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  1. Re:can you se uranus with a telescope? on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 1

    Well, the good ones use prisms.

  2. Because their horoscope told them.

  3. Not a Weapon on US Secretary of State Calls Climate Change 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not a weapon if it cannot be wielded. If it is just lashing about indiscriminately then it's not a weapon.

  4. Kies? on Ask Slashdot: Local Sync Options For Android Mobile To PC? · · Score: 1

    If you have a Samsung (which I do) you have have it sync using their Kies software. I don't think you can sync remotely, but you can definitely do it locally over the same wifi network. You can set it to automatically connect and backup when you join the wifi network.

  5. Re:Well I've recently become more convinced on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I was attempting to write in the voice of someone who'd make such errors. I'll gladly jump on your landmine metaphor as punishment.

  6. Well I've recently become more convinced on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every day you hear about more things they are spotting in space, with bigger more powerful horoscopes they can see more exoplanets and stars etc. Considering how much our Curiosity alone has Discovered about the surface of Mars, it's not surprising Astrology is gaining a lot of credibility.

  7. Re:Incomplete research perhaps? on Scientists Solve Mystery of World-Traveling Plant · · Score: 2

    Irrelevant, there isn't enough fibrous husk on the bottle gourd for a swallow (or pair thereof) to grip on to.

  8. What is this, a collider for ants? on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 1

    It has to be at least .... 3 times as large!

  9. Why not use Dice? on Not Just Healthcare.gov: NASA Has 'Significant Problems' With $2.5B IT Contract · · Score: 1, Funny

    They'd have it implemented already whether you wanted it or not.

  10. Re:Common sense? In MY judiciary? on Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    I tried flashing in a crowded theater and was arrested on public decency charges.

  11. Re:Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops thi on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 2

    When you get a good provider, you shouldn't hide who they are. If they are being decent, then you should give them credit where it's due. Who are you with now?

  12. Re:He's winning b/c he gets the right answers on Audience Jeers Contestant Who Uses Game Theory To Win At 'Jeopardy' · · Score: 1

    And who's to say all this hasn't been orchestrated by the producers? It's like in wrestling, if things are getting too stale, they will introduce a "Bad Guy" character who "doesn't follow the rules" and it riles everyone up, gets people talking and interested again. It will go on a few weeks, with audiences prompted to jeer and shout, people at home cuss him out and are eagerly awaiting the "hero" to turn up and knock him off the show.

    When that happens all the audience and viewers will cheer all the harder at home and be elated when the villain is defeated.

  13. Re:Excuse me... Excuse me?!!! on Many Lasers Become One In Lockheed Martin's 30 kW Laser Weapon · · Score: 1

    What would be great is if there were, say, 30 lasers mounted in a circle 1-2 meters in diameter. That way, in order to hit their target, they will focus on it, with all the lasers pointing inwards. The point the meet in the air being their intended target. Constructive interference, focused bean and all that jazz makes them effective. If they miss, then they are just 30 smaller beams scattering off being 'mostly harmless'.

    It's like, if you 'miss' with a magnifying glass, you don't burn the ants so much.

  14. Re:Undescriptive summary on Steam Music Now Accepting Beta Signups · · Score: 1

    Totally agree with this. Some games don't have a great sound track, or in cases like Path of Exile, Kingdoms of Amalur or Skyrim, you play the game so much you get bored of even good music. Tabbing out, while not hard, can sometimes destabilize a game or just be inconvenient. Adding a music player to the overlay which just reads from your library is a small and simple quality of life improvement.

  15. Re:Manna on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Do you know how many jobs were eliminated when the horse-drawn plough was invented? What about the number of lumber workers jobs lost when the chainsaw was invented.

    The industrial revolution caused major upset as machines replaced humans. Why is this any different? Now we have more scientists, doctors and artists than we did then. There will be a period of unrest, but given a generation (or less if people cross-train) it will rebalance in a new state, waiting for the next upset.

    It is like in Willie Wonka (not sure if it's in both versions) where the father of the family lost his job screwing on toothpaste caps, only to get another one maintaining the robot that did the job in place of him.

  16. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    They could be watching a scary movie together, couldn't they?

  17. Re:Ads are toxic. on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    If you rounded up all the criminals in the UK and shipped them off to an island penal colony, what do you think their descendants would say when you meet them many generations later?

    "G'day Mate"

  18. Re:Ads are toxic. on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but I have to chime in here. If we didn't have soccer, what would hooligans use as a focal point for rioting?

  19. Re:the real question is on Sound System Simulates the Roar of a Rocket Launch · · Score: 2

    And can it blow the cloths off girls?

  20. Re:As an environmentalist and (former) Obama fan. on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    I dunno, a High Score?

  21. False Windows 8 comparison on Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Gets Leaked · · Score: 1

    Just because it has widgets arranged on the screen, does not make it a Metro UI. I could do that with an android phone.

  22. Re: Wow on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, the wine was made specifically for the purpose of being drunk, while the windows were not made to be broken. The relevance of the parable gets murky when you talk about warships. Are warships built to be destroyed? They are most definitely built to destroy other warships, but the loss of a warship, even in a game, has an opportunity cost. You now cannot (or it is difficult) to maintain regular economic ventures (mining) when you have lost a lot of your defensive fleet.

    I think that comparing the loss of units in a game is not the same as the loss experienced by consuming a bottle of wine. If the wine was destroyed by pouring it down the drain, then we are closer to the same comparison, an object designed for entertainment was not consumed in the proper manner, so it is a real loss.

  23. Re: Wow on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    This is very relevant. You might think that the destruction of good would lead to greater economic activity, but destroyed goods are gone, and though people will be employed in making replacements, they are no longer creating new works.

  24. What's Pirate Bay? on Pirate Bay Block Lifted In the Netherlands · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that some sister site to Pirate Proxy?

  25. Re:Success = happiness? on The "Triple Package" Explains Why Some Cultural Groups Are More Successful · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It reminds me of a Joke/Story.
    I'm going to paraphase because I CBA typing it all out.
    An American businessman is on holidays in Mexico. He meets a tomato farmer. The Tomato farmer makes enough money to get by on. The American asks him why he doesn't take a bank loan, buy more land, hire more workers plant more tomatoes. He could grow his business, get rich. Sure it might involve many additional hours of effort and toil, and a few years of sleepless nights while making ends meet, but eventually he might have a thriving business.

    After 30-40 years of this, he could then retire, and perhaps start a small tomato farm to keep busy.

    The Mexican looked around him and offered, "Don't I have that right now?"