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  1. Re:Muons quickly decay, amazed they can get chemis on Atomic Disguise Makes Helium Look Like Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Two microseconds can be a long time in the world of chemical reactions.

  2. Re:Spacetime on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    We just need like a teaspoon of neutron star matter. That should do the trick.

  3. Re:Count it on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Even if IBM could put 100 silicon atoms into a nice array in only one second, and I'm sure they cannot, how long would it take to get to one gram? Longer than the universe has been in existence.

  4. Re:Well, duh. on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    Why is this not modded funny? I LOL'd.

  5. Re:Reminds me of the deer that got away on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    1. I didn't know "parabolicity" was a property of curves.
    2. The deer could have been standing in front of a slope.
    3. It was a joke.

  6. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    But which sample of water? And how do you accurately measure the pressure (arbitrarily accurate)?

  7. Re:Interesting but... on Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram · · Score: 1

    A singer (Crosby). Also a variety of cherry (not as good as Rainier but pretty good).

  8. Re:Missing the point on Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram · · Score: 1

    Why? As long as your competitors know fewer you'd do fine. You don't lose anything for wrong answers except in "Daily Doubles" where you could bet as little as you like. I'm pretty sure I've seen Jeopardy contestants who knew fewer than fifty percent of the answers.

  9. Re:Yeah, but . . . on Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram · · Score: 1

    You remembered wrong. I believe it is C (up to) F (up to) Bflat (down to) G (or equivalent in another key).
    I'm embarrassed to admit I've watched that show, but only because it comes on right after Jeopardy!

  10. Re:America has jumped the shark on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    And that would actually line up with what the Bible says, so you would fail to convince. And as another poster said, for other reasons, your approach is not likely to change her thinking.

  11. Re:How can a biology teacher not be a biology majo on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    Hint: the "government" that is paying them is not the same "government" that is taxing them.

  12. Re:CQ? on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, why do you do this? How often? Do you work for the FCC?

  13. Re:Computers are the result of human action on Official — Economic Crash Not Computers' Fault · · Score: 1

    I think they were talking about proximal cause not root cause, and saying that computers were not even the proximal cause, much less the root cause.

  14. Re:This is slashdot? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    "I get nothing except "disable advertising" on the right column."

    For me, that no longer works. I check the box and still see ads.

  15. Re:golf balls + sharpie = NEW PRODUCT on Smile Efficiently With the Emoticon Keyboard · · Score: 1

    If those are golf balls, then that laptop sitting next to it is freaking ginormous.

  16. Re:Huh? on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 1

    But "crazy" was only one of the two words mentioned.

  17. Re:Blah blah blah on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 0

    Well, there's creme filling (what's the difference between creme and cream anyway?) inside an Oreo cookie.
      Hmmm, that might actually be on-topic.

  18. Re:The pope should just shut the fuck up. on Pope Promotes Christian Netiquette · · Score: 1

    Double down. Perfect pairs. Late surrender. Lucky ladies.

  19. Re:And get a personal website, under your own cont on Your Face Will Soon Be In Facebook Ads · · Score: 1

    How does owning a website fill the need that Facebook fills?
    If I wanted to "follow" Jay Cutler or read what other NFL players are saying about him, an irc channel would be of no use. NFL players (insert other real people of interest to other people) don't use irc.
    And couldn't "lazy" be a reason rather than "dumb"?

  20. Re:Learn, folks on Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    +1. It results in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Gmail seems much better at keeping the spam away, but that's probably because the Hotmail account is used for all the lame registrations. Makes gmail seem so much better, which reinforces the decision.

  21. Re:Shouldn't have reasoned with Retardicans on State of the Union Address Goes Web 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Of course he has used them. But he's used fewer than past presidents.
    Want to know who has used the *fewest* (based on number signed per year in office)? G. W. Bush. Surprised? Me too.

    I made a little table based on the numbers from the archives.gov page on Executive Orders.

        Average of EOs/yr    Sum of total # EOs
    D          97.8      4758
    Carter          79.8    319
    Clinton          45.4    363
    Johnson          64.6    323
    Kennedy          71.0    213
    Obama          37.0    74
    Roosevelt    288.8    3466

    R          84.3    3733
    Bush          41.3    165
    Eisenhower    60.1    481
    Ford          56.0    168
    G.W. Bush    36.3    290
    Hoover          252.8    1011
    Nixon           69.0    345
    Reagan           47.5    380
    Truman          111.6    893

    Grand Total    90.1    8491

    Dems average more than GOP, and the numbers have generally been decreasing since Hoover. I'd have expected the opposite.

  22. Re:Shouldn't have reasoned with Retardicans on State of the Union Address Goes Web 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I didn't see any numbers/lists of Executive Orders in your first wikipedia link, and the your second link specifically says in its first sentence, "The following is an incomplete list of United States federal executive orders." [italics mine]

    GP was quoting a federal government website: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html.

    Why should I trust wikipedia over that, even if I did find a simple and complete list on wikipedia?

  23. Re:I wonder why underwater? on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    More reactor-years in the Nuclear Navy than commercial reactors for sure.
    Interesting to me is that it won't be a bigger plant. Little old S3G plants are right in that 50-200 MW range. Why not take advantage of whatever it is they're taking advantage of by putting it underwater and make it bigger?

  24. Re:Until... on Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date · · Score: 1

    Ha ha. I don't use the PrtSc key. I use Cropper.

  25. Re:Hey! on "Farming" Amoebas Discovered · · Score: 1

    ADM = Amoebic Dysentery Market