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  1. That doesn't sound like short term to me. on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1

    I mean medicine. First you go to college for 4 years and then 4 years of med school. (So 8 years of making no money while racking up around 200K in debts.) Then you do residency at 40k a year for 3-10 years. (Usually working over 80hrs a week.) Then after all of that you hit the payoff, continuing to work 80+hrs a week for between 150K-400K. (Of course you can make more if you end up running the entire medical practice and have a bunch of docs working under you.)

  2. My mom could sure this on Machine Translates Thoughts Into Speech · · Score: 1

    Basically she has bulbar onset ALS. Her main symptom is she can't talk at all anymore. You'd think just writing things down would be a appropriate substitute until you actually have to try it as your sole method of communication.

  3. I hope the EMG they use on Microsoft Says Goodbye GUI, Hello MUI · · Score: 1

    Isn't the one where the put fine needles straight into your muscles.

  4. 2 from the gaming world on The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands In Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would be Atari and Sega. Atari used to be the biggest video game company in the world, sold tens of millions 2600's and had billions in sales at the beginning of the 80's. I wonder how many current gamers would believe me if I told them that. (Since they're just a label now. As for Sega, they used to make systems and while they might have not been the most popular they're not the joke they are today. (I mean Sonic, how badly did they screw up Sonic? Of course sometimes they do something right by mistake but you know it'll only be a moment before they mess up something else.)

  5. Another personal anecdote or 3 on The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands In Tech · · Score: 1

    Lets see, I bought an HP printer that had an option to tell it to print B/W only. (Using the B/W cartridge.) The option didn't work. (Pain in the ass since the vast majority of the time I was printing B/W and I didn't want to waste ink on printing color. The only way to stop it was to pull out the color cartridge.) Also the driver for it was so bad I once wasted an hour trying to figure out why I couldn't print on one machine but could on another. (Answer I had to set up the guest account on one of the machines because of network security. However the error didn't indicate why it wasn't printing. I got the useless "Printing failed" so I checked to see if I could print on the other PC and went from there.) Oh, my brother got a "great" hp camera years ago. It uses compact flash, too bad it has problems with CF larger than 32MB. (My bro also had a Kodak camera that also uses CF and is older. It had no problem with a 4GB CF.) God HP sucks.

  6. Ok, then a 2 step plan on Sir Patrick Stewart · · Score: 1

    First give him a new birth certificate indicating he was actually born in New York City. (Or Philly.) Then Obama can knight him.

  7. You mean this isn't a wacky study on The Neuroscience of Screwing Up · · Score: 1

    About sex with the woman on top? (Yeah, I know bad joke.)

  8. Then Obama should knight William Shatner on Sir Patrick Stewart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since everybody knows Kirk is much better than Picard.

  9. I would suspect they get recruited on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    I mean if you run one of these organizations engineers are way too valuable not to take a shot and recruit.(As others have said aboe.) So I would think they actively recruit them. Plus on top of it one of the stereotypes about engineering students is that alot of them are reclusive and don't engage in society. So basically that means they don't have the societal safety net that would keep them from doing crazy shit. (I mean it always seems like the loner is the guy that ends up going nuts, not the guy with 100 friends and parties every night like the kids at Columbine.)

  10. Well to be fair on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    I say that intellectual property should be property taxed. Shouldn't the New York Times and the LA Times be charged a property tax for every back article they have ever written?

    So shouldn't they pay nothing then? I mean you said they should be taxed on intellectual property but there's nothing intellectual about being a couple left-wing shill like those 2 rags.(And the Boston Globe Democrat who is pretty blatant about it.)

  11. Wait, I thought beta blockers were on Is Neurostim Becoming a Reality? · · Score: 1

    coding enhancing drugs. I thought I read on slashdot awhile ago about people taking them to help them code. (Since they help you maintain a focus and keep calm.)

  12. Re:There's nothing new about this on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    That's true but the point I was trying to make was that you can actually win damages if you merely think something made you sick. (You don't have to show real physical harm.)

  13. The final light saber duel in Revenge of the Sith on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    told me how much of a hack Lucas is at times. I mean you basically have Obi-Wan tricking Amidala into taking him to where Anakin. Then letting her come out first and then obviously coming out of the same ship so that Anakin can see how he got there.(And winning the duel since Vader would go into a blinding rage since he thought Amidala had completely screwed him over.) At first I thought Lucas wanted to show the moral dilema with the light side of the force being so rational and emotion less. (Since from a rational point of view using Amidala to get you there in the first place and then using her again to convince Vader that he can trust absolutely no one would be a very effective tactic. It'd be an utterly dick move but if you're emotionless about it then it makes loads of sense. If the evaulation is use some stupid love sick tart to take out some master of potential evil and you're some emotionless dick like Ben well there's a kind of sense in that tactic.) Instead of doing that it's just another fight and it ends up with Ben winning because he's 2 feet higher. (Really, he could have done a reference to Vader losing before the fight began then realize after the fact how peverted he'd become by blindly following the light side since it was totally ok with all of his tactics since they may have been brutal but they were definitely cold.) Anyway that's the most blatant example of Lucas being a complete hack but I know, way too many to mention.

  14. There's nothing new about this on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I mean US courts have already said that if you merely think something is making you sick that's a good enough standard to sue for losses. (Scientific evidence be damned.)

  15. Re:So the big news on Website Owner's Manual · · Score: 1
    is that dealing with people is hard. In other news water is wet and snow is cold.

    I'll get this english thing eventually, it's only my first language.

  16. So the big news on Website Owner's Manual · · Score: 1

    is that deal with people is hard. In other news water is wet and snow is cold.

  17. Nah, they were first on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 1

    The church has always had this thing about controlling information. They kept the bible and mass in Latin for a very long time which is just the most obvious example of controlling information.

  18. Re:They feel fine(Let me make it more readable on A Requiem For Saab · · Score: 1
    Let me guess

    Liquidate your company, liquidate your company

    GM - Here's one -- nine pence.

    Saab - I'm not bankrupt!

    Bankrupcy court - What?

    GM - Nothing -- here's your nine pence.

    Saab - I'm not Bankrupt!

    BC - Here -- he says he's not bankrupt!

    GM - Yes, he is.

    Saab - I'm not! (And so on, I hear Saab feels fine)

  19. They feel fine on A Requiem For Saab · · Score: 1

    Let me guess Liquidate your company, liquidate your company GM - Here's one -- nine pence. Saab - DEAD PERSON: I'm not bankrupt! Bankrupcy court - What? GM - Nothing -- here's your nine pence. Saab - I'm not Bankrupt! BC - Here -- he says he's not bankrupt! GM - Yes, he is. Saab - I'm not! (And so on, I hear Saab feels fine)

  20. I heard that the first scientist that looked at it on Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That his head exploded. He apparently looked at he picture, said "Wow, now I understand how a photo is simultaneously can be a wave and a particle" and then when his brain tried to rectify that paradox his head blew up. Services are at 10am on Tuesday.

  21. Guess I should have said methane or ethane on Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    Since those are also organic and Saturn's moon Titan has lakes of the stuff and there probably was never any life there. (Although you never know. Life can be pretty surprising.)

  22. I still don't get why they don't have a video app on Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! · · Score: 1

    I mean you can't watch youtube on it and I don't think Hulu works either. (Which is funny since given it's OLED it actually has a nice screen.)

  23. Remember that in Chemistry has a precise meaning on Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It means hydrocarbons. So before any one asks to a chemist gasoline is organic.

  24. Hope this becomes a treatment for ALS on Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it's far too new to help my mom though. (Who has that. Definitely not a disease to get.)

  25. Again, alot of the Galileo stuff is myth on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    So the first thing is that Galileo was a proponent of the earth moving but he didn't actually have any evidence. The evidence he did have (phases of Venus, moons of Jupiter, the moon's surface.) the church actually agreed with his findings since they had their own astronomers that confirmed this. (The church eventually went with the Tychonic system for what it's worth.) One theory is he only really got in trouble because he called his college drinking buddy stupid when he had his back up to this point. (So the pope figured he'd let him sweat for being a jerk.) Another version is that the pope was under alot of political pressure at the time(about heresy) and Galileo was being a loud mouth dick about everything so the pope needed to have him quiet it down. (I mean seriously, Galileo was playing a political game around 1600AD and doing it clumsily. What did anybody think was going to happen?)