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  1. Re:I can't help but notice... on Don't Read My Lips · · Score: 1

    It definately isn't. According to wikipedia every president since Harrison(other than Reagan and Shrub Jr.) who has been elected to office on a year divisible by 20 has died while in office. Also there has only been 1 other president who died in office. Tehcumseh's curse has about the same sample size as this, so it should be clear that unless you believe in Indian curses(not swear words) any statement about this small of a sample has no applicability outside this sample.

  2. Re:IQ -= Well rounded human being on New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces · · Score: 1
    The christians have mostly managed to defeat themselves to the point that it is now a very different religion then the one that went on crusades to spread the fate.

    Its somewhat interesting to note that Islam is roughly as old now as Christianity was during the crusades; it seems to be a growth stage that all religions go through.

  3. Re:Authenticity on New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces · · Score: 1

    So the jobs referred to in your sig are blow jobs?

  4. Re: This is what Bush needed on New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces · · Score: 1

    The media have been spinning it as Bin Laden trying to get people to vote against Bush.

  5. Re:Important Request on Political Yard Sign Wars Wage as Election Nears · · Score: 1

    I'll probably vote for Badnarik, and definately not for Bush.

  6. Re:OK I'm going to state the obvious on Software Piracy Due to Expensive Hardware, Says Ballmer · · Score: 1
    A $10000 PC would cost $200 if you wanted Windows on it.

    Cool! Where can i signup to get the $10000 PC?

  7. Re:A bit about third parties on Libertarian Party Suit Could Mean A 3-Party Debate · · Score: 1

    I think you meant social welfare, not social engineering, though both make sense in that context

  8. Re:!FP? on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 1
    This only became the case recently in CA, which had had a "blanket primary" (no political party declared, you can vote for anyone you want in the primaries, and the top vote-getter of each party advanced to the final election) until the Democratic and Republican parties took it to the Supreme Court and had it declared unConstitutional on the grounds that it violated their rights to freedom of assembly.

    There are 2 propositions on the ballot this year to amend the California constitution to allow for a blanket primary. Proposition 60 is like a third of a page, while proposition 62 is about 19 pages, and had a clause which said if it got more votes than proposition 60 it would pass and proposition 60 wouldn't, but if proposition 60 passed any portion of it which didn't conflict with proposition 60 would still pass.

  9. Re:Human cloning... on Harvard to Clone Human Embryos? · · Score: 1
    Where's your "destruction of life to save life is an oxymoron" now? Or aren't convicted criminals and Iraqi women and children worthy of the description?

    Of course they aren't. Who's life is being saved by killing them?

  10. Re: 12. TOLERANCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    That is a very bad idea. Being a serial killer is a lifestyle too. If you dropped the part about lifestyle or defined it narrowly enough then that would probably be a good amendment.

  11. Re:Save time, Bush Summarized Here on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    No the generation that voted in SS should be the one to get screwed.

  12. Re:New gold ... is greed on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 1
    So far, it's been about almost everything else (copyright, contracts, the Constitution, criminal theft, destruction of the world economy, etc.)

    I can think of quite a few things he hasn't accused IBM or the open source community yet, such as arson, ripping tags off mattresses, offering cigarettes to animals, possessing WMDs and tax evasion.

  13. Re:Some quicky info on The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics · · Score: 2, Informative

    It has absolutely nothing to do with the normal use of color, except the name. All it is is a quantum number with 3 possible values, which Gell-Mann decided to call red, green, and blue.

  14. Re:Hmmm... on US Presidents on Presidential Power · · Score: 1
    The thought of war blows my mind

    I think you meant

    The thought of police action blows my mind

  15. Re:Knew it on Public Exploit For Windows JPEG Bug · · Score: 1

    After all as the article summary says JPEG is "a widespread graphics format."(emphasis added)

  16. Re:NO. on New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing · · Score: 1
    From the article: California file sharers who trade songs or films without providing an e- mail address will be guilty of a misdemeanor Doesn't say WHO's email address you need to give

    Yes, as we all know the courts look at the wording of articles about the law, rather than the law itself, when making a decision.

  17. Re:What's with these laws? on New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing · · Score: 1
    File sharing never killed anyone.

    <sarcasm>Except the poor artists who die of starvation.</sarcasm>

  18. Re:Nuclear energy works! on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1
    There has been some interesting research done into this, attempting to come up with a universally acceptible sign that just screamed "DANGER!" to you, regardless of your background, education and language.

    Just scatter dead bodies around it.

    Most of the signs would just increase interest in the site to future explorers.

    Danger increases interest in stuff.

  19. Re:This is what a normal person just read above. on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1
    Generally such unscientific principals like you cannot go faster than ... or you cannot know about that are eventually disposed of.

    Heisenberg's uncertainty principle doesn't state you can't know something; it states that a particle does not have a specific value for both position and momentum at the same time.

    For example the "Speed of Light" has been gone for a long time. Only the Physics Religious Zelots and their todies belive it exists any more. I could give dozens of examples where their numbers are gone and their ideas are busted.

    No you can't

    Many Computer Devices defied the existing "Laws of Science" but then of course the devices never read law.

    Give one example of that

    Some optical Computing circuits have captured Maxwell' Demon.

    There is no such thing as Maxwell's Demon; like Shrodinger's Cat it is a hypothetical example used to illustrate a general principle.

  20. Re:The Higgs boson on Odds-on Science · · Score: 1

    those are antimuons; thats like calling positrons electrons.

  21. Re:Does anyone else feel that 2010 is ten years aw on Odds-on Science · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I kind of feel like that too.

  22. Re:The Higgs boson on Odds-on Science · · Score: 1

    actually it would violate conservation of electric charge if the higgs decayed into 4 muons. You probably mean't mesons; that decay wouldn't violate any conservation laws(at least not that i know of).

  23. Re:The Higgs boson on Odds-on Science · · Score: 1

    In the standard model there are 4 higgs bosons, an isospin doublet, and there antiparticles. Grand unified theories would need more(24 for SU(5))

  24. Re:Two things you usually don't see together on "E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin · · Score: 1

    At least they're willing to admit it.

  25. Re:Still not the solution on New Solution For Your Transistor BBQ · · Score: 2, Funny
    The problem still remains that a metric buttload of heat is produced

    I've never been able to figure out how many libraries of congress a metric buttload is.