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  1. Re:Um... Cagey warning on Polar Flares To Be Visible Tonight · · Score: 0

    Nicolas Cage just drove by my house really fast shouting into a cell phone. Should I be concerned?

    Well, don't let him in, unless he's brought his brother Faraday along.

  2. Re:Earth has two poles on Polar Flares To Be Visible Tonight · · Score: 0

    Good point! (I'm in Canada)
    But every time I see one of these idiot TV thingees about masses of electrons flying out from the Sun, they always seem to show them being attracted to the Northern Hemisphere. Why is this?
    Do you really get to see the Southern Lights like we do?

    Does maybe the South Pole just get a shitload of positrons instead? (that might make it even more dramatic!)
    All kidding aside, just why is this?

  3. Re:From all residents outside the [ant]arctic circ on Polar Flares To Be Visible Tonight · · Score: 0

    Incredible as it may seem to people of the US, North America also includes Mexico.
    (Welcome to Geography 101, American know-nothing)
    I'm sure millions of Mexicans will certainly be up late tonight to see this magnificent polar event

    - Speaking as a Canadian, and no, I do not live in an igloo.

  4. Re:From all residents outside the [ant]arctic circ on Polar Flares To Be Visible Tonight · · Score: 0

    Incredible as it may seem to people of the US, North America also includes Mexico.
    (Welcome to Geography, American know-nothing)
    I'm sure millions of Mexicans will certainly be up late tonight to see this magnificent polar event!

    - Speaking as a Canadian, and no, I do not live in an igloo.

  5. Re:Thank goodness: on Spinal-Fluid Test Confirmed To Predict Alzheimer's · · Score: 0

    I hope that an easy text will be developed from this in the next few years. I couldn't imagine walking into a haze of Alzheimer's without knowing about it. This is one of those tests that I will ABSOLUTELY not be missing once I book it in.

    Ummm.. don't you remember?
    You had one of those tests last week. You told me so.

  6. Pandemic? What pandemic? on Gene Mutation Caused 2009 H1N1 Virus Spread · · Score: 0

    Did I miss something?
    Did I sleep through 2009?

  7. Monsanto Canola? I cry "RAPE"! on Genetically Modified Canola Spreads To Wild Plants · · Score: 0

    Monsanto Canola = Rape seed !

  8. Re:Let me be the first to refute on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 0

    OH YEAH!!!!! ....

    GCS/GMU/GP/GO d- s: a-- C++++$ U++ P+ L+++ E+ N w--- O+ M+ PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP t x- R++ tv b+++ DI++ D+++ G+ e++/* h r y++

    Hey!

    We do not accept polish notation or Hungarian math on /. !!

  9. Re:Use hydrogen? OMG- with Ponies also? on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 0

    Gasoline burns hotter than hydrogen, but thanks to the Hindenburg crash video, we don't have hydrogen cars either.

    Gasoline burns, hydrogen explodes. There's a difference. And the issues with hydrogen cars are a multi-paragraph post that I don't feel like writing right now, but (lousy energy density, present impossibility of storage, no infrastructure) are the main reasons, not lingering Hindenburg memories. Who on earth modded GP Insightful?

    Wrong and Wrong.
    Gasoline explodes AND Hydrogen explodes.
    Gasoline burns AND Hydrogen burns.
    E.G.- Gasoline EXPLODES inside your Car's IC engine. Surprise! That is how a gasoline engine works.
    But you can burn it on a wick- but you had better be careful when the flame creeps down to the container of gasoline and air. That's why we don't use gasoline in coal-oil lanterns.
    As well, Hydrogen will burn, if it is controlled by a small nozzle such as a welder's torch.

    And- Why we do not use Hydrogen in cars? IT's TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE! And hard to make and control!
    Gasoline is quite easy to make from Catalytic crackers. You can do this to make Hydrogen also, but whats the point?
    You are still stuch refining fossil fuels. AND AND- Hydrogen is a shitload harder to store and control than Gasoline!
    And guess what? At STP, there is much more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline, than in a gallon of hydrogen.
    Figure THIS one out!

    I haven't read Scientific American lately.. Are BMW and Shell still inserting those ridiculous "Hydrogen Cars - The FUTURE!" advertisements? The SciAm ad agency must be giggling all the way to the bank...

  10. A TOE! Ugh! I blew CHUNKS! on Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life · · Score: 0

    Once, a long time ago, in my foolish youth, when extremely inebriated one night, I had just such an embarrassing occurrence.
    Staggering into work the next morning, I managed to tell my boss what had happened:

    Me: I got so pissed last night that I blew Chunks

    Boss: That's OK! We all get pissed that bad some days.

    Me: You don't understand! "Chunks" is my dog!

  11. What OS has it? on Hands On With the BlackBerry Torch 9800 · · Score: 0

    More specifically, does it have anything to do with RIM's purchase of QNX last year?

  12. Re:Really FOURTEEN different halves = 7 ? on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 0

    The article does state that you need 5 of 7 to restore.

    So if three of them should happen to suffer an unfortunate "accident", everything is totally screwed?

    YES! But I say we get all seven, just to be sure!
    And, perhaps Al Gore also, for starting this jimcrackery in the first place.

    Frankly, I'm tired of this interweb nonsense with all its tubes.
    I would like to get back to my productive REAL-WORLD job. (Fashioning grapplegrommets out of laminated chickenfat)
    Hey- the interweb was fun, but it (and this slashdot jibber-jabber) has gone on long enough, don't you think?

    Time to get back to work, ladies!
    I'm buying a plane ticket to Ottawa shortly. I suggest that any of you /.ers that know something about those other six loose-loafer poseurs, track 'em down respectively. And let's do the job RIGHT this time.

  13. Re:So drop out, old bags on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 0

    My ex-girlfriend is an oldbagger.
    Does that make me sexist?

  14. Re:In defense of football on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 0

    ....yes I'm aware that you're "football" is different from ours. But we *are* talking about American universities here.

    Just what makes you think I am "football"? You're aware of your difference?
    Oh. Sorry - we *are* talking about American universities here!

  15. Re:Balogna Cubes on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 0

    > The surface resistance of the silver-coated samples also shows a sharp change near 313 K.

    Pure copper does the exact same thing.

    I call bogus.

    Maury

    Cheap shi.. uhh, shot.
    Time to grow up, sonny boy!
    This phenomenon has already been explained quite explicitly
    at the SLASHDOT TIMECUBE!
    Well known here amongst us slashdot cognoscenti. Where ya been?

  16. Re:Wait ? It WILL be repeated! on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 0

    until the experiment has been repeated by someone else, I'm not holding any hope.

    Wait... WAIT!
    I have a friend- Stanley Pons!
    With a bit of Fleishman margarine, I think this can be arranged!

  17. Apparently, they have laid off- on LHC To Idle All Accelerators In 2012 · · Score: 0

    They have laid off (actually given a 1 year sabbatical) to a couple of Ecuadorean, or Peruvian physicists for 2012.

    " OK you Mayans- go have fun - report back here in 2013.""

  18. Re:it doesn't make any sense because on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 0

    Ubuntu. is really so much harder to use than Microsoft Windows. Everything on Microsoft Windows just works, and you have to fuss with Ubuntu to get it to do what you want, keep it from getting a virus, hunt all over the web to get software updates..... I think the only reason Dell does this is because Ubuntu is setup to do anything useful or keep it running. With the Microsoft Windows they don't sell any add-on software because Microsoft Windows already has everything it needs to work.

  19. Re:You Know on Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives · · Score: 0

    uh uh uh.. you still used the internet for slashdot!

    NO I DID NOT!
    Apparently you do not realize that Slashdot has a Morse code end-

    Most of us here read and write these message via Morse code.
    Where have yo been these last 5 years, sonny?

  20. Re:That didn't take long on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 0

    Oh and F. hang around with a real addict or two for a few days.

    Oh and F. hang around with a real AA member or two for a few days

  21. Re:On the other hand... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 0

    I don't support PETA the organization or their methods, but I do share their concern about how animals are used. .

    Yeah.. well.. MAN-
    I actually belong to PETA, but I see nothing wrong with dispatching the occasional squirrel
    But in my case, I would EAT the damn creature, before using its hide to cover a beer-can.
    You do the creature honour in this way instead of sacrilege.

    Why do I belong to PETA? Because every time I hear some yahoo rant "Duh.. dem stoopid PETA peepul! Why are dey so stoopid?", I just vow to renew my membership. or increase my donation.
    Bur believe me, if a rat or squirrel gets into my attic to chew on the insulation or electrical wires , if all else (live-trapping) fails, I will kill it.

  22. Re:Does it come? ask the squirrel on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 0

    LOL! ROFL! (As a perpetual /. bad karma guy (they hate me here), sadly I have no modpointz to give you)

    ...Reminds me of an old friend who once told me- "Geez man I was sooo pissed last nite that I blew chunks!"

    me: "Hey man! It's OK! We've all done that on occasion."

    "You don't understand! Chunks is my pet squirrel!"

    ..huh. No wonder I have bad karma.

  23. can i buy it without the squirrel?

    NO, DAMMIT!
    Don't you realize?
    You get to SHOOT the squirrel afterwards.

  24. Re:Drink, Chuck! (or swallow) on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 0

    Cat? Monkey? WTF...?

    Lissen,you pussies-
    I want coffee brewed from beans shat out of Chuck Norris's ass!
    And maybe beer that's been burped by Chuck!

  25. Re:Linux is not for Everyone on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 0

    ....I have tried to convert others, but ultimately they end up back in Windows/OSX. There is nothing wrong with that.

    For many computers just need to get "Task X" done. If Windows is the easiest way to get that done, then so be it...

    Exactly.
    I'd mod you up, but for some strange reason I am considered bad here.
    Probably just 'cause I like Win7 as much as Ubuntu.