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  1. Re:Canadian border on How Has Post-9/11 Legislation Affected You? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, you Sikhs are pretty cool guys; I dig the long-ass hair and the holy books with purple gods on the covers. Plus, there are some pretty hot Sikh chicks. I might have to stop getting haircuts and go straightedge...

  2. Re:plugin on Google Mirror Beats the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    Use this.

  3. Re:What is this? Hoax? No Details? on Perpetual Motion Delorean? · · Score: 2

    All of those "transitions" were caused by your primary energy source (the gas in a regular car, the batteries in this one) in the first place.

    Any side to side motion in a car is from steering the front wheels, and steering is actually just scrubbing energy in exchange for going a new direction.

    Any upward movement is, again, powered by your energy source; in this case, buying potential energy from the planet. Any downward movement is the planet taking it right back. We can even ignore all the little ups and downs and just check which is higher, your origin or destination. There's only one way to get energy that way, and it was invented a while ago.

    Your forward movement is obviously being used to make you go forward (the whole idea of a car). With motion along this axis (and the other two), the more efficient your reclamation, the less you actually move. If you use energy to make something move, how can you reclaim 100% of that energy without completely stopping it? Or 50% without slowing it by half?

    And even if you figure all that out, you've got friction from all these moving parts just wasting energy into heat and noise (forms of energy that are very difficult to reclaim), all kinds of drag, and don't forget those 4 big, fat, black patches of friction that follow you everywhere you go.

    Yes, fancy new electric cars have a motor for each wheel and use regenerative braking to get back some energy, but everybody knows that if you want to get from here to there, it's ass, grass, or gas; nobody rides for free.

  4. Re:Come again? on Perpetual Motion Delorean? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here, I translated it to German, then to French, and back:

    There is a certain effect which sometimes arrives in a battery for large a overunity battery of unit of measuring popper like that, if the unit for truth is. Turning of time of the operations and vague transductions can appear, and that involves that the excitation of time in materials of battery, in a loading of time the direction negative auflaedt (you remember who is overunity an operation a negentropic operation). After an apparatus of this one standard and with that which was used certain effects intern, can form for energy when you to provide completely, a final test on him.

    Wow, it really holds up. It must be true!

  5. Re:All these deaths on RIP: Leonard Zubkoff · · Score: 2

    Well, this particular incident makes me think that the Grim Reaper just accidentally clicked on the name column and sorted his to-do list in reverse alphabetical order.

  6. Re:Donald Knuth's argument against patents on Making the Case Against Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    Oh sure, he's the man, and I'm not saying I'm a better programmer or anything. And I understand that brevity is a virtue. But it wasn't as convincing as could have been, and I already agree with him.

  7. Re:can we play guess the country? on Making the Case Against Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    burkina faso?

    I liked it better when it was Upper Volta.

  8. Re:Donald Knuth's argument against patents on Making the Case Against Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    He could stand to flesh out a couple of those paragraphs.

  9. Re:There ought to be a law on Do Cell Phones Make Us Stupid? · · Score: 1

    Judas!

  10. Re:My opinion on Do Cell Phones Make Us Stupid? · · Score: 2

    It's drivemeinsane.com, not ohgodtheserverisonfire.com.

  11. Re:Wrong! on Do Cell Phones Make Us Stupid? · · Score: 2

    Ummm, how many intelligent people do you know?

  12. Re:3dfx ads on Interview With Pitfall! Creator, David Crane · · Score: 2

    I blame the Banshee.

  13. Re:and this qualifies as news? on Faith Returns to Buffy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like I give a fuck that AnandTech reviewed ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000? Quit whining; just keep scrolling when you see an article that you don't care about.

    And if you actually tried watching it, you might like it. I used to think it was lame, back before I ever saw an episode.

  14. Re:consequences on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    When you finally put it in on your wedding night, you'll be done in about 30 seconds. Your wife will wonder what all the hubbub was about, but she'll never know that it can get better. You'll both be so repressed from trying to impress your invisible superhero friend in the sky that you won't be able to talk to each other or your friends about your sexual frustrations, and within 5 years your marriage will become completely asexual. Eventually, one or both of you will start looking for some action on the side, and that never turns out well. So enjoy your happy time on that high horse; you'll have something to think about as you grow old alone.

  15. Re:proposition on Want Freedom? · · Score: 2

    And post to Slashdot, it seems. Apostrophe use should be a whole section on the breeding test.

  16. Re:How so? *spoiler* on 0wnz0red · · Score: 2

    All of his endings suck. You just have to be prepared for it.

  17. Re:Automatic tickets coming up soon on California Tracks Everyone Using Toll Transponders · · Score: 2

    So don't loan your car to people who speed, dumbass. If cousin Eddie wants to borrow your car again, tell him to pay you back.

    And I'm pretty sure you're not responsible for speeding tickets incurred by car theives.

  18. If only Dijkstra were still around... on Does Your Debugger Sing to You? · · Score: 2

    Man, just 3 more days and we could have had Coda Statement Considered Harmful.

  19. Re:Some Sony player can be modified on Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players? · · Score: 1

    And why do they even put the FBI warning on zone 4 DVD's anyway???.... the FBI has absolutely no jurisdiction in any contries that are zone 4 (New Zealand, Australia, the pacific islands)

    Just wait.

  20. Re:HA HA!!! on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 2

    In Soviet Russia, beowulf cluster imagines you!

  21. Re:Another poke at physicists - from a chemist on Speed of Light Inconstant? · · Score: 1

    (And after all that, what did I go on to do at university? Yep, astrophysics. Part astronomy, part physics, part mathematics and, at least with the options I took, part philosophy. No wonder I'm not a scientist by profession any more.)

    What, too much whiskey? Or not enough?

  22. Re:Err.... on Jon Johansen DVD Trial Date Set · · Score: 2

    A Møøse once bit my sister...

  23. Re:Little Known Fact on Ricardo Montalban Recalls Khan · · Score: 1

    Chrysler, Plymouth; it's all Mopar baby!

  24. Re:Ocean levels? on Earth's Gravitational Field Is Getting Flatter · · Score: 2

    From what I can tell, the level of the Pacific Ocean is still the same as it was when I was a kid.

    Yeah, but the Atlantic is way higher.

  25. Re:Different Walk styles.. on AT-ATs Coming to a Forest Near You · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually it was the combination of females and alternative 2-legged gaits, of which skipping is one.