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  1. Re:jaunty tune on Extinct Mammoth, Coming To a Zoo Near You · · Score: 1

    and for Jimmy Webb, who wrote MacArthur Park , performed by Richard Harris, of which Weird Al's song was a parody. It's a metaphorical description of the tragic end of a love affair.

  2. Re:before you do it on Extinct Mammoth, Coming To a Zoo Near You · · Score: 1

    yes, and then we can resurrect and let loose saber-toothed tigers to eat the mammoths!

  3. Re:before you do it on Extinct Mammoth, Coming To a Zoo Near You · · Score: 2

    I and my marauding hordes of test lab animal liberators will let the mammoths loose on the modern world one dark night. Run like the wind and be free, FREE, Manny! mwuhahahaha!

  4. Re:This a re-org for the foreign offices only on Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not true, I could, for example, care less about such an old, old rant I've been hearing my whole life. After reading your version of it, I could and now do care even less.

  5. Re:The Virtual Fence was always a dumb idea on US Scraps Virtual Fence Along Mexican Border · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually, that's a lie made by certain BATF agents and aped by Obama, and some congressmen. The accurate statement is 90% of traceable guns that were submitted to the AFT were U.S. origin, and they were submitted because they were likely to be of U.S. origin. Most drug cartel guns in Mexico come from overseas black markets.

    Also Fox News made a false statement, that 17% of the cartel guns were U.S. and the rest foreign. Figure might be twice that or more.

    http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/counting-mexicos-guns/

  6. Re:real science on Bastardi's Wager · · Score: 0

    that is absolutely false, that the matter is settled. Real scientists dispute the AGW's politically funded and motivated "climatologists".

    The facts are that even as more C02 is added to the atmosphere, that overall the antarctic has been cooling the last 30 years, that the worrisome summertime holes in the artic sea have been closing, that alternative data sets to NASA's show that 1934 was the warmest year on record (not 2010), that the earth is presently cooling as the sun has been quiet (just as the peak of late 90s and early 00s caused unusual warming).

    The dominant greenhouse gas on planet earth is water vapor, the puny amount of Co2 is of no import. The false models, a waste of billions of dollars, churned out for the last 15 years always have to be cooked after the fact. "global warming will cause more severe hurricanes", they said in the period of more severe hurricanes, which has now passed. "global warming will cause drought", they said a few years ago when drought hit (even though it's known periodic occurrence). Now it's flooding (again, happened before. Cold winter, global warming.

    the sun drives climate, that's the fact.

    The activities of man do have bad effects, pollution is a bad thing and for that reason I support carbon neutral energy and/or nuclear power. But warming the earth is not a reason, we aren't doing it, the Sun did.

  7. Re:excuse me on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    wrong, proven many times open source creators and users can flex their muscle and make a dent in the big corporations budget and way of doing things. We've done it before and we should try it with this video standard. We will make the definition of "reasonable", we've done it before and we can do it again.

  8. Re:Summary sucks. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    well, if you adopt the strategy of perpetual heavy drinking, never sobering up, then you'll have 100% neuron failure due to death by liver failure. Better to pick a different chemical if "perpetually stoned" is the goal state, there are many that have no risk of neuron or organ failure.

  9. Re:NO! on Should Employees Buy Their Own Computers? · · Score: 1

    I am a prima fucking donna, and I am part of making things that pull in millions of dollars in sales for the company. I don't ever bother the IT staff; they come to me sometimes for help to troubleshoot complex issues. Funny when the rest of the company is *down* do to Windows flaws, my coworker and myself who run GNU/Linux are *up*. In short, if everyone was like us, 98% of people like you would be out of work while the remaining 2% would only be needed a few hours a month at any one company.

  10. Re:In other words on Airborne Prions Prove Lethal In Mouse Studies · · Score: 1

    dont' discount the possibility of genetically engineering a bioweapon that is more effective against ethnicity of likely enemy than home population

  11. Re:New species? Several Generations? on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    well, a couple hundred thousand years for the "new" primate species of which we are all a member.

  12. Re:the human body needs gravity feedback on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    that's a myth, that there can be no windows on mars. Light pipes can bring outside view around shielding, or video screens employed, or tanks of water could be used. There are dense transparent radiation stopping materials too, but probably cost prohibitive to transport.

  13. Re:Summary sucks. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    Studies have also shown the uniform mass death of neurons in all parts of the brain by heavy alcohol use (also have shown the targeted death of neurons by certain other mind-altering substances). So it is a true statement that alcohol can cause brain damage, neuron death.

  14. Re:I doubt no testing on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    eh? there are no plans to send altar boys up, a mission of priests should therefore be sexless.

  15. Re:I do think people need to understand that on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 2

    wrong, you're only thinking of the client side. If I have to pay to use the server side, it isn't open it's encumbered. I don't have freedom. It isn't open.

  16. Re:excuse me on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    The terms are not reasonable, if I have to fork out money as a web site provider.

    And yes, we'll go with the "new" definition of open which includes "free to implement", and reject the old definition of "having to line some cocksucker parasite's pocket in order to use".

  17. Re:Putting the snideness of the summary aside... on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    $100,000 is more than some small companies make in a year.

    I don't have freedom if I have to like the pockets of some cartel Shylock.

  18. Re:Summary sucks. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    said the adblock/noscript user?

  19. Re:Summary sucks. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 3, Informative

    Your linked article states that it does lead to mass death of brain cells in heavy drinkers.

    It would be more accurate to state that occasional moderate use of alcohol is not known to kill brain cells, but heavy chronic use can.

  20. Re:Ugh on Goodbye Bifocals — Electronic Glasses Change Focus · · Score: 1

    also for japanese schoolgirls

    Moe!

  21. dolphin institute says on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    dolphins are about as intelligent as dogs or chimps, much of the brain taken up with senses like sonar imaging

  22. Re:fun to think about? on Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport · · Score: 1

    no subject change, the field paleopathology encompasses finds from millions to mere couple thousand years ago. Natural and man-made mummies much much older than those in Egypt exist. And cancer rates found are much lower than the present. The author of your article appears ignorant of the breadth of the field.

  23. Re:Important question on Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    because the police never abuse tools because the law doesn't let them?

    they never beat people with night sticks, taser them for torture and/or sport, abuse surveillance gear for sexual / voyeuristic purposes.....?

  24. Re:TASER (Re: Important question) on Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    seen the Taser XREP cartridge? A few mods to this idea could give any desired range

    http://www.taser.com/products/law/Pages/TASERXREP.aspx

  25. Re:Uh oh! on Star Wars Coming To Blu-ray In September · · Score: 1

    don't worry, the former is available in "good enough" format for digitizing, on 12" (30cm) CAV laserdisc. My friend still has all three original star wars movies in this format