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  1. Re:I really don't understand how people ... on Global Warming Debunker Debunked · · Score: 1

    The idea of global warming being bad for crops is one I've never understood.

    Weren't the warm periods and the very high temperatures of the Cretaceous also bunker times for crops and plant growth in general?

  2. Re:Don't be so outraged... just use your rights... on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming he already got past Daubert, but what about a motion in limine?

  3. Re:It's be worse than that.... on Voting Machine Glitches Already Being Reported · · Score: 1

    You've heard of Tammany Hall, right? Poll watchers?

    The reason the ballot is secret is because voter coersion *does happen*.

  4. Re:Ultra-capacitors for a different type of hybrid on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 1

    Up until the time that my dry-chemical rocket takes out your railroad hub or transmission line, at which point, you're back to the automobile.

    There are a *lot* of uses for petroleum. And while you may kill of gasoline, killing off diesel will be harder.

  5. Re:1.2 Megawatts on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 1

    You're going to tear open metal hinges and frame members with a plastic crowbar?

  6. Re:No, you need to blame Javascript too. on Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 1

    No, it really was.

    I never made the migration to 4.7 for years because it was such a POS. The first betas of Mozilla were an improvement, and that entire codebase got scrapped.

  7. Re:More on Senatorial holds on Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 0 · · Score: 1

    2nd Amendment.

  8. Re:Yeah... on Apple Warns Companies About 'Pod' Naming · · Score: 1

    Bayer does not have a US trademark on Aspirin. They lost it in WWII.

  9. Re:Grieving Time? on RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children · · Score: 1

    It's a civil case. There is no right to a speedy civil trial. In practical terms, there's almost no such thing -- especially if one of the parties dies. See, when the executer of the case dies, there's usually a large delay, as the next person to manage the case needs to be brought up to speed with the past proceedings, the strategy, the terms, etc. Basically, the case gets restarted, minus the facts presented to date.

  10. Re:talk about over protective on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    My grandfather tells me stories of what he ate as a kid.

    Every damn thing was fried in lard or bacon grease. Everything. Granted, it was usually fried potatoes or fried bread or fried cornmeal, or...

    The trick? They worked on a farm, and didn't eat much. They were *starving*. There's a reason the generation after the Depression was darn near 5" taller than the one before.

  11. Re:talk about over protective on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    The first thing any child experiences is the effect of unprotected sex.

    The large part of being a teenager is spent trying to make life start happening to them.

    My parents gave me expectation and accountability. They also let me wander down to the library unsupervised and read whatever I damn well pleased. Sometimes kids need to be saved. Often they don't. What they really need is the reason. "Because I said so" isn't a reason -- it's an excuse.

  12. Re:whatever on Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit · · Score: 1

    Got that backwards.

    Legally a vegetable, technically a fruit.

    http://home.howstuffworks.com/question143.htm

  13. Re:Thanks for the conversion on Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit is calibrated to a super-saturated salt-water solution.

    Why doesn't water boil at 10 celsius? It's supposed to be a decimal scale, right? What's significant about 10 celsius?

  14. Re:Thanks for the conversion on Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit · · Score: 1

    Fruit, when picked, tends to be measured in the volume, as opposed to in the mass. You fill the bag, semi-regardless of what the bag weighs.

    When it comes to picking nits, why is it that when asking a European their weight, they give you a number in kilograms? Kilograms are mass. Newtons are weight.

  15. Re:Metric on Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit · · Score: 1

    Then perhaps it's for the best that no one consulted you when it came time to name the sport.

  16. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1
    "It's not like they're forcing you to. It's there as a convenience to the shopper.

    All too often, they are. Numerous times I've seen all the human lanes closed and the sole person babysitting the automated lanes.

  17. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1

    It works better when you use perishable items too, like ice cream, seafood (especially), or deli products.

  18. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1

    The best is when you're scanning a hammer. That way, when the machine rejects it for some asinine reason, you get to demo the hammer.

    This also works for sufficiently large wrenches and ratchets.

  19. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1

    I've run into situations where sufficiently late at night, the self-scans are the only checkouts open, being manned by the sole checkout monkey on duty. So, regardless of your number of groceries, you're herded through those horrific pieces of shit.

  20. Re:simplicity -- CORRECTION on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    Basically coinciding with their successful period.

    Think about that. We were naked apes for 992,000 years. We were masters of the planet for 8,000. What happened? We changed the environment around us.

  21. Re:Turkish Twist / Rotor on The Physics of Superman · · Score: 1

    Gravitrons are actually more forceful than Rotors or Round-Ups.

  22. Re:Well no shit on Porn Dominates the Spam Battlefield · · Score: 1

    That's why you have to love the one show that runs the 60 year old nun with the glass eye. You *know* they aren't trying to sell you with sex.

  23. Re:Show some humanity on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    Lay wasn't a Dung Beetle

  24. Simple explanation on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 3, Funny

    God called. He wants to know where his pension is.

  25. Re:Ken Lay -- serial killer? on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    Here's a simple question: Who ruined more lives? Ken Lay or Ted Bundy?