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  1. Re:what 4 colors? on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    There are 3 primary colors because human eyes are most sensitive to 3 particular wavelengths of light.

    Add sensitivity to more wavelengths of light and you get more primary colors.

  2. Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    You probably aren't using 'night vision' when you are driving at night.

  3. Re:The question is, on Energy Star Program Certifies 15 Out of 20 Bogus Products · · Score: 1

    If price is no object, I am willing to deliver one in a month or two.

  4. Re:Uh Huh on China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries · · Score: 1

    Google is better described as the provider of a search tool, they are more than the creator.

  5. Re:Copyright on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    If you think a lot of people care deeply about this, you should start your own university.

  6. Re:Ethics on Perks & Paintball For Employees At Cybercrime, Inc. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What special sauce exists to allow you to make a generalization like "American sensibilities" while simultaneously preventing you from making a generalization like "Human sensibilities"?

  7. Re:Ethics on Perks & Paintball For Employees At Cybercrime, Inc. · · Score: 1

    Why do people take internet generalizations personally?

    I bet if you did a survey at a typical college protest, at least half of the people there would be receiving significant amounts of support from their parents.

  8. Re:BIOS - CC sized card with on-board OS on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    Did the banks adopt your idea?

  9. Re:Good. on Obama's Twitter Account "Hacked" · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was going by this:

    http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/24/twitter-hacker-ordered-to-appear-in-french-court/

    It states that he accessed the accounts by breaking into a Twitter employee's Yahoo! account. I saw it elsewhere and assumed it contained the same info as the WSJ link in the summary.

  10. Re:Good. on Obama's Twitter Account "Hacked" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the site administrators have powers that you cannot see?

  11. Re:Not this again... on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    THE BEAR RAPED JESUS!

  12. Re:You know what's really sad? on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    To clarify, Jon Oliver did that skit.

  13. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    2 sodas a day could be as much as 20% of your intake...

    It is quite likely that it is at least 10% of your intake.

  14. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    They are contrasting that 2,000 calories with the calories the rats received from the HFCS. They claim that if a human consumed an amount of HFCS proportionate to what the rats were consuming in the study, they would be consuming 3,000 calories of HFCS per day.

    If that is true, I'm not sure how it is BS, or how it makes them scumbags. In context, it is perfectly clear that they are talking about 2,000 calories being a normal diet.

  15. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Do you have any notion of your consumption of calories before and after you started avoiding high calorie foods?

  16. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Sometimes he satisfied his cravings with baked potatoes, other times with french fries.

    Reading, it solves problems.

  17. Re:Poor choice of verb. on Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service · · Score: 1

    I move that the mob steal a wood chipper.

  18. Re:HFC on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sucrose is primarily broken down by enzymes in the small intestine.

  19. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    They track the amount in the container when they refill it. They make the assumption that the fluid removed from the container ends up in the rat.

  20. Re:What! on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Honey is damn near the same thing as HFCS.

  21. Re:I'm convinced! on Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill · · Score: 1

    What's your response to the part you didn't bother quoting? Here it is again:

    so they will pay it if they need it to do business

  22. Re:I'm convinced! on Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill · · Score: 1

    How much is each edited photo worth to you?

    Also, do you attach a great deal of value to $700?

    More seriously, of course it did, $700 is not all that much for someone making or paying Western wages, so they will pay it if they need it to do business (i.e., if they think they will earn at least $700 more by purchasing it than if they did not purchase it), whereas personal users still aren't going to be that large a market at $200.

  23. Re:not a single element. on Full ACTA Leak Online · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the surrounding oceans were very much a military consideration for the United States.

    (I mean, Pearl Harbor was nearly as successful as it possibly could have been, and in the end, the only impact it had was, possibly, to extend the time the war took (but really, other American war decisions were probably larger factors, America could have skipped by quite a few hard fought islands; I realize that I just went and talked about an almost entirely different war, fought across a very different ocean, but the Atlantic was very much a strategic asset for the United States at that point in time)).

  24. Re:surrender monkeys as in on Full ACTA Leak Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Russians had some idea, they were allowing the Germans to conduct training operations on Russian territory.

  25. Re:Good on Google on Sergey Brin On Google and China · · Score: 1

    They will lose majority control, but they will still have lots of power.

    For instance, Warren Buffett only owns about 1/3 of Berkshire Hathaway, but he still steers the company (yes, 'only').