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  1. Re:First things first. Fix the damn leaks! on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. You can literally fit a ton of it on a standard 48" x 40" one.

  2. Re:Already solved on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine how bad it would get if they started taking a shower more than once a week!

    (inb4 the Australians)

  3. Re:One bit of woo is true on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that. But I'm willing to concede that there's precious little evidence to the contrary.

  4. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    a purposeful harming of the public is a concept which is pure unadulterated crap.

    Nobody said anything about purposefully harming, you twat. But people convince themselves all the time that someone else will deal with it, it's not my job, there's a workaround, it'll never happen etc..

    Bhopal. Chernobyl. Baby food with plastic in it. That oil rig that everybody blamed the Limeys for.

  5. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I wrong, or did people used to be able to fly planes by pointing the nose above the horizon?

    Vickers Wellington, Avro Lancaster, Northrop P-61. Three that were routinely not flown by that method, at least not by looking through the window as you imply.

  6. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But civilian passenger aircrafts[sic] do not need to be aerodynamically unstable.

    Maybe that explains why they aren't.

  7. Re:in Soviet Russia ... on US Reveals Details of $500 Million Supercomputer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ... this imagines Beowulf cluster of you!

  8. Re:ani-GIFs are the bane of online video on Is Adobe's Creative Cloud Too Powerful for Its Own Good? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe his name was Shigetaka Kurita.

  9. Re: Ughhh. Gifs on Is Adobe's Creative Cloud Too Powerful for Its Own Good? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We're going to need a bigger boat.

    Oh, shit.

  10. Re:Ughhh. Gifs on Is Adobe's Creative Cloud Too Powerful for Its Own Good? (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You can also use the USS Nimitz to go fishing.

  11. Re:Powerful? on Is Adobe's Creative Cloud Too Powerful for Its Own Good? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can even make it apply a transform gradually and build the intermediate frames, can't you?

    I'm not a graphics professional nor a GIMP guru but I recall doing this once to make a kind of billowing flag effect, just 4 teh lulz.

  12. Re:It was alcohol on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    They're still vastly preferable to Asatru-tards.

  13. Re: Happy St Patties Day on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well .... they actually voted for Vera Lynn doing a spit roast with Richard Todd & John Mills on the white cliffs of Dover plus 20 squagillion in tax cuts for Rees-Mogg & his chums. I mean for the NHS. Oh, and to be allowed to keep the Queen on stamps.

    The GFA was just collateral damage.

  14. Re:Happy St Patties Day on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't trip over your cape, Captain Obvious!

  15. A proper trial, then another one on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    They need to run a proper trial, and then another one.

    Why? To be sure, to be sure!

  16. Re:Happy St Patties Day on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    What's bothering you, Brexit or the Rugby?

  17. Re:It was alcohol on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    More like one set of Christians, another set of Christians, and the Druids.

  18. All of your interests and past times are wrong

    Not as wrong as you.

    past times = history
    pastimes = hobbies

  19. One bit of woo is true on Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs (msn.com) · · Score: 0

    If one bit of woo is true, then two bits of woo are true. If two bits of woo are true, all woo is true.

    You can bet pounds to pigshit that some people are going to interpret this as proof that crystals, homeopathy and pyramids work.

  20. Re:Aircraft Cockpit Voice Recorders... on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ...are used in post-crash analysis.

    Waste of time. It was pilot error. It's always pilot error.

  21. Re:Stranger Things on After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    My first suspicion was that it's hipsters and in a few months they'll have found something else to be annoying about.

    It was probably right, wasn't it?

  22. Re:Summary and article say 45 years on After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Terrible roll, man.

  23. Re: Washed Through By The Mainstream on After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    it's not cool to appropriate other people's cultures from a position of power without paying the proper respects.

    I might make chicken tikka tomorrow. How, pray tell, does one pay respects to bits of dead bird soaked in red stuff on sticks?

  24. Re:Washed Through By The Mainstream on After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Many of the more silly ideas in college get toned down as the person gets older and sees more of the real world and realizes that there are larger problems and concerns.

    Except for the ones that get hired by Google.

  25. Job share on How Debian Almost Failed to Elect a Project Leader (lwn.net) · · Score: 2

    How about a job share? Ajit Pai and Boris Johnson.