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  1. Re:food for thought. on New UK Initiative - Make Science Easier · · Score: 1

    Can't be C and can't be D - these aren't stable because they don't orbit the primary.
    The qyuestion asked about the orbit of a moon. A moon orbits a planet, not the primary. Looks like C to me.

    Q19. Huh? Radio signals are analogue.
    Are you sure?

    A obviously not true. B&C Hearing deteriorates with age and, barring things like digital hearing aids (if they exist), digital technology has no effect on what you can hear.
    Are you joking (or trying), or are you some sort of vinyl buff? It's pretty obvious that the answer is B.
  2. Re:"US recruitment site"?? on Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    Europeans? Don't go lumping Her Majesty's subjects in with them, you bounder!

  3. Re:I think it's good on Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering? · · Score: 1

    What the article really says is that if you take a mickey-mouse degree at some third rate college it won't add much to your career earnings. Film at 10. It then adds a bit of anecdotal evidence - if I hear once more that Richard Branson didn't get a degree and he's doing OK I'll scream - that really doesn't prove anything.

    The Indescribable gets more like a tabloid every time I read it.

  4. Re:"US recruitment site"?? on Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody speaks the English which was spoken when America was colonized.
    Sir, you are quite mistaken, and if you persist in perpetuating these fallacious fripperies I shall be honour bound to demand that you perambulate into my vicinity and repeat them, on pain of fisticuffs. Good day!
  5. Re:But... Doppler... on The IT Industry's Red Shift Theory · · Score: 2, Funny

    they have either a Cockney or Australian accent.
    And it doesn't matter which - most of you bally colonials can't tell the bloomin' difference.
  6. Re:This is actually really good news on Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    s/ice cold beer/frosty piss/

    If the beer's Bud, don't bother - there's no difference.

  7. Re:Bah, Easy I say! on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced · · Score: 1

    Stone tablets? Luxury! In my day t'earth hadn't cooled and we had to make do with magma.

  8. Re:This is stupid. on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    When an archery subject was offered for the students that wished to be physical education around 200 engineering students tried to enrol - so they were banned from taking sports subjects as the non-engineering elective.
    Did they want to use their own home-made bows? I'm picturing a 20 foot, carbon fibre compound ballista mounted on a truck ...
  9. Re:This is stupid. on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    Be nice to be able weld my own floorboards
    You can weld wood?!?
  10. Re:Caffeine on New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    I've been told no known human pathogen can survive in beer.
    That's wrong. Perhaps no known human pathogen can survive the boil at the beginning of the process, and if you can stop any more from entering it's certainly safer than drinking from a river that the people upstream have all done a shit in.

    Beer's alcohol content isn't sufficient to kill all bacteria. If it was, there'd be no such thing as vinegar.
  11. Re:S.T.U.P.I.D. on Nukes Against Earth-Impacting Asteroids · · Score: 1

    it is quite widely accepted that Japan was sure to surrender in a very short time anyway
    Hindsight is always 20-20 - it sure wasn't widely accepted then, particularly among the Japanese, many of whom were prepared to fight to the death.
  12. Re:How do you tell the difference??? on Hiring Programmers and The High Cost of Low Quality · · Score: 1

    Bad software does not look vastly different from Good Software.
    Perhaps not, but terrible software certainly does.
  13. Re:Car that runs on water, man on The Fermi Paradox is Back · · Score: 1

    I was expecting some kind of Heath-Robinson contraption with a huge funnel, waterwheel and string. Lots of string. With knots in.

    With the weather the UK's had recently it could work.

  14. Re:1 down... on Second Life Shuts Down Gambling · · Score: 1

    if you can't gamble, and you can't be attacked by swarms of flying penises, how can you have fun?
    You could get virtually drunk, unless they've banned that too.

    Still at least we can take comfort from the fact that nobody would ever be stupid enough to do that in the real world.
  15. Re:Cruel on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you need to learn the difference between "horde" and "hoard".

  16. Re:Cruel on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are no stores installing special sound emitters to keep fat people away
    No need, the size of the doors takes care of it.
  17. Re:Calories to Watt-Hours on Harvesting Energy from the Human Body · · Score: 1

    they were using the watts per cubic centimeter as a way of expressing energy density
    They're pretty dim then, that would be power density (if such a thing exists).
  18. Re:top 10 on Top Ten Discoveries of the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    It's not all rock. What about the dust?

  19. Re:wtf on Korea to Clone Drug Sniffing Dogs · · Score: 1

    It's never simple with genetics, especially if there's several genes involved. Some of the offspring might be better, some about the same, some probably worse. Of course that's not a big problem, the last group become lunch.

  20. Re:Not all of them are that amazing on Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders? · · Score: 1

    Their Chicken Jalfrezi is to die for!

  21. Re:These are pretty dumb on Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders? · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed people just don't get the fact that, no matter how long it is, it's not really all that wide. Like a hair at the opposite end of a room is invisble no matter whether it's an inch long or a three yards. I suppose it's possible that the wall's shadow is visible at certain times of day near dawn and dusk.

  22. Re:Spoilers, he's dead. on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you check on netcraft?

  23. Re:Secret Service read me my Miranda rights on Woz on Open Source, DRM · · Score: 2, Funny

    And his C.O. is General Protection Fault?

  24. Re:Obligatory... on Mike Godwin hired by Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it was more like:

    Rommel: "Mein Fuhrer, the Italians have joined the war!"
    Hitler: "Can we spare ten divisions to put against them?".
    Rommel: "But they're on our side".
    Hitler: "Himmel! We'll have to find fifteen divisions!".

    To get back on topic, I thought Godwin's law doesn't apply where the topic actually is Hitler and/or Nazis - though I can't find a reference for it.

  25. Do no evil on Mike Godwin hired by Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't do evil - annexe it.