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  1. Re:BRAKE on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 1

    “Making a break” to me implies breaking the line that you were following, as when escaping a chain gang or somesuch.

  2. Re:What Wine Would You Serve? on How Do You Eat a Triceratops? Start By Ripping the Head Off · · Score: 1

    Poultry normally goes with whites, but the meat of large muscular birds such as ostrich more closely resemble beef than chicken. However, large sedentary reptiles’ meat is more “chickeny.” I don’t picture a Triceratops doing a whole lot of running around, but it’s hard to say whether it would be more akin to an ostrich or an alligator. A Zin (NOT white Zin, ever) should cover the bases if you don’t know what you’re getting into, although it probably wouldn’t be the ideal choice for either. And of course all bets are off if you’re heavily spicing it, making a curry stew or whatever.

  3. Re:Argument on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    Herp derp, the old “my five year old nephew could have painted that” chestnut.

    No, he couldn't have, and he didn't, and you have obviously never seen a Pollock painting in person.

  4. Re:No, Actually It's Exactly How It Was Stated on Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that if I want to make money publishing my research, I should stay away from publishing suicide prevention materials since placing a copyright on that is morally reprehensible because if it's public domain it might actually save lives?

    Dunno about the parent, but I would say exactly that.

  5. Re:Trams on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    Have you tried keeping a package of baby wipes in your desk? Get to work, take them to the bathroom, wipe down pits and crotch Won’t help much if you’re commuting in your work clothes and sweating through them I suppose.

  6. Re:Biking is better on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    No, that’s what marker lights and taillights are for. Headlights are most definitely meant to illuminate the road, with the exception of the tiny ones that run on a couple of AAAs or coin batteries. My bike light uses a rechargeable Li-Ion pack and puts out 200 lumens on high, which will adequately light up the road surface for 30 feet ahead, and illuminate reflective objects like street signs and parked cars for a city block or more. And that’s on the lower end of the product line — if you want to spend $600 they make a 1700 lumen model, which is up there with standard halogen car headlamps.

  7. Re:"Aegis" cruisers. on US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide · · Score: 1

    It wasn’t the primary descriptor (“Guided missile destroyer, Arleigh Burke class”) but it was used to refer to the ship as a whole.

  8. Re:"Aegis" cruisers. on US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide · · Score: 1

    I toured an Arleigh Burke class destroyer just last week (the USS Spruance, DDG 111) and the public literature refers to her as an Aegis system, so apparently the entirety of the ship is considered an Aegis system, not just the radars and such that define the term.

  9. Re:Are they like bartenders? on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 1

    If you ordered a “pop” in a NYC Subway you’d most likely get a confused stare.

  10. Re:Good on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 1

    U.S. automakers standardized on metric fasteners years ago, presumably to make it simpler to source parts from overseas. Tires are measured in an unholy mix of inches, millimeters, and a ratio. Except for offroad tires, which don’t use mm. Bicycle frames are measured in mm, except for mountain bikes, which use inches. Metric ammunition is quite common.

  11. Re:That's a Very Generic Thesis on The Case For the Blue Collar Coder · · Score: 1

    Veering way off-topic here, but why don’t circuit breakers have built-in ammeter displays? Breakers are plenty expensive enough it wouldn’t add much to the cost percentage-wise.

  12. Re:That's a Very Generic Thesis on The Case For the Blue Collar Coder · · Score: 1

    you would usually have to rewire the whole house in order to figure out what outlets and fixtures were on what circuits.

    You never heard of a breaker finder?

  13. “contained” on Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid · · Score: 1

    Those soybean seeds were a mix and included some that contained Monsanto's technology.

    In much the same way that infants who survive a premature birth “contain” Dr. Tarnier’s incubator technology.

  14. Re:What does it all mean? on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unfortunately that’s not what “nonplussed” means, even though it really seems like it should. It means “perplexed, confused, befuddled.”

  15. Re:Let Them Eat Cake on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gummi worms are fit for human consumption?

  16. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    A representative republic is a form of democracy.

  17. Re:Give customers what they want on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 1

    You can't find a laptop with USB? Strange.

    USB-serial adapters are a dime a dozen and they fit in a vest pocket and they come in various flavors. Makes much more sense than trying to cram a DB25 port into a modern laptop and then half the time you need an adaptor anyway.

  18. Re:Cool, that'll show 'em on Hackers Dump Millions of Records From Banks, Politicians · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How would this lower anyone’s credit rating? Unless they’ve been lying to creditors about their assets/income, in which case their credit rating ought to take a hit.

  19. Re:Tech usually doesn't help in cars on Old Cars Are Getting Ahead With New Tech · · Score: 1

    I’m with you if you’re talking about touchscreen control panels that softly pop out of the dash, but you don’t consider safety features tech? What about CVTs or computer-adjusted suspensions? Variable valve timing?

  20. Re:Reasonable on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    Huh, interesting. It occurs to me now that I may see more than my share of them because I live in an industrial area, I hadn’t thought about that.

  21. Re:Caifornians ignore this stuff on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the objections are to inadvertently buying/supporting a product for the sane, logical reasons you mention, rather than fear of eating it.

  22. Re:I support plant genetic engineering on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    Our farmers are already getting subsidies and price supports — paid to keep fields fallow to reduce the supply and keep crop prices at a reasonable level. We don’t need increased yields. Food supply is not a problem, getting the food to where it needs to go without being intercepted by warlords is the problem.

  23. Re:Please define "Genetically Modified" on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    I cannot determine if that counts controlled breeding programs

    It doesn’t.

    There, wasn’t that easy?

  24. Re:Land of the Free on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    And the hundreds or thousands of years that takes act as testing. If the new gene winds up causing some terrible problem that isn’t immediately obvious, it will come to light over time in the small population that has it, rather than after it’s already been rushed out into production on a mass scale.

    Not to mention, if you’re waiting for, say, tobacco plants to spontaneously mutate to produce luciferase, or strawberries to develop flounder genes, you’re going to be waiting a long long time.

  25. Re:Cheerleading for Kraft on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    Wouldn’t nocturnal monkeys prefer glow-in-the-dark bananas? Easier to find.