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  1. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Which is kind of the point of the UN after all, to prevent major powers going to war ever again.

  2. Re:Security is NOT an issue with The Cloud. on Oracle and Microsoft To Announce Cloud Partnership Monday · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that, my head was starting to spin, and no matter how many times I checked the score was never marked "funny".

  3. Re:Colin Chapman on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    The exact opposite of how Rolls Royce used to design cars - test to destruction, make the part that failed stronger and repeat.

  4. Re:Everything good is bad for you on Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should read the article. No really. Because they mention exactly this. That it's not just a matter of eliminating salt, it is absolutely required, but that we tend to eat too much. Heck here's a copy / paste for you:

    To stay healthy, the human body relies on a careful balance: too little immune function and we succumb to infection, too much activity and the immune system begins to attack healthy tissue, a condition known as autoimmunity. Some forms of autoimmunity have been linked to overproduction of TH17 cells, a type of helper T cell that produces an inflammatory protein called interleukin-17.

  5. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    Besides, that is what God created conversion programs for.

    God crashed a multi-billion dollar research craft into Mars?

    Well if God created everything then I guess he did.

  6. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    Retarded means extra late, from re - a prefix meaning extra and tard meaning late. So if someone has retarded development it is to say that their development is extra late. Source: speaking a couple of romance languages.

  7. Re:I like... on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    As an adult I would appreciate the extra character development in a longer movie, but that is not what is happening. Longer movies just mean longer, pointless action sequences. And it all gets so tedious.

  8. Re:Are they getting longer? on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if Peter Jackson's films had intermissions people wouldn't come back after the break.

  9. Re:I love long films if... on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    The problem with PJ and action is that he uses so much that the original carefully placed action sequences in the source material (thinking Tolkien and Herge here) are swamped by meaningless action, which means that there is no build up and release of tension. You become disconnected from the story and your mind starts to wander. Then you realise you're in a cinema and it starts to get boring.

  10. Re:Technology is fine... on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    . I think Peter Jackson is turning into George Lucas... .

    Turning into? They've been twins since the beginning.

  11. Re:it's the length of movies themselves on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the much longer and more sophisticated "Lord of the Rings" has exactly this fault also.

  12. Re:it's the length of movies themselves on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    I call that the "Peter Jackson" effect. It was the same story for LOTR, Tintin, and well anything he's done since well for ever. He cuts out important narrative and adds pointless action sequences that only serve to reduce the impact and tension of the important action sequences.

  13. Re:Comment on Movie length on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    my experience shows also that minute-for-minute they feel longer.

    That feeling... it's called boredom. Movies are getting longer, and editing looks like a lost art.

  14. Re:Dear Mr. President on Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama · · Score: 1

    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?

    I think your signature is brilliant, I tip my hat to you ;-)

  15. Re:Why would you want to game on Linux on Valve Begins Listing Linux Requirements For Certain Games On Steam · · Score: 1

    I just popped a new hard drive in a 6 year old imac (replacement for one that broke) which is still someone's daily business machine and it's still running fine. That's the good part of starting off with systems with pretty decent specs.

  16. Re:What's a ballistic missile? on Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel · · Score: 1

    >Also, assuming that you are American (you may not be, of course, but changes are good), remember Afganistan? There is still a war raging there, plus at least 5 >other countries are being bombed on regular basis. All that in response to an 11+ year old event (if a major one). You wanna talk about "proportional response"? This argument is a logical fallacy know as the ad hominem attack. A statement is true or false on its own merits regardless of who is doing the stating.

  17. Re:it can fly? on Upgrading Software From 350 Million Miles Away · · Score: 5, Informative

    The point of the exercise is to replace the no longer needed flight software with software it can use to better perform it's tasks while on Mars.

  18. Re:Gotta Love Press Releases on Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' · · Score: 1

    >I love Linux, but let's be realistic. Linux is doing okay on tablets...

  19. Re:It's a great move. on Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be funny if after all these years Microsoft adopted Apple's business model?

  20. "Waiter, my soup has a ..." on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    "Waiter, my soup has a ..."

  21. Re:cool ... good that I use OS 10.5 on New Mac Trojan Installs Silently, No Password Required · · Score: 1

    Apple considers their range if laptops and desktops to be PCs so...

  22. Re:Related questions... on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    I hope this isn't a rhetorical set of questions...

  23. Re:The Real Problem on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    You only experience Gs during acceleration. Once you reach 4000km/hr and maintain the speed you will feel as though you weren't moving at all.

  24. Re:Maybe because... on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 3, Funny

    I went to find the six pack in my fridge but there wasn't one. You shouldn't play with people like that. I really wanted a beer too...

  25. Golden era of Reddit on Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In other words, the Golden Era of Reddit where there was supposedly more intelectual discussions, content and the lack to rage comics and cat pictures was all fake? Now that Reddit has actual users it's just a shit as 4chan?