@6:
It's a joke, read the linked post.

I used to work in a desktop support type job, and one of my clients was a woman that used olive oil to keep her hair in check, and liked to eat crackers at her desk.

Thing is, she didn't wash her hands after oiling her hair (multiple times per day), so the oil got all over the keyboard and the cracker crumbs stuck to it, forming a kind of sludgy cracker goop that made the keyboard stop working in a week or two.

Of course Mars has huge underground blocks of ice. We just need someone to stick his hand in the alien-designed machine and melt them to break the monopoly on air.

The protests over this waste of water and resources has touched me deeply. I just filled a plastic milk jug with a gallon of tap water and will be mailing it to an African child.

I moistened the stamps with three day old coffee that was sitting in the styrofoam cup on my desk, to save water.

People make (or link to) charts like that so they can dupe people who don't know any better, thereby "proving" whatever point they are trying to make.

TASR lost $0.24 today. For a stock only worth $6 that's a drop, but hardly indicative of them being fucked.

@17 Vitamin C is snake oil, at least as far as curing or preventing colds is concerned:

http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab000980.html

@11 Um, did you miss like three words later where morcheeba said that it couldn't be the 50 pounds indicated?

I don't see anything wrong with m's math. Looks like you will need a crane to start your lamp.

@12 It's tough to find a solution for peace when the only solution acceptable to those you are negotiating with is that you die.

You mean I have to boycott Burger King, Coke, Playboy, Levi's, and Snickers now? How dare they sell things to people with political views that may be different than mine.

@19 Don't you go bringing that logic and reason into the old-fashioned pitchfork mob that's going on.

Now, if only my pitchfork hadn't been stolen from my truck.

1) Scientists that do research in this area are unlikely to be qualified to do research into AIDS or cancer, so expecting them to come up with a cure is silly. Similarly, we don't except AIDS researchers to come up with new kinds of carrots, stop global warming, develop a car that gets 1000mpg, or anything else they're not qualified to do.

2) I find that leaving the root (hairy) end of the onion un-chopped cuts the amount of tears significantly. Much better than the fridge, water, or spoon. If it doesn't give you enough onion, just chop two, they're cheap.

The plane's forward motion is provided by something that doesn't touch the ground, so being on a treadmill doesn't make any difference.

Imagine if you were sitting on a skateboard on a sheet of ice, or a treadmill, or whatever. Imagine you had a rope tied to a tree and in your hands. If you pull on the rope you will move forward, no matter what the wheels are doing, no matter what the ground is doing, no matter anything.

@8 The phrase "a nip in the air", as well as "call a spade a spade", "niggardly", "a chink in the armor" and a host of others aren't in the least racist.

The nip in question refers to a bite, like someone "nipping at your heels". Unless of course you actually were referring to a flying Japanese person.

Dn't y gys knw, BB s ll bt fr xprssn f ds (tht gr wth th mds).

'll sv y th trbl t:

Dn't y gys knw, BB s ll bt fr xprssn f ds (tht gr wth th mds).

Even with that fresh insight, however, I still oppose it. Humans shouldn't treat each other that way.

Agreed. Now go explain to the world's terrorists that humans shouldn't fly airliners into buildings, blow up subways, or behead reporters and we'll be all set. Until you get around to convincing them of that, the waterboarding to get information to prevent them from doing that will probably continue.