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  1. Re:Wrong units... on Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Dude, the link you provided is entitled Kilogram-force. When you're talking about pounds you don't specific if you're talking about pound-mass or pound-force, as it's obvious from the context which it's supposed to be. We use the same conventions in SI-land, it's obvious from the context of the article that it's talking about kilogram force, and not kilogram-mass.

    Also, unless things have changed in the 5-years I've been out of uni, the SI unit of weight is the Newton.

  2. Re:.6 percent on Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    And just how, pray tell, do you think they measure the mass of the bars Mr. Nitpicker? Some elaborate physics experiment?

    I have no idea if they account for it or not, but this is something that they'd need to take into account.

  3. Re:Omnipresent Surveillance on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 1

    Possibly you saw this movie:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJ5vbSt9K0
    Or the itchy and scratchy episode that made a mockery of it.

    It has probably occured numerous times, due to the fact that it was one of Elvis' hobbies:
    http://www.elvisinfonet.com/elvisgoulet.html

    My favourite quote on the topic:

    “There was nothing Elvis had against Robert Goulet. They were friends,” Kern said. “But Elvis just shot out things on a random basis.”
    There were no reports Presley hurt anybody with his gun slinging, but he was known to have a fascination with firearms. He converted part of a rear building at the estate into a firing range.

  4. Re:The Car Analogy on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 1

    I have heard that only Fords were allowed to park in the parking lots at the Ford plants back in the olden days. You could go and buy a Dodge if you wanted one, but you'd have to walk to work.

  5. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    I certainly hope so, or at least I hope you're outnumbered by people like me who thought of Dune.

  6. Re:The real question on New York Times Halves Monthly Free Article Views To Ten · · Score: 1

    Thanks for letting the world know about MurdochBlock. I've just installed it on all my computers, I'm sure it'll make my life a lot less stressful.

  7. Re:Cost of print subscription cheaper than digital on New York Times Halves Monthly Free Article Views To Ten · · Score: 1

    Are they including print subscriptions in that number

    Yes, 500k people have some kind of subscription to the NYT. I tried to find a number for the people with online-only subscriptions, but they don't seem to publish that number...

  8. Re:Some disadvantages as well... on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    Man, I've been living over here in yank-land for so long I'd forgotten about doing that. I'll remember to add that to my list of reasons to move back home.

  9. Re:According to original report it wasn't Enders G on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    It's the bible bangers who've brought about the climate in which this kind of situation is allowed to happen, so the comments disparaging them are still relevant.

    (When isn't it relevant to verbally assault religious people?)

  10. Re:Some disadvantages as well... on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    Small amount of money raised? You're doing it wrong, my girl's troop made, like, $20k last cookie season, it pays for the whole year's activities.

  11. Re:Real smart. on CEO of TuCloud Dares Microsoft To Sue His New Company · · Score: 1

    These are not the memes you are looking for.

  12. Re:Some disadvantages as well... on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    That's what I came here to say. Also, what about trades between friends? If I buy two concert tickets, how does my friend give me the money for them? How would you sell things on Craigslist?

  13. Re:Build vs. buy on DIY Augmented Reality Heads-Up Display · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm too jaded, but that TV hat is just a joke, right?

  14. Re:Seriously on Boycott of Elsevier Exceeds 8000 Researchers · · Score: 1

    That doesn't really counter his point. He made the point that successful people in the US are greedy. Fortunately there are also enough suckers to make the system work.

  15. Re:The wet t-shirt effect? on Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water · · Score: 1

    It's a shame I got modded up and you didn't, your's was better than mine.

  16. Re:Public is Public on Boycott of Elsevier Exceeds 8000 Researchers · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes they should. Results from car manufacturing being primarily profits, which should be used to pay back to the government any amount which was given to prevent it slipping into bankruptcy.

  17. Re:Wouldn't it make more sense... on Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice · · Score: 1

    So you clone the person, grow them to adults, conduct your tests and then dispose of them. No ethical worries whatsoever!

  18. Re:Solving the worng problem on Futuristic Biplane Design Eliminates Sonic Boom · · Score: 1

    Sure, shaving 2 hours of a six hour flight time isn't that big of a deal, but there are places outside the US, and sometimes people like to fly there. Cutting 6 hours off the flight from LA to Sydney would make my life significantly more enjoyable when my mother tells me that I have to come visit her lest I be disowned.

  19. Re:Offtopic? People don't like '80s German pop mus on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 4, Funny

    The mods saw that it wasn't in English, couldn't be bothered to translate it, and are philistines who wouldn't know good music if it filled their vagina with bacon and then sent an Alsatian to go eat it.

  20. Re:I guess when they crash... on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 2

    Yo dawg, I herd you liek crashing, so we put a server in your airship so you can crash while you crash!

  21. Re:The wet t-shirt effect? on Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water · · Score: 4, Funny

    2 girls 1 datacentre?

  22. Re:The wet t-shirt effect? on Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water · · Score: 1

    For a second there I thought you were being serious, then I read the second sentence and got the joke.

  23. Re:So... privacy should allow the guilty to get of on New York State Passes DNA Requirement For Almost All Convicted Criminals · · Score: 1

    I might feel that way if I believed that I could absolutely trust every police officer. While I have not had any run-ins personally I know that it would be all too easy for a policeman to "find" some drugs in my car or on my body and completely fuck up my life. As such I'm not convinced they need any more power.

  24. Re:Heathens on Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    I could go for some cigarettes without nicotine (or the other shit that kills you).

  25. Re:What's next? on Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    I've actually gotten quite into non-alcoholic beer. Tastes just as good and I can have one whenever. I also drink a lot of decaf coffee, as long as the stuff they're breeding still tastes good I'd be for it.