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Well, it certainly has been INteresting seeing all the speculation about what could cause a meteor to "stand still" for 15 minutes but, guyz, it's just typical badly-worded journalistic/blogish cluelessness. MOST fireballs leave persistant smoke trails in the sky and if the upper-level winds are quiet those trails can last a LONG time.
Haven't any of you ever seen a meteor shower and caught sight of a fireball?? Any of you??? Anyone????

Never mind. It was Eevil Republicans. Eevil Christian Republicans. Eevil Christian Tea Party Republicans. Sorry to have interrupted.

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I'd guess that area is mountainous

And I'm guessing that you've never been anywhere near Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa or Indiana

7) The aliens see that our atmosphere is almost 25% free oxygen and don't bother with us. Since they know O2 is poisonous they don't look for life here; they look on Venus and don't find any. They also know that even if some form of life managed to evolve in a free-oxygen environment that it couldn't produce any technology since O2 makes everything burn; either quickly causing massive fires or slowly rusting everything away. Earth is not worth the bother.

FYI I tried that. (I named the cantaloupe Wendy Wilson) We had a nice relationship until one day when I got home to find that she had rolled off the bed and was in the kitchen with a watermelon. Then I find that she'd maxed out my Visa on QVC too. The bitch. Unless you have a good blender to end the affair, avoid cantaloupes.

That is exactly what I thought. But then when I have to write windows code I didn't use windows calls for the most part. First I used WFC and then QT as an abstraction layer.

Binary compatibility isn’t the problem on Windows. It’s usually undocumented API use, reliance on API bugs and security model changes that cause applications to not work.

Even Office XP which ran on Windows 98 runs under Windows 7.

Somehow I envision a bunch of smiling tweenage Japanese schoolgirls in an Internet cafe each wearing one of these emblazoned with a Hello Kitty logo staring at the avatar of their boyfriend who is sitting at a nearby computer in the very same cafe.

Dr. Verizon wears his stupidity like a tiara; on his head, gleaming, for all to see.
Like you wear your bigotry.

In a reasonable world, I suspect he'd be right. Early-gen consoles ruled because they were cheaper and easier than computers, later-gen consoles ruled because, by being specialised hardware, they could deliver better performance than price-equivalent computers. But now we don't honestly need more performance than we already have, and the benefits of gaming on demand will outweight performance soon.

But we don't live in a reasonable world. We live in a world ruled by marketing. Manufacturers will keep finding new gimmicks to sell consoles for many years, rest assured. There's more and more expensive motion tracking (camera-based now, which takes a lot of CPU to run). Then there's 3D. Then there's things like facial recognition, gesture tracking, etc. Then brainwave controls. And Live and PSN have proven to my satisfaction that consoles can do gaming on demand via internet as well.

What if it's a cloudy daytime. That would be like multi-terawatt lasers... To penetrate daytime clouds and still produce a bright light over an area of several thousand Km.

This is just ROFL.

Do you know what iPods have now? Wireless and more space than a Nomad! Not only was he correct about the iPod, but his comment directed Apple on the course that ultimately led to the iPhone. You fanboys owe Rob Malda for everything.

But we know that after a certain critical period it becomes functionally impossible for a human being to learn language.

We do?? Como sabemos eso? I learned Espanol en la edad de 50. Just how long is this periodo critico anyway? Y'all gonna be hard up if you move to Santiago, dood.

(disclaimer: I still can't understand Mexican)

There's an AOL News?? AOL is still around???

In what is being described as "a good idea whose time has come" (by me), this bill will require all American citizens to buy Internet Insurance from me. Failure to buy this insurance from me will simply cause the IRS to penalize you $750 on your taxes and give the money to me. In a press release, a spokesperson for me said "Internet security and freedom from terroristic thoughts is a basic human right that will be protected by the implementation of this bill. Anyone who opposes this bill is a right-wing kookwad who should be first ridiculed on The Daily Show and then killed."

Keep in mind, though, that this bill, in its present form, is just the beginning. Other basic human rights will be covered in later additions to this plan that will require all American citizens to buy more things from me. I will build a Great Society where the trains run on time whether you like it or not.

Sure, at 7 TeV they just got muons. No big deal. Once they get to full power and hit 14 TeV they'll get LOTS MORE muons!! That'll be HUGE! Really!

(mutters)Goddamn kids woke me up for fucking muons.