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Urgh... this makes me think of that famous bash.org quote. Seriously, why the **** are Engadget using this obnoxious phrase instead of simply saying "we've contacted Netflix" or something similar?

It's the current favoured stock weasel-worded pseudo-touchy-feely (but in fact, insultingly off-the-shelf) bullshit phrase corporate PR use to sound like they *suddenly* give a f*** about a pissed-off customer they're having to contact, er... "reach out to" in response to some massive PR disaster they didn't expect.

But why would a "proper" news source feel the need to use the same irritating phrase when *they're* not the putative offending party on the defensive, but rather the people investigating the problem?

Unless this is an example of the phrase "if you lie down with dogs [i.e. hang around too many PR weasels], you get up with fleas".

...the first guy who manages to kill someone from afar via these means will get get a lot of notoriety.

He already has a Top 100 quote on bash.org. What more does he need?

Obligatory bash.org:
http://www.bash.org/?4780

Id rather run straight linux.

As opposed to Lesbian Linux, Tinkerbell linux (derivative of Slutware Linux), Linux is Gay, myriad dual-booting scenarios (linux is Bi), and using linux to run Windows in a VM (Transgender linux).

Don't forget the follow-up that proves that we are all sad bastards.

Ah, a deliciously nerdy reference to the famous IRC quote, one of the top-rated ones on the quote database:

<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<Zybl0re>get up
<Zybl0re>get on up
<phxl|paper>and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances :D-<
* nmp3bot dances :D|-<
* nmp3bot dances :D/-<
<[SA]HatfulOfHollow>i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

you mean hunter2 ?

all i can see is *s

FYI, 2fuf was joking.

"Birds can fly into the rotors. Then they have to send the janitor Steve out to clean the thing, and it just ruins his day. Then he goes home and beats his kids. So if you support wind energy, you support domestic violence."

nearly 300 million tons of plastic in 2012 [...] reaching 288 million tonnes in 2012

http://bash.org/?2999

Estimates of how much of that production has been trapped in Arctic ice provided in the article:
- "[some of] much of [the total amount of plastic produced]"
- "more than 1 trillion pieces of plastic"
- "abundances of hundreds of ['fragments less than 5 millimeters long' selected using a microscope] per cubic meter"

Would have really hurt to estimate the weight of those fragments? One plastic bag could easily end up as a million pieces of plastic. About one plastic bag or 10 grams of plastic per 10.000 cubic meters sounds a lot less dramatic, I guess.

Nonsensical statement involving plankton.

Come on then, let's have full disclosure. WHO made the threats?

Why would the World Health Organisation do this?

Perhaps he meant the CDC. I didn't think the Cult of the Dead Cow were still active.

Obligatory full disclosure: http://www.bash.org/?4780

http://bash.org/?49048

Your password is hunter2.

I was in a bar Saturday night, and had a few drinks.
  I noticed two large women by the bar. They both had strong accents so I asked, "Hey, are you two ladies from Ireland?"
  One of them screamed, "It's Wales you idiot!"
  So, I immediately apologized and said, "Sorry, are you two whales from Ireland?"
  That's all I remember.

http://bash.org/?953413

Remember, posting your password on the internet will show the password to you as as your password, but others will see it as stars.

See, look at my password ************

So now if I get amnesia all I have to do is come back and check my comment history and I'll find my password.

So your password is hunter2?

That expired, now it's hunter3

Remember, posting your password on the internet will show the password to you as as your password, but others will see it as stars.

See, look at my password ************

So now if I get amnesia all I have to do is come back and check my comment history and I'll find my password.

So your password is hunter2?

Remember, posting your password on the internet will show the password to you as as your password, but others will see it as stars.

See, look at my password ************

So now if I get amnesia all I have to do is come back and check my comment history and I'll find my password.

The solution clearly is to allow repayment in the form of $650,000 worth of movies downloaded by the MPAA from the defendant.

That could be a great idea, as long as he can get the copies back :)

I'm pretty sure it was a reference to hunter2

http://www.bash.org/?920525

No way! One guard was killed at the airport attack. With hundreds frightened morons whipping out their guns LAX would have turned into the OK Corral. Just getting the normal cops to not shoot too many innocent bystanders is hard enough.

http://bash.org/?4753

As "xterm" put so pointedly on bash.org:

<xterm> The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Well, I was hoping for my organization "Gay Scouts" to come into existence without legal challenge.

Oh now you're just blatantly recruiting heteros to brainwash into same-sexiness!?

What's wrong, the subliminal messages not working out so well anymore? Eg: Making "Gay" be synonymous with "happy" -- HA! Gotcha. And then you've got the gall to target our kids!?
"We'll Have a Gay 'ol Time...." - The Flintstones, FFS?! Oh come on, its painfully apparent to anyone that Barney and Fred are "partners" in loveless marriages of convenience to Betty and Wilma. And all those dinosaurs being treated as appliances? Those are metaphors for exploiting minorities!

Don't even get me started on "Shakespeare" -- Oh, Like anyone believes that's a real name, and not a euphemism for "sword fighting" wanker... "Shake Spear". ha! Heteros in love? (spoilers) Killed both Romeo and Juliet!

Hogwarts is practically oozing with Harry and Ron's Queerdom.
Oh, I think you've done Quite enough "Gay Scouting".

Queue all the hunter2 jokes: http://www.bash.org/?244321

http://bash.org/?5775

Obligatory bash quote
it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
that's the first one

And that above all else is why Linux will be a haven for IT people and not the general populace. Want to change resolutions to something not shipped with your current flavour of free, you have to edit config files and google your monitors fvcken scan rates. Want to install xyz, sure no problem, here's the source code, no binaries soz, want to compile it download python, here's the source compile that first, want to compile that, soz, you need library ab fucken z, soz wrong version because it's changed 20 times in the last 20 fucken minutes. Oh sorry you downloaded the wrong version, this was forked because the developers got their panty's in a twist you want the OTHER fork.
The Linux install managers are helping a great deal, but even with those at some point you have to drop to the console to do stuff. Most windows users do not even know what a command prompt is.
Until Linux fixes that it will always lag behind windows.
Linux : But we don't have any viruses!
Why write a virus for 5% of the population who could decompile the virus and find the CnC?

"72.1% ... nearly three out of every four systems"
I refer you to http://bash.org/?2999

<kyourek> There was a 23% drop in temperature.

<nappyjallapy> That's almost 25%!

<kyourek> ... That was one of the most worthless comments I've ever heard.

Relevant.

You'd be surprised how common some typos are. Like this one.

"But it didn't stop me typing it!"

This really brought up memories.. (source http://bash.org/?4281 )
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<phxl|paper> and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances :D-<
* nmp3bot dances :D|-<
* nmp3bot dances :D/-<
<[SA]HatfulOfHollow> im going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

If I was going to inject my balls, I'd do it with heroin instead...

The withdrawal for that has got to suck mightily!!!

"My nuts are made of GOOOOOOLD! Isn't that weird?"

Nah, they're getting Jasper Carrot to advertise this technique.

Also, if I was going to inject my balls, I'd do it with heroin instead...

It reminds me of this post from bash.org

  I should bomb something ...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
  Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
  I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
*** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
  We saw it anyway.
*** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )

Welcome to the Internet - where men are men, the women are men and the children are FBI agents posing as children...

...but some of the men are really women. Enjoy!

Oh c'mon. At least provide attribution.

bash.org

Obligatory bash.org quote

http://bash.org/?4281

Don't worry about that, it's an old feature. Here is an explanation of how it works.

DVD Polisher :)

As a non-native and never-living-in-Ohio person, I too applaud speeding there.

It was a tough call for me, so I took the conservative approach. On that note, you might appreciate this.

Just playing cap'n obvious for those couple who did not understand.
Linky~

http://bash.org/?124915

...but it looks like [SA]HatfulOfHollow has finally completed his killer device.... http://www.bash.org/?4281

There was a joke a while back about physically punching people through the computer screen, and today we have vibrators that work exactly like this (and vibrating underwear). Wouldn't that be prior art and an example of longdistance physical activity between people?

http://www.bash.org/?4281

I'll be interested when they patent this - http://www.bash.org/?4281

Wonder what this guy's up to: Internet Stab

Or you could opt for THIS idea on how to shuffle off this mortal coil with style!

I think there's a quote on this topic: http://www.bash.org/?1578