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  1. Re:I can see the daily quests now... on Michael Jackson Themed MMO In the Works · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about this: There is one elephant man skeleton. Someone buys it. Then they have to sell it to someone else, at whatever price they like. If they don't sell it fast enough, it goes back to wherever it was first sold, to be sold again at the default price. It would be interesting to see how high or low the prices would go.

  2. Re:Brain vs. Galaxy Simulation on Simulating Galaxies With Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    He's too busy fighting shambling men in rubber masks.

  3. Re:thin client exam takers on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    Ten minutes? Maybe if you're drawing by holding the pencil in your nose.

  4. Re:thin client exam takers on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    Student traces diagram on onion-skin paper, photographs it, eats it.

  5. Re:CFL "Green?" on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    Do you eat seafood?

  6. Re:CFLs won't last on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    That's horse shit, regardless of what that EPA pamphlet (which reeks of people wanting to add all kinds of good but not really necessary ideas but no one wanting to risk challenging any of them) says. Fluorescent tubes have been breaking all over the place for decades and it hasn't been a huge health issue, and not many people have been making a big production of clean-up. And it was never the law that you do it that way. But on the subject of -40 (why specify C?), "If possible reduce temperature" from the Maine version certainly becomes easy, doesn't it?

  7. Re:Blame it on minimum wage laws. on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 2

    If it's simple, perhaps you could show us the math behind it?

  8. Re:huh on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    The cost of building the plant, versus the short time that plant would be used to produce incandescents.

  9. Re:CFL "Green?" on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even with the most conservative estimates for mercury output and the proportion of power generated by coal and the most unforgiving ones for CFL mercury content and power savings, the power saved by CFLs results in less mercury being released into the environment than they could themselves release.

    http://www.energy.gs/2007/05/cfl-mercury-myths.html
    http://www.energyrace.com/commentary/more_on_mercury_coal_and_cfls_updated/
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/reviews/news/4217864

  10. Re:CFLs won't last on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    I'd say "but there isn't a furor over the mercury that coal puts into the environment" but there will be, because the right loves symbols, and the CFL is a symbol of the left wing greeniacs and everything about which they are wrong, and therefore the CFL will be held to a higher standard than opposing interests that are harder to distill into a single image or concept.

  11. Re:Why didn't they push LEDs instead of CFL ? on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They get broken about 10% of the time when a bulb is being changed

    Do you have Parkinson's disease or something?

  12. So what does the Pirate Party have to say? on Swedish Police Shoe Database May Tread On Copyright · · Score: 1

    I mean, this seems like an opportunity for them to make nice with The Man.

  13. Re:Slender, not broad on Swedish Police Shoe Database May Tread On Copyright · · Score: 1

    I can see a possible use for a database of police shoes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbLU9tdDwxo&feature=related

  14. Re:What do you mean 2001? on New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes · · Score: 1

    Has Hotmail itself actually been compromised in this way? (I mean, after they switched to Windows, it wouldn't surprise me) Because I've gotten this from people who swear to me that they stopped using Outlook after the last time.

  15. Gee, maybe if Bing didn't suck... on Google Says Microsoft Is Driving Antitrust Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The following two aspects of Bing are superior:
    Its ability to find porn in the video search is better than Google.
    The way the roads are drawn on maps are a bit easier to read than Google (but Yahoo is better still).

    Honorable mention: the new version of Google Images brings it almost down to Bing's level.

  16. Re:Cue increase in accidents on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    Germany also has stricter traffic laws, stricter enforcement, stricter driving tests, and better highway maintenance and construction, at least for the Autobahn. That said, it doesn't take much in the way of maintenance or construction to make a road fast in the Mohave desert, and I'm only comfortable going that fast if there's no one else in sight.

  17. Don't fuck this up. on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If this doesn't end up at least vaguely resembling the bridge from either the TOS or TNG Enterprise, you're FIRED.

  18. Re:Cue increase in accidents on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been to Nevada?

  19. Oh oh... on NASA Preps Closest-Ever Sun Mission · · Score: 1

    Then give it a talking motorcycle.

  20. Possible solution on New Malware Imitates Browser Warning Pages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The first time the browser is used, create a security image like bank websites use. Store that image or the word used to generate it someplace where the malware will presumably not be able to access it.

  21. Re:What? on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 1

    They don't have to. The BX/PX sells video games.

  22. Re:What? on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 1

    There's Taco Bell and Pizza Hut and Popeyes, and seamstresses/tailors, too. A lot of these are, I'm pretty sure, actually staffed by AAFES employees. I'm not sure why you'd need a Gamestop franchise. It isn't like Gamestop has any unique products.

  23. Re:More of same on the way on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Japan is northeast Asia. Also Russia, and North Korea.

    There are a bunch of southeast Asian countries that don't have it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sex_ratio_below_15_per_country_smooth.png

  24. Business idea...it's mine, I patent it on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Virtual Pet Groomer

  25. Re:More of same on the way on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1