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  1. Re:So I do have to... on Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar · · Score: 1

    Aside from voting, you can do all of those after December 21st. I know lots of people that do that already.

    After 12-21-2012, everyone will be a registered voter.

  2. Re:Cue huge pushback from the AMA in 3...2... on FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder how many Pharmacists in other countries get sued for misdiagnosing or prescribing drugs...

    They are trying to cope with a lawyer shortage.

  3. Re:Sea aliens?? on Scientists Solve Mystery of Ireland's Moving Boulders · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone think that sea aliens would do such a thing, when there are Selkies about?

    Especially in the Shetlands where they resemble small horses.

  4. Re:It's a foregone conclusion on How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims · · Score: 1

    What's the program? Sounds like there might be some money in recoding those calculations into a nice shiny iPhone app...

    I don't know, and I'm unable to ask (due to something unrelated to this). However, I guess the application isn't that popular even among astrologers, since otherwise the original programmer would likely have rewritten it using a more modern approach.

    However, someone put a curse on his money and his computer.

    --

    Eight posts from now, this thread will be cursed with Michael Kristopeit.

  5. Re:Taxes suck. on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 2

    The problem is even deeper than that. Some of our best minds are working on it, but they have no solution yet.

    We have top people working on it.
    Who?
    Top people.

  6. So now we know on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why Bin Laden was watching porn.

  7. Re:American Culture on Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California · · Score: 1

    You mean "of course, we are just starting to appear to look for it".

    The industry has actively resisted increasing testing for BSE for two reasons:
    1) it costs money
    2) it finds cows with BSE

    Of course, the USDA has required insanely higher levels of testing for cows/beef from Canada.

    Mad testers test for mad cows. Recursion anyone?

  8. Re:In other quantum news . . . on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 2

    Gypsy: No

    Interviewer: Is it true that you can read minds?

    Gypsy husband to wife : Stop draging up the future.

  9. Re:Further Alignment on Facebook Purchases 650 AOL Patents From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Google has already staked their company on G+. Does Microsoft gain an edge by helping Facebook even if there is no direct payoff?

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
      See where this is going?

    Alignment with the galactic center. Film on 12-21-2012.

  10. Re:Wrong on Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email · · Score: 1

    "That person would have found nothing odd at all about receiving the note."

    Let's hope that many people used 'reply all' to vent their anger.

    That would be intranet spam.

  11. Re:Wrong on Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, to be a fly on the wall when HR told him to fire himself via e-mail.

    Then you can be fired from HR?

  12. Re:How wonderful on Brain Scan Can Predict Math Mistakes · · Score: 1

    The real application for this tech is in cars and driving!

    Imagine if cars had an "idiot light" on top that lit up 20 seconds before the driver did something stupid!

    Would it be reliable enough?

  13. Re:Maybe there's something wrong with me... on Brain Scan Can Predict Math Mistakes · · Score: 1

    "Isn't that the old "allow no failure" school of thought repackaged?"

    Yes, but instead of it being like NCLB, we actually DO SOMETHING about it.

    Maybe the notice no failure overlords will be defeated by their own incompetence.

  14. Re:Maybe there's something wrong with me... on Brain Scan Can Predict Math Mistakes · · Score: 1

    You can't do anything about it if you don't know that he doesn't get it. Rather than waiting until tomorrow when you've graded the paper, you cane TEACH, now. Different students learn differently, and are going to understand and misunderstand different parts of the lesson..

    I see what you did there.

  15. Re:Who cares on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Iran's military has started to build a copy of a U.S. surveillance drone

    What are they going to do with it, fly it over Texas?

    That's classified bub.

  16. Re:Vegan mums today. on Eating Meat Helped Early Humans Reproduce · · Score: 2

    The modder's mother was vegan.

    When modern modders stoop to folly,
    They know the arts their sins to hide:
    They smooth their hair with automatic hand,
    and put another MP3 on the gramophone.

  17. Re:I for one.... on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Welcome our new Persian Robot Overlords.

    Speaking of overlords, they will never copy the GSA.

  18. Re:How is that different from simply old age? on Is Middle Age Evolution's Crowning Achievement? · · Score: 1

    It's a match made in, er, evolution:

    Little children love to hear the same story repeatedly, over and over, using exactly the same words.
    Old folks repeat the same stories over and over, and if they get the words wrong, the children correct them.

    Perfection.

    Just so, Rudyard is that you?

  19. The Prime Ministers office is obsessed with US-style 'controlling the message'. No public statement may be made by anyone employed by the government without approval of a political officer. This has even recently been extended to the RCMP, and has affected publicly funded science for a long time. No information from our government is free of political meddling and spin designed to further the agenda of the Conservative party - which cares about only one thing: Being re-elected forever.

    Sadly this seems to work and they are resisting scandals that would normally fall a government (eg giving false information to the public is typically certain death for a government in Canada). These people don't respect our democracy or the need for free information from the government, they don't deserve to run our country, but we are stuck with them for the foreseeable future, and it is unlikely any future government will dismantle all this information control infrastructure. :(

    Practice snowjob.

  20. Re:So what? on GSA Emails Recount Inside Story of Exploding Toilets · · Score: 1

    Because it's technical and explosive?

    They didn't explode it, they blew it up.

  21. Re:I've got nothing to add but, on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1

    I'm just trying to thin out some of the Dune and Star Wars comments.

    Do you have a filter for that?

  22. Re:New problems on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1

    Now the birds will get dry eyes.

    We will need to squeegee them off the turbine blades in order to confirm the eyes were dry before impact...

    How do you keep your measurement accurate if you use a squeegee (and water) to remove them?

  23. How open, how transparent, and how utterly stupid. on Wikimedia Treats Their Operations Like Their Projects · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  24. Re:it's own antiparticle? on Scientists Find Long-Sought Majorana Particle · · Score: 1

    (Shrug) He simplified it to the level of junior high school math. If you don't understand complex numbers, you're not going to get anything out of this thread but a headache.

    He's looking for an anti-headache.

  25. Re:MS on Scientists Find Long-Sought Majorana Particle · · Score: 1

    Actually, the research program that funded this research is a public private partnership between MS and the Dutch Physics funding agency FOM. Both payed half of the budget for this research.
    (I know since worked at the HQ of the funding agency)

    If there are two, then is your name Schrodinger?