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  1. Re:You're thinking of Nitrocelluose... on CD-Eating Fungus Among Us · · Score: 1

    This is Crow T. Robot from the Film Deterioration Society.

    Although the efforts of the Film Preservation Society are important; there are many films that future generations should not endure. Take the efforts of Sylvester Stallone - Rocky, Oscar, & Rambo. Not to mention the many tedious Death Wish movies. All of these bad movies and many more could last for hundreds of years if properly preserved.

    All we request of you is to store these banal efforts at film-making in someplace warm & moist, perhaps in a container of sea water and acid. All we ask of you is to think of the children who will be subjected to these awful films and their children and their children's children. Thank you.

  2. Re:reminds me... on Mad Scientists' Club Returns To Print · · Score: 1

    DIV>Encyclopedia Brown - Boy Detective http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes/encyclopedi a.html

  3. Re:Wow... on Mad Scientists' Club Returns To Print · · Score: 1

    My passion for science was inspired by the "Danny Dunn: Scientific Detective" series by Raymond Abrashkin and written by Jay Williams. http://members.aol.com/sharonr899/series/Dunn.html

  4. Re:I have a better idea! on Signs of the Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    I have an even better idea. Dodecahedron watermelons. Less failures due to the more spherical case, and damn cool looking.

  5. Re:Original Quotation on Disney and Anime Plagiarism? · · Score: 1

    Fractals claimed he,
    Quantum Mechancics claimed she,
    Black Holes and Cyberspace,
    Multiple Dimensions dropped into place,
    An infinty of discovery still to be found,
    Nanorobots claiming new ground,
    Lasers, Masers, Wavelet pulse array,
    Gel materials, Solar power, and Solitons today,
    Communications networks like the internet,
    Multitasking computers take the bet,

    So I ask you...
    If there is nothing new under the sun,
    What rock have you been hiding under?

  6. Re:Piss up a flagpole, Greenie on GM Investing in Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    Please mod this back up as SARCASM.

    Republicans can be so thick.

  7. Re:CTS READ THEN DAMN REPORT CAREFULLY on Slashback: Carpal, Displays, Asylum · · Score: 1

    FAUX NEWS - WE SPREAD BULLSHIT (which damns the Republicans in the eyes of the moderates)

    FAUX NEWS - JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS, WHAT'S THAT?!?

    FAUX NEWS - GET YOUR RUMORS AND GOSSIP HERE REPORTED AS GOSPEL TRUTH!

    FAUX NEWS - Enjoy our blonde newswhores!

    FAUX NEWS - WHERE ELSE CAN YOU HAVE "LIES THROUGH THEIR TEETH" AND "REPUBLICAN" AND "CONSERVATIVE" BE SYNONYMOUS. WE RUIN OUR OWN PARTY BY BEING SUCH SHAMELESS LIARS!

  8. Re:Speaking from personal experience... on Is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome A Hoax? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for enlightening me. I didn't realize laws were all pointless when applied to real world problems. Laws affect no change in and of themselves so therefore, no law should be obeyed.

    Don't mind me, since you've already forfeited all basic logic in the quest to ram your apathetic ego down our throats I guess it's time to start destroying your property. Without laws, I am committing no crime.

    I'll miss your inane observations when you declare all traffic laws pointless and stroll in front of a speeding truck. Or maybe you'll declare the laws of physics invalid and walk off a cliff. Given that your example uses human laws to impose themselves upon the laws of physics without logic, you are rather uninteresting.

    Which is cheaper? The logical need to change workplace design to improve efficency & increase comfort for workers to prevent expensive surgery and lawsuits OR waiting until workers become injured & crippled costing money in healthcare & increased insurance costs & losing quality employees to paid-time recuperation.

    The Republicans say, "Save a penny now! Who gives a fuck about your wage-slaves?"

    The Democrats say, "Spend a penny now! DO NOT be forced to pay $500,000 or millions later because you had no forsight to respect the physical limits of your employees."

    I see having Republicans pay money to hired medical whores to discredit worthwhile laws which save America millions by investing in workplace safety doesn't bother you. And of course, as a taxpayer you don't mind paying inflated health insurance costs later when the commonsense investment for workplace comfort isn't done by incompetent corporate management following the Republican mantra. Save a penny now, lose your human capital and entire business later.

    Republicans will trade a $1000 5-year government bond for a penny in their greedy little hands right now; I see.

  9. Re:Bogus experts on Is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome A Hoax? · · Score: 1

    Obviously we all see the filthy Lucire joke, so here I decided to preempt it to remind you that as stated above, this is how important laws get neutered or skipped for public health care by hiring some yokel to provide FUD. If you're not angry that you've been scammed and unwilling to go up the ladder of crooks, I can say nothing else. When the apathetic sheep stop getting in the way, the real people can get something done.

  10. Re:Here's how you grind a telescope mirror on Getting Into Space, One Way Or Another · · Score: 1

    I am so stupid. My idea of grinding a telescope lens is to make up the specs and go down to a eyeglass-in-a-hour shop and pay them to grind the lens up.

  11. Re:Speaking from personal experience... on Is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome A Hoax? · · Score: 1

    The Republicans will protect you from all those whiny people that want to take your money. And they'll lower your taxes and improve quality by increasing competition. They'll promote personal responsibilty and social cooperation.

    By the way, Newt Gingrich divorced his wife that was dying from cancer so he could get a young trophy-wife. George Worthless Bush got his daughters out of jail with the Secret Service after they bought booze using fake IDs. Both of George Worthless Bush's tax cuts ended up bankrupting Texas and ended up raising taxes.

    Golly Ollie North, perhaps these Republicans are just shameless liars with a nice-sounding scam which they could care less about?

    You may continue your non-thinking now.

  12. Re:Congratulations on Is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome A Hoax? · · Score: 1

    Actually carpal tunnel syndrome is real.

    Has anyone here WORKED in a factory? Has anyone here ever tried to assemble a complicated product in the span of 45 seconds? I've worked the assembly lines for automobile ventilation ducts (those little fins over your car's vents that direct the airflow) on a high-speed line. Excessive repetitive motion will wear down muscles rubbing constantly against each other.

    If you want to find out how true it is quickly, just wave your hand up and down about 120 to 180 times a minute for a minute.

    Done? Good. It hurts doesn't it. Now do that for 2 hours at a time and add some fine motor skills of finger motion. Then take a 10 to 15 minute break then continue this motion for another 2 hours. Give yourself another break. Then back to work. Now you've only got 2 more hours to go.

    Don't worry, you've only got to do this 5 to 6 days a week. Now how fucking much does this PSYCHOLOGICAL aspect cause your wrists to ache?

    This is just another scam by the Republican crooks to deny basic health care by posting a medical FUD so they can excuse themselves from personal ethics. When the idiots start WORKING FOR A LIVING, I'll have less reasons to view the Republican party as a collection of lying bastards, scam artists, drug smugglers, and bigots. What is even worse is that lazy people of otherwise worthwhile education buy into this FUD without even bothering to think out easy tests they can do to disprove the FUD.

  13. Re:Old News on Cell Phone Makers Patent "Brain Shields" · · Score: 1

    The SLUDGE REPORT? The guy who pulls rumors out of his ass and pastes them as God's truth for FAUX NEWS to rehash for their slack-jawed redneck viewers? The same FAUX NEWS that took some weak practical jokes from Clinton's staff and turned them into rampaging vandalism and wild-eyed thievery by Ari Fleisher? The same FAUX NEWS that ignored George Worthless Bush's own disclaimers against the vandalism slander in its quest for caustic empty-headed empty-ethics yellow-journalism? The same FAUX NEWS that later showed a slightly cluttered yet clean office as proof from Heaven that they weren't just shameless frauds without an iota of journalistic skills, ethics, and standards? The same FAUX NEWS which has forgotten to ask for PROOF or EVIDENCE or even considered INVESTIGATIONS before SLANDERING without pause?

    Sorry, I try to avoid crooks & witless con-artists like the Republican party at all costs. It's a fault of having morals and an education; which I see you are unhindered by.

  14. Re:Burgess Shale on Review: Evolution · · Score: 1
    One of the clips showed a weird multi-segmented bug with stilt-like legs, very similar to one of the weird fossils in the burgess shale. There's a Richard Dawkins book all about it called Wonderful Life.

    (I wonder what Dawkins thinks about the movie).

    Ah, you mean like this little beasty? http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/arthropoda41 .html Or these? http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/arthropoda-2 .html Do a search for Pycnogonida (Sea spiders) and enjoy
  15. Re:QUICK response? on TiVo Response to 2.0.1 Upgrade Issues · · Score: 1

    GUESS WHAT!!!

    My stepfather's MAGNAVOX VCR gets its time synchronization signal from the local PBS station. It does not need to phone home.

    There is no plausable reason for TiVo to phone home much less cost the user or TiVo one dime.

    The reason is TiVo sells the viewer data and picks up program listings. Other than that, it has no reason to phone home.

    Don't call the TiVo non-subscribers thieves when TiVo is selling their viewer data.

  16. Re:QUICK response? on TiVo Response to 2.0.1 Upgrade Issues · · Score: 1

    I see, and if I purchased and X-BOX (which Microsoft will lose a fortune on in hardware) and then decided to scavange it (without buying any games for it), I then am ripping Bill Gates off?

    How the hell do you figure that one out?

    If TiVo is screwed, they did it to themselves. I am not a fucking charity for Bill Gates or TiVo in any of their EXTORTIONWARE schemes and scams.

  17. Re:Proxies that filter web bugs on Web Bug Detector · · Score: 1

    I edit my cookies.

    I just added about 256K of gibberish numbers to the doubleclick cookie (let them parse that).

    Don't like them, screw them.

  18. Re:I guess they... on TiVo Response to 2.0.1 Upgrade Issues · · Score: 1

    Perhaps TiVo wouldn't be in this shitty state of public relations if it decided to STOP SELLING THEM and provided a product that wasn't tethered to extortionware.

    If they aren't making money on the units and are making the cash on subscription, then they stop bleeding cash outright.

    I liked the TiVo for a few simple and significant reasons:
    1) Good software for subscribers.
    2) It used to have all the functions of a digital VCR without tapes.
    3) You can upgrade the hard drive to store more programs.
    4) Unlike the REPLAY TV & Microscam's ULTIMATE TV, you can use it even if either company goes bankrupt (something I never have to worry about with the basic dumb VCR and the absolute reason I will never buy hardware tethered by extortionware).
    5) It uses Linux for its operating system (which should ensure against Microsoft's *.NET extortionware) and that also means that if TiVo goes under it can be hacked to retain function.

    Now that TiVo has decided to kill itself, only #2 & #5 apply. If Phillips decides to release a functional version of the TiVo digital VCR after the company ends up in the www.fuckedcompany.com archive, then I will reconsider it.

  19. Re:Financial status of TiVo on TiVo Response to 2.0.1 Upgrade Issues · · Score: 1

    And at this rate, when TiVo the company dies, all of their subscribed boxes die.

    Let me just rush out and buy one or get a lifetime subscription with that incentive knowing that the box will be useless junk (because even the remaining useful unsubscribed boxes will be crippled and unable to set their time without the soon-dead TiVo corporation).

    Oh wait, that would be HORRIBLY STUPID! TiVo has just committed corporate SUICIDE and killed all their boxes (subscribed & unsubscibed) in one fell swoop. There is now ABSOLUTELY NO INCENTIVE to even risk a dime on buying a TiVo. If they gave them away, I'd refuse one now. The box is tethered to extortionware and Darwin wouldn't pity this sad excuse for a technological branch.

    The worst part was that I was planning to purchase a TiVo in another few weeks. Now that I know the company is ran by shortsighted nitwits, I say TiVo and its moronic executives can burn in Hell for all I care.

  20. Re:funny on Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet · · Score: 1

    I was polishing my Polish yesterday and a Father on TV offered to read the good Book to me. My friend came up to me. I said, "Sue, not now. Put the Turtle Wax away. I want a glass of Coke." I then decided to watch the Batman episode with the Green Hornet. I thought it was a shame they never had The Green Arrow on as well with Robin & Mr. Batman.

    ---- In all LOWER CASE. ----

    i was polishing my polish yesterday and a father on tv offered to read the good book to me. my friend came up to me. i said, "sue, not now. put the turtle wax away. i want a glass of coke." i then decided to watch the batman episode with the green hornet. i thought it was a shame they never had the green arrow on as well with robin & mr. batman.

    ---- A little harder to follow I think ----

    UPPER CASE & lower case are functions of punctuation, not disposable symbols. A word may appear the same in a single case, but the context can be easily lost without it. In some cases it denotes Titles, abbreviations, acronyms, and Proper Names for Pronouns. Case SWAPPING can denote emotion or highlighting. *Punctuation* can give some words needed importance and add emotion to rather dull sentences. All lower case denotes a passive voice, like in a poem or in a whisper.

  21. Re:Canada has apologized on Payola: Another Brick in the Wall · · Score: 1

    And I apologize for the United States of America for being total bastards in just about everything they can seize control of. I also apologize for the numerous human rights abuses (murder, propping up puppet dictators in exchange for exploiting the human workforce and/or stealing natural resources, having politicians with less moral shame than the $2 prostitute, and breaking all treaties as if they never existed). I apologize for being so apathetic to the world's problems (though to be honest, it doesn't seem the rest of the world's nations seem to give a fuck either about insane despot dictators which the United States happily funds via the CIA).

    Feel better? Didn't change a damn thing did it. All these issues still exist and apologies haven't changed things one bit. Perhaps the desire for comfort and consistency is the very thing damning the United States and the world along with it. So fuck you all if you ARE NOT NERVOUS and MORE VIGILANT.

  22. Re:metric calendar on Calendar: Code, Free Speech, Or Mathematics? · · Score: 1

    Slight problem. We do actually have 365.25 days per year. Days are an unchangable unit. A better deal is changing the measurement of the second (another one of my bored thought exercises). I pondered doing a "percent of the day" digital watch.

    A day is equal to 24 x 60 x 60 seconds = 86400 seconds. If we went to a percent of the day it would be 10 hours x 10 minutes x 10 seconds = 1000 "seconds" which would be make the new second 86400 / 1000 = 86.4 longer. So another 2 divisions of the day would need to occur to near the pulse-beat per second accuracy if this were to be an adopted concept.

    An example would be 8:22:34 PM would become 73354 seconds into the day or 84.9004629% of the day. Since you'd only need 4 digits following the decimal point to maintain the previous accuracy level, it'd be easy to do, but you'd need a bigger numerical display for the time. Don't even get me started on why somebody named a time unit "seconds" which also means the unit following one of some set.

  23. Re:I wonder... on Shocking Force Feedback Ideas · · Score: 1

    Finally a masturbation device that I can enjoy while playing games.

    No. Really. I'm not shitting you. It's better then the "vibropack" machine-gun vibrator mode.

  24. Re:This can't be for real on Duct Tape · · Score: 1

    And yet Einstein worked in a patent office.

    Then he comes up with the Relativity concept with all the math proofing it...

    That never sat well with me. It implies Einstein stole his idea from a supplied patent and forged it as his own. Of course, it could be that none of this is wrong, but as the saying goes, "If the little details are wrong, suspect the larger claims."

  25. Re:"Duct Tape"?!? on Duct Tape · · Score: 1

    And if I remember the study on tape adhesives, duct tape failed badly compared to the average masking tape (duct tape doesn't stand up well when subjected to the high temperatures of a furnace's air flow). The biggest problem is in the level of stickyness on the adhesive is much lower than it should be. No insult on Red Green's comedy staple, but duct tape is probably best used for taping ducks.

    http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/duct-t ape-HVAC.html
    Can Duct Tape Take the Heat?
    http://hem.dis.anl.gov/eehem/98/980710.html