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  1. Re:Website link on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    And the Gels come in a .3, if the felt tip is not to your taste.

    But the only weakness on the felt tip is smashing the point, otherwise, a very fine pen.

    However, if you want a pen that makes people go WTF? take a look at a Namiki Vanishing Point.

    A retractable fountain pen, making the impractical, practical.

    For long note taking sessions I find a fountain pen is best, it does not require any significant paper pressure to operate.

  2. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 1

    More importantly, it would take only an untraceable amount of a drug, or even just a scent extract, to get the dog to signal.

    No need to plant "evidence",just the smell of that "evidence" on your car or residence.

  3. Re:Hits and my prediction on TSA Moving X-ray Body Scanners To Smaller Airports · · Score: 1

    Week, the OP heard it on MSNBC.

  4. Re:trolls get fiddy cent on Carbon Dating Gets an Update · · Score: 1

    'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, {always} choose 'Retry.' - CID Myers Alpha Centari

  5. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 2

    More importantly, you take classes in things you are not strong in to develop your abilities.

    Scared of public speaking?

    What helps more:
    1. Taking a computer class you know you will do well at.
    2. Take a public speaking class.

    I am not as technical hardcore as some of peers, but I have exceed them because I can write a whitepaper and I can give a presentation in front of a large group, and I can speak coherently under heavy stress conditions, like getting grilled by Fortune 500 customers CXO level management as to a root cause for an outage.

  6. Re:Doc Brown had it all wrong... on Physicists Propose "Perpetual Motion" Time Crystals · · Score: 1

    Excellent!

    My first ticket will be xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF

  7. Re:Good on $3,000 Tata Nano Car Coming To US · · Score: 1

    Right, because they could not track the car by a unique number stamped on the frame and engine.

  8. Re:Someone has been watching the Simpsons. on Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses · · Score: 2

    Or Beverly Hills 90210,

    the BH high school has 19 wells on it, earning the school $300K a year since the 70s.

  9. Re:Putting the cart before the horse. on The Great Meteor Grab · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it is Space, the final frontier...

    Getting tarred and feathered in a spacesuit is gonna suck.

  10. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Based on the comments, the excuse was that there was not enough Democrats.

    Don't know how many you need, seeing how the last budget he presented got 0 of 100 votes.

    The President has bad ideas, that is why Congress does not vote for them.

  11. Re:Name Your Poison on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    The Lancet journal study was censured:

    In a highly unusual rebuke, the American Association for Public Opinion Research today said the author of a widely debated survey on "excess deaths" in Iraq had violated its code of professional ethics by refusing to disclose details of his work. The author's institution later disclosed to ABC News that it, too, is investigating the study.

    http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/story?id=6799754&page=1#.UHgfJJWZx3g

  12. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: -1

    He had filibuster proof margins in both house and Senate for 2 years, wtf was he doing that he could not pass funding for Gitmo or anything else he wanted..

  13. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 2

    Hey at that rate, he just needs to be elected 4 times like FDR to straighten things out...

  14. Re:Logical Fallacy Bingo on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Oh hell, people would have passed out drinking every time Joe whacked the non-functioning "microphone" in front of him

    If it had been live, we would have all gone deaf from the thumping it took.

  15. Re:Name Your Poison on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Think you are white washing Saddams crimes.

    The New York Times placed the lifetime deaths attributable to Saddams at 1 million, both civilians and military killed.

    Of course, nearly all of the deaths were carried out by his orders. It is impossible to say how many he killed with his own hands.

  16. Re:So wait... on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's 98% chicken DNA,

    With 2% Samuel Jackson mixed in to make it a Bad Ass Mother Fucker.

  17. Re:Someone forgot to tell these guys on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    Oh please, the earth is only 6000 years old, that is only about 10 half -lifes. /sarcasm, for the humor detection impaired.

  18. Re:Someone forgot to tell these guys on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 2

    No problem, we will just swizzle the results until we hatch a qualitaitve T-Rex instead of a gecko.

  19. Re:Knife switches, Nixie tubes, Jacob's ladders on Ask Slashdot: What Equipment and Furniture For an Electronics Hardware Lab? · · Score: 1

    It's.... ALIVE!!!!

    MuAHAHAHAH!!!

  20. Re:Wow on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    A ballpark on Mars is an excellent idea.

    If you built it, they will come.

  21. Re:Wow on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whale Uplift: U r doing it wrong.

  22. Re:You know it's gotten bad when... on Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet · · Score: 1

    I use a pocket watch, you insensitive clod!

  23. Re:OMG what about pron!? on Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet · · Score: 1

    And this motion opens the Natlie Portman folder...

  24. Re:Fucking Retarded on PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse · · Score: 0

    Yeah, everyone knows these Pokemon games are teaching kids to summon demons..

    I mean come on, elephants in little round balls? They can't enter interdimensional gateways to hell like a demon can, the get stretched like grey spaghetti!.

    -this messaege brought to you by the Church of Do-Gooders with to Much Time on Their Hands.

  25. Re:Here's an idea on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 1

    It is diminishing returns.

    We looked a car that came in 4 cylinder that was anemic when you stepped on the gas or hit a hill, and we looked at the same car in a V6, lot more power.

    The fuel cost difference? $800 per year @ $4 gas, 24mpg vrs 32mpg.

    Even at 48mpg, we are talking $1600. 96mpg? $3200

    You will have a hard time selling a car on the gas mileage alone, it has to be attractive in other ways. I drove the Focus, I am too tall for it, my head did not hit the ceiling, but that small front window made me lean over the wheel for the week I drove it.
    The new Dodge Dart seems like a nice car tho, I kinda miss my Neon.

    I will probably buy a 60mpg BMW 700gs for my next "car" and keep the 11 year old Suburu for truly nasty days out there.