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  1. Re:damn on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 1

    They'll have to find it first! And they won't be able to do that with Google or TFA since the latter doesn't say where or even how far away it is and the former just returns page after page after page of the same press release copied verbatim.

  2. Re:Dibs! on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 1

    I'll only consider honouring your claim if you can hammer your flag into this solid diamond planet (assuming you can even reach it). Good luck with that.

  3. Re:Diamonds are not rare, not even on Earth. on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps the parent meant on Earth, but that's also wrong, or perhaps they meant just the crust... nope, still wrong. Or maybe it's the entire Universe? Nope, distant fourth.

    Care to enlighten us Kenja?

  4. Re:damn on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 1

    Bought it? Are you sure they didn't just lay claim to it?

  5. Re:Greatest algorithms of all time on When Algorithms Control the World · · Score: 1

    I think you may have overlooked an earlier, more basic algorithm:

    10 EAT
    20 REPRODUCE
    GOTO 10

    In my day we didn't have no fancy If... Thens, and we were happy dammit!

  6. Re:I guess doom and gloom sells more ads on When Algorithms Control the World · · Score: 1

    Let me rephrase your question: which is worse, dishonesty for self-promotion or dishonesty for profit?

    Answers on a postcard.

  7. Re:In other countries: on Early Earthquake Warning System In iOS 5 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Starbug: Swirly Thing Alert!
    All hands on deck, etc etc.

  8. Re:Electric blankets, anyone? on GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due · · Score: 1

    Copper Man sound very appealing.
    What best way proposition Copper Man? Meat Man has tin oxidation-preventing lacquer.

  9. Re:Copper goes for $3/pound on GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due · · Score: 1

    The Copper Man has a thick skin.

    Of course he does: it says so in the first paragraph of article and it's the sixth word of TFS.

    "GE's 'Copper Man' is a quarter-inch-thick, electroplated copper mannequin from the early '40s that the Army used to evaluate the thermal-insulating quality of protective clothing issued to B-17 and B-24 airmen. At the request of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC, the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine recently agreed to donate its oldest Copper Man for permanent display."

  10. Re:Electric blankets, anyone? on GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due · · Score: 1

    Copper man may be more resilient, but meat man doesn't have "steal me" permanently tattooed on him.

  11. Re:Claude Cooper on GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due · · Score: 1

    You're behind the times.
    Didn't you hear? Gay is the new Straight.

    tl;dw Not all gays are mincers and - surprise, surprise - not all mincers are gay. Or, to paraphrase the good Mr. Hughes, gay guys fuck men while straight guys have their fun with women, and you're trying to argue that the former are somehow weaker than the latter?

  12. Re:some random crap up for auction on Former Popemobile Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    "I hope that God exists; that there be order in the world. I pray that an exception be made for me just this once."

    I don't know who said that but it sounds like Carlin. Personally I think if anyone governs the cosmos it's not God; it's The Lady.

  13. Re:I chose the impossible. on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    Andrew Ryan
    Ayn Rand

    Is the similarity just a coincidence?

  14. Re:Every Geek's Dream on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    How about this instead?

    Make billions,
    Spend a couple of millions on a publicity stunt,
    ???

  15. Re:Baby with the bathwater on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " What is the primary purpose of BART? " To serve the peoples transportation need; which includes cell phones and data connection.

    Trains
    Subways
    Buses
    Cell-phones
    Trams

    One of these things is not like the others.

  16. Re:Rebirth? on Digital Tech and the Re-Birth of Product Placement · · Score: 1

    I've seen a lot of paint dry and it was all better than Transformers 2.
    I've dry-retched with my head in a toilet bowl and that was better than Transformers, too.

    To paraphrase, Transformers isn't even bad.

  17. Re:WTF on SpyEye Trojan Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    It's easy:

    Blah blah blah administrator blah blah would you like blah blah... .
    *Clicks No*

    Or:

    Yadda yadda type password...
    Sure, whatever...
    *types password*

    And bish bash bosh, you've got the electronic clap.

  18. Re:Dear Valve: on Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · · Score: 1

    TF was my favorite mod for Quake. But don't think of TF2 as a sequel. It's not. It's a reboot, superficially inspired by TF/TFC.

    I don't blame you, Coward, but good God I so hate what 'reboot' has come to mean; a reboot is what you do when something is broken.

  19. Re:Nice on Fossil 'Suggests Plesiosaurs Did Not Lay Eggs' · · Score: 1

    I agree, but while science is super nice I'm grateful for anything less likely to descend into interminable bickering over politics.

    A thought occurs: we take "News for Nerds" to mean any news that nerds find interesting. Perhaps we should try news that only nerds want to read.

  20. Re:CS:S 2 on Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · · Score: 1

    It's been a good few months since I played CSS myself (I've probably lost what little skill I had to atrophy) but I'm pretty sure there wasn't a riot shield in it.

  21. Re:I love TF2 on Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · · Score: 1

    Alas, I think you're probably right... *sniff*

  22. Re:TELL ME WHERE BARNEY CALHOUN WENT. on Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · · Score: 1

    NOW TELL ME WHERE BARNEY CALHOUN WENT.

    I'm hoping he buggered off with Alyx so we can have a return to the survival horror that got us hooked on HL in the first place.

  23. I love TF2 on Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But I'd be quite sad if this new game had hats, much less constant promotional tie-ins with other games.

    That said, if I can still have fun with a French trumpet I'm in.

  24. Re:Yeah, right. on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    I NEED to strap this engine into my motorcycle. Imagine 0 - 60 times of under .01 second. :)

    I'd rather not, doesn't that equate to more than 2500G?
    Think of the mess!

  25. Re:NIMBY on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    I suggest "zero-carbon". People will buy anything with that label.