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Comment Ahead of Time (Score 1) 259

Let's just hope that Futurama remains ahead of it's time. When the show originally aired back in 1999, it was far ahead of the pack as far as comedy goes, and it still remains my favorite show of all time. I dare say, it's even better than the Simpsons (and I have friends who back me up on this point). Anyway, it's been six years since we've gotten any new material (other than the movies, which I haven't seen). Does anyone really think the writers will be able to top what was once so profound (yes, I am calling Futurama profound)? The social commentary was biting and harsh, but still hilarious. Does anyone really think they can bring back the same feeling? I guess I'm just hoping the show doesn't just devolve into another Family Guy. I'm also afraid that my favorite show will be ruined by these new episodes, if they do indeed start the show up again.

Comment Re:Simple answer (Score 1) 1322

I know plenty of "stupid" people with rather successful careers doing electrical work, carpentry, plumbing, and factory labor and they make more than I do as a degreed child behavioral worker. You don't need a degree to succeed in this country, if you have work ethic and a good market for your skills. Formal academic education may help some of us, but it can't possibly provide jobs for all of us. Success is never a given and basing success on your level of education is aristocratic BS.

Someone give this one a medal.

Comment Re:Popcorn (Score 1) 457

Movie theatre popcorn is NOT healthy, regardless of how much fake butter topping you put on it. I worked at a movie theatre, and the popcorn is popped in vegetable oil. Even if you don't get the butter topping, you are still getting tons of oil and salt (the salt can't be removed from the process because no movie theatre would ever pop an entire batch of unseasoned popcorn for a few customers who may buy it.

On a somewhat related note, the seasoning used is not just salt, and though I can't recall what's in it, it's the seasoning that gives the popcorn it's yellow coloring, not the butter or the oil.

Also, the seasoning is specifically designed to create that freshly popped popcorn scent, and that scent, wouldn't you know, was designed specifically to trigger that Pavlovian reaction that makes you say, "I want a big bucket of popcorn with all the fake butter topping I can get."

Comment Re:sigh (Score 1) 1870

Let me point you to a quote from the good Albert Einstein:

'If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.'

There's no stealing when the source material isn't taken away from the owner.

Pirating software should be a crime, but it should never be equated to stealing.

Comment Re:Yes, go for it. (Score 1) 918

Also, keep in mind that the numbers you are citing from that study are the absolutes, not the averages, at least for mental decline. Of the 2000 or so sampled in the study, 27 was the absolute youngest they saw the earliest signs of mental decline. Not to mention, it also showed that the average person's memory didn't begin to decline, again, at the earliest, until the late 30's, and accumulated knowledge didn't begin to dissipate until the subjects were well into their 60's. To make a long story short, don't believe everything you read, and if you intend to anyway, at least read between the lines a bit, will you?
Earth

Submission + - Alaska's Mt. Redoubt has erupted (alaska.edu) 1

alaskana98 writes: "Alaska's Mt. Redoubt volcano has erupted 3 times, with the first event starting at 10:38 PM Alaska standard time. The ash cloud is estimated to be higher than 50,000 feet. So far, only light ash fall is predicted for areas north of Anchorage. http://avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.ph You can catch the latest updates at the Alaska Volcano Observatory's site at http://avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php."
Space

Submission + - reflected gravitational waves (technologyreview.com)

WSOGMM writes: "In the couple of weeks since he introduced the idea that superconducting sheets can reflect gravity waves, Raymond Chiao from the University of California, Merced, has been busy with a couple of buddies working out how big this effect is... Chiao and co ask how big the effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet is compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet. The answer? 42 orders of magnitude bigger." Maybe we're getting closer to the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. Or perhaps closer to the question.
Biotech

Submission + - Body 2.0 - Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body (singularityhub.com)

Singularity Hub writes: "Did you ever stop to think how silly and also how dangerous it is to live our lives with absolutely no monitoring of our body's medical status? Years from now people will look back and find it unbelievable that heart attacks, strokes, hormone imbalances, sugar levels, and hundreds of other bodily vital signs and malfunctions were not being continuously anticipated and monitored by medical implants. We can call this concept body 2.0, or the networked body, and we need it now! Singularity Hub reviews the concept of Body 2.0 and the companies that are making it a reality."
Announcements

Submission + - Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle (universetoday.com)

alevy writes: "According to universetoday.com, scientists at Fermilab "have detected a new, completely untheorized particle." The article also mentions how (as was previously covered on slashdot) the group over there has recently narrowed the possible range of mass for the Higgs Boson, and goes on to cover recent related SLAC (Stanford University) and KEK (Japanese) advances. I personally love the "we have no idea what we're looking at right now" quote from Fermilab's collider detector team spokesman. The original quote was, "It must be trying to tell us something...So far, we're not sure what that is, but rest assured we'll keep on listening.""

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