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  1. Re:For every action... on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I assumed everything was wind powered

    These rotors would be easier to operate remotely than sails and would also serve as the conduits for the upward spray, with the spray consisting of droplets 0.8 Âm in diameter generated by passing sea water through micro nozzles. The power for the spray and the cylinder rotation would be provided by oversized propellers operating as turbines.

  2. Re:Futurama on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    they're in cahoots with the termites too!

  3. Re:Headline on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    They will tell you weather is chaotic but climate isn't even tho it looks like a strange attractor to me. Actually when it all gets modeled and the maths all get written down and all of the equations put together and simplified if the results don't look like the classic logistics equation, I'm very suspicious of it.

  4. Re:That's what? on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if I had mod points this would be modded redundant, X compared to the cost of the war in Iraq has been done to death, first post are almost invariable off-topic and redundant frosty piss has also been done to death.

  5. Re:That's what? on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The beauty of this approach is it's mimicking a natural phenomena waves spraying water mist into the air, and it can be turned off and the action will quickly dissipate as the clouds rain out. the rain will absorb CO2 from the air and bring it to the sea algae that will consume it grow die and sink to the bottom of the ocean just like has happened for billions of year on this planet; so I don't understand the NIMBY attitude about it.

  6. Re:I'll be hard... on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    his fellow inmates will look at a few freak-pics before barebacking him in the shower

  7. Re:why not an array? on "Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST · · Score: 2, Informative

    this is a fast wide-field telescope, it's designed to be wide-angled and low magnification, most other scopes are narrow-field and high magnification. This one will take pictures of the whole observable sky over and over so changes over time can be easily seen, hell they could even make time-lapse movies!

  8. Re:No such thing as "perfect"... on "Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST · · Score: 3, Informative

    At this point, perfection is measured by the glass being approximately the correct shape and without air bubbles or strains being too close together or the surface. If you watch the video, someone was actually walking on the mirror, something that couldn't be done after the blank was ground and figured to an accuracy of a few millionths of an inch.

  9. Re:That is the casting done. on "Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST · · Score: 3, Informative

    the Hubble mirror is extremely accurate, unfortunately the testing mechanism, the null corrector wasn't, so the Hubble mirror was ground and figured almost perfectly wrong.

  10. Re:i don't believe it on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    The 10% is assumed, actually a British study shown the percentage is lower for the 1st and last child and much higher for the middle children.

  11. Re:A whole new round of testing on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    Not being on fire is only extreme after being on fire.

  12. Re:A whole new round of testing on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    but you can change Puritan Barbie into Nympho Barbie just by squirt of oxytocin in the nose, of course it will only act for a short time you have to work quick.

  13. Re:Hhhmm, on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    So you don't think that Poly couples don't have Rules for their relationships, or that violating the rules don't result in serious damage to the relationship?

  14. Re:Hhhmm, on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    some have argued that in a hunter-gatherer society there is an advantage to having the men pre-programed to fall asleep after an orgasm and the woman wide-awake and wanting another.

  15. Re:Disablites Act on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh yeah nerds in PR are going to hurt the company a lot more than the narcissistic PHBs in management will.

  16. Re:George Clooney dubs it: on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    Dude, you have to tell us what Planet your from and how to get there!

  17. Re:plea bargaining on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, in fact in my state, Michigan, the English common law system is the default; it is overridden by the Federal Constitution and Laws, and then by the State Constitution and Laws. This hierarchy is specifically spelled out in our Sate Constitution. California was originally part of Mexico so I wouldn't be surprise if their default is the Spanish equivalent to common law. Our system is also adversarial each side is in a fight against the other rather than working for the public good. You can't assume that in the US what is good legal advice in one state is good in another, especial in real estate matters.

  18. Re:He should have gotten the chair on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Because only in the freest country on earth are prison rape, gang beatings, and physical torture at the hands of sadistic miscreants NOT considered cruel and unusual!

    It's the and , now if it were an exclusive or that would be different because when you put that many sadistic miscreants in one place cruelty isn't unusual it's common. Besides we don't perform the rapes beatings and torture, they do and when they are caught the system prosecutes to the fullest extent of the law.

  19. Re:He should have gotten the chair on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Reisser is not EVIL and to me that is the scariest part, not only do people like that cast a reflection in the mirror, they frequently look like pillars of the community.

  20. Re:Pleaded? Really? on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    pleaded tends to sound better to my ear when used in first and second person, but I like pled better in third person such as the legal reporting.

  21. Re:Wow on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Descriptions of Hans pretty much match a narcissist and they are masters at maintaining a good public image while horribly and remorselessly abusing everyone around them. It's easy to set one off into a narcissistic rage, frequently you wouldn't even know what it was. They don't think they have to follow the same rules as everyone else, their contribution is always more valuable than any repayment could ever be worth and they are pathological liars.

    Nina implied that his son was defective and by extension he was, and that she was spend some of "His" money to take him to the DR for treatment and she died for her audacity!

  22. Re:Terms of his imprisonment... on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    She said she was going to take the kid to the Dr., his response was to choke her to death. In my book, premeditation would be less creepy and much more likely to be rehabilitated. In my state we'd call him guilty but mentally ill which means he can begin serving his sentence after he convinces a Dr. he's mentally well enough to not pose a threat to himself or society.

  23. Re:Terms of his imprisonment... on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Generally all communications not to a lawyer or an elected official are subjected to monitoring, I doubt that the average Prison Official is going to feel qualified to monitor anything electronics coming from Reiser, so that means no internet, no computer and pushing brooms and cleaning toilets instead of coding for the rest of his natural life.

    John Wayne said "life is tough, life is tougher when your stupid" I say "It takes a lot of intellegence to be really stupid"; it's going to suck to be Hans Reiser.

  24. Re:So he was rewarded for hiding her body? on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    That way he might have gotten charged with an illegal burial, practicing Mortuary science without a license, corpse mutilation and did more time than for murder.

  25. Re:So he was rewarded for hiding her body? on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    You think rational, intelligent people can't fly into a rage?

    If you pile enough on someone and they get angry enough, that intelligence doesn't mean a whole lot, because enraged people aren't rational.

    Wives can be particularly good at pushing those buttons, I've found that catching and releasing spiders in her bedroom satisfies my urges to violent mayhem until I can get into therapy and on medication.