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    n/t

  16. Re:How is this different from "hate speech" on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    You seem to be a Bible expert, so I'm gonna ask you to help me.
    I've heard the the Bible tells Christians that it's "acceptable to hate" certain groups of people.

    My problem is I can't find a reference to that anywhere in the Bible. But that's probably just 'cause the Bible is so big and I probably just don't know where to look.

    Can you, the expert, give me a scripture reference?

    Remember, I'm asking about hating groups of people, not their behaviors.

  17. Re:While I am all for green energy, save the Plane on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No slippery slope.
    We were always at war with Eastasia.

  18. Coming soon! on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 1

    Power usage plans similar to cell phone plans!
    Cheaper weekend and nighttime minutes! Plans with cheaper any time minutes!
    Calling the power company to add extra minutes to your plan (and extend your contract for 2 more years) when you discover you have more laundry than usual you need to get done this week!

    Won't this be wonderful???
    I can hardly wait.

  19. Re:Amazon's new product on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 1

    That's ungood.

  20. Re:suckers on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 1

    > You know, it's one thing to be a Luddite,
    > and quite another to stay with reliable,
    > cheap, and fully functional technologies
    > until the newer alternatives truly surpass them.

    Good point. That's why we need to keep oil, coal and natural gas around for a while.

  21. Oh crap. on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Another oppressive government plan to coerce people to emit less carbon dioxide.

    --
    Chuck Norris doesn't need Twitter. He's already following you!

  22. Intercal on Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    If you can master that, you have proven yourself as a programmer.

  23. Re:gaps are in education. perpetuated in religion on Study Highlights Gap Between Views of Scientists and the Public · · Score: 1

    I see you have Doctorate in Sytematic Theology.
    Nope, no lack of understanding or ignorance in you.

  24. Re:One implication on Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah. My bad.
    23, not 26.

  25. Re:One implication on Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory · · Score: 1

    And if we can learn to pick out individual chromosomes, then a child can have up to 52 parents!
    But marriage between more than 52 participants will still be immoral and unnatural...