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  1. Stop killing people on Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've lost two people in pointless car crashes.

    Please use your goddamn head and pay attention to the goddamn road.

  2. Re:1421 on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 1

    While it was an exciting read, sadly, Menzies is just too farfetched, and makes too many basic assumptions.

    Even worse, he has a new book out that claims the Chinese landed in Italy /rolleyes

  3. Re:FTA: on Mars Soil Appears To Be Able To Sustain Life · · Score: 1

    It won't spread if it can't cross uninhabitable areas. What if it's farther underground where it's warm than we can dig right now?

  4. Re:So logically... on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 1

    It's not the buerocrats, it's the 'Family First' groups that are behind it.

  5. Re:are you afraid, parents? on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 1

    gg means 'good game' actually.

  6. Re:how can a text editor boycott the olympics? on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yea, there's no text editing software that couDOWN WITH COMMUNIST BEIJING! FREE TIBET!ld ever object.

  7. Coup d'tat? on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    This is pure fiction, but say some neocons claim the war on terror requires martial law over the US, and dismisses congress, arrests the peaceniks for subversion and treason...basically takes over the government kind of like hitler did.

    In this worst case scenario, some people might rather die than put up with it, and they might be able to overthrow the fake government and reestablish the constitution and avert years of totalitarianism.

    Not likely to happen you say, but it's happened in other countries.

  8. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    For example, imagine the American public decided that automatic grenade launchers were the best method of hunting- Are you saying it isn't?
  9. oblig. simpsons on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 1

    Dr. Hibbert: "So you can see you have every disease, and a few we've never really seen. They've reached a sort of symbiance and are balanced in such a way that it isn't affecting you. ha ha ha."
    Mr. Burns: "So what you're saying is i'm invincible?"
    Dr. Hibbert: "Oh dear God no, the slightest breeze could kill y..."
    Mr. Burns: "Invincible..."

  10. Re:Clearly wrong on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 1

    only mostly dead.

  11. Re:Alternative wording? on A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists · · Score: 1

    We're talking about the truth of observations, the only truth that exists.

  12. Wrong about Palladium on A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists · · Score: 2, Informative

    Palladium isn't that rare...

    "The global production from mines was 222 metric tons in 2006 according to USGS data.[6] Most palladium is used for catalytic converters in the automobile industry."-wikipedia

  13. Re:and the fall of rome was? on Blogger Launches 'Google Bomb' At McCain · · Score: 1

    Rome's senate, like Greece's democracy before it, was a push towards the left that got crushed by the reactionary forces that always push against the left, but the memory remained, and inspired the enlightenment thinkers of Europe who spawned our current democratic societies.

    So Rome's senate was not worthless because we remember it's dream.

  14. Re:Simple - disguise it as porn on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 2, Funny

    hey where can I get that file?

  15. Re:Future press release. on Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, 9 of them zoomed in on the woman's breast, but why is this 10th one looking at the guy beside her?

  16. Re: Danish Blue on A Really, Really Ex-Parrot · · Score: 1

    Beautiful plumage.

  17. Re:This is why robots aren't great for science on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    to continue being cold hearted, this shouldn't happen because if the guy croaks before he gets to Mars then we've wasted all the cash and effort.

  18. Re:Seriously, WTF? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but Capitalists, once they've built their industries, hate to change them (too risky), and will fight the idea that they should.

  19. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 1

    No, it's more analogous to just a car.

    Any car can be easily stolen, but we lock them anyway.

  20. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if you drop your wallet at his apartment, you can't barge in and accusing of stealing it when he looks inside to see who's it is.

    If you leave a piece of paper you can't sue him for reading it.

    He's not taking possession, but he is interacting with.

  21. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 4, Funny

    And in California you can marry them!

  22. Re:Two words: on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 1

    What did you do that you told them about that makes you confident they are lenient?

  23. Re:Blame Windows on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 1

    This isn't about not knowing the law, it's about not knowing you're breaking it.

    A better analogy would be if your friend's speedometer said 25 when he was actually doing 40.

  24. Mod up! on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Most people don't take enough chemistry to understand how safe and efficient these plants are in terms of environmental health, especially compared to burning (and mining)coal, burning oil, or damming up the rivers and killing off the salmon populations.

    I'm an environmentalist and am very pro-nuclear.

  25. Re:The solution: on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    They had a show like that in the 90's...Boston Public? Or something?

    I remember liking it...so I'm sure Fox canceled it for no reason as per their policy on shows I like.