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  1. Re:A much bigger problem on Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler · · Score: 1

    Cattle are not under threat as a species (they are perhaps as successful as they have ever been, depending on how you go about measuring such things), while many species of whales are.

  2. Re:Only video sites? on Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube · · Score: 1

    Sure you can download an flv (servers often try to block it outside of a flash client, but what does that matter?).

  3. Re:A much bigger problem on Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler · · Score: 1

    'fishery' simply describes an area where fish might be.

  4. Re:A much bigger problem on Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The best thing about good fisheries management is the increased harvests...

  5. Re:OS-impaired on Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony · · Score: 1

    He is whining.

  6. Re:Great on Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds cramped.

  7. Re:What next? Cameras? on Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony · · Score: 2, Funny

    "No, your fat ass makes you look fat" is the answer of champions.

  8. Re:The really nice thing about this... on CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System · · Score: 1

    I would tend to think of jet engines, and industrial and medical equipment. Or maybe NBC Universal. But I knew that had a large finance division, I was just antagonizing the OP for displaying an attitude that consumer credit card debt was somehow the sole fault of the corporation extending the credit and not in any way the responsibility of the cardholder.

  9. Re:God damnit on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 1

    I used to have a string with a keyboard, but it broke.

    Now I type things into my computer.

  10. Re:Obligatory George Carlin Quote on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Giving the range you are describing the label '"average" person' is nonsensical, and if you look at individuals and integrate across those individuals, by definition, the percentage of the population with a lower iq will be larger than 25% (because the very bottom of the range has an iq that indicates 25% of the population has a lower iq than they do, 25.249% if you take the distribution too seriously).

  11. Re:Obligatory George Carlin Quote on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    He also said something like 'think about what a pussy the average person is, and then realize half of them are bigger pussies than that'.

    So it isn't really that surprising that you are scared of something stupid.

  12. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Fail. It is 'eh', not 'ay'. Yeash.

  13. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think a lot of the people doing the mocking just stick the powerful sky-being thing.

  14. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Does that make people who only believe in the new testament anti-Jews?

  15. Re:God damnit on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 1

    I suppose you were pissed off when scroll wheels first came out too?

  16. Re:The really nice thing about this... on CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System · · Score: 1

    Sure. A key aspect of it is that you planned to (relatively) quickly pay off the balance, you were using the credit to move your spending forward, not to increase your spending power.

  17. Re:Last time I checked... on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I'd be perfectly o.k. with airlines enforcing hygiene and dress codes. I mean, I guess I'm glad they don't, but I wouldn't really care if they did (in any case, I would be a little surprised if they were universally willing to give up the sweaty-pig business).

  18. Re:I don't think so ... on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    I only get nervous once the plane starts falling out of the sky. Happens every time.

  19. Re:Great on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    It would make it easier to deny that it was a bribe if you used your grandfather's watch.

  20. Re:Yeah, but... on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Never apologize to Robin Williams.

    Not even after you finish beating him with a baseball bat.

  21. Re:The really nice thing about this... on CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, so the evil the mega-corporation did was to loan someone who wanted money some money. What bastards.

    (I use a credit card, but I don't carry a balance, I think people who do are crazy, the idea that someone would max out 9 credit cards out of 'necessity' isn't very credible, clearly they need to find a way to spend less money, or to earn more money)

  22. Re:The really nice thing about this... on CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here's the thing: Why the fuck would anybody have a GE credit card?

  23. Re:Where's a traffic cop when you need one? on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 1

    Adding capacity doesn't always work, the article linked below discusses 'induced traffic' in Atlanta, where each time capacity is added, people figure they can commute further (or more people figure they can commute).

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_paumgarten?printable=true

  24. Re:Talk about feeding the conspiracy theorists on Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth · · Score: 0

    Are you saying that the government is putting RFID tags in our food?

  25. Re:Nice... on Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools · · Score: 1

    It should still be able to do a reasonable job with any javascript (or you end up writing not javascript, but Closure javascript, which really isn't that attractive).