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  1. pls on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    The fuck is workahol?

  2. Re:same as booze being illegal in saudi arabia on First LSD Test In 40 Years Reveal Drug Helps Terminal Patients Prepare For Death · · Score: 1

    Can you cite some studies for this supposed fact of yours? I've done quite a lot of research into these sorts of things and not once have I heard anything about LSD causing brain damage.

  3. Re:My New Car on Ubuntu Touch On a Nexus 7: "Almost Awesome" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except your analogy is dumb. This isn't buying a new car, this is more like getting invited down to the factory to try out a prototype of a new model they're still in the process of designing.

    I mean gee, you'd almost think that this was an unfinished OS running on a Tablet that wasn't specifically designed to run it or something...

  4. 40k on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else immediately think of LasGuns from 40k?

  5. Re:How to simulate dialup on BT Prepares To Pull Plug On Dial-Up · · Score: 5, Funny

    Minimum latency: 700 ms

    [screams internally]

  6. Re:As always... on The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades · · Score: 2

    Actually cats, like most predators, fail to catch their prey way more than they succeed. That is to say, the mouse usually escapes.

  7. Re:Graduation rates on San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity · · Score: 1

    Edison was great at stealing other people's work but mediocre at best when it came to actually inventing things himself. Filtering out that parasite could hardly be called a bad thing...

  8. Re:In otherwords on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know the details on this Catholic town trying to ban porn and condoms but honestly I can see arguments either way for whether or not that sort of law/ordinance should be legal to make. On the one hand, this is a planned community with a specific purpose so it only makes sense that that should (within reason) be able to set up any sort of laws they want. If you don't like it, don't move there. On the other hand, letting towns make these sorts of rules could set a bad precedent. What happens if that sort of law gets passed in a much larger town that grew up organically (and thus is full of people who are already established there and didn't sign up to live according to the rules of some group they have no affiliation with?).

    Honestly, I don't much care for these sorts of special interest communities anyway. Isolating yourself from society so you can live in your own little echo chamber and never have to hear someone who disagrees with you rarely ends well.

  9. Re:im confused here on Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video · · Score: 1

    Ego Overpowers Caution?

  10. Re:It is a shame that OpenOffice gets the nice nam on Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man

  11. Registration fee on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 1

    I signed up for the news letter and was planning on applying but they want 38 fucking dollars as a registration fee. Screw that. If I actually thought this was gonna go anywhere I'd gladly pay it. If it was 5 bucks or so I'd gladly pay it just on a lark even thinking as I do that this will probably amount to nothing. 40 bucks just to apply for something that will probably fail and that I probably won't get picked for even if it does succeed? Fuck that noise!

  12. Re:Nothing new on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    Just because you don't need AC doesn't mean it's not nice to have, especially if you're not burning a bunch of electricity to get it.

  13. Re:Nothing new on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 2

    Paradoxically you can actually run an aircon off waste heat using an absorption cooler so central heat (or steam depending on how the plant is set up) can be just as useful in summer as in winter. A lot of places in NYC are air-conditioned this way actually...

  14. Re:something something something HOST file on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 1

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  15. Betteridge's law of headlines on Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store For Open Source Developers? · · Score: 1

    No.

  16. Re:So, follow Denmark's example: EV's (Elec Cars) on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    It's not vapor. They have working examples of the tech and it's evolutionary rather than revolutionary anyway so it's not like there'd be any real doubt that it could be done even if they didn't have stations up and running already. At this point the big barriers are getting different automakers to agree to a unified standard on swappable batteries and getting cars and stations built that follow that standard. Admittedly that's not trivial, but it's hardly to the point that I'd call the concept 'vapor'.

  17. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 3, Informative

    The point of bicycle lights isn't for when you're riding on the sidewalk, it's for when you're riding on the road and don't wanna get squashed by a car cause they can't see you.

  18. Re:Reallocate and re-prioritize. on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 1

    Oh certainly, that can probably solve things for a year or two, depending on just how they were gonna allocate that 500k, but long term you have to remember that FreeBSD is a community project and, in the long term, sponsoring those things is part of how you make the community grow and thrive.

  19. Re:so Plato was right, then on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Actually Gorillas have a very tiny penis for their body size (~1.5 inches long) so as far as being forcibly fucked in the ass by an animal goes they certainly wouldn't be the worst possible option there.

  20. Re:imprisoned indefinitely without trial on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 2

    Because the corporate media does such a good job reporting on all the illegal shit our military gets up to...

  21. Re:Hard to imagine the vastness on The Deepest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field · · Score: 1

    You can't just "decide to master faster than light travel" because it's probably not possible. See, as far as we can tell right now, any two of the following can coexist (but not all three): faster than light travel, relativity and causality. Relativity has been experimentally verified to the best of our ability and hasn't come up wrong yet, and if causality can be broken you can get all sorts of weird shenanigans and paradoxes happening. That's not to say it's 100% impossible that there are ways around that, but it's nothing I'd bet the farm on...

  22. Re:I'll believe it when I see... on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    My understanding of the problem is that, in our current models, causality only propagates at the speed of light...

  23. Re:Rail gun ? on Gamers May Get a Charge Out of the Gauss Rifle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gauss rifles had been around since the star league, as with most things the Clan versions were just better than their IS equivalents.

  24. Re:I had the very first issue on Nintendo Power To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    posting to remove accidental moderation, sorry

  25. Re:Actually... on Motorola Releases an Official Bootloader Unlocker · · Score: 1

    PC stands for personal computer. It has nothing to do with having a specific cpu architecture...