User: Ardipithecus

Being from Miami

On: 11 Charged In TJX, Other Breaches

I like that the indictments were handed down to people in Miami, the US, Estonia, China, and Belarus.

It is a different place.

Re:What about the native americans?

On: Knights Templar Sue the Pope

Corrections Dept:

Celibacy refers to being unmarried or abstaining from sexual intercourse (i.e., chastity). A vow of celibacy is a promise not to enter into marriage or engage in sexual intercourse. The term involuntary celibacy has recently appeared to describe a chronic, unwilling state of celibacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celibate

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: celibacy The deliberate abstinence from sexual activity, usually in connection with a religious role or practice. It has existed in some form in most world religions

Dictionary: (fr Answers.com) chaste

1. Morally pure in thought or conduct; decent and modest.

2.

a. Not having experienced sexual intercourse; virginal.

b. Abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse.

c. Abstaining from all sexual intercourse; celibate.

3. Pure or simple in design or style; austere.

Summary: (for /. purposes)

Celibacy refers to being unmarried or abstaining from sexual intercourse

chastity Abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse.

A chaste person can marry and enjoy "lawful" sex, a celibate "can't" do either.

Re:What about the native americans?

On: Knights Templar Sue the Pope

Skipping the details, the Templars were celibate, and any descendants might not be legit.

Re:Right...

On: Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access

Somehow they were able to figure something out for Holocaust survivors, a surprisingly broad category.

Surely American ingenuity could handle it.

Re:Motive?

On: Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case

A motive that was given in this news account was that he was working on a vaccine for Anthrax and wanted to test it.

Wasn't that the plot of Mission Impossible 2 (no, I can't seem to drink it off my mind). Is the government driven by TV and the movies?

Re:From lying sources protected by ABC News

On: Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case

I always thought the "Mobile Biological Weapon Labs" were from the "X-Files" program.

It would explain why so many fell for it, they already "knew" about it.

My lab recollections are that it's hard enough when it's not moving.

Re:Motive?

On: Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case

Ivins was under treatment for depression, with suicidal tendencies, and had just been institutionalized; not done for folks who are merely sad. Serious talk of suicide with a therapist will get you right in the hospital. Removed from the lab by cops and family and under a restraining order from a coworker. Beyond geeky /. behavior.

It is quite possible for someone highly depressed to continue functioning in technical professions ("I've heard").

He was already a suicide risk. Whether prompted by the possibility of disgrace or by an "I can get out of all this bs" moment, we'll never know.

"Mentally ill" is well within the ballpark.

Re:Mine the oceans!

On: Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017

ANWAR!

Where there is oil there is Zn, etc. Any excuse is good enough.

Re:extinction of zinc?

On: Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017

Galvanizing is a key approach to steel protection, such as for metal floor/roof decks and exposed conditions. Al reacts with steel. I have not heard of this problem from the steel engineering side.

Re:just add water

On: Roundest Object In the World Created

STP?

Re:sphere

On: Roundest Object In the World Created

(4/3) * pi * r^3 if you want the accurate volume

Re:From TFA

On: North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September?

Italy is also beginning to enjoy malaria, due to the responsible mosquitoes having migrated north as warming has extended their habitat.

Re:Dear Friend

On: Cutting-Edge AI Projects?

Is this an output from your Nigerian 419 Scam Generator?

A cheaper alternative

On: Get the Family Dog Cloned

Would be to stuff the dog, $200-300. It could still be petted, and if attached to a wheeled platform it could still be walked with his leash.

Alternatively, it could be cut longitudinally and have each side framed, could have one in the living room and the other in the bedroom.

Re:It's as simple as this

On: Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case

It is a common lawyerly saying that one can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

In this case, we can see a US Atty was as indignant as most decent people and has gone pretty far out of his way to do something about it.

Perhaps DREW can Facebook from the big house.

Re:My partial solar solution in my grid tied house

On: Hobbyist Renewable Energy?

In Florida you'll be running the A/C 10-11 months, with a programmable thermostat perhaps only 12 hrs a day.

That would require a pretty serious setup. Try budget billing where your bill is averaged and you don't get killed in the summer.

Could you even imagine...

On: IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth

a Beowulf cluster of these

Re:Well, um, duh

On: Engineers Make Good Terrorists?

There were CEs well before WWII.

Look up Brooklyn Bridge, tunnels, canals, roads, pyramids, etc.

Re:your comment asumes something

On: Newspapers Are Dying, Blog At 11

If enough people had bullshit detectors society would collapse

Windows PXP

On: ISO Miscounted Cuban OOXML Vote

Pirate XP version, readily available and used in Cuba, and the price is right

Obligatory

On: Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet

1. Create a second, more secure Internet

2. ????

3. Profit!

Gamma ray burst

On: Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth

Since these only last minutes, wouldn't only half the earth (ok, +duration.minutes/(24*60)) be sterilized, the back face being spared the direct blast?

Re:Three times larger?

On: Giant Sheets Of Dark Matter Detected

"The Great Wall, sometimes more specifically referred to as the CfA2 Great Wall, is the second largest known super-structure in the Universe (the largest being the Sloan Great Wall). It is a filament of galaxies approximately 200 million light-years away and has dimensions which measure over 500 million light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 15 million light-years thick." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_(astronomy)

The Sloan Great Wall is not a real structure, rather an observational artifact, so the CfA2 takes it. No disrespect to the dark matter, or as they like to say, "the real universe"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_structure_of_the_cosmos

Story in the Washington Post

On: U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604763.html?hpid=topnews

"Eventually, he agreed to log on and stood by as the officer copied the Web sites he had visited, said the engineer, a U.S. citizen who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of calling attention to himself."

Then explain why you were checking all the Iranian sites. "Oh, the cable, of course. Please step over here sir."

Re:I kind of like the original Constitutional idea

On: Tweaking The Math Behind Political Representation

We have regressed, from taxation without representation to representation without representation