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  1. Re:digiKam - runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS on Google Photos 3.0 Released, Bringing Smarter Sharing, Suggestions and Shared Libraries (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Same reason you use keywords. To catalog your photos for easy retrieval.

  2. Re:That works fine if you manage to nip it in the on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 1

    That is if the nurse(s) knew anything about Liberia. My experience is that people of the United States do not know the difference between Liberia and Belgium.

  3. Re:You asked for this on CPJ Report: the Obama Administration and Press Freedoms · · Score: 1

    Better create a new govt program to give universal access to the web and another govt program to teach grandma how to use it and a govt watchdog agency to make sure that the web trainers are politically unbiased and another govt program to insure that new immigrants are able to get political information in their native tongue and ...

    New immigrants aren't allowed to vote, to become a citizen you have to have lived here for 5 years. That should be plenty to learn the language.

  4. Re:PG on Open Library Project Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    Well what you are missing is seeing the grandeur of this enterprise, not only does it hold the books of Project Gutenberg, it _also_ holds links to amazon.com.

  5. Re:Grapes in Sweden on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1

    Neolithic is just a code word for neocon. Those neolithics did indeed pump oil out of the permafrost of times past. Gas up their SUV's and do drive by shootings on unsuspecting Cro-Magnons. With any luck we will yet again grow grapes in Sweden, make decent settlements on Greenland, and perhaps with some luck, we will find a land bridge between Asia and North America to come visit with our SUV's.

  6. Re:A from-scratch implementation in 15 days? on SpecOps Labs offers $10,000 to Emulator Developers · · Score: 1

    Easy to do with a trillion dollars. Buy MSFT for around 280 billion, pocket 720 billion and release it opensource. Not quite an emulator, but close enough.

  7. Re:Just when prices go high enough on Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale? · · Score: 1

    Duh...

    You use windpower to power the pumps to get the oil out of the ground.

  8. Re:'merciful' atomic bomb !? on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    Actually it would probably melt the ice caps pretty effectively and cause mass flooding with thousands of casualties. But at least it would show the Japanese we are humane people, willing to drown civilians like rats.

  9. Re:U.S. Constititution 101 on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend you buy the novely flint and steel instead. They are yet to be banned on flight, just make sure the steel is not sharp.

  10. Re: Salmons - you might want to work on your expl on Slashback: VoIPersecution, Israel, Plug-in · · Score: 1

    Where in the article do you get the idea that he is not open to the idea of climate change?

    Any scientist that refute climate change is a crack pot.

  11. Re:Not quite as funny... on Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash · · Score: 1

    No warning what so ever. Just goes to prove what I have known all along, Mt.St.Helen is an Ash Hole.

  12. Re:Inflammatory headline is well deserved. on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 1

    Amelie opened in 3 theaters and grossed $136,470 in the opening weekend. At the height it played in 303 theaters. The revenues in the states where 19.1% of its total world revenue of $173,921,954. All this without having to legislate to supress French dominance.... not bad.

  13. Re:Cloning / Souls on Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2004 · · Score: 1

    I bet psychologists will be mighty dissapointed that we have no soul (Psyche).

  14. Re:I'm sorry to say this on Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat · · Score: 1

    I think what the article is trying to point out is that the ice cover today is the same as when the "ice man" was trapped. Inbetween those points the ice cover was greater.

  15. Re:Oh no! on Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat · · Score: 1

    Mars has a notable lack of polluters.


    Mars atmosphere is 95.3% CO2.... do you need polluters?

  16. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    In another study by Bindem Kilem & Rappem, a well known Scientific NGO who specialize in unbiased statistics, a far different number has been reported. The study was conducted between April and August of 2004 in which 10,000 people where polled on how many people they personally knew who had been killed by hostile actions by the imperialists. The average number being 1.86. This number was then fed into a sophisticated computer system that multiplied the number with the population of Iraq. The study concluded that closer to 41 million of Iraq's 22 million population had suffered death at the hands of the evil Americans.

  17. Re:Hmmm on Strained Silicon to Perpetuate Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    24% does not perpetuate moores law.

    Moore's Law [wikipedia.org] has nothing to do with clock speed.
    --
    Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.


    To use an analogy. A car today with one engine will have two engines in 18 months and four in 36 months.

  18. Re:This is a surprise? on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1

    Mergers happens as do spin-offs, they always have. If you only see mergers then you miss a large part of the business ecosystem.

  19. Re:Like it matters ... on Consensus on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Then again, they're at 1/8 the US level per capita anyway

    Sounds like the solution is to increase our population... sex is good ya all, keep at it.

  20. Re:So? on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    Don't underestimate the importance of College/University for basketball players.

  21. Re:"Could this be it?" NO. on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    This was reported in Dagens Nyheter yesterday, the largest Swedish newspaper.

    http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=693&date=2 00 41201

    drM

  22. Re:Welcome to capitalism on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    In addition, Drug company profit margins average around 18%, an unheard-of profit level in any other industry.

    Yes you are right, it is truly unheard of. Other companies like Microsoft (21.4%), CitiGroup (26.2%), HSBC Holdings (26.8%), Bank of America (33.2%), Intel (22.7%), Cisco (23%), Coka Cola (20.9%), Ebay (24.2%), US Bancorp (44.9%), Bank of New York (61.9%) etc. etc. etc. stand no chance to ever get close to 18% profit margin.

    Truly unheard of.

    drM

  23. Re:Risks and benefits on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    Drawing some major pipelies from the Colorado river shouldn't be much worse than transporting water to southern California.

  24. Re:power boost on Evidence of Glaciers on Mars? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At the risk of continuing an offtopic thread.

    How ignorant some people are. Of the total U.S. working population the percentage of farmers are 0.7% (951,810 out of 129,721,512). California by contrast have 1.3% farmers (196,695 out of 14,718,928). Last time I checked California voted Democrat, only beaten by NY, RI, VT, DC, MD, and MA. Instead of looking at the US map showing state electorates won, try looking for a map where counties are displayed to get a more accurate view of vote distribution.

    If Bush only counted on the farmers he would have barely beaten Nader with his 0.3% national vote.

  25. Re:Europe is diversified on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FYI, while France has a lot of nuclear power plants (75% of the nation's electricity), Italy has none (barred by referendum), and neither does Norway (they don't accept anything dirtier than hydro power, gas turbines with CO2 removal are already looked with skepticism).


    So what does Norway do with its oil?