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  1. Re:I for one on Romanian Science Journal Punked By Serbian Academics · · Score: 1

    When I translated it I got something about eels in his hovercraft.

  2. Re:Yelp is junk on Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General · · Score: 1

    I shouldn't have to do this for you since you were replying to AC....
    Try this link: www.yelp.com

  3. Re:'unmanned drone' is redundant? on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 1

    Unmanned does not imply guided.
    Unfortunately manned 'should' mean guided, but it is merely implied, not a rule.

  4. Re:Growing? on Naps Nurture Growing Brains · · Score: 1

    No.
    If this were true the guy in the cubicle next to me would have a massive brain.

  5. Re:Citrix?!? on Book Review: Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials · · Score: 1

    Looks like he can 'go work someplace else' now that he has finished his training on that production system.

  6. Re:God help us! on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    Next time try using a report that doesn't come from the wolf to explain why the pigs house got blown down.
    Yes, I read your linked article.
    It is reasonable to believe that someone without much understanding of how funds are acquired by Banks, Savings & Loans, and Mortgage companies to fund Residential Real Estate loans may think your article was telling a true story. However lacking that insight you should still see how the feds usurpation of the resale market of said loans, their requirements for bundling said loans for resale, and a hundred other requirements if you want to stay in the Mortgage Loan business shows the might club the CRA really was, and is.
    -----
    By the way, the real name should be the "Community Reinvestment Act Program".
    Makes a more accurate acronym.

  7. $2,500? on Ultimaker Debuts Ultimaker 2 3D Printer With Open Source Cura Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    From TFA:
    The Ultimaker 2 will retail for $2,500.

  8. Social Contract? on Internet of Things Demands New Social Contract To Protect Privacy · · Score: 1

    If your brain bucket lets you believe your favorite time waster site is following a 'social contract' then yes, this is the route for you.
    If however you have not lost all ability to reason, why would you use facebook et al?

  9. Re:STANDARD UNITS, PLEASE on "Synthetic Tracking" Makes It Possible to Find Millions of Near Earth Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Which is worse, using 'apartment blocks' or 'metre' for measuring.
    Is a '5 metre telescope' really a standard?

    I have a couple of Meade telescopes but not a 'Metre".

  10. Does that mean on Flies See the World In Slo-Mo, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    Flies eat it and you smoke it?

  11. Re:Betteridge's law on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    A friend bought one of those when the salesman showed him he could see through the lens cap.
    My friend took it back when I showed him that plugging the pinhole in the middle of the cap rendered it useless.
    It really was just a pinhole in the center of the cap.

  12. Re:D.A.R.E has no benefit on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 1

    Take a break mr. rather.
    Calm down dan, take deep breaths.
    Then go away.

  13. Thank you on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1

    Thanks for nothing Captain Buzz Kill.
    Guess it's back to looking like I'm working.

  14. 'extrapolated to the real world' on US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see.
    An outage that involved 'the midwest and northeastern United States and parts of Canada...cutting power to some 50 million people' WOULD be very hard to extrapolate to the real world.
    Thank you, I thought otherwise on first glance.

  15. Re:One thing is for certain... on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 1

    They will be on the second ship.

  16. Re:A cynic's view on Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault · · Score: 1

    I assume you are replying to meglon.
    It's a shill.
    A 'useful fool'.
    A total tool and a waste of air.
    There are many like it and they want your money.

  17. Re:"Pasty-white boys" automatically bad on Microsoft's Math-Challenged STEM Education Contest · · Score: 1

    If you want a classification to make you happy then look up the Presidents Of The USA.
    For more fun and creativity listen to 'Red Dress' and figure out where Conrad got those production ideas from.

  18. Re:"Pasty-white boys" automatically bad on Microsoft's Math-Challenged STEM Education Contest · · Score: 1

    Enlighten?
    Again, really?

    Google> definition: race

    Result> Each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics.

    Try it some time, there are sources other than moveon.nut.

  19. Politicions need to stop robbing children on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 1

    I see you haven't noticed but politicians spend more, no matter what the tax rate.
    I trust you are consistent: The Titanic needs more icebergs, crackheads need more crack, Barbie needs bigger boobs.

  20. Re:"Pasty-white boys" automatically bad on Microsoft's Math-Challenged STEM Education Contest · · Score: 1

    "Race does not have a scientific definition"
    Are you sure of this? Really sure?

  21. Re:$200.000 in fines on Hallibuton Pleads Guilty To Destroying Simulation Data From 2010 Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    So, how much will those in the IRS have to pay for destroying evidence?
    Sauce for the goose.

  22. Re:For more information. on Drilling Might Be Getting a Bad Rap For Indonesia's Ongoing "Mud Volcano" · · Score: 1

    Thank you so much Erin Brokavich.

  23. Re:How was this not known? on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 1

    Thia is what passes for research these days.
    Did you know that angry people are more likely to yell?
    Did you know that 87.3% of facts in internet articles are made up?

  24. Re:Humans Co-evolved with Dogs! on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying he is anti-semantic?

  25. gloval warming? on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    Did you mean 'man is THE ONLY possible cause for a gloval wearing'?
    I have gloves, when I wear them I do feel a certain amount of warming, so I guess you're good.
    Never mind.