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  1. Even though it doesn't on Can You Build a Fiber Test Kit On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    That begs the question of how long it will be before a large number of repliess along the lines of "languages evolve" "if people use it to mean that then that's what it means" or "so what, I understood it" will arrive.

  2. Re:That would depend on the size of the budget on Can You Build a Fiber Test Kit On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    If he had a million-dollar budget, I don't think he'd be asking.

    Perhaps he spent 999,995 bucks on a feasibility study from McKinsey?

    The conclusion being, to cut a long story with lots of barcharts short: "maybe".

  3. Re:spiritual beliefs? on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: 1

    Unlike 90% of the people who use the word, you spelled it correctly. Otherwise it wouldn't have made you a musician.

  4. Re:Just Remember... on Seattle Flushes $5M High-Tech Toilets · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the price tag and maintenance cost I'm still wondering why those toilets failed in Seattle.

    BSOD? And this time, B doesn't stand for blue...

  5. Re:I knew a guy who always had headaches on Secure File Storage Over Non-Trusted FTP? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Get Python, and code it yourself, schmuck!"

    You appear to have misspelled "perl".

  6. Re:Do the police... on Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars · · Score: 1

    But it's different for him - he's a better than average driver. But then isn't everybody?

  7. Re:Save the Franchise? on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's like really, really bad fan fiction.

    Lucas is his own biggest fan. So the "like" is redundant.

  8. Re:Save the Franchise? on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 1

    But they didn't do that at the beginning, when they were winning.

  9. Re:Lucas' Money on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was never Shake*sphere*

    That's no moon...

  10. Re:Oh, I have no doubt on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 1

    Admiral Akbar: It's a trap!

    George Lucas: Shut your trap!

  11. Re:Are there any good solutions? on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    The point is, the answers don't have to match the questions as long as you know what they are.

    ...and can remember them. I locked myself out of a bank account I hadn't used for some time because I'd given false answers on the security questions then forgotten them.

  12. Re:Depends on your Definition of Rare on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 1

    Rarity is relative. Even if there are lots and lots, because the galaxy is big, they'll most likely be very far apart, for the same reason.

    They won't be very common where we are or can get to.

  13. Re:The planets may seek warmer climes in winter.. on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 1

    Antarean or Europan?

  14. Enough is enough! on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 1

    I've had enough of these motherfucking gas giants in this motherfucking solar system!

  15. Re:Calculating a planetary system. on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 1

    Life has been found in extreme conditions on Earth, where it wasn't previously thought to be possible. As for photosynthesis, I don't see a reason why on a planet with different illumination a chlorophyll substitute with a different absorbtion band wouldn't evolve.

  16. Re:first post on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 1

    Colmore said "not suggesting every possible idea and disproving them one by one."

    And you disagreed with him.

    But now you say it's only the testable ones. Which is it, then?

    None of your examples produce any predictions, and so are not scientific hypotheses.

    They are if you have an automatic elf camera and a gnome trap.

  17. Re:This means Apple computers are cheap! on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're too kind, I would have tried to sell him a bridge.

  18. Re:Russia has ultimate weapon. on Russian Invasion of Georgia Might Jeopardize Space Station · · Score: 1

    you can be goddamned sure that everywhere else where there is some sort of ethnic Russian minority or some pro-Russian Slavic population we're not likely going to be able to have as much luck.

    And there are quite a lot of those, in part due to Stalin's habit of moving people around. Add the Baltic states to your list.

  19. Re:Rare? on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 1

    there may be a bunch of other intelligent beings on other planets living sort of like we are right now, perhaps even communicating electronically and debating topics like this.

    You're suggesting that *intelligent* life would have something like slashdot or, $deity help us, usenet?

  20. Re:first post on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 1

    You don't have to disprove them all. Otherwise you'd have to prove that dew isn't formed by sad elves with green jackets crying on the lawn. Or elves with red jackets. Or gnomes with green jackets and red hats and only one leg ...

    The range of hypotheses needing to be tested isn't infinite - it's informed by and based on the obsevation. Otherwise we'd be here all week.

  21. Re:ASSachusetts..... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    7) Hot dog vendors: because their integration with the public means they could *potentially* introduce weaponized pathogens into large populations unnoticed.

    I think they already do that, just not intentionally.

  22. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    If they saw bottles labeled "nitric acid" dripping all over a box labeled "cellulose" their suspicion would be more than justified.

    And was that the case?

    If this, if that. If my aunt had wheels, she'd be a '57 Chevy.

  23. Now we know you're lying on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    THAT is what the Simpsons, Jon Stewart and actually a few German comedians

    Right ... these would be the same guys that like to eat great Britsh recipes while drinking fantastic American beer?

  24. Halp on Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700 · · Score: 1

    I kind of got the idea into my head that "Lenovo" sounds like a kind of shampoo, and now I can't get rid of it. Any suggestions?

  25. Re:Refusing to learn from mistakes? on Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They just found the gene for being a tard.