JoeBuck:

You are ignorant; the universe is already conducting high-energy physics experiments. They are called cosmic rays, and some of them are billions of times more powerful than the LH

On the other hand, cosmic rays arrive now and then, not in fiercely concentrated streams. Have you never heard of resonance cascade phenomena?

Having no faith in the integrity of Anything on the Web, I choose to block those ads

Also, have you ever looked at Adblock's *whitelist*, and wondered why things like "@@/flash.pcworld.com/video/pcw/ads/*.flv|" were on there? And checked what happens when you allow Adblock to update?

TubeSteak:

I bet most people take a lot more care with their wallet than they do with their work passwords.

Unfortunately, a lot of *other* people *also* think that your wallet is much more valuable than your work password.

Rick:

...If it makes other people be a little more self conscious about how their words can come across and breaks the social norms of using homosexual terms as insults, then I think it's AWESOME...

I love the movie Liquid Sky (although quite a few people hated it). One of the characters is a tiny lesbian who is sneeringly aggressive towards men. Her preferred term of abuse is "big cock". Every time she tries to use it as a putdown, the intended victim gets this bemused look on his face. You can see that he's wondering whether to explain the details of her misconception to her, but the moment passes.

In other words, it would be nice if "u r teh gheyness!" and suchlike phrases could be perceived differently.

Incidentally, I met the actress at a party in a lesbian's apartment a few years later, and managed to make her think I was an utter dweeb, when I was just trying to say I loved the atmosphere in the movie. Heigh-ho, suck air.

JesseL said:

I can't believe he hasn't been found in a cheap motel room; dead from autoerotic asphyxiation, wearing a gimp suit and a dildo in his ass.

One can conclude the Federal Government does not consider Jack Thompson to be an enemy.

Assuming one cosmic ray hit per m2 per year from all directions; one hole per hit; the surface of the Earth is about 500 M m2; resulting black holes do not have escape velocity; black holes do not evaporate; age of Earth is 5 B years; then the number of black holes inside Earth is 2.5 e18.

Apparently the risk of any individual black hole actually colliding with another particle is quite slight, but how slight can it be?

Maybe black holes are in *very* low Earth orbit and powering the Earth's magnetic field.

CmdrGravy:

the police had a warrant to seize this server which is totally within the law and absolutely not theft of any kind

According to indymedia, their hosting service handed over the server in question without seeing a warrant.

The action of seizing the server was highly unlikely to serve the ostensible purpose of protecting the judge, as explained by previous posters. But it has been quite effective in harrassing indymedia, which was a third party.

Wait until the secret police seize your server -- or your car, or your daughter -- on some pretext. Maybe then you'll see the point.

kmac06:

What the fuck happened to the concept of limited government? 50+ comments on here, and not one asking what business is it of government to make people's decisions for them?

Even if people support the principle that governments should attempt to influence personal decisions, there is a *much* simpler way to achieve the ostensible goals of the proposal: to increase the tax on gasoline. However, that would not reward any special interests.

Micah:

I may have been influenced a bit due to a few of them, but actual purchase that I wouldn't have made otherwise? If so I have forgotten about it.

All hail The Hypnotoad!

unassimilatible:

Dude, first off, stop trying to sound like a lawyer - it's like when a white guy tries to speak urban lingo - he just sounds lame. "A remedy in tort" - LOL.

What's the actual problem with that phrase? Google returns "about 11,800" hits for it. Since you use the word "arse" you presumably use British English, so maybe it's an American expression with which you are not familiar.

w3woody:

they had no choice but to value the asset lower than the underlying homes would have been worth in the event 50% of the land mass of the United States was destroyed in a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.

Had there been such a nuclear exchange during the Reagan administration, 50% of the USA would have been left, and the rest could have been rebuilt.

The Bush administration has destroyed the financial system, the military, the international reputation, the civil liberties, the free press, the heavy industry, the high-tech sector, the economy, the Constitution and the heart of the USA. I doubt they will ever be rebuilt, because there is nothing left to rebuild them with.