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  1. Re:scientists answer questions on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    I never knew "Lego" was an acronym. What does it stand for?

    Oh, and it has no plural form either.

  2. Re:Display, Involve, then Explain on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    Excellent post - are you a teacher in real life? You seem to have a talent for it.

  3. Re:be careful on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    I think it's a variation on the drummers/musicians jokes.

  4. Re:Anything Non-Numeric, with Patience on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    I think you're probably right - but isn't it amazing how good their powers of rote learning are? I once read a bedtime story to a friend's 3 year old, and I made a mistake - she noticed it and corrected me. I know I'd struggle to memorise even a kid's book verbatim.

  5. Re:4-year-olds don't understand on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    I think that's just curiosity, which many animals exhibit too. You need to add a methodical approach for it to truly become science.

  6. Re:Don't forget the Left Brain on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    No, "stuff spreads out" is about as simple as diffusion gets. While mathematics is useful at a higher stage to calculate the rate etc, it isn't necessary to be aware of the phenomenon at a basic level.

  7. Re:The intent was NEVER to sue... on Microsoft Will Not Sue Over Linux Patents · · Score: 1

    Lawsuits are like nuclear weapons, it's the option of last resort and pretty much assures either destruction of MASSIVE damage to all sides involved.
    Both sides? Not if the other side don't have any. Unless you're standing really close to them.
  8. Re:Well, on Russian Journalists Quit Over Censorship · · Score: 1

    He didn't assert that it's true only in Soviet Russia.

  9. Re:Wait... on Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it is not just one U.Kingdom, but Kingdoms..
    It's singular, otherwise it ... ummm... they would be called the Divided Kingdoms, and that just sounds silly.
  10. Re:Would be nice, wouldn't it? on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    When a country starts to take off economically, as India, its business and home users will naturally prefer to keep using the familiar software. Then MS can apply pressure to enforcement
    Seems to me it's the drug pushers' tactic of giving it away for free - to start with.
  11. Re:Would be nice, wouldn't it? on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    Copyrights exist. Patents exist. "IP" does not
    That's like saying that cats exist, dogs exist but animals don't.
  12. Re:If m$ is too pricey on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    A monopoly means they have the only product on the market, in this case x86 operating systems.
    In theory, yes. In practice the definition is less stringent. Under UK Law a company is a monopolist if they have over 25% of the market.
  13. Re:Good for them on Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore · · Score: 1

    She got a new one because it was running too slow. It was full of spyware and other crap. This was almost a year ago now.
    Did you tell her that the old one was beyond repair - dangerous, in fact - and offer to [wink] safely dispose of it for her?
  14. Re:Still ONLY an energy STORAGE medium. on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen efficient in releasing energy, but rather difficult to use energy to produce it.
    There's nothing difficult about producing it. Storing it's the problem. Them little molecules can get where rats, roaches and water can't.
  15. Re:Finally on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    Then don't release it, use it to power a turbine.

  16. Re:The Beauty Of Closed Systems on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One pound per mile of aluminium that, unless you have a really long cable, you have to carry with you. Having said that, estimating that there's something less than 8 pounds of gasoline to the undersized colonial gallon it's not that different to the mileage most American vehicles get.

  17. Re:Wrong reaction on German Linux Community Boycotting LinuxTag · · Score: 1

    What's it good for if you "own" an event and nobody shows up?
    He may own it, but the protesters pwn it. OMG, etc.
  18. Re:hard to decide on Spyware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Maker · · Score: 1

    Taking bizarre cases only increases the profile of the firm, which in turn generates more money.
    That can be solved by charging defence costs to the plaintiff if the case is found to baseless, frivolous or speculative.
  19. Re:Quis corriget ipsos correctores? on Spyware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Maker · · Score: 1

    WHOSH!!!!

  20. Re:Well, I need the explanation I guess on Scientologists In Row With BBC · · Score: 1

    The law says nothing of the sort. Even opinions - which must be clearly shown to be such - must have some factual basis, and that only applies in public interest cases.

  21. Re:Joking aside... on Spyware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Maker · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The plaintiff has a lot to lose, and so do his attorneys.
    Let me know how many times a year a losing plaintiff is forced to pay defence costs.
  22. Re:How? on US Gasoline Prices Spur Telework · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not connected to the amount of petrol you consume.

    A tax of 38-60 cents per gallon is clearly tied to the amount consumed.
    It's clear that he's talking about other taxes, such as income taxes, you stupid prick.
  23. Re:Joking aside... on Spyware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Maker · · Score: 1

    Truth is that more malpractice cases are settled out of court now than before, because the insurance companies don't want to pay whatever a jury might think is just
    The problem is that even if you win it can cost nearly as much to defend yourself as to roll over and pay up. Add that to the contingency fees system and there's a big incentive to 'play the lottery' - the plaintiff has nothing to lose and could win big time.
  24. Re:Always...certainly it is on Scotty Scooped Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just a wild guess: you're German.

  25. Re:Cool! on Scotty Scooped Up · · Score: 1

    That's illogical. [Does the eyebrow thing]