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• Commented on MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single download
  what crap. might as well say, "a crime was committed in this town. whether the suspect was passing through or has lived here for years is irrelevant; the crime was committed here and you all live here, so you're all...
• Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
  hahaha, it is bohemian grove isn't it? i was on a roll and didn't bother looking anything up, which i felt fit into my whole conspiracy theory spiel....
• Commented on Happy Saganseve, Everybody
  i find myself watching cosmos on hulu every few days. while neil degrasse tyson and michio kaku are entertaining, brilliant, and engaging, there was that understated confidence and conviction in sagan's voice that made you feel like we were perpetually...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  @ DANALAN because they're fictional stories "based on" actual events, and most people are too dumb or too lazy to bother figuring out what's fact and fiction. most people are barely bright enough to know that hogwarts, tattooine, middle earth,...
• Commented on Most potential recruits for US military too fat, dumb, or drugged out
  thats to say nothing of tattoo's that i heard could make you ineligible if vulgar and/or visible....
• Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
  the towers were self destructed, and a missile hit the pentagon that was fired from the grassy knoll where the naval surgeons haphazardly dealt with the autopsy while the flight 91 took off from denver airport which has obviously is...
• Commented on Man in breathalyzer costume charged with drunken driving
  it'd be more impressive if the arrow on his costume reflected his actual .BAC and he looks way too drunk to have a .158...
• Commented on Disposable laptop design
  i'd prefer recyclable to disposable, and for it to be made of something not completely hydrophilic and incendiary. and as long as the components themselves are still made of toxic and caustic materials, id much rather it be disposed of...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  the eruption in krakatoa in 1883 alone was responsible for a 1.5*C drop in the average global temperatures. natural. temperature. fluctuation. the eruption of mt tambora in 1815 was responsible for the coldest decade on record, and one of the...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  earth's climate has fluctuated for billions of years by far greater amounts than we're crying over, and natural phenomena have temporarily altered the climate far greater than we could even if we tried. i'm sorry your beach houses built on...
• Commented on Steering wheel tray
  there it is, in thirty thousand little pixels, the beginning of the end....
• Commented on Sikh Holy Men Wearing Spectacularly Large Turbans
  perhaps the whole more hair - more religious thing feeds into a masochistic burden, a la self flagellation, or corporal mortification akin to opus dei. if you're to believe that the longer/more hair the closer you come to god, then...
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  i agree. you also start getting unsolicited offerings from colleges come junior year in high school, but no one seems to have a problem with that. and its hard to take someone seriously when they claim that a test called...
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  i really dont see the enormous deal. recruiters called me in higschool, and in college even offered to fly me to d.c. to take the nuclear engineering test. do you think them knowing i've dabbled in halo or madden is...
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  the earth has been a lot hotter than it is now, and a lot colder than it is now, so why is it that our attitude towards any change in the average temp that we've observed in our blink of...
• Commented on How To Eat a Horse
  so its not ok to eat lean meat from an animal, but sitting on them, making them jump and pull things, and then making them into glue are more acceptable? horse meat is pretty decent stuff, and i dont know...
• Commented on HOWTO make a Glenn Beck Diaper Halloween Mask
  i'm not his biggest fan, but i do have to admit, the man is a natural entertainer....
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  im not sure in the interest of describing the billions of years of our planets existence, that anyone should be using the words "grand scale" when referencing a period of 100 years. we are after all, still far far cooler...
• Commented on More bad news for Shepard Fairey: AP amends countersuit, claims purposeful deceit
  (sarcasm) i still dont see the similarity between the pictures; theres an obvious lapel pin in the painting that wasn't in the photo. just like the beat to "ice ice baby" was no where close to the beat of "under...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a mummified fairy
  i was referring to the south park episode, and i dont concede much difference in fairies/angels or fossils/mummies. plus it was a cartoon....
• Commented on Brit copyright group says, "No laptops allowed in cinemas"
  i agree that no one should be allowed to USE a laptop in a cinema, but not being able to bring one in that's secured in your laptop bag is insanity. it's my understanding that they pulled him aside because...
• Commented on Zero gravity spice rack for crowded kitchens
  theres a serious lack of "zero gravity" here....
• Commented on HOWTO Make a mummified fairy
  simpsons did it....
• Commented on EFF comes to the rescue of Texas Instruments calculator hackers
  i wouldn't have made it through high school if i didnt have super mario on my ti83....
• Commented on What actual Mayans are saying about 2012
  2012 is nonsense, but the possible impact of NEO 99942 "apophisis" in 2036 would be something to lose sleep over, but of course hollywood has already pumped out two blockbuster asteroid movies....
• Commented on Evolution of the International Space Station
  what an extravagant waste of time and money, the shuttle program included. i'm reminded of a wired interview of james cameron some years ago where he advocated exploration and was critical of NASA's strageties post apollo. to paraphrase: space is...
• Commented on Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub Scout camping cutlery) to school
  this is even more absurd than the story a while back that a girl was suspended for having a metal knife in her lunch box to cut her sandwich (i think)and she was likewise, an unassuming straight A student, and...
• Commented on Gallery of NASA's early spacecraft models
  unreal, it's as much a testament to how much they did with soo little, as it is a depressing reminder about how little we regarded it soo soon after, and what little we've done since....
• Commented on Farms as skyscrapers
  it's great in concept, but the places that need this most don't have the finances or resources to make this useful. can you see this happening anywhere in bangladesh? india? africa? latin america? not a chance. the only two with...
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  come on. how do you think all the other craters got on the moon? it gets hit. a lot. it's a hell of a lot cheaper than landing and drilling on the moon, plus now we get the extreme irony...