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  1. instead of this on California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 1

    Why don't they make a law that would really make a difference. Ban fat women from buying tight streach pants, bikinis, and short t-shirts. Limit their clothing choices to the camping department (tents, etc).

  2. Re:Ban Cracker Jack, too. on California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 1

    Cracker Jack used to have fun toys in it. Now all they have are paper bits like temporary tattoos, and tiny posters. No wonder it isn't as popular as it once was.

  3. Re:Where's it going? on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    Ever see "Star Trek: The Movie"?

  4. Re:Thin sails on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe that "Saran Wrap" is about this thin, but you still trust it to protect you from the mold growing on the leftover beans in your fridge. Thin doesn't mean it has to be extremely fragile.

  5. Re:Where's it going? on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 2, Funny

    With a name like "Ikaros", it's obviously going to have a parabolic flight path.

  6. Re:Solar power in deepspace on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 3, Funny

    They have a flashlight mounted under the solar sail to provide the becessary light when they get too far from the sun. That's why they need the solar panels, to provide power to the flashlight when it's too dark for the sail to work otherwise, which also powers the solar cells.

  7. Re:Terrible Idea on Obama To Decide On New Weapons · · Score: 1

    That's why we need something like an upgraded SR-71, with weapons. Go back to the "go ahead an just TRY to shoot me down, suckers" type of aircraft.

  8. Re:Haven't seen this one yet... on Obama To Decide On New Weapons · · Score: 2, Funny

    He wants to replace the high powered explosives with toilet paper roll shooters, because it's just not fair that the US can blow its enemies to smitherenes. We need to make it possible for smaller countries like Haiti to completely obliterate the US, in order to even things out. It's just not right that the US can defend itself!

  9. Re:Haven't seen this one yet... on Obama To Decide On New Weapons · · Score: 1

    Not really. He promised to remove the troops by the end of 2009, but instead he sent more. Now he's trying to piss-off our ally Israel by demanding they stop building in the Palestinian zone, else they'll lose American military assistance, and so on.

    So, He promises to leave the moslems alone, but those damn jews had better watch out.

  10. Re:I don't see the relevance... on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 0

    Ok, where can I get this 750,000 years worth of data? And we need at least 1 accurate reading for average temp for each year. Since Global Warming is talking of .1 degrees over hundreds of years, it needs to as accurate as that, or it will be useless in this debate.

    Thermometers weren't commonly used 750,000 years ago, and I doubt you'd find one with an accurate reading that old.

    Tree ring data just tells how well the trees grew. It doesn't accurately show temperature. Percipitation, cloud cover, temperature, atmospheric gasses, etc. all are jumbled together in the tree ring data. One volcano can really screw up your data. It isn't a simple width=temperature reading.

    What I've heard is that we have less than 30 years of accurate data. That's not enough to prove a trend that runs over the time periods required to show this isn't just a natural cycle.

    So, what are you using to get 750,000 years worth of *accurate* temp data?

  11. Re:Who exactly is fighting back? on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone who was alive during the 1870s should see distinct similarities between this disinformation campaign and the once vehement claims that there was "no definitive link" between phrenology and personality.

    ... Flat Earth ... N rays ... Cold fusion

    Sometimes scientific theories turn out wrong. Just because many others think you are an idiot, doesn't mean you aren't an idiot. Scientific theories need to be evaluated under a bright light, not hidden away in a closet, especially when hundreds of billions of dollars are going to be taxed every year based on that theory.

  12. Re:Let us now stereotype on Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't see the nuclear reactors from where I live, but you'd think that the 30 or 50 of them would lead to numerous transformed monstrous animals, but all we've got are jackalopes. They do make a nice sandwich spread, but so far no buildings have been destroyed with laser beams coming out their eyes.

  13. Re:Figures on Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak · · Score: 1

    They track airplane/novociane accidents?

  14. Re:So says a site... on Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak · · Score: 1

    Probably also working for a world free of nuclear families.

  15. Re:Smart enough not to land it on their own soil. on Japanese Spacecraft Bringing Back Space Rock · · Score: 1

    Does this mean no Taco Bell target? I want a chance at free food!

  16. Re:Why NOW? on SETI To Release Data To the Public · · Score: 1

    Because they've already built the Carl Sagon transporter, so they don't have to worry about it triggering again.

  17. Zombies on Brain Training Games Don't Train Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Maybe this "brain training" is just a way to season your brain. It will make you a target during the zombie invasion, instead of the less tasty authors of these games.

    You don't need to be faster than a man eating tiger, you just need to be faster than the next guy.

  18. Which costs more on McAfee Kills SVCHost.exe, Sets Off Reboot Loops For Win XP, Win 2000 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if anyone has done any studies on which costs more.

    Downtime due to all the virus, or the downtime and slowdowns caused by the virus scanners.

  19. Does Muhammad shit in the woods?

    How do they know it's Muhammad in the bear suit? I thought the dude died a long time ago, sho how come he's still walking around? Is he a zombie looking for BRAINS to eat?

  20. Why don't they on Cassini's Elaborate Orbital Mechanics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why don't they just schedule another shuttle mission to refuel this, like they do with the Hubble telescope?

  21. Hah! on Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets · · Score: 1

    That's why I use a cheap netbook/scanner/printer. Periodically, I can just toss the netbook into a Salvation Army bin, and there's no way for them to get anything off my scanner!

  22. Obviously on What Will the Browser Look Like In Five Years? · · Score: 1

    In 5 years, it will be integrated into my flying car. Whose taillights will be lasers, mounted on sharks of course.

  23. nonsense on Study Finds Fast-Food Logos Make You Impatient · · Score: 1

    this has to be nonsense. Just because you see, oh look McDonalds,

  24. Re:Food? on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    Make a solid state version. We went from large relay computer to solid state laptops, so can we just skip over several generations of this and jump directly to a solid state device. Maybe we could run it off the sun. We could even give it a cool name, like "solar cell".

  25. Re:Wrong Cloak on Fatal Flaw Discovered In Invisibility Cloaks · · Score: 1

    A hairy what? The last part of your sentence seems distorted somehow.