Comment Re: Passwords are overrated (Score 1) 180
Comment Re: Use the corpse [for reality TV?] (Score 1) 948
Comment Under the sea? (Score 4, Funny) 35
Comment Re:Politicians (Score 1) 557
srichard25:
What specifically did Trump say that "incited a riot"?
Also srichard25:
"They KILLED Frank? But Tony just said he was swimming with the fishes!"
Comment Re:Breathtaking (Score 1) 92
Comment Re:Are we worth contacting? (Score 1) 472
Would a highly religious race spread the word [...]
Zorblax Witness: Have you heard the good news?
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 113
Why did you add the superfluous "select" bit in there?
Some people have friends to play with.
Comment Re:What about their toilets? (Score 1) 33
You're probably joking, but the Gates Foundation invests a lot of money in sanitation, including toilets, as part of the work to get clean water and eradicate waterborne diseases like cholera.
Comment Re: What a shame (Score 5, Insightful) 280
A 16-year-old with Asperger syndrome overcomes her social phobias and inspires millions of people, mostly teens and young adults, to put pressure on politicians and other people in power to take action against anthropogenic global warming.
Default reaction: Let's speculate on and attack her mental health, and call her a puppet of the deep state!
Comment Re:10 (Score 1) 117
So, obviously, the buttons on the NES are Delta, Zero, Ten, and Quadrilateral
Did you just confuse the Playstation for the NES?
Comment Re:Phrasing (Score 2) 49
Wireframes model the surface shape of the object. That's not what this article says our brains do.
Comment Re:couch potatoes are power users? (Score 1) 116
Comment Re:let the apologists start jumping through hoops (Score 1) 498
He has done this since he took the oath of office.
Wrong.
He started even before he took the oath.
Comment Re:and people being wrong (Score 1) 162
They did the same thing with poms, as in prisoners of his or her majesty (you don't write the H but you sound it) become some bullshit about pomegranates.
What's with the anti-science on Slashdot? You do know that there are people who specialize in words and languages? They're called linguists. Some of them do stuff like research etymologies. That's how we know that the Prisoner of Her Majesty's Service explanation is bullshit—sorry—a folk etymology.
Scientific study. The opposite of just believing what your parents told you.