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  1. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Its her fault for not following directions and dodge-ing.

  2. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    By that image, can you see the sign? NO. That means you treat the intersection like a 4 way stop. Sure it was an engineering whoops to not foresee this issue. But saying it was the light's fault is retarded. "consequence of green technology" is just trolling. It wasn't green tech that killed anyone it was poor driving practice. And after that perhaps poorly thought out engineering... It read a lot like 'damn hippies are killing people', You can see this prevalent in your sibling post where he ties incandescents to the idea that SUVs are good in the winter.

  3. Re:That's just Western prejudice on Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills · · Score: 1

    You laugh but I have a bottle of memory pills on my water cooler that I'm about 1/4 of the way through... got the bottle 3months ago... was meant to last 1 month.

  4. Re:Moscow without snow? on Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow · · Score: 1

    The french actually insult the french more than those in the states.

  5. Re:lol = laughing out loud? WTF? on USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM · · Score: 1

    More interesting is his choice of words and their order. Why 'blond hot girls' rather than the more natural 'hot blond girls'? He places stress on the fact that they are 'blond' rather than hot. Which is an unusual choice to be sure, as if stating that the colour of the hair is intrinsically valuable.

    Perhaps more suspect is the use of blond rather than blonde. Blond being reserved for males, blonde for females. So his most stressed point was to mention a blond male, 'hot' and 'girl' being merely secondary thoughts.

  6. Re:China's Achievements on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 1

    "Because we don't have 300 million unskilled laborers who will work their ass off for a few bucks a day."

    You do... you just decided to build a fence to keep them out instead. Yay squandering resources.

  7. Re:245mph max speed? Not so impressive on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 1

    This is the fastest LAUNCHED train. Meaning, actually in use. BTW japan had a test track running at 581km/h ... in 2003. (also, ew mph)

  8. Re:taunting? on Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook · · Score: 1

    I know people that vacation in China and Morocco...

  9. Re:he's a symbol on Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After witnessing the sham that was Saddam's trial I'm certain that any trial Osama gets will be laughable at best. Anyone that followed the Saddam trial in any detail nearly ended up rooting for the guy at the end.

  10. Re:Does it have Adblock? on Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast · · Score: 1

    Optimize, optimize, optimize !

    That's fine. But optimizing involves questions and assumptions. Surely if you have the assumption that people have 500MB of ram to spare then they should be optimizing speed. Drive space isn't at all a concern for browsers so all you have to choose between in ram usage and speed. I'm comfortable with FF using 300~600MB of ram depending how many windows and tabs I have open... because I will generally have that much to spare for the browser. I'm willing to spend that much ram to have shit move 1/50th of a second faster.

  11. Re:Well... on Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam · · Score: 1

    Its texas... they'll just shoot you...

  12. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    You can't take a plane to the grocery store.... so its competitive to what exactly?

    Not a car... not flying... not anything really... maybe a personal boat?

  13. Re:Five year old news? on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 1

    The news is actually 50,005years old gawd.. RTFS

  14. Re:Truth as a defense? on A New Libel Defense In Canada; For Blogs Too · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That was a court case gone wrong, your lawyer sucks.... Or the law wherever you are sucks a lot. In Ontario I do know that truth is absolutely a defense.

  15. Re:New Anti-Software patent support perhaps... on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    "in order to use patents as weapons."

    I wish I had the balls to make random baseless claims. Clearly you must have seen the future being a wizard and all...

  16. Re:Does it have Adblock? on Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast · · Score: 1

    Anyone else notice this?

    GP: (making fun of people afraid of using their ram)
    Parent: but but my beautiful rams~! You're using a 6th of it to run what probably consists of 80% of my time spent on the computer.

  17. Re:I tried it out earlier on Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast · · Score: 1

    In windows you just right click the taskbar and click show winds side by side... I'm sure there is a hot key for it too. Linux has similar functionality. Why include the feature in the browser when you have one OS wide that works just as well?

    I suppose it saves space in the address bar and such but that seems relatively minor.

    And if you are going to say, they are tabs in the same window... that isn't an issue. At least in FF you can drag a tab to the taskbar and voila, its in a new window.

  18. Re:complete whats new and opinions on Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast · · Score: 1

    "built by untrustworthy third party developers"

    I didn't see those words anywhere in what GP said. I think official addons would be good for Opera as well as for FF.

    I actually think a handful of the most common addons in FF SHOULD be made by the FF team. It would lower memory leaks, vastly increase speed, and close a bunch of security holes.

  19. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Brita is a German company though, it is named after a little German girl. The rest seems sensible though.

  20. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    But there has been a lot of science done and it shows that there is little or no correlation. So I imagine it isn't as obvious as you think.

    This is a perfect example of an is-ought fallacy or a naturalistic fallacy:
    "I don't need a boatload of proof that cell phones cause cancer. Just a little bit of common sense goes a long way."

    Science trumps common sense. If it didn't the earth would likely still be the center of the universe. And anything at the subatomic scale would probably just be left as 'magic'.

  21. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I don't think he'd appreciate it. Clearly a large group had to work together to get these t-shirts made and sent to all those politicians. Scary stuff.

  22. Re:Why a decade later on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    Hey, R2D2 is fucking awesome. If you can't see that clearly you are some sort of sick pedophile satan worshiping terrorist, Fuck you.


    Also, people can make it all the way to adulthood without watching star wars? That's kinda fascinating, do these people have a title like 'the forsaken ones' or something?

    Otherwise I agree with you, try to sit through a full samurai pizza cats movie or ninja turtles. Ok spc is still ok but you have to be a bit stoned or something to appreciate it.

  23. Re:Why a decade later on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought it was 'Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II'. Honestly though I think we'll have to wait another 10 years, then it'll be a classic remake/reimagining rather than a real sequel... I think there is some kind of rule on how long has passed since the last movie before you can't have sequels (star wars doesn't count).

  24. Re:Virtual Medical License on Virtual Visits To Doctors Spreading · · Score: 1

    That thing is possessed or something. I said something but it came out as a keycode and confused the bot. So I said "I'm sorry for the bad input" and this is what displayed:

    ...
    You: i need a blowjob
    Eliza: What would it mean to you if you got a blowjob?

    Is it trying to subconsciously mess with me?

  25. Re:Lawsuits galore? on Virtual Visits To Doctors Spreading · · Score: 1

    More worrying perhaps than lawsuits galore is the health risks. If this gained popularity I think we'll see a lot of people skipping going to the clinic so they can do this. And pretty much anything not common and obvious will be misdiagnosed or impossible to diagnose. If you were going to be limiting diagnosis to simple things over voice then a simple app could take place pretty easily and likely do a better job. It could work like 20 questions for maladies. (So long as it doesn't do guessing)

    When combined with your point it is a bit scary. The doctors participating will be those with nothing to lose(can't hold clients), idiots(willing to risk lawsuits) or the dishonest(if they are too closely linked to pharmacies). So we'll have shitty doctors with no tools, and little information giving out drugs and diagnosing people. Yikes.