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  1. Re:But the beauty is on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    Navy doesn't care about green. They care about aircraft having fuel to fly.

    OK, so, let me rephrase this in light of the green initiatives prompted by various forces: The Navy's primary consideration here is not being green, it is making certain they have fuel for the aircraft and turbine powered surface vessels.

    Forgive me, but I fail to appreciate your rephrasing in light of the fact that I was commenting on the statements made by a non-Navy chemist, at a non-Navy University, with no relation to the Navy, in reference to a chemical process currently in development.

    Thanks for your open-minded appreciation of what was actually being said though. Dude.

  2. Re:But the beauty is on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1
    Navy doesn't develop chemical processes.

    'The idea of using CO2 as a carbon source is appealing,' says Philip Jessop, a chemist at Queen's University adding that to make a jet fuel that is properly 'green', the energy-intensive electrolysis that produces the hydrogen will need to use a carbon-neutral energy source

  3. Re:But the beauty is on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    Okay, maybe 'sequestered' is the wrong word in this instance, my bad. But removing carbon from the sea and blasting it into the air where it'll compound existing problems, including reabsorption back into the sea, and using large amounts of energy to do so, still doesn't strike me as environmentally-friendly in particular...

  4. Re:But the beauty is on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1
    This is what I don't understand - they're taking sequestered carbon out of seawater and burning it back into the atmosphere as jet fuel, at a huge additional energy cost during the conversion.

    This is 'green'? Have I missed something...?

  5. Re:That's funny on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sorry, the rights on that payment have expired. Would you like to supply more goods in exchange for another one?" :oD

  6. Re:Well... on Opting Out Increases Spam? · · Score: 2, Informative

    An 'opt-out' lends an air of legitimacy to the spam, while allowing a spammer to confirm an active address, which can then be sold on to more spamming twats for a higher price than an unconfirmed one... a 'known good' address is still worth more on sale to another spammer (hey, your penis might be gigantic and therefore unworthy of v14gr4, but that's not to say you don't *NEED* an RC car kit, right?!)

  7. Re:DVDFab on Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux? · · Score: 1

    True - a week of early shifts has narrowed my sense of context down to only the post I was replying to... :o(

  8. Re:DVDFab on Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Haven't used it in a while, but I'm sure DVDShrink can be set to compile a single .iso file and clear the intermediate output files at the end of the process.

  9. Re:Trailer Story FAIL on First Trek Film Footage Unveiled · · Score: 1

    "Spaced" was first broadcast in 1999 if I remember right, although I'm pretty sure the line wasn't meant to exclude even-numbered ones - just to note the more obvious pattern ;o)

  10. Re:Trailer Story FAIL on First Trek Film Footage Unveiled · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm waiting for Pegg to repeat his line from his tv series, "Spaced":

    "Sure as eggs is eggs, sure as night follows day, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit."

  11. Re:King Ed T.V. on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you're thinking of The Truman Show?

  12. Re:Intended purpose of hacking the e-mail on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    K, I kinda screwed up the focus of the sentence there - I'll rephrase:

    How many of us are a presidential candidate's running mate, who's being shown to be conducting governmental business in a way that is unethical and, quite possibly, illegal ?

  13. Re:Intended purpose of hacking the e-mail on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    How many of us would like random email subpoenaed? How many of us use language that while acceptable in context could be misconstrued if widely disseminated? While I understand the desire to preserve memos (and emails) for the sake of historians, there is a certain Heisenberg quality, knowing that it is monitored/will be made public skews what makes it into emails. How many of us would speak in person a lot more if all of our phone conversations at the office were recorded or if our email were to be scrutinized by hundreds of people at a later date?

    How many of us are the running mate of a presidential candidate who's being shown to be conducting governmental business in a way that is unethical and, quite possibly, illegal ?

  14. It's the Wolves on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's more likely to be a trap placed there to entice intelligent life to its doom by warring aliens thousands of millenia ago - as shown in Alastair Reynolds' historical documentary 'Revelation Space'.

  15. Re: Danish Blue on A Really, Really Ex-Parrot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Article-reading for the win. Still, the blurb was misleading. Disregard, cocks etc.

  16. Re: Danish Blue on A Really, Really Ex-Parrot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er... Shouldn't that be the 'Norwegian Blue'? :o\

  17. Re:Relativism on UK Prosecutors Say 'Cult' Acceptable · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is weird. Calling Scientology a cult is a no-brainer .

    Fix'd
  18. Re:Not that simple on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 1

    A website from almost exactly three years ago says the same thing here, too...

  19. Re:Who cares? on Leaked Government Doc Reveals UK ID "Coercion" Plans · · Score: 1

    I fully expect them to build it with the assumption that first names are usable as primary keys.

    I have mod points, but as a UK citizen I genuinely can't decide if this is 'funny' or 'insightful' :o(

  20. Re:The reference is on MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    If you're running Opera, adding the string "*myminicity*" to the Blocked Content list works well - the browser will just refuse to load anything originating from there :o) Not sure how it works in Firefox, but I'm sure there's something similar...

  21. Re:Cool but... on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 1
    "Military superiority is a stabalizing force on this planet in a similar way to how shows like "World's Best Police Chases!" discourage crime."

    And they say satire's dead.

  22. Re:Acting Like Democrats on How Tech Almost Lost the War · · Score: 1
    Bush outspent LBJ. Like LBJ, he started a war that his predecessors must finish.

    And which of those predecessors would be best-placed to finish the current war? Clinton? Bush Sr? ...Reagan perhaps?

  23. Re:It was planned. on Creationists Violating Copyright · · Score: 1

    Yeah but according to the cult of the FSM pirates are cool and the lack of them is causing global warming. That's "Intelligent Defrosting" to you. :oP

  24. Re:Recordings without contact numbers.. on FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators · · Score: 1

    Thinking about it, the phrase 'This call may be recorded' could always be interpreted as permission for you to do so...

  25. Re:Wonder if the BBC knows about this? on Web Contracts Can't Be Changed Without Notice · · Score: 1

    The British Broadcasting Corporation isn't generally considered subject to US court decisions...