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  1. Re:"Most of the time, I'm somebody else's problem" on "Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy · · Score: 1

    nope, we're exactly fit for evolution as any other animal, and if we're unable to adapt to changing conditions like would be experienced after an all-out nuclear exchange and die out, well then that's evolution in action.

  2. Re:Well, no... on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 1

    hot dogs are like text editors

    everyone has their favorite and will fight to the death to defend their opinion of which is best

  3. Re:The good news on Milky Way Heavier Than Thought, and Spinning Faster · · Score: 1

    heck what I want to know is what are the relativistic implications of having a galaxy more dense and moving faster than previously calculated?

    How does this affect our perception of time, i.e. is our time passing faster than if the galaxy was smaller and moving slower?

    (if viewed from outside our frame of reference of course)

  4. Re:Controls? on SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight · · Score: 1

    I totally forgot about the twin F82 what a totally amazing plane and a wild concept. too bad more weren't built I could use one of the models with 14 .50 cal machine guns ;-)

  5. Re:Beauty of Capitalism on SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight · · Score: 1

    peer pressure? You need to graduate from fifth grade there junior. Peer pressure doesn't work on adults in the way you think it works on adults.

  6. Re:Beauty of Capitalism on SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight · · Score: 1

    It's not privatization hurting a society, it's corrupt politicians corrupting the privatization process that is hurting those societies.

    Government agencies are like slave labor because the rest of the society is forced (at the point of a gun) to pay for the labor. You can't compete with slave labor.

  7. Re:ONE STAR safety rating. on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    a state enforced abortion in the 18th trimester?

  8. Re:Minor? on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 1

    the nation-state was democratic. you could choose to be a full citizen or choose not to be.

  9. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    and yet it occurred /allegedly

  10. Re:I guess that... on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 2, Informative

    You will be there! You'll be the "they" when they do this, the ones they're looking at... if that makes any sense. So hold up a sign.

  11. Re:Told you so on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 1

    probably one of the coolest battle stories I've read ever. from firefight, to long running death causing equator wrapping finale, it's all awesome

  12. Re:Maybe U.S. citizens will support prosecution. on NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio · · Score: 1

    very easy, but you have to use raw materials you personally acquire from local sources, weld them together in a large sphere in a tight grid pattern and to close the shape you'll have to finish the welding from inside. Best to complete the welding in complete silence away from any observers in a location that will remain secret.

  13. Re:And yet.... on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1

    taught my 6 year old son about lucid dreaming and the little bugger took to it like a fish to water.

    now he plays burnout dominator in his sleep...

  14. Re:Don't think so! on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    see, that's the point I can appreciate.

  15. Re:Don't think so! on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    so the assumption is that you can't learn if you don't have a degree?

  16. Re:Don't think so! on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    seriously? for a technical role?

    I could see for a professional engineering role, MechE, EE, ChemE, Biologist or something like that, you don't really want bridges or chemical weapons built by amateurs, but for a technical role?

    Respectfully, that seems too limiting.

  17. Re:Don't think so! on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    wow, that's the really crappiest reason to attend university I've heard in a long time and I'm very very glad you're not my employee.

  18. Re:I have one.... on The Science of the Lightsaber · · Score: 1

    dude, for some strange reason, looking at that picture, made my pants tight /don't take it personally

  19. IPMI + DRAC or similar? on Low-Bandwidth, Truly Remote Management? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you can do an aweful lot with IPMI, i.e. power cycle, and a remote access card that supports ssh can do the rest, alternatively a TTY terminal and pipe your consoles to serial ports

    oh, windows? nevermind

  20. Re:Pride Breeds Ignorance on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    but an elephant and a pig...

  21. Re:Pride Breeds Ignorance on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    British were grasping for anything to prove that humans originated in the UK (which, of course, is far from true).

    is far from true when measured against the information we hold today, but there's still occasional challenges to the out of africa theory and while it would cause surprise to find a SE Asia origin, it wouldn't be Earth Shattering, nor would a mid-EU origin be particularly surprising considering the hoopla over the other almost human species that roamed the earth more recently

  22. Re:Redirecting content on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    I usually redirect hotlinkers to pictures that either

    a) advertise my site/interests exclusively as in "join my drum corps!"
    b) show flesh in as naughty a fasion as possible, animation helps here

    not because it costs me anything, but simply because I can, and it's funny to me... but the response is definately tuned to the source of teh intrusion and a forum for kids who like a certain cartoon doesn't get the tubgirl treatment while a forum for bag pipers gets worse

  23. Re:Write speed on An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda · · Score: 2, Insightful

    speed always matters, just not as much as $/GB most times, at least where these drives are destined it doesn't matter as much as speed

  24. Re:Aliens Cause Global Warming on Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 · · Score: 1

    honestly if we spent effort on it, I'll wager we could get the job done

    simply start with putting all the politicians, lawyers, C*Os, university professors and administrators and middle managers on the first ship so they can prepare the way for us mere mortals

  25. Re:I know what's up. on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 1

    well played, well played