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  1. Re:Peak Oil is Not a Troll on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    We attacked Iraq simply because we were not through killing people.

    We had an army there, blood in our eyes, and the Taliban folded up like a cheep suit, and we just needed to kill some more people. It is not hard to understand. Syria was too small, Iran was what looked like a democracy and Iraq was playing grab ass. We decided to bust up the Arab Dictactor Frat-party which led to the Libyans to giving up their weapons and getting right with the human race.

    20/20 hindsight is we probably should have picked Iran. There is as much oil in Brazil as in Saudi it turned out. It also turns out that Canada has as much energy in the tar sands as is in the oil elsewhere, and so does Venezuela in their tar sands.

     

  2. Multi-dimensional Santa(s) on The Science of Santa · · Score: 1

    All Santa has to do is go out and deliver presents to some number (M) of houses. Then he shifts over into the next dimension (like in the comics, not like in string theory) and delivers presents for another M houses. Santa does this until he has made deliveries in some number of different dimensions (N) and then he goes home.

    For an infinite number of dimensions and Santas in those dimensions if M and N are greater than some number (I suggest it is 2 and 2) then everyone gets presents without Santa even having to break a sweat. I leave it as an exercise to the theorist to show that not all universes have to have the same number of homes.

  3. My suggestions on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    Stranger in a Strange Land, The Stars My Destination, When Worlds Collide/After Worlds Collide, and the entire last season of Startrek Voyager.

  4. Re:And then what? on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 1

    Decades ago (literally) I trained my C64 to perform all the contour mapping algorithims in Davis, "Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology." I also had it doing log analysis computations and plots. I have an old copy of GEOS somewhere, I wonder if that would run on the emulator?

  5. Re:Wording on Company Denies Its Robots Feed On the Dead · · Score: 0

    Eat the Canadians first!!!

  6. Re:slashdot-search idle interesting on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 0

    Did you use the correct syntax with sed, grep and awk?

  7. Re:Wrong Premise on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 0

    "I'm pretty sure we've never magically seen thermal radiation get blocked by a tank of warming air, then seen the CO2 concentration in that air spike as a result. Admittedly, I could be wrong since magic, sorcery, and thermodynamic witchcraft aren't fields I research in."

    It is easy for me to conclude you probably never researched chemistry or geology either. The interaction between co2 buffered in sea water and water temperature can play this kind of game. Sorcery and witchraft are not necessary, but thermo may be useful for you to study.

  8. I use ... on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 0

    I use formation names from the strat column of the East Texas Basin, Woodbine, Paluxy, Glenrose, Nacatoch etc. This machine, however, is Pickles, from the character in the Opus comic strip.

  9. Re:You meant the wrong way on Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians · · Score: 0

    Is this like running C code through an 'uglyfier'?

  10. Try this... on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 0

    Barcodes?

  11. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 0

    >OK, I'm confused. Don't you guys, the shining light of Global Democracy, have a saying regarding governance "By the people, for the people"?

    I am from Texas. We have "Caveat Emptor" tattooed on the back of our eyelids at birth.

  12. Re:but... but... Don't ferget the other guy... on Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans · · Score: 0

    Satan's greatest accomplishment is to have convinced people he does not exist. I have raised children. Just as releasing a hammer and watching it fall confirms the invisible thing that is gravity watching children get grown will leave you with no doubt that there is an evil out to get souls.

    You can hope God exist, you can pray he does not. You can rely on this squabble going on for as long as there are people.

    If you have the reasoning ability to deduce gravity you can have no doubt about Satan.

  13. Re:I've got an old dell they can use... on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 0

    Ham guys use the sound card.

  14. Re:Shit World 2007 on 54% of CEOs Dissatisfied With Innovation · · Score: 0

    > Or if not money, honor. For example, if I ...

    When asked in a interview why they still do it, Kieth Richards of the Rolling Stones said, "Don't ferget about the cute birds up front and all the free beer you can drink."

  15. Re:Ask simply, "Is the earth young or very, very o on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 0

    Please be aware that if a supernatural being is fooling us about the age of the earth then He/She/It/They are just as likely to be fooling us about the whole 'died on the cross for out salvation' part, also.

  16. Will we detect benificial effects to climate? on Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean · · Score: 0

    Just wondering.

  17. Ask simply, "Is the earth young or very, very old? on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 0

    Fact: The earth 'looks' old, 4.5 billion years to be precise.

    A: We are seeing is what we are looking at and the earth is as it appears and is very, very old.

    B: Supernatural beings created everything to look old, or are fooling us somehow into thinking it looks old.

    Mr. Politician, sir, to which do you subscribe?

  18. Re:Since when on FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms · · Score: 0

    >What is TAMU, and what is a 'tiger flick'? I was there for 4 years during Ford/Carter. It was both everything you would imagine and at the same time nothing like that at all. Tiger flicks were yea rah! propaganda that Hollywood made during the early 40's. There are some animated flicks where superheroes attack stereotypical examples of the races that the U.S. was battling against at the time. I hear a lot of otherwise well meaning people blather on and on about the patriot act and the evilness of (either) George Bush. When you bring up the crap Roosevelt (either) pulled they look at you like you asked them to solve a math problem.

  19. Re:Since when on FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms · · Score: 0

    It is worth the drive to TAMU sometime to see the 1943 tiger flick "We've never been licked!" It give us a reference as to how out of control this country can get. I was not alive then so I do not know if it was a bunch of Democrats running things or if it was some kind of apolitical mass hysteria, But what we have now is nothing like it was back then.

  20. Look at Wegner and Continental Drift on Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy? · · Score: 0

    I remember hearing stories of fist fights out in the halls after the first sea floor spreading papers started coming out. The story of continental drift in addition to being a great example of bad consensus is eerily similar to global warming.

  21. Re:Interesting on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 0

    In Texas it is prohibited by statute to inform high school students the earth may be more than 6000 years old. No bullshit. Evolution is not allowed in text books unless it is disclaimed as an unproven theory.

  22. Re:Not contractually forbidden... on Kaleidescape Triumphant in Court Case, DVD Ripping Ruled Legal · · Score: 0

    Are you still in the hoosgaw?

  23. Re:From the "Well, DUH" department... on Kids 'Unaffected By Game Violence' Says Study · · Score: 0

    >increase aggression in those predisposed to it. While that is in and off itself a cause for concern, and parental monitoring, the games themselves are not the root of the problem.
    Right! Let the little blokes go back to playing with Joe Camel dolls and leave it up to parental monitoring, Oh shit, we been down that road...Look out for that tree!!!

  24. Bill Gates Solution on Higher Pay for Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 0

    Why waste his tax dollars educating a bunch of ungrateful Americans when other countries have more smart people than they know what to do with.

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/473893dc-ccde-11db-a938-00 0b5df10621.html

    My Dad reckoned there is nothing wrong with this country that a good hard depression would not cure.

  25. Re:PGP? on Bitlocker No Real Threat To Decryption? · · Score: 0

    >I'm sure plenty of criminal masterminds already use PGP or GnuPG. Supposedly
    >even using encryption can be deemed "criminal intent" in Minnesota.
    And you arn't doing sex right unless something you (and/or you all) are doing violates some law in Alabama.