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Comment · 12 years ago
Nothing?

Okay, I challenge you to eat zero calories and still maintain weight.

Comment · 12 years ago
It's got a lot of false matches.
Comment · 12 years ago
Honestly, I think the majority American's are apathetic and don't care one way or the other.

Of those that do care, I've seen just as many saying he should be shot, as those that say he's a hero.

Comment · 12 years ago
He's a geologist, not an archaeologist.

When somebody outside of a specialisation comes up with an idea that'll overturn the entire field, they're usually wrong.

Comment · 12 years ago
Pretty big.

I've often wondered why they don't send a dragline digger to Mars, so they can dig a decent trench. When Spirit's wheel broke and they started dragging it along, digging a little trench, they made a nice discovery and that was with something not designed to dig at all.

If they could get a few feet down, who knows what they could find?!

Comment · 13 years ago
Stories like this annoy me. I get why it's news, new flu strains are always a possible rerun of 1918. But still.

Tens of thousands of people die every year from flu, mostly elderly people. But now 17 mostly young people have died, it's more newsworthy.

It's kinda like they're suggesting that once you're 65, your life really doesn't matter much any more.

Comment · 13 years ago
If they really were simulating a human brain, that would have some pretty serious moral implications.
Comment · 13 years ago
If you did want to stop CNC machines being used in Iran or North Korea, why not just use the GPS chip to disable the machines if they're inside those countries?

I don't see what's to be gained by causing the machines to fail if they've been moved to the other end of a factory.

Comment · 13 years ago
That's where a lot of antibiotics come from.

Antibiotics that have names ending in -mycin often come from bacteria.

Comment · 13 years ago
Anti-Semitism in Russia is a lot older than Socialism.
Comment · 13 years ago
Yes, there's hardware acceleration. For games like TF2 I never dip below 45fps and I'm usually up around 75fps

TF2 isn't exactly a new game, but neither is my graphics card.

Comment · 13 years ago
The open source drivers for my ATI card are pretty good. Performance isn't spectacular but it's acceptable, and I've not run into any serious bugs for years, and I have no trouble changing resolution at all.
Comment · 13 years ago
The end result of people taking MMOs way too seriously.

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