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  1. Re:A root cause you'll never hear about on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 1

    That match did not involve the best male athlete. It involved 'a' male athlete, in his 50s. King was apparently still on her game, but not at her best either.

  2. Re:Maybe because on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 1

    Long division is the name of a specific procedure used to divide two numbers. There is basically only one way to do the procedure that is called long division. Maybe you mean that you knows about twelveteen ways to doos divisions?

  3. Re:WHAT... THE... FUCK!!!?! on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Forgive me, but in the context of your comment, your signature is hilarious.

    (and I don't think this is particularly funny, but hundreds of thousands of people died yesterday. Thousands of those deaths were surely tragic. I refuse to mourn the ones I notice more than the ones I don't)

  4. Re:I understand running away from prison... but on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Is that where you met the gentleman with the buffalo?

  5. Re:Video much better than book... on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Imagine how much better books could be if they listed the emotion you were supposed to be feeling at the end of every line...

  6. Re:OS Agnostic? on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 1

    What about using DRM to sell viewing rights for less than the price you would charge for buying the movie?

    I like to watch movies like Ironman, but I have no desire to own a copy. If DRM makes that process cheaper, I'm all for it. On the other hand, I don't really like the idea of purchasing something that has been marked or encrypted with DRM.

  7. Re:Major Plotholes ... Spoiler Alert on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    Having Batman race back to the top of the building and growl "Where'd he go" would have adequately explained that the Joker had fled and added exactly nothing to the movie.

  8. Re:Why didn't they just kill the lawyer? on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    Threatening to blow up a hospital caused more chaos and madness than the revelation of Batman's identity would have. The Joker took it as an opportunity to push the city towards the edge.

  9. Re:Why didn't they just kill the lawyer? on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    You didn't think having the cop in the SUV with him thinking about killing him or the multiple other attempts to kill him addressed the idea that it was not a clear cut decision?

  10. Re:Oh great. on Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks · · Score: 1

    Like what didn't happen with ulcers.

    (Not that I particularly disagree with your sentiment)

  11. Re:Can Oscar's be given posthumously? on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    In creating the character, he may have taken himself to places that he didn't want to be...

  12. Re:Don't Forget the Magnetic Field on Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks · · Score: 1

    Did you get one out and look, or are you relying on what you remember?

    Between the textbooks and your memory, I would put money on your memory being the liar (I would do much the same thing for myself...).

  13. Re:I said it once and I'll say it again on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    The market didn't sustain $4 a gallon. People are running screaming away from SUVs. People will look much more carefully at their commute distances for a few years. I guess you are accounting for that when you say life style impact, but I don't expect that gas will stay at $4 a gallon for very long at all if oil continues to slide (on the other hand, I don't think it is going to go under $2).

  14. Re:I said it once and I'll say it again on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    I take it you live in California? Anyway, oil is currently trading at prices that suggest $3.50 gas is coming, not $5.00 gas, and I see a pretty good chance of oil going back to $100 and staying there for quite a while.

  15. Re:your teeth on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    There is good reason to believe that it was Harrison Ford.

  16. Re:Yet more proof... on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    The implications of Chaos theory aren't nearly that clear cut. Ya see, A butterfly sneezes and nothing happens.

  17. Re:Is any for-profit enterprise philanthropy? on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    They (.org) give away money, that's about all that is required to be a philanthropy. "for-profit" and "non-profit" and so forth are just tax statuses, and the ones that aren't "for-profit" come with more obligations than "for-profit" does.

  18. Re:Why on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    Interstellar distance.

  19. Re:I said it once and I'll say it again on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    That's awfully pessimistic. I figure someone will have come up with something much better looking by the time 2020 rolls around.

  20. Re:So how will this affect the real-world today? on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    More Cowbell. Lots more.

  21. Re:Shnizzle on Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web · · Score: 1

    Googling for "self-depreciating OED" points to a whole bunch of stuff that is better than wikipedia (in the sense that it is more certain that it wasn't just randomly edited by someone, not necessarily in the sense that it provides more information). Google understands what "OED" means, so it is often a useful strategy.

  22. Re:Good on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    As long as the twenty other people can demonstrate their own development; if they read the patent to get the idea it isn't quite as much of a troll.

  23. Re:You gotta hand it to those Federal Corrections on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As long as you are willing to foot the entire bill for increasing the level of security, I'm all for it.

  24. Re:Will they really find him all that easily? on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the people offering crap for sale aren't making a whole lot of money at this point, it is the people selling the spamming service; there are lots of them, and hopefully a dwindling supply of suckers, so while I'm sure they make a tidy profit, I don't think they are reeling in the dough any more.

  25. Re:Federal prison camp? on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    What office did Capone hold? What laws did he propose?