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  1. Re:It was a lot more social on The Making of a 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Module · · Score: 1

    But did they even know someone was stealing from them, or who was doing it? Just because the players knew what was going on doesn't mean the characters did.

  2. Re:Home of the brave? on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    Er, I love Old Boy myself. But how on earth would you classify it as a comedy? (Though I must admit the dude jumping to his death through the car while holding onto his pet poodle as the main character just smiles and walks away did make me chuckle).

  3. Re:So close, so far on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    You want equality? When may men have the right to bodily integrity? Or are you suggesting women should enjoy living with mutilated genitals as well for equality?

    For the record, just about any feminist I've heard give an opinion on the subject has been against male circumcision as well.

  4. Re:Genius /Insanity on Mathematics Great Alexander Grothendieck Dies At 86 · · Score: 2

    Maybe they're the more sane ones after all.

  5. Re:What is critical thinking? on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to tell whether or not an answer is "fallacy ridden garbage" if you don't bother to listen to it in the first place. Sure the answer could be crap, but if you don't bother evaluating it objectively just because you're assuming the established thinking is always crap then you aren't thinking critically.

  6. Re:What is critical thinking? on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure. But the problem is that far too many people who question established institutions or doctrines refuse to listen when they get answers.

  7. This.

  8. Re:Black holes are real, we observe them all the t on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    Just adding my own simple, non-calculus solution, to the mix.

    When the radius of the earth is r we have...
    Length of string around earth = 2*pi*r
    Length of string around earth and poodle evenly = 2*pi(r + poodle)

    Subtract former from the latter and it's 2*pi*r + 2*pi*poodle - 2*pi*r, so just 2*pi*poodle more.

  9. Re:But the movie selection still sucks on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 2

    You can find a selection of pretty good movies they offer here. I ended up watching Dredd and was blown away - something I wouldn't have done if not for word of mouth. (So you're trying to tell me someone made another movie on Judge Dredd that's actually good?) And of course, sometimes the movies you at first don't recognize end up being the ones you love the most.

  10. Re:No thanks, I'll stick with ReiserFS on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    Perhaps for his encore he'll move on to posting jokes about airplanes and twin towers for real giggles.

    "I have to leave early tonight, I have to fly out to L.A. I couldn't get a direct flight, I have to make a stop at the Empire State Building." -Gilbert Gottfried

  11. Re:Hillerious on How the Ancient Egyptians (Should Have) Built the Pyramids · · Score: 1

    They built a pyramid, we havn't.

    How can we tell them how to build it better, when we cant even achieve what they did 4000+ years ago? lol

    But my point is it may be the only thing preventing us from achieving the same is an unwillingness to be blatantly immoral (not to mention finding a compelling reason to build one in the first place). If that's the case then, yeah, we might very well have grounds for telling the a better way to do the same thing. You never know. *shrug*

  12. Re:Hillerious on How the Ancient Egyptians (Should Have) Built the Pyramids · · Score: 1

    A big reason we don't build something similar of that scale now is that we tend to frown upon obvious slave labor nowadays.

    No need to tell Noah anything. The flood story is a myth.

  13. Re:Makes sense on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    Testosterone does not cause assholish-ness, per se, so much as it exacerbates it.

    Oh, so kind of like alcohol then.

  14. Re:Limits of Measurement on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 1

    Electrons interfere with themselves, because the fluctuation (which is the electron) exists in the full region between the source and screen. The interference pattern is the same no matter how slowly (in terms of electron rate) you fire the electrons, so build up is not a concern.

    And this is an important point. I'm not a physicist, but one thing that helped me understand this better is to consider firing a single electron (for example) at the two slits one at the time. It could be at the rate of one per minute, one hour or whatever.

    Every electron that makes it through to the screen behind the two slits will hit it at a single point. Nothing unusual there. However, if you make a histogram on the screen based on how frequently each spot gets hit by an electron you'll see the interference pattern you'd expect from a wave being split in two from the two slits. So each electron is a wave that travels through both slits, not one or the other.

  15. Re:Quantum mechanics is real, like it or not. on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 2

    Only if you're really really lucky.

  16. Re:No real surprise on People Who Claim To Worry About Climate Change Don't Cut Energy Use · · Score: 1

    If there is true consensus about global warming, then science should be inviting opposing thought - not trying to stifle the discussion like a dictator.

    But what if the opposing "thought" you're inviting is simply a bunch of specious reasoning debunked a long time ago? Repeated over and over. To the point that you realize that the ones doing the arguing have no interest whatsoever in any kind of objective truth. How long should you be inviting it then? How long do you pretend they deserve respect?

  17. Re:why new balls on Mathematicians Solve the Topological Mystery Behind the "Brazuca" Soccer Ball · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But if there is no difference between ball designs then why do we never see shots like these anymore?

  18. Re:That's not what my crossfit instructor told me! on Neanderthals Ate Their Veggies · · Score: 2

    It turns our that most people get the Paleo diet wrong. The diets of these people would differ wildly depending on the land they occupied.

    For many of the myths espoused on what the Paleo diet was see here.

  19. Re:Two-thirds of a metric *TON*?! on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 1

    And really, 640 kg of unused plutonium ought to be enough for anybody.

  20. Re:Thyroid condition ? Doubtful. on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should that be considered a disability?

  21. No on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    We don't need more web programming languages. Just one good one.

  22. Re:Progenitors? on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    ...and we are indeed the first who will learn a lot of lessons as we swarm across the galaxy once we figure out how to get off this damn rock.

    You know, I've heard this attitude many times before, and I just don't get it. The Earth is beautiful. We've evolved to see it as beautiful, and yet people still aren't able to enjoy they great things they have right here. Protip: if you can't be happy here on Earth then you're incapable of finding happiness no matter where you go.

  23. Re:This research should receive enormous funding. on Scientists Find Method To Reliably Teleport Data · · Score: 1

    It's true that the GP is just representing one interpretation. Just thought I'd throw out my favorite "interpretation", (objective collapse theory) as it doesn't seem to get much love. No multiple worlds. No living-dead cats.

    Also, instead of thinking of things being fundamentally composed of objects that are sort of both waves and particles I find it easier to picture them all as waves that only occasionally act as particles under the right conditions. This seems counter-intuitive since most of the world we experience is a result of these interactions that make them appear as particles. But it makes it a lot easier when picturing how things work with QFT and the difference between virtual and non-virtual "particles".

  24. Re:Wait a sec on Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    Actually, this experiment makes a pretty good case that special and general relativity are a demonstrated facts. Unless there's some philosophical hair-splitting in the definitions I missed.

  25. Re:"Daunting" on Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module · · Score: 1

    Well then I guess I'll just have to take your word for it Mister 914043. ;)