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  1. Elizabeth Regina would raise an eyebrow at that assertion.

  2. It will always be Boaty McBoatface in our hearts. Just as E][R has an official birthday as well as her real one, RRS Sir Dave will have an unofficial name.

  3. Re:And better for the enviroment on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Cows aren't that keen on eating nettles and thistles. They will if there's nothing else, but they balk at scrub.

    Goats will eat pretty much any grass or weed, even woody stemmed ones, down to the ground and leave the area a dustbowl.

  4. Re:It's only when the backups kick in... on Design, Hardware, Software Errors Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    If only. All they'd need to do in that case is "reverse the polarity"

  5. Flying over the South Atlantic Anomaly. It's not like it wasn't known it is there and causes issues that should be tested for before launch.

  6. "if you live in Minneapolis and use Comcast, call Jenny on Tuesdays before 2 PM and Thursdays between 9 and 11 am at her direct number"

    That's still 867-5309, right?

  7. Re:countdown 5...4...3...2....1 on New 'Tunneling' State of Water Molecules Discovered by Scientists (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    If it wasn't for this tunneling, there wouldn't be all those drugs smuggled into America. Isn't there some kind of quantum barrier, like a wall, we can build?

  8. Re: I'm all for it, but.. on Fired Reddit Exec Launches Competing Site (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Corrections to spelling are just another example of the patriarchy extending its influence (men wrote the dictionary, donchaknow) and you're part of it for maintaining the status quo. Shame on you.

  9. Re:Seems obvious on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    What rating denier? If you don't specify a number you'll get rights with the wrong opacity.

  10. Re:Obviously, no safety problem was demonstrated h on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Every plane will land fine, no matter how many engines are in operation at the time. It just depends on what your definition of "fine" is...

  11. Re: Manufacturer's responsibility on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The CE logo is protected, and there are fines for using it withoutwithout certification. So instead they use one that is very similar: In the proper one the circle described by the C intersects the one described by the E such that the outlines (if they were present) would overlap exactly.

    Anything that has the other logo is colloquially known as Chinese Export.

    What's really dumb is the general public is largely ignorant about the difference. If your house burns down due to a faulty CE certified device you can have redress. If your house burns down due to a faulty Chinese Export, well it was uncertified so tough shit.

  12. Re:Fetishization on 'Record Store Day' Creates Vinyl Logjam (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    "You get more milage from a cheap set of speakers"

    In any case, it is better to spend money on a high end turntable, arm, needle, preamp and power amp than the best speakers as they will only faithfully reproduce the crap signal they receive.

  13. Re:A world where we will never be forgiven. on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The ones that were sitting down weren't surrounding anybody. In the video you can clearly see the Lt. behind them casually shaking up his can of pepper spray before *walking around them* and spraying it in their faces to wails of "Nooo, Nooo" from onlookers. You see nothing wrong with that? Nothing at all?

  14. It's called a mugging "Give me cash or I delete your kidney"

  15. The T-shirt that was made for him by a woman (a friend) and no one was remotely bothered by it until some wanker not associated with anything to do with the project or even astronomy decided to get offended and cause a stink? That T-shirt? Worn by someone who volunteered to do the press conference and still no one said anything about it? Four words "Maybe change your shirt" that were never spoken because no one had a problem with it.

    Fuck your "dress code".

  16. Amazon.com wanted a US address before they would ship to my international one, so that's what I used. If anyone wants to hang around Wrigley Field claiming to be Elwood Blues (so they can sign for the consignment) I might send them three Orange Whips.

  17. Re:It has already been done... on Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it was good enough for the ZX81, it can certainly be upgraded and cost ten times as much.

  18. Re:"is currently 75M miles away right now"? on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Depends on what your definition of 'is' is": Bill Clinton

  19. Re:This bill would outlaw black holes. on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Hawking radiation

  20. Re:No such thing on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The countersign being "My hovercraft is full of eels", presumably.

  21. Re:This could turn into a big deal on Solar Panel Developed That Can Generate Electricity From Rain (sciencenewsjournal.com) · · Score: 0

    Very cheap, considering there's an entire country the other side of the pond where conversation about the weather (rain) is a national pastime. The UK could lead the world in exporting electricity. This has an added bonus of pissing off the French who own the power stations.

  22. Re:alternate email address on Phishing Email That Knows Your Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why I have my own domain that has unlimited email addresses that redirect to my GMail address with a specific string after the + (usually the site I used it on or generic description). As I don't ever give out my raw GMail address, anything that comes to that one is automatically considered dubious, tagged and archived for later leisurely perusal by use of filters, just like all the rest.

    Plus I can migrate to a different storage provider by just changing the redirects making it easier than informing everybody of address changes.

  23. Re:YEs, it does work that way on Cyber Commander Says It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you cut the link cables to Europe are you cutting off Europe from you or are you really cutting yourself off from Europe?

  24. Re:Why? on FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Using that argument, the US would still be a protectorate of Britain. You separatists didn't play nice with the law back then but now you're advocating it?

  25. Re:Reddit is rotten on Reddit Deletes Surveillance 'Warrant Canary' In Transparency Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called a shadowban. Unless you view the thread whilst not logged in (or on a different user) you can't tell.