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  1. Re:Completely inexplicable... on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you mean the *fact* of La Nina and arctic oscillation on top of each other, which has happened many, many times in history? This isn't global warming/climate change, sorry pal

  2. Re:Why exaggerate? on Mammoth "Metal Moles" Tunnel Deep Beneath London · · Score: 1

    But we in the US hold onto the quaint measurements instead of using the metric; but maybe that IS practical as beer makes sense served in pints and fifths are the thing for s wine and hard liquor.

  3. Re:We're gonna need a bigger blender on South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth · · Score: 1

    but it will (probably) float, as elephants do

  4. Re:At Last... on South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth · · Score: 1

    you didn't know? Fred has something that sticks out even farther than his belly

  5. Re:Compatibility or conversion on Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail · · Score: 1

    It is the fault of Java. Plenty of unmodified code written in sane languages with sane backwards compatibility runs on my employer's hundred servers, but legitimate (at the time) java does not.

  6. Re:Did this make anyone else think of MOOSE? on Baumgartner Completes 13.5-Mile Free-Fall Jump, Aims For Record · · Score: 1

    yeah I saw that one, where Bullwinkle parachutes in to save Rocky J from the headhunters

  7. Re:Social Psychology? on Psychic Ability Claim Doesn't Hold Up In New Scientific Experiments · · Score: 1

    you see a local decrease in entropy via pixels because of an electrochemical reaction between my ears. nothing more. Note that psychics don't win the big lottery jackpots.

  8. Re:Social Psychology? on Psychic Ability Claim Doesn't Hold Up In New Scientific Experiments · · Score: 1

    repeatedly linking to a pile of debunked nonsense again and again on slashdot doesn't make it true. the human mind is nothing more than a bunch of electrochemical reactions going on in a head, sorry.

  9. Re:Compatibility or conversion on Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail · · Score: 1

    I am in fact testing legacy java code for migration to newer j2ee platforms for a very large corporation, it's a sordid mess. Plenty of other languages have far less issues for ten year old code.

  10. Re:WTF? on Sexually Rejected Flies Turn To Booze · · Score: 1

    I can save you even more research money, people will choose booze over your hypothetical protein suppressor.

  11. Re:Expensive on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 1

    you are so funny. pointless war to line the pockets of military-industrial complex is very expensive for us and lucrative for them, why wouldn't we have disposable high tech gadgets. might as well belly up to the trough: allocate your 401K accordingly

  12. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    you're silly. your vote doesn't matter in the two party system since they're both running mega-corporate bitches. note how Obama continues the mega-corporate agenda same as Bush-Cheney looking past the superficial hot-button issues

  13. Re:Compatibility or conversion on Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail · · Score: 1

    sorry, real java doesn't work that way. old java has problems running under newer jvm, old j2ee running under new j2ee. write once, run anywhere, for a while until it doesn't

  14. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 5, Funny

    well, that's not true among my older friends and relatives, they routinely get in the face of authority like TSA, cops, politicians on our police-street direction at the drop of a hat. hard to intimidate someone in the 70s or more, e.g. "what are going to do, sonny-boy-with-a-badge, jail me for life? give me the chair? hah, I'll probably flop over dead tomorrow anyway! screw you!"

  15. Re:Ten years ago on Canadian Charges Against US Manga Reader Dropped · · Score: 1

    Go with a wife and kids, not much attention paid. going alone, I get more scrutiny.

  16. Re:Ten years ago on Canadian Charges Against US Manga Reader Dropped · · Score: 1

    laptops are so cheap why bother to rent? and you can make a usb stick with two partitions, one of innocuous stuff and the other just looks like unformatted random noise that no one could even prove contained any data (TrueCrypt done correctly)

  17. Re:WTF? on Sexually Rejected Flies Turn To Booze · · Score: 1

    no, we already know depressed people turn to drink. we already know how and why ODing on booze can kill. we already know why and how drunken sots are dangerous to self and others. no research needed.

  18. Re:Was it unexpected? on Sexually Rejected Flies Turn To Booze · · Score: 1

    no need to be sexually deprived. you have two hands, you have a computer hooked to the Free Porn Spigot a.k.a internet. sure, the satisfaction is shorter than sex with a partner before strong urges reappear, but you can at least enjoy quantity over quality.

  19. Re:Winos don't get laid often on Sexually Rejected Flies Turn To Booze · · Score: 4, Funny

    another drunk

  20. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    DHS had a virtual presence there already. on all the monitors before the checkout line was PSA with the butt-ugly dumpy mug of Janet Reno, saying to turn in your fellow american if they were acting suspiciously. God damn, don't people under 40 see what's happening?

  21. Re:Caffeine-free coffee on Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    leave my left hand out of this discussion

  22. Re:I've said it before... on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 1

    cut the red one! otherwise, run like hell down the hall in front of the ensuing fireball

  23. Re:come on now on Precise W Boson Mass Measurement Helps Lead the Way To the Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    we should put a tamp on this thread

  24. Re:Wait... 45 METRES?! on Asteroid Will Make Close Pass To Earth · · Score: 1

    which killed how many people, exactly? the next thing of that size will also very, very, very likely strike where no one lives

  25. Re:Good riddance on Asteroid Will Make Close Pass To Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The last 6 mile diameter/civilization-destroying-sized thing was 65 million years ago. we won't be human in 65 million years, we could as well be animal or rodent by that time. Clearly we should spend $0 on the problem. As for city-destroying-sized things, odds are any will just land in uninhabited area. If a city does get hit, well, sucks to be them.