Seriously, what do people have against them?

I think they're the coolest thing out there, and they provide a way to stop importing oil from the Muslims.

It's well known that central electricity production is significantly more efficient that a bunch of separate internal combustion engines.

But why the hate? I know the NYT has a vendetta against the electric car - they're a bunch of scumbags. But why do normal people hate them?

And what happens?
Nearly all of the time you get better after a few days, and if things persist they can investigate more.

What else would you want? 100 tests every time you got sick?

It sounds to me like marketing bullshit or a slogan - it doesn't really describe anything.

What actually happens on the site?

Does it just display feeds of popular blogs, and you get to recommend some?

If you take all the primes from 2 to 23, and multiply them all then and one, you get 223092871 a non-prime, with 317 and 703763 as its prime factors.

I don't, however, see how it is obvious that multiplying all the primes in a list, then adding one, should mean that the result cannot be factorised by the original component primes.

It also needs a degree of originality and unexpectedness to it - absurdity is not enough. I found rew's comment funny because I wasn't expecting that reply.

The toaster thing isn't funny at all. It's just nasty. Water + electrical appliances have been way overdone in both pop culture and humour.

Yeah, that movie right?

Saying 42 might have been funny if they were researching a number that had some abstract relationship to the meaning of life - but even then it would be predictable and overused.

But it's not funny just to answer 42 to any mathematics question. It's not funny at all.

42

From the article:
"Einstein's planet," formally known as Kepler-76b, is a "hot Jupiter" that orbits its star every 1.5 days. Its diameter is about 25 percent larger than Jupiter and it weighs twice as much. It orbits a type F star located about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

The planet is tidally locked to its star, always showing the same face to it, just as the Moon is tidally locked to Earth. As a result, Kepler-76b broils at a temperature of about 2000 Kelvin.

Here's the video of him talking about playing the guitar in space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLRunqi1mDM

Advantage is that you don't need a guitar strap, disadvantage is that you float around if you'd not holding something with your feet. Also tend to mis-fret when first in space.

You can see the velcro on it in the Bowie song, but i think that is more for stowage than use.

Thought so. Most "I'm from Europe" comments are mostly trolls too fearful to acknowledge what shitty country they live in.

What country are you from?

I understand you can hack the moderation system using a HOSTS file.

I'm in Auckland using ADSL, got 187ms.

Don't encourage him! We've already got APK/Jeremiah Cornelius complaining about impersonation every post.

Next thing Brendan Nelson's going to be coming here, spamming "A corrupt facebook luser has infiltrated the liking system to downlike all my posts."

Although there was a significant false positive.

Apparently you're not very up with the play.