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  1. Re:oh vey on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 1

    But in the interest of overall health, I am going to kill that mental thread and try what the article suggests. :-)
    Otherwise my entire primary thread pool will be deleted.

  2. Re:oh vey on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 1

    me too... brain.lang.StackOverflowError()

  3. Moral Equivalence on Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Human Life on Boiling Down the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. So you favour killing a human for no fault of theirs (abortion) but oppose killing as just punishment for an unjustified murder (say the murderer of a child... or a baby)?

    Hmm...

  5. -3 : Incorrectly Pedantic Ad-hominem Comment on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 1

    You excluded any valuation of his ownership stake and options from your definition of "making" (I know Facebook is not public yet, but I _can_ estimate the value of the home I own as an asset without having to try sell it.)

    Not to mention other perks like use of an executive jet.
    http://www.bornrich.com/private-jet.html

    If this were Apple being discussed, wouldn't we get some really kooky numbers Jobs' $1 salary?

  6. Re:And yet somehow on The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains · · Score: 1

    The financial system is less of a tool now and more a hindrance to business efficiency. The bits about moving values sounds like a caricature but reflects ground reality in some finance operations

    The world don't need deliberate waste to do useful work. Closing down pointless financial operations may stop some multimillion dollar projects but some multibillion dollar losses and collapses won't happen either.

    People and money dont stand still. There would be more worthwhile use of both.

  7. Third world? on Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack · · Score: 1

    Google, can you extend this to people all over the world? To OLPC deployments?

    Make these non-Amazon gift coupons, that are redeemable for food? For seeds? To buy locally published books?

  8. Re:What are "English letters"? on Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs · · Score: 1

    Its the French alphabet without the accents.

  9. Re:No job yet, but... on The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra · · Score: 2

    No, its working - the reason you don't see results is the job offers are being 'equally' spread out across the populace.

  10. Geeks take note on Microsoft Releases Kinect For Windows · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Cough. Earth's Mass?!? on North Star May Be Wasting Away · · Score: 1

    Oops .. clarifying: I was quoting the linked article.

  12. Re:Cough. Earth's Mass?!? on North Star May Be Wasting Away · · Score: 1

    The star grows dimmer and brighter over a roughly 4-day cycle, and the team studied variation in the length of that cycle. ...
    Even that 4-day pulsation isn't constant: In 1844, it was about 12 minutes slower than it is now.

  13. Re:first, we kill all of the lawyers on Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code · · Score: 1

    oops... wrong mod

  14. Re:Once You Pigeonhole Them It's Easy, Right? on Microsoft Pushes For Gay Marriage In Washington State · · Score: 1

    Homosexuality is certainly _not_ a mental defect - it is a moral one.

  15. Re:Ain't happening on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Now, or in the future, an e-fuse somewhere in the support chipset may make those pins useless

  16. Re:Can it be made to SURVIVE re-entry? on Launch Your Own Nanosatellite Into Space · · Score: 1

    Still.. an interesting post, except for that last point...

  17. Re:Can it be made to SURVIVE re-entry? on Launch Your Own Nanosatellite Into Space · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "...best suited for some sort of game or promotional event."

    The rest of the world is just thrilled at the chance of a high-velocity bullet vaporising their skull at any instant or location, all for the sake of some game or promotional event

  18. Re:Man is an intriguing being... on Drone Guides Fuel Shipment to Alaskan Town · · Score: 1

    Doesn't mean polar bears are safe to be around but... most traffic is per capita less dangerous than LA traffic :)

  19. Re:so on Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes · · Score: 1

    From a creationist perspective, also see:
    http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tj/v3/n1/human-veriform-appendix

    Regarding rabbits and 'night pellets': after being excreted, these are eaten whole by the rabbit and redigested in a special part of the stomach. (source: wikipedia)

    There was an old controversy regarding the Bible classifying rabbits as animals that 'take up' again what they first ate:
    http://creation.com/do-rabbits-chew-their-cud

    The discovery of this 'night pellet' redigestion process confirmed this.

  20. Re:They shouldn't stop at clouds on Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling" · · Score: 1

    I wish.

    In our case it'd be rather... bug stats, test coverage, test results, even code...

    Myopia would be unavoidable after graduating. :D

  21. Re:unprecedented heights of productivity on Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling" · · Score: 1

    Why does it take 25 years to pay a house that can be built in 6 weeks?

    The land-price bubble (often incorrectly referred to as the 'property bubble').

    Labour and raw materials for building houses didn't get any more or less expensive; it was the price of urban land that shot up, then came back down with a thud.

  22. Re:First post on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 1

    Heheh, thanks... Yes, I was going to post something foolish (e.g. "lolz ... heres my insight... now pay me license fees"), before wisdom go ahold of me. :D

  23. First post on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NewsRight will target companies that “make heavy (and commercial) use of content originated elsewhere. They are being asked to become payers rather than free riders,” states Poynter.

    What's wrong with this model? Its similar to how the FSF sues large commercial GPL violators because they breached copyright the FSF owned.

  24. Re:Fracking is unsafe, and you are a PAID SHILL. on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 1

    No, can you?

    “Constituents of fracking fluids are often considered ‘trade secrets’ and not revealed. Even regulators are left in the dark,” she says.

    ...
    The ones we were able to identify concerned us because of their significant potential to cause damage to the environment and human health. Some were linked with cancer and birth defects, while others damaged the hormone system...

    See here for a US scenario:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45658085/ns/us_news-environment/t/colorado-requires-disclosure-fracking-chemicals/#.TwKaVtSyYgw

  25. Re:Don't like it, Don't use it on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 1

    Someone _will_ complain

    Even if they don't, people are offended -- and people includes staff.

    Are you offended when someone flips you the bird for no reason? Your parents? Your children?

    No? That's fine. Stay that way, its a beautiful place.

    Just don't flip out the rest of us don't think so.