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  1. Re:SS Californian warned her on How the Sinking of the Titanic Sparked a Century of Radio Improvements · · Score: 1

    You see, the Wireless is a series of tubes.

  2. Re:Either way on Statistical Analysis Raises Civil War Death Count By 20% · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, it would suck for people with 'problems' born in the wrong part of the country, but with 50 states you would have an option to move to likeminded area.

    *cough* Dredd Scott
    *cough* Fugitive Slave Act
    This being said, the South seceded BEFORE any of the state's rights were infringed, and they attacked Fort Sumter where, objectively, there were plenty diplomatic solutions available before firing a single cannonball. And anyway, it was not intended at that stage to abolish slavery; this only came as a way to wage total war two years later.

  3. Re:The year is 2012, guys... on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    I bet you're not speaking of thisBartlet(t)

    Read this lecture, especially section IV

  4. Re:Oh the irony. on Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser · · Score: 1

    you could replace verbs too

  5. Irrelevant on Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's irrelevant to boast the best spam filters when you hard code spam into people's outgoing mail below their signature.

  6. Re:Complete Non-sense! on World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say · · Score: 1

    No you don't get it. It's WiFi, which means it's both electronic and electromagnetic. It'll only become safe after first class and business have been milked long enough.

  7. Re:Harmless junk? Somehow I doubt it. on World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say · · Score: 1

    spy sats have predictible orbits. SR-71s were outlived by U2s (to be retired soon) and comparable drones

  8. Re:I guess that answers my lift question on Jetman Yves Rossy Flies In Formation With Jets · · Score: 1

    if it's not accelerating to the ground, of course it is generating lift

  9. Re:First Post on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    4 inches is what I'm not showing to you

  10. Re:Up to them on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 2

    If I drop a rock 1000 times and it falls to the ground. The only thing I can say for certain is that the last 1000 times I dropped the rock, it fell to the ground. It requires faith on my part to believe that the 1001st time I drop the rock it will also drop to the ground.

    Faith is not incompatible with science. The difference is that a scientist will change his beliefs to accomodate new facts, a religious nut will deny new facts to uphold his beliefs.

  11. Re:Simple Solution on IPCom Trying To Ban HTC's 3G Phone Sales In Germany · · Score: 1

    then the only patents will come from the industry, and no small guys would ever file one

  12. islands on 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook · · Score: 2

    What I'd like to know is: "are there islands", i.e. groups of people completely unrelated to other groups? And if there is no such island, what is the max distance between any two people?

  13. Re:Flying? on Flying Humans · · Score: 1

    Are their any true airfoils involved? This seems like nothing more than a creative way to fall.
    If the glide ratio > 0, and no rocket is involved, an airfoil is involved.
  14. Re:Patrick De Gayardon on Flying Humans · · Score: 0

    What's a gay hardon ?

  15. Re:Preemptive Justice on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    You know what ? That would be a fantastic plot for a sci-fi novel!

  16. Re:Base load? Feh. on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    As far as I know - you can't run water twice as hard. Either pressure or pipe diameter must increase. There's some physics involved..... and they don't pressurize reservoirs. The path through the turbines is fixed and once at capacity - you can't make more water run through without increasing something.
    You can also add more pipes.
  17. Re:The secret to smart kids?? easy... on The Secret to Raising Smart Kids · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heck most think that parenting is the school's job.
    "Parent" is not a verb. Stupid Americans. "Parent" comes, via the French language, from the Latin "parens". Itself coming from the verb "parere". I am not enough of an Latin etymologist to tell if it comes from *parere/pareo : to be obedient to, obey *parere/paro : prepare, raise, furnish/supply/provide or *parere/pario : bear, give birth to, beget (each makes sense) But clearly, it comes from the verb "parere", which would be something like "to pare" if it had propagated to Modern English. Putting a -ens generally is a way to make up a substantive from a verb which will specifically refer to the performer of the action. Examples: ferere (to bear) --> ferens (bearer). Ex. Christopher = Christos Ferens = the one who bears Christ exponere --> exponens Anyway, it is plain ridiculous to take a verb, make a substantive out of it, and make another verb out of it that means the same thing as the original verb. Someone who fishes fishes is called a fisherman or a fisher, yet his job is not called "fishermanning" nor "fishering". Someone who farms is a farmer yet you don't call his job farmering. Someone who insures people is an insurer, yet he is not in the "insurering" business. The only way "to parent" would be an acceptable verb is if it was not about raising children (performing the action) but about making one a parent (making the object a performer of the action). Fuck you, language rapists. What's next ? Should we call people who perform the action of "parenting", "parenters" ? And I have not even begun about the intrinsic ridicule of this pop-psycho-babble world outside of its linguistic mediocrity.
  18. Re:More than 10 to 1 ratio of damages is improper on RIAA Must Divulge Expenses-Per-Download · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me: Pu-NI-tive.

    Just because you Yankees pronounce (hint: this means "prononce" in your bastard excuse for a language) all vowels as "uh" does not mean you can substitute every vowel with an a.

  19. Re:Why the LONG timelines? on China's First Lunar Satellite Sends Back Pictures · · Score: 2, Insightful

    2. No cold war. We are not currently afraid of another countries technological abilities, so we have no need to showboat ours. This was a big issue with both Congress and the public in the 60's.
    The Boogeyman changed. Hey! I hear their is a terrorist training base on the moon !
  20. "parenting" is a horrible word on The Happiest Days of Our Lives · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wil has been sharing anecdotes about his adventures in parenting
    "Parent" is not a verb. Stupid Americans.

    "Parent" comes, via the French language, from the Latin "parens". Itself coming from the verb "parere".

    I am not enough of an Latin etymologist to tell if it comes from

    *parere/pareo : to be obedient to, obey
    *parere/paro : prepare, raise, furnish/supply/provide or
    *parere/pario : bear, give birth to, beget
    (each makes sense)

    But clearly, it comes from the verb "parere", which would be something like "to pare" if it had propagated to Modern English.

    Putting a -ens generally is a way to make up a substantive from a verb which will specifically refer to the performer of the action.

    Examples:
    ferere (to bear) --> ferens (bearer). Ex. Christopher = Christos Ferens = the one who bears Christ
    exponere --> exponens

    Anyway, it is plain ridiculous to take a verb, make a substantive out of it, and make another verb out of it that means the same thing as the original verb. Someone who fishes fishes is called a fisherman or a fisher, yet his job is not called "fishermanning" nor "fishering". Someone who farms is a farmer yet you don't call his job farmering. Someone who insures people is an insurer, yet he is not in the "insurering" business.

    The only way "to parent" would be an acceptable verb is if it was not about raising children (performing the action) but about making one a parent (making the object a performer of the action).

    Fuck you, language rapists. What's next ? are should we call people, who perform the action of "parenting", "parenters" ?
  21. Re:Mod GP up, Mod parent down on How Not to Build a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Oops. I should take care of proofreading (more effort) before posting. I meant "Caring less NEVER EVER takes more effort than caring more."

  22. Mod parent down on How Not to Build a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Stupidest ever excuse for not being able to learn english. Caring less NEVER EVER takes less effort than caring more.

  23. IT'S NOT A VERB on New Parental Controls Limit Xbox Time · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Parent" is not a verb. Stupid Americans.

    "Parent" comes, via the French language, from the Latin "parens". Itself coming from the verb "parere".

    I am not enough of an Latin etymologist to tell if it comes from

    *parere/pareo : to be obedient to, obey
    *parere/paro : prepare, raise, furnish/supply/provide or
    *parere/pario : bear, give birth to, beget

    But clearly, it comes from the verb "parere", which would be something like "to pare" if it had propagated to Modern English.

    Putting a -ens generally is a way to make up a substantive from a verb which will specifically refer to the performer of the action.

    Examples:
    ferere (to bear) --> ferens (bearer). Ex. Christopher = Christos Ferens = the one who bears Christ
    exponere --> exponens

    Anyway, it is plain ridiculous to take a verb, make a substantive out of it, and make another verb out of it that means the same thing as the original verb. Someone who fishes fishes is called a fisherman or a fisher, yet his job is not called "fishermanning" nor "fishering". Someone who farms is a farmer yet you don't call his job farmering. Someone who insures people is an insurer, yet he is not in the "insurering" business.

    The only way "to parent" would be an acceptable verb is if it was not about raising children (performing the action) but about making one a parent (making the object a performer of the action).

    Fuck you, language rapists. What's next ? are should we call people, who perform the action of "parenting", "parenters" ?

  24. Re:But what we really want to know is on BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures · · Score: 1

    one, from Afghanistan.

  25. Re:aaarrggghhhh!! on Australian Researcher Boosts ADSL Speeds · · Score: 1

    Did I say snow ? It was in fact the ashes of our less lucky siblings. But it was snow to us.