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  1. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    If you think drugs are ok to be legalized, then why do we need to set up rehab centers for them? Why should the government be responsible for cleaning up a mess caused by a legal substance?

    Do you really think that the government would be the ones selling the drugs? The government isn't allowed to operate commercial businesses. Well, I guess Obama doesn't believe that, since he has been taking over numerous businesses lately.

  2. Re:Always a source of amusment on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just remember: any self-respecting king has to have a court jester. Obama's got Biden, Bush 41 had Quayle, and Cheney had Bush 43.

    Obama is a court jestor. You can watch his teleprompter ping pong, count the urrr's and ummm's, watch him completely lose the ability to talk when the teleprompters go out, etc.

  3. The Obama Ban on Draft Stem Cell Guidelines Threaten Research · · Score: 3, Informative

    Are the media going to do reports on the "Obama ban", like they've been doing on the "Bush ban"? Is it only a "ban" when you take funding from 0 to something non-0?

  4. Re:Not wrong, just wrong place... on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 0, Troll

    The payroll program isn't totally wrong when it calculates that you owe 5X more taxes than you get paid, it's just a slight miscalculation. you wouldn't want to discredit the program for something this minor. Just leave a check to cover the taxes at the front desk every week.

    Algore and friends are using flawed models like this to increase the costs of living. Higher taxes, more expensive goods and services. While he is using 50x the normal power for ONE of his own houses. It's "do as I say, not as I do".

    The "science" always turns up flawed. Until they can come up with a model of the planet that can predict the current/past history, how do they expect to predict future events? How are you supposed to fix something when you don't even begin to understand, and aren't even sure it's happening? Are you sure what you're doing isn't having the opposite effect on the environment from what you want?

  5. Re:deniers come out in 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 0, Troll

    Real science doesn't work that way. When new data comes in, or errors are found in old data, the scientist carefully reassesses conclusions in the light of the new evidence.

    That's right. Whenever the global warming science is shown to be questionable, you just need to dive right in and blame the problems on the deniers. It's all their fault that the science doesn't ever work out, so they need to be reassessed to a pole, with a large fire build around them, for a very hot conclusion, then you'll have your new evidence of warming by roasting marshmallows on their frying butts!

    Global warming has to be real, otherwise how would someone like Algore have gotten a Nobel Prize for making a movie about it?

  6. Re:Less than a billionth of a gram per cubic meter on Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, but the concentrations in the air is far too high to be effective, according to the homeopathic cultists. You'd have to dilute it down by at least another 100,000:1.

  7. Re:Molecular weight on Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air · · Score: 1

    As I recall from my...err, never mind when that was...LSD is a relatively heavy molecule to be floating around. To have even a picogram detectable would imply a lot being manufactured.

    It should be easy to check for. LSD causes concentration problems and hallucinations in most... Oooh look, ponies!

  8. Re:Well I don't know about cocaine on Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air · · Score: 1

    Don't they have laws about cleaning up after their pets in Barcelona? If they won't take care of them, they should probably not have them.

  9. Deja vu on Scientists Create RNA From Primordial Soup · · Score: 3, Funny

    a mixture that resembles what was likely the primordial soup.

    Deja vu: I just had primordial soup for lunch.

  10. Duplicate article? on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 1

    Isn't this article a dup?
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/13/1412254

  11. The main rule on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you can't tell what something is through the plastic wrapper due to strange color or texture, then don't open it! Nothing good ever came out of one of these packages.

  12. It's obvious on Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are going to buy SCO.

    Once the IBM lawsuit is over, they'll be getting thaat 4 bilion from the settlement, and they'll also be getting that $650 from every Linux user, so they'll be rolling in cash.

  13. Re:Call a tow truck on Spirit Stuck In Soft Soil On Mars · · Score: 1

    They probably didn't include the lasers either.

    They tried, but keeping the sharks fed turned out to be a real problem. Turns out that marsians are one of the few things that sharks won't eat.

  14. Doomed on Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've watched several news reports on this, and they all seem to believe that the mission is doomed. They gleefully talk about how the second shuttle is ready to go up and retreive whatever is salvagable, and how the first shuttle will be dumped into the ocean. I get the impression from their reports that they really don't think the missions stands any chance of success.

    Is this mission designed to fail from the start, so that Obama can blaim its failure on Bush, like everything else that goes wrong?

  15. Loser article on R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll bet that if you said that PIP was being removed, hundreds of slashdot posters would check to see if it really was still on their system.

    I'll also bet that several will check after reading this post.

  16. Re:Wait... on The Ultimate "Doll House" For WoW Players · · Score: 1

    An outhouse, with a toaster oven.

    This should become a template for your next home. You'll never need to leave the kitched table.

  17. Re:*coff* on Austria To Pull Out of CERN · · Score: 1

    I think I must have gotten one of these. Ended tossing it out because of all the corrosion and the disguisting mess inside. I thought it was mice, but with this revelation...

  18. Re:Easy to say, not to do on Austria To Pull Out of CERN · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I was supreme dictator I'd be canceling the CEO incentive bonuses.

    You mean like Someone, who has the capability of firing the CEOs of major corporations, and cancelling the contractual pay of their employees even after Congress had previously Ok'd it. You could also force investors to settle for pennies on the dollar or face severe sanctions from the government, while turning the company over to his union boss friends without any investment at all. And the press would adore you for it.

  19. Re:Food crops as energy was never a good idea. on More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you thought that ethanol production was an ecological problem, then you should rethink your beliefs. Ethanol from corn is a political gambit, government subsidies for corn/ethinol is just a way to but votes. It is not an economical process, in fact it is one of the worst possible ways to create ethanol, and only succeeds in raising the cost of food.

  20. Coincedence? on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    SCO goes chapter 11, and immediately after 3DR is gone. Was SCO funding 3DR, or was it the other way around?

  21. Google on Hadrosaur Proteins Sequenced · · Score: 1

    When can google use these to mow their grass. `Goats are Ok, but these should taste like chicken.

  22. Re:The egg is the key. on Hadrosaur Proteins Sequenced · · Score: 2, Funny

    You need to use the correct professional units, such as VW beetles, or Libraries of Congress. None of this soccer ball business.

  23. Re:Before the FUD creeps in again: on Amazon Kindle DX Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Can we turn off updates?

    Yes. just turn off the wireless service.

    Can Amazon remotely kill Kindle?

    No

    If yes, why? What is the utility in that for a user? Why do we have to pay almost $500 to get a Linux-based (!) platform without root access, with Amazon having as much access as they want over the net?

    Since these features don't exist, why comment...

    I cannot find any info about hacking Kindle, so I am making assumptions. Correct me if I am wrong.

    You're wrong.

    So, you don't know what you're talking about, but make extremely anti-* comments bassed on such knowledge. Definately a slashdot poster.

  24. Re:How long has it really been? on US Trustee Asks To Send SCO Into Chapter 7 · · Score: 1

    Would now be a good time to short the stock?

  25. Re:Great on Hadrosaur Proteins Sequenced · · Score: 4, Funny

    Large Hadrosaur Collider.

    <blush> If you look close, I don't think they are actually fighting.</blush>