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  1. worked so well last time on AOL, Yahoo Mulling Merger · · Score: 1

    because it worked so well last time AOL merged with another company, they want to try it again.

  2. Re:That's disgusting on Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat · · Score: 1

    That should clearly be "insects" on the line above, not that I doubt the other occurs.

  3. Re:That's disgusting on Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat · · Score: 1

    All the great apes hunt and kill for food.

    Nope. Gorilla's are vegetarian (plus a few insects, but that is hardly hunting). Orangutans are also most vegetarian plus incests, honey, and eggs.

  4. confirmed in US this weekend on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    I confirmed this in the US this weekend.
    It happens with repeating alarms set before the time change -
    they still display the correct time but go off an hour late.
    Alarms set after the time change seem to be fine.

  5. Re:Politicaly incorrect Choices on Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Me too, I was tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, so I voted for Cthulhu

  6. Re:Uhhhh.... WHAT? on Scientists Overclock People's Brains · · Score: 1

    And even if it didn't happen in this experiment, you certainly have to wonder about the possibility in similar experiments.

  7. Re:Fear & Ignorance on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    That's just it - they haven't done anything to reverse the disaster.

    Yes they have. You can't take an economy that badly damaged and make it all into unicorns and rainbows in 2 years. There is no magical solution, it takes time. The voters clearly don't understand that and for some reason voted the idiots who created the mess back into power.

  8. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    That post you sited was hilarious - they basically took a 6 hour random fluctuation of prices and projected it forward as if prices were going to change in that direction and magnitude every 6 hours for the rest of the foreseeable future.

  9. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    As I recall, when GWB was elected, with a Republican majority in congress they railroaded everything through and never reached across the aisle. It was so bad that a Republican senator defected in disgust, given the democrats the majority in the senate. In other words, bullshit.

    And Obama constantly reached across the aisle, only to be rebuffed by the "party of no" that refused to consider any plan that wasn't exactly what they wanted.

  10. Re:Web services are a stupid idea. on UK's National Rail Shuts Down Free Timetable App · · Score: 1

    Actually the current buzzword is SOA (service oriented architecture). "Web-services" is now a term that is only used by people actually doing useful things with them.

  11. Re:Ebay on Is the ISS Really Worth $100 Billion? · · Score: 1

    Not even that long - an impact that size would eject a hell of a lot of debris into orbit.

  12. Re:Opposite Problem in US on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    The US doesn't change times until next week. Does your phone know what country it is in?

  13. vi? on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 1

    The author admits writing the article in vi. Can we mod the TFA as -1 Hypocritical

  14. Re:Why not just scarp US Intelligence on Annual US Intelligence Bill Tops $80 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea that anyone could still have some useful intelligence to give up after sitting in a cell at Gitmo for 8 years is pretty ridiculous.

  15. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    I don't know anyone with a gasoline pump at their house either.

    I do. Many farmers have them.

  16. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    I don't know anyone with a 150kW electrical service to their house. Do you?

    But you don't need to charge in 6 minutes if you are home, you charge it overnight.
    The 6 minute charge is only important if you are out on the road and need some
    kind of fuel station to recharge at.

  17. Re:Cheap -- to Replace! on Time To Rethink the School Desk? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fabulous. I love how a "feature" of each of their products is "attractive look". I have to disagree.

  18. Re:like cave men trying to explain a TV on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Actually 9/11 was actually the work of the Obama administration in collusion with time-traveling communists. So were the fake moon landings - they were created with modern CGI graphics and shipped back in time. Obama's time-traveling comrades are also to blame for the 2008 economic collapse (which is obvious since he couldn't have won without it). The time travel aspect means you also should not trust any birth certificate Obama presents as "evidence".

  19. tachyon communication device on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clear not an actual cell phone, but a tachyon communication device that allowed her to communicate with her native time frame. Duh.

  20. Re:African Genesis Theory is merely "convenient" on 40 Million Year Old Primate Fossils Found In Asia · · Score: 1

    There are great fossil beds scattered all over the world. It's true that the fossil record are somewhat erratic, but not so bad that we would be that far off base.

  21. Re:What the fuck... on Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    nothing. But mentioning makes people scared, which makes them more likely to say yes to granting the government whatever powers it desires.

  22. Open Source Textbooks on Colleges May Start Forcing Switch To eTextbooks · · Score: 1

    If it's good enough for MIT, ought to be good enough for everyone.
    http://ocw.mit.edu/about/
    http://www.opensourcetext.org/
    (and many other references)

  23. Re:Wow on Record-Breaking Galaxy Found In Deep Hubble Image · · Score: 1

    Well, creating a 6000 light-year radius field of photons is certainly easier than creating a whole universe, especially if you've only got 7 days to do it in. And since the world will clearly end any day now, the field needn't be any bigger. You don't even both creating actual matter outside the solar system.

    (actually it seems even easier to create a photon generating sphere around the solar system, or just the earth, and simulate everything - those pesky probes humans send out could be destroyed when they reach the boundary and incorporated into the simulation - the Pioneer anomaly is just a bug - who says God writes perfect code?)

  24. Re:pea-nutty holocaust has no basis in science. on Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant · · Score: 1

    perhaps (citation still needed) but that probably doesn't take into account all the people who would die if not for medical intervention (I would guess that most people with a fatal-level reaction are saved). The point being that peanut allergies really do need to be taken seriously.

    And there are more fatalities than due to fish (or any other food), which contradicts the original poster.

  25. Re:pea-nutty holocaust has no basis in science. on Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

    "Peanut allergy is the most common cause of death due to foods" and "peanut allergies affect 2% of the population" http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=9&sub=20&cont=517

    The CDC seems to put it at more like 1% for peanuts and tree nuts combined http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/foodallergies/

    That's a lot more than 1 in 30 million.