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  1. Re:Two Hours? on Hong Kong Company Develops Solar-Powered Lightbulb · · Score: 1

    Why, do you never sleep?

  2. Re:Ubuntu on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    I'd go with DrDos or Xenix

  3. Re:Ireland: In the dark ages on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Way to move the goal posts.

  4. Re:Advice, Dawg on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Troll? sniff.

  5. Re:How is this distance measured? on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    Not really. But sort of. Radio telescopes are usually viewing things so far away that there is no hope of distance estimation through parallax; instead, the separation gives you a larger effective aperture and therefore better resolution. The sort of bit is that there is probably some analogy to be drawn between the base leg distance in triangulation and the aperture width in imaging.

  6. Re:Holy Biased Article, Batman! on Obama Will Nominate Elena Kagan To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    I considered for a moment that he meant that marriage in general should not be under the purview of the law. But that's a stretch, and it certainly wouldn't be communicated well. So I don't think my partial quoting really changes the natural interpretation of what he wrote.

  7. Re:Holy Biased Article, Batman! on Obama Will Nominate Elena Kagan To the Supreme Court · · Score: 3, Informative

    Choice quote from the About Me page:

    "... if it contradicts religious beliefs it should not be legal."

  8. Re:Advice, Dawg on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    When the sinking ship runs out of money, how will they pay legally required severance to the last employees to go?

  9. Re:Advice, Dawg on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ironically, since he was the first to go, he probably got the best severance deal and a chance to look for a job before the rest of you guys flooded the market with your down-with-a-sinking-ship stench.

  10. Re:Totally not ripped from a webcomic... on New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System · · Score: 0, Troll

    xkcd links get an automatic redundant rating from me when I have points. Just so everyone knows.

  11. Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    two words

  12. Re:Trolls. Everywhere. on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You're assertion that Green's always hold "all-or-nothing" positions is just bullshit. I find it entertaining that you can't take criticism, hold such a hostile view, and are preparing to lecture students.

  13. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reference please.

  14. Re:Good Looking Women on EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's redundant with the fucking article summary.

  15. Re:Counting people? Round up! on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    Decimals are also fractions, idiot.

  16. Re:Spltting hairs, are we? on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    No, they're all approximately 365 days long. They're also all approximately 366 days long. They're also all approximately 400 days long. Isn't this article about varying fidelities of "approximately"?

  17. Re:Not true on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    You should just ignore me. It's easier than questioning your assumptions.

  18. Re:Not true on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1
    Why should I allow you the assumption that military command experience is required to opine on military ethical issues? Why should I allow you the assumption that compliance with regulations is sufficient for these soldiers to be innocent?

    Why don't you tell me about how firing on that van is morally justified. Talk about avoiding, sheesh.

    I do have military experience, but I will not tell you length or capacity because it is irrelevant.

  19. Re:Not true on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    What exactly is your judge advocate experience?

  20. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    I agree. People that put code in sigs trying to be clever make my teeth itch.

  21. Re:Same story, different day. on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    4. Zeno's paradox is an acceptable defense in many jurisdictions.

  22. Re:Two pictures... and then some! on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    In Hollywood, they send you a DVD with a 3d video of your vehicle going through the intersection taken from 3 or 4 angles. Arnold usually narrates.

  23. Re:Legality on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, maybe you can lie your way out of life's next little predicament!

  24. Re:if you're in the intersection and it's red on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    F... is not from the running straight through the intersection through a red (how many times do you see that? Enough too support the thousands of tickets a day?). ....

    I see it all the time. Certain lights around here, seems like every cycle of the light I witness there are one or two cars that blatantly and purposefully run the red light.

  25. Re:Television?!? on Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide · · Score: 1

    Isn't this article about VCRs captain oblivious?