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  1. Re:Ice anyone? on Coming to an Ice Cream Shop Near You: Soft Serve Beer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is there this dick waving contest to make ever stronger beers? If you really need to get your drink on, have another beer, have some wine, or liquor. There's nothing wrong with a beer just because there's a different one with a higher alcohol content.

  2. Re:Holy fuck on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    I think that's fine, how many white people do you know that are truly white-skinned? It would be silly to identify people by the HTML hex code for their color or something more accurate.

  3. Re:Higher profits on Dysfunctional Console Industry Struggles For New Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    It's just an indication of the market changing with time. It could be due to a demographic shift with more adults playing games now. Kids have no problem throwing all of their money at video games if they want one. They don't have a lot of other bills to pay. Adult gamers, on the other hand, have a lot of other expenses and bills to pay so they aren't as willing to put out as much money for a new game. That's just a theory. I have no data to back it up.

  4. Re:The extraordinary conclusions? Only one move! on Rybka Solves the King's Gambit Chess Opening · · Score: 1

    Except, I'd probably loss by force even with 3. Be2. The draw assumes all the rest of the moves are played really really well.

  5. Re:Why forbid it? I fully endorse such apps! on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 1

    It's just one of many factors though. People that post their location online might also be more likely to be robbed, killed, or kidnapped. Only time will tell which way humanity will go.

  6. Re:"Outcry" misdirected on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If a woman wears short skirts because she likes feeling sexy, then she wants to get hit on. "Sexy", unless I'm wrong, is a shortened form of sexually attractive. If you like wearing an outfit that makes you sexually attractive to others, but don't actually want those people to be attracted to you, you are mentally challenged.

    In fact, if you don't want to interact with other people, you should go live in the woods. People being around each other in high density will lead to conversations with strangers whether you want it or not.

  7. Re:I'll own up to it...I throw them away on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 2

    You've got Section 331 of Title 18 covered, but you failed to realize that there is a separate, new law prohibiting melting pennies and nickels, and prohibiting the exportation of them in quantities over $100. Here's a story about it. This was enacted recently exactly because the metal content of these coins is worth more than their face values.

  8. Re:yawn on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 1

    It's really an all around screwy weather year in North America. In south-central Alaska, we've had the coldest January on record and one more snowfall away from the most snow recorded. It's still getting down to single digit temps at night so more snow is very likely.

  9. Re:Cage Matches! on Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers · · Score: 1

    It's a YouTube link. Not exactly going to be some graphically disgusting video. Unless you think Beyond Thunderdome is graphically disgusting.

  10. Conclusion of faulty logic on New York State Passes DNA Requirement For Almost All Convicted Criminals · · Score: 1

    We also know that non-violent criminals all start out as non-criminals. Next step, NY takes DNA samples of everyone.

  11. Re:Example in Italy, and a simple solution on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 1

    Speed limits should not be set as what the majority of people think is a good speed to drive. It should be a value determined by weighing the costs of additional accidents and fatalities vs the costs of people wasting time on the road.

    The speed limit on most roads is not determined this way, however, it is just picked by the general trend of limits in a location based on the type of road.

  12. Re:Think of the children! on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 1

    Those pedestrian countdowns are fantastic. I don't know why they aren't used more. I'm sure they cost marginally more, but it can't be by that much. I also like them as a pedestrian, having an idea if I can make it across the street. I'm not going to not cross on the flashing hand if the countdown has 20 seconds left.

  13. Re:Not going way too far enough! on Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans? · · Score: 1

    I was replying to the GP that suggested going from arctic circle to antarctic circle in each hemisphere's respective summer would be a best case scenario for solar power generation.

    If you go to the arctic circle in the summer, you will not see ice in many places. There have been temperatures recorded north of the arctic circle at 100F, but that is rare.

  14. Re:Not going way too far enough! on Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans? · · Score: 1

    Kind of off topic, but the arctic circle, even with the 24hr light, has less solar radiation than more southerly latitudes. The angle of the sun to the arctic leads to weak sunlight that filters through lots more atmosphere. Much more energy can be collected in the southwest US in the summer, even though the sun doesn't shine there during the night. The situation is similar in the antarctic.

  15. Re:What if they are skinny for other reasons? on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 2

    I don't think of the climate in Canada as being much different at all from the climate in my state in the US. I live in Alaska though, so most Americans think I live in a wintry wonderland like they imagine Canada is.

  16. Re:nice. on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    I'll second the automatically show the search results that Google thinks you wanted issue. This may be well and good for a lot of searches, but whenever I'm looking for anything technical that has words that Google doesn't recognize, it gives me terrible results and I have to click to show the correct results.

  17. Re:Niche market on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    Google+ is also not bad for people interested in photography. Picasa can upload your albums directly to Google+. Once your image data is above a certain size on disk, it will resize future images to be 2048 pixels on the longest side.

    I use it as a nonpublic backup of my photos. The image size is not the same as my originals, but I have a standard backup method, I just use it as a remote backup of last resort.

  18. Re:Music on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    It's indexed by search engines. You don't have to be a regular user of MySpace to get directed to pages there by search results.

  19. Temporary help at best on Santorum Defends Robocalls To Democrats · · Score: 1

    "Santorum says he reached out to Democratic voters, who can vote in the primary, to show that 'we can attract voters we need to win states like Michigan,' "

    I would imagine the majority of Democrats that crossed party lines to vote for Santorum in the Republican primary, do so for strategic reasons. It's not that they are willing to vote Santorum in as President, but that they think he has less of a chance than Romney. If there is a politician that can cross the aisle and get some communication going between the political parties, Santorum isn't it.

  20. Re:Anonymous on Vatican Attack Provides Insight Into Anonymous · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Members of the Catholic church doesn't involve attacking people? Thats a good one. Haven't heard a joke that good in a while. They've toned down on the physical attacks on non-believers the last few centuries, but I assure you they attack people with the power of their words and influence on politics. At least as effective as any attacks Anonymous does.

  21. Re:The Pope should declare a Holy War on these bum on Vatican Attack Provides Insight Into Anonymous · · Score: 2

    If my government is currently attacking Iran. That means my nation is at war with Iran and everything that entails. You're damn straight I want to know about that.

    If you think these are the first info management steps to WW3, what the hell is an IN PROGRESS attack on Iran going to lead to?

  22. Re:who's paying for it? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    You should need three then. If you only have two, using one leaves you with one left, one that cannot be used or you won't have a working breathalyzer left. If you had 3, you can use the first and the second... can't be used because that would leave you with one left that must be kept and therefore isn't really able to be used. So you couldn't use the first one then.

    There's some stupid logic in my statement there.

  23. Re:good thing they don't have laws in france on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    I think that's how they say it across the pond.

  24. Re:the only drug? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    Of course alcohol can cause chronic health issues that lead to death such as cirrhosis and some cancers. It can also lead to acute death from over-consumption and dangerous activities caused by a lack of judgement. I don't think anyone is really suggesting that it has no bad effects to the user.

    The idea being discussed, is that there are countless crimes and troubles caused by people that were a little liquored up and they have some sort of alcohol luck to avoid most of the real damage they cause. I have no statistics on this and the whole argument may be tainted by confirmation bias.

  25. Re:the only drug? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 3, Informative

    I seriously doubt legalization would lower costs to the point where $20 buys a 6 month supply for a heavy addict.

    Unfortunately meth causes crime not just for the purposes of getting cash to pay for it. The drug itself causes some amount of psychosis and paranoia that can lead to violent crime.