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  1. Re:Risk assessment is lowered, politics apart on UN Report Downgrades Human Impact on Climate · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if one assumes that the whole world gets wetter, then some of that meltwater from continental ice sheats will end up in the atmosphere and on land.

  2. Re:Are we sure it comes from work? on Understanding Burnout · · Score: 1

    Often the sign burnout is about to occur is an increase in intensity (which is really denial that they are burning out).

    I think it also has to do a lot with inertia. Normally you expect yourself to peform certain amount of stuff (or more, if necessary). Once the burnout is eminent you start to run out of steam, but still expect yourself to comply to your "quotas". Hence, my guess is that one of the reasons for this spike in interest is the fact that you / your brain have to compensate for inability to keep ambient work satisfaction at normal levels by increasing the emotional return from the perceived "importance" of your task. And obviously the brain chemistry can't sustain this emotional equivalent of nitro-burn for long, hence burnout.

    Or something like that...

  3. Re:Anyone ever notice... on Giant Cloud of Methanol Found in Space · · Score: 1

    I guess that's the easiest way to attract public attention and most importantly funding.

  4. Re:owned one ... on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1
    Based on one comment about my dislike for cell phones, you've determined that you need to lecture me concerning stress and health risks.

    Well, what can I say, I can't always be right:) Sorry if I came off as rude.

  5. Re:owned one ... on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1
    Some engineer you are.

    Normal people put their phones on silent when in class.

    And about somebody else leaking info of a confidential product: dude, losen up a bit. Getting all worked up about bullshit like that greatly increases the risk of heart attacks, ulcers, burnout, etc.

    Sounds like you should take the world more lightly, or alternatively, go and live in some place where life trully sucks, maybe that will give you some perspective, so that you will stop getting concerned about stuff that doesn't matter.

  6. Are you serious? on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1
    I don't want to flame you, but what you are saying doesn't make any sense. Or are you trolling?

    ... OR...

    Maybe you are just asexual (lacking sex drive and capacity to feel sexual attraction)... I hope for your own sake it's the latter. But you have to realize that moralizing about something you don't understand due to sexual dysfunction you may have incured genetically or through psychological trauma doesn't make your argument any more reasonable.

  7. Re:That's nothing! on 42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. 13.37 is an approximation of l33t, it in fact is around 13.369...

  8. Re:So what do we do about this? on New Asteroid Becomes Earth's Biggest Threat · · Score: 1
    I could never understand people who seem to hold fascination for dieing in some particular, preferably "spectacular" way - mountain climbing accidents, unopened parachutes, and of course being blasted into oblivion by an asteroid impact, to top them all.

    Perhaps you can explain what's the big deal?

  9. Re:Google involved in charity? on Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Or more like:

    1. Google involved in charity
    2. ???
    3. Brilliant!

  10. Re:R u wirehead? on Scientist to Implant Electrode in His Own Brain? · · Score: 1
    IANABrain-scientist, but as far as I know, in order to feel pleasure, your brain needs to "squirt out" neurotransmitters - molecules that act as triggers for neuron firing action.

    Brain needs time for replenishing the supply of neurotransmitters (i.e. endorphines, dopamine, serotonin). Now, just triggering some "pleasure center", as you call it, will not make the brain regenerate the necessary transmitters at the rate required to feel perpetual goodness, so you will will feel good for a while, and then just end up feeling drained.

    Of course, one could argue that the wire in the brain could "tell" the responsible sectors to inhibit the reuptake of the said neurotransmitters, thus increasing their effective lifetimes, still, after a while, you'd run out, and feel like shit:)

    Ok, I think it's time to end this post, until I manage to convince myself that it's actually possible to do what the parent suggested...

  11. Re:besides the controversies on Science and Technology Medals Awarded · · Score: 1

    Hey! Give the parent some mode points, it's by no means a troll, at worst it's just view that some people disagree with!

  12. Re:Darwinsim = Science? on Christian Churches Celebrate Darwin's Birthday · · Score: 1

    I wonder what would the IQ tests, or any other comprehensive tests of mental abilities of creatonists and evolutionists yield...

  13. Re:that's risktaking behavior on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1
    Loving a cat will usually make the cat really mad at you.

    How do you know? Have you tried "loving" a cat?

  14. Re:behavior changed by parasites, or by liking cat on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1

    s/skidiving/skydiving

  15. Re:behavior changed by parasites, or by liking cat on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1

    I love cats, but I would be the last person to do skidiving or try to hit on a girl in a nightclub. So liking cats doesn't automatically mean risktaking behaviour. (I am also afraid of all predators that are dangerous/big enough to harm me)

  16. Re:If you have a hammer, everything looks like a n on Bullying Affects Social Status? · · Score: 1

    Nah, not true. It takes a lot if you know you can easily beat the crap of the person who deserves it, but you force yourself to walk away, nevertheless. That is both strength and wisdom. It often takes a lot of strength to overcome yourself and circumstances and do what is wise.

  17. Wasabi... on Danish, Western Websites Under Attack · · Score: 1

    I thought that was the thing that the Muslims eat with their Sushi...

  18. Re:Just another point of view on Scientists Expand Knowledge of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    In other words, no matter how many significant digits you have, it may be just so that the next digit, the one you didn't include in your 100 digit decimal fraction, may be the one that is of crucial importance and it may affect the resulting predictions (in the case of chaotic systems) greatly.

  19. Re:The right to piracy on 30th Anniversary of Gates' Letter to HCC · · Score: 1

    I am afraid mine's all booked.

  20. Re:The right to piracy on 30th Anniversary of Gates' Letter to HCC · · Score: 1

    Dude, you need therapy!

  21. Re:Mouse or Food? on US Missile Shield already Defeated? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Do you speak Russian? How many Putin's speaches have you read? Have you ever listened to his interviews?

    Putin might not be saint, but he is definitely not stupid.

    And Putin being a marionette?

    You sir are one of the most original thinkers of 21st century!

  22. Re:What the hell is this on NASA's Michael Griffin Interviewed · · Score: 1
    I didn't think NASA was at the center of the gay marriage debate.

    Where are the GNAA trolls when one needs them?

  23. Re:Evolution on Scientific Brain Linked to Autism · · Score: 1
    but I can only say one thing: sex with a chubby girl is exactly the same as with a skinny girl.

    Not that I would know from personal experience, but I always thought that apart from genital (and other forms of) penetration during sex, people also touch each other using hands and other parts of their bodies...

    So for example caressing the body of a woman on the overweight end of the spectrum during the intercourse would feel different than touching a skinny or average weighted woman.

    Also I have heard people say that one loves woman with ones eyes, which would mean there would be visual difference during lovin' depending on the level of fitness of a girl...

  24. Re:pwn3d on Scientific Brain Linked to Autism · · Score: 1
    Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, is indicating that there is good chance that there is a scientific basis to the observed phenomenon that children with highly analytical parents are more likely to be autistic.

    I wonder if Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is in any way related to Sacha Baron-Cohen ?

  25. Re:Not just Sweden on Sweden To Be Oil-Free By 2020 · · Score: 1
    s/much various/various

    Sorry