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  1. Re:US Midwest not so safe either... on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    I believe that's the "Northeast" you're talking about there....those of us in the real "midwest" can be smug, till the Ohio river valley fault gets half of us, anyway.

  2. Re:Regression on High Speed Steam Powered Car · · Score: 1

    steam power is and has been alive and well - most of my state's electricity comes from steam heated by nuclear reactor or fossil fuel, the navy runs ships powered by steam turbines (and catapults airplanes into the sky from carriers with steam to bomb those d.a. that don't like other d.a. getting rich selling their oil to us, hahahah). Internal combustion engines are a century old too.

  3. Re:One way to face it head on on Two Reviews of Yourdon's 'Outsource?' · · Score: 1

    oh, but I've had Indian coworkers here assure me that India has the most advanced health care system in the world. Which they do. for the upper class. The majority of the population living in poverty don't count at all, you see.

  4. any sufficiently advanced trickery on Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug · · Score: 1

    is indistinguishable from technology

  5. Re:Sorry so late... on 2004 MN4 Probably Won't Kill Us · · Score: 1

    well, there's still the 32 bit date overflow in 2038, so continue looting until all 32 bit systems are replaced. And pillage, too. Nothing like augmentation of looting with pillaging.

  6. Re:Did anyone else check the calendar? on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    I think it's great, there could be no more of those silly superstitious people after Friday the 13th, 2029!

  7. Re:Okay... on Mars Volcanoes May Still Erupt · · Score: 1

    and old Koreans think it's funny too

  8. Re:A hundred million years? on Saturn's Rings Could be Disappearing · · Score: 1

    ah-HAH!! This Saturn ring disappearing is the fault of you damned Cthulu cultists! You woke Him up & He's got the munchies.....

  9. Re:The Real Dope on Smart Drugs on Cognitive Enhancement Drugs · · Score: 3, Informative

    taking 1-theanine with caffeine....try it yourself by taking 1-theanine with caffiene (coffee as a most likely source)

    heh, I guess all the world must be coffee drinkers, for green tea already has the caffeine and I-theanine together! Use water just under boiling for green tea. Go to a Chinese tea shop/pharmacy and ask for a rich, strong green tea.

  10. Re:Solar Cells on a Roll on Pliable Solar Cells on a Roll · · Score: 1

    oh come on, they're like popcorn & potatoes: they taste like salt & butter, or whatever else you use to spice/jazz them up

  11. Re:Felines? Fruit? Surgery? on Really Stylish PCs and Peripherals · · Score: 1

    not to mention the case itself looks like some kind of helpful kitchen gadget peddled on very late night shopping channels. "the ronco zip-seal plastic wrapper. seals your produce tight for easy freezer storage!..."

  12. Re:Real Solid State Computing on World's Thinnest Flash Memory Cell Unveiled · · Score: 1

    yup, I'm hoping flash memory gets very fast and can take a million or more write cycles so we can finally get rid of spinning disks.

  13. Re:The end is friggin nigh, man on Astronaut: 'Single-Planet Species Don't Last' · · Score: 1

    haha! what with this being a nerd forum, we must analyze:

    1. transient black holes - never detected, probably near 0%
    2. rapid global cooling - 100% - happened many times in past
    3. prion contamination - 100% happend many times before
    4. burn off of ozone layer - never happened before, almost 0%
    5. critical underslide - 100%, happening now in slow motion, someday all the way
    6. 0%, the Sun can only nova
    7. accidental nuclear war - 0% wars are never accidental
    8. Bird flu - 30% probably of catching some time of flu each year for world population, and all influenza viruses are avian in origin. take (30/100) to the power of how many years
    9. 0% for those not using mind-altering substances
    10. 0%, only natural born citizens can be president or a senator.

  14. Re:Here comes the sun on Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat · · Score: 1

    Another interesting study is the % composition of C02 in the atmosphere...it's been alot higher at various times in the past. Made for some lush, huge, happy vegatation & huge happy animals that lived off it. I for one welcome a tropical paradise planet. Don't worry about the coastlines, people will move as it does, trust me.

  15. Re: He's wrong! on Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat · · Score: 1

    heheh, let's say the hottest and coldest average temperatures of planet earth over the lifetime of the human race are represented by a scale of 1 to 10. So here we are at maybe 5.5....and now a large group of people are saying, eeeek, if we continue to make greenhouse gasses, by the end of the 21st century we could be at 5.8!! Or we could halt the jet stream and go below 5!

    Now let's do that scale for carbon dioxide levels. No, let's not, the enviro-nazis couldn't handle that.

  16. Re:How to pass: create buggy sourceforge projects on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1

    easy to fake downloads and forum users and even a couple local user groups....not unlike eBay scammers inflating feedback ratings

  17. Re:How to pass: create buggy sourceforge projects on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1

    better yet, fork your own buggy OpenBSD distro. "Only 52 security holes in the default install in the last 7 days!"

  18. Re:Anyone Remember the SGI Tractor Trailer? on Reliving The Glory Days of SGI · · Score: 1

    yes, I remember that truck at the lab where I worked at the time. I also remember the jet fighter game that came with all the SGI boxes being banned because it brought the main building's network to its knees. The engineers who worked for the physicists had the bigger boxes, while us poor slobs in the civil engineering department had to go with the humble Indy

  19. Re:While endorsed by Iraqi Military Chief on Using GPS to Track Teens · · Score: 1

    Thank you for using the Loca-Cell Service. Enter your account number followed by the pound key. Enter the cell number you wish to track follwed by the pound key. If you wish to report the speeder to the local law enforcement agents, PRESS ONE NOW. If you wish to contact the speeder PRESS TWO NOW. If you wish to have a 2000 lbs. smart bomb guided to the speeder's location, PRESS THREE NOW.

  20. Re:Fusion already in wide spread use. on New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    There are some reports of skin burns and skin cancer, climate disturbances, disruption to satellite systems, and interference with vision of drivers associated with use of such a device.

  21. Re:No creativity on War of the Worlds, Chocolate Factory Trailers · · Score: 1

    it will also have the director's daughter cast as a girl having improper relations with her first cousin and who at the end gets whacked? EEewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

  22. Re:Hope the new Wonka is better than the old.. on War of the Worlds, Chocolate Factory Trailers · · Score: 1

    the people who are saying it was good were children when they first saw it. I've yet to know any children who didn't like it, and those who liked it as kids then often find it fun again to see as adults/parents. It's kind of like Barney: great for 1 or 2 year olds, but kinda funny when 22+ year old single male is writing in a forum how much Barney sucks.

  23. Re:Maybe we don't want them? on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 1

    let's not forget to save a free hand to also strangle the morons who always use the speaker of their phone...for their voicemails, when they talk to a real person, when they're on hold for meetings, etc.etc.

    I'm tempted to do some after-hours surgery on some of these phones

  24. Re:Oh, come on! Let's cut to the chase... on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    /me adds second layer of tinfoil to hat, and grounds it

  25. Re:Directional Bias? on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 5, Funny

    the real question is, if put on Bush, would it move at all?