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  1. Re:So what happens... on Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules · · Score: 1

    If you could stop a Hurricane from hitting Florida but as a consequence Mexico has a drought do you stop the Hurricane?

    If you ask an American the answer is a resounding sure!, however asking a Mexican will return an entirely different answer.

  2. Re:Now Osama Bin Laden is dead on US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    Now Osama Bin Laden is Dead and the cold war with Russia is over, they need a new enemy.

    With all the savaging privacy and public rights have taken (in the US as much as elsewhere) I'd be inclined to say that The People have become the true Enemy Of The State.

  3. Re:This is just taste of what's to come on US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    We are less secure today not because anyone is asleep at the switch...

    With all the shenanigans that politicians get up to yet you can still say that with a straight face?

    Some days I think a retarded and crippled monkey would do better (and no that's not an obscure reference to GWB).

  4. Re:Who started it? on US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    Why is it that USA should be the police of this world? Who gave them this authority?

    Erm, WE did.

    And by We I mean "our glorious leaders, and representatives at the United Nations, when THEY SIT ON THEIR FAT ARSES AND DO NOTHING."

  5. Re:I dig his definition of "God" on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    It's the kind of non-committal fuzz that would make Mitt Romney proud ;-)

    Careful application of Occams Razor shows that under all that non-committal fuzz is a face-full of self-interest.

  6. Re:Church and Einstein on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 2

    Just because you don't subscribe to the ideology of an organisation you don't call for its elimination.

    Someone please tell that to The Jews/The Arabs.

  7. Re:2012 on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 4, Funny

    The bible has been in human hands for centuries and copied by hand before printing presses came in. A spelling mistake here, bad handwriting there, the next guy comes along and misreads a word and then 'fixes' the sentence so that it makes sense. I'd be shocked if there was a single page in there that hadn't changed. And that's only accidental changes.

    Of course, The Faithful claim that $DEITY in his glorious omnipotence has kept The Holy Word pure and absolutely identical to The Original.

    In common-speek that's a circular proof and can thusly be completely ignored.

  8. I've said it before and I'll say it again on The Great Meteor Grab · · Score: 2

    The best way to make a successful business these days is to get stuck in and BE SUCCESSFUL long before the legislation catches up with you.

    The recent Banking-and-Finance Charlie Foxtrot proves that if you make ENOUGH money The Government will drop their pants to support you no matter what you do (ie no matter how immoral and unethical your actions may have been).

    If you WAIT for the legislation first, said laws will have been funded by lobbyists of EXISTING INTERESTS supporting their own outdated business models.

  9. Re:Pandora's Problem is repetition on Pandora Shares Artist Payment Figures · · Score: 1

    for those who are scratching their heads in confusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-X8TcwPlbs

  10. Re:Pandora's Problem is repetition on Pandora Shares Artist Payment Figures · · Score: 1

    Repetition is not as bad as you claim it is.

    Sure it's late '80s, but retro is chic, no?

  11. Re:Pandora's problem on Pandora Shares Artist Payment Figures · · Score: 2

    It starts with a 'c', ends with a 't', and has a lot of legal language in between that says you (the artist) brings the lube, and they bring the butt hurt. Oh, and don't bother trying to look elsewhere: It's exclusive. Just you and me baby. And it will not be over quickly. And you will not enjoy it.

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

    Some people search long and hard to find videoclips like that, AND they're often happy to pay-per-view.

  12. Here's another survey on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 1

    Ask a whole bunch of excessively wealthy men who they're going to vote for:
    - The man who will do what's best for the country even if that's going to be difficult and unpopular
    - The man who will do nothing of the sort, BUT will directly put more cash into the pocket of rich men like yourselves.

    WhoDaThunkIT: Survey of CEOs says Most Would Vote For Romney

  13. Welcome to The Presidential RACE on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Unfortunately in order for THE MEDIA to make any MONEY off this RACE it requires there to be a competition.

    Analysts In The Know have made it VERY clear that Romney is pretty close to a complete NON STARTER and all this MEDIA HYPE about how close (insert airquotes here) this election is amounts to nothing more than bulldust, baloney, hot air, media hype, manufactured statistics, and damn close to out and out blatant lies.

    As you can see from TFA, MUCH loud ballyhoo'ing about "CEOs Prefer Romney" but when you read the numbers in actual fact that is "only just barely not actually a complete lie".

    Despite their preference for Romney, 76 percent of all respondents said Obama will win the November election.

  14. And hilarity ensues.... on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 2

    Send in disaster recovery crews with healers, security, carts to haul away the dead..

    Somewhere in a Realm of WoW:

    The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
    [a man puts a body on the cart]
    Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.
    The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
    The Dead Collector: What?
    Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
    The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.
    The Dead Collector: He isn't.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.
    Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
    The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.
    The Dead Collector: I can't take him.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.
    The Dead Collector: I can't.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
    The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?
    The Dead Collector: Thursday.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.
    Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.
    [the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]
    Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.
    The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Right.

    -- Monty Python And The Holy Grail

  15. The MIssing Link on Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All · · Score: 4, Informative

    Brandt wondered how the Stanford team, led by faculty from the School of Medicine and Center for Health Policy, could have found no difference in total flavanols between organic and conventional foods when her own results showed organics carried far more of the heart-healthy nutrient. Upon further inspection, she noticed that the team had actually calculated the difference in total flavonols, a different nutrient, and reported the result with the swap of an "o" for an "a".

    From an article ad The Huffington Post

    Technically it's a spelling mistake which in practice meant the equivalent of searching for apples but counting the number of oranges instead, then writing up a paper on the astonishing lack of apples found.

  16. Reasons for Eating Organic Food on Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All · · Score: 2

    - Animals are typically better treated (yes organic doesn't mean free range, but in practice they tend to go hand in hand)
    - Less toxic residues (pesticides, fertilizers, other mystery chemicals which haven't succeeding in killing us off dramatically YET)
    - More Nutrition (grass fed beef vs cornfed) ---- this is the ONE item the meta-study researched
    - Better for the environment (see previous lack of toxic pesticides, fertilizers, etc)
    - Organic is usually produced by the smaller growers in the market

  17. Sing Along With Me Folks on How Cosmological Supercomputers Evolve the Universe All Over Again · · Score: 1

    I'm sure eventually we'll get enough size and resolution:

    It's the simulation that doesn't end.
    Yes, it goes on and on my friend.
    Someone started running it not knowing what it was,
    And they'll continue singing it forever just because...

    Well to be perfectly honest:
    (1) Most people don't realise they're in a simulation
    (2) The few with "suspicions" have no idea where the off switch is

  18. Slow News Day or WHAT? on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 4, Informative

    or perhaps we just need to fire the current squadron of editors?

    original article Here (NB from 2009) in which Australian scientists discover the gold-nugget-forming action of this bacteria.

  19. Obligatory Question on Sandia Lab Fires Up 300,000 Virtual Android Devices To Test Out Security · · Score: 1

    Did they use rope?

    Or as True Geeks did they do it properly and use Duct Tape.

    Or , perhaps, they used Duck Tape - because the world is full of idiots who cannot spell, even in massive highly technical research labs.

  20. This should be no surprise to anyone on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 1

    Once Again The Creationists have gotten things astoundingly wrong.

    The process of extracting the gold from gold-chloride is clearly NOT "creation" in any sense of the word.

    The ONLY "creation" going on in relation to this article is the CREATION of an obscene amount of HYPE over a somewhat interesting but otherwise irrelevant bacterium.

  21. Re:Water? On the moon? on Simulation Using LRO Data Shows More Locations With Ice on the Moon · · Score: 1

    Man, I'm feeling my age. When I went to school we were taught that it was made of cheese.

    What??? That movie by Wallace and Grommit wasn't a DOCUMENTARY?

  22. Re:The next body modification craze . . . ? on Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm · · Score: 1

    I could happily give all my money to the first guy who can give me functional cat ears. (And a functional cat tail as a bonus

    Item One: Cat Ears
    Item Two: Waggy Tail

    Please call me to arrange payment.

  23. Re:Water, or some other fluid? on Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface · · Score: 1

    Once they have some conclusive results I'm sure they'll be pouring ounces.

    Most likely the JD kind, though possibly one of the many "Hoot Mon!" brands.

  24. Re:Good thing we didn't land then... on Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface · · Score: 1

    Launch, fly 54.6 million kilometers, land, drown. No profit in that.

    Conclusive proof of the existence of large amounts of liquid water on Mars would be absolutely worth the expense.

  25. Just Desserts on Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' · · Score: 2

    So the megafarms who're raising pig-meat in factories are finding their business unsustainable due to their (quite frankly bizarre) feeding practices?

    I for one am not surprised.

    You haven't lived till you've eaten dead pig which was once free-range.

    I'll spell it out for the clueless: Eating Grain Fed pork is slightly beter than eating sawdust, if you want your pig-products to be truly tasty they need to have grown up on a varied diet.