40 hour days? Nice. So were you working on Venus or Mercury. Or do I have the honor of speaking to Doc. Brown?

After looking at the Richter Scale, I think my earlier comments were a tad hasty. A rating of 3.4 on the scale is relatively minor and usually doesn't result in damage. I still think the fact that the magnitude was higher than expected shows that they were acting irresponsibly, but taking this into consideration it doesn't seem quite as egregious.

In other news, Swiss marine biologist accused of attaching lasers to the heads of sharks.
Seriously, if this guy changes his name to Dr. Quake or some other reasonable mad scientist name his only punishment should be a lecture from the super hero of his choice.
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On a more serious note, this is pretty scary. His excuse that the result was stronger than he expected is lame - when dealing with things of this magnitude you should try to be as certain as possible. Calling such a damaging incident "a learning process" seems a little asinine. I hope no one was hurt.

Thanks for the attempt at defense, particularly since it only got you modded flamebait too. Bad moderation drives me crazy. Hopefully meta-moderation will revoke their rights to moderate.

Troll? Really? I'm just saying you shouldn't initiate physical contact with someone that has a job that puts them in danger. I guess someone had a problem with the fact that I said cops are pretty friendly (I even said there are exceptions)! Sure, cops that use their powers inappropriately should be legally dealt with in an appropriate manor - but why hate them all without justification? Modding someone troll because you disagree is an abuse of the system. You're a dick.

I'm not saying that tapping an officer on the shoulder is assault, but it probably isn't a good ideal to initiate physical contact by surprising them with a tap on the shoulder from behind when they might have a (quite reasonable) expectation of being attacked. Also, cursing at an officer isn't assault but why be a jerk? Cops have a difficult job and in my experience are pretty friendly even under adverse conditions. Certainly there are exceptions though.

Cincinnati style chili is amazing despite the slightly odd combination of ingredients, your complete disregard for this fact makes me question your negative pizza review. Actually, I think Cincinnati style chili would be terrific on pizza.

I don't think that cheese is critical. I actually like no-cheese pizza quite a bit. My wife who does eat cheese (to ill effect), also occasionally gets a pizza without.

I run linux on one of my home computers and it was easy to install. But windows is pretty easy to install too. I think more than 2% of people can follow a trivial menu driven installation. Ridiculous hyperbole doesn't help your argument.

The likely reason that humans haven't noticed as much of a difference on a starvation diet, is that they have generally started later in life. (Obviously, there are many humans that have starved most of their lives but still not had increased lifespans - the diet still needs to be nutritionally adequate). Iirc I think this is one of the reasons that the Okinawans are believed to have had longer lifespans.

They definitely get high...

I didn't mean to sound crotchety too (who knew I would get to use that word twice in as many days). I just didn't like the snarky tone of the above commenter and the logical fallacy that all of his knowledge is common. I instead apparently came off as a jerk. By the way, I assume from your nickname (which is awesome) that you are in a similar age group.

Yeah, I know about all of those things too. You made a similar point yourself - Salon hasn't been relevant in a long time, that is a big part of why many people will not remember it.

Now, if only I replied to the correct person...

I'm 26 and didn't know what it was either. Just because you know about something doesn't mean everyone else does. From other comments it looks like they put up a paywall around 2001 or so, and I expect fewer people have paid attention to it after that point. Before that not nearly as many people were online. Is there a reverse "get of my lawn" meme to direct at crotchety old people?