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  1. Re:Is It Worth Getting a New Job Over? on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace · · Score: 1

    Anything that makes your stress level lower is worth getting a new job over. Enjoying your job is paramount. It's where you spend a huge portion of your day. It's the difference between coming home and getting more stressed because your family won't give you 15 minutes of downtime and you rushing home because you can't wait to enjoy time with your family, maybe tell them the neat thing you did at work (if they care about your job).

  2. Re:Dec 25th on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Much of our heritage still leads back to the Roman and Greek gods and earlier... even Easter!

    I'll agree regarding Christmas/Saturnalia, but Easter is clearly tied on the lunar calendar to the Jewish Passover (since the Last Supper was a Passover dinner).

  3. Re:Back to the Future on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Why would you laugh at 0000-12-25?

    For two reasons. One: year 0 doesn't exist. It goes from 1BC to 1AD, so it's either -0001/12/25 or 0001/12/25 (assuming 12/25 is correct, which for a movie is good enough). The other reason it's funny: Doc Brown wasn't thinking fourth-dimensionally. They'd need to have means of travel over to Bethlehem.

  4. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    "which assault rifle would Jesus choose"

    For the disciples? He would suggest the one that they could buy by selling their cloaks.
    Peter would choose one with good enough aim to shoot a man's ear off at two paces.

  5. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Or fourth for the pentecostals. (I believe parent is an offshoot known as the pentepostals) Easter, Good Friday, and Pentecost are big deals for Christians for theological reasons. Christmas is a celebration with little theological implications.

  6. Re:Kind of Disappointed in You on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Hamstringing. http://dictionary.cambridge.or...
    Hamstering is certainly something else, but I'm not sure what.

  7. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 2

    The "underwear bomber" fails

    Just don't start celebrating this with gifts pertaining to the event.

  8. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 2

    Christians on their numero uno holiday.

    Easter is the numero uno holiday for Christians. Christmas is second (or third depending on who you ask).

  9. All family cars? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    Will the interlock be required on all cars the offender owns (but is not the primary driver for)? Timmy is just starting to drive at 16, but since Mom drove drunk, Timmy get the social ostracization of looking like a drunkard in his brand new 16th birthday gift (not a hand-me-down car, but still owned by mommy-dearest).
    And what if it's all cars the offender has access to (owned by members of the household)? "Roommate wanted: $300/year, great view of city, 1100 sq ft for your portion of apartment, must be willing to install and use interlock device in car."

  10. Re:miscreation on Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy · · Score: 2

    The crap was in the LOTR appendices.

    Show me anywhere in the appendices where an elf and dwarf fall in love.
    Show me where the barrel-escape is a fast-paced, arrow-laden chase.
    Show me the ridiculous fight between Smaug and Thorin's company. Smaug never met any of the dwarves in Thorin's group, and he never saw Bilbo. The whole time, he thought Bilbo was human (but was confused by the scent).
    Show me Longshot^W Legolas using his luck powers and hollow bones to run up falling blocks.

  11. Re:My take on this final installment (Spoilers) on Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy · · Score: 1

    wait for the Hobbit: the never ending story

    Not that it matters, my Precious.

  12. Re:But an unborn baby is not a person. Riiiiiight. on Argentine Court Rules Orangutan Is a "Non-Human Person" · · Score: 1

    if you take a full-functioning adult human, scoop out their brain and leave the rest on life support, do you have a person anymore? I'd hope we can agree the answer is no. Well then, at the single-cell stage, you don't have a brain, so you don't have a person. Somewhere along the line, cell-division starts to specialize and eventually there's a little bundle of brain cells. Say there's... a hundred specialized brain cells. Nothing that is capable of cogitation, so again, I'd think we can agree that we don't have a person. Somewhere along the line, things gather enough complexity to support personality, thought, self-awareness, and personhood. That may - or may not - be at 9 months/birth.

    Keep in mind that the difference between your two examples is that - all things being equal - one will result in a new brain being formed, and thus is different from the other which will never grow a new brain.

  13. Re:Waste on Minecraft Creator Notch's $70 Million Mansion Recreated In Minecraft · · Score: 1

    receiving somewhat less than $70M is still generally much better than receiving all of $0.

    That depends on how you define "somewhat less" as -70M is less than 70M

  14. Re:Monkey Business on Argentine Court Rules Orangutan Is a "Non-Human Person" · · Score: 4, Funny

    If this ape is a person then who is responsible for his care and feeding? Normally, an adult person is responsible for their own care and feeding including any required payment.

    Will he be on the dole?

    Dole, Chiquita. Any brand would work really.

  15. Re:well, pain is not gain, is it? on Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline · · Score: 1
  16. Re:News at 11.. on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 5, Funny

    And hot dogs contain only 0.01% dog. They would prefer to be called something different, but they're not sentient.

  17. Re:Pitiful on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 2

    Who would have opposed it? The Judean People's Front?

  18. Re: America! on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next, I guess we'll see, It's A Wonderful Life Transformer Terminator.

    "Every time a bell rings, I'll be back." *transforms into a pickup truck and drives through the wall*

  19. This tells us nothing about the arrow of time on Cause and Effect: How a Revolutionary New Statistical Test Can Tease Them Apart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which direction in time does cause/effect flow? The world may never know.

  20. Re:Don't Make Storms Mad on Terrestrial Gamma Ray Bursts Very Common · · Score: 1

    I'm glad someone here is willing to start Harpying to remind us that A-Bombs aren't the only source of gamma rays, and that Thunderbolts* are more common.

    *Spoiler alert. Who is the Red Hulk?

  21. Re: Don't Make Storms Mad on Terrestrial Gamma Ray Bursts Very Common · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, there is a solution. Name all storms Johnny, then they'll just burn us to death.

    That's cosmic, man. Cosmic rays, that is.

  22. Re:So stream it... on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    And food. But not movie theater food.

  23. Re:So stream it... on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    Air drop the movie and portable DVD players into NK.

  24. Re:Meaningless on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    "we do not show a breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintagedue to the proprietary nature of these data". I'm not sure exactly what that means.

    Perhaps part of their discount is tied to a deal to provide exclusive data of failure rates to the manufacturers? Same effect as buying silence, but seemingly more legit.

  25. Re:Meaningless? on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    I hate to say it, but this is probably the correct answer. Every failed write to a sector on the 7200's requires the drives to relocate the data, making the 5400's "faster" to write the complete data if they get fewer write errors.