I wonder why the explosions are exceptionally weak too. In my experience a 1-inch long firecracker can easily crack a small gardening pot, and probably blow the gel block apart completely.

Actually you can still use gravitational assist with the sun. Burning your fuel at the perihelion will give you far more delta-V than the same burn at aphelion. Simple explanation: part of the gravitational potential energy of the fuel is converted into kinetic energy of the spacecraft; with the burnt fuel being "left-over" at a much lower orbit than before.

Try this one instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWQZNXEKkaU BTW this link is actually embedded in the 2nd article link.

"cap/frag/score/win/pwn/save the princess"

I am under the impression that he frag/pwn the princess then "save" her at last.

Reason that white LED is not made with 3 primary colour LEDs is that as LED age, they dims, and different colour dims at different rates. A new tricolour LED migh looks white, but when it ages it might glows greenish for example.

"Nobody is going to install PENIS in a professional environment."

I will. Just for telling my boss "I use my PENIS to monitor the network".

It not just crappy intranet application that are stuck with IE6 which can be easily replaced. Lots of hardware infrastructure are relying on IE6, e.g. lift, surveillance camera, building management systems are all stuck with IE6 for remote management.
Do you expect a large commercial building to replace 1000s perfectly good surveillance camera simply because MS thinks IE6 sucks? Not to mention having to replace all dozens of servers for controlling the cameras? And now we start talking about replacing the lifts....

And it got WORSE after tiny usb thumb drives get popular.
With the standard old plug you have to force to plug in up-side-down. These tiny fucking drives just slip in either way effortlessly.
Now the 1st thing I ever check with lusers usb problem is always their plugin orientation.

Cyber-sex (it's not sex)

US is sending carrier task force into Yellow Sea, China is mining the region as a response.
OMGWTFBBQ we are at war!!!!!....
Oh wait...

No. Thank you.

This is not a fair comment. China is doing a lot more than the US in trying to reduce CO2 emission. E.g.
they are building 100 new nuclear reactor within this decade
They are also building hell a lot of new wind turbine as well

Actually what GP say do make sense, not on "rouge state" like Iran or NK, but on non-state actors like Al-Qaeda. Non state actors do not give a shit to the population of the host country, and they are too dispersed to be counter-nuked. There are very little to lose for them to initiate a first strike.

I wish I have mod point for you. The "Thumbnail" view in winxp is just about as useless can it can be for displaying file information. "Detail" view with file extension shown as in win2003 is much more sensible.

Why stop at autorun? MS should disable automount as well. E.g. One should be able to mount any disc as read only. I have so many UDF disc destroyed just because 3rd party driver fuck up. This should be completely avoidable.