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  1. Re:Darn! on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    In Louisiana they will always have ManBearPigs. In other parts of the country they call it a menage a trois.

  2. Brought to you by Soylent Green on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1
    Only by a few cents if you determine the value based on the raw mineral material. If you consider the utility of either when alive it depends very much on the mother. Some might be quite productive, while others might drive your balance sheet into the red.

    A third more financially attractive alternative would favor the mother for the much higher bone mass, protein and available fats to render.

  3. Pocketbooks and Polls on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1
    Sure venture capital may drive the financing of the hi-tech sector of Silicon Valley and indeed corporate clout goes a long way to influence elections.

    Still, come that first Tuesday in November individuals step up to a little private booth and selects their electoral choices. My bet is that a minority of them understand or hold a strong opinion on federal policy as it pertains to venture capital. If past California elections are any indication turnout and passion will be driven by some gut emotional issue and the election will be a "Southpark" style fiasco with both sides of hot button issues behaving like spoiled toddlers.

  4. Let go! on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting the remote back from them!

  5. Assuming of course hardware is the bottleneck on Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Toss as much CPU and memory as you want at a chatty transaction and you won't solve the problem. What about the cost of your 2000 users of the application that wander off to the coffee machine while they wait for an hour glass to relinquish control to them? Over the years I have seen wanton ignorance from programmers that ought to know better about efficiency, scalability and performance.

  6. Re:You get bends going UP on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Really the climbing at that altitude is an abuse of the human body. The people doing so are managing risk and doing a bit of personal extrapolation to sense whether with the current environmental conditions and how they feel will allow for a summit attempt.
    So it only makes sense that errors in this estimation process are going to be revealed in the later half (i.e. the descent).

  7. Re:OMG we are all going to die on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 1

    so it can only be a matter of days/weeks/months a year at most before our solar system is devoured by this giant black hole.

    Unless Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris and Clint Eastwood heroically fly a rocket into it and blow it up...they will be missed.

  8. Re:About time! on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll have a proof as soon as the CERN guys turn on the LHC.

    And if so we will have a remarkably short period of time to write a paper about it.

  9. I know a bad example on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: 1

    I have observed that engineers can write bad FORTRAN in almost all programming languages.

  10. Re:'This coffee tastes like piss..' on Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes indeed we are all drinking the pee of something or another. The only exception would be fossil water that predates life forms or comes from places that have never had them - like comets.

  11. The closest analogy I think on Australia's Largest Private Computer Collection In Pictures · · Score: 1

    I think collections like this will very soon start to become more mainstream. Consider that for decades farmers would accumulate rusting hulks of past generations of implements. At some later date those have been lovingly restored in museums or even put into a new life of use at places such as Living History Farms in Iowa. So much innovation has happened within living history that it would be a shame for that insight to be lost. Sure in most instances the new rightfully supplants the old, but an exotic cooling solution from decades past might be the cat's meow tomorrow. An understand of where we have been helps us understand where we are now.

  12. Re:Here's your answer.. on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 1

    An excellent short list and although this may be somewhat inherent 1,2 and 3 it is unique to a more experienced person. Most people with 15+ years of experience have had at least two employers (not counting coffee shop jobs). Many have had to reinvent themselves. Maybe they were engineers that discovered an aptitude and interest in IT. Although I am in IT, my products support an engineering community. It helps a great deal to understand the needs of the end user if you once worked for a company that designed and built something. So from this, a person may have evidence that they readily adapted to a new environment, new technology, new people, new customers etc. All of which could be a positive indication that they could do so for your team.

  13. Re:Evolution of greed on Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer · · Score: 1

    I think the tipping point between greed and altruism has a little to do with diminishing returns. A millionaire might consider the warm fuzzy feeling of putting a $20 in the salvation army can in front of Target worth more than the plastic stuff they might buy with it.

  14. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Why is Canada always considered the reference implementation for universal health care? Germany has had "socialized" medicine since the 19'th century. It works (German's have a knack for measuring things) and it's cheaper to deliver than the US.

  15. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    If you want to live in a place with low taxes and minimal government, a place where there are more guns than people, a place where personal protection is the norm rather than a government service...if you want all those things, you are describing Somalia in the 1990's. You missed out on paradise!

  16. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1
    Ask the families of the people that crashed into the Mississippi River where the I35 bridge used to be.

    The governor provided the comforting words that Minnesota had few bridges in disrepair than some other states.

  17. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Whoever comprised the one seat majority in the senate is apparently the most powerful person in the world as they have been able to single handedly thwart agenda of the executive branch....maybe they should be president.

  18. We'll just resequence your DNA on Repairing Genetic Mutations With Lasers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now all those Trek episodes where they do genetic level medical procedures with a blue flashlight are a tiny bit less fantasy.

  19. I tip my Brawndo 2-U on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    It has electrolytes.

  20. It might just kill itself on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Let it loose on the blogosphere and it just might turn itself off. As Joshua learned in "Wargames" in the context of termonuclear war - the only winning move is not to play.

  21. Re:Thanks from the reminder on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1
    Amen brother!

    My disgust started shortly after the Iowa caucuses in 2000 and it hasn't looked good since.

    Given another term Bush might have the most enduring legacy of any US President...being the last one.

  22. Apples Oranges and Pancakes on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 1

    One important consideration that fuel burn analysis of 1950's vintage piston aircraft and modern turbofans is that they don't fulfill the all the same needs. We could with modern technology build build a craft to get passengers from NY to LA in some fraction of the fuel a 757 or A320 would burn. But suppose you spend 20 hours in the air with 2 refueling stops versus 5 hours in the air non-stop. I don't think you would fill the seats with the slow option.

  23. Re:So what's the bottom line? on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 1

    This is funny, but it also points out a wonderful statistical phenomena. If Amtrak ran at 90% load factor what would the numbers be?

  24. Re:So realistic you'll feel like you are in a meet on Heavy Rain - Playing a Story · · Score: 1
    At the end of the day,its all about entertainment.

    Suppose I really enjoy a well played game of checkers. A sparse and simple presentation that allows me to focus on my next move would be preferable to some realistic immersive presentation playing against uncle Joe on the porch of the old general store with the sounds of boots stomping up the steps behind me and old Zeek creaking back and forth on a rocking chair.

  25. Re:Nuclear and Steam on The Mainframe World Is Alive, Even For Those Under 40 · · Score: 1
    "Nothing more than prop engines with the fans on the inside and some ignited fuel in the exhaust."

    I couldn't let this one run...bypass air component of a jet is like you say a shrouded prop. The core flow however is quite different from a reciprocating engine. The inflowing air is compressed, fuel injected to the hot compressed air, and then some of that energy is extracted in the flow through the turbine (which drives the compressor and primary fan or drive shaft). You are right though in the elegance and simplicity of many designs. A jet engine is in my opinion simpler in some ways than a reciprocating engine.