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  1. Re:Let's forget the environment for a momnet... on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    How about, let's base your future tax rates based on the number of fairies that Obama sees. If he sees 20 fairies, then the taxes increase by 20%. If he sees 100 fairies, then the taxes go up by 100%. Also, you cannot ask for any proof of the number of fairies that he has seen. Ok, took a vote and Obama has seen 3000 fairies, so your tax rate is now 3030%. We are backdating this rate for the last 10 years, so be sure to pay your back taxes.

    This makes as much sense as your idiot whining monograph. We shouldn't base laws on bad science. It's like making laws based on fairies. It's a stupid idea. How can you properly fix something that you aren't even sure is broken? Instead of fixing "global warming" with your idiot schemes, you may just cause an ice age.

  2. Re:Oh boy! on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, they've already voted (that's what a condenses means). We don't need any of your scientificy crap, like knowledge and research and junk like that, when we can just vote on it.

  3. Re:Temperature on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In other words: If it gets warmer, that's because of global warming. If it gets colder, that's because of global warming. If it gets wetter, that's because of global warming. If it gets drier, that's because of global warming. If the ice is melting, that's because of global warming. It the ice is getting thicker, that's because of global warming. If the bees are dying, that's because of cell phones, err, global warming.

    Also: Global warming is caused by man, especially by those driving SUV's. The only way to save us is to reduce our energy use to zero (Algore and friends excluded, they can each use more than what 50 normal households combined are allowed without criticism).

    Did I miss any important rules about global warming?

  4. North Korea? on Record-Breaking Model Rocket Launch Set For April 25 · · Score: 1

    Is this a copy of the North Korea rocket, or is it even more powerful?

    Which one made it the highest? (not what was reported by N Korea, but actual height reached)

  5. Re:Looks good on paper on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    If it's government developed, that means they will run everything under union rules. Therefore the pork will be extreme. They will require coal stokers in each car, even though there is no coal on the train. The trains will be shut down for every government holiday. The costs will be 10x the original estimates, and it will cover 1/4 of the original distances. The rates to ride will be 4x the original, with heavy government subsidies. And the cars will be filthy, graffitti smeared, smelly, and full of homeless people.

    Imagine an 8 hour train ride where you have some homeless begger constantly asking you for a dollar, a cigarette, some weed, can I touch that, you look like my sister, how about a little...

  6. Re:Well on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You had wolves and bears? We had to survive on macaroni and cheese!

  7. Re:Hiring? on Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think most of these sites are self-run. I don't think you need to be hired.

  8. Re:In my case on How Does Flash Media Fail? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being in your pants, I'm not surprised there are corrosive elements in it.

  9. Re:Haha, perfect timing on Researcher Resurrects the First Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    A article about resurrection on Good Friday, perfect timing. ;)

    You don't suppose that this could be the resurrection of.... No wait, that's Barak Obama...

  10. Re:Obligatory on Researcher Resurrects the First Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.

  11. Why waste your time with such small offerings on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    Why waste your time buying these small offerings, when you can go right to the top. If you buy SCO, you own every single byte of code ever written to run under any unix-like operating system.

    If the courts weren't so slow, SCO would be the largest company in the world. But you can get in on the ground floor quite cheaply right now. But wait. If you buy right now, you also get an additional Darrel Mcbride with your order.

  12. Re:NOT what you think on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 1

    Why shuld I read TFA whan I dont bother reading my own posts?

  13. Scrappers on Multiple Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Area · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be someone trying to steal the fiber cables so they could sell the copper.

  14. Re:magnetic on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someone needs to collect all the scientific knowledge expressed in slashdot posts, and write a text book. Why hide this useful archive of scientific truths in obscure blog posts when we can use it to illuminate the minds of the children?

  15. Re:For the environment on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 1

    yea, that's what I was doing. Studying nature. Hidden knowledge and all that. Until they closed the curtains.

  16. Medical? on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    What sort of medical applications make use of post-it notes? Maybe it will hold an incision closed, but that floppy tag of paper is just too much for most prople to ignore.

  17. Re:magnetic on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    Magnetic stickers only work on refrigerators. Since it's colder on the outside of the space station, you can only use them on the inside.

  18. Re:Yes, that would be ironic... on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $388 Million In Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Isn't Microsoft's calling it "Genuine Advantage" similiar to calling being strapped into an electric chair "Life Enhancement"?

  19. Re:And...? on Dead Birds Do Tell Tales · · Score: 2, Funny

    Our museum needs 6 lorax skins for its archives. We have found the last 4 known living specimens, and have dutifully skinned them, but we still need 2 more. Any help will be appreciated.

  20. fox? on Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm trying to help drag a professor I work with into the 20th century

    Maybe after that, you should try to bring him into the 21st century. You know, the one where PDF's exist?

  21. Good thing on Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing this affects dolphins instead of sharks. What platform would we use for our lasers if sharks were this easy to mess up?

  22. Re:Dorthy? on Largest High-Tech Tornado Chase Set To Begin · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should have made it cow shaped. In the movie, the cows had no problem getting picked up by tornados.

  23. Re:RFC0? HELO computer, NE1 127.0.0.1? on Happy 40th Birthday, Internet RFCs · · Score: 1

    According to IBM, there was a need for 6 computers worldwide, so 256 was really overkill.

  24. Re:RFC0? HELO computer, NE1 127.0.0.1? on Happy 40th Birthday, Internet RFCs · · Score: 1

    8 bits total.

    Most of the computers must have been hidden behind a firewall..., otherwise they would have run out of address space before ipv6 came around.

  25. Re:Not that it matters ... on Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    Since the Arctic completely melted in 2008; according to the Global Warming Scientists, who have a consensus and thus are never wrong; there shouldn't be that much more ice up there to melt. Thus any more rise in sea level should only be about what we have already experienced. I think most of the sea ports still exist above water, so I don't think we have too much to worry about.

    Or do you think that the consensus is wrong, and the Arctic didn't completely melt in 2008? If you think they might have been wrong, then why do you believe them this time?