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  1. Sick huh? on Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever · · Score: 1

    Well this explains the smelly sulphur dioxide emitted from volcanoes....

    The earth just has an upset tummy...

  2. Bubble Boy on Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth · · Score: 2, Funny

    I live in a bubble you insensitive clod....

  3. Its because of the retail clerks on Requiem For The Record Store · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know why the stores are at their demise versus online venues... The retail clerks...

    I shop online because I've been to the stores and the retail clerks all seem to be essentially worthless.

    The quality of knowledge is decreasing exponentially in these huge mega stores upon the retail clerks... or at least it seems more often than not.

  4. Re:Blow job on What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I, for one, welcome our new evil blowjob-giver overlordessesss.....

  5. A what Pentium? on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 0

    Does this mean that the isotopes of this element will be cheaper versions of original element?

  6. Does this mean?! on Virtual Dummy To Try On Clothes · · Score: 0

    That the Bravo Network will now feature Queer Eye for the Virtual Dummy

    "....That computer simulation needs the newest line of Dolce and Gabbana clothes line."

  7. Re:At the tone... on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    offtopic? [NO CARRIER] was due to cyber attacks.. Jezzz.

  8. At the tone... on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At the tone, the time will be %^&^#$&*&* [NO CARRIER]

  9. In Other News... on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 1

    ...There has been a resurgence of Nightmare Killings.

    Freddy Krueger is being sought out.

  10. Spam on my 92 on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 2, Funny

    While I think the idea is cool as far as an open source theme goes...

    I see this as potentially a bad idea, as this might provide a segue into Spam...

    So now when I sit in my PDE's class, my calculator will be bugging me about getting my penis size enlarged.

  11. Re:There are only 10 types of people on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 1

    Close enough for government work*.

    *Of type National Weather Service or various NOAA facilities

  12. If you understand this equation on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 1

    ... then you too, can predict the weather....

    It is the omega equation which tells us where clouds form via rising motion.
    here

  13. Re:Huh? on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 0

    See associated nonlinearity in NWP for such long time intervals such as 2028.

    Doesn't matter anway, as you will be dead. The relative humidity of your corpse will be less than 5 percent.

    There. Done.
    /smarmy_one

  14. Re:Old wives tails on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 0

    I bet you believe the Old Farmers Almanac as well?
    People also believe there is an invisable man in the sky.
    Wow, people are stupid.

  15. Re:Lorenz Equations on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 0

    Of course

    NWP has a threshold after some time interval and will eventually become worse than climatology but better than persistance.

    There is a nonlinearity associated with NWP aka butterfly effect.

  16. Re:There are only 10 types of people on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I do!

    Time : 1709Z
    Winds: 21 knots from 030 gusts to 32knots
    Visibilty: 6 Statute miels
    Weather: Rain showers
    Clouds: overcast at 1200 feet
    And so on.

  17. Re:This is silly. on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 0

    Oh now now,

    Don't be upset at this ignorant dullard. You see, you know you are right, I know I am right, so, in lieu of this, next time there is a tornado entering his county, we being the stupid meteorologists who guess at everything, well...

    We'll just guess *not* to issue a tornado warning for his location. Lets see if he really understands F=MA then, which of course is what *we* know the atmosphere is based on in its *simplest* form (cough *complicated PDEs* cough)

    I'm guessing (Look!) that a piece of steel traveling at 318mph (an F5 tornado) has a lot of force and can easily pierce something.

  18. Quasi-geostrophic/Semi-geostrophic Theory et al on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 2, Funny

    Forecasting the weather is all about the quasi-geostrophic theory (or semi-geostrophic theory if you're in graduate school).
    QG Theory tells us were there will be differential vorticity advection through a layer or differential temperature advection through a layer (dT/dz increases with height) there will be height falls and omega (vertical advection term) will be negative thus rising motion.

    So next time you feel like insulting your local meteorologist and state its a job where they are paid to be wrong, remember if you can find out where cyclonic vorticity advection increasing with height is located and what exactly the laplacian of that will tell you regarding as the impetus for change in the troposphere.

  19. Math Joke on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 0

    What is the integral of 1/cabin?

    int(1/cabin,cabin) = ln cabin + c

    Log Cabin Plus Sea. Get it.

  20. Two of my favorite 1984 things on Computer Folklore, Circa 1984 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) The Original Macintosh unvailed in January 2) The Original Nightmare On Elm Street priemers in Movie Theaters

  21. no matter what on FCC Adopts Broadcast Flag Scheme · · Score: 0

    someone will always find a way to kill the restrictions one person on someone else.

    This has happened since the beginning of time.

  22. Re:Seed 7B85 on Panther Released into the Wild · · Score: 1

    Not too many differences.
    I was checking out an article on alt.binaries.mac.osx.apps and a guy did a checksum/md5, and while they were different, he determined that it was most likely that the retail version has OS9 installers while 7B85 does not. Check it out from newsgroups.

    Side note, this really doesn't matter because we can consider "Classic" to be obsolete and there really is no reason to run Classic anymore.

  23. Seed 7B85 on Panther Released into the Wild · · Score: 2, Informative

    The seed 7B85 is slightly different than the retail version. OS9 installer drivers are not on 7B85.

  24. From the land that gave you Zap Rowsdower on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 0, Funny

    That obsure reference from an MST3K episode alone, discounts Canada on so many levels.

  25. Obligatory George Carlin Reference on Balloonists Attempt World Altitude Record · · Score: 0

    See George Carlin "Complaints and Grievances"

    "I hope the next guy gets hits by lightning and flies around in little fart cycles *raspberry noises*"