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Comment Re:Economics (Score 1) 400

Of course it is. Reasons to go to the theater:

-The screen is big.
-You get to see the film a few months earlier.

Reasons to watch at home:

-The incremental cost of "admission" is small.
-Food comes at grocery store prices, in limitless variety.
-You can have a drink.
-You can toke up.
-The chair is comfortable.
-If there are any loudmouths present, you can tell them to STFU.
-Your feet don't stick to the floor.
-You have a pause button.
-If your companion likes the movie and you don't, you don't hurt their enjoyment by turning around and playing with the computer.

Did I mention the theater has a big screen?

Comment Re: Hitler and the NAZIs were so stupid. (Score 2) 292

Actually, it's an acronym for NAtionale soZIalist, the political party.

Actually, it's a contraction, German style.

German has a lot of compound words, which means it has a lot of long words, which means it needs a better system of contractions than we have in English. We remove one letter or a contiguous string and replace it with an apostrophe; Germans remove letters from any number of places in the word and don't bother with the apostrophe.

Examples you might have heard at the movies: Kaleun = Kapitanleutnant; Uffz = Unteroffizier; Stalag = Stammlager

Submission + - University of Arkansas releases first Round Up ready soybean (uark.edu)

ChromeAeonium writes: The University of Arkansas will be releasing their first soybean with the transgenic trait for tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate, commonly sold under the trade name Roundup. Originally developed by Monsanto, the patent on the popular glyphosate tolerant soybean expires in March 2015, allowing anyone to grow or breed the genetically engineered soybeans. This isn't the first time a popular crop variety went off patent; the patent on the Honeycrisp apple expired in 2008. As the patent on glyphosate expired in 2000, the both parts of the system will soon be off patent.

Comment Re:Sizes of Constellations (Score 1) 104

Constellations aren't real things, they're imaginative descriptions of patterns people see

In astronomical terms, a constellation is one of the 88 areas of the sky defined by the International Astronomical Union. What you're describing are asterisms.

Every point in the sky is in a constellation, and a constellation is normally named after an asterism in it. Some rather vague asterisms and their associated constellations were designated in modern times to fill in the far southern sky where the ancients hadn't designated any -- like Telescopium.

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