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  1. Cancer fighting dirt+ C02 extractors... on Cancer Fighting Drug Found in Dirt · · Score: 1

    What we should do, is get the yew trees to grow in AIR, and then extract the cancer fighting drug from the air :) Much purer that way...

  2. Re:Environmetally-friendly? on Electrically Conductive Cement · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  3. Environmetally-friendly? on Electrically Conductive Cement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From TFA: "the cement would make an environmentally-friendly alternative because its ingredients are more readily available". That doesn't make it environmentally friendly, it just makes it less environmentally damaging. There's a BIG difference.

    Also, is 30kg grip strength pretty low for an adult male? I'm pretty sure it is...

  4. This Wont Work on Yahoo to Offer Unlimited Email Storage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think this will work. We used to have unlimited texting over here in NZ, but people were sending a 100,000 txts a month so they had to cancel the service. People have been uploading hours of video to try to fill their Gmail accounts.
    People will always try to push the limits of what is possible when corporations offer them things that are supposedly unlimited...

  5. Re:big apple on What Would Be Your Dream Machine? · · Score: 1

    Or $32,359.61 in New Zealand. That's about what a new Police officer earns in a year :)

  6. And to logically continue the sequence: on Why the Gaming-Violence Connection is So Comforting · · Score: 1

    12: ???
    13: Profit!

  7. Re:yummy on Colossal Squid Landed Intact In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I don't understand. What size calamari is that in Libraries of Congress per hair?

  8. California? on Asteroid Highlighted as Impact Threat · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who really cares about California? What about Japan, Australia (although no-one cares about them either), and most of all, New Zealand? By 2036 California will be a half-drowned ghetto...

  9. Re:Wow.. on Sea Snail Toxin Offers Promise For Pain · · Score: 1

    You lucky bugger...

  10. Re:Smart Soldiers on Silly String Goes to War Against IEDs · · Score: 1

    So, huzzah, then? ;)

  11. The voice of Satan? on Everyday Objects Placed In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else here the voice talking after the lightbulb exploded? :)

  12. Re:The English solved this years ago on DARPA Starts Ultimate Language Translation Project · · Score: 1

    And the Americans still do it...

  13. Re:Splinter Cell: DA on Splinter Cell's Multiplayer Map Design · · Score: 1

    Most of us melée through Heroic over here. I'll admit there's not much sneaking in the dark though...

  14. Re: New Zealand on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    I know, but they're public and easily researchable from overseas.

  15. Re:Perspective of a Muslim on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Parts of Somalia are working under Shari'a law: They just got rid of piracy by threatening the pirates with amputation/beheading if they were caught. The port is operational again. Of course, there's still all the anarchy and warlords to deal with.

  16. Re: New Zealand on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Technically yes, we're first world. But we have second-world roads. Health care is ok, but you have to wait ages for anything, even for things like cancer, and some procedures aren't allowed here (you have to ho to China or Australia). There are plenty of intolerant people, just look at the Destiny Church. Auckland (biggest city in NZ by as factor of 2) is humid as hell in the summer. Pretty - yes, clean...in some places. Recreation is good. And sheep are fricken annoying.

  17. Re:Aotearoa on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Don't come to New Zealand. Our gov't spends all their time arguing pointlessly among themselves, unless they're talking about pay raises for themselves, which they don't have any trouble agreeing on. There are already craploads of vineyards (I've worked on at least 20 of them) and there's no money in growing grapes: The money is made by the wineries. Also, your skin will fry because of the high UV levels caused by the ozone hole (itself caused by the USA). There are laws against foreigners buying land etc (eg, Shania Twain wasn't allowed to build a house on land she'd bought). Plus we're already sick of Americans, unless they're celebrities. Sorry...

  18. Re:Violent games teach that in war you get VERY DE on What Game Violence Can Teach · · Score: 1

    The big difference is, a lot of the people who kill the server leaders are the ones who die in every round, because of the risks they take. If those people take that risk in real life before they have an oppurtunity to kill you, they don't come back in the next round...

  19. Re:On the way to the ultimate in portable computer on The I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Stuff that. Integrate them all inside the PDA: That's when you're set.

  20. Mobile hacks on Philips Shows Light Emitting Clothing · · Score: 1

    How long is it onna be before people use their mobile phones to hack other peoples clothes?

  21. Re:Well, Excuse Moi! on Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui! · · Score: 1

    I'm now meta-moderating you down because I do know French, and your genders are all mixed up.

  22. Re:All I want... on Your Washer is Calling and the Dryer is on IM · · Score: 1

    I find it's my car that I have to check, usually when i'm about 10 aces from it, so that when i'm about to get to the busstop, the bus goes by...So, i'd prefer having tis tech in my car.

  23. Re:Simple solution on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 1

    The hard pronunciation of the letter 'c' will be one of the first to go in a language reform (as will its pronunciation as an 's', it will instead be pronounced the Italian way, as a hard 'ch', which eliminates the need for that counterintuitive doubling up of letters, as the soft 'ch' is, after all, just 'sh'.) - after 'x', so school becomes skool, or skül if they decide to add accents to compensate for the lack of letters...

  24. Re:May as well get it over with on Mixing brain cells and nanodots · · Score: 1

    But only in Soviet Russia...

  25. Re:The molluscs shall inherit the Earth. on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our cephalopod successors.