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  1. Simple reason on Anti-Technology Technologies? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    why build more infrastructure to serve customers if you can find new ways to make them pay for the infrastructure you have now.

  2. Re:There is more on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    Oh no, it gets funnier, check out the last few paragraphs of that review where they try it out on their vinyl records!

  3. Re:Cthulhu on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 4, Funny

    A giant Cthulhu-like monster made of Cat-5? I think you just described what's behind my desk.
  4. Re:Screw water on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a catalyst does not change the amount of energy released or required for a reaction, it simply reduces the energy maxima, which means the reaction needs less energy to get started, however, the net energy released or required stays the same.

    That's how thermodynamics works. What is often the case in these 'fueled by water' things is there is a 'catalyst' that is actually a reactant and that is where the energy comes from, of course as a reactant it all gets used up and must be replaced.

  5. Re:Interesting pictures, but... on Supercomputer Simulates Human Visual System · · Score: 1

    Oh yea, like you don't have a load of neons and coloured LEDs in your case mod. Nerds modding thier computers are worse than chavs modding thier cars in this respect.

  6. Re:New goal... on Supercomputer Simulates Human Visual System · · Score: 1

    Yea, well this EAGLE just flew in through my window and said he read my screen from his roof top 6 blocks away and simply can't let this stand. he said not only does he have way better eyesight than a puny shrimp, what with his UV vision and ability to see his prey from several miles away, along with his cool twin fovea which give him kick ass acuity at different distances. He also said he would go round to the shrimps house and bite his head off if he doesn't shut his shrimpy mouth.

  7. Re:New goal... on Supercomputer Simulates Human Visual System · · Score: 1

    And why such complex eyes? One hypothesis is thier brains are not very advanced so they are unable to recognise the outlines of camoflaged fish without all these enhancements to thier eyes.

    Shrimp fails. Retard shrimp.

  8. Re:do a reverse mariel boatlift on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    I don't think the USA could slip one past cuba that easily, it wouldn't be long before they would be turning up in Key West on the back of an inflatable crocodile.

  9. Re:Finally... on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    It's a great day to be an American. I wouldn't go that far, 6 years of wrongdoing don't get wiped away that easily, but you're certainly pointing in the right direction now. That day will come again sooner thanks to this decision.
  10. Re:Although on life support on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    but russia has more nukes.

  11. Re:Where's "there"? on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    A ship in international waters counts as whatever country it is registered in. So a US ship is subject to US law.

  12. Re:They ough to hire Tariq Aziz! on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    Exactly right, there's nothing funny about the other guy except that Sadam always had his breakfast at the same time Tariq Aziz. (Doh, doesn't quite work in past tense, why did they have to go and kill him and ruin my joke, wankers)

  13. Re:South Park defense on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    well there's the problem! You have to make hte pill out of ground up rabbits, not guinea pigs.

  14. Re:South Park defense on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    wouldn't this supposed 'Anglo-Saxon civilisation' start off with Germany?

  15. Re:South Park defense on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these.

  16. Re:Only one solution then on Study Links Storm Botnet's Growth To Illegal Drugs · · Score: 1
    You advocated the current law, which means significant jail time for possession of weed, whether smoked in public, private or never at all. That is what the law says, it doesn't say a night in the cells if stoned in public, like I said stand by your arguments.

    Oh look, Black people are more likely to be charged when found with drugs than white people! my my, what do we call this? Racist persecution. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/sep/18/drugsandalcohol.ukcrime http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00-05.htm

    You don't know if either one may sexually harass someone else. Raping,

    You don't know what either one may try to do to get money. Robbing,

    And if they choose to be in public while under the influence, they are choosing to be oblivious to the risks of their decisions to the public. Sociopaths. if you don't believe it, why say it?
  17. Re:How about deploying the chute? on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    The important word there is SMALL. How big would the parachute need to be to allow a soft landing for a 747?

  18. Re:Poor choice of words on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    a motorbike is notably a lot more 'on the ground' than a plane. This makes a big difference.

  19. Re:only law abiding citizens will be effected on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    policing has been around a bit more than a century and a half. The first police force was set up in France in 1667. The US however didn't get it's first police force until 1838.

  20. Re:Something like on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    hmmm, I wonder how many modern large commercial jets are set up like that, I'm guessing approximately none.

  21. Re:You say: "Defense"... on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Early estimates of 250,000 deaths at Dresdan are now believed to be far too high, and current estimates are 25,000 - 40,000.

    Hiroshima was about 70,000 immediately and 90,000 - 140,000 from radiation etc by the end of the year.

    Nagasaki was about 40,000 to 75,000 immediately and up to 80,000 by the end of the year.

    So, the Atomic bombings were worse.

  22. Re:You say: "Defense"... on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    you need to see the pictures that go along with it really.

    But that's nothing unique, drawing caricatures of the enemy is common place, the caricature of the Germans and the 'hun' slogans directed at them were no better, and they were the same race as the majority of people in the UK and US.

  23. Re:You say: Hijacking "Defense"... on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    it has never happened in real life, the closest thing has been novice pilots landing light air crafts after thier instructor became incapacitated.
    Some pilots have said it is possible. Mythbusters tryed it with a training flight simulator. They tryed it with no assisstance and both crashed, but with a pilot talking them through it from another room, both made a successful emergency landing even in crosswinds and turbulance.
    Anyway, modern auto pilots can land the plane on their own, they would just need to turn a few switches to set the auto pilot and it could be landed by the computer.

  24. Re:You say: "Defense"... on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    your a southener right? It's holding at 115.9p up north, average price 117p across the country.

  25. Re:You say: "Defense"... on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    Ah, sadly there was no picture of the actual moment of bollock kicking, but I did find possibly the best headline ever. http://www.teennerd.com/wp-content/photos/random/manliest.jpg