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  1. Re:Nevada = close to California, not run by crazie on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    But they take it to Vegas every weekend.

  2. Re:train name submission on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Very, very good.

  3. Re:Mechanical storage on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are some very interesting things going on with solar power as well, but apparently humans simply love shoving, swinging, or spinning insanely heavy shit around as an alternative.

    ...or perhaps they simply comprehend the distinction between generation and storage.

  4. Re:Mechanical storage on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember reading hopeful words about that in the Sixties...perhaps it's finally getting off the dime.

  5. Re:Innovation in Nevada on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    And the existence of Las Vegas is evidence for Nevada as a leading region for innovations in ways to needlessly waste energy and resources.

    It does a marvelously efficient job of extracting billions of dollars from Los Angeles...

  6. Re:doesn't Siri use a male voice? on Siri Voice Actress Doesn't Use Siri (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why isn't there a "-1 fucking crybaby" mod?

  7. Re:It's impossible to math to take down a plane... on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 insightful, +1 funny

  8. Re:To play the devil's advocate... on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ... I hear the passengers thought he was with the Al-Gebra network

    Even funnier, considering "algebra" is an Arabic word.

  9. Re:Paranoia strikes deep on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if he was doing math, he was probably using a bunch of Greek symbols.

    Are you aware of what kind of numeral "2" is?

  10. Re:Paranoia strikes deep on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait until Homeland Security finds out he was writing it in Arabic numerals.

  11. Re:Curious on Lyft Plans Self-Driving Taxi Fleet By 2017 (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a computer care?

  12. Bet he keeps his eccentricity below 1 next time.

  13. Re:Reminds me of the movie "Big Eyes" on Bitcoin 'Creator' Reneges On Promise To Provide More Proof, Says He's Sorry (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The real Margaret Keane said in an interview that the painting scene in the film was somewhat understated in comparison to reality...

  14. ...while I get my hip boots on.

  15. Re:Since when do you need FUCKING PERMISSION!?!?!? on Students Can Now Fly Drones At School, FAA Says (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the Air Commerce Act of 1926 and ninety years of amendments.

  16. Re: Um, what? on Students Can Now Fly Drones At School, FAA Says (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Paid != commercial.

  17. Re:Written by a 3rd grader on China Creates World's First Graphene Electronic Paper (techtimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed...like diamonds.

  18. Re:Naturally, the headline is misleading. on Kim Jong-Un Bans All Weddings, Funerals And Freedom Of Movement In North Korea (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But I'm not sure what they are thinking anymore I heard they refused a us warship port access a few days ago.

    Didn't want their prostitutes getting spoiled.

  19. Re: Child abuse on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 1

    Maybe rappers are marketing spell checkers these days.

  20. Re: Child abuse on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 1

    People love to cite that Columbus business because it's taught in grammar school (or at least was in my day), as part of another fairy tale. See a pattern developing here?

  21. Re:How can you tell me there's global warming? on Earth Day: 175 Nations Sign Historic Paris Climate Deal (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    How can I believe the scientists who claimed snowfall would be a thing of the past

    Would you name a few, with citations?

    Without co2. YOU DIE.

    Without water you die, too. Can I immerse you in water for an hour or two?

  22. Re:How can you tell me there's global warming? on Earth Day: 175 Nations Sign Historic Paris Climate Deal (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you live? I know, I know, the only place that counts

  23. Re:How does a plastic bag get to 1700 feet? on Drone Believed To Have Hit British Airways Flight 'May Have Been a Plastic Bag' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    No tornado needed, just a thermal updraft. I routinely fly my sailplane to 10,000 feet or more on thermal lift...my area gets stronger ones than Britain usually does, but they have a very active soaring community too.

    Ever see a dust devil? That's a thermal.

  24. Re:Which airliners? on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    They name their jetliners 7x7 to commemorate the 707, which was named after the cosine of the wing sweep angle,

  25. Re:Divisive and offensive on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. They're spelled differently.