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  1. Re:So... on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    Honestly it seems to just be a continuously variable transmission without a significant high or low limit.

    And yes, you can get a CVT for your bicycle. If you don't mind having a good 10 pounds back there.

  2. Re:"white-supremacist father and son" on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Communist, I realise that years of brainwashing by right-wing politicians have made this confusing but there's a really big fucking difference between communism, fascism, capitalism, and socialism.

    It's especially important because if you live in a first world country you live in a socialist country.

  3. Re:Well that was obnoxious on Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study · · Score: 1

    It's not JUST the scaling. Every model has utterly broken proportions, a posture that just isn't human, and out of the whole thing I'm not even sure the hands, feet, or breasts ever changed size.

  4. Re:Could've been the Anarchist's Cookbook.... on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    Nah that's like Lewis Black pointed out. If you kill enough people and it sorta wraps around and nobody really knows what to say beyond "Wow, you must have worked very hard on that..."

  5. Re:"white-supremacist father and son" on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    Honestly I don't see why we don't do away with the pretense and instead of "free speech zone" tape and sticking both groups inside it we just straight up make it a cage match.

  6. Re:Could've been the Anarchist's Cookbook.... on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    However if he DOES get caught with some AND the manual then the manual goes a long way towards establishing intent. That's why I start off agreeing with the GP.

  7. Re:Could've been the Anarchist's Cookbook.... on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That was my thought as well. There's a difference between a guide on making a few kinds of small scale explosives and even manuals on geurilla tactics and a manual for making illegal weapons of indiscriminate destruction.

  8. Re:"white-supremacist father and son" on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually from what my foreign friends have told me America's one of the few countries where these kinds of groups aren't strongly discouraged by some means other than public attitude.

  9. Re:Cure? on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate to say it but I'm starting to agree with this. Why would any pharmaceutical company EVER want to actually cure something when they could hook people on treatments for life.

    Especially if they can't patent it, or it's inexpensive.

  10. Re:I am happy. on Steam Client for Mac Launches, Linux Client On the Way · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I just verbally abuse my lawn and tell it how fat and ugly it is.

  11. Re:Meanwhile on consoles on Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends · · Score: 1

    Is that because console games are more popular or because there are more of them overall? Or maybe it's because developers keep making amazingly shitty PC ports so the PC players learned and quit buying.

    That argument doesn't work because you can't point out a clear cause for the effect.

  12. Re:Meanwhile on the PC on Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends · · Score: 1

    So was Tribes 2, but again people are still playing "with their own dedicated servers and authentication systems". I don't see how stating a fact about what people are indeed doing at this very moment is misleading.

  13. Re:Hooray! on The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy · · Score: 1

    Yeah how about that, it's almost as if the Network of roadways has some sort of legal Neutrality...

  14. Meanwhile on the PC on Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends · · Score: 5, Informative

    People are still playing everything from Quake's Team Fortress to Tribes 2, with their own dedicated servers and authentication systems.

  15. Re:Hooray! on The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why? Because it was built using taxpayer money and with the expectation that it would be a neutral and uncensored... waitaminute

  16. Re:Doesn't explain... on Ball Lightning Caused By Magnetic Hallucinations · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've had my head beat in by a playset last time I fought Red Deck Wins: http://magiccards.info/query?q=ball+lightning&v=card&s=cname

  17. Re:What could on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 4, Informative

    The rainwater you drink is condensed water that evaporated naturally. Unless they forgot to mention a filtering step they're talking about shoving atomized saltwater directly into the air.

  18. Re:What could on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1, Informative

    Lets also ignore the possible impact of having that much salt pumped into the air...

  19. Re:Because they are unreliable. on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 1

    I'm not a spy or a criminal, and it was still trivially easy to convince a cheap polygraph that I was a female angel with green wings and Dr. Scholls footwear.

  20. Re:Because they are unreliable. on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong again. Polygraphs can only tell when the subject is showing physical signs of stress through pulse, blood ox, temperature readings, and galvanic skin response.

    Maybe I am stressed, I had a bad burrito and I'm terrified that the next fart won't be silent or dry.

    An FMRI "lie detector" only shows you what parts of the brain are active on the assumption that certain parts lighting up mean someone is thinking too much and thus making it up.

    Maybe my brain IS active, that one girl had some really nice breasts and I wonder what they look like underneath all that clothing...

  21. Re:Provided... on Flash Is Not a Right · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Close. All that analogy is missing is the point that the behavior that would require you to buy replacements and lose warranty coverage is watching a different channel.

  22. Re:not impressed on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 3, Funny

    At some point enough switches, buttons, and lights that look military-chic enough can go from creepy and/or pathetic to indescribably awesome.

  23. Re:Wow, really? on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    I just recently finally buried my old Force Feedback joystick. Yeah, the original one that used a the plugs you see on the back of a computer but never seem to use anymore.

  24. Re:How prevalent? on Win7 Can Delete All System Restore Points On Reboot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Foolish? I think that's an understatement. Using temp for storage is like getting angry when people flush your shit down a toilet.

  25. Re:more on Japanese Researchers Make Plastic Out of Water · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And suddenly I think we might actually see this stuff getting mass produced.