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  1. Mine would be extremely difficult to guess on Huge Pool of Ice-Free Water Discovered Under Greenland Ice · · Score: 1

    Let's see if you can guess mine:

    Marduk T-Shirt, military boots, necklace with an inverted pentagram, leather jacket with stickers of Immortal, an inverted crucifix a Church of Satan button, heavy duty working trousers... hmm, difficult, very difficult to guess.
    \m/

  2. Re:Not enough, on Alan Turing Pardoned · · Score: 1

    Heterosexuals and rectal intercourse? Do you know that chicks have butt's too? And awesome ones to boot!

  3. Re:Not enough, on Alan Turing Pardoned · · Score: 1

    Because he was a War Hero , one of the most important contributors to the fact that we Europeans aren't all making the Hilter salute right now (well, the ones who wouldn't be in the concentration camps at least).

  4. Re:Incest on Alan Turing Pardoned · · Score: 1

    Consumation does however not imply "offspring".
    Sex is done for the sake of sex not specifically to have children, that's part of being human. Sex is a cultural matter not merely a reproductive one and this is specially true in the developed countries were an increasing amount of people decide not to have children, even married heterosexual couples.

    I know quite a lot of them here in Holland, me and my wife included.

    Your argument regarding incest is thus not quite sound.

    And in any case; if a non related couple can decide to bear children with abnormalities even knowing it beforehand (many Christians for instance), what is the logic behind not allowing consanguineous couples to bear children? It's stupid, two persons with a hereditary disfunction such as Down syndrome have no legal problems to have children that will be born with Down syndrome too, but a perfectly healthy brother and his sister aren't allowed even if the possible outcome may be perfectly healthy offspring. It makes no sense.

    But please consider my first argument: Sex != reproduction

     

  5. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    OK, OK, you ar right, me baaad.... :P

    Can I keep the bunny ^_^ ???

  6. Re:OS readiness on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    You are completely right!
    You just put my whole current employer out of the bussiness (I currently work for Comscore Inc). I will tell our CEO to thrash all the GPLed code that makes our servers work and change them for Windows Server 2008 R2... and you will come over to make the migration, right?

    Thanks for offering yourself as a volunteer mate. And later you can tell your GPL discovery to Google, they will LOVE it ;)

    Thanks for enlightening us mate!!

  7. Re: iOS 7.1 on Evad3rs Announce iOS 7 Jailbreak For Latest Apple Devices · · Score: 1

    You are right.

    Given the use that we generally give to such a device (reading stuff mostly and some games, taking notes, etc) I don't see a great urge to get a Bash terminal running or a developing environment (because it sucks big balls for coding, that's why).

    I jailbroke 6 after getting my iPad3 (from my employer, else I would have continued very happily with my Acer One), I then just re-installed 6 and after updating to 7 I didn't even bother.

  8. Re:more likely they've been able to live in SF on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 1

    No idea, how much is that in a civilized system of measure?

  9. Re:more likely they've been able to live in SF on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 1

    There is a whole country affected by that: Spain.
    Rich North-Europeans drove the real estate bubble. The difference is that while there the prices were rising Spaniards were getting loans from the banks and speculated with real estate... The result was that even in the best time of speculation a lot of Spaniards were unable to afford a house and most of them lived with their parents until their 40s (no kidding). Then the crisis came, prices went down but not enough.

    Now some "smart entrepreneurs" are trying to sell the houses to people here in North Europe because they think they may make profit again. Unfortunately nobody is willing to buy.

    The fun thing is that the British being be principal culprits of the increase in real estate prices in Spain and in a great part also of the financial crisis itself (RBS, where I was working back then) are now blaming Europe and pointing fingers at the "vile outlanders who come to steal or money". Well, lot of the same is happening here in Holland too with our dear beloved Geert Wilders while we were in a great part involved in the loans rush (ING, Rabobank, ABN Amro, etc).

    All what's happening in SF, Spain and other areas are actually clear signs that capitalism as we know it is not working, that the market is not self-regulating and smart and not well adapted to a society in the scale we are living in nowadays. In a society you can't just go and fuck parts of it just for the sake of it, you can't behave antisocial and create more tension because you will make the system less efficient and less pleasant for yourself. There must thus be mechanisms to regulate and control the market, there's no way around. But we are unfortunately living in an age were people have faith in the market, the sacred Capitalism and a system called democracy where a 90% of illiterate idiots can impose their wishes and their stupid ideas.

  10. Re:Please stop that on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    Did you know that this guy started his experiments in what was later called "Area 51" LOL
    And don't forget Tsiolkovsky a Tsarist Russian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

  11. NO, this simple on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    It's like saying that RT devices would replace most sporters.

    Netzt question, please

  12. Re:Trials and tribulations of the first world! on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 2

    I heard they call it "sex"

  13. Re:Comic book reader. on Datawind Not Blowing Smoke: $38 Tablet Coming To the US · · Score: 1

    Much better of a young'un breaks THIS vs breaking a $400+ iPad or Nexus.

    EXACTLY what I was thinking. Makes a lot of sense.

  14. Re:Feeding Troll on purpose. on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    Bah, we do things much better here in the EU!!!

    Because here things are very, very different: Instead of having CArgill and Monsanto we have Unilever, BASF and Bayer !!!

  15. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    Well Said!

    Damn Democrats and their 2005 government. Was it Obama? Hmm, I don't think so I can remember that hte damn liberal socialist democrat who was on the White House back then was a white guy, with a strange Texan accent... hmm... I also recall he had something to do with oil companies and a certain war somwhere in Asia? Africa? Well, doesn't matter, a fucking damn liberal commy repulbican he was, that for sure!!

  16. You are 100% right on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    AFAIK and if my memory doesn't fail, the Corn Ethanol issues was claimed a big success of the Bush administration and it caused quite some stirring internationally.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005

    The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub.L. 109–58) is a bill passed by the United States Congress on July 29, 2005, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005

    I don't see any reference to Al Gore, SPECTRA or the Evil IPCC (Illuminaty Pokemon Collectors Club)

    But you will never know, the powers of ManBearPig are multiple and terrifying!!!

  17. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    Easy: ManBearPig! Excelsiooooor!!!

    It seems that you don't watch enough South Park sir. It's all there, black on white.

  18. Less Porn photographers??? on Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Ah, sorry, I thought "red light cameras" where cameras installed in the Red Lights district capturing acts of physical intercourse... but it seems that that's not the case.

  19. Article has nothing to do with the real study on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    The result of the study was that

    Multivitamins do not prevent diseases in average individuals.

    This is a far cry from:

    Do daily multivitamins make you healthier?

    It means that in a population of people with an average diet and an average lifestyle who take multivitamins for disease prevention there is no statistically significant correlation between multivitamin intake and lesser incidence of common diseases.

    This does not say anything about the use of multivitamins in cases of nutritional deficits such as in clinical cases, vegetarians/vegans or sporters who may not cover their needs with normal nutrition. In the latter group in fact, use of multivitamins does seem to show a statistically significant correlation but this is surely a proxy effect caused by the fact that sporters do lead healthier lifestyle already.

    My personal concern regarding multivitamins is possible side effects and over-dosage. Last year I was taking a supplement of Vitamin A that was close to 70%-80% of the RTI... I started getting a lot of pain in my joints and muscles and they felt stiff and "rubbery". After checking my nutrition logs I found out that I was overdosing close to the 4000 IU (that's the lowest toxic concentration) as I was consuming a lot of carotenes so that my organism was creating a lot of Vitamin A. A week after stopping the intake of the supplement everything went back to normal.

    I am a guy who does his homework on this nutrition and supplements, I maintain a nutrition log and keep track of macro and micronutrients. And yet I screwed up... just imagine what the normal Joe can do, specially the ones adepts to the fine academical discipline of broscience :)

  20. One second, aren't motherboards actually Chinese? on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Everything nice and dandy... but aren't almost all motherboards actually made in China?

    so... what need would there be for the bad Chinese to create extra malware? They could just have dropped backdoors into each mobo and done.

    And now that we talk of China: Why in Hell's name would they want to fuck up the economy of their own customers? I don't get it.

  21. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    And you could paint flames on it, this would add an extra boost!

  22. Re:How is this news? on Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math · · Score: 1

    You sure males have only 2 testicles?
    Mate, I need to talk to my doctor.

  23. Re:How is this news? on Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math · · Score: 1

    The Mayans also counted in base 13... go figure where they got the idea for this

  24. Re:SO, does it look the same as it did in 1969? on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    This is vital science and we all know China is only able to progress its technology by sending a camera on wheels to the Moon.

    A camera on wheels and a baked potato still wrapped in tin-foil!!!

  25. Re:Those who think that moon landing was a fake .. on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Have you ever watched "Breaking Bad" or Trainspotting?
    Well, there's your answer ;)