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  1. Re:Not unexpected on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    You can shoot things out of the sky without worrying about shells or bullets raining down on the city you are protecting.

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

    The whole thread was meant to be tongue in cheek, not to mention that wikipedia is a crap reference anyway. You need a drink!

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

    not according to 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."
    I wouldn't waste resources training the person.

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

    Shouldn't we use a convicted murderer or something?

  5. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    Over 100 people died just building the hoover dam.

  6. Re:ROT13 on Remote Island Adopts Dothraki Language · · Score: 2

    Jokes don't get funnier by repeating them.... brevity(and subtlety) is the soul of wit.

  7. Re:No Influence; Proof Within on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with you, I was just trying to point out that personal anecdotes about being a well adjusted gamer aren't really meaningful unless you are preaching to the choir.

  8. Re:No Influence; Proof Within on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    I doubt even the most fervent anti video gamer will admit that gaming by a well adjusted person will make them kill. I am guessing their concerns lay with people on the fringe of sanity.

  9. Re:No Influence; Proof Within on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    I will assume in your anecdotal case you are not mentally disturbed. What happens when a socially isolated schizophrenic becomes obsessed with gaming?

  10. will drive online shopping overseas on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    You may have to wait a little longer, but people will start buying from Canada or other places without taxes.

  11. BS alarmist article on Sewage Plants Struggle To Treat Fracking Wastewater · · Score: 1

    The waste plant has to meet effluent standards, not drinking water standards. Why would you confuse the two? All waste treatment plants operate under this model.

  12. Re:Almost proud... on Where Can You Find an Electric Vehicle Charging Network? Estonia · · Score: 1

    They also don't have the safety and crash standards that are found in the US that drives up the weight and the cost of EVs here...

  13. Re:In other news on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 1

    That's a really big marble because it works out to 1 cubic foot if you do the calculation.

  14. Re:No Magic Bullets on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    The problem with carbohydrates is that they do not trigger the feelings of satiation and when your blood sugar spikes and then crashes they can leave you feeling hungrier. For me eating a bagel makes me feel like I drank a six pack after an hour or so. Regardless, olives, cheese, meat and vegetables seem to work best for me.

  15. Re:The way things have been going. on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    You can can case harden parts by putting them in a pan of burning brake fluid.

  16. Re:No Magic Bullets on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    How do you know I am eating crap? The problem with carbohydrates is that 90% of them are pure garbage.

  17. Re:No Magic Bullets on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    That's bull- went on a extremely low carb diet in November and have lost 40 pounds so far, with no attempts at portion control.

  18. More to datacenter costs than power on ARM Based Server Cluster Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    What if you are nearing the limits of the datacenter, cooling, power delivery etc. I don't have exact numbers but the cost for watt is greater than what you pay the power company.

  19. Re:I find this rather nauseous... on The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming · · Score: 1

    Wanting to have this thing done to their corpse is a clear sign of having a personality disorder.

  20. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out on Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Whippersnapper!

  21. Re:Sure of course on Seagate's New SSHD Hybrids Have Dual-Mode Flash Caches · · Score: 1

    A common rube isn't going to build a computer or even know what one of these things is to buy one. Who is it for?

  22. Re:Apple's aerial map UAVs fly below 15000 feet on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 2

    Maybe it was using Apple maps?

  23. Use Library Computer on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1

    After multiple infestations I told her to use the public library computer, she's retired and it is right around the block.

  24. Re:Still photography? on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 1

    Older digital cameras aren't that sensitive even with the larger pixel size.

  25. Re:death thralls on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 1

    Maybe you meant 'death throes'? 'Death thralls' are something akin to zombies wanting to eat your brains!