Comment Yah, right (Score 1) 463
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... Oh my God, it's co cute that you really believe that.
Now I only have to try to believe 3 other impossible things this morning...
Comment Or, people (Score 1) 652
could be less stupid and not walk behind or in front of, a moving vehicle
Comment Of course the planet is warming (Score 1) 776
We've been warming for several thousand years. If we weren't, I'd be living under or on top of, a two mile thick sheet of ice.
The main debate is, is man causing the warming?
Comment A BFH (Score 1) 1016
A ten pound sledge, some serious anger issues and a free afternoon should do the trick.
Comment Apple Patents the rectangle? (Score 1) 432
Wouldn't a clip board be prior art then?
Comment Censorship is useless (Score 1) 403
It's better to just use short range jamming on those freq's than to censor an entire network. Besides, it's not like the Brit's have a 4th amendment. It's just as easy to monitor certain accounts in real time, or nearly so.
A better question to ask might be, why their current, much vaunted CCTV surveillance isn't doing a better job of nabbing those hooilgans earlier in the process?
Comment Score one for the United Nations (Score 1) 182
In other news, the employee day care center is now to be run by pedophiles...
Comment Keep in mind (Score 1) 172
that this was a 9.1 quake. Those 40 year old reactors were only designed to take an 8.1. It's amazing they held up as long as they did.
Comment 2 lines (Score 1) 730
The tax form should be 2 lines:
How much did you make?
Send us 15% of that.
Comment Oh, but, we are a republic. (Score 2) 1277
The funny thing is, they're right, we are a republic and not a democracy. In a republic, you elect representatives to cast votes on your behalf. In a democracy, you vote for everything.
Comment the 3 laws (Score 1) 360
Um, apparently, no one told them about the Laws of Thermodynamics?
Comment and in other news (Score 1) 554
And, in other news, there's snow on the ground in 49 of 50 states. Florida being the exception
Comment Re:Where's an editor when you need one? (Score 1) 60
The last time I looked, Pluto was a planet and comets were "celestial" bodies...
Could CA Violent Game Law Lead To an Industry Exodus? 142
donniebaseball23 writes "Oral arguments for the California games law are set to begin on November 2. It's a hugely important court case for the industry, and if the Supreme Court sides with the legislators it could lead to an exodus of talent from the games business, says one attorney. 'Certainly less games would be produced and there would be a corresponding job loss,' said Patrick Sweeney, who leads the Video Game practice at Reed Smith LLP. 'But I expect the impact will likely be significantly deeper. I believe the independent development community would be severely impacted. Innovation, both from a creative and technological aspect, would also be stifled. The companies, brands and individuals that we should be embracing as the visionaries of this creative and collaborative industry will migrate their talents to a more expressive medium.' Meanwhile, Dr. Cheryl K. Olson, author of Grand Theft Childhood, notes that even if California gets its way, it could backfire."
The First Photograph of a Human 138
wiredog writes "The Atlantic has a brief piece on what is likely to be the first photograph (a daguerreotype) showing a human. From the article: 'In September, Krulwich posted a set of daguerreotypes taken by Charles Fontayne and William Porter in Cincinnati 162 years ago, on September 24, 1848. Krulwich was celebrating the work of the George Eastman House in association with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Using visible-light microscopy, the George Eastman House scanned several plates depicting the Cincinnati Waterfront so that scholars could zoom in and study the never-before-seen details.'"
