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  1. Yes I am on Are Job Perks Coming into Vogue Again? · · Score: 1

    Because I don't have the luxury of voting for Bush. I need to put food on my table. I'm one disaster short of bankruptcy.

  2. People Like You on By Road and Rail? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    piss me off. You're just like the longshoremen of Los Angeles harbor. The whole country is racing to the bottom income wise and will come back up from there after things settle out globally. Your unions WILL break. It happened with the grocery unions in california and it will happen with the others. It's not like trains could not be remote controlled and automated with computers. It would be trivial. It's really ridiculous how much you guys are making. It makes me sick.

  3. I find it interesting on Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes? · · Score: 1

    That this goes right in line with the story. How could John Titor enter another worldline if you can't recover information from a black hole? I wonder if we'll find out spinning black holes can be created when the LHC comes online in 2007.

  4. My Grandmother on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    painted radium on the dials of clocks. She's still around but her fingers are badly gnarled with terrible rheumatoid arthritis. We somehow wonder if the radium didn't have something to do with it. We actually have a clock around here somewhere that she painted the hands on. I remember seeing it as a kid in my parent's garage at night.

    I was wondering, it seems people who die from radiation do so because their body rejects itself since it's been popped full of tiny holes. Would it be possible to save more people with radiation exposure by pumping them full of anti-rejection drugs or shutting down their immune system somehow?

  5. Don't forget on Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE · · Score: 2, Informative

    We still have SCO.

    *breathes sigh of relief*

  6. IBM 5100 on Australian Computer Museum Needs a Saviour · · Score: 1

    Do they have an IBM 5100? I know a guy named John Titor who's looking to buy one. =P

  7. YEAH it was pretty terrible. on SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend is an out of work camera operator because of the shortage of jobs and she could've done better than that EASILY. actually to think of it i think anyone could've done a better job.

  8. I don't interface on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    with many geeks anymore but from what tell you, everyone I know uses Yahoo mail and I don't know a single person yet who uses Gmail.

  9. Sounds like on Advice On A New-School Old-School BBS · · Score: 1

    a great way to tie up all the free parking on your block.

  10. well on Saudi Webmaster Acquitted of Terrorism Charges · · Score: 3, Informative

    part of the reason for that is the more obviously guilty the people sitting on the bench are the more the defense goes through the jurors dumping out all the military, college educated and conservative till they have a nice group of sheep who will buy into their story. ive seen it multiple times already.

  11. Re:Computer animated movies on Realistic Human Graphics Look Creepy · · Score: 1

    yeah but even there my girlfriend and i were talking saying that her parents looked scary because the jaws werent moving right

  12. The Problem is the Developer Platforms on Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die · · Score: 1

    It's like this: Developer platforms are the problem. Much innovation was created by reinventing the tools everytime they made a game. Its alot like the loss of innovation that occurred in typing or writing many versions of a page of a book verses typing and deleting on a computer. The process of doing something over and over again allows your brain to rework the problem and come up with better solutions.

    Developer platforms are created to allow the game designers more creative control over the game design but in reality they wind up taking away from it because there is very little struggle involved in the creation of the game. All the innovations and breakthroughs occurred when programmers had to struggle against hardware requirements to make the consoles do something. This is no longer the case.

  13. Developer Platforms are the problem on Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's like this: Developer platforms are the problem. Much innovation was created by reinventing the tools everytime they made a game. Its alot like the loss of innovation that occurred in typing or writing many versions of a page of a book verses typing and deleting on a computer. The process of doing something over and over again allows your brain to rework the problem and come up with better solutions.

  14. Wow on Anti-Missile Laser Weapon Successfully Tested · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel so safe. This is being built right across the street from where I live.

    Oh yes, I feel safer already! My neighborhood is not a terrorist target at all now. F%^&kin press releases!

  15. Don't you see? on Scuba-Doo Underwater Scooter · · Score: 1

    Sure some table corals grow slow as hell so the 'old growth' is died off but that says nothing for soft corals which propagate like crazy or many species of acropora.

    You doomsayers dont look at all the facts. I'm in the saltwater aquarium hobby and we break corals into tons of pieces all the time, its called fragging and its how we trade species amongst each other. Those broken up corals will just grow and become more copies of the same thing. When you break a coral into pieces you only help it reproduce. and as far as coral bleaching is concerned, the climate is shifting, get used to it. All it will mean in the long run is that corals will be able to grow into higher latitudes as the climate warms further and further away from the equatorial latitudes.

  16. Gasoline on Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain · · Score: 0

    Ummm...Shouldn't we be more concerned of all the people getting cancer and dying due to our petrolium based culture?

    Look at all the black grit and dust covering everything. I think that contributes a hell of alot more to decreasing our lifespan then a stupid electric razor.

  17. mushroom fields? on Arthur C. Clarke Talks With The Onion · · Score: 1

    "Armillaria ostoyae produces clusters of golden-brown mushrooms, but they are rarely seen in eastern Oregon because of the climate."
    http://www.newhouse.com/archive/story1b 080700.html

    does this mean if the climate shifts and warms up that oregon will bloom with endless fields of mushrooms?

  18. snot-tites on Europa's Acid Ice Fields · · Score: 1

    Look it up on google. They live in house of the lighted cave in mexico. They're a symbiotic relationship between a fungi and an archaebacteria. fascinating stuff. they hang like giant loogies from the ceiling waving back and forth in the gentle breeze eating sulfur off the roof of the cave.

    http://www.geo.utexas.edu/chemhydro/Annette/pisa ro wicz6.jpg

    http://www.geo.utexas.edu/chemhydro/Annette/micr oh abitats.htm

  19. *sigh* on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1

    Hook...Line...Sinker

  20. Deinococcus radiodurans on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    What would be really interesting is if Deinococcus radiodurans survived the trip. It can withstand vast amounts of radiation and its very very difficult to prove sterility. This stuff can breed in nuclear waste, it could be happily living on the surface of Mars right now.

  21. Outsource block creation / license use on Lego Goes Back to the Basics: Building Blocks · · Score: 1

    Outsource the creation of plastic bricks to india or china and license the IP to other countries.

    Then allow other people to create companies and license the use of the blocks to create stuff like Bioncle and mindstorms.

    That way lego would stay around forever as a simple producer of blocks but the design and development would be produced by other companies much like the modding community (ie. counterstrike borne of halflife)

  22. I VOLUNTEER on RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets · · Score: 1

    Now how to I find them? That is an awesome idea.

  23. wait for the ace on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    he's not planning for manned flights to the moon or mars. he HAS no vision.

    he's just trying to blow every demographic there is to stir up votes.

    he has many enemies.

    the real ace in his sleeve is gonna be when he pulls the capture of bin laden out of a rabbit's hat before the election.

  24. Any chance... on First High-Res Color Photos from Mars · · Score: 1

    ...this stuff could stick to the wheels?

    What? You guys couldn't afford mudflaps?

  25. My Father and Verizon on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My father recently wanted to terminate services with Verizon DSL because he didnt use it. It was only the fact that my little brother would be unable to leech mp3s off kazaa that made him end up keeping it. He said reading the news online ad email could be done just fine over a nice slow dialup connection because the price was cutting into him each month. He called verizon and told them what he was going to do and they slashed his rate and upped his bandwidth.

    Piracy is one of the major sources driving the high speed access. I know lots of people who won't move to cable or dsl precisely because they can do everything on the web or email that they want to do with dialup.