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  1. Re:Not Bad Math At All on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    Shut down the unions, get rid of the minimum wage and competition will be a possibility... Actually, with US tariffs, should be at a fair advantage...

  2. Re:Not Bad Math At All on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 2, Informative

    CO builds up in the blood binding to red blood cells until they die so i wouldnt quite call it "permanent" unless youre talking about borderline cases of people who almost but not quite die...

    the concentration in the air will be much lower than in... say... cigarette smoke, orders of magnitude lower.

    YES, carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke can affect the amount of oxygen a smoker can hold in their blood, but its near marginal as far as i know... orders of magnitude lower concentration shouldn't be any sort of issue compared to other "polutants"

    Oh, and you forgot, water vapour as an exhaust gas... people drown you know :)

  3. Re:Well, now we'll restart the F-22 on Russian Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 2, Informative

    compared to the US?

    education - yes
    AFFORDABLE healthcare - yes
    housing - capable of taking +40C in the summer and -40C in winter
    schooling - how is this different to education?

  4. Re:Dear FSF on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    It's also possible that when I get home, I'll find that a naked, horny Alyson Hannigan has been duct taped to my bed. By the Easter Bunny.

    you've just described my worst nightmare... thanks...

    /me wanders off to commit suicide

  5. Re:Inflation on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    im only talking linearity here... :)

  6. Re:Inflation on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    the first half of the tank is ~2/3 of the tank according to experience... 240 miles by the time the dial reads half, then another 120 miles (on average)... definitely not linear over here...

  7. Re:Is it just D&D ? on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 1

    or are we really that intolerant of each other?

    yep

  8. Re:Is it just D&D ? on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 1

    Rocket Propelled Grenades?! Are you insane?!

  9. Re:Inflation on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    you assume that tank-fullness linear?!

  10. Re:I have to give props to Nintendo for on New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops 10 Million Sales · · Score: 1

    yes, it is worth going back to... its great on the DS

  11. Re:Nuclear Volcano? on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Uhm... And solar power is what?

  12. Re:Didnt we already know this? on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris

  13. Re:Opportunity Rocks on NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Grinds "Cool" Rock · · Score: 1

    can we have some of the moon please? high res ear-rise would be lovely... maybe with the sun in there as well..,

  14. Re:Pacifist on Sound Generator Lethal From 10 Meters · · Score: 1

    Unless the "crook" in question is an assassin...

    If they didn't want to kill people, I'd advise they see a career advisor...

  15. Re:These are useless as transport on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    actually a hardworking horse can keep up about 375W - for the definition of horsepower the guy measured the output of the strongest horse he could find, then doubled it...

    not quite sure why...

  16. Re:Dissent on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    south parks christmas critters?

  17. Re:I volunteer Steve Jobs for the job on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    iMummy?

  18. Re:Unstoppable force, immovable object on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Or what about buying a glass bottle air-side, smashing that and using the broken glass as a weapon?

    hmm... maybe this post has made it impossible for me to travel to the States ever again...

  19. Re:Neat. on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1
    How about http://bluestarairlines.com/?

    No Children under 18 on Every Flight

  20. Re:Developed != Civilised on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    I hope youre trying to be funny with the assumption about Atlanta being larger... I really, really do...

  21. Re:Expensive as hell on Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona · · Score: 1

    $3 per watt PEAK

    nuff said

  22. Re:$750 million for 200 MW? on Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona · · Score: 1

    you have an 88,000 horse power car?!

  23. Re:The desert isn't a wasteland on Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona · · Score: 1

    how about growing some dark leafed plants in this "greenhouse"?

  24. Re:"Life" or "organics"? on Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    What about Willzyx?

    http://www.southparkstuff.com/season_9/episode_913/

  25. Re:"Life" or "organics"? on Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    what they found was the expected - live bacteria that causes the mould in cheese