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  1. Re:Wipes are $5 extra on Airline to Offer In-Flight Adult Movies · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to be the guy who has to clean up the mess after the plane lands.

  2. Re:It was that way in the U.S. in the late 80's on One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what the problem is because I've always heard plants grow better to the sound of music.

  3. Re:Already Done on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 1

    Now you see I would have thought Justin Beiber already beat him to it.

  4. Re:I bet... on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Edward James Olmos was so badass he was in the same class as Patrick Stewart.

  5. Re:I bet... on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    Have a cookie sir. I miss BSG so much... too bad it had to end.

  6. Re:Problem is politics not population on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    It's not that we don't have enough space for people to live but rather it's just that we don't have enough space for arbitrary borders telling people where they can live.

    Fixed that typo I just caught.

  7. Re:Problem is politics not population on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    I agree. People who say that there isn't enough room on the planet for a significantly larger population need to take a coast-to-coast road-trip. It's that we don't have enough space for people to live it's just that we don't have enough space for arbitrary borders telling people where they can live.

  8. Re:WipeOut! on Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation · · Score: 1

    or perhaps something even worse

  9. Re:Forking developers! on No Tab Relocation Coming For Chrome · · Score: 1

    However if the community as a whole gets upset enough with Google's refusal to listen to it's users then the true beauty of open source comes to life when developers can fork a project either for specific needs or the good of the community as a whole.

  10. Forking developers! on No Tab Relocation Coming For Chrome · · Score: 1
  11. Meh on Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? · · Score: 1

    I'll believe it when I see it since I've been seeing "breakthroughs" about volumetric display technology for awhile now.

  12. Re:Lighting. on Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base · · Score: 1

    I spent one year as the leader of the Norwegian Antarctic research station

    You didn't happen to come across the "Thing" did you?

  13. REX LIES IN WAIT, HE IS HUNTING FOR YOU on First Person Dungeon Crawlers Making a Return · · Score: 1

    I would consider Amnesia a revival of this genre. The whole time I was playing it, it reminded me of a dungeon crawler... especially when I was in the dungeon.

  14. Supply and Demand on Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years · · Score: 1

    There must be a decreasing demand for Canadian ice. It's the only reason I can think of why super markets would halve the ice shelves.

  15. Nuke it on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Nuke the entire hard drive from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure.

  16. Re:How is Mercury "just like the Moon"? on Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World · · Score: 2

    Yeah. I wish there was a way to change that. [citation needed]

  17. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    Right, the whole earth is a disc thing worked out pretty well for us.

    This has more to do with false Christianity holding back science on their own agenda. In fact if you examine the scriptures you will see that Isaiah 40:22 says that earth is in fact round and Job 26:7 says that the earth hangs upon nothing.
    This is very much in contrast to Christendoms teachings that lasted for several centuries; that the earth was a flat disc hanging from some sort of object despite the fact the Bible says the very opposite!

    And of course science has validated Genesis with light appearing several days before the star that gave it

    The Bible begins with the verse "God created the heavens and the earth." Clearly the "heavens" would entail the stars and other celestial bodies.
    The Genesis account talks more about the cultivation of earth and never says that the earth was created before the stars, nor does it exclude the scientific evidence of the big bang theory or the age of earth being in the billions.
    Those who say otherwise are not taking into account what Genesis doesn't say and therefore jumping to conclusions.

    the two separate creation stories of Adam

    I've never heard of this belief before so I can't say much on it.

    the complete lack of evidence of any world wide flood

    I'd have to research this further to be sure but I would figure that an "ice age" would have similar effects on earth's geology as a world wide deluge.

    If you believe in evolution, you can't believe in the Bible or be a Christian as there would have been no original sin and therefore no need for human sacrifice, pretend cannibalism, or vicarious redemption.

    This is definitely true and in complete contrast to the Catholic church's endorsement of the evolution theory. However it is worthy to note that micro-evolution has no conflict with the Bible.
    It is also important to bear in mind that because something is accepted as scientific doesn't necessarily make it true; a good example might be the practice of blood letting or the idea of the four temperaments which progressing science now has revealed as being pseudoscience despite being overwhelmingly being accepted as fact in their age.

  18. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    You're citing the Mosaic Law, and taking some stuff out of context, which was made obsolete by the Law of the Christ.
    There is a lot of misinformation and lack of understanding of the Bible mostly due to Christendom promoting it's own agenda rather then focusing on what the Bible really teaches (Acts 20:29,30; Matthew 7:15-23; 2nd Timothy 4:3).

    Also the Bible is perfectly compatible with science; it's brainwashed zealots who don't stop to think and actually evaluate things for themselves that are not compatible with science (2nd Timothy 3:2-5, 7).

    God, being the creator of all things, it would be reasonable to assume science is compatible with the Bible rather then haughtily dismissing any form of logical scientific evidence because God is the originator of all logic as well as all physical and natural laws.
    In fact most of the scientific evidence Christendom dismisses is actually very compatible with the Bible! This is to be expected though because the scripture cited earlier at 2nd Timothy, chapter 3, says that men would come to be not open to any agreement; something that is very much the norm in our day and age.

  19. Battlefield 3, Tom Clancy, Fail of Duty, etc.. on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    From TFA they're talking about mainstream games; well there is your problem right there.
    ARMA2 has as many civilians as you want to your heart's content, not to mention that it's generally a far superior game in terms of military simulation.

  20. Games are expensive on Are Games Worth Complaining About? · · Score: 1

    Anything I spend money on I have a right to complain about, otherwise I'll take my money elsewhere.
    The foremost example that comes to mind is Ubisoft and their big brother DRM. I used to be a huge fan of Ubisoft but since then I am no longer satisfied, I complained and took my hard earned money elsewhere.
    Another example is the horror show that was Modern Warfare 2 and it's following sequels. I was completely dissatisfied with the consolitis and the fact the target audience is leaning toward 13-year-old-zit-faced gamers thus really bad gameplay, and so I haven't bought a Call of Duty game since CoD4.. to bad it never had any sequels (obligatory reference to XKCD).

    The old proverb "Beggars cannot be choosers" applies in reverse as well.

  21. Re:Clever and creative on Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo · · Score: 1

    Aw man I wish I hadn't spent all my mod points today. That gave me a pretty good chuckle. Kudos!

  22. Re:Clever and creative on Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo · · Score: 1

    Flavor Aid, eh? Well that explains why they all died; it was obviously from a massive headache. I don't know about you guys but Flavor Aid gives me huge headaches but Kool-Aid doesn't.

  23. Re:Fracking? on 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US · · Score: 1

    Unless you're referring to the original series, otherwise correction: frakking.

  24. Re:Asheville, NC on 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US · · Score: 1

    I felt it up here in Pilot Mountain, NC. The shaking lasted for maybe one or two minutes and it was strong enough to cause my monitor to wobble, and yes it did feel weird.
    There are only two other times I've felt something similar; when a bulldozer was making way for a road near my house a couple years ago and when the air force was doing practice flights or something over my neighborhood.

  25. Cloud on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Look Like In 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you what IT will look like in 10 years: We'll all have our heads in the cloud.
    I'm getting tired of the old mainframe system getting plastered as something new and innovative, personally I'd like to see everybody return to the dirt.