Comment Half and half (Score 1) 65
Make half the shirt solar cells and half battery cells. I just want to be able to use this as a nice electric shock to unsuspecting people.
Comment Re:Too bad... (Score 1) 861
Or they are considered freedom fighters if you agree if with their cause. You just named the Americans in the American Civil war terrorists.
Comment Re:both sides (Score 1) 861
Where are your stats from? Because this is what I could find, it seems to contradict what you say. Unless you meant "not orthodox or Traditionalist".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Religion
Comment FUD all over (Score 1) 459
People that say marijuana harms those around through smoke must never have heard of edibles or vaporizing. Don't make the whole argument about a single method, of which there are quite a few.
Secondly, obligatory Bill Hicks: "We are losing the war against drugs." You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it."
How Nearby Supernovae Affected Life On Earth 109
sycodon writes with news of research into how nearby supernovae affected the development of life on Earth. "[Professor Henrik Svensmark] found that the changing frequency of nearby supernovae seems to have strongly shaped the conditions for life on Earth. Whenever the Sun and its planets have visited regions of enhanced star formation in the Milky Way Galaxy, where exploding stars are most common, life has prospered. Prof. Svensmark remarks in the paper, "The biosphere seems to contain a reflection of the sky, in that the evolution of life mirrors the evolution of the Galaxy.' ... The data also support the idea of a long-term link between cosmic rays and climate, with these climatic changes underlying the biological effects. And compared with the temperature variations seen on short timescales as a consequence of the Sun's influence on the influx of cosmic rays, the heating and cooling of the Earth due to cosmic rays varying with the prevailing supernova rate have been far larger.""
Comment Re:Conclusions... (Score 1) 257
Bingo! Hubbard was a genius. Most religions appeal to the poor and lower middle class by letting them know that having too much money is a bad thing and they will get their reward in the afterlife where, presumably, the rich will get punished. Hubbard made it a good thing to have money. You can buy your way! Brilliant!
Wish I would have thought of that :(
Comment Re:Great Idea (Score 1) 255
How the hell do people "stumble" into information/pictures that they don't want to see? I go all day every day at work and manage not to bring up a single porn site or questionable image with zero filtering.
Comment Re:Seen this trick before (Score 5, Funny) 296
GOB: Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. [GOB notices children in earshot] ... Or candy!
Comment Re:Not to be rude about it, but (Score 1) 64
Ha! 15%, I wish. The cheapest rate I got for my first car loan was 20%, and they made it clear that they were doing me a favor while they were gouging me.
Comment Re:Disagree (Score 1) 316
Oops. Think you are right. Apparently I am not good with computer.
Comment Re:Disagree (Score 1) 316
Try an add-blocker on your browser? Personally I am way more offended by add then I am by nudity.
Comment Blame the US (Score 3, Insightful) 72
Seems like China would just blame the US government... the same way that if we see any attacks from China, we blame the Chinese government.
Comment Love buying online (Score 1) 351
Personally I wish that every game was available to be bought online for consoles. I am actually pretty shocked that there are quite a few games that I can't buy online, especially new releases. When the closest game store is at least a half hour away in traffic, I would just rather not buy the game. It also encourages more impulse buying from me. When I end up with some free time and read about an interesting game... I want to play it now. If I can't play it now, I will just find a good book to read, which I can easily find online.
Comment Little bland on details (Score 2) 128
It looks like there are still more studies needed if we really want to understand what is going on here.
The treated bees were about two to three times more likely to die while away from their nests, and the researchers said this was probably because the pesticide interfered with the bees' homing systems, so they couldn't find their way home.
That seems like quite the leap in logic, but I don't have the actual study in front of me. That pesticide harms bees sounds like a REALLY obvious conclusion, I kinda like bees and what they do for us.
Comment Lot of lame excuses (Score 1) 273
Tons of lame excuses in this thread for not accepting the start of a great technology. I have been saying for years that I wish my car could hook up to railroad tracks and autopilot me along them. This system would be so much better. Most of the complaints are from not RTFA. I know, must be new here. The rest of the complaints most humans cannot even deal with. The amount of energy that it would take to be as alert as these sensors 100% of the time would probably kill a normal human or at the very least, the humans senses would quickly degrade.
I think a great start to this would be patches of straight, uncluttered, highway that is designed to handle this type of vehicle. Go from there!
Sign me up!
