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  1. Re:Artificial? on Creating Artificial Proteins · · Score: 1


    Go to the local health food store and some dirty, stinking, patchouli-wearing hippy freak "expert" will tell you a hundred reasons their "organic free-range" Vitamin C is so much healthier and better than regular Vitamin C. All a bunch of crap. Chemically they are identical and indiscernable. Run it through the Mass Spec and see what difference there is. None.

  2. Re:"easy" as photoshop? on Photoshop for DNA · · Score: 1

    We prefer the term "Homogenizer"

  3. Re:If a nurse and engineer marry and have a child. on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but why are there so many trannies in Brazil. Maybe somebody should submit a grant to correlate the effects of sniffing glue to the frequency of trannies.

  4. asinine on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    God I hope they weren't funded, but I'm sure they were. Useless research like this wastes resources that could be used to fund "important" projects.

  5. WTF? on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Pardon my ignorance, but what in the hell is a futurologist? Did he need to get a degree in it, or is he just a self-proclaimed expert? I think I'll deem myself a masturbatologist. Or perhaps a porn-downloadologist.

  6. Re:I don't get it on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1

    One question..... What if you could only ejaculate a finite number of times in your life? Damn it would suck if you spent all your time with "Rosie" Wow.... a prime number would be great.

  7. Re:Well it's starting to become reality on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1

    Especially if all the existing embryonic stem cell lines weren't contaminated with animal (mouse) proteins.

  8. Re:So is S Korea now part of the Axis of Evil? on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think a little clarification is in order here. I do stem cell research on a daily basis at a University here in the US using exclusively government funding. What Bush prohibited (or actually crippled) was human embryonic stem cell research. Bone marrow and umbilical cord blood stem cell (my little pet) research has been going on quite strongly during this administration.

  9. Re:Zaphod Beeblebrox anyone? on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1

    There's always the "Shocker" technique. (Hold hand open and bend ring finger down, keeping all others extended.) Now repeat the cute little poem: Two in the pink, One in the stink, Thumb on the speed-bag

  10. Re:I don't get it on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1

    If we are so evolved, don't you think we would have ergonomic adaptations to prevent repetitive motion injury. Oh wait..... masturbation isn't particularly conducive to procreation, thus would have negatively affected evolution. Now it all makes sense.

  11. Re:Coke on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    You seem to leave out the fact that although Coke contains phosphoric acid and will corrode metal, your stomach fluids have a pH of about 1 and will corrode the same peice of metal infinitely faster. If you really want to be technical.... Coke probably reduces the pH of your stomach fluids, whereby making it less corrosive.

  12. Re:Another wet ipod on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 1

    Hmmm..... 180 degree corner..... they must have changed corners, as I was always under the assumption they were 90 degrees by definition.

  13. Re:Related Article on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 1

    Or you could always make your Civic Del Sol into an X-Wing and repel chicks. Or attract Star Wars chicks I suppose.

  14. Re:What's next? on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 1

    Liquid helium. Colder than liquid nitrogen (4 K I believe) and already used in NMR for cooling those damn super-conducting magnets. Of course the liquid helium is kept cool using..... liquid nitrogen.

  15. Re:Spelling? on Company Name in URL Not Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Spelt? Think you mean spelled, unless you're British. Or perhaps referring to a wheat (Triticum aestivum spelta) with lax spikes and spikelets containing two light red kernels.

  16. Re:Nissan on Company Name in URL Not Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2

    How is that possible? The cars were Nissans (not Datsuns) long before Al Gore invented the internet.

  17. Re:Showing my ignorance on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Not to nitpick, but wouldn't you need to obtain 2H2 + O2 ? Last time I checked O wasn't stable, well at least not on this planet.

  18. Re:Where's biotech? on IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    I don't quite think that figure is accurate. In academia (where I am entrenched) it is probably accurate, but I think in industry (where I started and worked until I had surgery to remove the company president and upper management out of my ass) the salaries are higher.

  19. Re:Oh great... on IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    At least we know it's not coming from Dan Rather or CBS this time.

  20. Re:Battery life? on iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market · · Score: 1

    I have no idea where all these battery complaints come from. I have a 2G 20Gig iPod I purchased in April 2002. I have been using it almost every day and still consistently get about 10+ hours on the battery. Yes...the original battery.

  21. Re:Importance of Software Patents on Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship · · Score: 1

    A spelling Nazi? On /.? There'd need to be a beowulf cluster of spelling Nazi's to get all the corrections done.

  22. Re:On in the US on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    metricise? I heard Mike Tyson say in an interview one time that's what he does to stay in shape. He also said doughnuts are malicious.

  23. Re:just in case... on Segways Roll Over Chicago · · Score: 1

    Someone actually studied the pictures and published a quasi-analysis of the scenario. The "Mystery Object" in the pictures is actually Bush's Scottish Terrier Barney. Remember when he dropped Barney?

  24. Re:Wait a minute... on Royal Bank of Canada Software Upgrade Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    How do you think we wind up with all those damn Canadian quarters in our change here in the US. Especially in Florida. I really wouldn't mind it if they were worth more than.... uh....$0.18 US.

  25. Re:Progression on Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die · · Score: 1

    Don't know too much about the C64, however there was an arcade game called 720 in the mid-80s which had the "skate or die" phrase and a large swarm of bees to keep you skating. I think we're both right.