Generally parasites co-evolve with their hosts. Because of this, it is actually fairly unlikely to unearth some vicious ancient virus from waters a billion years old. Billions of years ago all that existed was bacteria and the oldest viruses we know about go back only hundreds of millions of years.

That said I fully endorse your Hermetic seal and wish you well in your initiating our flippered friends into the alchemic ways.

You really can't completely trust any episode of the Mythbusters where they test the myth on themselves instead of on volunteers because their expectations come into play. They could easily be subject to a placebo effect and because they believe they will perform better or worse, they do. Also, when they perform tests like this, they generally have a sample size of three, which isn't exactly statistically significant.

I seriously can't know how people can be comfortable with the Win7 Start screen. Here's a picture of my Program Manager in Win3.11. Everything is nicely pinned right there (no moving mouse around the screen), the search functionality works the same and there is direct access to things like Control Panel. It does not steal the attention with a full screen jumbled mess of harshly colored squares with uncolored icons.

Personally, I'm going to wait for Windows 8.1 for Workgroups...

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The title says peppers but it says nicotine is actually the chemical at work. There are actually a few positive effects nicotine possesses, the negative effects of smoking are mediated by the oxidation products of cigarettes.

Which makes me wonder if electronic cigarette products may not only be not bad for you, but even potentially beneficial as they give you a low dose of nicotine through vaporization without the oxidation caused by burning.

Ah, wonderful logic...

That's the entire reason the nicotine is flowing through plants' veins in the first place: it's their natural insecticide.

Now why anybody would wanna eat insecticide by having a salad... ;-) Luckily, we are not insects.

Chocolate is bad for dogs. It is good for people.

Uh, no, it doesn't. The first amendment is the right to free speech. The second amendment is the right to bear arms.

What you are missing here is that these files this guy is sharing are essentially just descriptions of shapes and therefore typically would be considered speech. The files then let you make arms (though really poor quality ones). He is sharing information though, not arms, which is why this has been transmuted from a second amendment issue to a first amendment one.

I'm still wondering though due to that Tao of Math line if I've been expertly trolled or not.

32-inch television - $270. Superbowl add - $3.8 million. Visa net worth - $19.1 billion. Never letting us forget a mediocre commercial by turning it into a horrible meme - Priceless. Visa, it's everywhere you don't want to be.

"Meuthuen police say they understand the freedom of speech and they're not trying to shut anybody up, but in this instance they think it went a little too far."

That sounds like a bit of doublespeak to me. We aren't trying to control what you say, just don't say anything that we consider too far.

The whole genre of rap music is infused with the idea of committing crimes. If people assumed every time someone said anything threatening in a rap song, they were actually going to do what they said and arrested them, there wouldn't be a rapper left on the streets.

Actually, I think for the first time ever, I'm going to have to quote eminem:

America, hahaha, we love you, how many people are proud to be citizens of this beautiful Country of ours, the stripes and the stars for the rights that men have died for to protect, The women and men who have broke their neck's for the freedom of speech the United States Government has sworn to uphold, (Yo', I want everybody to listen to the words of this song) or so we're told...

That's why they put my Lyrics up under this microscope, searchin' with a fine tooth comb, its like this rope, waitin' To choke, tightening around my throat, watching me while I write this, like I don't like this, Nope

The galaxy is full of people who live on moons of gas giants because they had a lot of incentive to develop space technology to hop from moon to moon.

The galaxy is full of people who grew up in low-gravity environments, because they are more comfortable living in space and thus travel is easier for them both energetically to get there and biologically to live there.

The galaxy is also full of people who grow lumps of rubber on their heads, but that's just because it is the latest rage in all the Alpha Centauri fashion holos.

The problem with the movie is the more you know about its plot, the less sure you are sure about its characters and the more you know about the characters the less you know about what is actually occurring.

Tragically, because the credits at the end tell you who the characters are, after seeing the movie you won't be able to know anything about what happened in it.

The sequel is being made out of quantum entangled atoms. So, if you and your friend go to see it, one will think it is horrible and the other it is great no-matter how far apart your seats are.

Primus promulgatione!

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Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.

This is a latin maxim which Wikipedia renders that as "I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery"
Another rendering might be "I'd choose dangerous liberty over peaceful servitude."

Quiescite. Non vult ad comment in quibusdam legitur stultus senex valde, verborum usus, nemo amplius. Recentiores linguae experiri scribere volutpat.

This is this guy's own latin. It is loosely translated "Shut up. I want to comment to people who read a very stupid, old language used by no one anyway. Newer languages have people who actually write in them."

Please never again use the word "cyber-terrorist" in any function. It is way too easy to turn that word into "anything someone does on the internet that you are scared of" and the internet is not always well understood by political classes and established interests. It is a word which too easily invites disastrous misinterpretation (e.g. Aaron Swartz-like situations).

At the time the second amendment was written to reload a gun you had to spend a good minute reloading it with a very long stick. I support your right to have as many manually-reloaded muskets as you want, as the Founder's intended!