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  1. Oh please on Body Modifications Still Hinder IT Professionals? · · Score: 1

    I mean, Lizardman? What kind of example is that? Do you vote Republican? You argue like they do.

  2. Re:Where is the RSS feed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked? · · Score: 1

    Talk about it. For a moment there i thought every story was a dupe from yesterday.

  3. JavaScript libraries comparison on Ajax On Rails · · Score: 1

    Would anyone care to post their experiences with any of the libraries - DWR, Prototype, Sajax, and Ajax.NET (i'm not interested in this one at all, but to be fair...) - mentioned in TFA?

  4. Ha! on Wisconsin Corpse Plant To Bloom Again · · Score: 1

    But with a nick like yours...

  5. Re:Fantastic on Wisconsin Corpse Plant To Bloom Again · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately the best i can do at home is A. Paeonifolius

    Who's this Paeonifolius you're talking about? You have your neighbour buried in the basement or something?

  6. Re:Protection is a non-issue on NPR Talks Skyhooks · · Score: 1
    Nevermind the problems and cost ineffiencies in getting space station parts / shuttle/spaceship parts onto a floating platform.

    Yes, it is nearly impossible to get large things onto a floating platform.

  7. US CIA or South Korean on North Korean Hackers Rival CIA? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aside from the fact that that's a mostly meaningless statement, perhaps he was referring to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA).

  8. Re:This just in, North Korea has an army too! on North Korean Hackers Rival CIA? · · Score: 1
    During the first Gulf war, i caught a bit of a call-in show on CBC Newsworld. This was at the height of the run on gas masks at army surplus stores - here in North America. One caller at one point said - and i quote - "But what if they nuke Winnipeg?"

    My roommate & i laughed over that one for weeks.

  9. soil, or regolith? on Earth Microbes May Survive On Mars · · Score: 1

    That might be an important distinction. I know squat about soil (or regolith) though. Anyone care to comment?

  10. Re:The Truth Is Not Out There on CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame · · Score: 1

    For any coup to be half-way successful, i think they'd need to drop a neutron bomb (that was developed in the 70s, BTW) on K street in Washington. That's the real source of many of our problems.

    Well, there's always hope.

  11. Re:Comparison in slightly bad taste... on CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame · · Score: 2

    google 'SCADA'. Then use your imagination. (hint: others have already, and they're plenty concerned)

  12. Re:More Efficient Coastal Farming on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    funny.

    But that points out something i've never seen mentioned when discussing a large-scale sea-level rise. Just imagine the increased pollution that would occur as the oceans increasingly sweep into the cities. All those port facilities and whatnot. I think the coastlines would become dead zones (vastly more than they are now, that is)

  13. Re:WARNING WARNING NSFC on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    great bumpersnicker.

    And it's nice to see life forms lower down on the evlutionary ladder weighing in on this important topic :-)

  14. Re:WARNING WARNING NSFC on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 3, Funny

    LOL.

    I was just thinking that it'd be funny if the xenophobic fundies started advocating segregation so as not to interfere with evolution.

    Hey, stranger things happen. Have you heard about Neal Horsley, the anti-abortion zealot who fucks animals? No, really. In his own words:

    AC: "You had sex with animals?"
    NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."
    AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."
    NH: "You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?"
    AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?"
    NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..."
    Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and "and I don't think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I'm saying?"
    Horsley said, "You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You're naive. You know better than that... If it's warm and it's damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it."

    Perhaps it's just the biological imperative. He does it to further our evolution.

  15. Re:Poor choice of slogan on Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered · · Score: 1

    i thought that as well and sent them a msg about it. I was confused as well until i noticed that tm at the end.

  16. thanks on Cassini Confirms New Moon of Saturn · · Score: 1

    I was just going to post the same question. Image here, for the curious.

  17. Re:United States - 0 South East Asia : 1 on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 1

    hmm, yes, due to the western values we've been spreading: money above all else. 3 cheers for us.

    What kills me is that so many people with attitudes similar to what you've just expressed also seem to take for granted everything around them. Sports, indeed. That's pretty sad.

  18. Re:United States - 0 South East Asia : 1 on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 1

    umm... dude - i think you've just proved his point.

  19. my lips are burning... on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 1

    i think you meant chem instead of cs, no?

  20. Re:No Admin worth their salt installs a new OS on File Sharing Difficulties Frustrate Tiger Admins · · Score: 1

    unless they're having these problems while testing on their own networks.

  21. works for me on From Carnivore to Herbivore · · Score: 1

    I haven't eaten meat (or fish) for 20 years now. I feel great, and look a lot younger than i am. Perhaps the critters found themselves in an abundance of readily available, high-energy greens and decided it was much less work than trying to catch & kill their next meal.

    The creature's thigh bones were longer than its shin bones, suggesting that it could run at an impressive pace. "The legs are still adapted for running after prey,"

    Well, the sorts of things a cheetah chases can run pretty bloody fast themselves, and most of them are grass eaters. Maybe these things still needed to avoid being eaten by those in the neighbourhood that remained carnivorous.

  22. Re:Sad to see you go. on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    huh? care to elaborate? i don't understand what you're getting at. Not a flame; just confused by your post.

  23. Re:I'M AFRAID OF AMERICANS on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Amen, brother.

    The problem isn't Christians - we know that. The problem is the American Taliban that has been gaining in power recently. They don't seem to care much for the teachings of Jesus. One of the reasons we see them as so dangerous (not to mention odious) is that they can efectively get away with murder by waving around the bible (and shouting a lot).

  24. yee-frickity-haw! on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A cogent argument sir (or madam). Now where are those mod points i threw away yesterday.

    And if you're not a religious nutcase but you are in the U.S., don't fucking apologise. DO SOMETHING. You are to blame for letting these rabid fundamentalists take over. YOU have to stop them.

    I agree absolutely with this. Hey intelligent Americans - TAKE BACK YOUR FUCKING COUNTRY! We are sick of this shit and many of us are tiring of NOT lumping you all in the same bunch. You are burning serious karma.

  25. "...and should be invaded by a U.N. force..." on U.S. Rejects Canadian Rejection of DMCA · · Score: 1

    Bull - meet red flag.

    That would really send the god-fearing ones into orbit. "They've disguised their Black Helicopters by paintin' em white!" Ted Nugent going over the Manitoba border with a crack combat-archery team. Cheney is "whisked off to an undisclosed location." Steven Harper 'under guard' at Thorncliff...