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  1. picture? on Dogs' Brains Have Human-like "Voice Area" · · Score: 1

    no, I do not picture my coworker and friend's butt-ugly mug when I hear their voice

  2. Re:Like it matters? on Ubuntu 14.04 Brings Back Menus In Application Windows · · Score: 0

    and third only to Vista

  3. Re:Predictive Power on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: 1

    not when claims of "since 1980" are made, that is a very different kind of modeling, fitting model to facts after the facts. book cooking. cherry picking.

  4. Re:You're dumb on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: 1

    wrong, third coldest winter on record, one other of which was in 19th century.

  5. Re:Predictive Power on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: 1

    it is true, 10,000's of climate models are generated, then certain ones are cherry picked ex post facto. it's called "cooking the books".

  6. Re:already had mission with them as subjects on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 1

    Voyager 2 was a bespoke Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune mission

  7. Re:I deserve Pizza on Chevron Gives Residents Near Fracking Explosion Free Pizza · · Score: 2

    that was tried in limited trial but 80 percent of participants upchucked their pizza upon subsequent Slashdot Beta reloading

  8. Re:Industrial accidents happen . . . on Chevron Gives Residents Near Fracking Explosion Free Pizza · · Score: 1

    that was floated as trial balloon but unfortunately the local pizzeria was in fact blown up, thus happily limiting costs for the coupon program

  9. Re:misconceptions on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 1

    rubbish, not a mainstream scientific view but cult nonsense.

    the British Heart Foundation was the body that in 2007 put out a flawed study suggesting egg consumption should be limited. but they have since retracted that nonsense in light of proper science which shows unlimited egg consumption is fine for most individuals. No correlation between egg consumption and heart disease risk. Saturated fat, on the other hand, is a huge factor (and eggs contain very low levels of saturated fat)

  10. Re:This is the kind of shit... on Up-Front Seats For Tonight's Near-Earth Asteroid · · Score: 1

    since the length of a metrically measured soccer ('football' outside the USA) field can vary, why not use the non-metrically specified American football field which doesn't?

  11. Re:time, motherfuckers-and distance,motherfuckers on Up-Front Seats For Tonight's Near-Earth Asteroid · · Score: 1

    also, distance not given, over 1.5 million miles, not that close. Wake us up for something inside lunar orbit

  12. Re:already had mission with them as subjects on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 1

    yeah, how dare NASA go all cheap-ass and use convenient alignment of planets to visit, photograph and measure all the gas giants in one swoop, and even after that to amass enough gall to turn it into interstellar mission!

  13. already had mission with them as subjects on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 0

    Voyager 2 went to Uranus system in 1986 and Neptune in 1989

  14. Re:not surprising on Edward Snowden's Lawyer Claims Harassment From Heathrow Border Agent · · Score: 1

    he skipped bail in Los Angeles USA, which last I checked hasn't joined the British Empire

  15. Re:Probably the home router... on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    those companies were given billions of dollars to provide broadband to the home, which they instead pocketed. who's the freeloader?

  16. Re:not surprising on Edward Snowden's Lawyer Claims Harassment From Heathrow Border Agent · · Score: 1

    fugitive from whose laws? she is lawyer of someone who hasn't gone to trial

  17. Re:Astrology on NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology Is Scientific · · Score: 1

    Lead has been transmuted into gold, perhaps chemist Glenn Seaborg did it first

  18. Re:We need to be more open to "life" on The Search for Life On Habitable Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    all the life on this planet looks the same, carbon based and needing liquid water, using RNA and/or DNA.

    we look for favorable places for this kind of life. it makes sense.

  19. hello again 18th century nonsense on Can Electric Current Make People Better At Math? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    so here we are back at 18th century stupidity levels, passing currents through parts of people's bodies and trying to cause or attributing all manner of health improvements to it. snake oil futures are looking good

  20. Re:COST on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    you can buy a wonderful plane from decades ago (like say 30+ years old) for $15,000 , but you'll be spending $5000 a year or more on it, see my other post

  21. Re:COST on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 2

    you can pick up a decent one for half that price.

    BUT then there is yearly costs:

    $500 to park it outside or $2500 in a hangar
    $1000 inspection
    $3000 toward engine overhual ($18000 every 1700 - 2000 hours but we'll say every six years)
    $1000 insurance
    and we haven't talked about fuel

  22. Re:Bizarre Personal Cult on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 1

    so you had bad teachers. serious history books correctly assert Edison developed the first *commercially viable incandescent light*

    Edison himself did invent some very useful things, directed others to refine other things, made yet other inventions a commercial success. maybe you should read about him

  23. pity you didn't think on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    so he smoked into his 50s

    he now has a disease common to people who smoke most of their lives

    very likely his smoking caused his problem, it's a near certainty

  24. Re:something Spock would say on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    no, almost every male born in the same year as Mr Nimoy in North America had been dead for five years or more

  25. Re:Illogical on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    wishing miserable death on someone, haven't you just sunk to his level?