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  1. Re:Double blind should not be hard on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    Very Large Array, the radio telescope. You know, the only VLA that makes sense in context (talking about radio sources in the sky...), and the FIRST hit on google. Were you really that lazy?

  2. Re:Double blind should not be hard on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    No, he said the exact opposite. Learn to read.

  3. Re:A word on simple experiments... on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Algae relies on large quantities of other nutrients as well, not just CO2.

  4. Re:Not mine. on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    Except that the everything you refer to may in fact be the endless void: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip

  5. Re:Reliability? on SSDs vs. Hard Drives In Value Comparison · · Score: 1

    Only someone who failed statistics would ask that question. I mean, really?

  6. Re:yes, it is childish on Microsoft Spurned Researchers Release 0-Day · · Score: 1

    BF Skinner is laughing at you from Hell.

  7. Re:I have plenty of karma to burn on Microsoft Spurned Researchers Release 0-Day · · Score: 1

    Shitty analogy, so stop spamming it.

    Your analogy would only work if the production of the bioweapon could be accomplished by any 13 year old with enough free time. Then yeah, you would have a fucking obligation to warn people--because it's a given that someone else will figure it out anyway.

  8. Re:New Mexico State question on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    The correct answer is always Christmas.

  9. Re:MOD PARENT UP on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wikipedia forgot 'question.'

    Yes, New Mexico has a State question.

  10. Re:Wait... on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    Here's the problem: There are two groups of people interested in what legislators do. Taxpayers, and Union bosses.

    Union bosses pay the legislators (through a campaign slush fund system that basically amounts to the legislators being on Union payrolls--the funds pay for vacations, and trips to the tune of millions).

    Taxpayers elect them.

    There are two ways to fix a deficit: raise taxes (they already tried that once with the largest state level tax hike in US history in 2009, didn't work), or cut spending.

    If they raise taxes, voters will fire them. If they cut spending, the unions will fire them.

    Basically, if they fix the budget, they get fired, no matter what method they choose. Since all they care about is their mortgages, they're content to keep their jobs and do as little as possible.

  11. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's about priorities. Now we know where yours are.

  12. Re:Do it from home? on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    Should have picked a better school. Each dorm had it's own T3 for us.

  13. Re:A better method on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Umm...Bull fucking shit. [citation needed] you hallucinating motherfucker.

  14. Re:Stay good! on Google Acquires ITA Software, Regulators May Balk · · Score: 1

    Where's the -1 Blasphemer mod when I need it?

  15. Re:Not on the iPhone on Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Monkeys even.

  16. Re:P!=NP on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Newton's law DOES explain precession. The effects of the planets on each other under Newton's law gives a precession of orbits.

    It's just that the calculation under Newton's law is noticeably inaccurate (predicts a much smaller precession) in the case of Mercury. This is because of an ADDITIONAL effect from the warping of space-time around the sun.

  17. Re:Who? on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. With my custom perl script and LaTeX I can turn a plain text file into a perfectly formatted manuscript in under ten seconds. No mucking with menus, fonts, or anything--ever. One bash command and I'm done. Granted, it took about a two-weeks of labor to get the script working to my satisfaction (and it's an ungodly kludge of a hack), but it works better and faster than a word processor for my purposes (MLA for school, manuscript formats for short stories/novels), and I never have to worry about formatting again.

  18. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it's been translated into Greek/English, though.

    Poorly, in most cases.

  19. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    the holy book, the word of the unfailable god himself

    The vast majority of Christians do not, and never have believed this. Only a relatively small portion of lunatics do.

  20. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Except that 'best interest of the child' is defined as custody to the mother, father gets only weekly visitation barring evidence of significant psychiatric issues in either party.

  21. Re:From the article on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Just so you know, no one is impressed.

  22. Re:Just think before you share on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Fire your sister. Hire a hotter one.

  23. Re:Just think before you share on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    As someone brought up in a previous discussion yesterday, why in the bloody fuck are we focusing on privacy issues in terms of morally/legally (civil in this case, but still) reprehensible actions?

  24. Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I'm certainly not willing to undergo 3 days with her music!

    That's because Celine Dion IS torture. It's in the Geneva Convention. Look it up.

  25. Re:Shenanigans! on Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain · · Score: 1

    Loops that escape upon some condition are, by defition, not infinite.