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  1. Re:Prop 19 on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    When the DEA starts worrying about the pot head with an ounce bag walking down the street, then the federal laws will matter. Until then, the Californian people will not have to worry about getting arrested by the local PD which is usually the origin of most federal charges brought against a pot enthusiast with his/her own plant in the basement.

  2. Re:Prop 19 on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    If it passes, my next vacation will be to Cali!

  3. Re:Not much on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    Insightful? I hope the mod marked it insightful in the same way satire is insightful, otherwise we have a much larger math problem in this country than I thought.

  4. Re:A little more on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was just thinking the same thing!!

    Are you listening to my thoughts?

  5. Re:Cheaper than silicon? on Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created · · Score: 1

    hydrogen is the most abundant.

  6. Re:resistive? on Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet · · Score: 1

    My finger seems to be pretty handy. They have gloves that conduct capasitivness in the index finger now as well.

  7. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    and BTW.... if I weigh myself in kilos, I would weigh the same number of kilos no matter where I weighed myself in the universe. It isn't so with pounds, practical or not.

  8. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    but when we are talking SI units, it is a measure of mass and only a measure of mass.

  9. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    the only reason it will tell you the same numbers is because of the configuration of the device. you are not 180 lbs on the earth and on the moon. If you are on the earth and weigh 180, then you are 30 lbs on the moon.

    the reason the scale reads the same on the moon is because the force of gravity changes uniformly on the masses on the left and right of the fulcrum and the ratio of balance will not change just because the force int eh system changes.

    Weight is a measure of force. Nothing more.

    No wonder we have problems in the physical sciences.

  10. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    no, because a mass measurement is normalized for the force of gravity. the astronaut's mass measurement on earth would read the same on a normalized measuring device on the moon.

    Their weight would not be the same though.

  11. Re:resistive? on Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet · · Score: 1

    capacitive can use a real stylus. it just needs to have special conductive material for the tip that conducts the electrical signal of your skin to the point. They used them at the apple store for signing credit purchases.

  12. Re:Thanks Apple! on Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' · · Score: 1

    It is called Roku.

  13. Re:HTML5 on Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' · · Score: 1

    dude... Apple killed the 3.5" floppy before everyone else because it was time to do it.

    you must be 12 or something because I recall seeing 3.5 inch floppies on the first Mac in 1984

  14. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    what high school physics class did you fail?

    Weight refers to measure of the force of gravity on a mass. Mass is independent of gravity.

  15. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    why would they have to check their atom count against a cylinder in Paris when all they need to do is build their own according to the definition?

  16. Re:Mass deficit in ppb? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    who cares when you are constructing a DEFINITION, not an object?

    The mass deficit would be important for a weights and measures engineer when they use the definition to construct an object that will be used to compare mass of one object to that of a reference. It has nothing to do with the definition.

    are you going to bitch about the definition of a meter since it uses the distance a photon travels in x/y seconds? I mean... that definition is talking about a perfect vacuum... we don't live in a perfect vacuum... we better go back to a metal rod deffinition for the meter as well!

  17. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    what does weight have to do with mass?

    Structure has of the lattice has no impact on the combined mass the atoms create.

  18. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    tie the measure of a Kilogram to motion like all the other measures.

    1Kg can be defined in term of generated momentum.

  19. Re:Neanderthal Hybrid? on Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage · · Score: 1

    out of Africa is not hurt by this at all and multi-regional is not helped by this at all.

    Where did the Homo Sapien Sapien come from to interbreed with Homo Sapien Neanderthal ? Out of AFRICA.

  20. Re:Wasn't there a study... on Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage · · Score: 1

    The ability to interbreed and produce viable offspring has nothing to do with their classifications. Go read up on it at Think Origin.

  21. Re:Ahh Limewire! That takes me back... on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 1

    Newzbin sucks.

  22. Re:Ahh Limewire! That takes me back... on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 1

    nzbmatrix.com

  23. Re:Good Riddance on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought you guys were talking about a frat party.

  24. Re:Ahh Limewire! That takes me back... on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 1

    Astraweb.com

    Subscribe.... Download at blazing speeds... no sharing

  25. Re:There are still non-torrent filesharing network on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 1

    yeah... really

    And with the advent of magnet links, no central tracker is needed, meaning no one but the search sites to sue.