Wait wait wait, so you're saying that Titan could have a cheese stuffed crust too?

If the Beowulf cluster of lawn mowers could run linux, we would officially have an overlord worth welcoming

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Or even the mod chip market. It is legal to manufacture, distribute, sell and install the chips into your system. It's even legal to use the chips to play homebrew and pirated games. What is NOT legal though, is the pirating of the games themselves. This is why modchip distributors distance themselves as much from the pirate scene as possible, using terms such as 'backups' (which are legal under fair use) or 'homebrew' (again, legal, as long as no copyrighted material is used etc.) and so on. If a manufacturer were caught hosting pirated games, saying that if you buy their chip, you can play that game, then that would be illegal. The issue is not with the modifications made to the boxes, it's the fact that he created a link between his hardware and illegal activities.

I guess it would depend on the computer, i mean, if one bit carries 1mA, then you'd only need about 100 bits, but if it were 1μA, then you'd need about 100,000

However, if you do add 8 women, you could conceivably get 1 baby per month for nine months.

That could be very well intentional. Maybe they were subtly trying to hint "hey our shit works with Mac too!" without having to actually come out and say it (and therefore have to back it up when the shit hits the fan).

it's not so much from advertising, it's from all those episodes of COPS

it's easy as pie to take the TPB site code and turn it into 'art':

Step 1) RAR the whole thing, break it down into, say, 50MB files
Step 2) View those files in Notepad, which you are running from the copy of Windows XP that you downloaded last week from TPB
Step 3) Copy the ASCII text into a new image in the copy of Photoshop that you downloaded three months ago from TPB
Step 4) Apply some filters, gradients, throw in some flames and fractals at random, maybe a lens flare or two
Step 5) Be sure not to add too much crap to it, so that it can be OCR'ed later
Step 6) Save as ThePirateBaySiteRipPart1of4200.rar.JPG and post it somewhere

And you're done!

Because you know where to get hookers on your credit card? putting blow on your credit card is easy. Step 1, buy blow with cash. Step 2, distribute some on the surface of a credit card. There you have it, blow on a credit card!

think of it like this: you are quite obese from a lifetime or poor eating habits. you know that your chances of health problems are far higher than if you were in better shape. it's not guaranteed, but you know the risk is there. you also know that you have two methods of shedding pounds: excercise and eat healthy (i.e. lower CO2 emissions) and surgery/medication (geoengineering). Surgery can reverse your condition temporarily, but if you don't cut down on the mcdonald's and go out for a jog every now and then, you'll just end up back in the same place a few years down the line.

this is pretty much the same thing. geoengineering can help cut down on atmospheric CO2 levels, it can change various weather systems, lower the overall temperature of the earth, but if we keep doing what we're doing, we're just going to end up back where we are now, and eventually no amount of liposuction will ever get rid of your man-boobs.