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The irony is that it used to be an ocean before climate change covered everything in glaciers.

The fun part about those numbers is that Mars and Earth have roughly the same amount of CO2 in their atmospheres.

In 10 years, you won't be able to make that joke.

Few enough people can be bothered to leave reviews for free, charging for them is going to drive that number even lower. So people paying for fake reviews need to buy fewer to get …

The salesman exploits quantum physics by keeping what their company does in superposition until you collapse the waveform by revealing what you're willing to pay for. Instantly a d…

The Silver Stallion -- by James Branch Cabell "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither …

>What would be a great idea? We really liked the news about "drones planting 1 billion trees" or "drones doing surveillance of sharks in the bays". Combine the two. "Drones plantin…

A little background on why this was necessary is that the law already existed for decades to stop GM/Ford/Chrysler from doing the same thing, which was a very real threat to their …

GITS is largely post-cyberpunk, but dips into cyberpunk for ideas. Mostly for it's antagonists. The cyberpunk driver of the post-cyberpunk tank being an interesting take on things,…

I doubt you'll see mixed human/AI racing. Even if you could trust the robot cars to run along side human driven cars, you can't trust the human drivers around the AI opponents.

You can say that about punching people in the face, too.

[not a doctor, but...] Saying that they sum everything is there to catch people trying to game the system by maxing everything out. The first part gets you to describe your symptom…

Neuter a duck and it's a robot, got it. Human level AI just got a lot easier to create.

ClamAV on Linux is mostly for checking for Windows malware in files that might end up on Windows.

Ironically posted on Reddit unironically.

A New Hope was genuine. Empire, was an allegory for George Lucas turning to the dark side. Return of the Jedi was full sell-out. I-III seem to be designed to maximize spite against…

That's why they keep it over there .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8419368.stm "A Japanese man has exchanged vows with a woman he met in the virtual world - a character from a popular dating simulation game …

Either the Wikipedia article has a citation for the reference you should use instead, or it needs one and you shouldn't be referencing it.

You were thinking out loud.

If you meant red-eared sliders as "Florida turtles", they're ironically banned for sale in Florida because they became an invasive species there.

I've lost my voice from all the other features they've dropped over the last decade plus. It's all fallen on deaf ears, anyway. They don't care about Firefox users, because they're…

The first part is proven by the voters re-electing the same people who made that decision. The second part should be changed to that they're voting in the United State's best inter…

10 years ago, when you saw an those as an investment opportunity, and thought, "Who would be stupid enough to use this thing?" You and most other people (myself included) had a hig…

'Partiality' seems fitting.