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  1. Re:i'll grant you pluto is a planet on Pluto — a Complex and Changing World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the third graders of 2080 who have to memorize 80 planets might not be too happy with you

    If it is important you'll know... if not? Meh.

    How many of the 117 elements can you name?

    How many C-List Hollywood celebrities can you name? How much SF trivia do you know?

  2. Re:Wait. What? on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 2, Informative

    Am I missing something here?

    Maybe you are missing the part where the expected rate is 0%.

  3. One yes/no question they will not ask on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 1

    Would you like us to euthanize you?

  4. Where can I find a knob that goes to 11? on Harder-Than-Diamond Natural Carbon Crystals Found · · Score: 1

    I need to make a minor adjustment to my Mohs scale.

  5. Re: Idling is bad for the engine on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 1

    And that's not counting wind chill

    And you shouldn't... not as far as the car is concerned. Inanimate objects do not suffer from wind chill.

  6. Can I buy insurance? on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    Is 3rd person life insurance legal in Australia?

    I mean they only ask if one has dangerous hobbies like sky diving, right? They probably don't ask if you are doing super sonic skydiving...

  7. I don't believe it on Half of Google News Users Browse But Don't Click · · Score: 1

    I don't even believe the summary until I run it thru Snopes.

    And, in this case, ...read Playboy only for the articles comes up: FALSE

    I need to do some of my own investigating now.

  8. Re:Way To Make Yourself Look Like An Idiot on Forrester Says Tech Downturn Is "Unofficially Over" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whatever. If you are annoyed by that phrase, it sounds like a personal problem to me. Anyway, at the end of the day, I still have my job.

    Chill out, it's all good. I'm not gonna lie, but, um, can we talk? Dude! I am just doing my due diligence, in trying to help me to help you to be honest about things.

    Sheesh. And I thought AC for for warm climates only!

  9. Anectodal info on Forrester Says Tech Downturn Is "Unofficially Over" · · Score: 0

    I was never unemployed during this current downturn, and I am in tech.

    Probably the same for most... I'm just sayin...

  10. Re:I Actually Side with Dick's Estate on Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that "nexus" and "one" are both dictionary words that make sense in the context of the name of a smart phone.

  11. Bloody foreigners on Sony, IMAX, Discovery To Launch 3D TV Network · · Score: 1

    "Boy, those Bloody foreigners! They have a different word for everything." - Apologies to Steve Martin

  12. Silence! I fine you! on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Apologies to Jeff Dunham

  13. Re:Atheists Unite... as a religion on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Please outline the beliefs of atheism. Please outline atheistic morality. Please define the atheistic purpose for life.

    beliefs of atheism - there is no god. E.g. Shit Happens.

    morality - for most folks it feels shitty to be an asshole. Probably some sort of evolutionary survival thing to help your group. Some people don't have this trait. If they don't bother anyone else, who cares. Sociopath assholes should be cut out of the gene pool so the rest of us can enjoy what little time we have.

    purpose of life? Beget more life. Living things like to live. I like to live. It is interesting to observe the world. When I am dead, I will be gone.

    Are you uncomfortable with the possible truth that there is nothing more than that? I am not.

  14. Re:No, it's a stupid idea... on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Pick this one or one of the others in the references section. I don't know about Ireland, but if something like Scientology(tm) can be a religion, than I don't see a problem with anything else being one also.

  15. Heh on Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given that the 'sex' search term is searched more in India than in any other country... Based on population, I can only assume that India, at number 2 aspires to overtake China.

    Clearly, if you have to google "sex", you already know what it is.

  16. I don't know the number... on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    can find a breakdown on the NRA site um... that is link to an anti-gun site, not the NRA...

  17. Question about jackbooted thugs on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wouldn't the Canadian authorities really be lumberjackbooted? If so, do they have pointy high-heels? Those could really hurt!

  18. Carnivorous jumping goats, that's just great! on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 1

    heh, I mis-read it as Piranha Ibex at first. I figured it must be a plot by PETA to let the little buggers fight back.

  19. Re:I'm glad they admitted their motivations on Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan · · Score: 1

    They can't tell you the REAL reason. I mean the tax payers would bit a bit ticked off, and feel like we'd been "had" if the $400M price tag was just to deliver a chronosynclastic infundibulum!

  20. Re:Not just iPhone users on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 1

    It depends for example Burbank and Visalia are the listed airports in so cal... not the biggies like LA, Long Beach, Ontario or Orange County... I am not 100% on the concept of Basic vs Premier either.

  21. Not just iPhone users on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 2, Informative

    All AT&T DSL customers get "free" wifi too. At many McD, Starbucks, Barnes & Nobel, and a few others. Usually the SSID is "attwifi"

  22. Re:"price fixing" on an optional item? on $860 Million In Fines Handed Out For LCD Price-Fixing · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the late retort. The latter would apply to me. I understand, but don't agree. If someone is selling something at an artificially high price, but I don't have to buy it, there is nothing wrong with that. I won't buy it. If someone makes me buy something I don't want? There is real injustice.

  23. I search for random stuff on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just listen to the radio and riff on random words you hear...

    I think my current profile must be for a pro-abortion conservative seeking vegetarian recopies for well aged beef, who is also looking for gun rights for married homosexuals who want to club baby seals to cut down on green house gasses, so that they can drive their Hummers as much as they like to anti-tax Tea Parties where they can dump their toxic CFL bulbs by the eco-friendly re-usable shopping bag-full. And, I may or may not have breast cancer, prostate cancer, alcoholism, feminine hygiene needs and or ED, PE, weight loss or weight gain issues. Surely I can get cures for all of the above cheaper from Canada...

  24. "price fixing" on an optional item? on $860 Million In Fines Handed Out For LCD Price-Fixing · · Score: 1

    pfft.

    There's a sucker born every minute, and a lawyer willing to take a fee for anything.

    Seriously, how can you fix the price of something nobody has to buy? Sooner or later the price will come down to where it is a fair deal for the buyer.

    I remember the first laptop I "wanted" was $4K USD. I didn't buy it, I didn't "need" it. The last laptop I bought was 10X better and only $400 USD, not even counting inflation. It was cheap enough to buy as a "toy".

  25. Re:Really.... on Subverting Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    I think you are saying it is easier not to be "you" than it is to be somebody else... seems reasonable to me. We can all change, if we want to.