Comment Math fail (Score 2) 500
2012 - 1995 = 17. For some reason that doesn't shock me.
Comment xkcd (Score 2) 76
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
Comment Re:Salts? (Score 1) 95
"Getting their teeth wet"? I think you mean "getting their feet wet" or "cutting their teeth." Or this is some new expression I'm not familiar with.
Comment Hello World! (Score 1) 1582
Achievement.
Submission + - Final Season of Battlestar Galactica Confirmed.
Ant writes: "Dark Horizons report an IESB.net interview confirming that Battlestar Galactica (2003) will be officially pulled/ending after its fourth season, which begins in January 2008."
Submission + - 9 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood
Ant writes: "Neatorama lists nine laws of physics that don't apply in Hollywood (movies and television/TV shows). In general, Hollywood filmmakers follow the laws of physics because they have no other choice. It's just when they cheat with special effects that people seem to forget how the world really works..."
Comment Re:Backward and Forward (Score 1) 489
That's a common misconception. Roe v. Wade did not, in fact, limit abortion to the first trimester. It put absolutely no limits on it whatsoever.
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