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  1. Re:Absolutely not on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    So, because the banks are negligent in giving away credit to strangers in MY name, I now have to submit to the state by getting a National ID card complete with biometric information so that I can "protect" my identity?

    It's the banks that should make it MUCH more difficult to obtain credit!

    Gee, I wonder if the banks and the government are in on this plan together? Hmmm....

  2. The price of 360 was just fine... on The 360 Is Too Cheap? · · Score: 1

    ...the problem is that they didn't make enough of them. Duh.

  3. In Soviet Russia.... on Scientists Probe the Use of the Tongue · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the tongue probes YOU! (for $50)

  4. Re:I guess... on MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites · · Score: 1

    Spicoli?
    "Mr. Hand, if I'm there AND you're there, wouldn't that make it OurSpace?"

  5. Re:What is gravity? on First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity · · Score: 1

    Forget the trampoline. Instead, imagine a 3 dimensional grid. In that grid is a speck of dust. The lines of the 3-D grid are perfectly straight. Now, imagine the speck getting larger. As it get's bigger (say the size of Earth) the grid surrounding the growing speck will begin to warp IN towards the speck. Now, if you realize that the grid is actually space/time, then objects "floating" in the warped grid around the speck will naturally move towards the "center" of that warped grid.

  6. Re:Video URL on SpaceX's Falcon 1 Destroyed During Maiden Voyage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Looks like from the video and the comments from the rocket buffs at SpaceX comment thread, the thermal blanket didn't completely come off during the take off. Supposedly, it's attached to the rocket with velcro and a lanyard of some sort is supposed to pull it off at launch. But if you watch the video, you can clearly see something flapping or moving around that looks like a blanket. Then there is a puff of dark gray smoke, flames start shooting off in some weird direction, and the rocket starts going sideways, then the video cuts out.
    Bogus.

  7. I was reading the SpaceX comment thread - LOL!!! on SpaceX's Falcon 1 Destroyed During Maiden Voyage · · Score: 1
    Read these comments from the SpaceX comment thread as the rocket is launched...(LOL)
    Go Falcon 1

    All the best Falcon 1.

    Good luck SpaceX!

    God speed Falcon 1.

    Auto sequence start....This is it. Good luck falcon 1

    In autoseq mode

    T-60 seconds....Board is green.

    Off we go

    Here we go!

    Darn, no video.

    lost the feed :-(

    Oh my, she was spinning out of control before the webcast cut out?? Only got a few glimpes.

    I'm about to turn blue holding my breath... is it climbing or is it in bits???

    OK, what just happened??? This is going to hit SpaceX very hard.
    Oh, the human condition.
  8. Re:Artistic license with story... on New Star Wars TV Series Confirmed · · Score: 1

    "Young Indiana Jones" is the first thing that popped into my head when I read this. Good call on that.

  9. Not for me please... on Aging Japan Looks to Bots For Care · · Score: 1

    ...the last thing I want after a long life of working hard is to have "Short Circuit" taking care of me. Funk that, I'll take up skydiving without the parachute, thank you very much.

  10. How about a proposing a bill on Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that makes it illegal to make bills like this illegal one because they are trying to legalize the concealment of illegal activities.

    Orwell, eat your heart out!

  11. Re:Worked for me! on How to Discover Impact Craters with Google Earth · · Score: 1

    Looks good to me, here is the link: Impact crater?

  12. Yeah, yeah, we've ALL heard this story before.... on Undisturbed Tomb found in the Valley of the Kings · · Score: 3, Funny

    "American archaeologists found five mummies resting in sarcophagi, funerary masks, and coptic storage jars..." and then they found a stargate and sent an elite commando team through the worm hole and they got lost.... *yAwn*

  13. Mom gets an upgrade! on Children Help Their Mothers for Decades · · Score: 1

    Mom 2.0

  14. Re:What about the information gathered??? on Operation 'Cyber Storm' Starts Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what I'm thinking. This sounds like a REAL attack by the U.S. Gov't on the information infrastructure under the guise of a "training op". I'd like to have my Congressman file an FOIA to discover precisely what networks were compromised and what data was accessed by CyberStorm.

  15. I call "bullshit" on this article. on Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry · · Score: 1

    Let's see, what would be easier to explain "GPS anomolies"?

    Orbit drift...
    OR
    Time moves in different directions depending on which way you move throw space so let's completely rewrite physics and cause a paradigm shift and I'm not even really a professor of physics but I'm writing a book about it....

    Hmmm...let me think about that one.

  16. Re:heh, yeah on Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "That link is like reading an ad for something that may or may not work."
    LMAO! - you said exactly what my better sense was thinking. This is the psuedo-science guy that Carl Sagan warned us all about.

    Something just doesn't seem right about that power point presentation. The part that raised my red flag, was that this guy claims that he's trying to "get the word out" to a general audience, yet he uses terminology that goes WAY over my head. That's when I know I'm getting bamboozled.
  17. No wonder the time seems to just "fly by" on Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry · · Score: 1

    I play with Rubics cube.

  18. Re:Could it be.... on King Tut Killed by a Knee Infection? · · Score: 1

    Archaeologists have some audio evidence of this epic battle:
    The Ni File

  19. Could it be.... on King Tut Killed by a Knee Infection? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that King Tut was killed by the "Knights That Say 'Ni'!"?

  20. Some advice... on Making Yourself Miserable to Succeed? · · Score: 1
    From TFA:
    "Those who continually brush off their failures at the office might be overlooking the larger picture - such as the fact that they are about to be fired."
    That means you, Bush!
  21. Re:geforce on ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 PCIe Review · · Score: 3, Funny
    "...buy the one that has the best FPS/$"
    Aha! So you are a FPS/$ fan.
  22. Re:$500 on ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 PCIe Review · · Score: 2, Informative
    "People with more disposable income than you, or people who have gaming as a higher priority in their life compared to other things than it is in yours."
    IOW, guys without girlfriends.
  23. Sounds like human behavior at the singles bar.... on Wasp Larvae Feed on Zombie Roaches · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasp (guy) injects neurotoxins (buys cocktails) into cockroach's brain (for a hot chick) turning it (her) into a zombie (an easy hot chick) and then leads it (her) back to it's nest (bachelor pad), lays eggs inside it (screws her without a rubber), and waits for eggs to hatch (shotgun wedding!).

  24. The "Russian Stock Exchange"... on Computer Virus Fells Russian Stock Exchange · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't they mean "P2P file sharing networks"?
    Bogus, I wanted to download American Pie Band Camp this weekend too...

  25. Re:Space Plasma? on Falcon 1 Ready to Launch · · Score: 1

    LOL! How did the moderators miss your post!? Thanks for the laugh amigo.