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  1. Re:What if they are skinny for other reasons? on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    "...the [climate] differences between Boston and Toronto are less than the differences between Boston and Jackson, Mississippi."

    True, and importantly something like 90% of the population of Canada lives within 100 miles of the US border. [according to the answer to a trivia game I played with my family].

  2. Re:Up the stakes on US, China Face Mutually Assured Destruction In Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    It sounds quite untrue. If they even have a reactor making medical isotopes (I don't think they do), it's not like it needs to be refueled every year.
    You don't use power reactors to make medical isotopes, AFAIK.
    Radiotherapy is not done directly at nuclear reactor (except for boron neutron capture which is rare) and medical isotopes can be shipped overseas - most of them are outside of North America I think.
    If they are making isotopes with a cyclotron, uranium is irrelevant.
    Bogus.

  3. Re:So just disable metro: on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    Hard to configure. Hard as in have to find some obscure file hidden away and edit it (and to know that that's what you have to do), not just go to an appropriately named control panel and uncheck a box.

  4. Re:Car Analogy on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 2

    More like, every time you park your car, everyone within a half mile of the car gets hits by tires flying off the car at 50 mph.

  5. Re:fishbowl !=blowfish on NSA Publishes Blueprint For Top Secret Android Phone · · Score: 1

    "Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?"

  6. Re:Up the stakes on US, China Face Mutually Assured Destruction In Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that Iran couldn't keep its medical isotope producing reactors operating because of a lack of enriched uranium due to the Stuxnet worm? That's something I've never heard before.

  7. Re:So just disable metro: on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    So now Windows is trying to be more like Linux?

  8. Re:Do The Stats Include Suicide By Sleeping Pills? on Those Sleeping Pills May Be Killing You · · Score: 1

    Does that ratio change much when combined with alcohol?

  9. Re:Correllation != Causation on Those Sleeping Pills May Be Killing You · · Score: 1

    Me too, but it might not be correlated.

  10. Re:Not really on Are Rich People Less Moral? · · Score: 1

    Probably true, but I live in a de-developing country. At least it feels like it sometimes. USA.

  11. Re:Does it work. on Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China · · Score: 1

    No, but you could make a heavy, steam-powered SUV and fuel it with charcoal made from clear-cut old-growth forests for the ultimate in desecration.

  12. Re:Replace Apple logo with sports team on Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China · · Score: 1

    Ooh. I want a Green Bay Packers oven. Perfect for all my cheese bread baking.

  13. Re:It's their bandwidth ... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you are the same age as a freshman.

    Not really, but now we've covered every possibility.

  14. Re:Does it work. on Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China · · Score: 1

    Well, Sequoias are the most massive living things on the planet, so it's somewhat apt. But they're endangered, so your point is well taken.

  15. Re:1920x1200 laptop! on Asus PadFone Combines Smartphone, Tablet, Keyboard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...there's just no justification for that kind of resolution on a 10" screen

    Why not? That's lower pixel density than the 960x540 4.3" screen and you're not complaining about that. (5.4X area, but only 4.4X pixels)

  16. Re:Comparison of technologies on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    How big of a passport do you have? I don't think I can read mine more than 10 feet away. Plus it has to be opened to read it.
    I don't think I can read mine more than 10 feet away.
    I don't think I can read mine
    I don't think I can read
    I don't think

    There's the problem.

  17. Re:kansas? on Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm In Iowa · · Score: 1

    Well then, they were making the same joke I did. (you may know, but for others benefit...)
    Hartree-Fock is a technique for computing the electronic structure of atoms and molecules.

  18. Re:How else they gonna do it? on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 1

    Depends on what condition it doesn't leave the country in. Detonated or undetonated.

  19. Re:kansas? on Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm In Iowa · · Score: 1

    -Fock you.

    (p-chem joke.)

  20. Re:Excited on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Can't be. Catfish are freshwater fish.

  21. Re:Distributed Grid on Small, Modular Nuclear Reactors — the Future of Energy? · · Score: 5, Funny

    BANANA - build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything

  22. Re:Was /. been bought or what? on A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE · · Score: 2

    I was just going to comment on the abundance of nuclear-related stories that have been running on /. of late - and I'm a nuclear supporter. I wouldn't be complaining though, just making an observation.

  23. Re:Should've become business analysts on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 1

    Too many people are to blame for that. No way to divvy up the blame and sure all of them. You could start with Alan Greenspan and Barney Frank, but that's just my opinion.

  24. Re:Sounds Like Infighting on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 1

    1/p? You mean 1-p?
    I don't think you're going to impress anyone with your prediction that there is a 2000% chance of a major earthquake in the next five years.

  25. Re:Scientists Charged For Not Being Psychic on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 1

    New insult: "Bullshit on your face!" (better yet, spoken with an Italian accent) "Bullshit-a on your face-a!"