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  1. Re:You can Do that? on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    I believe Wells Fargo didn't even want to take the taxpayer money, but the Treasury made all the banks take money, so as not to indicate which ones really needed the money.

  2. Re:First plot! on WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error · · Score: 1

    Factcheck.org, agrees that 90%-95% is wrong too, though they say the actual number is probably higher than in the fox article.

  3. Re:First plot! on WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error · · Score: 1

    It could be worse: Randall Flagg could be traveling the countryside to gather his minions in Las Vegas.

    But what if he is?

  4. Re:So let me get this straight... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    very interesting. thanks for looking that up.

  5. Re:So let me get this straight... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    30% larger is still 30% more calories and nutrition. Some parts of the world would put more value on that than on the taste aspect.

  6. Re:Fun with acronyms. on Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China · · Score: 1

    Are we calling CO2 pollution now? So the deaths from that pollution would be everyone who dies by suffocation?

  7. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 2, Informative

    the US is one of the richest countries in the world, but at the same time for sure the biggest polluter

    Not quite. In fact, the US and Canada are net carbon sinks.

  8. Re:telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl on Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises · · Score: 1

    My fellow Earthicans and I resent that.

  9. Re:Damn on Long-Term Performance Analysis of Intel SSDs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. BSG and Joss Whedon's new show are on.

  10. Re:Why talk on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1
    "if the process really worked they would be commercializing it"

    FTA:

    âoeOur plan is to have a demonstration-scale plant operational by 2010 and, in parallel, weâ(TM)ll be working on the design and construction of a commercial-scale facility to open in 2011,â says Mr Pal, adding that if LS9 used Brazilian sugar cane as its feedstock, its fuel would probably cost about $50 a barrel.
  11. Re:One begs the question on Software Update Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 3, Informative

    one begs the question...
    No one doesn't
  12. Re:Threadjack - M$ Blocks Political Email. Re:Firs on Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links · · Score: 1

    that makes no sense. if they participate in monopolistic practices in an area where they don't have a monopoly, then they get punished real quick by the consumers. It's their online messaging service, they can block what they want. What right do you have to force them to sell anything? If you don't like ms communicator, go use aim, yahoo, jabber, whatever.

  13. Re:Perhaps the asteroid that did for the dinosaurs on Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if that were the case, there wouldn't be a k/t boundary layer would there?

  14. Re:Questions? on Star Swallows Companion, Burps Out Planet-Forming Cloud · · Score: 3, Interesting

    though they also payed as much taxes as half of america.

  15. Re:Qtrax is a hoax to gather e-mail addresses on Music Labels say No Deal with Qtrax · · Score: 1

    And just to prove I'm not all snark, Here's a google translation of it.

  16. Re:Qtrax is a hoax to gather e-mail addresses on Music Labels say No Deal with Qtrax · · Score: 1

    Het leek te mooi om waar te zijn en dat is het ook. Gratis en legaal 25 miljoen muzieknummers downloaden, dankzij advertenties. De service van Qtrax werd met veel tam-tam aangekondigd, want Qtrax beweerde legaal bezig te zijn en contracten te hebben afgesloten met vier grote platen maatschappijen well that clears things up!
  17. Re:As a matter of interest... on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    Eh? What particles make up a sound wave; the audion? I'm no general relative science-type-guy but I think I remember from elementary or middle school science class that sound waves are made up of the particles of the medium they travel through, such as air. This is why there's no sound in the vacuum of space, despite what the movies tell you.
  18. Re:Discounting the price of a book? on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 1

    As I said I am sorry if I sound to American, but I tend to beleave in a free market echonomy, with its ups and downs.
    That's just the thing, France doesn't.

    "Economic growth imposes a hectic form of life, producing overwork, stress, nervous depression, cardiovascular disease and, according to some, even the development of cancer," asserts the three-volume Histoire du XXe siècle, a set of texts memorized by countless French high school students as they prepare for entrance exams to Sciences Po and other prestigious French universities.

    ...

    Capitalism itself is described at various points in the text as "brutal," "savage," "neoliberal," and "American." This agitprop was published in 2005, not in 1972.
  19. Re:Replacement for sleep? on Snortable Drug 'Replaces' Sleep For Monkeys In Trials · · Score: 1
    Good job slashdot:

    Researchers seem cautious to bill the treatment as a replacement for sleep
    Story headline:

    Snortable Drug 'Replaces' Sleep For Monkeys In Trials
  20. Re:Could be... on Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? · · Score: 1

    Obviously whoever thought that up watched the warp 10 episode of Voyager where they travel so fast that they're everywhere in the universe at once and technically not really moving. I had almost forgotten about it. Please don't ever mentioned that episode again.
  21. Re:wow on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    and people who don't like capitalism seem to be less educated on the subject with little perspective on how the world works.

  22. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    tractors? cancer-inducing chemicals? What on earth are you talking about?

  23. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    of course not. if they bought an auto with bad gas mileage and can't afford the gas, that's their problem, not mine.

  24. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    only if you care about freedom. Whether someone is driving an SUV or having homosexual sex in their bedroom is none of our business.

  25. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    It is unreasonable to ask them to change their lifestyle. Ask? No. Force? Yes.