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  1. Re:Sex vs. Carnage.... on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    And yet, here in Texas I can buy Tequila and used cars any day of the week, except Sunday. On Sunday you have to go to a bar to get hard liquor.

  2. Re:Yay! on Lawsuit Claims LegalZoom Is Practicing Law Without a License · · Score: 1

    I can hire someone and give them the title "vice-admiral" within the company, but that does not mean anything. Many things do not require an actual engineer's stamp on them, but it is the company's loss if the design is bad. Certain projects do require being sealed, and when an Engineer signs it he is taking responsibility for the design. Please refer to your own state's licensing board for more information.

  3. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, wikipedia information differs from the official SSA website, and my own card was most definitely printed after 1972.

  4. Re:Dianetics on Could Amazon Reviews Be Corrupt? · · Score: 1

    Half the process is doubly-corrupt?

  5. Re:Where's my Lucy Liu-bot? on The Science of Human-Robot Love · · Score: 1

    Settling up is still settling. I'd be happy.

  6. Re:Yay! on Lawsuit Claims LegalZoom Is Practicing Law Without a License · · Score: 1

    Many states say you can't sell your services (claim to be an engineer) or put "engineer" or related words in the name of your business unless you are a licensed engineer. Your employer can give you a title of engineer, but that is basically internal and meaningless. "Professional Engineer" is a regulated term. See your state board for details. If you feel someone is misappropriating the term, you should report it - they may be subject to criminal charges, similar to someone pretending to be a lawyer.

  7. Re:Supercomputer left idle? on Los Alamos Fire Idles NSA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I set you up with a supercomputer called "sky," a Sky-computer if you will, potentially deciding to end human life, and that's what you come up with?

  8. Re:Where's my Lucy Liu-bot? on The Science of Human-Robot Love · · Score: 1

    I'd settle for the Marilyn Mon-Robot.

  9. Re:Cherry 2000 on The Science of Human-Robot Love · · Score: 2

    We don't want love robots, we want lust robots. Love is what we have time to work on, when our lust is sated.

  10. Re:Love? on The Science of Human-Robot Love · · Score: 1

    "Verb" is a noun. Nouns get verbed all the time.

  11. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    cite? If what you are saying is true, I am not old enough to have had that text on my own card.

  12. Supercomputer left idle? on Los Alamos Fire Idles NSA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Keep it busy, or it may get bored, start looking around, and then before you know it we are in a kill all humans scenario.

    Cielo means literally "heaven," but is also commonly translated as "sky."

  13. Re:Make It Measurable on Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation · · Score: 1

    But being late is so disrespectful, you'd think all the kids would be doing it.

  14. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    But it says right on the card that it isn't to be used for identification.

  15. Re:High electrical resistance? on Silver Pen Allows For Hand-Written Circuits · · Score: 1

    That's why you electroplate it with copper. Duh.

  16. Re:Can he build houses with that printer? on A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand · · Score: 1

    Imagine when people start finding unexplainable geometric patterns fused in the sand. I want one of these things, so I can take crop circles to the next level.

  17. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 2

    They should get booted by their local phone provider, the same way the RIAA want filesharers booted by their ISP.

  18. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much the data companies would protest if they were required by law to inform you that they had access to your social security number?

    Actually, no, they'd just shift all that data overseas, where it would be even less secure.

  19. Re:de-desertification on A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think it is ever a good idea to "let a swarm of robots loose."

  20. Re:Can he build houses with that printer? on A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand · · Score: 2

    Sadly, my first thought was "pyramids and monuments." Houses might be more beneficial to society.

  21. Re:really scraping the bottom of the barrel on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    Rearranging the formula for area so that it is consistent with several formulae for energy (as shown in table 3) seems to be more compelling an argument to the author than I find it. The author seems to make use of several exclamation points and rhetorical questions, which also tends not to impress me . Math would be no clearer after such a change, and even trying to make it happen will probably just lead to more confusion.

  22. Re:really scraping the bottom of the barrel on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    I already have Tau. It is spelled "2*pi"

    I usually didn't call it "Tau," because that is often being used to represent other things. In mechanics, it often represents Torque. In electrical engineering, it is used for a time constant.

    Is this the newest incarnation of the idiots who keep trying to redefine pi to make it easier to work with? They never did well with it in school, so now they want to do away with it, start their own club, and make everyone learn their way for a change?

  23. Re:The Bickering on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    Since they are effectively destroying resale and replay value for the game, is it discounted at retail to reflect that?

    My guess is no.

  24. Re:really scraping the bottom of the barrel on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    I am not forgetting my calculus. Teaching calculus payed for my liquor fund through college. I'm trying to avoid having to learn a second version.

  25. Re:really scraping the bottom of the barrel on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    we speak of a "radius of curvature" when describing curves other than circles. "diameter" presupposes a circle.
    if you want to define the position of a circle, the simplest way is to give the coordinates of the center - and the radius.