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  1. Re:Mod parent up! on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 0

    Increased water vapor capacity in a warmer atmosphere, coupled with changes in climate patterns due to the increase of solar energy retention, resulting in increases in precipitation?

    Well, it's no more bullshit-laden than your question is.

  2. Re:Dead actors ? What's the point ? on George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars? · · Score: 1

    Keanu Reeves is dead?!?!?

    Whoa.

  3. Re:first? or third? on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The canonical number used in galaxy modelling is 20-to-1. That number is inferred from the rotation curves of spiral galaxies, not ellipticals, but that's the ballpark. And then there' this:

    "But there’s still plenty of dark matter, too, according to van Dokkum. In fact, the new stars probably won’t change the accounting of dark matter very much."

    But hey, look at me being lazy and just quoting the article you cited.

  4. Re:first? or third? on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 0

    Yes, but the estimates give a ratio of dark-to-visible matter of 20 to 1 or so. Here they only triple the number of stars, and they are all on the low mass end of the scale, resulting in only a minor change in that ratio.

  5. Re:That long ago? on Greg Bear, Others Cry Foul on Project Gutenberg Copyright Call · · Score: 1

    I, for one, would take that over the system of mouse-inspired zombified copyrights we have now.

  6. Re:That long ago? on Greg Bear, Others Cry Foul on Project Gutenberg Copyright Call · · Score: 1

    What were Sonny Bono's last words?
    Deh-DAH, deh-DAH
    Deh-DAH, deh-DAH

    I got yew, babe
    Deh-DAH, deh-DAH
    Deh-DAH, deh-DAH

    I got yew, babe


    I.....GOT......YEW......BAAAAAABE.

    Lucky for me Scientologists don't believe in Hell.

  7. Re:The remaining 64 characters on Sculptor Gives a Hint For CIA's Kryptos · · Score: 1

    Dude.

    You take my breath away.

  8. Re:That was easy! on Traffic Jams In Your Brain · · Score: 1

    289 and 357 to me is (3570 - 357) + (35700 - 3570 * 2) + 35700 * 2.

    It's easier if you go (357*300) - (357*11), although some might prefer to approach it as (323*323) - (34*34), since that reduces to (325*325 - 324*4) - (35*35 - 35- 34).

    Yeah, I recognize all of those looks.

  9. Re:I don't get it on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My god, man, weren't you listening during the last election. Them that hates Our Freedom are making TERROR BABIES now!

  10. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 5, Informative

    It happened. All you need for proof is the fact that Boehner apologized for doing it, years after the fact Unless you think Bloomberg is too lefty a news site for you.

  11. Re:$400/gal adds up fast on Saving Lives On the Battlefield With Green Tech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sadly, "imagining" is the only option. But hey, Mission Accomplished, right?

  12. Calls for some lyric revision on Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage · · Score: 4, Funny

    I.
    Am.
    (Pre-) Iron (Age) Man
    (D)NAna-nana-nana, na na na.

  13. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    If proficiency in English were a requirement of citizenship, 2/3rds of the students and 1/2 of the teachers at my high school would have been deported back to Northern Europe. Also, morons who can't pronounce "nuclear" wouldn't be eligible to be president.

  14. Re:Finally! on Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't realize that truck stop bathrooms were so poorly lit.

  15. Re:ABBA on Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick · · Score: 1

    That is just an awful, awful post. S.O.S.! Does Your Mother Know you do this?

  16. Re:Not exactly a revelation on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    And how many Apple's ship without OSX?

    Zero. But why would you want to do that? Look above — Apple products are way overpriced, and only sell because they're "shiny". I mean, you don't want to be one of those people, do you?

  17. Buncha goddam whiners on Scientists Fight Back In Canada · · Score: 1

    They are trying to hold back to march of progress in Canada. Hopefully Stephen Harper will crush these gnats quickly, so that he may RELEASE THE POWER OF THE TIMECUBE!!!

  18. Re:Not exactly a revelation on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 3

    But Apple has to approve it or you can't use it.

    Yeah, that's bullshit — I have a metric crapload of UNIX apps on my Mac.. Oh wait, you're talking about native apps in iOS? But you can't be, because then you go on to babble about desktop computers. Conflating the two would lead to a comment from me about the XBox, but that would be too easy.

    And, BTW, since when has MS "forced" me to use Windows or any other MS application?

    They don't — in fact, they can't, since they don't make the computers. However, 90 of the PCs you order have it already installed, which means that you've paid for Windows whether you use it or not, so why would they care at that point?

    I'm free to install whatever OS I want on my computer.

    Windows runs on a Mac box, and so do flavors of Linux. And, much to my personal advantage, BSD UNIX is pre-installed.

    I've never once had MS tell me I *had* to use any of their software.

    The phrase "embrace and extend" comes to mind. That is to say, it's a waste of time telling you that you "have" to use something when you can make your product the only one that works de facto.

    There have always been competing OS's and applications, and no computer manufacturer has ever blocked them.

    No, they've just used their monopoly for many years to block the major OEMs from selling Linux pre-installs, lest they lose their preferential pricing on Windows.

  19. Re:Control on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A different word: Works.

  20. Re:Mythbusters does science? on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obligatory xkcd pageslap.

  21. Re:Careful with that tag... on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    They were anticipating the bend of the comments.

  22. His plan won't work on How To Deflect an Asteroid With Today's Technology · · Score: 2, Funny

    He forgot to account for the Congressional hearings, where conservatives will deny the existence of "these so-called space rocks" (they aren't, after all, mentioned in the Bible), and just a ploy to rake in more moolah for Big Astronomy. Not to mention the flurry of state AG witchhunts into the astronomers' emails.

    On the other hand, if one of the scientists said that there was a possibility that the asteroid had a diamond core, a private sector solution would no doubt be undertaken by DeBeers.

  23. Letter From America on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear China,
    Fuck you and your backward, stultifying Communist state!

    P.S. Do you have 4 trillion to loan us so we can extend our tax cuts?

  24. Re:Why do Americans have problems with solar power on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As He sayeth in the Good Book: Galt 3:16 "Yea verily, I was amortized for your sin taxes..."

  25. Re:Hey idiot grandson, did you learn your lesson? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Use legitimate solid-waste disposal (landfill or, better yet, recycling) but don't burn the stuff!

    The county doesn't provide firefighting services. Why the hell would you assume that they have a landfill or recycling services?