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  1. That's not what Old Bill wrote. What you write is a dumbed down version for the coste-rmongers and the whelkstallers of the East End. We, raised on a steady diet of Wren and Martin , can parse and figure the subject and the predicate out of the original quote without any problems, and update it for the modern times, if necessary.

  2. Didn't Old Bill ask, "what's in a name? That which we call shit by any other name would stink as bad"

  3. Re:FAKE NEWS on 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Hindus have a very relaxed view of the scriptures. For example the important avatars of God Vishnu are, in order, fish (matsya), turtle (koorma), pig (varaha), man-lion (nara-simha), dwarf-man (vaamana), axe-man (parasu-raman), perfect-man (Raman), imperfect-man (Krishnan) and the eagerly awaited apocalypse-inducer (kalki). Now many are stretching this as an adumberation of the theory of evolution.

    If the printing press has not arrested the evolution of Hindu scriptures in 18th century, by this time we would have established Jesus and Mohammad as avatars of Vishnu, and Darwin as a recent saint. There is one version of Brahmandapurana which has the entire old testament geneology, the story of genesis and most of European history up the Queen Victoria. It is typically disregarded as an interpolation done at the behest of the evil British. But it does show there were enough collaborators to the evil British who knew enough Sanskrit to write in the old style and do the interpolation.

  4. Re:1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In Indi on 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India (phys.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Definitely wrong. The world is 4.6 billion years old, so claims of 3 billion years of experience in photosyntheris would be credible. Any Indian fossil worth its salt would claim 5 billion years of experience.

  5. What the fossils say: on 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India (phys.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When contacted the fossils said, through a translator, " Our son got a job in America and emigrated, and our daughter got married and moved to London. When our grandkids were small we used to visit USA because baby-sitters cost more than round trip flight tickets from India. After the grand kids grew up and the medical insurance became too expensive, we stopped visiting. We were left behind in India".

  6. Personal opinion: Pittsburgh is the best on America's Most Affordable Cities For Tech Workers: Seattle, Austin, and Pittsburgh (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Low cost housing, many distinct old ethnic neighborhoods and restaurants, good school districts. Rails-to-trails have created many wonderful biking walking trails. Will feel all the four seasons. Only negatives are the narrow single laned roads. Very pictureque and beautiful, as long as you don't have to go anywhere in a hurry, it is great.

  7. FAA has conflict of interest. on US Lawmakers Propose Minimum Seat Sizes For Airlines (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    FAA has dual mandate. One to issue regulation and to enforce compliance. Second to promote air travel. It is high time we remove language regarding promotion of air travel. It does not make sense anymore. It should only be concerned with safety and compliance.

  8. It might have started ... on Climate Shaped the Human Nose, Researchers Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Climate might have started shaping human nose, but the project was actually completed by plastic surgeons in Los Angeles.

  9. Re:New and Improved! on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Blind 3 Women (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I never knew the Traitor General had a side business going on while commanding the Army of Northern Virginia.

  10. Why both eyes? on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Blind 3 Women (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't they have at least tested on one eye first before messing with the other one?

  11. Km and miles are useless in visualizing this. Please tell me how many schools buses lined up end-to-end will cover the distance between them.

  12. First we have to repeal a law ... on Sony Patent Could Let You Wirelessly Charge Your Phone From Another Device (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1
    So just bring the phone home and it will wirelessly charge from the fridge! Yay! great technology, but we need to first repeal the inverse square law.

    120 years ago Tesla tried wireless power delivery. If only we had acted together and repealed the inverse square law ...

  13. Re:I know it's trendy on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    At some point, someone has to be the grownup in the room and say "you know, that would be really nice, but we simply can't afford it".

    One if we apply this logically we would go, "do we really have to spend more on military than the next 10 nations combined, 8 of them are allies and all of them are trading partners?

    We pay abysmal interest rates for our T-bills and the world still thinks it is a safer investment than anything else. World trade is dollar denominated and foreign exchange of all the countries are in dollars.

    In fact it is criminal not not to borrow to the hilt and invest in infrastructure, at this low interest rates. Not merely bridges and roads, universities, research labs, data collection and archiving, everything we can think of, and then a few we can not think of too.

  14. Re: Give the consumers a refund on what they paid on Judge Rejects Google Deal Over Email Scanning (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Was there ever an expectation of privacy in email? From day one everyone knew everyone and his brother can intercept and read email.

  15. Re:High-cost labor? on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The corporations fight with each other to reduce the "labor" cost, at the same time they seem to be believe there will be people with money in their pockets to consume the goods and services hawked by them after all the corporations cutting the labor cost relentlessly.

  16. Re:American exceptionalism on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
    Actually the high tech weapons of US does not mean squat. The famed American military was fought to a draw with IEDs. Illieterate Afghan collaborators were robbing West Point graduates blind. America has useless high tech weapons. The bomb costs 10 times the thing it blows up. And you think this somehow makes America strong enough to steal from rest of the world.

    News to you: Rest of the world does not fear US Military as much as you think they do. Everyone wants to trade with USA, to sell stuff to USA. People would slow walk through burning coals to get a work permit visa to USA. But facing this fact means you have to admit, "as bad as USA is, my country is worse", so you prefer the fiction of super military power

    Go ahead and be happy. If ignorance is bliss, its folly to be wise.

  17. Re:American exceptionalism on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Let the last 70 years do not fool you. Natural state of Europe is war. You had a 100 year which was actually lasted over 100 years. Everyone fought everyone else all the time. Brexit is just the beginning.

  18. Re: Frontotemporal dementia. on Brain Aging Gene Discovered (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1
    I was about the type "whooosh".

    Then realized you are very subtly going meta whoosh. Well done, sir. Very well done, indeed.

  19. American exceptionalism on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    America is the world's reserve currency. There is no alternative in sight. Euro is breaking apart. No body trusts China. Japan and Korea are not shaping up to be alternatives.

    As long as the situation continues, no matter what happens in these fields America will not be shaken. The largest economy, largest consumer base, most trusted currency.

    Playing fast and loose with debt ceiling, threatening to default on t-bill payments etc are graver threats to America. Such instability and uncertainty at the top might force others to swallow the differences and form an alternative or at least a competing reserve currency. China would really love it if it could import its raw materials for in yuan. It is investing so much in Africa and Australia trying to lock up raw material supplies in non dollar denominated trade.

    But it is not coming anytime soon.

  20. infinite number of steps isn't a deal breaker. on Cooling To Absolute Zero Mathematically Outlawed After a Century (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    So what if it takes infinite number of steps? There are plenty of infinite serieses with a finite sum. Of course he might have proved the series is not convergent. But I'm stuck with a 2g connection that sucks, giving me a good excuse for but reading the fantastic article.

  21. entropy != disorder on Cooling To Absolute Zero Mathematically Outlawed After a Century (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1
    Entropy is simply the amount of heat transferred divided by the temperature. Amount of entropy lost by the source is less than the entropy gained by the sink. Since it is a non conservative property it intrigued scientists who were very familiar with the conservation of mass, momentum and energy. So someone suggested it could be perceived as the disorder in the system since it seems logical it would/could increase without bounds.

    The T-s diagram is quite precise and is used by a few gas turbine designers and millions of students to pass AE303 Gas dynamics II

  22. people are not desperate. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they are they will be willing to pay a dollar or two to buy and install a client and refuse to communicate with ad supported spyware. But privacy is over valued by a small section of techies, who shout very loudly. Most people sell their most private and intimate info about themselves for 25cents off a loaf of bread. For another 25cents they will sell info about you too.

  23. Re: A cure for which there is no disease on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    If you start like this you would lose. Being rational in the game of chicken is the sure way to lose.

    Start with, "hulk hate smart meter". Then the utilities will salvage the data prediction at least for their use. Be rational, they will grudgingly agree to look in the matter at some unspecified level of sincerity at some unspecified time frame.

  24. no DST? commie pinko plot. on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know who else did not follow DST? Stalin, that's who. (Cleverly avoiding Godwin ) Russia has 15 time zones. And they all work at Moscow time. From Vladivostok to St Petersburg. No DST either. So let us blame the reds for the effort to get rid of DST?

  25. Re: Proof was not given... on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Correlation is not a sufficient condition, but it is a necessary condition, and often it is needed to justify the effort to research to prove causation.