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  1. Re:Comedy gold on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 2

    4300 years ago...

    I guess the Sixth Dynasty of Old Kingdom Egypt didn't notice they got washed away, and went on building their pyramids like nothing had happened.

    And Sargon must have clung to the side of the ark - or snuck on disguised as a dinosaur - so he could get back to building his empire as soon as the ground dried out.

    I reckon the author is better at manipulating reality than he is at manipulating search results.

  2. Re:Biblical truth on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 1

    All boys so there was no hanky-panky.

    How did that work out for him?

  3. new alternative union on Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn · · Score: 5, Funny

    UK & Greece: no porn and no money.

  4. Re:what I found most surprising on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    The graciousness and politeness of the losing side. Their statements of congratulations are certainly not what you'd see from the religious right here in the U.S.

    "Religious Right" in the USA is a euphemism for "sex obsessed control freaks".

  5. Re:Not enough blackmail on NSA-Reform Bill Fails In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Just kidding -- expect to see an extension without any reform.

    Or they'll just say they stopped but keep on doing it.

    I'll be astonished if they aren't already doing more than we know about.

  6. yeah, right on Video Games: Gateway To a Programming Career? · · Score: 1

    Because sitting around playing video games all day is *exactly* like a career as a programmer. If you like one, you'll *love* the other.

  7. Well... on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 1

    It got him an off-hour story on Slashdot.

  8. Re:I am not able to find that disproof on Book Review: The Terrorists of Iraq · · Score: 1

    The assertion that the infinite monkeys theorum has been disproved seems incorrect. Searches for the named scientist in conjuction with monkey also fail.

    The infinite monkeytypings will eventually produce a theorem proving it one way or the other, if such a theorem exists.

  9. Yawn. on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not exactly excited about Hillary, but Kim Dotcom isn't where I usually turn for information about politics.

    Sounds like he just misses being in the headlines.

  10. Good movie? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 2

    I was astonished to see it open at 9.0 on IMDB. I had read that it's just one big chase scene with no plot. Is it actually interesting?

  11. Re:/.'s 3D printing obsession is unhealthy on Turtle Receives First-Ever 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implant of Its Kind · · Score: 1

    If you tell them you're a turtle, maybe they'll 3dprint a damn for you to give.

  12. s/sunk/sank/ on How SpaceX and the Quest For Mars Almost Sunk Tesla Motors · · Score: 1

    Sorry, this postmodern English grates on my nerves.

  13. Re:I know that happened to me. on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    Get Live at Leeds on one of the remastered CDs. You can get the whole concert now, or the whole concert sans Tommy, which still includes lots of stuff the LP didn't.

    And they were phenomenal: Roger on lead vocals, John on lead bass, Keith on lead drums, and Pete on precussion guitar.

    By the time I was old enough to hear them live they had keyboards, a horn section, and doo-wop girls. Not the same thing at all.

    Apropos the top post, I've put on The Who in the last 24 hours, but I've also put on some Medieval and Renaissance music. I still listen to my teenage faves, but my tastes have expanded a lot too.

  14. Re:Is this a USA government institution? on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is this FCC a USA government institution?

    I thought the US government was since Ronnie wholly owned by the corporations...

    Let us (normal internet users) hope the FCC can get away with this pro net-neutrality policy, level playing field and all that!

    There's something in the air. Lately even Joe Scarborough and some of the FOX News regulars have occasionally balked at the bullshit.

    Probably the solar system is passing through a cloud of hippie gas or something.

  15. Re:Good to see the FCC at least considered it. on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 2

    Doesn't it say in the Bible that corporations go to heaven?

    Only the penny-stock corporations. But it's easier for a herd of camels to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich corporation to go to Heaven.

  16. Re:pro government insanity on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 1

    pro government mania

    Are you mentally ill or something? Rarely do I read texts as completely deluded as yours. Geez.

    You should read more of his posts.

  17. Re:pro government insanity on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But who is really capable of thinking long term?

    Everyone except rich people and wannabes, apparently. It's the MAKE MONEY FAST mentality that has mortally wounded our economy over the past 35 years.

  18. Re:how long until the internet dies? on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 1

    It's like that on everything. The hysteria of confused old people is a commodity bought and sold by corporations.

    I especially like it when someone wants their representatives to eliminate entitlements, but don't dare touch their medicare and social security.

    Full disclosure: I probably qualify as "old", and perhaps "confused" too. (Though if both, the later may not be caused by the former.)

  19. no problem on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scotty will have the power back just in time.

  20. heh. on Messenger Data Says Mercury's Magnetic Past Goes Back Billions of Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    n the fall of 2014 and 2015, when the spacecraft flew incredibly close to the planet's surface, at altitudes as low as 9 miles (15 kilometers)

    I do believe it flew a lot closer than that in 2015.

  21. Re:Overly done graphic on Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places · · Score: 1

    Looks like the whole FA is just an ad for a wannabe data processing company.

  22. Re:Outsourced homicide on Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places · · Score: 1

    How much if it is due to countries making things illegal, which pushes up the value of that item, which in turn encourages criminals to produce said item?

    That's your government's way of creating jobs. But like most trade deals, it creates the jobs and increases the GDP in other countries, and drives the trade deficit way up.

  23. Re:Knowing where the crime is happening on Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places · · Score: 1

    "In most cities, the vast majority of violence takes place on just a few street corners, at certain times of the day, and among specific people."

    This literally sounds like the easiest policing job ever if they know all this...

    Better yet, some tech-savvy entrepreneur could use the data to make a tour guide, so you could go see people kill each other in quaint places. Kind of like eco-tourism... nature red in tooth, claw, switchblade, and machinegun.

  24. The idea that everyone needs to be able to write code is nonsense. This is just propaganda to support the "need" for more visas.

    It's a CRISIS, I tell you! But fortunately we can spend the next 20 years importing labor for the jobs we can't export, while you fix the school system and kids work their way through it.

  25. theoretical solution on Shape of the Universe Determined To Be Really, Really Flat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When you combine time cube theory with electric universe theory you get a cubic universe plus an electric clock. The cubic universe is flat (in the cosmological sense), so if the two underlying theories are correct then the universe diverges from flatness by the amount of one electric clock.

    However, pedantically speaking, that's "plus one electric clock per universe". So in the case of a multiverse, the theorem only indicates the average. But with judicious application of the Central Limit Theorem, the Pauli Exclusion Principle, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and a line of reasoning left as an exercise for the reader, we can confidently conclude the universe is probably approximately flat, for definitions of "confidently", "conclude", "the universe", "is", "probably", "approximately", "flat", and "definitions" which remain to be derived from first principles.

    Read more about it on my blog, Starts with a Bump on the Head, which, as you may have guessed from the title, is written in atrophic dactylic tetrameter, like all good cosmological monographs and comic books.