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  1. Except you actually can't on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    Your funny little missile program hasn't actually managed to shoot anything down on it's own. Which is why you cancelled it.

    Did the surge find Bin Laden? I hadn't heard that.

  2. Re:Oh, lookee!! on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    You do know the Ford isn't actually fusion powered, I hope.

    Unobtanium is also fiction, just so you know.

  3. Re:I like you. You're funny on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    And I've got daily blowjobs from Kirsten Dunst on the drawing board. Say hi to the Russians, Indians, Europeans and Chinese for me if you ever actually get there. Unless, of course, you're just hitching a ride with them.

    You don't and couldn't grow enough cane sugar for your own consumption, even counting the more plentiful sugar beet.

  4. Sure it does on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In fact, all answers really have an implicit "I believe" prepended. Unknown unknowns, and all that.

  5. Anyone actually do that? on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 1

    If you really have to check facebook before the traffic lights, well, it's not facebook's fault.

  6. Not really on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 0, Troll

    That'd be one of the proximate things people do pay attention to. If you don't, well, it's not the iPod's fault.

  7. Which doesn't negate the answer on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can also answer "I believe I am not ignoring any" honestly.

  8. I like you. You're funny on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    Forgotten that you're cancelling your manned space program this year?

    I'm not terribly fond of corn fructose. You can keep it.

  9. Closer to a third on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    Have fun running your economy on that, even without the extra demand restarting manufacturing would impose.

    Also, manufacturing requires imports other than oil. Remember why you invaded the Philippines? Where do you intend to get rare earth metals?

    You need the world. The world doesn't really need you.

  10. Sure it does on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you wilfully ignore them, as the vast majority does.

  11. Ha on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you lot make anything anymore? You don't have any oil.

    Have fun with that.

  12. Not really on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pianos don't really fall from windows, and it's exceedingly rare for cars to leave the road.

    People pay attention to what they need to. Do you notice every homeless person?

  13. Sparticus? on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    You seem to be under the impression that the world in general wants the US to continue. Interesting.

  14. If those factory workers were just a drawing in a computer, sure.

  15. Why do you hate your grandparents? ;) on Firefox 3.7 Dropped In Favor of Feature Updates · · Score: 1

    You have to end-of-life old versions at some point. Yes, it's good to support old versions if there's a valid reason to be doing so (Apache 1.3, maybe. Firefox 2.0, no.), but there is a limit.

    It's all rather moot with free software anyway. If you really think something should still be maintained, then just do it. (Or pay someone else to.)

  16. Ok, grandpa on Firefox 3.7 Dropped In Favor of Feature Updates · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Continuing to support old versions is a heavy burden, and has to end at some point. It's not a question of if people will have to make that decision, but when.

  17. Wouldn't standard solutions be cheaper and easier? on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not just run a normal mailserver with a simple script to deliver any messages in the files uploaded? No need for the astronauts to mess with weird outlook files, just hit "check mail" on whatever client they prefer.

  18. So this is like Ubuntu One? on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 1, Informative

    Except 1/8th the size?

  19. DynDNS honours their own one time donatations on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even though (I think) they no longer take them. I gave them $10 some time in the early naughties, and they still provide what they said they would then. It's hard to complain about that.

  20. There's no reason we can't do both on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    Regardless, the price of coal generated power needs to be pegged at a higher rate than the alternatives. "Punishing" the consumers who are "stuck" with coal is the only way to get them to switch to something more responsible.

  21. Carbon taxes on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nuclear electricity is only more expensive than coal because coal burners are allowed to externalize a great deal of their costs. Bring the cost of coal power up above nuclear through taxation, and this will resolve itself.

  22. Texas is pretty much out of oil on Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" · · Score: 3, Funny

    So they don't need liberating.

  23. That's exactly it on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    They're not rejecting statistics as a field, they're rejecting his claimed expertise in it.

  24. The funny thing is he's doing exactly the same on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's just as arrogantly claiming that he's right and they're wrong. Now, he may very well in fact be right, but he's taking the same obstinate position the people he criticizes do.

    It's important to know when your input is not desired. Even if you think it should be.

  25. In the long run, we're all dead on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 1

    They only need a good plan so long as it effects them. Long term planning from corporations can only ever be an aberration.