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  1. Re:Package in a retrovirus on Mice Brainpower Boosted With Alteration of a Single Gene · · Score: 1

    Stop being so damn conservative that you only use it on people with cognitive problems if society as a whole could benefit from fewer stupid people.

    They who you gonna get to work at Wal-Mart? For that matter, who you gonna get to shop at Wal-Mart?

  2. Re:I would laugh so hard... on Mice Brainpower Boosted With Alteration of a Single Gene · · Score: 1

    I would laugh so hard if they develop a drug based on this and the only skills that people gain are the ability to recognize mice better and to be less scared of open spaces and cats.

    You won't be laughing when this guy shows up:

    https://triviahappy.com/wp-con...

  3. Re:SoftRAM *shudders* on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    This seems eerily similar to what SoftRAM was trying to do in the mid-90s.

    My question is, with mid-level machines coming with 16gig of RAM, why would I need compression at all? What the hell is Windows doing that it needs more than 16gig? Can't the NSA write more efficient spyware?

  4. Windows Memory Manager on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean I have to put HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE back into my config.sys file? I think I still remember some of the MS-DOS edit commands.

  5. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    I have no idea if any are in California, but they certainly exist in Colorado [state.co.us], for example: "unless you own a specific type of exempt well permit, you cannot collect rainwater in any other manner, such as storage in a cistern or tank, for later use

    I don't doubt you, but my guess is that law goes back a long time. It's not a case of big brother stopping you from collecting rainwater for your lawn because of global warming.

    Also, do you happen to know the last time the law was enforced? It sounds efforts have been made to repeal it, too, and one bill has been passed to make it so that new residential development allows for rainfall collection. You can already set up rooftop water collection, by permit, according to your link.

    We also don't know why this law was originally put into effect. It might have been to prevent Ned and Uncle Jimbo from disconnecting from the municipal water supply and trying to use only rainfall and grey water for drinking on their compound, or to prevent mosquito outbreaks.

  6. How are issues with odors and other types of pollution resolved by the tort law as it stands now?

    There are laws against pollution and that includes bad smells for prolonged periods.

    Would a factory that started spewing poisonous gases be liable for any downwind damages?

    Yes, thanks to government regulations. Whether or not some Texas AG chooses to enforce the law or not.

  7. Re: not shock on Breathing Beijing's Air Is the Equivalent of Smoking Almost 40 Cigarettes a Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Under libertarianism, you cant agress against others. Pollution is not ok under libertariranism and never has been. The pollution on china is a tratdegy of the commons, the state has not allowed people the right to own air nor defended or even acknowledged any such right exists.

    How about we just be honest and say that libertarianism means whatever a libertarian says it means at any time in any situation?

    And what air do you own as an individual? The air around your face? The air on your property? And how do you propose to put fences around the air you own? How would "the state" allow people the right to own air? Can I rent some air?

  8. technical question on WearDuino Uses Arduinos to Make Wearable Medical Sensors (Video) · · Score: 1

    Do you think I could hook six of those up together in a Beowulf cluster? I want to attach them to my johnson.

    "Man, that Beowulf cluster is fast" "Yeah, it's deep, too."

  9. Re:Strange limitations on Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof · · Score: 2

    Oh, riiight! "We don't have any partners outside those cities yet, so the rest of you can go fuck yourselves". Got it.

    Because Google owes us, big time.

  10. Obviously on Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates · · Score: 1

    Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates

    That's because the legal scholars are all downloading episodes of Mr Robot and Game of Thrones from Kickass Torrents.

  11. Criteria on How 'Rock Star' Became a Business Buzzword · · Score: 0

    They're not rock stars until they've trashed hotel rooms and died tragically (usually choking on vomit).

    Here are some examples of rock stars:

    Johnny Thunders:
    https://youtu.be/bBV-FYy8lww

    Jimi:
    https://youtu.be/xAWtuxhdUDE

    And the template for them all:
    https://youtu.be/xGH91AN7Vms?t...

    Maybe "rock star" is not something to strive for.

  12. Re:Anyone can be a rock star? on How 'Rock Star' Became a Business Buzzword · · Score: 1

    Why are there no porn character actors?

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm000...

  13. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    There are several states, california included that have made it illegal to 'harvest' rainwater. The stupid continues.

    Just for the record, that is a bunch of Alex Jones right-wing survivalist nonsense.

    Note Snopes:

    http://www.snopes.com/politics...

    There are some local laws (none at the state level) that make certain types of reservoirs illegal when you don't have water rights. Those kind of laws go back to 1925, and none are in California.

  14. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    What does "harvest rainwater" mean? If rain falls on my lawn and amaryllis, is that harvesting rainwater?

  15. Re:Intel Pentium 133MHz Can't Do The Job... on Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 2

    Every time 32 Death Stars fired upon a planet, the computer is brought to its virtual knees.

    I don't think we want to know what he did once he got the computer on its virtual knees.

  16. Re:Contradictory Premise on Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 1

    Last I checked that was the size of a small moon [wikipedia.org] so you can indeed shatter a planet with a small moon but it is a one shot device. However if you can make and store anti-neutronium this would would shrink the radius to ~0.5-0.7m (10,000 times less) and solve the problem of how to get it to the core.

    Slow down. I'm trying to write all this down...for a friend.

  17. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    I hope your lawn is green.

    It is, because I live in a place where there's plenty of fresh water that falls, unbidden, from the sky.

  18. Re:This state has way too many Republicans on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    it's the Republicans who are wise enough to leave California.

    Why do you think there's so much economic and job growth in California? In fact, California leads the nation in total number of new jobs.

    I think they put big signs at the state border, thanking Republicans as they leave.

  19. Re:This state has way too many Republicans on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 0

    Funny how you complain about Republicans, but say nothing about the millions that came here illegally.

    That's because illegals are generally hard working family folks, contribute to the economy, and are not as annoying as Republicans.

  20. Re:It depends on how long it lasts. on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 2

    You do know fresh waster contains fish pee and poo right?

    Does vodka have fish pee and poo in it?

    Asking for a friend.

  21. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem is the state government.

    The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, to whom the summary gives credit, was actually created by "state government".

  22. Re:Headline is stupid on Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    The more I look at this, it does appear that "pedant" and "pedophile" have an etymological relationship, once removed.

    Etymology online only traces one back to late period Latin, and the other to Greece, but other sources are showing a common Greek root for both words.

  23. Re:Headline is stupid on Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    No they don't. They don't even come from the same language.

    It depends on which source you reference. The "Paedo-" is from the late Latin, which got it from the Greeks.

    Pedagogy, Pedology (study of children as opposed to the study of soil) and Pediatrics all come from the same source, and Pedagogy and Pedant come from the same source

    "Paedo-" is relating to children. "Pedagogy" is the teaching of the young. "Pedant" is "person who trumpets minor points of learning".

    Yeah, they're from the same source. Etymology Online is incomplete.

  24. Re:Headline is stupid on Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    I know, but it was a nice thought for a moment.

  25. Re:Headline is stupid on Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pedants on casual message boards/forums/etc. should just fuck off.

    It occurs to me that "pedant" and "pedophile" derive from the same etymology.

    Just an observation.