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  1. Re:How can people expect... on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 1

    Yes, "copyright experts" and "economists" would have made a more logically sound analogy. But the way I put it is rhetorically more effective and, hey Ciceronian triplets are fun!

    More fun than plainly stating the point which you are being willfully blind to:

    "Climate scientists have an economically-motivated bias to come up with findings that are more likely to spur funding for continued research in their field."

  2. Re:How can people expect... on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean besides the overwhelming majority of the world's climate scientists?

    Yes, just like the overwhelming majority of M.D.s oppose "alternative medicine".

    Just like the overwhelming majority of "artists" support copyright.

    Just like the overwhelming majority of bankers support the bailout.

  3. Re:King Kong Defence? on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except for the fact that Swedish trials does not normally employ jurors.

    Exactly. Why would a lawyer be addressing jurors in Sweden, where there are no juries? It does not make sense! If there is no jury in Swededn, you must acquit! The defense rests.

  4. Re:usage constitutes acceptance on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1

    That's OK, since you didn't click -1 Troll to accept, no sale.

    However, you reproduced and distributed my text. Let's talk copyright then.

  5. Re:usage constitutes acceptance on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1, Funny

    By reading this post you agree to pay me 1,000,000 USD.

    Mod as -1 Troll to indicate you agree to these terms.

  6. Re:Obama == Bush (corporate friend)? on Will Obama's DOJ Intervene To Help RIAA? · · Score: 1

    But if you give a damn, either stand up and be counted or shut the hell up.

    I'd like to shut the hell up AND be counted.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-voting

  7. Re:Obama == Bush (corporate friend)? on Will Obama's DOJ Intervene To Help RIAA? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh Lord, I wasted my vote.

    "Wasted vote" is a redundancy.

  8. You are invited... on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 4, Funny

    to take a ride on the Firehose.

  9. Re:Trebuchet on Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? · · Score: 1
    The question:

    A good project would include something they can build, something they can measure, and something they can calculate. Previous projects have included cloud chambers, a Jacobs ladder, a laser Doppler speed camera, laser sound detection, smoke rings, and physical random number generators. This is an opportunity to really inspire students into the joy that can be experimental physics â" but it only works if we demonstrators propose interesting projects.

    Your answer addreses it quite nicely:

    There was plenty to build and measure, but there is a ton to calibrate which is the important part. The best part about this is you have a very wide variety of math you can accompany with it because a lot of the more negligable forces can be ignored or simplified.

    I'm sorry but this is engineering and not physics. I think a major problem in physics education nowadays is its focus on problems involving "something they can build, something they can measure, and something they can calculate", that is to say linear stuff. We all know that most of reality is non-linear. THAT is the interesting stuff.

  10. First idea on How To Encourage Workers To Suggest Innovation? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever you do, discard all first suggestions. They're all just wannabe first posters.

  11. Re:I sit here in a cafe on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think he did better than that. Dude deserves a nick upgrade to "BadKoanGuy".

  12. Re:Why? on Wind Farms To Receive Future Wind Forecasts · · Score: 1

    Why not go one step further and use the windmills to send weather data as well?

  13. Re:Was there some sort of sports match? on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 2, Informative

    Other than that, no.

    Aussie Open Final. No "whooshes", please. Nadal-Federer five-setter in a Grand Slam final is nothing to sneeze at.

  14. Re:Not "all Korea" on All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012? · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the amount of Hotteoks that can fit in a SsangYong Rodius!

  15. Meh! on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe OK for all those all those twee sepia prints. Tell me when I can use my blood (magenta), my wife's blood (cyan), and our urine (yellow). It would surely be a lot less painful and cheaper than the current state of affairs.

  16. Re:"Quaternary bits"? on "Magnetic Tornadoes" Could Offer New Data Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    Is a "quaternary bit" a "quaternary binary digit"? Doesn't make sense. I think you're after a "quaternary digit", or "quit". I like the sound of 'quigit'.

    So the question is: How many songs fit in a 2 Gigaquigit (2GQ) drive?

  17. Re:Food for thought on All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what might happen if the US gave its private telecom companies $200 billion to execute such a plan...

    How about $2 Trillion to private financial companies in exchange for... what exactly?

    Plus, your 1/100 figure is wrong by an order of magnitude (by population). Try doing the same extrapolation by land area with Canada.

  18. Proposed Name for Fake Phishing on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Catch-and-Release

  19. Re:Think of the Airlines as Well. on Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder what kind of plans or route diversions they are making for military and commercial flights right now?

    The particulate has jagged edges and has been used as an industrial abrasive. 'They use this to polish all kinds of metals,'

    So I'm guessing American Airlines will be routing their whole fleet right over it for a free polish!

  20. Obligatory on Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bork, bork, bork...

  21. Zero vs. Less Than Zero on Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script · · Score: 5, Funny

    From there, the virus would wipe out all Fannie Mae data, replacing it with zeros

    Wouldn't zero be an improvement over negative whatever?

  22. Re:Not at all premature on Smart Robot Capable of Hunting For Its Own "Food" · · Score: 1

    That's already been invented; it's called a goat. It might chew up your hanging laundry though.

  23. My home would be an ideal habitat on Smart Robot Capable of Hunting For Its Own "Food" · · Score: 5, Funny

    When can I get a Roomba that runs on nacho crumbs and spilled Mountain Dew?

  24. Pareto Improvement on Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects · · Score: 1

    Initial situation: 100 people have the file. Music company has x dollars.

    Process: I get copy of file.

    Final situation: 101 people have file. Music company still has x dollars.

    Q.E.D.

  25. Headline fails it on In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You · · Score: 0

    Seriously. If kdawson wanted to do the Soviet Russia thing, it should have gone "In Japan, billboard watches YOU!" Or it could have been straight up informative like "Billboards monitors eyeball hits" or something. WTF?