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  1. Re:That's scotch he is drinking on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Fermentation is biology not chemistry. You can leave a sugary solution out all week, but nothing is going to happen until yeast gets involved.

  2. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Brewing alcohol is more biology than chemistry. Chemistry is what you get when you mix alcohol with conc. H2SO4... from there you can make anything you want.

  3. China will be more than happy to give them RMB's for their oil. Well played.

  4. Re:You can't win... on Post-ACTA Agreement CETA Moving Forward With Similar Provisions · · Score: 1

    Voting is a no-response mechanism. It's exactly the same as going to church on Sundays to hear about an invisible sky-wizard. It's meant to make you feel like everything is ok, without actually doing anything at all. Once a politician has your vote do you really think he gives a damn about what you think?

  5. Re:You can't win... on Post-ACTA Agreement CETA Moving Forward With Similar Provisions · · Score: 1

    It is called "voting,"

    Someone has bought the whole "democracy" scam hook line and sinker. Yeah, enjoy your illusion of controlling your slavery by putting one "x" on a piece of paper every 4-6 years. Your vote is absolutely irrelevant. Politicans lie to get it, and then do exactly the opposite of what they promised. Only one thing is certain - the governments thirst for power over you, voter, is unlimited. It will continue to take everything from you until it strangles and suffocates you. That's what governments do. But be content with your "vote". Let me know how that works out for you when you are sent to die in a war, when you are starved to death due to new "agricultural reforms", when everything you have is taken from you in the name of "justice", or when you are lined up against the wall and shot in the name of policy.

  6. Seriously on FBI Issues Android Virus Warning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is not a virus.

  7. Re:this universe is nothing but fractal on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    All the way down.

  8. Re:Saudi douches, internet censorship in 1 easy st on Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body · · Score: 1

    How many oil wells does your daddy own?

  9. Re:no on Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body · · Score: 1

    The problem is telling them apart because the raving jihadi when he chooses suddenly claims to be a moderate, peace loving muslim.

  10. Re:Saudi douches, internet censorship in 1 easy st on Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah or create your own separate network for the caliphate. You can call it camelnet.

  11. Re:There is only one speed: c on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At first I wondered why someone called you a retard. Then I read your blog. I think the whole universe is just a little bit dumber since you wrote it. I guess no one can force you to understand the universe. The un-nerving part is that you try to induce others into error. I wonder what happened to you that you have such a desire to be believed. Why don't you put the ground-work in and educate yourself and try to make real discoveries about the myriad things that are still left to be discovered, instead of making up hokum about very basic, verifiable observations that flawlessly predict quite a number of things and upon which a great deal of other observations rely.

  12. Re:...interesting. Hope it becomes an election iss on US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand · · Score: 2

    It won't. The only election issues in the US are "abortion, gays in the military, and gay marriage". As of the past 30 years. Anything else is quickly shouted down and buried under a flurry of the aforementioned, with the odd stem cell thrown in.

  13. Evolution on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    Now there are algorithms to deal with the algorithms. Someone wrote a program to spook someone else's program into making trades it wouldn't have normally made. I don't think it's illegal at all. Yes it's a war out there. Of course the exchange isn't going to like it when large volumes of traffic don't result in an actual paying trade, because exchanges make money on a transaction not a bid/offer. I expect some sort of "cap" or "fee" soon.

  14. Re:To quote Triumph... on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 1

    I try to catch them but they're often interdiction/nullified and there's not much point.

  15. Re:To quote Triumph... on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While not "important" in terms of perhaps feeding and housing a population, WoW is probably "just as important" as the sports games you crave, or the concerts you go to, or the television channel you watch. None of which I give a shit about. Perhaps the point I am trying to make is that WoW is an activity that several million people participate in every day. While you or I might not, I'm quite sure that several million people do, actually, give a shit. If you argue that it's "not important", I can argue that it's as important as anything else is. Because at the end of the day, we're all dead, we're all specks of dust floating in an endless universe. There is nothing on this planet that is "important". It just depends on your perspective.

  16. Re:Should you be worried about the food you buy? on Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Do you test the food you bring home from the supermarket every single week? I mean, they could sell you food laced with anthrax and you would be no wiser.

  17. Re:Heavily armed on Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Nah, every guy had two arms. Thick ones.

  18. Re:Sorry but... on Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Instead of "strategic reserve" read "stockpile so that we can use the economics of scarcity to keep the prices artificially high". Maple syrup is extremely expensive, and not because maple trees have such a good union.

  19. Re:A Lead on the Culprit on Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve · · Score: 2

    We call that "telephone pole syrup".

  20. Re:I bet.. on World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm in the fortunate position of not having to work for someone else. However if my employer thinks I just disappear at 5pm and magically re-appear at 9am, and during this down-time I spend all night thinking of better ways to do my job, well, s/he can go fuck her/himself. There's nothing wrong with having hobbies.

  21. Re:More important... on Singer Reportedly Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember to feel sorry for those poor starving artists when the RIAA hits you with a multi-million dollar lawsuit for downloading a CD.

  22. Re:similar and yet very different pictures on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 0

    Leave him. He's in denial because he stood in line and spent more than he can afford on the latest Apple crack, so it has to be perfect. Everyone is lying. There's nothing wrong with the phone.

  23. Re:Apple is about to learn on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 1

    So sorry no returns but we'll give you an Apple Store credit...

  24. Re:What? on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 1

    Serves you right for buying a phone and expecting to take high-end digital-camera-quality images with it.

    You mean like you can with other phones?

  25. Re:Politics on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    No it's even better, because they didn't say they were going to print the gun, they said they wanted people to make the files to be able to print the gun... So it's like toyota voiding the lease because you said "wouldn't it be great if people entered the car race".