Comment Re:i so don't care (Score 2) 409
... then I saw your face, and you're a belieber ...
Comment Re:Fairness (Score 1) 175
governments being the most corrupt organizations on the planet
Nor did he say the world is black-and-white
Actually, he pretty much did say the world is black-and-white.
Comment Re:BLADE (Score 1) 157
Hey ... the guys at the Tactical Advanced Acronym Research Division don't take kindly to having their work disrespected.
NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time 610
mvar writes "Working through the year-end best/worst movie lists can be a feat of Olympic proportions, but there's one list which is so damn cool you'll definitely want to give it a whirl. NASA and the Science and Entertainment Exchange have compiled a list of the 'least plausible science fiction movies ever made,' and they ranked the disastrous (in more ways than one) 2012 as the most 'absurd' sci-fi flick of all time."
Comment Re:Somebody else will come along, eventually. (Score 2) 238
Some other search engine will eventually come along. They will provide a better service, and Google will swallow them up like a ripe, juicy tomato.
FTFY
Comment Re:Broken? (Score 2) 238
I guess it's time to go back to Archie.
Comment Re:Or they flew over a CAFO (Score 1) 577
Google turns up a lot of sites that paraphrase the above research (and for some reason I have trouble believing a site called "biblelife.org" is fully committed to scientific fact), but no sites showing the research paper itself. You happen to have a link?
Comment Re:Or they flew over a CAFO (Score 1) 577
Five times and counting ... you?
Comment Re:It has to come naturally (Score 1) 577
Ahh, so there is the dehumanization. I was waiting. It's what all vegetarians really want.
I think you're confusing militant, political vegans with people who happen to choose a vegetarian lifestyle for their own personal reasons. I'm an omnivore, but I know lots of vegetarians (some of them very closely) who frankly don't give a shit what you eat or what I eat. They aren't looking to dehumanize anyone. They are looking - and this is literally all they are looking for - to have themselves a decent meal that suits their preferences.
Apple Passes $300B Market Cap, 2nd In the World 485
An anonymous reader writes "In May, Apple surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization to become the second largest company (by that measure) in the world. Today, with its shares riding high, Apple passed $300 billion in market cap, entering a club of two along with the still-gigantic ExxonMobile. And investors' targets could bring Apple beyond where Exxon is now (though Exxon continues to soar as well). Perhaps Wall Street is catching on that, despite the discontinuation of their underused Xserve, Apple is in fact becoming one of the key tech providers to enterprise, a position that even a year ago seemed laughable. If you consider the iPad to be a PC (which enterprise increasingly is), then suddenly you realize that Apple is expected to climb to 12% market share in 2011. Plus, of course, they have those little things called iPods, and iTunes..."
Interactive, Emotion-Detecting Robot Developed 58
cylonlover writes "A team of Cambridge University researchers have now developed a system that can not only detect a user's emotional state, but can also make expressive responses of its own. Using a robotic likeness of the godfather of the programmable computer, Charles Babbage, the team has hooked the system up to a driving simulator and created a computerized driving companion and navigator that reacts to the driver in much the same way as a human passenger."
Comment Re:Or they flew over a CAFO (Score 1) 577
Okay, so persuade me.
Find me the links to the study that confirms "in fact this so-called vegetarian diet contains as much or even more animal protein as the average Western diet that consumes red meat." I mean if I'm all about misrepresentation, then you should have little trouble proving me wrong.
Comment Re:Or they flew over a CAFO (Score 1) 577
The fact you would conflate Indian and Chinese traditional diets reveals you to be breathtakingly ignorant, but I'll tell you what sport: since you allude to an "examination" of these diets then you should have little trouble linking to the studies that support what you're saying.
Or is it that you're just full of shit?
Comment Re:I don't normally say this, but... (Score 1) 255
(For example, Google might consider the "Bikini Waxing" article to be porn)
Couldn't Google simply choose not to advertise on that page?
Comment Re:Pay to skip the ads (Score 2) 255
... or Wikipedia could just refuse to pay a single penny, and go ahead and let that ISP cut them off (or degrade the performance to the point of frustration/unusability). Within 2 days that ISP's support lines would be flooded with angry callers wondering what happened to the source of information they pretty much rely on to run their lives.
