antipaganda

Do it yourself, and learn the skills along the way.

- If your idea doesn't work, you will at least have new skills to show for your time.

- No-one will be as passionate or committed to your idea as you.

- There are a lot of ideas out there. The ones that succeed are the ones which are backed by passion and commitment.

In many parts of the world, that's the hand you customarily wash your arse with. So, it's a practical measure, to stop you getting faecal matter on your food.

Of course it's not evidence-based!

God needs no evidence to know that you're a filthy pervert. He merely smites thee with his ability to withhold 0.1 percent of online pornography!

I know that there's been a lot of talk about RepRap already, but I like to see the occasional new post on it because it lets me see how the project is going every so often. So, as a lazy HN reader who wants to keep tabs on how replicator technology is progressing without writing it on my calendar, I thank you.

No. No, you eejit. If it is somehow a crime to search for porn with the term "Soviet steel production" or "cheap overall shopping", then convict me. Safe Search. Use It, Or Shut Up.

Yes, nobody questions Yahoo's evilness. That should tell you something.

Does it help China increase the standard of living when Yahoo gets human rights campaigners thrown in jail?

Actually, speaking of running something over with a tank, this hard drive did pretty well:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8449893.stm

Hehehe. Naked.

(just demonstrating the average male response)

In the trash? Come on, you could at least take its skin off and, along with your kid, turn it into a papier-mache artistic creation which actually moves.

Get NoScript.

Works okay in other countries. And I know it's not because, say, Australian government folks are just less corrupt than American govt folks.

It's only 350 metres wide. That'd be enough to seriously fuck up any large country on Earth without causing much damage, relatively, to other parts of the world. Anyway, you could keep the equipment on the rock, keep Apophis skimming Earth nice and close every few years, and have a permanent very big deterrent.

Because your first post turned out content-free, so the downvotes want people not to bother reading it.

...it was in the article.

Don't worry, I thought it was real until halfway through the second patent.

Dude. Australia? 25 million people, size of USA? Awesome for long-distance driving.

The acupressure wristband works great, until you realise it's a placebo. Then the fucker stops working. I speak from experience.

LCD glasses that flicker transparent and opaque directly out of phase with the TV signal, so you only see the TV at times when it is between screen refreshes.

Not gonna work on LCD screens, methinks.

You didn't get tipped off by the advice that you could increase your farts by eating proprietary beans?

#bookz on IRC, undernet.

The date is information. More info = good in this case.

Does "gifted" mean intelligent? Or is this a case of the horse following the cart?

The professor wasn't perfect. As has been pointed out above, the last lecture did indeed contain a lie.

"On the days when nobody caught the lie, we all sat in silence, looking at each other as Dr. K, looking quite pleased with himself, said with a sly grin: “Ah ha! Each of you has one falsehood in your lecture notes. Discuss amongst yourselves what it might be, and I will tell you next Monday. That is all.”"

If, as the article said, he repeated this message as usual at the end of the lecture, it was a lie. (Unless, of course, the students all wrote down his oft-repeated message in their lecture notes - which I find unlikely.)

Hehehe. Prisoner's Dilemma, writ large.

He uses the more interesting "One thing in every one of my speeches will be true" technique. Makes for entertaining press conferences.

Well, this is interesting because it shows how easily you can social-engineer your way into the media spotlight by being utterly without scruple.

It also might provoke a discussion on how we might REALLY be able to tell what the poor bastard is "saying", instead of using his hand as a fucking keyboard wand.

You don't see a problem with using autistic children as guinea-pigs for experimental treatment, based on nothing more than a preliminary study? In many of these cases, the study itself warns against using it as the basis for any sort of treatment!

Also, there's no double-blinding. Hello placebo effect!

How can the Earth have been cooling since 1980 if most of the 10 hottest years in recorded history were in the 2000s?

Well, as long as we see ALL the emails, they can't be taken out of context, eh? (What? Communications methods other than emails? Preposterous.)

Actually, AFAIK, climate change is supposed to cause greater variability in temperatures, not just uniformly higher temperatures. This is what I've heard from scientists like James Hansen.

Therefore, one would expect more episodes of lower temperature (cold snaps), but also more periods of higher temps (heatwaves).