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Comment Re:Ohhhh shit (Score 1) 344

Ahh, funny you mention the Pinto.

It was no more fire prone than any other car at the time. The Pinto also had lower Fatality rates than similar cars of the era.

Overall it was comparable to other sub-compacts. Looking at rear end impacts though, it had a much higher fatality rate due to a strong propensity of rupturing the gas tank.

There's a strong propensity for most vehicles to rupture the gas tank when driving in reverse on a limited-access highway

Comment Re:Article Title (Score 4, Funny) 252

Philips Unveils Sexy Urban Beehive Concept

I'll admit... it's entirely possible that I don't understand the meaning of that word.

Just in case you're mind's going where I think it is, on no account should you stick your dick in a beehive..... At least without smoking it first.

Without SMOKING it first?!?

And you're worried about the beehive being a sexy fetish ....

Comment Re:What's the fascination with Columbus? (Score 1) 420

Christopher Columbus - A wonderful national hero - Hawked his widely discredited and since proven wrong theory (short route to China) around all the people with money to fund his project for years until he found someone gullible enough to fund it, found a small island in mid ocean, and claimed he was right, even in face of the evidence, failed to find the whole rest of the continent, and still gets all the credit ...

He knew he wasn't right - he had a map of the Americas when he set sail in 1492. Also, 1492 wasn't his first voyage of "discovery".

Comment Re:oops (Score 4, Insightful) 328

What I want to know is how lowering corporate tax helps anyone at all when such a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%.

If you lower it and remove all "loopholes" and exclusions, then everybody pays it. It's pretty simple, really.

Comment Re:Protection (Score 1) 193

Does anyone else think that for handling liquid nitrogen and liquid fucking helium that these "experts" seem to be throwing caution to the wind? Seems more like a rave than a science experiment.

I was handling liquid nitrogen straight out of high school (16-17), and used liquid helium in a limited fashion at the same employer

Comment Re:I hope this catches on. (Score 1) 281

I don't think it's the sweat that doing it. You (like most people) tie their shoes using a granny knot instead of a reef (or square) knot, resulting in your shoes coming untied easier. Check this for a refresher. Stuff you should know, news for runners (and other people who tie their shoes).

I've seen this article before a few years back -- either I was doing it wrong or it wasn't working as advertised. Either way, there shouldn't be an "art" to ensuring that my shoes stay on. I should be able to put my shoes on with minimal hassle and forget about them.

And everyone should know how to tie their shoes - it's pretty simple, and yet myriad people have their knots coming open all the time

Comment Re:I hope this catches on. (Score 1) 281

It's high time we move on from the useless and medieval shoelace. Living in the humid US Southeast, my sweat opens shoelaces on my running shoes faster than Houdini unlacing a straitjacket. They already make cycling shoes with velcro straps and plastic fasteners that would work great in running shoes, but for some reason athletic shoes have a focus on form rather than function.

Dude, you're doing it wrong - "sweat opens shoelaces on my running shoes"? How in the bloddy heck are you tying them?

Comment Re:Tying shoes as a dying skill... (Score 1) 281

My wife and I have been extraordinarily disappointed to hear other parents admitting that their children (through third grade) don't know how to tie shoes, simply because the kids have never been given anything but slip-ons and velcro-type shoes of various kinds. A few parents have admitted that they almost never wear anything but crocs and flip-flops. Yeesh.

And what's wrong with that? Until you need hiking shoes or lace-up dress shoes, why not wear slip-ons? I do for dress purposes all the time. Are you also averse to parents whose children only know how to wear sandals?

Comment Re:quantity over quality? (Score 1) 674

Actually, tubes weren't that common even as far back as 30 years ago. I started college in 1980 and almost nobody had any tube gear (except my roommate, who had a McIntosh pre-amp). Interestingly, my old Carver amp from that era sounds better than most of the stuff I hear today too.

Most of what I've seen pre-1985 is all tube-based, but that could just be the folks whose old gear I'm seeing were into that kind of stuff over solid state.

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