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  1. Re:Thats irrational and selfish. on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1

    re: your sig

    OOL-CAY IT-AY...

    Awesome book!

  2. Re:Friday the 13th on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Close, but not quite.

    Hot Fudge Sundae lands on a Fridae instead of a Tuesdae.

    I guess we all need to start filling a culvert somewhere with books in plastic bags.

    And build a levee around a nuclear power plant.

  3. Re:It can't possibly work either on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    So, if the building were hit by a 5 mph wind, it would fall into the wind?

  4. Re:Satellites anyone? on Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars · · Score: 1

    plus the rather high probability they will be destroyed by the debris cloud ejected by the impact.

    And on what do you base this prediction? The meteor impact is going to destroy satellites orbiting Mars?

    Highly unlikely.

  5. Re:And if it doesn't hit... on Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not really.

    its = possessive
    it's = it is

  6. Re:Obgl. on Synthetic DNA About To Yield New Life Forms · · Score: 1

    I do not think that word means what you think it means: Immanence
    Imminence

  7. Re:First Post! on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 2, Funny

    Photons don't have Mass because they're not Catholic.

  8. Re:Dropping seeds all over the universe? on NASA Finds Star With a Tail · · Score: 1

    Nope, GP is right. It's in one of the "footnotes" in the first chapter.

  9. Re:The same man... on FBI, IRS Raid Home of Sen. Ted Stevens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FAIL. The land above the Big Dig tunnels not only will not be used for commercial buildings (parks rather), but cannot, as you cannot sink the support pilings into the tunnels underneath.

  10. Re:Too many syllables! on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    It's in your bloody URL and you still spelled it wrong twice. Limerick

  11. Re:Commercial rasons? on Microsoft Considers Pulling Out of China · · Score: 1

    1.3 to 1.4 billion people. Their decimal place is larger than our entire population.

  12. Re:Pictures on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because you don't understand the science, doesn't make it invalid. You are not the final arbiter of all that is logical in the world.

    All you do is broadcast your ignorance to the world. What really astounds me is how proud you are of your ignorance.

  13. Re:Size on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 1

    How about like this? ["]

  14. Re:Yes on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 1

    What about a security camera catching a likeness of your face?

    That fits the any and all identifying information bar that you have set. Does that mean that if you knock over a liquor store, and they don't get your permission to keep the tape, the police won't be able to use it to prosecute you for your crimes?

    I highly doubt it.

  15. Re:That shouldn't happen. Likely just new owners on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    I must have remembered it wrong:

    Here

    It really was:
    "Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me."

    Much better.

  16. Re:That shouldn't happen. Likely just new owners on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    Well, how old-timer is 38? I'm certainly not as much an old-timer as you are here. ;) I just re-read Adolescence about two months ago, and then went searching in vain for anything else by the author (Thomas J. Ryan, I beleive). Sadly, nothing else.

  17. Re:That shouldn't happen. Likely just new owners on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 2, Funny

    CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M

    Talk about arrested development... Shouldn't he be a bit bigger by now?

    Or should I say:

    OOLKAY ITAY?

  18. Re:Hopfully the guy was inocent. on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 1

    Were you actually speeding when you got those 10 tickets?

  19. Re:"frission" on Review: Battlefield 2 · · Score: 1

    He meant frisson, but even that isn't quite what he wanted to say.

  20. Re:Microsoft is now irrelevent on Ballmer: 'We'll catch Google' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From Windows 3.1 onward:
    Alt-Tab - cycles through running applications
    Ctl-Tab - cycles through currrent applications windows/documents
    Adding shift to both above combinations cycles backwards.

    Lots of those little things in OS X were blatantly stolen from Windows, which, I admit, is ironic, as much of Windows was stolen from Apple.

  21. Re:Please oh please push the reset button on Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released · · Score: 1

    Here is what imdb has to say about the first series: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068049/.

    And here's the second series: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083455/

    The joke is that the final scene of the series closer for the second series is where Bob wakes up in the bedrooom from his first series with his co-star/wife from the first series (Susan Pleshette) and says, "Honey, I've just had the strangest dream." or words to that effect.

    Here is a good write-up about Newhart in general: http://www.80sxchange.com/bios/bob_newhart.html

  22. Re:Please oh please push the reset button on Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget Bob Newhart's excellent spoofing of that Dallas trick with the ending of his second Newhart series.

  23. Re:Yet another milestone in my Earth Destruction P on Lab-Made Fireball May Be a Black Hole · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because they believe that the defiled virgins would have their virginity miraculously restored after the fact. I shit you not; they do believe this. It is, after all, in Paradise, where all things are possible.

  24. Re:it's been written on Lab-Made Fireball May Be a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Thrice Upon a Time by James Hogan also deals with this scenario, but has a unique deus ex machina ending that saves the planet.

  25. Re:The logistics of building the Death Star on Star Wars Minutiae · · Score: 1

    Yah, that's a good idea. Bring the Mob's attention to yourself by telling everyone you know not to take the job. You may as well take the job and hope you survive.