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  1. Re:Do they realise... on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but I've never understood why they insist on picking at teeny little outgrowths at the very edge of science and technology

    Because they're angry spoilt brats and bullies, who enjoy picking on easy targets.

  2. Re:Almost, Apple... on Wozniak's Original System Description of the Apple ][ · · Score: 1

    Why did you really want it? What was the advantage you thought you'd have with a MacBook Pro at 5x the price?

  3. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    No. The program could never run without a server. I see a few people saying that they won't buy the game.

    But if you do, you buy knowing that without a server your game is useless.

  4. Re:Wow! on Apple Gives In, Drops iPad '4G' Tag To Avoid Lawsuits · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have gamemaker you gamermaker considered gamemaker gamemaker?

  5. Re:God sucks at design on Astronomers See the Glow of a Boiling Planet · · Score: 2

    Leave the AC alone. At least he exists!

  6. Re:Google Beta on Google Gets Driverless License For Nevada Roads · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhh, the kilomile. Glad to see metric catching on.

    For those interested there's 52 800 000 centifeet in a kilomile, and 83 milliinches in a microfoot.

  7. Re:OMG! 500 years ago??? on How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My absolutely uneducated guess is that people were more used to disgusting smells and sights in those days. People would slaughter, skin and butcher their own animals. Meat was stored for a long time. People shat everywhere. People didn't know how diseases were transmitted.

    So I think it wasn't as gross to him as it is to us.

  8. Re:hmm... on British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only wasted vote is a vote for the Democrats or a vote for the Republicans.

  9. Re:Can we just get it over with. on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    crammed into uncomfortable seats for the cinema experience (some kid behind you asking 'who that is' every time anyone who isn't the main character comes on-screen).

    Hey, my girlfriend is not a kid. At least I've got her to stop telling me when "something cool is going to happen" in the movie we're watching.

  10. Re:Instead of linking to a random blog post... on Samsung Passes Nokia As Biggest Handset Manufacturer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But then how is the blogger (probably Soulskill's friend) going to make advertising dollars?

  11. Re:This really sucks on Trimble To Acquire Google SketchUp · · Score: 2

    Good for you. What exactly is your point?

  12. Re:Whoopdie-doo on Study Finds 1 in 10 Used Hard Drives Contains Old Personal Data · · Score: 1

    I'm from NZ. We tend to do what you do, pay at the door as we leave.

    When I've dined in the States I've felt obliged to leave the card in their little leather book thing. I think they do it that way to make tipping easier with cash. (You'd just add your tip, then round up, leaving the notes)

    Fortunately in NZ we don't have to tip, so the waiters don't help to make an artificial situation where your credit card is at risk of being stolen by restaurant staff.

  13. Re:Er, Your Statement and His Don't Quite Mix on 'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Ultimately from the sun.

  14. I will never forgive Hotmail... on Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires · · Score: 1

    I remember in the early 2000s they reduced their capacity to 2MB. A few years later Gmail came along with 1 gig - I haven't looked back. I will never ever use hotmail again in my life.

  15. Re:In California ?!?! on Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had points, but I posted this comment and lost them.

  16. Re:Good fat, bad fat, I'm the guy with the gun on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 2

    Food doesn't contain "good" or "bad" cholesterol. It's always good old (10R,13R)-10,13-dimethyl-17-(6-methylheptan-2-yl)-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol (or C27H46O for short).

    Those terms refer to the way it is tested in the blood. Cholesterol travels around the body in little bubbles named after the proteins they're carried in. The low-density ones tend to be worse, because they deliver cholesterol to the tissues. If you just look at the total cholesterol in the blood, then you don't know if it's good or bad - nowadays labs will usually test which lipoproteins are carrying the cholesterol.

  17. Re:Don't feel sorry for him or his business on US Judge Say Kim Dotcom May Never Be Tried or Extradited · · Score: 1

    So why are ISP operators not behind bars as well?

    Probably has something to do with how ISPs don't pay people to upload copyrighted material to their servers.

    He didn't pay people to upload copyrighted material either. Why would he do that? It seems like a stupid way to make money!

    He had advertising on the website, which I understand that uploaders could get a cut of. But having advertising on a webpage isn't illegal.

  18. Re:Whoops! on US Judge Say Kim Dotcom May Never Be Tried or Extradited · · Score: 1

    if there were justice, he would be able to sue the .nz officials(who failed to do their duty)...

    Speaking as a NZer, I don't think we can afford to pay him for his losses suffered! (I guess we can always borrow some more.)

    But yes, our police department and other agencies involved deserve to get in trouble for this.

  19. Re:Shit Like This... on US Judge Say Kim Dotcom May Never Be Tried or Extradited · · Score: 1

    As much as it disgusts me that you're voting for "Socialists" (we need less government control of our money), good on you for voting for a third party.

    The only true wasted vote is a vote for the Democrats or the Republicans.

  20. Oh yeah... on Pixel Qi Says Next-Gen Displays Meet or Beat iPad 3 Screen Quality · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well my dad... he's a racing car driver. Yep, he really is.

    Put up or shut up Pixel QI.

  21. Re:Public concern on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    He is:
    1. A Christian
    2. Believes that the earth is 6000 years old
    3. Doesn't understand evolution

    These facts, especially 2 and 3, mean that he is an idiot and does not understand science.

    Personally, I think that the government should stay out of these type of thing, they ruin science. But this guy sounds like a cock. Yes, that's ad hominem.

  22. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wanting the government to control what people can do with their lives is a left-wing trait. The "right" would allow personal choice.

  23. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Whenever I see an ignorant fuckwad like yourself spew the "it's just an embryo" bullshit like they were eggs from the supermarket, I want to abduct you and tie you to a chair and force you at gunpoint to eat bucketfuls of those "embryos" over-easy.

    Fuck that's hot. Will you call me a slut while you're doing it? Will doing that make you cum?

    I'm off to /b/ to Rule 34 your idea.

  24. Re:Danger Google on Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don't worry, Google can always threaten to publish our e-mails and surfing habits if we try to move away from their products.

    What?! No they can't!! How was this modded insightful?

    This place is full of pessimistic, pathologically cynical losers if they think it's that's true.

  25. Re:Feel bad for his girlfriend on Here's What Facebook Sends the Cops In Response To a Subpoena · · Score: 1

    Look the guy up. I know many here have soft spots for criminals, but this guy is one of the most hated in the country. He admitted doing it, the trial was just about him arguing that he was provoked (which, as a narcissist, he probably believed he was).