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  1. Re:Global Warning on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everyone will starve to death?

    Not quite that level of an apocalypse.

    It'd kill off, say, a few billion people. Places such as Mexico could still farm food, enough to sustain hundreds of thousands of people.
    And the situation would recover fairly quickly - we'd almost certainly see a complete crash of global economy, energy prices soaring like never before and cannibalism becoming a viable survival strategy, but the end of the human rice? Hardly.

  2. Re:Suicide? on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Run a hard reset. As in, open it up and forcibly reset it.

    Then set the date to launch day. Apparently they work fine after that.

    However: This is second hand information.

  3. Re:Were they made by Sony? on Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware · · Score: 1

    The u3 remover from Sandisk fixed my stick.

  4. Re:DVD = VHS? on Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS · · Score: 1

    There are hard drive recorders available. Most are from $200 to $300. Same ease of use - except faster and better, and able to record more than one channel at a time. VHS is dead. And someone should cut it's head off and fill it's mouth with garlic, for we really don't need it anymore.

  5. Re:Been There, Forced To Do That on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    It's pseudo- all that. Even religion, given it was founded by a Sci-Fi writer aiming to create a popular religion.

    And you're a moron for thinking otherwise. Science is science, no matter how much shit and religion you throw at it.

    If something works for you, it might just be placebo effect - or it might be completely unrelated to whatever you're doing. Rain won't come by dancing.

    Science is confirmed by repeatable experiments and for any hypothesis to be science there also has to be a way to disprove it. And even then it isn't proof, it's merely a coherent theory.

  6. Re:When referring to Scientology.... on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    The difference is that Catholic Church hasn't been violent about it since the Inquisition.

  7. Re:What the hell? on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 2, Funny

    Though, admittedly the mutilating babies isn't a *special* right to the Jews - everyone in the US is free to do it.

  8. Re:What the hell? on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Uh. Satanists as "generic evil religion" is kinda off. At least LaVeyan satanists - silly as they may be with the mythological imagery - are perfectly functional in society and well capable of obeying the law.
    Also, giving children alcohol? (Christians)
    Mutilating babies? (Jews)

  9. Re:No problem on EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM · · Score: 1

    Nope. The global recession caused EUR to crash pretty hard when it started. Now it's climbing back up again.

  10. Re:Does it always produce true responses? on Torture in Games · · Score: 1

    They need to be redeadified.

  11. Re:$30? Seriously? on Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS · · Score: 1

    AK2 is still supported, and where Cyclo is better, it also costs four times as much.

  12. Re:$30? Seriously? on Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS · · Score: 1

    R4 is outdated and not supported. You want the AK2 now.

  13. Re:Remember kids on Race and Racism In Video Games · · Score: 1

    Sentience.

  14. Re:Obvious? on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    And 5000 calories of fast food doesn't always cause liver damage. Admittedly, it often does.
    2500 calories of fast food don't cause liver damage in a noticeable amount, though - as far as I know at least.
    And the nutrient problem is quite the opposite. McFood is very much packed with all the core nutrients, meaning you don't need half as much McFood as normal food to get by. Unfortunately, it lacks dietary fiber and long carbohydrates, meaning you don't feel well fed until the leptin starts kicking in.

  15. Re:Don't use carp like BMI to say someone is over on "Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate · · Score: 1

    On the upside I have no need to pay health insurance - I live in one of those socialist countries, off government welfare. True, in my shape I'd probably be dying already in the US, seeing I haven't been exactly free of expensive medical procedures thus far and I've got plenty more coming. Europe. 3

  16. Re:Don't use carp like BMI to say someone is over on "Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate · · Score: 1

    All limbs. For quite a while. And a head-splitting headache. It wouldn't help. Waiting for surgery to fix the problem. Maybe.

  17. Re:Don't use carp like BMI to say someone is over on "Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I cannot exercise. At all. There's a physical reason, one that robs me of the control of my limbs and sense of balance when I try to.

    Obviously, I'm overweight.

    And it's my fault?

  18. Re:Obvious? on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And he ate 5000 kcal per day.
    If you eat double what you should according to nutritionists - and hey, last I checked McD also hands out the same info with every meal - it's no wonder your health starts failing.
    You can eat yourself immobile with almost any food, and certainly any food including meat. No fault of McD's there.

  19. Re:Obvious? on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    McFood isn't exactly horribly bad for you. The biggest problem is the lack of fiber in it. Of course, too much McFood is bad for you, and it's a lot easier eating too much fast food.

  20. Re:How about when there is no alternative? on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    Sacrificing functionality for ideals is harming open source.