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  1. Re:I'm just amazed that... on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    If by selfish behaviors you mean nourishing our bodies, I agree. Let's all kill ourselves and rid this planet of pesky, selfish humans.

  2. Re:Makes sense on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    Just because they don't respond when you dump them out of their wheelchair doesn't mean the vegetables don't feel pain.

  3. Re:The difference between... on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    I have to ask why it is you are becoming a vegetarian. If it's because you truly think eating meat is murder, then you are still committing murder, and are thus a hypocrite. It can't be for health reasons alone as going vegetarian makes it harder for you to get protein, iron, complex B-vitamins, zinc, copper, etc. So why are you doing it?

    Not to mention that most nutritionists agree that your body breaks down the different vitamins and minerals that you get much better from natural sources than from supplements. But if someone is going to go vegan, they need to remember to eat a healthy portion of nuts and pulpy fruits, along with beans. Still, if God (or whatever other metaphysical being or entity that you want to believe in, or hell, just science itself if you feel that way) had intended for humans to get all of their dietary needs fulfilled without eating any meat, wouldn't we have cow teeth?

  4. Re:The difference between... on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    Tell them they can get plenty of protein from nuts and beans and to stop being hypocrites. If you are going to be a vegan, don't half ass it. You either love the flesh of little creatures or you despise it.

  5. Re:Scary on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    Good point, you don't hear about too many wild animals dying in their sleep, surrounded by their friends. Unless it's a fucking Disney animal.

  6. Re:Weak point on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    I couldn't figure out why I couldn't kill the fucking crab, until I realized that green numbers mean I'm healing the fucking crab with my Water spells, instead of hurting them.

  7. Re:"We"? Speak for yourself... on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    I knew someone who was a vegetable and I could swear they seemed to feel pain.

  8. Re:Simple solution on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    You've convinced me to take grits outside in the morning. Thanks for making me a mass murderer, you insensitive clod.

  9. Re:Let me correct that for you: on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    That's the attitude that has allowed weak, slow, defenseless homo sapien to become dominant species on the planet!!!

    No, I'm pretty sure it's the bombs, guns, and shit like that.

  10. Re:Don't throw out your textbooks yet on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    How did they figure out the star's age? Without a link to the original research, this article just sounds like one picture where a bright dot is there, and another picture where they can't see it anymore. If that's all we've got, I don't see why we need to rewrite solar physics.

    Night janitor cleaned the lenses.

  11. Re:It happens? on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    We just now noticed is all. ;)

    Either that, or we *really* don't have a clue, this just happened, and now we're going to have to send Bruce Willis up to clean up the mess, just like we always do.

    Screw that shit, Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer are already fighting over the rights to round house kick this supernova star to the next universe.

  12. Re:Mod parent troll on Google Apps Deciphered · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually he was spot on, which is why he wasn't modded troll. You should be modded troll for trying to defend an attack on our brains by way of his mutilation of the English Language. Or maybe I should just say, "He can't fucking write and you are fucking wrong."

  13. Re:Wow, that's informative and interesting.... on Lower Air Pollution Means Longer Life · · Score: 1

    Good to see that taxpayer money is being well spent.

  14. Re:I'm still waiting for the Tata Touch... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    Being a slashdot user, he likely has never seen tatas that he didn't have to use google image search to find.

  15. Re:Why so negative. on US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel · · Score: 1

    The USS New Orleans isn't equipped with a sonar suite, perfecting underwater stealth technology sufficiently to hide from her isn't much of an accomplishment.

    Yeah, if she's anything like her namesake, she isn't equipped to anticipate anything disastrous.

  16. Re:DVR on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    Baseball and basketball both allow for practically endless games even in the regular season. Football and Hockey do the same once they move to playoffs.

    Here's a direct quote from your post. You indicated that in the playoffs that Football and Hockey do the same. I have no clue about hockey, since I hate it, but in Football it would be extremely unlikely for this to ever happen. In theory, yes, but in reality, it really never has.

  17. Re: Firefly on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but those shows have had a long and successful run. My point exactly. Would either show stand a chance in hell at making it on a big network station. I didn't say that they were choke full of good shows. Half the shows on Sci-Fi are crap. But they promote the shit out of even the crappy shows and keep them in a stable time slot. That's my point.

  18. Re: Firefly on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    Also, one fallacy in your argument. The most watched station on cable is not ABC or NBC or CBS, etc. It's ESPN. And most of the time they are showing Sports Center, which is basically a few hours worth of sports highlights recycled over a 24 hour period, interspersed with sports games on occasion.

  19. Re: Firefly on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if your show lasts 5 years on TNT versus half a season on Fox, seems like in the end you would still make more money.

  20. Re:genius at work on Using Lasers and Water Guns To Clean Space Debris · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's the John Madden of Science.

  21. Re:DVR is _not_ the answer on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    NBC does the whole time spill-over thing with Heroes every fucking week and it pisses me off. That's why I only watch the show online now.

  22. Re:DVR on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    You are wrong about Football. While sudden death can technically go on for an infinite amount of time, there are rarely overtime playoff games and there has never been an overtime Super Bowl.

  23. Re: Firefly on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not sure why more people looking to get a good show off the ground don't go to TNT or Sci-Fi Channel. Both stations generally keep their shows steady as far as time slots go, and both promote the living crap out of even the lamest shows that they offer. I know they are cable and not broadcast, but really, nowadays most people have more than just the local broadcast channels.

  24. Re:another decent man leaves government in disgust on US Cybersecurity Chief Beckstrom Resigns · · Score: 0, Troll

    None of those childish finger point "you're just as bad" quips come close to matching:

    1. Running around the world like a rogue state starting wars of aggression in the name of geopolitical one upsmanship.

    2. Starting a meaningless "war on terror" and railroading other countries into that same paranoid delusion resulting in the destruction of the last half millennium of democratic development in the Anglo-American world.

    3. Arbitrarily toppling democratically elected leaders (before you go off refuting this, read up on the US interventions in South America such as Chile).

    4. Reality television.

    So yea, clean up your fucking country, esp point 4.

    If you are a Brit, than number 4 applies to your country even more so than the US. Brit Reality TV is even worse and such a blatant copy of our pathetic reality TV it's laughable. As far as Chile goes, it's fucking Chile. Who cares about them anyways?

  25. Re:Piggy ride! on Small Asteroid To Buzz Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I vote we shoot it down, just to see if we can do it. That would be more fun, anyways. I nominate myself to push the button.