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  1. Re:The Death Star on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    The french are developing an antimatter bomb?

  2. Re:Do NOT make a frickin laser beam joke on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Ill-tempered sir, ILL-tempered. Ill-tempered sea bass will eat you enemies, bad-tempered sea bass will jump out of the tank and eat your minions in a flash of pyrrhic defiance

  3. Re:USA against the World? on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm sure Gibson is really enjoying that benefit.

  4. Re:ten to one it was the pakis on Authorities Seize Duqu's C&C Servers In Mumbai · · Score: 1

    Now now, everyone knows brothers shouldn't fight. Especially when it comes to fucking their mother in public restrooms.

  5. Re:/b/ takes no prisoners on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    10,000 rounds is chump change to plenty of shooters.

  6. Re:Drug Cartels on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    The Mexican government turns over records of all guns that follow US serial number convention(which not only the US uses) weapons collected by police. Of the total number of weapons collected, 20% hve US convention serial numbers. 70%(originally 90% but when dupe numbers[caused either by crap record keeping or corrupt cops letting guns back out onto the streets] are removed from the totals it drops to 70) of those weapons are US serial numbers. Greater than half of those are weapons either sold directly by the US government to the Mexican government or by US government approved private sources. And yes, I realized my 2% mistake after I posted, but was too lazy to write a correction post.

  7. Re:Interesting on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    Any average income would also have to factor in CoL for the various areas. Without that the average income is relatively meaningless. 50,000 USD a year will get you some pretty nice digs in the majority of the world.

  8. Re:Interesting on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 0

    This is america, outside of the VolksRepublik of Massachusetts, DC, and Kalifornia, there's a good chance he'll have a gun. And if people are being dragged out of their vehicles, he'll be ignoring any laws about loaded guns in cars.

  9. Re:WORKERS TO POWER! on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    If by works very well you mean leaves you utterly unable to defend yourselves against serious threats, then yes, it works very well.

  10. Re:Drug Cartels on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    The total percentage of weapons coming from the US into cartel and mexican civvie hands through US civvie or .gov channels is less than 14%(of which US civvie sourced weapons are between 5% and 7% of the total weapons held by mexicans). That means 84% of the weapons in Mexico are never present in the US at all. Try whipping up a more pertinent taking point next time.

  11. Re:And? on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    It's because IT work requires a base level of intelligence combined with the ability to critically think in order to do the damned job. Thus the number of IT workers willing to sign money and control over to ANOTHER bunch of money-grubbing thugs in addition to their bosses and the government is nice and low.

  12. Re:This is out of control on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    The size of the TSA is less than 60,000 employees. Vets include less than a quarter of their frontline workforce, the people actually doing the screening, and I doubt that much of their management is composed of ex soldiers. The number of people that leave the US Army each year is 11,000. Figure at least double that for all branches of service, possibly as much as triple. So less than half of the number of people that leave the US military each year is the total number of vets employed by the TSA. Therefore your comment makes as much sense as Wookies on Endor.

  13. Re:CELEBRATE ENDLESS GODWIN on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    Unless large is at least half the size of a small car and it's anchored into the ground, that probably won't work to properly derail the train. Certainly cause it to come to an emergency stop though.

  14. Re:Well, so much for... on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but support for the TSA itself is broad based across party lines, albeit centered in the authoritarian wings of both parties.

  15. Balderdash on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 2

    "Or how very few even saw the current economic collapse"

    Y'know, there's an entire school of economics that predicted the collapse. And the collapse before it and the ones before that. It's called the Austrian school. But even though they predicted every single damned collapse because they didn't use shiny models and after the mid 90's shiny powerpoints nobody pays any attention to them.

  16. Re:Economics... on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    You've got at LEAST 100 years before peak oil hits. So keep dreaming.

  17. Re:Bring it on on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 1

    Besides which, encryption would ultimately fall under freedom of speech.

  18. Robot Overlords on Stanford Scientists Show Stretchable Skin-Like Sensor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I welcome the fact that our robot overlords will know exactly how hard they are crushing our limbs with any part of their chassis.

  19. Re:Do not want on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    Well, considering the average number of players per console not on the wii is 2, and the majority of AAA titles that have multiplayer is actually 1 with online play, there's no longer much difference.

  20. Re:German men on Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female · · Score: 1

    The one that the people speaking that little known Austrian language have, duh.

  21. Re:Did it "confirm" it was caused by man? on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, unless we are willing to use nukes as a means of CO2 level enforcement around the world, the only real way to 'correct' the rise of CO2 is to create a massive permanent carbon sequestering program. So perhaps all of those green programs should be throwing money at that instead.

  22. Re:Sincerity? on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 1

    Clearly they are planning on towing a very large trailer very quickly.

  23. Re:Why bother with a 4th amendment at all on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 2

    You mean how the Egyptians made things ten times worse? Look, as Americans we have a very special reset button that will have a greater chance at working than most reset buttons. But it's just that, a RESET button. There is no guarantee that what comes after will be better, and doing so will destroy an untold number of lives. There's no going back once pressed, so we would rather be damned sure when pressing it.

  24. Re:Good choice on Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s · · Score: 1

    That video should be titled too much HFCS. Not too much sugar.

  25. Re:Can't be ignored any longer on Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s · · Score: 1

    Between coal,the Bakkan shale fields, and the Bakkan oil fields, the US has more than enough oil to last for centuries.