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  1. Re:Global Warming Scare continues on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 0

    Do you think 0.5 degrees isn't a lot? If that trend continues the math isn't hard. 40 years, 20 degrees. Instead of it being 30 degrees it'll be 50. Is it paranoia when the evidence is in front of you? Is it just a scare if the facts are verified? This is not a near-miss meteor, it's the temperature of our land.

  2. global warming on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No one should be shocked by this. Expect to see another record breaking year in 2006. (duh-hoy) If we don't take positive steps to reduce emissions we will be extending the hurricane season into January very soon. We're only shooting ourselves in the foot - example being the mass production of SUVs, which fail any emissions standard for cars and trucks. So what do we do? Make a new catagory for them: "sport utility". They aren't sport utility, their soccer mom utility. We are getting our just reward for our carelessness. Ride a bike!

  3. BEER! on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed · · Score: 0

    The prime minister's plan to protect local breweries by nationalising them as part of an initiative to show he was sensitive to small problems that caused people concern, called "little things that mean a lot".
    They really thought peoples concern would be beer, of all things? Wouldn't the concern be this?
    Beer has a special place in my heart, don't get me wrong.

  4. If you don't want to go to NYT... on The Year's Best Gadget Ideas · · Score: 1, Interesting
  5. domain names? on The Year's Best Gadget Ideas · · Score: 2, Informative

    Free domain name registration isn't a new idea this year. What's that all about? Mine was free 7 years ago.

  6. hitler on Indiana Tries to Pass Game Law Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What violent games did Hitler play? What awesome game did Ghandi play? What's in Kim Jong ils PS2 right now you think?

  7. Re:XBL on Microsoft's Big Bet on Online Gaming · · Score: 1

    I didn't unfairly generalize. I don't meet too many 24 year old girls on XBL.

  8. ouch on RIAA Bullies Witnesses Into Perjury · · Score: 5, Informative

    So the RIAA bullied a little girl? Unthinkable. They would NEVER, ever EVER do something so... okay so they do.

  9. Re:birthplace on Humans First Arose in Asia? · · Score: 1

    To recap: I posted without thinking, they probably saw the smoke from the volcano and zeroed in on it, I love Hawaii, Jesus didn't put us there, don't eat hammers.

  10. Re:birthplace on Humans First Arose in Asia? · · Score: 1

    My bad. Of course someone had to land there to populate it, it just seems so impossible. Maybe they saw the smoke from the volcano and went to check it out.

  11. reminds me of on Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    the contractors we had in the USAF. They had no real authority or permanent place, so everyone just laughs them off. Example:
    One night I'm working on the tail of a C-17 with a contractor. He's up in a cherrypicker about 4 stories up trying to remove a stuck screw. It was kicking his butt and he was up there for at least 20 minutes. It was about 10 degrees that night, he was older and I knew he wanted to come down, so I asked if he needed any help. That guy yelled at me at the top of his lungs as if he were an officer, saying he neither needed nor wanted help from a lowly staff sarg such as myself, to paraphrase. I walked away laughing. I was just trying to be polite.
    In short, contractors have a chip on their shoulders because of how most people treat them, and they carry it around and display it even when it doesn't matter. Just do your job, orangey.

  12. just why on Google Talk Targeted In Patent Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    So they patented an idea about long distance calls. It's been my experience that these guys just want a settlement and some publicity. They threaten to sue you and drag it on for years and years because their case is a dud. Pay this no mind.

  13. birthplace on Humans First Arose in Asia? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What puzzles me is how remote volcanic islands became inhabited. Hawaii for example. Theres no way early man could have sailed there.

  14. XBL on Microsoft's Big Bet on Online Gaming · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel that XBox Live is for very young children and just-made-it-to-teenager's. Every time they use the talk function they sound prepubescent or 5 years old. My roommate plays a lot of Halo 2 on Live, but he's nowhere near as good as those 5 year olds. I think it's awesome that preteens have a safe place to go to kill eachother for a modest monthly fee. WTG MS!

  15. Re:IT Jobs Not Dead on Hot Tech Skills For 2006? · · Score: 1

    College != Preperation
    Who here has honestly graduated from college, gotten a job in a related field, sat down at the new desk and actually known what to do? Not I.

  16. Re:Am I wrong? on You've Got Indictments · · Score: 1

    I should probably give my mom her cell back, I guess. What if someone here signs for your child support papers? Probably another lawsuit.

  17. Re:Am I wrong? on You've Got Indictments · · Score: 1

    You're right, that's the way it is here. They could probably send the SMS with a confirmation code etc etc.

  18. results are in on Nissan and Microsoft Create Videogame Car · · Score: 1

    Instead of finding a way to get the car to the desk they took the desk to the car. That's just... typical!

  19. would I? on Scientist Pushing for Early Use of Stem Cells · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My mom died and dad died of illnesses that could have been prevented, assuming this stem cell hype is true. Would I sign the waver allowing it to be done for them without knowing if they wanted it? Absofreakinglootly.

    Why wouldn't I? Whos stalling here? People are dying, at least try it ONCE for crying out loud. Some patients can't get worse.

  20. Re:Maybe its because... on Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right? · · Score: 1

    Washington Post didn't start online though, did they? That's a big printer. So these online news startups can't hire those writers working at the WP because... chaching... the washington post just pays more.
    IMHO, if you're publishing a newspaper online and can't find borrow or steal a good writer, you're doomed.

  21. Re:The sound of reality knocking on the door on Why Video Blogs Will Suck · · Score: 1

    You cant say fireworks fired from someones hind isn't funny. It is. You should laugh. If you cannot laugh, view the video backwards, with fireworks firing into the anus.

  22. Re:Maybe its because... on Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right? · · Score: 0

    True, its not just budget. Its the registration process. For the same reason that Napster succeeded (in the beginning) for having almost no registration process. Its a simple formula as I see it, the longer it takes to get the info or read the artical in the form of registration, the fewer users you get. News is like water: we need it, but we can get it almost anywhere.

  23. Maybe its because... on Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...online newspapers can't hire good writers because they have little or no budget, which drives away customers, which leads to less budget? Just a guess.

  24. XML on 10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hear their tinkering with the XML standard too. MS: back off.

  25. telling us fleshies apart from robots on Robot Receptionist with an Attitude · · Score: 1

    My 9th grade english teacher asked us to come up with a short question that would allow us to keep robots out of a building yet let humans through. I came up with something about lies, but that wouldn't work and was too vague. It will be more and more difficult to seperate the clankies from the fleshies and in say, 50 years, you won't I'd imagine.