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  1. Re:Good news! on British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Now we don't need ants to sort tiny screws in space!

    And to think, I had just put up my "Hail Ants!" poster.

  2. Re:Ya but ... a 'quiet' region of space ? on British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In Space, no one can hear you tractor beam.

    That's so right!

    Its because of all those other galaxies. Andromeda, Cartwheel Galaxy, NGC 4676. They are ripping us off. They make a fortune with our air. If Trump becomes president, he will bring back the oxygen, he will bring back the nitrogen, and make this galaxy GREAT AGAIN.

    He can also built a transparent wall around the earth to keep out those illegal aliens and protect our air supply. Of course, it will need to have a combination. I wonder if he'll use the same combination as the one he has on his luggage?

  3. Re:Ah yes on British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Years ago, I'd visit the physics department and one of the things they were playing with (they had the coolest toys) was a speaker made of some exotic material - I think it may have been ceramic so not that exotic. Anyhow, they were pumping very low frequencies into it and using it to balance a pingpong ball in mid air. I read the summary but, being no heretic, I didn't read the article. I suspect the same thing applies.

    Oddly enough, I don't think they were studying sound or pingpong. I was probably a little drunk, or high. I seem to recall that they were actually doing something with fluid dynamics. No, no I am not a physicist and my memory is pretty fuzzy. This was way back in the early 1990s or late 1980s. I seem to recall that they were actually using a very high speed camera to look at it. I've no idea what the outcome was and I strongly suspect they were high too.

    I think you were high when you posted this. Sober up before going on-line.

  4. Re: Screwdriver Form on British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Right after they perfect the Heimlich maneuver with it I presume.

    Wrong Doctor. Go back to Geek School.

  5. First planet!

    No, that was a few billion years ago. Talk about being late!

  6. Re:women in service on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    law enforcement is down-sizing their handguns as well. the .40SW is being replaced by the 9MM.

    Given that US police seem to hit ten innocent bystanders for every bad guy they shoot, I'd recommend they downsize to Nerf Guns.

    Indeed. There is a lot written about the militarisation of the police. But, they've only been militarised with respect to the hardware, not with respect to actually knowing what they are doing.

  7. Re: Stupid article doesn't get the point on Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    A fictional one, you dumb shit.

    Says the daft twat who doesn't remember Donnie Darko.

  8. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point on Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The Matrix was a great film. I'm glad they didn't have any sequels for it. It was one of a kind.

    Yes, just like Highlander. There can be only one! I heard these horrible rumours that there was a Highlander 2, and even a third Highlander movie. I can only assume it is the rantings of the diseased imagination of someone locked away in a padded room, next to the guy who thinks he's Napoleon.

  9. Re:Where's the evidence!? on Scientists May Have Found the Earliest Evidence of Life On Earth (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1

    It's tough to get a good discussion on biology going here at /. This is a really interesting find if it holds up.

    You know who also enjoyed good discussions on biology? Hilter!

  10. FDR on The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death · · Score: 1

    "We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And the Plague. That shit will kill us all!"

  11. Re:The rich are going to get theirs on Space Travel For the 1%: Virgin Galactic's $250,000 Tickets Haunt New Mexico Town · · Score: 1

    lol, modern mega corps own strong central governments everywhere... except China, etc where their strong central government owns their mega corps

    why? because the part-time rulers, aka 'the people', thought having politicians in for 4 years and paying them a pittance could work (i.e. you give them vast power, nothing to lose, and no incentive... then wonder why they don't serve you)

    So, in a modern corporate board room:

    [Motivational Speaker] Usually, you guys own the central government. But, in Communist China, central government owns YOU!

  12. Re:Finally on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 3, Informative

    The agreement also would overhaul special tribunals that handle trade disputes between businesses and participating nations.

    Probably something like ISDS. That should hardly be a surprise. It is the new colonialism: it gives companies the possibility to plunder foreign nations, but with an army of lawyers instead of an army of thugs.

    Actually, they have plenty of thugs, too. They just prefer to use the lawyers so everything looks "clean".

  13. Re:Mass extinction not caused by Mount Toba on Cape Verde Boulders Indicate Massive Tsunami 73,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I thought they determined the mass extinction wasn't caused by Mount Toba.

    You're right. It was Cthulu. He left the rest of us as a snack for later.

  14. Re:America on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    That story makes no sense.

    It made perfect sense to me. It's not his fault you are a drooling idiot.

  15. Re:Socalim is organized psychopathy on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    It is based on taking things by force from people that created or traded things through peaceful actions.

    You mean like how all the extra wealth created by the advance of technology has gone into the hands of just a few people? And how corporations don't pay enough tax to support the infrastructure they enjoy? And how many corporations get special tax breaks and subsidies, some even paying no tax and getting refunds?

    Thanks to technology, most working people produce much more than they did a few years ago. The job my mom had when I was growing up doesn't exist anymore since it is not needed. Yet, despite all these advances in productivity, most people cannot even get by on two salaries. Yet, one used to be able to have a small house on a decent lot with one salary.

    Not paying people their fair value based on the work they do is a more pernicious form of stealing.

  16. Re:If that's how Pokemon Int'l treats its fans... on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 1

    So long as he doesn't make anything up, there is no possibility of additional suits for such activity (this isn't Britain!).

    I don't have the benefit of your immense legal education, so please explain why that makes a difference.

    Some citations would be nice.

    Come on! This is /.! Where any half-wit suddenly becomes an expert in law, philosophy, finance, science, history, and any other subject under the sun. It's kind of like an on-line Rush Limbaugh program.

  17. Re: Sad to see the HP culture disappearing on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 1

    And of course some racist has to start spouting hate. There's a reason Western society is so successful. It is because we work hard and are not lazy.

    The US is not a race. The US is also not all of Western society. In fact, the US barely resembles the rest of Western society. The US is also not very successful anymore.

  18. Re:weakly disguised hit-piece on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To call a man decent because he admits that he wants to steal everything you own, is missing the point.

    Since when did Bernie Sanders become a Capitalist?

  19. Re: Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    Computers' first major applications were military. Calculating trajectories for nuclear missiles etc.

    Your move.

    This is beyond idiotic. The computers were used to calculate. It required, you know, the actual nuclear missiles to destroy anything. I guess you could try dropping ENIAC out of a bomber, with some cowboy astride it shouting "YAAAHHOOOO!!!" but that kind of misses the whole point.

    Is this what passes for serious argument these days? What's next? "Well, cleaning fluids were used to clean the facilities where the computers who plotted the trajectories for nuclear missiles were located. Your move."

  20. Re:There could be reasons for skipping the broccol on Scientists Discover How To Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables · · Score: 1

    Some of these kids are going to start keeling over in their 20s and 30s.

    Great! More food for me!!! *NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM!*

  21. Re:Larger macro-level problems are coming. on NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad · · Score: 1

    This is why I've been saying for years that real estate is not an investment. It may have been in the time of my parents, say the '50s to the '80s. Home "ownership" is nonsense these days.

    Actually, it wasn't considered an investment then, either. It was considered your biggest liability. Thinking of it as an "investment" keeps you from thinking you are a poor serf.

  22. Re:Market Forces on NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of this

  23. Re:Is the NYT Racist? on NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad · · Score: 1

    Really? Well, tell you what, then: If it's H1-B workers being brought in from England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Russia, or any other Western European country full of white people, I am STILL against it, because it takes away jobs from U.S. citizens, and in many cases takes cash money out of the U.S. economy and sends it back overseas. I don't care if you're white, black, yellow, brown, or purple with pink polka-dots, I see the whole H1-B thing as just more profit for corporate America and to hell with American citizens so far as they're concerned. If your argument is that you can't find the talent here then I disagree with you, and even if you're right then the way to fix that is to get our own citizens up to speed, not get someone from half a world away. But we all know I'm right and it's about money and how much less of it you can get away with paying someone from a foreign country.

    I'M purple with pink polka-dots, you insensitive clod!

  24. Re:is this how the usa and israel created a vaccin on Rare "Healthy" Smokers Lungs Explained · · Score: 1

    is this how the usa and israel created a vaccine?

    No, they got their vaccine information from our shape-shifting reptilian alien overlords. How else are they supposed to create a control group as they test the effects of chemtrails?

  25. Re:Unue! on The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shaka, when the walls fell.