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

    "I wish I was dead."
    "Me too."

  2. Re:Time Travel in Sci-Fi? on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    False.

    It changes history, but you can never know the other history. That's his point.

  3. Re:Meh. The change from SciFi to SyFy on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 1

    Um,. no.
    really, BLake 7 could not stand on it's own today. sure, 100,000 people might watch it, maybe 500,000 but it wouldn't be enough for broadcast.

    Rehash it, and hopefully it will be good, if not the don't watch it. It's not like they are going to come to yorr house and steal your Blake 7 dvds.

  4. Re:I'll miss the old school special effects on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    " It has good stories probably because they didn't have to rely on the effects."
    no ,it has a good story becasue it was written well. I could list many, many bad show that also didn't have effects.

    "The new Doctor Who now has a good budget, but they have gotten over reliant on the imagery at times. All newer sci-fi has."
    yes, it was the over reliant of imagery that had my daughter crying, and me come down with a sudden case of 'hay fever' at the end of the pond story line.

  5. wow on EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' · · Score: 2

    "We don't hate them because we're homophobes, "
    wait, what?

    "We hate them because they claim our hate doesn't matter as long as we give them our money.'
    And they are correct. If you claim to hate them, but then play their games, then you are either a hypocrite, or need to look you the word 'hate'.

  6. Re:No you don't. on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    read section 119 of the Tax code. Is specifically says meals provided aren't taxed.

  7. Re:No you don't. on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    A) This isn't a real issue. section 119 of thetax code spells this out perfectly celar.

    " organizations who truly are evading taxes on a massive scale."
    One of those is Google. Just so you know.

  8. Re:No you don't. on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    Yes, base your opinion on how no you don't.the IRS is from a random post from someone giving a weak rule of thumb.

  9. Re:Which is more practical... on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    Becasue it's a lot more difficult to store then..pretty much anything else.
    IT leaks easily, destroys the container it's in.

    "With electric chargers you cannot just put them at gas stations replacing pumps."
    battery swap.

    And as I have mentioned elsewhere, there was a time where you would see a town with 2-4 gas stations because of that very issue. Cars had very limited range at first.

  10. Re:The victory of hydrogen over batteries inevitab on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    "Putting plugs everywhere is totally impractical."
    we managed to put gas stations everywhere. There was a time you saw a gas station every 50 miles or so. Hell in my life time I remember when there where 2 gas station.

    It's very doable.

    " to have a more normal taxing structure applied to fuel."
    electricity is simple to tax.

  11. Re:what happens to the remaining carbon? on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    but at least its a green house gas crated from a green house gas in the air, and not spewing something in the air that's been buried for millions of years.

  12. Re:Better or Worse than Ethanol? on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    But can it be from beer, an aluminum can and a banana peel?

  13. Re:Beauty of a Hydrogen economy on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    that's the beauty of any home grown energy source.

    Hydrogen has many problems.

    The middle east is about stability, not about oil.
    It's about not letting crazy asses get nuclear technology. Oil is a small factor.
    If we wanted to go someplace for oil, there are better places.

  14. Discovered near perfect energy source on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    in the lab you say?

    Completely renewable you say?

    In three years you say?

    hmmm.

  15. Is it?

    I used to think so, but now that I am in the government and see publica action I see a lot of crazy impacting the government.

    Not differents of opinion, or rational debate. People who are delusional getting people to gethers and fighitng some battle made up in their head.

    Millions and millions of dollars done for retesting, and showing people they are incorrect. Factually incorrect.

    Imagine the people who think the contrails are a chemical being spread by the government being able to force the government o spend millions to prove they aren't doing it, then not believing it, making up some conspiracy and then demanding another independent party do another study. And never believing any study that shows them wrong.

    In Portland we have a group that keeps making up conspiracy theories involving the water bureau. No evidence, just bold face and demonstrable lies.

    So I don't know. Maybe the fore fathers had something with the idea that only educate people should be involved in government.

  16. Re:You've got to be kidding me on Ask Slashdot: Is Making Government More Open and Connected a Good Idea? · · Score: 0

    Too bad all the evidences points to that not being true..

    But keep living in your echo chamber of stupid.

  17. Re: Somebody, quick! on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    No, it's still the same. You've just matured to realize it's and actually dog face loon you've been sleeping with, not the hot chick you picked up when you were drunk.

  18. Re:Gravitational time dilation on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    "how can a black hole be created if the matter falling to it can never get there?"

    that's not even wrong.

    " how can gravitons escape event horizon and attract anything?"
    A) They are purely hypothetical. There is no proof of their existence.

    B) These hypothetical bosons have no mass.

    I am not making an assertions to their existences at this time.

  19. Re:Bad headline on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    There are no contradictions. There are refinements.

  20. Incorrect on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    You should have read the rest of the paragraph, now you just look like a dumb shit.
    I'll put the relative bits here since you son't seem to know how to use Wikipedia:

    An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.[1][2]
    Until 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military, or by civilian space agencies. With the sub-orbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.

    How does it feel to now even be able to use the most rudimentary modern technologies? Stupid. I would imagine.

  21. Re:Why Waste an Astronaut? on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    Current definitions include any person who goes into space.Change from specifically trained persons about a decade or so ago.

    So you can't go to space and NOT be an astronaut.

  22. Re:My theory on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    I can not agree to any such thing.
    I have the opinion that it is likely that the astronaut would die; however without know the properties of unicorns, We can't say what would happen.

  23. Re:He would die of shock on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    Shock at the amount of poop coming out of everywhere except her butt.

  24. Re:You can't have infinite density on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    Gravity doesn't get anywhere. The black hole bend space towards itself, like any body.

  25. Re:You can't have infinite density on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    "You can't have "something" that isn't actually there."

    Prove it. You do not need to depend on a coordinate system