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  1. Re:Good ones don't count on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 1

    What Google doesn't show you, is the drug dealers and prostitutes that come out at night.

    I really think Google should start sending camera crews for Street View out at nite, some places completely change when the street lights come on.

  2. Re:Good ones don't count on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 1

    Pffft. 6 of the 10 appartments here are empty, I have plenty of storage space.

  3. Re:The only problem in Star Trek games on Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about this one ?

  4. Re:Good ones don't count on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 1

    I dunno.

    I'm thinking having a mountain of stuff staring me in the face, ideas would just jump out at me.

  5. Re:compressionless is new? on Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried making my own beverage cooler out of Peltiers once, it kept my beverage nice and cold but it burnt the shit out of my hand.

  6. Re:Good ones don't count on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of I see, you just don't want people to quit sending the stuff to you ! :)

  7. Re:Good ones don't count on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah right.
    I'd like to believe people would read this & I'd magicly have a truckload of electronics on my doorstep no matter how old they are, but the reality is there wont be even as much as a post card.

  8. Re:Good ones don't count on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well until that day comes, everyone can feel free to ship these systems to me instead of spending a small fortune to ship them to Africa. I'll find something constructive to do with them. :)

    Joe Kovar
    1447 Gulf to Bay blvd #8
    Clearwater, FL 33755

  9. Re:Absence of evidence is not evidence of Absence on China Claims Score In Weather Manipulation · · Score: 1

    You just have bad luck.
    I was born here in 1981. :)

  10. Re:Absence of evidence is not evidence of Absence on China Claims Score In Weather Manipulation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's stop and think about what makes up a rain cloud for a moment.
    It's essentually just a bunch of water vapor suspended in the air with some dust particles.

    Eventually the air becomes soo saturated that the water vapors combine and become too heavy to say airborne, turning into rain.

    One thing I've noticed living here in Florida for 20+ years where it's quite moist is that it seems to rain on almost every holiday where there's
    a) Masses of people BBQ-ing
    b) Masses of people setting off fireworks

    Both of these activities fill the air with excess dust particles, which eventually crowd the area where water vapor accumulates quicker than happens naturally & causes the rain to fall. I think it happens like that here in Florida because of the relative humidity. I believe the same thing would happen in for instance, Seattle where it's very wet.

    Given the Chinese are using rockets, I think there's a very good chance they actually can control the weather, to a point. It's kinda like detonating land mines before troops get to them, except in this case it's all about making the rain fall before it gets to the place an event is being held.

  11. Re:And in other simulations: on Simulation Predicts Clumps of Dark Matter Within Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Too much dark matter could be the origin of 'roids.

  12. Re:Get your affairs in order, people on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait till you see those goddamn bats.

  13. Re:A painful noisy chair in the mail? on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 1

    You should see what Dr. Coulthard can build using a postage stamp, a tuning fork, a lawn chair and a jellyfish.

    Indeed, I SHOULD see that. What the hell DOES the good doctor make out of those things?!?

    That's not nearly as important as what could be going through your girlfriends head if she looks in the mirror and sees the stamp on her forehead the next morning.

  14. Everyone has their own minifridge on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 1

    They must drink alot of soda in Redmond.

  15. Musical emails on Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives · · Score: 1

    It's Yahoo.

    If it's still like it used to be a few years ago at Yahoo when I first got online, a huge chunk of those email addresses aren't even owned by the original creators anymore. People create the addresses, sometimes they forget about them or the address was "disposable" anyways, hackers steal them, then mark stuff the original creator was actually reading as spam.

  16. Dropped the ball on Scrabulous Returns To Facebook, As Wordscraper · · Score: 1

    Hasboro really dropped the ball on this one.

    If they spent all of that money they wasted on lawyers instead on developers they could have released the version that lets you define your own board layout & stole the thunder back. Instead they're going to become the assholes that don't want anyone to have fun & a company a serious lack of innovation as far as Scrabble is concerned.

    Way to go Hasboro !

  17. Re:Too Far on Medical Health Disclosure vs. Steve Jobs' Privacy · · Score: 1

    Imagine that because your mother has mental health issues you couldn't get a job because genetically you're a high risk for similar mental health issues and that increased their insurance policy. This is why keeping all forms of privacy is important.

    There was a long time while I was growing up that I thought I may be crazy because my mother isn't quite right.
    In recent years I've taken it upon myself to pry into my mothers past & prod little bits on information out of her.
    Thankfully her issues were caused by a bout with pneumonia when she was younger meaning it's due to physical trauma & I have nothing to worry about gene-wise.
    Had she been open about it instead of being so secretive about it, I could have bypassed over a decade of wondering whether I was crazy and doctors were just trying to make me feel better.

    However, it probably wouldn't be that bad to be crazy. I'd just get put on disability & your taxes would pay my living expenses anyway. ;)

  18. Re:Here we Go.... on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 2

    What if we line the cooling tower with peltiers ?

  19. Re:Too Far on Medical Health Disclosure vs. Steve Jobs' Privacy · · Score: 1

    You think people will treat you the same way before as after?

    Of course not, you think they want to catch your kooties ?

    Now that you mention it, we wouldn't have soo many problems with disease if medical privacy was abolished.

  20. Too Far on Medical Health Disclosure vs. Steve Jobs' Privacy · · Score: 1

    I think people take this privacy over medical stuff too seriously. If there's something wrong with you people need to know.
    It's not like being a minority where there's no legitimate reason why it should matter, medical issues mean there's something wrong with you & keeping it a secret from everyone could cause injury or death depending on the situation.

    Ever since I can remember my mom gets really pissed off about it being nobodys business whenever she has to talk about her meds or when she hears about someone else talking about ther meds.

    Now that I'm grown I have to reason with her when she gets like that, "Bitch you're crazy and you take medication to function, people need to know that shit".
    She gets mad that I talk to her like that, butif I don't she thinks it's a joke & when I remind her about the time I had a police officer shake my foot and wake me up to let me know they're taking her to the hostpital because she's seeing shit and thinks someone is climbing up to her second story bedroom window to get her, she shuts up real quick.

    People can get hurt if this stuff isn't disclosed. My dad kidnapped my little brother and I when we were kids because my mom had an episode & he didn't think it was good for us to be around her & he was probably right.

  21. Re:Erm... on SETI@Home Adds New Search Method · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes. Assholes know better.

  22. Preparation Oversight on Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't mean to troll, but I'd like to think that in a mission they're hoping to find water or ice or something along those lines, they'd anticipate the possibility of moist soil when designing their instruments.

    Hopefully the next mission includes an icecream scoop.

  23. Re:Erm... on SETI@Home Adds New Search Method · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's your point, what are you trying to say ?

  24. Re:Erm... on SETI@Home Adds New Search Method · · Score: 0

    Who said I'm religious ?
    I'm just an asshole.

  25. Re:Erm... on SETI@Home Adds New Search Method · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As a moral Atheist, I take particular offense to this.

    As me, I don't fucking care & refuse to show any respect, or even read anything you've said after it.

    If you want to make a point, do so without trying to guilt-trip me into agreeing with you.
    Otherwise, go fuck yourself.