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  1. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    I spend 15/16 K on cars. There are plenty of very nice used cars for that.

  2. Re:Australia voted... for a kick in the nuts. on Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Been tried. They reproduced and are still there.

  3. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    I have never had a car payment that high and I have had some pretty good cars over the years.

  4. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    The USA is slowly contemplating shooting all our military officers?

  5. Finds little intelligence? LOL on Massive Study Searching For Genes Behind Intelligence Finds Little · · Score: 1

    My quick read of the headline was little intelligence was found.

  6. Re:Just as long as it's not XK-class. on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 2

    Because there have never actually been any kind of riots or looting during disasters???

  7. Re:Gravity Predition Come True on China Targets 2022 For Space Station Completion · · Score: 2

    The idea that they are all basically in spacesuit commuting range of each other was more sci-fi than just having one.

  8. Re:Only as long as the warranty on In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart · · Score: 1

    30 more days than you will live with no working heart at all, so there is that.

  9. Art beats Life on Survivors' Blood Holds Promise, But Draws Critics, As Ebola Treatment · · Score: 1

    They already did this on the Last Ship to save themselves from an Ebola-like virus.

  10. Re:Ban when you are done testing? on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 1

    Craigslist. You do have to get the weeds and small bushes out of the boats involved and they "ran fine when parked 20 years ago", but what do you want for a $2 boat?

  11. Thought someone moved in to my old hood on Welcome To Laniakea, Our New Cosmic Home · · Score: 1

    Laniakea is also a place in Oahu I used to live, so my first thought is why does anyone care who moves to a little town on an island.

  12. Re:Competition is good. on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 1

    I can assure you the kerosene was about the cheapest part of the Apollo program.

  13. Re:Competition is good. on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 1

    I would give you about 9,000 mod points for this post if I had them.

  14. Re:Loose Lips Sinik Ships on US Government Fights To Not Explain No-Fly List Selection Process · · Score: 1

    It is all fun and games until: A - you go someplace on another continent and THEN find out you are on the no-fly list and cannot come home. B - you can't board the plane because you are on the no-fly list. This leads to you being unemployed and the entire flight being delayed because you are the pilot! Both things have happened.

  15. Re:It'd be nice... on US Government Fights To Not Explain No-Fly List Selection Process · · Score: 1

    but....but....if you don't like it, just buy your own planet and make your own rules. The MARKET solves everything ;)

  16. Re:Pun Error on Line 472 on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    I bet it cuts down on the wanking though...

  17. Re:Testing is not verification. on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    I got "volunteered" to make a medical device because no one else at work was good with the hardware interfaces and it was a HUGE PITA. FDA doesn't like this, they don't like that, test this 500 more times, etc. etc.....

  18. Re:Russian Programmer's are Brilliant! on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    My Toyota had this issue. The gas pedal would just stay at full throttle. I lurched my way to the dealer to get it fixed and the mechanics had a good laugh at my expense. The floor mat was ripped and catching up in the pedal. 1 new floor mat later and I was on my way. This was in about 1999.

  19. When I was a little kid we watched a phone company employe use a dowsing rod to look for a buried wire.

  20. 1st post on Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dowsers? They need THIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  21. Re:what could possibly go wrong? on DoT Proposes Mandating Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications · · Score: 1

    FYI people died near where I live when OnStar killed a stolen car and it was stopped in the middle of a busy highway and got hit.

  22. Re:Seriously, we're not rapists.... on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    If a number of unrelated people have wanted to drug you for your own good over a number of years, you must have been quite the interesting roommate. Just sayin..

  23. Re: Fusion Confusion on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    I looked hard and could find NO SUCH REACTOR. Signed, looking for stuff at midnight guy

  24. Re: Fusion Confusion on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    I thought it was kind of a general purpose device that could do other things. The old FermiLab accelerator could do all manner of experiments AND they served great burgers in the lunch room :)

  25. Re: Fusion Confusion on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    If the reason the LHC was built was to produce and sell antimatter for a profit, then it WOULD BE a total flop.