You want to know how I learned Haskell? By doing project euler problems... DRUNK. See, this guy is all hoity-toity about going to the bar on weekends.... I bring the bar to ME, then I go out into the trenches, a little bit of beer, and solve those project euler problems after 5 beers minimum.

Nothing like a 12 pack and a functional, correctly solved project euler problem to separate the men from the boys.

If something has more mass and that extra mass is digestable, it would follow that there's more sustenance of some sort in there.

But the economical value of growing food in such an environment and importing it back to earth, to be redistributed to the hungry in poor countries, is laughably poor.

Looks like somebody high up in Austrialia is a wee-bit angry about not having any of the promised downloadable content of l4d...

That would hurt, though.

It's just a slow news day. We're not sending anyone to Mars for a long time, and certainly not for one-way voyages.

We haven't sent anyone to the moon in decades, because nobody wants to fund NASA for it. They're not going to fund NASA for Mars, either.

I wouldn't HAVE to be a one-way trip, if they'd learn from history and pack a BFG 9000 along with the astronauts.

But I can't figure out how to get a nes game. I did pay for the Opera browser, so I'm a bit confused here. Anyone know how?

I want mega man 3, for those who wanted to know.

I just want to give a heartfelt congratulations to humanity for being the cosmic equivalent of a giant canister of whipped cream. Excellent job! *claps*

I absolutely thank you for that laugh, I needed it. One of the best humor posts I've seen on slashdot.

You beat me to the A New Hope reference. If I had mod points I'd mod you up for that.

The Joker did it, obviously. It was all just a part of a magic trick.

I guess I was being a little flamebait in my post, but when I was in Krakow I did see at least one black person. I'm sure they were a tourist though, as it was in line for the Weisomethingorother salt mines.

But to an extent there was some technological backwardsness: while spending the night in my relative's apartment in Katowice, there was not one single wireless network in the entire apartment complex.

Though you were right about the phones and DSL.

I heard a story from my mother where, when my grandmother from Poland first visited the United States, she saw a black guy and asked if he took his shirt off if there would be residue under his shirt.

I'm just guessing that since Poland is mostly just poor farmers and just poor people in general, they don't really have as many immigrants coming in compared to Western Europe. But I suppose it could be due to racism as well, since most of the people going to Microsoft's website are going to be Polish businessmen, anyways.

That's likely. But I think it fits in more with the serial killer MO to actually have a message encoded, just one that other people are "too stupid" to read. A form of power over others, as SKs are apt to be like, that wouldn't be gained by gibberish.

Plus the alignment is too methodical for a somewhat sloppy SK like zodiac.

The elusive Zodiac Killer's 360 character cipher was never cracked, either, and it's been decades since he mailed it to newspapers. That cipher also seems a bit grid-like, with spacing made deliberately in rows. I wonder if this method would help, at least in part, in cracking it?

If anything, would be nice to see something come up to ascertain his identity, and if alive, put him behind bars.