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  1. Re:I'd like my two minutes back on Queen's WWIII Speech Revealed · · Score: 1

    I'd have probably thought it was biting wit, too, if I was hip 30 years ago. Reagan's 1984 (yes, I know it was only 29 years ago...) open mike "gaffe" would have made it that much more ironic. (The leftist outrage was truly stunning to behold. "He's a cowboy, he'll get us all killed!" Europe almost had a simultaneous 300M person apoplectic fit. The heads of all the editors of /Le Monde/ certainly exploded...)

    But I had classes to attend and projects to complete.

  2. Re:I'd like my two minutes back on Queen's WWIII Speech Revealed · · Score: 1

    As soon as I heard him say, "WW3 is almostï upon us..." I decided I had a better use for my 3 minutes.

  3. Re:I understand, it is Very hard to leave Windows on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 1

    it has no Windows rot

    Eh?

  4. Re:startingly obvious on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1

    Since when did evolution care about justice?

  5. Re:Freebase and Zemanta were luminaries? on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    There are times when WTF is Graal? does not actually mean What does Graal mean?. Rather, it's an acronym for You're a pretentious snot."

  6. Freebase and Zemanta were luminaries? on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I do not think "luminaries" means what you think it means.

    Also, WTF is Graal?

  7. Re:startingly obvious on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Males who abandoned their offspring tended not to see their genes spread further.

    African-Americans seem to be (population-wise, though not monetarily) surviving quite well in their current environment.

  8. Re:Please make it anonymous on NTSB Calls For Wireless Tech To Enable Vehicles To Talk To Each Other · · Score: 1

    Don't they have check digits?

  9. Re:First step on a long road on NTSB Calls For Wireless Tech To Enable Vehicles To Talk To Each Other · · Score: 1

    well-designed, forwards-compatible

    Bwaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

  10. No mention of
    3) Assholes sending fake signals to cars to fsck them up.

  11. Re:You need to iodize salt because it is mined. on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 0

    The sea salt has so many other minerals too. Most important of it is the sea weed.

    Since sea weed isn't a mineral, I suggest you reassess your writing style.

  12. Re:What about this case was so complicated on Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder · · Score: 1

    That doesn't sound too "complex", though. Or is the newspaper article yet another example of journalistic incompetence?

  13. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    The externalities that I must take into account are the bills I have to pay every month. There's no room for the cost of installing a meaningful number of PV arrays which are 15% solar efficient at best, and then lose 20% of that to DC-AC inverter inefficiency.

  14. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Thanks.

  15. Re:What about this case was so complicated on Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder · · Score: 1

    The wording of the Montreal Gazette article strongly implied that it was the Marek case that took so long.

  16. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    Natural gas is cheap enough that there's no reason to replace it with a solar system.

    Now... if my home were all-electric, then there might very well be economic justification to install solar water heaters.

  17. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    There are too many trees around my house. One really strong wind (not enough to damage the roof) snaps a branch and there goes thousands of dollars.

  18. What about this case was so complicated on Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder · · Score: 1

    that it took more than a year to develop?

  19. Re:TAANSTAFL! on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    And in some of those places this would work, and in others it wouldn't.

    Then you agree that the first sentence of TFA (and even vehicle exhaust pipes) is blatantly ignorant drivel?

  20. Re:TAANSTAFL! on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    There's waste heat in a jillion different places where there's no existing cooling tower.

  21. Re:TAANSTAFL! on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Same with solar cells.

  22. Re:TAANSTAFL! on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    It's being circulated already in the power plant's existing cooling tower.

    And if the thermocell is installed somewhere else?

  23. Re:TAANSTAFL! on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    We have an air cooled piston engine in our light aircraft.

    You forgot that light aircraft have propellers which are always spinning (forcing air over the pistons) when the engine is running.

  24. Re:TAANSTAFL! on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    and some air cooling fins on the other

    But what cools the air cooling fins? (Don't say, "Moving air", because that doesn't work. Proof? Your muffler is very hot even after driving very fast.)

    not sure it its still in development though

    There are two possibilities:
    1) Big Business bought the tech so as to suppress it, or
    2) it wasn't practical.

  25. Re:TAANSTAFL! on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 0

    while the other electrode is air or water cooled.

    But energy is needed to circulate the air or water. That requires energy, reducing (eliminating?) the efficiency of the thermocell.

    Thus, TANSTAAFL.