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  1. Re:Safe bet on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 1
    White supremacist Nazi types are so 20th century, though.

    I have the graphic novel, which was color. Was the original comic B&W?

  2. Safe bet on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It will suck.

    Anyone telling me to not judge before the movie is made will be teleported to Mars *without* an air envelope.

    Other prediction: The whole parallel Earth WW3 subplot will be eliminated and the villian of the film will be changed to a "right wing" corporate evil something or other.

    Someone should do V For Vendetta but update it by having England taken over by Islamofascists.

  3. Re:Evaluation of Technology on Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns from Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1
    I think you need to read some other web sites, or something. ;-)

    Plenty of work being done in agriculture, for example, but it's being demonized by the Luddites. And health? Companies doing health and medical research have their own index on the stock market.

    Also, a society that works hard has earned the right to play, thus our MP3 players and Playstations serve a purpose. Complete selflessness can be wearying, especially when the recipients of that selflessness can be somewhat less than appreciative. It's human nature to need a break and some "me" time now and then. It allows the mind to run its cron scripts.

    And don't quote Star Trek characters. It diminishes your arguments. ;-)

  4. Fly me to the moon on Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns from Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1
    Knit me a sweater that transforms into an orbital elevator.

    "Form of... Sky Hook!"

  5. Re:Tampon Squeezer on The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel · · Score: 4, Funny
    On the other hand, Tampon Tester would rate as one of the best jobs ever.

    Nope. Tried it. They taste terrible.

  6. Re:Go Dana! on Private Spaceflight Law Revived · · Score: 1

    Actually, I sent an email earlier voicing support for this and a couple other space things. I like to think maybe I contributed to this in some tiny way. :)

  7. Go Dana! on Private Spaceflight Law Revived · · Score: 4, Funny

    My God! Someone I voted for is doing something I like!

  8. She got a warn glow at Chernobyl on A New Elena Story · · Score: 1

    I hear the extra eye she sprouted really helps her frame the photos.

  9. Re:how to design against terrorists? on Lunar Space Elevator Instead? · · Score: 1
    Yeah, yeah, I'm a liberal french coward...

    Well, someone has to clean the toilets in the new Golden Age. ;-)

  10. Re:Big difference between theory and practice on Lunar Space Elevator Instead? · · Score: 1
    Yes the elevator could be built. What exactly are we so desperate for we can only get from the moon?

    Really spectacular views. People pay milions for those on Earth.

  11. Would you like some moon cheese with that whine? on Lunar Space Elevator Instead? · · Score: 1

    So stay home. Who needs ya?

  12. Re:Is USA a democracy anymore? on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1
    This is the second election in a row, where could be at least uncertain if what the people voted is not what was "decided".

    Classic! Please, do go on. Hee hee! I love reports from the parallel perceptual dimensions of the mentally vague. :-) :-) :-)

    Is voting what makes a difference between other methods of government, to distinguish it from i.e. monarchy or dictatorship,

    No, actually it's pudding. Rich, creamy pudding. Very few people know that. Visit China some day and order pudding down at the local rickshaw drive through hut. See? Bad pudding. Meanwhile, here in the free and shiny West, we have grocery stores loaded with lovely pudding.

    but if that don't matters anymore could be actual government regime be called "democracy"?

    Yes. No. I think. What? *blink* Huh. I think what don't matters anymore could be actual grammar regime be called... something.

    Damn. I need to go get me some pudding.

  13. I love it! I fucking love it! on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 0, Troll
    I am completely enjoying the conniptions of the Left in their desperate search for an explanation of the election. I suppose my utter misanthropy and total disdain for ideologies helps.

    And I voted for Kerry. I didn't like him, I just wanted to have an orange Frankenstein monster in the White House, and I really really really wanted to see the "sensitive" war on terror. If I have any real disappointment, it's that. And I've got my my career and assets so freaking Administration-Proofed at this point that I could care less about the guy's economic delusions.

    But the Bush win is working out better. The whiney little pussy crybabies of the Blue Realm are priceless theater. God, I love real world political drama queens! Look at Vincient D'Onofrio passing out from stress. It's classic. And now we have Democrats and their supporters actively tossing rude insults at anyone who deviated from their preeeccciioussssssss ideology by even a couple needle ticks. Hey, great strategy guys! Maybe if you try hard enough, you can marginalize yourself right out of physical corporeality! Go team Democrat! I'll supply the Bush action figures upon which you can so bravely trod. Maybe I can make a killing selling "Bush voters are poopieheads" shirts.

    Heh heh heh. Dumbasses. :-)

    As for this "number crunching" study, we learned all about this in Six Sigma Green Belt training. It's bullshit. Hey, I have a Green Belt. Do not question me.

  14. Re:Berkeley? on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1
    Listen, I'm not personally biased about any Berkeley researcher's credibility.

    Good.

    I'm personally sure they're rock-solid.

    Oops.

  15. Why is he wasting time with this piffle? on James Cameron Guest Edits Wired Magazine · · Score: 1
    Didn't he want to do Battle Angel Alita? Where's my James Cameron directed Motorball sequences? Yukito Kishiro has even said he'd dig it someone did an Alita film that focused on those issues.

    Get thee to a studio, James!

  16. Hint on how to fix the "developing" world. on Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin · · Score: 1
    But do you know how many lives in the developing world could have been saved with $95,000?

    Do you know how many condoms that would buy?

  17. OK on Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin · · Score: 1
    The real question is: if thet fit *ME* with one of those fins, will *I* be able to leap 20 feet out of the water?

    Now that would be cool.

  18. Howard Stern said it best on FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers · · Score: 1

    "Fuck the FCC!"

  19. You might as well give up dispensing facts. on RFID Labels On Prescription Drug Bottles · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Tinfoil reflects facts.

  20. Um on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1
    Who outside professional writers *really* need to count the words? And wouldn't professional writers be handy with their wordsmithing application of choice? I'm not sure this is the best example. You learn "wc" or you learn how to do it in your GUI program. Is one really harder or better than the other? Is this all sound and fury signifying nothing?

    Does wc work on file with formatting tags and header/meta information?

  21. menus on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1
    Anyone with a picoliter of sense immediately turns off "custom menus" on a new install of Windows or Office.

    Custom menus violate so many user interface rules the Marines should be storming Redmond. I literally want to fling my own excrement at the project Office project manager who came up with that one.

  22. Re:Seeing it on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 2, Informative
    It was a paper printout. The tiny satellite Mandelbrot sets showed up as little dots, and were initially dismissed as dirt from an unclean printhead. This was in the 1970's, actually.

    The printouts are reproduced in a book, but I don't recall which one. Might be in Mandelbrot's own book.

    I *think* this might be one: http://coco.ccu.uniovi.es/geofractal/capitulos/01/ imagenes/MandelbrotOriginal.gif

  23. Tried to read it on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 5, Funny
    The interview was very complex, so I broke it down into sentences, but the sentences were as complex as the overall article. How could that be? So I broke it down into words, but still I found more complexity. Analyzing single characters simply brought out more detail. I zoomed into the pixels and whole worlds were unveiled. Where does it end?

    I wrote my first Mandelbrot set explorer on an Atari 800. :-) Yeah... fractal exploration in interpreted BASIC at 1.79 Megahertz. Good times.

    SLOW times, but good times.

    Fuck, I feel old. :-(

  24. Re:The worst problem on How Journalists Distort Science with Balance · · Score: 1
    Absolutely LOL!

    look, you believe whatever helps you deal with the world, toots.

  25. There's no balance on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Funny
    The responses so far

    So quit! --- 51%
    Unionize! --- 48%

    Odd... I've seen those numbers somewhere before.