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  1. Re:Corporate personhood on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Logically, the phrase means what the phrase means.

  2. Re:Corporate personhood on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    I hope you're joking. Petitio principii, or begging the question, does not involve demanding that a question be asked.

    Oh, but it does. You see, "begging" means "asking" or "lacking", and "question" means "question". In other words, there is a question missing, and when you point out that something is begging the question, it is traditional (and good manners besides) to provide the question in question.

  3. Re:Corporate personhood on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    You didn't follow the phrase "begs the question" with a question, which begs the question, which question is begging to be asked?

  4. Re:food on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Since we're going to kill to eat, then why not opt for the "mmm, tasty" end of the spectrum?

  5. Re:food on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Monkeys are forest dwellers, for the most part. Wildebeest are plains and grasslands animals. If you live deep in the jungle, good luck finding a wildebeest.

  6. Re:Jerry Was A Man on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, corporations are people. Extending that to chimps isn't too far a stretch.

    How do we know the chimps want to be brought down to that level?

  7. Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth on How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape · · Score: 1

    The Porsche Boxter has front and back trunks which gives it a ton of room.

    Still no where near the cargo volume of a station wagon.

  8. Re:PI-N? on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    I don't. Pi is wrong. Tau is the proper circle constant. I pick my pins from there.

  9. Re:...really? on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    My hair is unkempt and I have a 62 character password encompassing a good chunk of ASCII printable characters. Bring on the "compensating for something" jokes. ;)

    Okay... 62 character password? Are you compensating for not being ginger?

  10. Re:So, build your own on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 2

    Expanding is easy. All you need is a chamber to store the excavated dirt.

  11. Re:Sensory deprivation tanks on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    The tanks are supposed to be dark and immerse you in water so you minimize all stimuli, where the anechoic chamber is quiet, but you still have physical stimuli since you're not in the dark, etc.

    Um... What parts of "But the strangest thing about the chamber is that sensory deprivation makes the room extremely disorienting, and people can rarely stay in the dark space for long." and "We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark..." make you think that you're not in the dark?

    They test the volume of cell phone displays in there, for Pete's sake. Do you really think they'd have fluorescents running if they're trying to find out how loud an LED is?

  12. Re:BULL CRAP! on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't have to go to a special chamber to hear MY bodily functions.

  13. Re:Vacuum on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a tree falls in a vacuum chamber in the woods, the sound is carried by the container to the surrounding air...

    ... whether or not there is anyone there to asphyxiate while trying to hear it.

  14. Re:"Firmware" and "Software" and "Hardware" on Sailfish Can Officially Be Installed To Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Some barbarian tongues don't have a distinction between mass nouns and count nouns.

    That doesn't license you to translate them improperly when you move to a civilized language.

  15. Re:Get an Amateur Radio license on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    ...and handheld transistor...

    What kind of freakishly small hands do you have where transistors could not be hand held?

  16. Re:Wire is good on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    And DSL is much, much shittier than fiber. Good riddance.

    And DSL is much, much cheaper than fiber. Take your shoes off... set a spell.

  17. Re:Self-contradiction... on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    If an accident or disaster severs our links to the outside world, our local system continues to operate just fine. Will this be true of an IP based network?

    IP networks, as originally intended, are supposed to be highly meshed. IP networks are *DESIGNED* to route around damage. If one of your links to the outside world gets severed, everything should route over to one of the other links fairly quickly.

  18. Re: Communication isn't stupid. Telephones are. on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    Well, since POTS phones don't move, tracking is dead simple. If you're on your phone, you're at your house.

  19. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    If someone intent on harming you with a knife is 21 feet away from you, then you stand a pretty good chance of staying alive by simply keeping the person 21 feet away from you. If someone intent on harming you with a gun is 21 feet away from you, then you stand a much better chance of being dead. You can run away from a person with a knife, but you can't run away from a bullet.

  20. Re:While... on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    While I don't agree with her being denied entry, one of the key similarities of the spree shooters in the last several years has been depression and having that depression treated with drugs.

    Yes, and she shares characteristics with many of the other spree shooters: being in a wheelchair, having no weapons nor weapons training, being female, being a foreigner...

  21. Re:Hey, wait a minute! on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    "You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing."

    ... said the payroll software salesman to the pointy haired boss.

  22. Re:Thank Goodness... on Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site · · Score: 1

    Christopher Tolkein is dead???

  23. Re:Aaahhhh - it looks cute! on U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks · · Score: 1

    ... due to being immersed in a chemical soup of practically arbitrary composition.

    The sort of chemical soup that might, um... mutate.. a turtle in a sewer?

  24. Re:Hey, wait a minute! on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please, google, leave me something to do besides shop.

    Why should they let you do that? Why not just analyze your purchasing history and browsing habits, coordinate with the affiliates, and send you those topless bikinis without bottoms for the low, low price of $199.99

  25. Re: So where's the fuckin' source code? on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 2

    I don't that's how patents work

    That's how non-software patents work. The operating principle of the invention is disclosed in the patent.