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  1. 1,995.95 to signup to this rod fest. on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine that women would be attracted to this service. Add the 1,995.95 fee to that and the pool of users is going to be horribly selected for very rational white males.

  2. Re:For everyone who is going WTF who is Glenn Beck on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    Glenn Beck is not a birther.

  3. Been there done that, here's your answer. on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did this for years. Here are the results. You want an antenna adapter for your EVDO card and a Wilson Trucker Antenna. This will bring a moderate signal to five bars. Next step up, a good amp will bring a weak signal to five bars but it will not take "no signal" and make it into a good signal. Even if you have a portable 40' tower (been there done that) you will not operate outside the timing boundary for the cell tower. Summary, unless you are staying inside the people hive, you will need to have a motosat system and all the complexity, power draw, etc, that this involves. Have fun.

  4. Simple, EPA holiday on diesels below 2.0 liters. on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Allow diesels under 2.0 liters for 10 years into the USA to give them a chance to get popular. But wait, if you were actually thinking that the government would do something sane that allowed 42MPG standard to be achieved then you are a sucker.

  5. Re:Evolution Determines Intelligence on Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home · · Score: 1

    Yeah but uh, the Inca and the Irish both produced civilizations and the Bushman and the Bantu have not. It seems to me that there may be a missing component common over many of these diverse African populations that has an inhibiting effect on the creation of large well organized civilizations. I'm just say'in they don't seem to be able to get their shit together, maybe there is a problem present that if it weren't ignored, could be treated (with some future genetic therapy) or dealt with more effectively to both the African's and their entire worlds benefit if it were understood.

  6. Re:Evolution Determines Intelligence on Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home · · Score: 1

    It would be useful if you could explain how the post is incorrect.

  7. Ridiculous. on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    I would like for rail to be popular but it's not going to be, as long as air travel is faster and cheaper rail is dead. As long as a private cabin is cheaper on a cruise ship per day than rail, it's not going to happen. Except for a couple of rare locations like the North East. Pretty much nobody has time for rail in the states. And even the Acela when I've been on it was empty and I can't get anyone to understand why I would rid that when flying was cheaper. When I need to go somewhere I fly in and rent a car. Rail works in Europe b/c they don't work as much as Americans and it works in Asia b/c they don't mind being packed in like sardines. Americans just won't go for it, we'll drive some battery powered crap box before we ever set foot on a train and that's just the truth. If you don't understand this truth then you are either delusional or in some small delusional minority like residents of San Francisco or some such pocket of insanity.

  8. The audio sucks and it's loaded with commercials. on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    The audio quality on satellite radio is really only good enough for talk radio or news and if you listen to those channels they are stuffed full of the worst commercials.

  9. Unlimited Class v/s Classic or Traditional on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    I might even watch "baseball" if the ball thrower (pitcher?) had orangutan thumbs and the bat person had electronic trigger actuated super twitch reflexes swinging a glassy-tungsten-steel bat. Protective gear would have to ramp of course b/c people in the stands and in the field could be killed by the super sonic ball.

  10. Never used antivirus software on Windows or MacOSX on Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    Never had a virus. I still don't know what it is that users do that causes viruses.

  11. Implanted Bomb? on TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain · · Score: 1

    Various pieces of real events could be combined to make a new kind of event. Drug mules, bomb makers, and apparently from the last UK bombings - Al Q terrorists can be medical professionals. So that says to me all you need to blow up a plane is an implanted bomb. Airport screenings don't do anything for that. Hostile passengers don't do anything for that. In this case, you get on the plane, you die. What fixes this is the designed killing field of Iraq.

  12. Healthier is better. on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that a normal healthy person can get better results with proper sleep, diet and exercise and a daily power nap or meditation. Saying this as a former brain doper that now has better results the natural way.

  13. This is a first, open source anything for Alabama! on Alabama Schools to be First in US to Get XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    YEAH! Hopefully this is a step towards breaking windows from completely strangling the technical life out of that state. Everything else about Alabama is free and easy compared to most other states - maybe it finally catches up with software. (I live in Kaliforniastan) BTW I bought 4 XO laptops (2 for me, 2 for giveaway) in hopes that they could be used in the States in the future. I don't care about third world, the XO will be probably used there as improvised land warrior communications systems to more effectively kill people.

  14. Combine this with the fullauto shotgun helicopter on Robot Planes and Helicopters Taught Aerobatics · · Score: 1


    I'm scared of the capabilities of these things.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Po_acmAJnU

  15. NBC has every right to not sell their shows... on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    and have no one see them. I do not own a TV, will not own a TV, but I do like to catch Heroes via iTunes.

  16. Re:Does the macbook pro really get that hot? on smcFanControl — Cool Your MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Wait for the next rev if you want a 15" these things are internally lame.

  17. Take a Nap! on Psychopharm Going 'Mainstream' In Schools? · · Score: 1

    Unless you have some legit brain problem, your better off just taking a nap everyday. Try Pizizz! http://www.pzizz.com/ It's great! Get a good light blocker for your eyes, whattaya call that? A blinder? Anyway, put that one, plug in some Pzizz nap sounds and let your brain go for a half hour. Make a habit out of this and it'll get you much further in the long run than brain drugs. And Yes I used to drug up to work more, but now I like Pzizz.

  18. Saw people lined up to buy them on Easter. on Get Your iPod Fix From a Vending Machine · · Score: 1

    From one of these machines.

  19. Is global warming really bad? on Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House · · Score: 1

    Do the negatives outweigh the benefits? So there are some negatives, coastal areas continue to be more covered in water as they have been slowly since peak glaciation. And on the plus side, papaya's from the midwest and corn crops in the NW Territory. Shipping from Murmansk to Churchill Canada. A NW passage. Blah Blah coastal cities flooded, well, they obviously shouldn't have been in a million year flood zone. It is A Change - what is a bad change, what is a good change?

  20. Re:Terabits per second!? on New Data Transmission Speed Record · · Score: 1

    How about, GigaHour, for how many gigs a link might under ideal circumstances transfer in hour?
    For some reason this makes sense to me. Home users could then buy bandwidth in increments like 1 MegaMinute.

  21. Re:What I want to know on No 3G for HP Until 2007 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No doubt it should be cheaper, I've taken a 3G card and ran 4 extensions off it @ 59/month and not even used all the bandwidth. So why's one line still costing $60 and up, b/c the consumers will pay it...

  22. Re:Who the fuck is Ricky Gervais? (he's a) on Podcasting Goes Pay-to-Play · · Score: 1

    Checked out the podcast to see who the fuck this is, short version is this sounds like a nasal voiced brit talking about nothing.

  23. Re:About time! (This is close to what you want) on Matchbox-sized Laser Projector · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC= 895872

              250 lux
              1 lbs.
              SVGA

    Introducing a portable projector so small, it can fit in the palm of your hand. Weighing about a single pound, this portable battery operated DLP (TM) projector supports native 800x600 SVGA resolution, and is powered by a sequential LED light source with support for RCA video, S-video and VGA inputs.

    - Unbeatable convenience through extreme portability in both size and weight

    - Long life-lamp, with quick-on, quick-off, no warm up period

    - A projector at practically the cost of less than two regular projector lamp

    - Can be battery operated

    Included Accessories:

    Protective slip cover.

  24. Training mostly a waste of time. on Training - A Company or a Worker's Responsibility? · · Score: 1

    People that can't do telling people how to do, what's in some class that's not in a book you can smash through in a couple of days. Figure it out and do it, it's faster that way.

  25. Re:Up by Fargo, Global Warming can't come too soon on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Errrr... except that another turn things might take could be ice age. Either way radical change is going to difficult.