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  1. Re:And the lawsuits on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you listen casually to early Black Sabbath music, it sounds like a celebration of evil, but if you listen carefully it's actually Christian music. Hell, Iron Maiden's two minutes to midnight is an anti-abortion song. Twisted Sister was hauled in front of Congress for the "bloody" song under the blade; the song is about undergoing surgery.

    ER..calling it that might just be a wee bit of a stretch... ;-)

  2. Re:excuse me while I kiss this guy... on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it seems it's only women who make that error..

  3. Re:And the lawsuits on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    HAh! I can still remember the inventive lyrics I came up with when in a semi - cover band. Unfortunately, none of the stuff we picked had the lyrics handy..

  4. And in other news... on Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications · · Score: 1

    Congress quietly also passed a bill allowing searches up everyones crack while asleep in their bedrooms..

  5. Great for Google.. but... on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Great for Google.. but... not so much else. I pictured a few apps I use regularly, to see if portrait wouild be a help or hindrance. Hindrance every time.

  6. Re:Not sure who to cheer for on Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion · · Score: 1

    AND Because businesses can employ someone in India and China much cheaper than in the USA, these corporations believe that US wages should drop too.

    Whoopee!! Fifty cents an hour! Boy oh boy the neocon business owners are creaming themselves at the thought!

  7. Re:Not sure who to cheer for on Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I would have thought that the modest inconvenience of pesky ads, to ensure a free internet would still be worth it to almost everybody. It is to me, considering the alternative..

  8. Re: Frist Psot! on Canadian Agency Drops Cases Rather Than Deal With New Requirements For ISP Info · · Score: 1

    You spelled "first" wrong.

    Aah.. but frist psot has dippaseared..

  9. Re:5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they're still dinosaurs. And we (or many of us) eat dinnosaur eggs every morning. So this begs the question.. were cro-magnons Morg and Clog smart enough to collect archaeopteryx eggs? Or would they have had to have a braincase the size of Neandarthal to figure that one out? Or was new "wife" he clubbed and drag into cave by hair the one who did the dirty deed of raiding archaeopteryx nests? PS apparently since Neandarthals had bigger brains than we do they would have figured out 4th dimension travel by now, had they been the dominant species. Maybe that's why the 2 foot long skull "humans" wiped Neandarthal out?

  10. Re:So sad on Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing · · Score: 1

    Actually, the US was only the preferred place of immigration for nazis if they worked for the gov't in high security positions, such as the US missile program etc. Good 'ol Nazi know-how for the American war machine...

  11. Re: A lesson about History- and the liar narrative on New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 1

    Ah yes "sigh" We all know that all great discoveries are made in a vacuum. That science is just religion in disguise and only the priests of it can undersand crazy new theories That science is a waste of time and has no bearing on modern society. And.. hoo.. must be a dozen more crackpot ideas floating around about science and scientists. Funnily though, the one that gets very little traction is that major scientific descoveries are made with plain old hard work. By examining other current research into that area. And that these discoveries do indeed impact society in a beneficial way. Not only do these last points get little traction, I read the antiscience brigade comments repeatedly aired out online! Written on a computer! Go figure....

  12. Babylonian? or even earlier.. on New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 1

    Babylonian makes a whole lot more sense. By the time the Greek civilization was in full gear the deeper mysteries from pre-Egyptian civilization had already been lost. How do I know? Well, I don't KNOW first hand, but I believe the people who have been there, a-la- the old writings and edgar cayce etc. Plus there's the archaelogical records. And old structures, built for air breathing beings, that have been submerged for well over 18,000 years. And constructions of machined rock so hard that even diamond woould have a hard time cutting it. And 16,000 year old massive underground excavations in Turkey designed with modern scientific airflow principles. So that they would have an "abacus"like computer doesn'ty surprise me. And it's not made of iron and por copper or whatever metal it's made of, out of primitivism.It's advanced foresight, for a society that would have lost all electric power. A few Carrington events and this would be the only kind of computer we could use, too. It's obvious that they had electric power before that, because there is not a single mark from torchlight in the Great pyramid. None. So how did they see inside there, if not electric power? Besides theres heiroglyphics that show electric lamps. So yeah..the AK Mechanism? it's old old old...

  13. Re: wont last on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 1

    Well, the highly influential Adam Smith at first believed in unfettered capitalism, but certainly later on had a change of heart, when he, well, grew one. He eventiually found it to be an absolute impediment to a proper economy.

  14. Re: Which 6? on Google Chrome Will Block All NPAPI Plugins By Default In January · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.. and how many of these plugins are actually Google apps? Like.. "Oh man what are we going to do today to piss people off and show how many defenseless babies we can kick to the curb?" "I've got it.. lets kill Google Earth"

  15. Re:More proof ... on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Knowing everything you know is wrong, is right, then?Hmmm.. So one guy always lies, and the other always tells the truth..Must be a politician and a comedian...

  16. Re:Goddamn it! on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    I justa bout choked on my sandwich thinking a 5 year old had passed MCSE. I guess I didn't read carefuly enough. Yeah, still im,pressive for ANY 5 year old.. when I was 5 I was the only one I knew who could even read or write..

  17. Re:There is a difference ... on How To Anesthetize an Octopus · · Score: 1

    1 in 200,000 actually die? I think the figure is somewhat higher that that.. but be that as it may, the percentage of patients that actually wake up during surgewry is much much higher, less than 1 in 100, according to my ex, a surgical nurse. THey get as part of the anethesia, however, a member of the same family of drugs as the infamous "date rape" drugs, so they remember nothing about it. Even I did during my recon surgery, but I don't remember.. It's only because It was whispered to me what really happemned that I even know. Understandably, accurate numbers on the level of patients that wake up is.. er.. hard to find. Which brings to mind the old question, if trauma experienced is completely forgotten, are the effects also nonexistent? UFO abductees would answer with a big NO!, but the surgical profession seems to hold the opposite view. Or, perhaps, it's a "make work" program for their buddies in the psychiatric department ;-)

  18. Re:I hear... on How To Anesthetize an Octopus · · Score: 1

    He's not talking about food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

    Checked that link out. Good thing I never have any "neon meate dreams of a octafish", because I've just lost my appetite..

  19. Re:What could possibly on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    Hey you're not allowed to point this out. (!) The legislation has no exemtion for criticisims simply because they're true, ;-(

  20. Re: "Limited beta access" on How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music · · Score: 1

    His "High Googleness" has no clothes?

  21. So, chicken and egg scenario? on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 1

    Was my old bandmate stupid as a log from to try to live off of Blue-green algae, or did the algae make him so stupid he believed the "patent medicine" claims given it? Frankly, I don't need anything that can cure "sluggish heart" , impotence, and "reluctant liver", plus cancer, baldness, emphysema, rash, zits, high blood pressure , low blood pressure, no blood pressure, etc etc. Good old Dr Foster's "Genuine Turkish tincture" can do that real good, already. Great for the "vapors", too ;-)

  22. Re:Land of the Free on Berlin's Digital Exiles: Where Tech Activists Go To Escape the NSA · · Score: 1

    I don't know just how "free" Germany really is.. almost every form of access that westerners take for granted, most especially on the internet.. comes up with a big "Verboten! You kann Nicht do. You are verboten to doenload!! verboten to see!! Verboten to tink about ze war!! " Of course these restrictions are mostly media related ones, but using copyright rules as a way of restricting freedom of information is becoming well established, already. There'sa other restrictions too, dealing with freedom of speech.. all to avoid "offending" anyone, that simply become another millstone to drag around. Anyone who thinks Germany has "freedom of speech" has never been there.

  23. And this is posted in /. exactly, er...why? on Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure · · Score: 1

    If this kind of thing keeps happening I want the identity of the submitter included aliong with the title in my emails.. please.. so I can avoid wastiong my time.. TY.

  24. Re:My two cents on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1

    I am sure that several African countries could be entirely fed from the waste alone from fat over-fed walmart people alone ;-(

  25. Re:My two cents on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1

    So today they live due to frankengrain, and tomorrow suddenly the entire third world's grain supply will die off due to a weak genetic strain. Oh, wait, that's happening NOW.