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  1. Re:Fast Birds. on North Pole Heads South · · Score: 1

    Do you get wafers with it?

  2. Re:Rubbish on North Pole Heads South · · Score: 1
    Interesting... now aren't the Cockatoos tropical
    African or European?
  3. Re:Pole Reversal? on North Pole Heads South · · Score: 2, Funny
    we're left without the Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from lethal cosmic rays
    Simple solution
  4. Re:What? on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 1

    That's like saying that an aeroplane doesn't have propellers, and than claiming that you really meant to write jet aeroplane. Pardon my lack of telepathy, but I responded to what you wrote, not what you thought.

  5. Re:Free Will is Bunk on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 1

    ... he can go about his business? Anyway, the Buddha that can be found in wikipedia is not the true Buddha. Or something.

  6. Re:Dangerous game on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 1
    What am I going to buy for 60 cents?
    At McDonalds? Not very much.
    FWIW I have found that it's MORE expensive to eat healthy food than it is to eat junk.
    If that means paying the premium for microwave ready-meals labelled as low calorie/bio instead of ordinary ones, you might be right. If it means cooking yourself, from basic ingredients, no way.
  7. Re:IQ is supposed to level out with age on Gene Found That May Affect IQ in Males · · Score: 1

    The example you cited is two siblings. It says nothing about what the difference between the IQs of two unrelated people will do over time.

  8. Re:"May" the ultimate disclamer on Gene Found That May Affect IQ in Males · · Score: 1

    Are you a creationist, by any chance?

  9. Re:IQ != intelligent on Gene Found That May Affect IQ in Males · · Score: 1
    Warning to intelligent people: there is a campaign being waged against the very idea of intelligence.
    Is it being waged by people like the grandparent? In other news, being tall isn't all it's cracked up to be, claims National Association of Midgets.
  10. Re:Give those with low IQ jobs. on Gene Found That May Affect IQ in Males · · Score: 1
    society as a whole is better off if there are opportunities available to those who cannot compete in the job market based on their (lack of) intelligence.
    Sounds like a justification for the existence of lawyers.
  11. Re:What? on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 1
    republic refers to the structure of it (divided into states within a federal union)
    Bullshit. The Republic of Ireland isn't divided into anything like states (provinces yes, but in effect they're barely counties). Belgium is divided into federal regions that have a fair degree of autonomy (even to the extent of speaking different languages), but it's a monarchy.
  12. Re:"do no evil" or "do good" on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 1

    The poorest area's what? If you're going to shill for M$, at least do it grammatically, you four-figure fucktard.

  13. Re:Welcome to 5 years ago... on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 1
    and found him to be a bit of a jackass. Egotistical, arrogant, self-centered, all that stuff.
    Isn't it funny how companies that claim to only hire the best always seem to hire people like that?
  14. Re:Welcome to 5 years ago... on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 1
    A blog is just an easy to maintain website
    Yes. It's the word that matters. Or rather that using it marks the person as a bullshit buzzword merchant.
  15. Re:Enough with the Neologisms Already! on Sensitive Data Stolen Via Digital Cameras · · Score: 3, Funny

    If only someone could coin a catchy, pithy word for the phenomenon of coining pithy, catchy words for things.

  16. Re:How convenient on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 1

    People weren't that short back then. Heck, they weren't that short in the middle ages. It's just they didn't think about it when they designed things.

  17. Re:Dangerous game on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 1

    If it is, then that's the sunbed industry fucked.

  18. Re:Free Will is Bunk on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 1
    The more self-aware Buddhist person will go "I am aware for my desire for cherry soda.
    I'm not sure that Buddha is the best person to be giving diet advice.
  19. Re:Dangerous game on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 1
    I would starve if I only spent $35/week on my food bill.
    Maybe that's why you need to go to the gym?
  20. Re:Dangerous game on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe the tendency to blame things on genes is genetic too.

  21. Re:I applaud this guy's post on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1
    Do the research I suggested and maybe you'd be able to work it out yourself.

    No, on second thoughts, you probably couldn't.

    So for you (and all the other hard of thinking people out there), it's pretty hard to kill someone with a nuddie mag.

  22. Re:Is there name for this kind of thing? on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1
    somebody who had a chronically stupid idea that WAS indeed found to be completely stupid
    I've seen this argument many times, it's just a special case of affirming the consequent. Or to put it another way: Sure, they thought Einstein was a crackpot, and he turned out to be a genius. Likewise with Darwin. But just because everyone laughs at someone doesn't mean he's correct. Just ask Bozo the clown.

    For every visionary there must be hundreds of delusional nutters and misguided amateurs; but history doesn't remember them, or if it does only as footnotes.

  23. Re:I applaud this guy's post on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1

    Strawman argument. Come back when you've learned the difference between speech and an action (singke or double? - Ed).

  24. Re:Social Firewall on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1
    Seriously, if porn in the workplace is a problem in your office... hire better people.
    Or give them some training about how to find it. Avoid. How to avoid finding it, by accident, yes, that's what I meant.
  25. Re:Problems with ".xxx" on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1

    Er, like whoosh or something.