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  1. Re:Did you type this on a manual typewriter? on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    Unless it's a CVT. In which case, it's significantly better both from a economy perspective, and a power perspective. Too bad they stopped making them because they didn't make the shifting lugs that people are use to. FYI: I drive a 5 speed manual 2003 Civic EX.

  2. Re:Plants eventually die on Toyota Develops New Flower Species To Reduce Pollution · · Score: 1

    So you think. There's actually more going on due to ocean salinity changes then you would like to think. http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20031117204012data_trunc_sys.shtml

  3. Wow, the word "The" has become so trendy.... on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    What on earth is going on? Pizza Hut is now "The Hut" and Radio Shack is now "The Shack"? There's a couple other things that renamed themselves in such a matter but I can't remember. This is a little ridiculous...

  4. Re:Factual and legal errors in the summary on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    Are you dumb? You write this long winded post in a seeming attempt to justify Amazon's position, and yet make no points.

    1) Recalls are always optional for end users. Thus they can't be used in the case of licensing problems since the books wouldn't get returned. In that case Amazon would need to provide the correct owner of the books with some agreed upon monetary settlement.

    2) Nothing in the EULA gives amazon the right to REMOVE data from YOUR Kindle. This fact has nothing to do with their right to license the book in the first place.

    Amazon needs to replace the books, and pay up for a license to said book.

  5. Re:Ok, I'm sold, but that's just the first year. on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    Styrofoam(Polystyrene) doesn't BIOdegrade, but it does PHOTOdegrade into styrene which is toxic.

  6. Re:Hair... factory? on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the peanut butter solution? Well, it's actually a documentary...

  7. Re:Hay's cheaper and works well, too on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    Or you could do no-till farming and have mulch already on the ground! Then just use seeding equipment to poke through the mulch to plant your seeds! Problems solved! No pesticides, better yields, and the like. Myself, I'm a plan of Aquaponic Greenhouses though.... Soil farming is obsolete.

  8. Re:Makes me wonder on Why Japan Hates the iPhone · · Score: 1

    As an American Physicist, I have to say you have your head squarely up your ass.

    Most of those countries didn't have anything in place when they put in those "technologically advanced" public works. Current projects in America are the best in the world.

    It takes a lot of money, and requires a lot of political justification to rip out a metro system that's working just fine to replace it with some fancy sparkly new POS.

    The fact that we're don't choose to spend our tax funds on such projects says nothing about our ABILITY to apply technology, or the quality of the scientific papers being produced here.

    I keep hearing this tired "Asian is so much better and more amazing" crap over and over. By the way people talk about laptops available in Japan you'd think Japanese Laptops were designed by space aliens and powered themselves through fusion crystals or some BS -- when in reality they run the same American MADE OS and have the same AMERICAN MADE CPUs as every other fucking laptop in the world.

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

  9. Re:Scary on Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier · · Score: 1

    enormous? This word, I do not think it means what you think it means. (A prion in a single protein, instead of a collection of proteins and RNA like viruses)

  10. Re:What a moot issue on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there.. That sir is one nice triple entendre. ;)

  11. Facebook? on Stephen Hawking Turned Down Knighthood · · Score: 1

    I thought this story was about Stephen Hawking turning down a Knighthood invitation on Facebook, and I was all "Yeah so? I do it all the time." :P

  12. Re:Ugh... on The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? · · Score: 1

    Humans are not omnivores, herbivores, or carnivores. Their food processing mechanisms do not neatly fit into any of those categories. Omnivores have completely different digestive mechanisms from carnivores or herbivores. Humans on the other hand look like some weird conglomeration of carnivores and herbivores. That's why lots of people make arguments that we are actually herbivores rather than omnivores, but they completely ignore the fact that the other half of the digestive tract looks like that of a carnivore. We're cook-the-damn-food-and-eat-it-ivores.

  13. Re:Heh on Copying HD DVD, Blu-ray Discs May Become Legal · · Score: 1

    Fair use isn't technically a right. It's a "legally defensible position." Whatever that means...

  14. Re:Less profitable if they can breed. on The Human Mutation · · Score: 1

    Dood did you read that thing about the T-GURT gene?! Maybe I have that! I wonder what chemical I would have to be treated with to activate my superpowers!?

  15. Re:Essay? on You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    Maybe because you need to go read the definition of "essay."

  16. Re:MTBF on Intel Stomps Into Flash Memory · · Score: 0

    5 000 000 hours = 570.397764 years I don't know how Intel came up with those numbers, but I'd be happy if I lived to see my SanDisk flash keep working at only 2 000 000 hours.

  17. Re:Fairly amusing but not overly informative on Translation of Macrovision Response to Jobs on DRM · · Score: 1

    rebuke.. this word.. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    I think the words you were looking for are: rebuttal and macrovision

  18. Re:Space colony, eh? on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    You did notice he said "Solar" colony, yes?

  19. Re:RPN Baby! on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly she keeps her pr0n collection on it.

  20. Energy Source? on Walking Molecule Now Carries Packages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What powers this thing?

  21. Re:Fault Tolerant System on Ohio Recount Rigging Case Goes to Court · · Score: 1

    There's more to this than network protocols mr smartypants. It is _required_ that voters cannot prove to anyone that they voted one way or another. How do you build in checks and balances to that?

  22. Re:This May Bring Back The Old Cure-All on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    ALA is an Omega-3 fat. It doesn't get converted to one. Good luck finding a vegetarian source of ALA metabolites. Oh, but go head, destroy all the Cod so you don't have to use Canola oil. And, for your information ANY Omega-3 supplement you use is not going to provide enough to balance out your Omega-6 laden diet. What, you get about 1 gram of omega 3 from your supplement? How much Omega-6 are you consuming? You're better off switching to cooking at home w/ Canola oil rather than take those ridiculous supplements.

  23. Re:This May Bring Back The Old Cure-All on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or you could use flax seed oil instead and stop eating so many omega-6's instead of consuming oil from a practically endangered species.

  24. Re:and sugar substitutes? on Researchers Find Potential Cure for Cancer · · Score: 1

    Short chain fatty acids are produced farther along in the digestive track than sugar goes. Sugar is quickly decomposed through enzymatic processes, rather than by bacteria that produce short-chain fatty acids. Go eat more oatmeal with your Splenda.

  25. Re:It looks like a nice language, but on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    D fixes this with mixins and interfaces. C/C++ try-catch-throw stuff is lacking several important features. Such as Finaly, and some other nifty features D has. Check http://www.digitalmars.com/d/exception-safe.html