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  1. Aluminum on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 1

    They are certainly only using Titanium for its name. Its particular attributes are not going to add anything to a golf game. Titanium is used for its unmagnetic nature, and its stability even under high temperatures. If you want light, then use Aluminum, or some hollow system.

  2. Re:nitpicking nomenclature on Goodyear's New State-of-the-Art Airship Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 1

    So what is the point? If the gas would of supported a lighter, softer, thinner, cheaper body, why re-enforce it at all?

  3. Re:nitpicking nomenclature on Goodyear's New State-of-the-Art Airship Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 1

    Nerd.

  4. Re:Easy potshots != thoughtful analysis on Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I doubt he was blaming the artists themselves, but the leadership who ignored gameplay and focused on the artists.. But I could be wrong, it is not like I am going to read the original article.

  5. Re:85% not good enough on Computer Spots Fakers Better Than People Do · · Score: 1

    the junkies will break their own arms to get their fix, so I doubt this method, even if if 100%, would be useful for that. Also, in general, you do not have to demonstrate your pain to get meds. You tell a doctor you are in pain, and he gives you a prescription, 90% of people who get them are not outwardly displaying their discomfort.

  6. Confused Parents on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    It is probably more likely, that while the parents can help the kid understand the material, they have a slightly different method and syntax to doing so than the teacher. And in my experience teachers ask for students to use their exact method and syntax or fail them. Tests are most often used to test method, not actual results. I have had teachers who would give you 80-100% just for using the method they wanted you to use, even if you get the wrong result; And similarly maybe give you 20% if you got the right result but not in the exact same steps and methods and formulas that they used in class.

  7. Correlations != Causation. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    Is it possible that the one swho needed help were more likely to seek their parents help, then ones already aceing the tests?

  8. Re:Vim's Bram Moolenaar on 'Neovim' on Neovim: Rebuilding Vim For the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    It sounds more like a task that the maintainers of VIM should actually be undertaking on the main branch. One step at a time.

  9. Re:One better? Well, sort of. on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 1

    Ya, which is marketing speak for as little extra as possible. Obviously it it not going to come out even.

    When they say more than $30K, they do not mean $60K, they mean $30K and chance.

  10. Is that cost of production, wholesale, or retail? on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 1

    Is that $30K cost of production, wholesale, or retail?

    This last shipment was apparently $5 a multimeter, but they were probably going to sell them at over $40 a pop (random guess).

    If these replacements are measured in retail price, it probably only cost the company a few hundred to manufacture them.

  11. Re:Yeah, too bad there's no real reason to do so.. on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    This time we will send an African. And we shall call it "Black to the Moon".

  12. Sarcastically Typed on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 5, Funny

    We really need a sarcastically typed language. That would be truly awesome.

  13. Re:Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    I am not aware of any of these instances. But I have had a discussion with him about fan works. Basically, he seemed to be confused about a legal issue that some famous author had (too close to the source, rumours abound). basically, he thinks that if he ever even has a chance to see a fan work he will be sued, and his life probably ruined, for a bunch of confused legal reasons.

    It is not that he has absolutely no point at all, but he definitely seems confused with the legal precedent and what actually happened.

  14. Re:What ever happened to Mr. Lennier? on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    I think we can assume with great confidence that the spirit Morden prophecy was referring to him trying to kill Sheridan as his betrayal. Meaning that shortly after he left to seek atonement he died.

  15. Re:Babylon Reboot on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    I think you are forgetting Babylon 5 season 5

  16. Re:Babylon Reboot on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    I have never really been sure about the entire season of endings, plus the movie.

    Season 4 ended the Babylon 5 main arc.

    Then we had an entirely unneeded Season 5 that had like 5 more ending and a bunch of other self contained episodes. Season 5 was good, but it did not make sense as an overall story standpoint. I think it would of worked better as a spin-off series instead of a next season to a series that had already finished.

  17. Re:How could you do it? on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    I have not followed it closely, but he blames the crappy movie on the edits and changes the publishers insisted upon.

  18. Re:Babylon 5 on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Strangely, the last movies he put out, even though he wrote them and seemed to have a lot of control over them, were just bad in every sense of the word.

    They watch like they were written and directed by people who did not understand the universe and did not know how to write/direct.

    They are so badly written, just a poor budget cannot take the blame. Babylon 5 was amazingly written, but that does not mean that JMS is infallible or capable of doing it again, even with full creative control and an unlimited budget.

    Based on the last few movies, I do not have any huge interest in him continuing the B5 universe.

    Also, none of the movies were particularly good. The series is, full stop, better than star trek; But the movies were meh at best.

  19. Re:sounds implausible to me on Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage · · Score: 1

    Are you just making that up? Or did you read completely different studies, that studied the detrimental long term effects of starvation?

  20. Re:Goatse Security??? on Is Weev Still In Jail Because the Government Doesn't Understand What Hacking Is? · · Score: 1

    Did you see their subtitle?
    "Gaping Holes Exposed"

  21. Re:sounds implausible to me on Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage · · Score: 1

    Food depreciation has been a natural and common occurrence throughout human evolution. It seems highly implausible that "starving" would cause permanent damage in any meaningful sense.

  22. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Because torture is illegal. While this new drug can just be labeled as something else. And if as side effect this causes pain, discomfort, and madness, well that is unfortunate but these are criminals after all.

  23. Re:What a dimwit on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    I do not they they care about it solving anything. They just think that adding additional suffering to the world is an end in itself.

  24. Goatse Security??? on Is Weev Still In Jail Because the Government Doesn't Understand What Hacking Is? · · Score: 5, Funny

    They totally sound trustworthy.

  25. Re:Took me a bit to find this on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even just restricting that to full blown government conspiracies. It is amazing the absolutely crazy things the government has been forced to admit to 40+ years after the fact. Stuff every bit as crazy as any of those conspiracy nuts come up with. And that is just the stuff that leaks out. If the government can keep huge completely illegal and immoral projects a secret for 40+ years, by then half the people involved at already dead, then who knows what never comes to light, or what is kept so off the official record that there could never be any proof.

    Unfortunately, we know that the government is not completely unwilling to perform secret medical tests on their own unwitting and unconsenting civilians.