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  1. Re:They now need a "pee fee" - not what you think on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    The "fasten seat belt" sign is just advisory. You can still get up when it's on if you need to for whatever reason.

  2. Re:They now need a "pee fee" - not what you think on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Look, sometimes people aren't trying to make a statement. Sometimes there just aren't any options if you have to pee and you are stuck in your seat for an hour. Sure, most of the time you can wait it out, but sometimes you just really have got to go and there's no two ways about it.

  3. Re:They now need a "pee fee" - not what you think on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Well, that would require someone lacking in common sense enough to report them. Not that such a person would be hard to come by...

  4. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Paranoid? You really don't see any paranoia in how the Nazis responded to the great Jew threat?

  5. Re:NO! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right, and as there's obviously no way this guy could have spent 20 minutes in the bathroom 61 minutes before landing, this new policy by the TSA is surly just another feather in the cap of the worlds most effective security organization.

  6. Re:No thanks, I'm drinking. on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And, the AC is still wrong even allowing for a loose definition of "tea" since practically all "teas" aren't caffeinated.

  7. Re:No thanks, I'm drinking. on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, herbal infusions are frequently called teas, but it's an annoying misnomer along the lines of calling all types of soda "coke" as is inexplicably done in some parts of the country. The correct terms for herbal tea would be tisane, or infusion.

  8. Re:No thanks, I'm drinking. on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most leaves used for tea also contain caffeine

    There's only one leaf used to make tea, and that would be the tea leaf. But yes, it has caffeine.

    Pretty much none of the other common herbal infusions have any caffeine in them. In fact Yerba Mate is the only one I know of that does have any caffeine.

  9. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    The flights were Boston to LAX, IIRC.

  10. Re:makes windows marginally bearable on Cygwin 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    It's fine if they want you to use the GUI, make a superior way to do things in the GUI and people will use it. Making the command line interface so lousy that people will actually prefer a half-assed GUI is not the right way to go about doing things.

  11. Re:Yes. on Does Santa Hate Linux? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Scientology != Free and Open

  12. Re:The solution.. on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 1

    I don't like the word, myself. But the discussion isn't about whether or not we thought it was a good word so I left my opinion out.

  13. Re:The solution.. on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 1

    No, I would not be wrong. What is and is not English is entirely determined by usage. No website, dictionary, style guide, or author has any authority over the language. If the word is used then it is a word and "irregardless" is used. It's as simple as that.

  14. Re:The solution.. on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Irregardless of that website, "irregardless" most certainly is a word.

  15. Re:Do you hear me now?? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I came close to getting one of those. It seems like a decent enough phone, at least until the Droid came out.

  16. Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 3, Funny

    [citation needed]

    Here you go.

  17. Re:Bing... on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and ice and many other things. There's nothing funny about those meanings though.

  18. Re:I'll take a shot at it - why not? on Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    You are overestimating the global warming controversy. Still the overwhelming majority of researches support the anthropogenic theory.

  19. Re:Bing... on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 3, Funny

    "bing" means ailment in Mandarin. It could be a coincidence, I'm just saying...

  20. Re:Do you hear me now?? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    I'm in the same boat. I've had Verizon before and I'm not going back.

    Maybe the rumored to soon be available for T-Mo Google phone will finally be a suitable upgrade, although I really would like a keyboard.

  21. Re:Are any non-profits doing anything like this? on Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was mostly interested in how giving was related to income and sales taxes, but the only thing I could find was the estate tax study.

  22. Re:Are any non-profits doing anything like this? on Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan · · Score: 1

    That sounds plausible, but after a little searching the only research I managed to find on the web suggested that a decrease in estate tax would result in a loss of charitable donations because there is less incentive for tax-free donations.

  23. Re:It must be true! on Dark Matter Particles May Have Been Detected · · Score: 1

    Just because you are incapable of understanding the factual backing doesn't mean there is none.

  24. Re:Proof on Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but the reflection matched up with a large area they suspected was a lake in previous surface images.

  25. Re:round round, I git around on PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    Curves are more expensive. A perfect sphere isn't necessary, something like an icosahedron may be close enough.