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  1. Re:Good on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    He can't help it. He's a product of the U.S. educational system. He thinks Mexico is in South America. And anyhow, South Americans who do decide to come to North America tend to choose Canada over the Land of the Stupid.

  2. Re:Good on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Being on the equator, and with a healthy supply of mountains, coasts, and jungles, you can pretty much have whatever climate you like year round. The guy could have done worse.

  3. Re:Good on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    You mean the stuff that Ed Lansdale was so good at? Lansdale's the guy photographed in Dealey Plaza back in November of 1963. Of course, this goes back to gunboat diplomacy and ultimately to the aftermath of the Spanish-American War when the thugs in Washington figured out that they could go around the world pretending to be establishing democracy while they stole the resources of every country in sight.

  4. You don't have to blow it up. You just have to divert it enough to prevent it from hitting the earth. At the time of the original study, the plan involved Saturn rockets, which we no longer have. Now, I guess we'd have to rely on the Falcon Heavy.

  5. What Google Really Needs on Google Unveils New Search Features, Including iOS Voice Search · · Score: 1

    I'd be satisfied with a Google "improvement" that allowed it to search on what you typed in without having to use quotation marks. It would also be nice if it didn't ask whether you meant Hancock when you typed in Hanock.

  6. Vulcan: Trans Mercurian Planet on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 1
    "One may have the knowledge of a Lavoisier, and still not be able to analyze, not be able even to see, except conformably with the hypnoses, or the conventional reactions against hypnoses, of one's era."

    This position was finally torpedoed (or rather, bombarded) once and for all on April 26, 1803, when 3000 meteorites fell at L'Aigle in Normandy, during the daytime, many of which were seen to fall from the sky by the good citizens of the town. Once again, a new intellectual age in the development of humanity had begun with the appearance, this time of the remnants, of the Comet of Typhon. By this time the core of the comet had settled into an orbit just over 21 years that brought it dangerously close to the earth every five orbits. The origin of these 3000 fragments, before it finally broke apart, may have been seen to cross the sun on October 10, 1802, by Fritsche, as reported by Charles Fort in The Book of the Damned. Later observations of what he thought to be the same object were used by Leverrier to calculate the orbit of what he thought to be a planet-sized object between Mercury and the sun. He called it Vulcan, and calculated that the planet would again cross the sun on March 22, 1877. On that date, the object failed to appear, perhaps so deteriorated that it was no longer visible from the earth.

    105 years after the event of 1803, on June the 30th of 1908, a much more dangerous piece of this object would fall in Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River. A few hours later and it would have taken out St. Petersburg. This core, shorn of its cometary disguise, may have been seen on the 28th. Charles Fort reports, in New Lands,

    "A great luminous object, or a meteor, that was seen at the time of the eclipse of June 28, 1908—'as if to make the date of the eclipse more memorable,' says W. F. Denning (Observatory, 31-288)."

    -- http://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterNine.htm

  7. Re:Am I the onlyone... on AMD Confirms Commitment To x86 · · Score: 1

    No, engineers talk in acronyms. Marketing droids use terms like "inflection point."

  8. Re:And you are any different? on EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship · · Score: 1

    http://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterTwelve.htm It really isn't rocket science.

  9. Re:"Selective" Memory on New Study Finds People Remember More Than They Think · · Score: 1

    God, I hope not.

  10. Re:Chicken Little on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    The reality is always worse than the theory. Thanks for the quote. I may have to read that.

  11. Subject on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 0

    That's what they used to say about fungus/yeast. Unfortunately, it gives folks like me migrines and I would suspect this frankencrap will have its own health risks, but it will keep the doctors busy, so I'm sure they're cremin' in their jeans about it. Deliver me from this kind of "progress."

  12. Not Again on Russians Can't Make Contact With Busted Space Probe · · Score: 1

    The Martian Defense Force strikes again.

  13. Re:Mission Impossible movie multiple faces on Company Offers Creepily-Realistic Masks of Clients · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I used to watch those. The masks always seemed the most hokey part of the show. No mask is that realistic.

  14. Re:FTFY on Company Offers Creepily-Realistic Masks of Clients · · Score: 1

    As the next young man jumps off the roof of one of Apple's factories in China.

  15. Re:I'm really sick of this trend on Facebook: the Law Says You Can't Have Your Data · · Score: 2

    So, what? I'm supposed to go live in a cave? When you have to "opt in" in order to get a service you need, that's coersion in my book.

  16. Sail This! on Bethesda Tells Minecraft Creator: Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    So, I can found a company called Apple Sails that manufactures sailboats, but if I also build digital depth finding equipment, I can't call it Apple Trolls (q.v.)? I'm beginning to think you shouldn't be able to trademark any single word that appears in a standard dictionary. Generally, the trademark system would appear to be iLLOGICAL and iDIOTIC. Not to mention iNSANE.

  17. Japan Broadband Rates on Comcast Launching $9.95 Low Income Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    This is hilarious. Having been watching J-Bloggers on YouTube for a while now, it's clear that broadband access in Japan runs about $12 a month (maybe a bit higher now because of the exchange rate) for EVERYBODY.

  18. Re:Why is this being made public? on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    No, actually the reason people get moded down for casting aspersions on the Church is that many technophiles are still "drinking the kool-aid" vis-a-vis the dominant religion in the West, mainly because they have never taken a hard look at the historical facts of the matter that have been available to specialists in the field for a good century now.

  19. neros.lordbalto on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    Compared to the Shrub, he IS the Messiah. Compared to Billary, he hovers somewhere around sainthood. Compared to McCain, he's the Prince of Peace. Compared to the Waltons, he's Santa Claus. I could go on.

  20. Re:W00t. 1st stupid post on US Set to Use Spy Satellites on US Citizens · · Score: 1

    Do you really think I'm going to waste my time refuting the made-up references of a talking points parroting Neocon member of the National Gun-nut Association?

    1. Didn't your mommy teach you to tell the truth?

    2. Do you even know who Jefferson was?

    As for the "moderator" who modded my posting down: You've been had, Sonny. These perverts are making this all up.

  21. Re:W00t. 1st stupid post on US Set to Use Spy Satellites on US Citizens · · Score: 1

    "Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian."

    Well then, I guess it would be redundant to call you a moron.

  22. In short on Digital Picture Frames Infected by Trojan Viruses · · Score: 1

    Don't think like a robot.

    Someone mod this guy Mega-insightful.

  23. Re:Bad idea on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not to mention the ability it would give Microsoft to "upgrade" your software whether you wanted it or not. This would be a bad idea from a company you could actually trust. From Microsoft? Horrendous.

  24. Re:W00t. 1st stupid post on US Set to Use Spy Satellites on US Citizens · · Score: 0

    The so-called right to bear arms is a stub of Jefferson's plan to have a Swiss-style citizen army. That's what that "well regulated militia" bit is all about. It is most assuredly NOT about your right to overthrow the government or to go badger hunting. Not that I'm against overthrowing the government on general principles. You're just not going to do it with a squirrel gun. You'd do better to launch a cyber attack.

  25. Balanced Hell on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    The problem with Scientology is not in its doctrines but in its techniques, which are hypnotic, and in its finances, which are aimed exclusively at separating people from their money. And when you're all done spending a million dollars over a lifetime they make you a level 8 and tell you the Xenu story. Psychosis is not a viable religious doctrine and should not be supported by the government.