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  1. Re:3D by Cameron? on The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves · · Score: 1, Troll

    At those pressures your lungs are working very hard. Real deep divers breathe a combination of O2 and He. You are aspiring about 21% oxygen and 72% nitrogen at this moment. Unless you are in Mom's basement. CO2 is denser than air, so it collects in basements and other low-lying regions. CO2 constitutes 0.0390% of earth's atmosphere, so it is obviously a gas that threatens humanity.

  2. Re:Deepest? on The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Didn't this used to be called Mariana's Trench? I used to know a girl named Mariana, she wasn't too trenchant. Maybe the name went wherever the pronunciation of Uranus went. Probably up Urectum.

  3. Re:There's a reason they call it extreme on The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, people do this. It doesn't take "balls the size of the former twin towers". It's just training and desire.

    These dive teams leave nothing to chance. Your sixth sentence indicates an ignorance of how these things are really done.

  4. BD Syndrome on The Creativity Crisis · · Score: 1

    Clearly, this is George Bush's fault. Go ahead, down-mod me - you know you want to. It'll make you feel good.

  5. Re:Only 11 years late... on NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha · · Score: 3, Informative

    But UFO (also by Gerry Anderson) was great! Supposedly there's a movie on the way.

  6. Re:I felt it....ohhh wait. on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    Why is it called 'footy' in Brit circles? Is there a need to give it a foo-foo-ish name? I'll bet there's an easy-peasy answer to this.

  7. Re:Shaking in Ottawa on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    I recall an earthquake in Montreal (maybe 25 years ago or so, Longueuil, actually) when I was co-signing a loan in a bank. All three of us thought the other was exhibiting a nervous leg-thing (i.e., holding your toes down on the floor and moving the thigh up and down rapidly).

  8. Canadian on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does this story not have a 'Canada' tag, assholes? Is it because we Canucks are perceived to be benign followers to you pieces of shit? Tabernac, fuck you (please pardon my French).

  9. Re:Go buy a Passat on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    I totally want a Delorean, emotionally, but I'm not actually going to buy one for daily driving - I was in a roll-over accident once; side-opening doors are nice.

    I DEMAND explosive bolts for opening doors in emergencies- you know, like NASA has. It should be a mandatory safety thing on all cars.

  10. Re:Not the first time either on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Just how many air bags does a vehicle need in order to be "safe" and how much do air bags add to the cost of a car?

  11. Re:Dear Texas on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    The rest of us never really liked you; we kinda think you're douchebags

    Here we have a display of carefully thought-out analysis of Texas. It's pretty clear now, Texas is composed of douchebags! I will certainly never go there again.

  12. Re:History is the most important subject on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    Look, let's just come out and say it: Obama wants the USA to become Canada South.

  13. Re:Time to stop relying on Texas... on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    How DARE Texas make a decision without your approval! Next thing you know they might decide to enforce some racist national border laws or somethin.

  14. Re:Windows XP? on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the advice. All has been fixed now. I think I overestimated his needs and tried to overcompensate because I felt I didn't spend enough time with him when he was little. I'd type more but I cannot because I've broken down crying...you'd think that, a man, after admitting his failures...would feel better. But it's really hard to come to this admission. I feel bad, and need some comfort. So, if you know any theme parks with hookers and blackjack, I'm there babay!

  15. Re:Windows XP? on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    No, he didn't, but I'll mention it to him. I think it was Cubase or something, but he uses a few different programs in the course so I'm not sure. Merci beaucoup for the tip.

  16. Re:Windows XP? on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    And some educational institutions still use software that won't run on Windows 7. I discovered this after my son bought a Windows 7 machine and we found that a program he uses in his audio engineering course would only work with XP.

  17. Re:Yeah, "suicides" on Ninth Suicide At iPhone Factory · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you a programmer and willing to shoot only an appendage?

    C
    You shoot yourself in the foot.

    C++
    You accidentally create a dozen clones of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."

    JAVA
    After importing java.awt.right.foot.* and java.awt.gun.right.hand.*, and writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you've forgotten what the hell you're doing.

    Ruby
    Your foot is ready to be shot in roughly five minutes, but you just can't find anywhere to shoot it.

    PHP
    You shoot yourself in the foot with a gun made with pieces from 300 other guns.

    ASP.NET
    Find a gun, it falls apart. Put it back together, it falls apart again. You try using the .GUN Framework, it falls apart. You stab yourself in the foot instead.

    SQL
    SELECT @ammo:=bullet FROM gun WHERE trigger = 'PULLED';
    INSERT INTO leg (foot) VALUES (@ammo);

    Perl
    You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you.

    Javascript
    You've perfected a robust, rich user experience for shooting yourself in the foot. You then find that bullets are disabled on your gun.

    CSS
    You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a banana.

    FORTRAN
    You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue anyway because you have no exception-handling ability.

    COBOL
    Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER. on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be retied.

    LISP
    You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
    you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
    you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
    you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
    you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds ....

    BASIC
    Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.

    Pascal
    The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.

    Unix
    % ls
    foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
    % rm * .o
    rm: .o: No such file or directory
    % ls
    %

    Visual Basic
    You'll shoot yourself in the foot, but you'll have so much fun doing it that you won't care.

    Ada
    After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.

    Assembly
    You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot. After that's done, you pull the trigger, the gun beeps several times, then crashes.

    Python
    You try to shoot yourself in the foot but you just keep hitting the whitespace between your toes.

    Etc...

  18. Now I'm Officially Scared on Cannibal Galaxy the Biggest In the Near Universe · · Score: 1, Funny

    First global warming, now solar system-eating far galaxy monsters. What could possibly be worse?

  19. Re:I could care less... on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 1

    Your comment is probably ironic.

  20. Re:Everyone gets to be an astronaut fireman rock s on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 1

    Thanks, spun, well-said.

  21. Re:contradictory orders == "failure to comply" on Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time · · Score: 1

    Can we please stop using "epic fail" as a description now? Thanks in advance.

  22. Re:simply standing too close to an officer.. on Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time · · Score: 1

    ...they pointed out that in the little book given for drivers for the written test, it explicitly states that should you be pulled over, at no time should you exit your vehicle

    I have to agree with this. Even though I once did it, many years ago in friendly Toronto. It was a speeding pullover, and the cop seemed surprised.

    But I guess it's difficult for some to look at situations from a cop's perspective.

    On the other hand, lots of things seem like good ideas before you reach 40 and are still invulnerable.

  23. Re:Trolls. Everywhere. on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Bravo, ShakaUVM. You apparently have many foes, but well-said in all your arguments.

  24. Re:Trolls. Everywhere. on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1

    "We all like breathing"

    I used to work for a company that "does" oxygen. I was working closely with those who knew how to compress, liquefy and provide it.

    Decades ago we stored enough oxygen to sustain the important people, didn't you know this?

    Oops, nevermind, nothing to see here.

  25. Worms on Ultrathin Silk-Based Brain Implants · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait - isn't silk made by worms? So now we have computer AND brain worms? Aaaarghhhh!