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by spingsprong 13y ago
Is that source code from a toaster?
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by spingsprong 13y ago
Now we can have the worst of both worlds? One year, ten or a thousand, time in prison doing nothing is unlikely to reform anybody, and keeping a dangerous criminal out of the public for eight hours is not going to protect the public either.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
I see, so I take it you left home through your third story window rather than the front door, and then flew to work on a pigeon since nothing can be known as objective truth.
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Which is the Killer, Current or Voltage? (youtube.com)
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by spingsprong 13y ago
"That's because 3 is all nice and curvy while the others each have at least one straight line. Our mind thinks it stands out. " I'm deeply sceptical of that claim. If you ask people to pick a number from one to ten, they
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by spingsprong 13y ago
If you had to choose between narcolepsy and death, which would you pick?
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by spingsprong 13y ago
I agree that most were pretty straight forward, but they were pretty funny. I especially loved joke 14.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
The number of cites on that article are mind blowing.
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No, the amount we're eating is making us fat.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
That web address means something completely different in UK English.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
"1. Our species has existed for about 200,000 years. 2. On that basis, and given our present knowledge of biology and evolution by natural selection, it's reasonable to assume that, within another 200,000 years, we will have been
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by spingsprong 13y ago
That was awesome. I'd never even heard of it before, it's a Sheng. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_%28instrument%29
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http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/284902
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by spingsprong 13y ago
How about going back in time and changing Hitler's mind? I'm not sure what the best way to go about it would be, but it'd probably be worth a try before you kill somebody.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
If you look into it, not even Gandhi or the Dalai Lama is Gandhi or the Dalai Lama.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
There's laws against weapons designed to blind, but weapons that occasionally blind as an accidental side effect, are legal. I mean, bullets and shrapnel can and has blinded people, yet bullets and bombs remain legal.
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Weapons that are designed to blind have been illegal for a long time. And these types of lasers are so powerful that if one hit you in the face, you'd probably lose more than just your eyesight.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
The Patriot missile probably would have failed to destroy the Scud even without the error. The Patriot was designed to shoot down aircraft, but ballistic missiles fly much faster than an aircraft, and the warhead fusing system they had back