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  1. Re:WTF? on Cooking With Your USB Ports · · Score: 1

    It all started with a Yes We Can chant.

  2. Re:Turbine on The Rise and Fall of America's Jet-Powered Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    Rover experimented with a gas turbine auto. A heat exchanger* doubled the fuel efficiency, but it was problematic to make.

    http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeLand-Rover/Rover/index.html

    *Think cycles: In the compression cycle you want to remove heat to get more mass compressed, and in the combustion cycle you want to put heat in. A piston engine does not lend itself to heat exchange in combustion.

  3. Re:Being a father with a paranoid mother... on Plastic Chemical BPA Declared Toxic In Canada · · Score: 1

    Can I line my tin hat with BPA?

  4. Re:Not classic physics on Modeling a White Hole With Your Kitchen Sink · · Score: 1

    And pizza and be used to model pi.

  5. Re:Godzilla on Five Times the US Almost Nuked Itself · · Score: 1

    The other day upon the stair,
    I met Godzilla who wasn't there.
    He wasn't there again today.
    I wish I wish he'd go away.

  6. Re:Iran... on Five Times the US Almost Nuked Itself · · Score: 1

    So now we don't have to be afraid of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons anymore. Hell, we should even give them to them!

    We deliver like pizza.

  7. Re:Supercritical on Five Times the US Almost Nuked Itself · · Score: 1

    Kudos to using the correct term supercritical instead of critical like they do in the movies.

    On fast neutrons?

  8. Re:Wow this is a terrible piece of work. on Five Times the US Almost Nuked Itself · · Score: 1

    crack pot n. A psycho ceramic

  9. Re:From Life ... on Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you tried Google Maths?

  10. Re:Fractint on Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 · · Score: 1

    They think about electric sheep to go to sleep, but once asleep they dream about the electric jeep and weep.

  11. Re:Episode 3 sucks. on Hobbit Film Finally Gets Green Light, To Be Shot in 3-D · · Score: 1

    Tom? Tom Bombadil, is that you?

    Rumor has it that Shelob is out over bad financial negotiations and ridiculous perks.

  12. Re:3-D on Hobbit Film Finally Gets Green Light, To Be Shot in 3-D · · Score: 1

    Lancelot runs the gauntlet and there is a scene where he looks down and there are axes flying from side to side and at him and so forth.

    Or is shows a need for coordination.

  13. Re:It's still market manipulation on Norwegian Day Traders Convicted For Manipulating Computer Trading System · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bernard Baruch noticed that the ball tended to land opposite to heavy bets in a roulette game. He placed his his bets likewise.

    After a bit he was asked to leave, but until then he was making money on someone else's crooked wheel.

  14. Re:Obligatory on Norwegian Day Traders Convicted For Manipulating Computer Trading System · · Score: 1

    Vladimir Vladimirovich if you work for Amerikanskiis you could be Special Master or as they say Czar.

  15. Re:I know why.. lack of standardization on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    That only applies if the figures were made in 3D, if they were converted from 2D you may as well rub mud in your eyes.

    Sheds some light on the expression "here's mud in your eye."

  16. Re:Burying Bodies on Badgers Digging Up Ancient Human Remains · · Score: 1

    The original point of a headstone was to protect the grave from animals.

    --

    Badgered to death and gone to a furry grave.

  17. Re:Parenting skills? on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a description of Eddie Cantor.

    He was 60.

    He looked 40.

    He acted 20.

  18. Re:got spyware? on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    The embassy would know how you got the address. OTOH if you got Bini's mail drop...

  19. Re:Being a dog owner ... on Dogs Can Be Pessimistic · · Score: 1

    Dogs tend to reflect the personality of their owners.

    Or vice versa. Does that dog remind you of Philippe Noiret's film persona?

  20. Re:got spyware? on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    How did you get this address?

  21. Re:Perfect Application on Erasing Objects From Video In Real Time · · Score: 1

    i think it would be funny if someone wrote a virus to infect London's CCTV system to remove all people from every camera feed.

    Joe the Boss dropped 'is cucumber sandwich in 'is tea (no sugar no cream) when he heard this.

    He may be interested in a special deal.

  22. Re:Oh my-- on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    What are all those extension cords for?

  23. Re:Reballed? on When You Really, Really Want to Upgrade a Tiny Notebook · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you are not sure you want to reflow BGAs yourself, you don't want to.

    I haven't got the balls for it.

  24. Re:Fine the Bastards on IRS Servers Down During Crucial Week · · Score: 1

    If your name is Joe Stack.

    Push Joe Stack. Pop Joe Stack. Pop Joe Stack. Pop Joe Stack.

  25. Re:Bacteria for Congress on Gambling On Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Sounds like incumbents to me.