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  1. Re:Secret Peacetime Missions? on New Personal Mono-Wing · · Score: 1

    And when exactly has Israel launched full scale war against them?

  2. Re:Ok, in plain english on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Well played, well played indeed.

  3. Re:Ok, in plain english on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Ruining the joke, if you think about it, humans are equivalent to a torus, so the hole would have to have a singular exit for the topologist to be unable to differentiate the two.

  4. Re:Can we get past this? on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You forgot probably the most important point, that global warming is as harmful as it is asserted.

  5. Re:Too much buying power... on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    You're gonna be mighty disappointed when your "you can do it!" attitude fails to allow you to break the 1 minute mile barrier, while my "I can't do it, because it's unrealistic" allows me to devote my time to worthwhile things.

  6. Re:EFF: Factually incorrect, again. on More Unintended Consequences of the DMCA · · Score: 1

    >Anyway, I fail

    Finally, you get something right! You fail to see how the DMCA is an arbitrary law that restricts business, in this case, by giving undue power to Nikon in the absolute control over whoever uses their format.

  7. Re:EFF: Factually incorrect, again. on More Unintended Consequences of the DMCA · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like you have the negatives, and want to develop them, but under the DMCA you're not allowed to reverse engineer the negative format/RAW file, so you have to go with whatever Nikon provides.

  8. Re:THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS! on NASA's $73 Million Water-Finding Trick · · Score: 1

    sw = 97818 sq miles = 253 348.62 sq km
    se = 510 942 805 sq km
    me = 5.9742 × 10^24 kg
    then mw = 2.96227936 × 10^21 kg

    getting back to the point
    mass of the Moon = 7.36 × 10^22 kilograms
    Empire State Building Weight: 365000 tons
    mass of probe = 2 tons

    so crashing the empire state building into wyoming is 24.8648649*182500 = 4 537 837.84 times too much

    To achieve an equivalent crash, it'd only be a 160.869565 lb object, not a very impressive sight.

  9. Re:Too much buying power... on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    Too bad your "you've got the power!" attitude rarely accomplishes anything worthwhile.

  10. Re:God forbid people learn to use the volume contr on iPod Update to Address Volume-Level Concerns · · Score: 1

    Hmm, should a company that makes knives be reponsible for designing a "safe" knife, or should the people "operating" the knife be responsible for safety?

  11. Re:False Dichotomy - Intelligent Design? on Evidence of the Missing Link Found? · · Score: 1

    Too bad he'll spend forever whining about how 8 high is the highest hand in poker because his religion told him it was, so you'll never get the pot.

  12. Re:How could this be BAD news? Like this... on Evidence of the Missing Link Found? · · Score: 1

    Well, no one really needs to make any assumptions about what you do or do not understand, since you yourself prove your ignorance about what a scientific "theory" is, along with using the term creationists made up, macroevolution

  13. Calm down yourself on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    You're either lacking in intelligence or integrity, so I'll go slowly. Read the 1st amendment again, it says Congress shall make no law, it never says say anything you want anywhere. The supreme court actually deciding the details of what speech is unacceptable is part of the systems of checks and balances, something that's sorta a necessary part of a democracy, which Sweden apparently isn't.

    A handy reference to extremist speech

  14. Re:Terrorrists or Freedom fighters ? on Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you even know how Islam started? Say, the forcible conversion at scimitar point. While it might be nice to think and talk of Islam as a peaceful religion, the real world shows otherwise, or has the rioting and deaths over cartoons and brutal opression as given by the media been all a Zionist plot?

  15. Re:bleh, bone structure. on Human Genes Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    Then clearly the solution is to merely eliminate the offspring of these individiuals, and evolution is back to work!

  16. Re:Quick Fix, Instant-Oatmeal One-Hour photo answe on 'No Quick Fix' From Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Greenpeace's hysterical antics have given all environmentalists a bad name, and their "report" on an issue as emotionally charged as nuclear power is say, about as reliable as a Bush administration "report" on global warming.

  17. Re:Solar power is the real answer. on 'No Quick Fix' From Nuclear Power · · Score: 3, Informative

    The energy used to make a panel is recovered within 1-2 years of operation, beyond which a further 13-18 years of net energy production remain
    Also here

    Since the price of solar panels makes the economic breakeven point 10-20-50 years, this must be because of the cost of materials, which can be recycled. All of this, of course, assume you live somewhere solar is useful, not, say, England.

  18. Re:People like you make me smile. on Gold Buying - Time Saver or Cheating? · · Score: 1

    People are paying $60 to NOT play the game. Now generally, this would mean that the game is deficient in some way, ie, not good.

  19. Re:Shut yo mouth!!! on NASA Cancels Missions After All · · Score: 1

    Smoking is very relaxing, in addition it is often a social activity. It does reduce life expectancy for heavy smokers, but then again, so do extreme sports. So why aren't people wasting money on truth advertising for those?

  20. Re:meth on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Heh, you're an idiot if you think that pseudoephedrine is the easiest/best/ONLY route to large scale quality meth. It's much cheaper and safer to create something like 1-phenyl-2-propanone and then reductively aminate it in bulk, as opposed to using the Birch reaction on ephedrine. Banning precursors does nothing. You can still buy LSD, which has some of the most complex precursors and is probably the most demanding synthesis of illegal drugs.

  21. Re:Good Riddance To Yet More Bad Rubbish on Utah Votes 'No' to Darwin's Critics · · Score: 1

    From Toll's Take (I think), a political cartoon. Two classrooms splitscreen. "If humans evolved from primates, why are there still apes?"
    "If Americans came from English settlers, why are there still englishmen?"

  22. Re:Mod Parent Down! FUD! (instead of the grandpare on New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years · · Score: 1

    Since C14 only collects in living animals/plants, and decays when they die, by the time something is converted into coal/oil the C14 has long since decayed to negligable levels. Remember the half life is 5760 years, so by 200,000 years less than 1 ppb of the original C14 is still C14.

  23. Re:You had me at on PBS To Air Six New Monty Python Specials · · Score: 1

    Somewhat related: Graham Chapman Eulogy service

  24. Re:Trends! on Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names · · Score: 1

    You sir, are my hero.

  25. Re:Obligatory RTFA. on PlayStation 3 Delayed, Over $800? · · Score: 1

    You make the incorrect assumption that if you don't buy it, it won't be sold.