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  1. del.icio.us Add-Ons aren't compatible on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Wish I'd known that before I upgraded.

  2. It looks like a wheel-chair... on Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair · · Score: 1

    ...which could probably come in very handy.

  3. This is more a question of being overworked... on USAF Enlists Shrinks To Help Drone Pilots Cope · · Score: 1

    ...than one of battle-fatigue.

    After two or three continuous days on WOW I need a shrink, too.

  4. The Commodore 64 would be even cheaper on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 1

    And a lot more fun.

  5. I don't get it? on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    I tried Cuil, and it seems awfully lame to me.

    I didn't get any results I was looking for, all I got was a bunch of links to companies that were obliquely related to my search.

    Cuil is an advertisement delivery platform.

  6. Re: I appreciated the ending to the story... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    A bunch of people have responded and said that it was Michael Caine's character who told the jewel thief story.

    I distinctly remember Morgan Freeman telling it.

    Am I wrong?

  7. Re:Assuming you meant Caine.... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    What was the context?

    Was Caine a former CIA agent?

  8. Re:Assuming you meant Caine.... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    Ummm. No.

    The context was a conversation between Bruce Wayne and Morgan Freeman's character, who had evidently been a CIA agent in Southeast Asia. He told the story of how they were going to win the hearts of the natives by distributing rubies to the native leaders, but they kept getting stolen. One day Freeman's character sees a little girl playing with them, which is when he realized the thief was throwing them away.

    Explain the context of Michael Caine's jewelry thief story, please.

  9. "Lime" is calcium oxide... on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was thinking of agricultural lime:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate

    "Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CaCO3. It is a common substance found as rock in all parts of the world, and is the main component of shells of marine organisms, snails, and eggshells. Calcium carbonate is the active ingredient in **agricultural lime**, and is usually the principal cause of hard water."

  10. Assuming you meant Caine.... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    No.

    Morgan Freeman recounted the tale of the jewelry thief who stole them only to throw them away.

  11. Chemistry 101? on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lime (or calcium carbonate, CaCO3) is a base, which is the opposite of an acid.

  12. Re: I appreciated the ending to the story... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    Ah, that's right.

    Morgan is great in that role.

  13. Re:Doing the right thing doesn't make you popular. on Batman Discussion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it said Bush sucks, it wouldn't be just a movie though, would it?

  14. Re: I appreciated the ending to the story... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    ...about the jewel thief, as well.

    I don't specifically remember that. Could you refresh my memory? Thanks.

  15. Doing the right thing doesn't make you popular... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anybody else catch that?

    Anybody else think of Bush when they caught it?

  16. Re:Approaching Impossible on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    Well, we're comparing this to a company that's engaged in R&D before it turns a profit...

    They claim to have a functioning process that produces more energy than it consumes.

    Do you mean to say that they really don't?

  17. Re:Approaching Impossible on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    Do you mean when Apple incorporated that Steve, Steve, and Mike already had a profitable business that they gave to Apple Computer, Inc?

    What else would I mean?

    The founders never borrowed penny one. Jobs sold them as fast as Woz could make them.

  18. If they could do this, they would just do it. on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They could just start making fuel and sell it on a small scale, then plow their profits back into their production facilities.

    Apple was profitable from Day One.

    This would be too, if it actually worked.

    The fact that they're not just doing it means they can't.

  19. We don't need no free speech in government schools on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    We cannot trust students to believe the correct things if we allow them to be exposed to ideas that we disapprove of.

  20. Re:Conservatives Censored by Fairness Doctrine on Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mainstream print and electronic "journalists" overwhelmingly support Democrats.

    http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=P4J&q=journalists+support+democrats&btnG=Search

    These "journalists" don't slant their coverage to reflect their personal preferences?

    The Fairness Doctrine, in practice, required that anytime a conservative/Republican was given air time, a Liberal/Democrat had to be given equal air time.

    The Liberal/Democrat "journalists" air time didn't count. No equal time was required.

    AM radio was dead while the Fairness Doctrine was in force. It's alive and well now because conservatives listen to it and provide listeners for advertisers.

    Liberal talk radio can't make it, not due to some conspiracy, but because the typical Democrat voter would rather watch Oprah.

    To Liberals, anything is unfair that doesn't put them in charge.

    PS - When Obama loses, how will you say the election was stolen this time? Or will you just say that his loss just proves Americans are racists?

  21. Too much computer exposure may hinder learning on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1
  22. "All models are wrong" - Climate models, anyone? on Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method? · · Score: 1

    Climate models, as we all know, are infallible.

    Consensus, don't you know?

  23. Re:BSA on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 1

    "Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help"

    I don't see BSA there.

    I support the Boy Scouts by designating them as the recipient of my annual coerced United Way donation.

  24. Re:BSA on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The parent doesn't say BSA.

    It says "Boy Scouts of America."

  25. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have just proved that belief in AGW is a religious belief.

    The idea that global climate is never supposed to change is as primitive as any creationist idea.