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  1. Re:Hello earthlings on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    We prefer the term Earthicans

    That's fine for creatures which are able to communicate via high pressure air waves in the range of 2kHz - 14kHz... You insensitive clod.

  2. Re:Pakistani citizen on Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Heh, in my day, enemies of the US could by top-notch military technology directly from the Commander in Chief of the US military.

  3. Re:everyone's doing it. on Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting · · Score: 1

    Ghandi was a genius, albeit an evil genius...

    Ghandi realized that his forces could not match the British on the battle field, so he changed the rules of the battle to fit the strengths of his army. Hide under the umbrella of "non-violence".

    Straight out of "The Art of War"... "Attack where they cannot defend, defend where they cannot attack."

  4. Re:Google needs to improve their product on Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting · · Score: 2, Funny

    The writers of the article made the fatal mistake of stating "you can't". Which combined with our proximity to an improbability field, means not only "you can", but that someone will. Or more likely, someone already has...

  5. Re:Double Duty? on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    You can't conceive that anyone who might want to consider the environmental impact of anything could possibly have a valid opinion
    Here in California, we cannot get a transmission line from a desert solar station to a nearby city.

  6. Re:Double Duty? on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    The problem is that most rivers of any size have a large delta area of brackish water, not a thin region of fresh/salt water.

    Environmentalists would have a cow if you tried to put electrolytic plates into either a river or the ocean. They'll probably say it makes the rivers run backwards or the ocean currents to turn 90 degrees or some such thing.

    It is kind of interesting though, even Tesla did some work on "magneto-hydro-dynamics". I read some stuff on thermo-magneto-hydro-dynamics a few years back.

  7. The Look on Monkeys Show Language Recognition · · Score: 1

    Now if you could teach men to understand the meaning transmitted in "the look" directed at him from his wife, then you'd be somewhere.

    I think my dog understands the meaning, but he either can not or will not communicate the meaning of "the look" to me. It would likely involve tearing my face off.

  8. Re:I find this highly dubious... on Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's an interesting correlation.

    I find it easier to measure the "tooth to tattoo" ratio. Having been an EMT in a past life, I've observed that those who have more tattoos than teeth have a much higher likelihood of dying in an emergency room. Granted this is just a loose hypothesis based on my random observations. YMMV

  9. That's the nature of the high tech world on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the real world...

    Try to manage the whole work-life balance. At least until you can change your career to something where moving around a lot is part of the job. I spent three years in agriculture, and lost about 50 pounds. I'm currently taking classes for a career change to geology.

  10. Re:Bugs? on Carnivorous Clock Eats Bugs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oil on plastic works as fly-paper. Once the fly touches the oil, it cannot fly. It starts to squirm until a wing touches, then it ain't going anywhere. Soapy water works too.

    A neighbor attached a 10 inch glass disk to an old style computer box fan, and it turned about 15 RPM. He positioned the disk so that it dipped into a half plastic milk carton of vegetable oil. A lamp was positioned to shine on the glass. On the first night, the tank was completely full of bugs (mostly moths), and it looked like mud.

    What I want to know, is the details of the digester, what is the reaction that produces electricity. How do I make that part?

  11. Re:I'll go ahead and say it on US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan · · Score: 1

    In the US, women receive more cancer screenings than any other country in the world.
    Their cancers are caught earlier.
    They receive treatment sooner.
    They have a higher survivability rate.
    Even if they don't have insurance.

    Little tiny Sacramento County ( 2 million people) has more MRI machines than all of Canada.
    In Canada, there is no medical or pharmaceutical liability, zero malpractice lawsuits, that's about 10% of the cost in the US.

    It is important to remember that the US population is about 15% Black people, and unfortunately Black men have a very high death rate to diabetes and heart disease, most die before 60.
    The US is also about 20% Mexicans, and they have shorter live expectancy that Caucasian people.
    Canada has a very high Asian population, and Asian people have a much higher life expectancy than other groups.

    In the US, homeless people call 911 for a free taxi ride (in an ambulance) to the emergency room in order to warm up. I saw it myself twice while doing volunteer work in an ER.

    And where do the hell do Canadians or Kiwis or British get off telling us how to run our own country?

  12. Re:3 more uses for parts of disused cities on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    Where, again, was the downside?

    Trash and feces being washed into rivers.

  13. Re:3 more uses for parts of disused cities on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I imagine it quickly converts to tent-city with no sanitation or trash pickup.

  14. Re:Fucking idiots on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    There is a little bit of poison in every medicine.

  15. Re:What has happened? on Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages · · Score: 1

    Let me know when she joins a Hispanic Superiority club

    It's called La Raza, and yes Sotomayor has been a member for 20 years. http://www.drudge.com/news/121501/sonia-sotomayor-raza-member

  16. Re:What has happened? on Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages · · Score: 1

    She just doesn't happen to be a white man, which is what's really got you spooked.

    Actually, I'm a very conservative Latino male. I've seen racism, and I abhor racism from all sources.

    Sotomayor believes in this thing called "Social Justice", which to me means justice based on the social standing of the participants. Consider how many ways that can go wrong.

    Consider the reaction if someone proposed a White Supremacist vision of Social Justice... Or a Black Supremacist vision of Social Justice. How about a Neo-Nazi vision of Social Justice. Fundamentalist Islamic vision of Social Justice?

    Is it any better to to advocate a Mexican Supremacist vision of Social Justice? And remember, Sotomayor is a member of "La Raza", Spanish for "The Race", a Mexican Supremacist organization. An organization that seeks to return Aztlan (Southwest US states) to Mexico.

    Anyone who says I can make a better legal decision based on my race, is a racial supremacist.

    Anyone who belongs to a race based supremacist organization does not belong on any court.

  17. Re:What has happened? on Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages · · Score: 1

    Excuse me... Sotomayor was first nominated by George H W Bush, a.k.a Bush 41.

  18. Re:always? on Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages · · Score: 1

    The preferred term is Latina, pronounced the t as th. And no, I'm actually being very serious here...

  19. What has happened? on Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How did we get to a place where a racist is a serious candidate for the supreme court?

  20. Re:Odd... on Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter · · Score: 1

    That thing costs how many billions, and they shut it down because of higher electricity rates?

    I thought it would have its own power generators.

    What's the total cost of ownership compared to the cost of power?

    I guess they don't have the concept of "the cost of lost opportunity"

  21. Re:24 hour charge?? on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 1

    You forgot about the $12k battery pack replacement every 5 years or 60k miles.

  22. Re:24 hour charge?? on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Um... Stock car race?

    There are many classes of racing, many of them very close to stock production with the addition of safety equipment.

    However not having a top speed of 250MPH kind of takes the appeal out of it.

    I have a friend that races in a mazda miata class.

    But it's important to remember that a motor racing hobby is much more expensive and addictive than say Heroin.... (er maybe not quite more addictive)

  23. Re:24 hour charge?? on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 1

    An electric car will do pretty well. It can provide a good weight to horse power ratio. One of the challenges in electric cars, is battery life. Discharge a lead acid battery more than 10%, and it's life goes from years to weeks. In a race, you don't care about battery life past the race. And with some engineering, a battery swap could come down to a reasonable pit stop.

    But the sex-appeal of something that does not rock the stands, or throw a flame is really low.

  24. So when one is older on Paro the Therapeutic Robot Baby Seal · · Score: 1

    So when one is in old age, they are pleased by a fluffy tickle me elmo?

  25. Re:Prediction on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 1

    Because he thought he'd make it big

    No, actually, he's the kind of guy that works 14+ hours a day, never looks at his stock account, and probably does not even balance his check book.

    April 15'th rolled around, and his tax man said Oh Shit...