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  1. Re:The problem on Boeing Hummingbird Drone Crashes In Belize · · Score: 1

    Hint: A Gas turbine is internal combustion too.

  2. Re:Another great step backwards... on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    Data is not the plural of anecdote. Go back to your cave troll...

  3. Re:Apple? on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what you're saying is that you want to pay your hard earned money for a PC that the developers will actively seek to prevent you from gaining root access on, who's apps can only come from one place (if those android game devs were deveoping on apple's platform they'd be SOL. On android they're free to set up their own market, distribute without a marketplace app or use one of the other marketplaces that already exists). And I've certainly heard enough horror stories about the review process to turn me off from ever trying to sell anything on the iphone.

  4. Re:So ... the War's Back on Then? on Sony Releases PS3 Firmware Update To Fight Jailbreaks · · Score: 1

    You mean that thing where a bunch of slave owning Americans illegally immigrated into Mexico(lol irony), refused to free their slaves, got their dumb asses killed by the Mexican army in a futile last stand and then their friends and relatives bitched until the US took them in?

    Don't mess with Texas, it's not nice to pick on the mentally handicapped...

  5. YOURS IS A DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS! on Aging Star System Leaves Strange Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! That's the Gurren-dan way!

  6. Re:Price on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As as someone who is an American I agree 100%.

    In my lifetime I've yet to see a government in this country I'd trust as far as I could throw the Lincoln Memorial (with Glenn Beck's fat, stupid ass crying on the steps to weigh it down even more). Most of our elected officials seem to be concerned with nothing more than protecting their own images, enriching the people who they're getting bri... 'campaign donations' from and passing a bunch of useless bullshit to keep the ignorant masses behind them.

    That's not to say Assange didn't do something, just that there it's entirely within reason that this is a smear campaign.

  7. Re:Annnd... brain goes splat. on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Why should an infinite chain of 'whys' be considered nonsensical?

    Why should we place claims involving 'god' on an equal footing, rationality wise, with claims based on empirical reasoning given that the existence of god is unproven and therefor illogical per Occam's Razor?*

    *Since god hasn't been proven to exist or to interact with the world in any detectable way any explanation that invokes god or any other supernatural force must make the exact same predictions about the world as the scientific, empirical explanations for those phenomenon. Since just saying 'god did it' with regards to any question is completely non-predictive anyone who purports to believe in empirical reasoning and believes it's possible to make predictive observations about the world around you but still believes in god is basically saying + = = . However, per Occam's Razor when two theories produce indistinguishable predictions about the world the more complicated theory is likely wrong. Therefor belief in god is demonstrably illogical, and I at least, would say more nonsensical than looking at the universe empirically, even if that empirical view leads down an infinite regression rabbit-hole of 'whys'(adding god doesn't plug that hole either because after you put him into the equation you're just led right back down the hole with the questions "how'd he do it?" and "where'd he come from?") .

  8. Re:Prostitution on Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called alimony ;). Oh and your kid has fetal alcohol syndrome 'cause she wouldn't stop drinking while the little chest burster was in the oven...

  9. Re:Why mining? on The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? · · Score: 1

    Actually you pretty much just need some machine tools. It's quite possible to build a new machine shop in your machine shop if you know what you're doing and have the materials (that last bit is the hard part in space. You'll pretty much need to haul up a small foundry to get started).

  10. Re:Why mining? on The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but if you plan it right you'll be able to use all that equipment to duplicate itself and get some good old fashioned geometric growth going on...

  11. Re:Love the idea. on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    Since you agree... can we send them back now? Please?

  12. Re:whole new meaning on Canadian Cannabis Car · · Score: 1

    drive to the beach and have a clambake?

  13. Re:Possible GPS navigation? on Samsung Galaxy Tablet Coming In September · · Score: 1

    'course that's why you jailbreak...

  14. Re:Zombie constituents on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    Goddamn spell check. Regain. lol...

  15. Re:Zombie constituents on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    Bush the Lesser. Clinton was mediocre. W's dad was shitty. Regain was a disaster. Carter was a disaster for completely different reasons. Obama's been a disappointment. It's been a while since we've had a halfway decent president....

  16. Re:Zombie constituents on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    Hell, considering we spent 8 years with Chimpus Caesar as our leader a lack of brains could well pave the path for a presidential run...

  17. Re:Alien Versus Predator on Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 · · Score: 1

    Two blondes walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would've seen it...

  18. Re:iPad on 7-Inch iPad Rumored · · Score: 1

    Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race, strong, agile, fierce and cunning, but harder than stone. Unlike the older race of the Twilight they could endure the Sun, so long as the will of Torvalds held sway over them.

  19. Re:ahh, the "singularity"... on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You can hear it coming out of your mom's bedroom every night. Giggity giggity giggity goo!

  20. Re:solution on Google Introduces New Android Features · · Score: 1

    1 pound = 16 ounces

    Metric is easier for sure but, in the future, if you weren't (mis)fortunate enough to grow up in a country that uses standard (hah! that's a joke) google (or just about any other major search engine for that) will do unit conversions automatically from any reasonable phrasing (or give you the ratio so you can work it out yourself if you'd prefer that track).

  21. Re:ok i'll say it on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 1

    "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

    -Sun Tzu

  22. Re:silent, or totally invisible on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    the opposite of a lesshill

  23. Re:How easy? on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 1

    On top of the pile of hookers and blow that they bought with corporate brib...er...'campaign donations' and misappropriated public funds. Just like 90% (at least) of all politicians...

  24. Re:Internet Stupidity Test on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Tea Party is a bunch of racists. Half the signs at any given Tea Bagger rally are racist and the whole sham is nothing more than a bunch of fat rednecks who had no problem with running up a massive deficit as long as it was a white, republican president doing it to blow up brown people. The second it's a black, democratic president running up a deficit to keep the economy from collapsing and maybe raise the standard of living in this country they all suddenly found their fiscal conservatism. It's fucking disgusting is what it is. The only good thing about those ball-sucking retards [they called themselves the Teabaggers, I almost feel bad about picking on someone that fucking stupid, almost ;) ] is that they're driving a wedge into the republican base and ensuring that they'll lose the next election...

    Not ACing it because I have karma to burn and I'm not going to hide when I've got nothing to say but the truth!

  25. Much Hype, Little Effect on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    You might call me something of an 'expert' ;) on drugs and their effects. I'm trying out these 'binaural beats' and frankly they don't seem to do muMAGGOTS IN MY SKIN MAGGOTS IN MY SKIN OH GOT THE DEMONS! TAKE ME NOW LUCIFER!